Papers by Jean Carlos Franco
Revista De Contabilidade Do Mestrado Em Ciencias Contabeis Da Uerj, May 3, 2011
O presente estudo analisou os principais conceitos e práticas de gestão ambiental, objetivando id... more O presente estudo analisou os principais conceitos e práticas de gestão ambiental, objetivando identificar a amplitude das ações desenvolvidas pela Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos (ECT)-Agência de Santiago/RS, verificar se suas ações são adequadas e efetivamente contribuem para um programa de gestão ambiental. Para realizar este trabalho se adotou a metodologia qualitativa, através do estudo de caso único. Foi aplicado um questionário e realizadas visitas na agência para se observar diretamente como realizam suas atividades. Como avanço de alguns resultados foi possível medir os resíduos gerados estimando possíveis desperdícios e elaborar a proposição de algumas ações para a agência de Santiago/RS, a fim de aperfeiçoar a utilização dos materiais e energias na prestação dos serviços. Verificou-se que as ações ambientais ocorrem de forma isolada e ainda não fazem parte de um Sistema de Gerenciamento Ambiental a ser adotado.
Todaytextquoterights structural monitoring systems include hundreds of data channels. The number ... more Todaytextquoterights structural monitoring systems include hundreds of data channels. The number of channels on these systems is expected to grow as sensors become more affordable, creating large computational requirements for the online modal identification of structural systems. This paper presents the mathematical formulation, numerical and experimental validation of a new fast mode identification technique for online monitoring. The fast mode identification (FMI) technique uses experimental data from ambient vibration tests to identify operational mode shapes at a fraction of the time used by traditional modal identification techniques. The method focuses on identifying operational mode shapes at a particular frequency, allowing the modal identification method to be broken down in two steps: i) identification of natural frequencies and modal damping ratios, and ii) identification of mode shapes. Dividing the modal identification process in two reduces the computational time requ...
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1981
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2009
... On the morning following this conversation with Lobo, Belano chooses the perilous option of a... more ... On the morning following this conversation with Lobo, Belano chooses the perilous option of accompanying him and a group of soldiers on their campaign 'because he wasn't going to let him (Lobo) die ... 3 'The figure in the carpet' is a reference to Henry James's story of that title. ...
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2006
Last week I was at a meeting of Latin American scholars who were debating a joint project provisi... more Last week I was at a meeting of Latin American scholars who were debating a joint project provisionally titled, ' Between Power and Knowledge. Towards a History of Intellectual Elites '. It soon became clear that all of the terms of the title including ' between ' were to be contested. Such radical revisionism also haunts Latin American literary studies as we attempt to rethink national and regional cultures in what is now regarded as a post-national moment, one in which there has been a rejection of linear historical narrative, a questioning of the very term ' Latin American ' as a self-explanatory framework and of literature as an evolving series of well defi ned genres and movements, evaluated according to not always very clear aesthetic criteria and with regard for linguistic virtuosity. The national and continental imaginaries, deployed in Neruda ' s Canto General , in Gabriela Mistral ' s Canto a Chile , in López Velarde ' s Suave Patria , and explored, re-evaluated and condemned in countless novels, are diluted or dissipated as Latin American writers now situate their narratives in Siberia, Germany, Africa, London, Paris or a myriad of other places or abandon the nation ' s capital for its margins and provinces. When I began teaching in the early sixties, it was quite common for people to ask what was ' my ' country, taking it for granted that one specialised in a national culture. José Donoso remarked on the fact that it was uncommon in 1960 to hear laymen speak of the contemporary Spanish American novel: 'there were Uruguayan, or Ecuadorian, Mexican or Venezuelan novels ' (Donoso, 1977: 10). Yet many writers, most prominently Borges, had already repudiated the idea of a purely national tradition. Cortázar (1969) boasted of the mental ubiquity afforded him because of living and writing in Paris, and Donoso (1977: 19) enthusiastically supported the ' disfi guring contamination of foreign languages and literatures '. But this did not mean that they did not situate their writing within the nation, although their view was often oblique. There was an abundance of terms-dependency, underdevelopment, Third World, periphery-to which thinking about the nation was yoked (Escobar, 1995), and there was anxiety over anachronism, over the time warp, over the need to attain parity, or, as Octavio Paz put it (e.g. Paz, 1967), to inhabit a time when Latin Americans would be in synchrony with the rest of the world, a synchrony which the novelists felt themselves to have attained. The boom was a coming of age, an entry into adulthood, and a refusal to be identifi ed with the rural or with anachronistic narratives such as the ' novela de la tierra ' .
Socialism and Democracy, 1986
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Papers by Jean Carlos Franco