La traduction des catéchismes et la conquête spirituelle dans la Province du Venezuela

En dépit de son rôle primordial dans la construction de l’identité hispano-américaine, tout au long des cinq derniers siècles, la traduction ne fait pas encore l’objet d’une recherche prioritaire. Parmi les périodes les moins étudiées, on trouve la colonisation, du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, et, parmi les régions les plus oubliées, la Province du Venezuela. Le présent travail vise à mettre au jour les activités langagières les plus significatives de la période coloniale dans cette région et se penche plus particulièrement sur les tâches de traduction (catéchismes et livres de prières) accomplies par les membres des divers ordres religieux chargés par la couronne espagnole d’assurer la conquête spirituelle de l’Amérique. Cette étude de nature descriptive cherche à signaler des pistes de recherche pour l’interprétation du caractère transculturel des échanges entre les colonies américaines et la métropole espagnole.In spite of its essential contribution to the formation of Hispano-American identity throughout the last five hundred years, translation has not yet reached the status of a priority research topic. Amongst least studied periods are the 16th and 17th centuries; and the Province of Venezuela lies amongst the most forgotten regions. This research intends to reveal the most significant linguistic activities of this region and particularly focuses on translation tasks—catechisms and prayer books—carried out by members of the various religious orders to whom the Spanish Crown gave the responsibility of spiritually conquering America. This descriptive study aims at pointing on research avenues for the interpretation of the transcultural nature of the relations between American colonies and Spain

Millimeter Wave Communication through Plasma

Millimeter wave communication through plasma at frequencies of 35 GHz or higher shows promise in maintaining communications connectivity during rocket launch and re-entry, critical events which are typically plagued with communication dropouts. Extensive prior research into plasmas has characterized the plasma frequency at these events, and research at the Kennedy Space Center is investigating the feasibility of millimeter communication through these plasma frequencies

Operational determination of multi-qubit entanglement classes via tuning of local operations

We present a physical setup with which it is possible to produce arbitrary symmetric long-lived multiqubit entangled states in the internal ground levels of photon emitters, including the paradigmatic GHZ and W states. In the case of three emitters, where each tripartite entangled state belongs to one of two well-defined entanglement classes, we prove a one-to-one correspondence between well-defined sets of experimental parameters, i.e., locally tunable polarizer orientations, and multiqubit entanglement classes inside the symmetric subspace.Comment: Improved version. Accepted in Physical Review Letter