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…

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…

O conhecimento sobre o sistema de medicação hospitalar constitui uma ferramenta importante aos profissionais da saúde para garantir uma assistência responsável e segura ao paciente. Por isto, o presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar o sistema de medicação do Hospital…

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…

For more than a century, the Lagoa dos Patos estuary has become an important small-scale fishery in the south of Brazil. In the last twenty years, the environmental system of small-scale fishery has collapsed, with harmful reflexes on the region’s…