A investigação criminal em Moçambique: gestão e cadeia de custódia da prova

A investigação criminal, exige, cada vez mais, de ser repensada, sobretudo num mundo tec-nológico impulsor de fenómenos dinâmicos e em constante desenvolvimento. As organiza-ções criminosas têm-se aproveitado desta dinâmica para aprimorar cada vez mais o seu mo-dus operandi e cometerem crimes que, nem sempre são fáceis de esclarecer. Na presente pesquisa, é desenvolvido o estado da arte tendo por base o Direito comparado entre Moçam-bique e Portugal, método dedutivo e estudo de caso referente à atividade processual efetivada pela investigação criminal na província de Inhambane. A necessária incorporação de proto-colos e procedimentos de cadeia de custódia da prova em Moçambique surge como um dos temas centrais abordados nesta pesquisa, sobretudo pela reforma estabelecida à Polícia de Investigação Criminal (PIC) através do recém-criado Serviço Nacional de Investigação Cri-minal (SERNIC). É descrito, ainda, o escurso histórico e funcionamento da investigação criminal em moçambique como forma de serem assimilados os problemas de base que o SERNIC precisa evidenciar para ultrapassá-los e melhor desenvolver a sua atividade com base na produção de provas materiais robustas, como é o caso da prova pericial, dentro dos limites da lei. A temática da gestão e cadeia de custódia da prova será abordada nesta pes-quisa como elemento capaz de conceder à prova a credibilidade necessária para a afirmação autónoma da investigação criminal em Moçambique e protagonizar a temática probatória no SERNIC. Sem subjugar a necessidade de coordenação e cooperação, quer seja a nível interno entre as instituições de administração da justiça, quer internacionalmente, cujo impacto tem especial importância na vida dos povos indígenas, que em uníssono, coadjuvam o seu poder e força em diversas matérias sobretudo sobre a prova legal que é descrita nesta pesquisa como o garante da supressão das ilegalidades processuais que lesam os direitos, liberdades e garantias dos cidadãos através do cumprimento das melhores práticas e das normas inter-nacionais de garantia de qualidade e competência no manuseio de vestígios.Criminal investigation, more and more, requires rethinking, especially in a technological world that is the driving force of dynamic and constantly developing phenomena. Criminal organizations have taken advantage of this dynamic to increasingly improve their modus operandi and commit crimes that are not always easy to clarify. In the present research, the state of the art is developed based on the comparative law between Mozambique and Portu-gal, a deductive method and a case study concerning the procedural activity carried out by the criminal investigation in the province of Inhambane. The necessary incorporation of pro-tocols and chain-of-custody procedures of the evidence in Mozambique emerges as one of the central themes addressed in this research, mainly by the reform established to the Crim-inal Investigation Police (PIC) through the newly created National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC). It is also described the historical role and the functioning of criminal investigation in Mozambique as a way of assimilating the basic problems that SERNIC needs to demonstrate in order to overcome them and to better develop its activity based on the production of robust material evidence, as is the case of expert evidence, within the limits of the law. The theme of the management and chain of custody of the evidence will be ap-proached in this research as an element capable of proving the credibility necessary for the autonomous affirmation of the criminal investigation in Mozambique and to carry out the thematic probatory in SERNIC. Without undermining the need for coordination and coop-eration, whether internally between justice administration institutions or internationally, whose impact is of particular importance in the lives of indigenous peoples, who, in unison, contribute to their power and strength in a number of areas on the legal evidence that is described in this research as the guarantor of the suppression of procedural illegality that damages the rights, freedoms and guarantees of the citizens through the fulfillment of the best practices and the international norms of quality assurance and competence in the han-dling of vestiges

AVALIAÇÃO DO POTENCIAL EÓLICO PARA IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE UM GERADOR EÓLICO DO TIPO EVANCE R9000

Avaliar o potencial eólico disponível, para geração de energia eléctrica, em um ponto do distrito Urbano Kamavota, cidade de Maputo, foi o objectivo central do trabalho; para alcançá-lo, realizou-se a análise de dados do vento obtidos a partir de ogiment.com no windographer. Para a compreensão do fenómeno em estudo houve a descrição dos fundamentos teóricos da Energia Eólica, princípios de geração de energia eléctrica, que auxiliaram na interpretação e enquadramento dos resultados obtidos. Após a avaliação da velocidade, direcção e influência da rugosidade do lugar, obtiveram-se os seguintes resultados: durante o ano predominam ventos de 00 (N), 22.50 (NNE), 67.50 (ESE), 900 (E), 112.50(SSO), 1800 (S), 202.5(ONO) e 2250 (SO); observou-se ainda, que a velocidade do vento para a altura de 18m, considerando-se a rugosidade do terreno Z0=1.5m para extrapolação, atinge 4.26 m/s de mínima no mês de abril e6.39 m/sde máxima anual no mês de Fevereiro, que geram um potencial eólico disponível de 2.17 kW média anual. Da potência eólica disponível, a turbina eólica Evance R9000, consegue converter apenas 0.66 kW de potência média anual, o equivalente a 30.4% da potência disponível, cuja energia anual gerada é de 5.7 MWh. Palavras-chave: Energia eólica, Potencial eólica, Velocidade do vento

Impacto en los ingresos de la población de Tegucigalpa debido a estudios superiores, año 2012

Analyzing whether education has an impact on increasing revenues, this measure through the rate of educational achievement, this article is built with information I get from the University, having two large geographical areas, and two industries. Based on years of schooling to higher levels of education; level of university degree and master´s degree. This operation for education has an important role in improving the income of individuals, which plays an important role in the design of wage policies of the government and the labor market. However, the yields offered a better educational level of earnings among men than women. In addition, men who work in the manufacturing industry have a better chance of increasing their income than women. According to the level of education, the teacher gets more revenue than the bachelor. However in San Pedro Sula, university graduates were better paid than those who obtained their master's degree. This research was presented through the estimation of a transversal model, semi-logarithmic marginal returns to higher education.Revista Portal de la Ciencia, No.11, diciembre 2016, p.107-122La educación ejerce un impacto sobre el aumento del ingreso de los individuos, medido a través de la tasa de rendimiento educativo. El estudio fue desarrollado en la ciudad universitaria tomando en cuenta las ramas de la actividad económica. La base de los años de escolaridad para determinar los niveles de la educación superior; considerando el primero al nivel de licenciatura y el segundo a nivel de maestría.El rendimiento de la educación sobre los ingresos juega un rol importante en el aumento del valor monetario recibido por los individuos y en el diseño de políticas públicas salariales del Gobierno y mercado laboral.En los resultados obtenidos de la investigación, los rendimientos educativos proveen mejor nivel de ingresos a los hombres que a las mujeres, a esto se le agrega que los hombres que laboral en la industria manufacturera tienen mejor probabilidad de aumentar sus ingresos que la mujer.Según el nivel educativo, los individuos que ostentan el nivel de maestría obtienen una mayor tasa de retorno en los ingresos que el de licenciatura; sin embargo, entre regiones geográficas la ciudad de San Pedro Sula obtuvo mayor retorno que en el Distrito central en el nivel de maestría. Conclusiones como las anteriores se destacan en esta investigación mediante la estimación de un modelo transversal, semilogarítmico de retornos marginales a la educación superior.Revista Portal de la Ciencia, No.11, diciembre 2016, 107-12

Patterns of Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) Postlarval Recruitment in the Carribbean: A CRTR Project

As part of the Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program, a partnership between the Global Environment Facility and the World Bank, our research team examined the recruitment patterns of Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus) postlarvae among regions in the Caribbean, with a particular focus on Mesoamerica. Our goal was to collect comparable information on postlarval supply among regions and to provide data to test predictions of connectivity generated from a coupled biophysical oceanographic model of lobster larval dispersal. Here we present the results of the postlarval recruitment monitoring program. We monitored the catch of postlarvae on Witham-style collectors at sites in the Caribbean from March 2006 to May 2009, although the duration and frequency of sampling varied among locations. Recruitment varied considerably among months and locations. It peaked in the Western Caribbean in the fall (Oct - Dec), whereas in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela peaks were in spring (Feb - April) with a smaller peak in the fall. Sites generally fell into two groups with respect to monthly variability in recruitment: low variability sites (e.g., Honduras, southern Mexico, Venezuela) and high variability sites (e.g., Florida, San Andres Islands, Puerto Rico, northern Mexico). Recruitment magnitude varied locally, but generally increased (lowest to highest) from Puerto Rico, San Andres Islands, Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela, to Florida. Recruitment trends mirrored fishery catch in some locations, implying a recruit-to-stock linkage. Recruitment was significantly correlated among several sites, suggesting similarity in their larval sources and oceanographic regimes

Integrative neurobiology of metabolic diseases, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex, multifactorial disease with a number of leading mechanisms, including neuroinflammation, processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) to amyloid β peptide, tau protein hyperphosphorylation, relocalization and deposition. These mechanisms are propagated by obesity, the metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes mellitus. Stress, sedentariness, dietary overconsumption of saturated fat and refined sugars, and circadian derangements/disturbed sleep contribute to obesity and related metabolic diseases, but also accelerate age-related damage and senescence that all feed the risk of developing AD too. The complex and interacting mechanisms are not yet completely understood and will require further analysis. Instead of investigating AD as a mono- or oligocausal disease we should address the disease by understanding the multiple underlying mechanisms and how these interact. Future research therefore might concentrate on integrating these by systems biology approaches, but also to regard them from an evolutionary medicine point of view. The current review addresses several of these interacting mechanisms in animal models and compares them with clinical data giving an overview about our current knowledge and puts them into an integrated framework

External Costs Associated to Electricity Generation Options in Brazil

This presentation discusses external costs associated with electricity generation options in Brazil