Une étude d'Orlanda, roman belge francophone contemporain de Jacqueline Harpman

Este trabalho tem como primeiro objetivo a análise de alguns aspectos do romance francófono belga contemporâneo Orlanda, publicado em 1996 pela autora Jacqueline Harpman. Na parte inicial, apresentamos a Bélgica, sua história e suas letras francófonas; os debates sobre a legitimidade de uma identidade nacional belga específica assim como os discursos que procuram afirmar ou negar a existência de um campo literário belga francófono autônomo são a linha de pensamento desta fase do presente estudo. A segunda parte trata de analisar a narrativa Orlanda. Descrevemos a composição geral do romance (o enredo, o narrador, o tempo e as personagens) e aprofundamos em seguida dois aspectos do romance: o jogo metadiscursivo e o mito do andrógino. A análise do romance evidencia uma narrativa que desvenda certos mecanismos do gênero romanesco; o mito do andrógino faz surgir níveis de significados como a tradição e a modernidade, a ficção e a realidade, o autor e sua atividade como escritor. Um itinerário biográfico sobre Jacqueline Harpman e uma descrição (muito breve) dos dezenove romances publicados pela autora até hoje são inseridos em anexo.

Um estudo sobre a relação entre matemática e religião na obra de Blaise Pascal

The aim of the present study is to investigate the way through which the relations between Mathematics and Religion emerge in the work of Blaise Pascal. This research is justified by the need to deepen these relations, so far little explored if compared to intersection points between Mathematics and other fields of knowledge. The choice for Pascal is given by the fact that he was one of the mathematicians who elaborated best one reflection in the religious field thus provoking contradictory reactions. As a methodology, it is a bibliographical and documental research with analytical-comparative reading of referential texts, among them the Oeuvres complètes de Pascal (1954), Le fonds pascalien à Clermont-Ferrand (2001), Mathematics in a postmodern age: a cristian perspective by Howell & Bradley (2001), Mathematics and the divine: a historical study by Koetsier & Bergmans (2005), the Anais dos Seminários Nacionais de História da Matemática and the Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática. The research involving Pascal's life as a mathematician and his religious experience was made. A wider background in which the subject matter emerges was also researched. Seven categories connected to the relation between mathematics and religion were identified from the reading of texts written by mathematicians and historians of mathematics. As a conclusion, the presence of four of these seven categories was verified in Pascal's work

O processo de integração em Blaise Pascal

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Doença: sofrimento e vida nas filosofias de Friedrich Nietzsche e Blase Pascal

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um filósofo na rua Erê: presença de Pascal em O amanuense Belmiro, de Cyro dos Anjos

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Los extranjeros en Lanzarote en el siglo XVII (1625-1700)

[ES] Resumen de la investigación y estudio de los europeos que llegan a Lanzarote en dicho período, sus actividades y su papel en esa sociedad insular.

Characterisation of gp34, a GPI-anchored protein expressed by schizonts of Theileria parva and T. annulata

Using bioinformatics tools, we searched the predicted Theileria annulata and T. parva proteomes for putative schizont surface proteins. This led to the identification of gp34, a GPI-anchored protein that is stage-specifically expressed by schizonts of both Theileria species and is downregulated upon induction of merogony. Transfection experiments in HeLa cells showed that the gp34 signal peptide and GPI anchor signal are also functional in higher eukaryotes. Epitope-tagged Tp-gp34, but not Ta-gp34, expressed in the cytosol of COS-7 cells was found to localise to the central spindle and midbody. Overexpression of Tp-gp34 and Ta-gp34 induced cytokinetic defects and resulted in accumulation of binucleated cells. These findings suggest that gp34 could contribute to important parasite-host interactions during host cell division.

Breathing adapted radiotherapy: a 4D gating software for lung cancer

Purpose Physiological respiratory motion of tumors growing in the lung can be corrected with respiratory gating when treated with radiotherapy (RT). The optimal respiratory phase for beam-on may be assessed with a respiratory phase optimizer (RPO), a 4D image processing software developed with this purpose. Methods and Materials Fourteen patients with lung cancer were included in the study. Every patient underwent a 4D-CT providing ten datasets of ten phases of the respiratory cycle (0-100% of the cycle). We defined two morphological parameters for comparison of 4D-CT images in different respiratory phases: tumor-volume to lung-volume ratio and tumor-to-spinal cord distance. The RPO automatized the calculations (200 per patient) of these parameters for each phase of the respiratory cycle allowing to determine the optimal interval for RT. Results Lower lobe lung tumors not attached to the diaphragm presented with the largest motion with breathing. Maximum inspiration was considered the optimal phase for treatment in 4 patients (28.6%). In 7 patients (50%), however, the RPO showed a most favorable volumetric and spatial configuration in phases other than maximum inspiration. In 2 cases (14.4%) the RPO showed no benefit from gating. This tool was not conclusive in only one case. Conclusions The RPO software presented in this study can help to determine the optimal respiratory phase for gated RT based on a few simple morphological parameters. Easy to apply in daily routine, it may be a useful tool for selecting patients who might benefit from breathing adapted RT.