A voice from the West : Rev. Bela Jacob's report of his tour in the western states, performed in the spring and summer of 1833 /

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Manoel Moises, Mãe Bela e o protestantismo rural na história da Igreja Presbiteriana em Cabeceira Grande-MG (1947-1970

A ideia de um protestantismo rural é caracterizada pela relação dos crentes com o lúdico e a familiaridade com o sagrado. Este tipo protestante tupiniquim, genuinamente brasileiro, se desenvolveu em locais de pouca ou nenhuma resistência por parte do catolicismo, religião hegemônica no contexto brasileiro, fator que possibilitou arranjos e rearranjos que o diferenciam do protestantismo dito oficial. Esta pesquisa procura, pois, identificar algumas características deste protestantismo rural, principalmente sua interação com as culturas populares tradicionais no contexto fundante da Igreja Presbiteriana de Cabeceira Grande-MG. Através da metodologia de pesquisa em história oral e micro-história, o foco do estudo será aproximado à vida de duas importantes figuras que se destacaram neste contexto: o lavrador Manoel Moises e a parteira Mãe Bela. Manoel Moises, pioneiro protestante, chega à região em 1947, trazendo a sua mudança em um carro de bois. A origem da Igreja Presbiteriana em Cabeceira Grande deve-se às atividades deste pregador leigo e autônomo. Posteriormente, a comunidade já formada recebe a visita de pastores vinculados às Agências Missionárias estrangeiras atuantes na região. Assim como Manoel Moises é referência constante nas memórias locais, Mãe Bela, uma das primeiras convertidas ao protestantismo naquele lugar, é também lembrada por sua atuação como parteira e pelos seus conhecimentos da medicina tradicional, articulados com o imaginário religioso local. Mãe Bela também foi a doadora do terreno em que foi construído o templo da Igreja Presbiteriana, inaugurado em 1970.

O erro produzido pelo aluno no contexto pedagógico: uma luz ou uma pedra no meio do caminho?

Student’s mistakes as viewed in a didactic and pedagogical perspective are a phenomenon inevitably observed in any context in which formal teaching-andlearning processes are taking place. Researchers have shown that such mistakes are viewed most of the times as undesirable and often as a consequence of lack of attention or poor commitment on the part of the student and rarely considered didactically useful. The object of our reflections in this work is exactly those mistakes, which are born in the entrails of the teaching-and-learning processes. It is our understanding that a mistake constitutes a tool which mediates knowledge and may therefore become a strong ally of the instructor’s actions in her/his teaching tasks and thus should be taken into the teacher’s best consideration. Understanding a mistake as so, we postulate that the teacher must face it as a possibility to be exploited rather than as a negative occurrence. Such an attitude on the part of the teacher would undoubtedly render profitable didactic situations. To deepen the understanding of our aim, we took a case study on the perception of senior college students in the program of Mathematics at UFRN in the year 2009, 2nd term. The reason of this choice is the fact that Mathematics is the field presenting traditionally the poorest records in terms of school grades. In this work we put forth data associated to ENEM1 , to the UFRN Vestibular2 and the undergraduate courses on Mathematics. The theoretical matrixes supporting our reflections in this thesis follow the ideas proposed by Castorina (1988); Davis e Espósito (1990); Aquino (1997); Luckesi (2006); Cury (1994; 2008); Pinto (2000); Torre (2007). To carry out the study, we applied a semi-structured questionnaire containing 14 questions, out of which 10 were open questions. The questions were methodologically based on the Thematic Analysis – One of the techniques for Content Analysis schemed by Bardin (1977) – and it was also used the computer program Modalisa 6.0 (A software designed by faculties the University of Paris VIII). The results indicate that most of the teachers training instructors in their pedagogical practice view the mistakes made by their students only as a guide for grading and, in this procedure, the student is frequently labeled as guilty. Conclusive analyses, therefore, signal to the necessity of orienting the teachers training instructors in the sense of building a new theoretical contemplation of the students’ mistakes and their pedagogical potentialities and so making those professionals perceive the importance of such mistakes, since they reveal gaps in the process of learning and provide valuable avenues for the teaching procedures.

"Raíñas de pedra": a Humanizing Review of Inés de Castro’s Life and Death

The tragic love between Pedro I from Portugal and Inés de Castro became, in its earlier stages, a recurrent theme of the Portuguese, Spanish and European cultural scene. The dead queen came to represent the universal myth of the innocent woman sacrificed due to the Reason of State and she became the personification of the victory of love beyond death. However, despite its strong connection with Galicia, this figure was excluded from Galician literature for many years. This article’s purpose is to review and analyse the main work that introduced the figure of Inés de Castro to the Galician literary scene, Raíñas de Pedra, by Cándido Pazó, emphasising its originality and innovation in relation to the rest of the corpus.

A travessia do trágico no romance d A Pedra do Reino de Ariano Suassuna

The present work seeks to investigate and discuss about the Greek Tragedy s elements at Ariano Suassuna s romance called τ Romance d A Pedra do Reino e o Principe do Sangue do Vai e Volta, connecting it directly to mythic, epic, poetic, and romances aspects at his work. The romance has as the protagonist the backcountry Pedro Dinis Quaderna. Quaderna is a character which is simultaneously popular, elitist, enigmatic, naive, and an intellectual man that has a great erudition. Quaderna is a character that seeks, by using the Literature, to reestablish a Brazilian backcountry kingdom which he s supposedly the king, always trying to empathizes the Brazilian northeast region like if it was a nation apart. By impressing a national personality to the Brazilian northeast , Quaderna tries to become an epic poet just like Homer, denoting a strong influence of the Epopee. Quaderna, just like many characters of Greek Tragedy, has at his family past time a lot of tragic circumstances. These facts that ocurred to his relativos like the your uncle Pedro Sebastião Garcia Barreto s death, the disappearement of his cousin Sinésio, and the contest between the brothers Arésio and Sinésio, and others aspects, remind us remarkable influences, beyond the Epopee, of the Greek Tragedy. By reading the romance we may notice many similarities between Quaderna s trajectory and Greek Tragedy heroes. To make an analysis about the tragic aspects at Suassuna s work, we need to dialogue with many theoreticals that have written about the tragic and comparate with many parts of Suassuna s with classics character s texts of Greek Tragedy. At the following chapters we seek to provide romance s elementaries notions, as well as tragic notions, the dialogue with mythics aspects and the tragic and epic aplicability at Suassuna s work

Estudo da substituição de agregados miúdos naturais por pó de pedra em concreto de cimento portland

The sharp consumption of natural resources by the construction industry has motivated numerous studies concerning the application of waste to replace partially or fully, some materials, such as aggregates, thereby reducing the environmental impact caused by the extraction of sand and crushing process. The application of stone dust from crushing process arising as an aggregate for the production of Portland cement concrete is a viable alternative in view of the high cost of natural sands, in addition to the environmental damage which causes its operation to the environment. The stone dust has reduced cost compared to natural sand because it is produced in the beds of their own quarries, which are usually located close to major urban centers. This study examined the feasibility of using stone dust from the crushing of rock gneisses in the state of Bahia, replacing natural quartz sand. In the development of scientific study was conducted to characterize physical and chemical raw materials applied and molded cylindrical specimens , using as reference values Fck 20, Fck 25 and Fck 30 MPa ( resistance characteristic of the concrete after 28 days) in following compositions stone powder: 10%, 30%, 50 %, 100% and 100% with additive. The specimens were cured and subjected to the tests of compressive strength and water absorption, then the samples were subjected to the tests of X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The results obtained showed that the composition with 10% stone powder showed the best results regarding the physical and mechanical tests performed, confirming the reduction in compressive strength and increased water uptake increased as the content of the powder stone in the concrete composition

Influência da substituição de areia natural por pó de pedra no comportamento mecânico, microestrutural e eletroquímico de concretos

The construction industry is one of the largest consumers of natural raw materials, and concrete is considered today the most used material wide. This accentuated consumption of natural resources has generated concern with the preservation of the environment, and has motivated various studies related to the use of resid ues, which can partially or entirely substitute, with satisfactory performance, some materials such as the aggregate, and in so doing, decrease the impact on the environment caused by the produced residues. Research has been done to better understand and improve the microstructure of concrete, as well as to understand the mechanism of corrosion in reinforced steel. In this context, this work was developed aiming at discovering the influence of the substitution of natural sand by artificial sand, with rega rd to mechanical resistance, microstructure, and durability. To obtain the electrochemical parameters, an adaptation was made to the galvanostatic electrochemical method to study the corrosion in reinforced steel. Concretes of categories 20 MPa and 40 MPa were produced, containing natural sand, and concretes of the same categories were produced with artificial sand substituting the natural sand, and with the addition of sodium nitrate and sodium chloride. Due to the use of rock dust reject (artificial sand), an evaluation was made of its environmental risk. The results indicate that the concretes of category 20 MPa present a better performance than the concrete made with natural sand, thus making it a viable substitute. For the category 40 MPa, the better performance is from the concrete containing natural sand. The adaptation of the galvanostatic electrochemical technique to the study of the corrosion of reinforced steel within concrete proved to be valid for obtaining electrochemical parameters with a high degree of reliability, considering the number of degrees of freedom

A travessia do trágico no romance d A Pedra do Reino de Ariano Suassuna

The present work seeks to investigate and discuss about the Greek Tragedy s elements at Ariano Suassuna s romance called τ Romance d A Pedra do Reino e o Principe do Sangue do Vai e Volta, connecting it directly to mythic, epic, poetic, and romances aspects at his work. The romance has as the protagonist the backcountry Pedro Dinis Quaderna. Quaderna is a character which is simultaneously popular, elitist, enigmatic, naive, and an intellectual man that has a great erudition. Quaderna is a character that seeks, by using the Literature, to reestablish a Brazilian backcountry kingdom which he s supposedly the king, always trying to empathizes the Brazilian northeast region like if it was a nation apart. By impressing a national personality to the Brazilian northeast , Quaderna tries to become an epic poet just like Homer, denoting a strong influence of the Epopee. Quaderna, just like many characters of Greek Tragedy, has at his family past time a lot of tragic circumstances. These facts that ocurred to his relativos like the your uncle Pedro Sebastião Garcia Barreto s death, the disappearement of his cousin Sinésio, and the contest between the brothers Arésio and Sinésio, and others aspects, remind us remarkable influences, beyond the Epopee, of the Greek Tragedy. By reading the romance we may notice many similarities between Quaderna s trajectory and Greek Tragedy heroes. To make an analysis about the tragic aspects at Suassuna s work, we need to dialogue with many theoreticals that have written about the tragic and comparate with many parts of Suassuna s with classics character s texts of Greek Tragedy. At the following chapters we seek to provide romance s elementaries notions, as well as tragic notions, the dialogue with mythics aspects and the tragic and epic aplicability at Suassuna s work

The hake deepwater semi-pelagic ("pedra-bola") longline fishery in the Algarve (southern Portugal)

A 2-year study of the European hake (Merluccius merluccius) semi-pelagic ("pedra-bola) longline fishery was carried out in the Algarve (southern Portugal). This fishery takes place on the continental slope at 200-700 m depths. using monofilament longlines that are lifted off the bottom at regular intervals by glass balls. Hook selectivity trials were carried out with four hook sizes (SIAPAL brand numbers 10, 9, 7 and 5) from March to August 1997 and May to August 1998. At least 32 species of fish and invertebrates were caught, with hake dominating the catch (41 and 45% of the catch in numbers), followed by Galeus melastomus (23 and 19%), Micromesistius poutassou (10 and 7%), Benthodesmus elongatus (8 and 5%), Etmopterus pusillus (6 and 9%) and Scyliorhinus canicula (5 and 4%). Apart from the hake, and some species of commercial value such as G. melastomus (only the large individuals), Ray's bream (Brama brama, 1.4 and 4%), silver scabbard fish (Lepidopus caudatus. 1 and 2.5%), swordfish (Xiphins gladius, <1%), wreckfish (Polyprion americanus, <1%). conger eel (Conger conger. <1%), and bluemouth rockfish (Helicolenus dactylopterus, <1%)- most of the other species are discarded, used as bait in traps or consumed by the fishermen. Catch rates (number of fish per 100 hooks) for hake and for all species combined decreased significantly with hook size. Hake catch size frequency distributions for the different hook sizes in 1997 and 1998 were highly overlapped, with the four different hooks catching a wide range of sizes. Although catch size frequency distributions for the different sized hooks were not significantly different in 1997, hake caught in 1998 were characterised by smaller sizes and size ranges. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Leguminosae na Unidade de Conservação Refúgio de Vida Silvestre Pedra da Andorinha, Sobral, Ceará, Brasil

Leguminosae com cerca de 650 gêneros e 19.000 espécies compreende a terceira maior família de angiospermas, superada apenas por Orchidaceae (20.000 spp.) e Asteraceae (24.000 spp.). Para o Brasil, são citados 222 gêneros e 2.803 espécies distribuídas nos diversos domínios fitogeográficos, e para região Nordeste estão registradas 1.085 espécies em 168 gêneros. No Ceará, são reportadas 340 espécies em 105 gêneros, dos quais Mimosa L. (26 spp.) é o mais diversificado. No bioma Caatinga, é a principal família de fanerógamas com 83 gêneros e 354 espécies, muitas das quais com diversas potencialidades de uso. Em virtude da importância deste táxon no contexto do semiárido, objetivou-se com este trabalho catalogar as Leguminosae ocorrentes em uma área de Caatinga no distrito de Taperuaba, Sobral, Ceará. O estudo foi realizado na Unidade de Conservação Refúgio de Vida Silvestre Pedra da Andorinha, localizada a 70 km da sede municipal e possuindo aproximadamente 600 ha. A área é composta por Caatinga em duas fitofisionomias: uma terrícola e outra rupícola. As expedições de coletas foram realizadas entre março/2015 e março/2016. Os espécimes foram identificados com o auxílio de literatura e sites especializados. O material encontra-se depositado no acervo do Herbário Prof. Francisco José de Abreu Matos (HUVA). Foram catalogadas 15 espécies em oito gêneros: Mimosa (4 spp.), Chamaecrista Moench (3 spp.), Poincianella Britton & Rose (2 spp.). Bauhinia L., Centrosema (DC.) Benth., Desmodium Desv., Senna Mill., Stylosanthes Sw. e Zornia J.F. Gmel. apresentaram uma espécie cada. Dentre as espécies coletadas, duas apresentam propriedades medicinais: B. forficata (Vogel) Fortunato & Wunderlin e M. tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. Centrosema pascuorum Mart. ex Benth, Mimosa pudica (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) DC., Stylosathes humilis Kunth e Zornia cearensis Huber são tratadas como invasoras de cultivos. Entre as espécies com alto potencial forrageiro, estão Chamaecrista linearis (H.S. Irwin & Barneby) Afr. Fern. & E.P. Nunes e Desmodium tortuosum (Sw.) DC. Por outro lado, Senna obtusifolia (L.) H.S. Irwin & Barneby, é tóxica aos bovinos. Alguns estudos ainda sugerem que os extratos das raízes de Poincianella bracteosa (Tul.) L.P. Queiroz possuem atividade biológica sobre larvas de Aedes aegypti. Diante dos resultados, verificou-se que Leguminosae é a família mais representativa da área de estudo e que 11 espécies apresentaram algum uso ou potencialidade econômica.

Stylosanthes guianensis cv. BRS Bela managed as organic fodder bank for supplementation of lactation crossbred cows in the Cerrado.

2016