The Education of Marianne

Marivaux's La vie de Marianne forms an interesting contrast to the prevalent authoritarian and reactionary view of women in eighteenth century France. It can be read as a fledgling feminist vision of what womens' education could or should be.L’éducation de l'héroïne de l a i ir dr Mmuinut- s mcl lt d.ms une vision féministe du potentiel de la femme esquissée en Fiance par quelques écrivains et écrivaines du début du dix-huitième siècle, et qui forme un contraste intéressant avec l’attitude autoritaire et réactionnaire prévalent a l’époque, illustrée notamment, plus lard, par Rousseau

A Might-Have Been: Feminism in Eighteenth-Century France

In this article, the author presents an analysis of early eighteenth-century attitudes to women and their education in France, as well as those prevalent later in the century, with particular reference to Mme de Lambert and Rousseau.Dans l'article qui suit, l'auteure présente une analyse, d'une part, des attitudes en France au début du 18e siècle à l'égard des femmes et de leur éducation et, d'autre part, des attitudes prédominantes plus tard dans le siècle. Elle fait référence notamment à Mme de Lambert et à Rousseau

Uncloaking the Anxiety behind Professional Dress

Achieving a university education is one of life’s greatest milestones, with degree requirements complete; students expect their stress will subside. However, transitioning from student life to career track entails negotiating a whole new set of different stressful conditions. This research provides essential insights into the lived experience of preparing to dress for professional workplaces, wardrobe decision-making, predominant stressors, and how this translates women’s identities

Parameter space of experimental chaotic circuits with high-precision control parameters

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank Professor Iberê Luiz Caldas for the suggestions and encouragement. The authors F.F.G.d.S., R.M.R., J.C.S., and H.A.A. acknowledge the Brazilian agency CNPq and state agencies FAPEMIG, FAPESP, and FAPESC, and M.S.B. also acknowledges the EPSRC Grant Ref. No. EP/I032606/1.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Structural and optical properties on thulium-doped LHPG-grown Ta2O5 fibres

Structural, spectroscopic and dielectric properties of thulium-doped laser-heated pedestal Ta2O5 as-grown fibres were studied. Undoped samples grow preferentially with a single crystalline monoclinic structure. The fibre with the lowest thulium content (0.1 at%) also shows predominantly a monoclinic phase and no intra-4f12 Tm3+ recombination was observed. For sample with the highest thulium amount (1.0 at%), the appearance of a dominant triclinic phase as well as intraionic optical activation was observed. The dependence of photoluminescence on excitation energy allows identification of different site locations of Tm3+ ions in the lattice. The absence of recombination between the first and the ground-state multiplets as well as the temperature dependence of the observed transitions was justified by an efficient energy transfer between the Tm3+ ions. Microwave dielectric properties were investigated using the small perturbation theory. At a frequency of 5 GHz, the undoped material exhibits a dielectric permittivity of 21 and for thulium-doped Ta2O5 samples it decreases to 18 for the highest doping concentration. Nevertheless, the dielectric losses maintain a very low value.FCT - PTDC/CTM/66195/2006FCT - PTDC/FIS/66262/2006FCT - PTDC/FIS/72843/200

A Ética Jornalística em “O Quarto Poder” (1997) de Costa-Gravas

A ética é um tema fundamental para o bom funcionamento de uma sociedade. Baseado nessa realidade, este artigo destina-se a discutir a questão da ética jornalística a partir de sua representação no cinema de ficção norte-americano. O objetivo é analisar o filme “O quarto poder”, de Costa-Gravas, que tem a ética jornalística como um de seus temas principais, traçando um paralelo entre essa produção, a realidade da profissão de jornalista e suas questões diretas de credibilidade na divulgação da informaçã

Contracting the Facebook API

In recent years, there has been an explosive growth in the popularity of online social networks such as Facebook. In a new twist, third party developers are now able to create their own web applications which plug into Facebook and work with Facebook's "social" data, enabling the entire Facebook user base of more than 400 million active users to use such applications. These client applications can contain subtle errors that can be hard to debug if they misuse the Facebook API. In this paper we present an experience report on applying Microsoft's new code contract system for the .NET framework to the Facebook API.We wrote contracts for several classes in the Facebook API wrapper which allows Microsoft .NET developers to implement Facebook applications. We evaluated the usefulness of these contracts during implementation of a new Facebook application. Our experience indicates that having code contracts provides a better and quicker software development experience.Comment: In Proceedings TAV-WEB 2010, arXiv:1009.330