UFS abre respositório de artigos

Professores efetivos já podem disponibilizar suas publicações

Projeto visa uma melhor divulgação das produções científicas dos docentes da UFS

Professores efetivos da Universidade Federal de Sergipe já podem disponibilizar suas produções científicas no Repositório Institucional (RIUFS). O projeto do acervo digital foi proposto pela Resolução nº 40/2010 CONEPE e tem como objetivos armazenar, preservar e disseminar amplamente a produção intelectual e os resultados de pesquisas desenvolvidas pelos diversos setores em uma base de dados eletrônica de acesso livre.

Nos mais diversos países, instituições acadêmicas utilizam repositórios institucionais e o acesso aberto para gerenciar informação científica proveniente das atividades de pesquisa e ensino e oferecem apoio a elas. Dessa forma, dentre outros fatores, os repositórios têm sido de significativa importância para melhorar a comunicação científica interna e externa à instituição e contribuir para o aumento do prestígio da mesma e do pesquisador.

Como benefícios, os docentes terão compactadas em um único endereço eletrônico todas as suas produções científicas (artigos científicos, livros, dissertações e trabalhos apresentados em congressos), facilitando o seu gerenciamento, uma vez que muitas dessas produções estão disponíveis em páginas pessoais na internet.

“É importante que os professores participem do Repositório e criem o hábito de disseminar suas publicações para toda a comunidade. A pesquisa é para ser divulgada e todos ganham com isso”, salienta Letícia Castro, bibliotecária da Bicen e uma das responsáveis pelo projeto.

Os interessados devem acessar o site do repositório e se dirigir ao campo “informações para autores”, estando atento às determinações para a inclusão do material.

Para mais informações, os professores devem entrar em contato pelo telefone 2105-6521 ou pelo e-mail bicen@ufs.br. Professores do campus da Saúde devem entrar em contato na própria Biblioteca do campus.

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A "ciência" da praxeologia

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A definitive defense of the praxeological view: economics as a purely deductive science. Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises's in the methodology section of Human Action. Hoppe is the Austrian School's most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form.

A definitive defense of the methodological foundations of Austrian economics. Hoppe sets the praxeological view (economics as a purely deductive science) against positivism, while taking the critics of the Austrian approach head on. Hans-Hermann Hoppe rests his argument on the Kantian idea of the "synthetic apriori" proposition, thereby expanding an aim of Mises's in the methodology section of Human Action. Hoppe is the Austrian School's most prominent methodologist, and here he is in top form. He combines a rigorous scientific explanation with fantastic passion and rhetoric.

These lectures astonished students at the Mises University when they were first delivered. They were later turned into this monograph, which has been a staple of Austrian pedagogy ever since.
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Divisão sim ou não

Chrystia Freeland: Will belief trump facts?

"Evidence-based worldview" contra "crença e ideologia"
You might call it the cognitive divide — the split between an evidence-based worldview and one that is rooted in faith or ideology — and it is one of the most important fault lines in the United States today.
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Ciência humorística

Palestra humorística com um mensagem séria sobre ciência e cientístas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0&feature=player_embedded

O futuro da educação

Skyler Collins explica: "... Over the last decade, colleges and universities have begun offering their programs over the Internet. Virtual classrooms have been replacing the traditional classroom. Unfortunately, thanks to government intervention in education, tuition is still astronomically high, but I believe that the Internet is starting to force a major change. Enter Khan Academy and the University of the People. Khan Academy is a collection of over 2400 free instructional videos on subjects ranging from Algebra to Finance to Biology, and their database is growing. The University of the People is a virtual college devoted to tuition-free higher education. They currently offer Bachelor programs in Business Administration and Computer Science.  What both institutions demonstrate is just how feasible it is to create and receive  a quality education over the Internet. I predict that both institutions are just the beginning of yet another paradigm shift, this time in higher education. No longer would a professor need to spend countless hours lecturing students. He could simply record his lectures (or use others'), assign them as homework, and use classroom time, either traditional or virtual, for discussion. In other words, both teaching and learning are becoming more efficient...."
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Chamada do MEC

O poder

On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

Power is the primary menace to peace, freedom, and civilization--such is the lesson we learn from the great works of literature, philosophy, and history. Why then do we tolerate it? Where did it come from? How did it come to be unleashed in such fury in the last century and this? What can we expect can be done to curb it?

These are the themes of this erudite treatise, of which F.A. Hayek said when it appeared in 1948: "his picture of one of the great historical forces is a work of art."
Bertrand De Jouvenel, scholar and liberal aristocrat, provides a sweeping history of the development of power in the age of the rise of the nation state, and traces it through the democratic age that has given presidents and parliaments power that would have been the envy of medieval barrons.
His theme is the steady expansion of power, its psychological roots, and its cultural effects. In particular, he explains the dangers of majoritatarian democracy, and what they are sure to mean for the idea of liberty. On this particular point, he is especially illuminating.
This is a challenging and serious work of historical analytics. No one studying the history of power and its effect can overlook it. A true modern classic.

A genesis da ciência moderna

Editorial Reviews

Maybe the Dark Ages Weren't So Dark After All...  Here are some facts you probably didn't learn in school:

• People in the Middle Ages did not think the world was flat--in fact, medieval scholars could prove it wasn't;

• The Inquisition never executed anyone because of their scientific ideas or discoveries (actually, the Church was the chief sponsor of scientific research and several popes were celebrated for their knowledge of the subject);

• It was medieval scientific discoveries, methods, and principles that made possible western civilization's "Scientific Revolution".

If you were taught that the Middle Ages were a time of intellectual stagnation, superstition, and ignorance, you were taught a myth that has been utterly refuted by modern scholarship.

As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam shows in his brilliant new book, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, without the scholarship of the "barbaric" Middle Ages, modern science simply would not exist.

The Middle Ages were a time of one intellectual triumph after another. As Dr. Hannam writes, "The people of medieval Europe invented spectacles, the mechanical clock, the windmill, and the blast furnace by themselves. Lenses and cameras, almost all kinds of machinery, and the industrial revolution itself all owe their origins to the forgotten inventors of the Middle Ages."

In The Genesis of Science you will discover:

• Why the scientific accomplishments of the Middle Ages far surpassed those of the classical world;

• How medieval craftsmen and scientists not only made discoveries of their own, but seized upon Eastern inventions--printing, gunpowder, and the compass--and improved them beyond the dreams of their originators;

• How Galileo's notorious trial before the Inquisition was about politics, not science; and

• Why the theology of the Catholic Church, far from being an impediment, led directly to the development of modern science.

Provocative, engaging, and a terrific read, James Hannam's The Genesis of Science will change the way you think about our past--and our future.

A nova sociologia da ciência

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In the last ten years, a new school of sociology has grown up that sees science as not only relativistic but as a purely human construct; that ties scientists' findings about "nature" to their standing in the cultural and political milieu of which they are a part. Steven Shapin adds to this revisionist literature with a fascinating, paradoxical book that at once questions our notions of the scientific revolution of the last century and deepens our understanding of it. Shapin examines four themes in the history of modern science: mechanism (the idea of nature as a machine); objectivism; methodology and impartiality; and altruism (the idea that science can better the lot of mankind). He does so in three deft, incisive sections: "What Was Known?"; "How Was It Known?"; and "What Was the Knowledge For?" This excellent study, written for the layman, explains how the scientists' world shaped their knowledge of the natural world.

From Publishers Weekly

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it," says Shapin, a professor of sociology at U.C., San Diego in his introduction, "There was, rather, a diverse array of cultural practices aimed at understanding explaining, and controlling the natural world." Shapin's treatise on the currents that engendered modern science is a combination of history and philosophy of science for the interested and educated layperson, and it is indeed considerably more readable than many of the other philosophy of science books currently available. Several puzzling aspects of the writings of 16th- and 17th-century scientists are put into new perspective in his section titled: "Science as Religion's Handmaid." There are three basic sections of the book: "What Was Known?" covers major differences between the "new knowledge" of the scientific revolution and received wisdom of the ancients.
"How Was It Known?" covers sources of authority (e.g., books or experience) and some of the experimental groundwork of major players such as Boyle and Galileo. And "What Was The Knowledge For?" explores the interactions of the new science with the political, religious and cultural dimensions of the European society in which it was embedded. This slim book would have benefited from a deeper consideration of the rivalry between English and Continental science (and scientists) and the relationship of the new science to the design and production of war machines. But Shapin does help the reader understand the direct intellectual link between that time and our own. Illustrations, all taken from original sources, add a nice touch.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Cultura na vista de cientistas

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Why do civilizations rise and fall?
What are the origins and purpose of art?
How does technology shape society?
Did culture direct human evolution?
Is the Internet an agent of democracy or dictatorships?
An immensely powerful but little-understood force that impacts society, art, politics, and even human biological development, culture is the very stage on which human experience plays out. But what is it, exactly? What are its rules and origins? In this fascinating volume, John Brockman, editor and publisher of Edge, presents short, accessible explorations of culture’s essential aspects, by today’s most influential scientists and thinkers.
Contributors and topics include
Jared Diamond on why societies collapse and how we can make better decisions to protect our own future • Denis Dutton on the origins of art Daniel C. Dennett on the evolution of cultures • Jaron Lanier on the ominous impact of the Internet • Nicholas Christakis on the structure and rules of social networks, both “real” and online • Clay Shirky and Evgeny Morozov on the new political reality of the digital era • Brian Eno on what cultures value Stewart Brand on the responsibilities of human power • Douglas Rushkoff on the next Renaissance • W. Daniel Hillis on the Net as a global “knowledge web”

Sobre as origens da ciência moderna

R. Hardy explica: "Copernicus is not someone you would have picked to make an astronomical revolution. He did not have obvious ambition; he was a scholar, and he wanted to do his researches and to be left alone. His researches were not even professional; he was an astronomer by avocation. He was trained as a doctor (he was trusted as a healer), and had official duties as a canon in the Catholic church. His attack on the Earth-centered picture of the solar system was mathematical, and his complicated computations had the benefit of being simpler than those required for the geocentric model. Copernicus had the ideas, and the mathematics behind them, but he did not publish. He was busy with his canon's duties and did not have the scholastic's freedom to devote all his time to his studies or publications. He was worried that his theory might be wrong in places, or at best was incomplete, so he kept quiet about it. When his ideas leaked out, they brought him unwanted attention, so that his supervisor heard about the mistress he kept and ordered her out, and also he became associated with the Lutherans who were gaining numbers at the time. It was, indeed, a Lutheran who teamed up with Copernicus to see the treatise _On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres_ prepared for print.

As origens da ciência moderna

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up-This readable biography puts Kepler's life, discoveries, and writings in the context of the religious persecutions of the early 17th century and shows how his religious bias led him to make great scientific discoveries. Personal anecdotes about such topics as his relationship with fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe, his mother's trial for witchcraft, and his lifetime of work on the Rudolfine Tables fill the narrative. The writing is strongest when dealing with his discoveries, as the descriptions of his personal life sometimes seem tedious and repetitive. Excellent boxed sections explain the astronomer's three laws of planetary motion with clear diagrams that illustrate their principles and derivation. A compelling passage summarizes the Somnium (The Dream), a fictional work in which he created moon creatures to explain the motion of the earth in a heliocentric system. This book is enhanced with fascinating and informative reproductions, including facsimiles of Kepler's writings. Overall, an enjoyable introduction to a complex scientific life.
Jeffrey A. French, Euclid Public Library, OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

This intriguing biography from the Oxford Portraits in Science series discusses the life and work of Johannes Kepler (1571^-1630). Trained in theology, Kepler accepted a position as a mathematics teacher. He then went to the assistance of noted astronomer Tycho Brahe and became the imperial mathematician for Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire. Kepler lived in tumultuous times and suffered the religious persecution of his family and the trial of his mother for witchcraft, along with disease, war, and the deaths of loved ones. Nevertheless, he managed to discover the three laws of planetary motion, to calculate the movements and positions of the planets with great accuracy, and to do important work in optics as well. Voelkel weaves the many strands of Kepler's story into an intricate but satisfying narrative. To be illustrated with reproductions of period portraits, prints, and documents. A fine addition to both science and biography collections. Carolyn Phelan

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A estrutura de revoluções científicas

Em caso que ainda não estudou: mais urgente que nunca: A estrutura de revoluções científicas!
Review
Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) argued that scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions "one conceptual world view is replaced by another". The University of Chicago Press has released The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions to the benefit of all students of the history of science, philosophy, and the impact of science on society (and society on the development of science). If every there were a true classic on the history and development of science that is "must" reading for each new generation, it is Kuhn's benchmark work, The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions. -- Midwest Book Review

Inovação do embarque

Como uma inovação do embarque nos aviões que custa nada para implantar pode ganhar tempo e reduzir custos: Leia mais

Entrevista com Tyler Cowan

Tyler Cowan explica "A Grande Estagnação" e porque a demissão de professores ruins e uma reforma da lei dos patentes pode produzir crescimento econômico.

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Sociologia econômica e política

Center for European Studies
Working Paper Series 129
Unbalanced Growth: Why Is Economic Sociology
Stronger in Theory Than in Policies?
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by
Carlo Trigilia
Professor of Economic Sociology
Faculty of Political Sciences
University of Florence
Via Delle Pandette, 21
50127 Firenze, Italy
E-mail: trigilia@unifi.it
Abstract
The aim of this article is to discuss the relationship between economic sociology and economic
policies. In the last decades, economic sociology has made significant achievements in terms of
theory and research, but that its influence on policies has remained weak. While this was inevitable in earlier decades, when scholars had to concentrate most of their effort  on defining the role
and contribution of economic sociology, it has since become a constraint for the institutionalization and recognition of the discipline. The return to economic sociology, since the 1980s, has
brought about important theoretical achievements, especially in the analysis of economic organization at the micro level in terms of social and cultural embeddedness. The role of social relations
in contemporary economy has clearly emerged, but its implications for policies to promote economic development have remained more latent so far. Although a weaker institutionalization
and a poorer connection to policy-making certainly affect the political influence of economic sociology in comparison to economics, the paper focuses on the research perspective. A shift of the
research focus from the statics to the dynamics of economic organization could be useful. In this
framework, particular attention is drawn to the study of local development and innovation
through a closer relationship of economic sociology with comparative political economy. A separation between these two approaches does not favor a full exploitation of the potential contribution of economic sociology to policies.
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Sociologia econômica da inovação e tecnologia

A review of innovation research in economics, sociology and technology management

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Gopalakrishnan, S.
Damanpour, F.

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In this paper we review the extant innovation research from three fields--economics, organizational sociology and technology management--in order to find points at which the fields' approaches and assumptions overlap. By comparing research methods and approaches along three dimensions, stage of adoption, level of analysis, and type of innovation, we found, firstly, that studies from the three fields can be re-mapped into five more specific groups. We then illustrate how research from different groups can be cross-fertilized to help management of innovation in organizations. The paper suggests that knowing the ways in which different groups of studies differ from each other may lead to a more accurate understanding of the relative value of innovation research from each group, for both theorists and managers.
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Mais referências, bibliografia sociologia da inovação

Sociologia econômica e inovação

International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (IJIEM), Vol.1 No 3, 2010, pp. 105 - 109
Available online at www.ftn.uns.ac.rs/ijiem
ISSN 2217-2661
IJIEM
How to Overcome the Barriers Between Economy and Sociology
With Open Innovation, Open Evaluation and Crowdfunding?
Robert Freund
PhD Candidate, Martin – Luther University, Halle Wittenberg, Germany, info@robertfreund.de
Received (10.07.2010); Revised (19.09.2010); Accepted (30.09.2010)
Abstract
This paper is structured in the following way. The first part describes Open Innovation as a business
model which uses internal and external knowledge for innovation. Part two focus on the large base of
ideas which can be evaluated (intern/extern) with IT-solutions (Open Evaluation). And in part three it is
argued, that crowdfunding can overcome the barriers between economy and sociology.
Key words: open innovation, open evaluation, crowdfunding  
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Sociologia da inovação

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Propriedade intelectual

Palestra de Stephan Kinsella sobre propriedade intelectual. Instituto Mises Estados Unidos 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgLJkj6m0A&feature=player_embedded

O triunfo das finanças e o declínio de América

A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them.
As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns. These stewards of American capitalism have insisted on the central and essential place of accumulated wealth through the booms, busts, and recessions of the last half century, giving rise to our current woes.
In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. He begins with Walter Wriston, head of what would become Citicorp, who led the battle against government regulation. He examines the ideas of economist Milton Friedman, who created the plan for an anti-Rooseveltian America; the politically expedient decisions of Richard Nixon that fueled inflation; the philosophy of Alan Greenspan, on whose libertarian ideology a house of cards was built on Wall Street; and the actions of Sandy Weill, who constructed the largest financial institution in the world, which would have gone bankrupt in 2008 without a federal bailout of $45 billion. Significant figures including Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Jack Welch, and Ronald Reagan play key roles as well.
Intense economic inequity and instability is the story of our age, and Jeff Madrick tells it with style, clarity, and an unerring command of his subject.

 

O fim do progresso econômico

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Modern economics has failed us. We need a new measure of progress. We live in an Age of Endarkenment. Our economic, social and political systems have failed us. Modern economics has not done what it promised. It has widened the gap between rich and poor. It has not allocated the world's resources fairly. It has brought the West to the brink of financial ruin. It has valued short-term gain more than long-term progress. It has made us focus on the individual, not society.
The social consequences are easy to see. Much of the world is laden with debt. Our planet is being scraped clean of the resources needed by future generations. Science and technology are exploited for profit, not social advancement. The cult of celebrity, rise in global greed and belief that information is knowledge are limiting our imaginations.
We are ill-equipped to respond to these challenges. We have been dumbed-down. Our politicians have become self-serving. They play on our fears, monitor us without justification and promote conflicts for their own interests. China's rise will make these problems worse.
Without a rethink, we face many unwelcome changes. Poverty will grow. Standards of health will decline. Resource shortages will change our way of life. Tensions between peoples will grow.
During the Age of Enlightenment our societies flourished, propelled by the wonder of new discoveries, radical ideas for economic and social development and a sense that we all had a responsibility to improve our world. We need to step back from the Age of Endarkenment. We need to examine our values. We need to work out what humankind really wants. If it is not just about just money and Twitter and Oprah, what is it?
In this thought-provoking, lively and entertaining book, Graeme Maxton looks at what brought us to this state and what we can do about it.  

A história secreta da ascensão do Ocidente

Amazon.com Review

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs. (LJ 2/15/97)

A guerra dos patentes

Leia mais (em Português) que o meu colega da Ordem Livre, Diogo Costa, escreve sobre o asunto.
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A grande estagnação

O fim da colheita das frutas baixas (low hanging fruits)

"As Cowen makes clear, many of this era's technological breakthroughs produce enormous happiness gains, but surprisingly little economic activity.
-David Brooks, The New York Times
"The Great Stagnation" offers a very concise and well thought-out essay on the relationship between innovation and prosperity. The first chapter, which shows how median incomes have stagnated in recent years as the economy's "low hanging fruit" has gotten scarce is especially well done. The parts on health care and education are also very good.
Cowen's central idea is that the pace of innovation has slowed, and that we are now on a "technological plateau" that makes further growth challenging. If you consider technology in the broad sense (energy, transportation, home, etc), this makes sense as things have not changed a lot in recent decades. However, I think it is also true that progress has been highly concentrated in information technology and communications, and that things continue to advance rapidly in this area. Cowen notes this but seems to feel that the Internet is the only really major innovation.
Cowen argues that what we need is a new burst of innovation that will propel economic growth. Here is the problem I see with that: Cowen writes that "a lot of our major innovations are springing up in sectors where a lot of work is done by machines, not by human beings." In fact if you look at companies like Google or Facebook, or entire industries like semiconductors, computers, Internet or biotech, there are really not a lot of jobs in total and certainly not a lot for middle skill people. If there is manufacturing it is either heavily automated or offshore.
The question is: if today's innovations are already creating industries that are not labor-intensive and rely instead on technology, why would the future be different? Won't the new burst of innovation that Cowen calls for create even more technology-intensive industries...and few jobs?
This issue of whether future technology will create large numbers of jobs is explored in great depth in this book: The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future. 
Bill Jarvis

Ciência - pública ou privada?

Palestra de Terence Kealey sobre Ciência
"Science is a Private Good – Or: Why Government Science is Wasteful"
http://www.vimeo.com/12598733

Origem e consequências da proibição

The Chemist's War

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

By Deborah Blum                                      

Detroit police inspecting a clandestine underground brewery during Prohibition.
"...  Prohibition itself went into effect on Jan. 1, 1920.
But people continued to drink—and in large quantities. Alcoholism rates soared during the 1920s; insurance companies charted the increase at more than 300 more percent. Speakeasies promptly opened for business. By the decade's end, some 30,000 existed in New York City alone. Street gangs grew into bootlegging empires built on smuggling, stealing, and manufacturing illegal alcohol. The country's defiant response to the new laws shocked those who sincerely (and naively) believed that the amendment would usher in a new era of upright behavior....
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people..."
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Novos caminhos para publicações na UFS

Repositório Institucional - 31/08/2011


Professores efetivos já podem disponibilizar suas publicações
Professores efetivos da Universidade Federal de Sergipe já podem disponibilizar suas produções científicas no Repositório Institucional (RIUFS). O projeto do acervo digital foi proposto pela Resolução nº 40/2010 CONEPE e tem como objetivos armazenar, preservar e disseminar amplamente a produção intelectual e os resultados de pesquisas desenvolvidas pelos diversos setores em uma base de dados eletrônica de acesso livre.
Nos mais diversos países, instituições acadêmicas utilizam repositórios institucionais e o acesso aberto para gerenciar informação científica proveniente das atividades de pesquisa e ensino e oferecem apoio a elas. Dessa forma, dentre outros fatores, os repositórios têm sido de significativa importância para melhorar a comunicação científica interna e externa à instituição e contribuir para o aumento do prestígio da mesma e do pesquisador.
Como benefícios, os docentes terão compactadas em um único endereço eletrônico todas as suas produções científicas (artigos científicos, livros, dissertações e trabalhos apresentados em congressos), facilitando o seu gerenciamento, uma vez que muitas dessas produções estão disponíveis em páginas pessoais na internet.
“É importante que os professores participem do Repositório e criem o hábito de disseminar suas publicações para toda a comunidade. A pesquisa é para ser divulgada e todos ganham com isso”, salienta Letícia Castro, bibliotecária da Bicen e uma das responsáveis pelo projeto.
Os interessados devem acessar o site do repositório e se dirigir ao campo “informações para autores”, estando atento às determinações para a inclusão do material.
Para mais informações, os professores devem entrar em contato pelo telefone 2105-6521 ou pelo e-mail bicen@ufs.br. Professores do campus da Saúde devem entrar em contato na própria Biblioteca do campus.
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