Emergency responders must "see" the effects of an earthquake clearly and rapidly for effective response. This paper presents a novel use of cell phone and information technology to measure ground ...motion intensity parameters. The phone sensor is an imperfect device and has a limited operational range. Thus, shake table tests were performed to evaluate their reliability as seismic monitoring instruments. Representative handheld devices, either rigidly connected to the table or free to move, measured shaking intensity parameters well. Bias in 5%-damped spectral accelerations measured by phones was less than 0.05 and 0.2 log(g) during one-dimensional (1-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) shaking in frequencies ranging from 1 Hz to 10 Hz. They did tend to overestimate the Arias Intensity, but this error declined for stronger motions with larger signal-to-noise ratios. With these ubiquitous measurement devices, a more accurate and rapid portrayal of the damage distribution during an earthquake can be provided.
Il s'agira de procurer une lecture représentationnelle et politique du sud du continent européen perçu à partir de deux récits génériquement différents tel que le roman graphique de l'auteur suédois ...Fabian Göranson Un rêve d'Europe (2019 2018), et le bref récit de voyage dans les Balkans de l'écrivain français Emmanuel Ruben, symptomatiquement intitulé Le Coeur de l'Europe (2018). Dans les deux cas, nous avons affaire à des redécouvertes récentes du midi de l'Europe à l'aune des événements historiques et des mutations sociétales découlant aussi bien des conflits engendrés par l'implosion de la Yougoslavie que de la crise des dettes souveraines des pays européens du sud entre 2010 et 2015. En fait, ces deux textes s'avèrent des « impressions de voyage » à travers le regard de narrateurs- personnages globetrotteurs.
This essay aims at studying the special codification of the magic and superstitious element (rooted in the peripheral, local tradition) in the Latin American fantasy short story of the new ...millennium, as testified by the oeuvre of a whole new generation of authors such as Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez, Luciano Lamberti, Liliana Colanzi and Federico Falco, whose texts, triggering an intense dialogue with the classics of the genre from the sixties and seventies and intentionally trivializing some of their most notorious achievements (most of all the spectralized second coming of the autochthonous, originary past buried alive in the set-up of the postcolonial modernity), show a tendency toward the contamination of the canonical reference images and structures of the ominous, now impossible to frame in any clear cultural dynamic, or to refer to any readable axiologic statement. By doing so they highlight the current annexation of the surviving peripheral cultures to the amorphous patois of the global, where any tradition, direction and origin is neutralized.
This paper aims to shed some light on the constituent debates of 1977-1978 on the content and structure of Title I of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and its system of fundamental rights, an ...important period of our recent constitutional history. With this analysis, it is intended to provide new elements for a convenient study of the social rights contained therein.
En estas páginas se pretende arrojar algo de luz sobre los debates constituyentes de 1977-1978 sobre el contenido y estructura del Título I de la Constitución española de 1978 y su sistema de derechos fundamentales, una relevante etapa de nuestra reciente historia constitucional. Con este análisis se pretenden aportar nuevos elementos de valoración de los derechos sociales en ella contenidos.
El ministerio apostólico del Papa Cuestiones Teológicas Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Cuestiones teológicas,
11/2020, Letnik:
5, Številka:
13
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
La segunda mitad del presente año hizo fijar la mirada de todos los cristianos católicos, la de todos los cristianos y aún la de todos los hombres del mundo en la sede de Pedro. En un breve lapso de ...tiempo conocimos la muerte del Papa Pablo VI, la esperanza que como un sueño despertó la persona de su sucesor el Papa Juan Pablo I y finalmente la elección del Papa Juan Pablo II. Hemos tenido en este tiempo ocasión de reflexionar sobre el don del Señor que es el ministerio del sucesor de Pedro. Hemos sentido como muestra de verdad la desaparición de dos Papas y hemos seguido con alegría los primeros pasos del ministerio del Papa Juan Pablo II. (…)
El artículo describe la evolución y el establecimiento del control interno, mediante las Intervenciones de las Cortes Generales, el Congreso de los Diputados y el Senado, a partir de 1977. Asimismo, ...se exponen sus normas reguladoras y su organización. Finalmente se hace referencia a la necesidad de adaptarse a los retos de una intensificación de la fiscalización interna y la aplicación de técnicas de auditoría, relacionado con la transparencia.
The ability of graphic narratives to ensure reader-participation creates a visual dialogue between the narrative and the readers and makes them hospitable to the story at hand. The readers become ...active participants, which brings in the question of ethics, as the passive gaze is converted into empathy and identification. Such a reading encourages a reassessment of the perceived differences between the 'I' and the 'other' and aims to reduce such a gap. This paper, therefore, discusses the idea of empathy and ethics vis-à-vis the strategies and techniques employed in the graphic narratives to encourage reader-participation and make them sensitive to the sufferings of the 'others'. The texts under analysis include Clément Baloup's Vietnamese Memories: Leaving Saigon and Vietnamese Memories: Little Saigon, representing the migrant stories. Such experiences require a hospitable audience and the graphic practices of the texts play a crucial role in making the readers empathic to the life narratives of the 'others'.
Switches in heterogamety are known to occur in both animals and plants. Although plant sex determination systems probably often evolved more recently than those in several well-studied animals, ...including mammals, and have had less time for switches to occur, we previously detected a switch in heterogamety in the plant genus Silene: section Otites has both female and male heterogamety, whereas S. latifolia and its close relatives, in a different section of the genus, Melandrium (subgenus Behenantha), all have male heterogamety. Here we analyse the evolution of sex chromosomes in section Otites, which is estimated to have evolved only about 0.55 MYA. Our study confirms female heterogamety in S. otites and newly reveals female heterogamety in S. borysthenica. Sequence analyses and genetic mapping show that the sex-linked regions of these two species are the same, but the region in S. colpophylla, a close relative with male heterogamety, is different. The sex chromosome pairs of S. colpophylla and S. otites each correspond to an autosome of the other species, and both differ from the XY pair in S. latifolia. Silene section Otites species are suitable for detailed studies of the events involved in such changes, and our phylogenetic analysis suggests a possible change from female to male heterogamety within this section. Our analyses suggest a possibility that has so far not been considered, change in heterogamety through hybridization, in which a male-determining chromosome from one species is introgressed into another one, and over-rides its previous sex-determining system.
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