Decisões judiciais no campo da biotecnociência: a bioética como fonte de legitimação

A tese analisa decisões judiciais prolatadas em casos da bioética clínica, especificamente: requerimento de autorização para interrupção de gestação de feto anencéfalo, liberdade de recusa à imposição de procedimento de transfusão de sangue em razão de crença religiosa em paciente Testemunha de Jeová e a mudança de nome e sexo de transexual com ou sem realização de cirurgia de transgenitalismo. A escolha dos três tipos de casos levados a julgamento ao Poder Judiciário se deu em virtude de serem questões características ao direito existencial, de repercussão no Ser do indivíduo, em seus direitos personalíssimos. Para isso foram analisadas 84 decisões judiciais, mediante a aplicação da teoria Principiológica de Beauchamp & Childress e análise de cada decisão quanto à aplicação dos quatro Princípios que desenvolve: do respeito à autonomia, da não maleficência, da beneficência e da justiça. O resultado da análise demonstrou que ao utilizar os quatro Princípios, com especificação e ponderação dos mesmos, o julgador profere decisões de cunho liberal. Quando não utiliza os Princípios ou extrapola os limites de sua aplicação, o julgador profere decisões de cunho conservador. As decisões judiciais de caráter liberal são despidas de preconceitos e moralismos e permitem o respeito aos direitos individuais sem descuidar dos direitos dos demais membros da sociedade. As decisões conservadoras se baseiam na literalidade da lei e violam direitos individuais, sem acrescentar segurança à sociedade. A apropriação desta teoria da ética biomédica pelo biodireito, se apresenta como método seguro e eficaz na prolação de decisão judicial em casos da bioética clínica e conduz o julgador a decisões mais justas por serem apoiadas em boas razões.

T-Muurolol Sesquiterpenes from the Marine Streptomyces sp M491 and Revision of the Configuration of Previously Reported Amorphanes

Two new sesquiterpenes, 15-hydroxy-T-muurolol (3d) and 11,15-dihydroxy-T-muurolol (3e), along with the plant cadinenes T-muurolol (3f) and 3 alpha-hydroxy-T-muurolol (3g), were isolated from the marine-derived Streptomyces sp. M491. Their absolute configuration was established via NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography of 3-oxo-T-muurolol (3a), which was reisolated from this strain. In addition, the absolute configuration of further sesquiterpenes previously reported from this strain was revised. These products were tested for their cytotoxicity against 37 human tumor cell lines using the MTT method. Only 3d was cytotoxic against a range of human tumor cell lines with a mean IC50 of 6.7 mu g/mL.

Programa de melhoramento genético de pupunha na Embrapa, IAC e INPA.

Estado da arte; Recursos genéticos; Estratégias de melhoramento; Desenvolvimento experimental.

Surtos da mosca-dos-estábulos, Stomoxys calcitrans, em Mato Grosso do Sul: novo problema para as cadeias produtivas da carne e sucroalcooleira?

No presente documento é registrada a ocorrência de infestações preocupantes pela mosca-dos-estábulos, Stomoxys calcitrans L. (Diptera: Muscidae), em propriedades pecuárias próximas de usinas sucroalcooleiras na região Sul de Mato Grosso do Sul, no ano de 2009. A biologia do inseto; sua importância epidemiológica, econômica e veterinária e; possíveis alternativas de controle são apresentadas e discutidas. Entre as alternativas de controle sugere-se, em especial, o revolvimento completo duas vezes por semana do material de compostagem nas usinas e a drenagem do local onde é executada, assim como o enterrio parcial da palha pós-colheita da cana-de-açúcar com uso de cultivador. Nas propriedades pecuárias recomenda-se a limpeza de locais de criação da mosca, representado por acúmulo de dejetos de animais domésticos e ou de resíduos alimentares, especialmente em confinamentos e leiterias, dentre outras recomendações. Somente com ações integradas será possível resolver o problema e contribuir para o desenvolvimento sustentável de duas importantes cadeias produtivas do agronegócio brasileiro.

How do Humans Determine Reflectance Properties under Unknown Illumination?

Under normal viewing conditions, humans find it easy to distinguish between objects made out of different materials such as plastic, metal, or paper. Untextured materials such as these have different surface reflectance properties, including lightness and gloss. With single isolated images and unknown illumination conditions, the task of estimating surface reflectance is highly underconstrained, because many combinations of reflection and illumination are consistent with a given image. In order to work out how humans estimate surface reflectance properties, we asked subjects to match the appearance of isolated spheres taken out of their original contexts. We found that subjects were able to perform the task accurately and reliably without contextual information to specify the illumination. The spheres were rendered under a variety of artificial illuminations, such as a single point light source, and a number of photographically-captured real-world illuminations from both indoor and outdoor scenes. Subjects performed more accurately for stimuli viewed under real-world patterns of illumination than under artificial illuminations, suggesting that subjects use stored assumptions about the regularities of real-world illuminations to solve the ill-posed problem.

Volcanic air pollution and mortality in France 1783?1784

Grattan J.P., Rabartin, R., Self, S. & Thordarson, Th. 2005. Volcanic air pollution and mortality in France 1783-84. Comptes Rendu Geosciences. 641-651 This item is available in both English and French in the PDF file.

Intérêt du dosage des immunoglobulines sériques lors de l'installation d'un infarctus du myocarde.

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GABRIEL URBAIN FAURÉ, THE UNSUNG MODERNIST: A PERFORMANCE SURVEY OF SELECTED LATE WORKS WRITTEN AFTER 1892 FOR PIANO SOLO, AND PIANO IN COLLABORATION WITH VIOLIN, VIOLONCELLO, AND VOICE

Gabriel Urbain Fauré lived during one of the most exciting times in music history. Spanning a life of 79 years (1845-1924), he lived through the height of Romanticism and the experimental avant-garde techniques of the early 20th century. In Fauré's music, one can find traces of Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Debussy and Poulenc. One can even argue that Fauré presages Skryabin and Shostakovich. The late works of Gabriel Fauré, chiefly those composed after 1892, testify to the argument that Fauré holds an important position in the shift from tonal to atonal composition and should be counted among such transitional composers as Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Richard Strauss, and Ferruccio Busoni. Fauré's unique way of fashioning harmonic impetus of almost purely linear means, resulting in a synthesis of harmonic and melodic devices, led me to craft the term mélodoharmonique. This term refers to a contrapuntally motivated technique of composition, particularly in a secondary layer of musical texture, in which a component of harmonic progression (i.e. arpeggiation, broken chord, etc.) is fused with linear motivic or thematic development. This dissertation seeks to bring to public attention through exploration in lecture and recital format, certain works of Gabriel Fauré, written after 1892. The repertoire will be selected from works for solo piano and piano in collaboration with violin, violoncello, and voice, which support the notion of Fauré as a modernist deserving larger recognition for his influence in the transition to atonal music. The recital repertoire includes the following--Song Cycles: La bonne chanson, opus 61; La chanson d'Ève, opus 95; Le jardin clos, opus 106; Mirages, opus 113; L'horizon chimérique, opus 118; Piano Works: Prelude in G minor opus 103, No. 3; Prelude in E minor opus 103, No. 9; Eleventh Nocturne, opus 104, No.1; Thirteenth Nocturne, opus 119; Chamber Works: Second Violin Sonata, opus 108; First Violoncello Sonata, opus 109; Second Violoncello Sonata, opus 117.

Health networks: Actors, professional relationships, and controversies

In recent years international policies have aimed to stimulate the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the field of health care. Belgium has also been affected by these developments and, for example, health electronic regional networks ("HNs") are established. Thanks to a qualitative case study we have explored the implementation of such innovations (HN) to better understand how health professionals collaborate through the HN and how the HN affect their relationships. Within the HNs studied a common good unites the actors: the continuity of care for a better quality of care. However behind this objective of continuity of care other individual motivations emerge. Some controversies need also to be resolved in order to achieve cooperative relationships. HNs have notably to take national developments into account. These developments raise the question of the control of medical knowledge and medical practice. Professional issues, and not only practical changes, are involved in these innovations. © 2008 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.

Stimm-Bruch. Über Artikulationsförderung in der Ober- und Werkstufe. Ein Beitrag zu Musik und Kommunikation

[...] Der Autor fragt zunächst, weshalb Artikulationsförderung ins Abseits geraten ist. Es wird vorgeschlagen, neben dem kommunikativen Gebrauch der Stimme, unterrichtlich (wieder) den ursprünglichen Aspekt der ,Selbstvernahme' der Stimme zu berücksichtigen. Eine solche Aufmerksamkeit auf Stimme kann sich innerhalb der Pädagogik auf Konzepte basaler Förderung berufen. Wesentliche Impulse könnten jedoch aus Bereichen kommen, die außerhalb von Schule und Unterricht liegen. Damit sind insbesondere Künstler und Künstlerinnen gemeint, die im Bereich stimmlicher Performance arbeiten sowie Formen musikalischer Jugendkultur wie rap, hiphop und scat. Einige Unterrichtsbeispiele sollen altersangemessene Möglichkeiten der Artikulationsförderung in der Ober- und Werkstufe aufzeigen. (DIPF/Orig.)

Una revisión de la Cadena Datos-Información-Conocimiento desde el Pragmatismo de Peirce

La Cadena Datos-Información-Conocimiento (DIC), denominada “Jerarquía de la Información” o “Pirámide del Conocimiento”, es uno de los modelos más importantes en la Gestión de la Información y la Gestión del Conocimiento. Por lo general, la estructuración de la cadena se ha ido definiendo como una arquitectura en la que cada elemento se levanta sobre el elemento inmediatamente inferior; sin embargo no existe un consenso en la definición de los elementos, ni acerca de los procesos que transforman un elemento de un nivel a uno del siguiente nivel. En este artículo se realiza una revisión de la Cadena Datos-Información-Conocimiento examinando las definiciones más relevantes sobre sus elementos y sobre su articulación en la literatura, para sintetizar las acepciones más comunes. Se analizan los elementos de la Cadena DIC desde la semiótica de Peirce; enfoque que nos permite aclarar los significados e identificar las diferencias, las relaciones y los roles que desempeñan en la cadena desde el punto de vista del pragmatismo. Finalmente se propone una definición de la Cadena DIC apoyada en las categorías triádicas de signos y la semiosis ilimitada de Peirce, los niveles de sistemas de signos de Stamper y las metáforas de Zeleny.

Amorous Ex/Incursions: Love in Writings of Badiou, Weil, Fromm, and Barthes

My dissertation explores the enabling contributions of love to the practice of ethico-political and cultural critique. Engaging with the work of Alain Badiou, Simone Weil, Erich Fromm, and Roland Barthes, I examine love in terms of the following modalities: waiting, giving, and looking. I place the aforementioned thinkers in dialogue with selected literary and cinematic texts to explicate and interrogate the meaningful possibilities of their discourse on love. In my chapter on Alain Badiou, I discuss his ontology, which I draw upon heavily to set the theoretical parameters of my study. I also discuss the logic of love that he develops in his philosophy. Speaking to the problem of pre-Evental agency that critics of his work identify, I suggest that waiting as attention, as theorized by Simone Weil, might be the closest form of agency that a pre-Evental (amorous) being can experience. In my discussion of Erich Fromm, I reevaluate his “art of loving” within the constellation of late capitalism. Reading his work through a Lacanian lens, I explore the utility of his prescriptions by examining Chuck Palahniuk’s controversial novel Fight Club. In my chapter on Roland Barthes, I theorize the possibility of cinematic looking that does not depend on the antagonism inherent in the binaries masculine/ feminine and (Gazing) spectator/ (to-be-looked-at) image. Towards this objective, I propose the “amorous look,” a mode of viewing occasioned by cinematic punctual encounters, that I contend is beyond the domain of desire and perversion. I deploy the “amorous look” as I reflect on Aureus Solito’s film Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Olivares (The Blossoming of Maximo Olivares) and its representations of love and waiting.