Architecture and Wilderness: An Exchange of Order

If wilderness refers to those spaces that are unoccupied by humans while architecture is one major way that humans occupy space, the terms seem to be mutually exclusive. However, this thesis argues that wilderness and architecture have a fundamental similarity: they are both ways that humans understand and relate to the world. This thesis looks critically at the notion of wilderness by acknowledging that throughout time and history, humans have understood wilderness in innumerable different ways and, as a result, have treated those spaces that are deemed wilderness in innumerable different ways as well. It acknowledges wilderness as a “profoundly human creation[1]” and from this admission, explores the utility of predisposition as a means by which to direct the built environment’s relationship to the un-built environment. Ultimately, this thesis argues that when humans define wilderness in a particular way and then apply that label to a space, they have made a design decision. It investigates the ways in which architecture can apply the label of wilderness to new and even unlikely types of spaces in order to expand the lens through which we, as humans, value and appreciate this Earth. [1] Cronon, William. 1997. The Trouble with Wilderness:; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. In Out of the Woods, 28-50: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt7zw9qw.8. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zw9qw.8

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Chronostratigraphy of KNM-ER 3733 and other Area 104 hominins from Koobi Fora

A magnetostratigraphy for ∼60 m of Koobi Fora Formation sediment in Area 104 was derived from 46 oriented samples that produced well-resolved characteristic magnetizations from progressive thermal demagnetization. Approximately 59 m below the Morte Tuff, previously dated to ∼1.51 Ma (millions of years ago), the Olduvai-Matuyama boundary (∼1.78 Ma) was found to be at the level of marker bed A2—inconsistent with the Area 102 type section and thus contrary to fossil dating schemes that utilize temporal equivalence between A2 [104] and A2 [102]. The magnetostratigraphic data, coupled with the Morte Tuff, provide a means to interpolate new ages for marker beds A2 [104] and the White Tuff, as well as multiple Area 104 hominin fossils. Noteworthy is the new date of ∼1.63 Ma for KNM-ER 3733, which now implicates KNM-ER 2598 as the sole early African Homo erectus fossil demonstrably older than Dmanisi and Java Homo specimens. Re-dating KNM-ER 3733 creates a ∼300-kyr gap at 1.9 to 1.6 Ma in the African fossil record of H. erectus, which might be partially spanned by hand axes recently dated at ∼1.76 Ma, if the Acheulian is indeed proprietary to this species

New magnetostratigraphy for the Olduvai Subchron in the Koobi Fora Formation, northwest Kenya, with implications for early Homo

A problematic magnetostratigraphy for the Koobi Fora Formation has contributed to debates on the evolutionary implications for early hominin fossils. To address this, 50 independent samples distributed over a nearly 63-m-thick interval were collected from the lower-middle KBS Member type section in fossil collection Area 102, northeast Turkana Basin. Characteristic directions obtained by thermal demagnetization define a coherent magnetostratigraphy that is supported by alternating-field studies on 28 sister specimens and the prior tephrochronological framework. Two long polarity intervals were recognized, each 30–40 m in thickness, and interpreted as the upper part of the normal polarity Olduvai Subchron and the overlying reverse polarity Matuyama Chron. The end Olduvai consists of a normal–reverse–normal polarity sequence occurring over a thickness of at least 1 m but perhaps up to 5 m, suggesting that this subchron has a short reverse interval in its uppermost part. Such a fine-scale structure also has been reported from several other sites, like the Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary and point stratotype section at Vrica, Italy, which serves as a basis for formally delimiting three temporally discrete polarity subintervals for the Olduvai Subchron. These paleomagnetic results that place the upper boundary of the Olduvai at ∼ 48 m above the base of the KBS Member, coupled with published radioisotopic dates, firmly secure the age of partial cranium KNM-ER 3733 in the interval 1.78–1.48 Ma, with an interpolated age of ∼ 1.7 Ma, giving this fossil the most unambiguous numerical-age constraints, as compared to the oldest Homo cranial remains from Europe and Asia. Nonetheless, assured placement of the top of the Olduvai Subchron in the KBS Member is not sufficient in the face of other uncertainties to influence conventional interpretations of the timing and direction for the global dispersal of early Homo erectus

Caffeine-derived noble carbons as ball milling-resistant cathode materials for lithium-ion capacitors

Energy consumption is a growing phenomenon in our society causing many negative effects such as global warming. There is a need for the development of new sustainable materials for energy storage. Carbons are materials derivable from biowaste that can rather easily store energy due to their high conductivity and surface area. However, their large-scale processing is challenging as derived materials can be rather heterogeneous and homogenization requires ball milling, a process that can damage carbons in the process of oxidation. Herein, we have prepared caffeine-derived noble nitrogen-doped carbon that withstands the ball milling process without significant oxidation. Additionally, it performs extraordinarily as a cathode material for lithium-ion capacitors, making it an attractive biowaste-derived alternative to commercial heavy metal cathodes

The translation of humor in video games: a case study

Over the last thirty years, the practice of game localization has become more and more widespread and has started to attract a growing academic interest. However, the translation of humor in games has received little scholarly attention, despite the fact that humor is a fundamental component of games and can be a difficult area to translate. In this view, the thesis is aimed at identifying and classifying the main types of humor in games and the way in which their translation from English into Italian has been tackled, highlighting how the interactive nature of games may affect translation. As the audiovisual features of games are incredibly varied and cannot always be assimilated to the established categories of audiovisual translation, the thesis also discusses how the various audiovisual modalities of games can have an impact on localization. Then, it examines three popular games that are particularly suitable for this analysis, as they feature plenty of humorous dialogues and situations: The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), Day of the Tentacle (1993) and Discworld (1995). The thesis pays particular attention to instances of humor based on cultural elements, as they are especially likely to cause disruptions in a translated text. The research looks at how often humor is intrinsically based on culture-specific references and analyses how translators deal with them. This issue appears particularly relevant in the case of games, as unfamiliar references can most easily damage the user’s experience. The final part of the thesis discusses the retranslation of games. By comparing the old and new translations of two games in the corpus, the thesis aims at seeing if and how translation choices have changed across time. As one of the retranslations was made by fans of the game, the thesis also aims at giving insight into the phenomenon of fan translation

L’Afrique subsaharienne entre décolonisation et néocolonialisme. Débat sur l’ingérence politique, économique et culturelle de l’Ouest à la fin du XXe siècle

The quest for a distinctly African knowledge has generated a lively debate among African intellectuals since the 1980s, becoming the focus of a discussion about the possibility of a real cultural decolonization. The importance of these studies does not lay in the historical reconstruction and analysis of the different forms of colonial and post-colonial rule, but in their pursuit of a true epistemological rupture. During the last two decades of the 20th century, these issues became prevalent due to the institutionalization of political and economic interference by the West. This interference laid out new processes of subjectivation/objectification of the “blackness” in a world of values, norms and symbols established by the “whiteness”

A elaboração de glossários bilíngues para a interpretação de textos em inglês com base em um corpus paralelo

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Tradução.Esta dissertação foi produzida com o objetivo de apresentar uma metodologia para a elaboração de um glossário bilíngüe com base em um corpus de domínio técnico. O objetivo do glossário, produto desta metodologia, é dar suporte a acadêmicos a pesquisadores que se interessem pela tradução especializada, pelo ensino de línguas e a todos os que se interessam pela interpretação de termos técnicos em geral. Dessa maneira, apresenta-se aqui a metodologia, junto com os exemplos extraídos de corpora fundamentados na Fisiologia do Exercício, uma das disciplinas inseridas no ensino da Educação Física. This paper aims to describe a methodology for the construction of a bilingual glossary based on a domain-specific corpus. The bilingual glossary, result of said methodology, would have the purpose of giving support to academic students, specialized translation, language teaching, and to all researches who is interested in the interpretation of technical terms in general. The theoretical basics, the methodology itself and examples of extraction of data from the physical education domain corpus are presented

DO TANGÍVEL AO INTANGÍVEL NO DESIGN DE S.PSS - REFLEXÕES SOBRE A POSSE E O VALOR

Este artigo traz reflexões, baseadas em Revisão Sistemática da Literatura, sobre a mudanças dos valores envolvidos no design, oferta e consumo de Sistemas de Produto-Serviço Sustentáveis - S.PSS. Sua introdução aborda a insustentabilidade dos padrões atuais de produção-consumo, apresenta os Sistemas de Produto-Serviço Sustentáveis -S.PSS como soluções viáveis e o Design como mediador nesta transição. Na sequência, o texto apresenta a definição de S.PSS e suas tipologias, seguido de definições de cultura, posse e valores, a partir das visões de McCracken, Belk e Reale. Por fim, apresenta reflexões sobre as mudanças de valores envolvidas na passagem do tangível para o intangível no design de S.PSS e sugestões para promover essa passagem

Reciclagem da casa Sta. Catarina : museu em Umuarama-Pr

Orientador: Juliana Harumi SuzukiMonografia (graduação) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Tecnologia, Curso de Graduação em Arquitetura e UrbanismoInclui referênciasResumo : O presente trabalho consiste na pesquisa acerca de temas sobre patrimônio cultural, intervenção em patrimônio construído e reciclagem como forma de preservação de um edifício histórico; conceitos, tipologias e um breve histórico sobre museus; análise de correlatos como referência para a realização do projeto e das diretrizes; pesquisa e análise sobre a cidade de Umuarama, seu aspecto histórico e atual, e seu panorama cultural, pesquisa e análise sobre o edifício Casa Sta. Catarina e seu valor histórico, além de apresentação da legislação vigente e dos parâmetros construtivos pertinentes para a realização do projeto. O trabalho apresenta as fundamentações teóricas para a realização do projeto proposto para a próxima etapa, a reciclagem de um edifício, de valor histórico para o município e região, em museu. Possibilita a elaboração de um programa de necessidades, com pré-dimensionamento, e das diretrizes de projeto, que servirão de guia para a etapa de desenvolvimento de projetoAbstract : This monograph consists of the research about themes about cultural heritage, intervention in built heritage and adaptive reuse as a way of preserving a historical building; concepts, typologies and a brief history of museums; analysis of case studies as reference for the implementation of the project and guidelines; research and analysis of the city of Umuarama, its historical and current aspect, and its cultural panorama, research and analysis of the building Casa Sta. Catarina and its historical value, in addition to presenting the current legislation and the pertinent constructive parameters to the implementation of the project. This monograph presents the theoretical foundations for the execution of the proposed project for the next stage, the adaptive reuse of a building, of historical value for the city and for the region, in a museum. And it enables the formulation of a needs program, with pre-sizing, and the project guidelines, which will guide the project development stag