A aprendizagem baseada em problemas - abp aplicada a turmas do ensino técnico em saneamento

O presente trabalho foi produzido a partir de intervenções realizadas durante a disciplina Biologia Aplicada, em turmas de Técnico em Saneamento Básico, quando se buscou estabelecer mecanismos para a discussão e apresentação de soluções de um problema real, que neste caso específico foi o impacto ambiental provocado pela morte de 4900 bois nos porões do um navio libanês que naufragou no porto de Vila do Conde em Barcarena/PA. O levantamento do problema e as discussões em torno da sua solução foram feitos com base na metodologia conhecida como Aprendizagem Baseada em Problemas- ABP, ocasião em que adotamos a resolução de problemas como técnica de ensino. Neste artigo descrevemos as características principais da metodologia utilizada, assim como os resultados deste trabalho

Eye-Tracking Causality

How do people make causal judgments? What role, if any, does counterfactual simulation play? Counterfactual theories of causal judgments predict that people compare what actually happened with what would have happened if the candidate cause had been absent. Process theories predict that people focus only on what actually happened, to assess the mechanism linking candidate cause and outcome. We tracked participants' eye movements while they judged whether one billiard ball caused another one to go through a gate or prevented it from going through. Both participants' looking patterns and their judgments demonstrated that counterfactual simulation played a critical role. Participants simulated where the target ball would have gone if the candidate cause had been removed from the scene. The more certain participants were that the outcome would have been different, the stronger the causal judgments. These results provide the first direct evidence for spontaneous counterfactual simulation in an important domain of high-level cognition

Multilocus sequence identification of penicillium species in cork bark during plank preparation for the manufacture of stoppers

Despite several studies reporting Penicillium as one of the most frequent fungal genera in cork planks, the isolates were rarely identified to species level.We conducted a detailed study to identify Penicillium species from the field to the factory environment prior to and after boiling the cork planks. A total of 84 samples were analyzed. Of the 486 Penicillium isolates phenotypically identified, 32 representative or unusual strains were selected for identification by multilocus DNA sequence type. Cork proved to be a rich source of Penicillium biodiversity. A total of 30 taxa were recognized from cork including rarely seen species and 6 phylogenetically unique groups. Spores of some species lodged deep in cork can survive the boiling process. P. glabrum, P. glandicola and P. toxicarium, species with high CFU numbers in the field, are still frequently present in cork after boiling. Other species are killed by the boiling treatment and replaced by Penicillium species originating from the factory environment. Species known to contribute to cork taint were isolated at all stages. Good manufacturing practices are necessary at all stages in the preparation of cork planks to minimize the load of Penicillium species that produce cork taint.CTCOR.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT

TRAÇANDO NOVOS CAMINHOS PARA APRESENTAR O ANARQUISMO: UMA RESENHA DE KINNA, RUTH. THE GOVERNMENT OF NO ONE. LONDRES: PELICAN BOOKS, 2019.

Nesta obra, Ruth Kinna (2019) busca apresentar o anarquismo para o público geral, e o faz de maneira não-convencional, considerando que escapa à dicotomia acadêmica contemporânea entre narrativas de descontinuidade e uma narrativa de continuidade restrita ao anarquismo como luta de classes. O livro se divide em cinco seções (“Tradições”, “Culturas”, “Práticas”, “Condições” e “Prospectos”), incluindo também introdução, biografias, notas e índice. A autora analisa as origens do anarquismo, a crítica à dominação, suas divisões internas geradas a partir de debates organizacionais e sobre questões de atuação, a forma como se organiza em prática com vistas à disseminação de culturas de anarquia e o que se pode esperar de seu futuro. A despeito de algumas negligências, Kinna retrata adequadamente a diversidade da tradição, inova com a referência a figuras menos conhecidas, e reformula paradigmas clássicos de análise

Use of Excel worksheets with user-friendly interface in batch process (PSBP) to minimize the makespan

In the chemical industry, the necessity for scheduling is becoming more pronounced, especially in batch production mode. Nowadays, planning industrial activities is a necessity for survival. Intense competition requires diversified products and delivery in accordance with the requirements of consumers. These activities require quick decision making and the lowest possible cost, through an efficient Production Scheduling. So, this work addresses the Permutation Flow Shop scheduling problem, characterized as Production Scheduling in Batch Process (PSBP), with the objective of minimizing the total time to complete the schedule (Makespan). A method to approach the problem of production scheduling is to turn it into Mixed Integer Linear Programming- MILP, and to solve it using commercial mathematical programming packages. In this study an electronic spreadsheet with user-friendly interface (ESUFI) was developed in Microsoft Excel. The ease of manipulation of the ESUFI is quite evident, as with the use of VBA language a user-friendly interface could be created between the user and the spreadsheet itself. The results showed that it is possible to use the ESUFI for small problems

Objective, computerized video-based rating of blepharospasm severity

OBJECTIVE: To compare clinical rating scales of blepharospasm severity with involuntary eye closures measured automatically from patient videos with contemporary facial expression software. METHODS: We evaluated video recordings of a standardized clinical examination from 50 patients with blepharospasm in the Dystonia Coalition's Natural History and Biorepository study. Eye closures were measured on a frame-by-frame basis with software known as the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT). The proportion of eye closure time was compared with 3 commonly used clinical rating scales: the Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale, Global Dystonia Rating Scale, and Jankovic Rating Scale. RESULTS: CERT was reliably able to find the face, and its eye closure measure was correlated with all of the clinical severity ratings (Spearman ρ = 0.56, 0.52, and 0.56 for the Burke-Fahn-Marsden Dystonia Rating Scale, Global Dystonia Rating Scale, and Jankovic Rating Scale, respectively, all p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate that CERT has convergent validity with conventional clinical rating scales and can be used with video recordings to measure blepharospasm symptom severity automatically and objectively. Unlike EMG and kinematics, CERT requires only conventional video recordings and can therefore be more easily adopted for use in the clinic