This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the complexities of aesthetic and epistemic rupture (and continuity) within Spanish and Italian modernisms. Building on contemporary scholarship in Modernist Studies and avant-garde criticism, this volume brings to light numerous cross-cultural touch points between Spain and Italy, and challenges the center/periphery frameworks of European cultural modernism. In linking disciplines, genres, -isms, and geographical spheres, the book provides new lenses through which to explore the narratives of modernist corporeality. Each contribution centers around the question of the body as it was actively being debated through the medium of poetic, literary, and artistic exchange, exploring the body in its materiality and form, in its sociopolitical representation, relation to Self, cultural formation, spatiality, desires, objectification, commercialization, and aesthetic functions. This comparative approach to Spanish and Italian avant-gardism offers readers an expanded view of the intersections of body and text, broadening the conversation in the larger fields of cultural modernism, European Avant-garde Studies, and Comparative Literature.

This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a locus for various aesthetic and sociopolitical considerations and practices. In reimagining the nexus points where the embodied self and world intersect, the texts surveyed in this book not only shed light on issues such as authority, desire, fetishism, gender, patriarchy, politics, religion, sexuality, subjectivity, violence, and war during a period of unprecedented change, but also explore the complexities of aesthetic and epistemic rupture (and continuity) within Spanish and Italian modernisms. Building on contemporary scholarship in Modernist Studies and avant-garde criticism, this volume brings to light numerous cross-cultural touch points between Spain and Italy, and challenges the center/periphery frameworks of European cultural modernism. In linking disciplines, genres, -isms, and geographical spheres, the book provides new lenses through which to explore the narratives of modernist corporeality. Each contribution centers around the question of the body as it was actively being debated through the medium of poetic, literary, and artistic exchange, exploring the body in its materiality and form, in its sociopolitical representation, relation to Self, cultural formation, spatiality, desires, objectification, commercialization, and aesthetic functions. This comparative approach to Spanish and Italian avant-gardism offers readers an expanded view of the intersections of body and text, broadening the conversation in the larger fields of cultural modernism, European Avant-garde Studies, and Comparative Literature.

Document from the year 2013 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: -, - (Institute of Technology), language: English, abstract: Global warming is now universally accepted as being the greatest environmental threat to mankind in the current century. The impacts are staggering. Antarctic ice is thinning at increasingly rapid rates, with correspondingly massive influxes of fresh water into the world's oceans. All these changes are due mostly to human activities, particularly in raising the levels of CO2, a major greenhouse gas (GHG). Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have risen 35% since the Industrial Revolution. This increase is primarily due to anthropogenic activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. Reducing the rate of GHG emissions will be an enormous challenge for everyone throughout the world which must be fought on many fronts. This work broadly analyses the main issues and subjects concerning several devices and laws for climate change mitigation. Chapter 1: Climate change and Green House Gases Emissions Chapter 2: Kyoto Protocol and GHG emissions reduction Chapter 3: Emissions trading Chapter 4: GHG emissions estimation and inventory Chapter 5: GHG emission reduction technologies

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The concept of vital force - the immanent energy that promotes the processes of life in the body and in nature - has proved a source of endless fascination and controversy. Indeed, the question of what vitalizes the body has haunted humanity since antiquity, and became even more pressing during the Scientific Revolution and beyond. Examining the complexities and theories about vital force in Spanish modernity, Nicolas Fernandez-Medina's Life Embodied offers a novel and provocative assessment of the question of bodily life in Spain. Starting with Juan de Cabriada's landmark Carta filosofica, medico-chymica of 1687 and ending with Ramon Gomez de la Serna's avant-gardism of the 1910s, Fernandez-Medina incorporates discussions of anatomy, philosophy, science, critical theory, history of medicine, and literary studies to argue that concepts of vital force served as powerful vehicles to interrogate the possibilities and limits of corporeality. Paying close attention to how the body's capabilities were conceived and strategically woven into critiques of modernity, Fernandez-Medina engages the work of Miguel Boix y Moliner, Martin Martinez, Diego de Torres Villarroel, Sebastian Guerrero Herreros, Ignacio Maria Ruiz de Luzuriaga, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Pedro Mata y Fontanet, Angela Grassi, Julian Sanz del Rio, Miguel de Unamuno, and Pio Baroja, among others. Drawing on extensive research and analysis, Life Embodied breaks new ground as the first book to address the question of vital force in Spanish modernity.

Juan Carlos Valdivia writes and directs this drama exploring class issues in Bolivian society. In the privileged Southern District of La Paz, upper class mother-of-three Carola (Ninon del Castillo) lives a comfortable and affluent existence with her three spoiled, bored children: teenagers Patricio (Juan Pablo Koria) and Bernarda (Mariana Vargas) and wayward six-year-old Andres (Nicolas Fernandez). However, despite Carola's adherence to her lavish lifestyle, the truth is that the debts are mounting and tensions are building between the family and their Aymara Indian servants, Wilson (Pascual Loayza) and Marcelina (Viviana Condori). Meanwhile, a larger-scale social upheaval is underway in Bolivia, which has just re-elected its first Aymaran president.

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La transformacion de Darboux es una herramienta poderosa para encontrar solucion a ecuaciones diferenciales. Aplicada a la ecuacion de Schodinger permite la construccion de nuevos potenciales exactamente solubles. En este trabajo combinamos el metodo de Darboux con funciones del tipo Gamow-Siegert (GS) para construir potenciales complejos cuyo espectro de energias es real. Los nuevos potenciales se comportan como un dispositivo optico que emite y absorbe ondas de luz simultaneamente. El metodo es aplicado a potenciales truncados (caracterizados por una funcion suave y un parametro de corte) tanto lineales como radiales. Las funciones GS son soluciones de la ecuacion de Schrodinger con eigenvalor complejo que satisfacen una condicion de onda puramente saliente y que representan estados de resonancia de la energia. Aqui mostramos que las discontinuidades (truncamiento) de un potencial, cuando se presentan por pares, inducen la presencia de resonancias. Tambien mostraremos el efecto de estas discontinuidades en la parte discreta del espectro. Para el estudio de resonancias asociadas con potenciales suaves se introduce una generalizacion del bien conocido metodo semi-clasico WKB.

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