Transparência de tecnologia contextualizada: estudo de caso no Semiárido paraibano.

O artigo apresenta uma análise multidimensional sobre a estratégia de intervenção do Cooperar/PB-BIRD com o objetivo de reduzir a extrema pobreza no Estado da Paraíba. A partir da difusão de tecnologias adaptadas as reais necessidades e interesses das famílias rurais e as peculiaridades do semiárido, isto é, Transferência de Tecnologia Contextualizada (TTC), fundamentada na construção de um Índice de Sustentabilidade de Investimentos de Politicas Públicas (IPP), com a finalidade de monitorar e avaliar sua consecução. O IPP possibilitou que, associar-se a cada base municipal, o Acervo Tecnológico, hoje existente, voltado para a sustentabilidade dos Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APLs). O processo de TTC em marcha na Paraíba disciplina as atividades na esfera estadual, municipal e local, em base sustentável. Enquanto, o IPP pautado em valores adicionados brutos a preço corrente da agropecuária, torna possível mensurar para cada um dos 222 municípios, seus graus de sustentabilidade de aplicação de investimentos de políticas pública por habitante Rural, antes e posterior sua consecução

Metarhizium anisopliae combinado ou não com dose subletal de tiametoxam no controle de Tibraca limbativentris.

O percevejo-do-colmo Tibraca limbativentris destaca-se como um dos insetos mais prejudiciais ao arroz irrigado. Alternativas ao controle químico menos agressivas a este ambiente frágil tem sido buscada para o manejo deste inseto. Neste contexto, avaliou-se a eficiência do fungo Metarhizium anisopliae (M.a.) sozinho ou em combinação com dose subletal de tiametoxam sobre o T. limbativentris

Online videos: The hidden curriculum

Introduction: Dental undergraduates will access the Internet searching for learning materials to complement their training; however, open access content is not generally recommended by dental schools. This study aimed to evaluate how dental students are using online video content. Materials and Methods: Students from eight Universities (Athens, Birmingham, Brescia, Cardiff, Melbourne, Paris, Sao Paulo and Valdivia) representing three continents were invited to complete a survey on their access and learning from online videos. Results: International students behave similarly when studying dental content online. Of 515 respondents, 94.6% use the Internet as a learning tool. It was observed that videos are not frequently recommended during didactic lectures (9.6%). But many students (79.9%) will use YouTube for their learning which includes clinical procedures. Students will check online content before performing procedures for the first time (74.8%), to understand what was explained in class (65.9%) or read in books (59.5%), to relearn clinical techniques (64.7%) and to visualise rare procedures (49.8%). More than half of the students do not fully trust the accuracy or the reliability of online content. This does not prevent students from watching and sharing dental videos with classmates (64.4%). The content watched is not shared with teachers (23.3%) even when it contradicts what was learnt in the school (38.2%). Conclusion: This study concludes that students regularly integrate open access digital resources into learning portfolios but are hesitant to inform their teachers about their viewing habits. Students wish to receive critical skills on how to evaluate the material they encounter outside their traditional learning space

Proteomic and metabolomic analysis of a drought tolerant soybean cultivar from Brazilian savanna.

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It’s not the size, it’s the relationship: from ‘small states’ to asymmetry

Debate about the definition of “small state” has produced more fragmentation than consensus, even as the literature has demonstrated its subjects’ roles in joining international organizations propagating norms, executing creative diplomacy, influencing allies, avoiding and joining conflicts, and building peace. However, work on small states has struggled to identify commonalities in these states’ international relations, to cumulate knowledge, or to impact broader IR theory. This paper advocates a changed conceptual and definitional framework. Analysis of “small states” should pivot to examine the dynamics of the asymmetrical relationships in which these states are engaged. Instead of seeking an overall metric for size as the relevant variable—falling victim in a different way Dahl’s “lump-of-power fallacy,” we can recognize the multifaceted, variegated nature of power, whether in war or peacetime