The botany [of] the Antarctic voyage of H. M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.

In this reprint, the plates from the three volumes are separately bound in one atlas. Plates 158-178 of volume one are bound after plate 198.

Narrative of an expedition in H. M. S. Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-7,

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The Gothic scene of international relations: ghosts, monsters, terror and the sublime after September 11

Accepting Furet’s claim that events acquire meaning and significance only in the context of narratives, this article argues that a particular type of international relations narrative has emerged with greater distinction after the traumatic experience of September 11: the gothic narrative. In a sense the political rhetoric of President Bush marks the latest example of America’s fine tradition in the gothic genre that began with Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and extends through Henry James to Stephen King. His discourse of national security, it will be shown, assumes many of the predicates of gothic narratives. The gothic scenes evoked by Bush as much as Poe involve monsters and ghosts in tenebrous atmospheres that generate fear and anxiety, where terror is a pervasive tormentor of the senses. Poe’s narratives, for example, turn on encounters with dark, perverse, seemingly indomitable, forces often entombed in haunted houses. Similarly, Bush’s post-September 11 narratives play upon fears of terrorists and rogue states who are equally dark, perverse and indomitable forces. In both cases, ineffable and potently violent and cruel forces haunt and terrorise the civilised, human world.

O fascínio e o terror da natureza em Fernando Pessoa

Impõe-se, para começar, pôr em causa duas idéias feitas: a de que Alberto Caeiro, o Mestre da família pessoana, é um "poeta da Natureza", como ele a si próprio se apelidou, e a outra, mais geral, de que a Natureza é paisagem. Convém lembrar que Pessoa foi um citadino assumido. Nasceu e morreu em Lisboa, passou oito anos numa cidade da África do Sul, Durban, e fez nascer em três cidades diferentes de Portugal os seus heterônimos: Alberto Caeiro em Lisboa, Álvaro de Campos em Tavira e Ricardo Reis no Porto. É verdade! até Caeiro nasceu numa cidade, Lisboa, apesar de ter ido muito novo viver para o campo - para o Ribatejo. Instado por um amigo, Francisco Cabral Metelo, a quem fez o favor de um prefácio, a ir passar uns tempos com ele no campo, na quinta dos pais. Pessoa respondeu, declinando o convite, que tinha o espírito "insuficientemente panorâmico"'. E para melhor exprimir o anti-bucolismo dessa sua alma citadina ainda acrescentou que "há árvores, pedras, flores, rios que são tão estúpidos que parecem gente". Também convém não esquecer que, numa célebre carta a João Gaspar Simões, que ele sempre gostou de arreliar. Pessoa desmistifica os seus "fingimentos" autobiográficos que o exegeta tinha interpretado ao pé da letra, lembrando-lhe que "o sino da sua aldeia" era o da Igreja dos Mártires, ali ao Chiado - onde até por sinal fora baptizado.

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF INFLUENZA B VIRUS OUTBREAK ON A CRUISE SHIP IN BRAZIL 2012

In February 2012, an outbreak of respiratory illness occurred on the cruise ship MSC Armonia in Brazil. A 31-year-old female crew member was hospitalized with respiratory failure and subsequently died. To study the etiology of the respiratory illness, tissue taken at necropsy from the deceased woman and respiratory specimens from thirteen passengers and crew members with respiratory symptoms were analyzed. Influenza real-time RT-PCR assays were performed, and the full-length hemagglutinin (HA) gene of influenza-positive samples was sequenced. Influenza B virus was detected in samples from seven of the individuals, suggesting that it was the cause of this respiratory illness outbreak. The sequence analysis of the HA gene indicated that the virus was closely related to the B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus, Victoria lineage, a virus contained in the 2011-12 influenza vaccine for the Southern Hemisphere. Since the recommended composition of the influenza vaccine for use during the 2013 season changed, an intensive surveillance of viruses circulating worldwide is crucial. Molecular analysis is an important tool to characterize the pathogen responsible for an outbreak such as this. In addition, laboratory disease surveillance contributes to the control measures for vaccine-preventable influenza.

Genetic algorithm for shipping route estimation with long-range tracking data : automatic reconstruction of shipping routes based on the historical ship positions for maritime safety applications

Ship tracking systems allow Maritime Organizations that are concerned with the Safety at Sea to obtain information on the current location and route of merchant vessels. Thanks to Space technology in recent years the geographical coverage of the ship tracking platforms has increased significantly, from radar based near-shore traffic monitoring towards a worldwide picture of the maritime traffic situation. The long-range tracking systems currently in operations allow the storage of ship position data over many years: a valuable source of knowledge about the shipping routes between different ocean regions. The outcome of this Master project is a software prototype for the estimation of the most operated shipping route between any two geographical locations. The analysis is based on the historical ship positions acquired with long-range tracking systems. The proposed approach makes use of a Genetic Algorithm applied on a training set of relevant ship positions extracted from the long-term storage tracking database of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The analysis of some representative shipping routes is presented and the quality of the results and their operational applications are assessed by a Maritime Safety expert.

Farthest north; being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram" 1893-96, and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen,

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