scholarly journals Thinking Urban Transformation through Elsewhere: A Conversation between Real-World Labs in São Paulo and Hamburg on Governance and Practical Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12811
Author(s):  
Martin Kohler ◽  
Anita Engels ◽  
Ana Paula Koury ◽  
Cathrin Zengerling
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Political Economic

Urban real-world laboratories (RWLs) are increasingly used internationally and studied as an instrument of urban transformation. New cases in diverse political, economic, social and ecological situations offer a rich set of learning experiences, but the distinctive urban contexts make it impossible to draw comparisons in the traditional sense. In this article—an experiment in itself—we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how RWLs contribute to urban transformation in very different contexts. We apply Jennifer Robinson’s theoretical framework “thinking through elsewhere” on two ongoing urban RWLs: the Itaim Paulista Lab, located in the urban periphery of São Paulo, Brazil and the Lokstedt Urban Transformation Lab in Hamburg, Germany. We operationalize Robinson’s framework in two steps. First, we present the genetics—context, roots, concepts and activities—of both labs. Second, we engage the RWLs in a generative conversation on their role in transforming governance and practical action, with a special focus on the questions of if and how the labs contribute to long-term transformative change. We also find that both labs show potential to contribute to long-term transformative change through governance and practical action.

Toxocariasis/cysticercosis seroprevalence in a long-term rural settlement, São Paulo, Brazil

Parasitology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
pp. 681-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. PRESTES-CARNEIRO ◽  
D. H. P. SOUZA ◽  
G. C. MORENO ◽  
C. TROIANI ◽  
V. SANTARÉM ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Western Blot ◽  
Taenia Solium ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Ocular Manifestations

SUMMARYSeroprevalence of Toxocara and Taenia solium and risk factors for infection with these parasites were explored in a long-term rural settlement in São Paulo state, Brazil. An ELISA for the detection of anti-Toxocara IgG and IgE and anti-T. solium cysticerci was standardized using Toxocara excretory-secretory antigens (TES) obtained from the cultured second-stage larvae of T. canis and by vesicular fluid antigen from Taenia crassiceps cysticerci (VF). For cysticercosis, the reactive ELISA samples were assayed by Western blot using 18 kDa and 14 kDa proteins purified from VF. Out of 182 subjects, 25 (13·7%) presented anti-Toxocara IgG and a positive correlation between total IgE and the reactive index of specific anti-TES IgE (P=0·0265) was found amongst the subjects found seropositive for anti-Toxocara IgG. In these individuals 38·0% showed ocular manifestations. The frequency of anti-T. solium cysticerci confirmed by Western blot was 0·6%. Seropositivity for Toxocara was correlated with low educational levels and the owning of dogs. Embryonated eggs of Toxocara spp. were found in 43·3% of the analysed areas.

Long-term safety of azathioprine for treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Ayroza Galvão Ribeiro GOMES ◽  
Milena Sales PITOMBEIRA ◽  
Douglas Kazutoshi SATO ◽  
Dagoberto CALLEGARO ◽  
Samira Luisa APÓSTOLOS-PEREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Neuromyelitis Optica ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Term Treatment ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Duration Of Treatment ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
First Line Therapy ◽  
Long Term Treatment ◽  
Record Review

ABSTRACT Background: Azathioprine is a common first-line therapy for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether long-term treatment (>10 years) with azathioprine is safe in NMOSD. Methods: We conducted a retrospective medical record review of all patients at the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil) who fulfilled the 2015 international consensus diagnostic criteria for NMOSD and were treated with azathioprine for at least 10 years. Results: Out of 375 patients assessed for eligibility, 19 were included in this analysis. These patients’ median age was 44 years (range=28-61); they were mostly female (17/19) and AQP4-IgG seropositive (18/19). The median disease duration was 15 years (range=10-39) and most patients presented a relapsing clinical course (84.2%). The median duration of treatment was 11.9 years (range=10.0-23.8). The median annualized relapse rates (ARR) pre- and post-treatment with azathioprine were 1 (range=0.1-2) and 0.1 (range=0-0.35); p=0.09. Three patients (15.7%) had records of adverse events during the follow-up, which consisted of chronic B12 vitamin deficiency, pulmonary tuberculosis and breast cancer. Conclusion: Azathioprine may be considered a safe agent for long-term treatment (>10 years) of NMOSD, but continuous vigilance for infections and malignancies is required.

scholarly journals Relações interespecíficas de cuidado no sistema de saúde convencional brasileiro: uma análise antropológica sobre a dinâmica da zooterapia

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
General Question ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Human Care ◽  
Animal Care

Através de uma análise das atividades desenvolvidas pelos terapeutas da zooterapia, apresentado pela experiência de um trabalho de observação de longa duração, este artigo se propõe a colocar em questão a associação do homem e do animal, em um corpus de conhecimentos vindo de uma “etologia” empírica e de um corpus elaborado e estruturado de saberes antropológicos. A zooterapia enquanto mediação animal é uma técnica de cuidado para além de uma constatação trivial interespecífica ou de uma projeção antropomórfica sobre os animais de categorias universalmente reconhecidas como humanas. Ela permite nos interrogarmos sobre o recurso à participação animal e seu estatuto de sujeito dotado de capacidades agentivas, ao lado de um terapeuta humano e face à uma pessoa doente. Por ocasião de três estudos de caso contextualmente situados nas cidades de Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, destacamos a questão mais geral da interação entre os dados empíricos que a zooterapia acumula e as representações sociais que são implicitamente mobilizadas para situar o animal dentro de uma cadeia operativa. De modo geral a problemática de interesse deste artigo trata das práticas e horizontes relacionais que atravessam vários grupos sociais e indivíduos contemporâneos que apostam na direção de uma relação interespecífica. Essa problemática é também empírica e epistemológica, pois demarca uma remodelação das diferenças entre natureza e cultura, baseada em uma conjunção de fenômenos invocados a caracterizar os sujeitos (conduta, ações, afetos, comportamento).Palavras-chave: Antropologia da natureza. Agentividade dos animais. Zooterapia. Modalidades de ações.The interspecific relations for human care in the conventional health system: an anthropological analysis of the dynamics of zootherapyAbstractThrough an analysis of the activities developed by zootherapy therapists, presented by the experience of a long-term work of observation, this article proposes to put in question the association of man and animal, in a corpus of knowledge coming from an empirical "ethology" and an elaborate and structured anthropological knowledge corpus. The zootherapy as an animal care mediation is a technique other than an interspecific trivial finding, or an anthropomorphic projection on animals of universally recognized as human categories. It allows us to interrogate about the use of animals and their status as subjects endowed with agentive capacities, alongside a human therapist and in face of a sick person. Based on three case studies contextually located in the cities of Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, we highlight the more general question of the interaction between the empirical data that zootherapy accumulates and social representations that are implicitly mobilized to locate the animal inside of an operative chain. More comprehensively the issue of interest in this paper deals with the practical and relational horizons that cut across social groups and contemporary individuals who bet on the direction of an interspecies relationship. This problem is also empirical and epistemological because it marks a remodel of the differences between nature and culture, based on a combination of phenomena invoked to characterize the subjects (behavior, actions, feelings).Keywords: Anthropology of nature. Animal agency. Zootherapy. Modalities of actions.

scholarly journals Long-term association between the intensity of cosmic rays and mortality rates in the city of Sao Paulo

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 024009 ◽  
Author(s):  
C L Z Vieira ◽  
E Janot-Pacheco ◽  
C Lage ◽  
A Pacini ◽  
P Koutrakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Design de sistemas para análise do ciclo de vida de um produto: slow fashion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávia Pereira Conti
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Real World ◽  
Human Ecology ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Life Cycle Design ◽  
Power Point ◽  
Slow Fashion

O artigo descreve o processo de reavaliação e esmeração de um sistema de produção da microempresa de semijoias Cantrelle Design, com o objetivo de otimizar a estrutura organizacional e de produção por meio do design de sistemas e o slow fashion. O design de sistemas por considerar o produto como um conjunto inteiro, e o slow fashion, porque visa a democratização do processo de criação de peças de forma mais lenta, preocupando-se com o desenvolvimento dos processos. Para alcançar um resultado satisfatório, utilizou-se a metodologia desenvolvida por Ezio Manzini e Carlo Vezzoli, o Life Cycle Design (LCD), procurando reduzir os inputs e outputs o máximo possível, tanto em termos quantitativos quanto qualitativos. Ponderando assim, a nocividade de seus efeitos, por meio da avaliação de todas as fases do produto, que são subdivididas em pré-produção, produção, distribuição, uso e descarte. Por se tratar de semijoias, sendo, então, um bem durável, requere-se poucos recursos durante o uso e manutenção, concentra-se em reduzir o impacto nas fases antecedentes e posteriores ao uso.  Como resultado, obteve-se uma potencialização na gestão da empresa, reduzindo os gastos energéticos e materiais. Atingiu-se tal solução por meio de uma melhor organização de etapas operacionais nas fases antecedentes ao uso do produto, buscando adequar-se ao sistema slow fashion, com a otimização do volume de compras e logística de vendas, reavaliação da embalagem e material aplicados. Percebeu-se que a matéria prima já em uso é a menos impactante para o ambiente por ser de alta durabilidade e passível de reaproveiramnento. Por fim, redesenhou-se a embalagem com tecido reciclado, de uma forma que possa ser reutilizada pelo consumidor final após ser adquirida. Conclui-se que é possível readequar um sistema já em andamento, adaptando-o de forma a reduzir seu impacto na natureza por meio do slow fashion e design de sistemas, valorizando o processo de produção, não só o lucro financeiro que a venda do produto proporciona, além de aperfeiçoar o sistema como uma unidade e repensar o conjunto para valorizar a qualidade e o modo de produção, expondo a possibilidade de renovar o sistema industrial vigente de modo sustentável e consciente, por meio de uma ação local, visando atingir um macrossistema de forma harmônica. Palavras-chave: slow fashion, design de sistemas, semijoias, sustentabilidade, metodologia.ReferênciasBASTAGNINO, Luigi. Design di Sistemi i Sistemi Industriali Aperti: un nuovo approccio al progretto, un nuovo modello di bussiness. Sem ano. 26 slides. Apresentação em Power-point. BUENO, Bárbara. Movimento slow life: desacelerando a vida. 2016. Disponível em < https://pt.linkedin.com/pulse/movimento-slow-life-desacelerando-vida-b%C3%A1rbara-mantovani-bueno>. Acesso em: 24 de maio de 2017.DELLA MEA, Luciana. A moda em [re]evolução: slow fashion. 2014. Disponível em <http://www.autossustentavel.com/2014/05/a-moda-em-revolucao-slow-fashion.html>. Acesso em 24 de maio de 2017.DELLA MEA, Luciana. Design de sistemas para a sustentabilidade. 2012. Disponível em <http://www.autossustentavel.com/2012/06/design-de-sistemas-para.html>. Acesso em 24 de maio de 2017. MANZINI, Ezio; VEZZOLI, Carlo. O desenvolvimento de produtos sustentáveis: os requisitos ambientais dos produtos industriais. São Paulo. Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. PAPANEK, Victor. Design do the Real World: human ecology and social change. Londres. Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1985.REVIDE. O conceito de fast fashion. 2010. Disponível em <https://www.revide.com.br/editorias/moda/o-conceito-de-fast-fashion/>. Acesso em 24 de maio de 2017. SARATE, Fernanda. O movimento slow life e a desaceleração da sociedade de consumo contemporânea. 2009. Disponível em < http://www.comunicacaoetendencias.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TCC-Fernanda-Sarate.pdf>. Acesso em: 24 de maio de 2017. SILVA, Samantha; BUSARELLO, Raul. Fast fashion e slow fashion: o processo criativo na contemporaneidade. 2016.

The Import of a Narrative : The Role of Aesthetics and Discursive Elements in Fabricating Change in the Centre of São Paulo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Kalichman ◽  
Beatriz Rufino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
York City ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Past

This chapter examines the use of aesthetic and discursive elements in the production of a narrative about República, a district in the central area of São Paulo (Brazil) that has been transformed through a real estate boom in the past ten years. We focus on newly built studio apartments, and on the efforts to differentiate them from the quitinetes, apartments with similar features built in the 1950s and 1960s that have been heavily stigmatized. We situate our analysis of this purposeful urban transformation within a context intertwined with urban marketing, publicity, and image making. Our research shows the strong presence of an industrial aesthetic in the area, which we understand as being a deliberate echo of the gentrification process that took place in SoHo in New York City in the 1970s.

Long-Term Evaluation of Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Paediatric Heart Transplantation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (8) ◽  
pp. 1655-1662
Author(s):  
Adam Arshad ◽  
Estela Azeka ◽  
Samia Barbar ◽  
Raphael Marcondes ◽  
Adailson Siqueira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Transplantation ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Lymphoproliferative Disorders ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Post Transplant ◽  
Term Evaluation

scholarly journals Assessing the validity of a food frequency questionnaire among low-income women in São Paulo, southeastern Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 2059-2067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marly Augusto Cardoso ◽  
Luciana Yuki Tomita ◽  
Elaine Cristina Laguna
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Food Frequency Questionnaire ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Food Frequency ◽  
Low Income Women

This study describes the validity of a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in 93 low-income women (20-65 years), participating in a case-control study in São Paulo, Brazil. Two FFQ (FFQ1 and FFQ2, 12 months apart) and three 24-hour dietary recalls (24hR) were conducted between 2003 and 2004 to estimate dietary intake during the past year. The Pearson correlation coefficients (crude, energy-adjusted and de-attenuated) were used for comparisons between FFQ and 24hR. The agreement between the methods was further examined by the Bland-Altman analysis. For the assessment of long-term reliability, the energy-adjusted intra-class correlation coefficients were mostly around 0.40, but higher for vitamin A and folate (0.50-0.56). Energy-adjusted, attenuation-corrected Pearson validity correlations between FFQ and DR ranged from 0.30-0.54 for macronutrients to 0.20-0.48 for micronutrients, with higher value for calcium (0.75). There were small proportions of grossly misclassified nutrient intakes, while Bland-Altman plots indicated that the FFQ is accurate in assessing nutrient intake at a group level.

scholarly journals Migrant entrepreneurship, value-creation practices and urban transformation in São Paulo, Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lugosi ◽  
Thiago Allis
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Related Services ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Specific Food

This paper examines the entrepreneurial practices of migrants, including refugees, establishing and operating businesses providing food, hospitality, leisure, tourism and events-related services and experiences. Drawing on empirical data gathered in São Paulo, Brazil, the study conceptualises how migrants create cultural ‘goods’ (encompassing material objects, services and experiences), which have been subjected to valuation processes. The paper considers the practices through which migrants mobilise identities, histories, and culturally-specific knowledge as resources in constructing experiential propositions. Moreover, we distinguish between five sets of practices: objectification of self; aestheticisation of otherness; authentication of place-specific food experiences; constructing hospitality venues as cultural spaces; and vitrine-ing (creating platforms for showcasing migrant talent). We discuss the potential consequences of these practices for migrants, consumers, urban environments and their residents, and identify avenues for future research.

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