Ernest Renan among us : from antichrist to prophet

El historiador francés Ernest Renan (1823-1892) publicó en 1863 una Vida de Jesús que cuestionaba la divinidad del mismo. Causó escándalo e intentos de refutación. Se estudian algunas reacciones en América Latina y se describe el proceso por el cual Renan llegó posteriormente a ser aceptado por círculos conservadores.The French historian Ernest Renan (1823-1892) published in 1863 a Life of Jesus that questioned his divinity. The book aroused scandal and attempts of rebuttal. This analysis examines some of the reactions in Latin America, as well as the process by which Renan came later to be accepted in conservative circles.Fil: Taboada, Hernán G. H.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxic

From African Spain to Theocratic America : notes on the Ideas of Simón Bolívar

Las ideas de Simón Bolívar sobre América y sobre Europa han recibido alguna atención de los investigadores. Mucho menos las que expresó sobre Asia y África. Aunque fueron marginales a su pensamiento, la reunión de sus alusiones al respecto permite arrojar alguna luz sobre la reflexión de la Independencia y sobre los cambios que el Libertador experimentó en su percepción del naciente mundo que aparecía ante sus ojos. Partiendo de una actitud orientalista y despectiva inicial, con el tiempo llegó a pensar que el Oriente no podía descartarse como influencia en las instituciones americanas.Simón Bolivar’s ideas regarding America and Europe have attracted some attention from academic researchers, but much less so those regarding Asia and Africa. Even though they were secondary to his thought, gathering these references allows us to throw some light on Bolivar’s and his Hispanic- American contemporaries’ views on Independence, and on the changes in the Libertador’s perception of the nascent American world taking shape before his eyes. Departing from an Orientalist and contemptuous attitude at first, Bolivar eventually arrives at the idea that the “Orient" could not be dismissed as an influence over American institutions.Fil: Taboada, Hernán G. H.

The orient and the classical world in José Vasconcelos

En muchos aspectos el pensamiento de José Vasconcelos (1882–1959) sufrió cambios notables durante su vida. Sus ideas sobre el mundo clásico grecorromano y el Oriente también los experimentaron. A diferencia de sus contemporáneos reunidos en el Ateneo de la Juventud, fue crítico del mundo clásico y buscó fuentes de inspiración estética y moral en la India, mostró curiosidad por el Japón y por el Islam. Sus ideas sobre el mestizaje y la "raza cósmica" deben mucho a este interés. Con los años, sin embargo, su creciente conservatismo también influyó en sus ideas sobre el mundo clásico y el Oriente. Este último le fue cada vez más alejado, sobre todo el Islam, objeto de su odio principal. Como ello se daba cuando otros intelectuales enrolados en la izquierda ensayaban un movimiento de simpatía hacia el mundo colonial, contribuyeron a exacerbar la reacción de Vasconcelos.In many aspects, José Vasconcelos’s (1882–1959) thought underwent notable changes during his lifetime. His ideas about the Greco–Roman and Oriental classical world also changed. Unlike his contemporaries assembled in the Ateneo de la Juventud, Vasconcelos was a critic of the classical world. He looked for sources of aesthetic and moral inspiration in India, and he was very curious about Japan and the Islam. His ideas about race mixing and the «cosmic race» owe much to such curiosity. With the passing of years, however, his growing conservatism also influenced his ideas about the classical world and the Orient. The latter got farther and farther away from him, the Islam in particular, the subject of his hatred. As this happened when other leftist intellectuals were showing their sympathy for the colonial world, their attitude contributed to exacerbate Vasconcelos’s reaction.Fil: Taboada, Hernán G. H.. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Carib

Snap-8 corrosion program quarterly progress report, period ending 28 feb. 1965

SNAP-8 corrosion program - hydrogen solubility in sodium-potassium, permeability of hydrogen and deuterum through stainless steel, and phase equilibri

SNAP-8 corrosion program Quarterly progress report, period ending 31 May 1965

Differences in corrosion and mass transfer rates in corrosion loops for SNAP-8 system and effectiveness of cold trapping in reducing hydrogen concentratio

Compositional analysis of InAs-GaAs-GaSb heterostructures by low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy

As an alternative to Core-Loss Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Low-Loss EELS is suitable for compositional analysis of complex heterostructures, such as the InAs-GaAs-GaSb system, since in this energy range the edges corresponding to these elements are better defined than in Core-Loss. Furthermore, the analysis of the bulk plasmon peak, which is present in this energy range, also provides information about the composition. In this work, compositional information in an InAs-GaAs-GaSb heterostructure has been obtained from Low-Loss EEL spectra

Aquifer vulnerability mapping and associated spatial uncertainty

Quantitative estimation of water resources is indispensable when it comes to getting the sustainability of aquifers through planning. This becomes an essential aspect in areas whose primary economic activity is agriculture, in which ensure the availability of water means ensuring the sustainability of the societal and economic systems. This is the example of the Cuellar Moor karstic aquifer, located in the international Duero watershed, in which more than 80% of its surface is aimed to agricultural use. The main goal of this research is the introduction of a new vulnerability index, which gathers together the hydrogeological covariates and the spatial uncertainty associated with the estimation of groundwater level and nitrate concentration. An optimized monitoring network to piezometric level and nitrate concentration control is required, as well as, to determine the vulnerability associated with pumping wells.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Using Synchronic and Diachronic Relations for Summarizing Multiple Documents Describing Evolving Events

In this paper we present a fresh look at the problem of summarizing evolving events from multiple sources. After a discussion concerning the nature of evolving events we introduce a distinction between linearly and non-linearly evolving events. We present then a general methodology for the automatic creation of summaries from evolving events. At its heart lie the notions of Synchronic and Diachronic cross-document Relations (SDRs), whose aim is the identification of similarities and differences between sources, from a synchronical and diachronical perspective. SDRs do not connect documents or textual elements found therein, but structures one might call messages. Applying this methodology will yield a set of messages and relations, SDRs, connecting them, that is a graph which we call grid. We will show how such a grid can be considered as the starting point of a Natural Language Generation System. The methodology is evaluated in two case-studies, one for linearly evolving events (descriptions of football matches) and another one for non-linearly evolving events (terrorist incidents involving hostages). In both cases we evaluate the results produced by our computational systems.Comment: 45 pages, 6 figures. To appear in the Journal of Intelligent Information System

Collapsing granular suspensions

A 2D contact dynamics model is proposed as a microscopic description of a collapsing suspension/soil to capture the essential physical processes underlying the dynamics of generation and collapse of the system. Our physical model is compared with real data obtained from in situ measurements performed with a natural collapsing/suspension soil. We show that the shear strength behavior of our collapsing suspension/soil model is very similar to the behavior of this collapsing suspension soil, for both the unperturbed and the perturbed phases of the material.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in EPJ