El confinamiento de los prisioneros de guerra y rehenes en la Roma republicana

Dossier monográfico: Puesta en escena y escenarios en la diplomacia del mundo romano

Conflictos, treguas y amnistías en el mundo antiguo

Introducción a las contribuciones presentadas al curso "Conflictos, treguas y amnistías en el mundo antiguo", desarrollado en agosto de 1999 en el marco de los XVIII Cursos de Verano de la UPV/EHU en Donostia.

Kant: uma herança no testamento de Michel Foucault

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a relação do pensamento de Michel Foucault com o de Immanuel Kant a partir das perspectivas encontradas em dois momentos específicos de suas obras em que localiza o pensador alemão no limiar de nossa modernidade: em As palavras e as coisas (1966) e nos textos tardios (1978 a 1984) que versam sobre a resposta dada por Kant à pergunta Was ist Aufklärung?, de 1784. Na primeira parte, analisamos tal perspectiva a partir da distinção kantiana entre o empírico e o transcendental em sua relação com a problematização do sono antropológico". Para tal, centramo-nos nos primeiros escritos de Foucault, tomando como pontos de ancoragem a Tese Complementar (1961) e As palavras e as coisas (1966). Na segunda parte, ela é abordada a partir da questão da Aufklärung em sua relação com a noção de governo, examinando a maneira pela qual Foucault vincula seu trabalho à tradição crítica de uma ontologia do presente que teria sido instaurada pelo pensador alemão. O resultado obtido através do entrecruzamento destas duas perspectivas permite reconhecer que o pensamento de Kant ocupa, para Foucault, um lugar de singularidade na história da filosofia, caracterizado pela reativação permanente de uma atitude que é em si mesma um êthos filosófico, isto é, uma crítica permanente de nosso ser histórico.

History of Whaling and Estimated Kill of Right Whales, Balaena glacialis, in the Northeastern United States, 1620–1924

This study, part of a broader investigation of the history of exploitation of right whales, Balaena glacialis, in the western North Atlantic, emphasizes U.S. shore whaling from Maine to Delaware (from lat. 45°N to 38°30'N) in the period 1620–1924. Our broader study of the entire catch history is intended to provide an empirical basis for assessing past distribution and abundance of this whale population. Shore whaling may have begun at Cape Cod, Mass., in the 1620’s or 1630’s; it was certainly underway there by 1668. Right whale catches in New England waters peaked before 1725, and shore whaling at Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket continued to decline through the rest of the 18th century. Right whales continued to be taken opportunistically in Massachusetts, however, until the early 20th century. They were hunted in Narragansett Bay, R.I., as early as 1662, and desultory whaling continued in Rhode Island until at least 1828. Shore whaling in Connecticut may have begun in the middle 1600’s, continuing there until at least 1718. Long Island shore whaling spanned the period 1650–1924. From its Dutch origins in the 1630’s, a persistent shore whaling enterprise developed in Delaware Bay and along the New Jersey shore. Although this activity was most profi table in New Jersey in the early 1700’s, it continued there until at least the 1820’s. Whaling in all areas of the northeastern United States was seasonal, with most catches in the winter and spring. Historically, right whales appear to have been essentially absent from coastal waters south of Maine during the summer and autumn. Based on documented references to specific whale kills, about 750–950 right whales were taken between Maine and Delaware, from 1620 to 1924. Using production statistics in British customs records, the estimated total secured catch of right whales in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania between 1696 and 1734 was 3,839 whales based on oil and 2,049 based on baleen. After adjusting these totals for hunting loss (loss-rate correction factor = 1.2), we estimate that 4,607 (oil) or 2,459 (baleen) right whales were removed from the stock in this region during the 38-year period 1696–1734. A cumulative catch estimate of the stock’s size in 1724 is 1,100–1,200. Although recent evidence of occurrence and movements suggests that right whales continue to use their traditional migratory corridor along the U.S. east coast, the catch history indicates that this stock was much larger in the 1600’s and early 1700’s than it is today. Right whale hunting in the eastern United States ended by the early 1900’s, and the species has been protected throughout the North Atlantic since the mid 1930’s. Among the possible reasons for the relatively slow stock recovery are: the very small number of whales that survived the whaling era to become founders, a decline in environmental carrying capacity, and, especially in recent decades, mortality from ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.

A deontologia da paz em Kant: uma análise do caráter deontológico do projeto de paz perpétua de Immanuel Kant

Neste trabalho foi realizada uma análise do projeto de paz perpétua apresentado por Immanuel Kant em seu ensaio À Paz Perpétua: Um Projeto Filosófico. Para uma melhor compreensão crítica desse projeto, o trabalho vai além de Paz Perpétua e analisa outros escritos políticos de Kant, como, por exemplo, Metafísica dos Costumes e O Conflito das Faculdades. O trabalho também inclui a análise de intérpretes contemporâneos da obra de Kant. A metodologia do trabalho foi analisar as obras de Kant, e também obras de seus intérpretes, pertinentes ao tema da deontologia da paz. O foco da exposição do trabalho foi o caráter deontológico que Kant atribui ao seu projeto de paz. A ideia kantiana de uma deontologia da paz é composta por uma série de conceitos, deveres e ideias. Por isso, a análise desse trabalho se dirige principalmente ao exame dessas partes integrantes da deontologia da paz. Ideias como republicanismo, estado de natureza, liga de Estados livres, Estado mundial, direito cosmopolita, hospitalidade, etc, foram os principais objetos de análise desse trabalho. Ao final do trabalho, podemos concluir que a realização da paz perpétua não é um dever moral sem importância na filosofia prática de Kant, mas sim o sumo bem político cuja possibilidade de implementação está intrinsicamente ligada à própria validade da doutrina do direito. O trabalho também conclui que o projeto de Kant tem muita influência nas relações internacionais contemporâneas. Doutrinas como a da democracia cosmopolita e a da paz pela democracia enxergam o projeto de paz de Kant como base teórica para suas propostas.

Reserved parking : marine reserves and small-scale fishing communities: a collection of articles from SAMUDRA report

As the earth’s resources continue to face increasing pressure from a variety of human and natural causes, protection of the environment and biodiversity is a matter of contemporary concern, The conservation of coastal and marine resources, in particular, has become a priority for countries around the world. In this context, marine protected areas (MPAs) are being widely promoted as one of the most effective tools for the conservation of coastal and marine resources. Most MPAs are located in coastal areas of great biodiversity, and hence their development has direct impacts on the lives and livelihoods of coastal communities, especially small-scale and traditional fishing communities. Typically, they are the ones who have to bear the costs of conservation practices–lost livelihood options, expulsion from traditional fishing grounds and living spaces, and violation of human/community rights, to name a few. The articles in this dossier, drawn chronologically from the pages of Samudra Report, the triannual publication of ICSF, draw attention to these issues. They show that conservation and livelihoods are closely intertwined, and that top-down, non-participatory models of conservation can be counter-productive. Despite being poor and powerless, fishing and coastal communities can be powerful allies in conservation efforts, given their longstanding dependence on natural resources and their traditional ecological knowledge systems. As the examples in this dossier reveal, it is possible for fishing communities to protect and conserve the environment, while continuing with sustainable fishing operations. Clearly, only an integrated approach to fisheries management and conservation will prove successful. This dossier will be useful for policymakers, social scientists, non-governmental organizations and others interested in fisheries, conservation, communities and livelihoods.

Rights first, rights forever: small-scale fisheries and fishing communities from a human-rights perspective. A collection of articles from SAMUDRA report

Small-scale and artisanal fisheries contribute about two-thirds of the global fish production destined for direct human consumption. They also accommodate over 90 per cent of those who make their living from fisheries. Women comprise at least half the workforce in small-scale fisheries. Despite the important contributions made by small-scale fisheries to poverty eradication and food security, small-scale fishers and fishworkers continue to be marginalized at different levels. It is in this context that the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines).

Labels or fables? The myth of sustainability: a collection of articles from SAMUDRA Report

Labels or Fables? The Myth of Sustainability examines the costs of certification of global fisheries and how it is allegedly biased towards industrial-scale fisheries. This dossier is a compilation of articles from Samudra Report dealing with the issue of ecolabelling in fisheries.

Statistical parametric speech synthesis based on speaker and language factorization

An increasingly common scenario in building speech synthesis and recognition systems is training on inhomogeneous data. This paper proposes a new framework for estimating hidden Markov models on data containing both multiple speakers and multiple languages. The proposed framework, speaker and language factorization, attempts to factorize speaker-/language-specific characteristics in the data and then model them using separate transforms. Language-specific factors in the data are represented by transforms based on cluster mean interpolation with cluster-dependent decision trees. Acoustic variations caused by speaker characteristics are handled by transforms based on constrained maximum-likelihood linear regression. Experimental results on statistical parametric speech synthesis show that the proposed framework enables data from multiple speakers in different languages to be used to: train a synthesis system; synthesize speech in a language using speaker characteristics estimated in a different language; and adapt to a new language. © 2012 IEEE.

中国砂壳虫属两新纪录种形态研究(表壳目,砂壳科)(英文)

记述了首次在中国湖北七湖中鉴定到的隶属肉鞭门根足总纲叶足纲表壳目砂壳科砂壳虫属的 2种中国新纪录种 :大尖顶砂壳虫DifflugiaacuminatamagnaDeflandre,192 6和泡利砂壳虫D .pauliiOgden ,1983。利用扫描电镜对两种砂壳虫壳体形态特征进行了详细的研究。研究表明大尖顶砂壳虫与指名亚种D .acuminataacuminata的主要区别在于有机胶结物模式不同。

The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence and the phylogenetic position of Achalinus meiguensis (Reptilia: Squamata)

The mitochondrial genome complete sequence of Achalinus meiguensis was reported for the first time in the present study. The complete mitochondrial genome of A. meiguensis is 17239 bp in length and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA, 2 rRNA, and 2 non-coding regions (Control regions). On the basis of comparison with the other complete mitochondrial sequences reported, we explored the characteristic of structure and evolution. For example, duplication control regions independently occurred in the evolutionary history of reptiles; the pseudo-tRNA of snakes occurred in the Caenophidia; snake is shorter than other vertebrates in the length of tRNA because of the truncations of T psi C arm (less than 5 bp) and "DHU" arm. The phylogenic analysis by MP and BI analysis showed that the phylogenetic position of A. meiguensis was placed in Caenophidia as a sister group to other advanced snakes with the exclusion of Acrochordus granulatus which was rooted in the Caenophidia. Therefore we suggested that the subfamily Xenodermatinae, which contains A. meiguensis, should be raised to a family rank or higher rank. At the same time, based on the phylogenic statistic test, the tree of Bayesian was used for estimating the divergence time. The results showed that the divergence time between Henophidia and Caenophidia was 109.50 Mya; 106.18 Mya for divergence between Acrochordus granulatus and the other snakes of the Caenophidia; the divergence time of A. meiguensis was 103 Mya, and Viperidae diverged from the unilateral of Elapidae and Colubridae was 96.06 Mya.