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Este artigo constitui uma reflexão, pelo enfoque da Ecologia Humana, sobre os impactos do envelhecimento demográfico ao nível da saúde dos idosos. Dados os ganhos que o ser humano conseguiu alcançar em relação ao tempo de vida, que se prolonga, impõe-se a interrogação de saber-se se esta dinâmica nos estará a impelir como que para uma espécie "retorno ao Éden".Partindo da caracterização do envelhecimento populacional à escala mais global (o mundo) para uma escala local (Portugal) e dos cenários futuros relativos à tendência de envelhecimento populacional acelerado, procuramos salientar os ganhos que, todavia, faltam adquirir para vencer o novo desafio – agora que já vivemos mais – que é o de vivermos sempre com mais qualidade.

Resumo: Este artigo tem como objetivo compreender como, de maneira aparentemente paradoxal no Brasil, com uma sociedade erigida em estreita relação com o Continente Africano, se construiu um Estado que desde suas primeiras décadas de existência mostrou-se hostil aos africanos e a seus descendentes, promovendo, ao contrário, a continuidade de uma civilização europeia nos trópicos.

Huambo has central capacities able to compete and complement other major towns in Africa such as Johannesburg and Nairobi. Nevertheless, Huambo, the second city of Angola, was at war from 1975 till 2002 and continued to be relatively isolated from 2002 till 2006, because it took some time to rebuilt former roads. Furthermore the destruction of the export based activities during the war reduced the capacity of the city to regain the development path experienced in the sixties and early seventies. Under these circumstances the design of a Director Plan is necessarily a strategic plan of a city that has lost its export base and has obvious difficulties in getting its role in Africa. The Provincial Government asked for a Plan which design should be participated. The first question is to know who the stakeholders are and what are their expectations? The second issue is to design a participative and consistent strategy. In this paper we report the first phase of the Plan which includes not only the characterization and diagnosis of the region but also the design of a participatory strategy. We used Q Methods to interact with the stakeholders and a Spatial Interaction Model with Land Use to create consistent scenarios that arise from the political and entrepreneurial options related to the location of a new modern airport, the new export base of the town, the solution in terms of urban densities, the structure of the transport network and the design of land use planning measures.

Baseado nas mudanças do Ministério da Educação, que aumentam a carga de extensão obrigatória aos alunos, busca-se novas formas de proporcionar aos alunos esta experiência educacional com impacto na sociedade. Este artigo relata a experiência de um professor de uma instituição pública federal no Rio de Janeiro, que trouxe para sala de aula um grupo de mulheres empreendedoras que precisavam de ajuda no planejamento de marketing de suas empresas. Utilizando a metodologia Project Based Learning – PBL –, os alunos do curso de Administração fizeram projetos dignos de uma consultoria profissional e tiveram uma vivência que se assemelha à realidade de um administrador. Por fim, esta experiência foi premiada em 3º lugar regional no prêmio Educador Transformador 2024 do Sebrae.

O artigo aborda a presença e as especificidades do demônio nas narrativas jesuíticas referentes às Províncias Jesuíticas do Paraguai e do Uruguai, no século XVII. Interpretamos a demonização das culturas e das lideranças indígenas tendo em vista o repertório demonológico dos missionários trazido da Europa e as necessidades e estratégias de evangelização na região. Em geral, os costumes, as resistências e oposições dos indígenas ao projeto cristão eram vistos como manifestações de inspiração diabólica, as quais tinham de ser energicamente combatidas.

The estimation of density based on positive dependent samples has been studied recently with consistency and asymptotic normality results being obtained. In with regard to the characterization on decrease rates the results have been scarce. We prove two versions of an exponential inequality: one assuming stationarity and association alone and the other under a further assumption on the joint distributions of the sample. These inequalities are then used to prove exponential decrease rates for the kernel estimator of the density with a uniform version over compact sets. The conditions assumed impose convenient decrease rates on the covariance structure of the sample. Some examples supposing geometrical or polynomial decrease rates on the covariances that fulfill our assumptions are presented in the last section. Explicit almost sure rates are derived for geometrically decreasing covariances. Under the extra assumption on the joint distributions the rates are close to the best known ones for independent variables.

Front Cover -- Aging -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The societal burden of aging -- 1 Global aging and health determinants in a changing world -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The geographies of a global trend -- 1.2.1 Global patterns and projections -- 1.2.2 Multiscale intraregional variations of the aging process -- 1.3 Environmental health in later life -- 1.3.1 From successful aging to the role of place and inequities -- 1.3.2 How environment affects physical health in old age -- 1.3.3 The subjective experience of place: place attachment and residential normalcy -- 1.4 Global stressors in a changing world -- 1.4.1 Welfare state and neoliberalism -- 1.4.2 Climate change and health in old age -- 1.4.3 Migrations and health in old age -- 1.4.4 Discrimination as a health issue for older persons -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Flagship initiatives for healthy living and active aging in Europe: the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Hea... -- 2.1 Demographic changes and aging -- 2.2 The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing -- 2.2.1 European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing cross-cutting initiatives -- 2.3 Reference sites-case studies -- 2.3.1 Ageing@Coimbra Reference Site -- 2.3.2 The Healthy Ageing Network Northern Netherlands -- 2.3.3 Valencia region Reference Site -- 2.3.4 Andalusia Reference Site -- 2.3.5 The Lodz4Generations Reference Site -- 2.3.6 Campania Reference Site (ProMIS network) -- 2.3.7 MACVIA-France Reference Site -- 2.4 Reference Site Collaborative Network -- 2.5 Transition from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe-the role of IN-4-Active and Healthy Ageing -- 2.6 Future perspectives -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 3 Aging in Africa, challenges and opportunities-the particular case of Cabo Verde.

While the imperiled Brazilian rainforest has been the focus of considerable international media attention and conservation efforts, the massive grasslands of Brazil--known as the cerrados--which cover roughly a quarter of its land surface and are among the most threatened regions in South America, have received little notice. This book brings together leading researchers on the area to produce the first detailed account in English of the natural history and ecology of the cerrado/savanna ecosystem. Given their extent and threatened status, the richness of their flora and fauna, and the lack of familiarity with their unique ecology at the international level, the cerrados are badly in need of this important and timely work