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In times of globalization of education, there is a growing flow of tertiary level students around the world who cross the borders of their countries in search of knowledge, partnerships in research projects and cultural experiences. At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, in the euphoria of Brazil's neo-developmentalist policy, almost 100,000 participants in the Science without Borders Program completed part of their studies abroad. Although the United States was the main country of destination, the English language, due to the low proficiency of the scholarship holders, proved to be the major obstacle to this mobility policy, strategically designed to boost the internationalization of technical and scientific research and Brazil's economic growth. The result of two years of research, the book presents a wide-ranging intersectional analysis of the students' profile, namely by gender, race and social class, to reveal how the inequalities and privileges latent in Brazilian society and education system were reflected and perpetuated in the most ambitious international education program in the country's history.

This book, entitled "Hydro-agricultural developments: Diagnosis and assessment of environmental risks in Benin", is a participatory action research project under the "Environment and Climate Change" programme of the Centre d'Actions pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le Développement Durable (CASAD-Benin). It provides a better understanding of the characteristics of hydro-agricultural developments and the associated environmental risks. After identifying the different types of hydro-agricultural development (hydro-agricultural development using gravity, pumping and manual watering), the sources of environmental risks associated with their development were identified and analysed. The results show that the various practices have led to degradation of the plant cover, causing it to decline and reducing soil fertility. The book proposes sustainable management measures to reduce the environmental risks of hydro-agricultural development.

The aim of this study is to analyze the formative function of the experiences of resistance lived by two configurations: agroecological family farmers from the Territory of Identity of Irecê - TII and young participants from the Fatumbi Institute - Alto das Pombas, Salvador-BA, who plan their lives on the basis of building a more dignified and just society for the people of the countryside and the city. This research seeks to capture a story that takes place in configurations of resistance and mobilization, thus falling within the scope of qualitative research, using Participatory Research as its approach, using some techniques for analysing Educational Biography, based on Josso (2010), in which the formative, transformative and social intervention dimensions are integrated. Through the accounts of the young people interviewed, it was possible to identify that the educational experiences lived within the family, with friends, in the community, at school and at work contributed to the constitution of educational trajectories based on an ethical rationality, committed to the formation of subjects open to the encounter with the new, the unknown.

Mercosur has an impact on the Brazilian tax system. That's a fact! Under what circumstances was the Treaty of Asunción signed, what does it consist of, what are the governing principles and its fundamental objectives? What are the main characteristics of the tax systems of the Mercosur member states? What is the structure of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and what is the importance of a possible tax reform of the Brazilian tax system in light of the need to harmonise the legislation of the member states? Finally, what are the effects of the Treaty of Asunción on the Brazilian tax system? The main aim of this book is to describe the effects of the Treaty of Asunción on Brazil's tax system, as well as the need for tax reform.

In this study, we discuss the languages used/expressed/communicated by children attending Early Childhood Education institutions, in contexts of social interactions of joint attention. This is a longitudinal study of a qualitative nature, resulting from one of the investigative focuses of a PIBIC project (2016/2017 quota) developed by UEPB/Brazil. The subjects involved were 30 children aged between 02 and 03 years old and 02 teachers. We start from the understanding that children have multiple languages, and that the school environment can favor the use of this multiplicity. The study showed, among other things, that it is possible to identify multiple languages in the interactions between adults and children, and between the children themselves, in contexts of joint attention, in the social spaces of the nursery school; and that the other (adult or child) has important contributions in stimulating the use of languages by children, from an early age.

This study analyses what psycho-pedagogy is, its importance in the hospital environment, and what it means for the child, since they are isolated in a strange place with unfamiliar people. This makes it impossible for them to attend school for a certain period of time, and their routine is geared towards exams, medication and diagnoses, which cause feelings of revolt and fear in the child. To try to alleviate this suffering caused by hospitalisation, Hospital Pedagogy comes into play, which in turn provides the patient/student with educational pedagogical care based on activities continued by their school of origin. These activities are carried out under the guidance of professionals trained in the field of education, offering physical well-being and intellectual performance to the sick student, so that they feel more confident in their return to society and hopeful in their fight for life, conquering the non-transferable right of hospitalised children and adolescents to education.

Why are colleges, university centers and universities unable to disseminate the knowledge produced in their courses and research institutes? Why is non-scientific information still more privileged by these institutions than scientific information? Why is it that, even in times of the Internet, free information and an ever-increasing popular interest in science-related subjects, the difficulties faced by higher education institutions in carrying out scientific dissemination remain the same? The answers to these and other questions related to science communication and the work of university news agencies and press offices can be found in this book.

It addresses a current issue related to one of the spheres of Recreation, the Street Plans. The proposal of games, never before established for this type of activity, which integrate problems that affect the community and transmit environmental knowledge, is a significant result. The games allow the exercise of motor skills and physical abilities necessary for the correct physical development of the child. With previous adjustment, they can be applied in any neighborhood or area of our country with the objective of educating or promoting actions in favor of the environment. With a short time dedicated to their reading and analysis, recreation teachers can put them into practice and obtain results in the short or medium term, reflected in the ways of acting and the culture that children are acquiring. This work constitutes an alternative of great importance for sport and Physical Education professionals due to its diverse application.

Inventory management and the Economic Purchase Lot are techniques that enable the market to become increasingly competitive, since companies are constantly looking for alternatives that help reduce the total capital invested, help avoid high costs and prevent a shortage of products to meet customer demand. It is necessary to always pay attention to inventory management, as they are very important assets for any organization, but they can also represent significant costs for any company when poorly managed. The aim of this book is to determine the degree of importance and the impacts caused by the value of the most important items, with a focus on identifying losses, by carrying out an ABC classification directly related to the stock of a pharmacy. Through a case study, it was possible to demonstrate how Inventory Management and the Economic Purchase Lot method are efficient systems, when used correctly in business inventories, since they can help with materials management, demonstrating the importance of inventories in the company.

PGE2 and other prostanoids are measured using specific KITs and the activity of the enzymes involved in their formation is assessed indirectly. In this context, we propose the use of a tool for the direct evaluation of enzymes, since they act robustly in the escape mechanisms of neoplastic cells. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) was chosen because it measures the release of free radicals and has provided surprising results. We therefore hope that the technique can also be used by researchers in the biological and health sciences.

In this post-bipolar era, in which the world society is witnessing a plural dynamic of multiform actors engaged without restraint in a geopolitics of power, international organisations remain unquestionably the regulatory bodies for international decision-making. In this respect, international organisations form frameworks within which, through multilateral diplomacy, the ordering of international peace and security is determined. Hence the importance of subjecting this vital phenomenon to a legal-political theorisation, which is a useful prerequisite for the scientific study of any international organisation in the contemporary world.

This book examines clandestine migration from Casamance to Europe by looking at the economic, political, social, cultural and symbolic factors behind these departures. It proposes a typology of the actors involved in these journeys, immerses the reader in the lived experience of sea journeys and sheds new light on the conditions of the crossing, the mode of organisation, the role of the captain of the pirogue and other fishermen, the phenomena of hallucination and panic en route and the many risks that surround this world of sea journeys made in recent years by would-be migrants in search of the European El Dorado. Through powerful and poignant testimonies that run through the analyses, we also look at the risks of sea crossings, the phenomena of insanity and madness that manifest themselves in would-be migrants, who suddenly find themselves in a totally unknown, constantly shifting and all the more frightening environment, the ocean (by day and even more so by night), at the mercy of Providence.

This book is dedicated to the valorization of household waste for the production of organic compost for peripheral agriculture in the District of Bamako. Organic waste management is a crucial problem in African countries, including Mali. The Malian government alone cannot cope with this scourge. It was with a view to reducing the amount of waste stored in our district, and above all to creating an income-generating activity around waste, that we opted for this study. The aims of this experimental study are twofold: to contribute to relieving congestion and facilitating the treatment of intermediate household waste depots; and to contribute to the development of environmentally-friendly agriculture (through the provision of quality compost for soil and plants) and producing products that are less harmful for consumption. To do this, we worked in a limited area at Faladié SEMA in Bamako's Commune VI, where we tested the collection, sorting and processing of organic waste.

Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of hereditary diseases characterized by muscle fiber degeneration. They manifest clinically as progressive onset and worsening muscle weakness. The aim of our work is to study the contribution of immunological studies in the diagnosis of Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies (LGMD2). Our study is retrospective, covering patients treated for LGMD2 at the Sfax Neurology Department over a period of 10 years. We selected 30 cases from 23 families who met the inclusion criteria. All our patients benefited from a protein study involving immunohistochemistry and/or Western blot accompanied by a genetic study using Next generation sequencing. Our study shows that the immunological study can guide the genetic study and specify the clinical phenotype for patients with limb-girdle myopathy.

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are made up of released nuclear DNA associated with histones and granular proteins, which form a network-like extracellular structure capable of trapping and killing certain microbes.after performing their function, NETs should normally be degraded by DNAse. However, in the event of poor clearance, NETs can be a major source of autoantigens, increasing the risk of autoreactivity against their components. This significantly increases the risk of developing several autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). As a result, the use of molecules with high antioxidant power seems to be a possible avenue for minimizing the deleterious impact of NETs on tissues, particularly in cases of acute or chronic inflammation. This is the background to our work, in which we demonstrated the inhibitory power of four molecules - oleuropein, tyrosol, tyrosol3 and phenyl ethanol - on NET formation.

Symptoms attributed to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) and Tomato Mosaic Virus (ToMV) are frequently reported on solanaceous plants in Cape Verde and are associated with damage to crops, especially tomatoes.In order to confirm the presence of TYLCV and ToMV in solanaceous plants in Cape Verde, 16 samples of plants of the species Solanum lycopersicum, S. melanogena, Capsicum annum and C. frutescens with virus symptoms were evaluated using the DAS-ELISA test. The presence of TYLCV and ToMV was also determined in six batches of seeds of three tomato cultivars, "Calor", "CV01" and "Produtor", produced in the country in 2008 and 2009 and in plants from these seeds. TYLCV was found in 10 of the solanaceous samples studied, while ToMV was recorded in one sample of S. lycopersicum. TYLCV was detected in the seeds of the three cultivars studied and ToMV in the seeds of cv. CV01. The average incidence of viruses recorded in the field trials was 0.8% in cv. CV01, 44.5% in cv. Produtor and 51.5% in cv. Calor. "Tomatinho", a spontaneous variety and S. melanogena plants that are kept in the fields, are important reservoirs of the TYLCV virus.

This is a descriptive study that took place from 1 January to 31 December 2016. Observations were made on patients aged 1 month to 59 months who were brought to consultation for anaemia, or who had been hospitalised for the same problem during the study period. Using the register of the paediatric department of the HGRCM, we observed 250 cases, of which 24 children were anaemic, representing a rate of 9.6% of cases.

Benin changed its national malaria management policy in 2004, opting for Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs). These have been adopted by the World Health Organisation as drugs for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in endemic countries. To this end, various approaches have been developed to ensure their wide distribution. This research therefore aims to understand the social representations and uses of pharmaceutical antimalarial drugs in the Aïzo community of Togba (Abomey-Calavi commune). The methodological approach adopted is qualitative. Thirty stakeholders were interviewed, including twenty mothers/fathers of children under the age of five at household level, plus six pharmaceutical drug sellers, two health workers and two herbalists, during the second half of 2015. It emerged that the health system, at the centre of which are pharmaceutical antimalarial drugs, combines with 'traditional' knowledge to build popular knowledge about health in the Aïzo community of Togba.

As we all know, our planet is increasingly experiencing climate upheavals due to man's impact on nature, and one of the solutions to be considered is to preserve the forests, including those in the Democratic Republic of Congo, considered to be the second largest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon in Brazil. However, the DRC faces another challenge, that of socio-economic development, the solution to which could also come from exploiting its forests. The country thus finds itself at a crossroads in that, on the one hand, it is called upon to preserve its forest for the world's ecological balance and, on the other, it would like to exploit it to ensure the socio-economic well-being of its people. This book provides rational, plausible and balanced answers to these problems through an in-depth study of the principles of international environmental law. It points out that as long as the DRC does not receive compensation for its failure to exploit its own forest in the global ecological interest, it will find it difficult to conserve it.

In the world of modern forestry, any company that wants to be operational and is concerned about achieving good results from its activities while complying with certification standards usually resorts to a good management system, generally based on the quality of its recruitment. The material and financial resources it deploys for operating activities mean that managers and all employees are heavily involved in operations and take a keen interest in the quantity and quality of its output. To achieve this, an induction system is set up to enable potential recruits (new employees) to become familiar with the company's methods and strategies. This starts with a series of level tests and continues with a trial period. During this period, the recruit learns how the company works, how an operational activity is run and how to monitor and control it. How are post-operational activities monitored and evaluated? How do you report on the activities carried out? How do you keep records?

An analysis of the existential drama of the protagonist of Lya Luft's Exile, through the symbolic study of the novel's content, which shows the profound meaning of the elements that make up the process of individuation, as explained by Marie Louise von Franz, in Man and His Symbols (2005), a collection of texts on analytical psychology and Jungian thought on the human psyche, based on the archetypes of the collective and personal unconscious during this process, namely: the manifestations of the persona, the shadow, the animus and the Self. We will start from the assumption that understanding the novel depends on understanding the symbolic nature of these elements and their representations in the plot; the connection they have with each other; and their relevance to the structure of the narrative and the trajectory of its heroine, Doctor.

The situation of violence and impunity that prevails in the national territory is surely due to the lack of adequate policies in the fight against organized crime, when reflecting on the measures implemented by the Government of Mexico to avoid the problem, it can be observed that an effective action would be the seizure of illicitly obtained economic resources, which would significantly weaken criminal organizations. It is thought that the most effective measure to minimize criminal action has been provided in the concert of nations since there is a legal instrument consisting of a series of 40 recommendations that when implemented would prevent the flow of illicitly obtained capital. Crime is a social cancer, the realization of illicit activities has its strength in the economic resources that it generates and that can be used to buy wills and corrupt authorities, if there were good ways of detecting money laundering, it would help in the fight against organized crime.

In this world of constant change, in which new technologies reach every corner of the country, reading practices and language or multiple language studies are becoming increasingly relevant. Media texts (written, oral or visual) transmit information at an enormous speed, requiring people to be able to reflexively read and interpret the various texts circulating in society. In this context, it has therefore become essential to develop projects that emphasise the development of critical reading skills in multimodal texts (made up of verbal and non-verbal semioses) in order to promote citizenship training. In view of this, Coscarelli (1999) states that reading is a complex process that involves perception, from graphic signs to the generation of inferences and analogies. The practice of multimodal reading should therefore not be seen as a mere habit of decoding symbols, colours, gestures, paintings or physiognomic expressions, but as an activity that encompasses discourses and traits (such as political and ideological ones).

This work consists of a critical study of Augusto Abelaira's novel Sem tecto, entre ruínas. Initially, it analyses the possible consequences of a discontinuous and material apprehension of time, its effects on the relationship between the protagonist and his world, which are presented in the form of boredom and paralysis. For the proposed critique, the concepts of discontinuity and homogeneity presented by the philosopher Henri Bergson were taken up, as well as the notion of disconnection and desire demonstrated by the sociology of Zigmunt Bauman. The next target contemplated in the research is the presence of memory and remembrance indicated from the continuous point of view of time, also analysed in the light of Bergson's philosophy, as well as the thinking of Gilles Deleuze. From this investigative path, it is possible to think of the protagonist's condition as a confrontation of the self, an experience of time that brings a revelation through the condition of being too late.

The aim of this study was to produce an information booklet for parents and teachers on Autism Spectrum Disorder. Bibliographical research was carried out in books and articles, which served as a basis for the development of the research as well as the preparation of the booklet. The research covered topics such as the history of autism, the triad that makes up ASD, etiology and diagnosis, the autistic family, intervention methods and psychopedagogy. The booklet presents subjects such as what ASD is, its characteristics, how the diagnosis is made, comorbidities, laws and rights of people with ASD, treatment and medication, intervention methods and suggestions of websites, magazines, books, films and specialised institutions in Bauru. This research concluded that psychopedagogy has a lot to contribute with its knowledge in the fight to guarantee better living conditions, preventing superficial knowledge that leads to discrediting the potential of those affected by this disorder.

The general aim of this work is to show that the technology of Social Observatories has a social function that includes, in addition to monitoring public accounts, bringing education, awareness and a change of culture to citizens. The partnership between these entities and the state is essential for mobilising society. In order to achieve this objective, extensive bibliographical research was carried out on the structure and work of social observatories linked to the Observatory Network for Social Control and other organised civil society entities that focus their activities on promoting citizenship and tax education. In terms of procedures, the work seeks to find out details of the trajectory, structure and working methodologies of social observatories and was drawn up by means of a bibliographical survey based on the report carried out by researchers from the Politeia - Coproduction of the Public Good: Accountability and Management research group at Santa Catarina State University (UDESC/ESAG), in partnership with the Itajaí Social Observatory (OSI), with the support of the OSB Social Control Network.

Article 1240-A of the Civil Code will be analysed, which provides for Family Usucaption, or, called by some, Usucaption by Abandonment of the Home. In line with the Constitutional Principles of private property and social function, this modality makes it possible to acquire property when one of the spouses abandons the home for 2 years uninterruptedly and without any opposition. The property must be up to 250 m², shared by the former spouse and used for living purposes. In addition, there must be no other urban or rural property.

Dividends are considered to be one of the most important corporate financial decisions, often associated with investment and financing policies. Theories such as agency, asymmetric information and signals or tax effects, in particular, have contributed theoretical arguments and financial determinants to explain the level of earnings distributed by companies. However, the stage of the life cycle the company is in, and the business characteristics associated with it, can also determine the dividend policy followed. This first part of the thesis (volume I) is based on the literature review carried out in this area and serves as the basis for the empirical study in part 2, applied to European companies.

There is a lot of research focusing on Youth and Adult Education (EJA), mainly on how the teaching-learning process takes place. However, there has been little prioritisation of the use of teaching materials in this type of education, unlike what usually happens in regular education. With the intensification of EJA teaching and the growing implementation of the State Centres for Youth and Adult Education (CEEJA in the state of São Paulo), in the flexible attendance modality, in which teaching materials are fundamental to the interaction between the student and knowledge, it is essential to understand these teaching materials. In this context, the central objective of this research is to look at how a pedagogical proposal was developed in the subject of Physics in a CEEJA unit, with a view to historical aspects and specific objectives, considering the profile and interaction characteristics of the students. Likewise, the transposition of this teaching material for use in a new CEEJA unit (Jaú/SP), constituted by a different reality, was analysed, taking into account the interaction characteristics and gaps resulting from these changes.

Through literary reading, students can have access to the literary text as a privileged instrument for modeling the written use of language, an instrument that can help them develop into better textual producers by increasing their collection of textual experiences. The choice of approaching the phenomenon of intertextuality at school is a viable one and, for this reason, could not fail to be pointed out as a dialogic principle of language in literature classes. With this approach, high school teachers have at their disposal a very useful tool to apply in their daily activities, since there is a great need for this in the school environment.