"Choque de capital": criminalização da pobreza e (re)significação da "questão social" no Rio de Janeiro (2009-2012)

O tema que nos propomos a estudar é Choque de Capital: criminalização da pobreza e (re)significação da questão social no Rio de Janeiro. A delimitação espaço temporal de nosso estudo situa-se na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, de 2009 a 2012. O período selecionado corresponde a primeira gestão do prefeito Eduardo Paes (PMDB) e os primeiros anos de execução das denominadas ações de Choque de Ordem. A proposta apresentada tem como pressuposto a centralidade do estudo da metrópole e a relação entre especulação imobiliária e capital financeiro, como um dos motivadores da criminalização da pobreza na contemporaneidade, cujo principal objetivo é tornar os espaços "ordenados" fonte de lucro, não importando as consequências impostas às classes subalternas. Considerando que este paradigma evidencia um processo de criminalização das classes subalternas e a necessidade compreendermos o modo específico de enfrentamento à pobreza por parte da prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro considerando suas implicações para o Serviço Social, optamos pelo seguinte caminho de estudo traduzido na forma dos capítulos assim identificados: I-Barbárie e passivização: aportes para compreensão da banalização da violência no Brasil, II- Das bases de tradição autoritária ao Esplendor do Estado de Polícia e III- Reordenamento urbano, mídia e consenso no Rio de Janeiro: Choque de Ordem para quem?. Acreditamos que o estudo aprofundado desses temas propiciarão um entendimento acerca da realidade, base insuprimível para sua transformação.

Study of high performance Re-timing using a 40 Gb/s hybrid-integrated mach-zehnder all-optical regenerator

We experimentally show that a hybrid-integrated Mach-Zehnder switch with a high performance gate profile allows retiming of optical signals with an accuracy of 500-700fs even if the input timing jitter is increased to 3ps. © 2004 Optical Society of America.

A sudden collapse in distribution of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off southwestern Australia enables an objective re-assessment of biomass estimates

Fishery-independent estimates of spawning biomass (BSP) of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) on the south and lower west coasts of Western Australia (WA) were obtained periodically between 1991 and 1999 by using the daily egg production method (DEPM). Ichthyoplankton data collected during these surveys, specifically the presence or absence of S. sagax eggs, were used to investigate trends in the spawning area of S. sagax within each of four regions. The expectation was that trends in BSP and spawning area were positively related. With the DEPM model, estimates of BSP will change proportionally with spawning area if all other variables remain constant. The proportion of positive stations (PPS), i.e., stations with nonzero egg counts — an objective estimator of spawning area — was high for all south coast regions during the early 1990s (a period when the estimated BSP was also high) and then decreased after the mid-1990s. There was a decrease in PPS from the mid-1990s to 1999. The particularly low estimates in 1999 followed a severe epidemic mass mortality of S. sagax throughout their range across southern Australia. Deviations from the expected relationship between BSP and PPS were used to identify uncertainty around estimates of BSP. Because estimation of spawning area is subject to less sampling bias than estimation of BSP, the deviation in the relation between the two provides an objective basis for adjusting some estimates of the latter. Such an approach is particularly useful for fisheries management purposes when sampling problems are suspected to be present. The analysis of PPS undertaken from the same set of samples from which the DEPM estimate is derived will help provide information for stock assessments and for the management of purse-seine fisheries.

Do fluctuations in the somatic growth rate of rock lobster (Jasus lalandii) encompass all size classes? A re-assessment of juvenile growth

Catch rates in the South African rock lobster (Jasus lalandii) fishery declined after 1989 in response to reduced adult somatic growth rates and a consequent reduction in recruitment to the fishable population. Although spatial and temporal trends in adult growth are well described, little is known about how juvenile growth rates have been affected. In our study, growth rates of juvenile rock lobster on Cape Town harbor wall were compared with those recorded at the same site more than 25 years prior to our study, and with those on a nearby natural nursery reef. We found that indices of somatic growth measured during 1996–97 at the harbor wall had declined significantly since 1971–72. Furthermore, growth was slower among juvenile J. lalandii at the harbor wall than those at the natural nursery reef. These results suggest that growth rates of juvenile and adult J. lalandii exhibit similar types of spatiotemporal patterns. Thus, the recent coastwide decline in adult somatic growth rates might also encompass smaller size classes.