This paper discusses the impact of globalization on public health practice. Neoliberal supremacy has resulted in both greater interdependence between countries and increasing inequalities. Globalization of health risks and the dependence of local health conditions on external forces precludes the…

Objetivo: Examinar o fenômeno clínico de homicídio seguido de suicídio (HS) a partir de um caso no qual o desfecho de suicídio não ocorreu por motivos alheios á vontade e ás ações do sujeito. Descrição do caso: Trata-se do caso…

A Síntese de Redes de Equipamentos de Transferência de Massa visa à redução da emissão de poluentes industriais através da integração de processos. Nesta integração, o processo é otimizado do ponto de vista do consumo de agentes de transferência de…

Conhecer as características térmicas dos materiais é extremamente importante para o desenvolvimento de um processo de secagem, pois propicia melhor eficiência operacional, além de melhorar a qualidade do produto final. A literatura fornece isotermas de várias fibras naturais de algodão,…

Our country has an enormous variety of ways of life and cultures which end up developing specific relations based on the dependence upon natural cycles, due to the fact that they are somewhat isolated. Among other characteristics, their symbols and…

Diving  in  the dynamic Amazonian social  life, ruled by  the temporality of  waters, the article follows, through dialogues between History and Literature, marajoara populations’ ways of  being and living,  highlighting  their African/Indigenous  heritage  and  local knowledge, which  resulted  from  cultural…

This paper shows some indicators of the environmental crisis and its complex problems. It also recognizes that solutions to environmental problems require reflection on deep changes in knowledge organization, i. e., a new paradigm related to the concept of totality.…

This paper aims at reflecting upon our participation in environmental conflicts through responsible attitudes concerning environmental education. Its main theoretical reference is the thought of Humberto Maturana, a Chilean thinker. The text exposes Maturana’s proposals, i. e., the core of…

This article analyzes the different notions of representation in the philosophical and psychological theories of J. F. Herbart as well as ind the psychoanalytic theory of S. Freud. It there by explores the functions these notions have in the Herbartian…

Based on the Program for Environmental Educatioon, approved in "Tiblisi Conference", Environmental Education is now counting on important basic lines that, however, do not descry of a methodology which orientates to an interdisciplinary practice in schools. This article analyses the…