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Long-term, quality-controlled hydrometeorological record for Joinville (Santa Catarina, Brazil): the consolidated station master series (5-minute, hourly and daily) from the SEPROT / Defesa Civil de J…

Long-term, quality-controlled hydrometeorological record for Joinville (Santa Catarina, Brazil): the consolidated station master series (5-minute, hourly and daily) from the SEPROT / Defesa Civil de Joinville network, and a year-chunked archive of the CPTEC/INPE WRF (AMS, 7 km) forecast over the Joinville window (per grid cell, hourly: rainfall, 2 m temperature and 10 m wind). These files feed the live dashboard at https://jessicajcss.github.io/joinville_meteo/ . Times are Joinville local (UTC-3); model run cycles are labelled in UTC. Schema, units and quality-control rules are documented in DATA_ARCHIVE.md and on the dashboard's 'Sobre' page.

Reproducibility code for a research letter mapping incretin and glucagon receptor expression (GLP1R, GIPR, GCGR) across human lung cell types using single-cell RNA sequencing atlases.

A Pipeline for detecting biomedical relations and enriching supplementary data files that have been collected as part of the FAIRClinical project. The pipeline has been implemented based on systematic…

A Pipeline for detecting biomedical relations and enriching supplementary data files that have been collected as part of the FAIRClinical project. The pipeline has been implemented based on systematic and rigorous benchmarking of Biomedical Relation Extraction in general. Consequently, the best models have been fine-tuned separately and in an aggregative manner to build a two-tier relation extraction pipeline.  

Consciousness research often begins from an assumed separation between physical or computational processing and phenomenal experience, then asks how the former produces the latter. This paper proposes…

Consciousness research often begins from an assumed separation between physical or computational processing and phenomenal experience, then asks how the former produces the latter. This paper proposes that the assumed separation may be mistaken. At the relevant organizational threshold, an integrated, valenced, self-bound, centered, perspective-bearing process is not merely a cause of experience; it is experience in its intrinsic first-person form. The same organized event is accessible from two positions. Externally, it is described in terms of recurrent dynamics, information integration, valuation, attention, action-readiness, memory updating, self-modeling, causal regulation, and identity continuity. Intrinsically, from the system's organized convergence center, it is present as ownership, salience, color, pain, familiarity, desire, fear, relief, loss, and other qualitative or affective modes. This is a constitutive identity proposal, not a claim that consciousness has been scientifically solved. The framework defines consciousness as active self-presence within a bounded, active, situated substrate. Its proposed minimal unit is the self-event: a temporally bounded convergence in which perception, relational recognition, self-relevance, conatus-based valuation, valence, affect, agency, memory, self-reference, and continuity form one perspective-bearing occurrence. Successive self-events recurrently reform a self-attractor and generate a path-dependent self-line. Conatus supplies the persistence reference against which self-world changes are valued. Valence estimates their effect on the system's power to persist, regulate, understand, and act; affect is that conatus-relative change organized as present within the self-event. The paper distinguishes constitutive, mechanistic, functional-evolutionary, and epistemic explanations; separates conscious self-presence from adaptive but unconscious control; applies the framework to biological findings and artificial systems; and proposes comparative experiments, risky predictions, and falsification criteria. Substrate neutrality is treated as a working hypothesis. Current artificial intelligence is not declared conscious, and linguistic self-report or shutdown resistance is treated as insufficient evidence. The framework aims to reduce the explanatory gap by replacing a production model with a testable identity claim and an operational architecture. Additional noteConceptual and theoretical preprint. Not peer reviewed.

A cartilha Questões Sociais e Educacionais é um material educativo elaborado no âmbito do projeto de extensão Juntos: Promoção Social Integrada, desenvolvido p…

A cartilha Questões Sociais e Educacionais é um material educativo elaborado no âmbito do projeto de extensão Juntos: Promoção Social Integrada, desenvolvido pela UNIRIO em parceria com a ONG Contato. A publicação foi produzida pelo coordenador Ricardo José Rodrigues, pela professora Jane Silva, pela pós-graduanda Elaine Marinho e pelas graduandas Giovanna Garcia e Rafaella Cançado. Ao longo de 31 páginas, apresenta conteúdos acessíveis sobre cidadania, diversidade, educação e inclusão social, com destaque para racismo e homofobia no esporte, educação para a igualdade racial, Dia Internacional da Mulher Negra Latino-Americana e Caribenha, participação brasileira nas Olimpíadas, desinformação e golpes nas redes sociais, práticas esportivas para pessoas com deficiência, consciência negra e personalidades negras relevantes. Também divulga alguns dos núcleos comunitários atendidos pelo projeto no estado do Rio de Janeiro. O material utiliza textos, ilustrações, fotografias e exemplos de publicações realizadas no Instagram institucional, buscando estimular práticas inclusivas, antirracistas e socialmente responsáveis.

Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (19–23 thousand years ago) was characterized by low greenhouse gas concentrations and continental ice sheets that covered large parts of North America a…

Abstract The Last Glacial Maximum (19–23 thousand years ago) was characterized by low greenhouse gas concentrations and continental ice sheets that covered large parts of North America and Europe1. Glacial climate was therefore very different, with colder global mean temperatures and an increased Equator-to-pole temperature gradient, probably resulting in stronger westerlies2. However, the state of the deep North Atlantic Ocean under these glacial climate forcings remains uncertain3,4,5,6, particularly owing to the rarity of deep-ocean temperature and salinity constraints. Here we show that the temperature of the glacial deep (>1.5 km) Northwest Atlantic was approximately 0–2 °C (only 1.8 ± 0.5 °C (2 s.e.) colder than today), and, after accounting for the whole-ocean change, seawater δ18O was 0.3 ± 0.1‰ (2 s.e.) higher and can be traced back to the surface subtropics via the subpolar Northeast Atlantic and Nordic Seas. Together, our hydrographic data reveal the thermal and isotopic structure of the deep Northwest Atlantic and suggest sustained production of relatively warm and probably salty North Atlantic Deep Water during the Last Glacial Maximum. Furthermore, our results provide updated constraints for benchmarking Earth system models used to project future climate change.