scholarly journals Mammal Collection of the Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (UENFMZ):

2022 ◽  
pp. e90202113
Author(s):  
Jamile Bubadué ◽  
Lucas Carneiro ◽  
Breno Mellado ◽  
Luana Mayer ◽  
Ricardo Lyra ◽  
...  

The Mammal Collection of UENF was created in 2013 to document the biodiversity of northern Rio de Janeiro, and house voucher specimens collected during field research held by professors from the university and collaborating institutions. The collection currently holds 440 physical vouchers, mostly bats, and includes noteworthy records, such as the first Promops nasutus reported for the state of Rio de Janeiro. To these physical vouchers, we recently added a digital bioacoustics collection (343 files of bat distress calls) and a camera-trap multimedia collection (2683 videos or photographs of small to large-sized mammals). In this paper, we provide an overview of these holdings, and highlight and discuss the importance of regional scientific collections, along with the fundamental role of publishing their records in online databases in order to increase their visibility and scientific use. Finally, we discuss the importance of natural history collections to society, emphasizing that improving the awareness of the general public on the role of these collections to scientific development will be crucial for their conservation over the next centuries.

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Fabiola De Sampaio Rodrigues Grazinoli Garrido ◽  
Rodrigo Grazinoli Garrido

Trabalhos desenvolvidos em equipes multidisciplinares devem ser rotina para os futuros egressos do curso de direito. O objetivo desse artigo é discutir algumas estratégias e planos de trabalho utilizados no Programa de Educação Tutorial Conexões de Saberes que envolve estudantes do curso de direito da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro no campus de Três Rios, interior do Rio de Janeiro. Nessa perspectiva, o engajamento dos estudantes em projetos do tem contribuído como um campo experimental para o desenvolvimento das habilidades necessárias aos bacharéis em direito, bem como para a percepção do papel social do futuro profissional. Desde 2014, a equipe desenvolve projetos que discutem a função da universidade junto à comunidade, abordando sobretudo questões relacionadas a grupos vulneráveis e a aspectos agroambientais.Palavras-chave: aprendizagem significativa; formação integradora; projetos na graduação. Abstract Work performed in multidisciplinary teams should be routine for future graduates of the law courses. The aim of this paper is to discuss some strategies and work plans used in the Connections of Knowledge Tutorial Program that involves law students of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro on the campus of Três Rios, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. In this perspective, students' engagement in projects has contributed as an experimental field for the development of the skills required by law graduates, as well as for the perception of the social role of the professional future. Since 2014, the team has developed projects that discuss the role of the university in the community, addressing issues related to vulnerable groups and agro-environmental aspects.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Lucio Baccaro ◽  
Chiara Benassi ◽  
Guglielmo Meardi

This special issue wants to honour the memory of Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge who was assassinated while he was conducting field research on independent trade unions in Egypt. This introduction and the following articles focus on the theoretical, empirical and methodological questions at the core of Regeni’s research. Unions have traditionally been regarded as crucial for representing the interests of the working class as a whole and for building and sustaining industrial and political democracy; however, there is a debate about the conditions under which unions can be effective, and the role of unions’ internal democracy is particularly controversial. The article discusses the theoretical linkages between trade unions, democratization and union democracy and concludes with a reflection on the new concerns about the risk of conducting field research on these issues raised by Regeni’s death.


1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (11) ◽  
pp. 1655-1655
Author(s):  
George P. Biro ◽  
David J. Parry

Canada's biomedical research community was deeply saddened by the untimely death of Graham Mainwood on June 10, 1990, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer.A native of Birmingham, U.K., Graham joined the Physiology Department at the fledgling Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa in 1955. Since then, he has been a tireless force in building the reputation of the Department and of the Faculty. He became well known beyond Canada's borders for his studies on the electrophysiology and energetics of muscle and the mechanism of fatigue. His work on the effects of lactate flux and the role of changes in intracellular pH in muscle fatigue (e.g., Mainwood and Worsley-Brown 1975; Mainwood and Cechetto 1982; Renaud, Allard, and Mainwood 1986) is still cited in virtually every paper in this area. These studies, together with an ongoing interest in cardiac muscle, formed a natural platform from which he moved into the area of the elucidation of muscle metabolism by means of magnetic resonance spectroscopy–work he was actively pursuing up to the time of his death. Indeed, he had taken early retirement to be able to spend more time at the bench at the National Research Council of Canada. Three of the papers in this special issue arise from this work.All of us have been greatly touched by his sparkling intellect and generous helpfulness. We felt that the most appropriate way to recognize Graham's contributions to science and to our personal scientific development was to dedicate to his memory a special issue of the Journal which he served with distinction as a member of the Editorial Board for many years.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-326
Author(s):  
Putri Nuraini

The presence of BMT Darussalam is basically an idea to help ease the burden on students who need funds. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the role of BMT Darussalam in meeting the needs of students of the Faculty of Islamic Religion, Riau Islamic University. This research is a field research. The population in this study were students in the Faculty of Islamic Religion of Riau Islamic University who submitted funding for 2016 to 2018 totaling 88 people. The entire population was sampled using total sampling techniques. The data collection method is by observing, interviewing and distributing questionnaires. Data analysis is descriptive, data is grouped and described according to its type and analyzed using qualitative analysis, then presented in tabular form and supplemented with an explanation. The results of this study indicate that the existence of BMT Darussalam plays an active role in meeting the needs of students who need education funds in the form of financing programs, with a percentage of 87.69%. From the program BMT became a mediator between students who needed funding and the University. Furthermore, all the needs of students both in the form of academic funding needs, the need for financing academic facilities and financing needs for entrepreneurship can be met properly by BMT Darussalam by 88.18%. Keywords: Role, BMT Darussalam, Student Needs, UIR


2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Fernanda Geremias Leal ◽  
Roberto Leher ◽  
Mário Luiz Luiz Neves De Azevedo

An interview with Professor Roberto Leher, Rector of the largest federal public university in Brazil, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), on the situation of higher education in the country and in Latin America and the Caribbean. The interview addresses the preparation of Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), created in 1990 and composed by 35 public universities from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, for the III Regional Conference for Higher Education (CRES), held in Cordoba, Argentina, in June 2018. The interview addresses, among other aspects, higher education as a public good and fundamental human social and individual right; the commodification of the sector in Latin America; the influence of international organizations in the directions of higher education around the world; the advances of science and the challenges in the development of the countries of the region; the importance of CRES for the future of the university, as well as the role of student participation and mobilization in this scenario. At the end of the interview, there is an analysis with comments made by Professor Mario Luiz Neves de Azevedo, researcher of the field in Brazil.


Author(s):  
Nataliia Horbenko

The article reveals the essence and role of promotional activities of higher education institutions for improving their competitiveness in the market of educational services. In particular, it drew attention to the lack of scientific development of the given problem, on the one hand, and to the obvious importance to provide competitiveness of universities in the today’s socio-cultural environment, on the other hand. The essence and peculiarities of competition and competitiveness of the universities are given, the methods of increasing competitiveness of educational services, implementation of which means implementation of advertising activities by a higher educational institution are represented. It was identified that in the field of educational services the promotional activities should be built in accordance with the principles of flexibility, complexity and adaptability, and its basis should be the quest for more high quality, than the competitor does, in meeting of needs of different target audiences through promotion of a wide range of programs. It is noted that promotional activities related to material production becomes a sphere of promotional images production (images). It is concluded that in organizing promotional activities of the university the unity of purpose and objectives of promotional activities of the university should be provided, that stipulates development and implementation of the strategy of its promotional activities, which will maintain and develop its single educational space in accordance with requirements of the present development stage of the country.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita León García

La formación de valores en los jóvenes y, específicamente, el papel de la universidad en esta labor, es una necesidad imperiosa en los momentos actuales en que la sociedad se enfrenta cada vez más, a situaciones problemáticas que requieren de la toma de decisiones que involucran un comportamiento ético de las personas. El trabajo que se presenta, plantea las reflexiones de la autora acerca de la relación entre el desarrollo científico y el proceso educativo en general a la vez que incorpora argumentos que destaquen el papel que le corresponde a los investigadores en el progreso social, así como sus relaciones de interdependencia. La educación en su sentido amplio y la escuela en particular, tienen la alta responsabilidad de formar en sus egresados, elevados valores morales que les permitan involucrarse conscientemente en la construcción de la sociedad. Para su realización se ha utilizado básicamente la revisión de la literatura especializada y los métodos teóricos de investigación, entre ellos, el método histórico y lógico, el enfoque de sistema y el análisis, la síntesis, la inducción, la deducción y la generalización. Palabras clave: ciencia, educación, formación de valores, papel de las universidades en la formación de valores. Abstract Values-based education for young people and specifically the role of the University, is an absolute necessity nowadays when society faces increasingly problematic situations that require decision-making that involves an ethical behavior of people. The research presents the reflections of the author about the relationship between scientific development and the educational process in general while incorporating arguments that highlight the role of researchers in social progress, as well as their interdependent relationships. In its broadest sense, education and school in particular, have the big responsibility of teaching high moral values to their graduates so that they can consciously engage in the construction of society. Revision of specialized literature and theoretical methods of research have been made, such as the historical and logical method, systems approach, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, and generalization. Keywords: science, education, values education, role of universities in values-based education Recibido: octubre de 2014Aprobado: noviembre de 2014


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Marijana Markovikj ◽  
Eleonora Serafimovska

Abstract In order to explore the student involvement in the student organization, field research was conducted amongst 669 students. The research instrument contained a questionnaire on students’ perception and satisfaction of the student organization; two scales of IPIP NEO (short form): Agreeableness (A) and Conscientiousness (C), and one dimension of the Laponce’s questionnaire: the importance of the social role of the university student. The analysis of the overall obtained data showed a very low level of involvement in student organization and a weak expression of the importance of the social role of the university student. A relatively weak connection between two personality dimensions and the involvement of students in the student organization has been found. A student’s involvement is determined more by the importance of the role, than by personality dimensions.


Author(s):  
Ana Mendonça

Analisa a concepção de Anísio Teixeira, ao longo dos anos 30, sobre o papel do intelectual no processo de reconstrução da sociedade brasileira. Para Anísio, seria urgente, à época, formar adequadamente o quadro intelectual da nação para que pudesse assumir, plenamente, a função diretiva que lhe competia nesse processo. Esta função era concebida com um caráter essencialmente educativo, na perspectiva atribuída por Dewey à noção de direção social, o que suporia formar um novo tipo de intelectual, distinto das tradicionais elites brasileiras e cuja marca característica seria a mentalidade científica no seu duplo significado de espírito experimentalista e de espírito democrático. Foi esta concepção do papel do intelectual como dirigente, que não só presidiu à organização da Universidade criada por Anísio em 1935, no Rio de Janeiro (a UDF), como também informou a própria atuação político-administrativa deste educador à frente da Secretaria de Educação do Distrito Federal, de 1932 a 1935. Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze Anísio Teixeira 's conception of the role of intellectuals in the process of reconstruction of the Brazilian Society during the 30 's. According to Anísio, it would be important to prepare a nation's intellectual personnel capable of assuming its directive role. This role was considered as being essentially educative, according to the conception attributed by Dewey to the notion of social directiveness. This would presuppose a new kind of intellectual, different from the Brazilian traditional elite and characterized by a scientific mentality - composed by a experimental spirit and a democratic spirit. The above mentioned conception of the role of intellectual as a conductor shaped both the organization of the University created by Anísio at Rio de Janeiro (the UDF) and his own behavior as the head of the Educational Authority of Rio de Janeiro during the period 1932-1935. Résumé Le but de notre travail est d'analyser la conception d 'Anísio Teixeira, tout au long des années 30, sur le rôle de l'intellectuel au cours du procès de reconstruction nationale de la société brésilienne. Pour Anísio, il était urgent, à cette époque-là, déformer adéquament le cadre intellectuel de la nation pour qu 'il puisse exercer pleinement la fonction directive qui lui appartennait. Cette fonction était conçue comme une fonction essentiellement éducative, dans le sens de ce que Dewey appelait la direction sociale. Cela supposait former un nouveau type d'intellectuel, qui se distinguait des élites traditionnelles brésiliennes dont la marque serait la mentalité scientifique, dans le double sens d esprit d'expérimentation et d'esprit démocratique. Cette conception du role de l'intellectuel, autant que dirigeant, est à l'origine non seulement de l 'organization de l 'Université créée par Anísio en 1935, au Rio de Janeiro (l'UDF), mais aussi de l'action politique et administrative de cet éducateur à la tête du Bureau de l 'Education du Distrito Fédéral, de 1932 à 1935. Resumen Nuestro trabajo tiene por objetivo analisar la concepción de Anísio Teixeira, a Io largo de los años 30, acerca del papel del intelectual en el proceso de reconstrucción nacional de Ia sociedad brasileña. Para Anísio, era urgente, por aquél entonces, formar adecuadamente a los cuadros intelectuales de la Nación para que ellos pudieran ejercer plenamente la función directiva que les competia. Esta función era concebida con un carácter fundamentalmente educativo, en el sentido que le atribuyó Dewey, de dirección social, lo que supondría formar un nuevo tipo de intelectual distinto de Ias elites tradicionales brasileñas, y cuya característica sería la mentalidad científica, en su doble significado de espíritu experimentalista y de espíritu democrático. Fue esta concepción del papel del intelectual como dirigente, que no sólo presidió a la organización de la Universidad creada por Anísio en 1935, en Rio de Janeiro (UDF), como también informó la propia actuación político-administrativa de este educador al frente de la Secretaría de Educación del Distrito Federal, de 1932 a 1935.


Agriculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 378
Author(s):  
Chiara Aleffi ◽  
Sabrina Tomasi ◽  
Concetta Ferrara ◽  
Cristina Santini ◽  
Gigliola Paviotti ◽  
...  

This exploratory study focuses on the role of the university in supporting sustainable development in rural areas, focusing on small wine producers, particularly those located in remote and disadvantaged areas. Disadvantaged areas have distinctive features. Firstly, they are fragile areas from a sociodemographic point of view because of population ageing. Secondly, they are unstable from an environmental (physical, eco-systemic) point of view, as a consequence of insufficient maintenance of their seminatural capital. University–business cooperation with companies located in those areas thus needs to be designed by considering the specific characteristic of the place. Therefore, this exploratory study sought to understand how the university can work with small wineries and support them and their rural area to face inequalities and low growth, and foster social innovation. We present a case study based on field research in Italy. The results—based on the analysis of 26 semistructured interviews with small wine producers—are discussed by exploring the potential form of cooperation between rural stakeholders and universities, beyond the concept of knowledge transfer. Conclusions highlight the need for the university to act as a facilitator of dialogue at a territorial level, as a first step toward to formulation of shared sustainable goals.


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