Aesthetic markers in the voice of radio professionals

Voice is one of the most essential means of expression in human experience and a valuable tool for communication. Its sound characteristics are most relevant in contexts such as social communication and particularly the radio, where the practice of communication is treated at a professional level and the need to captivate a public-listener through the vocal resources is identified. Therefore, this study intended to find if there are specific vocal qualities that contribute to a better or worse appreciation of vocal aesthetic of the radio professional concerning experienced radio listeners.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The art of Bosch - a mirror to death and beyond

Who really pays attention to poetry, philosophy, painting or other art form? We rather seek for what is immediately needed or quickly consumable, what doesn't bother nor disturb us. Emotions and cultural products are strongly linked. But the perception of art depends on how it impresses us. Art can confront us with a reality. In a civilization dominated by images, through the media, advertising and virtual worlds, art, like life and death, is rarely valued. We approached on this study, the way in which college students - of both sexes, from courses of management, history and psychology - interpreted the image/painting ‘Paradise: Ascent of the Blessed’, from Hieronymus Bosch, which alludes to death and beyond-death. We analyzed the thoughts, feelings, images and symbols that emerged from their answers, through open questions, after seeing the image/painting. Men revealed security, like they were watching for something they see as controllable and far away from them. Women expressed an active emotional involvement, as well as fear, belief in God and hope in finding a path through the darkness, revealing an intense feeling of proximity before death and immortality. Students of psychology, in particular, revealed a more emotional reaction to the image/death, than the future historians. The conceptions of the first ones are closer to the women's perspectives, while the others resemble those of men. This work invited us to reflect about ourselves, the power of images, death, and on what lies beyond death and life

Envelope transient simulation of nonlinear electronic circuits using multi-rate Runge-Kutta algorithms

Time-step integration is a popular technique commonly used for the envelope transient simulation of an electronic circuit. However, many kinds of circuits are characterized by widely separated time scales, which lead to significant computational costs when numerically solving its differential systems. Even so, this situation can be exploited in an efficient way using multi-rate methods, which integrate system components with different step sizes. In this paper two multi-rate Runge-Kutta schemes are studied and tested in terms of computational speed and numerical stability. The results for linear stability analysis here obtained are much more coherent with the characteristics of the methods than the ones previously presented in [6]

Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce: a brief analysis of the modernist traits in their short stories

This paper brings a brief analysis of the English works: “Hills like white elephants” (1927) and “One reader writes” (1933) by Ernest Hemingway and “The sisters” (1914) by James Joyce, in order to illustrate the features that emerged with the modernist movement, considering changes related to the ways of making literature. To this end, this work provides a close reading of the three short stories bearing in mind the relation between fact and fiction and how fiction depicts social, historical, and/or political facts. Hemingway‟s texts and Joyce‟s “The sisters” are powerful examples of the literary changes raised by modernism. The works of both writers are only the tip of the iceberg to provoke a reflection in the reader about the changes in the ways of making literature and how language is used in order to depict social events through fiction

Scheduling of nonconforming devices: the case of a company in the automotive sector

This article presents a project developed in a company’s quality department aiming at scheduling the nonconforming devices analysis’ process. The company faced a problem of low compliance with pre-established time requests, resulting in large fines paid to its customers of the automotive sector. In order to overcome this problem, scheduling tools were developed and tested, with the goal of minimizing the number of tardy tasks in identical parallel machines. The simulation of different scheduling rules allowed confirmation that the current prioritization rule is not the most effective one. Preliminary simulations were carried out using Lekin software [18], showing that other criteria promote better results. The use of a newly developed algorithm, combining two different criteria, resulted in a reduction of tardy tasks, thus decreasing tardiness fines paid to customers. Despite the preliminary status of present results, it is possible to foresee some improvements in the analysis process performance, by using decision making support tools based on scheduling algorithms. This way, a significant improvement on the number of analysis which fulfills the defined pre-requirements will be achieved.This work has been supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio