Responsabilidade Social em IES: a experiência do Projeto Comunitário da PUC em Toledo no Paraná

Durante a formação universitária, muitos acadêmicos têm o primeiro contato com a visão global da sociedade, com seus desafios conflitos e oportunidades. Atrelado a isso surgem, também, as preocupações que envolvem decisões éticas e suas conseqüências para as pessoas, as empresas e a sociedade. Por isso, a universidade pode ser entendida como importante agente influenciador dos seus egressos no que se refere às atitudes a respeito da responsabilidade social. Pretendendo contribuir com este contexto, esta pesquisa apresenta um relato da experiência do Projeto Comunitário, desenvolvido pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) com a adesão dos alunos do campus Toledo no ano de 2005. Para atingir o objetivo proposto, utilizou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica descritiva que, por meio de análise de documentos da instituição, permitiu reunir informações sobre o referido projeto. Os resultados demonstram a preocupação desta IES em formar não apenas profissionais, mas também cidadãos conscientes das questões sociais do Brasil. A participação dos alunos no Projeto Comunitário logo nos períodos iniciais dos cursos que freqüentam e o aumento do número de instituições que procuram a universidade para adesão ao projeto demonstram a aceitabilidade do mesmo, o que tem garantido o seu sucesso

Laryngeales Kontaktgranulom: Ätiologie, Symptomatik, Diagnose und Therapie

Zusammenfassung: Kontaktgranulome sind gutartige, meist einseitige chronisch entzündliche Erkrankungen im Bereich des Processus vocalis des Kehlkopfs. Auf der Gegenseite findet sich oft an korrespondierender Stelle ein Kontaktulkus. Fremdkörpergefühl, Räusperzwang, Heiserkeit und eine verminderte stimmliche Belastbarkeit stehen klinisch im Vordergrund, insbesondere bei Patienten mit Sprechberufen und mangelnder Stimmtechnik. Ein Malignom kann nahezu immer anamnestisch und klinisch ausgeschlossen werden, weshalb eine Biopsie nur bei Malignomverdacht begründet ist. Bei Verdacht auf eine gastroösophageale Refluxkrankheit (GERD) ist eine entsprechende fachärztliche Abklärung angezeigt. Das Therapieprinzip sollte aufgrund der Multikausalität für jeden Patienten entsprechend angepasst werden. Dabei soll eine logopädische Stimmtherapie als Basis jeglicher Therapie angeordnet werden. Eine Antirefluxtherapie sowie eine psychologische Beratung können gelegentlich hilfreich sein. Operative Abtragungen sollen vermieden werden wegen der Gefahr des Rezidivs. Anhand von 2Fallbeispielen wird der klassische Verlauf des Krankheitsbildes geschildert und anschießend auf Ätiologie, Symptome, Diagnostik und Therapie eingegange

Thai Baan Methodology and Transdisciplinarity as Collaborative Research Practices: Common Ground and Divergent Directions

Thai Baan research was developed in the late 1990s as a counter-hegemonic, emancipatory means of knowledge production. Originally developed in the context of protests against a hydropower project, it aims at empowering socially and economically marginalized actors to create and represent their own knowledge and to regain authority in social struggles. This decolonial methodology, conceptualized by Thai academics in collaboration with non-academic actors, has remained largely unnoticed by Northern collaborative or transdisciplinary debates. Transdisciplinary research, although engaged in collaborative research designs, often remains silent on issues of power imbalances as constitutive of research processes. Criticizing the compartmentalization and limitation of academic knowledge production, transdisciplinarity realigns the scientific system of knowledge production to deal with ‘real-world problems’. During the last three decades, transdisciplinarity has unfolded into a collaborative and integrative methodology implemented in a number of fields, such as sustainability, public health, and development planning. This article systematically introduces Thai Baan and transdisciplinarity as two approaches to collaborative research practice. It introduces the context of their emergence, sheds light on the respective notions of knowledge and science, and discusses their respective methodological designs. It is argued that both would benefit from a stronger epistemological foundation in decolonizing, liberating philosophies of science to enhance collaborative action, overcome North-South divisions, and foster global dialogues in emancipatory knowledge production

Monkeypox in a renal transplant recipient: is it a hazard for immunocompromised patients?

There has been a recent outbreak of monkeypox in the United States, mostly among men who have sex with men (MSM). It seems to be a self-limiting disease but can be potentially serious in immunocompromised patients. Monkeypox infection is transmitted mainly through skin-to-skin contact and possibly seminal and vaginal fluids. Very few cases of monkeypox infection in immunocompromised patients have been published in the literature. We report a case of infection in a renal transplant recipient, and describe the clinical course and outcome

Gobernanza y políticas públicas : comienzos del desarrollo turístico en el litoral central rosarino

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo principal analizar las políticas públicas que dieron inicio al desarrollo turístico en la zona ribereña central de la ciudad de Rosario entre los años 1995 y 2003. Estas políticas fueron llevadas adelante gracias a la implementación del modelo de gobernanza. Es por ello que resulta relevante destacar que el proceso mediante el cual se diseñaron, implementaron y evaluaron estas planificaciones son en consecuencia, de naturaleza compleja. Sucede que en todas y cada una de las etapas cíclicas de las políticas, entran en juego diversos actores con diferentes racionalidades, implicando ello un encuentro no sólo de perspectivas, sino también de intereses. En consecuencia, el presente trabajo intenta identificar las políticas públicas implementadas que, por medio de relaciones generadoras de vínculos entre múltiples figuras involucradas en el ámbito turístico, hicieron de la ribera central rosarina un espacio integral y capaz de ofrecer recursos turísticos. Asimismo, se pretende identificar tanto a los actores involucrados como también los resultados obtenidosFil: Heis, Abril Belén. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales. Turismo; Argentin

The Fact of Modern Mathematics: Geometry, Logic, and Concept Formation in Kant and Cassirer

It is now commonly accepted that any adequate history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century philosophy - and thus of the origins of analytic philosophy - must take seriously the role of Neo-Kantianism and Kant interpretation in the period. My dissertation is a contribution to our understanding of this interesting but poorly understood stage in the history of philosophy. Kant's theory of the concepts, postulates, and proofs of geometry was informed by philosophical reflection on diagram-based geometry in the Greek synthetic tradition. However, even before the widespread acceptance of non-Euclidean geometry, the projective revolution in nineteenth century geometry eliminated diagrams from proofs and introduced "ideal" elements that could not be given a straightforward interpretation in empirical space. A Kantian like the very early Russell felt forced to regard the ideal elements as convenient fictions. The Marburg Neo-Kantians—the philosophical school that included Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945)—thought that philosophy, as "transcendental logic," needed to take the results of established pure mathematics as a "fact," not a fiction. Cassirer therefore updates Kant by rejecting the "Transcendental Aesthetic" and by using elements in Richard Dedekind's foundations of arithmetic to rework Kant's idea that the geometrical method is the "construction of concepts". He further argues that geometry is "synthetic" because it progresses when mathematicians introduce new structures (like the complex projective plane) that are not contained in the old structures, but unify them under a new point-of-view. This new "Kantian" theory of modern mathematics, Cassirer argues, is inconsistent with the traditional theory of concept formation by abstraction. Drawing on earlier Neo-Kantian interpretations, Cassirer argues that Kant's theory of concepts as rules undermines the traditional theory of concept formation and gives a "transcendental" defense of the new logic of Frege and Russell. (In an appendix, I discuss the contemporaneous accounts of concept formation in Gottlob Frege and Hermann Lotze.

UPAYA PROGRAM BANTUAN PADI TANAM SABATANG (PTS) DARI DINAS PERTANIAN KEPADA PETANI DI KAB. PADANG-PARIAMAN DITINJAU DARI ASPEK EKONOMI ISLAM

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh pengamatan penulis mengenai perkembangan pertanian di wilayah Sumatera Barat dengan segala kendala yang dihadapi. Salah satu upaya pemerintahan wilayah Sumatera Barat dalam mengurangi beban atau kendala petani adalah dengan memberikan bantuan berupa benih padi dan serta pupuknya kepada petani, dimana pemberian pupuk ini dikhususkan kepada mereka yang mau mengikuti program pertanian pemerintah yakni program Padi Tanam Sabatang (PTS). Penulis kemudian memilih Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman, Sumatera Barat, sebagai objek penelitian karena didaerah ini terjadi kecurangan dalam hal pembagian benih dan pupuk bantuan. Penelitian uni mengangkat rumusan masalah yakni bagaimana proses dan pelaksanaan program Padi Tanam Sabatang (PTS) dari Dinas Pertanian kepada petani di Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman, apa saja faktor penghambat dalam pelaksanaan program Padi Tanam Sabatang (PTS) dari Dinas Pertanian serta manfaat apa yang dirasakan petani setelah menjalankan program tersebut, bagaimana pandangan Ekonomi Islam terhadap program Padi Tanam Sabatang (PTS) yang dilaksanakan oleh Dinas Pertanian Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman dalam hal membantu perekonomian petani setempat. Populasi dari penelitian ini tidak tehingga karena banyaknya masyarakat Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman yang bermata pencaharian sebagai petani. Karena jumlah populasi yang banyak maka penulis hanya mengambil 50 orang petani yang diwakilkan dengan 5 desa sebagai objek penelitiannya. Karena populasi yang diambil berdasarkan daerah maka metode yang digunakan cluster sampling (sampling daerah), sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah angket, observasi, dan wawancara. Program Padi Tanam Sabatang (PTS) ini sudah berjalan lebih kurang selama 6 tahun terakhir ini. Tetapi tidak semua petani mau mengikuti program ini karena petani yang sukar mengadopsi teknik pembaharuan kemudian juga juga ditunjang oleh beberapa alasan yang mereka berikan, diantaranya penanaman yang hanya satu batang benih padi sehingga jika terjadi banjir ataupun dimakan hama maka padi mereka tidak lagi bisa tumbuh namun akan menyebabkan gagal panen. Dari keluhan petani ini kemudian Dinas Pertanian mensosialisasikan agar program Padi Tanam Sabatang ini tidak mengalami gagal panen seperti yang ditakutkan dan disamping itu Dinas Pertanian juga memberikan bantuan berupa bibit padi berserta pupuk secara cuma-cuma. Namun pada kenyataannya ada beberapa desa yang melakukan pemungutan biaya atas bantuan tersebut

Getting Acquainted with Kant

My question here concerns whether Kant claims that experience has nonconceptual content, or whether, on his view, experience is essentially conceptual. However there is a sense in which this debate concerning the content of intuition is ill-conceived. Part of this has to do with the terms in which the debate is set, and part to do with confusion over the connection between Kant’s own views and contemporary concerns in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. However, I think much of the substance of the debate concerning Kant’s views on the content of experience can be salvaged by reframing it in terms of a debate about the dependence relations, if any, that exist between different cognitive capacities. Below, in Section 2, I clarify the notion of ‘content’ I take to be at stake in the interpretive debate. Section 3 presents reasons for thinking that intuition cannot have content in the relevant sense. I then argue, in Section 4, that the debate be reframed in terms of dependence. We should distinguish between Intellectualism, according to which all objective representation (understood in a particular way) depends on acts of synthesis by the intellect, and Sensibilism, according to which at least some forms of objective representation are independent of any such acts (or the capacity for such acts). Finally, in Section 5, I further elucidate the cognitive role of intuition. I articulate a challenge which Kant understands alethic modal considerations to present for achieving cognition, and argue that a version of Sensibilism that construes intuition as a form of acquaintance is better positioned to answer this challenge than Intellectualism