The passing of Thomas : In the St. Peter's set ; At the grand hotel du paradis ; The fish of Monsieur Quissard ; Le bon oncle d'Amérique : fiver sotires /

Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N.Y.

Inversão gravimétrica estável do relevo da base e da variação da densidade com a profundidade em aterros sanitários

O presente trabalho apresenta um método que utiliza uma função hiperbólica para descrever o decaimento do contraste de densidade com a profundidade em aterros sanitários e lixões, e consiste de duas abordagens: (1) o mapeamento da base de um lixão ou de um aterro sanitário conhecendo-se a anomalia gravimétrica, o contraste de densidade na superfície e o fator de decaimento do contraste de densidade com a profundidade; (2) estimação do contraste de densidade na superfície e o fator de decaimento do contraste de densidade com a profundidade a partir do conhecimento da anomalia gravimétrica e do relevo da base do lixão ou do aterro sanitário; uma variante desta última abordagem utiliza os valores conhecidos de profundidade desses ambientes para gerar a anomalia ajustada e estimar o valor do contraste de densidade na superfície e o fator de decaimento do contraste com a profundidade através da minimização da norma Euclidiana do vetor de resíduos entre as observações e o ajuste. Em ambas abordagens o modelo interpretativo é representado por um conjunto de prismas retangulares justapostos, cujas espessuras são os parâmetros a serem determinados. As soluções encontradas através das duas abordagens são estáveis devido à incorporação de informação sobre a suavidade do relevo estimado. O método foi aplicado a dados sintéticos produzidos pela simulação de aterros sanitários e lixões com até 15 m de profundidades e de relevos suaves. Os resultados das interpretações gravimétricas foram consistentes e revelaram a eficácia do método tanto na abordagem (1) como na abordagem (2). O método também foi aplicado à anomalia Bouguer residual do aterro sanitário da Fazenda Thomas, Indiana, USA, indicando que o contraste de densidade do aterro pode ou ser constante ou apresentar variação máxima de 0,09 g/cm³.

The Net and the Self: Colliding Views of Individuality and Nationhood in the Pre-Devolutionary plays of Mark Jenkins and Ed Thomas

Owen, Roger, 'The Net and the Self: Colliding Views of Individuality and Nationhood in the Pre-Devolutionary plays of Mark Jenkins and Ed Thomas', In: 'Cool Britannia: British Political Drama in the 1990s', Rebecca D'Mont? and Graham Saunders (eds), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp.158-175, 2007 RAE2008

Church of St George and St Thomas

Abstract: A vibrant inner city parish needed space for meetings, language classes, children’s play and other support accommodation as well as a clearer link between the interior of the listed church and the space outside.

The project builds itself about the entrance to the church. The form is manipulated such that the intervention recedes from those entering the church, drawing them into the plan before becoming readable as an addition. The resultant poché between this entrance sequence and the fabric of the church is hollowed out to provide the required accommodation. These rooms are insulated and lined in cork to allow for their use separate to the main body of the church. With budget at a premium the construction methodology was developed from an analysis of traditional Irish boat building techniques, which allowed the use of the solid timber to act as the primary structure with no additional material support.

Constructed in solid walnut the intervention reads with the existing brick interior and yet is clearly identifiable as a contemporary addition.

Aims / Objectives Questions

1 To accommodate new space inside an existing protected structure.
2 To form a new threshold between interior and exterior.
3 To develop an affordable means of construction that would be durable and rapid to erect.
4 To make a contemporary addition in sympathy with the qualities of the existing protect structure, in line with best conservation practice and research.
5 Traditional forms of construction as a model for contemporary technologies.

The Patriarchal Palace at Constantinople in the seventh century: locating the Thomaites and the Makron

New archaeological evidence suggests that the important patriarchal buildings called the Thomaites and Makron were immediately south-west of the sixth-century church of Hagia Sophia, rather than to its north-east as usually supposed. These structures were built in the sixth-century, suggesting only limited rebuilding of the Patriarchate by patriarch Thomas in the early seventh century.

Trajetória dos assentamentos rurais financiados pelo crédito fundiário no estado do Rio Grande do Norte: uma análise da experiência do assentamento da fazenda Paz no município de Maxaranguape/RN

The market-assisted land reform (RAAM) has been constituted as an alternative of agrarian reform funded by the Programa Nacional do Crédito Fundiário (PNCF). It is a policy of acquisition, distribution and use of Earth ideologically disseminated and funded by the World Bank in the context of productive insertion of landless workers. Accordingly, this study seeks to analyze the trajectory of rural settlements financed by this policy, seeking to understand what factors promote or limit the process of rural development of those settlements. To do so, take as a reference case study of the Assentamento da Fazenda Paz, in the municipality of Maxaranguape in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. From the methodological point of view, bibliographical and documentary research were used, in addition to visits to the settlement and semi-structured interviews with the settlers, trade union leaders, consultants and technicians linked to the project. Assuming the reports of respondents, initially constructs the hypothesis that informal and formal institutions present in the Assentamento da Fazenda Paz were unable to effectively coordinate the actions of the agents. The results obtained showed the existence of a very complex undertaking, with a total area of 607 hectares and 80 families settled, endowed with good quality water and irrigation infrastructure, with assets of approximately R$ 5 million reais. Experience experienced by the settlers understood the development of complex systems of production and marketing of fruits and vegetables, with an emphasis on the cultivation of papaya in an area of 45 hectares based on modern irrigation system and extensive use of technology. Collective management of production, marketing, revenue and costs stood out as a major challenge for the settlers and their representative organisations, i.e. the Community Association and the cooperative. From this observation it was possible to identify two moments on the trajectory of the project: the first, between 2007-2011, considered by respondents as successful, in which the integration of public policies and abundant input of revenue from the commercialization of the fruits da Paz, mainly through the sale of papaya and pineapple in national and international markets, allowed an average remuneration of R$ 800.00 reais to R$ 1,000 reais seated/monthIn addition to the production of vegetables and other types of products for sale and consumption; the second, from 2012, characterized as a failure, due to the discontinuity of the cultivation, production and marketing of fruits based on the collective bargaining model deployed. Important factors explain the discontinuity of the project, including the model of agriculture implemented, difficulties related to the management of production, marketing and finance the venture, in addition to the breach of trust between the Board of the cooperative and the associates and the distancing of the governmental organizations more directly responsible for the project. It is therefore concluded that we must to rethink rural development as a multidimensional phenomenon, requiring a broad engagement between State and society under the foundations of a territorial development contract

Reforma Agrária em questão: a propriedade privada como fator de desterritorialização camponesa no Assentamento Fazenda Primavera (Andradina-SP)

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

Amblyomma yucumense n. sp (Acari: Ixodidae), a parasite of wild mammals in Southern Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)