Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008

Includes bibliography

Reproductive technology in domestic carnivorous

Background: The delay in development of artificial reproduction techniques on carnivorous could be due to countless reasons, but the lack of commercial interest is probably the most important one. The majority of canines are small structures, canidae are extremely fertile and a great number of species are adapted to domestication or captivity. Finally, the canine gamete physiology presents a difficult adaptation of technology knowledge obtained from other species. Furthermore, domestic felines are animals of company and there is no interest in reproducing them in a large scale, as it has been observed in other domestic animals, however, besides of being a valuable model for the development of in vitro techniques, the domestic cat is also used as an embryo receptor for different species of small wild felines due to physiological similarities among them, in vitro embrionary development, Review: It was reviewed the main insights about the reproductive physiology in female dogs, in vitro oocytary maturation (IVM), pregnancy and conception rate with dogs' frozen/unfrozen semen and PIV in domestic cats. The majority of mammal oocytes restart meiosis spontaneously after ovulation and reaches MII in artificial environment; in an in vitro maturation system in bovines, around 90% of oocytes complete their maturation, although its development capacity can be reduced subsequently. The success of IVM in canidae have been limited, with maturation rate varying from 0 to 58%, usually around 20%. The greatest difficulties include oocyte quality, hormonal environment, protein supplementation, cumulus / oocyte cell interaction, donor breed and age, culture systems, oxygen tension, amino acids, growth factor and sequential means. The freezing process reduces the quality of the semen, firstly because it reduces the number of living sperms and secondly because freezing produces cell modifications that could alter the sperm motility, longevity, integrity of membranes and its fertilizing capacity. Conclusion: Nowadays, several researches are being performed with the aim of increasing viability after dogs' and cats' semen is unfrozen, using extenders, cryoprotectors, freezing and unfreezing curves, addition of antioxidant substances. The aim of this text is to inform about the improvements obtained on the artificial reproduction techniques, emphasizing the oocytary maturation in female dogs, semen cryopreservation and artificial insemination in domestic dogs and cats.

Growth curves for ostriches (Struthio camelus) in a Brazilian population

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

Ensino e aprendizagem: para além da relação. Um estudo sobre o GT-04-Didática da ANPED, da 26ª à 30ª reunião

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

A luta por direitos étnicos e coletivos frete à expansão do agronegócio: a experiência das comunidades tradicionais faxinalenses

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um estudo sobre as configurações curriculares e potenciais formativos de cursos de licenciatura em física do Estado de Minas Gerais

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

Atuação jurisdicional e proteção ambiental no Pará

O presente trabalho analisa a atuação do Poder Jurisdicional ao abordar as questões concernentes aos grandes impactos socioambientais no Estado do Pará, assim considerados aqueles que não apenas causam efeitos nocivos estritamente ecológicos, mas também de caráter social. A partir do estudo de casos emblemáticos, escolhidos por representarem situações de viés socioambiental, foi aferida a relação entre a atuação jurisdicional e o modelo de desenvolvimento econômico sediado na intensa exploração dos recursos naturais do Pará, mas com sensíveis seqüelas ecológicas e sociais. As conclusões apontam que, na aferição dos casos emblemáticos selecionados, os argumentos jurídicos vinculados às noções de desenvolvimento socioeconômico têm sido recepcionados com precedência em relação à proteção ambiental, na órbita dos tribunais, em que pese sejam muito bem definidos os marcos jurídicos de regulação das atividades humanas causadoras de grandes impactos ambientais.

Sistema multiagente web semântico para gestão de conteúdos educacionais

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

Uma arquitetura multiagente para sistemas de supervisão e controle de processos

Pós-graduação em Ciência da Computação - IBILCE

Análise do perfil ambiental do comércio entre a China e Países Latino-americanos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desenvolvimento de sistemas orientado a modelos

The Software Engineering originated with the motivation to mass produce components for increased productivity in production systems. Since its origins, numerous studies have been proposed on the subject as new features in the creation of systems, like the Object- Oriented Programming and Aspect-Oriented Programming, have been established and methodologies have been developed to control them efficiently. However, years of studies in the area were not sufficient to create a methodology for reusing software artifacts really efficient and easy enough to be widespread. Given this, the Model-Driven Development (MDD) is trying to promote it using the modeling of systems as a reference, becoming part of it and establishing a huge productivity gain. One of his approaches is called Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD), which focuses on improving the practices and systems development using Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) for this purpose. In this Final Paper, Xtext is used as a tool to prove the productivity and efficiency of this approach, and for that bibliographic studies were made on the approach and the tool, and show the methodology and a case study to demonstrate results and conclusions regarding this work

O estudo de caos na propagação do raio de som em um guia de onda no oceano

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Determinação do posicionamento ótimo de apoios em pontes

This paper presents a study to determine the optimal support positions in bridges, as well as the optimal relation between the spans of beams, aiming both the reduction and the unifirmization of the efforts in these structures. The mathematical problem is formulated in order to minimize the maximum bending moments, taking the coordinate of each internal support as design variable. To take into account possible location limitations, size constraints are also considered in the formulation. The software developed based on this study determines the efforts in each support for load shifting along the structure by the usage of the Displacement Method, and the optimization is performed with a mathematical programming technique. The structures analyzed from the computational implementation of the idealized model point to the validation and efficiency of the proposed procedure.

Augusto Boal: alguns encontros e desencontros com Bertolt Brecht

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Search for Lorentz invariance and CPT violation with muon antineutrinos in the MINOS Near Detector

We have searched for sidereal variations in the rate of antineutrino interactions in the MINOS Near Detector. Using antineutrinos produced by the NuMI beam, we find no statistically significant sidereal modulation in the rate. When this result is placed in the context of the Standard Model Extension theory we are able to place upper limits on the coefficients defining the theory. These limits are used in combination with the results from an earlier analysis of MINOS neutrino data to further constrain the coefficients.