Hemispheric Travelers on the Rioplatense Stage

In mid-July 1886 Sarah Bernhardt arrived to Buenos Aires, where she gave a limited number of functions before traveling to nearby towns and across the Río de la Plata to Montevideo. Her tour tells us about her fearlessness to brave Transatlantic travel. But beyond this quality of her character, her time in the Plata river region reveals a rich entertainment market whose performers followed a circuit including Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and, above all, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, and smaller towns along the tributary rivers leading to the Río de la Plata. The decade of 1880 was a moment of significant growth in the number of participants in this entertainment market, but by this time it already had a history half a century deep. Beginning with Bernhardt’s tour and then working backward to uncover the widespread presence of Italian, French, and North American performers in Argentina and Uruguay, this article showcases performance circuits and hemispheric travelers who staged opera, the bizarre, and circus and equestrian spectacles, and who were especially successful in attracting crowds. The result was the emergence of an entertainment market that ignited a passion for attending the circus and the theater

The Trial of Theatre: Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus

During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, military regimes came to power in many Latin American countries. Of the many forms opposition to these regimes took, theatre stands out for the work of brave authors writing during these years, and for the many contributions drama has made to the debate on justice since the transition to democracy in the 80s. This essay argues that theatre can function as purveyor of justice, as a space where trials take place, and as a means to come to terms with experiences of torture societies in Latin America. How theatre, the act of reading (and studying) drama, and, in broader terms, performance fulfill these demanding roles constitutes the trial of theatre. (WGA

Descriptors for terpene esters from chromatographic and partition measurements: Estimation of human odor detection thresholds

We have used gas chromatographic retention data together with other data to obtain Abraham descriptors for 30 terpene esters. These include the air-water partition coefficient, as log Kw, for which no experimental values are available for any terpene ester. The other descriptors are the ester dipolarity, S, the hydrogen bond basicity, B, (the ester hydrogen bond acidity is zero for the esters studied), and L the logarithm of the air-hexadecane partition coefficient. Both S and B are larger than those for simple aliphatic esters, as expected from the terpene ester structures that include ring systems and ethylenic double bonds. These descriptors can then be used to obtain a large number of physicochemical and environmental properties of terpene esters. We have analyzed experimental results on human odor detection thresholds and have constructed another equation for the calculation of these thresholds, to go with a previous equation that we have reported. Then the descriptors for terpene esters can be used to estimate the important odor detection thresholds

Spectroscopic Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds. Examination of Nitromethane as a Selective Fluorescence Quenching Agent for Alternant Polycyclic Aromatic Nitrogen Hetero-Atom Derivatives

Article on the spectroscopic properties of polycyclic aromatic compounds and an examination of nitromethane as a selective fluorescence quenching agent for alternant polycyclic aromatic nitrogen hetero-atom derivatives

From reading to reality: print culture, collective identity, and nationalism in Uruguay and Argentina

Uruguay and Argentina are two of Latin America's most complete examples of how the intersection between print media and collective identities developed. Today visitors to the capital cities of Buenos Aires or Montevideo cannot help but notice the deep roots of written culture that are visible in the city centers. It is no surprise that these two countries have the highest literacy rates in Latin America, which has been the case since the late nineteenth century. The intriguing questions are these: How did literacy, written culture, and the clear public concern with writing and reading become both so widespread and integral to identity in these two nations? What makes the connection between print, the public sphere, and politics in the Río de la Plata unique? "From Reading to Reality" addresses these questions by providing a panoramic view of the development of Rioplatense print culture from the arrival of the first printing presses at the outset of the wars of independence in the early 1800s, to the first centenary celebration of independence in 1910. The chapters consider a range of print media and how they were received during the three key moments in this story, beginning with wartime newspapers and symbolic repertoires where the first attempts were made at patriotic poetry, moving to the phenomenon of popular gauchesque newspapers and verse used to politicize popular classes at mid-century (a form of popular literature not seen elsewhere), and concluding with a detailed look at lessons in patriotism and motherhood students learned in textbooks at the turn of the twentieth century. This study underscores how print culture in the region became part of daily life for all Uruguayans and Argentines, reshaping forms of communication, and how it took root in these two countries more effectively than anywhere else in Latin America. It is a 100-year tour that enables the reader to understand a unique relationship between print, power, and the public sphere that emerged along lines where statesmen and the novels they wrote played only a marginal part

Commentary on “Studies on Molar Volume, Dielectric Properties and Refractive Indices of Cyanex 923 + Benzene/Xylene at 300 K”

This article provides a commentary on Redlich-Kister equation coefficients for binary benzene + cyanex 923 and xylene + cyanex 923

Commentary on “Experimental Measurements and Equilibrium Study of Functional D-Sorbitol in Good and Anti-Solvent Binary Mixtures”

This article provides a commentary on the published equation coefficients for mathematically describing the solubility behavior of D-sorbitol in binary acetonitrile + ethanol solvent mixtures using the modified Apelblat, Combined Nearly Ideal Binary Solvent/Redlich-Kister (CNIBS/R-K) and Jouyban-Acree models

Commentary on “Extended Hildebrand Approach: An Empirical Model for Solubility Prediction of Etodolac in 1,4-Dioxane and Water Mixtures”

This article provides a commentary on mathematical errors concerning the incorrect conversion of mass fraction to volume fraction concentrations of 1,4-dioxane, the incorrect conversion of mole fraction solubilities to molar solubilities of Etodolac, and the incorrect calculation of the ideal mole fraction solubility of Etodolac

Commentary on “Uncover the Effect of Solvent and Temperature on Solid-Liquid Equilibrium Behavior of L-Norvaline”

This article provides a commentary on several sets of reported curve-fit parameters for the Modified Apelblat model that do not correctly back-calculate the observed solubility behavior of L-norvaline in the binary aqueous-alcohol solvent mixtures

Comments Regarding "Study of Molecular Interactions in Binary Mixtures of Formamide with 2-Methoxyethanol and 2-Ethoxyethanol at Varying Temperatures"

This article provides comments on "Study of Molecular Interactions in Binary Mixtures of Formamide with 2-Methoxyethanol and 2-Ethoxyethanol at Varying Temperatures," published in 'Physics and Chemistry of Liquids,' 2013