Design e arquitetura escolares : currículo oculto

A educação, enquanto conceito e condição fundamentais à transformação do homem nas suas múlplas dimensões, encontra nos seus recursos e contextos de referência um universo potencial que, projetando a escola para além da sua vocação meramente academizante, a legitima enquanto entidade promotora de uma pedagogia cultural. O design e a arquitetura, enquanto áreas concomitantes da própria realidade escolar, vêm afirmando novas formas de expressão estética e funcional e inaugurando novas perspetivas didáticas decorrentes da fusão entre utilizador, contexto e objeto - aspetos essenciais à redefinição do gosto e ao dever de parcipação cívica do indivíduo no quadro da (re)invenção e humanização dos espaços e objetos de usufruição comuns. No pressuposto das ideias expressas, vimos situar factos e refletir sobre a possibilidade da escola se declarar como centro de conhecimento, cultura e lazer com preocupações ecológicas, estéticas e cívicas, e na qual o design e a arquitetura se afirmem como currículo oculto – participando assim nesse desígnio integrador de ensinar, educar e formar.ABSTRACT: Education, as a fundamental concept and state for the transformation of man in its multiple dimensions, finds a potential universe in its resources and contexts of reference that, projecting the school besides its role merely academic, legimate the education as a promoter entity of a cultural pedagogy. Design and architecture, as concomitant areas of school reality, have been asserting new ways of aesthetic and functional expression and opening new didactic insights resulting from the fusion between operator, context, and object - main features to the preference redefinition and to the duty of civic participation in a framework of spaces and objects´ (re)invention and humanization commonly used. On the assumption of the views expressed, we come to establish facts and reflect on the possibility of school to affirm itself as a center of knowledge, culture, and leisure with ecological, aesthetic, and civic concerns, in which design and architecture have established themselves as an unknown curriculum – and thereby they have participated in this integrate purpose of teaching and educating.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cryopreservation of Byrsonima intermedia embryos followed by room temperature thawing

Byrsonima intermedia is a shrub from the Brazilian Cerrado with medicinal properties. The storage of biological material at ultra-low temperatures (-196°C) is termed cryopreservation and represents a promising technique for preserving plant diversity. Thawing is a crucial step that follows cryopreservation. The aim of this work was to cryopreserve B. intermedia zygotic embryos and subsequently thaw them at room temperature in a solution rich in sucrose. The embryos were decontaminated and desiccated in a laminar airflow hood for 0-4 hours prior to plunging into liquid nitrogen. The embryo moisture content (% MC) during dehydration was assessed. Cryopreserved embryos were thawed in a solution rich in sucrose at room temperature, inoculated in a germination medium and maintained in a growth chamber. After 30 days, the embryo germination was evaluated. No significant differences were observed between the different embryo dehydration times, where they were dehydrated for at least one hour. Embryos with a MC between 34.3 and 20.3% were germinated after cryopreservation. In the absence of dehydration, all embryos died following cryopreservation. We conclude that B. intermedia zygotic embryos can be successfully cryopreserved and thawed at room temperature after at least one hour of dehydration in a laminar airflow bench

Quantum tomography via equidistant states

We study the possibility of performing quantum state tomography via equidistant states. This class of states allows us to propose a non-symmetric informationally complete POVM based tomographic scheme. The scheme is defined for odd dimensions and involves an inversion which can be analytically carried out by Fourier transform

Tuning in magnetic modes in Tb(Co_{x}Ni_{1-x})_{2}B_{2}C: from longitudinal spin-density waves to simple ferromagnetism

Neutron diffraction and thermodynamics techniques were used to probe the evolution of the magnetic properties of Tb(Co_{x}Ni_{1-x})_{2}B_{2}C. A succession of magnetic modes was observed as x is varied: the longitudinal modulated k=(0.55,0,0) state at x=0 is transformed into a collinear k=([nicefrac]\nicefrac{1}{2},0,[nicefrac]\nicefrac{1}{2}) antiferromagnetic state at x= 0.2, 0.4; then into a transverse c-axis modulated k=(0,0,[nicefrac]\nicefrac{1}{3}) mode at x= 0.6, and finally into a simple ferromagnetic structure at x= 0.8 and 1. Concomitantly, the low-temperature orthorhombic distortion of the tetragonal unit cell at x=0 is reduced smoothly such that for x >= 0.4 only a tetragonal unit cell is manifested. Though predicted theoretically earlier, this is the first observation of the k=(0,0,[nicefrac]\nicefrac{1}{3}) mode in borocarbides; our findings of a succession of magnetic modes upon increasing x also find support from a recently proposed theoretical model. The implication of these findings and their interpretation on the magnetic structure of the RM_{2}B_{2}C series are also discussed

Comparação de métodos de extração de DNA para caracterização molecular de Bacillus thuringiensis.

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The Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution in five-dimensional general relativity briefly revisited

We briefly revisit the Schwarzschild-de Sitter solution in the context of five-dimensional general relativity. We obtain a class of five-dimensional solutions of Einstein vacuum field equations into which the four-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter space can be locally and isometrically embedded. We show that this class of solutions is well-behaved in the limit of lambda approaching zero. Applying the same procedure to the de Sitter cosmological model in five dimensions we obtain a class of embedding spaces which are similarly well-behaved in this limit. These examples demonstrate that the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant does not in general impose a rigid relation between the (3+1) and (4+1)-dimensional spacetimes, with degenerate limiting behaviour.Comment: 7 page

Disordered two-dimensional superconductors: roles of temperature and interaction strength

We have considered the half-filled disordered attractive Hubbard model on a square lattice, in which the on-site attraction is switched off on a fraction $f$ of sites, while keeping a finite $U$ on the remaining ones. Through Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations for several values of $f$ and $U$, and for system sizes ranging from $8\times 8$ to $16\times 16$, we have calculated the configurational averages of the equal-time pair structure factor $P_s$, and, for a more restricted set of variables, the helicity modulus, $\rho_s$, as functions of temperature. Two finite-size scaling {\it ansatze} for $P_s$ have been used, one for zero-temperature and the other for finite temperatures. We have found that the system sustains superconductivity in the ground state up to a critical impurity concentration, $f_c$, which increases with $U$, at least up to U=4 (in units of the hopping energy). Also, the normalized zero-temperature gap as a function of $f$ shows a maximum near $f\sim 0.07$, for $2\lesssim U\lesssim 6$. Analyses of the helicity modulus and of the pair structure factor led to the determination of the critical temperature as a function of $f$, for $U=3,$ 4 and 6: they also show maxima near $f\sim 0.07$, with the highest $T_c$ increasing with $U$ in this range. We argue that, overall, the observed behavior results from both the breakdown of CDW-superconductivity degeneracy and the fact that free sites tend to "push" electrons towards attractive sites, the latter effect being more drastic at weak couplings.Comment: 9 two-column pages, 14 figures, RevTe

Antimicrobial composite wound dressing

Nowadays, a wound dressing is no longer a passive material, it must interact with the wound and improve the healing process. In fact, the actual requirements for a wound dressing are quite challenging. To achieve these demanding goal, wound dressing’ research have been focus on the development of composites that combine the best of two or more polymeric materials. Thus, our group developed a composite material of cotton functionalized with hydroxypropyl methylcellulose / cyclodextrins hydrogel to be used as antimicrobial wound dressing. Hydrogel polymer will improve the wearability and the drug delivery capacity of cotton textiles. And cotton will enhance the mechanical properties of hydrogel, facilitating the handle process. The composite synthesis was performed by one-step chemical crosslinking. The reaction parameters, such as crosslinker concentration and polymeric solution concentration, were optimized. The obtained composites were characterized base on their physicochemical and biological properties. To the best of our knowledge, loading and release of gallic acid (as antibacterial agent) into composites wound dressings, and its release for control wound infections, have not been evaluated until now. The developed composites have the combined properties of cotton and hydrogel. The gallic acid was successfully loaded into the polymeric network, and it release was sustained for 48 h. The loaded composites can destroy bacterial cells preserving the gallic acid antibacterial activity. Thus, the developed composites showed suitable properties for the incorporation of gallic acid and utilization as antibacterial wound dressing.TSSiPRO—NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000015—supported by the regional operational program NORTE 2020, under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund;info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio