A mediação intercultural em contexto escolar: da diferença como deficiência à diferença como ferramenta pedagógica e identitária

Depois de apresentarmos uma caracterização geral da estrutura da população estrangeira no concelho de Leiria (ponto 1), com recurso a dados do INE, e de percebermos como ela se reflete num agrupamento de escolas da cidade de Leiria, solicitámos informação sobre a heterogeneidade cultural do referido agrupamento. Numa primeira resposta, a secretaria fez-nos chegar um documento com todos os ciclos de ensino e, na frente, o n.º de imigrantes, sem qualquer identificação de proveniência ou nacionalidade. Contudo, abriram uma categoria para o grupo “etnia” e outro para as “NEE” (Necessidades Educativas Especiais). Só numa segunda abordagem, e sem utilizar quaisquer moralismos ou críticas sociopedagógicas relativamente à arrumação da diversidade cultural efetuada pelos serviços e direção do agrupamento, solicitámos que nos facultassem a distribuição por nacionalidades e grupos étnicos. As respostas são sistematizadas em quadros no ponto 2 e mostram daltonismo cultural perante o que é a diferença cultural e a diferença entre os filhos de imigrantes distintos. Por outro lado, esse entendimento da diversidade cultural, algo controverso, alimenta e gere projetos de trabalho social e mediação sociopedagógica que consideramos patologizadores, na medida em que a diferença parece ser tratada como deficiência (ponto 3, 4 e 5 do texto).

Naturally Occurring Resistance-Associated Variants of Hepatitis C Virus Protease Inhibitors in Poor Responders to Pegylated Interferon-Ribavirin

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Regimes of spray vaporization and combustion in counterflow configurations

This article addresses the problem of spray vaporization and combustion in axisymmetric opposed-jet configurations involving a stream of hot air counterflowing against a stream of nitrogen carrying a spray of fuel droplets. The Reynolds numbers of the jets are assumed to be large, so that mixing of the two streams is restricted to a thin mixing layer that separates the counterflowing streams. The evolution of the droplets in their feed stream from the injection location is seen to depend fundamentally on the value of the droplet Stokes number, St, defined as the ratio of the droplet acceleration time to the mixing layer strain time close to the stagnation point. Two different regimes of spray vaporization and combustion can be identified depending on the value of St. For values of St below a critical value, equal to 1/4 for dilute sprays with small values of the spray liquid mass loading ratio, the droplets decelerate to approach the gas stagnation plane with a vanishing axial velocity. In this case, the droplets located initially near the axis reach the mixing layer, where they can vaporize due to the heat received from the hot air, producing fuel vapor that can burn with the oxygen in a diffusion flame located on the air side of the mixing layer. The character of the spray combustion is different for values of St of order unity, because the droplets cross the stagnation plane and move into the opposing air stream, reaching distances that are much larger than the mixing layer thickness before they turn around. The vaporization of these crossing droplets, and also the combustion of the fuel vapor generated by them, occur in the hot air stream, without significant effects of molecular diffusion, generating a vaporization-assisted nonpremixed flame that stands on the air side outside the mixing layer. Separate formulations will be given below for these two regimes of combustion, with attention restricted to the near-stagnation-point region, where the solution is self-similar and all variables are only dependent on the distance to the stagnation plane. The resulting formulations display a reduced number of controlling parameters that effectively embody dependences of the structure of the spray flame on spray dilution, droplet inertia, and fuel preferential diffusion. Sample solutions are given for the limiting cases of pure vaporization and of infinitely fast chemistry, with the latter limit formulated in terms of chemistry-free coupling functions that allow for general nonunity Lewis numbers of the fuel vapor.

Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film

This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction of nineteenth-century gypsies, those “Others within Europe” (Boyarin 433) whose presence in Victorian fiction was peripheral, spectral and at times invisible (Nord 3-4), is simultaneously exploited and contested by these two neo-Victorian screen narratives to raise issues of otherness and invisibility on the screen. Setting off from the premise that screen texts, just like print texts, can also be participant in the neo-Victorian project of reimagining the underside of Victorian culture for contemporary audiences (Whelehan 273), this paper traces how the adaptation of Victorian gypsies for the screen, true to the palimpsestuous potential inherent to the process of adaptation (Hutcheon 6) and sharing the double drive between past and present which characterises the neo-Victorian genre (Arias and Pulham xiii; Shiller 539), hybridises our cultural memory of the Victorian Age on the screen while concurrently raises concerns over the persistent liminal status of gypsies in contemporary European culture. In particular, this paper illustrates how the tropes prototypically associated to gypsies (namely their nomadic lifestyle, mysticism, alienated existence or their perceived association to criminality) which can be traced back to Victorian culture are deployed on the neo-Victorian popular screen (with varyingly succesful outcomes) to comment on their (in)visibility in the European popular imagination.

A ÁREA CENTRAL DE UBERLÂNDIA-MG FRENTE AO PARADIGMA DAS CIDADES SAUDÁVEIS

Diante da interface entre o acelerado processo de urbanização e a necessidade de concretização das diretrizes de promoção da saúde a fim de assegurar a qualidade de vida, despontam novas concepções de organização das cidades. No presente trabalho são tecidas ponderações sobre as condições ambientais, considerando as dimensões do ambiente físico e social, que podem afetar a saúde na área central da cidade de Uberlândia-MG, uma cidade de porte médio em transição para grande com alto grau de transformações em seu espaço intra-urbano decorrentes dentre outros fatores do contexto em que está inserida. Neste sentido destaca-se como objetivo geral do presente artigo compreender as características da área central de Uberlândia frente ao paradigma das cidades saudáveis. Para alcançar o objetivo proposto foram realizadas pesquisas bibliográficas com o intuito de organizar e compreender os conceitos a serem utilizados, bem como constatações empíricas. Dentre as contribuições geográficas deste artigo destaca-se a importância das pesquisas ligadas a temática da cidade saudável, dada a urgência de mudanças no modo de vida da população, e em contrapartida o papel e o significado representado pela área central no contexto das cidades médias brasileiras.

Analysis of spatial variation of tree heights in an urban area using LiDAR data.

Estimating with greater precision and accuracy the height of plants has been a challenge for the scientific community. The objective this study is to evaluate the spatial variation of tree heights at different spatial scales in areas of the city of Recife, Brazil, using LiDAR remote sensing data. The LiDAR data were processed in the QT Modeler (Quick Terrain Modeler v. 8.0.2) software from Applied Imagery. The TreeVaW software was utilized to estimate the heights and crown diameters of trees. The results obtained for tree height were consistent with field measurements.