Das possibilidades do conhecimento histórico quando aproximado do ceticismo radical

Pretendemos examinar algumas controvérsias a partir da aceitação do relativismo pelos teóricosda história. Nessa direção, oferecemos alguns comentários acerca dos trabalhos de Alun Munslowe Peter Jenkins pretendendo demonstrar dificuldades no uso do relativismo por algunshistoriadores afinados com o posmodernismo a partir da aceitação de que todo contato com opassado se faz por meio de mediações, elas próprias, objeto de dúvidas e críticas. Operamostambém com o conceito de ceticismo e pretendemos configurar a impossibilidade de crença empalavras como verdade, ideologia, dominantes e dominados. Nesse sentido, apontamos para anecessidade de percepção que o ceticismo não oferece suporte para todo tipo de crença e quedevemos levar em consideração a própria perspectiva de impossibilidade de se deparar erecuperar os eventos do passado histórico

A configuração de um deslocamento: a prática da escrita de cartas em Capistrano de Abreu

João Capistrano de Abreu (1853 - 1927), vem sendo costumeiramente apontado pela historiografia, como um historiador que não justificou o vulto de seu conhecimento, em uma obra escrita de tamanho e peso. O aprofundamento na correspondência do intelectual, no entanto, sinaliza que Capistrano de Abreu não se ajustou às práticas de pesquisa e divulgação de conhecimento, oferecidas na virada do século XIX para o XX, em nosso país. Nesse sentido, pelo uso que o historiador fazia da correspondência - comparável em volume, com a obra publicada em vida por Capistrano -, acreditamos que o intelectual tenha se sentido mais à vontade para declinar o seu amplo conhecimento, de uma forma privada.João Capistrano de Abreu (1853-1927) often is treated by historians as a scholar whose great knowledge did not result in an equally great number of publications. However, in analyzing this intellectual's abundant correspondence, we find that Capistrano de Abreu did not conform to the procedures of historical research and writing commonly practiced in Brazil during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His use of private correspondence, which was comparable in volume to his published work, suggests that perhaps this intellectual was more at ease in sharing his vast knowledge through private rather than public channels

LITERATURA E TEORIAS DA ARTE: A GOTHIC NOVEL E SUAS CONEXÕES COM O ROMANTISMO

O objetivo desse artigo é o de recuperar uma experiência docente num curso de graduação em Artes Visuais na disciplina de Teoria das Artes. Além de sumariamente dispor o modo com que essa disciplina vem sendo ofertada, nos detivemos especialmente em quatro aulas, aquelas em que primeiramente abordamos o Romantismo e em especial, as seguintes em que nos aprofundamos nas relações havidas entre a sensibilidade romântica e a literatura gótica que proliferou no século XIX e que ainda se perfaz num gênero de grande aceitação

Soft Skills Requirements in Software Development Jobs: A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study

Purpose: Most of the studies carried out on human factor in software development concentrate primarily on personality traits. However, soft skills which largely help in determining personality traits have been given comparatively little attention by researchers. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether employers’ soft skills requirements, as advertised in job postings, within different roles of software development, are similar across different cultures. Design/methodology/approach: The authors review the literature relating to soft skills before describing a study based on 500 job advertisements posted on well-known recruitment sites from a range of geographical locations, including North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The study makes use of nine defined soft skills to assess the level of demand for each of these skills related to individual job roles within the software industry. Findings: It was found that in the cases of designer, programmer and tester, substantial similarity exists for the requirements of soft skills, whereas only in the case of system analyst is dissimilarity present across different cultures. It was concluded that cultural difference does not have a major impact on the choice of soft skills requirements in hiring new employee in the case of the software development profession. Originality/value: Specific studies concerning soft skills and software development have been sporadic and often incidental, which highlights the originality of this work. Moreover, no concrete work has been reported in the area of soft skills and their demand as a part of job requirement sets in diverse cultures, which increases the value of this paper

A Roadmap until 2030 and first action plan for the Peruvian agri-food sector, focusing on Andean native crops : results from the 3rd and 4th Futures Workshops of the Pecolo Project

PECOLO, or Native crops for sustainable and innovative food futures in Peru and Colombia, was a collaborative project involving the University of Turku, Finland (UTU), Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru (UNALM) and Universidad el Bosque, Colombia (UEB). From UTU, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC) coordinated the project. In addition, the Functional Foods Forum and Department of Biochemistry of the University of Turku were also participating in the project. One of the key focus areas of the PECOLO project was the development of innovation environments around native Andean crops. Futures research and foresight methodologies were used as novel tools for developing innovation environments in cooperation with academic, public and private sector organizations and NGOs. This is the second of two publications concerning Peru that have been produced based on the results of the PECOLO project’s four-stage futures process. The first, A Scenario for the Desirable Future of the Peruvian Agri-Food Sector 2030, Focusing on Andean Native Crops: Results from the 1st and 2nd Futures Workshops of the PECOLO Project , describes the methods and results of the first two steps of the futures process. The outcome was a futures table describing a set of three alternative futures for the Peruvian agri-food sector that reconsider the potential of Andean crops, as well as a scenario narrative for the most desirable future. This second publication covers the work that took place during the project’s third and fourth futures workshops. The third workshop established a vision for 2030 based on the desirable scenario of the second workshop, and a roadmap for the Peruvian agri-food sector with a special focus on Andean native crops. The fourth and final workshop elaborated concrete actions that can and should be taken by stakeholders in the first implementation period, from 2020–2022, in order to begin to move toward these common goals. The PECOLO project was funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland between 2017–2019 under the HEI-ICI Programme (Higher Education Institutions – Institutional Capacity-building Instrument)

Effect of remote ischaemic conditioning on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI): a single-blind randomised controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Remote ischaemic conditioning with transient ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm has been shown to reduce myocardial infarct size in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We investigated whether remote ischaemic conditioning could reduce the incidence of cardiac death and hospitalisation for heart failure at 12 months. METHODS: We did an international investigator-initiated, prospective, single-blind, randomised controlled trial (CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI) at 33 centres across the UK, Denmark, Spain, and Serbia. Patients (age >18 years) with suspected STEMI and who were eligible for PPCI were randomly allocated (1:1, stratified by centre with a permuted block method) to receive standard treatment (including a sham simulated remote ischaemic conditioning intervention at UK sites only) or remote ischaemic conditioning treatment (intermittent ischaemia and reperfusion applied to the arm through four cycles of 5-min inflation and 5-min deflation of an automated cuff device) before PPCI. Investigators responsible for data collection and outcome assessment were masked to treatment allocation. The primary combined endpoint was cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure at 12 months in the intention-to-treat population. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02342522) and is completed. FINDINGS: Between Nov 6, 2013, and March 31, 2018, 5401 patients were randomly allocated to either the control group (n=2701) or the remote ischaemic conditioning group (n=2700). After exclusion of patients upon hospital arrival or loss to follow-up, 2569 patients in the control group and 2546 in the intervention group were included in the intention-to-treat analysis. At 12 months post-PPCI, the Kaplan-Meier-estimated frequencies of cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure (the primary endpoint) were 220 (8·6%) patients in the control group and 239 (9·4%) in the remote ischaemic conditioning group (hazard ratio 1·10 [95% CI 0·91-1·32], p=0·32 for intervention versus control). No important unexpected adverse events or side effects of remote ischaemic conditioning were observed. INTERPRETATION: Remote ischaemic conditioning does not improve clinical outcomes (cardiac death or hospitalisation for heart failure) at 12 months in patients with STEMI undergoing PPCI. FUNDING: British Heart Foundation, University College London Hospitals/University College London Biomedical Research Centre, Danish Innovation Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, TrygFonden