Among the works of theater of the Spanish Golden Age which feature a mujer varonil, Luis Vélez de Guevara's play, La serrana de la Vera (1613), is particularly provocative. The intensity and ambiguity of the dual nature of its female protagonist, Gila, has been the subject of much recent scholarly investigation. The staging of the play lends itself to a Levinian reading, a new approach to this particular text and theater of the Golden Age in general. Emmanuel Levinas moves beyond metaphysics, phenomenology and intentionality to posit ethics as first philosophy. Levinas explains that the face of the Other is a revelation before which my own presence is an epiphany and summons me into an ethical relationship before I am aware of my own being. A correct ethical relationship is maintained only when the Other is allowed her absolute alterity, otherwise the Other is subsumed into the matrix of the Self and the result is suffering. A Levinian reading of La serrana de la Vera moves beyond exploring systems of class and gender and discovers that the suffering in the play can be traced to face-to-face encounters in which individuals are unable or unwilling to truly see the face of the Other.

El objetivo principal del estudio terminológico propuesto en la presente investigación es aquel de establecer la existencia de una serie de núcleos significantes y fundamentales en la Filosofía. Sólo a través del análisis del aspecto retórico del lenguaje es posible poner en marcha el reconocimiento de paradigmas comunes, compartidos por la cultura europea, y en la estructuración de un “diccionario mental común”. De hecho, a partir de los balances sobre la metodología podríamos encontrar dichos “a-priori” histórico-filosóficos cotejando el lenguaje filosófico en los diferentes idiomas europeos, es decir, entendiendo el plurilingüismo como herramienta de mediación socio-cultural, y al mismo tiempo, como reto heurístico. Estas nuevas propuestas educativas se centrarán en las teorías educativas del Humanismo europeo, sobre todo a partir de los estudios de Luis Vives, quien supo conjugar su investigación filosófica con la filológica, dos materias que actualmente han tomado caminos divergentes. Por este motivo, he construido un corpus terminológico, a partir de la cultura de los siglos XIV-XV, re-compuesto a partir de los principales manuales, enciclopedias y glosarios de filosofía, presentes en Italia y España, con el fin de aislar aquellos términos clave, esenciales para un glosario básico, y fundamentales para la comprensión y lectura de textos necesarios para la didáctica de la Filosofía en las aulas de bachillerato. A este fin, he delimitado cinco términos paradigmáticos del siglo XV: COGNITIO, AMOR, PIETAS, RELIGIO, LUX.

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The Cuesta Ridge ophiolite is one of the best-preserved remnants of mid-Jurassic ophiolite in California. Geologic mapping and petrologic studies show that it comprises (1) harzburgite mantle tectonite, (2) dunite-rich mantle transition zone (MTZ), (3) wehrlite and pyroxenite, (4) isotropic gabbro, (5) sheeted dike/sill complex, (6) volcanic rocks (7) late-stage dikes and flows, and (8) tuffaceous radiolarian chert. The sheeted dike/sill complex is dominated by quartz diorite, with significant modal quartz and hornblende. The volcanic section is dominated by arc tholeiite and boninitic lavas. Boninites, with high MgO, Cr, and Ni comprise 40% of the volcanic rocks. Latestage dikes and lava flows below the overlying chert, have a MORB-like affinity. These data suggest formation in a supra-subduction zone setting with three stages of arc-related magmatism before late-stage MORB magmatism. I infer formation above the east-dipping proto-Franciscan subduction zone and suggest that ophiolite formation was terminated by a ridge subduction/collision event.

La faja máfica-ultramáfica La Jovita-Las Águilas comprende un conjunto de intrusiones ígneas que se encuentran emplazadas en el faldeo oriental de la Sierra de Grande de San Luis. Esta faja se extiende aproximadamente 100 km en dirección NNE-SSO con un ancho que no supera los 5 km. En la porción sur de la misma, entre el río Los Manantiales y el arroyo El Puestito, afloran los cuerpos intrusivos Escuela Las Pircas, El Fierro, Virorco y Las Higueras, los cuales constituyen el objeto de estudio del presente trabajo. Estos cuerpos son de gran interés debido a que son intrusiones de tipo estratificadas tales como Skaergaard (Groenlandia), Kabanga (Tanzania), Jinchuan (China) y Bjerkreim-Sokndal (Noruega), entre otras. La importancia que conlleva el estudio de éste tipo de intrusiones se debe a son portadoras de mineralizaciones, las cuales en los cuerpos intrusivos de la faja La Jovita-Las Águilas están representadas por sulfuros de Fe, Ni, Cu y Co y minerales del grupo del platino. Más allá de su significado económico, los cuerpos intrusivos estratificados presentan secuencias estratigráficas ígneas que constituyen una valiosa herramienta para el estudio de procesos y mecanismos capaces de generar estratificación ígnea, tales como cristalización fraccionada, recarga y mezcla de magmas, convección, compactación y/o fluctuaciones en las tasas de nucleación y crecimiento cristalino, entre otros. El avance en el conocimiento de este tipo de intrusiones máficas-ultramáficas requiere definir la estratigrafía ígnea de los mismos en forma detallada. Para ello, se llevaron a cabo estudios que comprendieron la determinación de relaciones de campo, yacencia, petrografía macro y microscópica, química mineral y geoquímica de roca total de las intrusiones aflorantes en la zona de estudio, lo que permitió definir diferentes unidades estratigráficas en las mismas. Se determinó que el cuerpo intrusivo Escuela Las Pircas está compuesto por cuatro unidades estratigráficas. El cuerpo intrusivo El Fierro está conformado por una única unidad estratigráfica. El cuerpo intrusivo Virorco está constituido por tres sectores estratigráficos diferentes: el sector este, representado por una única unidad, el sector central, compuesto por dos unidades, y el sector oeste, conformado por tres unidades. Por su parte, el cuerpo intrusivo Las Higueras está compuesto por dos sectores estratigráficos: el sector principal, integrado por tres unidades, y el sector marginal, representado por una única unidad. Las correlaciones estratigráficas entre estas unidades permitieron confeccionar un modelo estratigráfico ígneo conformado por dos series: la Serie Estratificada, constituida por tres zonas estratigráficas (zona no aflorante, zona de transición y zona superior) y la Serie de Borde Marginal, compuesta por dos zonas estratigráficas (zona marginal sin estratificación y la zona marginal estratificada). La génesis de la estratificación reconocida en la porción estudiada de la Serie Estratificada está vinculada a variaciones de las tasas de nucleación y crecimiento cristalino de un magma gravitacionalmente estratificado, mientras que en la Serie de Borde Marginal, es el resultado de un fuerte gradiente térmico entre el margen de enfriamiento y la roca de caja (zona marginal sin estratificación) y de variaciones composicionales y de temperatura del liquidus en el frente de cristalización (zona marginal estratificada). / La Jovita-Las Águilas mafic-ultramafic belt comprises an assemblage of igneous intrusions outcroping on the eastern slope of the Sierra Grande de San Luis. This belt extends for about 100 km in NNE-SSO direction and its width does not exceed 5 km. This work focusses on the outcrops of the southern portion of this belt, between Los Manantiales river and El Puestito stream, comprising Escuela Las Pircas, El Fierro, Virorco and Las Higueras intrusives. These bodies are of great interest owing to the fact that they are layered intrusions such as Skaergaard (Greenland), Kabanga (Tanzania), Jinchuan (China) and Bjerkreim-Sokndal (Norway), among others. The significance that entails the study of these kind of intrusions is due to the fact that they carry mineralization, which in La Jovita-Las Águilas intrusive bodies is represented by Fe, Ni, Cu and Co sulphides and platinum group minerals. Besides their economic significance, layered intrusive bodies exhibit igneous stratigraphic sequences that represent a valuable tool for studying processes and mechanisms capable of generating igneous stratification, such as fractional crystallization, magma replenishment and mixing, convection, compactation and/or nucleation and crystal grow rate fluctuations, among others. The increase in the knowledge of layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions requires defining their igneous stratigraphy in detail. To achieve this goal, these research comprised the study of field relationships, yacence, macro and microscopic petrography, mineral chemistry and bulk rock geochemistry analyses, that allowed to define different stratigraphic units. It was established that Escuela Las Pircas intrusive body is composed by four stratigraphic units. El Fierro intrusive body is formed by one stratigraphic unit. Virorco intrusive body is constituted by three different stratigraphic sectors: the east sector, represented by one unit; the central sector, composed by two units, and the west sector, constituted by three units. Las Higueras intrusive body is constituted by two stratigraphic sectors: the main sector, composed by three units, and the marginal sector, represented by one unit. The stratigraphic correlationships among these units allowed to construct an igneous stratigraphic model composed by two series: Layered Series, constituted by three stratigraphic zones (hidden zone, transition zone and upper zone) and Marginal Border Series, composed by two stratigraphic zones (unlayered marginal zone and layered marginal zone). The genesis of the layering recognized in the Layered Series studied portion is related to nucleation and crystal grow rate fluctuations in a gravitationally layered magma, while in the Marginal Border Series, it is the result of a strong temperature gradient between the chilled margin and the country rock (unlayered marginal zone) and of compositional and liquidus temperature variations in the crystallization front (layered marginal zone).

No other population has contributed more to American society and received so little in return."1 Until recently the Mexican-Americans had remained quietly in the background, apparently accepting their station in life with little or no desire to improve it--a "sleeping giant," as some politicians have called this politically potential group. Statistics show that relatively few Mexican-Americans have become acculturated and assimilated into Anglo-American society (See page 9). The great majority have retained their Spanish language and their family traditions, and have remained more or less static in their economic position and isolated from the mainstream of life in the United States. While most ethnically differentiated groups in United States have used the educational system as a "major vehicle for social mobility," Mexican-Americana either have not taken full advantage of the opportunity, or it has been inaccessible to them.

San Luis Obispo’s mid-century spanned the years beginning in the Great Depression and ending during the post-World War II housing boom. During this time the City grew in population and in size, adding several acres of land and thousands of single-family residential parcels. This research presents a chronological representation of the City’s growth, as well as key events in the City’s history. Residential development in the mid-century brought several new styles of architecture to the City including Mid-century Modern and Prairie homes among others. These architectural styles are detailed and presented in order to identify and guide the preservation of historic resources.

In this work I explore the geometry found both in the narrative structures and the internal shapes proposed in Jorge Luis Borges’ short stories and seek to arrive at new interpretations of those works by mapping out—in graphical form—the shapes found therein. I move from basic two-dimensional shapes (lines, triangles, quadrilaterals) to those involving the element of temporality and atemporality (circles, interruptive loops, chiasmus) to shapes dealing with repetition—both geometric and temporal—and eternity (labyrinths, fractals, and Alephs). In each case and for each short story analyzed, either an existent interpretation is favored or a new interpretation is set forth.

La presente tesis tiene como finalidad profundizar el estudio de las distintas dimensiones del fenómeno intertextual en la obra Una impecable soledad del poeta Luis Hernández Camarero y reflexionar sobre las posibilidades de diálogo que se establecen entre las referencias insertadas al texto y la condición material de los manuscritos. El objetivo es comprobar que el empleo de la intertextualidad en esta obra se desempeña como parte de una estrategia para generar espacios discursivos que puedan ser recepcionados en múltiples niveles por diferentes tipos de lectores. Así, dentro del fenómeno intertextual, la cualidad material de los manuscritos puede cumplir un rol significativo, debido a que Hernández alude a su propio método de escritura ológrafo, dándole a la obra un carácter metaficcional. En este sentido, propongo que Una impecable soledad concentra y sintetiza la obra general “inédita” de Hernández en cuanto a sus procedimientos y es la mayor muestra de la compleja trama intertextual de su propuesta poética en todos sus niveles. Además, incluyo un estudio de los materiales que conforman esta obra (Apéndice A), la transcripción de estos en una edición paleográfica en la que he anotado las fuentes de proveniencia de las referencias intertextuales (Apéndice B) y un archivo digital con las imágenes de los manuscritos (Apéndice C).

Cal Poly is home to a solar farm designed to nominally generate 4.5 MW of electricity. The Gold Tree Solar Farm (GTSF) is currently the largest photovoltaic array in the California State University (CSU) system, and it was claimed to be able to produce approximately 11 GWh per year. These types of projections come from power generation models which have been developed to predict power production of these large solar fields. However, when it comes to near-term forecasting of power generation with variable sources such as wind and solar, there is definitely room for improvement. The two primary factors that could impact solar power generation are shading and the angle of the sun. The angle of the sun relative to GTSF’s panels can be analytically calculated using geometry. Shading due to cloud coverage, on the other hand, can be very difficult to map. Due to this, artificial neural networks (NN) have a lot of potential for accurate near-term cloud coverage forecasting. Much of the necessary training data (e.g. wind speeds, temperature, humidity, etc.) can be acquired from online sources, but the most important dataset needs to be captured at GTSF: sky images showing the exact location of the clouds over the solar field. Therefore, a new image capturing digital acquisition (DAQ) system has been implemented to gather the necessary training data for a goal of forecasting cloud coverage 15-30 minutes into the future.