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A formação da paisagem em Dinâmica Subtil, de António Ramos Rosa
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Terreri, Grida Auyra Pignata
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Valentim, Jorge Vicente
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4427303771174064
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3669556162906462
Michel Collot, scholar of the new Cultural Geography, proposes us that the literary landscape is a landscape built and, concurrently, a landscape in construction, both passing through the individual. Thus, this work aims to analyze the poetic work in Dinâmica Subtil of António Ramos Rosa, through the Theory of Landscape, demonstrating how the literary landscape shows itself in the work and through witch resources it opens space for the construction of the literary landscape by the reader; this way, it aims to demonstrate how the literary landscape given in Dinâmica Subtil is formed and how can it be transformed by the reader.
Análise da secagem de limão tahiti (Citrus latifolia - Tanaka) em fatias e de suas frações: epicarpo, mesocarpo e endocarpo
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Silva, Adriana
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Ferreira, Maria do Carmo
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7070885875161111
The tahiti lemon belongs to the family Rutaceae, Citrus of the genus, species Citrus Latifolia, the variety Tanaka. It is a heterogeneous fruit, formed by three distinct fractions, them being the epicarp (outer shell), the mesocarp (white layer), and endocarp (pulp with buds and vesicles containing its juice). Both the whole lemon as its fractions have several culinary applications, and also in the food and pharmaceutical industry. Therefore dehydration of this product for food has as challenges, preserve good visual appearance and the components of interest at the end of the process. The objective of this study is to analyze the drying of each lemon fractions tahiti (epicarp, mesocarp and pulp), alone, and also of the slices at different temperatures and to evaluate color changes and shrinking occurring in the drying. Furthermore, verify the fits for the drying kinetics curves to diffusive models, empirical and semi-empirical and also test the use of ANNs for adjustment and simulation of drying. The drying tests were conducted in a natural convection oven with air at temperatures of 30°C, 40°C, 50°C, 60°C and 70°C. It was found that the epicarp and mesocarp fractions were quickly reached dynamic equilibrium moisture, followed by the endocarp, and the slices showed shorts rates of drying. Under the conditions evaluated for endocarp sliced, and the slices at 70°C there was a reduction drying time of about 90% over the time required at 30°C, and the fractions that make up the shell this reduction was approximately 66%. The fits of the drying curve to the diffusive kinetic model were reasonable. Adjustments data to empirical models in general were good, and among the tested models, models of Page and Overhults presented the best fits the drying kinetics. The ANNs showed a promising tool in the prediction and simulation of drying kinetics, but a larger number of data is needed to improve their performance. The color change occurred increasingly with increasing drying temperature, being higher for the endocarp and the slice. The shrinkage was higher in the early stages of drying, and reducing the surface area of the samples was about 33%.
Análise da biologia reprodutiva, vulnerabilidade a contaminantes químicos e a bactérias patogênicas de Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, 1823 (Aves, Laridae) no litoral de Santa Catarina, Brasil
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Ebert, Luis Augusto
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Branco, Joaquim Olinto
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3241905846920207
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2735335735926787
The gull Larus dominicanus is a common shorebird in south and southeast of Brazil. Being opportunistic regarding the occupation of habitats and type of food, can expand their populations. After the reproductive period occupies beaches, estuaries and mangroves, where they feed and spend part of their life cycle. Aspects involving the reproductive biology of this species have been studied in this state, requiring update for the proper management. However, there are still gaps on exposure to chemical and microbiological contaminants, and how these variables could influence the populations of the species. The objective of this thesis was to analyze the association of L. dominicanus to the pathogenic bacteria, their vulnerability to heavy metals and aspects of reproductive biology in three breeding sites, located on the coast of Santa Catarina. In the first chapter cloacal samples of young gulls were analyzed, indicating the presence of harmful microrganisms. In this article, we discuss the diversity of bacteria isolated from samples obtained in the islands, as well as its relationship with the feeding habit of this birds. The second chapter is about the analysis of heavy metal contamination in young gulls feathers. The results showed contamination by lead in two of the three islands studied. There is evidence that L. dominicanus is in process of bioaccumulation of metals, arising from the exploration of coal, developed near to the study areas. The third chapter compares reproductive aspects of gulls, as hatching success, posture, volume of eggs and offspring development. No differences were observed when comparing the reproduction between the islands, and the data were similar to those reported by other authors. Considering the three articles, it appears that L. dominicanus acts as a reservoir of pathogenic bacteria, and is vulnerable to contamination by heavy metals of anthropogenic origin, and no evidence of change in reproductive success and population dynamics of species.
O paradoxo a partir da teoria dos blocos semânticos : língua, dicionário e história
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Machado, Julio Cesar
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Silva, Soeli Maria Schreiber da
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8794598988783452
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6346988675440233
In general, the idea of this work is to investigate the paradox, our object, by a linguistic and argumentative way, from the Theory of Semantic blocks (TBS). And specifically, for this, we adopted as main methods, two gestures: the relationship between linguistic elements as analysis condition, on the one hand, and the interdependence of its structure and significance, on the other hand, both in the non- use (language) and the use of language (enunciation). This second method of interdependence, when applied to our object, the paradox, becomes our first central hypothesis, the possibility of semantic paradox: the strange and difficult linguisticargumentative consideration of opposite significances, but in the interdependent state. And in this context we will also develop a second central hypothesis: the argumentative cube, while theoretical actualization of the argumentative square (the basic theoretical framework of our theory). Organizationally, the resourcefulness of this work will be carrying out in several specific strands, distributed throughout the chapters, namely: theory / paradox (divided into "Argumentation in the Language" / paradox, at first, and "Theory of Semantic Blocks "/ paradox, in a second stage); discours / paradox; dictionaries / paradox; "Historic Semantics of Enunciation" / paradox; relationship between languages / paradox and anteriority / paradox. In addition to these relational axes established to better observe our object, the paradox, and defend our hypothesis, the semantic paradox, we elected as central corpora, a group of dictionaries in which we can catch "which is said to be" a paradox and "as they say "a paradox to ponder" which means "a paradox. These dictionaries are divided into main corpus: Dictionnaire Historique de langue francaise, and and secondary corpora : Enciclopédia e Dicionário ilustrado, Kokugo Ziten e Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, among others.
Configuração da rede de logística reversa de pneus inservíveis no estado de São Paulo
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Stark, Felipe Sanches
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Toso, Eli Angela Vitor
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1372656895579568
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Barbosa-póvoa, Ana Paula Ferreira
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http://lattes.cnpq.br/6064361804246439
The increase in the municipal and industrial waste generation has caused enviromental and public health problems and as a consequence laws exist to address the issue. In Brazil, with the Federal Law No. 12,350 / 10 about the Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos reverse logistics (RL) of some products has become mandatory, including waste tires. However, RL of waste tires has been structured since environmental government agency resolutions propose treatment for tires disposal incorrectly in the environment and new generation of waste tires. Currently, the reverse network is managed by the tire manufacturers and importers associations, and destinations are commonly used are co-processing in cement kilns, and the recovery of rubber and steel as secondary products, by processes such as scrapping or lamination. Increasing transportation and operation costs in the logistics network make the network design critical for the full compliance with the legal goal. This network design is aligned with a planning that considers the financial issues like the minimization of costs or the maximization of profit, while meets the requirements of environmental government agencies. So it involves key strategic decisions, as the location of facilities and material flows, taking into account many parameters simultaneously. The objective of this study is to propose a model for waste tires reverse logistics considering: (i) flows from the output of the collection points (called ecopontos ) to the destination companies; (ii) the possibility of processes as the sorting of used tires in usable condition or not; (iii) the grinding process as an intermediate phase and for which type of destination the tire would be sent. Still are considered fixed costs for the installation of storage centers, for sorting used tires, and intermediary companies, for grinding and separation of components, in addition to the variable operating costs, transportation and potential revenues generated from the substitution of raw materials or fuel in destination companies. The model is a mixed integer linear problem (MILP) with multiple time periods. Experiments are done with a single and multiple periods, finally were present some sensitivity analysis. Other financial constraints as the annual budget and an approach that includes the carbon footprint (CO2) in the transport and processing are explored. The results showed configurations that meet the goal and have a small profit, indicating that storage centers are preferred in places far from destination points and low demand, while the pre-processing companies have opposite behavior. When using the carbon footprint, it was found that the sorting of used tires gain more importance in the view of reducing emissions, because there is less emission in the reuse or refurbishment compared to the manufacturing of new tires.
Produção de glicosil hidrolases por Trichoderma harzianum para o processo de sacarificação da biomassa vegetal
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Delabona, Priscila da Silva
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Farinas, Cristiane Sanchez
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9933650905615452
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9016348395509598
Currently the great challenge for the production of second generation ethanol is to reduce thecost of the enzymes. It is possible to reduce part of this cost by carrying out an optimization ofthe process fermentation using sources of cellulase-induction that allow further growth of fungalbiomass, and increased secretion of proteins. The use of a mutant strain with overexpression ofhemicelulolytics activators could increase expression of the enzymes of interest and therebycontribute to cost reduction. This work aimed to study the production of enzymes involved inthe degradation of biomass by the newly isolated strain of Trichoderma harzianum P49P11focusing on the improvement of the submerged fermentation processes and on the use molecularbiology tools to improve the fungal strain. Regarding the fermentation process, the effects ofdifferent inducing sources were evaluated in flasks and bioreactor using statistical experimentaldesign tools and strategies to enhance biomass in the pre-culture step. For fungal strainimprovement, it was used molecular biology tools for the overexpression of two activators ofcellulases (xyr1 and lae1). A proteomic analysis of the T. harzianum enzymatic extract obtainedusing sugarcane bagasse pretreated by steam explosion followed by delignification (BED) wasperformed. The results showed that the best source for inducing cellulase was BED + sucrose(3: 1), reaching values of 1.21 FPU/mL 80.0U/mL of xylanase and 17.30 U/mL of β-glucosidase. The proteomic analyis identificated 24 different glycoside hydrolases and fourCBM proteins, within 12 different CAZy families. From this study, the enzymatic cocktailproduced "on site" could be supplemented using two accessory enzymes, pectinase and α-Larabinofuranosidase,leading to an increase of 100% of the hydrolysis yield. Regarding thestudy of carbon sources in the pre-culture step, it was possible to increase cellulases productionin 2 times using glycerol as the initial carbon source, followed by inducing carbon source(BED). The xyr1 and lae1 overexpression influencied positively the FPase, CMCase, xylanaseand β-glucosidase production, representing a new approach to increase production of theseenzymes.
Eficácia do [10]-gingerol contra metástases de câncer de mama : estudos in vitro e in vivo em camundongos
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Martin, Ana Carolina Baptista Moreno
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Araújo, Heloísa Sobreiro Selistre de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4065824911933203
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0612591885565016
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in Brazil and worldwide, between the types of cancer, triple negative TNBC (Triple Negative Breast Cancer), which do not express hormone receptors, represents 20% of the cases and presents relapses within 3 years. However, the major cause of death in cancer is due the formation of metastasis. The TNBC has a greater propensity to form lung and brain metastasis. Furthermore, currently few treatments are available. Search for new target treatments, with fewer side effects is very important to treat this disease. Natural products are rich sources of molecules with antitumoral activity; among them are the gingerols, from ginger and resveratrol, from grapes. Nevertheless, not much is known about antitumor activity of [10]-gingerol (10G). Therefore, the aim of this work was to investigate the potential use of 10G as an antimetastatic molecule in in vitro and in vivo experiments. In this work, 10G had antiproliferative activity on several breast cancer cell lines (4T1BM2, 4T1BM2 shRNAβ3, 4T1Br4, MDA-MB-231, MDA-MB-231 BrM) and on a normal cell line, bEnd.3. The natural compounds affected tumor cell morphology and RSVT was able to inhibit cell migration and adhesion through vitronectin. 10G induced apoptosis via the extrinsic pathway through the increase of caspase-9, -3 and -7 expression and decrease of Bcl-2 expression, induced cell cycle arrest in G1 and subG0 phase. In in vivo models, 10G inhibited primary tumor growth and lung metastasis, as well as bone and brain metastasis. Therefore, this study was able to provide new data as 10G can be acting in tumor cells and its possible clinical application.
Automation of a reactor for enzymatic hydrolysis of sugar cane bagasse : Computational intelligencebased adaptive control
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Furlong, Vitor Badiale
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Ribeiro, Marcelo Perencin de Arruda
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0381402687491195
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Giordano, Roberto de Campos
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0834668419587001
The continuous demand growth for liquid fuels, alongside with the decrease of fossil oil reserves, unavoidable in the long term, induces investigations for new energy sources. A possible alternative is the use of bioethanol, produced by renewable resources such as sugarcane bagasse. Two thirds of the cultivated sugarcane biomass are sugarcane bagasse and leaves, not fermentable when the current, first-generation (1G) process is used. A great interest has been given to techniques capable of utilizing the carbohydrates from this material. Among them, production of second generation (2G) ethanol is a possible alternative. 2G ethanol requires two additional operations: a pretreatment and a hydrolysis stage. Regarding the hydrolysis, the dominant technical solution has been based on the use of enzymatic complexes to hydrolyze the lignocellulosic substrate. To ensure the feasibility of the process, a high final concentration of glucose after the enzymatic hydrolysis is desirable. To achieve this objective, a high solid consistency in the reactor is necessary. However, a high load of solids generates a series of operational difficulties within the reactor. This is a crucial bottleneck of the 2G process. A possible solution is using a fed-batch process, with feeding profiles of enzymes and substrate that enhance in the process yield and productivity. The main objective of this work was to implement and test a system to infer online concentrations of fermentable carbohydrates in the reactive system, and to optimize the feeding strategy of substrate and/or enzymatic complex, according to a model-based control strategy. Batch and fed-batch experiments were conducted in order to test the adherence of four simplified kinetic models. The model with best adherence to the experimental data (a modified Michaelis-Mentem model with inhibition by the product) was used to train an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) as a softsensor to predict glucose concentrations. Further, this ANN may be used in a closedloop control strategy. A feeding profile optimizer was implemented, based on the optimal control approach. The ANN was capable of inferring the product concentration from the available data with good adherence (Determination Coefficient of 0.972). The optimization algorithm generated profiles that increased a process performance index while maintaining operational levels within the reactor, reaching glucose concentrations close to those utilized in current first generation technology a (ranging between 156.0 g.L⁻¹ and 168.3 g.L⁻¹). However rough estimates for scaling up the reactor to industrial dimensions indicate that this conventional reactor design must be replaced by a two-stage reactor, to minimize the volume of liquid to be stirred.
Memória discursiva da ditadura no século XXI: visibilidades e opacidades democráticas
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Sá, Israel de
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Sargentini, Vanice Maria Oliveira
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1406919572611392
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8992079880490308
In this study, we start from the observation that, in distinct positions, different memories about the dictatorial times are brought back to present times. On the one hand, the slow unfoldment of official documents from the Brazilian dictatorial times and the refusal to revise the Amnesty Law – established in 1979, during the process of political opening initiated by the regime – and, on the other hand, a large amount of material produced by the media about the period or related to its themes build a discursive confrontation that introduces the production (by the media) of a memory inserted between the democratic (the possibility of “saying everything”, and the debate on the official level) and the silence (saying it on the margins). Yet, the revision process of the Amnesty Law, in 2010, and the implementation of the National Truth Commission, by the Federal Government, in 2012, serve as the base events to create the possibility of commenting, analyzing and rewriting history, in addition to the production of this/these memory/memories. Based on the theoretical propositions of the French approach of Discourse Analysis, in line with studies on the memory of different fields of the human and social sciences, we analyze in this study three types of materials: a) texts that were produced in the dictatorial period, especially by the independent media, that are constantly reproduced, republished and currently published (such as the magazine Pif Paf and the newspapers O Pasquim and Ex-); b) special editions of the magazines and newspapers published in the XXI century, besides documentaries and films that deal with facts relating to that period; c) texts produced by the media resulting from the revision process of the Amnesty Law and the establishment of the National Truth Commission. With that, we seek to understand the role of memory to the production and (re)construction of the history of the period in which Brazil was under military dictatorship, and the deepening of the democratic society. As a result, we understand that memories of the Brazilian military dictatorship are formed from a reordering, between opacity and visibility, of the ways of saying; in these 30 post-dictatorship years new discursive regimes emerged, enabling „to say the dictatorship‟, which sets, in Brazil, a will of memory and a step towards the consolidation of its democracy.
Agregados monetários ponderados: impactos sobre a inflação e o produtos da economia brasileira
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Alves, Victor Lucas Pedroso
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Silva Junior, Geraldo Edmundo
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5138808982229139
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2323066426170675
The benefits and the costs of the monetary policy alternatives have been debated trough decades, without a consensus of how it should be conducted. The most common instruments are, between other, the interest rate, the money supply and monetary reserves. In the last twenty five years, the generalized adoption of inflation targeting evidenced that monetary policy had been based only on the interest rates, and the new regime demanded measurement on inflationary expectations and inflation sensibility on interest rate changes. However, the monetary aggregates observed signs brought back the discussion of its use as an instrument, since the European Central Bank (ECB) had put weight on the aggregates behavior to its monetary policy decisions. Besides it, Brazilian monetary policy neglects the usage of the monetary aggregates as suggested by the ECB. Therefore, this thesis aims to verify the effects of monetary shocks from Divisia and simple sum monetary aggregates on Brazilian product and inflation considering the period between February 1980 and December 2013. Each asset that compose the monetary aggregates were weighted by its opportunity cost obtaining the Divisia monetary aggregates indexes. Vector auto regression models (VAR) were estimated to study the relationship among variables. Specially, Divisia monetary aggregates showed higher sensibility in each economic scenario considered, even with similar behavior to the simple sum intensities. This seems to be intensely observed on the Divisia monetary aggregates impulse response functions. So, considering the weighted monetary aggregates, the impacts on the product and price level seems to be sensible to the economic scenario according to each economic scenario particularity.
O papel dos receptores 5-HT1A e 5-HT2C da substância cinzenta periaquedutal sobre os efeitos da fluoxetina na antinocicepção induzida pelo confinamento de camundongos aos braços do labirinto em cruz elevado
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Baptista de Souza, Daniela
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Souza, Azair Liane Matos do Canto de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2352004564367849
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6261369005670849
The pain is an universal experience, and frequently follows anxiety and depression cases. Some specific drugs used in depression and anxiety treatment are also used for the relief of pain. There are evidences showing that exposure to threatening situations can result in pain inhibition. In this way, studies involving pain and anxiety use animal models as tools for potential therapeutic agents screening as well as for enhance the knowledge about the neurobiology of emotions. This study investigated the following effects: acute and chronic fluoxetine treatment; microinjections of 5-HT1A and 5HT2C receptors agonists intraperiaqueductal gray matter (PAG), and the administration combined of these drugs on antinociception induced by the open arms (OAA) of the elevated plus maze (EPM). Furthermore, we investigated the effects of fluoxetine chronic treatment on serotonin, 5- HIAA, 5-HT1A and 5HT2C receptors levels within PAG. Our results showed that: (I) fluoxetine acute treatment (20 mg/kg) was able to increase the OAA; (II) fluoxetine chronic treatment (21 days) (20 mg/kg) also enhances the OAA, and decreased the number of writhes on animal confined in the enclosed arm, featuring an analgesic effect; (III) the administration of 8-OH-DPAT (5-HT1A agonist) intra-PAG did not change the number of writhes in animals confined in the arms of the EPM; (IV) the infusions of mCPP and MK- 212 (5HT2C agonists) intra-PAG increased the OAA. (V) The blockade of 5HT2C receptors located in the PAG by SB 242080 injection (5HT2C antagonist) was able to completely reverse the OAA; (VI) the combined administration of fluoxetine (acute treatment) and 8- OH-DPAT intra-PAG also blocked completely the OAA; (VII) the combined administration of fluoxetine (acute treatment) and MK-212 intra-PAG reversed the increase of OAA observed with MK-212 injection; (VII) combined administration of fluoxetine (chronic treatment) and 8-OH-DPAT intra-SCP once more blocked OAA; (IX) the fluoxetine (chronic treatment) + MK-212 intra-PAG, impairs the OAA increase observed with isolated MK-212 injection; (X) fluoxetine chronic treatment was not capable to change the serotonin, 13 5-HIAA levels, and serotonin turnover in the PAG (XI) fluoxetine chronic treatment promoted up-regulation of 5-HT1A and 5HT2C receptors within PAG. These findings suggest that OAA is médiated by 5-HT2C receptors located in the PAG. Furthermore, fluoxetine was capable to interact with this serotonergic receptor promoting functional (acute treatment) and quantitative (chronic treatment) changes on 5-HT1A and 5HT2C receptors within PAG.
Identificação de brincadeiras e jogos como consequências de comportamentos de escolha para crianças
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Sacramento, Beatriz Coletti do
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Goyos, Antônio Celso de Noronha
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3407008711535651
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9721800295748514
Social behavior can be defined as the behavior of two or more people, one over the other, or all together through a common environment. The aim of this study was to identify if the pictures that represent plays and games could function as reinforcers to typical children and also for children with deficits in social behavior and learning problems. In the first experiment, the participants were six children with deficits in social behavior and learning problems. The experimental stimuli were two geometrical figures and 12 pictures of two adults playing. Daily preference assessments were made, and then, the participants performed a task in which they had to chose between two geometrical figures, a square or a circle, with one of the figures assigning with a S+ function while the other with a S- function. After the participants select one of the two geometrical figures they could have the opportunity to engage in play represented picture considered the most preferred on the previous preference assessment phase. In the second experiment, the participants were three children with typical development and the experimental stimuli were the same geometrical figures used in the first experiment, and new pictures that representing games (apps) for Tablet. Following the preference assessment, after selecting a geometrical figure, was given to the participants the opportunity to engage in the game with the Experimenter 2, represented in the most preferred picture of them. The dependent variable was the percentage of times that the participant chose a particular geometrical figure per session. The results of this study demonstrate that play and games as a reinforcing function can be identified using a preference assessment with pictures. This procedure can be conducted quickly and with relatively low cost response. This research demonstrated the importance in of offering opportunities for choice and contact with plays for typical children and also children with deficit in social behavior and learning problems shown that plays and games were reinforcers.
A tradução literária como transcriação e reflexão intercultural em cursos de formação continuada de professores
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-20)
Pizzi, Maria Claudia Bontempi
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Martins, Maria Sílvia Cintra
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9241992645160356
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5125396424575716
This thesis aligns with the idea that language teaching and learning is intrinsically linked to cultural issues, and that both the student and the teacher should think about this relationship during an intercultural learning process. Culture is a question of otherness: putting yourself in someone else’s place and, at the same time, assuming yourself as individual, as part of a different socio-cultural context in an exercise of translation and self-translation. Thus, we believe that the translation of songs and literary texts in English learning and teaching, for instance, could offer students the possibility of thinking, during the act of translation, about the lexicon and structures of the foreign language and the mother tongue, contributing to the enhancement of the training process and introducing them to creative work, as well as enabling contact with cultural issues of English-speaking countries from the study of lyrics and literature, rich sources of information on socio-cultural and historical topics. Therefore, at first the researcher aimed at investigating and discussing the representations (MOSCOVICI, 1997, 2013; JODELET, 1997) that students and teachers (in training and in service) carry on the act of translation, presenting exercises and courses in order to promote theoretical and practical awareness on the subject. After this preliminary study, in-service teachers who participated in one of the courses were chosen as subjects for further research and data analysis on the role of literary translation exercises in classroom in order to promote interdisciplinary reflection on the foreign language/culture and, at the same time, on the student’s own maternal language/culture following the concept that translating can mean interpreting, and that the translator plays a crucial role of second author who rescues meaning and transports them to the other side, connecting the two plans in a cultural otherness exercise (PAZ, 1976, 1990; DERRIDA, 1998; CAMPOS, 1992, 2013a, 2013b, 2013c; ARROJO, 1992, 1993, 2002; OTTONI, 1997, 1998; etc.). Finally, in general, in addition to the commented objectives, the intention was to contribute to the spread of the reading practices of various genres, to the appreciation of translation and the translator, to the reflective learning process of in-service teachers and for further expansion of the area of foreign and first language teaching and learning, seeking the best future for the area in Brazil.
A política do multilinguismo na contemporaneidade vista pela ótica das instituições supranacionais
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-23)
Silva, Tânia Mara da
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Silva, Soeli Maria Schreiber da
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8794598988783452
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5809579658012683
The work in question aims to examine how languages are distributed and divided into the supranational institutions, to this end, observe that run in two institutions that share this trait, which are the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) and the European Union (EU). Our observation point will be guiding the appointment of languages in enunciation spaces of these organs, seeking to demonstrate how this division sets new categorizations for languages at the supranational enunciation space. Our theoretical and methodological apparatus will be based on the concepts and definitions of semantics enunciative, more specifically, from the semantics of the theory of Festivals developed mainly by Guimarães (2002), seeking to understand the meaning production through practices that the mean man a symbolic. Our corpus consists of official documents of MERCOSUR and the European Union, which dissertem on language policies anchored to the strategic planning of multilingualism, as adopted by these institutions. These documents will be analyzed as text, in other words, as a unit of meaning that integrates listed in enunciation event. Appointments about languages circulating in supranational enunciation space will be observed as a declarative event such as a difference in their own order, that hierarchical positions of the legal and social range of languages circulating in their territory (enunciation space). Through language policies, the languages are named and take positions according to their social status, political and economic. In order to substantiate such a claim, this study will seek to understand and define the categorization and prioritization of languages of supranational institutions, based on the language of appointments work, procedural language, regional language, languages devoid of territory, official language, history and language minority language, etc. And in the meantime, try to understand how these languages relate to each other, and how they emerge in the midst of language policies on the scope of multilingualism.
Recomendação semântica de documentos de texto mediante a personalização de agregações OLAP.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-23)
Berbel, Talita dos Reis Lopes
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Gonzalez, Sahudy Montenegro
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9826346918182685
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5079756785405008
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Oikawa, Marcio Katsumi
With the rapid growth of unstructured data, such as text documents, it becomes more and more interesting and necessary to extract such information to support decision making in business intelligence systems. Recommendations can be used in the OLAP process, because they allow users to have a particular experience in exploiting data. The process of recommendation, together with the possibility of query personalisation, allows recommendations to be increasingly relevant. The main contribution of this work is to propose an effective solution for semantic recommendation of documents through personalisation of OLAP aggregation queries in a data warehousing environment. In order to aggregate and recommend documents, we propose the use of semantic similarity. Domain ontology and the statistical measure of frequency are used in order to verify the similarity between documents. The threshold of similarity between documents in the recommendation process is adjustable and this is the personalisation that provides to the user an interactive way to improve the relevance of the results. The proposed case study is based on articles from PubMed and its domain ontology in order to create a prototype using real data. The results of the experiments are presented and discussed, showing that good recommendations and aggregations are possible with the suggested approach. The results are discussed on the basis of evaluation measures: precision, recall and F1-measure.
Caracterização morfológica, molecular e reprodutiva de híbridos interespecíficos de Arachis na busca de resistência a pragas do amendoim
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-23)
Paula, Ailton Ferreira de
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Vigna, Bianca Baccili Zanotto
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1663784979286725
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Fávero, Alessandra Pereira
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4329892306148506
The peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is, worldwide, an important source of protein and oil. Pests and foliar diseases are among the factors that limit the economically sustainable production of peanuts in Brazil. Among the pests, thrips and the rednecked peanutworm are considered important pests in São Paulo State. To decrease the cost of production on the management of these pests, genetic improvement to obtain resistant varieties from wild plants is a viable alternative. The main obstacle in the genetic improvement is that the vast majority of wild species of Arachis is diploid, while the cultivated species is allotetraploid. For the barrier of ploidy between the wild and the cultivated peanut to be broken, it is necessary to obtain interspecific hybrids genome AB. Such hybrids should be treated with colchicine to induce polyploidy and get fertile hybrids with two distinct complete genomes (amphidiploid), which can be crossed with A. hypogaea to get the same or similar genomic constitution of the cultivated species. The aim of the research were to identify hybrids derived from crosses made between wild species with A, B or K genome that are resistant to thrips and the rednecked peanutworm and hybrids from one amphidiploid and A. hypogaea, characterize the hybrids and their parents 1) by microsatellite molecular markers, 2) by pollen viability and 3) by their morphology. The molecular markers were genotyped in polyacrylamide gel with standard 10 base pairs. The viability of pollen grains was used to analyze the data of analysis of variance and mean Tukey test, and morphological data were analyzed by Principal Component Analysis. Six polymorphic microsatellite loci were analyzed in 25 F1 plants, 18 of them result of selfing and six of hybridization with a total of three different hybrid combinations plus four hybrid plants from across between the amphidiploid An 13 and A. hypogaea. The pollen viability data corroborated the molecular analysis in the identification of hybrids, noting that An 13 had high viability of pollen grains and interspecific hybrids had low values when compared to their parents and selfed individuals of progeny. From the 63 morphological descriptors measured the ones from the main axis expressed the most morphological variation observed. Pollen viability of F1 hybrid plants obtained by cross among A. hypogaea and the amphidiploid An 13 was above 76%, showing the possibility of new interesting genes introgression in A. hypogaea
Modelo de compartilhamento de localização em redes sociais móveis com garantias de privacidade
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-23)
Rosa, Tiago Antônio
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Zorzo, Sérgio Donizetti
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2523715806470871
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4805808810910503
Mobile social networks are characterized by the sharing of user context information, such as the location of one’s mobile device, with one’s friends and groups of friends. The location information in a social network enables providers to offer products and services based on geographical area, which is considered either a personal gain or an invasion of privacy by the users who receive these offers. A user sharing location information with a particular friend or group of friends, without social network providers having access to this information, ensures the safety and privacy of the information. This paper presents a model of mobile social networking with privacy guarantees regarding sharing the location of members with groups of friends; it allows users to configure rules that determine to whom, when and where location information can be made available. The model provides three levels of privacy, chosen by the user, using techniques of anonymity and diffusion, which adjust the location to ensure the concealment of the information before it is made available on the social network. The proof of concept of the proposed model, called RSM Privacy, was developed for the Android platform. Performance tests showed that delays generated by the use of RSM Privacy are proportional to and justifiable for the privacy levels desired and chosen by users. A group of 50 users evaluated the model proof of concept, RSMPrivacy, with respect to usability and verified the efficiency of the techniques included in the proposed model.
Catalisadores de Co e Pt suportados em La2O3 e SiO2 aplicados na reforma a vapor do etanol
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-24)
Baldoino, Marília Gabriela Branquinho
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Assaf, José Mansur
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9563312407691130
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0292961252771980
In intense search best environmental conditions, it is necessary to invest in renewable fuels, affordable and low polluting. With the aim to participate in this effort, this work was undertaken to study the steam reforming of ethanol. Cobalt catalysts supported on SiO2 were studied using mass loading of lanthanum 10, 20 and 30% mass content, and 0,5% platinum as additives in order to check their influences on the initial catalyst to reduce carbon formation on the catalyst surface, enhancing the activity, stability and selectivity for H2. All catalysts were prepared by impregnation method. Were characterized by temperature programmed reduction in H2, Hydrogen Chemisorption, surface area by BET, X ray diffraction method, thermo gravimetric analysis and chemical analysis. Subsequently, the reaction RVE catalysts, which was analyzed in conversion and selectivity were applied. The TPR and XRD analyzes observed the formation of Co3O4 which espinélia phase is reduced to CoO and Co°, respectively. Subsequently, the catalysts were used for ethanol steam reforming reaction, where the conversion, selectivity, and stability was analyzed. In XRD analysis and RTP observed the formation of Co3O4 that espinélia phase and reduces CoO and Co°, respectively. Also, it was identified diffraction peaks relating to La2O3 and La(OH)3; platinum, and a broad peak was assigned to the SiO2 structure, which has low crystallinity. There was a decrease in coking catalysts, effect obtained by forming lanthanum oxicarbonate, which was also identified by XRD. The increased lanthanum loading also influence the decrease in particle size, thereby increasing the dispersion of the catalysts. During the 24-hour stability test, the catalyst is not desactivated. It was identified that the impregnation method used and the utilized treating conditions were adequate to obtain the desired compounds for reform to ethanol vapor. The CoLa2SiO2 catalyst showed promise for ethanol steam reforming, with better selectivity to hydrogen, with little formation of undesirable products. The addition of 0.5% by mass Pt content in the cobalt catalyst has not led to a significant increase in product formation and conversion. The monometallic Pt catalyst (0.5% w / w) proved active and with good hydrogen selectivity even with a small amount of active phase. This behavior can be related to the presence of highly dispersed platinum metal on the surface. The best performing catalysts did not show the formation of CO, which can be related to the addition of lanthanum.
Contribuições à noção de ato na filosofia de Henri Bergson : à luz do Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (1889)
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-24)
Proença, Luiz Fernando de Oliveira
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Pinto, Débora Cristina Morato
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1311151012002541
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1850373959106777
The aim of this paper is to highlight a particular notion in Bergson’s thought, namely the activity of the mind. Even though this inquiry does not intend to deal with the entire bergsonian corpus, as its subtitle indicates, highlighting the aforementioned notion, together with other structuring conceptual aspects, such as synthesis, continuity, indivisibility, might – as we hope – bring about different outlooks to the reading of Bergson’s works. These concepts are supposed to justify the inquiry inasmuch as they are supposed to demonstrate that the duration of consciousness, the very object of An Essay on the immediate data of consciousness, is a psychic, mind process, and an activity. A fourfold division was established, corresponding to each of the four chapters that compose this paper, in order to achieve our goal. The first three chapters are dedicated to analyzing each of the three chapters in the Essay, aiming at demonstrating in what way those notions happen to be fundamental in the development of that particular work, the means of their respective genesis and unfoldings. Thus, the opening inquiries into the intensity of psychological states focus on the distinction between the quality and the quantity of psychic data, by means of the concept of intensity. Next, the plurality of such data shall be examined by means of the distinction between the concepts of numerical multiplicity and non-numerical multiplicity. Finally, in the third chapter an analysis shall be undertaken of the organization of such data of consciousness, in order to conclude the description of the psychological subject in the previous chapters and, most importantly, in order to demonstrate that the duration of such subject is synthetic, active, indivisible, while at times producing free activity. The final considerations merely reiterate what has been divided throughout the previous chapters, besides giving a brief mention on the extension of the notion of activity in both of Bergson’s following works: Matter and memory and The Creative Evolution.
Avaliação da sensibilidade dolorosa em idosos hipertensos: estudos de casos e controles
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015-03-24)
Rebelatto, Marcelo Nascimento
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Salvini, Tânia de Fátima
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4391969032505723
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7204785489008565
Background: Hypoalgesia related to hypertension has been described and studied by many authors over the last few decades, but little is known about how it behaves in the elderly. Therefore the aim of this study was to establish whether there are differences in pain sensitivity between hypertensive and normotensive older adults. For this, we selected seventy-two elderly of which 36 were normotensive and 36 were hypertensive and the pressure pain threshold (PPT) was assessed on seven points bilaterally in both groups by means of pressure algometry. Two-factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) group and gender was performed, and the effect size was calculated using Cohen s index. Results: The PPT values were higher in the group of hypertensive older adults compared to the normotensive ones; that difference was significant (P < 0.05) for the following points: right and left trochanters, left trapezium, left L3/L4 and left anterior tibialis muscle. The correlations exhibited by the PPTs were stronger in the group of hypertensive older adults; hypoalgesia was more generalized among the hypertensive adults compared to the normotensive ones. Gender did not influence that difference, although the magnitude of the difference was greater among males compared to females. Conclusion: Hypoalgesia, as assessed by means of PPT, exhibited a relationship with arterial hypertension in older adults. The influence of gender on hypoalgesia exhibited by hypertensive individuals is controversial.