Form and transgression: The discourse of Art

Art, in its various fields, developes discourses that nothing have to do with others coming from different realms. It uses various combinations of elements, usually provided by conventional languages, in order to create a new and unique speech, where an idea finally finds its own form. At that precise spot, content and structure become an unique and inseparable one. This paper deals with classical art paradigms and reflects on them, particularly from the Visual Arts point of view. It begins by thinking about many centuries mainstream art forms as reality representation or imitation, not only as a vehicle for expression but as an actual purpose of art itself. It follows with the proposal of Dada transgression to those art forms looking for emotional commotion so that a creation reaches the intimate territories of the receiver´s mind. It finally explains how Marcel Duchamp pointed art discourse itself as the one made to give a new thinking to the world

Cider Proteins and Foam Characteristics: A Contribution to Their Characterization

A capillary sieving electrophoretic method for protein analysis and molecular weight determination was used to characterize ciders from Asturias, northern Spain. The total protein content (Bradford method) and the foam parameters (Bikerman method) were also analyzed to complete this characterization. The polypeptide profile, based on the molecular weight, together with exploratory and classification techniques, that is, principal component analysis (PCA) or linear discriminant analysis (LDA), allowed ciders to be differentiated on the basis of their foam assessment and the apple juice extraction technology used in the cidermaking process. In addition, the application of correlation analysis, that is, canonical correlations (CCA) or partial least-squares (PLS), revealed that the proteins with higher molecular weight were more relevant with respect to cider foamability. PLS analysis also provided a mathematical equation that is able to predict the stabilization time of foam from the polypeptide profile of the cider, because this is the foam parameter most influenced by these compounds

Characterisation of sparkling cider by the yeast type used in taking foam on the basis of polypeptide content and foam characteristics

This paper describes the characterisation of sparkling ciders from Asturias, northern Spain, by means of the analysis of their protein content and their foam characteristics. A capillary sieving electrophoretic method was used in the protein analysis to determine molecular mass and the Bradford method to determine total protein content. The foam parameters were measured using the Bikerman method. Chemometric techniques, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and soft independent modelling of class analogy analysis (SIMCA), allowed the sparkling cider to be differentiated on the basis of the yeast strain used in their manufacture. As a result, feasible models for classifying sparkling ciders were computed (classification hits higher than 96%). Furthermore, the relationship between polypeptides and foam was demonstrated with a prediction equation of foam stability time, which was computed using the partial least square (PLS) regression technique. This mathematical equation confirmed that the polypeptides of high molecular mass are especially related to this foaming parameter

Manual de Administración de las Geodatabases del SIGAM

Fil: Pedreira Júnco, José Ángel. SADIM: Sociedad Asturiana de Diversificación Minera; España.Fil: Ferpozzi, Federico Javier. SEGEMAR: Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino; Argentina.Fil: Candaosa, Norberto Gabriel. SEGEMAR: Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino; Argentina.Fil: Avanzas, Rubén. SADIM: Sociedad Asturiana de Diversificación Minera; España.Fil: Álvarez Fernández, Saúl. SADIM: Sociedad Asturiana de Diversificación Minera; España

The Rise and Fall of "Respectable" Spanish Liberalism, 1808-1923: An Explanatory Framework

The article focuses on the reasons behind both the consolidation of what I have termed “respectable” liberalism between the 1830s and the 1840s and its subsequent decline and fall between 1900 and 1923. In understanding both processes I study the links established between “respectable” liberals and propertied elites, the monarchy, and the Church. In the first phase these links served to consolidate the liberal polity. However, they also meant that many tenets of liberal ideology were compromised. Free elections were undermined by the operation of caciquismo, monarchs established a powerful position, and despite the Church hierarchy working with liberalism, the doctrine espoused by much of the Church was still shaped by the Counter-Reformation. Hence, “respectable” liberalism failed to achieve a popular social base. And the liberal order was increasingly denigrated as part of the corrupt “oligarchy” that ruled Spain. Worse still, between 1916 and 1923 the Church, monarch, and the propertied elite increasingly abandoned the liberal Monarchist Restoration. Hence when General Primo de Rivera launched his coup the rug was pulled from under the liberals’ feet and there was no one to cushion the fall

Revista de Vertebrados de la Estación Biológica de Doñana

Ritmo diario de actividad social en (Gambusia affinis)Sobre la herpetofauna de la Sierra de Estrella (Portugal) con especial referencia a Coronella austriaca austriaca y Vipera latastiNuevos datos sobre la distribución geográfica de los anfibios y reptiles ibéricosBiogeografía en la evolución de un grupo de formas de Coluber en el Paleártico OccidentalDatos sobre la alimentación de ofidiosEstructura de las galerías de nidificación del Abejaruco (Merops apiaster) en DoñanaComportamiento de la Perdiz Moruna ( Alectoris barbara) en cautividadEl paso otoñal de Sylvia borin y Sylvia conmmunis en la Reserva de DoñanaSobre el lirón Gris (Glis glis pyrenaicus Cabrera, 1908) en España.Sobre alimentación y biología de la Gineta (Genetta genetta lo) en EspañaEliomys quercinus valverdei, un nuevo lirón careto del noroeste de la Península IbéricaPeer reviewe

Liberal governmentality in Spain: bodies, minds, and the medical construction of the “outsider,” 1870–1910

This paper traces the fragility of the subject in the period extending from the aftermath of the Sexenio through to the early twentieth century. In particular, two case studies are focused upon: the question of gender “deviance” and the figure of the genius, in order to understand how medicine participated in the construction of “outsider” identities within the context of the emerging liberal order. How did liberal rationales exclude or curtail certain wayward expressions of identity and subjectivity? What consequences did the marking of “excessive” figures or outsiders have for notions of inclusiveness and citizenship within the late-nineteenth-century liberal order? By concentrating primarily on medical texts and journals published during the period, this study builds on existing research to tease out answers to these questions

The British Influence in the Birth of Spanish Sport

Sports started to gain relevance in Spain around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century as a leisure and health option of the upper classes imported from Britain. Its early development was intertwined with the spread of other kinds of physical activities with much more tradition on the continent: gymnastics and physical education. First played by the ruling classes – aristocracy and high bourgeoisie – sports permeated towards petty bourgeoisie and middle classes in urban areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, San Sebastián and Santander. This pattern meant that the expansion of sports was unavoidably tied to the degree of industrialisation and cultural modernisation of the country. Since 1910, and mainly during the 1920s, sport grew in popularity as a spectacle and, toa much lesser degree, as a practice among the Spanish population