Nota de admiración al Tecnológico de Monterrey

Actriz de gran carácter de cine, teatro y radio. Madre de Manolo Fábregas

A movable ethos: How ethics and rhetoric can imagine and invite new publics

This project examines the relationship between rhetorical ethos, ethos as habitus, and the constitutive power of public rhetoric. In this dissertation, I use Gandhi\u27s Quit India Speech as a case study for demonstrating how we can address a multicultural audience and invoke a more democratic public—born of nonviolence—that, for many of its constituents, could only be imagined with great effort. This understanding shows us not only how powerful a virtuous character and message can be when shared with the right rhetorical strategies, but also how powerful any audience member can be when invited to participate in social action formed through transcultural ethical identification. The dissertation discusses the following, in order: contemporary interest in composition\u27s ethical practices and public rhetoric studies; varied definitions of ethos and how they tend to be used in rhetoric; methodologies for examining public rhetoric, including a schematic of a movable ethos; application of that schematic to the Quit India Speech delivered in India in 1942; analysis of schematic findings in light of cultural, mythical, and material contexts contemporary to the speech; how a movable ethos can inform the teaching of writing and what it means to be a public intellectual

SonoranSystems: Building Simulation Modeling Using a Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Analogy

Biomimicry is one source of inspiration for innovation in the passive thermal design of buildings and of strategies that decrease the need for auxiliary heating and cooling systems. This paper explores the potential for using analogies drawn from Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to create a software program that simulates selected building materials to predict temporal building temperature variations.

Shading Mask: a teaching tool for sun shading devices

Sun shading devices provide an opportunity for the designer to control natural lighting, ventilation, and solar gain, all of which provide a benefit to the overall building performance. Through sun path diagrams and shading masks, some of the effects of these solar controls can be demonstrated graphically. This paper describes, a computer program written to help designers understand the basic theory of solar control, generate sun path diagrams, design overhead, side, and eggcrate shading devices, calculate solar angles and shading masks, and provide case studies of actual buildings.

Pandemic paranoia in the general population: international prevalence and sociodemographic profile

BackgroundThe term ‘pandemic paranoia’ has been coined to refer to heightened levels of mistrust and suspicion towards other people specifically due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we examine the international prevalence of pandemic paranoia in the general population and its associated sociodemographic profile.MethodsA representative international sample of general population adults (N = 2510) from five sites (USA N = 535, Germany N = 516, UK N = 512, Australia N = 502 and Hong Kong N = 445) were recruited using stratified quota sampling (for age, sex, educational attainment) and completed the Pandemic Paranoia Scale (PPS).ResultsThe overall prevalence rate of pandemic paranoia was 19%, and was highest in Australia and lowest in Germany. On the subscales of the PPS, prevalence was 11% for persecutory threat, 29% for paranoid conspiracy and 37% for interpersonal mistrust. Site and general paranoia significantly predicted pandemic paranoia. Sociodemographic variables (lower age, higher population size and income, being male, employed and no migrant status) explained additional variance and significantly improved prediction of pandemic paranoia.ConclusionsPandemic paranoia was relatively common in a representative sample of the general population across five international sites. Sociodemographic variables explained a small but significant amount of the variance in pandemic paranoia