Issue # 107 _ January 2005

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Cover

Fragilities exposed
Worldwide survey shows that psychiatric disorders are frequent and get little treatment By

S&T Policy

Biothecnology

Signs of vigor

Agreement with Institut Pasteur and article in international magazine evidence Brazilian advances

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Support

The challenge to dare

International commission assesses the ten Cepids

Computerization

Electronic processes

SAGe brings agility to the presentation, analysis and judgement of requests for scholarships and grants for research

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Partnership

Incentive for innovation

Minister Eduardo Campos foresees greater investment in 2005

Environment

The price of deforestation

Inventory ranks Brazil amongst the largest polluters in the world

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Science

Archeology

Rediscovering the New World

Ten sets of human bones from Brazilian prehistory suggest that the first inhabitants of the Americas were not Mongoloids

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Physics

Friendly chaos

Apparently disorganized behaviors may benefit living beings and chemical reactions

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Genetics

The redemption of the botocudos

Studies in a village of Minas Gerais and the pampa (prairies) of Rio Grande do Sul reveal descendents of disappeared Indians, like Aymbores and Charruas

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Technology

New materials

Small solutions

In the state of Pernambuco, nanotechnology and photonics are the basis of sensors in the environmental and health care areas

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Ophthalmology

Precision in sight

Equipment developed by USP and a small company allows for rigorous examinations on the curvature of the cornea

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Civil engineering

Economy with water taps

Rainwater, made use of in a collection system, serves to water plants and wash cars

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Innovation

Guarantee of origin

In one year, Unicamp closes contracts with companies for the licensing of twenty-six (26) patents

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Humanities

Urbanism

Indian Program

A book traces the trajectory of the Rio de Janeiro shoreline, from the indigenous loinclothes (loincloths) to the miniscule thongs of Ipanema

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Culture

More notable than small

A study analyzes the trajectory of Carmen Miranda in Brazil and the United States

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History

Knowledge in vogue

An exhibition brings together scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries from the University of Coimbra

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