Social Practices and Strategizing: a Study of Produce Merchants in the Vila Rubim Market

The aim of this article is to understand the relationship between the meanings of social practices and strategy creation used by the produce merchants in Vila Rubim, Vitória, ES, from 1970 to the present time. To provide empirical evidence of the conceptual framework that was developed, we conducted a case study. The data gathered from the documents and interviews were treated using discourse analysis, and those obtained from observations were treated using content analysis. The possibility and the act of approaching the neighboring merchant’s customer is the link that joins the homonymous strategy and tactic, but the process in each of them has different implications (strengthening or transgressing the established order) and develops in different and dynamic ways. Thus, the denomination of strategies and practices is dynamic, relational and temporary because the focus is on the process that permeates each strategy and its articulations in the practices and meanings in each flow. In their socio-historic process, the produce merchants in the VR Market articulate various flows. Among them, the empirical investigation identified fourteen flows, nine as strategies and five as tactics, according to the social references assumed in the analysis

A Constructionist Approach for the Study of Strategy as Social Practice

The goal of this paper is to present an analytical perspective of strategy as social practice in organizations by thearticulation of proposals by Foucault, Certeau and Moscovici on social dynamics. To accomplish its intents itdiscusses the convergences and divergences between social dynamics in Foucault (1972, 1999, 2003a, 2003b),knowledge, power and subjectivities from Moscovici (1961), and Social Representation Theory (SRT) asarticulated with the concept of everyday strategies and tactics by Certeau (1990). The paper presents the microand macro delineations in investigations involving strategy-making practices in organizations over time. Thestudies of strategy as social practices are focused only on the micro-social level of CEO practices inorganizations and don’t consider the involvement of these practices at the macro-social level. Thus, this paperaims at acknowledging the roles played by experimentation and by the researcher’s theoretical position, but alsoat offering the actors an opportunity to present the micro and macro aspects that involve their strategy practicesin a given organization. This way, a dynamic reference is obtained that allows for the comparison of empiricaldata in the analysis of strategy as a social practice

The role of the amygdala in the perception of positive emotions: an “intensity detector”

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Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection

BACKGROUND: Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, may cause culture-negative vascular graft infections. Very few cases of C. burnetii infection of a vascular graft have been reported. All were diagnosed by serology. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the first case of Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection diagnosed by broad-range PCR and discuss the diagnostic approaches and treatment strategies of chronic C. burnetii infection. CONCLUSION: C. burnetii should be considered as etiological agent in patients with a vascular graft and fever, abdominal pain, and laboratory signs of inflammation, with or without exposure history. Broad-range PCR should be performed on culture-negative surgical samples in patients with suspected infection of vascular graft

From local to global: mental models of local people about livestock sector

MOUVE project and the LIFLOD network are developing a research focused on the better understanding of the mental models about livestock at local scale, with the goal to report the results at global scale. The authors present the results based on a set of 13 sites selected according to: (1) the interest of the local team; (2) significance of the local context, and its representation of the diversity at global scale

Evaluation of pepper fruits based on fruit physical and chemical characteristics / Avaliação de frutos de pimenta com base nas características físicas e químicas dos frutos

The modernization of agriculture associated with the abandonment of agricultural activities has caused the loss of genetic diversity in crops such as pepper. The characterization and evaluation of pepper germplasm allows to indicate plants with potential for immediate use for farmers, as well as to identify accessions with interesting traits for plant breeding. In this sense, the present study aimed to characterize 40 accessions of pepper from the Germplasm Collection Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IFES) - Campus de Alegre, collected in the South and Mountain ranges of the State of Espírito Santo, based on physical-chemical descriptors. The experiment was maintained under field conditions in IFES Experimental farm, with six fruits - completely ripe and still firm - randomly harvested of each genotype. The physical-chemical characterization was carried out at the Laboratory of Bromatology and Applied Chemistry at IFES, to evaluate the traits of moisture, total soluble solids, total titratable acidity, pH and ash content. Subsequently, the study of genetic diversity was carried out by the UPGMA method to obtain the dendrogram, based in Mahalanobis matrix of dissimilarity. The Singh's analysis was performed to ascertain the relative contribution of each physical-chemical characteristic for the genetic divergence. For the evaluated traits, an average variation was observed between the accessions, which can be correlated with the constant exchange of seeds between rural producers in regions of the collection. For the analysis of genetic diversity, the UPGMA technique was efficient in adjusting the distances, with a cophenetic correlation of 0.86 and the formation of six groups. Through the measure of genetic dissimilarity between the accession pairs, expressed by the generalized Mahalanobis distance (D2), it was found that the most distant genotypes are IFES 08 and IFES 22, with a distance of 52.04, while the accessions IFES 23 and IFES 31 were considered the closest genetically, with a distance of 0.09. Singh's method indicated that total titratable acidity (28.48%), followed by total soluble solids (21.71%) were the traits that most contributed to genetic divergence. It was found that the physical-chemical characterization was efficient to estimate the genetic diversity between the accessions, showing medium divergence, being an important tool for the knowledge and use of the accessions traditionally cultivated in the State of Espírito Santo.

Phenotypic variation in a Germplasm Collection of pepper (Capsicum spp.) from Espírito Santo / Variação fenotípica em uma coleção de germoplasma de pimenta (Capsicum spp.) do Espírito Santo

Peppers belong to the Capsicum genus, which has an immense variety of types, sizes, colors, flavors, and pungencies, being part of the Brazilian cultural wealth and is an important genetic resource. The aim of the present study was to perform the morpho-agronomic characterization and estimate the genetic divergence between 40 accessions of pepper collected from rural producers in  eight regions of Espírito Santo: Domingos Martins, Venda Nova do Imigrante, Conceição de Castelo, Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Alegre, Guaçuí, Colatina e Santa Teresa. The work was carried out under field conditions in Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IFES) - Campus de Alegre the Experimental Farm. The experimental design was completely randomized, with six replications, totaling 240 experimental plots. The accessions were characterized based on twelve morpho-agronomic traits, namely: plant height, crown diameter, fruit shape, fruit length and diameter, fruit weight, pericarp thickness, number of seeds per fruit, number of locules per fruit, stem width, and leaf width and length. A great phenotypic variability was found for the twelve traits evaluated. The genetic divergence between the accessions was estimated using the Tocher clustering method, using the Mahalanobis distance, as a measure of dissimilarity, forming seven groups. It was not possible to verify a correlation between genetic diversity and the place of origin of the accessions, since in the same group genotypes collected in quite distant rural properties were arranged. Singh's method, used to estimate the relative contribution of each trait in the expression of genetic divergence, indicated that the diameter of the fruit (28.77%) and the weight of the fruit (21.33%) were the ones that most contributed to the total divergence (50.10%) between the pepper accessions. The width and length of the leaf contributed less, representing a percentage of 2.04% and 1.26%, respectively. The morpho-agronomic characterization was efficient to estimate the genetic diversity between accessions, showing significant divergence, providing the best knowledge about the accessions, demonstrating their potential for use as parents in breeding programs. All accesses were considered distinct, which allowed to disregard the hypothesis of duplicates in the germplasm collection. There was no correlation between genetic distance and the origin of accessions, which may reflect the common practice of pepper exchanges among rural producers

Experimental Study of the Interaction Bewteen a Turbulent Flow and a River Biofilm Growing on Macrorugosities

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