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the achieving society

  • 1 achieve

    transitive verb
    zustande bringen; ausführen [Aufgabe, Plan]; erreichen [Ziel, Standard, Absicht]; herstellen, herbeiführen [Frieden, Harmonie]; erzielen [Rekord, Leistung, Erfolg]; erfüllen [Zweck]
    * * *
    [ə' i:v]
    (to gain or reach successfully: He has achieved his ambition.) erreichen
    - academic.ru/460/achievement">achievement
    * * *
    [əˈtʃi:v]
    I. vt
    ▪ to \achieve sth etw erreichen
    to \achieve nothing/something nichts/etwas erreichen [o ausrichten
    to \achieve an aim ein Ziel erreichen
    to \achieve fame Ruhm erlangen
    to \achieve success Erfolg erzielen
    to \achieve a victory einen Sieg erringen
    I'll never \achieve anything ich werde es nie zu etwas bringen
    II. vi erfolgreich sein
    * * *
    [ə'tʃiːv]
    1. vt
    erreichen, schaffen; success erzielen; victory erringen; rank also, title erlangen

    he will never achieve anything — er wird es nie zu etwas bringen

    2. vi (PSYCH, SOCIOL)
    leisten

    the achieving society — die Leistungsgesellschaft

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    achieve [əˈtʃiːv]
    A v/t
    1. vollbringen, leisten, zustande bringen, ausführen, schaffen
    2. (mühsam) erlangen, erringen
    3. das Ziel erreichen, einen Erfolg erzielen, einen Zweck erfüllen oder erreichen
    4. obs zu Ende bringen
    B v/i erfolgreich sein ( in a field auf einem Gebiet)
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    transitive verb
    zustande bringen; ausführen [Aufgabe, Plan]; erreichen [Ziel, Standard, Absicht]; herstellen, herbeiführen [Frieden, Harmonie]; erzielen [Rekord, Leistung, Erfolg]; erfüllen [Zweck]
    * * *
    v.
    ausführen v.
    bewerkstelligen v.
    erhalten v.
    erreichen v.
    leisten v.
    vollenden v.

    English-german dictionary > achieve

  • 2 Siemens, Sir Charles William

    [br]
    b. 4 April 1823 Lenthe, Germany
    d. 19 November 1883 London, England
    [br]
    German/British metallurgist and inventory pioneer of the regenerative principle and open-hearth steelmaking.
    [br]
    Born Carl Wilhelm, he attended craft schools in Lübeck and Magdeburg, followed by an intensive course in natural science at Göttingen as a pupil of Weber. At the age of 19 Siemens travelled to England and sold an electroplating process developed by his brother Werner Siemens to Richard Elkington, who was already established in the plating business. From 1843 to 1844 he obtained practical experience in the Magdeburg works of Count Stolburg. He settled in England in 1844 and later assumed British nationality, but maintained close contact with his brother Werner, who in 1847 had co-founded the firm Siemens \& Halske in Berlin to manufacture telegraphic equipment. William began to develop his regenerative principle of waste-heat recovery and in 1856 his brother Frederick (1826–1904) took out a British patent for heat regeneration, by which hot waste gases were passed through a honeycomb of fire-bricks. When they became hot, the gases were switched to a second mass of fire-bricks and incoming air and fuel gas were led through the hot bricks. By alternating the two gas flows, high temperatures could be reached and considerable fuel economies achieved. By 1861 the two brothers had incorporated producer gas fuel, made by gasifying low-grade coal.
    Heat regeneration was first applied in ironmaking by Cowper in 1857 for heating the air blast in blast furnaces. The first regenerative furnace was set up in Birmingham in 1860 for glassmaking. The first such furnace for making steel was developed in France by Pierre Martin and his father, Emile, in 1863. Siemens found British steelmakers reluctant to adopt the principle so in 1866 he rented a small works in Birmingham to develop his open-hearth steelmaking furnace, which he patented the following year. The process gradually made headway; as well as achieving high temperatures and saving fuel, it was slower than Bessemer's process, permitting greater control over the content of the steel. By 1900 the tonnage of open-hearth steel exceeded that produced by the Bessemer process.
    In 1872 Siemens played a major part in founding the Society of Telegraph Engineers (from which the Institution of Electrical Engineers evolved), serving as its first President. He became President for the second time in 1878. He built a cable works at Charlton, London, where the cable could be loaded directly into the holds of ships moored on the Thames. In 1873, together with William Froude, a British shipbuilder, he designed the Faraday, the first specialized vessel for Atlantic cable laying. The successful laying of a cable from Europe to the United States was completed in 1875, and a further five transatlantic cables were laid by the Faraday over the following decade.
    The Siemens factory in Charlton also supplied equipment for some of the earliest electric-lighting installations in London, including the British Museum in 1879 and the Savoy Theatre in 1882, the first theatre in Britain to be fully illuminated by electricity. The pioneer electric-tramway system of 1883 at Portrush, Northern Ireland, was an opportunity for the Siemens company to demonstrate its equipment.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1883. FRS 1862. Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1853. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1872. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers 1872 and 1878. President, British Association 1882.
    Bibliography
    27 May 1879, British patent no. 2,110 (electricarc furnace).
    1889, The Scientific Works of C.William Siemens, ed. E.F.Bamber, 3 vols, London.
    Further Reading
    W.Poles, 1888, Life of Sir William Siemens, London; repub. 1986 (compiled from material supplied by the family).
    S.von Weiher, 1972–3, "The Siemens brothers. Pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45:1–11 (a short, authoritative biography). S.von Weihr and H.Goetler, 1983, The Siemens Company. Its Historical Role in the
    Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, English edn, Berlin (a scholarly account with emphasis on technology).
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Siemens, Sir Charles William

  • 3 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson

    [br]
    b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, England
    d. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.
    [br]
    At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.
    Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.
    Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.
    Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.
    Bibliography
    2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).
    24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).
    1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).
    Further Reading
    M.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).
    R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEE
    Electronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson

  • 4 ontólogo

    m.
    ontologist.
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    Ex. So, whereas ontologists may once have shied away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be paid to ontology.
    * * *

    Ex: So, whereas ontologists may once have shied away from practical problems, now the practicalities of achieving cohesion in an information-based society demand that attention must be paid to ontology.

    Spanish-English dictionary > ontólogo

  • 5 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Introduction

  • 6 Bell, Revd Patrick

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    b. 1799 Auchterhouse, Scotland
    d. 22 April 1869 Carmyllie, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor of the first successful reaping machine.
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    The son of a Forfarshire tenant farmer, Patrick Bell obtained an MA from the University of St Andrews. His early association with farming kindled an interest in engineering and mechanics and he was to maintain a workshop not only on his father's farm, but also, in later life, at the parsonage at Carmyllie.
    He was still studying divinity when he invented his reaping machine. Using garden shears as the basis of his design, he built a model in 1827 and a full-scale prototype the following year. Not wishing the machine to be seen during his early experiments, he and his brother planted a sheaf of oats in soil laid out in a shed, and first tried the machine on this. It cut well enough but left the straw in a mess behind it. A canvas belt system was devised and another secret trial in the barn was followed by a night excursion into a field, where corn was successfully harvested.
    Two machines were at work during 1828, apparently achieving a harvest rate of one acre per hour. In 1832 there were ten machines at work, and at least another four had been sent to the United States by this time. Despite their success Bell did not patent his design, feeling that the idea should be given free to the world. In later years he was to regret the decision, feeling that the many badly-made imitations resulted in its poor reputation and prevented its adoption.
    Bell's calling took precedence over his inventive interests and after qualifying he went to Canada in 1833, spending four years in Fergus, Ontario. He later returned to Scotland and be-came the minister at Carmyllie, with a living of £150 per annum.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Late in the day he was honoured for his part in the development of the reaping machine. He received an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews and in 1868 a testimonial and £1,000 raised by public subscription by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.
    Bibliography
    1854, Journal of Agriculture (perhaps stung by other claims, Bell wrote his own account).
    Further Reading
    G.Quick and W.Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (gives an account of the development of harvesting machinery).
    L.J.Jones, 1979, History of Technology, pp. 101–48 (gives a critical assessment of the various claims regarding the originality of the invention).
    51–69 (provides a celebration of Bell's achievement on its centenary).
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Bell, Revd Patrick

  • 7 Art

       Portugal did not produce an artist of sufficient ability to gain recognition outside the country until the 19th century. Domingos Antônio Segueira (1768-1837) became well known in Europe for his allegorical religious and historical paintings in a neoclassical style. Portuguese painting during the 19th century emphasized naturalism and did not keep abreast of artistic innovations being made in other European countries. Portugal's best painters lived abroad especially in France. The most successful was Amadeo Souza- Cardoso who, while living in Paris, worked with the modernists Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. Souza-Cardoso introduced modernism into Portuguese painting in the early 20th century. A sustained modernist movement did not develop in Portugal, however. Naturalism remained the dominant school, and Portugal remained isolated from international artistic trends, owing to Portugal's conservative artistic climate, which prevented new forms of art from taking root, and the lack of support from an artistically sophisticated, art-buying elite supported by a system of galleries and foundations.
       Interestingly, it was during the conservative Estado Novo that modernism began to take root in Portugal. As Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's secretary for national propaganda, Antônio Ferro, a writer, journalist, and cultural leader who admired Mussolini, encouraged the government to allow modern artists to create the heroic imagery of the Estado Novo following the Italian model that linked fascism with futurism. The most important Portuguese artist of this period was Almada Negreiros, who did the murals on the walls of the legendary café A Brasileira in the Chiado district of Lisbon, the paintings at the Exposition of the Portuguese World (1940), and murals at the Lisbon docks. Other artists of note during this period included Mário Eloy (1900-51), who was trained in Germany and influenced by George Grosz and Otto Dix; Domingos Alvarez (1906-42); and Antônio Pedro (1909-66).
       During the 1950s, the Estado Novo ceased to encourage artists to collaborate, as Portuguese artists became more critical of the regime. The return to Portugal of Antônio Pedro in 1947 led to the emergence of a school of geometric abstract painting in Oporto and the reawakening of surrealism. The art deco styles of the 1930s gave way to surrealism and abstract expression.
       In the 1960s, links between Portugal's artistic community and the international art world strengthened. Conscription for the wars against the nationalist insurgencies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-75) resulted in a massive exodus of Portugal's avante-garde artists to Europe to avoid military service. While abroad, artists such as Joaquin Rodrigo (1912-93), Paula Rego (1935-), João Cutileiro (1947-), and others forged links with British, French, Italian, and Spanish artistic communities.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 created a crisis for Portugal's artists. The market for works of art collapsed as left-wing governments, claiming that they had more important things to do (eliminate poverty, improve education), withdrew support for the arts. Artists declared their talents to be at the "service of the people," and a brief period of socialist realism prevailed. With the return of political stability and moderate governments during the 1980s, Portugal's commercial art scene revived, and a new period of creativity began. Disenchantment with the socialist realism (utopianism) of the Revolution and a deepening of individualism began to be expressed by Portuguese artists. Investment in the arts became a means of demonstrating one's wealth and social status, and an unprecedented number of art galleries opened, art auctions were held, and a new generation of artists became internationally recognized. In 1984, a museum of modern art was built by the Gulbenkian Foundation adjacent to its offices on the Avenida de Berna in Lisbon. A national museum of modern art was finally built in Oporto in 1988.
       In the 1980s, Portugal's new generation of painters blended post-conceptualism and subjectivism, as well as a tendency toward decon-structionism/reconstructionism, in their work. Artists such as Cabrita Reis (1956-), Pedro Calapez (1953-), José Pedro Croft (1957-), Rui Sanches (1955-), and José de Guimarães (1949-) gained international recognition during this period. Guimarães crosses African art themes with Western art; Sarmento invokes images of film, culture, photography, American erotica, and pulp fiction toward sex, violence, and pleasure; Reis evolved from a painter to a maker of installation artist using chipboard, plaster, cloth, glass, and electrical and plumbing materials.
       From the end of the 20th century and during the early years of the 21st century, Portugal's art scene has been in a state of crisis brought on by a declining art trade and a withdrawal of financial support by conservative governments. Although not as serious as the collapse of the 1970s, the current situation has divided the Portuguese artistic community between those, such as Cerveira Pito and Leonel Moura, who advocate a return to using primitive, strongly textured techniques and others such as João Paulo Feliciano (1963-), who paint constructivist works that poke fun at the relationship between art, money, society, and the creative process. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, the factors that have prevented Portuguese art from achieving and sustaining international recognition (the absence of a strong art market, depending too much on official state support, and the individualistic nature of Portuguese art production) are still to be overcome.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Art

  • 8 achievement

    noun
    1) no pl. see academic.ru/459/achieve">achieve: Zustandebringen, das; Ausführung, die; Erreichen, das; Herstellung, die; Herbeiführung, die; Erzielen, das; Erfüllung, die
    2) (thing accomplished) Leistung, die; Errungenschaft, die
    * * *
    noun his academic achievements; the achievement of his ambition.) die Leistung
    * * *
    achieve·ment
    [əˈtʃi:vmənt]
    n
    1. (feat) Leistung f (in in + dat)
    intellectual \achievement geistige Errungenschaft
    \achievements in science Leistungen pl [in] der Wissenschaft
    a great/remarkable \achievement eine große/bemerkenswerte Leistung
    scientific \achievement wissenschaftliche Errungenschaft
    2. no pl (achieving) Erreichen nt, Erlangen nt
    \achievement of an aim Erreichen nt eines Ziels
    \achievement of a victory Erringen nt eines Sieges
    3. SCH (progress) Leistung f
    \achievement quotient Leistungsquotient m
    \achievement test Leistungstest m
    * * *
    [ə'tʃiːvmənt]
    n
    1) (act) Erreichen nt; (of success) Erzielen nt; (of victory) Erringen nt; (of rank also, title) Erlangen nt

    achievement-oriented —

    2) (= thing achieved) (of individual) Leistung f; (of society, civilization, technology) Errungenschaft f

    for his many achievements — für seine zahlreichen Verdienste

    achievement quotient/test — Leistungsquotient m/-test m

    * * *
    achievement [əˈtʃiːvmənt] s
    1. Vollbringung f, Zustandebringen n, Ausführung f, Schaffung f
    2. (mühsame) Erlangung, Erringung f
    3. Erreichung f, Erzielung f, Erfüllung f
    4. (große) Tat, (große) Leistung, Werk n, Errungenschaft f: → sense A 5
    5. Heraldik: Totenschild m
    * * *
    noun
    1) no pl. see achieve: Zustandebringen, das; Ausführung, die; Erreichen, das; Herstellung, die; Herbeiführung, die; Erzielen, das; Erfüllung, die
    2) (thing accomplished) Leistung, die; Errungenschaft, die
    * * *
    n.
    Ausführung f.
    Errungenschaft f.
    Leistung -en f.
    Vollendung f.
    bedeutende Leistung f.

    English-german dictionary > achievement

  • 9 Kao, Charles Kuen

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    b. 4 November 1933 Shanghai, China
    [br]
    Chinese electrical engineer whose work on optical fibres did much to make optical communications a practical reality.
    [br]
    After the Second World War, Kao moved with his family to Hong Kong, where he went to St Joseph's College. To further his education he then moved to England, taking his "A" Levels at Woolwich Polytechnic. In 1957 he gained a BSc in electrical engineering and then joined Standard Telephones and Cables Laboratory (STL) at Harlow. Following the discovery by others in 1960 of the semiconductor laser, from 1963 Kao worked on the problems of optical communications, in particular that of achieving attenuation in optical cables low enough to make this potentially very high channel capacity form of communication a practical proposition; this problem was solved by suitable cladding of the fibres. In the process he obtained his PhD from University College, London, in 1965. From 1970 until 1974, whilst on leave from STL, he was Professor of Electronics and Department Chairman at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then in 1982–7 he was Chief Scientist and Director of Engineering with the parent company ITT in the USA. Since 1988 he has been Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1977. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Morris N.Liebmann Memorial Prize 1978; L.M.Ericsson Prize 1979. Institution of Electrical Engineers A.G.Bell Medal 1985; Faraday Medal 1989. American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials 1989.
    Bibliography
    1966, with G.A.Hockham, "Dielectric fibre surface waveguides for optical frequencies", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 113:1,151 (describes the major step in optical-fibre development).
    1982, Optical Fibre Systems. Technology, Design \& Application, New York: McGraw- Hill.
    1988, Optical Fibre, London: Peter Peregrinus.
    Further Reading
    W.B.Jones, 1988, Introduction to Optical Fibre Communications: R\&W Holt.
    KF

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  • 11 PAS

    2) Американизм: Publicly Available Specification
    5) Техника: phased array, slaved, photo acoustic spectroscopy, primary alerting system SAC, probabilistic analysis staff, public announcement service, protection and alarm systems (http://www.uran.donetsk.ua/\PASmasters/2002/eltf/kaydash/diss/diss.htm)
    6) Сельское хозяйство: Periodic Acid Schiff
    7) Юридический термин: Passive Alcohol Screening
    8) Автомобильный термин: passive anti-theft system, power assisted steering
    10) Сокращение: Payload Assist System, Performance Advisory System, Perigee-Apogee-System, Philippine And Scandinavian, Police Aviation Services Ltd (UK), Postage Assessment System (consists of scales, scanners to assess postage for items shipped from Material Distribution Centers and to sort parcels), Postal Addressing Standards, Power Available Shaft, Pregnancy Advisory Service, Production Advisory Service, Programmable Audio Synthesiser, Public Address System, Public Advertizing System, Pulse Analysis System, para-aminosalicylic acid, paraaminosalicylic acid, Profile Alignment System
    12) Электроника: Photo- Acoustic Spectroscopy
    13) Вычислительная техника: Publicly Available Specifications (ISO)
    15) Космонавтика: PanAmSat
    16) Транспорт: Passenger Accounting System, Pedal Assist System, система оповещения пассажиров (сокр. от "public address system")
    17) Фирменный знак: Premium Artist Service
    18) Экология: Percussive Arts Society
    19) Деловая лексика: Plan Action And Success, Product Approval Specification
    20) Нефтегазовая техника датчик азимутального направления скважины, Pipeline Application Software
    22) Медицинская техника: photoacoustic spectrometry
    23) Химическое оружие: Pollution abatement system, pollution abatement (system)
    26) Расширение файла: Pascal language source (Borland Pascal), Pascal language source code file (Pascal - Delphi)
    28) Психофизиология: Panic and Agoraphobia Scale
    29) Электротехника: power apparatus and systems
    30) Молекулярная биология: Per-Arnt-Sim
    31) Должность: Performance Against Standard
    32) Чат: Pretty As Sugar
    33) Аэропорты: Paros, Greece

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > PAS

  • 12 PAs

    2) Американизм: Publicly Available Specification
    5) Техника: phased array, slaved, photo acoustic spectroscopy, primary alerting system SAC, probabilistic analysis staff, public announcement service, protection and alarm systems (http://www.uran.donetsk.ua/\PASmasters/2002/eltf/kaydash/diss/diss.htm)
    6) Сельское хозяйство: Periodic Acid Schiff
    7) Юридический термин: Passive Alcohol Screening
    8) Автомобильный термин: passive anti-theft system, power assisted steering
    10) Сокращение: Payload Assist System, Performance Advisory System, Perigee-Apogee-System, Philippine And Scandinavian, Police Aviation Services Ltd (UK), Postage Assessment System (consists of scales, scanners to assess postage for items shipped from Material Distribution Centers and to sort parcels), Postal Addressing Standards, Power Available Shaft, Pregnancy Advisory Service, Production Advisory Service, Programmable Audio Synthesiser, Public Address System, Public Advertizing System, Pulse Analysis System, para-aminosalicylic acid, paraaminosalicylic acid, Profile Alignment System
    12) Электроника: Photo- Acoustic Spectroscopy
    13) Вычислительная техника: Publicly Available Specifications (ISO)
    15) Космонавтика: PanAmSat
    16) Транспорт: Passenger Accounting System, Pedal Assist System, система оповещения пассажиров (сокр. от "public address system")
    17) Фирменный знак: Premium Artist Service
    18) Экология: Percussive Arts Society
    19) Деловая лексика: Plan Action And Success, Product Approval Specification
    20) Нефтегазовая техника датчик азимутального направления скважины, Pipeline Application Software
    22) Медицинская техника: photoacoustic spectrometry
    23) Химическое оружие: Pollution abatement system, pollution abatement (system)
    26) Расширение файла: Pascal language source (Borland Pascal), Pascal language source code file (Pascal - Delphi)
    28) Психофизиология: Panic and Agoraphobia Scale
    29) Электротехника: power apparatus and systems
    30) Молекулярная биология: Per-Arnt-Sim
    31) Должность: Performance Against Standard
    32) Чат: Pretty As Sugar
    33) Аэропорты: Paros, Greece

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > PAs

  • 13 pas

    2) Американизм: Publicly Available Specification
    5) Техника: phased array, slaved, photo acoustic spectroscopy, primary alerting system SAC, probabilistic analysis staff, public announcement service, protection and alarm systems (http://www.uran.donetsk.ua/\PASmasters/2002/eltf/kaydash/diss/diss.htm)
    6) Сельское хозяйство: Periodic Acid Schiff
    7) Юридический термин: Passive Alcohol Screening
    8) Автомобильный термин: passive anti-theft system, power assisted steering
    10) Сокращение: Payload Assist System, Performance Advisory System, Perigee-Apogee-System, Philippine And Scandinavian, Police Aviation Services Ltd (UK), Postage Assessment System (consists of scales, scanners to assess postage for items shipped from Material Distribution Centers and to sort parcels), Postal Addressing Standards, Power Available Shaft, Pregnancy Advisory Service, Production Advisory Service, Programmable Audio Synthesiser, Public Address System, Public Advertizing System, Pulse Analysis System, para-aminosalicylic acid, paraaminosalicylic acid, Profile Alignment System
    12) Электроника: Photo- Acoustic Spectroscopy
    13) Вычислительная техника: Publicly Available Specifications (ISO)
    15) Космонавтика: PanAmSat
    16) Транспорт: Passenger Accounting System, Pedal Assist System, система оповещения пассажиров (сокр. от "public address system")
    17) Фирменный знак: Premium Artist Service
    18) Экология: Percussive Arts Society
    19) Деловая лексика: Plan Action And Success, Product Approval Specification
    20) Нефтегазовая техника датчик азимутального направления скважины, Pipeline Application Software
    22) Медицинская техника: photoacoustic spectrometry
    23) Химическое оружие: Pollution abatement system, pollution abatement (system)
    26) Расширение файла: Pascal language source (Borland Pascal), Pascal language source code file (Pascal - Delphi)
    28) Психофизиология: Panic and Agoraphobia Scale
    29) Электротехника: power apparatus and systems
    30) Молекулярная биология: Per-Arnt-Sim
    31) Должность: Performance Against Standard
    32) Чат: Pretty As Sugar
    33) Аэропорты: Paros, Greece

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > pas

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