Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2004. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Argentine wine industry experienced a shift from quantity to quality production which occurred while economic policies in Argentina opened economic opportunities for investment in the country. With these new opportunities, the industry began to focus on producing quality wine because of the desire to export and compete in the international market. As foreign investment entered Mendoza, the heart of Argentine wine country, new ideas and knowledge about wine production began to disseminate into the region and everyday practices. The shift from quantity to quality production was a paradigm shift in that it ushered in a new way of understanding quality in relation to the land, resulted in the younger generation of winemakers excelling in the region, and ultimately led to a new way of viewing production practices and techniques entirely separate from the previous century of production. This project asks: to what extent did this shift impact the implementation and regulation of geographic indications in Mendoza? It seeks to understand the impact that terroir-driven wine production imparted on Argentine winemakers to illuminate the resilience and perseverance of a growing wine center in the Global South.

On the Internet an enormous amount of information is available that is represented in an unstructured form. The purpose with a text mining tool is to collect this information and present it in a more structured form. In this report text mining is used to create an algorithm that searches abstracts available from PubMed and finds specific relationships between genes that can be used to create a network. The algorithm can also be used to find information about a specific gene. The network created by Mendoza et al. (1999) was verified in all the connections but one using the algorithm. This connection contained implicit information. The results suggest that the algorithm is better at extracting information about specific genes than finding connections between genes. One advantage with the algorithm is that it can also find connections between genes and proteins and genes and other chemical substances.

La subcuenca del río Atuel, Argentina, ha sido muy valiosa durante los siglos XVIII y XIX tanto para los pueblos indígenas como para los criollos que se adentraron en el territorio. Por entonces el río actuaba como frontera. Luego, a través del siglo XX y XXI, ya con el Estado nacional organizado, fue aprovechada intensamente para irrigación y generación de energía, dando como resultado un conflicto socio hídrico irresuelto entre las provincias de Mendoza y La Pampa. Sin embargo, en las últimas décadas se han sumado nuevas actividades de carácter extractivo que implican mayor presión sobre el recurso en la cuenca alta y media. Por medio del enfoque teórico de ciclo hidro-social y territorio hidro-social, se logran establecer los mecanismos por los cuales distintos actores intervienen en la circulación del agua, ya sea a través del control, la sobreexplotación y la exclusión en el acceso. Dichos mecanismos varían en el tiempo, al igual que se complejizan los actores. La metodología utilizada es mixta, se investigó con un amplio corpus documental, que fue contrastado con datos cuantitativos y trabajos de campo donde se tomó contacto con los actores involucrados. Se adoptó el método de la geografía histórica Sandwich de Dagwood, consistente en la utilización de cortes temporales a partir de hechos relevantes que indican variaciones alrededor del tema vertical, el agua. A partir de la combinación de ambas metodologías, se estableció una periodización desde 1790 hasta 2018, donde se identifican cuatro períodos caracterizados por distintos usos sobre el río. El objetivo principal consiste en estudiar el ciclo hidro-social del río Atuel a través de los conflictos histórico-ambientales. En tal sentido, se realizó la reconstrucción de los espacios pretéritos y se analizaron las representaciones que los actores tienen en relación con el agua y los conflictos derivados. Los resultados indican un uso intensivo del río, caracterizados por la intervención de múltiples actores que se complejizaron con el avance de nuevas actividades e intervenciones espaciales. Dentro de las tecnologías utilizadas que afectaron los caudales hídricos, deben destacarse la expansión de la red de irrigación y la construcción de obras de regulación como el complejo hidroeléctrico Los Nihuiles. Actualmente, el impulso a actividades con nuevas tecnologías como el fracking y la megaminería en la cuenca alta del río significan un nuevo paradigma que genera nuevos conflictos, dirigidos no solamente a la modificación del ciclo hidrosocial, sino a la alteración de las condiciones ambientales. Estas actividades implican mayores usos hídricos como así también riesgos de contaminación en suelo, aire y agua. La proliferación y fomento de las mismas, en la subcuenca, influyen en la resolución del conflicto. / The sub-basin of the Atuel River, Argentina, in historical times has been very valuable for the people who inhabited it in different periods. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was relevant for both the indigenous peoples and the Creoles who entered the territory. At that time the river acted as a frontier. Then, throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, with the national State already organized, it was intensely exploited for irrigation and power generation, resulting in an unresolved socio-hydric conflict between the provinces of Mendoza and La Pampa. However, in recent decades new extractive activities have been added in the upper and middle basin, which imply greater pressure on the resource. By means of the theoretical approach of the hydro-social cycle and hydro-social territory, it is possible to establish the mechanisms by which different actors intervene in the circulation of water, whether through control, overexploitation or exclusion in access. These mechanisms vary over time, just as the actors become more complex. The methodology used was a mixed one, using a large corpus of documents, which was contrasted with quantitative data and field work where contact was made with the actors involved. Dagwood's Sandwich method of historical geography was adopted, consisting of the use of time slices based on relevant events that indicate variations around the vertical theme, water. From the combination of both methodologies, a periodization was established from 1790 to 2018, where four periods characterized by different uses of the river were identified. The main objective is to study the hydro-social cycle of the Atuel River through historical-environmental conflicts. In this sense, the reconstruction of past spaces was carried out and the representations that the actors have in relation to water and the derived conflicts were analyzed. The results indicate an intensive use of the river, characterized by the intervention of multiple actors that became more complex with the advance of new activities and spatial interventions. Among the technologies used that affected water flows, the expansion of the irrigation network and the construction of regulation works such as the Los Nihuiles hydroelectric complex should be highlighted. Currently, the promotion of activities with new technologies such as fracking and mega-mining in the upper basin of the river represents a new paradigm that generates new conflicts, aimed not only at modifying the hydro-social cycle, but also at altering environmental conditions. These activities imply greater water use as well as risks of soil, air and water pollution. The proliferation and promotion of these activities in the sub-basin influences the resolution of the conflict.

In late December 2000 the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Argentine province of Mendoza completed the first phase of the programme Canje de Armas por Mejores Condiciones de Vida, hereafter referred to as the Arms Exchange Programme, as part of a multi-faceted long-term approach to transform the public security climate. Two hundred eighty five pistols, revolvers and shotguns were voluntarily turned in by citizens for destruction in exchange for vouchers for foodstuffs and tickets to football games with values ranging from US $50 to $100. Participants were able to make contact with the programme organisers through a toll-free telephone line. Prior to the firearm turn-in component a public education effort was coordinated in the school system that culminated in a violent toy turn-in and destruction drive that brought in thousands of toy guns and video games for public destruction and incorporation into displays of art. The overwhelmingly positive response to the first phase of the programme inspired organisers to launch a second phase of weapons collection on 10 April 2001 including sectors of the province outside the Greater Mendoza area. Although the second phase was scheduled to end on 24 April 2001 it had to be extended on two separate occasions in response to enthusiastic requests from several localities that were not originally scheduled to host the Arms Exchange Programme. The second phase, which lasted six weeks, collected a total of 2,281 weapons and 6,547 rounds of ammunition, bringing in a total of 2,566 weapons and 8,262 rounds of ammunition for both phases combined. Arguably, the town of San Rafael, where 809 revolvers, pistols, shotguns and rifles were turned in over the course of four days, in the southern section of Mendoza province, saw more weapons turned in per capita than any other programme in the world to date.

In the wake of Francisco Franco�s long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and innovation free from the restrictive barriers of Franco�s regime. The Transition proved a period of great hopes and expectations as well as disillusionment and disappointment. This time, above all, provided an opportunity to reflect critically on the history and experience of the nation in the 20th century. Eduardo Mendoza is one among a generation of writers that experienced the early years of the Transition, the subsequent emergence of the Socialist Party and the reintroduction of Spain to Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world post 1975. This noted Catalan is one of several distinguished writers working within a new genre, the Spanish novela negra, or crime novel. In particular, he has written three novels El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979), El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982) and La aventura del tocador de senoras (2001); each featuring an unlikely detective known as Ceferino. In this thesis, I examine Eduardo Mendoza�s three crime novels as a carnivalesque discourse. The work relies on the theory outlined by Mikhail Bakhtin in two of his foundational texts, Problems of Dostoevsky�s Poetics (1929) and Rabelais� World (1940). In 1929, Bakhtin sketched out the idea of "carnivalization" as the transposition of the spirit of carnival into art. It was not until his thesis (now known as Rabelais� World) was published in 1960 however that his vision of carnival was understood and the link between the carnivalized text and popular culture emerged. This research focuses on Bakhtin�s four 'categories of carnival': free and familiar contact, eccentricity, carnivalistic mesalliances, and profanation, in order to develop a critical framework by which a text may be defined as carnivalesque. Through a comprehensive examination of what each of these categories entails, Bakhtin�s paradigm is linked to Eduardo Mendoza�s crime trilogy and these texts are consequently defined as undeniably carnivalesque. The conclusion of the thesis suggests several possibilities as to why Eduardo Mendoza, as a contemporary Spanish crime fiction writer, employs a carnivalesque discourse to depict post-Franco culture. The Transition and the decade between 1982 and 1992 are defined as periods of rupture from the official order. These years are considered an ideal environment for the unleashing of a carnivalesque ambiance in Spain that inherently effected the aesthetic production of the period, and specifically the works of Eduardo Mendoza.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 344-360).

La tesis aborda en primer lugar un estudio sobre el autor, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, su personalidad literaria, el contexto cultural y literario, el perfil humanístico del poeta, su espléndida biblioteca, sus relaciones con Garcilaso, etc. Atendiendo de modo especial a la presencia del mundo clásico en Hurtado. Se estudia a continuación la producción literaria del autor, incluyendo las obras atribuidas, siendo de destacar la aportación de la autora a la defensa de la paternidad hurtadiana del Lazarillo, que basa en el léxico utilizado en el Lazarillo y en la lírica de Hurtado.El estudio profundo de los manuscritos y ediciones de la obra, que la autora presenta, le lleva a editar un nuevo texto de la obra lírica de Hurtado, el cual aúna fidelidad a los manuscritos y discernimiento en la elección, que se basa en un profundo dominio del castellano y una sensibilidad poética excepcional de la autora.El aparato crítico y las notas ilustran el texto, acabando la tesis con unas oportunas consideraciones literarias, que se centran en la intemporalidad del signo poético y en la poesía de la idea. Tabla cronológica e índice bibliográfico ponen cierre a este trabajo.

In the wake of Francisco Franco�s long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and innovation free from the restrictive barriers of Franco�s regime. The Transition proved a period of great hopes and expectations as well as disillusionment and disappointment. This time, above all, provided an opportunity to reflect critically on the history and experience of the nation in the 20th century. Eduardo Mendoza is one among a generation of writers that experienced the early years of the Transition, the subsequent emergence of the Socialist Party and the reintroduction of Spain to Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world post 1975. This noted Catalan is one of several distinguished writers working within a new genre, the Spanish novela negra, or crime novel. In particular, he has written three novels El misterio de la cripta embrujada (1979), El laberinto de las aceitunas (1982) and La aventura del tocador de senoras (2001); each featuring an unlikely detective known as Ceferino. In this thesis, I examine Eduardo Mendoza�s three crime novels as a carnivalesque discourse. The work relies on the theory outlined by Mikhail Bakhtin in two of his foundational texts, Problems of Dostoevsky�s Poetics (1929) and Rabelais� World (1940). In 1929, Bakhtin sketched out the idea of "carnivalization" as the transposition of the spirit of carnival into art. It was not until his thesis (now known as Rabelais� World) was published in 1960 however that his vision of carnival was understood and the link between the carnivalized text and popular culture emerged. This research focuses on Bakhtin�s four 'categories of carnival': free and familiar contact, eccentricity, carnivalistic mesalliances, and profanation, in order to develop a critical framework by which a text may be defined as carnivalesque. Through a comprehensive examination of what each of these categories entails, Bakhtin�s paradigm is linked to Eduardo Mendoza�s crime trilogy and these texts are consequently defined as undeniably carnivalesque. The conclusion of the thesis suggests several possibilities as to why Eduardo Mendoza, as a contemporary Spanish crime fiction writer, employs a carnivalesque discourse to depict post-Franco culture. The Transition and the decade between 1982 and 1992 are defined as periods of rupture from the official order. These years are considered an ideal environment for the unleashing of a carnivalesque ambiance in Spain that inherently effected the aesthetic production of the period, and specifically the works of Eduardo Mendoza.

Las respuestas a las preguntas de investigación son: La Memoria es el centro de la evolución de los personajes, en cuanto a su vinculación con el olvido, el recuerdo, la identidad y la historia, (como sus usos) y la “marca” es la instancia que nos instala en la primera etapa: el olvido y que recorre todos los procesos anteriormente señalados, desde la pérdida de la identidad hasta la reconstrucción de la misma. En el presente análisis tomaré en consideración los conceptos e ideas entregadas por los estudiosos en torno al tema de la Memoria, y sus usos ya señalados anteriormente, y los cotejaré con las novelas La ciudad de los prodigios y La hija del caníbal. Relacionaré a las novelas escogidas con los trasfondos históricos que presentan cada una, y tomaré en consideración algunos rasgos de ficción y verdad entregadas por los narradores de las mismas.