La Historia tiene la palabra (1944), de María Teresa León: los tesoros artísticos en el joyero de la Historia

Al publicar María Teresa León La Historia tiene la palabra (1944), deja constancia de un objetivo puntual: la justificación de la política cultural de la República española durante la guerra civil, basada en la Protección del Tesoro Artístico en la que ella misma participó. Narra, pues, un episodio de la Historia, siendo a la par testigo y actor del mismo, ve su índole modificada por su inclusión dentro de una temporalidad más amplia, que apela a la potencia de la imaginación. Se halla pues integrado dentro de un estuche poético que lo protege y exhibe a la vez, con lo cual el relato ficticio adquiere una función superior, por ser el único capaz de revelar el secreto de la verdadera historia. When María Teresa león published La Historia tiene la palabra (1944), her professed goal was to justify the cultural policy of the Spanish Republic in times of civil war through the Preservation of the Artistic Patrimony she had taken an active part in. It was thus both as ana gent and a witness that she wrote about that episode in Spanish history, yet the inclusión in a more extensive temporality, that appeals to the power of imagination, transforms the nature if the Basic event, related in obejective detalil, Then the event becomes integrated into a poetic box, that both protects and shows it, and the fictional story, that is load with an high function, seems to be the Orly one capable to reveals the secreto f the true History

Personal Jurisdiction over Retailers and Regional Distributors in Products Liability Litigation: Sufficiency of a Single Contact

This Comment examines the United States Supreme Court\u27s opinion in World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson and argues that the Court attempted to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the application of the minimum contacts doctrine in a products liability context. The author examines the nature of the uncertainty, and forecasts the effects that this case will have on products liability litigation in the future, limiting the analysis to the due process limitations faced by state long arm statutes. The author concludes that the Court\u27s decision in World-Wide Volkswagen is inconsistent with the ultimate goals of the minimum contacts doctrine

Flight Tests, Performances and Flight Certification of a Twin-Engine Light Aircraft

This paper deals with flight test activities performed on P2006T, a twin-engine light aircraft recently designed and produced by Tecnam. Research activities and flight tests have been conducted during the flight certification of P2006T for the normal category under CS-23. All the acquired data and flight results presented have been focused on both aircraft certification and on aircraft performances, stability and flight qualities measurement. The data have been acquired through a light, accurate and reliable flight instrumentation available at DIAS (Department of Aerospace Engineering). Some flight data about aircraft leveled speed, stall speed, climb characteristics and ground performances (take-off and landing) will be presented. After preliminary flight tests, winglets have been designed and added to the final configuration in order to obtain good climb performances also in OEI (One Engine Inoperative) conditions. Accurate stall tests have been performed in all configurations and influence of both entry-rate and load factor on stall speed have been highlighted. Excellent ground performances have been measured with short take-off and landing distances compared with similar airplanes. All measured flight performances can be considered very good for this aircraft category and have been used to demonstrate aircraft safety and to obtain CS23 certification

Limited sampling strategies to estimate glomerular filtration rate in cats with low, normal and high glomerular filtration rates

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Accurate measurement of a 96% input coupling into a cavity using polarization tomography

Pillar microcavities are excellent light-matter interfaces providing an electromagnetic confinement in small mode volumes with high quality factors. They also allow the efficient injection and extraction of photons, into and from the cavity, with potentially near-unity input and output-coupling efficiencies. Optimizing the input and output coupling is essential, in particular, in the development of solid-state quantum networks where artificial atoms are manipulated with single incoming photons. Here we propose a technique to accurately measure input and output coupling efficiencies using polarization tomography of the light reflected by the cavity. We use the residual birefringence of pillar microcavities to distinguish the light coupled to the cavity from the uncoupled light: the former participates to rotating the polarization of the reflected beam, while the latter decreases the polarization purity. Applying this technique to a micropillar cavity, we measure a $53 \pm2 \%$ output coupling and a $96 \pm 1\%$ input coupling with unprecedented precision.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure

Catheter entrapment in a pulmonary vein: a unique complication of pulmonary vein isolation.

Ablation strategies for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) are associated with several potential complications. During electro-anatomic mapping of the left atrium (LA) before ablation, the ablation catheter was entrapped in the right inferior pulmonary vein (RIPV). After multiple unsuccessful gentle tractions, stronger maneuvers with rotation of the catheter slowly allowed its retrieval. Examination of the catheter showed a thin, translucent membrane covering its tip, suggesting complete stripping of a vein branch. Occlusion of the superior branch of the RIPV was confirmed by LA angiogram. During the following days, no pericardial effusion was noted, but the patient complained of light chest pain and mild hemoptysis, spontaneously resolving within 48 h. This case shows that catheter entrapment and mechanical disruption of a PV branch can be a rare potential complication of AF ablation. In this case, the outcome was spontaneously favorable and symptoms only included transient mild hemoptysis

Evolutionary neurocontrol: A novel method for low-thrust gravity-assist trajectory optimization

This article discusses evolutionary neurocontrol, a novel method for low-thrust gravity-assist trajectory optimization

Seasonally resolved stable isotope chronologies from northern Thailand deciduous trees

Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B. V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 235 (2005): 752-765, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.012.Despite the existence of a number of climate proxies, the terrestrial expression of tropical climate variability over the past few centuries remains poorly resolved. We explore the applicability of stable isotope dendroclimatology as a tool for chronology and paleo-hydrology reconstruction on deciduous trees from monsoonal northern Thailand. Analysis of 11 trees coming from 4 different regions of northern Thailand yielded 7 records with varying degrees of δ18O and δ13C seasonality. We develop age models for trees lacking visible rings based on the seasonality of the δ18O and find agreement to within ≤ 3 years with radiocarbon age estimates. We use the isotopic age models to reconstruct estimates of growth rates and find a significant positive correlation between growth and amplitude of the oxygen and carbon seasonal isotopic signals. A comparison of a reconstructed dendro-isotopic index from Pangmapa with regional rainfall records indicates significant correlations consistent with the locally derived patterns but with decreased representation of the variance. Individual isotopic chronologies stemming from different tree species share common trends, which are also consistent with patterns of rainfall variability. We see an increase in the amplitude of the seasonal δ18O cycle along with an increase in δ18Omax over the past few decades suggesting a tracking of the recent drying trend of Thailand's monsoon.This research was supported by NSERC and the Teresa Heinz Scholarship for Environmental Research to PFP and Award #0402425 from the Paleoclimate Program of the Atmospheric Sciences Division of NSF to DPS