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Field assessments in western Kenya link malaria vectors to environmentally disturbed habitats during the dry season
Lack of population genetic structure and host specificity in the bat fly, Cyclopodia horsfieldi, across species of Pteropus bats in Southeast Asia
A estética do grotesco e a produção audiovisual para a educação em saúde: segregação ou empatia? O caso das leishmanioses no Brasil Aesthetics of the grotesque and audiovisual production for health education: segregation or empathy? The case of leishmaniasis in Brazil
Buscando compreender a produção de imagens sobre saĂşde e doença e seus efeitos de aprendizagem resultante da educação em saĂşde mediada pelos vĂdeos educativos, o artigo analisa a produção audiovisual sobre as leishmanioses no Brasil. Com base no estudo de 14 vĂdeos educativos, verificou-se a predominância de um discurso tĂ©cnico-cientĂfico e uma estĂ©tica do grotesco. Observou-se a hegemonia do modelo televisivo-espetacular, em particular o padrĂŁo do telejornalismo, com o uso constante de voz off, indutora da fixação de sentidos. Ao invĂ©s de estimular a reflexĂŁo crĂtica sobre as circunstâncias sociais do adoecimento, a prática discursiva e imagĂ©tica dos vĂdeos encoraja a sua banalização, tanto pela abordagem pouco criteriosa da doença como pela construção de representações estereotipadas. Há a exposição visual de pessoas doentes e nĂŁo o protagonismo crĂtico e sensĂvel das populações implicadas. O artigo apresenta, entĂŁo, com base nos estudos sobre a antropologia visual e da saĂşde, argumentos para uma abordagem inovadora na produção e utilização de vĂdeos educativos, e da educação em saĂşde mediada pelo audiovisual. Esta deve respeitar e dialogar com as culturas, a subjetividade e a cidadania, desenvolvendo estĂ©ticas audiovisuais (narrativas e imagĂ©ticas) como práxis educativa no campo da saĂşde coletiva.<br>In order to understand audiovisual production on health and disease and the pedagogical effects of health education mediated by educational videos, this article analyzes the audiovisual production on leishmaniasis in Brazil. Fourteen educational videos showed the hegemony of TV aesthetics, particularly a journalistic paradigm with constant use of voice-over, inducing the fixation of meanings. Rather than stimulating critical reflection on the social circumstances of leishmaniasis, the videos' discourse and images promote a banal, non-critical, stigmatized representation of the disease. Individuals with the disease are subjected to visual exposure rather than being involved critically and sensitively as protagonists in prevention and treatment. The article thus presents approaches based on studies of visual and health anthropology, arguing in favor of an innovative approach to the production and utilization of educational videos in health education, mediated through audiovisuals. Health education should respect and engage in dialogue with various cultures, subjectivity, and citizenship, developing an audiovisual aesthetics (in terms of narrative and image) that fosters an educational praxis in the field of collective health
Implementation of the Model-Based Science Writing Heuristic Approach in Elementary School Science
Testing Local Adaptation in a Natural Great Tit-Malaria System: An Experimental Approach
On the Effectiveness of an Opportunistic Traffic Management System for Vehicular Networks
7 pages, 5 postscript figures, submitted to Physical Review LettersWe search for hadronic decays of a light Higgs boson (A0) produced in radiative decays of an Upsilon(2S) or Upsilon(3S) meson, Upsilon --> gamma A0. The data have been recorded by the BABAR experiment at the Upsilon(3S) and Upsilon(2S) center of mass energies, and include (121.3 \pm 1.2) x 10^6 Upsilon(3S) and (98.3 \pm 0.9) x 10^6 Upsilon(2S) mesons. No significant signal is observed. We set 90% confidence level upper limits on the product branching fractions B(Upsilon(nS)-->gamma A0) x B(A0-->hadrons) (n=2 or 3) that range from 1 x 10^{-6} for an A0 mass of 0.3 GeV/c^2 to 8 x 10^{-5} at 7 GeV/c^2