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This study aims to provide a critical assessment on the trajectory of the extensionist activity of the Center for Extension in Territorial Development Center Serra (NEDET CS, Brazilian abbreviation), from 2014 to 2017. The NEDETs were created through the Public Call CNPq / MDA / SPM-PR No. 11/2014 in order to set up advisory teams to the Territorial Development Colleges (CODETERs, Brazilian abbreviation). At the Federal University of Santa Maria, the NEDET CS was set up to operate in the Serra do Rio Grande do Sul Center Territory. From 2014 to 2017, it was develop activities for social management and productive inclusion. The analysis of the actions point out that the NEDET has organized and promoted social participation in CODETER, carried out 115 activities and mobilized 2.6 million reais. It was concluded that the NEDET had a positive role in the articulation and development of the CS Territory besides being a privileged space for academic formation since it provides opportunity to develop research and extension actions.

This paper presents an improvement in the long-term hydrothermal system operation planning by including peak generation as a decision variable in the simulations, in order to better operate the hydro plants. Although this has been widely considered in the short-term, the objective is to correctly set the power system operation planning to avoid instantaneous shortages and blackouts. Thus, the instantaneous generation capacity is included in the objective function in order to better consider this variable in long-term operation planning. The results show that it is possible to significantly increase peak power by simply modifying the operation of hydro plants. Moreover, this approach does not present a significant increase in the operation costs.

This article presents an alternative approach to solve hydrothermal systems operation planning based on stochastic dynamic programming. Under the presented approach, the hydroelectric power plants are grouped into equivalent subsystems of energy and the expected cost functions are modeled by a piecewise linear approximation, by means of the Convex Hull algorithm. Also, under this methodology, the problem is solved independently for each subsystem such that the state variables to be considered are the energy storage and energy net interchange of the subsystem. The presented results have shown that this subsystems separation technique reduces significantly the computation time when compared with the traditional techniques of stochastic dynamic programming, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES From the recognition of the extreme ethnic and racial inequality in Brazil, the study aimed at discussing the integration of ethnic-racial “agenda” in the Rural Development Policy with a territorial approach. Using Sociology of Public Action as theoretical frame, the implementation of “Programa de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel de Territorios Rurais (PRONAT) in the “Centro Serra” territory and its impact to the “Comunidade Quilombola Linha Fão” (municipality of Arroio do Tigre) was analyzed for 2009/2017. Suggested analytical categories of the Public Policies Pentagon (actors, representations, institutions, processes and results) were used to guide the analysis of the policy implementation. The analyses were carried out based on a review of the scientific literature produced on the theme (for contextualization of ethnic-racial “agenda”, characterizes territorial development policy and the historical trajectory of “Centro Serra” social configuration), analysis of PRONAT normative documents, the mitnutes of CODETER meetings, participant observation and semi-structured interviews with “quilombola” community members. As research results, it was observed that the territorial development public policy, by itself, does not guarantee the productive inclusion of “Quilombola” communities and that, even with the resource being accessed, did not generate much expectation in the community regarding its execution. It is considered that due to brazilian territorial policy origins (with a family farm orientation) and given the high bureaucratic requirement for the submission of proposals, there is limited opportunity to Quilombola community agency in this process. The territory history, characterized by a continuous expropriation of lands of the most vulnerable groups, made them search and adopt livelihoods other than those recommended by the territorial policy. Partindo do reconhecimento da extrema desigualdade étnico-racial no Brasil, o estudo visou discutir a inserção da agenda étnico-racial na Política de Desenvolvimento Rural com enfoque territorial, implementada pelo então Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário. Usando como referencial teórico a Sociologia da Ação Pública, foi analisada a implementação do Programa de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Territórios Rurais (PRONAT) no Território Centro Serra (RS) no período 2009/2017 e suas repercussões para a comunidade quilombola Linha Fão (município de Arroio do Tigre). As categorias analíticas sugeridas no Pentágono das Políticas Públicas (atores, das representações, das instituições, dos processos e dos resultados) foram utilizadas para orientar a análise da implementação. As análises foram realizadas com base na revisão da literatura científica produzida sobre o tema (para contextualização da agenda étnico-racial, da política de desenvolvimento territorial e da trajetória histórica da configuração social do território Centro Serra), análise de documentos normativos do PRONAT, analise das atas do Colegiado de Desenvolvimento Territorial (CODETER) Centro Serra, observação participante e entrevistas semi-estruturadas a membros da comunidade quilombola. Como resultados, observou-se que a política pública de desenvolvimento territorial, por si só, não garante a inclusão produtiva de comunidades quilombolas e que, mesmo com o recurso sendo acessado, não gerou muita expectativa na comunidade quanto a sua execução. Considera-se que devido à política territorial brasileira ter sua origem em uma política voltada para agricultura familiar e dada a alta exigência burocrática para a submissão de propostas, há limitada possibilidade de participação da comunidade quilombola neste processo. O histórico de ocupação do território analisado, caracterizado por uma contínua expropriação de terras dos grupos mais vulneráveis, fez com que eles adotassem modos de vida distintos daqueles recomendados pela política territorial.

Alexander J Sweidan,1,2 Adam K Brys,3 David D Sohn,1,2 Milan R Sheth4 1University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Department of Internal Medicine, St Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, CA, USA; 3School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; 4Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA, USA Abstract: Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) encompasses numerous diverse conditions resulting in peripheral hypereosinophilia that cannot be explained by hypersensitivity, infection, or atopy and that is not associated with known systemic diseases with specific organ involvement. HES is often attributed to neoplastic or reactive causes, such as chronic eosinophilic leukemia, although a majority of cases remains unexplained and are considered idiopathic. Here, we review the current diagnosis and management of HES and present a unique case of profound hypereosinophilia associated with warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia requiring intensive management. This case clearly illustrates the limitations of current knowledge with respect to hypereosinophilia syndrome as well as the challenges associated with its classification and management. Keywords: hypereosinophilia, eosinophils, myeloproliferative disorder, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia, leukemia

PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR PROGRAMA DE EXCELENCIA ACADEMICA As condições hidrológicas desfavoráveis vivenciadas entre 2014 e 2019 levaram ao esgotamento dos principais sistemas de reservatórios no Brasil, causando um aumento na geração de energia proveniente de usinas térmicas. Todavia, uma parte relevante da geração térmica verificada foi comandada por entidades governamentais de forma heterodoxa (fora do mérito econômico calculado pelos modelos de otimização), baseada principalmente na percepção de risco tácita. Apesar do senso comum de que o armazenamento dos reservatórios está intrinsecamente ligado à segurança do sistema, as métricas utilizadas até o momento não conseguiram computar as reais necessidades do sistema em termos de energia armazenada mínima nas usinas hidrelétricas. Ao final de 2019, o ONS propôs um novo método para avaliar a necessidade de despacho térmico adicional, chamado Curva Referencial de Armazenamento (CREF). No entanto, este método considera hipóteses muito específicas de afluências e geração térmica, e com base em seu processo iterativo de tentativa e erro, pode resultar em resultados sub-ótimos para o cálculo dos armazenamentos mínimos necessários. Este trabalho propõe um novo método para avaliar a segurança do fornecimento de energia em sistemas predominantemente hidroelétricos. Este método é uma evolução do método CREF, e é baseado no desenvolvimento de um modelo de otimização que calcula os níveis mínimos de segurança para operação de usinas hidrelétricas em cada mês, a partir de uma simulação recursiva de séries históricas de afluências de 1931 a 2018. Além disso, com base nos resultados da simulação, foram sugeridas curvas de referência para o monitoramento contínuo da operação dos reservatórios, com o objetivo de subsidiar decisões de órgãos do Governo Brasileiro sobre o despacho heterodoxo de geração térmica. Espera-se que o monitoramento das curvas de referência propostas represente um critério mais robusto para decisões sobre geração térmica fora-do-mérito no Sistema Elétrico Brasileiro. Unfavorable hydrological conditions experienced from 2014 to 2019 led to the depletion of main reservoir systems in Brazil, causing an increase of thermal energy dispatch. However, an important share of the observed thermal generation was out of economic merit, commanded by government entities which risk perception relies mainly on experts tacit knowledge. Despite the common sense that storage in reservoirs is intrinsically linked to system security, the metrics employed so far failed to compute the system s real needs in terms of required stored energy in hydroelectric plants. By the end of 2019, ONS proposed a new method to assess the need for additional thermal dispatch the Referential Storage Curve (CREF - Curva Referencial de Armazenamento). However, it fails as a reference for the security of energy supply since it considers very specific assumptions of rivers inflows and thermal generation. Besides, based on its iterative trial and error process, it can result in sub-optimal results of minimum storage levels. This work proposes a new method to evaluate the security of power supply in systems with predominance of hydroelectricity. This method is intended to be an evolution to the CREF method, and it is based on the development of an optimization model that computes the minimum secure levels for hydroelectric plants operation in each month, from a recursive simulation of historical inflow series from 1931 to 2018. In addition, based on the simulation results, reference curves were suggested for the continuous monitoring of the reservoirs operation, with the purpose of subsidizing Brazilian government entities decisions on unorthodox thermal generation dispatch. The monitoring of the proposed reference curves is expected to represent a more robust criterion for decisions on out-of-merit thermal generation in Brazilian power system.