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The conservation project and archaeological excavation of the old Parish Church at Siggiewi - an intermediate report
Until December 2007 the old parish church
of Siggiewi, dating back to the late medieval
period, and occupying a central location within
the village core, had been in a neglected and
dilapidated state for a very long time, so much
so that the remaining ruins were almost totally
covered with debris and thick vegetation
(Plates 2; 9A; 9D; colour plate 2A; Fig. 4 and
colour plate 3). While passing by the walled up
and highly degraded site, the inhabitants
of Siggiewi barely knew that beneath the soil
and vegetation were the remains of their first
parish church and the cemetery where most of
their ancestors had been buried.peer-reviewe
Subversive blood ties: gothic decadence in three characters from murnau's and coppola's renderings of bram stoker's dracula
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e ExpressĂŁo, Programa de PĂłs-Graduação em Letras/InglĂŞs e Literatura Correspondente, FlorianĂłpolis, 2013Esta dissertação consiste em investigar a construção do tema da decadĂŞncia GĂłtica em Drácula de Bram Stoker e duas adaptações fĂlmicas do romance - Nosferatu, de Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, e Drácula de Bram Stoker, de Francis Ford Coppola - tendo como centro da análise como trĂŞs personagens - Drácula, Jonathan Harker e Mina Harker - se relacionam com tal tema. A decadĂŞncia GĂłtica Ă© um padrĂŁo literário do contexto fin-de-siècle da sociedade vitoriana inspirada pela crise social que acontecia na Inglaterra no fim do sĂ©culo XIX (Punter e Byron 39-40). Autores como Bram Stoker escreveram histĂłrias que refletiam medos morais e sociais da sociedade vitoriana, retratando imagens de monstros que representavam a transgressĂŁo de fronteiras morais e sexuais estabelecidas pelas tradições vitorianas (Botting 88). Tendo tal discussĂŁo em mente, este estudo busca conectar a retratação de tal tema do romance Ă s adaptações, tambĂ©m utilizando uma análise fĂlmica para identificar tĂ©cnicas que destacam a representação do tema relacionado aos trĂŞs personagens, finalmente ligando tal tema a crises e confusões sociais que aconteciam nos contextos de ambos os filmes.Abstract : The present dissertation consists of an investigation of the construction of the Gothic theme of decadence in Bram Stoker's Dracula and two film adaptations of the novel - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula - having as the centre of analysis how three characters - Dracula, Jonathan Harker and Mina Harker - relate to that theme. The Gothic decadence is a literary motif from the fin-de-siècle context of the Victorian Era inspired by the social crisis that took place in England in the late nineteenth century (Punter and Byron 39-40). Authors like Bram Stoker wrote stories that reflected moral and social fears of the Victorian society, depicting images of monsters that represented the crossing of moral and sexual boundaries established by the Victorian traditions (Botting 88). Bearing that discussion in mind, this study aims at connecting the portrayal of such a theme from novel to the two adaptations, also making use of a filmic analysis to identify techniques that highlight the depiction of the theme related to the three characters, ultimately linking such a thematic depiction to crises and social commotions that were taking place in both films' social contexts
Waterpower : a geophysical and archaeological investigation of the waterpower system at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York
Waterpower: A Geophysical and Archaeological Investigation of the Waterpower System at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York, describes the results of ground penetrating radar surveys and archaeological excavation undertaken by Michigan Technological University (MTU) archaeologists during the summer of 2003 at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York. 2003 constituted MTU\u27s second field season at the foundry. Fieldwork concentrated on the foundry\u27s waterpower system, an intricate network of surface and subsurface drains, races, flumes, waterwheels, turbines, dams, and ponds that powered operations and regulated water flow throughout the site. Archaeologists utilized non-destructive geophysical technology, which expedited survey, facilitated placement of excavation units, and provided a model for future archaeogeophysical research at industrial sites. Features discovered during excavation provided valuable information pertaining to the waterpower system\u27s construction and its functions. Data from ground penetrating radar surveys, archaeological excavation, historical photographs, documents, and maps permitted the development of a provisional chronology of the development of various components of the West Point Foundry\u27s waterpower system. Information gathered during this project serves as an aid in sit interpretation and rehabilitation
Liquid-solid interaction at nanoscale and its application in vegetal biology
The water ascent in tall trees is subject to controversy: the vegetal
biologists debate on the validity of the cohesion-tension theory which
considers strong negative pressures in microtubes of xylem carrying the crude
sap. This article aims to point out that liquids are submitted at the walls to
intermolecular forces inferring density gradients making heterogeneous liquid
layers and therefore disqualifying the Navier-Stokes equations for nanofilms.
The crude sap motion takes the disjoining pressure gradient into account and
the sap flow dramatically increases such that the watering of nanolayers may be
analogous to a microscopic flow. Application to microtubes of xylem avoids the
problem of cavitation and enables us to understand why the ascent of sap is
possible for very high trees.Comment: 16 pages 1 figure New modern concept of the sap ascent in high trees
taking into account the disjoining pressure in nanofilms of liquids. The
motion of the sap is related to thin films slippering on the xylem wall
Very Singular Similarity Solutions and Hermitian Spectral Theory for Semilinear Odd-Order PDEs
Very singular self-similar solutions of semilinear odd-order PDEs are studied
on the basis of a Hermitian-type spectral theory for linear rescaled odd-order
operators.Comment: 49 pages, 12 Figure
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