Astrobiology in Brazil: early history and perspectives

This review reports the Brazilian history in astrobiology, as well as the first delineation of a vision of the future development of the field in the country, exploring its abundant biodiversity, highly capable human resources and state-of-the-art facilities, reflecting the last few years of stable governmental investments in science, technology and education, all conditions providing good perspectives on continued and steadily growing funding for astrobiology-related research. Brazil is growing steadily and fast in terms of its worldwide economic power, an effect being reflected in different areas of the Brazilian society, including industry, technology, education, social care and scientific production. In the field of astrobiology, the country has had some important landmarks, more intensely after the First Brazilian Workshop on Astrobiology in 2006. The history of astrobiology in Brazil, however, is not so recent and had its first occurrence in 1958. Since then, researchers carried out many individual initiatives across the country in astrobiology-related fields, resulting in an ever growing and expressive scientific production. The number of publications, including articles and theses, has particularly increased in the last decade, but still counting with the effort of researchers working individually. That scenario started to change in 2009, when a formal group of Brazilian researchers working with astrobiology was organized, aiming at congregating the scientific community interested in the subject and to promote the necessary interactions to achieve a multidisciplinary work, receiving facilities and funding from the University de Sao Paulo and other funding agencies. Received 29 February 2012, accepted 17 May 2012, first published online 18 July 2012

Brazilian research on extremophiles in the context of astrobiology

Extremophiles are organisms adapted to grow at extreme ranges of environmental variables, such as high or low temperatures, acid or alkaline medium, high salt concentration, high pressures and so forth. Most extremophiles are micro-organisms that belong to the Archaea and Bacteria domains, and are widely spread across the world, which include the polar regions, volcanoes, deserts, deep oceanic sediments, hydrothermal vents, hypersaline lakes, acid and alkaline water bodies, and other extreme environments considered hostile to human life. Despite the tropical climate, Brazil has a wide range of ecosystems which include some permanent or seasonally extreme environments. For example, the Cerrado is a biome with very low soil pH with high Al+3 concentration, the mangroves in the Brazilian coast are anaerobic and saline, Pantanal has thousands of alkaline-saline lakes, the Caatinga arid and hot soils and the deep sea sediments in the Brazilian ocean shelf. These environments harbour extremophilic organisms that, coupled with the high natural biodiversity in Brazil, could be explored for different purposes. However, only a few projects in Brazil intended to study the extremophiles. In the frame of astrobiology, for example, these organisms could provide important models for defining the limits of life and hypothesize about life outside Earth. Brazilian microbiologists have, however, studied the extremophilic micro-organisms inhabiting non-Brazilian environments, such as the Antarctic continent. The experience and previous results obtained from the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR) provide important results that are directly related to astrobiology. This article is a brief synopsis of the Brazilian experience in researching extremophiles, indicating the most important results related to astrobiology and some future perspectives in this area. Received 29 February 2012, accepted 25 May 2012, first published online 11 July 2012

Endocrinologia pediátrica 2011

499

O setor privado sem fins lucrativos e as políticas públicas de esporte e lazer (2008-2011) = : The non-profitable private sector and the public policies for sport and leisure (2008-2011)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

A trag??dia da regi??o serrana do Rio de Janeiro em 2011: procurando respostas

O estudo de caso trata do desastre natural ocorrido na regi??o serrana do Rio de Janeiro nos dias 11 e 12 de janeiro de 2011, considerado a maior cat??strofe clim??tica e geot??cnica do pa??s, causado por fortes chuvas que provocaram enchentes e deslizamentos em sete munic??pios. O caso tem por finalidade despertar a discuss??o sobre as vari??veis e atores que influenciaram o processo de gest??o da crise, contextualizando o desastre no cen??rio da regi??o e reconstituindo, especialmente, o processo de resposta imediata dada ?? trag??dia pelos ??rg??os envolvidos. O estudo pode ser utilizado em cursos que abordem, entre outros, os seguintes t??picos: gest??o de crise e gest??o de riscos, negocia????o, comunica????o e planejamento estrat??gico

A????es premiadas no 16?? Concurso Inova????o na Gest??o P??blica Federal 2011

Este livro re??ne as dez iniciativas premiadas no 16?? Concurso Inova????o na Gest??o P??blica Federal. Nesta 16?? edi????o, o Concurso conta com os apoios da Embaixada da Fran??a, da Embaixada da Noruega, da Ag??ncia de Coopera????o Internacional Alem?? (GIZ) e da Ag??ncia Brasileira de Coopera????o (ABC), que premiam os primeiros colocados com visitas t??cnicas. A ENAP tamb??m premia os vencedores com vagas nos cursos de Especializa????o em Gest??o P??blica e Desenvolvimento Gerencial , publica????es da Escola, livro contendo os relatos das iniciativas, certificado, divulga????o no Banco de Solu????es do s??tio do Concurso, assinatura de um ano da Revista do Servi??o P??blico (RSP) e Selo Inova????o

Relat??rio de Gest??o 2011

Relat??rio de Gest??o do exerc??cio de 2011 apresentado aos ??rg??os de controle interno e externo como presta????o de contas anual a que esta Unidade est?? obrigada nos termos do art. 70 da Constitui????o Federal, elaborado de acordo com as disposi????es da IN TCU n?? 63/2010, da DN TCU n?? 108/2010, da Portaria TCU n?? 123/2011 e das orienta????es do ??rg??o de controle interno (Portaria CGU n?? 2546/2010)

Programa do curso de forma????o para os cargos de especialista em pol??ticas p??blicas e gest??o governamental: 16?? Edi????o - 2011

O Curso de Forma????o dos Especialistas em Pol??ticas P??blicas e Gest??o Governamental (EPPGGs) constitui a segunda etapa do Concurso P??blico para ingresso no cargo e tem como objetivo selecionar e preparar quadros de alta ger??ncia para o ingresso na Administra????o P??blica Federal

Portaria n?? 03, de 18 de janeiro de 2011: regulamento do Programa de Aperfei??oamento para Carreiras

O Programa de Aperfei??oamento par carreiras do ciclo de gest??o governamental ?? regulamentado por meio da Portaria n?? 3, de 18 de janeiro de 2011.

Resolu????o n?? 03, de 10 de maio de 2011: disciplina os procedimentos a serem adotados relativos ?? comercializa????o e utiliza????o do alojamento da ENAP

A Resolu????o n?? 3, de 10 de maio de 2011 disciplina os procedimentos relativos ?? utiliza????o do alojamento da ENAP.

Portaria n?? 81, de 11 de maio de 2011

A pol??tica de acesso ?? internet a ser observada pelos servidores, colaboradores, alunos e visitantes e usu??rios do servi??o de acesso ?? internet disponibilizado pela ENAP foi aprovada pela Portaria n?? 81, de 11 de maio de 2011.

Resolu????o n?? 05, de 7 de junho de 2011: estabelece crit??rios e procedimentos de avalia????o de desempenho individual e institucional da Gratifica????o de Desempenho do Plano Geral de Cargos do Poder Executivo ??? GDPGPE, no ??mbito da Escola Nacional de Administra????o P??blica ??? ENAP.

A Resolu????o n?? 6, de 07 de junho de 2011, estabelece crit??rios e procedimentos de avalia????o de desempenho individual e institucional da Gratifica????o de Desempenho do Plano Geral de Cargos do Poder Executivo ??? GDPGPE, no ??mbito da Escola Nacional de Administra????o P??blica ??? ENAP.

Resolu????o n?? 7, de 7 de junho de 2011: estabelece crit??rios e procedimentos de avalia????o de desempenho individual e institucional da Gratifica????o de Desempenho do Plano Geral de Cargos do Poder Executivo ??? GDPGPE, no ??mbito da Escola Nacional de Administra????o P??blica ??? ENAP

A Resolu????o n?? 7, de 7 de junho de 2011 disciplina a avalia????o de desempenho para Est??gio Probat??rio.

Resolu????o n?? 8, de 7 de junho de 2011: cria e disciplina a Comiss??o de Avalia????o de Servidores (CAS), no ??mbito das avalia????es de desempenho da ENAP

Estabelece crit??rios e procedimentos de avalia????o de desempenho individual e institucional da Gratifica????o de Desempenho do Plano Geral de Cargos do Poder Executivo ??? GDPGPE, no ??mbito da Escola Nacional de Administra????o P??blica ??? ENAP.