REFLEXÕES ACERCA DO PROCESSO DE IMPLANTAÇÃO DE UMA WEB RÁDIO EDUCATIVA UNIVERSITÁRIA

This paper analyses the proposal of creating an Educational WEB Radio at Faculdade de Educação, UEMG in Belo Horizonte (FAE/CBH/UEMG) originated from the results of an institutional research made in 2009. The study was later unfolded in an action with extensionist nature, developed since 2011 aiming to create and consolidate a University WEB Radio. Therefore the phases of effective implementation of WEB Radio are presented and discussed, and it is possible to highlight the studies made with audio caption and edition, data codification and transmission and programming management. The path of creation and implementation of the communication resource under discussion, made it possible to have a higher contact with literature, in order to permit a wider comprehension of the importance of media to education field. Besides that, the proposal also collaborated to the creation of a technical methodology to the expansion of WEB Radios in schools and other educational institutions, what occurred through partnerships after 2012 and 2013.Este artigo analisa a proposta de criação de uma WEB Rádio Educativa Universitária na Faculdade de Educação da Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais - FAE/UEMG em Belo Horizonte. A proposta teve sua origem a partir dos resultados de uma pesquisa institucional feita no ano de 2009 que mais tarde se desdobrou em uma ação em 2011, objetivando na criação e consolidação de uma WEB Rádio Universitária. Portanto, as fases de implementação da WEB Rádio são apresentadas e discutidas, e é possível destacar os estudos realizados no que se refere ao uso de softwares para a edição, codificação e transmissão de arquivos de áudio, bem como da gestão de programação. O caminho da criação e implementação deste recurso de comunicação em discussão, tornou possível um contato maior com a literatura da área, a fim de permitir uma compreensão ampliada da importância da mídia para o campo da educação. Além disso, a proposta também colaborou para a criação de uma metodologia técnica para a expansão das WEB Rádios em escolas e outras instituições de ensino, o que ocorreu através de parcerias após os anos de 2012 e 2013

Synthetic Peptides Mimic gp75 from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in the Diagnosis of Paracoccidioidomycosis

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a systemic granulomatous disease, endemic in Latin America, caused by the thermal dimorphic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Although some fungal antigens have already been characterized and used for serological diagnosis, cross-reactions have been frequently observed. Thus, the examination of fungal forms in clinical specimens or isolation of P. brasiliensis by culture is still the most frequent method for the diagnosis of this mycosis. In this study, a random peptide phage display library was used to select mimotopes of P. brasiliensis, which were employed as antigens in an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The protective monoclonal antibody against experimental PCM (anti-gp75) was used as molecular target to screen a phage display library. That approach led to a synthetic peptide named P2, which was synthesized and tested against PCM patients’ sera to check whether it was recognized. There was significant recognition of P2 by sera of untreated PCM patients when compared with normal human sera. Sera from treated PCM group, patients with other mycosis or co-infected with HIV had much lower recognition of P2 than untreated patient group. The test showed a sensitivity of 100 and 94.59% of specificity in relation to human sera control. These data indicate a potential use of P2 as diagnostic tool in PCM. Its application for serological diagnosis of PCM may contribute to the development and standardization of simpler, faster and highly reproducible immunodiagnostic tests at low cost

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Trajetórias da Educomunicação nas Políticas Públicas e a Formação de seus Profissionais

Esta obra é composta com os trabalhos apresentados no primeiro subtema, TRAJETÓRIA – Educação para a Comunicação como Política pública, nas perspectivas da Educomunicação e da Mídia-Educação, do II Congresso Internacional de Comunicação e Educação. Os artigos pretendem propiciar trocas de informações e produzir reflexões com os leitores sobre os caminhos percorridos, e ainda a percorrer, tendo como meta a expansão e a legitimação das práticas educomunicativas e/ou mídia-educativas como política pública para o atendimento à formação de crianças, adolescentes, jovens e adultos, no Brasil e no mundo