Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia

Across all genres, television communicates a host of perceived dangers or risks to human survival as entertainment, responding and reproducing the victim and risk consciousness of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Terrorism has captured the imaginations of not only politicians but also producer/writers, and as a consequence of this, and the visual spectacle that war and terrorism provide, it has featured regularly and consistently in British and American television programming. This article presents the analysis of some British current affairs entertainment programming (film and documentary) broadcast by the BBC during the height of the misnamed ‘war on terror’. Through the analysis of these programmes, I will demonstrate a psycho-cultural approach to textual analysis informed by early object relations psychoanalysis. Being aware of the degree to which political elites have shaped what is known about the ‘war on terror’ allows us to apply knowledge of the political and historical context of these elites to understanding why the dominant ‘war on terror’ perspective is paranoid in character. I will offer an explanation of why a paranoid style predominates in terrorism related programming in my conclusion

MODELO CONSTITUTIVO ACOPLADO PARA CONCRETO

This work shows an overall review of the themo-chemo-mechanical coupling theory for concrete. This theoretical rnodel, developed by researchers from LCPC (Paris), leads to coupled constitutive equations which contain the cross-effécts between thermal, chemical and mechanical phenomena that occur during the concrete maturing process. Use of this constitutive model allows one to predict the evolution in time of temperature, maturity, strength and stiffness fields.Mostra-se neste trabalho uma visão geral da teoria do acoplamento termo-químico-mecanico para concreto. Este modelo tebrico, desenvolvido por pesquisadores do LPCP (Paris), redunda em equacões constitutivas acopladas que exibem os efeitos cruzados entre os fenômenos químicos, térmicos e mecânicos que ocorrem na maturação do concreto. A utilização deste modelo constitutivo permite uma previsão da evolução no tempo dos campos de temperatura, maturidade, resistência e rigidez

Monitoring alcoholic fermentation: an untargeted approach

This work describes the utility and efficiency of a metabolic profiling pipeline that relies on an unsupervised and untargeted approach applied to a HS-SPME/GC-MS data. This noninvasive and high throughput methodology enables “real time” monitoring of the metabolic changes inherent to the biochemical dynamics of a perturbed complex biological system and the extraction of molecular candidates that are latter validated on its biochemical context. To evaluate the efficiency of the pipeline five different fermentations, carried on a synthetic media and whose perturbation was the nitrogen source, were performed in 5 and 500 mL. The smaller volume fermentations were monitored online by HS-SPME/GC-MS, allowing to obtain metabolic profiles and molecular candidates time expression. Nontarget analysis was applied using MS data in two ways: (i) one dimension (1D), where the total ion chromatogram per sample was used, (ii) two dimensions (2D), where the integrity time vs m/z per sample was used. Results indicate that the 2D procedure captured the relevant information more efficiently than the 1D. It was also seen that although there were differences in the fermentation performance in different scales, the metabolic pathways responsible for production of metabolites that impact the quality of the volatile fraction was unaffected, so the proposed pipeline is suitable for the study of different fermentation systems that can undergo subsequent sensory validation on a larger scale.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio