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Las casas-patio tradicionales de la ciudad de Lima fueron edificadas bajo una evidente influencia árabe, en lo constructivo, formal y estilístico. La similitud en el clima desértico litoral permitió la transferencia de algunas estrategias bioclimáticas, entre ellas una disposición particular con dos patios. La ubicación relativa, escala y acabados de dichos patios sugieren la intención de calentar el primero y más amplio, procurando mantener más fresco y húmedo el segundo, y con ello inducir la ventilación por convección de modo que el aire atraviese los ambientes principales. El estudio pretende identificar la presencia de dicha estrategia, para lo cual se realizó un monitoreo energético de la Casa Riva-Agüero en un día cálido y soleado de verano. Los resultados permitieron demostrar que sí se logra activar una ventilación por convección entre los patios, ayudando a mantener los niveles de temperatura al interior de los espacios principales dentro de rangos confortables.

This article argues that the detective novel Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992) by Chicana author Lucha Corpi is a complex theorization on the intimate relationship between hegemonic power and Chicana affect (a relationship that I call “hegemonic affect”). Eulogy for a Brown Angel is a complex, discursive formation in which master narratives collide with counter-discourses that challenge hegemonic power. Literary critics, such as Tim Libretti (1999), have analyzed Corpi’s novel as an example of how “multicultural detective fiction” disrupts the pro-capitalist, misogynist and racist ideologies of the classic U.S. hard-boiled narratives by incorporating the historical and political experiences of communities of color. In contrast to previous studies, my analysis focuses on how in Corpi’s novel these hegemonic formations crucially impact Chicana affects. The article pays special attention to how Chicana affects are damaged by master narratives that define power in terms of Anglo-Saxon whiteness, masculinity and heterosexuality. In addition, the present analysis argues that in order to resist hegemonic power, Chicanas in the novel advance affects that facilitate solidarity and alliances amongst women of color, enabling healing and the pursuit of social justice.

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the past few decades, questions regarding the nature of the observed optical, UV, and X-ray emission remain. We present a uniformly selected sample of 30 spectroscopically classified TDEs from the Zwicky Transient Facility Phase I survey operations with follow-up Swift UV and X-ray observations. Through our investigation into correlations between light-curve properties, we recover a shallow positive correlation between the peak bolometric luminosity and decay timescales. We introduce a new spectroscopic class of TDE, TDE-featureless, which are characterized by featureless optical spectra. The new TDE-featureless class shows larger peak bolometric luminosities, peak blackbody temperatures, and peak blackbody radii. We examine the differences between the X-ray bright and X-ray faint populations of TDEs in this sample, finding that X-ray bright TDEs show higher peak blackbody luminosities than the X-ray faint subsample. This sample of optically selected TDEs is the largest sample of TDEs from a single survey yet, and the systematic discovery, classification, and follow-up of this sample allows for robust characterization of TDE properties, an important stepping stone looking forward toward the Rubin era.