R ecent studies here shown that the addition of solid particles can have a profound effect on the characteristics of liquid/liquid dispersions (Nienow et.al., 2000; Nienow et.al., 2003). A particularly important parameter is the wettability of these particles which has been shown to strongly affect the rate of drop coalescence. On the other hand, though for gas-liquid systems the impact of the addition of particulate solids has been quite extensively studied (Nienow and Bujalski, 2002), there has been little work done related to solids wettability. This paper addresses this question for the first time in relation to stirred vessels. The new issues particularly addressed are rates of gas-liquid mass transfer in the presence of solids of different wettability and the impact of wettability on the ability to ingest or draw-down floating solids. Literature Mass TransferMany studies have been carried out on gas-liquid mass transfer, especially of oxygen to or from water and have recently been well summarised elsewhere (Nienow, 2003). Van't Riet ( 1979) was the first to show that k L a data could be related to mean specific energy dissipation rate, (e T ) g (W/kg) and superficial gas velocity, v s (m/s), by an empirical equation of the form:where a and b are about 0.5. He also concluded that, within ±25%, the literature data showed that k L a was independent of the type of impeller used. In general, moving from water to solutions of electrolytes or alcohols significantly enhances k L a whilst the addition of antifoam greatly reduces it (Martin et.al., 1994). In other words, A in Equation 1 is very sensitive to the chemical composition of the solution. Such changes in composition also affect a and b but to a much lesser extent but A, a and b are still independent of impeller type (see for example, Two-and three-phase systems have been studied using particles that are water-wetted and denser than water and with similar sized, small floating particles, both wetted and nonwetted. The parameters investigated have been the agitator speed required to disperse the different types of particles under sparged and non-sparged conditions and rates of gas-liquid mass transfer. With the wetted, dense particles, only at concentrations of > ~20% w/w did the k L a fall significantly (by ~20 to 30%) whilst solid suspension followed the trends of earlier work. With the less dense particles, even with < ~1% w/w that were not wetted, it was very difficult to disperse them throughout the liquid phase, though up-pumping impellers were more effective than radial. In addition, bubble size significantly increased and k L a fell by a factor of 2 to 3. With the wetted, less dense ones up to 2% w/w, uniform dispersion was achieved even at much lower speeds and k L a did not change compared to the case without solids.On a étudié des systèmes bi et triphasiques à l'aide de particules mouillées par l'eau et plus denses que l'eau et de petites particules flottantes de calibre semblable, mouillées et non mouillées. Les paramètres étudiés sont la vitesse ...

O objetivo deste trabalho é pensar o fenômeno da direita brasileira contemporânea numa perspectiva histórica, dado que esta tradição está fortemente enraizada na estrutura econômico-social colonial do país. A proposta metodológicoteórica é de utilizar uma categoria de direita “plural”, caracterizada por uma multiplicidade de experiências, cujo elemento aglutinador é a tensão liberalismoautoritarismo, que atravessa toda a história do Brasil contemporâneo.

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Ao longo do caminho trilhado para obter os resultados mais significativos no debate pertinente, este artigo proporciona um panorama analítico, histórico-crítico e metodológico, embora não exaustivo, dos usos (e também dos abusos) do conceito de populismo nas ciências sociais brasileiras – tendo em vista que estas constituem um verdadeiro laboratório da apropriação latino-americana do populismo. Se, por um lado, o debate brasileiro incorpora todos os pontos fortes e fracos do debate europeu e norte-americano sobre o populismo, a adoção desse conceito no pensamento político-social brasileiro, por outro lado, deve atender a algumas necessidades específicas, a partir das primeiras teorias sobre o povo “amorfo”, entre a segunda metade do século XIX e o início do século XX, passando pela análise do ciclo nacional-desenvolvimentista da “Era Vargas” (no período de 1930 a 1964), até chegar à recuperação desse conceito nas últimas décadas, para definir o fenômeno do “lulismo” e, sobretudo, o chamado “bolsonarismo”, já no século XXI.