Complejidades «barrocas» en el retrato de la «Sátira a una dama» de Quevedo

Este artículo analiza los retratos a una dama y al autor que se encuentran en el poema 604 de la edición Obra poética realizada por José Manuel Blecua. La autora realiza un detallado análisis crítico textual del poema, analizando manuscritos y ediciones y eligiendo unas variantes y descartando otras. Según se desprende el análisis, Quevedo está usando cánones retóricos de inventio, dispositio y elocutio e incluso está usando lo que aprendió en sus ejercicios escolares en los colegios de la Compañía. Los retratos presentan una gran complejidad ya que la dama es descrita por medio del canon ciceroniano que en la época se usa para presentar seriamente a las verdaderas damas y que aquí es el instrumento para vilipendiarla. El poeta es presentado con rasgos positivos, pero por medio de un canon desusado desde hace un siglo. This article analyses the portraits of a lady and a poet described in the poem number 604 of Obra poética edited by José Manuel Blecua. The author makes a detailed textual study of this poem, describing manuscripts and editions, choosing some variants and rejecting others. According to her conclusions, Quevedo uses rhetoric canons of inventio, dispositio and elocutio and even he uses the techniques learnt in the Jesuits schools. The portraits present a great complexity because the lady is described with the Ciceronian canon, used in this period to describe a lady seriously, although this canon used here to vilify her. The poet is described with positive features, but using a old-fashioned canon from a century

La contribución del humor, de la comedia de situación, a la identidad cultural catalana

En este artículo exponemos los resultados de un estudio sobre la recepción del humor de una comedia de situación de producción catalana. Con este trabajo, intentamos entender cuáles son las representaciones sociales y culturales que la audiencia reconoce en el humor como propias y cercanas a su contexto y cuáles rechaza. Dicho conocimiento nos permite identificar las filias y fobias que los sujetos expresan sobre el humor de una comedia. La metodología que nos permite realizar este análisis es la cualitativa. Este artículo revalida la idea de que el humor está determinado por categorías sociales y culturales. En este sentido, destacamos el papel fundamental del humor como un dispositivo que genera, dinamiza, refuerza, patrones de identificación y/o rechazo. El humor sirve para crear lazos tanto de cercanía como de lejanía y se convierte en una especie de gestor cultural que genera propuestas de sentido. Nuestro objetivo final es animar al diseño de investigaciones, dentro del ámbito comunicacional español, que tengan como objeto de estudio el consumo, uso y apropiación del humor en los contenidos mediáticos

Algo más sobre lo risible en el Quijote: la retórica causante de risa

Estudio de lo risible en el Quijote; no a partir de elementos folclóricos o populares al alcance del gran público. sino a partir de un decidido uso de la retórica que se enseñaba en las universidades españolas en la segunda mitad del siglo XVI Cervantes se revela aquí como un buen conocedor de los tratados de retórica clásica (Aristóteles, Cicerón), e incluso de los maestros de retórica de su tiempo (Tones, Palmireno), a los cuales no duda en parodiar en diversos pasajes del Quijote. This article studies the ludicrous aspects in the Quixote, following the rhetoric theories taught in the Spanish universities during the second half of the XVIth Century. Cervantes proves himself as a good connoisseur of the classical rhetoric treaties (Aristotle, Cicero) and even those of his time (Torres, Palmireno). These authors are parodied in different passages of the Quixote

B- and A-Type Stars in the Taurus-Auriga Star Forming Region

We describe the results of a search for early-type stars associated with the Taurus-Auriga molecular cloud complex, a diffuse nearby star-forming region noted as lacking young stars of intermediate and high mass. We investigate several sets of possible O, B and early A spectral class members. The first is a group of stars for which mid-infrared images show bright nebulae, all of which can be associated with stars of spectral type B. The second group consists of early-type stars compiled from (i) literature listings in SIMBAD; (ii) B stars with infrared excesses selected from the Spitzer Space Telescope survey of the Taurus cloud; (iii) magnitude- and color-selected point sources from the 2MASS; and (iv) spectroscopically identified early-type stars from the SDSS coverage of the Taurus region. We evaluated stars for membership in the Taurus-Auriga star formation region based on criteria involving: spectroscopic and parallactic distances, proper motions and radial velocities, and infrared excesses or line emission indicative of stellar youth. For selected objects, we also model the scattered and emitted radiation from reflection nebulosity and compare the results with the observed spectral energy distributions to further test the plausibility of physical association of the B stars with the Taurus cloud. This investigation newly identifies as probable Taurus members three B-type stars: HR 1445 (HD 28929), tau Tau (HD 29763), 72 Tau (HD 28149), and two A-type stars: HD 31305 and HD 26212, thus doubling the number of stars A5 or earlier associated with the Taurus clouds. Several additional early-type sources including HD 29659 and HD 283815 meet some, but not all, of the membership criteria and therefore are plausible, though not secure, members.Comment: 31 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journa

Experimental realization of a measurement conditional unitary operation at single photon level and application to detector characterization

Our last experimental results on the realization of a measurement-conditional unitary operation at single photon level are presented. This gate operates by rotating by $90^o$ the polarization of a photon produced by means of Type-II Parametric Down Conversion conditional to a polarization measurement on the correlated photon. We then propose a new scheme for measuring the quantum efficiency of a single photon detection apparatus by using this set-up. We present experimental results obtained with this scheme compared with {\it traditional} biphoton calibration. Our results show the interesting potentiality of the suggested scheme.Comment: to appear in Proc. of SPIE meeting, Denver august 200

Soportes epigráficos de los Orgenomescos

Se presenta un ensayo multidisciplinar con el que se pretende arrojar luz sobre la epigrafía cántabra, mediante la recopilación y estudio, en este caso, de las inscripciones del pueblo de los orgenomescos. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis de los soportes epigráficos utilizados por los indígenas y su evolución durante la dominación romana mediante el análisis de las 16 inscripciones conocidas, halladas en las actuales provincias de Cantabria, Asturias, Palencia y Jaén. Se distingue una sociedad indígena mixta que presenta un mestizaje entre el mundo prerromano y romano con fuertes pervivencias en sus tradiciones, resultado de un proceso de aculturación e integración onomástica y social.This multidisciplinary essay aims to shed light on the Cantabrian epigraphy, by collecting and studying, in this case, the Orgenomesci people. The main goal of this research are the epigraphic supports used by the natives and their evolution during the roman dominion, by the study of the 16 epigraphic steles and inscriptions found in the actual provinces of Cantabria, Asturias, Palencia and Jaén. Hence, we can perceive a mixted native society with miscegenation between the preroman and roman world, alongside the survival of strong traditions, consequence of an acculturization process, onomastic and social integration

Naming treatment in semantic and logopenic variant PPA

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is an acquired impairment of language caused by neurodegenerative disease affecting language regions in the brain. Unlike aphasia caused by stroke, the language impairments in PPA gradually worsen over time as atrophy spreads. Current consensus criteria for diagnosis identify three clinical variants, each of which is associated with a different pathological entity: a semantic variant, with verbal and nonverbal semantic deficits; a logopenic variant, with anomia and phonological working memory problems; and a nonfluent variant, with agrammatism and/or apraxia of speech (Gorno-Tempini et al., 2011; Gorno-Tempini et al., 2004)

Quantitative analysis of the dripping and jetting regimes in co-flowing capillary jets

We study a liquid jet that breaks up into drops in an external co-flowing liquid inside a confining microfluidic geometry. The jet breakup can occur right after the nozzle in a phenomenon named dripping or through the generation of a liquid jet that breaks up a long distance from the nozzle, which is called jetting. Traditionally, these two regimes have been considered to reflect the existence of two kinds of spatiotemporal instabilities of a fluid jet, the dripping regime corresponding to an absolutely unstable jet and the jetting regime to a convectively unstable jet. Here, we present quantitative measurements of the dripping and jetting regimes, both in an unforced and a forced state, and compare these measurements with recent theoretical studies of spatiotemporal instability of a confined liquid jet in a co-flowing liquid. In the unforced state, the frequency of oscillation and breakup of the liquid jet is measured and compared to the theoretical predictions. The dominant frequency of the jet oscillations as a function of the inner flow rate agrees qualitatively with the theoretical predictions in the jetting regime but not in the dripping regime. In the forced state, achieved with periodic laser heating, the dripping regime is found to be insensitive to the perturbation and the frequency of drop formation remains unaltered. The jetting regime, on the contrary, amplifies the externally imposed frequency, which translates in the formation of drops at the frequency imposed by the external forcing. In conclusion, the dripping and jetting regimes are found to exhibit the main features of absolutely and convectively unstable flows respectively, but the frequency selection in the dripping regime is not ruled by the absolute frequency predicted by the stability analysis.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figures, to appear in Physics of Fluid

Aplicabilidad del test MABC en escolares con síndrome de down

El presente estudio analiza la aplicabilidad de tests de coordinación y habilidad motriz, diseñados para la población infantil general, en escolares de Educación Física Especial. Para el estudio se selecciona una muestra de niños y niñas con síndrome de Down, de 9 y 10 años, del colegio de educación especial ¿María Corredentora¿ de Madrid. Se utilizan las pruebas del Test MABC para el tramo de 4 a 6 años de edad (con algunas adaptaciones) y la escala de observación ECOMI tomada como criterio de validez. Resultados y conclusiones: El módulo de 4 a 6 años del test MABC es aplicable, con ligeras modificaciones, para evaluar las habilidades motrices fundamentales de niños y niñas con síndrome de Down. El conjunto de las pruebas muestra coeficientes de fiabilidad y validez adecuados. El grado de desarrollo motor de estos niños (9 y 10 años), mediante la comparación con el baremo de MABC, es inferior al promedio de la población española de escolares de 4 a 6 años