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"In this incisive book, André Duarte examines the health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the contemporary crisis of democracy. Reflecting on President Jair Bolsonaro's misgovernment of Brazil, as evidenced by his political actions, speeches and omissions from March 2020 to September 2021, and using concepts like biopolitics, neoliberalism and necropolitics, Duarte proposes three interrelated hypotheses to demonstrate Bolsonaro's sharp distrust of democracy. First, that Bolsonaro's rhetoric during the first year and a half of the pandemic revealed a dangerous mixture of biopolitical, neoliberal and necropolitical governmentality strategies. Second, the pandemic in Brazil intensified the politically damaging side effects brought by neoliberalism and biopolitics, once the necropolitical vector assumed precedence. And third, Bolsonaro's political 'agenda' aimed to implement a façade democracy in Brazil either by violent means or by slowly distorting it from within, slowly blurring the differences between democracy and authoritarianism. Conceptualizing democracy not exclusively as a political regime organized around a definite set of political institutions and normative legislative documents, Duarte exposes why Bolsonaro eschewed the political tasks assumed by so many other political leaders when confronted with the pandemic. Pandemic and Crisis of Democracy is an important book for researchers, students, and anyone concerned about the dangers that surround the democratic experience in the contemporary world"--

<p><span>Este texto discute o significado da noção de um "direito a ter direitos", introduzida por Hannah Arendt no contexto de sua análise dos elementos sócio-históricos e políticos que se cristalizaram na forma de domínio totalitária. Num primeiro momento, apresento rapidamente o contexto em que a noção fez sua aparição no interior da obra Origens do totalitarismo. Num segundo momento, apresento a interpretação proposta por Seyla Benhabib para aquele preceito arendtiano, que o situa num plano teórico epistemológico-moral e o refere ao projeto de um cosmopolitanismo neokantiano. Num terceiro momento, argumento a favor de uma leitura propriamente política daquela noção arendtiana, divergindo da leitura de Benhabib. Finalmente, num quarto e último momento, apresento a interpretação proposta por Butler para a noção arendtiana do direito a ter direitos, a qual explicita sua dimensão político-performativa, revelando-se assim sua importância para pensarmos manifestações políticas contemporâneas em um contexto de privação de direitos. Concluo que a interpretação de Butler é mais consoante com o pensamento político de Arendt.</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><div><p class="trans-title"><strong>RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS AS POLITICAL PERFORMATIVITY: Rereading Arendt with Butler</strong></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>This text intends to discuss Hannah Arendt's notion about the "right to have rights", introduced in her analysis of the socio-historical and political elements that later crystalized in the totalitarian domination. In a first moment, I briefly present the original context in which thatArendtian notion was proposed in The Origins of Totalitarianism. In a second moment, I present the way Seyla Benhabib interpreted that Arendtian notion, byemphasizingits allegedly epistemological and moral implications in the context ofa Neokantian cosmopolitanism. In a third moment, I shall argue for a political interpretation of that Arendtian precept, in a clear contrast to Benhabib's reading of it.Finally, in a fourth moment, I present Judith Butler's interpretation of the Arendtian notion about the right to have rights, which emphasizes its political-performative dimension, thus highlighting its importance to understand certain contemporary political movements performed under conditions of deprivation of rights. I conclude that Butler's interpretation is more akin to Arendt's political thinking.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Arendt; Right to have rights; Benhabib; Butler; Political performativity</p></div><div><p class="trans-title"><strong>LE DROIT À AVOIR DES DROITS COMME PERFORMATIVITÉ POLITIQUE: rélire Arendt avec Butler</strong></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>Ce texte se propose de discuter la notion de Hannah Arendt autour du « droit à avoir des droits », introduit dans son analyse des éléments socio-historiques et politiques qui se sont cristallisés dans la domination totalitaire. Dans un premier moment, je présente brièvement le contexte original dans lequel la notion d'Arendt était formulée dans Origines du Totalitarisme. Dans un second moment, je présent la manière dont SeylaBenhabib a interprétée cette notion, en affirmant sa portée epistémologico-moral dans le contexte du projet d'un cosmolopolitisme d'inspiration néokantien. Dans un troisième moment je propose une interprétation notamment politique du précepte arendtien, dans un sens divers de celui proposé par Benhabib. Finalement, dans un quatrième moment, je présent l'interprétation du droit à avoir des droits tel que proposée par Judith Butler, laquelle relève sa portée politico-performative et, donc, son importance pour réfléchir sur des mouvements politiques menés à bout dans des conditions de privation de droits. Je considère que la lecture de Butler est plus en syntonie avec la pensée d'Arendt.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Arendt; Droit à avoir droits; Benhabib; Butler; Performativité politique.</p></div>

Duarte, A., Borralho, N., & Caetano, M. (2021). A Machine Learning Approach to Detect Dead Trees Caused by Longhorned Borer in Eucalyptus Stands Using UAV Imagery. In IGARSS 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings, 12 – 16 July, 2021 Virtual Symposium, Brussels, Belgium (pp. 5818-5821). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554947 --- Funding Information: We would like to thank Terradrone and all colleagues of the RAIZ team. The presented work was also carried out with a research project financed by the MySustainableForest project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 776045. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 IEEE. ; Pest damages in eucalyptus plantations cause significant economic losses for the pulp and paper industry. Longhorned borers (ELB) outbreaks induce mortality in eucalyptus stands. In this study, multispectral imagery was obtained from unmanned aerial vehicles. We attempt to improve the classification process done in previous work. The local maxima of sliding a window and the Large-Scale Mean-Shift segmentation (LSMS) were applied to extract tree crows. Subsequently, the mean of spectral bands and twelve vegetation indices were calculated to characterize each segment. To classify tree canopies into dead and healthy trees, supervised machine learning using Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were applied. The overall accuracy of Random Forests was 98.35% and Support Vector Machine of 97.7%. We concluded that SVM did not perform better than RF. Moreover, adding new vegetation indices in the classification process did not increase accuracy. ; authorsversion ; published

Duarte, A., Henriques, R., & Ribeiro, S. (2019). Use of different optimization algorithms to define service areas of police stations in Portugal . In Evidence-based territorial policymaking: formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy: 26th APDR Congress Proceedings (pp. 108-115). Associacao Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR). ; Security is considered a fundamental right in democratic societies. Nowadays security forces reorganization depends on the population distribution and dynamics. The spatial disposition of security forces and the corresponding adequacy of resources benefit from the use of advanced spatial analysis tools. In order to provide better police service, it is necessary to divide the territory into areas or contiguous geographic clusters, which criteria may be having the same population, a similar crime rate, or balanced agent workloads. The process of grouping small geographic areas in service areas is called districting or zone design. The main objective of this work is the spatial optimization of the distribution of security forces considering the spatial disposition of the population in Setubal administrative district. In this paper, a genetic algorithm metaheuristic that addresses the police redistricting problem is proposed. The process of grouping areas into service areas was subject to constraints of population equality, contiguity and compactness. Data analysis was done with the hot spot analysis to study the population and their distribution at freguesia level. A genetic algorithm was implemented to create service areas (also known r-districs) and experimental analyses were performed with the population data and vulnerable groups. The simulations were made on 55 freguesias for 28 service areas. We compared the results with the Automatic Zoning Procedure - Simulated Annealing (AZP-SA). The population concentrates in Setubal peninsula, denoting a great asymmetry on their geographical distribution. Experimental tests with the genetic algorithm show a large variation of a sum of the population differences in service areas. Genetic algorithm presented on average 30402 inhabitants per service area. In the other hand, AZP-SA average was 29980. As regards the group with more than 65 years, both algorithms present on average 5599 inhabitants. The lowest compactness values were obtained with AZPSA in all tests performed. The absence of disaggregated data such as the number of crimes, geographical position of criminal incidents, the number of agents in the service, the number of cars per district were found as a drawback in our analysis. However, it is possible to simulate districts only with population data. The difficulty to obtain equitable areas is due to the great asymmetry of the population. ; publishersversion ; published

Dividido em três etapas complementares, o presente artigo discute a reflexão de Hannah Arendt sobre a crise da educação no mundo contemporâneo. Na primeira parte se estabelecem algumas conexões teóricas gerais entre as teses de Arendt a respeito da crise da educação e sua reflexão filosófico-política sobre a crise política da modernidade. Na segunda parte do texto, discute-se a hipótese arendtiana de que a crise da educação também está relacionada à introdução de abordagens educacionais de caráter psicopedagógico, as quais, em vez contribuir para educar os jovens para a responsabilidade pelo mundo e para a ação política, os mantêm numa condição infantilizada que se estende até a idade adulta, trazendo, em consequência, novos problemas políticos. Finalmente, na terceira parte do texto, propõe-se a hipótese de que uma das principais contribuições do pensamento arendtiano para pensar a crise contemporânea da educação se encontra em sua interessante discussão do binômio "crítica" e "crise", o qual põe em questão o binômio tradicional "crise/reforma". Arendt, assim como Foucault e Deleuze, nos ensina que crítica e crise são fenômenos modernos indissociáveis e nos convida a enxergar a crise como momento privilegiado para o exercício da atividade da crítica. Para Arendt, a crise na educação deve ser entendida como oportunidade crucial para reflexões críticas a respeito do próprio processo educativo. ; Comprised of three complementary parts, the present article discusses Hannah Arendt's reflection on the education crisis in the contemporary world. In the first part general theoretical connections are established between Arendt's theses on the education crisis and her philosophical-political thinking about the political crisis of modernity. The second part of the text discusses the Arendtian hypothesis that the education crisis is also related to the introduction of educational approaches of a psychopedagogical character which, instead of contributing to educate the young to the responsibility for the world and for political action, keep them in a childlike condition that lasts up to adulthood, consequently bringing new political problems. Finally, in the third part of the text, the hypothesis is proposed that one of the main contributions from Arendt's thinking to the reflection about the contemporary crisis of education can be found in her fruitful discussion of the "critique"-"crisis" pair, which brings into question the traditional "crisis/reform" couple. Arendt, similarly to Foucault and Deleuze, teaches us that critique and crisis are inseparable modern phenomena, and invites us to see crisis as a privileged moment for the exercise of the activity of critique. For Arendt, the education crisis should be understood as a crucial opportunity for critical reflection about the education process itself.

O texto se desenvolve em três etapas complementares: primeiro, discutimos a estratégia da negação da política, com a qual Bolsonaro afrontou valores democráticos sem romper definitivamente com a democracia, tanto na campanha presidencial como na pandemia. No segundo momento, discutimos a estratégia do negacionismo como política, importante para a compreensão do modo como Bolsonaro empreendeu sua gestão da pandemia. No terceiro momento, argumentamos que durante a pandemia aquelas duas estratégias se conjugaram, produzindo fenômenos sócio-políticos que corroem a democracia, como a banalização das mortes e a naturalização da clivagem entre vidas valiosas, vidas submetidas a processos de menos-valia e vidas descartáveis. ; The text is developed in three complementary stages: Firstly, we discuss the strategy of denying politics, which allowed President Bolsonaro to reject democratic values without definitively breaking with democracy, employed both during the presidential campaign but also during the pandemic. Secondly, we analyze the strategy of denialism as a policy, important to the understanding of the way thru which Bolsonaro undertook his management of the pandemic. Thirdly, we argue that during the pandemic both strategies were combined, thus producing socio-political phenomena that erode democracy, such as the trivialization of deaths and the naturalization of the cleavage between valuable lives, less valuable lives, and disposable lives.

The resource‐based view explains why some firms outperform others, obtaining superior rents from strategic resources. The challenge is in the measurement of strategic resources, for example, knowledge, and their effects on firm performance. Moreover, results may differ depending upon the unit of analysis (supply chains versus individual firms, manufacturing‐oriented versus service‐oriented companies), the moderating variables used (e.g., turbulence), and the ways data was collected (e.g., different questionnaires in different countries). To systematically address these challenges in the existing knowledge, this paper measures the role of knowledge development and culture of competitiveness on firm performance. Empirical evidence is collected from a survey with 843 valid responses from Brazilian firms, tested through linear regressions. The importance of knowledge on firm performance is reaffirmed; however, under turbulent market conditions, performance is impacted differently: while product‐oriented firms have to increase efforts on knowledge development (specially through process management), service‐oriented focus on their culture of competitiveness (specially through process flexibility). Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

O presente artigo aborda a administração pública federal no contexto de um dos maiores projetos de infraestrutura já previstos no país, intitulado de Trem de Alta Velocidade RJ - Campinas (TAV Brasil). O trabalho não está direcionado a questões técnicas, relatando apenas detalhes que possam contribuir para um melhor entendimento acerca do avanço de tecnologia que o envolve. O foco encontra-se nas ações promovidas pelos atores envolvidos no empreendimento, bem como no contexto geral que inviabilizou o sucesso da sua concessão pública durante os dois mandatos do Presidente Lula e o primeiro mandato da Presidenta Dilma. O tema contemporâneo exigiu, na concepção deste estudo de caso, extensa pesquisa documental, realizada por meio de matérias disponíveis na internet, reportagens dos principais veículos da imprensa, artigos e textos publicados por especialistas no assunto. Entrevistas com pessoas que participaram, em algum momento, do ciclo dessa política pública enriqueceram os dados, visando à descrição de ações e da estrutura concebida para o projeto pelo Governo Federal. Os resultados giram em torno da grande complexidade do projeto e do fracasso dos leilões do TAV, durante o período de 2010 a 2014, agrupando as causas em dois grupos distintos: as originadas intragoverno e as originadas extragoverno.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore last mile delivery (LMD) to the bottom of the pyramid in Brazilian slums, its challenges and how practitioners overcome them. Urban logistics in precarious circumstances is central to the conceptualization.


Design/methodology/approach
A qualitative, grounded theory methodology is developed, gathering data from companies delivering to slums in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Field notes, documents and interviews led to conceptual categories for LMD to slums.


Findings
The study indicates that while some standard urban logistics practices can be effective for LMD to slums, such unusual contexts often call for unusual solutions. A model is developed using grounded theory categorization, resulting in five dimensions for LMD to slums: employing locally, giving back, acknowledging criminals, vehicle and location.


Research limitations/implications
The model is a qualitative proposition representing LMD to slums in two major Brazilian cities. Even though slums in different cities/countries may face similar conditions, additional studies are needed to confirm and replicate the model.


Practical implications
Companies that successfully engage in LMD to slums must adapt and develop idiosyncratic practices.


Social implications
LMD to slums enables a larger portion of bottom of the pyramid consumers to access a wider range of products and work opportunities, contributing to their social inclusion.


Originality/value
The study provides an understanding of LMD in a new context. The model encourages companies to question their current practices, learning from effective LMD experiences implemented by successful practitioners.