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Pensador dos mais instigantes da atualidade, Giorgio Agamben explora, em boa parte de seus ensaios filosóficos, a significação excepcional que apresenta Auschwitz para a compreensão de nossa modernidade esclarecida, significação esta que Adorno foi um dos primeiros a acusar. Sob o pano de fundo dessa convergência temática existente entre os dois pensadores, empreende-se aqui uma apreciação das críticas que Agamben endereça à filosofia de Adorno. Seria justo recriminar a dialética negativa adorniana por não ter sido capaz de se libertar do pendor idealista da dialética hegeliana? Seria justo censurá-la por ter sucumbido a uma espécie de estetização do messianismo, como sentencia Agamben? Essas questões são respondidas em defesa de Adorno.Giorgio Agamben is, nowadays, one of the most intriguing thinkers. In a great extent of his philosophical essays he exploits the exceptional signification of Auschwitz for the understanding of our clarified modernity, and whose signification Adorno was one of the first to accuse. Under the background of such thematic convergence which is between the two thinkers, here we evaluate Agamben's criticisms of Adorno's philosophy. Would it be fair to condemn the Adornian negative dialectics because it could not get rid of the idealistic tendency of Hegelian dialectics? Would it be fair to censor it for having succumbed to a sort of aesthetic bias of messianism, as Agamben claims? Such questions are answered in defense of Adorno.

Over the last decades photocatalytic water splitting has become of increasing importance for fundamental and applied research, since the direct conversion of sunlight into chemical energy via the production of H2 has the potential to contribute to the world's energy needs without CO2 generation. One of the unsolved challenges consists of finding a highly efficient photocatalyst that is cheap, environmentally friendly, contains exclusively abundant elements, is (photo)chemically stable and absorbs visible light. Photocatalytic efficiency is closely connected to both structural properties like crystallinity, particle size and surface area and to electronic properties like the band gap and the quantum efficiency. Hence extensive control over a large parameter field is necessary to design a good photocatalyst. A material class where the structure-composition-property relations and the influence of substitution effects are well studied is the perovskite-type family of compounds. The perovskite-related oxynitrides belong to this very flexible compound family where many of the necessary characteristics for a photocatalyst are already given and some of the intrinsic properties like the band gap can be tuned within the same crystal structure by substitution. In this work we present materials' design concepts to improve the photocatalytic efficiency of a perovskite-type catalyst and describe their effects on the photocatalytic activity.

[english] Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG) is a classification system, which groups patients according to their diagnosis and resource consumption. Common hand surgical diagnoses and procedures were processed using national DRG-groupers of six European countries. The upper thresholds of length of stay (LoS) are indicated for every country with the exception of Spain. The mean value in the series was 9.9 days for Germany, 4.5 days for Austria, 10.7 days for Italy, 9.7 days for Sweden and 9.4 days for the United Kingdom (UK). Germany and Austria also have lower thresholds of LoS and the average LoS.Multiple finger replantation presented the highest single case reimbursement in Germany, Austria and the UK (13,825 €, 10,576 € and Scaphoid non-union had the highest single case reimbursement in Italy (2,676 €), flap coverage of wounds in Spain (5,506 €) and trapeziometacarpal arthritis in Sweden (5,350 €). The mean values for single case reimbursement were as follows: Germany 3,211 €, Austria 2,821 €, Italy 1,947 €, Spain 3,594 €, Sweden 2,403 € and the UK 3,253 €. Ten out of 19 cases showed the highest reimbursement in Spain, followed by the UK (5 cases), Sweden (2 cases), Germany and Austria (1 case each). Applying the case numbers of our clinic to the reimbursement system of each country, total proceeds would be 2.25 million € in Spain, in Germany as well as the UK, 1.75 million € in Austria, in Sweden and 1.22 million € in Italy. The consequences of international differences in efficiency and reimbursement are hard to assess as they are influenced by multiple factors that are seldom purely market-driven. However, the consideration of international data for benchmarking and refinement of national compensation systems should be a useful instrument. [german] Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) bezeichnet ein Klassifikationssystem, welches Patienten anhand ihrer Diagnosen und des Ressourcenverbrauchs einteilt. Häufige handchirurgische Diagnosen und Prozeduren wurden mit den nationalen DRG-Groupern sechs europäischer Länder bearbeitet.Die obere Grenzverweildauer (oGVD) wurde außer für Spanien in allen Ländern angegeben. Die mittlere oGVD lag bei 9,9 Tagen für Deutschland, 4,5 Tagen für Österreich, 10,7 Tagen für Italien, 9,7 Tagen für Schweden und 9,4 Tagen für Großbritannien (UK). Nur für Deutschland und Österreich standen die untere Grenzverweildauer und die mittlere Verweildauer zur Verfügung.Mehrfingerreplantationen zeigten die höchste Einzelfallvergütung in Deutschland, Österreich und UK (13.825 €, 10.576 € und 9.198 €). Kahnbeinpseudarthrosen erzielten die höchste Vergütung in Italien (2.676 €), Lappendeckungen von Haut-Weichteil-Defekten in Spanien (5.506 €) und Rhizarthrosen in Schweden (5.350 €). Die durchschnittliche Vergütung der Einzelfälle betrug in Deutschland 3.211 €, Österreich 2.821 €, Italien 1.947 €, Spanien 3.594 €, Schweden 2.403 € und UK 3.253 €. Zehn von 19 Fälle hatten die höchste Vergütung in Spanien, gefolgt von Großbritannien (5 Fälle), Schweden (2 Fälle), Deutschland und Österreich (je 1 Fall).Unter Verwendung der Fallzahlen unserer Klinik errechnete sich eine Gesamtvergütung von 2,25 Millionen € in Spanien, 1,79 Millionen € in Deutschland und UK, 1,75 Millionen € in Österreich, 1,63 Millionen € in Schweden und 1,22 Millionen € in Italien. Die Konsequenzen internationaler Unterschiede in Effizienz und Vergütung sind schwer zu erfassen und durch zahlreiche Faktoren beeinflusst, welche oft nicht den klassischen Marktmechanismen unterliegen. Jedoch sollten internationale Daten insbesondere zum Benchmarking und zur Weiterentwicklung nationaler Vergütungssysteme berücksichtigt werden.

The giant conifer aphid, Cinara atlantica, originated from North America, was introduced in Brazil in the 1990's and became widely distributed on commercial areas of Pinus. This study was conducted in order to correlate morphometric parameters of mono and multiclonal C. atlantica lineage with its reproductive performance on plant progenies and commercial seedlings. The number of nymphs produced by female by day were registered. After death, measurements of morphological characters were carried out using the program Axion Vision 4.5. Antenna, hind femur and tibia lengths showed the highest correlation with aphids body length, representing 98% of total variation. Based on these variables a new variable was defined as 'insect size', which was used to compare treatments. Multiclonal insects had the highest values for most morphometric parameters and largest progeny production. The biggest insects and highest nymph production were observed on commercial seedlings of both nurseries, suggesting that these pine progenies may show some resistance against C. atlantica attack what make them good candidates for integrated pest management programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]