Pontes de Calliphora vicina, Robineau-Desvoidy et de Calliphora vomitoria, (Linné) (Diptères, Calliphoridae) sur un cadavre humain enseveli dans la neige.

Résumé : Les auteurs rapportent un cas où des mouches nécrophages ont pondu dans des conditions extrêmes sur un corps enseveli dans un névé. Cette enquête apporte des éléments importants sur l'activité de vol et les possibilités de pontes de deux espèces de mouches nécrophages. Ces données dépassent largement ce qui est généralement admis dans la littérature spécialisée.

Um instrumento de macropolítica de informação. Concepção de um sistema de inteligência de negócios para gestão de investimentos de engenharia

Em uma economia cada vez mais globalizada, a obtenção de informação sobre o mercado no qual uma empresa atua e sobre as estratégias mercadológicas de seus concorrentes é condição fundamental para a obtenção de vantagem competitiva. Inteligência de negócios é uma disciplina que surge a partir desta necessidade permitindo a monitoração permanente do ambiente de atuação da empresa, mediante coleta, análise e validação de informações sobre concorrentes, clientes, parceiros, fornecedores e demais atores, visando à diminuição de riscos na tomada de decisão, a partir do desenvolvimento de uma base de conhecimento sobre o negócio. Este trabalho apresenta uma concepção para um sistema de inteligência de negócios para a atividade de gestão de investimentos de engenharia na indústria de petróleo.

Necessidades e expectativas dos usuários na educação a distância: estudo preliminar junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Apresenta pesquisa que objetiva identificar necessidades e expectativas informacionais de usuários de bibliotecas acadêmicas realizada junto aos mestrandos e professores dos cursos a distância do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, dando ênfase à qualidade em serviços. Os resultados mostram que os modelos de bibliotecas acadêmicas devem estar centrados na voz dos usuários, pois necessitam de informação para a obtenção de conhecimento, para atualização, produção de artigos científicos e dissertações. Também, esperam que as unidades informacionais disponibilizem produtos nos diversos suportes existentes, isto é, convencionais e digitais.

Origin of a restraining bend in an evolving strike-slip system: The Cenozoic As Pontes basin (NW Spain)

The As Pontes basin (12 km2), NW Iberian Peninsula, is bounded by a double restraining bend of a dextral strike-slip fault, which is related to the western onshore end of the Pyrenean belt. Surface and subsurface data obtained from intensive coal exploration and mining in the basin since the 1960s together with additional structural and stratigraphic sequence analysis allowed us to determine the geometric relationships between tectonic structures and stratigraphic markers. The small size of the basin and the large amount of quality data make the As Pontes basin a unique natural laboratory for improving our understanding of the origin and evolution of restraining bends. The double restraining bend is the end stage of the structural evolution of a compressive underlapping stepover, where the basin was formed. During the first stage (stepover stage), which began ca. 30 Ma ago (latest Rupelian) and lasted 3.4 My, two small isolated basins bounded by thrusts and normal faults were formed. For 1.3 My, the strike-slip faults, which defined the stepover, grew towards each other until joining and forming the double restraining bend, which bounds one large As Pontes basin (transition stage). The history of the basin was controlled by the activity of the double restraining bend for a further 3.4 My (restraining bend stage) and ended in mid-Aquitanian times (ca. 22 Ma).

A percepção dos alunos do mestrado em engenharia de produção sobre a existência de ambientes de criação do conhecimento

Este estudo pautou-se em responder ao seguinte problema: "Como facilitar a emergência de contextos favoráveis ao processo de criação e compartilhamento de conhecimento?" Ante a formulação inicial, o presente artigo tem por objetivo identificar os quatro tipos de contextos (originating ba, dialoguing ba, systemizing ba e exercising ba) e apontar seus benefícios para a criação e compartilhamento de conhecimentos, a partir da percepção dos mestrandos dos cursos de engenharia de produção da Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Paraná (UFTPR) campus Ponta Grossa, de acordo com a metodologia proposta por Nonaka, Toyama e Konno (2002). O texto caracteriza-se como um estudo de caso, com a utilização de técnicas qualitativas para coleta e análise dos dados. Os resultados apontam a identificação dos espaços por 100% dos respondentes, tendo como benefícios o compartilhamento de informações e de conhecimentos. As informações compartilhadas que mais trouxeram benefícios estão relacionadas à criação e desenvolvimento de artigos, seminários, qualificação e defesa da dissertação.

Forecasting coal resources and reserves in heterogeneous coal zones using 3D facies models (As Pontes Basin, NW Spain)

Forecasting coal resources and reserves is critical for coal mine development. Thickness maps are commonly used for assessing coal resources and reserves; however they are limited for capturing coal splitting effects in thick and heterogeneous coal zones. As an alternative, three-dimensional geostatistical methods are used to populate facies distributionwithin a densely drilled heterogeneous coal zone in the As Pontes Basin (NWSpain). Coal distribution in this zone is mainly characterized by coal-dominated areas in the central parts of the basin interfingering with terrigenous-dominated alluvial fan zones at the margins. The three-dimensional models obtained are applied to forecast coal resources and reserves. Predictions using subsets of the entire dataset are also generated to understand the performance of methods under limited data constraints. Three-dimensional facies interpolation methods tend to overestimate coal resources and reserves due to interpolation smoothing. Facies simulation methods yield similar resource predictions than conventional thickness map approximations. Reserves predicted by facies simulation methods are mainly influenced by: a) the specific coal proportion threshold used to determine if a block can be recovered or not, and b) the capability of the modelling strategy to reproduce areal trends in coal proportions and splitting between coal-dominated and terrigenousdominated areas of the basin. Reserves predictions differ between the simulation methods, even with dense conditioning datasets. Simulation methods can be ranked according to the correlation of their outputs with predictions from the directly interpolated coal proportion maps: a) with low-density datasets sequential indicator simulation with trends yields the best correlation, b) with high-density datasets sequential indicator simulation with post-processing yields the best correlation, because the areal trends are provided implicitly by the dense conditioning data.

La enseñanza de estrategias de resolución de problemas matemáticos en la ESO: un ejemplo concreto

Within this article is included a description and justification of a didactical sequence to improve the learning of problem solving strategies of Secondary Education students. The design of the didactical sequence is guided by four principles: a) to context the activities and problems to solve in students’ every day practices; b) to use teaching methods that show the problem solving processes; c) to design didactical materials in order to guide strategies such as selection, organisation and control; d) to facilitate the co-operative learning of problem solving strategies.

The coal bearing Cenozoic As Pontes Basin (NW Spain): Geological influence on its coal's characteristics

Lignite deposits in the Cenozoic As Pontes strike-slip basin (northwestern Spain)were formed as a function of specific paleoclimatic conditions and tectonic evolution of the basin.

Magnetoestratigrafía de las sucesiones cenozoicas de la cuenca de As Pontes(La Coruña, Noroeste de España).

La cuenca terciaria de As Pontes (Noroeste de España), asociada a un corredor de fallas transcurrentes de dirección NW-SE, ha sido datada mediante magnetoestratigrafia, para lo cual se han estudiado un total de cuatro sucesiones magnetoestratigráficas. Las litologías estudiadas han sido sobre todo arcillas aluviales y palustres-lacustres, con un contenido variable de materia orgánica. En total se han desmagnetizado unos 900 especímenes, mediante desmagnetización térmica y por campos alternantes. Los minerales responsables de la magnetización en las rocas estudiadas son la magnetita y los sulfuros de hierro. A partir de los datos paleomagnéticos, se puede establecer que la sedimentación en la cuenca comenzó en el cron 10r (parte alta del Starnpiense) y se prolongó, como mínimo, hasta el subcron 6AAr.2n (Aquitaniense superior). Así, la duración de la sedimentación en la cuenca fue de unos 6,2 Ma, abarcando desde la última parte del Oligoceno temprano hasta el Mioceno temprano. La correlación magnetoestratigráfica de las diferentes sucesiones de la cuenca ha permitido establecer una correlación cronológica muy precisa a escala de cuenca, determinando la casi total isocronía de la mayor parte de los diferentes niveles de lignito y de las unidades litoestratigráficas de la cuenca. Por otro lado, las declinaciones medias muestran una rotación de 9'+4' para el relleno sedimentario de la cuenca de As Pontes, en sentido horario con respecto a la declinación del Oligoceno-Mioceno, coherente con el movimiento dextrógiro del corredor de fallas transcurrentes de dirección NW-SE. La datación del registro sedimentario de la cuenca de As Pontes permite establecer que los sistemas de fallas transcurrentes de orientación NW-SE del noroeste de la Península Ibérica fueron fuertemente activos desde la última parte del Oligoceno temprano hasta el Mioceno temprano. La finalización del movimiento principal de estos sistemas de fallas coincidió con el fin de actividad del margen entre la microplaca Ibérica y la placa Europea. Esto implicaría que el final de la actividad tectónica principal coincide en el ofshore y en el onshore del NW peninsular.

Tectonic-palaeoenvironmental forcing of clay-mineral assemblages in nonmarine settings: the Oligocene-Miocene As Pontes Basin (Spain)

Two small, alluvial-lacustrine subbasins developed during the early restraining overstep stages of the Oligocene-Miocene As Pontes strike-slip Basin (NW Spain). Later, the basin evolved into a restraining bend stage and an alluvial-swamp-dominated depositional framework developed. The palaeobiological record demonstrates that the Oligocene-Miocene palaeoclimate in NW Spain was subtropical, warm and humid to subhumid.

O impacto do PADCT na química e engenharia química

Among all activities related to the management of science and technology in Brazil, program monitoring and evaluation is certainly one of the less developed and most needed. There are no universal methodologies that can be applied. In essence programs can be evaluated by relating their achievements to pre-established goals. A second strategy is to compare programs similar in nature, utilizing as reference common indicators. Finally programs can be evaluated by their socio-economic impact comparing investments to outcomes. All strategies mentioned require appropriate program design monitoring and expert independent evaluation. In Brazil as in many other countries including developed ones this activity is complicated by the fact that programs vary widely in their scope and goals. In Brazil program designs often do not specify clearly their purposes and output indicators, many are not monitored properly which makes evaluation difficult. Consequently science and technology programs are difficult to be compared to each other, and even evaluated on the basis of pre-established goals. In PADCT monitoring and evaluation proved to be the most challenging activities. Two lessons however were learnt. One is that the process of monitoring and evaluation has to be continuously exposed to criticism to be perfected; and the second is that the evaluation process must not be exhausted shortly after investments since translation of scientific knowledge into industrial applications may prove to be a lengthy process. In this exercise we certainly do not pretend to evaluate the QEQ subprogram but to organize some of the information produced by different sources related to this subject, including the PADCT administration. We use somewhat each strategy described: compare the outputs of the QEQ to predetermined proposed goals (particularly in PADCT II), compare the QEQ to other PADCT subprograms, and specify some outputs in terms of technological and industrial applications. Finally, we utilize this opportunity to discuss science and technology M&E in general and the complexity of developing this area in Brazil.

Economia de átomos, engenharia molecular e catálise organometálica bifásica: conceitos moleculares para tecnologias limpas

For economical and ecological reasons, synthetic chemists are confronted with the increasing obligation of optimizing their synthetic methods. Maximizing efficiency and minimizing costs in the production of molecules and macromolecules constitutes, therefore, one of the most exciting challenges of synthetic chemistry. The ideal synthesis should produce the desired product in 100% yield and selectivity, in a safe and environmentally acceptable process. In this highlight the concepts of atom economy, molecular engineering and biphasic organometallic catalysis, which address these issues at the molecular level for the generation of "green" technologies, are introduced and discussed.

Uso de lodo de estação de tratamento de água centrifugado em matriz de concreto de cimento portland para reduzir o impacto ambiental

An alternative application of the humid sludge from the Passaúna WTP, located in Curitiba's metropolitan area, is proposed for concrete structures, partially replacing aggregates and cement. For the investigation, a reference concrete and four concrete mixtures with sludge were produced, and from these, two mixtures, containing 4% and 8% of sludge (m/m), were analyzed by different techniques: X ray fluorescence, X ray diffraction, thermo-gravimetric analysis, physicochemical analysis, compressive strength, etc. The properties were evaluated and the results indicate that the mixtures can be applied in different situations as cast structures for construction of concrete walls. Mixtures with more than 4% of sludge are restricted to applications where the workability of the concrete is not required, such as for residential pavements, sidewalks and stepping floors.

Imobilização de TiO2 em concreto: fotodegradação de clorofórmio e fenol

TiO2 immobilization on concrete was studied using mixtures with cement, varnish and resin. The UV radiation sources were a germicide UV lamp and solar light. Aqueous solutions of chloroform (CHCl3) and of phenol were prepared and recirculated over the TiO2 immobilized surfaces. The immobilized TiO2 surfaces showed better photocatalytic efficiency for phenol degradation compared to the control. For CHCl3, the presence or absence of the catalyst did not cause any significant difference to its degradation efficiency. The micrographic results showed a more homogeneous surface for TiO2 immobilized in resin and varnish.