Tourism planning informatization

The Tourism activity, due to its own characteristics, causes high environmental impact and its development should be influenced by the environmental characteristics of each region. The Information Systems, mainly those which represent the geographical information, will permit the development of a design, allowing the Decision Maker the consult, the management and the presentation of decision schemes based on the defined measures of the Tourism Planning of a region. As the information associated with this design should be real and update, the Internet should be used as a means of access to the information of the region. The design presents the schemes associated to each decision, offering competitive advantages to the Decision Makers involved in the decision process, since it is possible to evaluate, foresee and control the future environmental impacts of Tourism

Project Terracert: a new paradigm in forest legislation for building efficient landscapes in municipalities within the Amazon/ Projeto

A gestão florestal na Amazonia Brasileira alcançou bons resultados nos últimos 15 anos, em termos de combate ao desmatamemo. Em Paragominas, o conjunto de ações implementadas pela política de combate ao desmatamento obteve grande sucesso no seu controle, contudo, referida política nunca considerou a eficiência da matriz florestal para produção de serviços ecossistêmicos. Fragmentação florestal. extração madeireira ilegal e incêndios recorrentes causam degradação florestal acelerada. acarretando prejuizos ambientais bem superiores ao desmatamento, necessitando de adaptações na legislação. Atualmente os produtores agricolas intensificam os sistemas de produção selecionando para isso, as áreas de maior aptidão agronõmica e abandonando as outras. A politica municipal de paisagem eficiente visa reordenar essas matrizes espaciais de uso agropecuário e de uso ftorestal. A canografia das aptidões permite delimitar áreas prioritárias para serviços ecossistêmicos e outras para intensificação agropecuária, sendo a base para uma lei municipal de microzoneamento. Referida lei define protocolos de recomposição eficiente da paisagem para cada propriedade. A adesão a esses protocolos é voluntaria trazendo as seguintes vantagens ao produtor: acesso a credito para intensificação, contabilização dos ativos ambientais ligados a restauração em áreas prioritárias, autorização de remoção da vegetação nas áreas de aptidão para a proctução. A competência do municipio para a gestão florestal é limitada as florestas secundarias. Para incluir no ordenamento todos os tipos de floresta, e assim, ganhar eficiência, o município vem construindo diálogos nos niveis estaduais e federais. Esse projeto piloto e construído de forma a ser replicado em outras jurisdições da região amazônica

EA and students with SEN: activities of daily living (ADL), water and their sustainable use

[Resumo] O presente artigo tem como objetivo dar a conhecer atividades desenvolvidas na disciplina de Ciências da Natureza, do 6º ano de escolaridade, com alunos com Necessidades Educativas Especiais (NEE), tendo subjacentes Atividades da Vida Diária (AVD) relacionadas com o consumo de água, visando a consciencialização para a importância deste recurso, bem como da necessidade da racionalização do seu consumo. A água potável é um bem cada vez mais escasso, sendo a sua utilização e governança sustentáveis, cada vez mais, um propósito que deverá envolver Toda a comunidade, o que implica incluir crianças/jovens com NEE, as quais poderão/deverão também contribuir para alcançar tais desígnios. Considerando a Escola uma instituição de ensino e aprendizagem essencialmente formal, onde o conhecimento do recurso água, a sua gestão e utilização sustentáveis são conteúdos curriculares de abordagem obrigatória para todos os alunos, foi elaborado um conjunto de atividades práticas alicerçadas nas AVD, permitindo dessa forma o envolvimento direto dos alunos com NEE nas mesmas, tornando-os cidadãos de pleno direito, mais conhecedores e, consequentemente, mais interventivos na comunidade e ambiente que integram[Abstract] The purpose of this article is to present activities developed in Natural Sciences discipline, of the 6th year of schooling, with students with special educational needs, with underlying daily life activities related to the consumption of water, aiming to raise awareness of the importance of this resource, as well as the need to rationalize its consumption. Potable water is an increasingly scarce resource, and its use and governance are increasingly sustainable, a purpose that should involve the whole community, which implies including children/young people who can/should also contribute to achieve such goals. Considering the School an essentially formal teaching and learning institution, where knowledge of the water resource, its sustainable management and use are mandatory curricular contents for all students, a set of practical activities based on the daily life activities were elaborated, thus allowing the direct involvement of all students in them, making them citizens with full rights, more knowledgeable and consequently more involved in the community and environment that they integrate

Jurisdictional approach of farm-forest interfaces in Paragominas, PA: a municipal strategy to guarantee agricultural sustainable intensification and forest conservation in Amazonian landscapes

In the Brazilian Amazon, since the last ten years, federal policies and value chains private commitments have been successful in reducing deforestation. However,the Amazonian landscapes are facing remaining challenges at the farm-forest interfaces such as halting forest degradation, restoring degraded lands. intensify and diversify land uses. Innovative local governance mechanisms are needed. This contribution will present a jurisdictional initiative in the Municipality of Paragominas (19342 km'). the first green municipality of the Brazilian Amazon. A geographic information system (GIS) has been developed, combining several data such as soils texture. slope. hydrographic and transport networks, land uses. forest cover including several level of degradation. It allowed to identify. for the whole municipality, land suitability for agricultural intensification and diversification, forest conservation and restoration and to support participative forward-looking scenarios. A municipal plan to reorganize land and forest uses has then been elaborated. Such plan allow to preserve or restore 9000 km2 of forests and to reforest 3500 km2 of land strategic for the production of ecosystems services. More 3500 km2 of degraded forest could be convened into productive agricultural systems and 4200 km2 of productive deforested areas could be intensified. Conversely to the classical opposition between production and conservation, this win-win strategy allows to build efficient landscapes and engage public and private actors. More, the GIS allows to monitor a large set of indicators that can be verified by third parties, such as certifying bodies. to transparently attest to the municipality's progress towards sustainability beyond the end of deforestation

Dependence of the crossover exponent with the diffusion rate in the generalized contact process model

We study how the crossover exponent, phi, between the directed percolation (DP) and compact directed percolation (CDP) behaves as a function of the diffusion rate in a model that generalizes the contact process. Our conclusions are based in results pointed by perturbative series expansions and numerical simulations, and are consistent with a value phi = 2 for finite diffusion rates and phi = 1 in the limit of infinite diffusion rate.Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)CNPq(FAPERJ) Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeir

An International Urogynecological Association (IUGA)/International Continence Society (ICS) joint report on the terminology for the conservative and nonpharmacological management of female pelvic floor dysfunction

There has been an increasing need for the terminology on the conservative management of female pelvic floor dysfunction to be collated in a clinically based consensus report.This Report combines the input of members and elected nominees of the Standardization and Terminology Committees of two International Organizations, the International Urogynecological Association (IUGA) and the International Continence Society (ICS), assisted at intervals by many external referees. An extensive process of nine rounds of internal and external review was developed to exhaustively examine each definition, with decision-making by collective opinion (consensus). Before opening up for comments on the webpages of ICS and IUGA, five experts from physiotherapy, neurology, urology, urogynecology, and nursing were invited to comment on the paper.A Terminology Report on the conservative management of female pelvic floor dysfunction, encompassing over 200 separate definitions, has been developed. It is clinically based, with the most common symptoms, signs, assessments, diagnoses, and treatments defined. Clarity and ease of use have been key aims to make it interpretable by practitioners and trainees in all the different specialty groups involved in female pelvic floor dysfunction. Ongoing review is not only anticipated, but will be required to keep the document updated and as widely acceptable as possible.A consensus-based terminology report for the conservative management of female pelvic floor dysfunction has been produced, aimed at being a significant aid to clinical practice and a stimulus for research

Emergência do plantio de açaí: rumo inverso a agroecologia? O caso de Paragominas

O objetivo deste trabalho foi observar as dinâmicas de plantação de açaí no município de Paragominas, as redes sócio-profissionais que estão se construindo e o papel das instituições (pesquisa, extensão e politicas) neste processo. A pesquisa foi feita por meio de revisão bibliográfica e documental e aplicação de roteiro semi-estruturado com atores (instituições e produtores) relevantes para a questão do açaí no município, sendo entrevistados 6 instituições e 2 produtores. Concluiu-se que o açaí vem ganhando destaque no município, mas ainda de forma incipiente, englobando de forma diferenciada produtores mais ou menos capitalizados, sendo estes acompanhados de forma mais próxima (SAGRI e EMATER), indireta (EMBRAPA e SEMAGRI) ou praticamente inexistente (STTR e SPR) pelas instituições atuantes no meio rural do município. (Résumé d'auteur

Beta-agonist stimulation ameliorates the phenotype of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy mice and patient-derived myotubes

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neuromuscular disease characterized by the loss of lower motor neurons. SBMA is caused by expansions of a polyglutamine tract in the gene coding for androgen receptor (AR). Expression of polyglutamine-expanded AR causes damage to motor neurons and skeletal muscle cells. Here we investigated the effect of β-agonist stimulation in SBMA myotube cells derived from mice and patients, and in knock-in mice. We show that treatment of myotubes expressing polyglutamine-expanded AR with the β-agonist clenbuterol increases their size. Clenbuterol activated the phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway and decreased the accumulation of polyglutamine-expanded AR. Treatment of SBMA knock-in mice with clenbuterol, which was started at disease onset, ameliorated motor function and extended survival. Clenbuterol improved muscle pathology, attenuated the glycolytic-to-oxidative metabolic alterations occurring in SBMA muscles and induced hypertrophy of both glycolytic and oxidative fibers. These results indicate that β-agonist stimulation is a novel therapeutic strategy for SBMA

Roadmapping como instrumento integrador de projetos de P&D em institutos públicos

Com base em revisão bibliográfica e em um estudo de caso,\ud é\ud objetivo\ud deste artigo\ud propor\ud um processo\ud roadmapping\ud para integrar e alinhar projetos de pesquisa e de\ud desenvolvimento em Institutos Públicos. Na literatura,\ud a\ud pesquisa e\ud o\ud desenvolvimento\ud normalmente são considerados como processo único. Entretanto, a pesquisa e o\ud desenvolvimento\ud em\ud Institutos Públicos são\ud processos distintos, com lógicas de\ud organização e gerenciamento\ud igualmente distintos\ud , demandando\ud , por isso,\ud processos\ud específicos\ud de seleção quanto aos critérios e métodos de avaliação e escolha de projetos.\ud Um método que vem se consolidando e difundido c\ud om o propósito de alinhar e integrar\ud processos distintos é o\ud technology roadmapping\ud , que se mostrou uma técnica apropriada\ud para o alinhamento e integração de projetos de pesquisa e de desenvolvimento, por\ud explorar os vínculos entre planejamento estratégico\ud , diretrizes de P&D e seleção de\ud projetosThis article aims to propose a roadmapping process to integrate and align research and\ud development projects in public\ud institutions. It is based on literature review and a case study.\ud In the literature, research and development are usually considered as the sole process.\ud However, research and development in public institutions are distinct processes with also\ud distinct orga\ud nizational and management logics. So, they demand specific procedures\ud regarding the projects selection criteria and methods of evaluation. One method that has\ud been consolidated and disseminated in order to align and integrate different processes is\ud technol\ud ogy roadmapping, which has proved to be a suitable technique for the alignment\ud and integration of research and development projects by exploring the links among\ud strategic planning, R&D guidelines and project selectio