As Estruturas Elementares do Parentesco, de Claude Lévi-Strauss

Levi-strauss, Claude

Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theories have been fundamental to the renewal of modern anthropology, in particular the study of kinship systems, totemism, classification, and mythology. Throughout his works, he has sought to understand the functioning of so-called “primitive” modes of thought. In opposition to the theories formulated by influential predecessors such as Lucien LévyBruhl, he has revealed ...

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Le legs de Claude Bernard

The French noun Legs can be translated either as "legacy" or as "bequest". The title of the present volume implies both meanings. The book is, in one sense, an interpretation of the legacy left to posterity by the experimental discoveries and the thoughts of the famous nineteenth-century French physiologist, Claude Bernard. But the word refers also to the bequest that Bernard left to future sch...

Os problemas de espalhamento quântico em potenciais elementares

Neste trabalho estudamos o espalhamento quântico de uma partícula por um potencial generalizado que engloba em si todas as formas de potenciais retangulares unidimensionais. Neste contexto nós calculamos as probabilidades de reflexão e transmissão de uma partícula incidente sobre este potencial generalizado e avaliamos os efeitos de sua assimetria na transmissão dessa partícula através dele par...

Claude Bernard, Cahier de Notes 1850–1860

the discovery of antitoxins (von Behring and Kitasato), the standardization of toxins and anti-toxins, the distinction between active and passive immunization (Ehrlich), bacteriolysis (Pfeiffer), haemolysis, agglutination of blood corpuscles as a diagnostic test, the opsonic index, and prophylaxis and treatment of many diseases by vaccines. In certain diseases, for example, cerebro-spinal menin...