ADMINISTRAÇÃO POLÍTICA E GESTÃO PÚBLICA NO PPA 2012-2015

O artigo analisa as principais inovações no modelo de gestão do Plano Plurianual Federal para o período de 2012-2015, comparando as inclinações atuais com o modelo anterior. As inovações foram discutidas a partir da natureza política da administração pública, das circunstâncias nas quais o planejamento se associa à gestão e à luz da apropriação que o direito administrativo faz dos instrumentos de gestão. Identificou-se que as inovações na linguagem, na estrutura e na regulamentação dialogamcom um conceito mais pleno de gestão porque criam um caminho para ressignificá-la, associando o conceito à capacidade de fazer. Apesar das inovações conceituais e simbólicas, a conclusão alerta para a necessidade de se qualificar o ambiente institucional do PPA com instrumentos e conhecimentos associados às questões práticas sobre o funcionamento do Estado, visto que são essenciais para viabilizar as políticas. Nesse sentido, o artigo traz sugestões de como lançar o PPA no mundo real das políticas públicas. Uma leitura em retrospectiva da obra de Alfred Marshall revela a grande complexidade de um pensamento aberto à renovação da teoria, com uma noção implícita de dinamismo do sistema produtivo e com uma visão internacional do processo do capital.Palavras-chave: Plano plurianual; Administração política; Planejamento governamental; Implementação

AVALIAÇÃO DO PERFIL SOCIAL DOS PREMIADOS NAS OLIMPÍADAS DE QUÍMICA DO ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE

The Olympics of Scientific Knowledge have been an important tool for dissemination of science among students. This research consists of evaluating the social profile of students awarded in the Chemistry Olympiad of Rio Grande do Norte (OQRN) from the years 2015 to 2019 with the aim of ascertaining the existence of a pattern. The OQRN awardees considered in this study were those who obtained gold, silver, bronze medals, and honorable mention. The social profile of the OQRN award winners was studied considering two characteristics of this population: the type of school (public or private) and place of residence (capital or countryside). A pattern was observed, where the largest number of winners are students from private schools and in the metropolitan region of the state. Thus, the data reveal that measures are needed to encourage greater participation of students from public schools and students from the interior of the state.Las Olimpiadas del Conocimiento Científico han sido una importante herramienta de divulgación científica entre los estudiantes. Esta investigación consiste en evaluar el perfil social de los estudiantes premiados en la Olimpiada de Química de Rio Grande do Norte (OQRN) de 2015 a 2019 con el fin de verificar la existencia de un patrón en los premiados. Los premiados de la OQRN considerados en este estudio fueron aquellos que obtuvieron medallas de oro, plata, bronce y mención honorífica. El relevamiento del perfil social de los premiados de la OQRN se realizó considerando dos características de esta población: el tipo de colegio (público o privado) y el lugar de residencia (capital o rural). Se observó un patrón, donde la mayor cantidad de ganadores son estudiantes de colegios privados y de la región metropolitana. Así, los datos revelan que se necesitan medidas para incentivar una mayor participación de estudiantes de escuelas públicas y estudiantes del interior del estado.As Olimpíadas de Conhecimento Científico têm sido uma importante ferramenta de divulgação científica entre estudantes. Esta pesquisa consiste em avaliar o perfil social dos alunos premiados na Olimpíada de Química do Rio Grande do Norte (OQRN) dos anos 2015 a 2019, com o objetivo de averiguar a existência de um padrão nos premiados. Os premiados da OQRN considerados neste estudo foram aqueles que obtiveram medalhas de ouro, prata, bronze e menção honrosa. O levantamento do perfil social dos premiados da OQRN foi feito considerando duas características dessa população: o tipo da escola (pública ou privada) e o local de residência (capital ou interior). Foi observado um padrão, onde o maior número de premiados são alunos das escolas privadas e da região metropolitana. Dessa forma, os dados revelam que são necessárias medidas que incentivem uma maior participação dos alunos das escolas públicas e alunos do interior do estado.As Olimpíadas de Conhecimento Científico têm sido uma importante ferramenta de divulgação científica entre estudantes. Esta pesquisa consiste em avaliar o perfil social dos alunos premiados na Olimpíada de Química do Rio Grande do Norte (OQRN) dos anos 2015 a 2019, com o objetivo de averiguar a existência de um padrão nos premiados. Os premiados da OQRN considerados neste estudo foram aqueles que obtiveram medalhas de ouro, prata, bronze e menção honrosa. O levantamento do perfil social dos premiados da OQRN foi feito considerando duas características dessa população: o tipo da escola (pública ou privada) e o local de residência (capital ou interior). Foi observado um padrão, onde o maior número de premiados são alunos das escolas privadas e da região metropolitana. Dessa forma, os dados revelam que são necessárias medidas que incentivem uma maior participação dos alunos das escolas públicas e alunos do interior do estado

Evaluation of Bio Briquettes made from Musa acuminata Colla, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana Silk, and Citrus reticulata and Citrus sinensis Peels

Accumulation of food waste and the burning of coal emit harmful chemicals which contribute to environmental problems such as climate change and global warming. These also risk the health of people, which causes deaths. Briquettes help improve and preserve the environment by lessening food waste and coal emissions. This study aims to determine the best treatment for briquettes to help disadvantaged communities and alleviate the adverse effects on the environment and health. A combination of banana (Musa acuminata Colla (AA Group) \u27Lakatan\u27 and Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana (AAB Group) \u27Silk\u27, and orange (Citrus × reticulata and Citrus × sinensis) peels were used as bases for the briquettes. Sawdust also served as a controlled treatment, and two different binder treatments were also used, namely paper pulp and cassava starch. The briquettes\u27 quality was tested based on their density, burning rate, ignition time, and efficiency (Water Boiling Test). One-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance (One-way MANOVA), Shapiro-Wilk Normality Test and Levene’s Homogeneity of Variances Test, One-way ANOVA, Post-Hoc Test, specifically Tukey’s LSD were then used to analyze the gathered results. Results revealed that the best briquettes are orange & cassava (density), banana & paper (burning rate), sawdust & cassava (ignition), and sawdust & cassava (efficiency). The findings indicate that the best briquettes were sawdust & cassava (most efficient in Water Boiling Test and fastest to ignite) and banana & paper (lowest burning rate) briquettes. Additionally, the findings suggest different production practices

Rhinitis associated with asthma is distinct from rhinitis alone: TARIA‐MeDALL hypothesis

Asthma, rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis (AD) are interrelated clinical phenotypes that partly overlap in the human interactome. The concept of “one-airway-one-disease,” coined over 20 years ago, is a simplistic approach of the links between upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases. With new data, it is time to reassess the concept. This article reviews (i) the clinical observations that led to Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA), (ii) new insights into polysensitization and multimorbidity, (iii) advances in mHealth for novel phenotype definitions, (iv) confirmation in canonical epidemiologic studies, (v) genomic findings, (vi) treatment approaches, and (vii) novel concepts on the onset of rhinitis and multimorbidity. One recent concept, bringing together upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases with skin, gut, and neuropsychiatric multimorbidities, is the “Epithelial Barrier Hypothesis.” This review determined that the “one-airway-one-disease” concept does not always hold true and that several phenotypes of disease can be defined. These phenotypes include an extreme “allergic” (asthma) phenotype combining asthma, rhinitis, and conjunctivitis.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

A search for ultra-high-energy photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory exploiting air-shower universality

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive detector to primary photons with energies above ∼0.2 EeV. It measures extensive air showers using a hybrid technique that combines a fluorescence detector (FD) with a ground array of particle detectors (SD). The signatures of a photon-induced air shower are a larger atmospheric depth at the shower maximum (X$_{max}$) and a steeper lateral distribution function, along with a lower number of muons with respect to the bulk of hadron-induced background. Using observables measured by the FD and SD, three photon searches in different energy bands are performed. In particular, between threshold energies of 1-10 EeV, a new analysis technique has been developed by combining the FD-based measurement of X$_{max}$ with the SD signal through a parameter related to its muon content, derived from the universality of the air showers. This technique has led to a better photon/hadron separation and, consequently, to a higher search sensitivity, resulting in a tighter upper limit than before. The outcome of this new analysis is presented here, along with previous results in the energy ranges below 1 EeV and above 10 EeV. From the data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory in about 15 years of operation, the most stringent constraints on the fraction of photons in the cosmic flux are set over almost three decades in energy

Study on multi-ELVES in the Pierre Auger Observatory

Since 2013, the four sites of the Fluorescence Detector (FD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory record ELVES with a dedicated trigger. These UV light emissions are correlated to distant lightning strikes. The length of recorded traces has been increased from 100 μs (2013), to 300 μs (2014-16), to 900 μs (2017-present), to progressively extend the observation of the light emission towards the vertical of the causative lightning and beyond. A large fraction of the observed events shows double ELVES within the time window, and, in some cases, even more complex structures are observed. The nature of the multi-ELVES is not completely understood but may be related to the different types of lightning in which they are originated. For example, it is known that Narrow Bipolar Events can produce double ELVES, and Energetic In-cloud Pulses, occurring between the main negative and upper positive charge layer of clouds, can induce double and even quadruple ELVES in the ionosphere. This report shows the seasonal and daily dependence of the time gap, amplitude ratio, and correlation between the pulse widths of the peaks in a sample of 1000+ multi-ELVES events recorded during the period 2014-20. The events have been compared with data from other satellite and ground-based sensing devices to study the correlation of their properties with lightning observables such as altitude and polarity

Extraction of the Muon Signals Recorded with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Recurrent Neural Networks

We present a method based on the use of Recurrent Neural Networks to extract the muon component from the time traces registered with water-Cherenkov detector (WCD) stations of the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory. The design of the WCDs does not allow to separate the contribution of muons to the time traces obtained from the WCDs from those of photons, electrons and positrons for all events. Separating the muon and electromagnetic components is crucial for the determination of the nature of the primary cosmic rays and properties of the hadronic interactions at ultra-high energies. We trained a neural network to extract the muon and the electromagnetic components from the WCD traces using a large set of simulated air showers, with around 450 000 simulated events. For training and evaluating the performance of the neural network, simulated events with energies between 1018.5, eV and 1020 eV and zenith angles below 60 degrees were used. We also study the performance of this method on experimental data of the Pierre Auger Observatory and show that our predicted muon lateral distributions agree with the parameterizations obtained by the AGASA collaboration