The exiles of Herta Müller

Sin duda Herta Müller se ha convertido en una escritora ampliamente reconocida a partir de la concesión del premio Nobel en 2009. Este artículo pretende una aproximación crítica al significado de su obra literaria. Para ello, se consideran en primer lugar las reacciones de la prensa alemana y rumana sobre la concesión del premio. A continuación se analizan su primer texto publicado en Rumanía, y la evolución y confirmación de una manera peculiar de hacer literatura ya durante el exilio alemán, para centrar el estudio en la obra culminante y más significativa de todas las escritas hasta el momento del galardón. Desde una perspectiva sociológica, el artículo se adentra en la evolución de su quehacer literario considerando los dos exilios que ha vivido, en los que la memoria histórica se convierte en punto de orientación de su actividad.Certainly Herta Müller became a largely recognized writer ever since the conferment of de Nobel Price in the year 2009. This article deals with a critic approach to the signification of her texts. There are first of all observed the press German and Romanian reactions about the conferment of the price. Thereafter is analyzed her first in Romania publicized text Niederungen and the latter evolution and confirmation of a peculiar writing already in the German exil and at the last the most important and characteristic of all her production Atemschaukel. Under a sociological point of view this contribution it deals the evolution of her literary texts by considering both exiles she has experienced where the historic memory becomes an essential guideline

VISIR-VLT Images of the Water Maser Emitting Planetary Nebula K 3-35

K3-35 is an extremely young bipolar planetary nebula that contains a precessing bipolar jet and a small (radius 80 AU) water maser equatorial ring. We have obtained VISIR- VLT images of K 3-35 in the PAH1 ({\lambda}=8.6 {\mu}m), [S iv] ({\lambda}=10.6 {\mu}m), and SiC ({\lambda}=11.85 {\mu}m) filters to analize the mid-IR morphology and the temperature structure of its dust emission. The images show the innermost nebular regions undetected at optical wavelegths and the precessing bipolar jets. The temperature map shows variations in the temperature in the equatorial zone and in regions associated to its jets.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, 283 IAU Symp. Planetary Nebulae an Eye to the Futur

Explosive Disintegration of a Massive Young Stellar System in Orion

Young massive stars in the center of crowded star clusters are expected to undergo close dynamical encounters that could lead to energetic, explosive events. However, there has so far never been clear observational evidence of such a remarkable phenomenon. We here report new interferometric observations made with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) that indicate the well known enigmatic wide-angle outflow located in the Orion BN/KL star-forming region to have been produced by such a violent explosion during the disruption of a massive young stellar system, and that this was caused by a close dynamical interaction about 500 years ago. This outflow thus belongs to a totally different family of molecular flows which is not related to the classical bipolar flows that are generated by stars during their formation process. Our molecular data allow us to create a 3D view of the debris flow and to link this directly to the well known Orion H$_2$ "fingers" farther outComment: Accepted by ApJ Letters The 3D movie can be found in: ftp://ftp.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/outgoing/lzapata/movie.gi

Evaluation of the changes in working limits in an automobile assembly line using simulation

The aim of the work presented in this paper consists of the development of a decision-making support system, based on discrete-event simulation models, of an automobile assembly line which was implemented within an Arena simulation environment and focused at a very specific class of production lines with a four closed-loop network configuration. This layout system reflects one of the most common configurations of automobile assembly and preassembly lines formed by conveyors. The sum of the number of pallets on the intermediate buffers, remains constant, except for the fourth closed-loop, which depends on the four-door car ratio (x) implemented between the door disassembly and assembly stations of the car body. Some governing equations of the four closed-loops are not compatible with the capacities of several intermediate buffers for certain values of variable x. This incompatibility shows how the assembly line cannot operate in practice for x0,97 in a stationary regime, due to the starvation phenomenon or the failure of supply to the machines on the production line. We have evaluated the impact of the pallet numbers circulating on the first closed-loop on the performance of the production line, translated into the number of cars produced/hour, in order to improve the availability of the entire manufacturing system for any value of x. Until the present date, these facts have not been presented in specialized literature. © 2012 American Institute of Physics