Some considerations on the nature of the task faced by the IRG, and a few suggestions as to how to organize its activities, with particular reference to Latin America

Includes bibliography

Some considerations on the nature of the task faced by the IRG, and a few suggestions as to how to organize its activities, with particular reference to Latin America

Includes bibliography

Report of the special task force on collaboration in agricultural research

Presenta recomendaciones para establecer un criterio de colaboracion entre las agencias que operan en la region en el ambito de la investigacion agricola.

Transformación productiva con equidad: la tarea prioritaria del desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe en los años noventa = Changing production patterns with social equity: the prime task of Latin American and Caribbean development in the 1990s

Incluye Bibliografía

Transformación y desarrollo: la gran tarea: informe presentado al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo = Change and development: Latin America's great task: report submitted to the Inter-American Development Bank

Incluye Bibliografía

The right to education: An unfinished task for Latin America and the Caribbean

The right to education.Our newsletter once again takes on the challenges set forth by the Millennium Declaration and the human rights approach embedded in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this issue, we will examine the right of children and adolescents to education.

Regional report on measuring disability: Overview of the disability measurement procedures in Latin America and the Caribbean. Task Force on Disability Measurement Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA)

Introduction .-- I. Inclusion of international guidelines in disability measurement processes in Latin American and Caribbean countries .-- II. State of the art in disability measurement in the region’s countries .-- III. Main difficulties facing countries in terms of collecting information .-- Conclusions.

O momento, os desafios e as possibilidades da análise econômica territorial para o planejamento do desenvolvimento nacional

O artigo pretende contribuir para a superação dos desafios relativos à capacidade de análise e de atuação para o desenvolvimento regional e territorial. Para tanto, discute a relação entre conhecimento e planejamento - entre ciência e ação baseada em ciência. Após uma análise dessa relação, no período anterior à prevalência da tese da New Public Management, na qual deverão ser investigadas as condições que levaram ao fracasso das estratégias do planejamento do desenvolvimento no pós-guerra, pergunta-se se se observa, desde então, evolução nas ciências da sociedade que possa oferecer base ao planejamento de um desenvolvimento fundamentado em crescimento, equidade e sustentabilidade. A partir daí, explora-se a possibilidade de as teorias do desenvolvimento endógeno e sustentável (TDES) subsidiarem novos processos de planejamento. Nessa tarefa, o foco principal é posto nas noções de clustering, de trajetórias tecnológicas, de cadeias de valor, de economias locais e regional.

Separation of Scaptotrigona postica Workers into Defined Task Groups by the Chemical Profile on Their Epicuticle Wax Layer

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

Lower limb muscle coactivation levels in healthy younger and older adults during functional dual-task gait

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of daily cognitive task on stiffness of old and young female adults during the gait. The study included 17 physically active younger and 18 older women, with low risk of falls. The volunteers were asked to walk on the treadmill at two different gait conditions: normal gait and functional dual-task gait. The electromyographic signals were collected of the lower limb muscles. The percentage of coactivation for the tibialis anterior/gastrocnemius lateralis and tibialis anterior/soleus were significantly higher in elderly than in younger in the normal gait and dual-task gait. Our results suggest that the elderly have a greater stiffness in the ankle joint during gait normal and daily dual task gait. Thus, we conclude that challenging cognitively situations during the gait may increase the risk of falls in this population.