Transporte público coletivo em Presidente Prudente: planejamento, mobilidade e acessibilidade no consumo do espaço urbano

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Connecting South America: River mobility and river navigation systems

This FAL Bulletin highlights the importance of rivers in the transport system of South America. Raising the issue of river mobility and policymaking is important not only for the development of river transport but also in view of its social and economic impact, especially in regions where geography complicates the provision of land infrastructure.

Efeitos do manto de intemperismo sobre anomalias eletromagnéticas provocadas por corpos tabulares inclinados: um estudo através de modelamento reduzido

Electromagnetic methods have been extensively applied in the prospecting of sulphide bodies and other conducting materials. The interpretation of e. m. data is based on the results obtained either with reduced scale or analytical modelling. In most models, the host rocks, the overburden as well as the halo of disseminated sulphides are considered highly resistive although in nature they are often weakly conductive. Presence of a well-developed conducting overburden in tropical and sub-tropical regions and a saline rich crustal layer in semi-arid regions have been found to modify significantly the e. m. anomalies in practice. Therefore, the parameters of the target, determined on the basis of simple models where the presence of the conducting environment is neglected, are found to be in considerable error. The effects of the overburden on the e. m. anomalies of a dipping tabular ore body were studied with reduced scale models for varying response parameters of both the overburden and the orebody, and also for different depths and dips of the target. The overburden and the orebody were represented by metallic sheets of varying thickness in the scale model developed in accordance with the law of electromagnetic similitude. The results of these investigations show that the overburden affects the anomaly by causing: a) phase rotation; b) amplitude reduction; c) base level displacement; d) reversion of the quadrature; and e) appearance of an extra peak in the quadrature in the case of low dipping models. The last two effects complicate the quantification of the anomalies but, on the other hand, provide a qualitative indication of the response parameters of both the ore body and the overburden. The results were assembled in the form of Argand diagrams and, finally, an interpretation scheme is suggested for the e. m. field data on the basis of these diagrams.

Poder punitivo midiático: reflexos da governamentalidade neoliberal na sociedade espetacularizada da indústria penal

O modelo de governamentalidade neoliberal, unido aos pressupostos advindos do conceito de indústria cultural e sociedade do espetáculo, parece ter transformado ideologicamente a mídia em uma agência do sistema penal. As agências de comunicação social, por sua vez, entrelaçadas à lógica de mercado, passam a fomentar um discurso repressivo de violência criminal, promovendo a metamorfose da informação em notícia-mercadoria e disseminando a cultura de agigantamento do sistema penal. Diante disso, a notícia sobre o crime também ganha o status de mercadoria a ser vendida pela indústria do entretenimento. Para que sua vendagem alcance níveis satisfatórios, faz-se mister explorá-la de maneira imagética eespetacularizada. A mídia, como o conjunto de meios de comunicação produzidos em massa epara a massa, deixa de ter a simples função comunicativa, passando a manipular os aparatosde punição e a exercer o próprio poder punitivo que, por essência, é estatal. Nesse contexto, a televisão se destaca como o instrumento de comunicação mais presente nos lares brasileiros. Essa presença fomenta a perspectiva de criminalização da própria pobreza e difunde a prática de uma violência ilegítima. Diante desse quadro, as agências midiáticas exercem o poder repressivo através da eleição de inimigos a serem combatidos. Tais inimigos caminham os passos da demonização do criminoso e são tratados como monstros centauros em uma díade paradoxal: indignos do convívio humano e necessários ao seu divertimento. O caso “cinegrafista da TV Bandeirantes” evidencia alguns aspectos dessa realidade. A análise doproblema apresentado foi efetivada, sobretudo, com fundamento nos aportes teóricos de Michael Foucault, Adorno e Horkheimer, Guy Debord e Zaffaroni.

Efeito da desintegrina recombinante DisBa-01 incorporada em micelas ou livre em células portando ou não a integrina αvβ3

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

Análise de equilíbrio corporal submetido á esforços de aceleração e desaceleração na direção antero-posterior: estudo transversal

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Análise da viabilidade técnica e ambiental de vias cicláveis na cidade de Presidente Epitácio-SP

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Estudodo sistema eletrico emembarcações maritimascom propulsão diesel-eletrica

The globalization is each day more aggressive and demanding even more that new products be manufactured and therefore be delivered to many places in the globe. Thus, an efficient and vigorous transport system is demanded. There are many ways to transport a product, but one of the most used in the world is shipping. A marine vessel presents diversified structures of size and functions. In order to this system has more efficiency, alternatives should be used to obtain important energy savings. Usually, a vessel present a propulsion system purely mechanical, therefore the use of alternatives propulsions, like diesel-electric, is increasing. This graduation work has as main focus demonstrate the functioning of a diesel-electric propulsion system, since the main characteristics of each component of the system, likewise the analysis and electrical calculation, showing the advantages in relation to the conventional diesel propulsion system

Simulação numérica de fluxo de águas subterrâneas na fazenda Cara Preta - Santa Rita do Passa Quatro - SP

The term model refers to any representation of a real system. The use of models in Hydrogeology can be valuable predictive tools for management of groundwater resources. The numeric models of groundwater flow, object of this study, consist on a set of differential equations that describe the water flow in the porous medium. In this context, numeric simulations were made for a sub-basin located at Cara Preta farm – Santa Rita do Passa Quatro – SP. The aquifer at the local is composed by rocks of Pirambóia Formation, which is part of Guarani Aquifer System. It was developed a conceptual model from previous studies in the area, and from that, simulations were made through the software Visual Modflow®. The conceptual model established previously was considered consistent through the results of simulation.

Reconhecimento de voz para aplicações em automação implementado em FPGA

In many movies of scientific fiction, machines were capable of speaking with humans. However mankind is still far away of getting those types of machines, like the famous character C3PO of Star Wars. During the last six decades the automatic speech recognition systems have been the target of many studies. Throughout these years many technics were developed to be used in applications of both software and hardware. There are many types of automatic speech recognition system, among which the one used in this work were the isolated word and independent of the speaker system, using Hidden Markov Models as the recognition system. The goals of this work is to project and synthesize the first two steps of the speech recognition system, the steps are: the speech signal acquisition and the pre-processing of the signal. Both steps were developed in a reprogrammable component named FPGA, using the VHDL hardware description language, owing to the high performance of this component and the flexibility of the language. In this work it is presented all the theory of digital signal processing, as Fast Fourier Transforms and digital filters and also all the theory of speech recognition using Hidden Markov Models and LPC processor. It is also presented all the results obtained for each one of the blocks synthesized e verified in hardware

Wood and leaf anatomy of Copaifera langsdorffii dwarf trees

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Future e(+)e(-) colliders' sensitivity to Hb(b)over-bar coupling and CP violation

A complete analysis of the sensitivity to new Hbb̄ couplings from the process e+e- → bb̄vv̄ at the next generation of linear colliders was performed. These new couplings were predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. The results are comparable to the study performed previously where a global fit analysis for L=500 fb-1 and √s=500 GeV resulted in a relative accuracy of 2.2% in the gHbb Yukawa coupling.

Metodologia para análise de sistema de transporte coletivo por ônibus através de indicadores de qualidade

Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção - FEB

NADPH Oxidase and Neurodegeneration

NADPH oxidase (Nox) is a unique, multi-protein, electron transport system that produces large amounts of superoxide via the reduction of molecular oxygen. Nox-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS) are known to be involved in a variety of physiological processes, including host defense and signal transduction. However, over the past decade, the involvement of (Nox)-dependent oxidative stress in the pathophysiology of several neurodegenerative diseases has been increasingly recognized. ROS produced by Nox proteins contribute to neurodegenerative diseases through distinct mechanisms, such as oxidation of DNA, proteins, lipids, amino acids and metals, in addition to activation of redox-sensitive signaling pathways. In this review, we discuss the recent literature on Nox involvement in neurodegeneration, focusing on Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases.

Do charges to freight trucks and trains in the European Union reflect their social marginal costs? Application to the case of Spain

In the last few years, the European Union (EU) has become greatly concerned about the environmental costs of road transport in Europe as a result of the constant growth in the market share of trucks and the steady decline in the market share of railroads. In order to reverse this trend, the EU is promoting the implementation of additional charges for heavy goods vehicles (HGV) on the trunk roads of the EU countries. However, the EU policy is being criticised because it does not address the implementation of charges to internalise the external costs produced by automobiles and other transport modes such as railroad. In this paper, we first describe the evolution of the HGV charging policy in the EU, and then assess its practical implementation across different European countries. Second, and of greater significance, by using the case study of Spain, we evaluate to what extent the current fees on trucks and trains reflect their social marginal costs, and consequently lead to an allocative-efficient outcome. We found that for the average case in Spain the truck industry meets more of the marginal social cost produced by it than does the freight railroad industry. The reason for this lies in the large sums of money paid by truck companies in fuel taxes, and the subsidies that continue to be granted by the government to the railroads.