At the end of the seventies, the French researcher Michel Ponsich published the preliminary results of his excavations in the north-african settlement of Kouass (Arcila, Morocco). He put emphasis on a set of glasses which are reminiscent of Campanien productions. Nevertheless, s…
The "Tren Urbano" is a heavy rail system designed to be constructed in several phases due its high capital cost. This research develops a methodology that evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of using other rail technologies and the integration of other modes of transit as…
Mediante la poesia de Jose Luis Nunez (Espartinas, Sevilla 1943-1980), podemos acercarnos a la matizacion de una tragedia andaluza. Las matizaciones de la tragedia andaluza que manan de sus versos indagan en los fundamentos ideologicos que crean las fronteras sociales, politicas…
A contrastive study of Kiswahili and Spanish, two different languages both genetically and morphologically, and at the same time identical since they are both human languages. The study develops gradually, touching on themes related to language and communication, general linguis…
An opposition on two-way basis replied to General Primo de Rivera's Dictatorship: the peaceful one and the violent one. The first one manifested its disagreement through ways controlled by the new regime; the second one, on the contrary, appealed to different methods and tactics…
This is an interdisciplinary essay on New Testament Sociology which applies a sociological model (a theoretical knowledge frame) into the Jesus Movement (Jewish group gathering in Palestine around Jesus of Nazareth and continuing until 70 b.C.). To do this, in the first chapter …
This thesis focuses on the novel of Sergio Fernández Los peces. Given the linguistic and thematic complexity of this literary work, such approach is a mere effort to discover clues for an interpretation of it. Working toward this goal, the first chapter of the thesis unfolds the…
An important theme in medieval intellectual history was the attempt by exegetes from the 12th century onward to reconcile and integrate the new information coming from Greek authors, whose writings were translated and sometimes interpreted by the Arabs, with the body of culture …
Leaf samples were collected from various research and commercial mango (Mangifera indica L.) farms from south and western regions of Puerto Rico. The purpose of this study was to isolate, identified and characterized the species of Colletotrichum spp. associated with typical ant…
La presente these doctorale offre l'edition critique du Tratado de las fiebres d'Isaac Israeli. Cette edition critique comporte trois parties, a savoir: presentation de l'oeuvre et description de la langue, edition du texte et glossaire. La presentation de l'oeuvre expose les fo…
When comparing the state of the art of the didactics of translation at a university level to the skills demanded in a real professional environment, we have detected a double gap: first, the urgency to adapt technical translation teaching to the requirements of our knowledge soc…
The present work is centered in the paper that the trance states could have in the Ancient World. We begin the study in the old Mesopotamia and Egypt, passing then to Greece, Carthage, Rome and we conclude in the Canary Islands, populated by groups of North African Berbers in th…
Using the plate exposition technique, fungal spores from the atmosphere of five teaching laboratories from the Biology building of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, were obtained. Malt Extract Agar was used as a culture medium. The genera and species identified wer…
Our first intention in this work will be to establish a repertory of translations into Spanish of the Goncourt brothers' works (Edmond, 1822–1896 and Jules, 1830–1870), which will enabled us to establish a catalogue of the Spanish editions of these authors' production which rang…
The Picatrix is an Arabic work translated into Castilian under the patronage of Alfonso X. From Castilian a Latin translation followed. The Latin version was an event of extraordinary importance for the diffusion of the Picatrix in Western Europe. The only extant Spanish version…
This dissertation explores the ideas about fashion and luxury in literary texts from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The first chapter reviews the concept of “fashion,” its meaning and implications, and provides an overview of the most important theories t…
This study focuses on the legend of St Mary the Egyptian from Spanish literary sources from the Early Middle Ages to the Golden Age. Dating from the 6th century in Greece, this legend has had an immense and enduring popularity, which is manifested by hundreds of existing manuscr…
En la preparación de la presente edición se usaron fuentes primarias y los episodios más importantes (justificados por los críticos) han sido presentados en una forma clara y concisa. El estilo colorido y las oraciones largas típicas del periodo se han tratado de mantener debido…
Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of level of concentrate supplementation and ruminally undegraded protein on dry matter intake and milk production on Holstein cows in late (Exp1) and early (Exp2) lactation. In each experiments, eighth (8) Holstein cows wer…