Em The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945, Oscar de la Torre examina a relevância econômica e demográfica da região amazônica, argumentando que identidades ela relativas devem ser historicizadas. O autor discute eventos históricos, como Cabanagem, bem fluxos econômicos sociais, os quais impactaram demograficamente região. Divergindo outros autores brasileiros ...

The article presents Shakespeare's Iago as Hell's master therapist. Illustrated with excerpts from the play, the reader is shown how with consummate psychological skills, Iago bends his victims to his will. Step by step he awakens Othello's jealousy, and makes use of the hero's basic insecurity on account of his blackness. Once Othello has determined to take revenge, Iago makes sure to prevent ...

The present study considered a fuzzy natural color system (NCS) in which triangular pyramid membership functions are constructed on the NCS color triangle. This system can process a fuzzy input to an NCS system and output to a center of gravity of three weights associated with respective grades. Triangular membership functions are applied to the hue, and triangular pyramid membership functions ...

Nuclear emulsions of the Ilford K series, exposed to X-rays from 15 to 150 kVp and systematically underdeveloped, exhibit supralinear blackness--exposure curves ranging from 1- to 4-hit in character, and whose shape is the same at all excitation voltages. Processing can be so adjusted that the curve shape is well represented by the alpha--beta model, and matches an experimental dose--response c...