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Sustainability is an increasingly relevant issue, especially for young adults that are deeply informed on topics of their interest, and also position themselves on social networks. Brands and companies currently offer a wide variety of sustainable products aimed at this cohort, whose attitudes are favorable to sustainable practices, however not frequently translating it into behavior. Considering this context, the present study conducted 13 in-depth interviews to explore motivational factors to beauty and personal care sustainable products purchase among 18-25 y.o. young adults from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Internal, social and external factors were mapped and subsequently analyzed in two codification cycles, complemented by an additional literature review. Results reinforce the importance of both normative and cultural social factors in this process, as well as embedded complexity in social reality of which this cohort is part of. This reality encompasses two simultaneous social environments (physical and digital), in which youngsters from Z generation interact, influence and are influenced as well. Comparing these environments indicated how social factors influence sustainable purchasing in each case.

The representation of Parisian wetnurses is a recurrent motif in painting from the 19th century’s latter half. On-site wetnurses are often depicted in settings characteristic of Haussmann’s urban transformations, such as public gardens and boulevards. These anonymous figures of motherhood and domestic life underline these places’ picturesque quality and contribute to their idealisation. However, these pictorial representations warp the reality of their laborious activity. Images conceal the violence and the control exercised over the wetnurses and confer prescriptive power to the cliché.

The study was carried out on a model of a small-sized aircraft of the type of a flying wing, which has a V-shape in plan. The structure of the flow on the wing surface was studied depending on the angle of attack and deflection of the controls. Experiments were carried out to study the influence of the work of the distributed electric propulsion on the flow structure on the wing surface. As a result, flow patterns were obtained using the “soot-oil” visualization method for each flow regime.

The article presents the results of experimental studies on the influence of the work of a distributed electric propulsion on the flow around the straight wing of a small-sized aircraft. The flow structure was studied at natural (flight) Reynolds numbers, taking into account the angle of attack. The results of the experiments are visualization patterns obtained using the soot-oil coating method.

O objetivo do estudo foi identificar os componentes dos custos variáveis com maior impacto na produção do milho no estado de Santa Catarina nas safras de 2004/2005 a 2016/2017. Para tanto, realizou-se pesquisa descritiva, conduzida por meio de análise documental e abordagem quantitativa. Para análise dos dados foi elaborado a análise estatística descritiva e análise de regressão linear múltipla que foi realizada para verificar a influência dos custos variáveis na produtividade do milho, adotando-se como variáveis independentes na regressão: os custos com insumos, mecânicos, mão de obra, custo financeiro, despesas com comercialização e outros custos, e como variável dependente utilizou-se a produtividade. Os resultados apontam que quando observado cultivo em relação a baixa tecnologia, média tecnologia e alta tecnologia os custos variáveis aumentam, entretanto observa-se aumento na produtividade. Os achados remetem à inferência de que a melhoria da produtividade está associada com os investimentos mecânicos de produção, e que a utilização de mão de obra faz com que haja menor produtividade.

Das Manuskript eines unveröffentlichten Aufsatzes von Friedrich Münzer (1868–1942) ist jüngst von T. Corey Brennan im Nachlass von Ernst Badian (1925–2011) entdeckt worden. Der Aufsatz, in welchem Münzer sich mit A. Postumius Albinus, dem Konsul von 151 v. Chr. und Annalisten, und dessen Verhältnis zu Polybios befasste, wurde im Winter 1938–1939 auf Einladung von Ronald Syme (1903–1989) abgefasst und ihm zur Veröffentlichung im Journal of Roman Studies geschickt. Mit vorliegendem Beitrag wird dieser letzte bekannte Aufsatz Münzers endlich herausgegeben; er ist mit einer Einleitung über die Geschichte des Manuskripts und die Editionskriterien sowie mit einem Nachtrag zu den von Münzer berührten oder behandelten Hauptthemen versehen. The manuscript of a hitherto unpublished paper by Friedrich Münzer (1868–1942) has recently been discovered by T. Corey Brennan in the Nachlass of Ernst Badian (1925–2011). Written in Winter 1938–1939 on the invitation of Ronald Syme (1903–1989), and sent to him for publication in the Journal of Roman Studies, the article focuses on A. Postumius Albinus, the consul of 151 bce and annalist, and his relationship with Polybius. The text of Münzer’s paper, which is his last known scholarly work, is here preceded by an intro­ductory note on the history of the manuscript and the editorial criteria, and includes an addendum on some of the key historical issues discussed by Münzer.

O artigo discute as formas de trabalho forçado e degradante no setor da marinha mercante internacional no século XXI, elaborando estimativas sobre o número e nacionalidade dos marinheiros sujeitos a estas formas de coerção. Os traços distintivos do trabalho maritimo são contrários daqueles característicos de grande parte do trabalho forçado em terra: de fato, o trabalho marítimo é estratégico, produtivo, altamente regulamentado pelos Estados e organizações internacionais, apresenta altissima intensidade de capital, elevados salários e uma força de trabalho qualificada e internacionalizada - tanto que a OIT nunca mencionou os marinheiros nas suas estimativas do trabalho forçado e que até hoje existe somente uma monografia, publicada em 2007 pelo autor deste artigo, discutindo sistematicamente do assunto e elaborando as relativas estimativas. No artigo, são descritas as principais formas de trabalho forçado no mar no início do século XXI, atualizando e especificando as estimativas apresentadas em 2007. Entre outras fontes, são analisados os relatórios anuais do Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) da OIT, que monitaram a conformidade dos códigos de navegação dos Países que assinaram a Convenção OIT n. 105, de 1957 sobre o trabalho forçado. Desde que a OIT não considera nas suas estimativas do trabalho forçado nem os casos denunciados pelo mesmo CEACR, o artigo, a partir de uma possivel generalizaçao dos métodos elaborados pelo trabalho no mar e da sua aplicação para o trabalho forçado em terra, avança algumas críticas e revisões das estimativas do trabalho forçado no mundo produzidas pela OIT.

The passions, the crimes and the terrible death of Bianca Maria, countess of Challant are reported in a chronicle, then related by Bandello in one of his novellas (1554) later translated into many languages. Once translated, the story changes. The writers moralize the original story, avoid every inexplicable event and give a providential and coherent explanation of Bianca Maria’s life. The goal of this article is to understand the reasons for these changes, through the analysis of the relation between fiction and ethics. It shows that the ethical use of fiction changes at the end of the sixteenth century, affecting narrative practices and the structure of novellas.

O tema do artigo é o fundamento da modernidade e seu projeto civilizatório expandido ao mundo pela colonização e pela globalização. O objetivo central é analisar como o fundamento moderno fundou um modelo de civilização por meio de revoluções e como entrou em crise. Por que as crises do fundamento moderno e de seu projeto civilizatório estão sendo interpretadas apenas no sentido neoliberal reformista? Não há outros caminhos? O desafio de nossa época é interpretar a crise do fundamento moderno denunciando sua lógica unitária, universal e normativa e propor alternativas inclusivas. O referencial teórico é a hermenêutica filosófica e a metodologia é a fenomenologia hermenêutica. A principal conclusão é a de que o projeto moderno desembocou numa civilização técnica, na qual organiza tecnicamente (toyotismo) o trabalho, o consumo e a cidade, esquecendo de suas outras promessas de liberdade e de felicidade. Todas as reformas neoliberais trabalhistas, previdenciárias, da saúde, consumeristas e urbanas indicam o predomínio da civilização técnica.

Around the year 108 B.C., the triumvir monetalis M. Herennius issued denarii which bore the portrait of Pietas on the obverse and one of the Catanean brothers carrying his parent on the reverse. This article aims to demonstrate that previous interpretations of these types as narrow allusions to the history of the gens are fallacious. Accordingly, new arguments are provided in order to give value to the political-ideological context of the last decades of the II century B.C.: in these years, pietas emerged alongside libertas as a fundamental value of the popularis ideological construct. This tradition was inspired by the oratorical and literary self-representation of Gaius Gracchus, that made his pietas erga fratrem and the pious portrayal of the family an important pillar of his legitimiz ing agenda. The political heirs of the Gracchi, such as C. Memmius and L. Apuleius Saturninus, continued to claim vengeance for the killed brothers and to blame the behaviour of the optimates – so that pietas remained a profitable slogan of the popularis political tradition. In this respect, Aetna’s eruptions in the Gracchan period and their explanation as prodigia formed an ideal humus for actualising the type of the Catanean brothers as catalyzing reference to the pietas popularis.

The effect of liquid compressibility in the two-stage piston hybrid positive-displacement machine with a liquid piston was considered. Based on the volume conservation equation, we developed a calculus methodology for the liquid compressibility during gas compression in the second stage of the compressor section. A numerical experiment made it possible to establish that some parameters have the greatest effect on the relative decrease in the height and velocity of the liquid layer. These parameters are the degree of pressure ratio; pipeline length; the polytropic index of the compression; the number of crankshaft revolutions. We found that the relative decrease in the liquid layer height is within 1 %, and the relative decrease in the liquid piston velocity is within 5 %. The paper analyses the liquid piston compressibility influence on the thermodynamic efficiency of the compression process and compressor performance.

Elfriede Gerstl, die bekannteste der unbekannten Autorinnen der österreichischen Literatur, hat ein Leben lang ihre literarische Stimme am Rand der Wiener Avantgarde-Szene erprobt. In Gerstls Werk verbinden sich existenzielle Unsicherheit, ironische Grundhaltung und souveräne Sprachkunst mit einem hohen emotionalen Gehalt des gesprochenen Wortes. Ihre Gedichte und Rezitationen sind ein wertvoller Fund für die nicht leichte Aufgabe, italienischen Lernenden des Deutschen die Grundlagen der lautlichen Realisierungen und der Satzintonation nahe zu bringen. Elfriede Gerstl can be truly considered a ‘minor’ Austrian poet who spent a lifelong search for her own literary voice at the margins of the turmoil of the literary avant-garde in postwar Vienna. Existential insecurity, irony and a superb command of the German language come together with a highly emotional way of speaking. Elfriede Gerstl’s poems and the recordings of her poems can be successfully used in teaching pronunciation and intonation to Italian learners of German.

It is generally assumed that the tragic becomes a philosophical theory at the end of the eighteenth century, when Schelling and Hegel consider a genre (the tragedy) and draw from it a philosophical thought (the tragic). Before then, writes Szondi, there was no theory of the tragic, but only a poetics of the tragedy. I do not wish to criticize this assumption but rather to show that, before the philosophy of the tragic, there was an idea of the tragic (though fragmented and non systematic) that influenced and prepared its theory. In this paper, I will study its origins and its development through the analysis of the early modern uses of the words tragedy and tragic.

The production of urban space in Brazil changed profoundly from the early 2000s onward, due to the establishment of an unprecedented form of entrepreneurial management of the housing situation. This article aims to discuss the structure of the provision and production of housing, which was consolidated at the time to involve large construction companies, financial capital, public policy and a considerable volume of resources. Aside from a review of the related literature, our analysis is based on data collected through fieldwork in large construction companies and on documental research.

En este trabajo indagamos la experiencia de dos actores colectivos que presentan grados diversos de organización, mostrando que su estado de forma y figura / fuerza y empuje es una expresión del estado de “precariedad corporal” que evidencian los sujetos. Es posible observar que las condiciones impuestas en la presencia corporal, por un lado, demarcan tensiones y correspondencias en la disponibilidad para la acción y la sensibilidad, por otro. Desde aquí, la producción y re– producción de estos ‘cuerpos precarios’ en torno a circuitos de encierro, tanto materiales como simbólicos, se revela como una expresión del escenario constitutivo del capital en países del Sur global como Argentina.

This research is aimed to study the significant number of negative environmental consequences are due to the active development of cities and agglomerations. The technologies of green buildings are constantly being improved with the aim of reducing the overall influence of development on the environment and human health. Today, one of the most important trends of eco-development is to develop the innovations in the field of green building structures. Green modular roofing structures contribute to solving the problems of ecodevelopment in the construction of smart cities and smart buildings for sustainable development.

Tagungsbericht: „Dante Alighieri – quo vadis? Neue Perspektiven im Dialog der Disziplinen“, internationale Tagung, 27. bis 29. Mai 2015, Programm: http://blog.romanischestudien.de/dante-quo-vadis/

Este artigo tem como objetivo abordar os procedimentos teórico-metodológicos, bem como os resultados desta pesquisa referentes à descrição do atual estágio da língua falada entre os habitantes descendentes de imigrantes ucranianos em um distrito paranaense, localizado ao sul do Estado. Este estudo foi norteado pelos princípios teóricos da sociolinguística, particularmente os que se referem a fenômenos decorrentes do contato linguístico, considerando-se, no caso, o contato entre falantes do português local e a variante ucraína trazida pelos primeiros povoadores eslavos, no final do século XlX. Para tal, investigamos a mudança lingüística em tempo real e tempo aparente.

Resenha do livro A Geolingüística no Brasil: trilhas seguidas, caminhos a percorrer (2005), organizado por Vanderci de Andrade Aguilera.

This paper aims at analysing the process of regionalisation, i.e. the formation of large geographical ensembles or macroregions. Inside these macroregions, the international trade tends to increase faster than at the global level. What are the most relevant indicators to determinate their geographical limits? In order to answer this question, the paper proposes the analysis of the commercial relations between European Union and Russia until 2004. Is Russia involved in the regionalisation process? Does it progressively enter the economic region dominated by the European Union? The first part of the paper shows that the supposed process of regionalisation must be qualified, as far as the relation between Russia and EU are concerned. Russia is getting more and more important in the external trade of EU, but the contrary is not true. The second part is based on the analysis of another indicator: the coefficient of bilateral trade. It was invented and perfected by economists of the CEPII (Gaulier, 1998). It allows to measure trade proximity between partners by comparing observed trade flows between them to their theoretical volume. In other terms, it shows the real intensity of trade between countries by eliminating the bias related to size effects (economic weight). The evolution of this coefficient between Russia and all its European partners (Western Europe, CEE countries, CIS members) is systematically analysed since 1994 until 2004. The last part of the paper is focused on the explanations of the geographical distribution of the coefficient and of its evolution since 1994. It is then based on a model which proposes three explanatory variables: kilometric distance between partners, the location in the European political and economic space (does the partner belong to Western Europe, to Central and Eastern Europe or to the former USSR) and the number of political frontiers between partners. The second variable shows the highest degree of correlation with the coefficient of bilateral trade. That means that the economic space inherited from the cold war period has not totally disappeared yet. The limits between former USSR, former popular democracies and former Western Europe do not inhibit trade relations between Russia and its non CIS partners, but they still keep them under their theoretical level.

Este estudo avaliou o impacto psicológico de um grupo educativo de cirurgia cardíaca em pacientes de um hospital universitário. Participaram 73 sujeitos, dos quais 62% eram homens. A média de idade foi 52 anos, desvio-padrão foi 16. Os pacientes foram submetidos a uma sessão multidisciplinar com exposição dialogada sobre cardiopatias, procedimento cirúrgico e sintomas psicológicos. Os resultados mostraram que, para poucos pacientes (36%), o grupo ajudou a esclarecer dúvidas sobre o tratamento, demonstrando a necessidade de ajustes nas estratégias didáticas para melhor compreensão dos conteúdos. A análise das emoções percebidas após participação no programa revelou que 70% responderam estar esperançosos. A contraposição entre "esperança" e "tranquilidade" foi uma resposta emocional esperada frente à vivência da cirurgia, avaliada como uma condição de ameaça ambiental. Conclui-se que o grupo educativo foi benéfico para o ajustamento psicossocial do paciente à cirurgia. Entretanto, maior eficácia será alcançada mediante aperfeiçoamento do método de atuação e inclusão de um programa interdisciplinar estruturado para controle do stress.