Trabalho e intolerância religiosa: um estudo sobre a Problemática do preconceito contra praticantes de religiões de matriz africana no ambiente organizacional

The present article has as objective to analyze the influences and consequences of religious intolerance in the interpersonal behavior inside organizations. The study integrates African descent religions believers, that are part of African descent religions meetinghouse in the Médio Paraíba region. It has been deployed bibliographic and descriptive researches in field, with data collection spawned from focus groups using semi structured questions. Thirty participants were interviewed and divided into three groups of ten people each, with ages from 18 to 70 years old, with gender, ethnic and sexual orientation diversity. By the data analysis it has been brought to a conclusion that the religious intolerance is latent and emergent in the institutional ambit, being a great intensifier in interpersonal conflict and psychic suffering of the worker, in need of attention and new organizational strategies development. The conclusion also showed the necessity of growth of psychology professionals integration to contribute in solutions and confrontation of this problematic.Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar las influencias y consecuencias de la intolerancia religiosa en el comportamiento interpersonal dentro de las organizaciones. El estudio integra practicantes de religiones africanas, pertenecientes a centros de religión de origen africano en la región de Media Paraíba. La investigación bibliográfica y la investigación descriptiva se aplicaron en el campo, con la recopilación de datos de un grupo de focal utilizando preguntas semiestructuradas. Se entrevistó a treinta participantes, divididos en tres grupos de diez personas cada uno, con una edad mínima de 18 años y una edad máxima de 70, con diversidad de género, etnia y orientación sexual. Desde el análisis de datos se concluyó que la intolerancia religiosa es algo latente y emergente en el ámbito institucional, como también un gran potenciador de conflictos interpersonales y sufrimientos psíquicos del colaborador, que carece de atención y desarrollo de nuevas estrategias organizativas, así como una mayor integración de los profesionales de la psicología para contribuir a la solución y enfrentando este problema.O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar as influências e consequências da intolerância religiosa no comportamento interpessoal dentro das organizações. O estudo integra professantes de religiões africana, pertencentes de centros de religião de matriz africana na região do Médio Paraíba. Foi aplicada pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa descritiva em campo, com coletas de dados a partir de grupo focal utilizando perguntas semiestruturadas. Foram entrevistados 30 participantes divididos em três grupos de dez pessoas cada, com idade mínima de 18 e máxima de 70 anos, com diversidade de gênero, etnia e orientação sexual. A partir da análise de dados chegou-se à conclusão que a intolerância religiosa é algo latente e emergente no âmbito institucional, sendo grande potencializador de conflitos interpessoais e sofrimento psíquico do colaborador, carecendo de atenção e desenvolvimento de novas estratégias organizacionais, assim como maior integração de profissionais da psicologia para contribuir na solução e enfrentamento dessa problemática

Relação entre vantagem em casa e o efeito do primeiro gol nos resultados finais das partidas de futebol do campeonato brasileiro

O objetivo do estudo foi analisar a relação da vantagem em casa e o efeito do primeiro gol nos resultados finais das partidas do campeonato brasileiro. Analisaram-se dados referentes a todos os jogos do Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol dos anos de 2011 a 2014, totalizando-se 1520 jogos. As análise dos dados foram feitas com base no teste de qui-quadrado de associação e utilizou-se o teste post hoc de bonferroni. O nível de significância adotado foi de p<0,05. Os resultados apontam que houve associação significativa tanto entre a marcação do primeiro gol e obtenção de vitórias quanto entre o fator casa e o resultado positivo em partidas de futebol do Campeonato Brasileiro em todos os anos analisados. Discutiu-se que as variáveis fator casa e marcação do primeiro gol na partida influenciam positivamente nos resultados finais dos jogos do campeonato brasileiro. Portanto, treinadores e profissionais da área devem estabelecer estratégias para otimizar o uso dessas variáveis durante toda a temporada

Magnetic mechanically-interlocked porphyrin-carbon nanotubes

Resumen del póster presentado a la XXXVIII Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Química, celebrada en el Palacio de Congresos de Granada, del 27 de junio al 30 de junio de 2022.Magnetic molecules have been proposed as versatile building blocks for quantum computing and molecular spintronics devices. The molecular spin can be used to encode quantum information in qubits or even perform logic operations as quantum gates with unmatched reproducibility and scalability. In spintronics, that same molecular spin can be used to generate spin currents in molecular based spin filters, spin switches or spin valves in carbon-nanotube/molecule hybrids, among other applications. Several strategies have been followed to couple the magnetic molecules to carbon nanotubes: direct physisorption of the molecules, covalent bonding or encapsulation of the magnetic molecules. We have developed the synthesis of mechanically interlocked rotaxane-like SWCNT derivatives (MINTs), in which the ring-closing metathesis of a U-shape molecule around SWCNTs is templated. In particular, we fabricated Cu2+ and Co2+ metalloporphyrin dimer rings mechanically interlocked around carbon nanotubes to form magnetic MINTs (mMINT). Magnetic porphyrins are selected due to their recently proved suitability as qubits, even preserving their magnetic properties and quantum coherence on surfaces. The mechanical bond places the porphyrin magnetic cores in close contact with the SWCNT without disturbing the molecular spin nor the carbon nanotube structure. The magnetic properties of the metallic dimers are preserved upon formation the mechanically interlocked hybrid.Peer reviewe

Three decades of research on Iberian wild Carnivora: trends, highlights, and future directions

1. Mammalian carnivores (Carnivora) are crucial components of landscapes, because of both their top-down effects on lower trophic level species and their sensitivity to bottom-up processes, such as limited food resources (e.g. due to climate instability). To understand their functional role in Iberian ecosystems more clearly, and to define effective plans for their management and conservation, it is crucial to sum up the available regional knowledge that can inform decision-making processes.2. We review bio-ecological research on wild Iberian carnivores over 30 years (1990–2020) and identify key knowledge gaps and priority avenues for future research. Based on a systematic review of the scientific literature, we aimed to: 1) summarise current knowledge; 2) assess species and ecoregion representativeness; 3) identify key research topics addressed and those lacking investment and 4) suggest key future research priorities.3. We examined 920 peer-reviewed articles involving wild Iberian mammalian carnivores, focusing on different bio-ecological issues. We found considerable heterogeneity in the topics and species investigated, as well as in the study areas (ecoregions) explored, with a mismatch between the research priorities identified by researchers and the knowledge gaps.4. We suggest that future research should prioritise: 1) rear-edge populations that are at the southwestern limits of the species' Eurasian range, thus being particularly sensitive to the increasing fragmentation and aridity of Iberian ecosystems, and that were less studied (e.g. brown bear Ursus arctos, stoat Mustela erminea, European mink Mustela lutreola and pine marten Martes martes); 2) less-studied topics, such as morphometry and body condition, ecophysiology, and reproductive biology, all of which provide essential information for species' management and conservation and 3) specific ecoregions for which studies on species' adaptations to environmental and anthropic contexts are lacking (e.g. northern ecoregions of Iberia, Iberian conifer forests and Northwest Iberian montane forests). Our review provides the necessary background to support future research on carnivore populations in Iberia.João Carvalho was supported by a research contract (CEECIND/01428/2018) from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Nuno Santos was also supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/116596/2016). Carlos Fernandes appreciates the support of cE3c through an Assistant Researcher contract (FCiência.ID contract #366) and FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) for Portuguese National Funds attributed to cE3c within the strategic project UID/BIA/00329/2020. Carlos Fernandes also thanks FPUL for a contract of Invited Assistant Professor. Pedro Monterroso was supported by UID/BIA/50027/2021 with funding from FCT/MCTES through national funds. Thanks are due to FCT/MCTES for the financial support to cE3c (UIDB/00329/2020), CHANGE (LA/P/0121/2020) and CESAM (UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/2020+ LA/P/0094/2020), through national funds, and FEDER co-funding within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020. This work was also financially supported by: i) project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028204 (WildForests) funded by FEDER, through COMPETE2020—Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI), and by national funds (OE) through FCT/MCTES; Project ref. 2022.03253.PTDC (ForCe), funded by national funds (OE) through FCT; iii) project NORTE-01-0246-FEDER-000063, supported by the Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020) under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement and through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).Peer reviewe

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict thatmost of the world’s >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century

Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities

AimAmazonia hosts more tree species from numerous evolutionary lineages, both young and ancient, than any other biogeographic region. Previous studies have shown that tree lineages colonized multiple edaphic environments and dispersed widely across Amazonia, leading to a hypothesis, which we test, that lineages should not be strongly associated with either geographic regions or edaphic forest types.LocationAmazonia.TaxonAngiosperms (Magnoliids; Monocots; Eudicots).MethodsData for the abundance of 5082 tree species in 1989 plots were combined with a mega-phylogeny. We applied evolutionary ordination to assess how phylogenetic composition varies across Amazonia. We used variation partitioning and Moran's eigenvector maps (MEM) to test and quantify the separate and joint contributions of spatial and environmental variables to explain the phylogenetic composition of plots. We tested the indicator value of lineages for geographic regions and edaphic forest types and mapped associations onto the phylogeny.ResultsIn the terra firme and várzea forest types, the phylogenetic composition varies by geographic region, but the igapó and white-sand forest types retain a unique evolutionary signature regardless of region. Overall, we find that soil chemistry, climate and topography explain 24% of the variation in phylogenetic composition, with 79% of that variation being spatially structured (R2 = 19% overall for combined spatial/environmental effects). The phylogenetic composition also shows substantial spatial patterns not related to the environmental variables we quantified (R2 = 28%). A greater number of lineages were significant indicators of geographic regions than forest types.Main ConclusionNumerous tree lineages, including some ancient ones (&gt;66 Ma), show strong associations with geographic regions and edaphic forest types of Amazonia. This shows that specialization in specific edaphic environments has played a long-standing role in the evolutionary assembly of Amazonian forests. Furthermore, many lineages, even those that have dispersed across Amazonia, dominate within a specific region, likely because of phylogenetically conserved niches for environmental conditions that are prevalent within regions