Em seu surgimento, a computação envolveu expressiva participação feminina, dada a inserção social e profissional de mulheres em atividades ligadas à educação matemática e ao secretariado. Entretanto, à medida em que os campos de informática e tecnologia adquiriram maior valorização, a presença feminina nestas áreas diminuiu progressivamente. Esta desproporcionalidade vem sendo atribuída a estigmas de gênero e ao apagamento da contribuição de mulheres à computação, desestimulando e desmerecendo sua atuação nos referidos ramos. Nesse sentido, nos propomos a apresentar iniciativas de empoderamento e capacitação no âmbito de um projeto de extensão junto a cursos de informática, de nível médio técnico e superior, com o objetivo de combater a evasão escolar feminina.

The macroprogramming concept relates to the ability to abstract low-level details from a variety of devices. In this sense, programming solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) with macroprogramming can be an alternative to the challenges of volume and heterogeneity. This paper describes a systematic mapping on macroprogramming in IoT and wireless sensor networks from 2004 to 2020. As a result, we verify the recurrence of abstractions in the network infrastructure, highlighting the use of frameworks in one-third of the applications, contributing to provide an overview of the use of macroprogramming by researchers in different areas of knowledge.

The angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) activity was measured in urine, serum, and tissues from rats with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced acute renal failure on days 1, 2, 3, and 7 after CCl4 administration. Serum ACE increased on days 1 to 3. Heart, lung, small intestine, brain, and testis ACE decreased, whereas kidney and liver ACE remained unchanged. Urine ACE activity increased from day 1 to day 3. Our data suggest that the increase in serum ACE may be secondary to the ACE release from the damaged tissues, and that the urine ACE increase may be due to the kidney proximal tubule damage. This work supports the contention that an increase in urine ACE may be an indicator of damage to the proximal tubule.

Este artigo relata a experiência de um curso de pensamento computacional para alunos do 9º ano do ensino fundamental. A estratégia consiste em utilizar elementos de jogos desplugados e olimpíadas científicas para promoção de pensamento computacional, além de oportunizar a participação na Olimpíada Brasileira de Informática (OBI). Os resultados obtidos sugerem o potencial da gamificação além de boa classificação dos participantes na XXI OBI.

Macroprogramming's primary goal is to increase developers' productivity by providing high-level specifications of applications' behaviour at the system level. Macroprogramming may be a viable solution for developing complex IoT applications, such as those manipulating high data volume and heterogeneity. This paper updates a recent work identifying and analysing primary research on macroprogramming in IoT through a systematic literature mapping (SLM). We extended the search strategy scope by conducting an automatic search over five new databases and also performed the snowballing technique. As a result, besides the 38 studies group found in previous SLM, nine new papers were classified as relevant and rigorously analysed, totalising forty-seven studies. In comparison to previous work, results still point out the recurrence of abstractions in the network infrastructure, highlighting the use of frameworks in one-third of the applications and contributing with an overview of macroprogramming by researchers in different knowledge areas.