Automated two-dimensional separation flow system with electrochemical preconcentration, stripping, capillary electrophoresis and contactless conductivity detection for trace metal ion analysis

This paper describes the automation of a fully electrochemical system for preconcentration, cleanup, separation and detection, comprising the hyphenation of a thin layer electrochemical flow cell with CE coupled with contactless conductivity detection (CE-C(4)D). Traces of heavy metal ions were extracted from the pulsed-flowing sample and accumulated on a glassy carbon working electrode by electroreduction for some minutes. Anodic stripping of the accumulated metals was synchronized with hydrodynamic injection into the capillary. The effect of the angle of the slant polished tip of the CE capillary and its orientation against the working electrode in the electrochemical preconcentration (EPC) flow cell and of the accumulation time were studied, aiming at maximum CE-C(4)D signal enhancement. After 6 min of EPC, enhancement factors close to 50 times were obtained for thallium, lead, cadmium and copper ions, and about 16 for zinc ions. Limits of detection below 25 nmol/L were estimated for all target analytes but zinc. A second separation dimension was added to the CE separation capabilities by staircase scanning of the potentiostatic deposition and/or stripping potentials of metal ions, as implemented with the EPC-CE-C(4)D flow system. A matrix exchange between the deposition and stripping steps, highly valuable for sample cleanup, can be straightforwardly programmed with the multi-pumping flow management system. The automated simultaneous determination of the traces of five accumulable heavy metals together with four non-accumulated alkaline and alkaline earth metals in a single run was demonstrated, to highlight the potentiality of the system.

Freud, civilization, religion and stoicism

Freud's debt to stoicism has been seldom discussed. His attitude toward science had a distinct ethical slant taken from the ancient world, via Freud's humanistic education. Freud's method involved detachment but did not imply moral coldness and indifference any more than stoicism did. The stoics wanted to be therapists of the mind just as physicians cared for the body. For both Freud and the stoics, reason was in battle with the passions and required clear sight to have a chance of prevailing over them. In contrasting religious worldviews with the scientific approach, Freud failed to see his own approach as ethical. Freud made extensive forays at individual and collective levels but in the years since Freud's death, the psychoanalytic vision has narrowed. At 150 years after his birth, the authors can still admire Freud's exceptional ethical courage and recognize that if psychoanalysis is to survive, it needs to regain his cultural range and spirit of critical inquiry

Race, genetic determinism and the media: an exploratory study of media coverage of genetics and Indigenous Australians

Social scientists and Indigenous people have voiced concerns that media messages about genetics and race may increase the public's belief in genetic determinism and even increase levels of racism. The degree of genetic determinism in media messages has been examined as a determining factor. This study is the first to consider the implications of this area of scholarship for the indigenous minority in Australia. A search of the last two decades of major Australian newspapers was undertaken for articles that discussed Indigenous Australians and genetics. The review found 212 articles, of which 58 concerned traits or conditions that were presented in a genetically deterministic or antideterministic fashion. These 58 articles were analysed by topic, slant, and time period. Overall, 23 articles were anti-deterministic, 18 were deterministic, 14 presented both sides and three were ambiguous. There was a spike in anti-deterministic articles in the years after the Human Genome Diversity Project, and a parallel increase in deterministic articles since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2000. Potential implications of the nature of media coverage of genetics for Indigenous Australians is discussed. Further research is required to test directly the impact of these messages on Australians.

O teatro de Viriato Corrêa: uma escrita da História para o povo brasileiro

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a atuação de intelectuais entendidos como mediadores culturais, ou seja, aqueles que têm como objetivo a divulgação de conhecimento histórico para o grande público. Para tanto, escolhemos como objeto de estudo o intelectual Viriato Corrêa (1884-1967), que entendemos ser exemplar nesse tipo de atuação intelectual. Mais especificamente, buscaremos nos ater às suas peças teatrais, escritas entre as décadas de 1910 e 1940, que, como todo o resto de sua obra, são marcadas por um intenso discurso de valorização do nacional. É preciso lembrar que o período em questão é estratégico no que concerne à construção de uma identidade nacional republicana. Assim, buscaremos demonstrar como o escritor contribuiu e esteve engajado no projeto de construção de uma história e memória nacionais através de suas produções teatrais, utilizando-as como vetores culturais de difusão de uma história de cunho cívico-patriótico.

Entre o sagrado e o profano: os efeitos de sentido revelados nos testemunhos de um blog evangélico

The testimonial is a way of statement that demonstrates or admit the existence of a reality with which the enunciator has contacted. This is, thus, pushed to say what he saw, heard or touched. In this paper, we verified the effects of senses produced in the blog of Bishop Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), from a corpus which consists of nine testimonies of presumed believersselected among 64 statements distributed during the year, 2012. Instead of instantaneous testimonials, on a live presentation, these media narratives are underpinned by attributes such as hyperlinks, visuals, language translators, besides mechanisms of interaction and sharing in other spheres from mediatic slant. The problem of this analysis was born from the observation of regular points in the discursive architecture of these testimonials, when was identified the existing relation force between the sacred and the profane, everyday practices. During six months, analysis of the empirical material, we found some effects of the senses on the testimonials, as the dialectic structure and the need for denuding a precarious past, an engagement to shield the figure of Macedo and the UCKG towards society; a update of a crusade against other religions; and the presence of certain sensuality in self-deprecation of the deponents, and an unequal relation of forces (sacred and profane) in the construction of truth. In order of succeeding in this investigation, we used the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Analysis of French Discourse (AD), denouncing the qualitative nature of the research. As a methodological principle, we still use transdisciplinarity, which validated some of our dialogues, especially with philosophy. The conception of discourse modeled by a media support and transpassed by the subject(s) and story (ies) characterized the perspective of the research

Estudo do potencial da técnica de nanossísmica para o monitoramento de hidrofraturamento em reservatórios de hidrocarbonetos

Hydraulic fracturing is an operation in which pressurised fluid is injected in the geological formation surrounding the producing well to create new permeable paths for hydrocarbons. The injection of such fluids in the reservoir induces seismic events. The measurement of this reservoir stimulation can be made by location these induced microseismic events. However, microseismic monitoring is an expensive operation because the acquisition and data interpretation system using in this monitoring rely on high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). In general, the sensors are deployed in a monitoring well near the treated well and can make a microseismic monitoring quite an expensive operation. In this dissertation we propose the application of a new method for recording and location of microseismic events called nanoseismic monitoring (Joswig, 2006). In this new method, a continuous recording is performed and the interpreter can separate events from noise using sonograms. This new method also allows the location of seismic sources even when P and S phases onsets are not clear like in situations of 0 dB SNR. The clear technical advantage of this new method is also economically advantageous since the sensors can potentially be installed on the surface rather than in observation well. In this dissertation field tests with controlled sources were made. In the first test small explosives using fire works at 28 m (slant distances) were detected yealding magnitudes between -2.4 ≤ ML ≤ -1.6.. In a second test, we monitored perforation shots in a producing oil field. In this second test, one perforation shot was located with slant distances of 861 m and magnitude 2.4 ML. Data from the tests allow us to say that the method has potential to be used in the oil industry to monitor hydrofracture

MACROSOMIA, OBESITY, MACROCEPHALY AND OCULAR ABNORMALITIES (MOMO SYNDROME) IN 2 UNRELATED PATIENTS - DELINEATION OF A NEWLY RECOGNIZED OVERGROWTH SYNDROME

We describe 2 unrelated patients, a boy and a girl, with an overgrowth syndrome and the following common characteristics: macrocrania, obesity, ocular abnormalities (retinal coloboma and nystagmus), downward slant of palpebral fissures, mental retardation, and delayed bone maturation. Both cases are of sporadic occurrence with no consanguinity between the parents. We suggest that this syndrome is due to a new autosomal dominant mutation and propose to designate it with the acronym of ''MOMO syndrome'' (Macrosomia, Obesity, Macrocrania, Ocular anomalities).

NDACC/SAOZ UV-visible total ozone measurements: improved retrieval and comparison with correlative ground-based and satellite observations

Accurate long-term monitoring of total ozone is one of the most important requirements for identifying possible natural or anthropogenic changes in the composition of the stratosphere. For this purpose, the NDACC (Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change) UV-visible Working Group has made recommendations for improving and homogenizing the retrieval of total ozone columns from twilight zenith-sky visible spectrometers. These instruments, deployed all over the world in about 35 stations, allow measuring total ozone twice daily with limited sensitivity to stratospheric temperature and cloud cover. The NDACC recommendations address both the DOAS spectral parameters and the calculation of air mass factors (AMF) needed for the conversion of O-3 slant column densities into vertical column amounts. The most important improvement is the use of O-3 AMF look-up tables calculated using the TOMS V8 (TV8) O-3 profile climatology, that allows accounting for the dependence of the O-3 AMF on the seasonal and latitudinal variations of the O-3 vertical distribution. To investigate their impact on the retrieved ozone columns, the recommendations have been applied to measurements from the NDACC/SAOZ (Systeme d'Analyse par Observation Zenithale) network. The revised SAOZ ozone data from eight stations deployed at all latitudes have been compared to TOMS, GOMEGDP4, SCIAMACHY-TOSOMI, SCIAMACHY-OL3, OMI-TOMS, and OMI-DOAS satellite overpass observations, as well as to those of collocated Dobson and Brewer instruments at Observatoire de Haute Provence (44 degrees N, 5.5 degrees E) and Sodankyla (67 degrees N, 27 degrees E), respectively. A significantly better agreement is obtained between SAOZ and correlative reference ground-based measurements after applying the new O-3 AMFs. However, systematic seasonal differences between SAOZ and satellite instruments remain. These are shown to mainly originate from (i) a possible problem in the satellite retrieval algorithms in dealing with the temperature dependence of the ozone cross-sections in the UV and the solar zenith angle (SZA) dependence, (ii) zonal modulations and seasonal variations of tropospheric ozone columns not accounted for in the TV8 profile climatology, and (iii) uncertainty on the stratospheric ozone profiles at high latitude in the winter in the TV8 climatology. For those measurements mostly sensitive to stratospheric temperature like TOMS, OMI-TOMS, Dobson and Brewer, or to SZA like SCIAMACHY-TOSOMI, the application of temperature and SZA corrections results in the almost complete removal of the seasonal difference with SAOZ, improving significantly the consistency between all ground-based and satellite total ozone observations.

GDP 4.0 transfer to SGP 3.0 for SCIAMACHY no2 column processing: Verification with SDOAS / GDOAS prototype algorithms and delta-validation with NDACC / UV-visible network data

Until mid 2006, SCIAMACHY data processors for the operational retrieval of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) column data were based on the historical version 2 of the GOME Data Processor (GDP). On top of known problems inherent to GDP 2, ground-based validations of SCIAMACHY NO2 data revealed issues specific to SCIAMACHY, like a large cloud-dependent offset occurring at Northern latitudes. In 2006, the GDOAS prototype algorithm of the improved GDP version 4 was transferred to the off-line SCIAMACHY Ground Processor (SGP) version 3.0. In parallel, the calibration of SCIAMACHY radiometric data was upgraded. Before operational switch-on of SGP 3.0 and public release of upgraded SCIAMACHY NO2 data, we have investigated the accuracy of the algorithm transfer: (a) by checking the consistency of SGP 3.0 with prototype algorithms; and (b) by comparing SGP 3.0 NO2 data with ground-based observations reported by the WMO/GAW NDACC network of UV-visible DOAS/SAOZ spectrometers. This delta-validation study concludes that SGP 3.0 is a significant improvement with respect to the previous processor IPF 5.04. For three particular SCIAMACHY states, the study reveals unexplained features in the slant columns and air mass factors, although the quantitative impact on SGP 3.0 vertical columns is not significant.

A arquitetura espontânea de Niki de Saint Phalle: o jardim de tarô

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

O aluno negro e o ensino superior: trajetória histórica, percalços e conquistas (análise do perfil sócio econômico do discente da FCT/UNESP/Presidente Prudente)

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Uma exploração dos modelos de uso integrado da teoria das restrições, produção enxuta e seis sigma

Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção - FEB

Avaliação de sistemas de reparo para o problema de abrasão do concreto de superfícies úmidas em usinas hidrelétricas

A área de pesquisa em patologia das construções vem crescendo muito ultimamente, devido à degradação natural observada nos mais diversos tipos de edificações. Neste sentido, grande atenção vem sendo dispendida às estruturas de concreto de obras especiais como usinas hidrelétricas (UHEs) em virtude de sua complexidade e importância, tanto social quanto econômica. Uma das patologias que mais ocorrem nestas estruturas é a abrasão hidráulica do concreto, a qual pode levar a construção à ruína, em casos extremos. Este trabalho visa obter e analisar dados de vários materiais de reparo quanto à resistência à abrasão hidráulica e quanto aos seus respectivos sistemas de aderência. Dividiu-se a pesquisa em três grandes etapas: na primeira verificaria as características físicas e mecânicas dos materiais de reparo, a segunda analisaria a compatibilidade entre reparo e substrato através da aderência obtida no ensaio de compressão na junta diagonal e a terceira forneceria dados sobre a resistência à abrasão dos reparos através do ensaio ASTM C1138. Na primeira etapa foram realizados os ensaios de resistência à compressão axial e consistência dos concretos e argamassas utilizados como reparos profundos e superficiais para as idades de 3, 7 e 28 dias; Na segunda, aos 3 e 28 dias de idade, foram realizados os ensaios de aderência dos sistemas adesivos, abrangendo materiais cimentícios e à base de polímeros; Na última etapa foram utilizados os mesmos materiais de reparo da primeira: argamassas e concretos à base de cimento com e sem adição de pozolanas sílica ativa e metacaulim e argamassa à base de resina epóxi aos 3 e 28 dias. Como resultados, foram obtidas resistências à compressão axial entre 40 e 65 MPa para os materiais cimentícios aos 3 dias de idade e entre 60 e 80 MPa aos 28 dias, enquanto que para a argamassa epóxi a resistência foi de 20 MPa para ambas as idades. A consistência das argamassas foi tixotrópica, enquanto que a dos concretos foi bastante fluida. Quanto à aderência, realizou-se a aplicação dos adesivos em superfícies escarificadas, limpas e encharcadas, o que possibilitou uma expressiva vantagem dos adesivos à base de cimento e relação aos poliméricos, mesmo estes sendo indicados para colagem em substratos úmidos. Na etapa de abrasão dos reparos, utilizou-se uma nova metodologia de preparo dos substratos de concreto e posterior aplicação dos reparos, classificados em profundos ou superficiais. O reparo que apresentou maior resistência à abrasão foi o de argamassa epóxi. Não houve diferença estatística significativa entre os concretos sem adição e com adição de sílica ativa e metacaulim de alta reatividade. Em geral, o desgaste das argamassas, especialmente aos 3 dias, foi maior que o dos concretos, onde se verificou claramente a presença de dois estágios de taxa de desgaste em função da resistência à abrasão dos agregados graúdos. Assim, foi possível identificar diferentes estágios de desgaste para os concretos utilizados.

Geologia, geomorfologia e morfotectônica da região de Marabá - PA

Pós-graduação em Geologia Regional - IGCE

O outro artificial e a alteridade na cultura pós-moderna

A presente pesquisa nasceu a partir de inquietações frente a um fenômeno que mostra a fascinação de homens que se relacionam com bonecas realistas – Real Dolls. Estas modelos simulam de forma perfeccionista altura, peso, forma, textura, cor, sexo, como se fossem “de carne e osso”, mas são “de metal e silicone”. As bonecas, contudo, não são meros brinquedos sexuais, pois adquirem muitas vezes a função de companhia, colocando em cheque a própria dimensão da alteridade. Esta relação construída artificialmente funciona, portanto, como um disparador de indagações acerca do outro e da atualidade. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi realizar uma discussão teórica, de cunho psicanalítico, a respeito da noção de alteridade na cultura contemporânea. Para isso, seguimos a trilha de questões chave: quem são o outro e a alteridade? Qual o seu lugar na cultura atual? Estaria a alteridade ameaçada pelo simulacro? Como pensar tal “negação da alteridade” sob o prisma da pós-modernidade? Seguindo este fio condutor, colocou-se em foco complexidades de um outro ao mesmo tempo familiar e estranho, ora configurado a partir de um “estrangeiro ao eu”, ora como um “eu estrangeiro” – remetendo à alteridade radical que constitui o eu, o inconsciente. A referência à atualidade se dá a partir do embate entre modernos e pós-modernos, onde se destaca a apreensão de uma sociedade regida pelo espetáculo narcísico e de um sujeito extremamente individualista, hedonista e consumista. Ganha espaço neste contexto a figura de um “outro artificial” que obedece a lógica perversa de predação que configura a primazia do eu em detrimento da alteridade. Desta forma, o outro se revela um artifício e a alteridade uma presença/ausência que joga com as aparências da atualidade e escamoteia seu “corpo” em uma aparente familiaridade. Assim, a alteridade persiste e desloca-se, fundamentando o outro como elemento que estrutura e desestrutura o sujeito, dando uma peculiaridade inevitavelmente “alteritária” para o mal-estar contemporâneo. Assim, o outro é, por um lado, descartável, pois a lógica narcísica proclama a autossuficiência do eu-ideal, enquanto, por outro lado, é a peça chave do espetáculo. É importante ponderar, portanto, que o lugar da alteridade está garantido, ainda que maquiado pela indiferença, ao contrário da impressão passada pelo panorama que deixa a entender sua extinção.