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This article is a reflection on the processes of land regularization enacted by the section 68 of the Temporary Constitutional Provisions Act of 1988 in Brazil and its deployment in the State administrative routines.We believe that new elements have been imposed and we should consider them when thinking about reparation policies and recognition of the recipients of these constitutional provisions. We use the expression "the battle of papers" to refer to the negotiations obstructed by the State notarial procedures. Efforts will be made to show the situations in which the struggle for social recognition challenges the idea in which it is conceived that the runaway slaves demand is merely territorial. Observed in their various confrontations, these processes conceal a moral vocation, led by the runaway slaves, that overflows the logical demand for the "World of papers" and allows us to visualize the tensions on the ways of materializing, moved from orality to writing, conducted by notions of science and permeated by notary logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the assumption that politics and war are related domains in Machiavelli, in this paper we intend to examine the specificity of the art of war in comparison with the art of the State. If the homologies between the two fields are evident, it remains to investigate the points at which they differ decisively. To do so, two things will have to be done: on the one hand, to highlight the main components of the art of war as a set of practices; on the other hand, to demonstrate that it can only achieve its objectives if it is capable of producing unity among the members of the army. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the processes developed in Brazil and Portugal intended to integrate the Primary Health Care and the Specialized Health Care. Primary Health Care conceived of as the first step for accessing to the health system stands out among the most usual initiatives and thus the family doctors are attributed a prevailing role. It is also emphasized the territorialization of the health services based on the geographic location, the referral to specialized doctors and the implementation of clinic protocols agreed between the parties. The main results indicate that in Brazil they implemented decentralized regulatory systems, and, in Portugal they created local health units (structures owned by the health ministry that integrate primary health care and specialized health care provided by the same management team). In conclusion, this work underlines the need to develop a true investment policy intended to strengthen the response capacity in the specialized health care and to add more value to the work performed by the primary care professionals. This way, they will strengthen the collaborative culture that will translate into successful integration processes with results such as good health and user's satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss how the public budget and the model of basic attention in public health could affect the infant mortality rates in a certain territory. The research was carried out in the Southern Coastal Territory of Bahia, in the State of Bahia, Northeast Region of Brazil. It is a quantitative and descriptive investigation, based on secondary data referring to the period from 2006 to 2015, collected between 2017 and 2018 in official Brazilian public data banks. It was verified that, although the average rate of infant mortality fell gradually from 2006 in the territory, it is still higher than the national average within the investigated period. In 2006, the average rate of the territory was 35.53% and decreased to 18.56% in 2015. However, throughout the period the average rate remained higher than the Brazilian average, which is 18%. Infant mortality rates have a strong relationship with social, economic, and environmental factors. In the case investigated, they are associated with the fragmentation and fragility of public health service networks in the municipalities of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spirituality, understood as the search for the transcendent, and the personal experience of what constitutes the object of faith, is a fundamental tenet in any religious tradition. In the case of Christianity, in all its main branches (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism), the importance of spirituality cannot be exaggerated. Rubem Alves (1933-2014), one of the most complex and creative thinkers that Brazilian Protestantism has produced, completely innovated the knowledge of spirituality, understood it from an erotic perspective, that is, a perspective of delight, and by the aesthesis-aesthetics experience. This paper intends to present some elements of this Alvesian understanding of spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the protests and popular demonstrations that took place in the city of Belo Horizonte between 2012 and 2015, having as theoretical background the new mobility paradigm. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis of three hundred and twenty three journal articles and reports, firstly we verify he composition and intensity of the protest motives that claim the right, access and quality of urban mobility. In a second moment, it was shown how the spaces of mobility and the movement of the bodies present in those events are fundamental in the composition of performative repertoires of political groups. Our finds show that urban mobility is not only a complex and extremely important political agenda, but that the very act of moving and / or interrupting the flow of movement of this city are fundamental strategies in the search for visibility and dissemination of political challenges on the public scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Teaching integrated arts motivates students and supports language acquisition because it integrates reading, writing and oral activities, allowing students to benefit from interdisciplinary experiences between language and art (Haust, 2008; Faisal y Wulandari, 2013). The Portuguese School is currently linguistically and socially diverse, integrating students from about 120 nationalities. For these students to acquire skills in Portuguese is a complex task because the language of schooling is not, in most cases, their mother tongue (Wang y Wen, 2002; Silva y Gonçalves, 2011). With this background, this paper presents an action research project, of inclusive and transdisciplinary nature, developed in disadvantaged and multilingual contexts and the main focus of this study was: (i) to improve the development of writing skills through art in a non-native language students and (ii) to increase the development of writing skills in native students, but who are from disadvantaged socio-economic contexts. We worked with children in 3th grade of the primary school in a writing intervention program during 9 months writing a descriptive text using arts and they were evaluated in pre- and post-test in which they were asked to write a descriptive text following a piece of art. The results obtained in the post-test showed improvements in overall performance of students, writing longer texts with markers of macro and microstructure of descriptive texts, particularly students of Portuguese second language in writing production and vocabulary enrichment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to propose an analysis of dirty work. It is argued that this kind of work may contribute to an enlargement of the Social Psychology of Work agenda. In methodological terms, firstly the paper recasts and refreshes the meaning of dirty work such as originally proposed by Chicago School members. Next, a reconceptualization of dirty work is carried out, based on the frame of reference developed in the work clinics field. The paper argues that dirty work should not be confused with other kinds of work studied by Social Psychology. It holds that dirty work refers only to those activities in which one can't identify an instituted sense of collective work. Finally, the paper discusses theoretical challenges in studying dirty work, making suggestions for researchers interested in this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to study changes in the fruit and vegetable distribution system in Brazil in previous years and the role that could be played by Public Supply Centres. Food supply is essential for securing access to and availability of food in cities. The paper will consider problems concerning the CEASA since the disruption of the National Supply Centres System (SINAC), and those regarding globalisation in the food industry. The paper was written in 2010 based on gathered secondary data and semi-structured interviews conducted on important actors in the distribution of fruits and vegetables. As one of the conclusions, it states that there is still room for a public role in food supply focused on supply centres and based on the principles of Food Security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) was one of the most important Brazilian social thinkers, whose legacy has been constantly revisited. In this paper I turn to a relatively unexplored aspect of his work that concerns the relationship between education and race. I point in this text beyond the 'myth of racial democracy' Freyre recognizes the existing barriers and inequalities in Brazilian society, so much that even states that diplomas become true 'letters of sociological whiteness"' recognizing not only the deep social differences existing between whites, blacks and mulattos in Brazil, as well as drawing attention to the dynamics created with the gradual process of schooling. I analyze how the work of Freyre presents this relationship between social mobility of blacks and mulattos and education, which I do using as substrate mainly the authors who have produced knowledge in the field of Brazilian social thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a brief analysis about judicial activism and the principle of strict legality in jurisprudential dynamics of the Supreme Court, under the lights of popular sovereignty and the separation of powers will be made. The judicial activism is understood as the ability of the judiciary filling gaps occurred in the face of unjustified regulatory omissions unconstitutional. Judicial activism is valid only for the satisfaction of constitutional rights, but they are with their exercise unviable against the unjustified omission of the Legislative or Executive. Analyze the limits and possibilities of activist practice, especially the principle of strict legality, which comes to the constitutional requirement of necessary intervention of the legislator to regulate certain matters normatively. Reap some decisions of the Supreme Court, and check if these decisions reveal an activist or arbitrary posture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a critical analysis of the development of the professional field of Psychology in Brazil and of the training of its professionals, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Some previous studies are used for describing that field and this training. They have been taken in to account, in order to provide a post facto characterization. This essay finishes providing contributions for training and professional policies that may serve the Country’s major and urgent social and educational demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the scientific literature produced recently about new product development (NPD) in order to identify and classify the major fields of knowledge, possible connections, as well as the nature of articles and analytics tools used. A review of the literature was implemented on 461 articles focused on NPD, published in three leading journals between 2000 and 2010. It was possible to create 13 main categories, in which innovation, research and development, NPD products and processes and NPD teams stand out. Results conclude that NPD is multifaceted, includes multiple concepts and interrelated categories. Moreover, future studies need to complement qualitative with quantitative research and to analyze how small and large firms differ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a reflection about the degradation of the spiritual dimension of men today, the crisis and frustration of human beings concerning their current situation, and their desire for authentic existence. This reflection is based on the works of two important authors from different time periods: The Spiritual Situation of Our Time, by Karl Jaspers, and Heading for the Abyss? An Essay on the Fate of Humanity, by Edgar Morin, These works and their authors are the point of departure of a dialogue with other famous writers, such as Paul Tillich, Viktor Frankl and Erich Fromm, who devoted themselves to investigate about human spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study traces the historical development of the concept of person in Western thought. It begins with an overview of the semantic evolution of the terms originally assigned to the concept, that is to say, the words person, prosopon and hypostasis, showing their theological, christological and anthropological meanings in the light of the reflection of some Patristic theologians. The paper then analyzes the evolution of the concept in Latin Philosophy, particularly with the contributions of Boethius in medieval Theology. Later, the study shows the modern and contemporary philosophical approaches to the concept and its relations with other anthropological terms; finally, the current meaning of the term is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an experience of a Photo Workshop, developed in a public hospital in Brazil. Then, the methodological proposal of the Clinic of Activity makes use of the resource of digital photography, making the photography production process a process of the analysis of the activity as well. The next step was to take the pictures produced and put them in discussion, in a dialogue about the activity that is developed around the collective modes used in the process and their controversies. In presenting this experience, we seek to develop a tool for analysing the work which exploit and destabilize the established modes of working and also enhance instituting forces that make up a given situation, engendering other ones that enable the expansion of workers' action power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Work and Organizational Psychology has studied with great intensity the mental health at work, but there are almost no investigations about the possibility of working for people living with mental illness, which is a phenomenon that has been studied in the Areas exclusively dedicated to health. Thus, this paper aimed to propose a theoretical reflection about the relation between work and “madness" grounded at the Social Psychology of Work and make theoretical, technical, programmatic and political propositions, besides indicating its importance to this specific interdisciplinary field of the study. As a conclusion, the contemporary world of work has been, at the same time, the world of precarization and the world of opportunities, especially for people living with mental suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at pointing out the way the agenda of activities in the academic world has led professors of public higher level education to sicken. The analysis was based on information gathered through a questionnaire applied to 98 professors of a Brazilian federal public university and interviews with 18 of them. The results demonstrate that the search for medical and/or psychological help is more frequent among professors who work in postgraduate programs, mainly women with a large number of advisees. The results also indicates that the diversity of activities — almost of them are mandatory, delimited and considered parameters for assessing individual and collective academic performance — is what seems to cause suffering and sickness among many of those professors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal this paper seeks to achieve is to set forth a performance measuring system for franchise sectors currently in place in Brazil, on the basis of a set of indicators being designed which are related with external factors being deemed as critical, and based upon economic and non-economic data being made available to the general public by the Associação Brasileira de Franchising (ABF). Five performance indicators have been designed for the system together with their outcomes, and the model shall be applied to a speciic segment within the Brazilian franchise system, so as to enable the analysis of data being gathered, and the reliability test of parameters being used, thus allowing to ensuring both sectors that the model is reliable vis-à-vis the evaluation criteria being designed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines, from a gender perspective, the types of occupation and sources of income of family women and men from the rural areas of the state of Paraná, Brazil, in the period between 2001 and 2008. The estimates reflected that the number of families in the analyzed period was stabilized, reversing a decline occurred in the nineties of the last century. A sharp reduction in agricultural occupations and a worrying process of proletarianization were found, being women the most affected by these phenomena. The non-agricultural occupations opened an important place for women income generation separate from male spaces. Men revenues from agricultural occupations are still the largely responsible in the formation of family income and social transfers are the major source of income for women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researching on the expertise as a guiding tool for planning allows to explore the dimension of epistemological authority in defining policies. In the field of Social Studies of Science and Technology, there are few studies on the expertise when it comes to the Social Sciences and Humanities. This paper explores this relationship through the analysis of texts produced by a Brazilian government Think tank: the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA). The study was guided by the following question: what are the elements that characterize the IPEA institutionalized knowledge of science, technology and innovation? The theoretical concepts articulate Sociology of Science and Political Theory. The research methodology combined field and bibliometric analysis. The literature review revealed: the continuity and discontinuity of topics, research priorities; theoretical referentials and hegemonic and disciplinary approaches, as well as the authors profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper begins with an overlook at the third sector and the relationship between investment and growth. It is empirically focused on the Portuguese rural regions of Douro and Alto Trás-os-Montes, which have received a great quantity of investment incentives from the European Union. The purpose is to study the impact of these investments on development. Results show public investment has had greater impact than private production investment, which highlights the importance of non-for-profit investment on the third sector. For this reason, support for the third sector stands out as a main item in rural development policies, given that the impact of public investment did not bring about a dynamic of marketable goods on an international scale that could help regions become independent on public financial support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at discussing the text of Mark 10,32-45 under the scope of the Biblical Theology and Foucault's analytical theory of power. The methodology of this study corresponds to a bibliographical order based on contributions from research on Mark, Mediterranean society in the first Century and Foucault's texts on power. Results show that while Jesus' disciples seek for power, Jesus proposes a counterargument in order to turn power into solidarity for the community. Jesus intervention brings a discourse about resignation to power and about service and solidarity. These two approaches towards power demonstrate how values that were quite rooted in an ambitious society could be challenged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its emergence in Brazil, the soap opera favors advertising strategies embedded in its daily episodes, such as the advertising spot. Since 1969, a new phenomenon began to settle, the tie-in, which included to the soap operas' plots some products and services consumed by the characters, suggesting a consumption or a real use. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a content analysis of soap operas in the last two years (2010-2011, TV Rede Globo in Brazil). The analysis focuses on the relationship between the range of topics and its advertising actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a central figure not only in the German culture from the eighteenth century, but also in the historical development of psychology. However, his work remains largely unknown by most contemporary psychologists. The aim of this paper is to show Wolff's important role in the historical formation of psychology. We begin by offering a brief context of German Enlightenment in its historical-cultural aspects. Afterwards the close relationship between his psychological thought and his philosophical system will be shown. Finally, a few cases that illustrate Wolff's influence on the posterior development of psychology will be presented. We conclude that he deserves much more attention than he has received so far in the historiography of psychology in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper in based on the achievement of a critical analysis on the issue of medicine patents, observing how the subject has been approached by the doctrine and how it has been empirically applied. Also it will be study the legal cases where the law provides for compulsory licensing and seeks for an alternative, in which it is necessary to find balance, so as not to "break a medicine patent" in a way that ensures Brazilians access to needed medicines for the treatment of HIV and cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We often remember the last quarter of the 20th century as a period of unprecedented changes in terms of the extent, purpose and pace of historical transformation. Thus, the only certainty we have about the future is that it will be very different from our present and that it will run faster than ever. The reason behind all of this is technological revolution, an idea that has become commonplace in the so-called technoculture era. In fact, the transformation speed experienced by technological means of language and communication production is impressive. Since the invention of photography, we have already achieved the 5th generation of communication technologies. This paper aims at introducing briefly the five technological generations we know so far: replay and webcasting technologies, both made possible by the electric-electronic revolution; the make-available technologies that characterize media culture; access technologies developed from the digital revolution; and more recently, the permanent connection technologies made possible by mobile devices. After discussing these and the way they are combined today, the article goes on to discuss main research lines in digital media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The impact of emotion on memory performance is widely debated in the scientific literature. In the present paper, the relation between emotion and memory was addressed in three experiments using the Slideshow Procedure. In the first experiment, 128 participants' memory was tested for one of two versions of the Procedure (arousal or neutral) through free recall. In the second experiment, 75 participants were asked to recall the information of the arousal version immediately after or one week after watching it. In the third experiment, 75 participants watched the arousal version and answered either a free recall or a recognition test one week after. The results suggested that memory for arousal events is better when tested immediately after the stimuli using free recall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the results of the intervention research performed with a group of visually disabled youths aimed at promoting different articulations between body and cognition. Based on the actor-network theory, we considered that to have a body means to learn how one is affected by heterogeneous and differing actors, human or non human. The field research was performed using body language aiming at promoting connections articulations between body and materials as heterogeneous as an elastic, a nail file, a song, a classmate. Interventions were performed in group and were negotiated and agreed by the subjects of the research, so that there be a reciprocal constructive relationship between researcher and researched. The body experiences performed produced new ways of knowing amongst the visually impaired youths. Therefore, we consider that cognition be the effect of such body experiences, hybrid collective cognition, produced by the network. Thus, we elaborate about the role of psychology in an institution for the visually disabled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In face the increasingly valuation of the traditional agro-foods products and the more and more social and economic vulnerability in the Latin-American rural localities, there is one trend to vertical integration of the production through agro-industrialization in the family farm. The central objective of this paper is to point and to analyze the importance of the family agroindustries in the dynamic of development of Brazilian rural areas, specially the agro-industries trajectories in the South of country. This study it is based in common indicators to show the importance of small agro-industries for the process of improvement of family farms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates cohesion (emotional bonding) and hierarchy (power structure) in families with abuse against their children. Twenty low-income families participated. Father, mother and child's perspective of family relations (cohesion and hierarchy) were evaluated by the Family System Test (FAST). The relationship between father-child, mother-child, couple, and among siblings were evaluated at typical and conflictive situations. Results show a significance regarding to cohesion in typical and conflictive situation for father-child and mother-child dyads in all perspectives (by father, mother, and child). There is no significant differences regarding to hierarchy. These results suggest that the families see the intrafamilial violence as a constant, since they cannot differentiate between both situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work propounds a thorough analysis of the printed press coverage of the evictions of Barcelona squatters, better known as "okupas", which took place between December 2006 and January 2007. The dailies herein used were: Metro Directe, Diario ADN, 20 MIN Barcelona, and Qué Barcelona in tabloid format. Our interest was stimulated by the frequency with which the problem was approached, by the people who participated —among them the "Mossos d'esquadra" and the Catalonian police force—, by the interest shown by the city's policy makers on housing and cultural issues, as well as by the very popular concern for the squats. We even got in touch with the "okupas" themselves, and visited the Casa Miles de Viviendas, where on November 15, 2006, Universitat Pirata was created, but did not reach the news till February 7, 2007, via the 20 MIN Barcelona paper, with a feature titled "Obren al La Barceloneta una universitat 'okupa'", with the by-line F. CEDÓ. The issue of the "okupas" is part of a bigger problem, that of the use of urban space in a city that claims world status and serves as a customary reference, at least in Europe. We also examine how the printed discourse of the daily free publications gradually constructs a particular topic for a particular public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last years have been marked by a disconstruction and reconstruction in the traditional ways of social and individual organization. The classic ideas regarding the future were substituted by ordinances for the end of "old" concepts as: the social-democracy, the welfare state, the end of history etc., making possible speculations besides on the end of the modernity. Though, some concepts stay current and request an analysis of his meaning. The objective of this paper is presents some considerations concerning the mass concepts and identity. For so much, we bring the author's contributions as: Ciampa, Bauman, Hall, Laclau, Negri & Hardt and Virno, that have been discussing, rebuilting and rethoughting these concepts. Finally, the text intends to present the possibility of work starting from the crowd concepts and identity as metamorphosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]