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Medicinal plants are used by a large part of the world's population as an alternative medicinal resource for the treatment of various diseases, since in many communities, they represent a more accessible resource in relation to allopathic medicines. There is a great diversity of medicinal plants that are used by people to combat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, which justifies the present work. The objective of the study was to evaluate the ethnonknowledge of the Academic Community of CECITEC on the use of medicinal plants used in gastrointestinal tract disorders. The survey was conducted in 2019 through an interview using a structured questionnaire, the data obtained were transformed into tables and graphs to better elucidate them. The choice of participants was made randomly where they signed a Free and Informed Consent Form (ICF) of participation. The research consisted of 72 students. 32 varieties of plants used to prevent and combat infections common to the gastrointestinal tract were cited. The most cited plants were: Boldo (Peumus boldus Molina) with 29, 6% and macela (Egletes viscosa (L.) Less) with 17%. The most commonly used parts were leaves and seeds in the form of tea. It was concluded that CECITEC students have a vast knowledge about the use of medicinal plants.

Over time populations have been using natural resources such as medicinal plants for the treatment of various diseases. In recent decades, interest has been increasing in trying to understand the relationship between humans and plants. This study aimed to identify medicinal plants used by residents in a rural community in the municipality of Bom Jesus, South of Piauí. An open questionnaire with 10 questions was applied with residents in a rural community, with the objective of analyzing the main causes that motivated the use and importance of the use of medicinal plants in the treatment of diseases. As well as the ethnobotanical aspects (popular name, used parts, forms of preparation, and therapeutic purposes), where they were obtained, where popular knowledge came from. It was possible to identify the use of 14 species, distributed in 14 genera and 11 botanical families. The family Lamiaceae with 5 species was the most cited. The most cited species were Mint, Lemon Balm, Malvão, Orange and Amburana. Leaves are the most used plant parts in the preparation of medicines (78.5%), followed by seeds (14.2%) and bark and seeds (7.1%). Most indications are for stomach and flu problems. The residents of the Eugenópolis community know a variety of medicinal plants belonging to various botanical families. The sharing of traditional knowledge about medicinal plants, forms of preparation and consumption is passed down from generation to generation.

Estudos de polinização com espécies agrícolas são fundamentais para auxiliar gestores ambientais e órgãos governamentais na tomada de decisão relacionadas ao manejo de espécies economicamente importantes. Atualmente, a demanda pelo serviço de polinização biótica e a escassez de abelhas têm causado a necessidade da realização de polinização artificial em cultivos agrícolas. Nosso objetivo consiste em determinar a importância do serviço de polinização biótica para espécies de cultivos agrícolas no Brasil. Foram realizadas buscas nos principais bancos de dados online, procurando por pesquisas relacionados à polinização agrícola no Brasil. Os dados coletados foram organizados em planilhas contendo informações sobre a ecologia, a biologia floral e o sistema reprodutivo. Entre as 69 espécies listadas, 13% são endêmicas e entre as 30 famílias botânicas registradas, quatro tiveram mais destaque: Arecaceae, Passifloraceae, Myrtaceae e Solanaceae. A floresta Atlântica foi o ecossistema mais mencionado e em relação aos atributos florais, houve predominância de flores actinomorfas. Esse tipo de simetria, juntamente com os demais atributos, como morfologia em disco e cor branca, evidenciam uma tendência para a polinização generalista. Apesar da maior menção à xenogamia facultiva, os percentuais de alogamia e xenogamia obrigatória reforçam a necessidade da polinização biótica para assegurar a produtividade nesses cultivos.  

This article intends to discuss the correlation that the income inequality and health expenses variables present in the life expectancy of the population of Brazil, Argentina and Mexico in the period from 2000 to 2018, with the countries chosen by the highlight of the Gross Domestic Product they have in relation to other Latin American countries. For this purpose, Pearson's correlation, multiple regression and ANOVA were used as methods of quantitative analysis based on data collected from the World Bank and the World Health Organization. Among the main results found, there is a strong correlation between life expectancy and per capita health expenditures, as well as with the Gini coefficient that measures income inequality. Such behaviors are justifiable because, according to the literature, the lower the income inequality, the greater the life expectancy in the population. As well as the rise in per capita health spending also contributes to increasing life expectancy.

The present work aims to present the economic and trade relationship between Mexico and the United States in the period 2010-2020 and to elucidate how an approximation between Mexico and Brazil, through South-South Cooperation, could occur. Due to the dynamics of Mexico's relations with the United States, where most imports and exports have their origin and destination to and from US soil, a rapprochement between Mexico and Brazil is important since it can end this relationship of dependence, given that the relations of the two Latin American countries are not close. Thus, the methodology will be hypothetical-deductive since the work will be developed from a possible dependence of Mexico with the United States to answer if there is, in fact, a relationship of economic dependence between them and how it occurs, and how an approximation in economic relations between Mexico and countries of the global South, especially Brazil, can benefit both and help to end such dependence.

The globalization process is increasingly progressing, breaking through barriers, and connecting countries. The world transforms, societies transform and so does the market. With countries opening up to the world, companies have discovered new ways to internationalize beyond exports and imports, and one of them is the foreign direct investment (FDI). In the business perspective, it is a strategy to reach new markets, expand internationally, increase operations, and enhance profits. For countries, it means gaining more foreign capital, new technologies and ways to do business, which can in turn create more jobs and revenues. Therefore, in this work, possible factors that can be decisive for a company to choose to invest in a country have been analyzed. The analyzed factors were GDP growth, Economic Freedom, Unemployment Rate, Domestic Credit to Private Sector and Intellectual Property Collection, since they represent the economic and institutional factors of a country. The countries that were the subject of analysis were all members and associates of Mercosur, in order to provide a general perspective of the economic bloc. The regression method for this analysis was the pooled ordinary least squares. In the results, we observed that both economic factors and institutions are decisive in attracting investments, therefore, the overall situation of the country is taken into account by multinational companies.

It is during the supervised curricular internship that the future teacher will acquire the pedagogical knowledge, as well as the necessary skills to adequately face the teaching career. Based on this principle, the objective of this work is to highlight the importance of supervised curricular internship, as well as its contributions to teacher training. The research was developed through a bibliographic review of articles indexed in the databases of scielo, Google Scholar and Capes Periodicals Portal, about the  “Importance of the Supervised Curricular Internship in Teacher Training”. The supervised internship has great relevance as an instrument of union between university, school and community, giving a great opportunity for growth during teacher training, showing how important it is, where it is one of the most significant moments of undergraduate courses. One of the major concerns in teacher education is the transition from academic knowledge to professional knowledge. And the internship is a fundamental moment that will condition their future professional practice in the professional training of teachers, as they live a unique experience of training and monitoring. Undergraduates create perspectives on the experience, since after having focused on theoretical knowledge, it is time to implement everything that was discussed during the training course, taking theory to practice. In this way, the internship is very important, as it is one of the most significant moments of undergraduate courses.

The goal of this paper is to analyse, from the perspective of the supply, how Brazilian productive companies act in moments of uncertainty and identifies the main factors that are associated to the execution of productive investment between the beginning of 2020 and the end of 2021, which was marked by COVID-19. Beside that, it´s important to determinate the most important macroeconomic variables that impact the decision of the companies, as economic agents, to make productive investments in the country in times of economic instability. This is a qualitative work that has in its theoretical framework Keynesian theory as the main pillar and it’s also based on the scientific study of the most remarkable Brazilian economists who are concerned with examining the topic. The descriptive analysis showed that the decision making by the capital productive holders in moments of crisis goes with the Keynesian ideas. In summary, economic recovery must come not only through interest rate control, but also combined conjuctural and structural stimulus.  

The collaboration of the Education Studies and Research Group in Paulo Freire (UFRN, 2022) in the in-service training of teachers at the Severino Paulino de Souza Municipal School, Barra da Espingarda Community, located in the rural area of ​​Caicó-RN. Explain the intercultural pedagogical practice through in-service training for teachers in favor of more humanizing pedagogical practices, according to epistemological curiosity: How to promote in-service training for teachers in favor of more humanizing pedagogical practices? The methodological contribution was participant research (Brandão, 2007), with the methodological instrument of critical analytical/reflective narrative. Theoretical basis: Freire (1982); Fiorin (2008); Melo (2020) on the categories: teacher training, interdisciplinarity and intertranscultural curriculum The intertranscultural curriculum pedagogical workshop enabled us to verify that in-service training is very important, because it favors teachers to reflect on their knowledge/doing in the school context, thus recognizing that in practice they accomplish what they do not know in theory. Therefore, we believe that this action was essential to bring the University closer to the Basic School, contributing so that the inseparability between theory and practice can occur both for the students/monitors of the action and for the teachers in the classroom.  

This work analyzes artificial intelligence technologies applied to computer vision from the perspective of contributing to the development of innovation projects contemplated in the TECNOVA and Centelha programs in the state of Alagoas. That said, the study has an applied nature, being designed from documentary research and access to the databases of the National Institute of Industrial Property - INPI and Orbit Intelligence, in addition to Systematic Literature Review - RSL in the Web of Science and Scopus. In this context, the results of RSL highlight solutions extracted from 45 scientific articles from different sectors. Furthermore, 28 Brazilian patents on computer vision are identified, which have, to a large extent, an interface with the health and well-being sectors; and agribusiness. In view of this, the adherence of the 41 technologies prospected to the TECNOVA and Centelha Programs was discussed, with 31 technologies having adherence to the innovations proposed in 14 projects of the analyzed Programs.