Monotonic magnetostriction for nonferromagnetic materials

Monotonic magnetostriction for nonferromagnetic material

La articulación hegemónica en el discurso de la agrupación La Cámpora

Este trabajo forma parte de un proyecto que busca comprender la especificidad discursiva de una nueva agrupación política juvenil argentina denominada La Cámpora. Estudia una serie de discursos pertenecientes a la página web de la agrupación y sostiene la hipótesis de que La Cámpora constituye su identidad a partir de la tensión entre una estructura opositiva y la construcción de cadenas equivalenciales. En esta lógica es fundamental la configuración de enemigos políticos. En sus discursos, la agrupación despliega, como estrategia, dos polos diferenciados que corresponden, según el caso, a temporalidades distintas o a diferentes actores sociales contemporáneos.Fil: Flax, Rocío. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

La representación de los jóvenes en la retórica presidencial de Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

This chapter is part of a research project on the discursive mechanisms used by former President Néstor Kirchner, President Cristina Fernández and members of the political group called La Cámpora to construct the political identity of the young activist. I will focus on the speech of the Argentinean President Cristina Fernández, broadcasted on national television just a few days after the death of Néstor Kirchner (1 November 2010). The objective of the analysis is to determine which images of addressee are constructed in the text. In this short speech, the youth is represented as a privileged addressee. As a matter of fact the speech has three explicit addressees: 1) the Argentineans in general, 2) Men and women that held demonstrations of affection for the former president and 3) Young people that marched to Government House. The latter is already included in the first two and, therefore, its distinction reveals a political purpose that came up months before when former President Kirchner called on the youth to political activism. In this speech there is a comparison between the 70’s generation and the current generation, using a mediator –Néstor Kirchner– as the paradigmatic figure of an activist. However, while Perón abandoned the youth, Kirchner summoned them up.Fil: Flax, Rocío. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentin

Fiber waveguide sensors for intelligent materials

This report, an addendum to the six month report submitted to NASA Langley Research Center in December 1987, covers research performed by the Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center (FEORC) at Virginia Tech for the NASA Langley Research Center, Grant NAG1-780, for the period from December 1987 to June 1988. This final report discusses the research performed in the following four areas as described in the proposal: Fabrication of Sensor Fibers Optimized for Embedding in Advanced Composites; Fabrication of Sensor Fiber with In-Line Splices and Evaluation via OTR methods; Modal Domain Optical Fiber Sensor Analysis; and Acoustic Fiber Waveguide Implementation

Do you qualify to be a hate crime victim?

Consideration to hate crime can be traced to the beginning of the 1980s. Hate crime, as a criminal category, originated as a result of the collective suffering of minority groups who were subjected to discrimination, harassment and violence from majority communities (Gerstenfeld, 2013). A hate crime is defined as any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on that person's actual or perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity (College of Policing, 2014). Regardless of this important legal development, it is a fact that some victims of hate crime manage to have recourse to courts of law while others are not recognised as victims of hate crime despite meeting all the legal requirements. This article addresses this question, showing that in order to 'qualify' as a victim, the group or victim needs to benefit from some sort of 'social recognition'. In the first instance, this article highlights the significant impact that hate crime has on both individuals and communities. It then shows that neither meeting the legal definition of a hate crime nor being deeply effected by a hate crime, automatically 'qualifies' one to be a victim. It concludes from the above that the word 'victim' only takes its full meaning when it is examined against the social context in which an offence takes place and the social recognition any group might have gained to qualify as victim

On-line sentence reading in people with aphasia: Evidence from eye tracking

People with aphasia (PWA) often exhibit impaired sentence comprehension. According to the Lexical Bias Hypothesis (e.g., Gahl, 2002), these comprehension impairments may emerge due to conflicts between sentence structure and the biases of the words in the sentence. It is unclear whether this hypothesis can be extended to include biases – or expectations – based on the relative frequency of different syntactic structures. For example, there is a lot of evidence that PWA have more difficulty understanding structurally complex sentences (e.g., object clefts - example 2) compared to simpler sentences (e.g., subject clefts - example 1). In this case, structural complexity reflects a variety of features, including deviation from the typical subject-verb-object word order of English. However, subject clefts also occur more frequently than object clefts. Thus, it is possible that both structural complexity and frequency affect how PWA process these sentences types. 1. Subject Cleft: It was the father that entertained the baby during the party last week. 2. Object Cleft: It was the baby that the father entertained during the party last week. Recent work identified patterns of reading times associated with both building a complex structure and violations of syntactic expectations (Staub, 2010). Staub reported slower reading times for college-age adults for both the embedded verb and the second noun phrase in sentences with object versus subject relative clauses. Longer reading times for the verb in object relatives are typically interpreted as evidence of operations associated with building a more complex syntactic structure. However, the second noun phrase is the first point in the sentence at which the object relative structure can be detected. On this basis, Staub claimed that processing disruptions at the second noun phrase occurred because the participants’ expectation for the more common structure (i.e., the subject relative) was violated. The present study asked whether PWA would show effects of complexity and frequency when reading object and subject cleft sentences, as would be expected if the Lexical Bias Hypothesis can be extended to syntactic biases

Random phase approximation for the anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnet

Anisotropic Heisenberg ferromagnets in random phase and spin wave approximatio

Intra-household use and acceptability of Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Foods distributed in Niger between July and December 2010.

Few studies have looked at consumption of Ready-to-Use-Supplementary-Foods (RUSFs) during a nutritional emergency. Here, we describe the use and acceptability of RUSF within households in four districts of the region of Maradi, Niger during large scale preventive distributions with RUSF in 2010 targeted at children 6-35months of age. Our study comprised both quantitative and qualitative components to collect detailed information and to allow in-depth interviews. We performed a cross-sectional survey in 16 villages between two monthly distributions of RUSF (October-November 2010). All households with at least one child who received RUSF were included and a total of 1842 caregivers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. Focus groups and individual interviews of 128 caregivers were conducted in eight of the selected villages. On average, 24.7% of households reported any sharing of RUSF within the household. Sharing practices outside the household remained rare. Most of the sharing reported occurred among children under 5years of age living in the household. On average, 91% of caregivers in all districts rated the child's appreciation of the products as good or very good. Program planning may need to explicitly accounting for the sharing of products among children under 5 within household

The characterization of peronist youth in the speech of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Neste trabalho eu proponho-me analisar as representações sociais em torno à juventude militante que constrói a presidenta argentina em seu discurso dos 14 de setembro de 2010 no estádio Luna Park. Demonstrará-se como Cristina Fernández constrói a seus destinatários diretos, a Juventude Peronista, a partir de uma tensão entre a inclusão o a exclusão em um mesmo coletivo de identificação. Assim, forman parte do mesmo grupo, em tanto quadros do peronismo. Contudo, não pode deixar de tomar conta das diferenças: pertencem a distintas gerações. A comparação entre a denominada juventude maravilhosa (na que Fernández de Kirchner se inclui) e a atual juventude do bicentenário permite-lhe a presidenta ubicar-se na função de maior dentro de uma comunidade compartilhada e gerar um vínculo baseado no mandato. A investigação inscreve-se dentro da análise crítico do discurso e utiliza as ferramentas metodológicas da linguística sistêmico-funcional.This article analyzes the social representations of the the militant youth made by Argentina’s president in her speech delivered on September 14th, 2010, at the Luna Park stadium. The aim is to show how Cristina Fernández positioned her direct recipients, the Peronist Youth, from a tension between inclusion and exclusion in the same collective identification. Although many fans are part of the same group, the Peronist, she cannot avoid the differences: they belong to different generations. The comparison between the so-called “Wonderful Youth”, in which Fernandez is included, and the current “Youth of the Bicentennial”, allow the President to place herself in a higher function within a shared community, creating a bond based upon her mandate. The research is grounded on the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis and uses the methodological tools of Systemic Functional Linguistics.Fil: Flax, Rocío. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin