La invención de La Fonction Oblique

Un estudiante arquitecto disimula su espíritu burgués bajo una apariencia de vagabundo y enmascara su cinismo bajo la convención de la ironía. SIMULACRO Una joven arquitectura americana de California se revuelca complacida en el culto a la cabaña de madera y a la falsa granja de cubierta retorcida y pintoresca. Una arquitectura internacional politizada busca en el neorrealismo el sentido tan masoquista de la miseria del buen gusto y de la anécdota irrelevante para calmar su conciencia extraviada. Una arquitectura italiana de investigación se refugia en los más increíbles revivals de las épocas más alejadas; transformando alegremente la moda antigua en vieja decoración, influenciando al mundo y justificando su postura de anticuario con el intento vano de elevarla no solo al nivel de una tendencia más, sino al de escuela de arquitectura. SIMULACRO Una arquitectura tradicional cansada, que intenta su revitalización, disfrazándose bajo la etimología neodecorativa de “brutalismo”. Una arquitectura falaz que corrompe los lugares de placer con su exotismo y su folclore de bazar. Una arquitectura indiferente que esconde su falta de pasión bajo la coartada moderna del muro cortina y bajo la máscara de la técnica.

A gaze to rural education according to scientific discourses during the last decade

He largest proportion of illiteracy and lack of access to education in the world is concentrated in rural areas; therefore it is important to ensure there is access to quality education in these spots. This challenge is assumed by different branches of social research and it is reflected within the publication of articles in scientific journals. In the present document the scientific discourse surrounding the theme of rural education during the last decade was analyzed. To do this, the paper focuses on three aspects: the countries that set the agenda, the geographical areas that represent most of the attention and the prevalent themes within continents. It was observed that USA was the most productive country in terms of scientific writings with 30%; that Asia is really interested in health issues associated to rural education; that in Europe gender issues are on the table and that the African and Asian continents, as well as Latin America, are interested only on their own issues, as 100% of the times they only wrote about themselves.

Oblique surface waves at an interface between a metal–dielectric superlattice and an isotropic dielectric

We investigate the existence and dispersion characteristics of surface waves that propagate at an interface between a metal–dielectric superlattice and an isotropic dielectric. Within the long-wavelength limit, when the effective-medium (EM) approximation is valid, the superlattice behaves like a uniaxial plasmonic crystal with the main optical axes perpendicular to the metal–dielectric interfaces. We demonstrate that if such a semi-infinite plasmonic crystal is cut normally to the layer interfaces and brought into contact with a semi-infinite dielectric, a new type of surface mode can appear. Such modes can propagate obliquely to the optical axes if favorable conditions regarding the thickness of the layers and the dielectric permittivities of the constituent materials are met. We show that losses within the metallic layers can be substantially reduced by making the layers sufficiently thin. At the same time, a dramatic enlargement of the range of angles for oblique propagation of the new surface modes is observed. This can lead, however, to field non-locality and consequently to failure of the EM approximation.

Eye Gaze and Turn Taking in Aphasia Patients

In every conversation you have, there is an unspoken code – a set of social rules that guide you. When to stop talking, where to look, when to listen and when to talk…

Eye Gaze Behavior at Turn Transition: How Aphasic Patients Process Speakers' Turns during Video Observation

The human turn-taking system regulates the smooth and precise exchange of speaking turns during face-to-face interaction. Recent studies investigated the processing of ongoing turns during conversation by measuring the eye movements of noninvolved observers. The findings suggest that humans shift their gaze in anticipation to the next speaker before the start of the next turn. Moreover, there is evidence that the ability to timely detect turn transitions mainly relies on the lexico-syntactic content provided by the conversation. Consequently, patients with aphasia, who often experience deficits in both semantic and syntactic processing, might encounter difficulties to detect and timely shift their gaze at turn transitions. To test this assumption, we presented video vignettes of natural conversations to aphasic patients and healthy controls, while their eye movements were measured. The frequency and latency of event-related gaze shifts, with respect to the end of the current turn in the videos, were compared between the two groups. Our results suggest that, compared with healthy controls, aphasic patients have a reduced probability to shift their gaze at turn transitions but do not show significantly increased gaze shift latencies. In healthy controls, but not in aphasic patients, the probability to shift the gaze at turn transition was increased when the video content of the current turn had a higher lexico-syntactic complexity. Furthermore, the results from voxel-based lesion symptom mapping indicate that the association between lexico-syntactic complexity and gaze shift latency in aphasic patients is predicted by brain lesions located in the posterior branch of the left arcuate fasciculus. Higher lexico-syntactic processing demands seem to lead to a reduced gaze shift probability in aphasic patients. This finding may represent missed opportunities for patients to place their contributions during everyday conversation.

Using space to represent categories: Insights from gaze position

We investigated the boundaries among imagery, memory, and perception by measuring gaze during retrieved versus imagined visual information. Eye fixations during recall were bound to the location at which a specific stimulus was encoded. However, eye position information generalized to novel objects of the same category that had not been seen before. For example, encoding an image of a dog in a specific location enhanced the likelihood of looking at the same location during subsequent mental imagery of other mammals. The results suggest that eye movements can also be launched by abstract representa- tions of categories and not exclusively by a single episode or a specific visual exemplar.

Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus: the science and the law. A resource guide for judges, prosecutors and law enforcement.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

FMVSS 208 RM crash simulation support: a crash test of a 1986 Volkswagen Golf into a fixed 30 degree oblique barrier with a closing velocity of 48.4 kph. Test report.

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Oblique angle crash tests of loaded heavy trucks into an instrumented wall. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Tables of oblique photo scale factors and nadir point distances for 70mm photography. For unit altitude, focal lengths: 1.5, 3, 6, and 12 inches, tilts: 0 ̊to 90.̊

"Scale factor system, oblique photo, developmental. Contract NOas 59-6067-c, Aeronautics specification XPH 118 (modified)."

Tables of oblique photo scale factors and nadir point distances. For unit altitude, focal lengths: 6, 12, 24, 36, and 48 inches, tilts: 3 ̊to 90.̊

"Prepared by Cornell University for the U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics under contract NOas 57-585-c."

Principaux vices de conformation du bassin et spécialement du rétrécissement oblique : ouvrage orné de XVI planches lithographiées /

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