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Beginning in November 2018, Brazilian legislation regulating access to genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge will cause a bureaucratic collapse of Biodiversity research in Brazil. Law number 13.123/2015 and Decree 8772/2016 impose severe barriers to basic and applied research, and to international cooperation by introducing mandatory registry of research access to native organisms in Brazil. This legal framework was meant to improve governmental control over systems of biotechnology research using genetic material and associated chemical compounds, which are central points of the Nagoya Protocol (CBD 2011) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 1992, 2012). However, the requirements imposed by the mandatory registry of research in the new National System for Governance of Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge (SisGen), the system of Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs), and the need to record access to organismal data prior to publication of scientific results or exportation of specimens for scientific research are technically impracticable and not part of the Nagoya Protocol or CBD ..

In this paper we use a Markovian model to derive an expression for the plant hazard rate of a plant equipped with a single-channel protective system. Our derivation properly incorporates the effects of the demand rate and of the channel repair rate. It is shown that within the typical range of system failure rate, demand rate and proof test interval, the plant hazard rate is not very sensitive to significant variations of the repair rate. A numerical comparison of our results with those from other equivalent expressions suggested in the literature is presented, and it is shown that some of those expressions can be obtained as particular cases of ours.

In this paper a systemic or national approach to cost-effectiveness analysis of risk-reduction measures is reviewed, and its advantages and limitations are discussed. The method is applied to the problem of the cost-effectiveness of increasing the Angra 3 NPP containment wall thickness from the present 60 cm to 180 cm thick in order to prevent damage to the reactor core in case of a direct commercial aircraft crash on it. It is concluded that this measure is not cost-effective if the referred approach is considered.

A construção de modelos representa uma perspectiva interessante para buscar a compreensão sobre aspectos do comportamento humano. A partir de modelos do desempenho humano e do estudo das características do erro humano, este trabalho propõe o S. PERERE (Simulation of Performance in Error), um simulador computacional do comportamento humano cujo objetivo é produzir de forma aleatória estados de erro humano. O simulador recebe como entrada a especificação do comportamento a ser simulado e produz como saída o comportamento afetado pelo erro. Para a geração dos estados de erro o S. PERERE possui um mecanismo perturbador do comportamento e também um mecanismo de disparo das perturbações. A construção do simulador está baseada na arquitetura cognitiva ACT-R (Atomic Components of Thought – Rational). A utilização prevista do S. PERERE é seu acoplamento com simuladores de processos de forma a permitir a verificação do impacto dos erros humanos nestes processos. The construction of models represents an interesting perspective to reach the understanding about human behaviour aspects. From human performance models and from the study of error characteristics, this work purposes the S.PERERE (Simulation of Performance in Error), a human behaviour computational simulator, which main objective is to produce, in a random way, human error states. The simulator receives, as entrance, the specification of the behaviour to be simulated, and produces, as output, the behaviour affected by the error. For the generation of error states, S.PERERE has a behaviour disturber mechanism and also a mechanism to start the perturbations. The construction of the simulator is based on ACT-R (Atomic Components of Thought – Rational) cognitive architecture. The use of S.PERERE is under its coupling to process simulators, allowing the verification of human errors impact on theses processes.