Open teaching practice: reflections on the use of OER educational activities

This article presents results from a study carried out with Brazilian and Portuguese professors whose objective was to understand the dynamic of using and sharing online resources in their pedagogical practices. With a qualitative foundation, the instruments for data collection were online surveys and interviews recorded with professors. After reflecting on the main challenges faced, the presentation of recommendations could collaborate towards encouraging producing and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) and, consequently, broadening the democratization of knowledge.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Diversity across Seasons of Culturable Pseudomonas from a Desiccation Lagoon in Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico.

Cuatro Cienegas basin (CCB) is a biodiversity reservoir within the Chihuahuan desert that includes several water systems subject to marked seasonality. While several studies have focused on biodiversity inventories, this is the first study that describes seasonal changes in diversity within the basin. We sampled Pseudomonas populations from a seasonally variable water system at four different sampling dates (August 2003, January 2004, January 2005, and August 2005). A total of 70 Pseudomonas isolates across seasons were obtained, genotyped by fingerprinting (BOX-PCR), and taxonomically characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing. We found 35 unique genotypes, and two numerically dominant lineages (16S rDNA sequences) that made up 64% of the sample: P. cuatrocienegasensis and P. otitidis. We did not recover genotypes across seasons, but lineages reoccurred across seasons; P. cuatrocienegasensis was isolated exclusively in winter, while P. otitidis was only recovered in summer. We statistically show that taxonomic identity of isolates is not independent of the sampling season, and that winter and summer populations are different. In addition to the genetic description of populations, we show exploratory measures of growth rates at different temperatures, suggesting physiological differences between populations. Altogether, the results indicate seasonal changes in diversity of free-living aquatic Pseudomonas populations from CCB

Reception and Translations of Beckett’s Bilingual Work

This essay deals with the characteristics of repetition in Beckett’sworks and how it constitutes an issue no translator of these works can ignore. It is pointed out that the kind of repetition employed by the author has a direct bearing on his decision to become the translator of most of his writings, thus creating a bilingual work. Both the features of his bilinguilism and the reception these bilingual works received in the French and Anglo-American world are commented here. By way of these comments, we argue that the beckettian translator should always consider the English and the French texts, as both integrate an oeuvre in which a sharp distinction between “original” and “translation” no longer holds

Going after the Wish for Silence: Understanding Some of Beckett’s Voices

Fábio de Souza Andrade. Samuel Beckett: O Silêncio Possível. São Paulo: Ateliê, 2001.Fábio de Souza Andrade. Samuel Beckett: O Silêncio Possível. São Paulo: Ateliê, 2001

História e ficção na narrativa de Antonio Muñoz Molina

IX Congresso Brasileiro de Hispanistas realizado nos dias 22 a 25 agosto 2016Antonio Muñoz Molina (Úbeda, Espanha, 1956) é um dos expoentes da narrativa espanhola contemporânea. Autor premiado e membro da Real Academia Espanhola, possui uma vasta obra constituída de romances, novelas, contos, ensaios, diários e artigos. Por se tratar de um autor ainda pouco lido e estudado no Brasil, esta comunicação, parte de uma tese de doutorado em andamento, tem por objetivo apresentar um panorama da produção romanesca de Muñoz Molina, focalizando um aspecto relevante de sua escritura: a relação entre história e ficção. Nesta comunicação verificaremos como episódios da história da Espanha, desde a decadência do Império até a abertura democrática, passando pela Guerra Civil e pela ditadura franquista, tornamse matéria para a ficção em obras como Beatus Ille (1986), El jinete polaco (1991), La noche de los tiempos (2009) e Sefarad (2001), sendo esta última uma narrativa em que a relação entre história e ficção é levada aos extremos da experiência romanesca. Os relatos que compõem esta “novela de novelas” perpassam o traumático século e dão voz às vítimas de catástrofes como a Segunda Guerra e as ditaduras da América Latina. Muñoz Molina faz do discurso literário, no dizer de Linda Hutcheon (1991), um equivalente do discurso histórico como forma de acessar conhecimentos sobre o passado, problematizando a relação entre o histórico e o ficcional, sem a pretensão da fidelidade, mas oportunizando reflexões éticas sobre o passado da humanidade, borrando limites entre o real e o imaginado.UNILA­-UNIOEST

Moral emotions and physiological markers in prosocial decision-making

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of prototypical moral emotions on prosocial behavior in an economic task, in interaction with physiological markers of arousal, measured through Electrodermal Response and Heart Rate, and of parasympathetic response, measured through Heart Rate Variability. 40 undergraduate and postgraduate students performed an experimental version of the Ultimatum Game with moral vignettes describing the responders. We found that participants’ mean offer in the elevation block was higher than in the outrage block. The physiological measures did not differ significantly between both emotional blocks. The results suggested that information people receive about third-parties influence their behavior towards them, through moral judgment. Therefore, the results are in line with the assumption that emotions elicited by a disinterested elicitor can influence one’s decision to help or not a third-part

Experiência dos profissionais de saúde da atenção básica em atendimento pré-hospitalar e serviço de atendimento móvel de urgência

TCC (graduação em Enfermagem) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópoli

Evaluating a Doppler Radar Monitor for Assessing Honey Bee Colony Health

Honey bees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of crops each year. It is therefore vital that beekeepers assess the productivity and health of colonies in order to reassure the reproductive future of this species. Modern techniques in which beekeepers can assess honey bee colony health are labor intensive, costly, and invasive to the bees as they must open and rearrange the hive to assess colony health. A radar-based sensor, placed outside of the hive, can be used to assess colony activity and health in a non-invasive manner. In order to validate the function of this hive monitor and quantify colony health several colonies were studied with three objectives: (i) Objective I looked to affirm that bee activity was a good predictor of colony health. The relationship between honey bee colony health and hive activity of eleven hives were observed over the course of a week and then assessed for health status by estimating brood (immatures) and adult population size (total frame area occupied per colony) (ii); Objective II looked at the activity indices derived from the radar output were correlated with counts of foraging bees determined through the use of a manual counter (bees/second), an optical sensor, counting the Doppler signature tracks in recorded radar data and weather conditions; and (iii) the activity indices (RMS) vs colony health were observed for five hives over the course of two weeks. Results were characterized by statistically significant correlations in all objectives. A model was constructed in Objective I that resulted in an r2 of 0.84. This model confirmed that the radar-derived activity index was a good measure of bee activity. It also showed that solar radiation was the best weather factor predicting bee activity. Objective II affirmed that bee activity was a good predictor of colony health with an r2 of 0.53. Objective III affirmed that radar-derived activity was a good predictor of colony health with an r2 of 0.56. This data provides evidence that the radar-based hive activity monitor is a viable tool for monitoring honey bee colony health

Learning and performing Sanskrit as a sacred language: children’s religious repertoires and syncretic practice in London

Aim and objectives: This article examines Sanskrit sacred language learning and performance from a multilingual and multimodal perspective. Uniting a repertoire approach to language and language learning and faith literacies as syncretic practice, we investigate how children in the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu/Saiva faith community in London learn and use Sanskrit alongside Tamil and/or English and other multimodal and embodied resources to communicate with the Divine. Methodology:. The data were collected as part of a three-year multi-sited collaborative team ethnography documenting how migrant children become literate in faith settings. Data and analysis: The data consist of participant observations across religious education classes, the Temple and the home, and interviews with the key participant child, Chantia, her brother and the Chief priest at the Temple. The analysis focuses on instances in the data where sacred language learning and performance are thematised. Additionally, we analyse a digital video recording of Chantia’s daily morning prayers using transvisuals to examine how she combines and syncretises Sanskrit religious texts with other multilingual, multimodal and embodied resources. Findings: Learning Sanskrit consists of integrating a limited set of Sanskrit religious texts and practices, such as key religious concepts, mantras and poetic verses in children’s evolving religious repertoire and is embedded in children’s everyday religious socialisation across contexts. Chantia unites and syncretises a range of conventionalised semiotic resources, including religious texts in Sanskrit to communicate with the Divine and personalise her act of worship. Conclusions: Children’s religious repertoires are learned, deployed, adapted and expanded differently depending on the affordances of the socio-cultural context. Chantia’s meaning-making process is much more complex than the rigid categorisation of the different modal resources she deploys, forming an integrated system of communication. Originality: Our conceptualization of Sanskrit sacred language learning is anchored on a multilingual and multimodal perspective that does not privilege Sanskrit over other (sacred) languages nor linguistic over non-linguistic resources. Combining ethnographic observations and interview data with transvisuals foregrounds the layering and interplay of these different resources. Significance/implications: We view our paper as extending current critique of logocentric perspectives in applied and sociolinguistics to the examination of religious repertoires that are often driven by a communication hierarchy positioning sacred languages, such as Sanskrit and Tamil, at the top and other aspects of communication as secondary