Trapped in white space : the allegations and denials of organ trafficking

Allegations of body parts trafficking implicating the West have been surfacing persistently in the media of many non Western countries for almost 20 years. Western media has responded to the allegations with denials and denunciations. This thesis considers the competing accounts and places them in a framework for analysis.

Análise teórico-metodológica das monografias do curso de turismo da UFMA que abordam o assunto da gestão de negócios turísticos no período de 2001 a 2005.

Este trabalho tem por finalidade analisar as características teóricas e metodológicas das monografias defendidas no curso de turismo da Universidade Federal do Maranhão – UFMA, que tratam de assuntos voltados para a temática em Gestão de Negócios turísticos no período de 2001/2005. Trabalham-se as principais definições e conceitos relacionados à pesquisa, mostrando ser a pesquisa um ato não isolado, processual e sistematizado. Apresenta a importância e as funções da pesquisa afirmando que a mesma vem conquistando um certo espaço na vida acadêmica por melhorar as práticas educativas bem como contribuindo para melhoria de vida dos cidadãos, quando unida à tecnologia, além de apresentar a importância dos métodos de investigação nos vários níveis e fases. Aborda sobre a pesquisa nas diversas concepções na universidade de forma contextualizada. Aborda sobre a função social da pesquisa estimulando a divulgação científica, vinculando esta responsabilidade como débito social do pesquisador para com a comunidade científica. A pesquisa configura-se como um método descritivo - exploratório analisado segundo três matrizes: paradigmática, tipológica e o mapa conceitual que serviram como critério orientador, onde as monografias foram metodicamente analisadas em sua estrutura no nível teórico, apresentando as principais temáticas trabalhadas, as críticas e as propostas, bem como os autores mais citados e os tipos de documento mais pesquisados. No nível técnico são analisados a característica das pesquisas, as técnicas, instrumentos e procedimentos utilizados na coleta e analise dos dados. No nível epistemológico foram observados os critérios de validação, as concepções de causalidade e de ciência, e os pressupostos lógico – gnosiológicos. Os dados obtidos, analisados a luz do referencial teórico apontam para necessidade de um maior rigor científico e espírito crítico por parte dos pesquisadores.

Estrutura econômica, mercado de trabalho e evolução sócio-ocupacional no Rio Grande do Norte 2001 a 2008: reflexo de uma condição mercantil e estruturalmente periférica

The aim of this thesis was to investigate the evolution of the socio-occupational status in Rio Grande do Norte from 2001 to 2008, based on the characterization of the socio-economic status of this State from the analysis of labor market norte-rio-grandense . The study, specifically, drew a comparison between the dynamics of the labor market in Rio Grande do Norte and the capital city, Natal. From this perspective, the purpose was to make a relationship between the social division of labor and its effects on the socio-spatial division, represented in the "macro scale" by the federal unit and the "micro level" for the capital; locus of economic and population concentration. The collection of data on the labor market had as a major source PNAD/IBGE, characterizing the labor market in many ways: people of working age, economically active population and employed and unemployed people, classified by age, sex, color, education, income and social protection condition. However, as for the socio-occupational division, we follow the methodology used by the research group on national television, based in IPPUR /UFRJ, called Monitoring of the Metropolis," which rallied twenty-four groups that aggregate the occupations found in the PNAD/IBGE, in eight groups of socio-occupational categories, according to the similarity between them. It was used in the socio-spatial cutting two relevant discussions, which are inter-related and were characterized as crucial points in developing the research problem: the former was related to the influence of the hegemony of merchant capital in the labor market in Rio Grande North and, the latter, it referred the socio-economic relations between the territory and the variable occupation. Lastly, the results all indicated that in Rio Grande do Norte, as a peripheral state, has suffered the devastating influence of the hegemony of capital purely commercial basis, where "wealth" of capitalism is generated through the sphere of mere movement of goods and services rather than a productive process due to the social relations of production more advanced. We have a little advanced economic structure, with a tertiary sector that has propagated under-employment or disguised unemployment. Similarly, the agricultural sector has been presented as an example of greater social degradation of working conditions in the state. The secondary sector, in turn, also was not behind this uncertainty; on the contrary, confirmed that condition, with poor levels of income, low education of the workforce and a high degree of social helplessness, even in the state capital, space full urban area, which although always appear with a favorable condition compared to Province, in practically most of the variables studied, was also reflected at the same time the author of a structurally underdeveloped condition

O Comitê pela anistia no Rio Grande do Norte e a Associação Norte-Rio-Grandense de Anistiados Políticos como espaços de história, memória e política(1979-2001)

This work is about a search that takes the Comitê pela Anistia no Rio Grande do Norte and the Associação Norte-Rio-Grandense de Anistiados Políticos as Political Spaces capable of expressing History, Memory and Politic. And has as main objective analyzing the amnesty process in the State from these Spaces of political struggle and of resistance, from the 1970s until the early 2000s. The discussion of amnesty and struggle for rights and remedies are still present today on the political agenda of the country, which demonstrates the importance and the incompleteness of the amnesty. Beyond the oral sources, which are essential for understanding periods of oppression, we also used written sources, such as digital and printed newspapers, laws, meeting minutes, pamphlets of political parties, magazines, theses, dissertations, among others. We made the crossing of oral sources with written guides us as Paul Thompson, highlighting the importance of Memory, especially of Collective Memory in line with the perception of Maurice Halbwachs. Work the concept of history approached by Jacques Le Goff and Politic from the perspective of Hannah Arendt. And consider the space from the approach taken by Doreen Massey

Compton scattering in noncommutative space-time at the Next Linear Collider

We study Compton scattering in the noncommutative (NC) counterpart of QED. Interactions in NC QED have momentum dependent phase factors and the gauge fields have Yang-Mills type couplings; this modifies the cross sections and they are different from the commuting standard model. Collider signals of noncommutative space-time are studied at the Next Linear Collider (NLC) operating in the e gamma mode. Results for different polarized cases are presented and it is shown that the Compton process can probe the noncommutative scale in the range of 1-2.5 TeV for typical proposed NLC energies.

Stability regions around the components of the triple system 2001 SN263

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Combined characterisation of GOME and TOMS total ozone measurements from space using ground-based observations from the NDSC

Several years of total ozone measured from space by the ERS-2 GOME, the Earth Probe TOMS, and the ADEOS TOMS, are compared with high-quality ground-based observations associated with the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC), over an extended latitude range and a variety of geophysical conditions. The comparisons with each spaceborne sensor are combined altogether for investigating their respective solar zenith angle (SZA) dependence, dispersion, and difference of sensitivity. The space- and ground-based data are found to agree within a few percent on average. However, the analysis highlights for both GOME and TOMS several sources of discrepancies: (i) a SZA dependence with TOMS beyond 80° SZA; (ii) a seasonal SZA dependence with GOME beyond 70° SZA; (iii) a difference of sensitivity with GOME at high latitudes; (iv) a difference of sensitivity to low ozone values between satellite and SAOZ sensors around the southern tropics; (v) a north/south difference of TOMS with the ground-based observations; and (vi) internal inconsistencies in GOME total ozone. © 2001 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Metodologias para estimativa da dimensão fractal do crescimento de aglomerados urbanos: uma contribuição ao estudo da expansão urbana da região metropolitana de São Paulo entre 1905 e 2001

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo da espacialização das prevalências de desnutrição e excesso de peso em pré-escolares de Araraquara/SP, em 2001 e 2004

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Stable retrograde orbits around the triple system 2001 SN263

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A violência em espaço escolar: o que dizem pesquisas brasileiras (2001-2010)

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