Gliobastomas are neoplasies that present themselves to be the most malignant among the astrocytic tumors. Their prognosis is ominous, with few years of survival. As we are dealing with such an aggressive illness, whose treatment is still so greatly limited, this study has had as objective to carry out a bibliographical revision to clarify the mechanisms of this illness and the advances in its treatment. One con...
Based on an interdisciplinary view of the field of Science, Technology and Society (STS), we aim to understand the approaches to the Identity and Social Representation Theory in the Information Science field, by analyzing periodicals in this area. We evaluated scientific journals classified as Qualis A National, according to the CAPES concept, following pre-determined criteria. Once the articles were located, a...
This book review of The Bakhtinian revolution: Mikhail Bakhtin's thought and the contemporary ideology ("La rivoluzione bachtiniana. Il pensiero di Bachtin e l'ideologia contemporanea") by Augusto Ponzio is justified by the modern relevance of this work, which has just been translated into Portuguese. This relevance is also revealed by Ponzio in explaining the work of the Russian Mikhail Bakhtin, who, at the be...
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This paper has as its main objective the comprehension and analysis of the environmental action effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) which are inserted in the region of the Hydrographic Basins of rivers "Turvo" and "Grande", and their relation with the others who act in this interactive field in order to understand what is being built in these regions considering the environmental issue. Mater...
This paper aims to present the panorama of the destruction of nature in Brazil during the first decades of twentieth century, and the exponents of Brazilian conservacionism, that positioned themselves against that scenery of carelessness, ignorance and omission. The role and the actions of the main heralds of the struggle against the destruction that was infringed to the natural world are analyzed, specially th...
Educommunication is a knowledge area which acts in the interface of education and communication and has as its focus the critical and reflexive formation of the subjects. In this sense, the means of mass communication have become action instruments, assuming an important role, among many others, in the discussions involving environmental themes. This research has the aim of elaborating a preliminary inventory o...
This paper presents a brief approach on environmental aspects related to the development of agriculture in the world and especially in Brazil, detaching some historical aspects. Some characteristics of the social and environmental degradation generated by the processes of production of modern agriculture, based on studies of Environmental Sciences, in general, and, more specifically, of Agroecology, are presen...
In recent years the interest of the society in knowing the true investments of the companies in social responsibility and environment has been frequent. One of these examples can be observed by knowing of the Business Charter for Sustainable Development of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), divulged in 1991, that suggests some actions that the companies must take in order to be prepared for the new re...
The article intends to show the establishment of the aircraft industry in the Central Administrative Region (SP), in the last seven years, which introduced a new element in the economical structure of the region. Based on the innovation systemic approach , the objective is to identify and characterize the investments related to the aircraft industry segment carried out in the region and to identify the potentia...