Diseño y desarrollo de herramientas en cerámica, La Calera. Asistencia técnica para el mejoramiento de la pasta cerámica y proceso de secado de piezas de alfarería San Sebastián. Mejoramiento de la pasta cerámica y proceso de secado de piezas de alfarería. Acondicionamiento y manejo de hornos, Momil. Mejoramiento de la pasta cerámica y proceso de secado de piezas de alfarería. Asistencia para la elaboración de matrices y moldes para piezas de cerámica acondicionamiento y manejo de hornos, Ciénaga De Oro y Planeta Rica.

[152] hojas : ilustraciones.

Informe de la asesorías de refuerzos en la aplicación de técnicas artesanales para activar la capacidad de los artesanos dedicados al oficio de la alfarería : San Sebastián.

7 hojas : ilustraciones.

Cuaderno de diseño. Etapa de producción. Regional Centro-Oriente. Departamento de Boyacá, municipio de Tipacoque. Cestería elaborada en clineja (trenza en fique) cosida.

59 hojas : ilustraciones.

Programa Nacional de Joyería y Orfebrería 2001 – 2002. Taller de dibujo técnico y diseño de joyas básicas para joyeros 15 de mayo de 2002.

12 hojas : Ilustraciones.

Informe de labores capacitación en cerámica en Villanueva - Santander.

8 hojas : fotografías baja calidad.

Asesoría en diseño : etapa de producción, municipio de Sibundoy, departamento de Putumayo.

36 hojas : ilustraciones.

Asesoría en diseño. Etapa de producción. Cestería en esparto. Municipio de Cerinza.

103 hojas : ilustraciones.

Etapa de producción y pedido.

27 hojas : ilustraciones.

[Informe de sondeo de mercadeo y asesorías técnicas y en diseño prestada en San Sebastián (Lorica-Córdoba)].

28 hojas : ilustraciones.

Informe sobre joyería Barbacoana.

10 hojas.

Asesoría para el mejoramiento de procesos productivos y la socialización de los productos exitosos diseñados y asesorados por Artesanías de Colombia.

18 hojas : ilustraciones.

Cerámica en la Capilla, Belén y Oicata : asesoria en diseño, desarrollo de producto, pastas y hornos, etiquetas y empaques.

96 hojas : ilustraciones, fotografías a color.

History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age

“History, Revolution and the British Popular Novel” takes as its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its aftermath. Examining the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary fascination with the historical episode of the Revolution, and the fundamental importance of history to the disputes which raged about questions of tradition and change, and the meaning of the British national past, led to the emergence of increasingly complex forms of fictional historical narrative during the “war of ideas.” Considering the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara Reeve, John Moore, Edward Sayer, Mary Charlton, Ann Thomas, George Walker and Jane West engaged with the historical contexts of the Revolution debate, my discussion juxtaposes the manner in which English Jacobin novelists inserted the radical critique of the Jacobin novel into the wider arena of history with anti-Jacobin deployments of the historical to combat the revolutionary threat and internal moves for socio-political restructuring. I argue that the use of imaginative historical narrative to contribute to the ongoing dialogue surrounding the Revolution, and offer political and historical guidance to readers, represented a significant element within the literature of the Revolution crisis. The thesis also identifies the diverse body of historical fiction which materialised amidst the Revolution controversy as a key context within which to understand the emergence of Scott’s national historical novel in 1814, and the broader field of historical fiction in the era of Waterloo. Tracing the continued engagement with revolutionary and political concerns evident in the early Waverley novels, Frances Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), William Godwin’s Mandeville (1816), and Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823), my discussion concludes by arguing that Godwin’s and Shelley’s extension of the mode of historical fiction initially envisioned by Godwin in the revolutionary decade, and their shared endeavour to retrieve the possibility enshrined within the republican past, appeared as a significant counter to the model of history and fiction developed by Walter Scott in the post-revolutionary epoch.

Antigen-specific responses assessment for the evaluation of Bordetella pertussis T cell immunity in humans.

Measurement of antigen-specific T cell responses is an adjunctive parameter to evaluate protection induced by a previous Bordetella pertussis infection or vaccination. The assessment of T cell responses is technically complex and usually performed on fresh peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). The objective of this study was to identify simplified methods to assess pertussis specific T cell responses and verify if these assays could be performed using frozen/thawed (frozen) PBMC. Three read-outs to measure proliferation were compared: the fluorescent dye 5,6-carboxylfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) dilution test, the number of blast cells defined by physical parameters, and the incorporation of (3)H-thymidine. The results of pertussis-specific assays performed on fresh PBMC were compared to the results on frozen PBMC from the same donor. High concordance was obtained when the results of CFSE and blast read-outs were compared, an encouraging result since blast analysis allows the identification of proliferating cells and does not require any use of radioactive tracer as well as any staining. The results obtained using fresh and frozen PBMC from the same donor in the different T cell assays, including IFNγ and TNFα cytokine production, did not show significant differences, suggesting that a careful cryopreservation process of PBMC would not significantly influence T cell response evaluation. Adopting blast analysis and frozen PBMC, the possibility to test T cell responses is simplified and might be applied in population studies, providing for new instruments to better define correlates of protection still elusive in pertussis.

The feminine soul: love, courage, and sacrifice in three centuries of vocal repertoire

Music is a unique form of communication. It sings from soul to soul, touching each of us in uniquely different ways. While researching the life of Clara Schumann, I became intrigued with the idea that feminine qualities, as expressed by her music, could be found in other composers work for the soprano voice. I explored this possibility in a lecture recital and followed up this work by performing two operatic roles and a recital.