Jaime Rest: Función crítica y políticas culturales (1953-1979) : De Sur al Centro Editor de América Latina

Fil: Crespi, Maximiliano. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Para un canon de marginales, malos y malditos : Jaime Rest en CEAL y Ediciones Librerías Fausto

El presente artículo busca dar cuenta de la articulación entre la última etapa del trabajo crítico de Jaime Rest y su labor en el proyecto editorial de Centro Editor de América Latina y en el diseño del catálogo 'Novela y Cuento' de Ediciones Librerías Fausto. Se examina la producción crítica de Rest entre mediados de la década del 60 y fines de los 70 y se presenta una descripción pormenorizada de su trabajo como editor en el periodo delimitado por esas fechas. El objeto de dicho cotejo apunta a establecer relaciones de contigüidad e interferencias entre ambas esferas laborales en el contexto de un campo cultural e intelectual signado por la represión y la censura

Jaime Rest: Función crítica y políticas culturales (1953-1979) : De Sur al Centro Editor de América Latina

Fil: Crespi, Maximiliano. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Para un canon de marginales, malos y malditos : Jaime Rest en CEAL y Ediciones Librerías Fausto

El presente artículo busca dar cuenta de la articulación entre la última etapa del trabajo crítico de Jaime Rest y su labor en el proyecto editorial de Centro Editor de América Latina y en el diseño del catálogo 'Novela y Cuento' de Ediciones Librerías Fausto. Se examina la producción crítica de Rest entre mediados de la década del 60 y fines de los 70 y se presenta una descripción pormenorizada de su trabajo como editor en el periodo delimitado por esas fechas. El objeto de dicho cotejo apunta a establecer relaciones de contigüidad e interferencias entre ambas esferas laborales en el contexto de un campo cultural e intelectual signado por la represión y la censura

Para un canon de marginales, malos y malditos : Jaime Rest en CEAL y Ediciones Librerías Fausto

El presente artículo busca dar cuenta de la articulación entre la última etapa del trabajo crítico de Jaime Rest y su labor en el proyecto editorial de Centro Editor de América Latina y en el diseño del catálogo 'Novela y Cuento' de Ediciones Librerías Fausto. Se examina la producción crítica de Rest entre mediados de la década del 60 y fines de los 70 y se presenta una descripción pormenorizada de su trabajo como editor en el periodo delimitado por esas fechas. El objeto de dicho cotejo apunta a establecer relaciones de contigüidad e interferencias entre ambas esferas laborales en el contexto de un campo cultural e intelectual signado por la represión y la censura

Jaime Rest: Función crítica y políticas culturales (1953-1979) : De Sur al Centro Editor de América Latina

Fil: Crespi, Maximiliano. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Los laberintos de la crítica : Rest lector de Borges

En el presente trabajo se examina el trabajo desarrollado por Jaime Rest en El laberinto del universo. Borges y el pensamiento nominalista en relación a la construcción de un objeto de lectura cuyo valor político se vuelve significativo a partir de la confrontación con un orden de verdad. En este sentido, se evalúa la disposición ética del dispositivo crítico, examinando los procesos de elección del corpus, las modalidades de enfoque y construcción del objeto de lectura y los modos de enunciación de la palabra crítica

Los laberintos de la crítica : Rest lector de Borges

En el presente trabajo se examina el trabajo desarrollado por Jaime Rest en El laberinto del universo. Borges y el pensamiento nominalista en relación a la construcción de un objeto de lectura cuyo valor político se vuelve significativo a partir de la confrontación con un orden de verdad. En este sentido, se evalúa la disposición ética del dispositivo crítico, examinando los procesos de elección del corpus, las modalidades de enfoque y construcción del objeto de lectura y los modos de enunciación de la palabra crítica

Los laberintos de la crítica : Rest lector de Borges

En el presente trabajo se examina el trabajo desarrollado por Jaime Rest en El laberinto del universo. Borges y el pensamiento nominalista en relación a la construcción de un objeto de lectura cuyo valor político se vuelve significativo a partir de la confrontación con un orden de verdad. En este sentido, se evalúa la disposición ética del dispositivo crítico, examinando los procesos de elección del corpus, las modalidades de enfoque y construcción del objeto de lectura y los modos de enunciación de la palabra crítica

The rest flies down the wind : complexities of late style in the work of Christina Stead

Examining the late style of a writer is like skirting around quicksand. End-of-career reflection can subvert long standing critical accounts; revisionist publishing histories or newly minted archival work can do likewise. And, as Nancy J. Troy suggests, an artist’s last thoughts are rarely planned as such (15). In the case of Christina Stead any consideration of late style is made more difficult because, chronologically speaking, her ‘late’ works were written some 20 years before her death in 1983. Thus chronology can be deceptive, as Nicholas Delbanco points out in Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. Stead’s last novel, I’m Dying Laughing The Humourist, was completed, at least in rough draft form in 1966, when Stead was 64, but friends and readers suggested many changes. The book was published posthumously in 1986. Stead’s work is receiving increasing critical attention so a discussion of her ‘late style’ is important, particularly given that her fiction seems to refuse so many attempts at category-making. This perspective reveals two interesting aspects of her late work: first her consistent engagement with the problems of age for women, and in particular women writers, and second, the consequence of a life-long attention to the representation of dialogic sound in her novels, a preoccupation that results in what can be termed an aural signature. My discussion refers to Edward Said’s and Nicholas Delbanco’s ideas about late style by way of a focus on selective biographical issues and Stead’s engagement with radical politics before moving to an examination of what can be called an aural signature in several novels. Her fiction demonstrates one of the agreed markers of late style: she was constantly looking forward and looking back through innovation in form and content.

Stop and revive? : the effectiveness of nap and active rest breaks for reducing driver sleepiness

The incidence of sleep-related crashes has been estimated to account for approximately 20% of all fatal and severe crashes. The use of sleepiness countermeasures by drivers is an important component to reduce the incidence rates of sleep-related crashes. Taking a brief nap and stopping for a rest break are two highly publicised countermeasures for driver sleepiness and are also believed by drivers to be the most effective countermeasures. Despite this belief, there is scarce evidence to support the utility of these countermeasures for reducing driver sleepiness levels. Therefore, determining the effectiveness of these countermeasures is an important road safety concern. The current study utilised a young adult sample (N = 20) to investigate the effectiveness of a nap and an active rest break. The countermeasures effects were evaluated by physiological, behavioural (hazard perception skill), and subjective measures previously found sensitive to sleepiness. Participants initially completed two hours of a simulated driving task followed by a 15 minute nap opportunity or a 15 minute active rest break that included 10 minutes of brisk walking. After the break, participants completed one final hour of the simulated driving task. A within-subjects design was used so that each participant completed both the nap and the active rest break conditions on separate occasions. The analyses revealed that only the nap break provided any meaningful reduction in physiological sleepiness, reduced subjective sleepiness levels, and maintained hazard perception performance. In contrast, the active rest break had no effect for reducing physiological sleepiness and resulted in a decrement in hazard perception performance (i.e., an increase of reaction time latencies), with a transient reduction in subjective sleepiness levels. A number of theoretical, empirical and practical issues were identified by the current study.

Aging and its effect on inflammation in skeletal muscle at rest and following exercise-induced muscle injury

Aging and its effects on inflammation in skeletal muscle at rest and following exercise-induced muscle injury. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 298: R1485-R1495, 2010. First published April 14, 2010; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00467.2009.-The world's elderly population is expanding rapidly, and we are now faced with the significant challenge of maintaining or improving physical activity, independence, and quality of life in the elderly. Counteracting the progressive loss of muscle mass that occurs in the elderly, known as sarcopenia, represents a major hurdle in achieving these goals. Indirect evidence for a role of inflammation in sarcopenia is that markers of systemic inflammation correlate with the loss of muscle mass and strength in the elderly. More direct evidence is that compared with skeletal muscle of young people, the number of macrophages is lower, the gene expression of several cytokines is higher, and stress signaling proteins are activated in skeletal muscle of elderly people at rest. Sarcopenia may also result from inadequate repair and chronic maladaptation following muscle injury in the elderly. Macrophage infiltration and the gene expression of certain cytokines are reduced in skeletal muscle of elderly people compared with young people following exercise-induced muscle injury. Further research is required to identify the cause(s) of inflammation in skeletal muscle of elderly people. Additional work is also needed to expand our understanding of the cells, proteins, and transcription factors that regulate inflammation in the skeletal muscle of elderly people at rest and after exercise. This knowledge is critical for devising strategies to restrict sarcopenia, and improve the health of today's elderly population.

Antiproton induced DNA damage : proton like in flight, carbon-ion light near rest

Biological validation of new radiotherapy modalities is essential to understand their therapeutic potential. Antiprotons have been proposed for cancer therapy due to enhanced dose deposition provided by antiproton-nucleon annihilation. We assessed cellular DNA damage and relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of a clinically relevant antiproton beam. Despite a modest LET (~19 keV/μm), antiproton spread out Bragg peak (SOBP) irradiation caused significant residual γ-H2AX foci compared to X-ray, proton and antiproton plateau irradiation. RBE of ~1.48 in the SOBP and ~1 in the plateau were measured and used for a qualitative effective dose curve comparison with proton and carbon-ions. Foci in the antiproton SOBP were larger and more structured compared to X-rays, protons and carbon-ions. This is likely due to overlapping particle tracks near the annihilation vertex, creating spatially correlated DNA lesions. No biological effects were observed at 28–42 mm away from the primary beam suggesting minimal risk from long-range secondary particles.

Sleepy driving and pulling over for a rest : investigating individual factors that contribute to these driving behaviours

Driver sleepiness is a substantial crash risk factor and as such, is a major contributor to crash statistics. A number of individual factors (i.e., psychological factors) have been suggested to influence driving while sleepy. However, few studies have examined the influence of these individual factors for sleepy driving in combination. The current study sought to examine how various demographic factors, attitudes, perceived legitimacy, personality constructs, and risk taking variables were associated with self-reported likelihood of driving sleepy and pulling over and resting when sleepy. The results show that being a younger driver, having positive attitudes towards driving sleepy, and high levels of emotional stability were related to self-reported likelihood of driving sleepy. Whereas, being an older driver and having negative attitudes towards driving sleepy were associated with self-reported likelihood of pulling over and resting when sleepy. Overall, the obtained results suggest that the age and attitudes of the driver have greater influence than personality traits or risk taking factors. Campaigns focused on changing attitudes to reflect the dangerousness of sleepy driving could be important for road safety outcomes.