Blackout Poetry: uma poética do corte como rasura

This paper discusses the poetics of cutting, carried out by Austin Kleon within his blackout poetry project, wherein experimental poems are produced by scratching news from newspapers. Similarly to what Tristan Tzara proposed in the last dada manifest, blackout poems put at stake a kind of art made by excision, instead of addition, which subverts the most traditional paradigms for interpreting literary texts.O presente artigo discute a poética do corte perpetrada por Austin Kleon no seu projeto de blackout poetry, em que poemas experimentais são produzidos a partir da rasura de notícias de jornal. Apresentando similaridades com a proposta de Tristan Tzara no último manifesto dadaísta, os poemas em blecaute põem em questão uma produção artística que se dá por excisão, e não por adição, o que subverte os paradigmas mais tradicionais de interpretação de textos literários

(Un) Continuity in e-Lit in Portuguese and Spanish

The creation of digital literature in Portuguese and Spanish has shown a constant engagement with fluidity and change. Whereas the topics developed in e-lit in Portuguese and Spanish have shown a continuum as manifested by the use of metaphors to represent popular culture, high culture and gender issues, the media used to express those concepts has shown (un)continuity by relying in new digital means that open up new possibilities of expression, representation and dissemination. The two papers in this panel explore how e-lit provides a new medium to present the myth of the labyrinth in digital poems that challenge our conceptions of reading and art and how e-lit in Spanish questions and resists the Anglo-American approach to feminism. Both presentations demonstrate the (un) continuity prevalent in e-lit in Portuguese and Spanish thus opening up a discourse that allows us to see literature and the topics presented in this panel in a new light

Individual accessibility and segregation on activity spaces: an agent-based modelling approach

One of the main challenges of cities is the increasing social inequality imposed by the way population groups, jobs, amenities and services, as well as the transportation infrastructure, are distributed across urban space. In this thesis, the concepts of accessibility and segregation are used to study these inequalities. They can be defined as the interaction of individuals with urban opportunities and with individuals from other population groups, respectively. Interactions are made possible by people’s activities and movement within a city, which characterise accessibility and segregation as inherently dynamic and individual-based concepts. Nevertheless, they are largely studied from a static and place-based perspective. This thesis proposes an analytical and exploratory framework for studying individual-based accessibility and segregation in cities using individuals’ travel trajectories in space and time. An agent-based simulation model was developed to generate individual trajectories dynamically, employing standard datasets such as census and OD matrices and allowing for multiple perspectives of analysis by grouping individuals based on their attributes. The model’s ability to simulate people’s trajectories realistically was validated through systematic sensitivity tests and statistical comparison with real-world trajectories from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and travel times from London, UK. The approach was applied to two exploratory studies: São Paulo, Brazil, and London, UK. The first revealed inequalities in accessibility by income, education and gender and also unveiled within-group differences beyond place-based patterns. The latter explored ethnic segregation, unveiling patterns of potential interaction among ethnic groups in the urban space beyond their residential and workplace locations. Those studies demonstrated how inequality in accessibility and segregation can be studied both at large metropolitan scales and at fine level of detail, using standard datasets, with modest computational requirements and ease of operationalisation. The proposed approach opens up avenues for the study of complex dynamics of interaction of urban populations in a variety of urban contexts

Individual accessibility and segregation on activity spaces: an agent-based modelling approach

One of the main challenges of cities is the increasing social inequality imposed by the way population groups, jobs, amenities and services, as well as the transportation infrastructure, are distributed across urban space. In this thesis, the concepts of accessibility and segregation are used to study these inequalities. They can be defined as the interaction of individuals with urban opportunities and with individuals from other population groups, respectively. Interactions are made possible by people’s activities and movement within a city, which characterise accessibility and segregation as inherently dynamic and individual-based concepts. Nevertheless, they are largely studied from a static and place-based perspective. This thesis proposes an analytical and exploratory framework for studying individual-based accessibility and segregation in cities using individuals’ travel trajectories in space and time. An agent-based simulation model was developed to generate individual trajectories dynamically, employing standard datasets such as census and OD matrices and allowing for multiple perspectives of analysis by grouping individuals based on their attributes. The model’s ability to simulate people’s trajectories realistically was validated through systematic sensitivity tests and statistical comparison with real-world trajectories from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and travel times from London, UK. The approach was applied to two exploratory studies: São Paulo, Brazil, and London, UK. The first revealed inequalities in accessibility by income, education and gender and also unveiled within-group differences beyond place-based patterns. The latter explored ethnic segregation, unveiling patterns of potential interaction among ethnic groups in the urban space beyond their residential and workplace locations. Those studies demonstrated how inequality in accessibility and segregation can be studied both at large metropolitan scales and at fine level of detail, using standard datasets, with modest computational requirements and ease of operationalisation. The proposed approach opens up avenues for the study of complex dynamics of interaction of urban populations in a variety of urban contexts

Financing Chain Associations Industry Speaks

industry associations, contribution systems, citriculture, Fundercitus, Agribusiness, Agricultural Finance, Industrial Organization, Marketing,

Ethics and Design in the Brazilian Context

Often driven by practical and immediate requirements, more and more people are incorporating technology into a variety of aspects of their lives, often without reflecting on the consequences of using them. On the other hand, studies on interactive system development that lead to behavioral change have been gaining ground on the agenda of large HCI conferences. This movement brings to the forefront the fundamental issues of ethics in design and technology use. A designer’s intentions, when directing certain actions or behaviors, are not always explicit or desired by the stakeholders affected by the use of the technology. Systems that induce an undesired purchase, or even those that use conditioning strategies to cause a behavioral change are examples of such intentions. The challenge proposed is therefore about the relationship between design and personal freedom in a way that these technology users do not become victims, either passively or submissively, of the effects of its use. This advance allows for the redefinition of the relationship between man and technology, and the application of new forms of designing and developing interactive systems that take into account the ethical aspects of this relationship

Using A Spiral Approach To Facilitating Engineering Research And Education In Real Industry Settings

Engineering research and education is often done in collaboration with industrial partners through the Industry as Laboratory (IaL), and Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) paradigms. However, its findings are not always adopted, despite the use of well-established and rigorous research methodologies. Academia employs oftentimes extensive and time consuming analyses, while industry operates in smaller cycles with tangible intermediate results. This can lead to the industry losing interest in the research. The Spiral Approach for Systems Engineering Research (SASER) is an approach that aims to mitigate that risk. This can have a twofold benefit in the industry remaining interested, but also the researcher staying motivated. To apply this approach in practice and receive feedback from a broader audience of people we created the SEFI 2023 workshop entitled: “Using a spiral approach to facilitate engineering research and education embedded in real industry settings”. This workshop has the objective of discussing best practices when conducting engineering education and research in collaboration with industry. To achieve the planned learning outcomes, the workshop activities will follow a cycle of learn=\u3eapply=\u3ereflect on provided specific case studies that are developed in order to allow the application of SASER. The workshop was attended by 8 participants that were split into 2 groups of 4 people (the 2nd group further decided to split further into a group of 3 and one individual). The results of the case studies and the reflection of the participants in the workshop indicate a clear potential for SASER and are promising for further research and development

Agressividade tributária e sustentabilidade empresarial no Brasil

The present research aims to observe whether the participation of companies in the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE) listed in BM & FBovespa defines behavior regarding tax aggressiveness. The companies listed or not in ISE were evaluated in the period from 2010 to 2014 through two measures of tax aggressiveness: the effective tax rate ETR (Effective tax Rate) and the difference between Book Tax Differences - BTD). By hypothesis, it was speculated that the companies listed in the index would be less tax aggressive to signal a behavior consistent with a social concern. However, a rational theory was not found to justify this anticipated relationship, and in fact, corporate sustainability, to a certain extent, could even be related to more efficient tax planning. Fiscal aggressiveness involves the use of techniques that privilege tax planning to reduce its explicit taxation, and in certain circumstances legal techniques (elision) and other illegal techniques are used, either because of their abusiveness in form or even because they have character to reduce the tax burden. The results documented in the research indicated that the companies that make up the ISE tend to be less tax aggressive those that do not participate in the ISE. This finding serves to anticipate the tax behavior of a company in function of the values that it prestige.A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo observar se a participação de empresas no Índice de Sustentabilidade Empresarial (ISE), listadas na BM&FBovespa, define alguma espécie de comportamento no tocante à agressividade tributária. As empresas listadas, ou não, no ISE foram avaliadas no período de 2010 a 2014 por meio de duas medidas de agressividade tributária: a taxa efetiva de tributação ETR (Effective tax Rate) e a diferença entre os Lucros Contábeis e o Tributário (Book Tax Differences - BTD). Por hipóteses, especulava-se que as empresas listadas no índice seriam menos agressivas tributariamente, com o propósito de sinalizar um comportamento coerente com uma preocupação social. Entretanto, não foi encontrada uma teoria racional para justificar essa relação antecipada e, na verdade, sustentabilidade empresarial, em certa medida, poderia inclusive, estar relacionada com um planejamento tributário mais eficiente. A agressividade fiscal envolve o emprego de técnicas que privilegiam o planejamento tributário com vistas a reduzir a tributação explicita. Em certas circunstâncias empregam-se técnicas legais (elisão) e outras ilegais, seja por sua abusividade na forma ou mesmo por ter caráter evasivo com vistas a reduzir a carga tributária. Os resultados documentados na pesquisa indicaram que as empresas que compõem o ISE tendem a ser menos agressivas tributariamente relativamente àquelas que não participam do ISE. Esse achado serve para antecipar o comportamento tributário de uma empresa em função dos valores que prestigia