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This article deals with the trajectory and work of the Jesuit priest Francisco Xavier, the first Jesuit to arrive in India under the missions of the Portuguese Padroado. The purpose of this text is to present the strategies and actions led by Xavier in the East, showing that such actions, shared through letters with the other members of the Society of Jesus, influenced the formation of the general work methods of the nascent order. The sources used are Obras Completas de São Francisco Xavier, organized by the Jesuit Francisco de Sales Baptista. The time frame covers the period from 1542, with the arrival of Xavier in Goa, until 1552, the year of his death. We conclude that, what Xavier established in the referred period was, consequently, adopted by his followers and also read and practiced by many members of the Society of Jesus in other missions.

The large diversity of criminal legal proccedings was the motivation of the approach followed in this research. Now, maybe, the most important challenge is to face the diversity of subjects, taking intp account the variety of social actors condiction, who were placed between freedom and slavery, and also considering the way of life with the humans answer to the domination, subjects which emerge in reading those documents.

While It’s presenting the book "Being self-study researchers in a digital world: future oriented research and pedagogy in teacher education", this review seeks to reflect the contributions of the volume to the studies that articulate teacher education in Physical education with media and technology. The work brings important reports and reflections about the concept of self-study and its relation with the teacher education in Physical Education related to the media and technology in Brazil, and little explored by the national academic field, which offers other perspectives of studies for practices of the emergence of technologies in the teaching-learning environment.

Despite substantial amount of research on Flipped Classroom methodology, there is a gap about its effects on School Physical Education. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the potential of Flipped Classroom as a facilitating strategy for meaningful learning of concepts in School Physical Education. It was discussed, from Meaningful Learning Theory perspective, how this methodology can be used in the class as a teaching strategy as well as evaluation of conceptual learning. We believe active learning methodologies that use technologies as instructional resources can help in the learning process if they are planned and developed considering teaching phases, the role of social interaction in learning and elements that influence the educational process.

John Milton is outlier among poets of the seventeenth century in his extensive recourse to details of his personal life, which are made integral part, covertly or explicitly, of his many works. From the early “Nativity Ode” onwards we can identify confessional passages in many of his poems that can be read autobiographically. What draws our attention to Milton’s case is that it also prefigures a major cultural and political revolution, in which the legitimacy of the individual consciousness was revalued. The main aim of this article is to explore specific moments in Milton’s oeuvre in which the autobiographical vein comes into sharp focus. Differently from his more mature work, in which he does not waver in confidence, in the earlier writings we can spot the doubts and anxieties of an apprentice poet of unbounded aspiration.

Aquaculture is the fastest growing activity among food production sectors, however, it may cause environmental impacts if a monitoring plan is not adopted. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the Trophic State Index (TSI) as a tool to monitor aquaculture activity. The study was conducted in Parque Aquícola Sucupira, an area that cultivates fish in a net cage system in Lajeado Reservoir, Palmas, Tocantins. Monitoring was carried out from January to August 2017 and involved sampling to analyze the following water quality parameters: total phosphorus and chlorophyll a. At the same time, other parameters were analyzed in loco: temperature, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH and total dissolved solids. The results showed that the concentrations of most of the limnological parameters were under the maximum regulatory limits required in the CONAMA 357/05 legislation. The Trophic State Index (TSI) results showed that the study area was predominantly in a supereutrophic state and that the trophic state of the reservoir around the aquaculture area is strongly influenced by anthropic activities, mainly during the rainy season. In the dry season, since nutrients are not diluted, an increase in phosphorus concentration was recorded, which led to a hypereutrophic state. This result could be because the lake naturally has high levels of phosphorus. Since it was not possible to affirm if aquaculture was the impacting activity, future studies should adopt a monitoring program with a more comprehensive sampling effort.

This work presents the outcomes of the use of a didactic sequence developed for the context of pre-service physics teachers training. The intervention had as its essential focus advancing a critical reflection on virtual learning objects with historical content, through a process of development of changes in such resources in order to adapt them for didactic use. In this sense, with the intention of contributing to the reflection on virtual learning objects, we have proposed a didactic sequence following some essential questions: What is the quality and relevance of the digital animations with historical-philosophical content towards the teaching of physics? What views of science are implicitly or explicitly present in these didactic resources? Is the content presented by them historically appropriate? What educational objectives do they serve? Is it possible to propose changes to these objects in order to adapt them to the didactic use? The outcomes provided show the great interest and the well-founded and qualified engagement of the pre-service teachers in activities of critical analysis and re-elaboration of script for digital animation.

Is the constant presence of the body in the AIDS’s narratives (and the consequentproblematization of its ontological status) just a recurrent theme or it would be connected to metaphorical and allegorical processes that aim to discuss what goes beyond the human body? Simultaneously, such plot we can find in AIDS narratives confronts a micropolitics of the desire, related to the ascetic exercise with the construction of the self through literary diction (it is not rare to notice such diction going beyond the limits between fiction and biography) and the preoccupation with the literary discourse commitments in reference to the social and political life of their respective countries.

Interview with Philippe Steiner about Economic Sociology

Loricariichthys platymetopon originally occurred in the Uruguay, Paraguay and lower Paraná rivers. With the formation of Itaipu Reservoir in 1982, it invaded and colonized the upper Paraná River. Using the data obtained quarterly at nine sampling sites on the upper Paraná River floodplain, the reproductive phases and the germ cells of L. platymetopon females were characterized. Variation in oocyte diameter, batch fecundity, and relative batch fecundity by standard length and total weight was also verified, as well as the reproduction sites on the upper Paraná River floodplain. The following stages were recorded: single oogonia, oogonial and oocytes cysts, initial, intermediate and final primary growth oocytes, full-grown oocytes and maturation oocytes. The reproductive phases were validated by the germ cell attributes and females were recorded in the following phases: developing, spawning-capable, regression and regeneration. Oocyte diameters varied from 100 to 4100 µm. Batch fecundity varied from 372 to 1392 oocytes.g-1 and the relative batch fecundity estimate by length was 16 to 49 oocytes.cm-1 and by weight was 3.6 to 6.4 oocytes.g-1. The reproductive patterns of L. platymetopon on the upper Paraná River floodplain showed the sites where reproductive activity is more intense (Guaraná, Garças and Fechada lagoons and the Baía River) and sites where it is less intense (Ivinheima and Paraná rivers). Thus, the biotic resistance of the Ivinheima River, due to the integrity of these environments in this area, which is part of the Environmental Protection Area of the Islands and Marshes of the Paraná River, has prevented the reproductive success of this invader.

This article discusses the essay films, especially the live-cinema, demonstrating the aesthetic uniqueness of this type of contemporary audiovisual production. The work sought to organize the international and national bibliography on the subject, besides presenting examples of performances of this film strand.

To demonstrate that the coexistence of poetry and technology can be a key point to understand contemporary men, an approximation of three authors is made in this study. Octavio Paz made two contributions to that: i. poetry is a time-space of contradiction between men and the world and ii. signs around us need to be to evidenced in order for men to keep creating images for the lived and to-be-lived time. From Merleau-Ponty's perspective, we are interested in the notion of time as an array of senses, where the lived and to-be-lived are re-signified in every new phenomenon. From Giorgio Agamben's perspective, we assume the notion of contemporary being; for the Italian philosopher, the contemporary being is revealed in the perception and destabilization of the limits of time device through dialectic distancing. The American professor and philosopher Don Ihde is the scholar who allows us to articulate this approximation. Reader of Merleau-Ponty, Ihde has elaborated a phenomenology of technology. In this essay, we intend to place poetry in the center of such phenomenology, which tries to understand some issues in the behavior of contemporary men.

L’intérêt pour le phénomène de la sculpture sonore n’a cessé de croître de par le monde depuis les années 1950. Ce n’est toutefois pas un courant à proprement parler, car les œuvres qui relèvent d’une telle catégorie correspondent à des tendances esthétiques des plus diversifiées. Aujourd’hui, il devient d’ailleurs de plus en plus difficile de distinguer les sculptures sonores de certaines formes d’installation et l’on utilise volontiers le qualificatif d’ « art sonore » pour désigner globalement des œuvres plastiques et des activités artistiques qui accordent une fonction importante à la réalité acoustique.

In this article I address the issue of control and intentionality in purely musical performances or in musical performances involving other artistic languages and new technologies. I begin with preliminary considerations on the subject relating it to the contexts in which performance is based on the interpretation of written works (musical scores) and the contexts in which it occurs through improvisation where the concept of work of art is not so relevant. Then I relate the same themes to the environments of idiomatic improvisation and free improvisation practices. With regard to this aspect, I discuss the issue of collective and individual memories that condition performance environments, relating it to the concepts of basic knowledge and referent. Subsequently, I define the notion of a complex environment of performance as one in which several heterogeneous components (including digital components) interact. I conclude the text by discussing these topics through examples of complex performance environments.

Theories about the end of art, reflections on the metamorphoses of perception and a poetic-literary figure are articulated with the aim of proposing some glances about art and perception in the contemporary world. Deaths and permanences, apocalypses and survivors construct the dialectic of this work. Divided into three parts, as its title suggests, Walter Benjamin's thought is taken as the common theoretical denominator, expressed in his well-known text on technical reproducibility. The fireflies arise, between uncertainties and discomforts, as a metaphor – brought by Pier Pasolini and taken up again by Georges Didi-Huberman – from a certain creative life-force/sexual, for some, persistent and transforming, for others, peremptorily extinct. Between extreme positions, a whole range of findings, expectations and prognoses about art and perception.Teorias sobre o fim da arte, reflexões sobre as metamorfoses da percepção e uma figura poético-literária articulam-se com o objetivo de propor alguns olhares sobre arte e percepção na contemporaneidade. Mortes e permanências, apocalipses e sobrevivências constroem a dialética deste trabalho. Dividido em três partes, como sugere seu título, toma-se como denominador comum teórico o pensamento de Walter Benjamin, expresso em seu conhecido texto sobre a reprodutibilidade técnica. Os vagalumes surgem, entre incertezas e desconfortos, como metáfora – trazida por Pier Pasolini e retomada por Georges Didi-Huberman – de uma certa força vital/sexual criadora, para uns persistente e transformadora, para outros peremptoriamente extintas. Entre posturas extremas, toda uma gama de constatações, expectativas e prognósticos sobre arte e percepção. 

After a short reflection on theories of the digital and non-digital, this essay is concerned with questions of common perception, un-common senses and a strong focus on kinaesthetic, trans-sensorial notions of ex-stasis, and the material affects of environments. The author discusses examples drawn from atmospheric studies, architecture and choreographic objects, as well as the design of wearables used in sensorial performance environments which themselves are conceived as formative, not built or constructed in a stable form. Furthermore, basing its investigation of such elemental environments and aural choreographies in recent productions of the DAP-Lab, the essay explores the impact of wearables on movement choreography and immersion within choreographic installations. It also addresses more speculative developments of how bodies and wearables come to affect, and be affected by, augmented reality and virtual reality interfaces within kinetic atmospheres – here called “kimospheres” – in the sense in which the composer Xenakis had envisioned reverberant multimedia architectures and spatial intensities to be live instruments, not static objects or envelopes.

This paper proposes to describe aspects of a computational visuality that is reflexively approached in recent works of the Unitedstatesian artist Trevor Paglen. Such effort aims at describing particular configurations of vision as a historic and sociotechnical construct, which today would be characterized by the increasingly diffused mediation of computer vision technologies. This matter is situated in relation to discussions regarding the ‘post-digital’, a category that seeks to name an advanced stage of digital technologies’ integration to contemporary life. It is then argued that Paglen’s work, through its reflexive approach of computational mediations of the visible, strains certain perspectives of post-digital aesthetics that characterized by a naturalization of digital mediation and the abandonment of the digital as a distinguishing category.

The paper approachs the will of Gurapuava political elite to have acces to railroad. From a brief record about the speeches elaborated in Paraná State, claiming for a railroad which would cross the state from east to west, we will analyse elements of this speech at Guarapuava, how theier inhabitants have appropriated of the oldest signs usually associated with railways. So, this paper prposes a relfection about how the railroad image participated of the process of giving meaning to the Paraná territory, as well as to the city of Guarapuava and their people.

The objective of this study was to analyze the World Indigenous Peoples Games (JMPI), from the point of view of spectators who went to the event, indigenous and non - indigenous, in order to describe their perceptions about political and social issues of the games. The approach is qualitative and the instrument used in the data collection was the semi-structured interview. 15 subjects participated in the study, chosen at random. Findings in the reports indicate that the JMPI brought the global community closer to the indigenous reality, providing opportunities for indigenous peoples around the world. They were understood as an excellent opportunity for multi-ethnic meetings, a space conducive to the verbalization of the demands of the different peoples originating in the world. Have also been reported: lack of autonomy in the formulation of the event by indigenous leaders, and the possibility of the event serving to obscure the reality of violence that indigenous peoples face in Brazil.

This work makes a comparative analysis of the judgment of lawsuits that questioned the validity of laws that guarantee the impunity of the sectors involved with the political repression during the National Security dictatorships. For the comparison, two cases were selected for analysis: the “Simón Case”, judged in June 2005 by the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice, and the ADPF 153, judged in April 2010 by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. The decisions are compared and, after, we try to identificate what explains them, verifying their connection with the politics of memory that have been implemented in each context.