Jornalismo alternativo na Amazônia: o discurso do desmatamento no Jornal Pessoal (1987-2012)

Este estudo apresenta discussões a respeito do desmatamento na Amazônia Legal, em particular no estado do Pará, no período de 1987 a 2012, a partir do corpus de edições do Jornal Pessoal, autoria de Lúcio Flávio Pinto. Busca-se aqui verificar o posicionamento, o discurso do Jornal Pessoal no debate acerca do desmatamento, e a ação do Estado nessa temática. Para exame do corpus, utiliza-se a análise do discurso, constituída numa abordagem teórico-metodológica interdisciplinar. Constata-se que o posicionamento do Jornal Pessoal é crítico-reflexivo, uma vez que o discurso argumentativo se utiliza de estratégias discursivas, como a legitimidade da fala, a interpelação e a interação com o leitor. Observa-se que o Jornal Pessoal, ao debater as ações implementadas pelo Estado para o combate do desmatamento no Pará, mostra que tais ações ainda caminham na criação de instrumentos de controle e mecanismos jurídicos, evidenciando que as ações efetivas estão muito distantes de atrelar o desmatamento a uma política ambiental comprometida e séria, demonstrando a inércia do Estado no combate dessas práticas.

Mapeamento de uma interface separando dois meios homogêneos através da reconstituição gravimétrica compacta: aplicação a dados do LEPLAC-IV

O problema do mapeamento de uma interface separando dois meios homogêneos tem sido tradicionalmente resolvido através da continuação para baixo da anomalia gravimétrica observada. Este procedimento requer a utilização de um filtro passa-baixa ou de um parâmetro de amortecimento, que tendem a diminuir a resolução do relevo estimado da interface. Além disso, o uso da continuação para baixo implica supor (desnecessariamente) que a interface é uma superfície harmônica. Desta forma, a utilização da continuação para baixo é restrita a interfaces que apresentam um relevo suave relativamente à sua profundidade média. As restrições impostas pela continuação para baixo do campo gravimétrico são reduzidas na técnica de inversão proposta para este estudo, cujo objetivo é mapear a interface crosta-manto baseada na incorporação de informações a priori sobre o mínimo momento de inércia da fonte causadora, em relação a um eixo de concentração de massa pré-estabelecido e coincidente com o topo da fonte anômala. Além da introdução de informações sobre o mínimo momento, foi incluída também a possibilidade de haver variação lateral e em profundidade de densidade em setores previamente estabelecidos, o que permite estender a aplicação desta técnica a situações geológicas mais complexas que envolvam a reconstituição de corpos justapostos, que sejam de diferentes naturezas, tais como aqueles presentes em zonas de transição crustal. O método de inversão apresentado foi avaliado em testes usando dados sintéticos e os resultados obtidos mostraram a eficiência desta técnica em recuperar corpos alongados horizontalmente, que apresentem como topo ou base, interfaces arbitrárias a serem mapeadas. Foi também constatada a eficácia do método em reconstituir corpos que comportem variação lateral de densidade que pudessem retratar situações em que se deseja investigar a natureza do embasamento em regiões de transição crustal. Com base nos resultados destes testes, a técnica foi então empregada na inversão gravimétrica de cinco perfis do LEPLAC IV que cruzam a região oceânica adjacente à margem continental sudeste brasileira. Os resultados desta aplicação permitiram inferir a natureza dos corpos que constituem o arcabouço estrutural da região onde encontram-se inseridas a Dorsal de São Paulo e a Zona de Fratura de Porto Alegre, assim como mapear a Moho subjacente.

Modelo dinâmico da coluna lombar humana, com solicitação de esforço postero-anterior: análise com rigidez viscoelástica não linear

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeito do inseticida fipronil em abelhas africanizadas e na expressão de gene relacionado ao sistema imunológico

Pós-graduação em Zootecnia - FMVZ

Does hyperglycemia in pregnancy change fetal kidney growth?: a longitudinal prospective study

PURPOSE: To measure fetal renal volume in normoglycemic and hyperglycemic pregnancies. METHODS: A longitudinal prospective study was conducted and included 92 hyperglycemic and 339 normoglycemic pregnant women attended at the prenatal service of a hospital from Rio de Janeiro State. Ultrasound examinations were performed to estimate gestational age at baseline and the kidney volume was estimated using the prolate ellipsoid volume equation. RESULTS: Fetal kidney volume growth between normoglycemic and hyperglycemic pregnancies are significantly different. The fetal kidney volume growth in pregnancy is positively correlated with gestational age explained by these predictor equations, by group: normal renal volume = exp (6.186+0.09×gestational week); hyperglycemic renal volume = exp (6.978+0.071×gestational week) and an excessive growth pattern for hyperglycemic pregnancies may be established according to gestational age. CONCLUSION: This is important for early detection of abnormalities in pregnancy, particularly in diabetic mothers.

Potenciais periódicos: aplicação à espectroscopia do benzeno

Pós-graduação em Física - FEG

Taxonomic studies on Mucor inaequisporus, isolated for the first time in South America

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

3D stability orbits close to 433 Eros using an effective polyhedral model method

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Do Thyroid Ultrasonographic Features Change According to Age in Euthyroid Dogs?

The thyroid gland was assessed by ultrasound in healthy euthyroid mixed-breed medium size dogs in different age groups. The objective was to verify ultrasonographic imaging patterns in these groups, as well as to identify possible changes in imaging features resulting from ageing. Thirty dogs - 10 young (<1 year), 10 adult and 10 elderly - without clinical signs or history of thyroid gland disease with complete blood count and thyroid function tests within the reference values were evaluated. Each thyroid lobe was examined by ultrasound for shape, size, echogenicity and echotexture. The analysis of echogenicity and echotexture was made by histogram. Thyroid volume was estimated by the equation for ellipsoid (length x width x height) pi/6. The thyroid volume of the young dogs in this study had a tendency to be higher than in adult dogs (P = 0.068) and older dogs (P = 0.120). The height of the thyroid lobe in the longitudinal plane was significantly higher (P = 0.026) in young dogs compared with the other dogs. The echotexture and echogenicity had no significant differences between groups, but the echogenicity was greater in older dogs. The results point out that ultrasound imaging of the thyroid volume is influenced by age in euthyroid dogs.

Is rainfall seasonality important for reproductive strategies in viviparous Neotropical pit vipers? A case study with Bothrops leucurus from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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

Modelagem e simulação do mecanismo biela manivela e análise estrutural de biela automotiva

Nowadays, the automotive industry is working to optimize the design of engines, in order to reduce the fuel consumption with acceptable efficiency ratio. This undergraduate thesis is aimed at perform a kinematic/dynamic analysis of a slider-crank mechanism that is part of a four stroke internal combustion engine, the same engine that was used in the analysis described by Montazersadhd and Fatemi (2007). Two algorithms were developed based on Kane’s method to calculate velocities and accelerations of the mechanism bodies, and provide the acting forces at connecting rod joints. A SimMechanics model was developed to simulate the engine, and monitoring the same parameters that were calculated with the algorithms. The results obtained with both approaches were satisfactory and showed good agreement with the values provided by Montazersadhd and Fatemi (2007). The obtained results showed that the axial component of the rod joint efforts was caused by the pressure exerted on the piston head,whereas the radial component was related with the action of inertia loads. Besides, this thesis presents a connecting rod assembly mesh that is going to be used for static and fatigue finite element analysis in the future

Análise de fadiga em rodas automotivas utilizando método dos elementos finitos

The increasing search for better performance at the automotive industry, especially on the matter of fuel consumption, caused a progressive evolution of industrial technology. For the wheel this study is based on the try of reducing mass and decreasing the moment of inertia, characteristics that directly reflect on the performance parameter, as consumption and acceleration, so that it also is effective on the growth of the profit margin, since it reduces the costs of the locomotion. In this paper will be applied the Finite Element Analysis to explain the wheel behavior and identify ways to improve the performance. To the analyze it will be simulated a test condition established by ABNT NBR 6751:2009 foreseeing a possible collapse through general yielding and fatigue. The load here presented results from the equation presented on the norms and in the datas provided by the manufacturer

Caracterização de cerâmicas a base de nitreto de silício para aplicações estruturais

The need for development of new materials is a natural process in the companies’ technological point of view, seeking improvements in materials and processes. Specifically, among the materials, ceramic exhibit valuable properties, especially the covalent ceramics which have excellent properties for applications which requires the abrasion resistance, hardness, high temperatures, resistence, etc. being a material that has applications in several areas. Most studies are related to improvement of properties, specially fracture toughness that allows the expansion of its application. Among the most promising ceramic materials are silicon nitride (Si3N4) which has excellent properties. The goal of this work was the development and caracterization of Si3N4-based ceramics, doped with yttrium oxide (Y2O3), rar earth concentrate (CTR2O3) and cerium oxide (CeO2) in the same proportion for the evaluation of properties. The powders' mixtures were homogenized, dried and compressed under pressure uniaxial and isostatic. Sintering was carried out in 1850 ⁰C under pressure of 0,1MPa N2 for 1 h with a heating rate of 25 ⁰C / min and cooling in the furnace inertia. The characterizations were performed using Archimedes principle to relative density, weight loss by measuring before and after sintering, phase analysis by X-ray diffraction, microstructure by scanning electron microscope (SEM), hardness and fracture toughness by the method Vickers indentation. The results obtained showed relative density of 97-98%, Vickers hardness 17 to 19 GPa, fracture toughness 5.6 to 6.8 MPa.m1/2, with phases varying from α-SiAlON and β-Si3N4 depending the types of additives used. The results are promising for tribological applications and can be defined according to the types of additives to be used

Método primal-dual previsor-corretor de pontos interiores e exteriores com estratégias de correção de inércia e suavização hiperbólica aplicado ao problema de despacho econômico com ponto de carregamento de válvula e representação da transmissão

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Elétrica - FEB

The current financial and economic crisis: empirical and methodological issues

In this paper we describe the main causes of the recent financial crisis as a result of many theoretical, methodological, and practical shortcomings mostly according to heterodox, but also including some important orthodox economists. At theoretical level, there are problems concerning teaching and using economic models with overly unrealistic assumptions. In the methodological front, we find the unsuspected shadow of Milton Friedman’s ‘unrealisticism of assumptions’ thesis lurking behind the construction of this kind of models and the widespread neglect of methodological issues. Of course, the most evident shortcomings are at the practical level: (i) huge interests of the participants in the financial markets (banks, central bankers, regulators, rating agencies mortgage brokers, politicians, governments, executives, economists, etc. mainly in the US, Canada and Europe, but also in Japan and the rest of the world), (ii) in an almost completely free financial and economic market, that is, one (almost) without any regulation or supervision, (iii) decision-taking upon some not well regarded qualities, like irresponsibility, ignorance, and inertia; and (iv) difficulties to understand the current crisis as well as some biases directing economic rescues by governments. Following many others, we propose that we take this episode as an opportunity to reflect on, and hopefully redirect, economic theory and practice.