Arrabidaea chica (HBK) Verlot: phytochemical approach, antifungal and trypanocidal activities

Arrabidaea chica (HBK.) Verlot (Bignoniaceae) popularmente, "Pariri", é um arbusto escandente, distribuído do sul do México até a Guiana e Brasil central e é tradicionalmente indicado para tratar sintomas de inflamações e afecções da pele. Seu extrato etanólico foi quimicamente investigado e testado contra leveduras e fungos dermatófitos. A atividade tripanocida do mesmo extrato foi também avaliada. Este trabalho reporta o isolamento de três flavonóides, a inibição total do crescimento de Trichophyton mentagrophytes e um significante efeito tripanocida do extrato etanólico e de suas frações. Não foi detectada qualquer toxicidade aguda relevante, mesmo a uma dose de 1000 mg/kg

Alcalóides de Aspidosperma auriculatum Standl

Espécies do gênero Aspidosperma apresentam alcalóides do tipo indólico. A partir da espécie Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco Schlecht isolou-se a quebracamina1, de A. olivaceum obteve-se a olivacina2, entre outras. O presente trabalho relata a determinação do perfil cromatográfico por Cromatografia em Camada Delgada e Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Eficiência de frações alcaloídicas de Aspidosperma auriculatum, espécie conhecida no Pará como carapanaúba e indicada popularmente para tratar febre e outras afecções, inclusive malária. O material vegetal foi extraído com ácido clorídrico a 5%. Três frações alcaloídicas foram extraídas a pH 7, pH 8 e pH 11, que analisadas em sistemas adequados apresentaram perfis distintos.

Relativização no português do Brasil: a sentença orientada para o discurso

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Rastros de velhos falares: léxico e cultura no vernáculo catalano

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Desenvolvimento de um método para caracterização do extrato hidroetanólico das folhas de Mikania lindleyana DC por Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Eficiência (CLAE)

Mikania lindleyana DC (Asteraceae) é uma trepadeira arbustiva, perene, lenhosa e sem gavinhas, com caule volúvel, cilíndrico estriado, verde e ramoso. É utilizada na Amazônia como diurético, antiinflamatório, analgésico, anti-hipertensivo, antiulceroso. Este trabalho teve por objetivo desenvolver um método para caracterização do extrato hidroetanólico das folhas de M. lindleyana DC por Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Eficiência (CLAE). O extrato hidroetanólico (tintura) preparado conforme a FARMACOPÉIA BRASILEIRA V, 2010 foi submetido, após secagem, a análise fitoquímica, por Cromatografia em Camada Delgada (CCD) e por CLAE. Na prospecção química, observou-se a presença de cumarinas, alcalóides, aminoácidos, açúcares redutores, fenóis, taninos, esteróides, terpenos, saponinas e ácidos orgânicos. Na análise das frações (hexânica, clorofórmica e acetato de etila), do extrato hidroetanólico bruto e da cumarina (1mg/mL) por CCD, utilizando como eluente tolueno/diclorometano/acetona (45:25:30) observou-se no UV (365nm) bandas fluorescentes de cor verde clara (Rf 0.61) características de cumarina. Na análise do extrato bruto e da fração clorofórmica por CLAE e uma solução metanólica de cumarina pura a 0,1 mg/mL, utilizando como eluente metanol/água (47:53), picos no Rt de cerca de 6.00 minutos foram observados correspondentes a espectro característico com máximos de absorção entre 270 nm e 300 nm. Os resultados demonstram a presença de cumarina em EHEB e FC. nas respectivas quantidades de 0,014 no EHEB e 0,209 na FC.

O abaixamento das vogais médias pretônicas em Belém/PA: um estudo variacionista sobre o dialeto do migrante maranhense frente ao dialeto falado em Belém/PA

O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar o Abaixamento das vogais médias pretônicas na variedade do português falado em Belém (PA). Pautamos-nos nos pressupostos da sociolinguística quantitativa de Labov (1972), e utilizados alguns procedimentos metodológicos adotados por Bortoni-Ricardo (1985) para as análises de redes sociais, importantes para o estudo de dialetos em comunidades de migração, como é o caso de Belém, que recebeu intenso fluxo migratório nas décadas de 50 a 80 do século passado. Utilizamos também, para comparação, os resultados de Castro (2008), Souza (2010) e Ferreira (2013). O corpus foi formado a partir de gravações de entrevistas de 18 informantes, divididos em dois grupos: a) um grupo de ancoragem, com 12 (doze) informantes migrantes do estado do Maranhão (06 (seis) do sexo masculino e 06 (seis) do sexo feminino), com idade de 50 ou mais, e que residem em Belém há mais de vinte e cinco anos; b) outro de controle, com 06 (seis) informantes (03 (três) do sexo masculino e 03 (três) do sexo feminino), paraenses descendentes do grupo de ancoragem, com idade entre 20 e 30 anos, ou que migraram para Belém muito novos, com até três anos. Os dados do corpus submetidos às análises somaram 3.099 ocorrências das vogais-objeto, anterior (1.948) e posterior (1.151). Foram estabelecidas como variáveis extralinguísticas: sexo, grupo de amostra e escolaridade. Para variáveis linguísticas foram consideradas: altura da vogal tônica, grau de recuo da tônica, grau de nasalidade da tônica, posição da pretônica no vocábulo, vogal contígua, distância relativa à sílaba tônica, segmento precedente, segmento seguinte e tipo de rima. Após as análises estatísticas computadas pelo software Goldvarb X, os resultados mostraram que no dialeto de Belém/PA há uma predominância das variantes de manutenção – [e] 40,7% e [o] 43,5% em detrimento das do alteamento – [i] 23,9% e [u] 16,1%, e do abaixamento – [E] 35,5% e [O] 40,4%, contudo, por ser o abaixamento a variante mais produtiva no Maranhão, este foi o fenômeno analisado. As variáveis linguísticas que favoreceram o abaixamento das variantes estudadas foram: (i) altura da vogal tônica, (ii) grau de recuo da tônica, (iii) grau de nasalidade da tônica, (iv) vogal contígua, (v) distância relativa à sílaba tônica, (vi) segmento precedente, (vii) segmento seguinte e (viii) tipo de rima. Com relação às variáveis extralinguísticas (ix) o grupo de amostra favoreceu o abaixamento tanto de quanto de e a variável (x) sexo favoreceu apenas o abaixamento de . Os resultados revelaram manutenção da marca dialetal dos migrantes maranhenses mesmo em virtude do contato interdialetal com outro dialeto e evidenciaram que o abaixamento vocálico no dialeto em questão é motivado, sobretudo pelo processo de harmonia vocálica. Tais resultados são reflexos da rede social dos informantes, a qual tem alta densidade e cujo vernáculo é símbolo de identidade.

Design e planejamento: aspectos tecnológicos

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

The plants by Daniel Rolander (c. 1723-1793) in Diarium Surinamicum (1754-1765) and herbaria

The manuscripts of Diarium Surinamicum by Daniel Rolander practically remained ignored and unpublished for over 240 years, till the recent publication of its translation into English, which occurred in 2008. In this, the names of species described and/or cited by Rolander were faithfully retained, hence preserving the indication of them without authorship, for the vast majority. In the present work, all the names of plants that were treated by Rolander in his journal, about 664, including by tradition the fungi and algae, are contextualised in relation to the authorship, reference to the publication of the protologue, pagination of citations/descriptions in the manuscripts and in the published translation, indication of probable misidentifications with possible alternative names, vernacular names, and related literature. Additionally, we searched for the vouchers collected by Rolander, scattered in several herbaria, which have been linked to the probable names and descriptions in the diary. Given the considerable time till the publication of these names, and by the lack of indication of their nomenclatural types in the English version, the great majority of the new species described by Rolander, which would have priority if published in due time, became invalid names according to the ICN. Nevertheless, the list of Rolandrian species here presented, from his work that has finally taken a place in the history of natural sciences, shows that he was also a competent botanist, besides being a skilled entomologist, having recognised and detailedly described many of the Surinamese plants hitherto unknown to science.

Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alata L.

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

A sociolinguística e o ensino de língua portuguesa: uma proposta para um ensino aprendizagem livre de preconceitos

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O estatuto teórico-metodológico do falado e do escrito para a pesquisa em mudança linguística

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the theoretical and methodological status of oral and written data as a source for investigating linguistic change phenomena. The per - spective we adopt here distances itself from a compartmentalized conception of oral and writ - ten texts writing since it is more closely associated with the writers’ relationship with historically and socially established practices of orality and literacy. We conducted an assessment of some of the specialized literature in order to gather arguments to defend the coexistence of written and oral enunciations, understood not as a form of interference, but as a constitutive blend, which, given its hybrid nature, enables the occurrence of the vernacular data, a locus of change also present in written records.

Influxos do céu na existência dos homens. Os escritos astrológicos na Península Ibérica (séculos XIII, XIV e XV)

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

The Vaquita: Can It Survive?

The vaquita (Spanish for "little cow"), or Gulf of California harbor porpoise (Phocoena sinus), has the most limited range of any marine cetacean and is probably the rarest. It has been caught incidentally in gill nets set commercially for totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), large fish that were over-exploited in the upper Gulf of California until they, too, were endangered. In 1975. the Mexican Government announced a total indefinite closure on fishing for totoaba, Between the time this porpoise was described as new to science (1958) and its listing by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as Endangered (early 1985), the vaquita was known from only 26 confirmed records (partial remains found on beaches) and a few sightings of live animals. (Note: the vernacular name "cochito" was cited when this animal was listed, but biologists have since learned that "vaquita" is the term used by most local fishermen.) The Endangered Species Technical Bulletin story about its listing (see BULLETIN Vol. X No. 2) said the species was on the brink of extinction "if it still exists."

Minka - The houses of Japanese imigrants in Ribeira valley, São Paulo,Brazil

O artigo analisa o processo de produção de moradia do imigrante japonês no Vale do Ribeira, na região sul do estado de São Paulo, ocorrido no início do século XX. Partindo do contexto histórico do início da colonização da região e as condicionantes que possibilitaram a criação da colônia, o trabalho busca verificar como foram construídas as casas que, baseados na autoconstrução e tendo a terra e madeira formaram o repertório de quase 500 casas. Põe foco em dois exemplares onde são analisadas a técnica do tsuchikabe e as sambladuras; verificando que mesmo diante das adversidades encontradas na natureza distinta de sua origem construíram casas de elevada qualidade. Os saberes trazidos do extremo oriente foram aplicados e se mesclaram às influências, cabocla, quilombola e europeia que hoje, após um século, representam uma categoria expressiva e variada sob os aspectos construtivo, tipológico e programático.

Percorsi di gender performance: fotografia tra arte e moda dagli anni Novanta ad oggi

My project explores and compares different forms of gender performance in contemporary art and visual culture according to a perspective centered on photography. Thanks to its attesting power this medium can work as a ready-made. In fact during the 20th century it played a key role in the cultural emancipation of the body which (using a Michel Foucault’s expression) has now become «the zero point of the world». Through performance the body proves to be a living material of expression and communication while photography ensures the recording of any ephemeral event that happens in time and space. My questioning approach considers the gender constructed imagery from the 1990s to the present in order to investigate how photography’s strong aura of realism promotes and allows fantasies of transformation. The contemporary fascination with gender (especially for art and fashion) represents a crucial issue in the global context of postmodernity and is manifested in a variety of visual media, from photography to video and film. Moreover the internet along with its digital transmission of images has deeply affected our world (from culture to everyday life) leading to a postmodern preference for performativity over the more traditional and linear forms of narrativity. As a consequence individual borders get redefined by the skin itself which (dissected through instant vision) turns into a ductile material of mutation and hybridation in the service of identity. My critical assumptions are taken from the most relevant changes occurred in philosophy during the last two decades as a result of the contributions by Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze who developed a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach to interpret the crisis of modernity. They have profoundly influenced feminist studies so that the category of gender has been reassessed in contrast with sex (as a biological connotation) and in relation to history, culture, society. The ideal starting point of my research is the year 1990. I chose it as the approximate historical moment when the intersection of race, class and gender were placed at the forefront of international artistic production concerned with identity, diversity and globalization. Such issues had been explored throughout the 1970s but it was only from the mid-1980s onward that they began to be articulated more consistently. Published in 1990, the book "Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity" by Judith Butler marked an important breakthrough by linking gender to performance as well as investigating the intricate connections between theory and practice, embodiment and representation. It inspired subsequent research in a variety of disciplines, art history included. In the same year Teresa de Lauretis launched the definition of queer theory to challenge the academic perspective in gay and lesbian studies. In the meantime the rise of Third Wave Feminism in the US introduced a racially and sexually inclusive vision over the global situation in order to reflect on subjectivity, new technologies and popular culture in connection with gender representation. These conceptual tools have enabled prolific readings of contemporary cultural production whether fine arts or mass media. After discussing the appropriate framework of my project and taking into account the postmodern globalization of the visual, I have turned to photography to map gender representation both in art and in fashion. Therefore I have been creating an archive of images around specific topics. I decided to include fashion photography because in the 1990s this genre moved away from the paradigm of an idealized and classical beauty toward a new vernacular allied with lifestyles, art practices, pop and youth culture; as one might expect the dominant narrative modes in fashion photography are now mainly influenced by cinema and snapshot. These strategies originate story lines and interrupted narratives using models’ performance to convey a particular imagery where identity issues emerge as an essential part of fashion spectacle. Focusing on the intersections of gender identities with socially and culturally produced identities, my approach intends to underline how the fashion world has turned to current trends in art photography and in some case turned to the artists themselves. The growing fluidity of the categories that distinguish art from fashion photography represents a particularly fruitful moment of visual exchange. Varying over time the dialogue between these two fields has always been vital; nowadays it can be studied as a result of this close relationship between contemporary art world and consumer culture. Due to the saturation of postmodern imagery the feedback between art and fashion has become much more immediate and then increasingly significant for anyone who wants to investigate the construction of gender identity through performance. In addition to that a lot of magazines founded in the 1990s bridged the worlds of art and fashion because some of their designers and even editors were art-school graduates encouraging innovation. The inclusion of art within such magazines aimed at validating them as a form of art in themselves supporting a dynamic intersection for music, fashion, design and youth culture: an intersection that also contributed to create and spread different gender stereotypes. This general interest in fashion produced many exhibitions of and about fashion itself at major international venues such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Since then this celebrated success of fashion has been regarded as a typical element of postmodern culture. Owing to that I have also based my analysis on some important exhibitions dealing with gender performance like "Féminin-Masculin" at the Centre Pompidou of Paris (1995), "Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose. Gender performance in photography" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York (1997), "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum (2007), "Female Trouble" at the Pinakothek der Moderne in München together with the workshops dedicated to "Performance: gender and identity" in June 2005 at the Tate Modern of London. Since 2003 in Italy we have had Gender Bender - an international festival held annually in Bologna - to explore the gender imagery stemming from contemporary culture. In few days this festival offers a series of events ranging from visual arts, performance, cinema, literature to conferences and music. Being aware that any method of research is neither race nor gender neutral I have traced these critical paths to question gender identity in a multicultural perspective taking account of the political implications too. In fact, if visibility may be equated with exposure, we can also read these images as points of intersection of visibility with social power. Since gender assignations rely so heavily on the visual, the postmodern dismantling of gender certainty through performance has wide-ranging effects that need to be analyzed. In some sense this practice can even contest the dominance of visual within postmodernism. My visual map in contemporary art and fashion photography includes artists like Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Hellen van Meene, Rineke Dijkstra, Ed Templeton, Ryan McGinley, Anne Daems, Miwa Yanagi, Tracey Moffat, Catherine Opie, Tomoko Sawada, Vanessa Beecroft, Yasumasa Morimura, Collier Schorr among others.