Private Social Investment Trends in Latin America

This publication, coordinated by Institute for Development of Social Investment (IDIS) in Brazil, brings to the public the debates of the International Seminar on Social Investment in Latin America, in 2007. IDIS experience can contribute to the debate on the issue of social investment. Since its founding in 1999, more than 100 clients in Brazil and Latin America were guided by our Institute

Media Archaeology as Film Practice—The Werner Nekes Collection

The Nekes Collection of visual techniques and optical devices is an invaluable resource for scholars and filmmakers researching a wider history of film and animation comprised of early and pre cinematographic materials. Items relating to three-dimensional optical techniques such as stereoscopes, perspective theatres, peepshows, vues d’optique, and zograscopes (the bulk dating from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century) make for a significant part of the collection and reveal an interest in three-dimensional representation and binocular superimposition. The films of Dore O. (b.1946) and Werner Nekes (1944–2017) stand out in terms of the richness of experimental visual techniques in dialogue with this extensive historical archive used primarily as a source for creating new films and devising new ways of engaging with the medium. This paper presents an overview of the collection and investigates the connections between the objects found in the archive and Nekes and O.’s editing techniques, with a particular focus on three-dimensionality and spatial illusions created through transparency and dissolving effects

Tendências do Investimento Social Privado na América Latina

Essa publicação, coordenada pelo Institute for Development of Social Investment (IDIS) no Brasil, traz ao leitor o debate do Seminário Internacional de Investimento Social na América Latina, de 2007. A experiência do IDIS com investimento social contribui de maneira significativa para o debate. Desde sua fundação, em 1999, mais de 100 clientes no Brasil e América Latina foram guiados pelo Instituto

Private Social Investment Trends in Latin America (en español)

This publication, coordinated by Institute for Development of Social Investment (IDIS) in Brazil, brings to the public the debates of the International Seminar on Social Investment in Latin America, in 2007. IDIS experience can contribute to the debate on the issue of social investment. Since its founding in 1999, more than 100 clients in Brazil and Latin America were guided by our Institute

Tendencias de la Inversión Social Privada en Latino América

Esta publicación, coordinada por el Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Inversión Social (IDIS) en Brasil lleva al lector el debate del Seminario Internacional de Inversión Social en América Latina, 2007. La experiencia de IDIS con la inversión social contribuye de manera significativa al debate. Desde su fundación en 1999, más de 100 clientes en Brasil y América Latina fueron guiados por el Instituto

Use of dialkyldithiocarbamato complexes of bismuth(III) for the preparation of nano- and microsized Bi2S3 particles and the X-ray crystal structures of [Bi{S2CN(CH3)(C6H13)}(3)] and [Bi{S2CN(CH3)(C6H13)}(3)(C12H8N2)]

A range of bismuth(III) dithiocarbamato complexes were prepared and characterized. The X-ray crystal structures of the compounds [Bi{S2CN(CH3)(C6H13)}3] (1) and [Bi{S2CN(CH3)- (C6H13)}3(C12H8N2)] (2) are reported. The preparation of Bi2S3 particulates using a wet chemical method and involving the thermalysis of Bi(III) dialkyldithiocarbamato complexes is described. The influence of several experimental parameters on the optical and morphological properties of the Bi2S3 powders was investigated. Nanosized Bi2S3 colloids were obtained having long-term stability and showing a blue shift on the optical band edge; the presence of particles exhibiting quantum size effects is discussed. Morphological welldefined Bi2S3 particles were obtained in which the fiber-type morphology is prevalent.FCT - POCTI/1999/CTM/ 3545

Optimal control of a dengue epidemic model with vaccination

We present a SIR+ASI epidemic model to describe the interaction between human and dengue fever mosquito populations. A control strategy in the form of vaccination, to decrease the number of infected individuals, is used. An optimal control approach is applied in order to find the best way to fight the disease.Comment: This is a preprint of a paper accepted for presentation at ICNAAM 2011, Halkidiki, Greece, 19-25 September 2011, and to appear in AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 138

Modeling and Optimal Control Applied to a Vector Borne Disease

A model with six mutually-exclusive compartments related to Dengue disease is presented. In this model there are three vector control tools: insecticides (larvicide and adulticide) and mechanical control. The problem is studied using an Optimal Control (OC) approach. The human data for the model is based on the Cape Verde Dengue outbreak. Some control measures are simulated and their consequences analyzed

Insecticide control in a Dengue epidemics model

A model for the transmission of dengue disease is presented. It consists of eight mutually-exclusive compartments representing the human and vector dynamics. It also includes a control parameter (insecticide) in order to fight the mosquitoes. The main goal of this work is to investigate the best way to apply the control in order to effectively reduce the number of infected humans and mosquitoes. A case study, using data of the outbreak that occurred in 2009 in Cape Verde, is presented.Comment: Accepted 28/07/2010 in the special session "Numerical Optimization" of the 8th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 19-25 September 201