Joan Maragall: creació, traducció i reescriptura

What is the role of translation in Maragall’s work? If his first goal was to bestow cultural support to Catalan literature with the addition of the European authors of Modernism, the second stage of the Catalan poet’s agenda becomes more ambitious, delving into the origins of Western literature and culminating in the translation of the Homeric Hymns. My contribution analyzes how, on the one hand, the Catalan rewriting of the works of Nietzsche, Goethe, Novalis, or Dante draws a progressive and continuous line within Maragall’s ideas; and, on the other hand, what impact these versions have on his own literary creation, through the loanwords that spread across his translations, and his poetry.

Learning Media Development using Transformative Learning Strategy Android Application as a Distance Learning Support on Static Fluid

This research aims to develop and produce an Android application using a Transformative Learning Strategy as a Distance Learning on static fluid material. The research used Research and Development (R&D) method, which refers to the Dick and Carey model. The instrument was a questionnaire using a Likert scale and analyzed with a continuous line. According to media experts, this Android application had a validation test phase with a successful percentage of 96% according to matter experts and 80%. According to learners, this application trial was conducted to 30 students of class XI MIPA and physics educators/teachers at SMA Negeri 109 Jakarta with a percentage achievement of 77% according to educators and 83.21%. Based on these results, the data showed that the Android application using Transformative Learning Strategy as a Distance Learning on static fluid material is suitable media for learning physics.

The Roman Aqueduct of Aquincum in Technological and Cultural Contexts

This article explores the technological and cultural history of the Roman aqueduct of Aquincum in Budapest. The only one in the Roman province of Pannonia that was elevated to a continuous line of arches, this aqueduct conveyed water from its source in what is now Budapest’s third district to its final destination over three miles to the south, where a Roman military town was located. Apart from the aqueduct’s technological and archaeological aspects, this article also examines several cultural practices that it engendered including the ritualistic significance of the springs that fed it, its appearance as a ruin in various medieval documents, the transformation of its last, above-ground pier into a Christian shrine in the nineteenth century, as well as the relocation of two of its piers to give way to the construction of a road junction.

Focused Patterning of Electrospun Nanofibers Using a Dielectric Guide Structure

The patterning of electrospun fibers is a key technology applicable to various fields. This study reports a novel focused patterning method for electrospun nanofibers that uses a cylindrical dielectric guide. The finite elements method (FEM) was used to analyze the electric field focusing phenomenon and ground its explanation in established theory. The horizontal and vertical electric field strengths in the simulation are shown to be key factors in determining the spatial distribution of nanofibers. The experimental results demonstrate a relationship between the size of the cylindrical dielectric guide and that of the electrospun area accumulated in the collector. By concentrating the electric field, we were able to fabricate a pattern of less than 6 mm. The demonstration of continuous line and square patterning shows that the electrospun area can be well controlled. This novel patterning method can be used in a variety of applications, such as sensors, biomedical devices, batteries, and composites.

The Biomimetic Evolution of Composite Materials: From Straw Bricks to Engineering Structures and Nanocomposites

Advanced polymer-based composite materials have revolutionized the structural material arena since their appearance some 60 years ago. Yet, despite their relatively short existence, they seem to be taken for granted as if they have always been there. One of the reasons for this state of affairs is that composite materials of various types have accompanied human history for thousands years, and their emergence in the modern era could be considered a natural evolutionary process. Nevertheless, the continuous line that leads from early days of composites in human history to current structural materials has exhibited a number of notable steps, each generating an abrupt advance toward the contemporary new science of composite materials. In this paper, I review and discuss the history of composites with emphasis on the main steps of their development.