A relação executivo-legislativo no projeto de criação da Superintendência do Planejamento Territorial Participativo (SPTP) no Estado do Pará

Este trabalho abordou a relação Executivo–Legislativo no Estado do Pará através do Projeto de Lei 01/2008 que implantaria a Superintendência do Planejamento Territorial Participativo (SPTP), durante a 16ª Legislatura da Assembleia Legislativa do Pará no período 2007-2010. Elaborado pelo Governo do Estado, o projeto previa a implantação de uma instituição que coordenaria o processo de participação popular e controle social proposto pelo governo Ana Júlia Carepa no início de seu governo. Como problemática, a pesquisa abordou a rejeição pelos parlamentares ao referido projeto, cuja questão de pesquisa foi a seguinte: que fatores contribuiram para a rejeição do Projeto de criação da SPTP pelo Poder Legislativo? Além disso, o que ela significa na relação Executivo–Legislativo segundo a literatura corrente. As hipóteses inferidas seriam as de que a rejeição foi motivada pela própria relação conflituosa entre Executivo e Legislativo na arena parlamentar ou pela percepção do conflito de interesses dos atores políticos locais quanto às fronteiras de atuação entre instituições políticas participativas e instituições políticas representativas. Os deputados contrários ao projeto não consideravam a SPTP enquanto prática efetiva de gestão democrática, mas suspeitavam que a mesma, por exemplo, pudesse estar vinculada a estratégias por parte do Executivo para fins eleitorais ou de barganha perante o Legislativo. O Desenvolvimento da pesquisa concentrou-se na busca pelas respostas a problemática apresentada bem como verificar a validade das hipótese inferidas. Quanto ao objetivo se avaliou o comportamento dos deputados na tramitação do projeto de criação da SPTP. Como ferramentas de pesquisas foram utilizadas pesquisas bibliográficas e empíricas.

“Crias do abuso na Amazônia”: os (ab)usos discursivos da imprensa paraense na cobertura de casos de violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes

Esta Dissertação de Mestrado problematiza como os jornais paraenses, O Liberal e Diário do Pará, dois dos mais importantes periódicos da Amazônia na atualidade, produzem discursos sobre casos de violência sexual contra crianças e adolescentes. Tomamos, como suporte de pesquisa, notícias publicadas nas páginas policiais e em diversas editorias, ao longo da trajetória dos dois jornais, além de enunciados jornalísticos produzidos durante a vigência da Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) da Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Pará (ALEPA), entre 2008 e 2010. Para tornar possível a análise discursiva sobre essa complexa temática, adotamos como metodologia a Análise do Discurso (AD) de vertente francesa, especialmente os postulados de Michel Foucault sobre discurso, história e poder, a fim de efetuarmos as leituras do corpus selecionado. Para aprofundarmos a nossa análise, fizemos um trabalho arqueológico da história da imprensa paraense para observarmos a atualização de redes de memória e as relações de poder que atravessam os discursos dos jornais sobre a temática, pois na microfísica de poder midiático amazônico ambos travam uma “guerra discursiva” registrada de forma peculiar em suas páginas. Assim, fizemos uma aproximação dos estudos da análise do discurso com os do jornalismo, por meio de teóricos do campo da Comunicação, como Nelson Traquina. Além disso, nossa pesquisa considerou nas análises as peculiaridades da Amazônia, região ao norte do país que sofre diversos apagamentos discursivos midiáticos nacionais ao longo da história e onde também observamos, em meio a sua diversidade, a prática cultural das “crias”, realidade que nossos estudos mostraram como secular e que até hoje retira crianças de cidades do interior para morar e estudar na capital. Essa e outras dinâmicas que envolvem o abuso e exploração sexual de crianças e adolescentes nos levaram à percepção de uma série de (ab)usos discursivos sobre o tema na imprensa paraense.

Emerging powers, humanitarian assistance and foreign policy: the case of Brazil during the earthquake crisis in Haiti

During the management of the crisis after the earthquake occurred in Haiti in 12 January 2010, Brazil played an important role on the efforts of humanitarian assistance. Based on bibliography and documents the paper presents the role played by Brazil with the focus on the humanitarian assistance as part of country’ foreign policy as an emerging power to increase the presence into the international system. To achieve this goal the article presents some considerations about emerging powers, foreign policy and theoretical concepts about humanitarian assistance and international relations, the extension of the earthquake in Haiti and the actions performed by Brazil during the response phase of the crisis management.

Governo eletrônico, democracia digital e comunicação pública: a presença do poder judiciário na internet

Pós-graduação em Comunicação - FAAC

As dimensões internacionais das políticas brasileiras de combate ao tráfico de drogas na década de 1990

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

ADHD and medicalization: consideration of the senses and meanings of symptoms presented by children diagnosed

The present paper is a reflection on the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its relations to the process of medicalization as well as the meanings and perspectives apprehended through three case studies of children diagnosed with such disorder in a doctoral research in which the main purpose was to understand the meanings and peculiarities of ADHD symptomatology .We’ve utilized the model of qualitative research, grounded in psychoanalytic perspective, and conducted the psychodiagnosis for three children who were referred for psychological treatment. The survey found that those children had few experiences of both continence and frustration tolerance. It was evidenced how the school uses the logic of medicalization to try solving the problems with their children when it came to the school dimension. The variety of symptomatic manifestations and psychic dynamics presented by the cases that were studied revealed the weaknesses and inconsistencies of the referred diagnosis.

Philosophical problem of relations according to Peirce: alliances towards an ontology of relations regarding two aspects of Synechism

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

Structure of the pelvic and penile urethra--relationship with the ducts of the sex accessory glands of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)

The urethra is the main place of entry for sexually transmitted pathogens. However, there is little literature on the morphology of the urogenital system, principally the urethra and ducts of the sex accessory glands. The Mongolian gerbil is an insectivorous, herbivorous and monogamous rodent with nocturnal habits; it has been used successfully as a laboratory animal since the 1960s. Therefore, the objective of the present paper was to describe the structure and ultrastructure of the urethra and its relations to the ducts of the accessory sex glands of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus), contributing to the understanding of the reproductive biology of the rodent and aiming to provide data for future experimental studies. Conventional techniques of light and scanning electron microscopy were utilized. The urethra and ducts of the accessory sex glands are similar to those of the albino rat and the mouse. However, there is variation in drainage type among accessory sex glands for the inner urethra. The ducts of the seminal vesicle, the ductus deferens, drain their contents independently into the ampullary duct that opens in the urethra. The ducts of the prostate, coagulating and bulbourethral glands drain their contents independently into the urethra.

Ontogeny of manipulative behavior and nut-cracking in young tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): a Perception-action perspective

How do capuchin monkeys learn to use stones to crack open nuts? Perception-action theory posits that individuals explore producing varying spatial and force relations among objects and surfaces, thereby learning about affordances of such relations and how to produce them. Such learning supports the discovery of tool use. We present longitudinal developmental data from semifree-ranging tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) to evaluate predictions arising from Perception-action theory linking manipulative development and the onset of tool-using. Percussive actions bringing an object into contact with a surface appeared within the first year of life. Most infants readily struck nuts and other objects against stones or other surfaces from 6 months of age, but percussive actions alone were not sufficient to produce nut-cracking sequences. Placing the nut on the anvil surface and then releasing it, so that it could be struck with a stone, was the last element necessary for nut-cracking to appear in capuchins. Young chimpanzees may face a different challenge in learning to crack nuts: they readily place objects on surfaces and release them, but rarely vigorously strike objects against surfaces or other objects. Thus the challenges facing the two species in developing the same behavior (nut-cracking using a stone hammer and an anvil) may be quite different. Capuchins must inhibit a strong bias to hold nuts so that they can release them; chimpanzees must generate a percussive action rather than a gentle placing action. Generating the right actions may be as challenging as achieving the right sequence of actions in both species. Our analysis suggests a new direction for studies of social influence on young primates learning sequences of actions involving manipulation of objects in relation to surfaces.

Aids and tuberculosis: coinfection from the perspective of the quality of life of patients

Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV coinfection adversely affects the lives of individuals in both the biological and psychosocial aspects. Aiming to describe the quality of life of individuals with HIV/TB coinfection, this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Ribeirao Preto-SP. Participants were HIV-seropositive individuals with and without TB, using the WHOQOL HIV BREF. 115 individuals who were HIV-positive participated: 57 were coinfected and 58 were not; most were male heterosexuals, predominantly aged 40-49 years. Of those coinfected, most had lower education and income. In assessing the quality of life the coinfected individuals showed lower results in all areas, with significant differences in the Physical, Psychological, Level of Independence and Social Relations areas. TB and HIV / AIDS are stigmatized diseases, and overlap of the two may have severe consequences on the physical and psychosocial health of the individual.

Towards higher precision and operational use of optical homodyne tomograms

We present the results of an operational use of experimentally measured optical tomograms to determine state characteristics (purity) avoiding any reconstruction of quasiprobabilities. We also develop a natural way how to estimate the errors (including both statistical and systematic ones) by an analysis of the experimental data themselves. Precision of the experiment can be increased by postselecting the data with minimal (systematic) errors. We demonstrate those techniques by considering coherent and photon-added coherent states measured via the time-domain improved homodyne detection. The operational use and precision of the data allowed us to check purity-dependent uncertainty relations and uncertainty relations for Shannon and Renyi entropies.

Quality of life in elderly adults before and after hearing aid fitting

Presbycusis is a common disorder in the elderly, which causes hearing loss and may contribute to the development of some psychiatric disorders, leading to isolation clue to communication difficulties in the social environment. Objective: To identify through the WHOQOL (World Health Organization Quality of Life Questionnaire), the quality of life of hearing impaired individuals before and after hearing aid fittings. Method: We had 30 individuals with hearing loss, all over 60 years of age - patients from a Speech Therapy Clinic. The patients answered the WHOQOL questions without the use of hearing aids; and after the effective use of a sound amplification device for a period of three months they answered it again. The WHOQOL - Bref consists of 26 questions, two general quality-of-life questions and 24 associated with four aspects: physical, psychological, environmental and social relations. Results: There was a significant improvement in quality of life in general, as far as leisure activities were concerned, there were no major changes regarding the frequency of negative feelings; even after the hearing aid fitting, the patients continue to have such feelings. Conclusion: The use of hearing aids favored the overall quality of life of the individuals evaluated.

Listening to music in the first, but not the last 1.5 km of a 5-km running trial alters pacing strategy and improves performance

We examined the effects of listening to music on attentional focus, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), pacing strategy and performance during a simulated 5-km running race. 15 participants performed 2 controlled trials to establish their best baseline time, followed by 2 counterbalanced experimental trials during which they listened to music during the first (M-start) or the last (M-finish) 1.5 km. The mean running velocity during the first 1.5 km was significantly higher in M-start than in the fastest control condition (p < 0.05), but there was no difference in velocity between conditions during the last 1.5 km (p > 0.05). The faster first 1.5 m in M-start was accompanied by a reduction in associative thoughts compared with the fastest control condition. There were no significant differences in RPE between conditions (p > 0.05). These results suggest that listening to music at the beginning of a trial may draw the attentional focus away from internal sensations of fatigue to thoughts about the external environment. However, along with the reduction in associative thoughts and the increase in running velocity while listening to music, the RPE increased linearly and similarly under all conditions, suggesting that the change in velocity throughout the race may be to maintain the same rate of RPE increase.

Growth, carcass characteristics, chemical composition and fatty acid profile of the longissimus dorsi muscle in goat kids fed diets with castor oil

The objective in this study was to determine growth, carcass characteristics, chemical composition and fatty acid profile of the longissimus dorsi of crossbred Boer x Saanen kids fed castor oil. Twenty-four kids (12 males and 12 females) were assigned in a randomized complete block design with two treatments and twelve replications. Blocks were defined according to weight, gender and initial age of animals for the evaluation of performance. The experimental treatments consisted of two diets containing 900 g concentrate/kg: a control diet (without addition of oil) and another containing castor oil at 30 g/kg (on a dry matter basis). After they reached an average body weight of 25 kg, males were slaughtered for the evaluation of carcass characteristics, chemical composition and fatty acid profile of the longissimus dorsi muscle. The addition of castor oil in the diet did not affect the intake of dry matter, crude protein and neutral detergent fiber; the average daily gain; and feed conversion, but increased the ether extract intake. No difference was observed for the carcass characteristics, chemical composition of the meat, concentration of C18:2 cis-9, trans-11 (CLA) and total concentration of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids and their relations; however, there was increase in the concentrations of C18:2 trans-10, cis-12 (CLA) and C20:4 omega-6. The addition of castor oil to the diet of crossbred Boer x Saanen kids containing a high content of concentrate did not promote benefit to the characteristics evaluated.

A critical analysis on "Active Learning" in the light of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): Implications to Physics Education and to experimental activities as a particular case.

This is a research paper in which we discuss “active learning” in the light of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), a powerful framework to analyze human activity, including teaching and learning process and the relations between education and wider human dimensions as politics, development, emancipation etc. This framework has its origin in Vygotsky's works in the psychology, supported by a Marxist perspective, but nowadays is a interdisciplinary field encompassing History, Anthropology, Psychology, Education for example.