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Based on the need to establish animal welfare policies and public health promotion due to the importance of stray animals in the transmission of zoonoses, the objective was to study the population dynamics of homeless dogs in the city of Descalvado - SP, the perception of citizens related to the cause of animal protection and also to the current Federal, State and Municipal legislation. To account for the separation of urban and rural sectors, the Clip tool of the Qgis program was used, sectoring the municipality of Descalvado into North, South, East, West, Central and Industrial District. For the application of the questionnaires, 0.5% of the population from each established area of the municipality was selected and the findings were correlated with existing legislation and public policies, analyzing their effectiveness. As we can see, in summary, the interviewees demand from the local government for improvements, but also, greater responsibility of the population. In addition to the qualitative analysis through the reading and perception of the reports, an analysis of the repetition of key words was carried out, through the creation of the word cloud, an important tool that highlights the terms most cited by the people interviewed, of which "oversight, laws and awareness", revealing the need for public policy directions. The data lead us to conclude that despite the existence of legislation, there is still little application of penalties. In the city, the areas with the highest rate of stray dogs were West and South, peripheral regions and with low-income population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The innate capacity to increase in number is defined as the maximum rate (mr) of increase obtained by a population of fixed age distribution, in any combination of the physical factors of time, under optimal conditions of space, feeding, and intra-specific influence, excluding inter-specific influence. In this work, the hypothesis is that there is a thermal threshold, this is the base temperature (Tb) for the development of Atherigona Orientalis, and the increase and/or decrease of the population is a function of its survival, fertility, sex ratio, and fecundity, with thresholds influenced by isotherms. These equations determined the number of generations per year of the bioindicator Atherigona Orientalis for isotherms from 21 C to 27 C. Through the number of individuals of the last compartment (females in pre-oviposition), obtained through the simulations, as a function of time, for each isotherm, it was possible to estimate the number of annual generations conditioned to a system without gains or losses. Depending on the temperature, Atherigona Orientalis can present from 4,19 to 8,23 and 4,74 to 8,55 generations per year when obtained through the development equations and simulations, respectively, and the higher the temperature higher the number of generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to understand the urban-regional space from the action of agents who coordinate the real estate production of Latin American metropolises. The procedural orientation followed the methodology of the bibliographic research and data surveys, having as reference the main Latin American journals of urban and regional studies. The four metropolises considered the most global in Latin America were investigated based on the criterion of the presence of "Oficinas Premium", in order to understand how it happened and what the consequences of the formation of the global space were. After a brief definition of some terms, the scenarios that made Mexico City, São Paulo, Santiago and Buenos Aires the main global cities in Latin America are presented. The article ends with notes related to the restructuring of urban centers, the horizontal expansion of the city, population dynamics, and the action of the public authorities and the worsening of inequalities as a result of this globalization process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The consequences of the Demographic Transition process affect the demand for health, including the private health sector. Objective: To examine the consequences of population aging and the longevity gains, gender differentials, in the healthcare costs of healthcare operators. Data from The National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans (Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS)) and the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)) were used for this purpose. Method: The standardization model has been used between 2016 and 2045, varying only the population age structure. Results: The results indicate that the population aging process is more accentuated for the female population and more intense among the beneficiaries of individual/family plans compared to collective plans. The hospitalization and complementary examinations showed the highest absolute monetary values between care items, for both types of plans, in all years analyzed. The findings of the impacts of longevity, the expected costs for the users of the last age group will be higher for hospitalizations, especially among women and with individual / family plans. Conclusion: Population aging and increased longevity, especially for women, will impact the costs of health plans, with greater intensity for individual / family members. Supplementary health needs to prepare for the demographic challenges imposed by future costs by pursuing policies that can minimize them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the population dynamics of municipalities in Paraná through an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) carried out for the period from 2001 to 2020. Variables studied were the percent variation of population and the Human Development Index (HDI). The results indicate that disparities in regional development remained stable during the period studied, a factor that stimulated migration from smaller municipalities to urban centers. The bivariate analysis between Human Development Index and population variation highlighted the existence of a high-high cluster in the metropolitan regions of Curitiba and Londrina, which are, therefore, municipalities with higher quality of life and capable of attracting residents. A low-low cluster in the central region of the state groups municipalities with lower HDI, where population reduction is observed. Thus, the planning and implementation of regional development strategies should be a joint task of clustered municipalities as actions carried out by a given locality impact its neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to understand how the culture fumageira changed the population dynamics and the directions of the territorial development of the Alagoan agreste, more precisely of the municipality of Arapiraca, center of confluence of the regional and urban dynamics of this region. To achieve this aim, the methodology adopted was a tabular descriptive analysis of data that were obtained from the Institute of Applied Economic Research - IPEA and IBGE's agricultural censuses, in addition to the literature review specific to the subject in question. That said, it was found that there was a regional concentration of services in the city of Arapiraca and, consequently, a greater population agglomeration, fruit of the migratory movements to the urban areas of the mentioned municipality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyze the population dynamics and socio-spatial transformations that occurred in the Vale do Taquari/RS, based on rural-urban and intrarregional mobility. For that, there were analyzed the data of population, of the Gross Added Value, and there were performed the cartographic analysis of the region. Among the main features verified in the region, there are: the passage of an essentially rural area to an urban area, in relation to population distribution as well as to its economic activities; a more accelerated aging process than in the RS state; a productive diversification, with the predominance of the service sector in most of the towns; the urban concentration of the population and wealth generation around the hub town Lajeado; and the link of the region with the Metropolitan Area of the city of Porto Alegre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is usually a correlation between the development of a mathematical model and the evolution of mathematics. This statement is more evident when dealing with mathematical models of some reality. The study of population dynamics gives an idea of the evolutionary process of mathematical models. The Malthus postulated that initially showed an exponential population growth led to the formulation of models with inhibited growth. Currently, new techniques and mathematical concepts provide new models - it is the case of fuzzy theory, cellular automata and coupled dynamical systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A preservação do meio ambiente parece inconcebível frente ao crescimento populacional e suas necessidades, porém são primordiais ações individuais e/ou coletivas que visem à sustentabilidade. Mas como iniciar essas ações além do "senso comum", realmente internalizar que devemos preservar o Meio Ambiente e expandir esse conhecimento sem se passar por um "eco-chato"? O objetivo deste trabalho é realizar palestras de conscientização, a alunos de uma escola municipal de ensino fundamental situada na periferia da zona leste de São Paulo, sobre os impactos ambientais do consumo exacerbado e as conseqüências do destino incorreto dos resíduos provenientes deste consumo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To analyze, through mathematical modeling, the potential ability of sterilization campaigns to reduce the population density of pet dogs. Methods. Mathematical models were constructed to simulate the canine population dynamics and project the results of control strategies based on several sterilization rates. Results. Even at high sterilization rates (for example, 0.80 year-1), it would take approximately 5 years to reduce density by 20%. Even so, other sources of population growth, such as the importing of dogs from other geographic areas, could outweigh the effects of a sterilization program. Conclusions. A program's effectiveness is contingent upon not only on the sterilization rate, but also the rate of population growth. Sterilization campaigns may potentially reduce population density, but this reduction may not be immediately evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]