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??Qu?? es un hombre? La degradaci??n de la persona en el Holocausto jud??o

Se describen un conjunto de actividades llevadas a cabo en el IES Francisco de Orellana (Trujillo, C??ceres) orientadas a la investigaci??n, conocimiento y difusi??n del Holocausto jud??o, que adem??s pretenden mejorar la convivencia dentro y fuera del entorno escolar e inculcar valores de respeto y de aceptaci??n del otro. Las actividades se insertan en la trayectoria de ense??anza-aprendizaje de la lengua francesa y la cultura franc??fona de la secci??n biling??e de franc??s del centro

Em torno de um novo paradigma sócio-epistemológico

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Doutorado em Sociologia do Direito pela Universidade de Yale (1973), é Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Distinguished Legal Scholar da Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison e Global Legal Scholar da Universidade de Warwick. É Director do Centro de Estudos Sociais da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Director do Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril da Universidade de Coimbra e Director da Revista Crítica de Ciência Sociais. Prémio de Ensaio Pen Club Português 1994; Prémio Gulbenkian de Ciência, 1996; Prémio Bordalo da Imprensa – Ciências, 1997; Prémio Jabuti (Brasil) - Área de Ciências Humanas e Educação, 2001; Prémio Euclides da Cunha da União Brasileira de Escritores do Rio de Janeiro, 2004; Prémio “Reconocimiento al Mérito”, concedido pela Universidade Veracruzana, México, 2005; Prémio de Ensaio Ezequiel Mart��nez Estrada 2006, da Casa de las Américas, Cuba, 2006. Os seus temas de pesquisa situam-se no âmbito da epistemologia, sociologia do direito, teoria pós-colonial, democracia, interculturalidade, globalização, movimentos sociais, direitos humanos. Na entrevista concedida à Revista Lusófona de Educação aborda, sobretudo, os temas relacionados com a construção de um novo paradigma sócio-epistemológico, 25 anos depois da publicação da obra emblemática Um Discurso sobre as Ciências.

Límites al poder en el sistema constitucional argentino

La historia argentina ha demostrado no estar exenta de abusos de poder, meseanismo, ambiciones, restricciones y supresiones de derechos. Aunque no sea el objeto principal del trabajo ante tantos ataques al equilibrio propuesto en nuestra Carta Magna, nunca está de más realizar un humilde aporte a la defensa del más importante instrumento de defensa que tiene nuestro sistema democrático. El objeto principal será intentar delinear cuáles son algunos de los mecanismos de control establecidos por nuestra ley fundamental y que resultan ser las grandes armas con las que contamos los ciudadanos para hacer efectivos el ejercicio de nuestros derechos frente al poder

Sensitivity of Bolivian seasonally-dry tropical forest to precipitation and temperature changes over glacial-interglacial timescales

We used fossil pollen to investigate the response of the eastern Chiquitano seasonally-dry tropical forest (SDTF), lowland Bolivia, to high-amplitude climate change associated with glacial–interglacial cycles. Changes in the structure, composition and diversity of the past vegetation are compared with palaeoclimate data previously reconstructed from the same record, and these results shed light on the biogeographic history of today’s highly disjunct blocks of SDTF across South America. We demonstrate that lower glacial temperatures limited tropical forest in the Chiquitanía region, and suggest that SDTF was absent or restricted at latitudes below 17°S, the proposed location of the majority of the hypothesized ‘Pleistocene dry forest arc’ (PDFA). At 19500 yrs b.p., warming supported the establishment of a floristically-distinct SDTF, which showed little change throughout the glacial–Holocene transition, despite a shift to significantly wetter conditions beginning ca. 12500–12200 yrs b.p. Anadenanthera colubrina, a key SDTF taxon, arrived at 10000 yrs b.p., which coincides with the onset of drought associated with an extended dry season. Lasting until 3000 yrs b.p., Holocene drought caused a floristic shift to more drought-tolerant taxa and a reduction in α-diversity (shown by declining palynological richness), but closed-canopy forest was maintained throughout. In contrast to the PDFA, the modern distribution of SDTF most likely represents the greatest spatial coverage of these forests in southern South America since glacial times. We find that temperature is a key climatic control upon the distribution of lowland South American SDTF over glacial-interglacial timescales, and seasonality of rainfall exerts a strong control on their floristic composition.

Top single nucleotide polymorphisms affecting carbohydrate metabolism in Metabolic Syndrome: from the LIPGENE study

Rationale:Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a high prevalence condition characterized by altered energy metabolism, insulin resistance and elevated cardiovascular risk.Objectives:Although many individual single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been linked to certain MetS features, there are few studies analyzing the influence of SNPs on carbohydrate metabolism in MetS.Methods:904 SNPs (tag SNPs and functional SNPs) were tested for influence in eight fasting and dynamic markers of carbohydrate metabolism, performing an intravenous glucose tolerance test in 450 participants of the LIPGENE study.Findings:From 382 initial gene-phenotype associations between SNPs and any phenotypic variables, 61 (a 16 % of the pre-selected) remained significant after Bootstrapping. Top SNPs affecting glucose metabolism variables were as follows: fasting glucose: rs26125 (PPARGC1B); fasting insulin: rs4759277 (LRP1); C peptide: rs4759277 (LRP1); HOMA-IR: rs4759277 (LRP1); QUICKI: rs184003 (AGER); SI: rs7301876 (ABCC9), AIRg: rs290481 (TCF7L2) and DI: rs12691 (CEBPA).Conclusions:We describe here the top SNPs linked to phenotypic features in carbohydrate metabolism among aproximately 1000 candidate gene variations in fasting and postprandial samples of 450 patients with MetS from the LIPGENE study.

Commercial thickeners used by patients with dysphagia: rheological and structural behaviour in different food matrices

In order to achieve a safe swallowing in patients with dysphagia, liquids must be thickened. In this work, two commercial starch based thickeners dissolved in water, whole milk, apple juice and tomato juice were studied. The thickeners were Resource®, composed of modified maize starch and Nutilis®, composed of modified maize starch and gums. They were formulated at two different concentrations corresponding to nectar- and pudding-like consistencies. Influence of composition, concentration and food matrix on rheological properties and structure of the resulting pastes were analysed. Viscoelastic measurements and microscopic observations of the thickeners dissolved in water revealed structural differences due to the presence of gums. When the thickeners were dissolved in the other food matrices significant statistical interactions were found between the matrix and the thickener-type in both the viscoelastic and flow parameters. The most relevant differences were observed for the nectar-like consistency with Nutilis® thickener in milk and apple juice. These samples had lower zero viscosity values and higher loss tangent values, that corresponded to weaker structured systems. Light microscopy images showed that the matrix formed by swollen starch granules was interrupted by the presence of gums. The structure of the matrices in pudding-like formulations became more continuous irrespectively of the matrix employed, and also differences in viscoelasticity among samples diminished. Although differences were observed in zero shear viscosity values among samples, the viscosity of the beverages at 50 s−1 – commonly used as a reference for swallowing – was similar for all samples regardless of the matrix used.

Electroweak precision constraints on the Lee-Wick standard model

We perform an analysis of the electroweak precision observables in the Lee-Wick Standard Model. The most stringent restrictions come from the S and T parameters that receive important tree level and one loop contributions. In general the model predicts a large positive S and a negative T. To reproduce the electroweak data, if all the Lee-Wick masses are of the same order, the Lee-Wick scale is of order 5 TeV. We show that it is possible to find some regions in the parameter space with a fermionic state as light as 2.4-3.5 TeV, at the price of rising all the other masses to be larger than 5-8 TeV. To obtain a light Higgs with such heavy resonances a fine-tuning of order a few per cent, at least, is needed. We also propose a simple extension of the model including a fourth generation of Standard Model fermions with their Lee-Wick partners. We show that in this case it is possible to pass the electroweak constraints with Lee-Wick fermionic masses of order 0.4-1.5 TeV and Lee-Wick gauge masses of order 3 TeV.

Um narrador incerto : Dom Casmurro : entre o estranho e o familiar

Este trabalho consiste na leitura do romance Dom Casmurro, de Machado de Assis articulado ao texto freudiano “O Estranho”. O que o orienta e inspira é a consideração de que tanto Freud quanto Machado trazem à cena traços, posições, campos de referências que têm efeito na subjetividade até nossos dias. No ensaio “O estranho”, Freud põe em questão a reflexão sobre a obra de arte abandonando o olhar que elege o belo e o grandioso para se debruçar sobre o que é inquietante, fonte de angústia e mal-estar. O autor evidencia, no trabalho a partir dos processos inconscientes, que o aparentemente mais distante, estrangeiro a nós mesmos, produtor do efeito de estranho (unheimlich), tem relação com o que nos é mais familiar (heimlich). Dom Casmurro, um dos romances mais importantes e polêmicos de nossa língua, é fundado em um inquietante mal-estar. Nele a voz do narrador é incerta, dividida, não distanciada. Escolhemos trabalhar com alguns pontos que nos parecem dar conta dessas fraturas, momentos de estranhamento e de subversão: a duplicação da casa (o eu e o desconhecimento); os olhos de ressaca (virada do lugar de sujeito a objeto); Escobar reeditado em Ezequiel (o especular no ciúme, a impossível paternidade). Neste percurso Machado de Assis nos leva a questões fundamentais com respeito às relações do sujeito ao desejo, em especial via a obliqüidade do olhar.

Estudo sobre a participação de rodedores na cadeia de transmissão de Leishmania infantum (Protozoa: Trypanosomatidae) no Rio Grande do Norte

American visceral leishmaniasis is a zoonosis caused by Leishmania infantum and transmitted by the bite of the sand flies Lutzomia longipalpis.The main domestic reservoir is the dog, while foxes and opposums are the known wild reservoirs. However, identification of natural infections with L. infantum in rodents appears for need of investigating the participation of these rodents how source of infection of the parasite. In the present work the Leishmania infantum infection was investigated in rodents captured in Rio Grande do Norte, aiming at to offer subsidies to the understanding of the epidemic chains of LVA in the State. Thirteen Galea spixii were distributed in four groups, being G1 the group control with four animals and the others, G2, G3 and G4, with three animals each. Those animals were intraperitoneally inoculated with 107 promastigotas of L. infantum and accompanied for, respectively, 30, 90 and 180 days. Weekly the animals were monitored as for the corporal weight and rectal temperature. At the end of each stipulated period the animals were killed. Blood were used for determination of the parameters biochemical and haematological, PCR, ELISA, microscopic examination and cultivation in NNN medium. Liver, spleen and lymph node were used in Giemsa-stained impression and cultivation in NNN medium. Liver and spleen fragments were still used in PCR and histopathological, respectively. At the same time 79 rodents of the species Rattus rattus, Bolomys lasiurus, Oligoryzomys nigripis, Oryzomys subflavus and Trichomys apereoides were captured in the Municipal districts of Brejinho, Campo Grande, Coronel Ezequiel, Passa e Fica and Vázea for identification of natural infection with L. infantum. Evidence of infection was checked by direct examination of Giemsa-stained impression of liver, spleen and blood and culture of these tissues in NNN medium. Antibodies were researched by ELISA. They were not found differences among the weigh corporal final, rectal temperature and biochemical and haematological parameters of the Galea spixii controls and infected. The rectal temperature of the animals varied from 36OC to 40OC. For the first time values of the haematocrit (33,6% to 42,8%), hemoglobin (10,2 to 14,5g/dl), erythrocyts number (4,67x106 to 6,90x106/mm3), total leukocytes (0,9x103 to 9,2x103/mm3), platelets (49x103 to 509x103/mm3) total proteins (1,56 to 6,06 g/dl), albumin (1,34 to 3,05 g/dl) and globulins (0,20 to 3,01 g/dl) of the Galea spixii were determined. The lymphocytes were the most abundant leucocytes. Infection for L. infantum was diagnosed in two animals euthanasied 180 days after the infection. In one of the animals was also identified antibodies anti-Leishmania. The parasite was not found in none of the five other species of rodents captured. Galea spixii are resistant to the infection for L. infantum and they are not good models for the study for visceral leishmaniose, although they can act as infection sources. More studies are necessary to determine the paper of the rodents in the epidemic chain of transmission of the visceral leishmaniose in the State of Rio Grande do Norte

Influência de subprodutos de oleaginosas sobre parâmetros ruminais e a degradação da matéria seca e da proteína bruta

Avaliou-se o efeito da adição de subprodutos de oleaginosas na dieta de ovinos em substituição ao farelo de soja. Foram distribuídos quatro ovinos Santa Inês, com peso corporal de, aproximadamente, 40kg, canulados no rúmen, em quadrado latino (4x4), com quatro dietas e quatro períodos, analisados por regressão para a avaliação da degradação ruminal, dos valores de pH e das concentrações de nitrogênio amoniacal in vivo. Os subprodutos foram as tortas de amendoim, girassol e soja, em dietas isonitrogenadas, com 70% de concentrado e 30% de volumoso (feno de tifton). Não foi observado efeito da interação tempo x dieta para os valores de pH e concentração ruminal de nitrogênio amoniacal (P>0,05). O pH apresentou valor médio de 6,2. As concentrações ruminais de nitrogênio amoniacal não foram afetadas, com valor médio de 29,9mg/dL. Não foram observadas diferenças (P>0,05) nas taxas de degradação da matéria seca e na degradabilidade potencial.