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In this article, Chomsky & Herman's "propaganda model" was applied on the examination of the news coverage practiced by Brazilian mass media regarding the exclusion of candidates due to legal processes in the 2018 Brazilian and Venezuelan presidential elections. To this end, this research employs the chomskyan methodology of conducting a comparative study of the news content concerning the excluded candidates from each election produced by Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo between January 1st and May 31st of 2018. The analysis focused on: how the paper framed the matter in each case through representation techniques, the plurality of opinions presented, and how authors of opinion pieces positioned themselves. The results show that the newspaper's coverage corroborates claims of attacks on the freedom of candidacy in the Venezuelan election, whilst rejecting such claims in the Brazilian election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the water quality index (WQI) made in the pond of the UNIVAP's treatment plant. Water quality index (IQA) is a classification parameter that can be obtained from the São Paulo State Sanitation Company (CETESB), which presents the optimal, good, regular and very poor classifications for each water course, lake, pond or river analyzed. The physical, chemical and biological parameters were compared to those stipulated by CONAMA Resolution 357/2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]