Democracia conectada: a internet como ferramenta de engajamento político-democrático

Em um cenário protagonizado no mundo digital, diversos tipos de dispositivos se tornaram ferramentas vitais para o registro de eventos e notícias, usados pela sociedade, inclusive a brasileira, para o compartilhamento de informações e para promoverem um maior grau de participação e engajamento em questões de interesse público. Esta contribuição torna-se mais evidente com o uso de redes sociais e plataformas de consulta pública na rede, representativas de uma esfera pública conectada e com potencial democrático significativo. Pretende-se, nesta obra, observando o engajamento político-democrático na esfera pública on-line, investigar o potencial e os limites deste novo espaço na busca pela compreensão da efetiva eficácia em se permitir que o povo tenha mais voz e ferramentas de mobilização e pressão à sua disposição, mas também, no vetor oposto, que o sistema político busque maior legitimidade e transparência perante a sociedade por meio de ferramentas digitais.

Diretor da FGV-DAPP apresenta pesquisa de imigração durante seminário

O Diretor da FGV-DAPP, Marco Aurélio Ruediger, e pesquisadores da unidade participaram no dia 1º do seminário “Imigração como vetor de Desenvolvimento do Brasil”, em Brasília, realizado em parceria com a FGV Projetos e o Ministério do Trabalho e da Previdência Social (MTPS). Participando da sessão de abertura, o Diretor da DAPP apresentou os resultados gerais da pesquisa realizada para o Ministério, em mesa que contou ainda com a participação de Peter Poschen, Diretor da Organização Internacional do Trabalho Brasil; Beto Vasconcelos, Secretário Nacional de Justiça (Ministério da Justiça); e Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Presidente do Conselho Nacional de Imigração (CNIg).

Haitianos graduados têm mais dificuldade para se empregar que outros imigrantes, diz FGV

O levantamento da FGV, coordenado por Marco Aurélio Ruediger, foi feito a pedido do governo. Seu resultado será debatido na terça-feira em Brasília, com parte das discussões do seminário "Imigração como Vetor de Desenvolvimento do Brasil".

Oscar Vilhena: direitos humanos e empresas

Fala do professor Oscar Vilhena, diretor da Direito GV, durante a oficina de lançamento da Iniciativa Desenvolvimento Local & Grandes Empreendimentos (ID Local), em parceria com a Childhood Brasil. Vilhena fala sobre direitos humanos e direitos da criança e do adolescente. O tema é abordado pelo GVces como um vetor de promoção desenvolvimento em regiões afetadas por grandes empreendimentos

O impacto nos balanços dos intermediários financeiros das ações de política monetária no Brasil

O trabalho busca verificar como as ações da política monetária impactam as instituições financeiras e, por conseguinte o setor real da economia, para tal procura-se também ter o entendimento dos mecanismos de transmissão econômica, com destaque da utilização do canal do crédito. O objetivo principal é analisar o papel das instituições financeiras através de suas ações junto ao restante dos agentes da economia. Como essas instituições são impactadas? Para isso, dividimos a análise em quatro tipos de bancos (comerciais privados, comerciais públicos, investimento e BNDES). Com esse intuito estudamos o impacto da Selic sobre duas classes especificas do balanço financeiro: ativo e patrimônio líquido, sobre o índice de ações IBR-X, assim como o efeito dos choques em componentes macroeconômicos, em específico: produto, investimento e consumo também sobre ativo e patrimônio líquido. Para tal aplicamos a técnica econométrica VAR (Vetor Autoregressivo) para dados mensais da economia brasileira entre 2003 e 2014. Não encontramos nenhum resultado estatisticamente significante sobre o impacto da Selic nos ativos e patrimônio líquido das instituições financeiras utilizadas no estudo, assim como para o impacto nas variáveis macroeconômicas produto, consumo e investimento sobre as mesmas classes contábeis. Para o impacto da Selic sobre o IBR-X encontramos que ao contrário do observado sobre os ativos e patrimônio líquido dos agentes financeiros, um choque da Selic sobre o IBR-X possui um efeito negativo e estatisticamente significante.

Dependência Linear

Esta videoaula explica sobre a dependência linear, ou seja, um tipo de relação entre os vetores de um conjunto. Um conjunto de vetores é linearmente dependente se, e só se, um dos vetores do conjunto for combinação linear dos demais vetores do conjunto. Assim, quando escrevemos um vetor como combinação linear e seus coeficientes são todos nulos, ele é linearmente dependente. Quando não existe relação linear entre os vetores diz-se que o conjunto é linearmente independente

Solução Geral de Sistema Linear

Quando a matriz de um sistema linear se encontra na forma escalonada reduzida por linhas é fácil escrever sua solução nesse sistema. Assim, esta videoaula explica como obter a solução geral apresentando as metodologias que serão usadas dependendo de cada caso e as maneiras distintas de achar uma solução geral de um sistema.

Gerenciamento de Entrada e Saída

O material apresenta a estrutura geral de um subsistema de Entrada/Saída, seus princípios do tratamento e complexidade. Destaca assuntos como: Hardware de E/S; Estrutura típica do barramento do PC; Comunicação entre CPU e controladoras; Endereços de algumas portas de I/O do PC; E/S programada – Polling; E/S por Interrupções; e Vetor de eventos do Intel Pentium. O material também trata do Acesso Direto à Memória e a operação de transferência por DMA; os dispositivos de Rede; as operações do subsistema de E/S (Escalonamento, Buferização, Caching, Spooling, Reserva de dispositivo); o tratamento de erros e as operações que podem estar sujeitas a falhas; e por fim, tratamento de requisições de E/S e o ciclo de vida de uma requisição de E/S.

Património musical madeirense: a preservação da identidade através do currículo

O objetivo do presente estudo consiste em perceber o papel do currículo na preservação da identidade cultural. O estudo justifica-se pelo seu contributo original no campo do currículo, mediante uma investigação pioneira e inédita no que diz respeito à articulação entre o currículo, a identidade e o património musical madeirense. Para compreender aquele processo, recorremos a um trabalho de campo, caracterizado por um estudo exploratório, sob a égide da abordagem qualitativa, abrangendo todos os professores de Educação Musical da Região Autónoma da Madeira. Como instrumentos de recolha, assinalamos: observação de conferências e a análise das planificações no âmbito do projeto Regionalização do Currículo de Educação Musical (RCEM), entrevistas semiestruturadas, inquérito por questionário e análise documental. Os dados foram submetidos à análise de conteúdo, organizados em seis categorias, e os dados quantitativos foram analisados através de uma grelha do programa excel. Dos resultados do estudo, evidenciamos: reconhecimento da importância da construção curricular local; integração de componentes regionais e locais no currículo como prática comum a todos os professores; valorização das atividades práticas e dos saberes dos alunos, constitui um vetor importante para a motivação; constatação de uma boa adesão pela maioria dos alunos às propostas naquele âmbito; reconhecimento de que as novas sonoridades são um fator de motivação; reconhecimento de carência de formação no âmbito do projeto RCEM; conhecimento e utilização de vários materiais pedagógicos no âmbito do projeto RCEM; existência de um conhecimento geral do património imaterial madeirense; conhecimento da grande maioria das instituições e grupos culturais musicais e da sua importância na pesquisa e divulgação do património; constatação de uma fraca colaboração entre aquelas instituições e a escola; reconhecimento de que a cultura demarca a identidade; constatação de que a música é um veículo de identidade; reconhecimento de que música madeirense representa um legado histórico; reconhecimento de que educação ajuda a formar a identidade do aluno, considerando que o currículo é um documento de identidade. Estes resultados sustentam a posição da educação, através do currículo, como vetor de transmissão cultural e formação da identidade.

Influência de fatores ambientais na Leishmaniose visceral no Rio Grande do Norte

The Visceral Leishmaniose (LV) disease is endemic in some places in Brazil. It is caused by the protozoa Leishmania chagasi, being transmitted for vector, the phlebotomies, Lutzomyia longipalpis. In virtue of the expansion of the illness in Rio Grande do Norte, it is necessary to evaluate the determinative ambient factors in the proliferation of the vector for better control of the illness. The variable rainfall and the social variables had been analyzed using space regression with two models and the ambient variable of ZANE and the variables analyzed in 205 houses in the cities of Natal, Extremoz, Nísia Floresta, São Gonçalo do Amarante, São Jose do Mipibu, Parnamirim and Macaíba the Person and ML Chi-square were used . The analyses had shown that high rainfall, plain relief, the forest, the humid tropical climate the activities of production culture of sugar cane and fruit culture and the presence of bovines increase the risk of the LV. The work showed that it has space aggregation and that ambient factors influence in the LV in the State

Resposta imune à saliva de flebotomíneos (diptera: psychodidae) em indivíduos residentes em áreas urbana e periurbana no nordeste do brasil

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) has a wide geographical distribution in tropical and subtropical areas of the planet, which is a protozoan parasite of the genus Leishmania. This pathogen is transmitted to the host through the sandflies bite, with its saliva, the immune response that leads to both. In the state of Rio Grande do Norte, 85% of the sand flies captured is Lutzomyia longipalpis, but the second most abundant, Lutzomyia evandroi, it deserves emphasis because its wide distribution and eclectic behavior. The exposure of people living in endemic areas for the insect vector VL greatly increases the chances of infection. This study aimed to evaluate aspects of the epidemiological profile of VL in endemic areas of human and nonendemic in the metropolitan area of Natal, as well as verify the abundance and seasonal fluctuations of sandflies species in two counties endemic for VL. Were collected in the municipalities of Nísia Floresta, Parnamirim, São Gonçalo do Amarante and Macaíba, of which groups of females were separated for further dissection of the salivary glands and identification of species. The blood samples used were from individuals of two Natal s districts where it has never been reported cases of VL and neighborhoods of Parnamirim applicants who present cases of VL. In the municipality of Nísia Floresta, the most abundant species was L. evandroi with 38.39%, followed by L. longipalpis with 36.22%, L. walkeri 19.67% L. lenti 3.81%, L. wellcomei 1.39% and L. whitmani 0.52%. Already in Parnamirim the proportions were L. walkeri with 73.15%, L. evandroi with 10.55%, L. wellcomei 7.63%, L. longipalpis 6.37%, L. whitmani 1.46%, L. sordellii 0.52%, L. intermedia 0.21 and L. shanonni 0.1%. In both municipalities was observed higher abundance of species distributed in the initial months of the year, as February and March. The study showed that no difference in exposure to the vector of VL among individuals from endemic and non endemic area for this disease. But there are differences in exposure between individuals of L. longipalpis and L. evandroi, confirming the great powers of the first vector. It was also characterized as predominant phenotype in the population of endemic areas who had negative serologic responses to antigens of Leishmania and result in negative Montenegro skin test (DTH), indicating that much of the population hasn t been bitten by infected insects

Isolamento de uma quitinase extraída do cefalotórax do camarão marinho Litopenaeus schmitti (BURKENROAD, 1936) : avaliação de suas atividades antimicrobiana e larvicida

Chitinases are enzymes involved in degradation of chitin and are present in a range of organisms, including those that do not contain chitin, such as bacteria, viruses, plants and animals, and play important physiological and ecological roles. Chitin is hydrolyzed by a chitinolytic system classified as: endo-chitinases, exo-chitinases and N-acetyl-b-D-glucosaminidases. In this study a Litochitinase1 extracted from the cephalotorax of the shrimp Litopenaeus Schmitt was purified 987.32 times using ionexchange chromatography DEAE-Biogel and molecular exclusion Sephacryl S-200. These enzyme presented a molecular mass of about 28.5 kDa. The results, after kinetic assay with the Litochitinase1 using as substrate p-nitrophenyl-N-acetyl-b-Dglucosaminideo, showed apparent Km of 0.51 mM, optimal activity at pH ranging from 5.0 to 6.0, optimum temperature at 55°C and stability when pre-incubated at temperatures of 25, 37, 45, 50 and 55°C. The enzyme showed a range of stability at pH 4.0 to 5.5. HgCl2 inhibited Litochitinase1 while MgCl2 enhances its activity. Antimicrobial tests showed that Litochitinase1 present activity against gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli in the 800 μg/mL concentration. The larvicidal activity against Aedes aegypti was investigated using crude extracts, F-III (50-80%) and Litochitinase1 at 24 and 48 hours. The results showed larvicidal activity in all these samples with EC50 values of 6.59 mg/mL for crude extract, 5.36 mg/mL for F-III and 0.71 mg/mL for Litochitinase1 at 24 hours and 3.22 and 0.49 mg/mL for the F-III and Litochitinase1 at 48 hours, respectively. Other experiments confirmed the presence of chitin in the midgut of Aedes aegypti larvae, which may be suffering the action of Litochitinase1 killing the larvae, but also the absence of contaminating proteins as serine proteinase inhibitors and lectins in the crude extract, F-III and Litochitinase1, indicating that the death of the larvae is by action of the Litochitinase1. We also observed that the enzymes extracted from intestinal homogenate of the larvae no have activity on Litochitinase1. These results indicate that the enzyme can be used as an alternative to control of infections caused by Escherichia coli and reducing the infestation of the mosquito vector of dengue.

Caracterização funcional de dois cDNAs homólogos à ciclofilina e à proteína reprimida por auxina (ARP) identificados em bibliotecas subtrativas a para floração em tomateiro

Flowering is a fundamental process in the life cycle for plant. This process is marked by vegetative to reproductive apical meristem conversion, due to interactions between several factors, both internal and external to plant. Therefore, eight subtractive libraries were constructed using apical meristem induced or not induced for two contrasting species: Solanum lycopersicum cv. Micro-Tom and Solanum pimpinellifolium. Several cDNAs were identified and among these, were selected two cDNAs: one homologous cDNA to cyclophilin (LeCYP1) and the other to Auxin repressed protein (ARP). It has observed that LeCYP1 and ARP genes are important in the developmental process to plants. In silico analysis, were used several databases with the exclusion criterion E-value <1.0x10-15. As a result, conservation was observed for proteins analyzed by means of multiple alignments and the presence of functional domains. Then, overexpression cassettes were constructed for the ARP cDNA in sense and antisense orientations. For this step, it was used the CaMV35S promoter. The cDNA orientation (sense or antisense) in relation to the promoter was determined by restriction enzymes and sequencing. Then, this cassette was transferred to binary vector pZP211 and these cassettes were transferred into Agrobacterium tumefaciens LBA4404. S. lycopersicum cv. Micro-Tom (MT) and MT-Rg1 plants were transformed. In addition, seedlings were subjected to hormone treatments using a synthetic auxin (- naphthalene acetic acid) and cyclosporin A (cyclophilin inhibitor) treatments and it was found that the hormone treatment there were changes in development of lateral roots pattern, probably related to decreases in auxin signaling caused by reduction of LeCYP1 in MT-dgt plants while cyclosporin A treatments, there was a slight delay in flowering in cv. MT plants. Furthermore, assay with real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) were done for expression level analysis from LeCYP1 and ARP in order to functionally characterize these sequences in tomato plants.

Estudo clínico-laboratorial e histopatológico de cães naturalmente infectados por Leishmania chagasi com diferentes graus de manifestação física

Canine Visceral Leishmania (CVL) is an important zoonotic disease that has a world wide distribution and has a large impact on public health on the American Continent, especially in Brazil, where the nature of endemic diseases in humans affects a large part of the nation. The influence of the prevalence of CVL in the increased rate of human cases in endemic areas and in the unleashing of epidemic outbreaks shows the need for a more profound understanding, that would generate significant advances in the current measures used to control the reservoirs of sickness that are practiced by the Programa Nacional de Vigilância e Controle da Leishmaniose Visceral. The present work describes and compares the clinical-laboratorial and histopathological findings of twenty-three dogs that were naturally infected by Leishmania chagasi, from endemic areas in metropolitan Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. These animals, that were selected and given physical and serological exams (IFI and ELISA rK-39), were classified according to the degree of clinical severity and had blood samples drawn (whole blood and serum) for a complete hemogram and a coagulogram to be done as well as biochemical tests for kidney and liver function. The confirmation of infection by L. chagasi was done after the euthanasia of the animals, through the direct demonstration of the parasite in the impression of the spleen and liver crowned with GIEMSA and through a cultivation by means of NNN/Schneider. According to the clinical evaluation, the animals were classified as asymptomatic (7), oligosymptomatic (7) and polysymptomatic (9). Among the animals that were chosen to be autopsied, there were 2 asymptomatic, 3 oligosymptomatic and 3 polysymptomatic, for the purpose of studying their histopathology, having collected fragments of the spleen, liver, kidneys and skin and were fixed in 10% tamponed formol. The comparison between the average parameters of the clinical-laboratory tested animals in the groups was done through the Student t test (a<0.05). The main clinical signals observed were lymphadenomegaly, alopecy, dermatitis, exfoliation, cutaneous ulcers, onicogriphosis and emaciation. The main clinical-laboratorial alterations established, mainly in the polysymptomatic group, were anemia, hyperproteinemia, hyperglobulinemia, alterations in the albumin/globulin ratio and increased ALT activity. Renal alterations were not verified (urea and creatinine levels were normal). Thrombocytopenia was observed in three clinical groups. However, the other indicators of coagulation function (TAP and TTPA) did not have abnormal variations. There were inflammatory infiltrations and leishmania amastigotes in the skin of polysymptomatic dogs, however, they were not found in the skin of asymptomatic animals. Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the phagocyte mononuclear system, leishmania amastigote parasites were found in the macrophages, extramedullary hematopoiesis and degenerative alterations were detected in the spleen and liver of 8 of the animals submitted to histopathological exams. In accord with these results, it was demonstrated that the expected alterations in the hematological and biochemical parameters in function of their viscerotropic nature of CVL are mainly observed in the more advanced stages of the disease. The absence of inflammatory infiltration and parasite load in the skin suggest that infected animals without symptoms may have an importance irrelevant to the infectiousness of the vector

Análise do efeito de polimorfismos não-sinônimos em genes de reparo de DNA da via BER na resposta inflamatória da meningite

In vitro and in animal models, APE1, OGG1, and PARP-1 have been proposed as being involved with inflammatory response. In this work, we have investigated if the SNPs APE1 Asn148Glu, OGG1 Ser326Cys, and PARP-1 Val762Ala are associated to meningitis and also developed a system to enable the functional analysis of polymorphic proteins. Patients with bacterial meningitis (BM), aseptic meningitis (AM) and controls (non-infected) genotypes were investigated by PIRA-PCR or PCR-RFLP. DNA damages were detected in genomic DNA by Fpg treatment. IgG and IgA were measured from plasma and the cytokines and chemokines were measured from cerebrospinal fluid samples using Bio-Plex assays. The levels of NF-κB and c-Jun were measured in CSF by dot blot assays. A significant (P<0.05) increase in the frequency of APE1 148Glu allele in BM and AM patients was observed. A significant increase in the genotypes Asn/Asn in control group and Asn/Glu in BM group was also found. For the SNP OGG1 Ser326Cys, the genotype Cys/Cys was more frequent (P<0.05) in BM group. The frequency of PARP-1 Val/Val genotype was higher in control group (P<0.05). The occurrence of combined SNPs increased significantly in BM patients, indicating that these SNPs may be associated to the disease. Increasing in sensitive sites to Fpg was observed in carriers of APE1 148Glu allele or OGG1 326Cys allele, suggesting that SNPs affect DNA repair activity. Alterations in IgG production were observed in the presence of SNPs APE1Asn148Glu, OGG1Ser326Cys or PARP-1Val762Ala. Reductions in the levels ofIL-6, IL-1Ra, MCP-1/CCL2and IL-8/CXCL8 were observed in the presence of APE1148Glu allele in BM patients, however no differences were observed in the levels of NF-κB and c-Jun considering genotypes and analyzed groups. Using APE1 as model, a system to enable the analysis of cellular effects and functional characterization of polymorphic proteins was developed using strategies of cloning APE1 cDNA in pIRES2-EGFP vector, cellular transfection of the construction obtained, siRNA for endogenous APE1 and cellular cultures genotyping. In conclusion, we obtained evidences of an effect of SNPs in DNA repair genes on the regulation of immune response. This is a pioneering work in the field that shows association of BER variant enzymes with an infectious disease in human patients, suggesting that the SNPs analyzed may affect immune response and damage by oxidative stress level during brain infection. Considering these data, new approaches of functional characterization must be developed to better analysis and interactions of polymorphic proteins in response to this context