Search results for "Cane"

The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Field Campaign: Perspectives of Early Career Scientists

2012

The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) field experiment successfully gathered data from four developing and four decaying/nondeveloping tropical disturbances over the tropical North Atlantic basin between 15 August and 30 September 2010. The invaluable roles played by early career scientists (ECSs) throughout the campaign helped make possible the successful execution of the field program's mission to investigate tropical cyclone formation. ECSs provided critical meteorological information— often obtained from novel ECS-created products—during daily weather briefings that were used by the principal investigators in making mission planning decisions. Once a…

En torno al humorismo de Augusto Monterroso

2013

Augusto Monterroso e la minifinzione ispanoamericana

2007

The author tries to explain the mini-text in relation to the so called "post-modern" condition by resorting -in particular- to the notion of "fractal". This term is taken from the scientific language and distinguishes itself from the notion of "detail", which would clearly refer to a modern vision of the text. Moving from the realm of science to the literary domain, it is inevitable to think of the deconstruction of the narrative canon not so much to negate it as to explore and exploit its creative potentialities in the form of shards, fragments, which the necessary extension of the traditional novel has suffocated since its origine. This outlook implies, in general, an ironical fre-reading…

Comparison of ultrasound and bone mineral density assessment of the calcaneus with different regions of interest in healthy early menopausal women.

1998

This study investigated the effect of different sized regions of interest (ROIs) on quantitative ultrasound (QUS) variables of the calcaneus. The effect on QUS of using a fixed ROI as opposed to an ROI adjusted for foot length was also assessed. Eighty Caucasian women, aged 50-57 yr (mean 53 +/- 2) who were healthy and within 0. 5-5 yr of the onset of menopause participated in this study. Using the QUS-1(trade mark) Ultrasonometer (Metra Biosystems, Mountain View, CA), we assessed broadband ultrasound attenuation ([BUA] and UBI-4, dB/MHz), the average transit time through the heel ([TTH], mus) and a multiple-factor index (UBI-4T = UBI-4/TTH, dB/[MHz. mus]). The QUS measurement results were …

Bone mineral density of the calcaneus in 70??? to 81-yr-old male athletes and a population sample

1991

Bone mineral content (BMC/W) and density (BMD) were studied in 70- to 81-yr-old active male endurance-trained (long-distance runners, cross-country skiers, N = 67), strength-trained (throwers, weight-lifters, N = 14), and speed-trained (sprinters, jumpers, N = 16) athletes. A population sample of similar age (N = 42) served as a control group. The measurements were performed at the calcaneus by single-energy photon absorption. The endurance-trained athletes had higher bone width and depth, and the strength and speed-trained athletes higher bone depth than the control subjects. The three groups of athletes showed 19-28% higher BMC (g.cm-1) and BMC/W (g.cm-2) than the control group (P less th…

Jorge Luis Borges: L’origine prima di arte e scienza

2006

Borges: de la metáfora del Libro–mundo a la construcción de un espacio topológico

2013

En el caso de Galileo la metafora del Libro-mundo servia para afirmar, con la propia potencia disruptiva, el intento de codificar una nueva concepcion de la ciencia y de la naturaleza. Una nueva vision del mundo se afirmaba mediante la oposicion entre la lectura directa del libro de la naturaleza y la indirecta, representada por los libros de Aristoteles. Borges utiliza la misma metafora que Galileo para denunciar la falsa transparencia de los mecanismos subyacentes al mismo Cosmos galileano y representar la duda ontologica que de el deriva. La oscilacion continua entre realidad, ficcion y sueno, tipica de toda la produccion borgeana - desde la poesia hasta los ensayos, desde los relatos ha…

Macedonio Fernandez: Vision Pura e istante eterno

2013

Il complesso percorso che conduce ad uno sguardo puro sui misteri del mondo si può realizzare, secondo Macedonio Fernández, attraverso uno sforzo dissociativo, mirato al raggiungimento di una percezione depurata dalle reminiscenze dell’appercezione. Questo tortuoso processo prende il nome di contemplación. Si tratta di un indagine critica sulla natura delle nostre percezioni, finalizzata alla confutazione delle nozioni dell’Io, della Materia, dello Spazio e del Tempo. Solamente dopo quest’analisi critica si potrà raggiungere lo ‘stato mistico’ che Macedonio definisce «ser el mundo sin sujeto ni objeto» o «la actitud de existir sin el yo». La Visión Pura alla quale Macedonio Fernández aspira…

Borges: Paradojas y metaficción

2013

Borges hace de la metaliteratura y de sus leyes de funcionamiento y transformaciones un indispensable instrumento para relatar la naturaleza precaria de cada sistema de pensamiento que aspire a la universalidad y ridiculizar el carácter definitivo de cualquier representación de lo real, a través de mecanismos propios del relato y por lo tanto, metaforizando tal proceso.

Borges: Libro-Mundo y Espacio-Tiempo

2011

La continua tensione che esiste tra la pulsione decifratrice dell’uomo e l’incomprensibilità delle leggi che regolano l’universo è la base dialettica su cui si costruisce il discorso, dalla dinamica sapienziale, che sta alla base della metafora del Libro-mondo, nella sua più precisa accezione di Liber Naturae. Nel caso di Galileo la metafora del libro mondo serviva ad affermare, con la propria potenza dirompente, il tentativo di codificare una nuova concezione della scienza e della natura. Una nuova visione del mondo si affermava attraverso l’opposizione tra la lettura diretta del libro della natura e quella indiretta rappresentata dai libri di Aristotele. Borges utilizza la stessa metafora…