Projeto Green Park (Parque de diversão que gera energia limpa)

VII Seminário de Extensão Universitária da UNILA (SEUNI); VIII Encontro de Iniciação Científica e IV Encontro de Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação (EICTI 2019) e Seminário de Atividades Formativas da UNILA (SAFOR)A microbiologia pode ser aplicada em diferentes áreas da engenharia, inclusive na produção de matéria-prima para novos dispositivos (bio)eletrônicos. O atual projeto busca estabelecer uma linha de produção utilizando a nanocelulose bacteriana (NCB),para o desenvolvimento de materiais com aplicação na área de nanotecnologia, uma vez que produtos microbiológicos apontam para um desenvolvimento sustentável de dispositivos eletrônicos. A partir dos resultados obtidos, pode-se dizer que no presente projeto estabeleceu-se uma linha de produção de NCB, acumulou-se conhecimento necessário para o desenvolvimento de um compósito sustentável com potencial aplicação eletrônica. Além disto, no período a produção de um artigo de revisão para divulgação científica foi realizadoAgradecimento ao suporte financeiro realizado pelo Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Extensão - Fundação Araucária (PIBEX – FA

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Rewriting Modernity

This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinctionbetween topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time,and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the“squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor for framing perspectives on the past, present, and future. The analysis deconstructs the topography of the “squared horizon” as a relationality in an unfolding continuum, where spaces exist ontologically and where the immaterial forces of the dromospheric and the atmospheric generate a relational and historical connectedness

PROPAGAÇÃO VEGETATIVA DE PATCHOULI POR ESTAQUIA

O patchouli é uma espécie aromática amplamente utilizada por indústrias de cosméticos e de perfumarias. A propagação vegetativa do patchouli tem-se mostrado viável por meio da técnica de estaquia. O presente trabalho foi realizado na Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba – PR, em condições de casa-de-vegetação com sistema de irrigação intermitente durante os meses de maio a julho de 2009. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi inteiramente casualizado constituído por seis tratamentos (estacas caulinares com 1 par de folhas, 1 par de folhas reduzidas a metade, 1 folha, 1 folha reduzida a metade, estacas sem folhas e estacas foliares) com 4 repetições e 10 estacas por parcela. As estacas foram confeccionadas com 6 cm de comprimento, sem aplicação de reguladores vegetais e avaliadas aos 60 dias. Estacas com folhas apresentaram maior enraizamento independente da área foliar mantida. A manutenção de 1 par de folhas inteiro ou reduzido a metade resultou em maior porcentagem e número de raízes. A utilização da estaquia foliar e retirada completa das folhas das estacas resultou em menor enraizamento e maior porcentagem de estacas mortas.The patchouli is an aromatic species widely used by the cosmetic and perfume industry. The vegetative propagation of patchouli has been shown to be feasible by the technique of cutting. This study was conducted at the Federal University of Parana, Curitiba - PR, Brazil, under greenhouse condition with a system with intermittent irrigation during the months of May to July 2009. The experimental design was completely randomized consists of 6 treatments (cuttings with 1 pair of leaves, 1 pair of leaves halved, 1 leaf, 1 leaf reduced by half, without cutting leaves and leaf cuttings) with 4 replicates and 10 cuttings per plot. Cuttings were made with 6 cm in length, without application of plant growth regulators and were evaluated after 60 days. Cuttings with leaves showed higher rooting independent of leaf area maintained. The maintenance of 1 pair of leaves, whole or halved resulted in greater percentage and number of roots. The use of leaf cuttings and cuttings without leaves resulted in lower rooting and higher percentage of dead cuttings

Avaliação química de medicamentos emagrecedores classificados como naturais

Introdução: Atualmente, o consumo de medicamentos emagrecedores naturais ocupa lugar de destaque nas vendas de medicamentos, principalmente em decorrência da facilidade de acesso, tendo em vista que são amplamente ofertados na internet, bem como no comércio especializado ou não. Tal situação aumenta o potencial de adulteração desses medicamentos, pois a fiscalização pelos órgãos de controle é difícil de ser aplicada de forma satisfatória. Desse modo, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar a possível presença de substâncias anorexígenas sintéticas em medicamentos emagrecedores naturais vendidos informalmente no mercado local, na região da Tríplice Fronteira de Foz do Iguaçu-PR. Métodos: A abordagem experimental foi baseada inicialmente em um estudo preliminar por meio do perfil cromatográfico de 3 diferentes medicamentos emagrecedores naturais em experimentos de Cromatografia de Camada Delgada (CCD), com dois sistemas eluentes denominados TA e TS2. Após os estudos preliminares realizados por CCD, os medicamentos foram examinados por Cromatografia Gasosa acoplada à Espectrometria de Massas (CG/EM) utilizando o cromatógrafo Agilent Technologies 7890A. Resultados: As bandas majoritárias dos medicamentos MT e BT apresentaram a mesma migração que o padrão de sibutramina nos sistemas eluentes TA (Rf~0,75) e TS2 (Rf~0,92), indicando a adulteração por tal substância. A sensibilidade maior da técnica CG/EM, no entanto, permitiu constatar que os três medicamentos examinados continham sibutramina na composição. Conclusões: A presença de sibutramina nos três medicamentos examinados evidencia a necessidade de uma melhor fiscalização pelos órgãos competentes, no que se refere aos medicamentos vendidos no mercado informal

‘What are you going to do, confiscate their passports?’ Professional perspectives on cross-border reproductive travel

Objective: This article reports findings from a UK-based study which explored the phenomenon of overseas travel for fertility treatment. The first phase of this project aimed to explore how infertility clinicians and others professionally involved in fertility treatment understand the nature and consequences of cross-border reproductive travel. Background: There are indications that, for a variety of reasons, people from the UK are increasingly travelling across national borders to access assisted reproductive technologies. While research with patients is growing, little is known about how ‘fertility tourism’ is perceived by health professionals and others with a close association with infertility patients. Methods: Using an interpretivist approach, this exploratory research included focussed discussions with 20 people professionally knowledgeable about patients who had either been abroad or were considering having treatment outside the UK. Semi-structured interviews were recorded, transcribed verbatim and subjected to a thematic analysis. Results: Three conceptual categories are developed from the data: ‘the autonomous patient’; ‘cross-border travel as risk’, and ‘professional responsibilities in harm minimisation’. Professionals construct nuanced, complex and sometimes contradictory narratives of the ‘fertility traveller’, as vulnerable and knowledgeable; as engaged in risky behaviour and in its active minimisation. Conclusions: There is little support for the suggestion that states should seek to prevent cross-border treatment. Rather, an argument is made for less direct strategies to safeguard patient interests. Further research is required to assess the impact of professional views and actions on patient choices and patient experiences of treatment, before, during and after travelling abroad

Consumption caught in the cash nexus.

During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern world but this paper argues that the concept is, in British writing at least, too concerned with its economic origins in the selling and buying of consumer goods or commodities. It is argued that to understand material culture as determined through the monetary exchange for things - the cash nexus - leads to an inadequate sociological understanding of the social relations with objects. The work of Jean Baudrillard is used both to critique the concept of consumption as it leads to a focus on advertising, choice, money and shopping and to point to a more sociologically adequate approach to material culture that explores objects in a system of models and series, ‘atmosphere’, functionality, biography, interaction and mediation

Prime beef cuts : culinary images for thinking 'men'

The paper contributes to scholarship theorising the sociality of the brand in terms of subject positions it makes possible through drawing upon the generative context of circulating discourses, in this case of masculinity, cuisine and celebrity. Specifically, it discusses masculinity as a socially constructed gender practice (Bristor and Fischer, 1993), examining materialisations of such practice in the form of visualisations of social relations as resources for 'thinking gender' or 'doing gender'. The transformative potential of the visualisations is illuminated by exploring the narrative content choreographed within a series of photographic images positioning the market appeal of a celebrity chef through the medium of a contemporary lifestyle cookery book. We consider how images of men 'doing masculinity'are not only channelled into reproducing existing gender hierarchy and compulsory heterosexuality in the service of commercial ends, but also into disrupting such enduring stereotyping through subtle reframing. We acknowledge that masculinity is already inscribed within conventionalised representations of culinary culture. In this case we consider how traces of masculinity are exploited and reinscribed through contemporary images that generate resources for rethinking masculine roles and identities, especially when viewed through the lens of stereotypically feminised pursuits such as shopping, food preparation, cooking, and the communal intimacy of food sharing. We identify unsettling tensions within the compositions, arguing that they relate to discursive spaces between the gendered positions written into the images and the popular imagination they feed off. Set against landscapes of culinary culture, we argue that the images invoke a brand of naively roughish "laddishness" or "blokishness", rendering it in domesticated form not only as benign and containable, but fashionable, pliable and, importantly, desirable. We conclude that although the images draw on stereotypical premeditated notions of a feral, boisterous and untamed heterosexual masculinity, they also set in motion gender-blending narratives

The New ‘Hidden Abode’: Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy

In a pivotal section of Capital, volume 1, Marx (1976: 279) notes that, in order to understand the capitalist production of value, we must descend into the ‘hidden abode of production’: the site of the labour process conducted within an employment relationship. In this paper we argue that by remaining wedded to an analysis of labour that is confined to the employment relationship, Labour Process Theory (LPT) has missed a fundamental shift in the location of value production in contemporary capitalism. We examine this shift through the work of Autonomist Marxists like Hardt and Negri, Lazaratto and Arvidsson, who offer theoretical leverage to prize open a new ‘hidden abode’ outside employment, for example in the ‘production of organization’ and in consumption. Although they can open up this new ‘hidden abode’, without LPT's fine-grained analysis of control/resistance, indeterminacy and structured antagonism, these theorists risk succumbing to empirically naive claims about the ‘new economy’. Through developing an expanded conception of a ‘new hidden abode’ of production, the paper demarcates an analytical space in which both LPT and Autonomist Marxism can expand and develop their understanding of labour and value production in today's economy. </jats:p