Diversidade sexual e licenciandos em ciências biológicas: que professor formamos?

O preconceito se caracteriza como uma atitude desfavorável em relação a um indivíduo ou a um grupo, que deriva de opiniões ou crenças na direção do inferior ou negativo, sem ponderação ou conhecimento dos fatos. Ele geralmente está relacionado a características específicas, como por exemplo, a orientação sexual. O preconceito existe em toda a sociedade, sendo encontrado, também, na escola e nas universidades. A escola se caracteriza como um espaço de (re) produção da heteronormatividade, o que leva à (re) produção da homofobia. Os professores de Ciências e Biologia abordam, nos conteúdos específicos de suas disciplinas, questões referentes à sexualidade, o que faz com que se caracterizem como figuras fundamentais para promover reflexões sobre a diversidade sexual e o preconceito dentro da escola. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar e compreender elementos da representação sobre (homo) sexualidade e homofobia em alunos de um curso de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas. Licenciandos em Ciências Biológicas, num total de 69, responderam a um questionário, que foi elaborado, visando facilitar a exposição de idéias, crenças e concepções acerca da homossexualidade e da homofobia. Os resultados indicam que, embora alguns alunos encarem a homossexualidade de forma natural, inclusive condenando a homofobia, muitas vezes a aparente naturalidade encobre concepções preconceituosas e heteronormativas; mostrando que o preconceito velado ou implícito está presente nos discursos e crenças de licenciandos em Ciências Biológicas. Em alguns itens do questionário foi possível perceber ainda concepções explicitamente preconceituosas. Faz-se necessária, portanto, uma reflexão nas instituições formadoras de professores, que leve à reformulação dos cursos de licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas, ....(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)

Análise comparativa entre a produção de biogás em aterro controlado e variações no potencial elétrico natural por meio de perfilagem geofísica

This work aims to analyze data from a Natural Electric Potential landfill type ditch located in Cordeirópolis (SP). The procedure measures initially involved the assembly and installation of an apparatus cables, sensors and drain geophysical measurements and flow rate of biogas in a ditch later filled by solid waste. Biogas is a product of degradation of organic matter in waste by the action of microorganisms in an anaerobic environment. Its features high methane content in the gas potentially usable as fuel in energy generation systems or steam. The study area is characterized by clayey soil composition change from the diabase sill correlated to the event Serra Geral Formation siltstones overlapping Tatuí with groundwater level site around 50m. The cables were installed vertically in parallel with drain gas manifold, which allowed the collection of data by the technique geophysical logging every 15 days over a period of eight months. For data analysis we used four parameters in the study, the closing time of the ditch, natural electric potential, the flow velocity of biogas and rain. With the tabulated data plots were constructed for each collection day showing values in the range of the cable is in contact with waste (200 cm - 400 cm) and range of the cable in contact with the soil (600 cm - 800 cm). Subsequently graphs were generated with the period of eight months to analyze the data tabulated. A statistical correlation data, which show the influence of rainfall on the production of biogas. The results were satisfactory and demonstrated the feasibility of the research method in studies for the feasibility analysis for the capture of biogas energy

Tubo digestório de diplópodos e sua aplicabilidade em estudos de toxicidade de solos: uma revisão

Diplópodos são animais detritívoros sendo considerados importantes macro-artrópodos do solo, desempenhando importante papel na manutenção do equilíbrio do ecossistema. Comumente não apresentam população numerosa, mas desequilíbrios ambientais, mudanças climáticas e utilização de pesticidas podem eliminar possíveis competidores ocasionando explosões populacionais. Dotados de um corpo cilíndrico com 25 a 100 segmentos com cutícula; o exoesqueleto da maioria dos diplópodos é fortemente calcificado. Possuem diplossegmentos que se originam da fusão entre dois segmentos durante o desenvolvimento e a grande parte destes diplossegmentos apresenta dois pares de pernas, de onde deriva o nome Diplopoda. O tubo digestório destes animais é formado por três regiões: o intestino anterior, o médio e o posterior. Trabalhos com morfologia do tubo digestório de milípides são raros e na maioria antigos. Assim, este trabalho de conclusão de curso objetivou realizar uma revisão bibliográfica sobre as descrições morfológicas existentes sobre o tubo digestório de diplópodos visando rever a nomenclatura utilizada para os diferentes componentes presentes nas regiões que o compõem, principalmente para o tecido presente na região do intestino médio denominada até então de camada de “corpo gorduroso” constituinte do intestino médio. Foi intuito também, rever a utilização do tubo digestório de diplópodos como biomarcador em bioensaios de solos impactados. Após a revisão dos dados na literatura, ficou claro que a camada presente no intestino médio de diplópodos, denominada de “corpo gorduroso”, na realidade é constituída por células hepáticas, as quais foram descritas na literatura como sendo de distribuição aleatória, sem formar uma camada contínua

Modelagem e avaliação de um sistema de refrigeração por absorção para residências e instalações de pequeno porte

This work presents a study of the absorption refrigeration system and the modeling and evaluation of two cycles using the binary solutions water-lithium bromide and ammonia-water for an equipment to be used in small size plants like residences. The study and evaluation aims the complete understanding of all parts of the system and the influence of each one of them as well as the spread of the knowledge to raise the use of this type of equipment in all sizes in order to decrease the energetic consumption of plants of all scales and making viable the alternative sources. The study is done in each element of the cycle separately and in some auxiliary equipments required in the operation such as the main power source, the solar collector. The software used for modeling, with emphasis on thermal part, was the EES (Engineering Equation Solver), that permitted the thermal balance calculus and acquisition of the used fluids properties. The results obtained for the equipment shows the system is more complex than the widely used in business, however, it can be viable and represents an alternative to increase the energetic efficiency

Estudo da ação do inseticida Tiametoxam na sobrevivência e no comportamento de operárias de Apis mellifera L., 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) em diferentes idades

The bee Apis mellifera has a great importance because it is the most economically valuable pollinator for crops worldwide, ensuring cross-pollination and increasing fruit yield. Moreover, agriculture increasingly develops chemicals to control weeds, fungi and insect pests to ensure productivity. Insecticides are used on a large scale in the state of São Paulo, in cultures of citrus for control of greening. Applications are usually made by aircraft and as a result of the effect derives a significant mortality is observed in apiaries near the plantations. Honey bees can get in contact with such chemical agent through their activities of water harvesting, plant resins, pollen and nectar. Intoxication resulting from this exposure can be lethal, which is easily detectable, or cause effects on the physiology and behavior of the insect. These, in turn are hardly detectable, such as paralysis, disorientation, behavioral changes, but can compromise the entire social structure of the colony, therefore aimed to study the effects of the insecticide Thiamethoxam behavior of honeybees A. mellifera. Newly emerged individuals and with 10 days of age were tested. Applications of 1 μL de Thiamethoxam, diluted in acetone, were made on the dorsal thorax with a microapplicator. Preliminarily, it was observed LD50 twenty four hours after topical treatment of Thiamethoxam. It was found that the LD50 for newly emerged honeybees is 8 ng/bee and for honeybees with 10 days of age is 18 ng/bee. The behaviors were analyzed 1 hour after application of insecticide at doses corresponding to LD50/100, LD50/50, LD50/10 and LD50, besides the control group. In the test reflex proboscis extension, there was impairment of behavior at doses of 8 and 18 ng/bee workers in newly emerged workers and 10 days of age, respectively. And in locomotor behavior was no change only at a dose of 18 ng/bee workers at 10 days of age... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Grãos em carbonatos marinhos cretácicos da Bacia Potiguar: formações Ponta do Mel e Jandaíra

This work aims to identify and photograph grains that compose important Cretaceous carbonate units of the Potiguar Basin, represented by the Ponta do Mel and Jandaíra formations (Albian-Campanian). Petrographic investigation of thin sections was essential. The samples studied come from wells and surface samples from the collection UNESPetro – UNESP, Rio Claro. In the Ponta do Mel Formation, the grains consist of ooids, oncoids, peloids and bioclasts. Regarding to the identified bioclasts, the solenoporacean red algae, mollusks (bivalves and gastropods), echinoids, foraminifera, ostracods and worms were the dominant elements. In the Jandaíra Formation, the grains are composed by ooids, peloids and bioclasts, which are represented by green algae, mollusks (bivalves and gastropods), benthic foraminifera miliolids, worms, echinoderms and ostracods. The grains found in the Ponta do Mel Formation are somewhat similar to those found in the Jandaíra Formation, with the exception of calcareous algae. The subsurface material from the Ponta do Mel Formation is derived from the upper part of the unit, representing marine high-energy carbonates, which also contains ooids and Trocholina. The samples of Jandaíra Formation, collected in outcrops, often contain green algae, mollusks and miliolids, and come from inner shelf and lagoon facies previously described

Fatores que interferem nas taxas de recuperação embrionária em éguas

The success in implementing an embryo transfer program derives from many factors. The embryo recovery rate is one of the most important factors, and allows the transfer to the recipient mare. This rate comes from a group of elements such as donor´s characteristics, collection date, reproductive management, semen quality, technician skill. Mainly because of the great importance of this direct interference on the results of an embryo recovery program, this study aimed to review the factors involved in embryo recovery rates in donor mares during an embryo transfer, suggesting some ways of improving these results

Aplicação de produtos fitossanitários na cultura dos citros utilizando pulverizador envolvente

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Produção Vegetal) - FCAV

Obtenção de compósitos nanoestruturados PSU/nanotubos de carbono pela técnica de eletrofiação

The nanostructured materials over the last decade have been increasing the variety of studies and research applications in many industries. From the understanding and manipulation of nanoscale is possible to obtain high-performance materials. One method, which has been very effective in obtaining of nanostructured composites, is the electrospinning, a technique that uses electrostatic forces to produce fibers from a polymer solution. By understanding and controlling of process conditions, such as solution viscosity, working distance, the velocity of the collector, applied voltage and others conditions, it is possible to obtain fibers in many different morphologies. This work aims to obtain nanostructured composites from polysulfone (PSU) a thermoplastic polymer with high oxidation resistance and good mechanical strength at high temperatures and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are excellent reinforcements for polymer materials, their mechanical resistance is greater than that of all known materials; using the electrospinning process via polymer solution. Were used polysulfone solutions, n,n-ndimetil acetamide (PSU / DMAc) and this same solution added of CNTs in order to obtain the nanofibers. In both cases were analyzed the effectiveness of the process from the analysis of fiber diameters, rheological behavior and infrared spectroscopy. The results obtained confirmed the efficiency of the electrospinning process to obtain polymeric fibers

Incorporação da apatita na superfície da liga Ti30ta empregando tratamento alcalino associado à eletrofiação de fibras de PCL

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Geração de indicadores de produção e citação científica em revistas de Ciência da Informação: estudo aplicado à base de dados BRAPCI

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Informação - FFC

Avaliação da autozigosidade em vacas Nelore (Bos indicus) através de genótipos SNP de alta densidade

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

Estudo da viabilidade de implantação de plantas para conversão de energia térmica do oceano (OTEC) no Brasil

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEIS

Análise de pedigree e estimativas de parâmetros genéticos para características reprodutivas em bovinos da raça Brahman

Pós-graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia Animal - FEIS

Blogs para adolescentes e a articulação dos PCNs na produção escrileitora do ensino médio

The new National Curriculum of Basic Education in Brazil Parameters (PCNs- br) propose the curriculum reformulation of the High School in thematic areas encompassing competences and abilities. In this aspect the goal of this article is to verify the effects and meaning of the speeches posted on Folhateen's Blog (http://blogdofolha teen.folha.blog.uol.com.br/), to analyze if the practices of reading and writing, taken in this application, can be contemplated on the basic goals of the PCNs from the Languages area, codes and its technologies. It wonders of the using of media blogs for High School students as articulators of the Portuguese Language contents' study. It is possible to verify that the blogs offer its own languages and the expression of knowledge and power. They put the high school student before the articulation of several cross-cutting themes that promotes the interdisciplinarity. It points the need of a teacher's support so in a matted discursive voices the student won't be distracted, drift and paraphrase, but the interpretation and "new" methods of reading and polysemy. The theoretical framework is composed by the authors Foucault, Pecheux, Orlandi and Coracini.