O Monolinguismo do Outro O caso do poeta politradutor Armand Robin

Este trabalho aborda a questão da pulsão politradutória mediante a análise de sua manifestação na obra do poeta tradutor bretão Armand Robin (1912 - 1961). Essa pulsão, vinculada a uma visada metafísica na obra de Antoine Berman (A prova do estrangeiro, 2002) - definida como a busca romântica da língua pura -, é reavaliada atentando para os aspectos filosóficos e psicanalíticos mais evidentes. Em consonância com a teoria de Jacques Derrida (Le monolinguisme de l'autre, 1996), este estudo sugere que o politradutor Robin - que traduziu poemas de aproximadamente vinte e duas línguas para o francês - na verdade não"tinha" várias línguas, não era plurilíngue no sentido que convencionalmente conhecemos, mas tinha apenas uma língua e que não era a sua. O fato de considerar este poeta como um monolíngüe afásico singulariza e redimensiona a problemática em torno da pulsão do traduzir: a repetição do gesto tradutório desvela o excesso da busca de outras línguas, o que aponta paradoxalmente para um modo de velar o trauma relacionado à língua materna afásica (no sentido derridiano do termo). Esse duplo gesto de pulsão-repulsão se manifesta no poliglotismo e na politradução: traduzir permanentemente permite que Robin suporte na paixão a dor da abdicação de escrever a própria obra.

"Wege, auf denen die Sprache stimmhaft wird" Die Übersetzung von einundzwanzig Sonetten Shakespeares durch Paul Celan

Die Arbeit stellt sich in die Reihe von Studien, die den Status des lyrischen Subjekts innerhalb der Dichtung „nach Auschwitz“ untersucht haben, versucht aber selbst einen neuen Weg einzuschlagen, indem sie die Problematik der (historischen, ethischen) Subjektbestimmung aus ihrer rhetorischen und linguistischen Natur herleitet. Durch detaillierte formale Lektüre wird die selbstreflexive Funktion der Personalpronomina in den Sonetten Shakespeares sowie in der Übersetzung Celans analysiert. Die übersetzungstheoretischen Implikationen der Selbstreflexivität werden vor allem in Bezug auf die Werke von Antoine Berman und Henri Meschonnic erklärt. Präzise identifiziert und deutet der Verfasser syntaktische, grammatikalische, rhetorische und metrische Merkmale der untersuchten Gedichte, um Celans Verfahren en détail zu beschreiben: Tempus und Modus, Enjambement und Zäsur, Synkope und Anakoluth, Katapher und Chiasmus, Satz- und Ausführungszeichen, Kursivschrift und graphische Elemente. Theoretisch stützt sich die Arbeit auf bestimmte Hauptbegriffe von Jean Bollack (Virtualität, Poetik der Fremdheit, Trennung von den Mitmenschen, Schreiben auf seiten des Todes) und Gilles Deleuze (Virtualität, Differenz und Repetition, Ordnung der leeren Zeit). Der Begriff von Virtualität fungiert in diesem Zusammenhang als trait d'union zwischen den beiden Autoren, in dem Versuch, ihre unterschiedlichen, teilweise entgegengesetzten Positionen in einem Punkt konvergieren zu lassen: der Neudefinition eines gespaltenen Subjektes und seines subversiven Potentials in einem direkten politischen Sinne. Diese Neudefinition der pronominalen Funktionen und die ihres politischen Widerstands werden darüber hinaus als übersetzungstheoretische Kriterien in der Interpretation der Nationalliteratur und der Rezeptionsgeschichte in Deutschland verwendet. Aus dieser Perspektive wird der theoretische Rahmen dieser Arbeit, nach den Hauptfiguren von Bollack und Deleuze, von Foucault Auffassung der Historizität und des politischen Werts des Subjektbegriffs ergänzt. Die Poetik der Übersetzung wird als Vorgang der “Wiederholung” konzipiert, der letztendlich eine “Differenz” hervorbringt, wie auch eine Neubestimmung der Zeitlichkeit als nicht-lineare Erscheinung.

The links between public tendencies and the urban design framework of Brisbane’s public squares: Mapping urban design frameworks present in Brisbane public squares and the correlating activities of the Australian public

This research seeks to demonstrate the ways in which urban design factors, individually and in various well-considered arrangements, stimulate and encourage social activities in Brisbane’s public squares through the mapping and analysis of user behaviour. No design factors contribute to public space in isolation, so the combinations of different design factors, contextual and social impacts as well as local climate are considered to be highly influential to the way in which Brisbane’s public engages with public space. It is this local distinctiveness that this research seeks to ascertain. The research firstly pinpoints and consolidates the design factors identified and recommended in existing literature and then maps the identified factors as they are observed at case study sites in Brisbane. This is then set against observational mappings of the site’s corresponding user activities and engagement. These mappings identify a number of patterns of behaviour; pertinently that “activated” areas of social gathering actively draw people in, and the busier a space is, both the frequency and duration of people lingering in the space increases. The study finds that simply providing respite from the urban environment (and/or weather conditions) does not adequately encourage social interaction and that people friendly design factors can instigate social activities which, if coexisting in a public space, can themselves draw in further users of the space. One of the primary conclusions drawn from these observations is that members of the public in Brisbane are both actively and passively social and often seek out locations where “people-watching” and being around other members of the public (both categorised as passive social activities) are facilitated and encouraged. Spaces that provide respite from the urban environment but that do not sufficiently accommodate social connections and activities are less favourable and are often left abandoned despite their comparable tranquillity and available space.

Interpersonal coordination tendencies supporting the creation/prevention of goal scoring opportunities in futsal

Research on 1vs1 sub-phases in team sports has shown how one player coordinates his/her actions with his/her opponent and the location of a target/goal to attain performance objectives. In this study, we extended this approach to analysis of 5vs5 competitive performance in the team sport of futsal to provide a performance analysis framework that explains how players coordinate their actions to create/prevent opportunities to score goals. For this purpose, we recorded all 10 futsal matches of the 2009 Lusophony Games held in Lisbon. We analysed the displacement trajectories of a shooting attacker and marking defender in plays ending in a goal, a goalkeeper's save, and a defender's interception, at four specific moments during performance: (1) assisting attacker's ball reception; (2) moment of passing; (3) shooter's ball reception, and; (4) shot on goal. Statistical analysis showed that when a goal was scored, the defender's angle to the goal and to the attacker tended to decrease, the attacker was able to move to the same distance to the goal alongside the defender, and the attacker was closer to the defender and moving at the same velocity (at least) as the defender. This study identified emergent patterns of coordination between attackers and defenders under key competitive task constraints, such as the location of the goal, which supported successful performance in futsal.

Evidence of episodic brittle faulting in the cratonic part of the Peninsular India and its implications for seismic hazard in slow deforming regions

The region around Waclakkancheri, in the province of Kerala, India, which lies in the vicinity of Palghat-Cauvery ;hear zone (within the Precambrian crystalline terrain), has been a site of microseismic activity since 1989. Earlier studies had identified a prominent WNW-ESE structure overprinting on the E-W trending lineaments associated with Palghat-Cauvery shear zone. We have mapped this structure, located in a chamockite quarry near Desamangalam, Waclakkancheri, which we identify as a ca. 30 km-long south dipping reverse fault. This article presents the characteristics of this fault zone exposed on the exhumed crystalline basement and discusses its significance in understanding the earthquake potential of the region. This brittle deformation zone consists of fracture sets with small-scale displacement and slip planes with embedded fault gouges. The macroscopic as well as the microscopic studies of this fault zone indicate that it evolved through different episodes of faulting in the presence of fluids. The distinct zones within consolidated gouge and the cross cutting relationship of fractures indicate episodic fault activity. At least four faulting episodes can be recognized based on the sequential development of different structural elements in the fault rocks. The repeated ruptures are evident along this shear zone and the cyclic behavior of this fault consists of co-seismic ruptures alternating with inter-seismic periods, which is characterized by the sealed fractures and consolidated gouge. The fault zone shows a minimum accumulated dip/oblique slip of 2.1 m in the reverse direction with a possible characteristic slip of 52 cm (for each event). The ESR dating of fault gouge indicates that the deformation zone records a major event in the Middle Quaternary. The empirical relationships between fault length and slip show that this fault may generate events M >= 6. The above factors suggest that this fault may be characterized as potentially active. Our study offers some new pointers that can be used in other slow deforming cratonic hinterlands in exploring the discrete active faults.

Enzymes with radical tendencies: the PFL family

The first glycyl radical in an enzyme was described 20 years ago and since then the family of glycyl radical enzymes (GREs) has expanded to include enzymes catalysing five chemically distinct reactions. The type enzymes of the family, anaerobic ribonucleotide reductase (RNRIII) and pyruvate formate lyase (PFL) had been studied long before it was known that they are GREs. Spectroscopic measurements on the radical and an observation that exposure to oxygen irreversibly inactivates the enzymes by cleavage of the protein proved that the radical is located on a particular glycine residue, close to the C-terminus of the protein. Both anaerobic RNRIII and PFL, are important for many anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria as RNRIII is responsible for the synthesis of DNA precursors and PFL catalyses a key metabolic reaction in glycolysis. The crystal structures of both were solved in 1999 and they revealed that, although the enzymes do not share significant sequence identity, they share a similar structure - the radical site and residues necessary for catalysis are buried inside a ten stranded $\ualpha $/$\ubeta $-barrel. GREs are synthesised in an inactive form and are post-translationally activated by an activating enzyme which uses S-adenosyl methionine and an iron-sulphur cluster to generate the radical. One of the goals of this thesis work was to crystallise the activating enzyme of PFL. This task is challenging as, like GREs, the activating component is inactivated by oxygen. The experiments were therefore carried out in an oxygen free atmosphere. This is the first report of a crystalline GRE activating enzyme. Recently several new GREs have been characterised, all sharing sequence similarity to PFL but not to RNRIII. Also, the genome sequencing projects have identified many PFL-like GREs of unknown function, usually annotated as PFLs. In the present thesis I describe the grouping of these PFL family enzymes based on the sequence similarity and analyse the conservation patterns when compared to the structure of E. coli PFL. Based on this information an activation route is proposed. I also report a crystal structure of one of the PFL-like enzymes with unknown function, PFL2 from Archaeoglobus fulgidus. As A. fulgidus is a hyperthermophilic organism, possible mechanisms stabilising the structure are discussed. The organisation of an active site of PFL2 suggests that the enzyme may be a dehydratase. Keywords: glycyl radical, enzyme, pyruvate formate lyase, x-ray crystallography, bioinformatics

On the production and nutritive value of fish meal from Silver belly (Leiognathus spp.) landings at Rameswaram

Silver belly (Leiognathus Spp.) forms a major fishery in recent years in the Rameswaram island but fetches for the fishermen very low prices ranging from Rs. 0.03 to 0.12/Kg only, there being practically no demand for the fish. The possibilities of utilizing this cheap fish are discussed and the processing method described. During the glut season the cost of production of Silver belly fish meal works out to competitive prices of Rs. 500 to 700/ton. The silver belly fish meal is of high quality with good protein content averaging 57.71% in commercial samples and 61.90% in laboratory samples and with a high pepsin digestibility of 90.0% to 92.5%. The essential amino acid composition of the Silver belly fish meal compares very favorably with other round fish meals, with high contents of lysine, leucine, arginine, isoleucine, methionine, phenyl alanine, threonine and valine. Since there is good demand for fish meal as poultry and cattle food both in the internal and external markets, there is good scope for large scale production and sale of fish meal.

On the comparative efficiency of conventional and bulged belly fish trawls

To ensure a greater vertical opening while under tow, a trawl net with a bulged belly was made and compared with a conventional design under actual fishing conditions. It was found that the new design landed 31.8% more fish. Since the percentage lateral spread was relatively less for the bulged belly net, it was inferred that this net had higher head line height, while under operation and this was further substantiated by a greater catch of off—bottom fishes. Further, half the quantity of twine can be saved by changing the conventional trawl to that of bulged belly type.

Study on the morphometric and meristic characteristics of splendid silver belly Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier) from Bombay coast

Ten morphometric and six meristic characters of Leiognathus splendens (Cuvier) of Bombay Coast have been studied sexwise. Regression and sexwise difference if any between the compared morphometric characteristics have been worked out. Range, mode, standard deviation, co-efficient of variation of 6 meristic characters have been analysed. There was no significant difference between the sexes in morphometric and any deviation in the meristic characters.

Studies on the preparation of fish silage. 2. Rate of liquefaction in different parts of silver belly

An experiment was undertaken to determine from which part of silver belly (Leiognathus splendens) carcasses originate the autolytic enzymes responsible for liquefaction of silage. Findings show that it is important to leave head and viscera present in order to get a satisfactory liquefaction in silage prepared from silver belly using 3.5% formic acid. The storage life of silage produced from various parts of the fish carcasses is also discussed.

Mobilizing Maryland: a look into the voting tendencies of students at the University of Maryland

Gemstone Team VOTE-CP (Voice of the Electorate - Collegiate Participation)