Disputatio pro articulo VII. Libri concordiae

Painovuosi nimekkeestä.

De longitudine penduli simplicis pro Aboa determinanda

Dedicatio: Simon Appelgren.

Disputatio pro articulo I. Libri concordiae

Arkit: A-D4 D2.

Disputatio pro articulo IX. Libri concordiae

Painovuosi nimekkeestä.

Theoremata generalia pro dimensione figurarum geometricarum

Invocatio: D.D.

Dissertatio academica, de Alandia, Maris Baltici insula, cujus partem posteriorem, consensu ampliss. facultatis philosoph. in Reg. Acad. Upsal. praeside ... mag. Petro Ekerman, ... Ad publicum examen, pro gradu, modeste defert alumnus regius, Christophorus Tärnström, Uplandus, ... In auditor. Carol. majori die XXVII. Nov. MDCCXLV. Horis ante meridiem solitis

Dedicated to: Jacobus Benzelius, Theodorus Ankarcrona, Matthias Grunerus, Olaus Thorin, Andreas Backman, Martinus Jonae Friberg, Carolus Gustavus Hallman, Andreas Sylvanus, Daniel P. Mansnerus, Daniel Lindqvist.

Valoração de contingente pelas modelagens logit e análise multivariada: um estudo de caso da disposição a aceitar compensação dos cafeicultores vinculados ao PRO-CAFÉ de Viçosa - MG

O objetivo deste estudo foi, justamente, identificar, entre os métodos LOGIT e a análise multivariada, qual a mais eficaz para estimar a Disposição a Aceitar Compensação (DAC) dos cafeicultores quando o viés da utilidade marginal é passível de ocorrência. Para tal, foi elaborado um formulário com 33 perguntas envolvendo informações sobre características socioeconômicas dos cafeicultores, o uso da metodologia de valoração de contingente (MVC) e do veículo de pagamento dos "Jogos de Lances", que revelou a Disposição a Aceitar uma Compensação (DAC) na troca de um hectare de café por um hectare de mata. Como esperado, por causa do viés da utilidade marginal o método LOGIT foi incapaz de produzir resultados consistentes. Já a estimação da DAC pela análise multivariada mostrou que, caso o governo estivesse disposto a aumentar a provisão de mata em 70 ha, ele deveria despender 254.200 reais por ano, tratando apenas dos cafeicultores vinculados ao programa do PRO-CAFÉ.

Animal Lovers, Bridge-Builders, and Supervising Watchdogs: Framing and Civil Society Construction by Japanese Pro-Animal Organizations in the Kansai and Tokyo Areas

Unlike their counterparts in Europe and America, the citizen organizations acting for the well-being of animals in Japan have not received scholarly attention. In this research, I explore the activities of twelve Japanese pro-animal organizations in Tokyo and Kansai area from the perspective of social movement and civil society studies. The concept of a ‘pro-animal organization’ is used to refer generally to the collectives promoting animal well-being. By using the collective action frame analysis and the three core framing tasks – diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational – as the primarily analytical tools, I explore the grievances, tactics, motivational means, constructions of agency and identity as well as framing of civil society articulated in the newsletters and the interviews of the twelve organizations I interviewed in Japan in 2010. As the frame construction is always done in relation to the social and political context, I study how the organizations construct their roles as civil society actors in relation to other actors, such as the state, and the idea of citizen activism. The deficiencies in the animal welfare law and lack of knowledge among the public are identified as the main grievances. The primary tactic to overcome these problems was to educate and inform the citizens and authorities, because most organizations lack the channels to influence politically. The audiences were mostly portrayed as either ignorant bystanders or potential adherents. In order to motivate people to join their cause and to enforce the motivation within the organization, the organizations emphasized their uniqueness, proved their efficiency, claimed credit and celebrated even small improvements. The organizations tended to create three different roles for citizen pro-organizations in civil society: reactive, apolitical and emphatic animal lovers concentrating on saving individual animals, proactive, educative bridge-builders seeking to establish equal collaborative relations with authorities, and corrective, supervising watchdogs demanding change in delinquencies offending animal rights. Based on the results of this research, I suggest that by studying how and why the different relations between civil society and the governing actors of the state are constructed, a more versatile approach to citizens’ activism in its context can be achieved.

HiberActive: Pro-Active Archiving of Web References from Scholarly Articles

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Nuevas configuraciones religiosas/seculares: las ONG “pro-vida” en las disputas por las políticas sexuales en Argentina

Resumen En América Latina, desde hace algunos años, una serie de actores religiosos vienen articulando estrategias para oponerse a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Si bien la jerarquía de la Iglesia Católica y algunas iglesias evangélicas continúan siendo centrales en la oposición a estos derechos, en las últimas décadas distintos sectores de la sociedad civil han comenzado también a activarse políticamente en pos de resistir el avance de la agenda de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Desde aquí, diversas ONG “pro-vida” vienen adquiriendo cada vez mayor relevancia en el contexto argentino. El presente artículo busca describir e identificar la emergencia y el desarrollo de estas ONG en Argentina, así como las transformaciones en sus identidades públicas y sus acciones. Se destaca cómo han mutado sus identidades religiosa, desplazando estos elementos a un segundo plano. Así, se da cuenta de las complejidades que adquieren las fronteras entre lo religioso y secular en su accionar político.

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Mitochondria, calcium and pro-apoptotic proteins as mediators in cell death signaling

Cellular Ca2+ signals are crucial in the control of most physiological processes, cell injury and programmed cell death through the regulation of a number of Ca2+-dependent enzymes such as phospholipases, proteases, and nucleases. Mitochondria along with the endoplasmic reticulum play pivotal roles in regulating intracellular Ca2+ content. Mitochondria are endowed with multiple Ca2+ transport mechanisms by which they take up and release Ca2+ across their inner membrane. During cellular Ca2+ overload, mitochondria take up cytosolic Ca2+, which in turn induces opening of permeability transition pores and disrupts the mitochondrial membrane potential (Dym). The collapse of Dym along with the release of cytochrome c from mitochondria is followed by the activation of caspases, nuclear fragmentation and cell death. Members of the Bcl-2 family are a group of proteins that play important roles in apoptosis regulation. Members of this family appear to differentially regulate intracellular Ca2+ level. Translocation of Bax, an apoptotic signaling protein, from the cytosol to the mitochondrial membrane is another step in this apoptosis signaling pathway.