“Man? Where’s a man? Don’t let him go!”: Molina’s Trans/gender Web in Interpretation and Performance

Using perspectives typical of English and theatrical fields of study, this capstone project interprets Molina from Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel Kiss of the Spider Woman as a heterosexual transgender woman and then investigates why such an interpretation does not exist in performance adaptations. Although Molina has been called a transgender woman in recent criticism, there is a conflation of gender and sexuality that has been uninvestigated in this text. It has not been addressed how Molina constructs her identity or how this interpretation might be employed in performance, which this essay seeks to confront. The first half of the project focuses on a close reading of the text that interprets Molina’s subjective construction of gender and sexuality as a heterosexual transgender woman, finding that the presupposed assumption of Molina as a gay man is a result of critics privileging what other characters say about Molina rather than her subjective articulation. The second half of the essay analyzes elements of the performance that prevented performing Molina as a transgender woman in Hector Babenco’s 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman movie adaptation – such as the intentions for the movie, the writing of the screenplay, and the personal acting choices of William Hurt, who played Molina – through production research and a semiotic reading of the film. This project speaks to the broader context of how individual identity is constructed, how gender is performed, how societal attitudes oppress individual identity, and how transgender characters have been minimized in media

MacGregor\u27s Luis de Molina: The life and theology of the founder of middle knowledge (Book Review)

A review of MacGregor, K. R. (2015). Luis de Molina: The life and theology of the founder of middle knowledge. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. 288 pp. $27.99. ISBN 978031051697

Bakhtiari, Leskinen and Torma Reply

This is a Reply to: Comment on "Spectral Signatures of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Order Parameter in One-Dimensional Optical Lattices" R. A. Molina J. Dukelksy, and P. Schmitteckert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 168901 (2009)Comment: 1 page, published versio

LOcalized modes on an Ablowitz-Ladik nonlinear impurity

We study localized modes on a single Ablowitz-Ladik impurity embedded in the bulk or at the surface of a one-dimensional linear lattice. Exact expressions are obtained for the bound state profile and energy. Dynamical excitation of the localized mode reveals exponentially-high amplitude oscillations of the spatial profile at the impurity location. The presence of a surface increases the minimum nonlinearity to effect a dynamical selftrapping.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted in PL

Evaluación de la satisfacción del turista y la congestión en la práctica de observación de ballenas jorobadas, el caso de Puerto López – Ecuador

[EN] The effect of crowding on tourist satisfaction is a widely studied aspect. Its knowledge is valuable not only to guide ordering of tourism activity but also to ensure a satisfactory experience that contributes to its economic sustainability. However, studies of this type are scarce in the context of whale watching tourism. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate tourist satisfaction and crowding in the practice of humpback whale - watching in Puerto López - Ecuador. At the methodological level, a survey was applied to 340 tourists who observed whales in the June-September 2017 season. Data analysis was based on descriptive record, the structuring of an importance-performance analysis matrix, principal components analysis and binary logistic regression model. Unlike others, this research incorporated the calculation of a perceived crowding threshold and the analysis of the relationship between perceived crowding of boats and people on board. Among main results, the study finds that crowding influences tourist satisfaction when four or more boats coincide at a sighting site. In that sense, the activity in Puerto López is satisfactory in the face of a reported crowding scenario of 3.7 boats and 16.3 people per boat, on average. The limitations of this study are its exploratory nature because it is based on a non-probabilistic sampling and the questionnaire application exclusively in standard capacity boats, without considering those of 35 passengers.[ES] El efecto de la congestión sobre la satisfacción del turista constituye un aspecto ampliamente estudiado. Su conocimiento resulta valioso no solo para orientar el ordenamiento de la actividad turística sino además para asegurar una experiencia satisfactoria que contribuya a su sostenibilidad económica. Sin embargo, son escasos los estudios de este tipo en el contexto del turismo de observación de ballenas. Por tanto, esta investigación tiene como objetivo evaluar la satisfacción del turista y la congestión en la práctica de observación de ballenas jorobadas en Puerto López – Ecuador. A nivel metodológico se aplicó una encuesta a 340 turistas que observaron ballenas en la temporada junio-septiembre de 2017. El análisis de datos se apoyó en el registro descriptivo, la estructuración de una matriz de análisis importancia-desempeño, el análisis de componentes principales y un modelo de regresión logística binaria. A diferencia de otras, esta investigación incorporó el cálculo de un umbral de congestión percibida y el análisis de la relación entre congestión percibida de botes y de personas a bordo. Como resultado, el estudio encuentra que la congestión influye en la satisfacción del turista cuando cuatro o más embarcaciones coinciden en un sitio de avistamiento. En ese sentido, la actividad en Puerto López es satisfactoria frente a un escenario de congestión reportada de 3,7 botes y 16,3 personas por bote, en promedio. Constituyen limitaciones del estudio su carácter exploratorio por basarse en un muestreo no probabilístico y la aplicación exclusiva del cuestionario en botes de capacidad estándar, sin considerar aquellos de 35 pasajeros

Breaking the addition addiction: creating the conditions for knowing-to act in early algebra

We use data from a teaching experiment with a group of eight years old students to explore the potential of examining number sentences to promote relational thinking. This type of thinking requires attention to mathematical structure through consideration of relationships between terms contained in the sentence and not just on computation and comparison of the numeric values of each side. We show that children came to “know-to act” in the context of written activities and orchestrated discussions about number sentences, overcoming some of their computational habits and developing new ways to see and more flexibly approach the sentences. The results help to advance the study of young students´ emergent algebraic modes of thinking