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Presumed dead, a cantankerous retired assassin hides out in a senior living home. When the CIA tracks him down, he enlists his fellow residents to trade in their walkers for weapons to protect the facility from a death squad.

Habilitationsschrift--Hamburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238).

This article suggests that the formal elements of Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Heat of the Day underscore both the changing practice of propaganda and the extant tension about Irish neutrality during World War II. Bowen has often been cited as an author who embraces opacity in her fiction, and often this practice is connected in her work to political tensions that she first experienced in Ireland as a result of colonial conflict. The article suggests that a similar strategy, at use in this London-based World War II novel about espionage, highlights this history of tension. Bowen's own position as an intermediary between the Ministry of Information and Irish public opinion provided her a keen insight into British strategy towards Ireland's neutrality. Her Blitz novel, The Heat of the Day, mirrors much of Bowen's formal techniques in her letters to the Ministry of Information, and this article suggests that this reflects the impact of modern propaganda techniques on her war-time novel.

This article suggests that the formal elements of Elizabeth Bowen's novel The Heat of the Day underscore both the changing practice of propaganda and the extant tension about Irish neutrality during World War II. Bowen has often been cited as an author who embraces opacity in her fiction, and often this practice is connected in her work to political tensions that she first experienced in Ireland as a result of colonial conflict. The article suggests that a similar strategy, at use in this London-based World War II novel about espionage, highlights this history of tension. Bowen's own position as an intermediary between the Ministry of Information and Irish public opinion provided her a keen insight into British strategy towards Ireland's neutrality. Her Blitz novel, The Heat of the Day, mirrors much of Bowen's formal techniques in her letters to the Ministry of Information, and this article suggests that this reflects the impact of modern propaganda techniques on her war-time novel.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:06:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EURIPEDES LEONCIO CARNEIRO.pdf: 1100244 bytes, checksum: 5c3e0725e111b7c8ce207807b3772594 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-26 / Carlos Drummond de Andrade s poetic work prompts the theme of spyexpiating (espia-expiando, in the Portuguese original), a demonstration of poetic truth in and of itself, through a dialectic-aesthetic prism, with deductive method and reflections, amassing the metaphysical, philosophical and poetical processes wherein the very author is both theme and object, and his work is a true Drummondian anthropology. The main goal of this paper is an attempt at demonstrating that the poet s lyrical self is in an expiatory state, in suffering for having spied, contemplated the outside world, living in a state of unrest in time and space, which allows for the relief of this state of disenchantment, the return poetic memorialism to the beginning, Itabira, which has been remembered, since the first poem in 1930 published in the book Alguma Poesia (Some Poetry, in literal translation) , as a lovely place, metaphorically preserved, thus behaving as the prodigal son of Brazilian poetry. The contact with Drummondian poetry surprises and captivates those who seek it, not only for the aesthetic pleasure, but also for the acute reflection which takes readers and makes them participants in this existential drama, to free them through poetry so they can bask in transcendence, in metaphors. The object is the word embodied in the poem, the saving Word. This research is based on the reflections of thinkers and literary critics such as Michel Foucault, Octavio Paz, Gaston Bachelard, Gilberto Mendonça Teles, Affonso Romano de Sant Anna, among others. The focus on the struggle of the imprisoned soul, impotent before the reality that threatens it, but which reveals itself in the poem, making the latter a freeing, solidary weapon, enabling withdrawal into the sources of emotion, which is larger than the stage of suffering; into the magic, the charm of art and language, as the all-saving, purifying water that flows from the lyrical self. All of this is ultimately combined into the charisma of the poet. / O texto poético de Carlos Drummond de Andrade é revelador do tema espiaexpiando, demonstração da verdade poética por si mesma, num prisma dialéticoesteticista, com um método e reflexões dedutivas ao consubstanciar os procedimentos metafísicos, filosóficos, poéticos, nos quais o próprio autor é tema e objeto, e a sua obra, uma verdadeira antropologia drummoniana. O objetivo principal, neste trabalho é a tentativa de demonstrar que o eu lírico do poeta encontra-se em estado de expiação, sofrimento, por ter espiado, olhado o mundo exterior, vivendo um estado de desassossego, no tempo e no espaço, o que possibilitará como alívio desse estado de desencanto, o retorno - memorialismo poético ao ponto de partida, Itabira que desde o primeiro poema, publicado em 1930, no livro Alguma Poesia é retomada na lembrança como fonte de amabilidade preservada metaforicamente, comportando assim, como o filho pródigo da poesia brasileira. O contato com o texto poético drummondiano surpreende e prende quem o busca, não somente pelo prazer estético, mas pela aguda reflexão que toma o leitor e o faz partícipe desse drama existencial a se libertar na poesia, se alimentar da transcendência, das metáforas. O objeto é a palavra corporificada no poema, como verbo salvador. Toma-se como suporte para esta pesquisa, as reflexões de pensadores e críticos literários como Michel Foucault, Octavio Paz, Gaston Bachelard, Gilberto Mendonça Teles, Affonso Romano de Sant Anna, entre outros. Enfocar o embate da alma prisioneira, impotente diante da realidade que a ameaça, mas que se revela no poema, transformando-o em arma libertária, solidária, possibilitando o recolher-se para as fontes da emoção, que é maior que o estágio de sofrimento, para a magia, encantamento da arte e da linguagem que salva como água purificadora vinda do eu lírico, da transcendência metafórica para outra realidade povoada pelo reino das palavras que passa a ser o carisma do poeta.

Early anthropological examination of Neandertal skeletal material by Marcellin Boule gave rise to popular images of Neandertals as brutish, ape-like creatures who walked hunched over with bent knees and a shuffling gait. Today, it is generally thought that Neandertals moved in a similar manner to humans with locomotive patterns within human ranges of variation and a bipedal gait likely to be indistinguishable from that of modern humans However, this hypothesis has not been tested by using the Neandertal skeleton as a whole. There is no complete Neandertal skeleton in the fossil record. The aim of this thesis was to reconstruct a complete virtual skeleton of a Neandertal based on the Spy II remains for educational museology purposes and for biomechanical analysis. Comparative analyses of Neandertal and modern human bones (pelvis, femur, rib) using different reference populations from Belgium were also undertaken. These studies were performed with a view to further understanding Neandertal bone morphology in comparison to modern humans, to assist in the reconstruction of the Neandertal Spy II skeleton and to aid in biomechanical analysis. A study on the sex determination of the pelves showed that there was no difference between physical linear measurements and virtual measurements, which was an important validation. The lhpFusionBox musculoskeletal software, which was developed at ULB, was used to scale available Neandertal and modern human bones to reconstruct the skeleton. Previous methods in the literature have only scaled bones of the same nature. A novel and validated scaling method was used to scale the Kebara 2 pelvis to the dimensions of the Spy II femur (as Spy II only has a small piece of sacrum) via the Neandertal 1 femur and pelvis. The reconstruction of a complete Neandertal skeleton based on the Spy II remains enabled the validation of individual reconstructions of bones, reconstructed long bones to be compared together with other limb proportions of Neandertals, stature estimation to be performed, and questions to be asked on previous attributions of bones to Spy II. The thoracic shape of Neandertals has previously been subject to much debate with many authors stating that it would have been markedly different from modern humans. This thesis created a Neandertal thorax with assistance from rib and thoracic experts from different domains using the Kebara 2 remains. One reconstruction was found to have a similar shape to modern humans and the other a markedly different shape, highlighting difficulties in thoracic reconstruction of fossil hominids.The full scale Neandertal skeleton has been printed in 3D and used in RBINS and other Museums in Europe as a reference for the Neandertal Skeleton in permanent gallery exhibitions. This skeleton is also used as the base for Neandertal hyper-realistic artistic reconstructions based on scientific evidence by the artists, the Kennis brothers which are in the Centre d'Interprétation de l'Homme de Spy, the National History Museum, London and other museums around the world. The reconstruction of a complete lower limb also allowed biomechanical studies. The various biomechanical studies have looked at what happens when you fuse the motion of a living modern human to Neandertal bones. We cannot say that the Neandertal would have walked or squatted similar to the volunteers in the studies but we can say that the morphology of their bones would have enabled them to walk or squat in this way. All the moment arms of the major muscles of the hip and knee were analysed and it was demonstrated that the Neandertal models largely had greater muscle moment arms than the AMH models meaning Neandertals could have had a significant mechanical advantage over modern humans. These studies demonstrate Neandertal postcranial morphology can be different to modern humans although certain aspects may be more similar than previously thought. / Historiquement, le travaux de Marcellin Boule ont donné lieu à des représentations populaires de Néandertaliens vus comme des créatures simiesques bestiales qui se déplaçaient courbés avec des genoux pliés en traînant les pieds. Aujourd'hui, il est généralement admis que les Néandertaliens se déplaçaient d'une manière similaire à l'homme moderne avec une locomotion bipède. Toutefois, cette hypothèse n'a pas été encore testée sur un squelette néandertalien dans son ensemble. Comme il n’existe aucun squelette de Néandertalien entier, le but de cette thèse était de reconstituer un squelette virtuel complet sur la base des restes de Spy II à des fins éducatives de muséologie et pour l'analyse biomécanique.Des analyses comparatives d’os de Néandertalien et d’humains modernes (bassin, fémur, côtes) en utilisant diverses populations de référence de Belgique ont également été menées. Ces études ont été réalisées en vue de comprendre la morphologie néandertalienne, pour aider à la reconstruction du squelette Spy II et à l'analyse biomécanique. Une étude sur la détermination du sexe à partir des pelvis a montré qu'il n'y avait pas de différence entre les mesures linéaires physiques et les mesures virtuelles, ce qui était une validation importante.Le logiciel musculosquelettique lhpFusionBox, développé à l'ULB, a été utilisé pour reconstruire le squelette. Un nouveau procédé de mise à l'échelle validé a été utilisé pour mettre à l'échelle le bassin de Kebara 2 aux dimensions du fémur de Spy II (comme Spy II ne possède qu’un petit fragment de sacrum) via le fémur et le bassin de Neandertal 1. La reconstruction d'un squelette complet de Néandertalien a apporté de nouvelles connaissances sur cette espèce dans différents domaines. Elle a permis la validation des reconstructions individuelles des os, de comparer les os longs reconstruits avec d'autres proportions des membres de Néandertaliens, de faire une estimation de stature, et de reconsidérer les attributions antérieures d'os à Spy II. La forme thoracique des Néandertaliens a déjà fait l'objet de nombreux débats. Cette reconstruction de Spy II, creé avec l'aide des experts utilisant les restes de Kebara 2, montre deux formes de reconstruction differentes, et indique les difficultés de la reconstruction thoracique des fossiles. Le squelette virtuel complet a été imprimé en 3D et utilisé par l’IRSNB et d'autres musées en Europe comme une référence de squelette néandertalien. Ce squelette a également été utilisé comme base pour les reconstructions artistiques hyper-réalistes de Néandertaliens, basées sur des données scientifiques, par les artistes Kennis et sont présentés dans les musées du monde entier. La reconstruction d'un membre inférieur complet a également permis des études biomécaniques. Ces dernières ont étudié la fusion du mouvement d'un homme moderne actuel avec des os néandertaliens. On ne peut pas se prononcer si le Néandertalien marchait ou s’accroupissait de manière similaire aux hommes modernes, mais on peut affirmer que leur morphologie osseuse leur permettait de marcher ou de s’accroupir de cette façon. Tous les bras de levier des principaux muscles de la hanche et du genou ont été analysés et il a été démontré que les Néandertaliens avaient les bras de levier plus grand que le modèle homme moderne signifiant Néandertaliens auraient eu un avantage mécanique important. Cette études démontre que des aspects de la morphologie postcrânienne néandertalienne soient différents, bien que certains d’entre eux soient plus semblables aux humains modernes qu'on ne le pensait. / Doctorat en Sciences biomédicales et pharmaceutiques (Médecine) / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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