Secrets as storytelling: Family histories and interpersonal intimacy

Keeping and telling secrets are acts of intimacy. This article explores secret-telling-friendly methodologies, capable of encouraging individuals to share their life stories in their own terms, with particular episodes, emotional connections, protagonists, and also secrets. The openness of our research design played an important part in the identification of the role of secret-storytelling in the understanding of life. This was enhanced by methodological tools mobilized during the biographical interviews with individuals of families (the life calendar and the socio-genealogical tree). It testifies the importance of the research design, and method lato sensu, in the sociological analysis of secrets. Each secret connects to the person’s biography, social positioning, historical context, and generational anchor, contributing to understand more about wider social, gender, family, interpersonal, and normative values of given time-space coordinates. Secrets are narrative and emotional devices to build biographical narratives and chronologize life stories, bridging biography and society, exemplarily.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Using Microalgae for Converting Solar Energy into Biofuels and other Bio-products

It is consensual that current patterns of energy consumption and usage are unsustainable in the medium to long term, as mankind still has an overwhelming dependence on fossil fuels. Various renewable energy systems are being studied, developed and implemented, with the main goals of reducing the dependence on fossil fuels, decreasing the environmental impacts, increasing energy supply and security, among other purposes.N/

Mapping European social psychology: co-word analysis of the communications at the 10th General Meeting of the EAESP

This study aims to provide a picture of the present European research topics in Social Psychology, using the 339 papers presented at the 1993 General Meeting of the EAESP. The most frequent themes of research are analysed and the structure of the association of those themes are described in a two-factor structure. The first factor differentiates research in terms of level of analysis and the second factor contrasts types of applied research

Image transfer through a chaotic channel by intensity correlations

The three-wave mixing processes in a second-order nonlinear medium can be used for imaging protocols, in which an object field is injected into the nonlinear medium together with a reference field and an image field is generated. When the reference field is chaotic, the image field is also chaotic and does not carry any information about the object. We show that a clear image of the object be extracted from the chaotic image field by measuring the spatial intensity correlations between this field and one Fourier component of the reference. We experimentally verify this imaging protocol in the case of frequency downconversion.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figure

Primary cutaneous marginal zone B cell lymphoma of the face: A challenging diagnosis

The primary cutaneous marginal zone B cell lymphoma is a small B cell lymphoma, including cells of the marginal zone, lymphoplasmacytic cells, and plasma cells. Clinically it manifests as erythematous or erythematous-violaceous papules, plaques, or nodules, single or multiple, most often located to the extremities. Its course is usually indolent, with a survival at 5 years of approximately 97 percent. The tumor exhibits a tendency towards local recurrence, but spread to locations outside the skin is extremely rare. We present a case report of a man, 80 years of age, with a primary cutaneous marginal B cell lymphoma of the chin, an atypical location

Fluvial transport patterns of dissolved trace metals to the Ria of Cedeira

5 páginas.-- Interdisciplinary Water Congress CINA 2014, Vigo, 2-6 June 2014Samples of water were withdrawn monthly close to the Das Mestas River mouth, out of the tidal influence, from October 2011 to September 2012 (covering a hydrological year). After filtration through 0.45 policarbonate membrane, nine trace metals were analyzed (Al, Co, Cu, Cr, Fe, Mo, Ni, Pb and V) in the dissolved phase. All procedures were made following trace-metal-clean techniques. Three groups of metals were distinguished: Al, Co, Ni, Cu and Pb correlated with the SPM and the DOC indicating they are related with soil leaching; Iron is related with Chl-a so its behavior depends on the biologic activity; lithological influence on Cr, Mo and V patterns was observed.This study was supported by CTM2011-28792-C02 project, Land-sea exchange of trace metals and its importance for marine phytoplankton in an upwelling coast (MITOFE), financed by Spanish MINECOPeer reviewe