Fear and adventure tourism in Brazil

The search for new non-routine emotions and sensations has become a decisive factor in taking part in adventure tourism. As Barros and Dines (2000) have pointed out, Brazil's natural resources are abundant and have been widely used to promote the nation's tourism. Empirical literature describes fear as one of the main emotions in adventure activities, and for this reason a questionnaire was designed to examine the presence of fear before and after three adventure activities (parachuting, white-water rafting, and rock-climbing). This study not only aimed to consolidate fear as a fundamental emotion in performing such activities but also to stimulate interest for further studies in this area. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Serviço social, educação e complexidade: um diálogo com o homo complexus professor

Pós-graduação em Serviço Social - FCHS

A interface da arte e do bem-estar na promoção da saúde na terceira idade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Plasma Steroid Dynamics in Late- and Near-term Naturally and Artificially Conceived Bovine Pregnancies as Elucidated by Multihormone High-resolution LC-MS/MS

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Conceptual spaces and consciousness: Integrating cognitive and affective processes

In the book Conceptual Spaces: the Geometry of Thought [2000] Peter Gärdenfors proposes a new framework for cognitive science. Complementary to symbolic and subsymbolic [connectionist] descriptions, conceptual spaces are semantic structures constructed from empirical data representing the universe of mental states. We argue that Gärdenfors' modeling can be used in consciousness research to describe the phenomenal conscious world, its elements and their intrinsic relations. The conceptual space approach affords the construction of a universal state space of human consciousness, where all possible kinds of human conscious states could be mapped. Starting from this approach, we discuss the inclusion of feelings and emotions in conceptual spaces, and their relation to perceptual and cognitive states. Current debate on integration of affect/emotion and perception/cognition allows three possible descriptive alternatives: emotion resulting from basic cognition; cognition resulting from basic emotion, and both as relatively independent functions integrated by brain mechanisms. Finding a solution for this issue is an important step in any attempt of successful modeling of natural or artificial consciousness. After making a brief review of proposals in this area, we summarize the essentials of a new model of consciousness based on neuro-astroglial interactions. © 2011 World Scientific Publishing Company.

Convergência de linguagens nas artes visuais: cinema, vídeo, teatro e internet

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Teatro Ventoforte de 1985 a 1995: a formação de um artista e arte-educador

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

A representação do feio na arte: um breve estudo sobre quatro gravuras de Francisco Goya

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Território contemporâneo em jogo: uma proposta lúdica para o ensino da arte

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Arte, vida e formação de professores

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Arte em cerâmica e a memória como elemento criativo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

AR | RA: a arte na realidade aumentada

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Questões preliminares sobre aspectos do vazio na arte contemporânea

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Avaliação do ensino e aprendizagem em arte: o lugar do aluno como sujeito da avaliação

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Infografia impressa: a aplicação de tecnologias digitais na construção de estampas artísticas

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA