South-South Cooperation in Times of Global Economic Crisis

For South-South cooperation, the current moment of global economic downturn is one of anxiety. South-South cooperation was born with the Non-Aligned Movement. It went through a latent period, but re-emerged in the 1990s and early 2000s. The momentum gathered when a handful of middle-income countries such as Brazil, India, Mexico and South Africa were set to improve their position as global players. They had developed some relatively successful social programmes, which they sought to share with other developing countries. Considering that conventional North-South cooperation had turned out to be of limited effectiveness, South-South cooperation gained further impetus.South-South Cooperation in Times of Global Economic Crisis

New York?s Brand-new Conditional Cash Transfer Programme: What if it Succeeds?

In 2007, emulating the Mexican experience, Mayor Bloomberg decided that New York City should also have its own conditional cash transfer programme (CCT). He named the programme Opportunity NYC after the Mexican Oportunidades. Is Opportunity NYC just one more CCT in the plethora of existing programmes? Or will it influence the way educational reforms have been traditionally conceptualized?New York?s Brand-new Conditional Cash Transfer Programme: What if it Succeeds?

Does eurosclerosis matter ? - institutional reform and labor market performance in Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s

This paper examines the labor market dynamics of six CEE countries over the last 10 years, paying special attention to the nature of labor market institutions these countries have adopted and their impact on labor market performance. This paper finds that, compared to EU countries, CEE countries fall in the"middle"of the flexibility scale regarding their employment protection legislation. While the effect of labor market institutions is hard to uncover, it should not be disregarded and they are likely to play an important role in the coming years.Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Markets,Banks&Banking Reform,Health Economics&Finance,Municipal Financial Management

La cooperación de Alemania en los procesos de justicia transicional en Colombia y su posicionamiento en el sistema internacional

La presente investigación da cuenta la relación entre la cooperación alemana en materia de Justicia Transicional en Colombia y el posicionamiento de este país europeo como potencia civil en materia de cooperación internacional. Para ello, se plantean algunas categorías teóricas que permiten entender la política exterior alemana hacia el proceso de Justicia Transicional en Colombia en los últimos diez años. Alemania se ha consolidado como una potencia líder regional asumiendo un liderazgo sustancial, promoviendo bienes colectivos y ejecutando proyectos de liderazgo, logrando un mayor reconocimiento tanto a nivel regional como a nivel global, asumiendo el liderazgo y un rol determinante, entre otros temas en materia de cooperación internacional. En este sentido, se explican las aspiraciones que tiene el país europeo para convertirse en potencia civil y se busca establecer las motivaciones para comprender su participaciónThis research realizes the relationship between German cooperation in the area of Transitional Justice in Colombia and the positioning of this European country as a civil power in international cooperation. To do so, some theoretical categories are raised to understand the German foreign policy towards the process of transitional justice in Colombia in the past ten years. Germany has been consolidated as a regional leading power, assuming a substantial leadership, promoting and implementing collective goods and leadership projects, achieving greater recognition, both regionally and globally, increasing a decisive role, among other topics on international cooperation. In this sense, the aspirations which has the European country to become civil power are explained and seeks to establish the motivations to understand the participation of Germany.Politólogo (a)Pregrad

Digital Alchemy: Matter and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Digital Animation and Interface Design

The recent proliferation of special effects in Hollywood film has ushered in an era of digital transformation. Among scholars, digital technology is hailed as a revolutionary moment in the history of communication and representation. Nevertheless, media scholars and cultural historians have difficulty finding a language adequate to theorizing digital artifacts because they are not just texts to be deciphered. Rather, digital media artifacts also invite critiques about the status of reality because they resurrect ancient problems of embodiment and transcendence.In contrast to scholarly approaches to digital technology, computer engineers, interface designers, and special effects producers have invented a robust set of terms and phrases to describe the practice of digital animation. In order to address this disconnect between producers of new media and scholars of new media, I argue that the process of digital animation borrows extensively from a set of preexisting terms describing materiality that were prominent for centuries prior to the scientific revolution. Specifically, digital animators and interface designers make use of the ancient science, art, and technological craft of alchemy. Both alchemy and digital animation share several fundamental elements: both boast the power of being able to transform one material, substance, or thing into a different material, substance, or thing. Both seek to transcend the body and materiality but in the process, find that this elusive goal (realism and gold) is forever receding onto the horizon.The introduction begins with a literature review of the field of digital media studies. It identifies a gap in the field concerning disparate arguments about new media technology. On the one hand, scholars argue that new technologies like cyberspace and digital technology enable radical new forms of engagement with media on individual, social, and economic levels. At the same time that media scholars assert that our current epoch is marked by a historical rupture, many other researchers claim that new media are increasingly characterized by ancient metaphysical problems like embodiment and transcendence. In subsequent chapters I investigate this disparity

Adição de Ácido Linoleico conjugado (CLA) no diluidor de congelação de sémen de touro, recolhido Post-Mortem, das raças Holstein Frísia, Aberdeen Angus, Charolês e Limousine

Dissertação de Mestrado, Engenharia Zootécnica, 7 de Abril de 2016, Universidade dos Açores.O setor agro-pecuário tem uma grande importância a nível mundial e tem vindo a desenvolver-se levando os produtores, cada vez mais, a um maior profissionalismo e eficiência, havendo um maior investimento em tecnologias que incrementam os ganhos genéticos dos animais, sendo que a inseminação artificial, recorrendo a sémen congelado, uma ferramenta essencial em qualquer exploração de animais. Desta forma o objectivo deste trabalho foi adicionar ácido linoleico conjugado (CLA), em diferentes concentrações, (0, 100 e 200 µM) no diluidor de congelação de sémen de touro das raças Holstein Frísia, Aberdeen Angus, Charolês e Limousine e avaliar a motilidade espermática, a integridade dos acrossomas e a viabilidade do sémen antes e depois de congelar/descongelar. Para isso, foram recolhidos dezoito testículos de bovinos, das raças Holstein Frísia, Charolês, Limousine e Aberdeen Angus, para criopreservação de sémen obtido a partir do epidídimo. As análises laboratoriais avaliaram a motilidade por microscopia ótica de contraste de fase e por citometria de fluxo, a vitalidade e integridade da membrana plasmática (usando a técnica de coloração dupla com os fluorocromos PI e SYBR-14) e a vitalidade e integridade acrossómica (usando os fluorocromos PI e FITC-PSA). Para a análise estatística foi realizada uma análise de variância simples ANOVA, em que diferenças com P <0,05 foram consideradas significativas. [...]ABSTRACT: The agricultural sector has a great importance worldwide, and has been developing, leading producers to greater professionalism and efficiency, increased investment in technologies that increase genetic gains of animals, while artificial insemination using frozen semen is considered an essential tool in any farm. The objective of this work was to add conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in different concentrations (0, 100 and 200 µM) of semen in the freezing dilutor of Holstein Frisian bull, Aberdeen Angus, Charolais and Limousine and evaluate sperm motility, acrosomes integrity and viability of the semen before and after freeze/thaw. For that, we collected eighteen bovine testicles of the Holstein Frisian, Charolais, Limousine and Aberdeen Angus, for cryopreservation of semen obtained from the epididymis. The laboratory tests have assessed the motility by optical phase contrast microscopy and flow cytometry, the vitality and integrity of the plasma membrane (using the technique of double staining with fluorochromes PI and SYBR-14) and the vitality and acrosome integrity (using the PI fluorochromes and FITC-PSA). For statistical analysis was conducted a simple analysis of variance ANOVA, in which differences with P <0.05 were considered significant. [...

Participatory social mapping: worlds between educational research and ecological activism

[Resumo] O lócus dessa pesquisa é o Estado de Mato Grosso-Brasil, um território que oferece¬nos inúmeras belezas naturais e rica biodiversidade somada a um vasto mosaico de identidades que forma uma grande rede tecida por grupos sociais que se espalham pelo Estado e lutam por uma vida digna em um ambiente preservado. Contrastam nesta paisagem os resultados da busca incessante pelo crescimento econômico, centrada na atividade econômica do agronegócio, caracterizado por contínuas áreas de monocultura, destinando grande parte da produção à exportação. Esse modelo é também, comumente, caracterizado pela concentração de terras, convertendo gigantescas áreas de florestas em monoculturas, em pecuária, em usinas hidrelétricas e em outras atividades que visam o lucro imediato, expropriando grupos sociais vulneráveis e provocando significativos conflitos socioambientais. O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma compreensão dessa dinâmica tão diversa que se faz presente neste território, em fecundo diálogo com a construção do “Mapa dos grupos sociais de Mato Grosso” e do “Mapa dos con flitos socioambientais de Mato Grosso”. Estes mapeamentos foram propostos e concretizados pelo Grupo Pesquisador em Educação Ambiental, Comunicação e Arte (GPEA) da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) com a importante contribuição de diversos parceiros. Para isso, elaboramos uma metodologia inovadora denominada Mapa Social, que se fundamentou nas autonarrativas de diferentes grupos sociais. Os resultados apresentados oferecem um panorama da situação atual, um retrato – mesmo que temporário – dos diferentes grupos sociais e conflitos que pulsam nos territórios de Mato Grosso. Inscritos em uma Educação Ambiental que almeja a transformação social com responsabilidade ecológica, apontamos como essa pesquisa vem tornando-se um referencial aos pesquisadores, aos go vernos e a sociedade civil. A educação ambiental em diálogo com o mapa social vem reforçar a valorização da cultura, na ousadia da reconstrução de sociedades sustentá veis, que resignifique valores como justiça ambiental, pertencimento e democracia[Abstract] The locus of this research is the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, an area that offers many natural beauties and rich biodiversity coupled to a mosaic of identities that form a large network woven by social groups that spread across the state and fight for a decent life in a protected environment. Contrast this landscape results from relentless pursuit of economic growth, economic activity centered on agribusiness, characterized by continuous monoculture areas, most of the production destined for export. This model is also commonly characterized by the concentration of land, converting huge areas of forests into monoculture in farming, in power plants and other activities aimed at immediate pro fit, expropriating vulnerable social groups and causing significant environmental conflicts. The aim of this paper is to present an understanding of these dynamics so different that is present in this territory, in fruitful dialogue with the construction of “Map of the social groups of Mato Grosso” and “Map of socioenvironmental conflicts of Mato Grosso.” These mappings have been proposed and implemented by the Research Group on Environmental Education, Communication and the Arts (GPEA) of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) with the important contribution of many partners. For this purpose, we developed an innovative methodology called Social Map, which was based on self-narratives of different social groups. The results presented provide an overview of the current situation, a picture - even temporarily - of different social groups and conflicts that pulsate in the territories of Mato Grosso. From an Environmental Education which aims at social transformation with ecological responsibility, we point out how this research has become a reference for researchers, governments and civil society. Environmental education in dialogue with the social map reinforces the value of culture, in the daring idea of reconstructing the sustainable societies that re-signify values such as en vironmental justice, belonging and democrac

Beyond ordinary policy change: Authoritarian policy dismantling in Brazil

From a normative perspective, policy change is seen as crucial to improving social conditions, reducing inequality, and promoting sustainability. However, what about change that implies the dismantling of previously successful policies? How can one differentiate between democratic policy change and policy dismantling? In order to shed light on these questions, this article analyzes changes occurred in Brazil since Jair Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. The paper addresses those changes from the perspective of the federal bureaucracy spread across different agencies and professional careers. The research design involved quantitative and qualitative data collected using the following methods: i) a survey with former and current federal employees; ii) semi-structured interviews with civil servants who have worked or are still working in the federal government. Research findings indicate that, in Brazil, policy dismantling is no ordinary policy change, as it has been marked by authoritarian dynamics that have disarranged the federal bureaucracy and eroded state capacity

Nutrological Management in Bariatric Surgery: A Narrative Review

Nutrology based on the analysis of benefits and harms generated by the ingestion of nutrients and assessing individual organic needs promotes the maintenance of health and the reduction of disease risk, as well as the treatment of manifestations of deficiency or excess. Obesity is defined by a body mass index greater than 30 kg/m². Its manifestation is the sum of genetic and environmental factors, this through sedentary lifestyle and caloric intake greater than energy consumption. There are many ways to deal with obesity, from behavioral changes such as a balanced diet and physical exercises, pharmacological and even surgical measures of different modalities, with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery being the most used technique in Brazil. The most common postoperative nutritional deficiencies are iron, protein, calcium, folate, thiamine, zinc, copper, and vitamins D, B12, A, C, and K. In this case, we present the importance of nutrology in monitoring patients after bariatric surgery. This research made use of a bibliographic survey, giving priority to articles dated from the last 5 years, using the databases Lilacs, Medline, bireme, where articles, dissertations, and theses were consulted, in search of the following keywords, obesity, bariatric surgery, and nutritional deficiency, post-bariatric feeding