O jornal e o jornalista de amanhã

The article emphasizes the importance of the newspaper, as a company, and of the journalist, as a professional, being aware of the challenges which appear and also of the resulting search for new mana-gement methods and processes. Furthermore, it stresses the importance that regional journalism has taken on and the need for this practice to turn itself more to the community, to education and, therefore, to extrapolating the view one has of the reader as a mere information consumer, to see him as a citizen, a partner in the elaboration and reflection on the facts that are transmitted.O artigo ressalta a importância de o jornal, enquanto empresa, e de o jornalista, enquanto profissional, estarem atentos para os desafios que se apresentam e a decorrente busca de novos métodos e processos de gerenciamento. Trata também da importância que adquiriu o jornalismo regional e a necessidade dessa prática voltar-se mais para a comunidade, para a educação, extrapolando a visão que se tem do leitor como mero consumidor de informação, para vê-lo como cidadão, parceiro na elaboração e reflexão dos fatos noticiados

Um brinde pela educação

Sacudida pelos avanços da informação eletrônica, a imprensa escrita tem procurado artifícios de sobrevivência que nem sempre se coadunam com a sua vocação: informar e educar.Shaken up by advances in electronic information, printed press has looked for survival artifices that do not always coadunate with its vocation: informing and educating

Tendências das políticas de inovação da OCDE

A OCDE lançou recentemente novas diretrizes para as políticas de inovação que representam um passo importante no reconhecimento de que a inovação não é apenas um fator importante para o crescimento econômico, mas também definidor dos rumos do futuro da economia e da solução de problemas globais. Neste artigo são apresentadas, brevemente, essas diretrizes e apontadas algumas das principais tendências para as políticas de inovaçã

Interação Universidade-Empresa: o quê as universidades têm a ganhar?

A cooperação entre universidades em empresas pode gerar ganhos para ambos os agentes. Embora tenham sido estudados mais profundamente os benefícios resultantes para as empresas, também existem benefícios para as universidades. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que sugerem não só a existência de benefícios puramente acadêmicos para as universidades decorrentes da cooperação com as empresas, mas que tais benefícios surgem na maioria das vezes em que se estabelece uma cooperação

PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN BUSINESS, ACCOUNTING AND TOURISM GRADUATE PROGRAMS

The Brazilian institution in charge of graduate programs (CAPES) evaluates all programs every three years, focusing on publications in scientific periodicals, which are classified by the Qualis – CAPES system. This study aims to measure the relative efficiency of post-graduate programs in Business, Accounting and Tourism through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and to measure the change in productivity from the three-year period of 2004-2006 to the 2007-2009 period by the Malmquist Index. Efficiencies of some graduate programs in Brazil using DEA have been evaluated but the Malmquist Index was not used because the 2007-2009 data was only recently available. They also used different input and output variables and did not consider, in our view, the real importance CAPES attributes to publications. We used, as inputs, professors, dissertations and thesis and, as outputs, total points obtained from the Qualis classification of periodicals. Among the results: the efficiency increased from the first to the second period; the efficiency of public institutions was higher as was the efficiency of programs with PhD courses and of programs more than 12 years old; the Malmquist index increased from one triennium to another

Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of São Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare encounters with large wild animals in São Paulo will disappear in the near future? All ecologists are aware of the problems of habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years that researchers started to consider that the land used for production could also serve as an important habitat for many different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to better understand the problems and propose possible solutions

Spectroscopic study of the HII regions in the NGC 1232 galaxy

NGC 1232 is a face-on spiral galaxy that serves as an excellent laboratory for the study of star formation due to its proximity. Recent studies have revealed interesting features about this galaxy: X-ray observations suggest that it recently collided with a dwarf galaxy, however, no apparent remnant is observed. Here we search for evidence of this collision. We used long-slit optical spectra in two different positions obtained with the Goodman spectrograph at the SOAR telescope. We detected 18 HII regions in the north-south direction and 22 HII regions in the east-west direction and a background galaxy, NGC 1232B, for which we present the first redshift measurement and spectral analysis. We used the stellar population fitting technique to study the underlying stellar population and to subtract it from the spectra to measure the emission lines. The emission lines were used to determine the extinction, electron density, chemical abundance, and the star-formation rate gradient of NGC 1232. As is common in spiral galaxies, we found a stellar population gradient with older populations at the central regions and younger ones towards the outskirts, along with a negative oxygen abundance gradient of -0.16 dex/re. Due to the difficulty of measuring important emission lines, the number of objects for the abundance gradient is small, but there is a hint that this galaxy has a broken gradient profile, with a drop towards the center. If the collision caused any disturbance in the galaxy, we believe it would be small and hard to detect with a limited number of objects. From all the other measurements, we found no deviations from a typical spiral galaxy and no significant difference between different directions in the galaxy. The stellar population and emission line analysis of NGC 1232B suggest that it is a starburst galaxy.Comment: 18 pages and 16 figures + 14 pages with 14 figures in the appendix. Accepted for publication on A&