Ata e resumos.

Abertura e apresentacao do Programa Cooperativo de Pesquisa Sobre Percevejo castanho - 29/04/99; Diagnostico e informacoes gerais sobre o percevejo castanho - 29/04/99; Apresentacao de trabalhos - 29/04/99; Debate geral sobre os trabalhos e as informacoes apresentadas - 29/04/99; Prioridade de pesquisa e planejamento - 30/04/99; Ocorrencia do percevejo castanho scaptocoris castanea perty em soja, em Cornelio Procopio, PR; Historico e situacao atual do percevejo castanho (Hemiptera: Cydnidae) no estado de Sao Paulo; Percevejo castanho em pastagens: Descricao do problema e observacoes gerais; Utilizacao de calcario, gesso e NPK na renovacao da pastagens em solos arenosos e acidos, visando ao controle do percevejo-castanho-das-raizes Atarsocoris brachiariae Becker, 1996; Efeitos dos tipos de preparacao do solo e dos modelos alternativos de formacao de pastagens do controle do percevejo castanho (Scaptocoris castanea Perty, 1830); Avaliacao das perdas do valor nutritivo e da resistencia de quatro gramineas, quanto a acao do percevejo castanho das raizes (Scaptocoris castanea Perty, 1830); Efeito da calagem associada a niveis de incorporacao de materia organica no solo, no controle do percevejo castanho das raizes; Efeito da associacao da materia organica e do fungo Metarhizium anisopliae no controle do percevejo-castanho-das-raizes Atarsocoris brachiariae Becker, 1996; Primeiro relato de atarsocoris brachiariae (Hemiptera: Cydnidae: Scaptocorinae) em pastagens no Estado de Sao Paulo; Ensaio visando o controle do percevejo castanho com alguns inseticidas; Resultados de pesquisa de controle quimico do percevejo castanho scaptocoris em cultura de milho safrinha no Estado de Sao Paulo; Efeito de inseticidas pulverizados no Sulco de semeadura e misturados as sementes de soja sobre percevejo castanho da raiz em Candido Mota, SP; Efeito de insecticidas pulverizados no sulco de plantio ou nas folhas, e misturados as sementes de soja, sobre a populacao de percevejo castanho de raiz, em Rio Verde, GO; Efeito de diversos inseticidas sobre a populacao de percevejo castanho da raiz, em soja - Sapezal, MT.

Controle biologico do percevejo-de-renda (Leptopharsa heveae Drake & Poor) em seringais de cultivo.

A mosca-de-renda ou percevejo-de-renda (Leptopharsa heveae - Hemiptera: Tingidae) e o mais importante inseto-praga da seringueira no Brasil. Essa praga de origem amazonica invadiu os seringais do Estado de Mato Grosso por volta de 1985 e, de 1992 a 1998, chegou aos seringais do Estado Sao Paulo e de Goias. Acredita-se que breve chegara aos Estados da Bahia, Espirito Santo e Minas Gerais. O principal agente disseminador desse inseto-praga entre estados e seringais tem sido os veiculos transportadores de coagulos e latex semiprocessado (GEB). O controle quimico dessa praga, alem de muito caro, coloca em risco os aplicadores e o meio ambiente. Em 1986, no Amazonas, o fungo Sporothrix insectorum foi constatado parasitando individuos do percevejo-de-renda. Com base nessa constatacao foram feitos alguns estudos em campo e laboratorio onde se determinaram a eficiencia biologica (capacidade do inimigo natural para infectar e destruir a praga) e a eficiencia tecnica (capacidade do inimigo natural para reduzir os danos causados na planta pela acao da praga). Os resultados desses testes evidenciaram o elevado potencial do S. insectorum para o controle do percevejode-renda. Imediatamente apos os testes, esse fungo foi enviado para os Estados de Mato Grosso, Acre, Rondonia, e mais recentemente para Sao Paulo e Goias onde vem sendo utilizado com o fungo Hirsutella verticillioides por diversos produtores e empresas. O fungo H. verticillioides, outro inimigo natural do percevejo-de-renda, isolado em 1990, na Guiana Francesa, vem sendo bem mais agressivo nos seringais da regiao Centro-Oeste e de Sao Paulo que o S. insectorum. Os resultados obtidos de avaliacoes efetuadas em alguns seringais de Goias, Mato Grosso e Sao Paulo indicam eficiencia biologica (porcentagem de insetos colonizados e fixados na folha por ambos os fungos em fevereiro), variando de 53% a 100%. Por outro lado, a eficiencia tecnica, medida pelo nivel de descoloracao da folha ou % de danos causados pela praga em fevereiro, tendo como referencia folhas nao atacadas, variou de 16% a 63%.

O cultivo da pinha, fruta-do-conde ou ata (Annona squamosa, L.) no Brasil.

A Pinha, Fruta-do-conde ou Ata (Annona squamosa, L.) pertence a familia das anonaceas. No Brasil, e considerada uma fruta exotica cuja producao vem aumentando nos ultimos anos. Atualmente, os maiores produtores da pinha sao os Estados de Alagoas e de Sao Paulo. Essa anonacea apresenta frutos de sabor muito agradavel e ricos em minerais e vitaminas, sendo portanto, um bom complemento alimentar na dieta humana. Alem disso, tem sido isolados compostos quimicos presentes em diferentes partes da planta, como acetogeninas e alcaloides que apresentam atividades inseticidas e medicinais. Este trabalho apresenta uma revisao dos principais topicos para uma producao eficiente da pinha em diferentes estados brasileiros.

Programa Nacional de Joyería y Orfebrería 2001 – 2002. Taller de dibujo técnico y diseño de joyas básicas para joyeros 15 de mayo de 2002.

12 hojas : Ilustraciones.

Museums and youth: between misunderstanding and disappointment. Youth perceptions and arguments about the cultural consumption of museums in Chile

Young people are less explored in museum audience research; this is a paradoxical situation when considering its strategic location in the cultural reproduction and if considering the high performing cultural consumption compared with other sectors. The phenomenon of museums consumption by young Chileans who are self recognized as public and non-public museums is explored from a qualitative approach. It was conducted with focus groups in the three largest cities in Chile (Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción). They identify the museum as a cultural institution in full force. However, in questioning museums activity youth reveal the specificity of their cultural matrix. This is referred to a social temporality based on the fragment, the discourse of familiarity, proximity and instead of breaking and critical. They claim a museum aesthetic / historical experience based on pleasure and enjoyment. An overview is proposed to further clarify the youth cultural consumption to characterize more precisely the place of the museum in the set, to design more effective policies museums.

Los nuevos territorios de la gráfica: imagen, proceso y distribución

La gráfica se encuentra en un proceso de simbiosis con la cultura visual en el que la tecnología de la imagen, la descentralización de la matriz y la adaptación del formato expositivo se funden con el resto de las actividades artísticas. El análisis de las comunidades formadas alrededor de esta práctica configura un puzzle, aparentemente bien encajado, que se divide entre el formalismo y el conceptualismo y entre la idea y el proceso. Las bienales y trienales, a la vanguardia del discurso, cuestionan cualquier concepto que se haya podido asentar con solidez: ante la decadencia del proceso artesanal el mensaje se profundiza nutriéndose de la invectiva provocada por las contradicciones sociales, territoriales y medioambientales para convertirse en un reflejo de la sociedad contemporánea. Comprender la gráfica actual pasa por un ejercicio de aperturismo y un proceso de adaptación al cambio técnico e iconográfico de los sectores implicados. El grabado es ahora un territorio en el que la integración de todas las artes permite cruzar sus fronteras con fluidez.

Cognitive functioning in subjects with recent-onset psychosis from a low-middle-income environment: Multiple-domain deficits and longitudinal evaluation

Cognitive deficits are a key feature of recent-onset psychosis, but there is no consensus on whether such deficits are generalized or confined to specific domains. Besides, it is unclear whether cognitive deficits: a) are found in psychotic patients in samples from outside high-income countries; and b) whether they progress uniformly over time in schizophrenia and affective psychoses. We applied 12 tests organized into eight cognitive domains, comparing psychosis patients (n = 56, time from initial contact = 677.95+/-183.27 days) versus healthy controls (n = 70) recruited from the same area of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Longitudinal comparisons (digit span and verbal fluency) were conducted between a previous assessment of the subjects carried out at their psychosis onset, and the current follow-up evaluation. Psychosis patients differed significantly from controls on five domains, most prominently on verbal memory. Cognitive deficits remained detectable in separate comparisons of the schizophrenia subgroup and, to a lesser extent, the affective psychosis subjects against controls. Longitudinal comparisons indicated significant improvement in schizophrenia, affective psychoses, and control subjects, with no significant group-by-time interactions. Our results reinforce the view that there are generalized cognitive deficits in association with recent-onset psychoses, particularly of non-affective nature, which persist over time. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Study of aflatoxin exposure in a Brazilian population using an aflatoxin - albumin biomarker

The evaluation of exposure to aflatoxins (AF) by measurement of the level of contamination in food is hampered due to the heterogeneous distribution of AF in food. Therefore, an alternative is to estimate the exposure using specific biological markers (biomarkers) based on an understanding of the metabolism of the compound. For AF, these include aflatoxin-N-7-guanine in the urine, or AFB(1)-albumin (AF-alb) in the blood. This study assessed the level of exposure to AF in Brazilian individuals using a biomarker approach, i.e. the AF-alb adducts. Blood samples were collected from urban residents (n=50; aged 18-52) in June 1999, at the Blood Center of Antonio Carlos de Camargo Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil. AF-alb adduct levels were determined, by ELISA following serum albumin extraction and digestion. AF-alb adducts were detected in 31/50 (62%) samples [range 0-57.3 pg AFB(1)-lys adducts/mg of blood albumin (pg/mg)]. The mean level of positives was 14.9 pg/mg and males had the two highest levels measured (57.1 and 57.3 pg/mg). There was no correlation with age or profession. This is the first study of Brazilian, or indeed South American, individuals that has determined exposure to AF at the individual level using a biomarker approach. These levels are similar to those observed in the Philippines. These data warrant further investigation of both the sources and consequences of exposure to this potent toxin in Brazil.

Challenging the SD benefits attributed to sport Mega-Events hosting

Sport Mega-event hosting faces opposition that is manifested with different intensity during the different phases of the event, from its inception as an idea to its delivery and legacy. Some Social Movements Organisations (SMOs) have acted as indefatigable monitors of the Sustainable Development (SD) dimension of sporting events in general and, in some of the most recent sport mega-events, in particular the Olympics, they have served as important advisors and facilitators. Nevertheless, in many cases we see enthusiastic supporters turning to vehemently challenging whatever positives have been associated with hosting the event. In addition, there is opposition to sport Mega-events in their entirety. That type of opposition tends to employ a holistic prism that manages to identify multiple interconnected negative aspects of hosting a sport mega-event and incorporate them into an anti-systemic discourse. It is important to bear in mind that irrespective of many proclamations to the opposite as far as megas are concerned (projects and/or events), a number of studies have demonstrated that citizen participation and democratic accountability in decision-making have been notoriously absent. After all, the idea of citizen participation in the planning of sport mega-event is essentially the public response to a plan conceived by others. There were, of course, some notable cases of democratic consultation at the early stages of bidding to host a sport mega-event but these more democratic approaches resulted in the failure of the bid (for e.g. Toronto 1996). The knowledge of this by the groups that initiated the hosting idea and the bidding process has led to discouraging in depth public consultation that may fit perfectly to the democratic process but not to the tight schedules of associated projects completion. That produces ‘autocracy against which opposition may arise’ (Hiller, 2000, p. 198). It is this democratic deficit that has led to important instances of social contestation and protest mobilizations by citizen groups as well as the more regular corps of social activists. From a perspective borrowed from the sociology of protest and social movements, sport mega-events hosting can operate as an issue that stimulates protest activities by an existing protest milieu and new actors as well as an important mobilizing resource. In fact, some scholars have also argued that the Olympic Games were an important frame for the transnational activism that was marked by anti-globalization protest in Seattle in 1999 (Cottrell & Nelson, 201; Lenskyj, 2008). In addition, it’s important not to lose sight of other acts dissent that take place in relatively close proximity, about a year before the event when most infrastructural and societal changes brought by hosting the event and impact start to become apparent by the host communities, like the rioting of August 2011 in the London Olympic Boroughs and the 2012 riots of June 2013 in Sao Paulo and other Brazilian cities. This paper starts by outlining the SD claims made in the bidding to host the summer Olympic Games by five prospective hosts (Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London and Rio) proceeds towards examining the opposition and challenges that was manifested in relation to these claims. In Particular it provides an assessment of protest-events over the aforementioned different phases of sport mega-events hosting. A different picture emerges for each of the host nation that is partly explained by local, national and global configuration of protest politics. Whereas the post-event legacy of the first two hosts of the Games can be assessed and that way see the validity of claims made by challengers in the other phases, in the other three cases, the implementation of Olympic Games Impact (OGI) studies offers the tool for discussing the post-event phase for Beijing and London and engage in a speculative exercise for the case of Rio. Judging by available findings, the paper concludes that the SD aspiration made in the bid documents are unlikely to be met and social contestation based on the same issues is likely to increase due to the current global economic crisis and BRICS, like China and Brazil, having entered the process of becoming global economic hegemons.

Automatic extraction of Reduced order models from CFD simulations for building energy modeling

Thermal comfort is defined as “that condition of mind which expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment’ [1] [2]. Field studies have been completed in order to establish the governing conditions for thermal comfort [3]. These studies showed that the internal climate of a room was the strongest factor in establishing thermal comfort. Direct manipulation of the internal climate is necessary to retain an acceptable level of thermal comfort. In order for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) strategies to be efficiently utilised it is necessary to have the ability to predict the effect that activating a heating/cooling source (radiators, windows and doors) will have on the room. The numerical modelling of the domain can be challenging due to necessity to capture temperature stratification and/or different heat sources (radiators, computers and human beings). Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) models are usually utilised for this function because they provide the level of details required. Although they provide the necessary level of accuracy these models tend to be highly computationally expensive especially when transient behaviour needs to be analysed. Consequently they cannot be integrated in BEMS. This paper presents and describes validation of a CFD-ROM method for real-time simulations of building thermal performance. The CFD-ROM method involves the automatic extraction and solution of reduced order models (ROMs) from validated CFD simulations. The test case used in this work is a room of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) Building at the University College Cork (UCC). ROMs have shown that they are sufficiently accurate with a total error of less than 1% and successfully retain a satisfactory representation of the phenomena modelled. The number of zones in a ROM defines the size and complexity of that ROM. It has been observed that ROMs with a higher number of zones produce more accurate results. As each ROM has a time to solution of less than 20 seconds they can be integrated into the BEMS of a building which opens the potential to real time physics based building energy modelling.

Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland: A Critical-Theoretical Interpretation

Published version (2014) of the WB Yeats Annual Lecture 2013 which I delivered at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. A translation in Portuguese was included in this publication, pp. 95-142.

Observatorio de la región Bogotá - Cundinamarca. No. 1 marzo de 2009

Gestión del conocimiento

Ruteador inteligente y dinámico basado en clasificación del tráfico en tres niveles

This project describes a Web Geographic Information System (WebGIS) built on an Open Source geographic structure lice MapServer (Minnesota University) and PostgreSQL/PostGIS (object relational database management system). The WebGIS is a web site to route ways in streets net of a part of Sao Paulo city (Brazil). The system traces the route based in a best way algorithm looking for better streets traffic conditions