Problemas de gênero: resistenências e transgressões das Marias de Rachel de Queiroz

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

O livro que divulgou o papiro Rhind no Brasil

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Comparative in vitro evaluation of forage legumes (prosopis, acacia, atriplex, and leucaena) on ruminal fermentation and methanogenesis

Two experiments in vitro were conducted to evaluate four Egyptian forage legume browses, i.e., leaves of prosopis (Prosopis juliflora), acacia (Acacia saligna), atriplex (A triplex halimus), and leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala), in comparison with Tifton (Cynodon sp.) grass hay for their gas production, methanogenic potential, and ruminal fermentation using a semi-automatic system for gas production (first experiment) and for ruminal and post ruminal protein degradability (second experiment). Acacia and leucaena showed pronounced methane inhibition compared with Tifton, while prosopis and leucaena decreased the acetate:propionate ratio (P<0.01). Acacia and leucaena presented a lower (P<0.01) ruminal NH3-N concentration associated with the decreasing (P<0.01) ruminal protein degradability. Leucaena, however, showed higher (P<0.01) intestinal protein digestibility than acacia. This study suggests that the potential methanogenic properties of leguminous browses may be related not only to tannin content, but also to other factors.

Therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury

This study reviews the literature concerning possible therapeutic approaches for spinal cord injury. Spinal cord injury is a disabling and irreversible condition that has high economic and social costs. There are both primary and secondary mechanisms of damage to the spinal cord. The primary lesion is the mechanical injury itself. The secondary lesion results from one or more biochemical and cellular processes that are triggered by the primary lesion. The frustration of health professionals in treating a severe spinal cord injury was described in 1700 BC in an Egyptian surgical papyrus that was translated by Edwin Smith; the papyrus reported spinal fractures as a ''disease that should not be treated.'' Over the last biological or pharmacological treatment method. Science is unraveling the mechanisms of cell protection and neuroregeneration, but clinically, we only provide supportive care for patients with spinal cord injuries. By combining these treatments, researchers attempt to enhance the functional recovery of patients with spinal cord injuries. Advances in the last decade have allowed us to encourage the development of experimental studies in the field of spinal cord regeneration. The combination of several therapeutic strategies should, at minimum, allow for partial functional recoveries for these patients, which could improve their quality of life.

La tradición de la epigrafía antigua en las inscripciones hispanas de los siglos XV y XVI

[ES] Se estudia la introducción de la escritura humanística en las inscripciones de la España del Renacimiento y su evolución a través de diversos programas epigráficos durante los siglos xv y xvi. La irrupción de las litterae antiquae en la epigrafía hispánica se realizó en las inscripciones de los primeros monumentos funerarios realizados conforme al nuevo estilo renacentista,pero muy pronto pasó a ser utilizada también en contextos públicos, como elemento de propaganda y autorrepresentación de la dinastía de los Austrias, así como por algunos miembros de la Nobleza, que vieron en la recuperación de los modelos de la tradición clásica un elemento más al servicio de la representación del poder, a través de la imagen y lo escrito.

Epigrafía digital: tecnología 3D de bajo coste para la digitalización de inscripciones y su acceso desde ordenadores y dispositivos móviles

[ES] Se analizan las posibilidades del Image based modeling (IBM), como técnica de escaneado 3D de bajo coste para la modelización de inscripciones romanas, a partir del trabajo realizado en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid sobre una amplia tipología de soportes epigráficos (piedra, bronce, arcilla), con resultados óptimos para la catalogación, estudio y difusión de este tipo de documentación histórica. Los resultados obtenidos permiten obtener inscripciones romanas en 3D que se pueden incorporar a los proyectos de epigrafía digital en curso, permitiendo su acceso a través de ordenadores y dispositivos móviles, sin coste añadido para los investigadores.

In loving memory: Escritura última y memoria en los cementerios ingleses de Canarias

[ES] El estudio de las inscripciones que se conservan en los tres cementerios ingleses de Canarias, así como de los propios monumentos funerarios en los que estas se inscriben, permite un acercamiento al ars moriendi, pero también a los mecanismos de autorrepresentación de los miembros de la comunidad británica radicada en Canarias cuyos restos reposan en estas necrópolis. El presente estudio pretende analizar estas escrituras últimas en el contexto de una historia social de la cultura escrita en Canarias que cuenta, como elemento de diferenciación con respecto a otras regiones españolas, con una importante presencia británica, evidenciada en la mayor concentración de cementerios protestantes de todo el país.

Paisajes epigráficos en la Provincia Hispana Citerior en época de Augusto

[ES] Se estudia la diversidad de contextos de exhibición de las inscripciones romanas en la provincia Hispania citerior en época augustea, atendiendo a la importancia que adquirieron las ciudades en el proceso de romanización del territorio, así como a la configuración de nuevos espacios de exposición de las inscripciones, en algunos casos dentro de las estrategias de promoción y autorrepresentación de las elites locales.

Unidades organizativas indígenas del área indoeuropea de Hispania III: Addenda

[EN] This article analyses the new names, repeated and non-repeated names being both included in similar fashion, of indigenous units of organization (cognationes, gentes and gentilitates), discovered back in the 90’s (20th C.). These names are mentioned in the Latin and Celtiberian inscriptions from Indo-European Hispania.

Precisiones a algunos epígrafes latinos de la provincia de Soria

[ES] Este artículo recoge las correcciones y adiciones a un conjunto de inscripciones latinas procedentes de la provincia de Soria, que han sido publicadas en los últimos años en diversas monografías y artículos de investigación.

Epigraphia 3D. Un proyecto de innovación científica en la divulgación del patrimonio epigráfico de Hispania

Los avances experimentados en los últimos años en las tecnologías basadas en el procesamiento de las fotografías digitales, permite abordar proyectos de modelización 3D de inscripciones romanas, como el realizado en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid). La utilización de esta tecnología innovadora aporta a los especialistas mejores reproducciones que la fotografía convencional, que supondrán un enriquecimiento de las bases de datos epigráficas, pero su utilidad se extiende también a la propia enseñanza de la Epigrafía.

Una nueva dedicación a Marte en Bembibre (León)

[ES] Se da a conocer una inscripción inédita procedente de San Román de Bembibre (León), que se conserva reutilizada en la Iglesia de San Román Mártir. El texto es muy breve, pero incluye un epíteto inédito, Propitius, en las inscripciones hispánicas dedicadas a esta divinidad.

Rimesse e sviluppo locale nel sistema migratorio del Golfo Persico

The thesis concerns, from an economic and institutional point of view, the migration process in connection with development issues, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa region. Adopting a south-south perspective of migration flows, which is focusing on migration from the Maghreb and Mashreq towards the GCC, the research focuses on the linkage between migration and local development (LED), considering the economic implication that temporary migration flows (trough physical and human capital accumulation) have for the labour exporting countries of the region. Since south-south migration flows are both temporary and skilled, the research points out that return migrants from the GCC can have a significant impact for the growth of recipient countries, as they transfer capital through remittances on regular basis and, once back, they can use human capital acquired abroad to promote economic initiatives. Starting from the descriptive analysis on international migration flows (from an historical to a systemic point of view), and focusing on the patterns of people movements in the Gulf Migration System and on the role remittances have in the region as a strategy for both household survival and local development, the research considers the economics of migrant remittances from a micro and macro perspective and the main direct and indirect effects that remittances have on the local communities. The review of the economic literature on international remittances and on local development shows how migration is an alternative strategy of financing local economic development (LED) especially for low-middle income countries (among them the Maghreb countries). The linkage between return migration, remittances, human capital formation and the promotion of local development in the Egyptian case is the focus of the empirical investigation.

Orígenes de la cabra paleo-canaria de villaverde (Fuerteventura)

[EN] After comparing the features of the group of goats from Villaverde ( osseous remains from the beginning of our era), -La Palma (recently extinct), and - Desertas (descendants of the anciet Canarian goat ), all of them cosidered to be of the same breed, with those of the neolithic and protohistoric goats from North Africa, greater affinity is found with the mamber goat of the predinastic Egypt and the Ancient Egyptian Empire, represented in King Ranusir's tomb (V Dinasty) 4.500 years ago, and affinity is also found with the neolithic goat painted in Amguid (Central Sahara) and the modern Sahel goats, although the paleo - Canarian goat has its own features.

What Happened to Participation? Urban Development and Authoritarian Upgrading in Cairo's Informal Neighbourhoods

Participation appeared in development discourses for the first time in the 1970s, as a generic call for the involvement of the poor in development initiatives. Over the last three decades, the initial perspectives on participation intended as a project method for poverty reduction have evolved into a coherent and articulated theoretical elaboration, in which participation figures among the paraphernalia of good governance promotion: participation has acquired the status of “new orthodoxy”. Nevertheless, the experience of the implementation of participatory approaches in development projects seemed to be in the majority of cases rather disappointing, since the transformative potential of ‘participation in development’ depends on a series of factors in which every project can actually differ from others: the ultimate aim of the approach promoted, its forms and contents and, last but not least, the socio-political context in which the participatory initiative is embedded. In Egypt, the signature of a project agreement between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Federal Republic of Germany, in 1998, inaugurated a Participatory Urban Management Programme (PUMP) to be implemented in Greater Cairo by the German Technical Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, GTZ) and the Ministry of Planning (now Ministry of Local Development) and the Governorates of Giza and Cairo as the main counterparts. Now, ten years after the beginning of the PUMP/PDP and close to its end (December 2010), it is possible to draw some conclusions about the scope, the significance and the effects of the participatory approach adopted by GTZ and appropriated by the Egyptian counterparts in dealing with the issue of informal areas and, more generally, of urban development. Our analysis follows three sets of questions: the first set regards the way ‘participation’ has been interpreted and concretised by PUMP and PDP. The second is about the emancipating potential of the ‘participatory approach’ and its ability to ‘empower’ the ‘marginalised’. The third focuses on one hand on the efficacy of GTZ strategy to lead to an improvement of the delivery service in informal areas (especially in terms of planning and policies), and on the other hand on the potential of GTZ development intervention to trigger an incremental process of ‘democratisation’ from below.