La fine dell’eccezione atlantica e la decolonizzazione dell’Europa

Fin dalla sua fondazione, il Portogallo venne visto, e si vide, come ciò che Eduardo Lourenço, nella sua opera, ha chiamato “insolita eccezione portoghese” (Lourenço, 1999a: 11). Un’eccezione divenuta storicamente norma, costruita prima di tutto in rapporto allo stesso corpo fisico e politico dell’Iberia, e che ha poi portato all’indipendenza del Regno del Portogallo, nell’eccezionale e narrativamente miracolosa, battaglia di Ourique, poi riaffermata nella non meno miracolosa battaglia di Aljubarrota; questa specie di vocazione all’eccezionalità era inscritta nella stessa geografia del paese, sottolineata già in tempi antichi da Zurara nella prima cronaca dell’espansione, la Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta.Since its foundation Portugal has been seen by others and by itself as, in the words of Eduardo Lourenço, an “uncommon Portuguese exception”. An exception that has historically become a norm firstly built upon the relationship with both the physical and political body of Iberia, leading afterwards to the independence of the Reign of Portugal. This independence was perceived as an achievement gained through the exceptional and narratively miraculous Battle of Ourique and reaffirmed then thanks to the equally miraculous Battle of Aljubarrota. This sort of vocation for 'exceptionality' was inherent in the geography of the country itself, as Zurara emphasized in ancient times in the first chronicle of its expansion: the Crónica da Tomada de Ceuta

Descolonização

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Performance tuning of a smartphone-based overtaking assistant

ITS solutions suffer from the slow pace of adoption by manufacturers despite the interest shown by both consumers and industry. Our goal is to develop ITS applications using already available technologies to make them affordable, quick to deploy, and easy to adopt. In this paper we introduce EYES, an overtaking assistance solution that provides drivers with a real-time video feed from the vehicle located just in front. Our application thus provides a better view of the road ahead, and of any vehicles travelling in the opposite direction, being especially useful when the front view of the driver is blocked by large vehicles. We evaluated our application using the MJPEG video encoding format, and have determined the most effective resolution and JPEG quality choice for our case. Experimental results from the tests performed with the application in both indoor and outdoor scenarios, allow us to be optimistic about the effectiveness and applicability of smartphones in providing overtaking assistance based on video streaming in vehicular networks

Determining the relative position of vehicles considering bidirectional traffic scenarios in VANETS

Researchers pertaining to both academia and industry have shown strong interest in developing and improving the existing critical ITS solutions. In some of the existing solutions, specially the ones that aim at providing context aware services, the knowledge of relative positioning of one node by other nodes becomes crucial. In this paper we explore, apart from the conventional use of GPS data, the applicability of image processing to aid in determining the relative positions of nodes in a vehicular network. Experiments conducted show that both the use of location information and image processing works well and can be deployed depending on the requirement of the application. Our experiments show that the results that used location information were affected by GPS errors, while the use of image processing, although producing more accurate results, require significantly more processing power

Messiah: An ITS drive safety application

This article describes a novel safety application based on the open source navigation software OsmAnd, which runs on the Android platform. The application offers vehicles with "smart navigation", and maintains a network of the vehicles that use our application. The process of network creation and maintenance is important as our application enables vehicles to communicate with one another to exchange useful information. The main function of the application is to inform vehicles of relevant vehicles approaching, termed as "administrative vehicles" in this article, and include ambulances, police cars and fire brigades. Based on the received information, our application notifies the driver, who can now take navigation decisions based on it. While developing the application, problems were found when attempting to create an Ad-hoc network. A solution to the problem of managing the Ad-hoc network has been proposed and is under development

De kommunala valen åren 1918–1922.

A partir da poesia de Ana Paula Tavares, procurarei mostrar neste artigo como a dupla premissa do poder e do conhecimento, sobre a qual se ergueu o colonialismo dos séculos XIX e XX, foi femininamente reapropriada, subvertida, desmultiplicada e antropofagizada, revelando outras identidades. Este processo inaugura assim um tempo pós-colonial de possibilidade de acesso e valorização de outros conhecimentos, de outros poderes, expressos noutras línguas, noutros sons, noutras escritas, e hoje transmitidos em língua portuguesa.Through a reading of the poetry of Ana Paula Tavares, I will argue that the power/knowledge binary, based on 19th and 20th century colonialism, has been reappropriated, subverted, multiplied and cannibalized, revealing other identities. This process thus initiates a postcolonial time of possible access and appreciation of other knowledges, other powers, expressed originally in other languages, sounds and writings, and nowadays transmitted through the Portuguese language

Versos e gritos: memória poética da Guerra Colonial

O artigo analisa a memória poética da experiência da Guerra Colonial identificando expressões díspares do poético: poemas de valor predominantemente documental; uma poesia da época que integra a Guerra Colonial e também a expõe pelo canto; e uma poesia de poetas da Guerra Colonial. O arquivo poético construído pela Antologia da Memoria Poética da Guerra Colonial, organizada pelos autores deste artigo demonstra que só o advérbio “Ainda” – aquele com que Manuel Alegre fecha uma viagem sem regresso – mostra como a guerra continua por dentro das palavras, por dentro dos versos, denunciando a profundidade da inscrição da guerra no presente.The article analyzes the poetic memory of the experience of Colonial Wars identifying disparate expressions of poetic: a sort of poems of documentary value; poetry of the era that integrates Colonial War and also exposes the theme on the protest song; and poetry from poets of the Colonial War. The poetic archive made by the Anthology of Poetic Memory Poetics of Colonial Wars, organized by the authors of this article, shows that only the adverb Ainda/ Still –, one with which Manuel Alegre closes a voyage without return – shows how the war of continues inside the words, inside of the verses. It shows the depth inscription of the Colonial Wars in the Portuguese present time

Luta anticolonial

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