Programa de pesquisa em produtos naturais: a experiência da CEME

The Brazilian effort on R&D of products from the national biodiversity dates back to the 70's. The Central de Medicamentos - CEME - was tailored to add scientific and technological competence to the production of pharmaceutical drugs derived from the Brazilian biodiversity by means of the Research Programme on Medicinal Plants - PPPM. Although previous to the Convention on Biological Diversity - CBD - and to the current debate and the ever-growing interest on phytomedicines, CEME has historical importance in the present governmental efforts on fostering the R&D on phytomedicines. This article makes a historical redemption of the PPPM, the actions and the results in the course of its existence.

Operational Modal Analysis: the CEME Skywalk at UBC, Vancouver

Slender and lighter footbridges are becoming more and more popular to meet the transportation demand and the aesthetical requirements of the modern society. The widespread presence of such particular structures has become possible thanks to the availability of new, lightweight and still capable of carrying heavy loads material . Therefore, these kind of structure, are particularly sensitive to vibration serviceability problems, especially induced by human activities. As a consequence, it has been imperative to study the dynamic behaviour of such slender pedestrian bridges in order to define their modal characteristics. As an alternative to a Finite Element Analysis to find natural frequencies, damping and mode shape, a so-called Operational Modal Analysis is a valid tool to obtain these parameters through an ambient vibration test. This work provides a useful insight into the Operational Modal Analysis technique and It reports the investigation of the CEME Skywalk, a pedestrian bridge located at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. Furthermore, human-induced vibration tests have been performed and the dynamic characteristics derived with these tests have been compared with the ones from the ambient vibration tests. The effect of the dynamic properties of the two buildings supporting the CEME Skywalk on the dynamic behaviour of the bridge has been also investigated.

Análisis del accionar del ELN y las FARC-EP contra la industria petrolera y su incidencia en el régimen de regalías y el desarrollo social en el departamento de Arauca, 1998-2006

El desarrollo social de un departamento está determinado por factores tanto internos como externos. Sin embargo, la existencia de recursos no renovables con gran valor, en algunos casos representan el núcleo de grandes problemas sociales en estos departamentos.

Produção descentralizada de medicamentos essenciais no Instituto de Tecnologia em Farmacos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: um diagnostico estrategico de sua implementação

Nesta dissertação procura-se discutir a política de descentralização da assistência fanna-.;êutica no que diz respeito à produção e a distribuição de medicamentos. Para tanto, efetuou-se um estudo de caso em Far-Manguinhos / FIOCRUZ analisando sua estrutura organizacional e administrativa, assim como as estratégias utilizadas para implementar o processo de descentralização preconizado pelo SUS. Usou-se como referencial teórico artigos clásicos que contextualizam a realidade do setor farmacêutico nacional e mundial. O estudo se desdobra através da evolução política do setor da saúde no Brasil, com ênfase na política de medicamentos adotada a partir da criação da Central de Medicamentos - CEME, até a atualidade. Ao final são feitas algumas sugestões que poderão nortear outras discussões sobre assistência farmacêutica no Brasil.

O Acesso aos medicamentos essenciais no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde

Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão sobre as ações implementadas pelo Ministério da Saúde no âmbito da política de acesso aos medicamentos essenciais no SUS no período compreendido entre 1998 e 2004, buscando apresentar um panorama da gestão federal, considerando os fatos e os documentos produzidos durante esse período. A reflexão parte, portanto, da desativação da Central de Medicamentos-CEME e percorre todo o processo de descentralização da Assistência Farmacêutica Básica até 2004, buscando identificar as políticas adotadas com o objetivo de se ampliar o acesso aos medicamentos essenciais à população. Destaca os principais aspectos relacionados ao processo de implementação da Política Nacional de Medicamentos, aprovada em 1998, que serviu de uma espécie de roteiro para a reflexão proposta. Dentro do contexto da Política Nacional de Medicamentos, foram abordados aspectos fundamentais do processo de descentralização da Assistência Farmacêutica Básica buscando identificar os fatores necessários para o desenvolvimento de uma política pública integrada e voltada para a melhoria do acesso da população aos medicamentos essenciais. A pesquisa foi realizada com base em farto material bibliográfico, legislação específica da área de medicamentos e documentos que abordam direta e indiretamente o tema em estudo. Considera o processo de gestão da assistência farmacêutica no setor público e apresenta algumas preocupações importantes quanto às políticas formuladas e implementadas nesse campo. Tem como propósito estimular a discussão sobre até que ponto os gestores e formuladores dessas políticas podem mudar o cenário do acesso aos medicamentos essenciais no âmbito do Sistema Único de Saúde nos próximos anos.

Barshalder 2 : Studies of late Iron Age Gotland

The prehistoric cemetery of Barshalder is located along the main road on the boundary between Grötlingbo and Fide parishes, near the southern end of the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The ceme-tery was used from c. AD 1-1100. The level of publication in Swedish archaeology of the first millennium AD is low compared to, for instance, the British and German examples. Gotland’s rich Iron Age cemeteries have long been intensively excavated, but few have received monographic treatment. This publication is intended to begin filling this gap and to raise the empirical level of the field. It also aims to make explicit and test the often somewhat intuitively conceived re-sults of much previous research. The analyses deal mainly with the Migration (AD 375–540), Vendel (AD 520–790) and Late Viking (AD 1000–1150) Periods. The following lines of inquiry have been prioritised. 1. Landscape history, i.e. placing the cemetery in a landscape-historical context. (Vol. 1, section 2.2.6) 2. Migration Period typochronology, i.e. the study of change in the grave goods. (Vol. 2, chapter 2) 3. Social roles: gender, age and status. (Vol. 2, chapter 3) 4. Religious identity in the 11th century, i.e. the study of religious indicators in mortuary cus-toms and grave goods, with particular emphasis on the relationship between Scandinavian paganism and Christianity. (Vol. 2, chapter 4) Barshalder is found to have functioned as a central cemetery for the surrounding area, located on pe-ripheral land far away from contemporary settle-ment, yet placed on a main road along the coast for maximum visibility and possibly near a harbour. Computer supported correspondence analysis and seriation are used to study the gender attributes among the grave goods and the chronology of the burials. New methodology is developed to distin-guish gender-neutral attributes from transgressed gender attributes. Sub-gender grouping due to age and status is explored. An independent modern chronology system with rigorous type definitions is established for the Migration Period of Gotland. Recently published chronology systems for the Vendel and Viking Periods are critically reviewed, tested and modified to produce more solid models. Social stratification is studied through burial wealth with a quantitative method, and the results are tested through juxtaposition with several other data types. The Late Viking Period graves of the late 10th and 11th centuries are studied in relation to the contemporary Christian graves at the churchyards. They are found to be symbolically soft-spoken and unobtrusive, with all pagan attributes kept apart from the body in a space between the feet of the deceased and the end of the over-long inhumation trench. A small number of pagan reactionary graves with more forceful symbolism are however also identified. The distribution of different 11th cen-tury cemetery types across the island is used to in-terpret the period’s confessional geography, the scale of social organisation and the degree of alle-giance to western and eastern Christianity. 11th century society on Gotland is found to have been characterised by religious tolerance, by an absence of central organisation and by slow piecemeal Christianisation.