Educomunicação e suas áreas de intervenção: Novos paradigmas para o diálogo intercultural

oai:omp.abpeducom.org.br:publicationFormat/1O material aqui divulgado representa, em essência, a contribuição do VII Encontro Brasileiro de Educomunicação ao V Global MIL Week, da UNESCO, ocorrido na ECA/USP, entre 3 e 5 de novembro de 2016. Estamos diante de um conjunto de 104 papers executivos, com uma média de entre 7 e 10 páginas, cada um. Com este rico e abundante material, chegamos ao sétimo e-book publicado pela ABPEducom, em seus seis primeiros anos de existência. A especificidade desta obra é a de trazer as “Áreas de Intervenção” do campo da Educomunicação, colocando-as a serviço de uma meta essencial ao agir educomunicativo: o diálogo intercultural, trabalhado na linha do tema geral do evento internacional: Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural Dialogue

The complete genome sequence of Chromobacterium violaceum reveals remarkable and exploitable bacterial adaptability

Chromobacterium violaceum is one of millions of species of free-living microorganisms that populate the soil and water in the extant areas of tropical biodiversity around the world. Its complete genome sequence reveals (i) extensive alternative pathways for energy generation, (ii) ≈500 ORFs for transport-related proteins, (iii) complex and extensive systems for stress adaptation and motility, and (iv) wide-spread utilization of quorum sensing for control of inducible systems, all of which underpin the versatility and adaptability of the organism. The genome also contains extensive but incomplete arrays of ORFs coding for proteins associated with mammalian pathogenicity, possibly involved in the occasional but often fatal cases of human C. violaceum infection. There is, in addition, a series of previously unknown but important enzymes and secondary metabolites including paraquat-inducible proteins, drug and heavy-metal-resistance proteins, multiple chitinases, and proteins for the detoxification of xenobiotics that may have biotechnological applications

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ

Pyriproxyfen and the microcephaly epidemic in Brazil: an ecological approach to explore the hypothesis of their association

Submitted by Adagilson Silva ([email protected]) on 2017-05-09T12:51:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 27812601 2016 alb-pyr pdf.pdf: 396957 bytes, checksum: 97ea20ae675fab833d4abdf50366b0e2 (MD5)Approved for entry into archive by Adagilson Silva ([email protected]) on 2017-05-09T19:18:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 27812601 2016 alb-pyr pdf.pdf: 396957 bytes, checksum: 97ea20ae675fab833d4abdf50366b0e2 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-09T19:18:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 27812601 2016 alb-pyr pdf.pdf: 396957 bytes, checksum: 97ea20ae675fab833d4abdf50366b0e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Recife, PE, Brasil / Universidade de Pernambuco. Recife, PE, Brasil.Universidade de Pernambuco. Recife, PE, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.Universidade de Pernambuco. Recife, PE, Brasil.Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães. Departamento de Saúde Coletiva. Recife, PE, Brasil.London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London, UK.The microcephaly epidemic in Brazil generated intense debate regarding its causality, and one hypothesised cause of this epidemic, now recognised as congenital Zika virus syndrome, was the treatment of drinking water tanks with pyriproxyfen to control Aedes aegypti larvae. We present the results of a geographical analysis of the association between the prevalence of microcephaly confirmed by Fenton growth charts and the type of larvicide used in the municipalities that were home to the mothers of the affected newborns in the metropolitan region of Recife in Pernambuco, the state in Brazil where the epidemic was first detected. The overall prevalence of microcephaly was 82 per 10,000 live births in the three municipalities that used the larvicide Bti (Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis) instead of pyriproxyfen, and 69 per 10,000 live births in the eleven municipalities that used pyriproxyfen. The difference was not statistically significant. Our results show that the prevalence of microcephaly was not higher in the areas in which pyriproxyfen was used. In this ecological approach, there was no evidence of a correlation between the use of pyriproxyfen in the municipalities and the microcephaly epidemic

Seleção de progênies de eucalipto pelo índice Z por MQM e Blup

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiência do índice Z (índice somatório das variáveis padronizadas) na seleção de progênies de irmãos completos entre Eucalyptus grandis e Eucalyptus urophylla via método dos quadrados mínimos (MQM) e da melhor predição linear não viesada (Blup). Os experimentos foram realizados em dois tipos de solo e de ambiente, em blocos ao acaso com cinco repetições, oito plantas por parcela e espaçamento de 3x2 m. Aos três anos de idade, as plantas foram avaliadas quanto ao incremento médio anual de madeira, à densidade básica, ao rendimento de celulose e ao álcali efetivo. Para a comparação da eficiência da seleção das melhores progênies, pelos procedimentos MQM e Blup, foi obtido o índice Z para cada indivíduo. Posteriormente, foram obtidas as médias preditas das progênies para o índice Z, ranqueadas em sentido favorável ao melhoramento. O índice clássico também foi utilizado. A coincidência entre as melhores progênies selecionadas pelos índices clássico e Z foi boa. No entanto, o índice Z permite visualização gráfica, o que possibilita verificar em quais caracteres uma determinada progênie apresenta alguma deficiência. Não há diferença entre as melhores progênies selecionadas pelo índice Z via MQM e Blup

Rock n' Seeds: A database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation

Advancing functional ecology depends fundamentally on the availability of data on reproductive traits, including those from tropical plants, which have been historically underrepresented in global trait databases. Although some valuable databases have been created recently, they are mainly restricted to temperate areas and vegetative traits such as leaf and wood traits. Here, we present Rock n' Seeds, a database of seed functional traits and germination experiments from Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation, recognized as outstanding centers of diversity and endemism. Data were compiled through a systematic literature search, resulting in 103 publications from which seed functional traits were extracted. The database includes information on 16 functional traits for 383 taxa from 148 genera, 50 families, and 25 orders. These 16 traits include two dispersal, six production, four morphological, two biophysical, and two germination traits-the major axes of the seed ecological spectrum. The database also provides raw data for 48 germination experiments, for a total of 10,187 records for 281 taxa. Germination experiments in the database assessed the effect of a wide range of abiotic and biotic factors on germination and different dormancy-breaking treatments. Notably, 8255 of these records include daily germination counts. This input will facilitate synthesizing germination data and using this database for a myriad of ecological questions. Given the variety of seed traits and the extensive germination information made available by this database, we expect it to be a valuable resource advancing comparative functional ecology and guiding seed-based restoration and biodiversity conservation in tropical megadiverse ecosystems. There are no copyright restrictions on the data; please cite this paper when using the current data in publications; also the authors would appreciate notification of how the data are used in publications