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| Federici,Fernán; Rudge,Timothy J; Pollak,Bernardo; Haseloff,Jim; Gutiérrez,Rodrigo A. |
| In an age of pressing challenges for sustainable production of energy and food, the new field of Synthetic Biology has emerged as a promising approach to engineer biological systems. Synthetic Biology is formulating the design principles to engineer affordable, scalable, predictable and robust functions in biological systems. In addition to efficient transfer of evolved traits from one organism to another, Synthetic Biology offers a new and radical approach to bottom-up engineering of sensors, actuators, dynamical controllers and the biological chassis they are embedded in. Because it abstracts much of the mechanistic details underlying biological component behavior, Synthetic Biology methods and resources can be readily used by interdisciplinary teams to... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Synthetic biology; Bioengineering; Education; Engineering; Biotechnology. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602013000400010 |
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| CORNISH-BOWDEN,ATHEL; CÁRDENAS,MARÍA LUZ. |
| Most biologists outside the USA and a few other countries, like Australia and Canada, are under the impression that the threat to the teaching of biology represented by creationism does not concern them directly. This is unfortunately no longer true: the recent growth of creationism, especially in its pseudo-scientific manifestation known as "intelligent design", has been obvious in several countries of Western Europe, especially the UK, Germany and Poland, and it is beginning to be noticeable in Brazil, and maybe elsewhere in Latin America. The problem is complicated by the fact that there are not just two possibilities, evolution and creationism, because creationism comes in various incompatible varieties. Turkey is now a major source of creationist... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Education; Creationism; Intelligent design; Fundamentalism; Evolution; Natural selection. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602007000200002 |
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| Bento-Torres,N.V.O.; Bento-Torres,J.; Tomás,A.M.; Costa,V.O.; Corrêa,P.G.R.; Costa,C.N.M.; Jardim,N.Y.V.; Picanço-Diniz,C.W.. |
| Few studies have examined the influence of a low level of schooling on age-related cognitive decline in countries with wide social and economic inequalities by using the Cambridge Automated Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB). The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of schooling on age-related cognitive decline using unbiased cognitive tests. CANTAB allows cognitive assessment across cultures and education levels with reduced interference of the examiner during data acquisition. Using two-way ANOVA, we assessed the influences of age and education on test scores of old adults (61–84 years of age). CANTAB tests included: Visual Sustained Attention, Reaction Time, Spatial Working Memory, Learning and Episodic Memory. All subjects had a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Age-related cognitive decline; Primary prevention; Education; Neuropsychological tests; Memory; Neuroscience; CANTAB. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2017000400702 |
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| Bezerra,Aída Couto Dinucci; Reis,Regina Baptista dos; Bastos,Deborah Helena Markowicz. |
| This study evaluated the microbiological quality of hamburgers and the microbe community on the hands of vendors in Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, in relation to vendors´ awareness as to what constitute acceptable food-handling practices as part of a broad-spectrum research programme on street foods in Brazil . Sale of the hamburger known as the 'baguncinha' is common and widespread in urban Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Food inspectors encounter various difficulties in carrying out inspections. One hundred and five hamburgers samples were evaluated using conventional methods including tests for facultative aerobic and/or anaerobic mesophytic bacteria, coliform counts at 45 °C, the coagulase test for Staphylococcus, Gram-staining for the presence of Bacillus... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Food quality; Food safety; Education; Evaluation. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-20612010000200035 |
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| Hage,Maria Cristina Ferrarini Nunes Soares; Invernizzi,Mariana Sachi; Bellegard,Gabriela Monaldo Corrá; Dória,Renata Gebara Sampaio; Schwarzbach,Silke Verena; Miada,Vanessa Junko Yamaguti. |
| ABSTRACT: The carpus is a complex articulation, which is often involved in injuries in equine athletes. The objective of this study was to suggest a didactic approach for ultrasonography training for the examination of the carpal joint in horses. Ultrasonograhy examination was performed in a healthy 14-year-old horse. The images were compared with those of a dissected anatomic specimen of the carpal region of a senior horse and with those reported in the literature. Identifiable structures were as follows: (dorsal) tendon of the muscle extensor carpi radialis, tendon of the muscle extensor carpi obliquus, tendon of the muscle commom digital extensor, dorsal synovial outpouchings, joint capsule and fat cushion, (lateral) tendon of the muscle lateral digital... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Horses; Education; Bones; Tendons; Ultrasonography. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017001200601 |
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| Sharma, Upasna; Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; upasna.sharma@gmail.com; Patwardhan, Anand; Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; anand@iitb.ac.in; Patt, Anthony G; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; patt@iiasa.ac.at. |
| Education is often considered a means for enhancing adaptive capacity, based on the consideration that formal education is likely to improve the ability of individuals to evaluate risks and respond to warning information. We explore the relation between the level and nature of education and enhanced ability to respond to tropical cyclone risk. We make a distinction between formal school-based education and nonformal education in the form of traditional knowledge of environmental precursors and conditions that may be associated with tropical cyclone occurrence. We evaluate two possible routes through which education could lead to enhanced ability to respond to tropical cyclone risk; first, education, both formal and nonformal, may lead to a better ability... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Cyclones; Early warnings; Education; Traditional knowledge base; Warning-response process. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Climatic events can have disastrous consequences on rural livelihoods, which rely mainly on agriculture and natural resources. The way households and communities respond to climatic shocks depends on their available resources. We formulated that education is a human capital asset that can increase coping abilities in difficult times because education improves access to both social and economic resources. Based on the Thai government surveys of the living conditions and life quality of 68,343 rural villages for the years 2009 and 2011, we investigated the impacts of floods and droughts in 2010 on community welfare, i.e., consumption and income in 2011 at the village level. Using difference-in-difference methods, we analyzed how differential demographic... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Consumption and income smoothing; Drought; Economic vulnerability; Education; Flood; Thailand; Welfare. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Duke University; e.frankenberg@duke.edu; Sikoki, Bondan; SurveyMeter; bsikoki@gmail.com; Sumantri, Cecep; SurveyMeter; sumantri.2011@gmail.com; Suriastini, Wayan; SurveyMeter; suriastini@gmail.com; Thomas, Duncan; Duke University; d.thomas@duke.edu. |
| The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated. Using longitudinal population-representative survey data collected in two provinces on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, we examine changes in a broad array of indicators of well-being of adults. Focusing on adults who were living, before the tsunami, in areas that were subsequently severely damaged by the tsunami, better educated males were more likely to survive the tsunami, but education is not predictive of survival among females. Education is not associated with levels of post-traumatic stress among survivors 1 year after the tsunami, or with the likelihood of being displaced. Where education... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Development; Disaster; Education; Resilience; Vulnerability. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Baird, Timothy D.; Virginia Tech; tbaird@vt.edu. |
| Decades of research on the social dynamics of biodiversity conservation has shown that parks and protected areas have added hardship to rural communities throughout much of the developing world. Nonetheless, some recent studies have found evidence of poverty alleviation near protected areas. To build on these conflicting accounts, I use a comparative, mixed-methods design to examine opportunistic, unplanned, i.e., unscripted, development in indigenous communities near Tarangire National Park (TNP) in northern Tanzania. I ask the questions: (1) How is proximity to TNP related to community-level infrastructural development? (2) How has the process of development changed over time? and (3) How is proximity to TNP related to infrastructure-related social... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Africa; Conservation; Development; Education; Infrastructure; Tanzania. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Jacobson, Susan K.; Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida; jacobson@ufl.edu; Seavey, Jennifer R; Shoals Marine Laboratory; School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering, University of New Hampshire; College of Agriculture and Life Science, Cornell University; jennifer.seavey@unh.edu; Mueller, Robert C; School of Art and Art History, University of Florida; bmueller@ufl.edu. |
| An interdisciplinary field trip to a remote marine lab joined graduate students from fine arts and natural resource science departments to think creatively about the topic of climate change and science communication. We followed a learning cycle framework to allow the students to explore marine ecosystems and participate in scientific lectures, group discussions, and an artist-led project making abstract collages representing climate change processes. Students subsequently worked in small groups to develop environmental communication material for public visitors. We assessed the learning activity and the communication product using pre- and post-field trip participant surveys, focus group discussions, and critiques by art and communication experts of the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Collage; Creativity; Education; Environment; Field trip; Interpretation; Peer learning; Survey. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Helgeson, Jennifer F; London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Geography and Environment; The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; j.helgeson@lse.ac.uk; Dietz, Simon; London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Geography and Environment; The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; s.dietz@lse.ac.uk; Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; hochrain@iiasa.ac.at. |
| When a natural disaster hits, the affected households try to cope with its impacts. A variety of coping strategies, from reducing current consumption to disposing of productive assets, may be employed. The latter strategies are especially worrisome because they may reduce the capacity of the household to generate income in the future, possibly leading to chronic poverty. We used the results of a household survey in rural Uganda to ask, first, what coping strategies would tend to be employed in the event of a weather disaster, second, given that multiple strategies can be chosen, in what combinations would they tend to be employed, and, third, given that asset-liquidation strategies can be particularly harmful for the future income prospects of households,... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Coping strategies; Covariate risk; Education; Extreme weather; Poverty trap; Small-scale farming; Uganda; Vulnerability. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Pichler, Adelheid; University of Vienna; adelheid.pichler@univie.ac.at; Striessnig, Erich; Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID, WU), Vienna University of Economics and Business; erich.striessnig@wu.ac.at. |
| The possible impacts of the level of formal education on different aspects of disaster management, prevention, alarm, emergency, or postdisaster activities, were studied in a comparative perspective for three countries with a comparable exposure to hurricane hazards but different capacities for preventing harm. The study focused on the role of formal education in reducing vulnerability operating through a long-term learning process and put particular emphasis on the education of women. The comparative statistical analysis of the three countries was complemented through qualitative studies in Cuba and the Dominican Republic collected in 2010-2011. We also analyzed to what degree targeted efforts to reduce vulnerability were interconnected with other policy... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacities; Caribbean; Education; Vulnerability. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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