School organizational culture: The peak of research in the context of neoliberal policies

Inscrita numa matriz teórica multirreferencial, a problemática da cultura organizacional tem sido objecto de múltiplos desenvolvimentos conceptuais e diversificadas apropriações políticas e ideológicas. No campo da educação e no contexto mais específico das organizações escolares, as abordagens culturais e simbólicas sofreram algumas inflexões teóricas apenas compreensíveis quando contextualizadas no quadro mais global das políticas internacionais de cariz neoliberal e neoconservador. Neste trabalho, procura-se reflectir criticamente sobre a forma como a problemática da cultura organizacional em contexto escolar passa a ser (re)perspectivada numa altura em que se expandem alguns objectivos e valores políticos associados às ideologias da modernização e da racionalização. Num segundo momento, tomando como ponto de partida a análise de um vasto número de investigações integradas em quatro bases de dados electrónicas de âmbito internacional, debatemos as principais tendências teóricas, conceptuais e metodológicas deste campo de estudo, fazendo sobressair o lugar e o estatuto da escola enquanto contexto privilegiado de investigação, designadamente nos domínios crítico-reflexivos.Within a multi-referential theoretical framework, the issue of organizational culture has been a subject for multiple conceptual developments and different ideological and political appropriations. In the field of education and in the specific context of school organizations, the cultural and symbolic approaches were subjected to some theoretical inflections. These can only be understood in the global framework of international policies of neoliberal and neoconservative nature. First, this paper critically discusses how the issue of organizational culture in school context was put in perspectives at a time when some political-ideological objectives and values were associated to modernization and rationalization ideologies. Based on the analysis of a great number of researches included in four electronic databases with an international scope, it then discusses the main theoretical, conceptual and methodological trends of this field of study, stressing the place and statute of school as a privileged research context, namely in the reflexive and critical domain.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Mesoscale Engineering of Nanocomposite Nonlinear Optical Materials

Complex nonlinear optical materials comprising elemental, compound or alloy quantum dots embedded in appropriate dielectric or semiconducting hosts may be suitable for deployment in photonic devices. Ion implantation, ion exchange followed by ion implantation, and pulsed laser deposition have ail been used to synthesize these materials. However, the correlation between the parameters of energetic-beam synthesis and the nonlinear optical properties is still very rudimentary when one starts to ask what is happening at nanoscale dimensions. Systems integration of complex nonlinear optical materials requires that the mesoscale materials science be well understood within the context of device structures. We discuss the effects of beam energy and energy density on quantum-dot size and spatial distribution, thermal conductivity, quantum-dot composition, crystallinity and defects - and, in turn, on the third-order optical susceptibility of the composite material. Examples from recent work in our laboratories are used to illustrate these effects

Supplementary Material for: Clinical and Prognostic Impact of the Warburg Effect in Esophageal Carcinoma: Monocarboxylate Transporters as Candidates for Therapeutic Targeting

Introduction: Esophageal cancer (EC) seems to display increased glycolytic activity, but clinical studies on the expression/prognostic significance of glycometabolism-related proteins, as well as functional assays, are missing. Methods: Expression of 10 glycolytic biomarkers was evaluated by immunohistochemistry in tissue sections from 95 patients. Two esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cell lines were used to assess the effect of monocarboxylate transporter (MCT) downregulation on cell viability and extracellular lactate/glucose accumulation. Results: Expression of MCT1, MCT4, CD147, and GLUT1 was significantly associated with an ESCC histopathology, while a poor clinicopathological profile was seen in GLUT1- and LDHA-positive EC cases. In the ESCC group, MCT1 immunoreactivity is associated with high TNM stage and metastasis. The 3-year overall survival (OS) rate was significantly influenced by MCT4 and CAIX positivity and HKII negativity. Those biomarkers were considered independent prognostic factors of OS in multivariate analysis. Dual inhibition of MCT1/4 expression decreased cell viability and extracellular lactate accumulation in ESCC cells. Conclusion: Elevated glycolytic rates correlate with a poor clinicopathological profile in EC patients. MCT4 and CAIX positivity independently predict a worse prognosis. Due to the lack of information on treatment modalities, we could not further infer the role of these biomarkers in predicting response to therapy, which needs to be assessed in future studies. In addition, MCT1/4 targeting should be performed both “in vitro” and “in vivo” to further explore its impact on tumor growth and response to classical therapies. HKII expression and function, particularly in the tumor stroma, should be investigated

Efeito do nível e do tamanho de impurezas nas propriedades físicas da massa granular de feijão Effect of level and size of impurities on the physical properties of the granular mass of beans

Objetivou-se, com o presente trabalho, determinar, experimentalmente, os valores de massa específica aparente e porosidade para grãos de feijão das variedades Carioquinha e Jalo, em função do nível e do tamanho de impureza na massa de produto, e ajustar equações matemáticas aos dados experimentais. Os resultados obtidos permitiram concluir-se que o aumento do nível de impurezas menores que os grãos provocou aumento da massa específica aparente e redução da porosidade e, com impurezas maiores que os grãos, ocasionou redução da massa específica aparente e aumento da porosidade da massa granular, para ambas as variedades estudadas. Os valores de massa específica aparente e porosidade da massa de grãos de feijão diferiram entre as variedades analisadas, sendo os valores da massa específica aparente da cultivar Carioquinha superiores, enquanto os valores de porosidade apresentaram-se inferiores aos observados para a cultivar Jalo, para o teor de umidade de 12% base úmida.<br>The objective of this study was to determine experimentally the values of bulk density and porosity for grains of the Carioquinha and Jalo varieties of bean and to adjust mathematical equations to the experimental data, as a function of level and size of impurities in the product mass. The results obtained in this work point to the conclusion that the increase of the level of impurities smaller than the grains increased the bulk density and reduced the porosity, and that the increase of the level of larger impurities than the grains reduced the bulk density and increased the porosity of the granular product for both the varieties. The values of bulk density and porosity of the mass of bean grains differed among the analyzed varieties, the values of the bulk density of the variety Carioquinha being superior, while the porosity value was found to be inferior to that observed for the variety Jalo, for moisture content of 12% wet base

Agregação de Latossolo Vermelho sob diferentes sistemas de preparo do solo, após um único cultivo com girassol Soil aggregation of Red Latosols under different tillage systems after sunflower cropping

Avaliou-se, no presente trabalho, o efeito de um único cultivo de girassol na agregação de Latossolo Vermelho submetidos a diferentes sistemas de preparo, em número de quatro: grade aradora + grade niveladora (GA), grade niveladora (GN), semeadura direta na palha (SP) e plantio direto (PD), no outono-inverno; exceto no PD, foi passado o escarificador + grade niveladora na primavera-verão semeando-se, em seguida, a soja e, no outono-inverno o girassol. As avaliações dos agregados de solo foram feitas antes do plantio e após a colheita do girassol, em propriedades particulares em Cândido Mota e Pedrinhas Paulista, SP, cujo cultivo do girassol melhorou a agregação, independentemente do sistema de preparo utilizado.<br>The objective of the present research was to evaluate the effect of single sunflower crop on soil aggregation under different tillage systems. Four tillage systems were used: heavy disk harrow + leveling harrow (GA), leveling harrow (GN), sowing on straw (SP) without tillage (PD), in the autumn-winter, and chisel plow + leveling harrow in the spring-summer cultivation, except for PD treatment. The research was conducted under field conditions in Candido Mota and Pedrinhas Paulista, Sao Paulo State. Soybean was sowed in the spring-summer season and sunflower in the autumn-winter. The soil aggregates were evaluated before sowing and after sunflower harvest. The use of sunflower crop induced a better soil aggregation in both places, for all tillage systems