Cyber Crime

Talk given by Gary Kibby from SOCA at the Web Science Industry Week in Dec 2012. Readings and task taken from previous years.

Problemas y consecuencias del resurgir del pragmatismo norteamericano: 1952-1976

Revisión crítica de la ‘versión heredada’ sobre el resurgir del pragmatismo norteamericano. Aquí sostengo que ésta es una narrativa sobre la historia de la filosofía que puede ser usada para “reivindicar” la continuidad o para “añorar” la pérdida de esa tradición. Presento tres argumentos a favor de mi tesis sobre la versión heredada: i) es insuficiente para explicar el surgimiento del pragmatismo; ii) es un tipo de narrativa que hace plausible una imagen de la filosofía; iii) impide apreciar que la formación del canon obedece a los propósitos de los seguidores del movimiento.

Universidad y sociedad. Extensión universitaria, conocimiento y redes sociales

A pesar de las múltiples inflexiones que en los últimos siglos se han dado en el mundo (Kuhn, 1962), aún se mantiene el empeño de entenderlo a través de un pensamiento limitado que debe conducir a una reflexión acerca de cómo se entiende y cómo evoluciona la vida. La transformación y el cambio de paradigmas de los últimos años no son más que una manifestación de la evolución del pensamiento humano y de las visiones de la realidad (Fritjof, 2004). La extensión del conocimiento es una respuesta a la inquietud social respecto a la necesidad sentida de un cambio en los modos de actuar y en las estructuras del pensamiento (innovación social), en la que se desarrolle un proceso de trasformación de las instituciones y la aplicación de los valores, para reorientar el curso del desarrollo humano, es decir, el curso de la realidad, para lo cual es necesaria una nueva visión de la vida.

Poder, sexualidad y ética: el uso de Foucault en la obra de Judith Butler

El siguiente texto rastrea el uso del pensamiento de Foucault en las principales obras de Judith Butler. En ese sentido, no se abarca una exposición sistemática y exhaustiva de la obra de Butler o de las lecturas y críticas feministas que se han realizado del análisis foucaultiano. Este escrito es una indagación de la matriz foucaultiana en Butler, cuestionándose ¿qué impacto genera la obra de Foucault en el pensamiento de Butler? ¿Continúa Butler el “proyecto” foucaultiano? ¿En qué aspectos se asocian y en cuáles se distancian ambos autores? Sin duda, Judith Butler a lo largo de sus textos retoma y reelabora, comparte y se distancia del pensamiento foucaultiano. En no pocas ocasiones sus textos se dedican a entablar un diálogo, incluso, existen puntos de encuentro entre los temas profundos que estudian ambos como lo son la cuestión del poder, la sexualidad y, en la última etapa de los dos, un giro ético.

Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco: la literatura es una dificultad adquirida (Testimonios)

En esta entrevista, realizada en 1987, el autor dialoga con Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco sobre sus concepciones respecto de la literatura y la Historia. Menciona detalles de su vocación literaria, de sus lecturas iniciales y de las que, posteriormente, lo marcaron más. Pareja describe su rutina diaria como escritor, la cual se relaciona con su idea de lo que es la literatura: «una dificultad adquirida», alude al rol de los esquemas en la construcción de sus novelas, y al de la crítica de sus amigos del Grupo de Guayaquil en este proceso, durante la década del 30. Respecto de ellos, recalca que éste era esencialmente un grupo de amigos, más que un conjunto de escritores que se juntaban para trabajar en sus textos. Finalmente habla de su admiración por el historiador Arnold Toynbee, y concluye la entrevista mencionando que, para él, «la Historia siempre se hace en el subterráneo de la vida, es decir la está haciendo la vida cotidiana».

An evaluation of the UK Food Standards Agency's salt campaign

Excessive salt intake is linked to cardiovascular disease and several other health problems around the world. The UK Food Standards Agency initiated a campaign at the end of 2004 to reduce salt intake in the population. There is disagreement over whether the campaign was effective in curbing salt intake or not. We provide fresh evidence on the impact of the campaign, by using data on spot urinary sodium readings and socio-demographic variables from the Health Survey for England over 2003–2007 and combining it with food price information from the Expenditure and Food Survey. Aggregating the data into a pseudo-panel, we estimate fixed effects models to examine the trend in salt intake over the period and to deduce the heterogeneous effects of the policy on the intake of socio-demographic groups. Our results are consistent with a previous hypothesis that the campaign reduced salt intakes by approximately 10%. The impact is shown to be stronger among women than among men. Older cohorts of men show a larger response to the salt campaign compared to younger cohorts, while among women, younger cohorts respond more strongly than older cohorts.

Assessment of a 1 hour gridded precipitation dataset to drive a hydrological model: a case study of the summer 2007 floods in the Upper Severn, UK

In this study a gridded hourly 1-km precipitation dataset for a meso-scale catchment (4,062 km2) of the Upper Severn River, UK was constructed using rainfall radar data to disaggregate a daily precipitation (rain gauge) dataset. The dataset was compared to an hourly precipitation dataset created entirely from rainfall radar data. Results found that when assessed against gauge readings and as input to the Lisflood-RR hydrological model, the rain gauge/radar disaggregated dataset performed the best suggesting that this simple method of combining rainfall radar data with rain gauge readings can provide temporally detailed precipitation datasets for calibrating hydrological models.

Long term individual load forecast under different electrical vehicles uptake scenarios

More and more households are purchasing electric vehicles (EVs), and this will continue as we move towards a low carbon future. There are various projections as to the rate of EV uptake, but all predict an increase over the next ten years. Charging these EVs will produce one of the biggest loads on the low voltage network. To manage the network, we must not only take into account the number of EVs taken up, but where on the network they are charging, and at what time. To simulate the impact on the network from high, medium and low EV uptake (as outlined by the UK government), we present an agent-based model. We initialise the model to assign an EV to a household based on either random distribution or social influences - that is, a neighbour of an EV owner is more likely to also purchase an EV. Additionally, we examine the effect of peak behaviour on the network when charging is at day-time, night-time, or a mix of both. The model is implemented on a neighbourhood in south-east England using smart meter data (half hourly electricity readings) and real life charging patterns from an EV trial. Our results indicate that social influence can increase the peak demand on a local level (street or feeder), meaning that medium EV uptake can create higher peak demand than currently expected.

As dimensões da sustentabilidade nas relações de poder: O Comércio Justo no setor alimentício brasileiro

A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo descrever e explicar como as dimensões econômica, social e ambiental interferem nas relações de poder setor alimentício brasileiro certificado Comércio Justo. A tese defendida é de que as dimensões da sustentabilidade – econômica, social e ambiental – interferem nas relações de poder entre organizações, tendo abrangência de impacto distintas. A base teórica de análise das relações de poder envolveu a conjunção entre as teorias de dependência de recursos, racionalidade limitada, custos de transação e a relação entre justiça e poder. O estudo demonstra como ocorrem interferências das dimensões elencadas, sendo a análise realizada a partir de: 1. conflitos ao longo da inserção d o Comércio Justo no Brasil; 2. estruturação das redes e parcerias; 4. uso de discursos; 5. papel de tecnologias e recursos; 6. preço; 7. entendimentos sobre justiça. O estudo é de cunho qualitativo, assumindo o caráter descritivo e interpretativo. A coleta de dados foi realizada por intermédio de: 1. pesquisa bibliográfica; 2. investigação documental e na internet – notadamente com auxílio da ferramenta alertas do google; 3. entrevistas; 4. pesquisa de campo. A amostra foi composta por dezenove representantes de organizações, inseridas no contexto dos produtores de alimentos certificados. A coleta teve o corte longitudinal. Realizou- se a análise discursiva, do conteúdo das entrevistas. A análise de dados resultou de leituras e triangulações diversas entre objetivos da pesquisa, referencial teórico e resultados da pesquisa. Como resultado do estudo, concluiu-se que há parcialidade nas relações, sendo afetadas predominantemente por interferências da dimensão econômica. A dependência em recursos proporciona relações assimétricas. Tecnologias e conhecimentos, por intermédio da dimensão social, servem de instrumentos para: 1. minorar as diferenças entre os atores; 2. proporcionar um diferencial efetivo, que não apoiado exclusivamente na certificação. A configuração de organizações, parcerias e redes é passível de redução de assimetrias, quando compreendidas necessidades de pessoas, conhecimentos específicos e, portanto, da relevância da dimensão social. A variável ambiental é relevante, sobretudo em termos de recursos e processos produtivos. Porém, o impacto da dimensão ambiental gera interferências superiores, quando há: 1. a conscientização sobre sua relevância; 2. demandas sociais e de mercado por adaptações em processos. Logo, interferências do meio ambiente nas relações de poder são originárias, principalmente, daquelas de caráter social e econômico. Conclui-se, portanto, que há validade na tese da existência de distinção no impacto e interferências das dimensões da sustentabilidade, nas relações de poder entre organizações.

Poéticas de um saber brincar: a vez e a voz do fandango

The present thesis aims to get to know and to analyze the elements which make up the poetical performance of the Fandango from Canguaretama confirming/corroborating an eminently theatrical model. It still highlights the producers´ history, its asset production and its insertion in community where we had contact with two other types of performances: the daily and the ritualistic. Such actions both combine and present different meanings and objectives, promoting distinct readings and experiences. Looking at these three ways of performances poetic, daily, and ritual enabled to go deeper in cultural aspects of the studied community and, thus, check over what is going on in these events, how they accord with and conceive a popular performance context. The research could substantiate the existence of a theatrical model whose performance by means of the voice and active presence of playful bodies, implied in getting to know the consolidation of a cultural patrimony which reveals us the past, but, especially, the present, its people and its place

Uma educação tecida no corpo

In theory say the education as a knot of meanings made in the body. We take as a reference for demonstration of this argument the shows Folguedos, Guarnicê and Flor do Lírio and built within such spectacles cultural, symbolic and aesthetic meanings, which reveal the education woven in the body. Education that can happen not only in the formal space like the classroom or the university, but also in the area of art and the inclusion of individuals in the world of culture. So during the construction of the thesis we reflect on the following issues: what is the construction of culture and art that have in the Parafolclórico group? What way theses shows in their buildings bring significant elements that might compose an educational activity. How objectives sought asking the dichotomies present in the concepts of art and culture; critically systematize a work of artistic, cultural and educational production in the group, in addition to expanding the understanding of education, considering the body experiences. The phenomenological attitude of Merleau-Ponty, is a reference methodology of this study, which places the reference knowledge as a result of our experience in the world, our world lived. Thus, this study considers the experience of the researcher in the three shows in tariff, represented by scenes described, as a dancer and spectator. Therefore we understand that Folguedos, Guarnicê and Flor do Lírio in their artistic, aesthetic and cultural languages, allow many meanings that occur in the body, which invites the perception and extend the experience of the subject, demonstrating an education that allows sight and knowledge, seeking new sensations and experiences, we show our intimacy with the world, with the objects and with the other. The art is understood as virtuality, as a human creation that carries the reality and that allows many readings and experiences, each perception can recognize and know new horizons, having as base and material the culture. This entails the heterogeneous, is not closed but that individuals can interpret it entered and recognize the symbols they created the same way, confirming a unit. The art and culture show us significant evidences of an education woven in the body

Em nome da república: escolas e tradições modernas

Our research aims to analyze some institutions of primary education in so-called First Republic in Natal/RN, when they were considered high standard institutions on training, dissemination and creation of national identity and republican traditions. Thus, we investigated to try to understand the creation of the new man and the invention of new traditions to confirm the status of republican modernity in two schools in Natal, the Colegio Americano, a private one, and a standard model of school, Augusto Severo, which is a public one. As a basis we have the history of institutions to analyze, paying close attention to consider the use of imitation in cultural patrimony as well as the use of strategies to distinguish. The concept of ownership follows, for present purposes, their focus of study on observation of diverse and contrasting use of these cultural objects, texts, readings and ideas from research institutions. For analysis of the link which occurs within the school environment, in every period of its history, we used the concept of school culture as a set of rules and practices which define knowledge to teach and conduct the introject. A culture that incorporates the school to keep a set with other religious cultures, political and popular of its time and space. In this sense, the educational institutions which we studied while showing what kind of in this work by preparing cultures, codes, different practices, and specific individuals they have, they were in important locations to provide modern cultural appropriation as a strategy for educational innovation and a factor of rationality and efficiency which could be observed and controlled, so gradually the modern school education was organized to produce its own society. As a challenge of affirmation and incorporating diverse social experiences to produce the modern, civilized man of the Republican time, the school, as part of the social life, which is singular in its practices, not only the set of reforms, decrees, laws and projects, but also as expressions of concept about life and society in terms of material, symbolic and cultural symbols in the social context in modernization. We focused on these two schools, because inside the wide cultural and material status of the city, they were the first republic schools which had the goal of having men and woman together culturally , with a view to adapting them to the modern movement to make them civilized / educated / rational . On this view, we would emphasize that this statement needs a reinvention as a new way through what is made at the schools which production of new spaces, practices, rites and what represents school, making and expressing a new identity, modern, different of the old symbols of the Empire. For this, nothing better than the organization of schooling, emphasizing on educating the individual and his/her responsibilities with the order and progress. We need to understand the past as a result of conflicts, including strengths and limitations within the historical and social context, and the invention of tradition as a process of formalization and ritualization of acts which want to perpetuate, as a reference to a group identity. These are practices and social educative representations which support the understanding of pedagogical and educational ideas at this historical moment, making a new way of being and doing in the Republican universe

Corpo e aprendizagem em Boris Cyrulnik e em Merleau-Ponty

This research seeks to identify views of the body and learning the authors Boris Cyrulnik and Merleau - Ponty, thus tracing reflective for the educational field in several areas, with emphasis on physical education paths . We notice that the above authors present a wide collection of books, needing to develop this theoretical construct a limitation in their works. Therefore , on the theme of the body , were used mainly books The Sixth Sense , Boris Cyrulnik and Phenomenology of Perception , Merleau- Ponty , as both present in their organizational context a specific chapter on this subject . The phenomenological approach is included as path to be taken to devise this study because it is based on daily reflections that the human being perceives through his experiences with his peers and mainstream culture. The phenomenological reduction was carried out from the readings and interpretations of texts, writers and commentators, as well as approaching with life aspects of experience as a police officer and professor of ethics. The interpretation points to the understanding of body and learning that can be propagated within the Physical Education and as a way to understand and learn the constructs lived through sensitivity. The design of the body, feelings and affections of Boris Cyrulnik firm the empathetic bonds between human beings, bringing confidence to explore the world, learning through the new link with the other. This notion is close to the notion of expressive body Merleau Ponty, who holds intentions in their gestures (movements), entwining in time and space. Boris Cyrulnik and Merleau-Ponty expressed as the human being is enigmatic, lying embedded in a social and cultural world, so the experiences to traçarem existential trajetória and learning need in order to enaltercer freedom of expression as a mechanism that can be deployed in the appropriation of concepts and the criticality of the subject facing widespread theories (biological, social, anthropological , etc.) . From the reflections of the research is that recomneda Physical Education , as epistemological working area apprenticeships stemmed body movements should enable reflection on their practice, other do be done, but enabling the creation of different senses and meanings each body attitude

Correlação entre leituras de clorofila e níveis de nitrogênio aplicados em feijoeiro

Foram realizados dois ensaios, sendo um em solução nutritiva e outro em solo, utilizando seis níveis de nitrogênio (28, 56, 84, 112, 140 e 168 mg/L de N) a fim de ajustar as leituras diretas, feitas nas folhas de feijoeiro, com um clorofilômetro (Minolta SPAD-501), aos níveis crescentes de nitrogênio e ao seu teor nas folhas. Avaliaram-se os parâmetros: área foliar; massas dos materiais verde e seco; teor de clorofila; produção de grãos e teores de N, Ca, Mg e S. Todos esses dados, mais as leituras do aparelho, foram correlacionados entre si e com os níveis de N aplicados. As correlações positivas entre as leituras e os níveis de N fornecidos (R = 0,86) e entre as leituras e os teores de N nas folhas (R = 0,75) indicam que há perspectivas favoráveis quanto ao uso desse equipamento para detectar deficiências de nitrogênio em feijoeiro.

Medida indireta da clorofila e sua relação com o manejo da adubação nitrogenada em plantas cítricas fertirrigadas

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