Região do devir e região do atraso: discurso e representações sobre a região de Presidente Prudente-SP

Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT

The effect of prior visual information on recognition of speech and sounds

To identify and categorize complex stimuli such as familiar objects or speech, the human brain integrates information that is abstracted at multiple levels from its sensory inputs. Using cross-modal priming for spoken words and sounds, this functional magnetic resonance imaging study identified 3 distinct classes of visuoauditory incongruency effects: visuoauditory incongruency effects were selective for 1) spoken words in the left superior temporal sulcus (STS), 2) environmental sounds in the left angular gyrus (AG), and 3) both words and sounds in the lateral and medial prefrontal cortices (IFS/mPFC). From a cognitive perspective, these incongruency effects suggest that prior visual information influences the neural processes underlying speech and sound recognition at multiple levels, with the STS being involved in phonological, AG in semantic, and mPFC/IFS in higher conceptual processing. In terms of neural mechanisms, effective connectivity analyses (dynamic causal modeling) suggest that these incongruency effects may emerge via greater bottom-up effects from early auditory regions to intermediate multisensory integration areas (i.e., STS and AG). This is consistent with a predictive coding perspective on hierarchical Bayesian inference in the cortex where the domain of the prediction error (phonological vs. semantic) determines its regional expression (middle temporal gyrus/STS vs. AG/intraparietal sulcus).

Porn, censorship, classification and free speech: Global paradoxes in the governance of media content

In this presentation, I reflect upon the global landscape surrounding the governance and classification of media content, at a time of rapid change in media platforms and services for content production and distribution, and contested cultural and social norms. I discuss the tensions and contradictions arising in the relationship between national, regional and global dimensions of media content distribution, as well as the changing relationships between state and non-state actors. These issues will be explored through consideration of issues such as: recent debates over film censorship; the review of the National Classification Scheme conducted by the Australian Law Reform Commission; online controversies such as the future of the Reddit social media site; and videos posted online by the militant group ISIS.

Estado desenvolvimentista e o Nordeste :o BNB na busca de um modelo de desenvolvimento regional

This research tried to follow up with the way of intervention that a developing State promotes it regional development, once its action departs from a quantitative conception until its acting focused in maintenance, like the strategy of local development input in the Northeastern of Brazil in the 90 s. particularly, the attention was focused onto Banco do Nordeste which, between 1995 and 2002, achieved a organization changing process to get fit itself to the new conception of development and State, that advocates the maintenance and the participation of the society in its accomplishment, becoming itself the main agent of the Federal Government in the Region. By taking over the strategy of local development, Banco do Nordeste starts, at least in speech, to be less of a bank to become more of a development agent , representing some development and hope to overcome the social and economical inequalities of the Region. The hypothesis that surrounds this essay is that this reorientation experienced at Banco do Nordeste is related to three factors: timing; the Institution of a project of international technical cooperation with PNUD; the unrest of an employees group, who used to fight for the acting increase of the Bank to beyond the credit acting; and, above all, the juncture created in Ceara from the second half of the 80 s, expressed, mainly, for the political rise of a group of businessmen, who took over and modernized the standards of public management in the State, transforming the cearense experience into reference in Brazil and the world. The research was developed from information got through the use of semi-structured interviews and documental research and, as complementary resource, field observation. The interviews were done with BNB managers between 1995 and 2003, some of them current administrators (2003-2006), plus one of CAPEF directors and the present president of AFBNB. The research revealed that strategic place taken by BNB in the period studied did not come to represent a rupture in its organizational culture, being strongly attached to factors that allows its operation. When some of these elements stopped existing, it was observed a retracing in the pattern of state intervention in the Region. This conclusion restates the vision of State that guided this thesis, identified as relationships field, of different interests; space where social conflicts are established; incarnated through the institutions

Estado, discursos en disputa y hegemonías latinoamericanas : Un recorrido a través de la bibliografía regional

En el siguiente artículo, desarrollaremos algunos debates actuales respecto al Estado y las significaciones que lo implican en los discursos académicos y políticos contemporáneos en Latinoamérica. A partir del surgimiento de diversos gobiernos críticos al paradigma neoliberal, nacidos al calor de fuertes procesos de acción colectiva disruptiva y subalterna y del retroceso de los paradigmas dominantes de ordenación social; en nuestro continente viene reemergiendo la discusión sobre el Estado. Aquí queremos rastrear el lugar que estos renovados discursos sobre lo estatal, ocupan en el proceso de reconstrucción hegemónica. Pero además queremos, aunque más no sea, animarnos a dejar abierta la pregunta por la medida en que estos imaginarios, plagados de interpelaciones populares y portadores a la vez de tantas expectativas y decepciones, permiten pensar respecto de los procesos de reconocimiento y lucha de los sectores subalternos de nuestros países.

Estado, discursos en disputa y hegemonías latinoamericanas : Un recorrido a través de la bibliografía regional

En el siguiente artículo, desarrollaremos algunos debates actuales respecto al Estado y las significaciones que lo implican en los discursos académicos y políticos contemporáneos en Latinoamérica. A partir del surgimiento de diversos gobiernos críticos al paradigma neoliberal, nacidos al calor de fuertes procesos de acción colectiva disruptiva y subalterna y del retroceso de los paradigmas dominantes de ordenación social; en nuestro continente viene reemergiendo la discusión sobre el Estado. Aquí queremos rastrear el lugar que estos renovados discursos sobre lo estatal, ocupan en el proceso de reconstrucción hegemónica. Pero además queremos, aunque más no sea, animarnos a dejar abierta la pregunta por la medida en que estos imaginarios, plagados de interpelaciones populares y portadores a la vez de tantas expectativas y decepciones, permiten pensar respecto de los procesos de reconocimiento y lucha de los sectores subalternos de nuestros países.

Estado, discursos en disputa y hegemonías latinoamericanas : Un recorrido a través de la bibliografía regional

En el siguiente artículo, desarrollaremos algunos debates actuales respecto al Estado y las significaciones que lo implican en los discursos académicos y políticos contemporáneos en Latinoamérica. A partir del surgimiento de diversos gobiernos críticos al paradigma neoliberal, nacidos al calor de fuertes procesos de acción colectiva disruptiva y subalterna y del retroceso de los paradigmas dominantes de ordenación social; en nuestro continente viene reemergiendo la discusión sobre el Estado. Aquí queremos rastrear el lugar que estos renovados discursos sobre lo estatal, ocupan en el proceso de reconstrucción hegemónica. Pero además queremos, aunque más no sea, animarnos a dejar abierta la pregunta por la medida en que estos imaginarios, plagados de interpelaciones populares y portadores a la vez de tantas expectativas y decepciones, permiten pensar respecto de los procesos de reconocimiento y lucha de los sectores subalternos de nuestros países.

Estado, discursos en disputa y hegemonías latinoamericanas : Un recorrido a través de la bibliografía regional

En el siguiente artículo, desarrollaremos algunos debates actuales respecto al Estado y las significaciones que lo implican en los discursos académicos y políticos contemporáneos en Latinoamérica. A partir del surgimiento de diversos gobiernos críticos al paradigma neoliberal, nacidos al calor de fuertes procesos de acción colectiva disruptiva y subalterna y del retroceso de los paradigmas dominantes de ordenación social; en nuestro continente viene reemergiendo la discusión sobre el Estado. Aquí queremos rastrear el lugar que estos renovados discursos sobre lo estatal, ocupan en el proceso de reconstrucción hegemónica. Pero además queremos, aunque más no sea, animarnos a dejar abierta la pregunta por la medida en que estos imaginarios, plagados de interpelaciones populares y portadores a la vez de tantas expectativas y decepciones, permiten pensar respecto de los procesos de reconocimiento y lucha de los sectores subalternos de nuestros países.

Regional morphology of the transversus abdominis and obliquus internus and externus abdominis muscles

Background. The mechanisms by which the abdominal muscles move and control the lumbosacral spine are not clearly understood. Descriptions of abdominal morphology are also conflicting and the regional anatomy of these muscles has not been comprehensively examined. The aim of this study was to investigate the morphology of regions of transversus abdominis and obliquus internus and externus abdominis. Methods. Anterior and posterolateral abdominal walls were dissected bilaterally in 26 embalmed human cadavers. The orientation, thickness and length of the upper, middle and lower fascicles of transversus abdominis and obliquus internus abdominis, and the upper and middle fascicles of obliquus externus abdominis were measured. Findings. Differences in fascicle orientation, thickness and length were documented between the abdominal muscles and between regions of each muscle. The fascicles of transversus abdominis were horizontal in the upper region, with increasing inferomedial orientation in the middle and lower regions. The upper and middle fascicles of obliquus internus abdominis were oriented superomedially and the lower fascicles inferomedially. The mean vertical dimension of transversus abdominis that attaches to the lumbar spine via the thoracolumbar fascia was 5.2 (SD 2.1) cm. Intramuscular septa were observed between regions of transversus abdominis, and obliquus internus abdominis could be separated into two distinct layers in the lower and middle regions. Interpretation. This study provides quantitative data of morphological differences between regions of the abdominal muscles, which suggest variation in function between muscle regions. Precise understanding of abdominal muscle anatomy is required for incorporation of these muscles into biomechanical models. Furthermore, regional variation in their morphology may reflect differences in function. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.