Influente político, autor de diversos livros e industrial de sucesso, o general José Vieira Couto de Magalhães (1837-1898) foi um dos raros homens de seu tempo que deixou registradas preciosas informações cotidianas quanto aos medicamentos e cuidados com seu próprio corpo na busca por reestabelecer a saúde. Suas anotações pessoais corresponderam a dois momentos distintos de sua vida. Primeiro ao início da década de 1880, quando vivia sempre muito incomodado pela frequente dificuldade de digestão. Nessa fase, Couto demonstrou estar mais interessado em se medicar a partir da leitura de compêndios de medicina. Posteriormente, entre os anos 1887-1890, o general escreveu um caderno de anotações onde redigiu breves referências sobre o diagnóstico de sífilis dado a ele por dois médicos que estiveram em sua casa, quando tinha 52 anos e era presidente da Província de São Paulo. Doença incurável e fortemente atrelada à moral, a sífilis era então associada à prostituição e considerada uma das causas da degeneração da prole. Bastante debilitado quando estava no estágio terciário da sífilis, o general se consultou com os melhores médicos do Brasil e também da França, onde esteve por duas vezes a tratamento. Na tentativa de compreender qual teria sido o sentido desse diagnóstico para um homem de alta projeção social, eu me deparo nesse trabalho com algumas questões caras para a época. Uma delas diz respeito à vida nem sempre fácil e muito menos prestigiada dos médicos os mesmos que por muito tempo foram analisados a partir de um enfoque predominantemente foucaultiano como sendo detentores de um poder disciplinar sobre a sociedade. Para trabalhar com a história de vida e as anotações do general Couto de Magalhães e, acima de tudo, com os silêncios contidos em seus escritos, procuro cruzar informações dos diários com alguns periódicos, teses e livros de medicina da época. / As an influential politician and a successful industrialist, and having written a number of books, General José Vieira Couto de Magalhães (1837-1998) was one of the few men of his time leaving a register with precious information about everyday life concerning medicine and body care aiming to the restoring of health. His personal notes correspond to two different moments of his life. Firstly, to the beginning of the 1880s, when he was affected by digestion problems. In this phase, Couto demonstrated more interest in self-medication based on the reading of medical compendiums. Afterwards, between 1887 and 1890, the General kept a notebook in which he wrote brief reference notes on the syphilis diagnosis he was given at home by two doctors. At this time he was 52 and used to be the president of the Province of São Paulo. Incurable and closely related to moral issues, syphilis was then associated with prostitution, being considered one of the causes of degeneration in offspring. At the third stage of the disease, the General was quite impaired and thus had appointments with the best physicians in Brazil as well as in France, where he travelled to twice during the treatment. In an attempt to understand the implications of such diagnosis for a man in a high social position, this study faces crucial issues for that time period. One of them concerns the usually difficult and much less prestigious life of medical doctors who were for a long time analyzed from a predominantly foucaultian perspective as having a disciplinary power over society. In order to work with Magalhãess life story and notes and above all with the silences inside his writings I try to compare the information in his journals with other from periodicals , theses and medical books from that historical period.

Women are drawing together the concepts of space, style,and medium and using these concepts collectively as a foundation for a new discursive tradition in the online autobiography. This dissertation, positioned in postmodern feminism, draws on a variety of disciplines to argue the development or evolution of a new women's discourse. While a broad base of material exists which acknowledges the presence of women's discourse (formed by combining women's writing and women's genres), very little information explores its evolution, particularly in/on the new medium of the World Wide Web (WWW). A combination of extant social and literary theories supports the idea that women are developing a new e-criture feminine via the online diary. Both the virtual medium and the historically female genre echo the very tenets of this new writing style: privacy, individuality, and a lack of (restraining) conventions. This dissertation will contextualize the phenomenon of women publishing online diaries in the poststructuralist ideologies of Woolf, DuPlessis, and Cixous. Following an explication of women's space, women's style, and women's medium, this dissertation will demonstrate that women successfully concatenate these concepts in their online journals, resulting in the creation of a new feminine discourse. The goal of this project is to provide readers with a theoretical explication of this new discursive tradition. Certainly, a number of critical and academic works exist which address the “gendering” of the written medium, the phenomenon of women publishing online, the importance of women developing their own voices. What is missing from academic dialogue, however, is the assertion that these individual elements unite to create a new discursive tradition that is at once literary and rhetorical. Using the work of Woolf, DuPlessis, and Cixous, this dissertation presents, explicates, and ties together these elements in an effort to introduce and theorize the significance of this new discursive tradition within the context of postmodern feminism/s. Ultimately, this dissertation seeks to demonstrate that women are experiencing the organic concatenation of the concepts of space (Woolf), style (DuPlessis), and medium (Cixous) as they relate to the Web in order to develop an important new women’s discursive tradition.

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<p>This thesis work is an evaluation of journal bearings in manual transmissions in automobiles. Today both journal- and needle bearings can be positioned into the gearboxes and in order to reduce the power loss developed by friction when a relative angular velocity arises, the right type of bearing must be chosen.</p><p>In order to succeed, this work is aimed to develop a Matlab simulation model, which should be used as a tool in the design process of manual transmissions. The program development is later supposed to be followed by real tests of journal bearings, partly to cover things that can not be covered in the model but also to confirm how well the model reflects the reality. The absence of resources resulted in no performed real test and therefore was a comparison between theoretical-  and practical results not possible.</p><p>Here the plain journal bearings in full film lubrication will have an disadvantage compared to the needle bearings regarding the power lost. To reduce the drag below the values of the needle bearings a modified journal bearing in the area of boundary lubrication with a very low coefficient of friction may be an option. But problems with wear under this condition could most certainly be devastating and must be further investigated with real tests.</p><p>Out of a efficiency point of view the most suitable bearing position is the gear in the most frequently used area. Here it is assumed to be the 4^th gear.</p><p>A suitable journal bearing design should have a small sliding surface area in order to minimize the viscous drag. To achieve low friction the boundary lubricated area could be a good idea in cases when wear is not a critical factor. To longer the useful life nitrocarburizing is recommended, which both reduces wear and lower the coefficient of friction, in cases of asperites in contact. In order to work under the full film lubricated condition, with neglected wear, the sliding area needs to be large enough to create the required oil pressure.</p>

A convenience sample of 123 Hispanic/Latino students from a predominantly Hispanic/Latino South Texas community college was used to determine if gender and/or journal-writing had any effects on mathematics anxiety or achievement. Eight sections of college-algebra courses were administered the Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale (MARS) to determine levels of mathematics anxiety and the Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) to determine levels of mathematical achievement. Results of the study suggest that journal-writing decreases levels of mathematics anxiety among students. In addition, the study suggests that males and females do not differ in terms of mathematical achievement. These finding are consistent with previous studies. However, the study also suggested that males and females report the same levels of mathematics anxiety and that journal-writing does not increase mathematical achievement. This is in contrast to previous published studies.

Einleitung: "Verhaltenstherapie" kommt in ihr zweites Jahr. Zum Start, vor einem Jahr, haben wir Aufgaben, Ziele und Erwartungen formuliert, die in bisher vier Heften der Realitätsprüfung unterzogen wurden. In unserer ersten Jahresbilanz stellt sich die Frage, welche Ziele 1991 schon erreicht wurden und welche 1992 voraussichtlich erreicht werden.

The rapid emergence of the middle class in England during the nineteenth century affected many aspects of Victorian society. New social ideals required alterations to what had previously been perceived as correct values, and this era has become infamous for its repression. The new middle classes were especially insecure as to what constituted appropriate behaviour, and so sought guidance from authority figures. Middle class women found this guidance in magazines such as publisher Samuel Beeton's monthly magazine, Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion. Advice was provided in Myras editorial column, Spinnings in Town, written by Myra Browne. The counsel was given through clever advertorial plugs written into the monthly column. Social ideals were also communicated in illustrated advertisements via their imagery.<p>Advertisements for commercially manufactured soap were especially significant in recommending proper middle class behaviours and responsibilities. Victorian soap advertisements and recommendations not only sold the product to the consumer, they also created an idea of what constituted middle class behaviour and sold that to the willing and eager female consumers. Beauty was a main nonmaterial commodity sold via soap advertisements to the middle classes, and quickly became integral to the creation and maintenance of the middle class female identity. Despite their intentions, acceptance of the concepts of appropriate and actual deportment were not always consistent. Even the purveyors themselves could become susceptible to censure due to the whims of the marketplace, ill health, or awkward social compromises. Such was the case with the house that Beeton built.

This is an arts-based research study on the effects of applying extensive and diverse sketching techniques to the development of a cohesive body of work, which reflects the significant and meaningful events of the artist-researcher’s life. The research techniques employed and studied consist of looking at historical exemplars, sketching, reflecting, critiquing, and revising. The results of the research were then reflected upon and applied to the field of art education in an attempt to discover the benefits for both teaching and learning in kindergarten through 12th grade curriculums.

As Englands first colony, Irelands experience is of great significance to wider colonial studies. Similarities exist between settler societies such as Australia, Canada and Ireland in terms of economic structures and demographic tensions; however the colonial experience of Ireland is unique as it was Englands first colonial enterprise and therefore something of an ongoing experiment, and also because of its proximity to the home island. Nowhere else was Englands appropriation of overseas territory followed by an attempt to amalgamate it into domestic lands.</p><p>This thesis discusses aspects of colonialism, political-religious dissent and education in Belfast in the immediate post-Union period (1801-1814). The commentary is couched in a study of The Belfast Monthly Magazine, a small publication that ran from 1808-1814 which provides a contemporary account of Belfast reformers who had witnessed the period of rebellion and union and continued to promote real whig principles in its aftermath. William Drennan (1754-1820) undertook the publishing venture jointly with John Templeton (1766-1825) and John Hancock (1762-1823). Drennan was a co-founder of the United Irishmen, Templeton was a well-known botanist and former United Irishman, and Hancock was a linen merchant and former member of the Society of Friends. The Proprietors, as they referred to themselves in their publication, reported on continental politics and their observations on the ongoing Napoleonic wars were largely informed by their experiences of civil unrest over the previous three decades.</p>

Ce mémoire vise à décrire et à analyser les récits -la part narrative -du Journal de Witold Gombrowicz afin de dégager les spécificités formelles et les enjeux de l'art narratif du diariste. Prenant place dans un ensemble textuel dominé par le mode/genre discursif, le récit est appelé à remplir des fonctions précises: l'usage qu'en fait l'écrivain laisse transparaître des motifs liés à une stratégie interlocutoire, à la représentation de soi et à l'interprétation du réel. La manière dont Gombrowicz exploite les différentes ressources du genre narratif n'est ni anodine ni gratuite, puisque les variations énonciatives, créées par l'alternance entre le discours et le récit, donnent à lire un jeu avec la Forme, aussi conscient que concerté. Une étude des diverses formes narratives du Journal et de leur dispositio -la façon dont elles sont réparties et organisées -permet de découvrir deux types de liaisons et d'interactions existant entre plusieurs récits, mais aussi entre la part narrative et la part réflexive-argumentative de l'ensemble. Le premier est d'ordre formel et se réalise à la faveur d'une imbrication textuelle et d'une hybridité générique (discours/récit) généralisée. Le second a trait au contenu -à l'objet, à la matière de l'écriture -et s'opère par le biais de correspondances thématiques. Ces deux types de liaisons et d'interactions énonciatives font place à un jeu interprétatif permettant au diariste de composer des variations sur un même thème. Par ailleurs, une analyse du statut autobiographique du Journal et des différents genres de récits qu'il renferme nous conduit à reconnaître un processus de fictionnalisation. Ce dernier se décline et s'observe sous trois aspects: l'ambiguïté référentielle, le traitement fictionnel de soi et la facture stylistique des récits -les procédés poétiques à l'oeuvre dans la mise en récit. Par la fictionnalisation, Gombrowicz donne voix à son projet de se créer, de s'expérimenter entre et parmi les hommes, et à son désir de pénétrer, et de nous faire pénétrer, un autre ordre de vérité -celui de l'être aux prises avec le réel -, s'inscrivant en marge de la « réalité des faits » et de la dichotomie du vrai et du faux. Puis, en considérant ce que réalise le récit dans son interaction avec la part discursive de l'oeuvre, il est possible d'y cerner trois grands rôles, soit les fonctions argumentative, biographique et agonistique. Il apparaît que certains récits du Journal ont pour tâche d'illustrer les idées du diariste, de les mettre en lumière et en perspective, en les intégrant à son histoire personnelle, à sa biographie. Par la voie narrative, Gombrowicz lie les grandes problématiques de son oeuvre à son vécu, jetant un pont entre le discours intellectuel et le langage ambivalent du corps, celui du désir, des passions et des affects. Le récit prend le relais là où le discours est jugé insuffisant, en prenant en charge ce qui excède ce dernier, en portant à l'écriture la dimension conflictuelle et agonique de l'existence de l'écrivain. À l'issue de notre réflexion, nous pouvons affirmer que le récit, loin de se borner à « raconter une histoire », est axé sur une complexification et une problématisation du vécu. Plus qu'à des impératifs d'ordre esthétique (de forme, de composition), les récits du Journal répondent à des exigences d'ordre éthique, à un souci permanent de justesse, d'équilibre et de nuance. Ils permettent à Gombrowicz d'opposer au discours raisonné la résistance du réel, le « dire » au « vivre », mais aussi de soumettre son image -son ethos -d'écrivain, et l'autorité qui s'y rattache, à la part de contradictions, de conflits et d'échecs que comporte son existence. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Gombrowicz, Journal, Énonciation, Récit, Discours, Forme, Genre, Fonction.