Espirito de catimbo: a moral magico-religiosa da jurema

This participative research interested in the social praxis attempts to understand the moral principles that set the magic rituals and the places of worship of three jurema centers of the potiguar region of Canguaretama. Among other inner particularly aspects of each focused catimbó-jurema center, it is being discussed the collective standards involved in the reliance and fellowship values assumed in the private magical gatherings by the juremeiras leaders and their partners, in contrast to the prestige seeking and the individualism that influence both the symbolic competitions and the witchcraft works that link these agents to the broader catimbozeiro universe of this region. Finally, the moral practices which make part of the juremeiro left-right dualism are investigated based on the understanding that the referred native pantheonic-ritual dichotomy does not necessarily express two moralities substantially adversed in terms of benefits or harms, but a series of moral actions subject to the specular logic of the tit-for tat. Thus, this research seeks to prove that this moral structure of symbolic reciprocity, as well as the witchcraft centrality in the catimbozeiro world, finds a certain causal link in a world view which guiding principle is the ontological evil of the catholic cosmology

Hypertrophy and neuron loss: structural changes in sheep SCG induced by unilateral sympathectomy

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

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for the fixation of implant prosthesis in oncology patients irradiated

doi: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2012.00636.x Hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment for the fixation of implant prosthesis in oncology patients irradiated Objectives: This study aimed to present a clinical report of an irradiated oncologic patient who underwent hyperbaric oxygen therapy to be rehabilitated with implant-supported prosthesis. Materials and Methods: A 67-year-old man was admitted at Oral Oncology Center (FOA-UNESP) presenting a lesion on the mouth floor. After clinical evaluation, incisional biopsy and histopathological exam, a grade II squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed. The patient was subjected to surgery to remove the lesion and partial glossectomy. Afterwards, the radiotherapy, in the left/right cervicofacial area of the supraclavicular fossa, was conducted. After 3 years of the surgery, the patient was submitted to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Then, four implants were installed in patients mandible. Five months later, an upper conventional complete denture and lower full-arch implant-supported prosthesis were fabricated. Conclusion: The treatment resulted in several benefits such as improving his chewing efficiency, swallowing and speech, less denture trauma on the mucosa and improving his self-esteem.

Autonomic control of cardiorespiratory interactions in fish, amphibians and reptiles

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A dynamical mechanism to explain the top-bottom quark mass hierarchy

We discuss the mass splitting between the the top and bottom quarks in a technicolor scenario. The model proposed here contains a left-right electroweak gauge group. An extended technicolor group and mirror fermions are introduced. The top-bottom quark mass splitting turns out to be intimately connected to the breaking of the left-right gauge symmetry. Weak isospin violation occurs within the experimental limits.

L-R asymmetries and signals for new bosons

Several left-right parity violating asymmetries in lepton-lepton scattering in fixed target and collider experiments are considered as signals for doubly charged vector bosons (bileptons).

The possibility of discovering new boson in e(-)e(-), mu(-)mu(-), e(-)mu(-) colliders

Several left-right asymmetries in Moller (electron-electron), muon-muon and electron-muon scattering are considered in the context of the electroweak standard model and in a model with SU(3)(C) x SU(3)(L) x U(1)(Y) gauge symmetry at tree level in collider experiments. We show that these asymmetries are very sensitive to a doubly charged vector bilepton in the case of ee and mu mu colliders and to an extra Z' neutral vector boson contribution in e(-)mu (-) collider.

Chiral asymmetry and gravitation theory

In this letter we apply an alternative approach, recently developed, to the description of massless particles of arbitrary spin to the case of spin-two particles. This provides a non-geometrical approach to the theory of linearized gravitation. Within this method the chiral components of a spinor field are treated as independent field variables. The free field Lagrangian is built up from the requirement of chiral invariance. This formulation is parallel to the neutrino theory and leads to a formulation that generalizes, to particles of spin-two, the two-component neutrino theory. At the free field level the analog of curvature tensor, spin connection tensor, and metric tensor are independent quantities. By introducing left-right asymmetric linear interactions of these chiral components we get the linearized gravitation theory.

Descrição e comparação de dois tipos de chute no futebol feminino através de variáveis angulares

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Efeitos de bósons vetoriais neutros nos aceleradores: LHC e ILC

Pós-graduação em Física - IFT

Modelagem sísmica e inversão na presença de anisotropia

A necessidade da adoção de modelos elásticos anisotrópicos, no contexto da sísmica de exploração, vem crescendo com o advento de novas técnicas de aquisição de dados como VSP, walkway VSP, tomografia poço a poço e levantamentos sísmicos com grande afastamento. Meios anisotrópicos, no contexto da sísmica de exploração, são modelos efetivos para explicar a propagação de ondas através de meios que apresentam padrões de heterogeneidade em escala muito menor que o comprimento de onda das ondas sísmicas. Particularmente, estes modelos são muito úteis para explicar o dado sísmico mais robusto que são as medidas de tempo de trânsito. Neste trabalho, são investigados aspectos da propagação de ondas, traçado de raios e inversão de tempos de trânsito em meios anisotrópicos. É estudada a propagação de ondas SH em meios anisotrópicos estratificados na situação mais geral onde estas ondas podem ocorrer, ou seja, em meios monoclínicos com um plano vertical de simetria especular. É mostrado que o campo de ondas SH refletido a partir de um semi-espaço estratificado, não apresenta qualquer informação sobre a possível presença de anisotropia em subsuperfície. São apresentados métodos simples e eficientes para o traçado de raios em 3D através de meios anisotrópicos estratificados, baseados no princípio de Fermat. Estes métodos constituem o primeiro passo para o desenvolvimento de algoritmos de inversão de tempos de trânsito para meios anisotrópicos em 3D, a partir de dados de VSP e walkaway VSP. Esta abordagem é promissora para determinação de modelos de velocidade, que são necessários para migração de dados sísmicos 3D na presença de anisotropia. É efetuada a análise da inversão tomográfica não linear, para meios estratificados transversalmente isotrópicos com um eixo de simetria vertical(TIV). As limitações dos dados de tempo de trânsito de eventos qP para determinação das constantes elásticas, são estabelecidas e caracterizados os efeitos da falta de cobertura angular completa na inversão tomográfica. Um algoritmo de inversão foi desenvolvido e avaliado em dados sintéticos. A aplicação do algoritmo a dados reais demonstra a consistência de meios TIV. Esta abordagem é útil para casos onde há informação a priori sobre a estratificação quase plana das formações e onde os próprios dados do levantamento poço a poço apresentam um alto grau de simetria especular em relação a um plano vertical. Também pode ser útil em interpretações preliminares, onde a estimativa de um meio estratificado, serve como modelo de fundo para se efetuar análises mais detalhadas, por exemplo, como um modelo de velocidades anisotrópico para migração, ou como um modelo de calibração para análises de AVO.

Análise das variáveis eletromiográficas e da pressão plantar na marcha em aclive, declive e plano

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Mental rotation of anthropoid hands: a chronometric study

It has been shown that mental rotation of objects and human body parts is processed differently in the human brain. But what about body parts belonging to other primates? Does our brain process this information like any other object or does it instead maximize the structural similarities with our homologous body parts? We tried to answer this question by measuring the manual reaction time (MRT) of human participants discriminating the handedness of drawings representing the hands of four anthropoid primates (orangutan, chimpanzee, gorilla, and human). Twenty-four right-handed volunteers (13 males and 11 females) were instructed to judge the handedness of a hand drawing in palm view by pressing a left/right key. The orientation of hand drawings varied from 0º (fingers upwards) to 90º lateral (fingers pointing away from the midline), 180º (fingers downwards) and 90º medial (finger towards the midline). The results showed an effect of rotation angle (F(3, 69) = 19.57, P < 0.001), but not of hand identity, on MRTs. Moreover, for all hand drawings, a medial rotation elicited shorter MRTs than a lateral rotation (960 and 1169 ms, respectively, P < 0.05). This result has been previously observed for drawings of the human hand and related to biomechanical constraints of movement performance. Our findings indicate that anthropoid hands are essentially equivalent stimuli for handedness recognition. Since the task involves mentally simulating the posture and rotation of the hands, we wondered if "mirror neurons" could be involved in establishing the motor equivalence between the stimuli and the participants' own hands.

O Chile de Lagos: o desafio de um novo curso democrático

O texto analisa sinteticamente o processo de transição à democracia no Chile e observa de que forma os elementos centrais desse processo apareceram no recente processo eleitoral vivido por aquele país. Por meio desse enfoque, analisa as condições que estiveram presentes na primeira eleição presidencial em dois turnos que se realizou no Chile, bem como as características e limites das duas principais candidaturas: Ricardo Lagos e Joaquín Lavín.

Class Notes for Math 901/902: Abstract Algebra, Instructor Tom Marley

Topics include: Free groups and presentations; Automorphism groups; Semidirect products; Classification of groups of small order; Normal series: composition, derived, and solvable series; Algebraic field extensions, splitting fields, algebraic closures; Separable algebraic extensions, the Primitive Element Theorem; Inseparability, purely inseparable extensions; Finite fields; Cyclotomic field extensions; Galois theory; Norm and trace maps of an algebraic field extension; Solvability by radicals, Galois' theorem; Transcendence degree; Rings and modules: Examples and basic properties; Exact sequences, split short exact sequences; Free modules, projective modules; Localization of (commutative) rings and modules; The prime spectrum of a ring; Nakayama's lemma; Basic category theory; The Hom functors; Tensor products, adjointness; Left/right Noetherian and Artinian modules; Composition series, the Jordan-Holder Theorem; Semisimple rings; The Artin-Wedderburn Theorem; The Density Theorem; The Jacobson radical; Artinian rings; von Neumann regular rings; Wedderburn's theorem on finite division rings; Group representations, character theory; Integral ring extensions; Burnside's paqb Theorem; Injective modules.