Identidade cultural e imagem de si: construções de subjetividades no Território do Centro Cultural Cartola - Mangueira/RJ

A presente Dissertação de Mestrado trata da construção da subjetividade de crianças que frequentam o Centro Cultural Cartola (CCC), na Mangueira/RJ, a partir da relação estabelecida entre território, identidade cultural e imagem de si. O trabalho foi fundamentado em uma metodologia participativa, baseada na compreensão do espaço proposta por Bourdieu (1988, 1998), a partir dos conceitos de campo social, espaço social e habitus. A técnica de ação da pesquisa de campo, por sua vez, fundamentou-se na metodologia de Grupo Operativo de Pichon-Rivière (1991, 1998). Com o intuito de contextualizar e compreender o sentido, dado historicamente, de viver em uma favela no Rio de Janeiro, o texto desta Dissertação inicia-se com o panorama de desenvolvimento da cidade, pelo recorte das relações sociais na ocupação da área urbana e a conjuntura história do início da proliferação das favelas. Descreve-se a história do desenvolvimento da Mangueira enquanto campo social onde se localiza o CCC, cujos objetivos, práticas e a história de Angenor de Oliveira, o Cartola, são elementos essências para a compreensão dos valores morais transmitidos desde a infância e de extrema importância na construção da subjetividade dos moradores da Mangueira. O Grupo Operativo desenvolveu-se com crianças que participam da Ação Griô do CCC, projeto que, por meio da história oral, privilegia a narrativa de experiências e objetiva promover a reapropriação da identidade cultural da Mangueira. Sendo assim, analisaram-se os conceitos de cultura e identidade cultural que, inseridos na contemporaneidade, se ressignificam e se constroem enquanto múltiplos e processuais. Discutiu-se, ainda, a formação da imagem de si, entendida, em sua dinamicidade, como a capacidade de reconhecer-se, ao exercer influência nas escolhas e decisões feitas pelo sujeito, em benefício da autoestima. As conclusões apontam que práticas como as do CCC exemplificam uma luta resistente de preservação e reapropriação da cultura local, por ocuparem o espaço de cidadania cultural, pela apropriação positiva do território e pelo fortalecimento da identidade cultural de ser Mangueirense. Além disso, também influenciam na construção da subjetividade do sujeito.

Enhancement of ferromagnetic properties in In1.99Co0.01O3 by additional Cu doping

This paper reports room-temperature ferromagnetism in Co- and Cu-doped In2O3 samples synthesized by a solid-state reaction method. Structure and composition analyses revealed that Co and Cu were incorporated into the In2O3 lattices. Photoluminescence measurement revealed an additional emission at 520 urn from these doped samples. The magnetic measurement showed that additional Cu doping greatly enhanced the ferromagnetism of In1.99Co0.01O3 bulk samples. The implication of the effects of additional Cu doping is also discussed. (c) 2007 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Electric field enhancement in guided-mode resonance filters

Electric fields inside guided-mode resonance filters (GMRFs) may be intensified by resonance effects. The electric field enhancement is investigated in two GMRFs: one is resonant at normal incidence, the other at oblique incidence. It is shown that the two GMRFs exhibit different behaviors in their electric enhancement. Differences between the electric field distributions of the two GMRFs arise because coupling between counter-propagating modes occurs in the first case. It is also shown that the order of the electric field of maximum amplitude can be controlled by modulation of the dielectric constant of the grating. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.

Enhancement of near-band edge photoluminescence of ZnO thin films by employing MgF2 buffer layer

ZnO/MgF2/ZnO sandwich structure films were fabricated. The effects of a buffer layer on structure and optical properties of ZnO films were investigated by X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence, optical transmittance and absorption measurements. Measurement results showed that the buffer layer had the effects of improving the quality of ZnO films and releasing the residual stresses in the films. The near-band edge emissions of ZnO films deposited on the MgF2 buffer layer were significantly enhanced compared with those deposited on bare substrate due to the smaller lattice mismatch between MgF2 and ZnO than that between fused silica and ZnO. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Enhancement of near-band-edge photoluminescence of ZnO thin films in sandwich configuration at room temperature

ZnO/ITO/ZnO sandwich structure films were fabricated. The effects of buffer layer on the structure and optical properties of ZnO films were investigated by x-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence, optical transmittance, and absorption measurements. XRD spectra indicate that a buffer layer has the effects of lowering the grain orientation of ZnO films and increasing the residual stresses in the films. The near-band-edge emissions of ZnO films deposited on both single indium tin oxide (ITO) buffer and ITO/ZnO double buffers are significantly enhanced compared with that deposited on a bare substrate due to the quantum confinement effect. (C) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

Geomorphological considerations for the introduction of boulders and groynes for fisheries enhancement: assessment of River Eden at Carhead

This report seeks to briefly provide geomorphological guidance over the introduction of 'habitat enhancement' features for fisheries improvement which is an expanding area of interest throughout the region. This document is a primary attempt to draw together the salient details from the large quantity of literature published in recent years with reference to boulder introduction and to groyne/deflector placement in NW rivers. Secondly the potential introduction of such features is assessed, with reference to the proposed works at Carhead on the Eden.

Image-Based Delineation and Classification of Built Heritage Masonry

Fundacion Zain is developing new built heritage assessment protocols. The goal is to objectivize and standardize the analysis and decision process that leads to determining the degree of protection of built heritage in the Basque Country. The ultimate step in this objectivization and standardization effort will be the development of an information and communication technology (ICT) tool for the assessment of built heritage. This paper presents the ground work carried out to make this tool possible: the automatic, image-based delineation of stone masonry. This is a necessary first step in the development of the tool, as the built heritage that will be assessed consists of stone masonry construction, and many of the features analyzed can be characterized according to the geometry and arrangement of the stones. Much of the assessment is carried out through visual inspection. Thus, this process will be automated by applying image processing on digital images of the elements under inspection. The principal contribution of this paper is the automatic delineation the framework proposed. The other contribution is the performance evaluation of this delineation as the input to a classifier for a geometrically characterized feature of a built heritage object. The element chosen to perform this evaluation is the stone arrangement of masonry walls. The validity of the proposed framework is assessed on real images of masonry walls.

One-dimensional potential for image-potential states on graphene

In the framework of dielectric theory, the static non-local self-energy of an electron near an ultra-thin polarizable layer has been calculated and applied to study binding energies of image-potential states near free-standing graphene. The corresponding series of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions have been obtained by numerically solving the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation. The imagepotential state wave functions accumulate most of their probability outside the slab. We find that the random phase approximation (RPA) for the nonlocal dielectric function yields a superior description for the potential inside the slab, but a simple Fermi-Thomas theory can be used to get a reasonable quasi-analytical approximation to the full RPA result that can be computed very economically. Binding energies of the image-potential states follow a pattern close to the Rydberg series for a perfect metal with the addition of intermediate states due to the added symmetry of the potential. The formalism only requires a minimal set of free parameters: the slab width and the electronic density. The theoretical calculations are compared with experimental results for the work function and image-potential states obtained by two-photon photoemission.