As marcas de oralidade como recurso estilístico nas crônicas de Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos

A crônica é um gênero textual híbrido, por oscilar entre a subjetividade da literatura e a objetividade do jornalismo. Ela nasce de fatos corriqueiros, está vinculada à fala e à interação e tem um estilo que simula naturalidade. Diante de um texto desse tipo, de que maneira podemos dissociar as marcas de oralidade como constituintes da construção composicional do gênero das marcas de oralidade usadas como recurso estilístico do cronista? Para responder a essa questão, recorremos à Estilística e aos estudos sobre oralidade e escrita, guiando-nos, prioritariamente, pelas ideias de Marcel Cressot, Nilce SantAnna Martins, Norma Discini, José Lemos Monteiro, Claudio Cezar Henriques, Sírio Possenti, Dino Preti, Hudinilson Urbano, Luiz Antônio Marcuschi, Ingedore Villaça Koch e Eni P. Orlandi, entre outros. Trabalhamos, em adição, a linguagem jornalística sob a perspectiva de Patrick Charaudeau. O corpus utilizado para este trabalho teórico foi organizado a partir de crônicas de Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, cujos textos, em sua maioria, voltam-se para a influência da modalidade falada da língua no cotidiano dos leitores, o que demonstra sua preocupação com a linguagem. Adotamos a linguagem sob a perspectiva sociointeracionista, nos termos de Mikhail Bakhtin, e sustentamos a visão de que as marcas de oralidade nas crônicas de Joaquim configuram-se como recurso estratégico para produzir um efeito de sentido pretendido pelo autor em determinado contexto

Electroosmotic flow analysis of a branched U-turn nanofluidic device.

In this paper, we present the analysis of electroosmotic flow in a branched -turn nanofluidic device, which we developed for detection and sorting of single molecules. The device, where the channel depth is only 150 nm, is designed to optically detect fluorescence from a volume as small as 270 attolitres (al) with a common wide-field fluorescent setup. We use distilled water as the liquid, in which we dilute 110 nm fluorescent beads employed as tracer-particles. Quantitative imaging is used to characterize the pathlines and velocity distribution of the electroosmotic flow in the device. Due to the device's complex geometry, the electroosmotic flow cannot be solved analytically. Therefore we use numerical flow simulation to model our device. Our results show that the deviation between measured and simulated data can be explained by the measured Brownian motion of the tracer-particles, which was not incorporated in the simulation.

Ictiólogos de la Argentina: Claudio Rafael Mariano Baigún.

This series will include all those people who, by means of their contributions, great and small, played a part in the consolidation of ichthyology in Argentina. The general plan of this work consists of individual factsheets containing a list of works by each author, along with reference bibliography and, whenever possible, personal pictures and additional material. The datasheets will be published primarily in chronological order, although this is subject to change by the availability of materials for successive editions. This work represents another approach for the recovery and revalorization of those who set the foundations of Argentine ichthyology while in diverse historical circumstances. I expect this to be the beginning of a major work that achieves the description of such a significant part of the history of natural sciences in Argentina.

Analytic model for turn off in the silicon-on-insulator LIGBT

Lateral insulated gate bipolar transistors (LIGBTs) in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) show a unique turn off characteristic when compared to junction-isolated RESURF LIGBTs or vertical IGBTs. The turn off characteristic shows an extended `terrace' where, after the initial fast transient characteristic of IGBTs due to the loss of the electron current, the current stays almost at the same value for an extended period of time, before suddenly dropping to zero. In this paper, we show that this terrace arises because there is a value of LIGBT current during switch off where the rate of expansion of the depletion region with respect to the anode current is infinite. Once this level of anode current is approached, the depletion region starts to expand very rapidly, and is only stopped when it reaches the n-type buffer layer surrounding the anode. Once this happens, the current rapidly drops to zero. A quasi-static analytic model is derived to explain this behaviour. The analytically modelled turn off characteristic agrees well with that found by numerical simulation.