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2. REMINISCING IN WHITE IN FAE MYENNE NG'S BONE.
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SZMAŃKO, KLARA
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LITERATURE , *REMINISCENCE - Abstract
The article focuses on the representation of whiteness in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone (1993), in particular on how the aesthetic and the socio-historical strata of the novel intersect, how by saturating the imagery of Bone with whiteness, Ng conveys the first person Chinese American narrator's positionality and the positionality of other Chinese American characters as members of the Chinese American community and members of broader American society. The images involving whiteness compose a kind of the palimpsest overwritten with personal and communal ethnic watermarks as well as repressed, surfacing and semi-articulated history of Leila's family that she channels into the narrative, having engaged in the process of mentally retracing the past events and recovering the material evidence or rather what remains of it and what she believes will lead her to definitive answers. On the level of narrative imagery, whiteness is intricately interwoven with the traumas plaguing the narrator's family. Explicitly, whiteness represents death, mourning, rejection and erasure, entailing marginalization suffered by Chinese Americans because of their non-normative racial and ethnic status. Yet, implicitly, whiteness is also a constituent element of the images which facilitate the process of healing - mainly bones and paper. Narrative imagery involving whiteness contributes to the bridging of the past and the present, forming a bridge between generations, a kind of rivet that allows to at least partly retrieve personal wholeness and recapture the broken promises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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3. TIPOLOGIA DE ARTIGOS PUBLICADOS NOS SIMPÓSIOS BRASILEIROS DE CLIMATOLOGIA GEOGRÁFICA DE 2010 E 2012.
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Lôbo, Karime, Zuffo, Catia Eliza, de Aguiar, Benedito Sales, and Santos Inêz, Cleuzenir dos
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QUANTITATIVE research , *CONFERENCES & conventions , *PAPER , *LITERATURE , *CLIMATOLOGY - Abstract
This paper aims to summarize the characteristics of 212 papers and 4 Themes (topics) in two BRASILIAN SYMPOSIA OF GEOGRAPHIC CLIMATOLOGY (2010 and 2012), read and separated according to the explained content and data of each main author, aiming to stimulate studies applied to the North of Brazil. The theoretical framework was based on the literature method and the approach of the study was the quantitative type, with drafting tables that enriched the analysis and interpretation. The researches for this article were based on bibliography search methods. The study demonstrated a decrease in the number of articles published from one event to another and that the scientific production in the Northern region is smaller than in other Brazil's regions, showing a potential for further research concerning this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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4. Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Influence of AFM Tip Geometry and Orientation on Capillary Force.
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Chau, Alexandre, Régnier, Stéphane, Delchambre, Alain, and Lambert, Pierre
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PAPER , *LITERATURE , *ADHESION , *MOISTURE , *HUMIDITY - Abstract
Adhesion issues are present in many disciplines such as, for example, surface science, microrobotics or MEMS design. Within this framework, this paper presents a study on capillary forces due to capillary condensation. A simulation tool had already been presented using Surface Evolver and Matlab to compute the shape of a meniscus in accordance with the Kelvin equation and contact angles. The numerical results of this simulation complied well with literature results. One very important result is the ability to compute the evolution of the capillary force depending on the tilt angle of the gripper with respect to the object. The main contribution of this new paper is a test bench and the related experimental results which validate these numerical results. We present here new experimental results illustrating the role of humidity and tilt angle in capillary forces at the nanoscale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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5. Conserving involution in residuated structures.
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Hsieh, Ai-ni and Raftery, James G.
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EMBEDDINGS (Mathematics) , *AXIOMS , *LITERATURE , *PAPER , *EMBEDDING theorems - Abstract
This paper establishes several algebraic embedding theorems, each of which asserts that a certain kind of residuated structure can be embedded into a richer one. In almost all cases, the original structure has a compatible involution, which must be preserved by the embedding. The results, in conjunction with previous findings, yield separative axiomatizations of the deducibility relations of various substructural formal systems having double negation and contraposition axioms. The separation theorems go somewhat further than earlier ones in the literature, which either treated fewer subsignatures or focussed on the conservation of theorems only. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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6. Thematization in everyday life: a critical approach.
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Karapostolis, Vasilis
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PAPER , *CRITICISM , *LITERATURE , *RHETORIC , *SOCIETIES , *PERSONS - Abstract
This paper presents an examination of some of the ways in which social criticism can be developed on the basis of the analysis of everyday life in modern societies. An attempt is made to combine the results of phenomenological (Schutz), ethnomethodological (Garfinkel), and dialectical (Kosik) approaches to the everyday world as the world-taken-for-granted, with the study, founded on semiological theory, of social images and the ideological elements implicit in them. At the centre of the discussion lies the mechanism of thematization by which the subjects assign predicates to persons, objects and events in a given social context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1985
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