Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean N° 41

• Editorial remarks.-- Open discussion: Tariffs and subsidies: the current situation and trends in the region ; State-owned utilities and the flight from public law: challenges and trends ; Challenges and opportunities in access to water and sanitation in rural areas.-- Meetings: Proposals based on the Water and Environment Initiative consensuses.-- News of the Network: Peru’s Compensation Mechanisms for Ecosystem Services Act ; Ecuador’s Act on Water Resources and Water Use and Exploitation ; The environmental dynamics of groundwater in Mexico ; The Water Citizenship Programme in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.-- Internet and WWW News

Network for Cooperation in Integrated Water Resource Management for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean No. 42

Editorial remarks.-- Open discussion: Conceptual change in regulation in a model of public service provision ; Policies and institutional frameworks for drinking water supply and sanitation ; Strategies for low-carbon development in megacities in Latin America ; Adapting to climate change in water management in the irrigation sector.-- Meetings: Towards a vision on natural resource governance for equality ; Water resources faced with uncertainty and the risk of climate change ; Regulation challenges in the water sector.-- News of the Network: Lessons to be drawn from the interprovincial Colorado River flow distribution agreement ; Rural drinking water programme in Chile ; Ecuador’s Act on Water Resources and Water Use and Exploitation.-- Internet and WWW News

Climate change in Central América: Potential impacts and public policy options

Since 2008 we have supported the collaborative initiative "Economics of Climate Change in Central America" aimed at demonstrating the impacts of climate variability and change and fostering a discussion on public policies in key sectors. The initiative has been led by the Ministries of Environment and Treasury or Finance of Central America, with the support of their ministerial councils, CCAD, COSEFIN, and Economic Integration Secretariat, SIECA. The Ministries of Agriculture and of Health, with their councils, CAC and COMISCA, have also joined the effort; and the Dominican Republic came on board in 2015.

Leitura e produção do gênero "carta de leitor": os desafios de uma proposta de ensino

O propósito deste estudo é descrever e analisar uma intervenção didática em torno do gênero Carta de Leitor com alunos de uma turma da segunda série do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública da rede federal de ensino, de Belém, no estado do Pará. Trata-se de compreender os efeitos dessa intervenção nos modos de recepção-produção do gênero pelos alunos. O foco no de apropriação do gênero pelos alunos implicou compreender, complementarmente, os efeitos da intervenção na reflexão sobre a prática docente, pela professora-pesquisadora. Esse objetivo central foi contemplado, em grande parte, pela opção que fizemos pela pesquisa-ação, o que permitiu conjugar a prática investigativa à prática didática, no processo de co-construção de. Inscrito nos estudos aplicados que se voltam para o ensino-aprendizagem de língua, o estudo recorre a duas referências teóricas: as contribuições advindas do dialogismo bakhtiniano e as contribuições dos estudos sobre os gêneros como objetos de ensino. Essas direcionaram tanto o processo de implementação das atividades didáticas em que foram gerados os dados, quanto a descrição e análise desse processo, tomando como corpus central as produções escritas dos discentes. A descrição e análise dos dados permitem refletir o funcionamento da linguagem em uma situação particular, questão-chave para os estudos de gênero segundo uma concepção sociointeracionista de linguagem. Do ponto de vista aplicado, possibilita refletir sobre o problema de como a modelização didática dos objetos de saber pode atuar no processo de letramento dos alunos, levando-se em conta suas necessidades e possibilidades de aprendizagem, além, principalmente, da finalidade da escola de formação desses alunos para que se posicionem de modo cidadão nas práticas sociais em que estão/estarão envolvidos.

Pecuária e desmatamento: uma análise das principais causas diretas do desmatamento na Amazônia

Na Amazônia Brasileira a principal atividade responsável pelo desmatamento é a pecuária. Esse trabalho analisa a evolução das causas imediatas do desmatamento da Amazônia, utilizando-se de regressões lineares com dados em painel. O modelo avalia a contribuição dos principais usos do solo na região ao desmatamento, de 2000 a 2006. Dados do PRODES de desmatamento, o número de cabeças bovinas de 782 municípios da Amazônia e área plantada de culturas perenes e temporárias foram utilizados para essa análise. O resultado mostrou que o desmatamento é fortemente correlacionado com a pecuária. A soja também aparece positivamente correlacionada com o desmatamento. Esta tendência é reforçada pelo crescimento nacional e internacional da demanda de carne. Políticas públicas eficazes para a redução do desmatamento devem, portanto, agir nas causas subjacentes da expansão da pecuária reduzindo a força dos processos que produzem a sua expansão na fronteira do desmatamento.

Ordem social, Polícia Civil e justiça criminal na cidade de São Paulo (1889-1930)

The article aims to review the discussion on police role within institutional reform in São Paulo First Republic implementation. The main argument refers to the formation of brazilian judicial system and to the continuity of the debate on public policies reforms, administration of justice and police control over lower social classes, by means of a criminalization of the poverty. The judicial administration was reformed, but that opened space for police institutions to act without constraints. Despite theses changes, state institutions were also used by tradicional social elites in neo-patrimonial ways, allowing the maintenance of unlawful practices within the system.

The role of proestrus on fertility and postovulatory uterine function in the cow

Modern protocols to synchronize ovulations for timed artificial insemination and timed embryo transfer that include manipulations in the proestrus period (i.e., between luteolysis and estrus) affect fertility in cattle. Specifically, stimulating pre-ovulatory follicle growth and exposure to estrogens after CL regression increase the proportion of cows pregnant and decrease late embryo mortality. Such effects may be due to both preovulatory actions of estrogens and post-ovulatory actions of progesterone, as concentrations of the later hormone may be changed in response to manipulations conducted during proestrus. In the first portion of this paper we describe strategies used recently to manipulate the proestrus period in protocols for synchronization of ovulation, and to present evidence of their effects on fertility. Manipulations of timing and prominence of sex steroids during the proestrus and early diestrus that affect fertility may act on targets such as the endometrium. This tissue expresses receptors for both estrogens and progesterone and these hormones change endometrial function to support conceptus growth and pregnancy maintenance. However, specific cellular and molecular mechanisms through which fertility is affected via manipulations of the proestrus are poorly understood. In the second portion of this paper we describe a well-defined animal model to study changes in endometrial function induced by manipulations conducted during the proestrus. Such manipulations induced endometrial changes on sex steroid receptors expression, cell proliferation, oxidative metabolism and eicosanoid synthesis in the uterus, but not on glucose transport to uterine lumen. In summary, evidence is accumulating to support a positive role of increasing duration and estrogen availability during the proestrus on fertility to synchronization protocols. Such positive effects may be through changes in endometrial function to stimulate conceptus growth and survival.

Análise de métodos de mapeamento de perigo: uma proposta de elaboração de mapeamento de perigo de escorregamento planar de solo via utilização do método participativo

This final assignment aimed to promote a critical analysis of methods of preparation mappings danger of landslide and presentation of proposed development from the use of participative method, as an instrument to facilitate the identification of adverse geological processes. There search was executed from literature review about concept associated with geological dangers theme and the typology and characteristics of gravitational mass movements. We analyzed particularly the so-called methods of mapping danger tradicional/classic and alternative. It is believed, that integrating the work of specialists with the participation of involvedagents (local community and stake holders). This literature review and proposed work do noted in itself. You need the continuing advance in the discussion, debates and research on this topic as well as public policies that act on problems identified more concretely

Novas responsabilidades para o professor na educação básica

The goal of this study was to identify some of the new responsibilities that have been assigned to the elementary school teachers , under the mediation of continuing education courses . We start from the idea that these courses , especially those offered by the SECADI, are proposed teachers and aims to train them for a performance at school that exceeds the activity of teaching in the classroom . The teacher has been summoned to attend these courses in which is prepared to act on school performing tasks rather related to the care of students than teaching , assisting them in their basic needs such as health, protection, inclusion and human rights. Asked ourselves if there was a reconfiguration of the responsibilities of education professionals in order to make use of oneself given by the State. We chose as sources of research documents the SECADI such as legislation , manuals and instructional materials that will proceed to the analysis , in each course , the target populations privileged , purpose, remuneration and certification , pre - requirements to participate in the courses and duration ; partnerships involved if the courses are face , semi-distance or distance ; activities that teacher should develop in school after completion of the courses ; loads hourly . We will seek to analyze the documents and materials of School programs that Protects, School Health Program , Network Education for Diversity. The theoretical and methodological framework is dialectical and historical materialism, from assumptions which we choose as the class character of society in capitalism and alienation as a phenomenon that affects the work in all its manifestations . Thus , our general hypothesis is that the enrichment tasks of teachers in public schools can contribute to basic disposition Teacher education

Identificação de Plasmodium spp. em primatas neotropicais e em anofelinos em municípios da região de São Luís, estado do Maranhão, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Medicina Veterinária - FCAV

Experimental evidence of MAP kinase gene expression on the response of intestinal anti-inflammatory drugs

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

Experimental evidence of heparanase, Hsp70 and NF-κB gene expression on the response of anti-inflammatory drugs in TNBS-induced colonic inflammation

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

Compras públicas ambientalmente sustentáveis em um contexto de green supply chain management: um survey sobre o papel do treinamento ambiental, empowerment dos funcionários e fatores influenciadores externos

Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção - FEB

Avaliação de hábitos de vida e proposta de fluxograma de encaminhamento de escolares com necessidades de cuidado nutricional

Pós-graduação em Enfermagem (mestrado profissional) - FMB

Review of issues concerning the use of reproductive inhibitors, with particular emphasis on resolving human-wildlife conflicts in North America

This manuscript provides an overview of past wildlife contraception efforts and discusses the current state of research. Two fertility control agents, an avian reproductive inhibitor containing the active ingredient nicarbazin and an immunocontraceptive vaccine, have received regulatory approval with the Environmental Protection Agency and are commercially available in the USA. OvoControl G Contraceptive Bait for Canada Geese and Ovo Control for pigeons are delivered as oral baits. An injectable immunocontraceptive vaccine (GonaCon Immunocontraceptive Vaccine) was registered with the Environmental Protection Agency for use in female white-tailed deer in September 2009. An injectable product (GonaCon Immunocontraceptive Vaccine) is registered for use in female white-tailed deer. Both products are labeled for use in urban/suburban areas where these species are overabundant. Several other compounds are currently being tested for use in wildlife in the USA, Europe, Australia and New Zealand that could have promise in the future. The development and use of reproductive inhibitors for resolving human–wildlife conflicts will depend on a number of factors, including meeting the requirements of regulatory agencies for use in the environment and on the biological and economical feasibility of their use. Use will also be dependent on health and safety issues and on public acceptance of the techniques.