Animal infectious disease and climate change: a selected review

It is indisputable that climate is an important factor in many livestock diseases. Nevertheless, our knowledge of the impact of climate change on livestock infectious diseases is much less certain. Therefore, the aim of the article is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on the topic utilizing available retrospective data and information. Across a corpus of 175 formal publications, limited empirical evidence was offered to underpin many of the main arguments. The literature reviewed was highly polarized and often inconsistent regarding what the future may hold. Historical explorations were rare. However, identifying past drivers to livestock disease may not fully capture the extent that new and unknown drivers will influence future change. As such, our current predictive capacity is low. We offer a number of recommendations to strengthen this capacity in the coming years. We conclude that our current approach to research on the topic is limiting and unlikely to yield sufficient, actionable evidence to inform future praxis. Therefore, we argue for the creation of a reflexive, knowledge-based system, underpinned by a collective intelligence framework to support the drawing of inferences across the literature.

Development Of Water Pollution Early Warning System For Oyster Harvesting Areas

The objective of this study is to develop a Pollution Early Warning System (PEWS) for efficient management of water quality in oyster harvesting areas. To that end, this paper presents a web-enabled, user-friendly PEWS for managing water quality in oyster harvesting areas along Louisiana Gulf Coast, USA. The PEWS consists of (1) an Integrated Space-Ground Sensing System (ISGSS) gathering data for environmental factors influencing water quality, (2) an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model for predicting the level of fecal coliform bacteria, and (3) a web-enabled, user-friendly Geographic Information System (GIS) platform for issuing water pollution advisories and managing oyster harvesting waters. The ISGSS (data acquisition system) collects near real-time environmental data from various sources, including NASA MODIS Terra and Aqua satellites and in-situ sensing stations managed by the USGS and the NOAA. The ANN model is developed using the ANN program in MATLAB Toolbox. The ANN model involves a total of 6 independent environmental variables, including rainfall, tide, wind, salinity, temperature, and weather type along with 8 different combinations of the independent variables. The ANN model is constructed and tested using environmental and bacteriological data collected monthly from 2001 – 2011 by Louisiana Molluscan Shellfish Program at seven oyster harvesting areas in Louisiana Coast, USA. The ANN model is capable of explaining about 76% of variation in fecal coliform levels for model training data and 44% for independent data. The web-based GIS platform is developed using ArcView GIS and ArcIMS. The web-based GIS system can be employed for mapping fecal coliform levels, predicted by the ANN model, and potential risks of norovirus outbreaks in oyster harvesting waters. The PEWS is able to inform decision-makers of potential risks of fecal pollution and virus outbreak on a daily basis, greatly reducing the risk of contaminated oysters to human health.

Escafandristas do tempo: narrativas de vida e regeneração da memória em São Rafael-RN

In the late 1970s, the semi-arid region of Rio Grande do Norte was the setting of Projeto Baixo-Açu whose highlight was the building of the dam Eng. Armando Ribeiro Gonçalves, designed to collect 2.4 billion cubic meters of water. Presumably, such an initiative would bring economic and social development for thousands of potiguares who suffered the hardships of drought. However, the dam would reach several cities in the region, reaching to cover one of them: São Rafael. As a result, the early years of the 1980s, nearby, a new town was built by DNOCS. This thesis aims to discuss how the population of São Rafael recalls this fact and reconstructs its history by speaking, writing and computing, after three decades. Based on the prospect moriniana method as a strategy, visits were made to the city of São Rafael and open interviews (individual and collective) with two groups of subjects: one composed of those who lived in their ancient homeland, and another, with young people who were born in the new city. Besides the reports of these subjects, they were observed the visual narratives presented by images, mostly photographic, available on a profile created for the city in the orkut social network. As sources for this study, they were also considered the dialogues between rafaelenses accessing the above profile. Having as a central observation by Edgar Morin about what does not regenerate, degenerates . This study is the central argument that the idea of orkut has performed, today, a dual and interdependent role: being a tool that promotes a collective intelligence through cooperation, exchange of ideas and reconstitution of visual and written narratives. Far from a frozen conception in a historical perspective, it has defended the thesis that orkut has regenerated, repaired, reproduced, restored, reorganized and renewed the memory and history of a city that has succumbed to the immensity of the waters of a dam for almost thirty years

As contribuições relativas ao uso de eventos/fóruns para constituição de comunidades de práticas e expressão da inteligência coletiva: o caso do Bibliocontas

Reflete sobre as Comunidades de Prática (CoPs), na perspectiva do conceito de Inteligência Coletiva de Pierre Lèvy. Descreve o ponto de vista de Lèvy, procurando estabelecer um diálogo como conceito de CoPs, criado por Etienne Wenger. Aponta os elementos encontrados nos fóruns virtuais e presenciais realizados pelo do Grupo Bibliocontas, (grupo formado por profissionais da informação que atuam nos Tribunais de Contas brasileiros), que podem contribuir para constituição de uma comunidade de prática. Verifica que os eventos/fóruns são canais integradores para efetivação de uma comunidade de prática, cujo resultado propicia a transformação das pessoas, a formação de identidades e a negociação de significados do fazer profissional. Observa que a construção coletiva de conhecimentos tem sido materializada na forma de diretrizes e ações, que foram ou estão para serem concretizadas pelas instituições dos participantes do grupo em questão, além do resultado da análise dos dados quantitativos, que indica um crescimento constante de troca de mensagens em ambiente virtual e aumento do número de participantes no grupo.

Archives information publishing new design in post-custodial regime: The National Archives Experience Digital Vaults

The uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Web environments for creation, treatment and availability of information have supported the emergence of new social-cultural patterns represented by convergences in textual, image and audio languages. This paper describes and analyzes the National Archives Experience Digital Vaults as a digital publishing web environment and as a cultural heritage. It is a complex system - synthesizer of information design options at information setting, provides new aesthetic aspects, but specially enlarges the cognition of the subjects who interact with the environment. It also enlarges the institutional spaces that guard the collective memory beyond its role of keeping the physical patrimony collected there. Digital Vaults lies as a mix of guide and interactive catalogue to be dealt in a ludic way. The publishing design of the information held on the Archives is meant to facilitate access to knowledge. The documents are organized in a dynamic and not chronological way. They are not divided in fonds or distinct categories, but in controlled interaction of documents previously indexed and linked by the software. The software creates information design and view of documental content that can be considered a new paradigm in Information Science and are part of post-custodial regime, independent from physical spaces and institutions. Information professionals must be prepared to understand and work with the paradigmatic changes described and represented by the new hybrid digital environments; hence the importance of this paper. Cyberspace interactivity between user and the content provided by the environment design provide cooperation, collaboration and sharing knowledge actions, all features of networks, transforming culture globally.

A convergência midiática e sua influência nas estratégias de comunicação persuasiva que promovem o consumo

Pós-graduação em Comunicação - FAAC

Kooora Tunisie: ciberativismo tunisiano: proposta para documentários interativos

Pós-graduação em Televisão Digital: Informação e Conhecimento - FAAC

A produção matemática em um ambiente virtual de aprendizagem: o caso da geometria euclidiana espacial

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Reorientando práticas de cuidado com o diabetes mellitus: a construção partilhada profissionais-usuários

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A Natureza da reorganização do pensamento em um curso a distância sobre tendências em educação matemática

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Inteligência coletiva: um olhar sobre a produção de Pierre Lévy

Collective intelligence is an interdisciplinary subject and it has been explored for many different knowledge areas. As a proposal totally tied to the concept of information and information technologies and communication, it is considered as relevant the discussion about the topic within the scope of Information Science. Therefore, a descriptive and exploratory study was carried out from Pierre Levy's work, identifying the precepts of collective intelligence and its ambiences and implications. The research is documental, focusing on determining the state of the art of the production about collective intelligence, verifying what was produced by Pierre Lévy and by other authors about the subject, in order to point out what possible interventions of Information Science on studies about collective intelligence. The research showed that that in the field of Information Science there is little research on the theoretical level about collective intelligence. Nevertheless, discussions about the representation and organization of collective intelligence in digital environments have been recurrent in the present, thus opening new fields of approach between Information Science and conceptual research and practice in collective intelligence.

O prosumidor e as Relações Públicas na era da convergência midiática

This study supports the role of Public Relations within Organizations, inserted in the context of the media convergence age, in which all the medias complement each other and can be used together to achieve a given goal. The approach is exposed after reflection on consumers’ specificity and identity, in addition to an approach about media convergence age characteristics, such as collective intelligence, participatory culture and affective economy. Throughout this paper, it is also discussed the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and how consumers and communicators stories have become especially important in the convergence age. In this context, consumers are understood as prosumers, since they infer and influence brands, organizations or products, by using words. We showed that, because of those prosumers narratives, an organization may became susceptible to their image destruction in a short period of time or get more acceptance and profitability. Thus, Public Relations presents itself as a communication professional that can use several corporate strategies in the relationship between organizations and their different target audience

O storify e o jornalismo cidadão na internet

This study aims to understand the democratic and social potential of online citizen journalism, and how Storify can be use as a tool to achieve this goal. The focus is to analyse the use of this tool by media companies to verify if there are plurality of themes, or if there are gatekeeping of the information - such as occur in traditional media. The research will use the content analyse methodology to observe how three media companies use the website Storify: O Estado de São Paulo, Zero Hora and Veja. The results are based on the most frequent themes, which were divided into seven categories: police; politics; city; sport; technology; science and media. With this analyse we were able to concluded that, according to the theme, O Estado de Sao Paulo had, between the media companies analysed, the most plural approach, after it is Zero Hora, and lastly Veja.

O uso das tecnologias no cotidiano, na educação e no ensino musical sob uma perspectiva educacional e sociocultural

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

La gestione dei rifiuti urbani nel comune di Pisa

L’elaborazione di questa tesi è stata svolta con l’ausilio di strumenti di Business Intelligence. In particolare, si è dapprima alimentato un data warehouse territoriale, in cui sono stati inseriti, dopo averli elaborati, i dati messi a disposizione dagli osservatori territoriali nazionali e dall’azienda Geofor spa. A partire da questi, sono stati prodotti degli indicatori statistici e dei report, utili per evidenziare andamenti e trend di crescita di alcuni particolari indici. Il principale strumento utilizzato è StatPortal, un portale Web di Business Intelligence OLAP per la realizzazione di Data warehouse territoriali. L’argomento sarà approfondito nel capitolo sette, dedicato agli strumenti utilizzati, ma in breve, questo sistema consente di raccogliere, catalogare e condividere informazione statistica e geostatistica, nonché di produrre indicatori e reportistica. Il lavoro è organizzato come segue: inizialmente c’è una prima parte di definizione e classificazione dei rifiuti che ha l’obiettivo di permettere al lettore di inquadrare il tema e prendere coscienza del problema. Successivamente, è stata sviluppata una parte più storica, con una rapida analisi temporale per comprendere il “tipping point”, cioè il momento in cui i rifiuti hanno iniziato a essere percepiti come un problema per la comunità, concludendo con un accenno agli scenari attuali e futuri. In seguito, si è indirizzata l’attenzione sul panorama italiano, europeo e mondiale citando alcuni interessanti e originali esempi di efficienza nella gestione dei rifiuti, che potrebbero servire da spunto per qualche stakeholder nazionale. Si è poi introdotta quella che è la normativa vigente, sottolineando quali sono gli obiettivi che impone ed entro quali tempi dovranno essere raggiunti, elencando quindi i principi fondamentali del D.lgs.152/2006 e del D.lgs 36/2003. Continuando su questo filo logico, si è voluto introdurre al lettore, la questione dei Rifiuti Solidi Urbani (RSU) nel Comune di Pisa. Sono stati definiti: lo stato dell’arte dell’igiene urbana pisana, i sistemi implementati nella città con i vari pregi e difetti e quali sono state le azioni pratiche messe in atto dall’Amministrazione per far fronte al tema. Il capitolo sei rappresenta uno dei due punti focali dell’intero lavoro: il Rapporto sullo Stato dell’Ambiente della città di Pisa in tema di rifiuti urbani. Qui saranno analizzati i vari indici e report prodotti ad hoc con lo strumento Statportal appena menzionato, con lo scopo di segnalare evidenze e obiettivi dell’Amministrazione. Nel settimo capitolo si analizza la fase di progettazione del Data Warehouse. Sono elencati i passi fondamentali nella costruzione di un DW dimensionale, esponendone in primo luogo la specifica dei requisiti del progetto ed elencando per ognuno di essi le dimensioni, le misure e le aggregazioni relative. In seguito saranno descritti nel dettaglio la fase di progettazione concettuale e lo schema logico. In ultimo, sarà presentato l’altro punto focale di questa tesi, nonché la parte più interattiva: un portale web creato appositamente per il Comune con l’obiettivo di coinvolgere ed aiutare i cittadini nel conferimento dei rifiuti da loro prodotti. Si tratta di una sorta di manuale interattivo per individuare come eseguire una corretta differenziazione dei rifiuti. Lo scopo primario è quello di fare chiarezza alle utenze nella differenziazione, il che, in maniera complementare, dovrebbe incrementare la qualità del rifiuto raccolto, minimizzando i conferimenti errati. L’obiettivo principale di questo lavoro resta quindi il monitoraggio e l’analisi delle tecniche e dei processi di gestione dei rifiuti nel Comune di Pisa. Analogamente si vuole coinvolgere e suscitare l’interesse del maggior numero di persone possibile al tema della sostenibilità ambientale, rendendo consapevole il lettore che il primo passo verso un mondo più sostenibile spetta in primis a Noi che quotidianamente acquistiamo, consumiamo ed infine gettiamo via i residui senza troppo preoccuparci. Il fatto che anche in Italia, si stia sviluppando un senso civico e una forte responsabilizzazione verso l’ambiente da parte dei cittadini, fa ben sperare. Questo perché si è riusciti a imprimere il concetto che le soluzioni si ottengano impegnandosi in prima persona. E’ alla nostra comunità che si affida il dovere di non compromettere l’esistenza delle generazioni future, incaricandola del compito di ristabilire un equilibrio, ormai precario, tra umanità e ambiente, se non altro perché, come recita un vecchio proverbio Navajo: “il mondo non lo abbiamo in eredità dai nostri padri ma lo abbiamo in prestito dai nostri figli”.