Artemídia movente: processos e procedimentos artísticos em animação

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Conformidade da rotulagem de alimentos consumidos por escolares à legislação brasileira

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Rotulagem ambiental: estudo de critérios para a concessão do selo verde para produtos manufaturados de couro

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Causes and consequences of low rates of specialisation in science and technology in CDCC member countries

The importance of science and technology (S&T) in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is clearly articulated in Chapter XI, paragraphs 57, 58, 61 and 62 of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (MSI). At the regional level, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) noted the challenge that CARICOM member States face in competing in this new international economic environment in which the impact of scientific and technological change has created a knowledge-based global economy. Given the importance of S&T to development of Caribbean SIDS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean embarked on a study to determine the causes and consequences of low rates of specialisation in S&T with a view to making recommendations for development of strategies for addressing these challenges. Data on postgraduate (Master of Science, Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy) enrolment and graduation in agriculture, engineering and the sciences from the three campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) as well as from the University of Technology in Jamaica and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) were examined and analysed. Face-to-face interviews were also held with key personnel from these institutions and a questionnaire was also served to individuals in key institutions. Results of the study revealed that although the number of students enrolled in higher degree programmes has increased in absolute terms, they are decreasing in relative terms. However, enrolment in agriculture has indeed declined while enrolment rates in engineering, although increasing, were not significantly high. Market forces have proved to be a main reason for this trend while facilities for the conduct and supervision of cutting-edge research, the disconnect between science and industry and societal labelling of scientists as “misfits” are also contributing to the situation. This has resulted in a reduced desire by students at all levels of the school system and faculty to be involved in S&T; lack of innovation; a better staffed private, as compared with public, sector; and poor remuneration in science-based employment. There also appears to be a gender bias in enrolment with more males than females being enrolled in engineering while the opposite is apparent in agriculture and the sciences. Recommendations for remedying this situation range from increasing investment in S&T, creating linkages between science and industry as well as with the international community, raising awareness of the value of S&T at all levels of the education system to informing policy to stimulate the science – innovation interface so as to promote intellectual property rights.

Prospecção de genes relacionados com a resistência ao carrapato Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus em bovinos de corte

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Histopatologia e imunoistoquímica na distrofia muscular do Golden Retriever

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Unravelling the Neospora caninum secretome through the secreted fraction (ESA) and quantification of the discharged tachyzoite using high-resolution mass spectrometry-based proteomics

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

Possible interspecific origin of the B chromosome of Hypsiboas albopunctatus (Spix, 1824) (Anura, Hylidae), revealed by microdissection, chromosome painting, and reverse hybridisation

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

Detecção e restauração de áreas sombreadas em imagens digitais de alta resolução espacial

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Avaliação da apoptose em tecido ovariano em gatas

Há um crescente interesse nas técnicas reprodutivas, por agilizar a procriação de populações animais de interesse econômico, a preservação de espécies em extinção ou a utilização como modelo experimental em outras espécies. A reprodução de felinos em cativeiro é dificultada devido ao ambiente estranho, o que os leva a apresentarem alterações na própria fisiologia. Torna-se importante o estudo de fenômenos reprodutivos destes animais com a finalidade de melhor compreensão e, posteriormente, adaptação adequada das biotécnicas reprodutivas. A atuação da apoptose na fisiologia ovariana ainda não é bem compreendida, havendo a necessidade da comunidade científica elucidá-la melhor. O objetivo deste trabalho foi testar a hipótese de que os índices de apoptose no tecido ovariano são diferentes em gatas jovens, adultas e idosas. Foram utilizadas 18 gatas distribuídas em 3 grupos contendo 6 animais cada, de acordo com a idade (jovens, adultos e idosos). As amostras do tecido ovariano destinadas a avaliação de apoptose, foram submetidas ao método terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-biotin nick end-labelling (TUNEL). Os dados referentes aos diferentes grupos foram submetidos à análise de variância e as médias foram comparadas pelo Teste de Tukey. Não houve diferença significativa quanto ao número de folículos e número de células positivas das gatas jovens, adultas e idosas, sendo P < 0,05. O resultado do trabalho sugere que o fenômeno da apoptose em tecido ovariano em gatas não possui relação com a faixa etária, ou seja, a apoptose ocorre de forma contínua nos folículos não-dominantes envolvidos em cada ciclo estral apresentado

Locating control points in aerial images with a multi-scale approach based on terrestrial image patches

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

Influence of the Paracoccidioides brasiliensis 14-3-3 and gp43 proteins on the induction of apoptosis in A549 epithelial cells

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

Immunomodulatory Effects of Galectin-1 on an IgE-Mediated Allergic Conjunctivitis Model

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

Characterization of a monoclonal antibody recognizing mast cells

Immunohistochemical screening for monoclonal antibodies prepared by immunization of mice with a rat osteoblastic cell population led to identification of one antibody that reacted against a small population of cells present in the soft connective tissue compartment of 21 days fetal rat calvaria. The morphology of the cells and the immunohistochemical staining characteristics (a distinct intracellular granular pattern) suggested that the antibody might be reacting specifically against mast cells. We used combined histochemistry and immunohistochemistry to further characterize this antibody, designated RCJ102. Cryosections containing calvaria bone, soft connective tissues and skin were prepared from the top of the head of 21 days fetal rats, and from adult rats cryosections of lung, muscle, adipose tissue and small intestine were prepared. Some sections were labelled by indirect immunofluorescence with RCJ102; corresponding sections were labelled histochemically with toluidine blue. There was a direct correspondence between mast cells identified histochemically and cells labelling with RCJ102 in all tissues except intestine, in which the mast cell detectable by histochemistry were not labelled by RCJ102. These results suggest that the RCJ102 antibody will be a valuable new reagent for further elucidation of the heterogeneity described between connective tissue and intestinal mucosal mast cells.

Study on the origin and nature of the adenomatoid odontogenic tumor by immunohistochemistry

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