Estudo comparativo do teor de (15E)-licopeno por CLAE-DAD entre lavouras de tomate submetidas aos manejos TOMATEC e tradicional

O tomate (Solanum lycopersicum L.) é considerado um alimento funcional por sua propriedade antioxidante. O fruto contém dos carotenoides, ácido L-ascórbico, vitamina E e substâncias fenólicas. Estudos indicam que o consumo do tomate pode retardar o envelhecimento e favorecer o funcionamento do sistema imunológico em humanos, embora não seja possível afirmar uma relação direta entre a prevenção ou cura de qualquer carcinoma com o consumo de produtos à base licopeno. Na década de 1990, a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) criou o projeto TOMATEC, o tomate ecologicamente cultivado. A produção é baseada em um manejo diferenciado, que objetiva a otimização do uso do solo, menor consumo de pesticidas, herbicidas e incentivo à produção familiar dos agricultores. O estudo objetiva observar a influencia dos diferentes manejos: tradicional e TOMATEC na produção de (15E)-licopeno nos frutos do tomate, em diferentes cultivares do Brasil. Assim, foi utilizada a técnica de cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência acoplada a detector por arranjo de diodos (CLAE-DAD), em fase estacionária polimérica composta de 30 carbonos (C30). Esta fase estacionária é capaz de separar carotenoides, incluvise, isômeros geométricos do licopeno. As amostras foram coletadas, tratadas, extraídas e analisadas sob as mesmas condições para avaliação das concentrações de (15E)-licopeno nos frutos. Ensaios realizados foram capazes de demonstrar, de maneira objetiva, que a metodologia proposta conduziu a resultados confiáveis à qualidade desejada, de acordo com o guia de validação proposto pelo Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial (INMETRO). Foram utilizadas ferramentas estatísticas para comparar os teores de (15E)-licopeno, em diferentes Estados do Brasil, sob diferentes manejos. Os resultados indicam os maiores teores da substância em cultivares convencionais e mostram que o ensacamento do fruto é um fator decisivo para a biossíntese do (15E)-licopeno

William Hope Hodgson's borderlands: monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siècle.

William Hope Hodgson has generally been understood as the author of several atmospheric sea-horror stories and two powerful but flawed horror science fiction novels. There has been no substantial study analysing the historical and cultural context of his fiction or its place in the Gothic, horror, and science fiction literary traditions. Through analysing the theme of borderlands, this thesis contextualises Hodgson’s novels and short stories within these traditions and within late Victorian cultural discourse. Liminal other world realms, boundaries of corporeal monstrosity, and the imagined future of the world form key elements of Hodgson’s fiction, reflecting the currents of anxiety and optimism characterising fin-de-siècle British society. Hodgson’s early career as a sailor and his interest in body-building and physical culture colour his fiction. Fin-de-siècle discourses of evolution, entropy, spiritualism, psychical research, and the occult also influence his ideas. In The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), the known world brushes against other forms of reality, exposing humanity to incomprehensible horrors. In The Ghost Pirates (1909), the sea forms a liminal region on the borderland of materiality and immateriality in which other world encounters can take place. In The Night Land and The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig’ (1907), evolution gives rise to strange monstrous forms existing on the borderlines of species and identity. In Hodgson’s science fiction—The House on the Borderland and The Night Land—the future of the earth forms a temporal borderland of human existence shaped by fin-de-siècle fears of entropy and the heat-death of the sun. Alongside the work of other writers such as H. G. Wells and Arthur Machen, Hodgson’s four novels respond to the borderland discourses of the fin de siècle, better enabling us to understand the Gothic literature of the period as well as Hodgson’s position as a writer who offers a unique imaginative perspective on his contemporary culture.

L'Ane promeneur, ou Critès promené par son ane : Chef-d'oeuvre pour servir d'Apologie au Goût, aux Moeurs, à l'Esprit, et aux Découvertes du siècle

Première edition revue, corrigée, et précédée d'une Préface à la Mosaïque, dans le plus nouveau goût.

La préformation du germe dans la philosophie biologique du XVIIIe siècle

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Le reçu de taxe O. Brux. Inv. E. 375

Édition d'un reçu de taxe copte inédit des Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles. Réédition de deux reçus de taxe similaires. Corrections à d'autres textes déjà édités. Les documents proviennent de la région thébaine et datent de la première moitié du 8e siècle.

Robert Morin, « Les Pensées philosophiques de Diderot devant leurs principaux contradicteurs au XVIIIe siècle » (Paris 1975), 168 p.

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Faut-il encore craindre la tuberculose au XXIème siècle ?

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Adaptation to the Environment: Changes in Initial Projects in Ottoman Shephardic Press

The origins of Sephardic press date back to the mid-20th century, when the influence of the Western world spread across the Sephardim communities of the East. The content of these newspapers was diverse: pieces of general interest, but also scientific, literary and humorous works, with various political orientations. These papers were published in different languages, writing styles and alphabets. Those to be analysed here, however, were published in aljamiado Judeo-Spanish: three papers from Smyrna and one from Salonica. Throughout this work we will focus on the different obstacles and difficulties the editors and publishers of this Ottoman Sephardic press had to face to bring their publications to light.

The redemption of the gaze: the crisis of observation in the "fin de siècle" and the advent of cinema

The intention of this article is not to affirm, but rather to question wether it is possible to speak of a loss of the ability to gaze in the context of the nineteenth century and especially in the context of the fin de siècle, in the bosom of the epistemological crisis that beset the Turn of the Century. And very especially, this article tries to question about the impact this crisis had, perhaps, in the birth of cinema. Is in this context that arises the work of Marey and the advent of the cinematograph of the Lumière brothers in the fin de siècle Europe, both of them showing a deep faith in a mechanical apparatus that would allow the redemption of a battered gaze. And it seems to be a dream that continues over time through the tradition of shooting the everyday life.

Présentation du Colloque international de Belfast du 30 août au 1er septembre 2007 « André Malraux et les valeurs spirituelles du XXIe siècle »

The article presented to Malraux specialists the conclusions and findings of the international conference on André Malraux held at Queen's University Belfast in 2007.