A ESCRITA FEMININA EM FAZES-ME FALTA: CORPO MORTO, CORPUS DESCONTRUÍDO

The present study aims to present how in the work Fazes-me falta, written by Inês Pedrosa, one of the most significative voices of the Contemporary Portuguese Literature, the author, making use of the feminine writing, undertakes a critique of the condition of women in our present context while bringing this condition closer to the process of deconstruction of the novel. In other words, it aims to observe the fusion that is established between the body of the female character and the narrative corpus in its process of (de)construction. Exploratory and bibliographical, and making use of the feminine writing, the research reveals a questioning narrative of the official paradigm and the configuration of a woman-narrative, marked by incompleteness and fragmentation.O presente estudo objetiva apresentar como na obra Fazes-me Falta, de Inês Pedrosa, uma das mais significativas vozes da Literatura Contemporânea Portuguesa, a autora, valendo-se da Escrita Feminina, empreende uma crítica à condição da mulher em nosso atual contexto ao mesmo tempo em que aproxima essa condição ao processo de desconstrução da tessitura do romance. Ou seja, almeja-se observar a fusão que se estabelece entre o corpo da personagem feminina e o corpus narrativo em seu processo de (des)construção. De cunho exploratório e biográfico, e recorrendo aos conceitos de Escrita Feminina, a pesquisa evidencia-nos uma narrativa questionadora do paradigma oficial e a configuração de uma mulher-narrativa, marcada pela incompletude e fragmentação

Discordant clinical outcomes of congenital Zika virus infection in twin pregnancies

ABSTRACT Congenital Zika syndrome is an emergent cause of a congenital infectious disorder, resulting in severe damage to the central nervous system and microcephaly. Despite advances in understanding the pathophysiology of the disease, we still do not know all the mechanisms enrolled in the vertical transmission of the virus. As has already been reported in other types of congenital infectious disorders in dizygotic twin pregnancies, it is possible that the virus affects only one of the fetuses. In this article, we report on two cases of twin pregnancies exposed to the Zika virus, but with only one of the fetuses affected with microcephaly and brain damage. This indicates the urgent need for more studies regarding the pathophysiology of viral infection and the mechanisms involved in the natural protection against the virus

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved