Traições, pequenas mentiras e internet: conjugalidades contemporâneas e usos de mídias digitais

In the present paper, the authors carry out an exploratory analysis of the market of confidential online betrayals by examining the perceptions of the issue of those Ashely Madison Site users participating in the research. The ethnographic method and a multidisciplinary approach were employed in order to understand how love and market, technology and intimacy come together, and how traditional values related to family, conjugality and masculinity articulate in the world of online betrayals. Interactions between men aged between 38 and 70 were favored in the analyses.

Descrever o passado para prever o futuro: sobre os usos da história no jornalismo para o delineamento de prognósticos

Once the use of historical data serves as an articulator of senses in journalistic narratives, this article proposes to study the cases in which the discursive constructions of the future are structured from the evocation of the past. It is possible to discern how images of the future built on stories parting from the past is related to a specific conception of history and how this history is seen, by journalism, as a repository of examples enrolled in a temporal continuum and fixed as a judging instance able to measure and anticipate the future consequences.

Plantas e formigas em diferentes usos da terra e técnicas de restauração no Cerrado

Pós-graduação em Ciência Florestal - FCA

Óleos essenciais: aspectos gerais e usos em terapias naturais

Traditional knowledge is now a source for research in the search for new biologically active compounds and how effective therapy that addresses the current health care. Health policies using these sources have been encouraged by international and national organizations like the World Health Organization and the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Aromatherapy and essential oils are one of these strands rising trade and as an object of study. This monograph aims to present general aspects about essential oils and their use in natural therapies such as aromatherapy.

Ocorrências e usos do Tucumã (astrocaryum vulgare mart) em comunidades ribeirinhas, quilombolas e de agricultores tradicionais no município de Irituia, Pará

The aim of the study is to demonstrate the occurrence and usage of the Tucumã (Astrocaryum vulgare Mart.) in rural areas of the Municipality of Irituia, in the State of Pará (Brazil), since the use of the palm part of the traditional culture of communities of farmers, riparian and quilombola, used in curing diseases in human and domestic animals, building shelters, obtaining fibers, production of tools and crafts, hunting and fishing. In addition to the uses reported by the population, tucumã has potential for the production of oil and biodiesel. In this sense, the Federal University of Pará – UFPA, in a partnership with the Irituia’s Municipal Government, is studying the implementation of an oleaginous processing plant in the municipality, among them, and includes the Tucumã as a potential source. Such proposal stipulates the production in the agroforestry system, as an alternative to the slash and burn agriculture in the region, reconciling environmental conservation with territorial rural development. Considering the results obtained in the field, it has been found an average of 9.4 stumps per hectare, each stump having 7.7 stipes and 4.7 racemes with up to 146 fruits. If all the Tucumã’s stumps were kept until they reached their average productivity capacity, it is estimated that the fruit production in the rural area of the municipality would be around 132.060 tons, which could produce up to 12.665,4 tons/year of pulp oil and 4.768,4 tons/year of nut oil, confirming the supply of raw material to move this productive chain.

A História segundo Xenofonte: Historiografia e usos do passado

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

A História segundo Xenofonte: Historiografia e usos do passado

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

Procesos y efectos marino-costeros y sus relaciones con obras marítimas y con usos turísticos del territorio. Análisis de impactos en el litoral venezolano

Descripción y justificación de los procesos y efectos sedimentarios en las playas arenosas.

Proyecto ModisBE: modelos de diagnóstico y seguimiento de la biblioteca escolar y sus usos

[ES] Proyecto financiado por el Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia presentado durante el curso 2008/2009. El proyecto pretende, en primier lugar, aportar una visión global de todos aquellos aspectos sobre los que habría que incidir para desarrollar la competencia lectora de los estudiantes y, en segundo lugar, facilitar materiales que permitan su evaluación, en es especial de la biblioteca escolar, con el fin de que puedan llegar a incidir realmente en el proceso de formación y en el éxito académico.