scholarly journals The paradox of caught-in-the-act surveillance scenes: dilemmas of police video surveillance in Rio de Janeiro

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno de Vasconcelos Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Control Center ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Janeiro State

This paper reports some of the issues raised by field research conducted in the official video surveillance system in public spaces that is operated by the Military Police on behalf of the Rio de Janeiro State Department of Public Security. The research was conducted at the Command and Control Center (CCC), where the images from all the cameras in the police battalions are brought together and at the police batallion at Copacabana (19thBPM), the first area at the city where surveillance cameras were installed. This system is treated as a sociotechnical network, formed by the interaction of individuals and technological elements, further increasing the importance of an observation from two different levels of this network. Special attention is drawed on what I called “the paradox of the caught in-the-act surveillance scenes”, dilemma emerged around the conflict between the work of surveillance and the aesthetics of surveillance, and also on a main videosurveillance problem: (human and/or technical) overdetermination.

scholarly journals Descriptions of three new species of jumping-spiders, genus Arnoliseus (Araneae, Salticidae), from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, with comments on their genital morphology and a key to species

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista ◽  
Pedro de Souza Castanheira ◽  
Gabriel Assunção Oliveira ◽  
André Wanderley do Prado
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Genital Morphology ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
Jumping Spider ◽  
Jumping Spiders ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
The City ◽  
Janeiro State

New data on the jumping-spider genus Arnoliseus are presented. Three new species from the Atlantic Forest in Rio de Janeiro state are described, based on both sexes: Arnoliseus cariocasp. nov. from the city of Rio de Janeiro, and Arnoliseus hastatussp. nov. and Arnoliseus falcatussp. nov. from the municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu. The genus’ genital morphology is discussed in detail and new English terminology for their structures is created. An identification key for all Arnoliseus species is given.

How Did the Base Work?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon James
Keyword(s):  
Brick Wall ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Base Area ◽  
Routine Basis ◽  
Base Boundary ◽  
Four Blocks ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

We now consider how the military base area operated, as a zone where a large number of people lived and worked on a routine basis. On one hand, to function it required the affordances of its internal communications, connections with the civil town, and access to roads, river, and lands beyond the walls; on the other, there was a need for surveillance and control of activities within the base, and of movements across its boundary. The most obvious part of the base boundary (Plate XXII) is the substantial mud brick wall ploughed across four blocks from the city defences just S of Tower 21, and blocking Wall, A, C, and D Sts, with a gate established at B St. How the S boundary was defined E of D St has always remained an issue. If it was necessary to build a wall at the W end, why was this not simply continued all the way to, e.g., the S end of the Citadel? Across blocks F7 and F5 it seems that the boundary of the military zone simply comprised party walls between military and civilian-occupied structures. The same was true within block B2, by the Citadel, although the boundary probably comprised building frontages along Lower Main St. On the plateau, as the camp wall may have been a subsequent local enhancement, except where the amphitheatre formed part of it, the boundary may generally have comprised the rear walls of military-held houses lining the S side of 8th St—probably all properties from the city wall to H St. The course of the boundary along the W side of the inner wadi is unknown, but the base is suggested, as along 8th St, to have incorporated at least all properties lining the S side of the Wadi Ascent Road, if not encompassing all blocks on the wadi slope—in which case the boundary here may rather have comprised property frontages on K St. The base area was split by site topography into two major zones, the flat plateau, and the N branch of the inner wadi around the Citadel. Each was further subdivided.

scholarly journals Epidemiological profile of farmworkers from the state of Rio de Janeiro

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 122-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riva Schumacker Brust ◽  
Luíza Pereira Maia de Oliveira ◽  
Aline Cerqueira Santos Santana da Silva ◽  
Isabel Cristina Ribeiro Regazzi ◽  
Gilberto Santos de Aguiar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Epidemiological Profile ◽  
The City ◽  
Janeiro State

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the epidemiological profile of farmworkers exposed to pesticides in the city of Casimiro de Abreu, Rio de Janeiro State. Method: cross-sectional study, conducted through a questionnaire. The collected data were typed in spreadsheet and processed in the R software. Results: the predominance of female participants, between 40 and 60 years old, married, with some elementary education was observed. Furthermore, the family labor and the production for their own consumption and trade prevail. Herbicide is the most widely used pesticide. Most informants present poisoning symptoms, as they do not use Personal Protective Equipment nor sunscreen. Breast cancer is the most frequent in families; among the participants, 31% had hypertension and 6.4% diabetes. Conclusion: a population vulnerable to environmental and occupational risks, specially the middle-aged group and women, sets up a profile marked by regional differences.

scholarly journals System Identification and Prediction of Dengue Fever Incidence in Rio de Janeiro

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Gerardi ◽  
L. H. A. Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Fever ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
State Transition ◽  
Epidemiological Models ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
The City

Identification, prediction, and control of a system are engineering subjects, regardless of the nature of the system. Here, the temporal evolution of the number of individuals with dengue fever weekly recorded in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 2007, is used to identify SIS (susceptible-infective-susceptible) and SIR (susceptible-infective-removed) models formulated in terms of cellular automaton (CA). In the identification process, a genetic algorithm (GA) is utilized to find the probabilities of the state transitionS→Iable of reproducing in the CA lattice the historical series of 2007. These probabilities depend on the number of infective neighbors. Time-varying and nont-ime-varying probabilities, three different sizes of lattices, and two kinds of coupling topology among the cells are taken into consideration. Then, these epidemiological models built by combining CA and GA are employed for predicting the cases of sick persons in 2008. Such models can be useful for forecasting and controlling the spreading of this infectious disease.

scholarly journals New urban trends towards the use of public space in Turin

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Sarah Isabella Chiodi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Local Unit ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
New Type ◽  
National Research Program ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

<p>What do we mean when we talk about public space? We asked this question, among others about the relationship between urban populations and public spaces, to some people in the context of the National Research Program (PRIN 2009) titled ‘Public Spaces, moving populations and urban renewal programs’. This paper reports part of the outcome of the research done within the local unit of Turin (Italy), which has been developed with a set of interviews to local stakeholders and with a field research in the selected areas of the City Centre and the districts of San Salvario and Barriera di Milano.<br />From the answers of the stakeholders emerged some relevant issues that I analysed through a selected literature about the concept of public space. The result is a sort of catalogue of typical public spaces of the city, as acknowledged by the local stakeholders and by the field research, and analysed through the international literature. The typologies identified are: traditional public spaces, ‘cappuccino’ spaces, weak sociality spaces, new virtual public spaces and the ‘District Houses’, a new type of public space emerging in the city. To identify them, some characteristic pictures of public spaces of Turin and interviews’ pieces are also reported.<br />However, facing this scenario built on the empirical research, we should mind that the conflicting views of public space depend also on the professional and cultural background of the interviewees, which is such fickle data that it cannot be catalogued. So, the catalogue proposed is not exhaustive, but only indicative of the trend about new perspectives on the meaning of public space which emerged through research conducted in the city of Turin.</p>

scholarly journals Espaços públicos como lugares da política/Public spaces as spaces of politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Paulo Cesar Da Costa Gomes ◽  
Letícia Parente Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City

RESUMOA ativação política dos espaços públicos é comumente associada à sua mobilização extraordinária por grandes movimentos sociais. Ao seu uso cotidiano e ordinário, ao contrário, raramente é atribuído um significado político forte. A partir de uma discussão sobre a estratégia de manifestação política conhecida como “ocupação”, e de exemplos oriundos de pesquisas realizadas em espaços públicos da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, este artigo propõe uma nova perspectiva sobre esta oposição, ainda dominante na bibliografia.Palavras-chave: espaço público; ocupação; sociabilidade. ABSTRACTThe political activation of public spaces is commonly associated with their extraordinary mobilization by large social movements. On the contrary, a strong political significance is rarely attributed to the everyday and ordinary use of these spaces. Based on a discussion about the strategy of political manifestation known as “occupation” and presenting examples from research carried out in public spaces in the city of Rio de Janeiro, this article proposes a new approach to this opposition, still dominant in academic literature.Keywords: public space; occupy; sociability.

scholarly journals Effects and Challenges of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Beach Economy: The Case of the Tents Business in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-286
Author(s):  
Julia Valentin Laurindo Santos ◽  
João Vitor Prudente ◽  
Letícia Parente-Ribeiro ◽  
Flavia Lins-de-Barros
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Traditional Sector ◽  
The City

In 2020, the rapid spread of Covid-19, a disease caused by a highly contagious virus, led many governments to adopt measures of social distancing, including the suspension of activities considered non-essential and the closure of public spaces. In Brazil, a country that is distinguished by sun, sea and sand tourism (3s), the effects were immediate in the months of March, April, May and June: closed beaches and the suspension of all economic activities linked to it. This article seeks to understand the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on a traditional sector of the beach economy in Rio de Janeiro, the “tent business”. For that, we analyzed: 1) the organization of this sector in the pre-pandemic period; 2) the legal measures adopted to contain the spread of the new coronavirus and which affected the uses of beaches; 3) the effects of the pandemic on the daily lives of beach workers 4) the challenges for the resumption of activities in the post-pandemic period. The data used in this research are the result of surveys and fieldwork carried out in the period before the pandemic and the application, during quarantine, of semi-structured interviews, via social networks, with owners and employees of tents on the beaches of the city’s waterfront. For this study, the normative measures that affected the beaches of the city of Rio de Janeiro during the pandemic were also analyzed. As main results, we highlight, first, the importance of the “tent business” in the economic circuits associated with Rio beaches, as well as the role that tents play as poles of concentration of bathers in the sand strip. Regarding governmental measures of social distance, we noticed that the beaches were one of the areas affected for the longest time by the suspension of activities and that, until the total reopening occurred in October, the activities associated with the solarium, such as the “tent business”, were those that presented a more uncertain horizon of recovery. The impacts on the daily lives of the owners of the tents and their employees were enormous, with the vertiginous decrease of their incomes and the difficulties of finding alternative occupations. These effects were partially offset by the adoption of assistance measures by governments and the creation of support networks involving beachgoers, both Brazilian and foreigner, as a result of a relationship built over the years with stallholders and other beach workers. Finally, from a comparative exercise with other situations in the world, we highlight the challenges that are already being faced for the adoption of new ways of ordering the uses of beaches in the post-pandemic world. Keywords: Coastal management, social distancing, beach workers, beachfront, solarium.

scholarly journals A cidade, o museu e a coleção | The city, the museum and the collection

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio Ferreira Rangel
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

Resumo O presente artigo analisa a formação das coleções do Museu Histórico da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, à luz das reformas urbanas ocorridas ao longo do tempo, na antiga capital da República. As sucessivas interferências na cidade criaram um acervo extremamente fragmentado. Os objetos que o compõem, em sua maioria, não foram para o museu pelo desejo de colecionar. Buscamos caracterizar e analisar a formação do referido acervo, no sentido de identificar a existência de um projeto museológico definido pela instituição, com base na documentação disponível nos arquivos e no depoimento de alguns personagens que participaram do processo. Diferentes objetos, de diferentes períodos, tornaram-se testemunhos dos movimentos que o Rio de Janeiro realizou. Espaços públicos, prédios governamentais, religiosos e particulares, todos foram afetados pela transformação da cidade. Ao serem retirados da urbs e levados para o museu, os bens que vieram a fazer parte do acervo perderam o seu valor estético, de uso, decorativo ou econômico e passaram a possuir somente o valor de testemunhos. A excessiva fragmentação do acervo dificulta a sua representatividade em relação à cidade.Palavras chave museu; coleção; cidadeAbstract The present article analyzes the formation of the collections of the Historical Museum of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and its relation with the urban reforms that occurred in the former capital of the Republic. The successive interferences in the city created an extremely fragmented collection. The objects that compose it, in its majority, had not gone to the museum due to a desire to collect. Based on available documentation in the archives and on the testimony of several people who participated in the process, we analyzed the formation of the collections with the intention of identifying the existence of a museological project defined by the institution. Different objects from different periods had become witnesses of the movements that took place in Rio de Janeiro. Public spaces, governmental, religious and particular buildings, all had been affected by the transformation of the city. When removed from the urbs and taken to the museum, the property that became part of the collection lost its aesthetic, decorative, economic value, and value of use, and now have only the value of testimony. The excessive fragmentation of the collections its representation in relation to the city.Keywords museum; collection; city

scholarly journals The selection of nurses for the military officer of the military police of the Rio de Janeiro State (1994): historical research

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcleyde Silva de Azevedo Abreu ◽  
Alexandre Barbosa de Oliveira ◽  
Maria Angélica de Almeida Peres ◽  
Gertrudes Teixeira Lopes ◽  
Antonio José Almeida Filho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Military Officer ◽  
The Military ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
Selection Of

scholarly journals Construindo o Projeto Cuidadosamente: reflexão sobre a saúde mental dos graduandos de Enfermagem frente ao COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Natália Loureiro Rocha ◽  
Alcilea Barbosa de Andrade Sora ◽  
Alessandra Da Terra Lapa ◽  
Daniele Durval Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Private University ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Levels Of Care ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Levels

O presente relato de experiência visa destacar a vivência dos autores na construção do Projeto Cuidadosamente em uma universidade privada localizada no município do Rio de Janeiro. Objetiva-se com esse estudo apontar a sua inserção prática, bem como, retratar a importância de um projeto desta magnitude no cuidado à saúde psíquica dos acadêmicos de enfermagem, principalmente no contexto atual de isolamento social pela pandemia de COVID-19. Conclui-se que a ação possibilita a construção de uma rede de apoio entre os próprios colegas de classe que estão experenciando as mesmas dificuldades com esse isolamento social e ameniza situações que possam maximizar ou desencadear algum tipo de transtorno mental, a exemplo de ansiedade e depressão, através de uma escuta qualificada, que é atribuição importante do enfermeiro nos diferentes níveis de assistência. Building the Project Mindfully: reflection on the mental health of nursing students in front of COVID-19The present experience report aims to highlight the authors’ experience in the construction of the Project Mindfully in a private university located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The objective of this study is to point out its practical insertion, as well as, to portray the importance of a project of this magnitude in the care of the psychic health of nursing students, especially in the current context of social isolation by the pandemic of COVID-19. It is concluded that the action makes it possible to build a support network among the classmates themselves who are experiencing the same difficulties with this social isolation and alleviates situations that can maximize or trigger some type of mental disorder, such as anxiety and depression, through qualified listening, which is an important role of nurses at different levels of care.

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