Interações nas danças circulares do Mana-Maní em Belém do Pará

Esta pesquisa prioriza abordagens que estudam a comunicação enquanto interação entre pessoas. O objetivo geral foi identificar, compreender e interpretar as interações que ocorrem nas danças circulares do Mana-Maní em Belém do Pará. Especificamente buscou-se identificar a dimensão comunicativa das ações individuais e coletivas que ocorrem na dança circular e verificar de que maneira a dimensão comunicativa das interações favorecem as interações simbólicas na dança circular, além de descrever as interações comunicativas que ocorrem nas danças circulares do Mana- Maní. O aporte teórico fundamentalmente discutiu dispositivos interacionais em José Luiz Braga; Espírito Comum e Sociedade Midiatizada em Raquel Paiva e Muniz Sodré e Comunidade Emotiva e Percepção do Mundo Sensível em Michel Mafessoli. Desse modo fez-se um tencionamento entre teorias e pesquisa empírica, sobre as observações em um contexto compreendido a partir de interpretações do pesquisador. Ao nível da abordagem metodológica, utilizou-se um enfoque prevalentemente qualitativo (interpretativo), que se pautou na abordagem fenomenológicopragmática, buscando revelar características intrínsecas, ações e reações que ora promovem, ora decorrem das interações observadas no contexto do grupo. Trabalhou-se com pesquisa bibliográfica e de campo, com a observação participante, diário de campo, entrevistas em profundidade e não estruturadas, aplicação de formulário semi-estruturado e coleta de depoimentos de participantes e ex participantes. Quanto às implicações práticas, buscou-se compreender formas de comunicação ocorridas partir de uma vivência sociocultural, dentro de um contexto especificamente observado, reconhecendo influências externas e internas que propiciam interações comunicativas. Quanto aos resultados, compreendeu-se que as interações ocorrem nas danças circulares do Mana-Maní a partir da inter-relação entre cinco elementos: 1) o eu, parte fundamental e insubstituível, que agrega motivações pessoais para vivenciar as danças circulares; 2) o outro – matéria-prima para as diversas interações, sempre de forma assimétrica, conforme o cabedal de conhecimento de cada um. Sem o outro, não há interação; 3) a ritualística das danças circulares no Mana-Maní, inspirada nas matrizes culturais da Amazônia, que com sua filosofia estimula e permite um espírito mais meditativo e interativo entre os participantes; 4) o cotidiano, por conta do reencantamento, a partir do prazer de participar e de ter inspirações para enfrentar dificuldades, desafios, limites físicos, psíquicos e comunicativos do comportamento pessoal; 5) a intersubjetividade, que ocorre de forma relevante e intensa, partir das dimensões simbólica e intersubjetiva, onde cada participante projeta seu mundo, sua subjetividade e entra em contato com a subjetividade dos demais, criando e ressignificando interações.

Temperatura, embalagem e radiação gama na conservação pós-colheita de maná cubiu

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Avaliação enzimática na pós-colheita do maná cubiu tratados com radiação gama

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of gamma radiation on fruit quality and conservation of mana cubiu through its enzymatic characteristics, with 20 days of storage and 5 taken every 4 days. The fruits selected were subjected to different doses of gamma radiation Co60 (0.0; 0.2; 0.4; 0.6 and 0.8 kGy) packaged in trays of expanded polyethylene then covered with stretchable PVC film associated with refrigerated stored at 10 ± 3°C e 85 ± 5% de UR and evaluated in six periods (0, 4, 8, 12, 16 e 20 days). The variables evaluated were: enzymatic activity of pectin (PME), polygalacturonase (PG), polyphenoloxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD). For PG there was no interaction between dose and storage on the day 16 the highest value to 640.10 UE min-1 g-1 and 0.8 kGy dose showed the lowest with 376.37 10 UE min-1 g-1. PME now get in 16 days and 0.8 kGy dose the highest values of the experiment, to 290.74 UE min-1 g-1. In POF, the day 16 presented the value of 0.26 min-1 g-1 of dry mass-1. In 20 days the fruits of all treatments provided the highest values of POD during the experiment. The results showed that different doses of gamma radiation does not interfere with the activity of the enzymes determined in this experiment.

Publichnyi︠a︡ lekt︠s︡īi o. professorov Geĭmana, Rulʹe, Solovʹeva, Granovskago i Shevyreva : chitany v 1851 godu v Imperatorskom Moskovskom universiteti︠e︡.

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An Improved Synthetic Route to the Potent Angiogenesis Inhibitor Benzyl Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→2)-Man Hexadecasulfate

An improved synthetic route to α(1→3)/α(1→2)-linked mannooligosaccharides has been developed and applied to a more efficient preparation of the potent anti-angiogenic sulfated pentasaccharide, benzyl Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→3)-Manα(1→2)-Man hexadecasulfate, using only two monosaccharide building blocks. Of particular note are improvements in the preparation of both building blocks and a simpler, final deprotection strategy. The route also provides common intermediates for the introduction of aglycones other than benzyl, either at the building block stage or after oligosaccharide assembly. The anti-angiogenic activity of the synthesized target compound was confirmed via the rat aortic assay.

Is the Marlboro man the only alternative? The role of gender identity and self-construal salience in evaluations of male models

This research examines how men react to male models in print advertisements. In two experiments, we show that the gender identity of men influences their responses to advertisements featuring a masculine, feminine, or androgynous male model. In addition, we explore the extent to which men feel they will be classified by others as similar to the model as a mechanism for these effects. Specifically, masculine men respond most favorably to masculine models and are negative toward feminine models. In contrast, feminine men prefer feminine models when their private self is salient. Yet in a collective context, they prefer masculine models.These experiments shed light on how gender identity and self-construal influence male evaluations and illustrate the social pressure on men to endorse traditional masculine portrayals. We also present implications for advertising practice.

When He is a She is a He : the pregnant man and the transgendered mother

The recent successful pregnancy of Thomas Beatie, a transgender FTM, billed by the various media as ‘the pregnant man’, has stirred up considerably diverse public opinion and debate, some supportive and indicative of changing and progressive ideas around sex, gender and sexuality; others condemnatory in their claims that Beatie’s pregnancy is an affront to the laws of Nature and/or God. Desired or derided, the pregnant male body contests the terrain of reproductive embodiment and the orthodoxy of Western systems of gender categorization. This chapter analyses a selection of media and internet responses to the case of the pregnant man, arguing that most disturbing of all it seems, is the body in-between (Kristeva 1982, p.4), the one that visibly defies socially obdurate gender oppositions of male and female, feminine and masculine in its insistence on being, to borrow from Homi Bhabha, a ‘third space of enunciation.’ Banana Yoshimoto’s novella Kitchen, also contests gender boundaries in its characterisation of Eriko, a transgendered male to female, a father, then a mother. In this narrative the in-between, the ambiguous, is not reviled but rather celebrated as a ‘horizon of possibility’ (Halperin, qtd in Jagose 1996 http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-Dec- 1996/jagose.html).

The white man's burden : patriarchal white epistemic violence and Aboriginal women's knowledges within the academy

In this article I reveal how texts produced by Aboriginal women scholars signify a racialised and gendered body that functions discursively, as an immediacy of racism in the form of white patriarchal epistemic violence (Lloyd 1991, 74). I demonstrate how this dominant racialised and gendered form of violence is an assertion of power that involves or arises from racialised knowledge by examining Dirk Moses' analysis of ‘Indigeneity’ via the Northern Territory Intervention (Spivak 1988).

Theraplay : staying in life's performance zone with play - Homo ludens: Man the player - Homo Cogito: Man the thinker

The paper introduces an update on a therapy originally developed by Jernberg (1979) for the American Head Start Programme for use with children and parents. Theraplay was based on John Bowlby's (1969) attachment theory and was started by Jernberg in Chicago. The present use of theraplay is for young adults to deal with negative mood and mood disorders resulting from stress, anxiety or depression. It is for the sad, lonely, sluggish, miserable or melancholic amongst us as well as the worried well.

Homo Pleonexus : Man of desire

This presentation gives a broad psychological background to the behaviour involved in internet scams both emotional and financial. These refer in particular to the situation in Nigeria, West Africa where Australian citizens have been caught up in advance fee fraud.

Experimental evaluation of the culture performance of three exotic and a ‘local’ Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii, De Man 1879) culture strain in Fiji

Giant freshwater prawn (GFP; Macrobrachium rosenbergii) aquaculture has expanded rapidly since 1990. Most local culture industries, however, have developed in an unsystematic way. Fiji has a small culture industry producing the ‘Anuenue’ strain; however, performance of this strain has never been systematically evaluated. Recently, some Fijian farmers have reported declines in stock productivity. The current project evaluated the relative performance of three exotic strains with different genetic backgrounds from Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, against the ‘local’ strain in Fiji in a 4 × 3 replicated pond trial experiment. A total of 5827 prawns were harvested after 143 days growout. Individual growth rate and relative survival of the Fiji strain were not statistically different from any of the introduced strains, but Vietnam strain was superior to that of the Malaysia strain. Genetic diversity showed significant differences in variability among strains, with the Malaysian strain displaying the lowest genetic diversity. Indonesia strain showed that females were reaching maturation earlier than other strains and were smaller in size. This study suggests that Malaysian and Indonesian strains would constitute a poor choice for Fiji, whereas the Vietnam strain consistently performed well on all criteria measured. High variation among replicate ponds within strains unfortunately confounded among-strain variation.