220 research outputs found
ESTUDOS DE FUTURO EM ESCASSEZ DE RECURSOS
No full textThis work is the result of research carried out by the Resource Scarcity Research Line, at the Laboratory of Simulations and Scenarios (LSC) of the Naval War College (EGN), under the leadership of researcher Michael Scheffer Lopes between November 2021 and November 2022. The material gathered was produced by the researchers of the research line: Michael Scheffer Lopes, Betina Gabrielle Scheffer Lopes, Rafael de Morais Lima, Ana Carolina Dias Terra, Nicole de Oliveira Torres Guimarães, Bernardo Salgado Rodrigues, Mannom Tavares da Costa, Beatriz Triani Cherem and Franco Napoleão Aguiar de Alencastro Guimarães.Este trabajo es el resultado de la investigación realizada por la Línea de Investigación en Escasez de Recursos, en el Laboratorio de Simulaciones y Escenarios (LSC) de la Escuela de Guerra Naval (EGN), bajo la dirección del investigador Michael Scheffer Lopes entre noviembre de 2021 y noviembre de 2022. El material reunido fue producido por los investigadores de la línea de investigación: Michael Scheffer Lopes, Betina Gabrielle Scheffer Lopes, Rafael de Morais Lima, Ana Carolina Dias Terra, Nicole de Oliveira Torres Guimarães, Bernardo Salgado Rodrigues, Mannom Tavares da Costa, Beatriz Triani Cherem y Franco Napoleão Aguiar de Alencastro Guimarães.A presente obra é fruto das pesquisas realizadas pela Linha de Pesquisa Escassez de Recursos, no Laboratório de Simulações e Cenários (LSC) da Escola de Guerra Naval (EGN), sob a liderança do pesquisador Michael Scheffer Lopes entre novembro de 2021 e novembro de 2022. O material reunido foi produzido pelos pesquisadores da linha de pesquisa: Michael Scheffer Lopes, Betina Gabrielle Scheffer Lopes, Rafael de Morais Lima, Ana Carolina Dias Terra, Nicole de Oliveira Torres Guimarães, Bernardo Salgado Rodrigues, Mannom Tavares da Costa, Beatriz Triani Cherem e Franco Napoleão Aguiar de Alencastro Guimarães
A INDÚSTRIA NAVAL MILITAR BRASILEIRA E AS POLÍTICAS PARA A CONSTRUÇÃO NAVAL
No full textAtividades marítimas desde a antiguidade são marcadas por necessidades comerciais em sua interação com a sociedade. O Brasil é dotado de uma costa com expressivo potencial em diversos setores econômicos. A indústria naval brasileira foi estruturada nos anos 1970 e sofreu gradativa redução de recursos nas décadas seguintes. Foi retomada em 1997 e ganhou robustez nos anos 2000. A partir de 2015 fatores políticos e econômicos impactaram o setor diminuindo os investimentos, a mão-de-obra foi reduzida e o desemprego aumentou. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as Políticas industriais brasileiras para a construção naval desde 1997 com destaque para a Indústria de Defesa, por meio de pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e exploratória, em uma revisão dos dados referentes à empregabilidade anual do setor até 2018. Aponta-se ao final que os incentivos governamentais para a Indústria de Defesa Naval podem ser uma saída para a atual crise do seto
Mais brasileiros pela Paz: atuação dos bombeiros brasileiros na MINUSTAH
No full textThis article analyzes the deployment of military firefighters in humanitarian operations based on the performance of the Brazilian force in MINUSTAH, it seeks to understand the lessons learned from the group of firefighters sent to Haiti and how this performance contributed to the insertion of more Brazilian firefighters in international cooperation for peace. The hypothesis that guided the article was “the lessons learned in the work of Brazilian military firefighters in MINUSTAH promoted the intensification of the capabilities and performances of the Ministry of Defense, aiming to deploy more groups in humanitarian or peace operations”. The methodology is based on a bibliographical and descriptive research, based on the experiences of Brazilian military firefighters in activities following the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) doctrine
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
School Failure and Intergenerational “Human Capital” Transmission in Portugal
No full textSchool Failure and Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission… ABSTRACT A new education reform is about to be passed into Law, in Portugal, the extension of compulsory education until the 12th grade being one of the main goals. Given huge value school failure indicators (e.g., illiteracy rates, drop-outs, retention rates) still exhibit for Portuguese education system, we keep large doubts on the effectiveness of such an aim. Moreover, education outcomes inertia between generations appears to be strong, in the light of some indirect indicators, although no recent specific research has been addressing such an issue. In this paper we therefore try to shed some light on the potential impact intergenerational school achievement would exert upon actual school failing and also control for possible endogeneity both with students' own previous trajectory indicators and school effect. For that purpose, we rely on 2003 data relative to Lisbon Metropolitan Area four schools as case studies (author abstract)School failure; father’s, mother’s education; students’ previous school trajectories; school effect; Portugal
The AWAKE Run 2 programme and beyond
No full textAutores: Edda Gschwendtner, Konstantin Lotov, Patric Muggli, Matthew Wing, Riccardo Agnello, Claudia Christina Ahdida, Maria Carolina Amoedo Goncalves, Yanis Andrebe, Oznur Apsimon, Robert Apsimon, Jordan Matias Arnesano, Anna-Maria Bachmann, Diego Barrientos, Fabian Batsch, Vittorio Bencini, Michele Bergamaschi, Patrick Blanchard, Philip Nicholas Burrows, Birger Buttenschön, Allen Caldwell, James Chappell, Eric Chevallay, Moses Chung, David Andrew Cooke, Heiko Damerau, Can Davut, Gabor Demeter, Amos Christopher Dexter, Steffen Doebert, Francesa Ann Elverson, John Farmer, Ambrogio Fasoli, Valentin Fedosseev, Ricardo Fonseca, Ivo Furno, Spencer Gessner, Aleksandr Gorn, Eduardo Granados, Marcel Granetzny, Tim Graubner, Olaf Grulke, Eloise Daria Guran, Vasyl Hafych, Anthony Hartin, James Henderson, Mathias Hüther, Miklos Kedves, Fearghus Keeble, Vadim Khudiakov, Seong-Yeol Kim, Florian Kraus, Michel Krupa, Thibaut Lefevre, Linbo Liang, Shengli Liu, Nelson Lopes, Miguel Martinez Calderon, Stefano Mazzoni, David Medina Godoy, Joshua Moody, Kookjin Moon, Pablo Israel Morales Guzmán, Mariana Moreira, Tatiana Nechaeva, Elzbieta Nowak, Collette Pakuza, Harsha Panuganti, Ans Pardons, Kevin Pepitone, Aravinda Perera, Jan Pucek, Alexander Pukhov, Rebecca Louise Ramjiawan, Stephane Rey, Adam Scaachi, Oliver Schmitz, Eugenio Senes, Fernando Silva, Luis Silva, Christine Stollberg, Alban Sublet, Catherine Swain, Athanasios Topaloudis, Nuno Torrado, Petr Tuev, Marlene Turner, Francesco Velotti, Livio Verra, Victor Verzilov, Jorge Vieira, Helmut Vincke, Martin Weidl, Carsten Welsch, Manfred Wendt, Peerawan Wiwattananon, Joseph Wolfenden, Benjamin Woolley, Samuel Wyler, Guoxing Xia, Vlada Yarygova, Michael Zepp, Giovanni Zevi Della Porta. ::: Publisher: [MDPI] ::: Location: [
Arthur Danto's philosophy of art
No full textThe thesis is a critical examination of Danto's philosophy of art. It begins with his
article 'The Artworld' where he proposes a special is of artistic identification to
distinguish artworks. Danto's idea of the artworld is discussed, a historical and
contextual theory of art, which arose from his attempt to explain the difference
between Warhol's Brillo Boxes sculpture and an indiscernible stack of everyday
Brillo boxes. It is argued that Danto unsuccessfully attempts to shore up his artworld
concept with the special is.
The technique of comparing indiscernible counterparts, from Danto's
book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, is examined. It is argued that the
technique is philosophically redundant, but it is a redundant premise which has been
added to a valid inference (Danto's historical and contextual view of art: his artworld
theory) therefore, this does not make the original inference invalid.
Danto's treatment of metaphor, expression, and style is shown to result
in four claims. First, artworks embody rhetorical ellipsis. Second, artworks share
features of metaphor: they are intensional (with an s) in structure and cannot be
paraphrased. Third, a work of art expresses what it is a metaphor for by the way it
depicts its subject. Fourth, artworks embody style.
The conclusion, has two parts. The first part gives a summary of the
criticism of Danto's theory of art: (1) there are logical inconsistencies in his concept
of the is of artistic identification and in his use of indiscernible counterparts, (2) his
theory suffers by being over-inclusive and (3) he uses circular arguments. The
second part is based on a response to the criticism: it provides a definition of art.
This has three elements. First, an argument is proposed for a spectrum of artistic
presence in which all human activity and artefacts can be placed. Second, there is an
acceptance of Danto's view of art (or artistic presence) being both intentional (with
a t) and intensional (with an s); however, by applying these concepts to a spectrum,
the problem of over-inclusiveness is avoided. Finally, it is argued there can he no
wholly non-circular account of art
Quantitative assessment of individual populations within polymicrobial biofilms
No full textThe datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.Selecting appropriate tools providing reliable quantitative measures of individual populations in biofilms is critical as we now recognize their true polymicrobial and heterogeneous nature. Here, plate count, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (q-PCR) and peptide nucleic acid probe-fluorescence in situ hybridization (PNA-FISH) were employed to quantitate cystic fibrosis multispecies biofilms. Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Inquilinus limosus and Dolosigranulum pigrum was assessed in dual- and triple-species consortia under oxygen and antibiotic stress. Quantification methods, that were previously optimized and validated in planktonic consortia, were not always in agreement when applied in multispecies biofilms. Discrepancies in culture and molecular outcomes were observed, particularly for triple-species consortia and antibiotic-stressed biofilms. Some differences were observed, such as the higher bacterial counts obtained by q-PCR and/or PNA-FISH (?4 log10 cells/cm2) compared to culture. But the discrepancies between PNA-FISH and q-PCR data (eg D. pigrum limited assessment by q-PCR) demonstrate the effect of biofilm heterogeneity in method's reliability. As the heterogeneity in biofilms is a reflection of a myriad of variables, tailoring an accurate picture of communities? changes is crucial. This work demonstrates that at least two, but preferentially three, quantification techniques are required to obtain reliable measures and take comprehensive analysis of polymicrobial biofilm-associated infections.The authors thank the financial support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE2020 – Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI-01–0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the scope of Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. This work was also the result of the projects: (i) POCI01-0145-FEDER-006939 (Laboratory for Processing Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy – UID/EQU/00511/2013) funded by the ERDF, through COMPETE2020 and by national funds, through FCT; (ii) NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000005 – LEPABE-2-ECO-INNOVATION, supported by North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE2020), under the Portugal2020 Partnership Agreement, through the ERDF; (iii) Coded-FISH PTDC/DTP-PIC/4562/2014/16678; (iv) POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029841, through COMPETE2020 - Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização and by national funds, through FCT). Also, the fellowship of Susana P. Lopes SFRH/BPD/95616/2013 is acknowledged. The authors would also like to thanks to Dr Michael Surette (Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada) for kindly providing the I. limosus strain used in this study.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Provenance-based trust for grid computing: Position Paper
No full textCurrent evolutions of Internet technology such as Web Services, ebXML, peer-to-peer and Grid computing all point to the development of large-scale open networks of diverse computing systems interacting with one another to perform tasks. Grid systems (and Web Services) are exemplary in this respect and are perhaps some of the first large-scale open computing systems to see widespread use - making them an important testing ground for problems in trust management which are likely to arise. From this perspective, today's grid architectures suffer from limitations, such as lack of a mechanism to trace results and lack of infrastructure to build up trust networks. These are important concerns in open grids, in which "community resources" are owned and managed by multiple stakeholders, and are dynamically organised in virtual organisations. Provenance enables users to trace how a particular result has been arrived at by identifying the individual services and the aggregation of services that produced such a particular output. Against this background, we present a research agenda to design, conceive and implement an industrial-strength open provenance architecture for grid systems. We motivate its use with three complex grid applications, namely aerospace engineering, organ transplant management and bioinformatics. Industrial-strength provenance support includes a scalable and secure architecture, an open proposal for standardising the protocols and data structures, a set of tools for configuring and using the provenance architecture, an open source reference implementation, and a deployment and validation in industrial context. The provision of such facilities will enrich grid capabilities by including new functionalities required for solving complex problems such as provenance data to provide complete audit trails of process execution and third-party analysis and auditing. As a result, we anticipate that a larger uptake of grid technology is likely to occur, since unprecedented possibilities will be offered to users and will give them a competitive edge
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