What does it mean to be a man? Trans masculinities, bodily practices, and reflexive embodiment

Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Promoting safety during process variability : a multidisciplinary challenge

Variability can be defined as the inherent instability of any type of process. In manufacturing settings, some efforts in reducing process variability have been developed, but zero variability seems to be, so far, an infeasible target. Ergonomic studies have been showing that workers are usually the ones responsible for residual variability. However, it can have impact over the safety of workers. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the need for managing residual variability in addition to putting the workers in a position of transgressors, it also exposes them to unforeseen risks. To achieve that, three examples of variability situations are described. The main method applied was the Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity. It is argued that there is the need for a multidisciplinary approach, including not only OH&S professionals, but also human resources and engineering designers, to promote safety during process variability.This work was partially supported by a grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development ( CNPq / Brazil)

Caracterização molecular de populações de Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense em regiões produtoras de banana na Bahia.

O mal-do-Panamá, causado pelo fungo Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), é uma das doenças mais destrutivas da bananeira, sendo considerada entre as cinco doenças economicamente mais importantes de todos os tempos. O fato de ser causada por um fungo do solo que, mesmo na ausência da cultura, sobrevive por períodos prolongados, faz com que a medida de controle mais efetiva seja o uso de variedades resistentes. Desta forma, o projeto tem como objetivo caracterizar populações brasileiras de Foc por meio de marcadores SSR

Micropropagação de cultivares de framboeseira.

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Analysis of the ecological preferences of spontaneous vegetation. Case study applied to winter cereals

Se efectuaron 100 muestreos florísticos en parcelas de trigo, avena, cebada, caracterizándose algunas variables como el pH, textura del suelo, contenido en fósforo y potasio, precipitación, tipos de suelos y cultivos. Se realizó un análisis de frecuencias y abundancia de las especies. El método estadístico usado para las preferencias ecológicas fue el Método de los Perfiles Ecológicos e Información Mutua complementado con la aplicación del Método de Análisis Canónico de Correspondencias. Según el Método de Perfiles Ecológicos e Información Mutua, la distribución de la vegetación estudiada está estrechamente relacionada con la textura y pH. Los resultados de la aplicación del criterio de información Akaike y función ANOVA confirman los mismos factores como discriminantes en la distribución de la vegetación.It was Conducted 100 floristic surveys in fields of wheat, oat, barley together with the measurement of some variables, such as pH, soil texture, phosphorus and potassium content, precipitation, soil types and type of crops. An analysis of frequency and abundance of species was performed. The statistical method used for ecological preferences was the Ecological profiles and Mutual Information methodology complemented with the Canonical Correspondence Analysis methodology. According the Method of Ecological profiles and Mutual Information, the distribution of species is closely related to texture and pH. The application of Akaike information criterion and ANOVA function confirm the same factors as discriminating the distribution of vegetation