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Ancien possesseur : Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963)

En recuerdo de Herbert Simon (1916-2001)

Las ciencias sociales padecen esquizofrenia aguda en su tratamiento de la racionalidad. Tenemos, a un extremo, a los economistas, que atribuyen al hombre económico una racionalidad absurdamente omnisciente. El hombre económico dispone de un sistema completo y consistente de preferencias, que le permite elegir siempre entre las alternativas que se le presentan; se da siempre perfecta cuenta de lo que son estas alternativas; no existen límites en la complejidad de los cálculos que puede realizar para determinar qué alternativas son mejores; los cálculos de probabilidad no le asustan ni encierran misterios para él. Durante la última década este cuerpo de teoría ha alcanzado, en relación con las situaciones de juego competitivo y la toma de decisiones en situación de incertidumbre, un estado de refinamiento tomístico que posee considerable interés normativo, pero escasa relación discernible con el comportamiento real o posible de los seres humanos de carne y hueso.

Sitting-time, physical activity and depressive symptoms in mid-aged women

Background: Associations between sitting-time and physical activity (PA) with depression are unclear. Purpose: To examine concurrent and prospective associations between both sitting-time and PA with prevalent depressive symptoms in mid-aged Australian women. Methods: Data were from 8,950 women, aged 50-55 years in 2001, who completed mail surveys in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression questionnaire. Associations between sitting-time (≤4, >4-7, >7 hrs/day) and PA (none, some, meeting guidelines) with depressive symptoms (symptoms/no symptoms) were examined in 2011 in concurrent and lagged mixed effect logistic modeling. Both main effects and interaction models were developed. Results: In main effects modeling, women who sat >7 hrs/day (OR 1.47, 95%CI 1.29-1.67) and women who did no PA (OR 1.99, 95%CI 1.75-2.27) were more likely to have depressive symptoms than women who sat ≤4 hrs/day and who met PA guidelines, respectively. In interaction modeling, the likelihood of depressive symptoms in women who sat >7 hrs/day and did no PA was triple that of women who sat ≤4 hrs/day and met PA guidelines (OR 2.96, 95%CI 2.37-3.69). In prospective main effects and interaction modeling, sitting-time was not associated with depressive symptoms, but women who did no PA were more likely than those who met PA guidelines to have future depressive symptoms (OR 1.26, 95%CI 1.08-1.47). Conclusions: Increasing PA to a level commensurate with PA guidelines can alleviate current depression symptoms and prevent future symptoms in mid-aged women. Reducing sitting-time may ameliorate current symptoms.

Um estudo sobre os ensaios jornalísticos de Franklin de Oliveira: a face das críticas rosianas

Este trabalho visa a discutir alguns aspectos da crítica literária produzida em larga escala nos jornais de meados do século XX, conhecida como crítica jornalística ou de rodapé, mais precisamente a contribuição crítica de Franklin de Oliveira (1916-2001) para as três primeiras publicações literárias do autor Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), Sagarana (1946), Corpo de baile (1956) e Grande sertão: veredas (1956), verificando quais teorias e métodos eram usados por esse crítico para analisar um conjunto de obras que se mostrava, à primeira vista, como desafio aos atentos críticos da época. Franklin de Oliveira, mencionado por Benedito Nunes, em Rumos da crítica (2000), como injustamente esquecido nas referências das publicações acadêmicas, deixou um vastíssimo conjunto de ensaios humanísticos sobre música, literatura, política, entre outros, do Ocidente, esclarecendo a importância da arte e da literatura para a formação de um homem total, não alienado e consciente de sua humanidade. Os seus ensaios, de alta erudição, refletem a complexidade da obra rosiana sob o prisma filosófico, político e, principalmente, estético, pois tem o entendimento de que as situações externas à obra literária devem emergir no gênero literário considerando artisticamente o fato exposto. Por isso, para Franklin de Oliveira, Guimarães Rosa foi um escritor revolucionário, por ter realizado uma mímesis que não ficou presa ao seu tempo presente, e, por meio do elemento linguístico, literário e metafísico, conseguiu promover a “transcendentalização” da prosa literária brasileira. Assim, esta dissertação está estruturada em um panorama geral dos assuntos aqui apresentados e em três capítulos, quais sejam: “Por uma definição de crítica literária”, “Do intelectual ao crítico jornalista: Franklin de Oliveira, um humanista por excelência” e “Legado de Franklin de Oliveira à crítica rosiana: sob o foco da revolução rosiana”, a fim de alcançar o entendimento sobre a importância de se estudar as análises escritas em outra época a respeito das obras de um autor de literatura, como Guimarães Rosa, que ainda hoje são muito lidas e discutidas. Para tanto, um dos pressupostos teóricos para este estudo tem em vista o “experienciar dinâmico da obra literária por parte do leitor”, algo salientado pela Estética da recepção no livro A história da literatura como provocação a teoria literária (1994), de Hans Robert Jauss, este trabalho possibilita questionar ou legitimar a tradição de uma crítica por meio da tríade hermenêutica do compreender, interpretar e aplicar.

Inventions and industry in the art of Howard Finster

This paper examines Finster’s collection of Inventions of Mankind and his paintings of American industrial icons such as Henry Ford and Eli Whitney. Additionally, this study explores Finster’s compulsive artistic productivity and his experimentation with mechanisms designed to create self-sustaining energy. By providing a comprehensive overview of Howard Finster’s fascination with inventions and industry, this paper serves to provide new insight and dimension into the often over-generalized interpretations of his extensive body of work

Hospital utilization under insurance

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Employment and unemployment statistics as indexes of economic activity and capacity utilization /

"April 1979"--Cover.

The new science of management decision.

Mode of access: Internet.

Rural health and medical care,

Bibliographical footnotes.

Post office appropriation bill, 1917. Railway mail pay Hearings before the Committee on post offices and post roads, United States Senate, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on H. R. 10484, an act making appropriations for the service of the Post office department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, and for other purposes. April 14, 15, 17, 18, & 19, 1916 ...

John H. Bankhead, chairman.

The management of venereal disease in New South Wales, 1871 to 1916

Practical techniques to manage the dangers associated with sexually transmitted diseases have varied considerably both cross culturally and historically. Adopting a Foucauldian perspective, this article examines sociohistorical aspects of the governance of venereal disease in New South Wales between 1871 and 1916. Public debates and official documents are analysed to identify strategic shifts in practices associated with venereal disease management , especially in relation to prostitution. Particular attention is paid to the development of contagious disease legislation and its role in the regulation of venereal disease . It is argued that during the period in question, two distinct governmental regimes of disease control can be identified. In the first, medical policing managed venereal disease through the mobilisation of repressive controls, requiring the isolation and detention of polluting bodies. In the second, liberal governance adopted pedagogic practices to train populations perceived as either healthy or unhealthy. It is further argued that as liberal strategies of governance came to dominate the management of venereal disease , the association of prostitution with venereal disease began to weaken. Instead, authorities became increasingly concerned with populations whose behaviour was not traditionally linked with venereal disease , such as the young and the sexually inexperienced.

Visualizing lone pairs in compounds containing heavier congeners of the carbon and nitrogen group elements

In this mini-review, I discuss some recent work on the stereochemistry and bonding of lone pairs of electrons in divalent compounds of the heavier carbon group elements (SnII, PbII) and in trivalent compounds of the heavier nitrogen group elements (BiIII). Recently developed methods that permit the real-space visualization of bonding patterns on the basis of density functional calculations of electronic structure, reveal details of the nature of s electron lone pairs in compounds of the heavier main group elements – their stereochemistry and their inertness (or lack thereof). An examination of tetragonal P4/nmm SnO, a-PbO and BiOF, and cubic Fm3m PbS provides a segue into perovskite phases of technological significance, including ferroelectric PbTiO3 and antiferroelectric/piezoelectric PbZrO3, in both of which the lone pairs on Pb atoms play a pivotal rôle.