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Questão 27 12296825
UNESP Meio do Ano 2024Leia a matéria para responder à questão.
Plastic Waste In The Oceans
In the last few years there has been more and more evidence that plastic pollution in our oceans is becoming a massive problem. Large pieces of plastic which end up in the sea can entangle marine animals or can also suffocate them.
Tiny pieces of plastic — broken down by the action of water and the sun — cause harm by entering the marine food chain. If the animals eat plastic it will make them feel artificially full so that they do not eat and they starve to death. Furthermore, when fish have eaten plastic it becomes part of their body; if we then eat that fish our food contains plastic — we are eating our own plastic waste.
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(www.reducereuserecycle.co.uk. Adaptado.)
O trecho dos dois parágrafos iniciais da matéria que está representado no infográfico é:
Questão 41 12296026
PUC-GO Medicina 2024/1Read the text about the butterfly species in Colombia:
ToputColombia’srichbiodiversityintoperspective, the 3,642 butterfly species found in Colombia can be compared to the 496 butterfly species found in Europe or the 4,000 butterfly species found in the entire African continent.
“More than 200 species of the butterflies in the checklist are unique to Colombia and not found anywhere else in the world, so if we lose them there is no back-up population and they are gone forever”, says Blanca, Senior Curator at the Museum and one of the authors of the list.
(Available in: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2021/june/ colombia-has-the-most-butterflies-in-the-world.html. Accessed on: July 18th, 2023. Adapted.)
According to the text, choose the alternative with the correct information:
Questão 39 12066118
UFSM Tarde 2024Para responder à questão, considere o texto a seguir.
THE FIVE DOMAINS FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
Did you know that your pets have different welfare needs? The Five Domains Model will help you make sure your pets are healthy and happy
Fonte: FOUR PAWS. The five domains for animal welfare. África do Sul, 11 jul. 2020. Disponível em: https://www. four-paws.org.za/our-stories/publications-guides/five-domainsanimal-welfare. Acesso em: 02 out. 2023. (Adaptado)
Considere as afirmativas a seguir com base nos cinco domínios abordados no infográfico do texto.
I → O bem-estar animal depende mais da saúde física do que da saúde mental.
II → É preciso possibilitar que os animais de estimação socializem com outros da mesma espécie.
III → Animais de estimação precisam de espaço suficiente, de lugar adequado para descansar e se abrigar e de oportunidades para tomarem suas próprias decisões.
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Questão 22 12047041
UNIFESP 1º Dia 2024Leia o texto para responder à questão.
The great global baby bust is under way
Across the world, birth rates are declining more rapidly than expected. That worries retired people and policymakers. In 2010, there were 98 nations and territories with fertility rates below 2.1 (known as the replacement rate) according to the United Nations. In 2021, that number had risen to 124, or more than half the countries for which data were available. The world’s 15 largest economies all have fertility rates below the replacement rate.
As the proportion of children declines, average ages rise, particularly as old people live longer (though the rise in longevity has slowed in recent years: in Britain lifespans are flatlining and in America they are falling). Some long-running demographic trends are changing, too. Educated women have for decades tended to have fewer children. Nevertheless, fertility among the less educated is now falling.
China, population aged 21-30
All of this poses a huge economic challenge. In parts of the world where birth rates were already low, the shortfall of young employees, who are needed to subsidise the retired, will be felt intensely. In China, the number of workers aged between 21 and 30 has already declined from 232 million in 2012, to 181 million in 2021. By the mid-2050s the United Nations forecasts there will be fewer than 100 million (see chart). China’s one-child — and later two-child — policy has contributed to the country’s decline in young workers. Recent history has shown that it is much more difficult to raise fertility levels than it is to crush them in the first place.
(www.economist.com, 14.06.2023. Adaptado.)
De acordo com o terceiro parágrafo, um dos motivos para o declínio da população em idade produtiva na China é
Questão 16 12046864
UNIFESP 1º Dia 2024Leia o texto para responder à questão.
The great global baby bust is under way
Across the world, birth rates are declining more rapidly than expected. That worries retired people and policymakers. In 2010, there were 98 nations and territories with fertility rates below 2.1 (known as the replacement rate) according to the United Nations. In 2021, that number had risen to 124, or more than half the countries for which data were available. The world’s 15 largest economies all have fertility rates below the replacement rate.
As the proportion of children declines, average ages rise, particularly as old people live longer (though the rise in longevity has slowed in recent years: in Britain lifespans are flatlining and in America they are falling). Some long-running demographic trends are changing, too. Educated women have for decades tended to have fewer children. Nevertheless, fertility among the less educated is now falling.
China, population aged 21-30
All of this poses a huge economic challenge. In parts of the world where birth rates were already low, the shortfall of young employees, who are needed to subsidise the retired, will be felt intensely. In China, the number of workers aged between 21 and 30 has already declined from 232 million in 2012, to 181 million in 2021. By the mid-2050s the United Nations forecasts there will be fewer than 100 million (see chart). China’s one-child — and later two-child — policy has contributed to the country’s decline in young workers. Recent history has shown that it is much more difficult to raise fertility levels than it is to crush them in the first place.
(www.economist.com, 14.06.2023. Adaptado.)
According to the information provided by the text, the word “bust”, in the title, can be replaced, without meaning change, by
Questão 9 11467086
UNICAMP Conhecimentos Específicos 2024O Texto é um excerto de uma entrevista concedida pela pesquisadora Kate Crawford a propósito de um livro, de sua autoria, sobre a Inteligência Artificial.
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Kate Crawford studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies at the University of Southern California and a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
The Observer: You’ve written a book critical of AI but you work for a company that is among the leaders in its deployment. How do you square that circle?
Kate Crawford: I work in the research wing of Microsoft, which is a distinct organisation. Unusually, over its 30-year history, it has hired social scientists to look critically at how technologies are being built. My book did not go through any pre-publication review – Microsoft Research does not require that – and my lab leaders support asking hard questions, even if the answers involve a critical assessment of current technological practices.
The Observer: What’s the aim of the book?
Kate Crawford: We are commonly presented with this vision of AI that is abstract and immaterial. I wanted to show how AI is made in a wider sense – its natural resource costs, its labour processes, and its classificatory logics. My hope is that, by showing how AI systems work, we will have a more accurate account of the impacts, and it will invite more people into the conversation. These systems are being rolled out across a multitude of sectors without strong regulation, consent or democratic debate.
(Adaptado de CORBYN Z.. Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’. The Observer, 06/06/2021. Disponível em: https://www.theguardian. com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-norintelligent. Acesso em: 01/08/2023.)
Considerando ainda o Texto, acima, qual dos pressupostos a seguir explica o uso, pelo entrevistador, da expressão “how do you square that circle”?
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