In addition to the efforts undertaken by research institutions to generate new knowledge and technologies, it is also necessary to promote the results of this research. Specifically, there is a need for an information system that aggregates, organizes and systematizes…

The creation of a stone fruit, pear and citrus integrated pest management (IPM) interdisciplinary network (entomology, and field and post-harvest pathology) to strengthen the exchange of knowledge and experiences of participating working groups is proposed; emphasizing on the development of…

This article analyzes Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, using a combination of both disability studies theory and ecocriticism.  The author argues that the novel’s main character, Christopher Boone, presents a social model…

Abstract: I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of…

Palestra proferida na Sociedade Cultural "Joaquim Nabuco", em sessão de 6 de junho de 1956, em Florianópolis.

This case-study article presents the results from a morphology analysis of a knowledge and information network, focusing on the coordination mechanisms employed to generate a convergent arrangement. Agritempo was the first information system to offer (in 2003) free access to…

From the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualizations of biopower and technologies of normalization, disability activism emerges as a collective protest against the form of power/knowledge that produces disability as an abject identity. Yet, disability activists also claim a “right to…

Ao ler a Dissertação de Mestrado "Das regiões Lombarda e Vêneta ao Núcleo de São Bernardo: acompanhando o imigrante italiano", de Constantino Agazzi que a defendeu, em 1985, na Universidade de São Paulo na área de História Social, deparei-me, já…

The tingid Leptopharsa heveae, known as the lace bug, occurs in large populations in rubber tree plantations, limiting the production of latex due to losses of photosynthetic area and weakening of the infested trees. The alternative for the use of…

APRESENTAÇÃO   A vida oportuniza momentos para leituras, reflexões e ações! Durante o percurso profissional acadêmico e social, enfrentamos os desafios de continuar a jornada, de acolher novos membros na trajetória (autores, avaliadores, revisores e editores), com os quais aprendemos que…