Quantitative estimates of time-averaging in terebratulid brachiopod shell accumulations from a modern tropical shelf

Quantitative estimates of time-averaging in marine shell accumulations available to date are limited primarily to aragonitic mollusk shells. We assessed time-averaging in Holocene assemblages of calcitic brachiopod shells by direct dating of individual specimens of the terebratulid brachiopod Bouchardia rosea. The data were collected from exceptional (brachiopod-rich) shell assemblages, occurring surficially on a tropical mixed carbonate-siliciclastic shelf (the Southeast Brazilian Bight, SW Atlantic), a setting that provides a good climatic and environmental analog for many Paleozoic brachiopod shell beds of North America and Europe. A total of 82 individual brachiopod shells, collected from four shallow (5-25 m) nearshore (<2.5 km from the shore) localities, were dated by using amino acid racemization (D-alloisoleucine/L-isoleucine value) calibrated with five AMS-radiocarbon dates (r(2) = 0.933). This is the first study to demonstrate that amino acid racemization methods can provide accurate and precise ages for individual shells of calcitic brachiopods.The dated shells vary in age from modern to 3000 years, with a standard deviation of 690 years. The age distribution is strongly right-skewed: the young shells dominate the dated specimens and older shells are increasingly less common. However, the four localities display significant differences in the range of time-averaging and the form of the age distribution. The dated shells vary notably in the quality of preservation, but there is no significant correlation between taphonomic condition and age, either for individual shells or at assemblage level.These results demonstrate that fossil brachiopods may show considerable time-averaging, but the scale and nature of that mixing may vary greatly among sites. Moreover, taphonomic condition is not a reliable indicator of pre-burial history of individual brachiopod shells or the scale of temporal mixing within the entire assemblage. The results obtained for brachiopods are strikingly similar to results previously documented for mollusks and suggest that differences in mineralogy and shell microstructure are unlikely to be the primary factors controlling the nature and scale of time-averaging. Environmental factors and local fluctuations in populations of shell-producing organisms are more likely to be the principal determinants of time-averaging in marine benthic shelly assemblages. The long-term survival of brachiopod shells is incongruent with the rapid shell destruction observed in taphonomic experiments. The results support the taphonomic model that shells remain protected below (but perhaps near) the surface through their early taphonomic history. They may be brought back up to the surface intermittently by bioturbation and physical reworking, but only for short periods of time. This model explains the striking similarities in time-averaging among different types of organisms and the lack of correlation between time-since-death and shell taphonomy.

Application of GPR in the study of a modern alluvial megafan: The case of the Taquari river in Pantanal wetland, West-Central Brazil

A novel and timely ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey has been carried out in Pantanal from Mato Grosso State, west-central Brazil. Fieldwork was carried out on February/2001 and August/2002 in an attempt to understand avulsion processes that are occurring within Taquari alluvial megafan. The main objectives were to map channel, crevasse and floodplain morphology, as well as active sedimentary bedforms. Many GPR profiles were acquired in the medium and lower Taquari River course. Subaqueous megaripples and exposed sand bars were identified in the medium fan area. Similar features were observed in the lower fan channels, where there were many crevasses in the marginal levees. During the flooding seasons, the flow splays out on to the floodplain, where new distributary channels are being formed. GPR data show that the lower fan, Taquari channel is topographically higher than the adjacent floodplain, thus favoring avulsion as a natural process of river course shifting. GPR data obtained during the wet and dry seasons, together with sedimentology information have been very important in characterizing the fluvial dynamics, and avulsion phenomena. © 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

Liquidity black holes: why modern financial regulation in developed countries is making short-term capital flows to developing countries even more volatile

Includes bibliography

Genetic Diversity in the Modern Horse Illustrated from Genome-Wide SNP Data

Horses were domesticated from the Eurasian steppes 5,000-6,000 years ago. Since then, the use of horses for transportation, warfare, and agriculture, as well as selection for desired traits and fitness, has resulted in diverse populations distributed across the world, many of which have become or are in the process of becoming formally organized into closed, breeding populations (breeds). This report describes the use of a genome-wide set of autosomal SNPs and 814 horses from 36 breeds to provide the first detailed description of equine breed diversity. FST calculations, parsimony, and distance analysis demonstrated relationships among the breeds that largely reflect geographic origins and known breed histories. Low levels of population divergence were observed between breeds that are relatively early on in the process of breed development, and between those with high levels of within-breed diversity, whether due to large population size, ongoing outcrossing, or large within-breed phenotypic diversity. Populations with low within-breed diversity included those which have experienced population bottlenecks, have been under intense selective pressure, or are closed populations with long breed histories. These results provide new insights into the relationships among and the diversity within breeds of horses. In addition these results will facilitate future genome-wide association studies and investigations into genomic targets of selection. © 2013 Petersen et al.

Las exigencias educativas de la sociedad actual y el derecho a la educación en América Latina = Educational needs in a modern society and the right to education in Latin America

Incluye Bibliografía

Manifestações do herói trágico em O tempo e o vento

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Nas páginas da imprensa: a instrução/educação nos jornais em Mato Grosso (1880-1910)

Pós-graduação em Educação Escolar - FCLAR

Euclid and his modern rivals (1879), Lewis Carrol: tradução e crítica

Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC

O papel das interações professor-aluno na construção da solução lógico-aritmética otimizada de um jogo com regras

Na presente dissertação relato minhas inquietações profissionais intrinsecamente ligadas ao desconforto que eu percebia estar produzindo em meus alunos, a partir de uma prática docente, que, em muitos aspectos, necessitava de reformulações e adequações aos novos tempos. Era uma prática docente fundada nos pressupostos da ciência moderna, que pretendia descrever a realidade por leis deterministas, exatas, hierarquizadas e compartimentalizadas. Buscando transformar minha prática, (re)construí, na interação com meus pares, a proposta de um laboratório de Educação Matemática. As atividades desse laboratório deviam proporcionar uma fértil ambiência de interações verbais, despertando uma participação ativa dos alunos na construção de conhecimento. Com a certeza de que precisava ampliar a reflexão sobre meu trabalho docente, (re)construí uma nova visão pessoal de ciência, me apoiando nas idéias de alguns filósofos que se aproximam de um olhar transdisciplinar e do que tem sido chamado de ciência pós-moderna. Com esta nova concepção, procurei articular a Educação Matemática com os postulados da Psicologia Histórico-Cultural, a fim de me apropriar de ferramentas teórico-metodológicas para investigar minha prática docente. Na presente dissertação, relato uma análise microgenética de minha interação com dois alunos em uma atividade típica do laboratório de Educação Matemática: a aprendizagem da solução lógico-aritimética otimizada de um jogo com regras, o Nim. Filmei as 36 partidas que joguei com os alunos até que eles descobrissem a estratégia otimizada do jogo e depois as transcrevi, integralmente. A análise mostrou três momentos da construção da estratégia otimizada: a formulação e (re)formulação de hipóteses; a seleção, aplicação e teste de hipóteses e a transferência do raciocínio construído para a formulação de novas hipóteses. Observei transições genéticas em todos os momentos e mudanças nos padrões interativos que ora refletiam uma abordagem comunicativa predominantemente dialógica (no primeiro e terceiro momento), ora de autoridade (no segundo momento). Percebi como os alunos, interagindo comigo, desenvolveram a capacidade de regular suas próprias ações para resolver o problema que os desafiavam.

The modern math movement(s): an essay on how elementary school teachers in Brazil gave meaning to it

The main goal of this paper is to discuss the production of meaning of the Modern Math Movement. The main sources were data available in school archives and interviews with former teachers that we use in order to focus on the diversity of perspectives -that complement it or oppose it-, which comes up when teachers refer to the Movement. Using this process of signification, teachers whether accept it, invalidate it or adapt it to guidelines imposed to them in their teaching activities. We establish a methodology by following the premises of Oral History to gather oral testimonies. The theoretical foundations in which this article is written are the guidelines of Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics, John Thompson's Depth Hermeneutics and Bolivar's narrative analysis.

Filosofia da história no direito natural do brasil império

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS

Road wanderers in Brazil: a study on modern psychosocial human mobility

Human mobility patterns are quite diverse nowadays and a very singular, extreme pattern is seen in the Brazilian scene: road wandering. Road wanderers are individuals who leave their home, family, work and other territories of a settled life and throw themselves into a life of solitary wandering along Brazilian highways. This study aimed to describe the lifestyle of road wanderers, investigate the reasons that led them choose this way of living and understand it against a background of modern human mobility patterns. A total of 63 interviews were conducted with individuals wandering on road shoulders. We found road wandering is associated with the following determinants: poverty; unemployment; marital conflicts; emotional suffering following the loss of loved ones; desires for adventure and freedom; and cultural symbols related to journey, migration, exodus and other modes of displacement. Despite its particularities, road wandering can be understood as a way of human mobility in the modern world.

Development of lamellar gel phase emulsion containing marigold oil (Calendula officinalis) as a potential modern wound dressing

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)