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The species Acrocinus longimanus, popularly called harlequin beetle, is one of the most emblematic beetles of Neotropical fauna. In the presente study we report on the first record of Acrocinus longimanus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The specimen was registered in November 2018 in the urban zone of Montes Claros in a residential and commercial area. This is the first record of Acrocinus longimanus in the city of Montes Claros, Minas Gerais and represents only the fourth record of the species in the Brazilian Cerrado region. Our study reinforces the occurrence of this species in the Brazilian Cerrado and the use of urban areas by this longhorned beetle.

Quantum walks are the quantum counterpart of classical random walks and provide an intuitive framework for building new quantum algorithms. The lackadaisical quantum walk, which is a quantum analog of the lazy random walk, is obtained by adding a self-loop transition to each state allowing the walker to stay stuck in the same state, being able to improve the performance of the quantum walks as search algorithms. However, the high dependence of a weight $l$ makes it a key parameter to reach the maximum probability of success in the search process. Although many advances have been achieved with search algorithms based on quantum walks, the number of self-loops can also be critical for search tasks. Believing that the multiple self-loops have not yet been properly explored, this article proposes the quantum search algorithm Multiself-loop Lackadaisical Quantum Walk with Partial Phase Inversion, which is based on a lackadaisical quantum walk with multiple self-loops where the target state phase is partially inverted. Each vertex has $m$ self-loops, with weights $l' = l/m$, where $l$ is a real parameter. The phase inversion is based on Grover's algorithm and acts partiality, modifying the phase of a given quantity $s \leqslant m$ of self-loops. On a hypercube structure, we analyzed the situation where $s=1$ and $1 \leqslant m \leqslant 30$ and investigated its effects in the search for 1 to 12 marked vertices. Based on two ideal weights $l$ used in the literature, we propose two new weight values. As a result, with the proposal of the Multiself-loop Lackadaisical Quantum Walk with partial phase inversion of target states and the new weight values for the self-loop, this proposal improved the maximum success probabilities to values close to 1. This article contributes with a new perspective on the use of quantum interferences in the construction of new quantum search algorithms. Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

The article deals with the socio-cultural phenomena of advertisement which is an integral part of modern society. Such advertisements functioning in the community are characterized by specific structural and semantic features that are in dependence on both a target group and purpose. To evaluate the specifics of the correlation between verbal and non-verbal components in an advertising text we adjusted the classification of advertising in terms of the theory of language and the degree of a prolonged person’s exposure. Thus, the division into informational and image advertising makes it possible to see that advertising is both the source of information about a product and a trigger of the complex psychological programming arrangements and the means of influencing a person. В статье рассматривается социально-культурный феномен рекламы, являющейся частью современного общества. Также анализируются структурные и смысловые особенности функционирующих в социуме рекламных сообщений в зависимости от целей и таргетной группы. Оценивая специфику корреляционной зависимости соотношения «вербальный-невербальный» выводится уточнённая типологизация рекламных текстов с позиции теории языка и степени пролонгированного воздействия на индивида. Таким образом, предложенное нами разделение рекламы на информационную и имиджевую типы рекламы позволяет учесть тот факт, что рекламный текст являются не только источником информации о товаре или услуге, но и запускает сложный механизм психологического программирования и влияния на человека. Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Выпуск 2 (22) 2020

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In Brazil, the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, the effects of colonization reverberate in the insurgence of a necropolitics that directly affects Black youth and children. According to the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety, between the years of 2016 and 2020, 35 thousand people from 0 to 17 years old were killed in violent ways. In 2021, around 7 children or teenagers were victims of lethal violence per day. For such, the text updated the condition of contemporary necropolitics considering its colonizing genealogy, having as central axis the comprehension of «the complex of Miguel Otávio», (Souza and Carvalho, 2022, p. 7) as the capacity whether rational or not, conscious or unconscious, of adultcentrism to banalize the risks to which children are submitted, to the point of dying in gratuitous, stupid, violent, irresponsible and negligent forms. Considering examples such as Miguel Otávio Santana, who was 4 years old and was killed due to infant abandonment, and João Pedro Mattos, who was 14 years old and was shot by the police with a rifle, both cases taking place in the most rigid period of the COVID-19 quarantine, it is possible to understand that such processes educate the Brazilian society to treat differences as a synonym to inequalities and that adultcentrism is key in the composition of the Brazilian racism that sustains the death of Black children. Educazione interculturale, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023): Education in a world of conflict and division

PEER REVIEW REPORT FOR: Lobo, R., & Pitassi, C. (2022). Design thinking as meaning creation: The case of Descomplica. Revista de Administração Contemporânea, 26(1), e190166. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-7849rac2022190166.en HOW TO CITE THIS PEER REVIEW REPORT: Lobo, R., Pitassi, C., & Machado, A. G. C. (2021). Peer review report for: Design thinking as meaning creation: The case of Descomplica. RAC. Revista de Administração Contemporânea. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5082569 REVIEWERS: Andre Gustavo Carvalho Machado (Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil) And one anonymous reviewer.

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA O problema do relacionamento de entidades refere-se à questão de explorar uma base de conhecimento, representada como um grafo RDF, para descobrir e entender como duas entidades estão conectadas. Esta questão pode ser resolvida implementando-se uma estratégia de busca de caminhos que combina uma medida de similaridade de entidades, um limite para o grau das entidades, e um limite de expansão para reduzir o espaço de busca de caminhos, e uma medida de ranqueamento de caminhos para ordenar os caminhos relevantes entre um determinado par de entidades no grafo RDF. Esta tese inicialmente apresenta um framework, chamado CoEPinKB, juntamente com uma implementação, para experimentar estratégias de busca de caminhos. O framework apresenta como pontos de flexibilização a medida de similaridade entre entidades, o limite máximo do grau das entidades, o limite de expansão, a medida de classificação de caminhos, e a base de conhecimento. Em seguida, a tese apresenta uma avaliação de desempenho de nove estratégias de busca de caminhos usando um benchmark envolvendo dois domínios de entretenimento sobre o OpenLink Virtuoso SPARQL protocol endpoint da DBpedia. Por fim, a tese apresenta o DCoEPinKB, uma versão distribuída do framework baseado em Apache Spark, que suporta a avaliação empírica de estratégias de busca de caminhos, e apresenta uma avaliação de seis estratégias de busca de caminhos em dois domínios de entretenimento sobre dados reais coletados da DBpedia. Os resultados fornecem intuições sobre o desempenho das estratégias de busca de caminhos e sugerem que a implementação do framework, instanciado com o par de medidas de melhor desempenho, pode ser usado, por exemplo, para expandir os resultados dos motores de busca em bases de conhecimento para incluir entidades relacionadas. The entity relatedness problem refers to the question of exploring a knowledge base, represented as an RDF graph, to discover and understand how two entities are connected. This question can be addressed by implementing a path search strategy that combines an entity similarity measure with an entity degree limit and an expansion limit to reduce the path search space and a path ranking measure to order the relevant paths between a given pair of entities in the RDF graph. This thesis first introduces a framework, called CoEPinKB, together with an implementation, to experiment with path search strategies. The framework features as hot spots the entity similarity measure, the entity degree limit, the expansion limit, the path ranking measure, and the knowledge base. The thesis moves on to present a performance evaluation of nine path search strategies using a benchmark from two entertainment domains over the OpenLink Virtuoso SPARQL protocol endpoint of the DBpedia. The thesis then introduces DCoEPinKB, a distributed version of the framework based on Apache Spark, that supports the empirical evaluation of path search strategies, and presents an evaluation of six path search strategies over two entertainment domains over real-data collected from DBpedia. The results provide insights about the performance of the path search strategies and suggest that the framework implementation, instantiated with the best performing pair of measures, can be used, for example, to expand the results of search engines over knowledge bases to include related entities.

ABSTRACT Capnocytophaga is a group of facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacteria present in the oral cavity of humans, dogs and cats, as part of their normal oral flora. Here, we described two cases of bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by Capnocytophaga in neutropenic autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT) patients with mucositis (Grade I and Grade III) identified by Maldi-Tof. They were successfully treated with β-lactam (meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam). The species C. sputigena was confirmed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing in one patient. The review of literature showed that C. ochraceae was the most frequent species causing BSI in auto-HSCT patients and that the patients usually presented mucositis and were neutropenic at the onset of the infection.