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RESUMO A pandemia da Covid-19 impulsionou a cooperação científica com diferentes níveis de governo, principalmente para a criação e incorporação de critérios rigorosos nos processos de elaboração de Políticas Públicas (PP). A USP demonstrou sua capacidade de recomendar políticas públicas baseadas em evidências científicas a partir da atuação de suas unidades, centros, núcleos e grupos de pesquisa. Essa capacidade efetiva pode ser articulada para dar forma à criação de um novo Centro multidisciplinar, dedicado a contribuir com os poderes públicos na elaboração, acompanhamento e avaliação de Políticas Públicas. A USP, mais uma vez, tem condições de se apresentar como referência nacional para a qualificação avançada depolicy makersa partir do diálogo com instituições de governo voltadas para formulação de políticas públicas.

The transition zone of short filament fibres randomly dispersed in a paste of ordinary Portland cement was analysed. Composites with vegetable fibres (malva, sisal and coir) were compared with those with chrysotile asbestos and polypropylene fibres. The composites were prepared for testing at the ages of 7, 28, 90 and 180 days. The water-cement ratio was 0.38; at the age of 28 days specimens with w/c = 0.30 and a w/c = 0.46 were also tested. Mechanical tests evaluated the composite tensile strength and ductility. Backscattered electron imaging (BSEI) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) were used to identify the major properties of the fibre-matrix interface. Mainly for vegetable fibre composites the transition zone is porous, cracked and rich in calcium hydroxide macrocrystals. These characteristics are directly related to the fibre-matrix bonding and to the

SCARABOTO, Nícolas Volgarine. Two essays on poverty and economic development in brazilian municipalities. 2021. 61f. Dissertation – Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2021. Although expermenting decline over the past decades, the number of people living below the poverty line is still alarming. According to IBGE, in 2015, the number of people below the poverty line was 13.5 million Brazilians, around 6.5% of the population. In addition to the material deprivations imposed on individuals, poverty can impair cognitive and socioemotional development, especially of children, with reflections on human capital. Thus, understanding the dynamics of poverty is a necessity in order to find solutions to overcome it. This paper is composed of two essays. The first studies the effects of poverty on the quality of education as observed by the SAEB scores. For 5th grade students, the effect of a one percentage point ch...

Uma breve análise do desempenho financeiro recente da Universidade de São Paulo é apresentada. Em primeiro lugar, discute-se o modelo de financiamento a partir da definição da autonomia universitária em 1989 e os resultados propiciados pela conquista da estabilidade de recursos, com tendência de crescimento, que possibilitou o melhor planejamento de sua expansão. Na sequência é apresentado o desempenho financeiro recente e se constata como a forte expansão das despesas, apesar da evolução favorável das receitas, levou ao surgimento de déficits e à perda de reservas pela universidade. A partir daí são apresentadas algumas medidas que já foram adotadas para buscar a reversão do desequilíbrio financeiro e propostas adicionais para essa finalidade.

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The subject of this paper is about an analysis of the challenges to make this complex sector more sustainable in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. The regional economic, social and environmental characteristics are presented. The relative size of the construbusiness in LAC economies is discussed. The relative importance of its environmental loads is discussed based on available CO2 generation data as well as on some available local studies’ results of construction wastage and construction and demolition waste generation rates. Some items to be included in a regional Agenda 21 for the Construbusiness are presented based on the regional specificities as well as on the global Agenda 21 for Sustainable Construction proposed by CIB. Reducing building material wastage, increasing the use of recycling wastes to new building materials, energy efficiency in buildings, water conservation, indoor air quality, quality of products and processes, durability and maintenance, social as...

Apart from being a major consumer of natural resources, the building industry also generates a large amount of waste. For this reason, this sector is the object of much discussion on the search for sustainable development. The actions aimed at improving this situation may take place in several phases of the building process, involving different supply chain participants, including measures for reducing the waste generation at its source, as well as the reuse or recycling of waste, and, eventually, its adequate disposal. This paper deals with the issue of how to reduce waste in building sites, proposing a set of postures and methods, devised and adopted in several research studies coordinated by the Construction Department from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, most of them involving other institutions, which have proposed a progressive improvement towards the reduction of waste in the production of buildings. Those studies have led to a research approach that em...