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Jung e a narrativa: mito individual e inconsciente coletivo
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-09-27)
Arantes, Ana Cláudia Yamashiro
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Ferraz Júnior, Bento Prado de Almeida
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3032944542324111
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2181183340752599
This work intends to offer a different reading of Carl Gustav Jung writings of the ones that conceive the terms archetype and collective unconscious as explicit references to the transcendent domain, "spiritualistic" readings that would do the Analytical Psychology methodology result in a dogmatic proceeding. In order to understand the notion of "individual" that has place in the Jungian meta-psychology , it becomes important to understand Jung's way to mean and to interpret the psychopathological facts and dreams that him observed in his clinical experience. Every moment the analytical psychology threatens to relapse in an irrationalism if we restrict ourselves in the denotative consideration of the language used to represent the psychic reality. We put emphasis, in our reading, on the representative and symbolic use of the language of psychological communication that intends to express the individual being, in order to investigate the question of the dogmatism that permeates countless critical readings concerning Jung's work. After all, in which paradigm the Analytical Psychology intends to sustain itself as a science? We will show that is the material-reductionism paradigm from the sciences of the nature the responsible for guiding the comprehension of a (transcendent) origin of the collective unconscious archetypes, but these are only enunciated by Jung in order to refer to the (figurative) appearance of the dreamlike fantasies for the psychic (immanent) existence. The causal factor stops being predominant in the interpretation of the archetype concept to give up place to the adaptation purpose of the psychic manifestation of the image. The notion of normality is faced, and crosses the domains of the disease in which takes place the eighty century medicine; if this natural paradigm becomes unable to guide the analytical psychology point of view, that intends to be a science of the man, which new paradigm would be more appropriated in a reading of Jung's work that do not intends to aim in a dogmatic interpretation - what would invalidate it's scientific legitimacy? To understand the pretense connection of the Jungian work to the mystic's domain it is necessary to understand the notion that the history of the philosophical thought checked to the term "dogmatism ". At last, could the Analytical Psychology be understood as a Science, or does it approach more to the Art, that intends to turn the part (finite) the representation of the essence of the "whole" (infinite)?
Gestão de desenvolvimento de produtos na indústria de máquinas e implementos agrícolas: estudo de casos em empresas nacionais de grande porte
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-09-29)
Mano, Aline Patrícia
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Toledo, José Carlos de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9421627326330417
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6284496119790994
The industry of Agricultural Implements and Machines has had an expressive development in the country, following the expansion of the Brazilian agro-industrial area and focusing in the exportation increase of the agricultural products as alternative to reach a better distributed invoicing throughout the year, being tried to overlap the problems of the internal seasonality. It demands from the national companies a quality improvement of the projects and manufacture of these products, adjusting them to international standards of performance and to the trend of homologation requirements of the new products. This improvement passes for a revision and adequacy of the product development process management in the sector s national companies. This work presents a research about the practices and problems of the management of the process development of the agricultural products from five national companies located in the Sao Paulo state. For the data collecting, it was used an interview script, which was applied to the person in charge of the PPD. It was observed a heterogeneous vision of the purpose of the PPD in the five national companies studied. There are some companies that see the PPD as an essential set of project activity of the product. The others companies, however, face the PPD as a market research of the launching of the new product. Often the activities of the PPD are practical and empirical: researching the physical prototype and specifying the project (using software like CAD). For this reason, the use of supporting tools for the product development contributes for a better quality of the project and for a better management of the product
Organização e processos de trabalho em uma cooperativa do MST: debate teórico no contexto da empresa capitalista e da economia solidária
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-02)
Severino, Maico Roris
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Eid, Farid
Historically, one verifies the appropriation of management tools for the attainement of plusvalue. Among them, the ones related to the organization and the processes of work stand out. However, it is noted that the appropriation of these management tools is carried out not only by capitalist enterprises, but by enterprise of solidary economy (ESE) as well. This master´s degree dissertation purpose is to analyze the common and specific characteristics of the organization and the processes of work in their different models in the capitalist enterprises and ESE. So, it was used a theoretical-empirical research through bibliographic review to characterize the two variables in both social structures, and, through the case study and the participative methodology, identify the specific characteristics of a type of ESE, a cooperative of land reform, in this case, the Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Vitória LTDA (COPAVI). In the bibliographic review, it was found that, for the attainment of the plus-value in the capitalist economy, the organization and the processes of work are subjected to constant changes, starting from the development of the method of capitalist production, and among them, simple cooperation, manufacturing, machinery and microelectronic automation, besides the taylorist, fordist, Italian, Swedish and Japanese models, among others. In the EESs, changes also occur, but in the perspective of selfmanagement and the subordination of the technical rationality to the social rationality, through the cooperativism. In the comparative analysis performed, it was found that cooperation is a commom factor for the two types of organization. The capitalist enterprises use the concept of cooperation as simplification and parceling of work activities of each worker for the complementation of the productive process, that is, the cooperation comes through a management imposition. This kind of cooperation is alienating and subordinate, and produces evolution and improvement as time goes by, through corporate competitiveness. To the ESE, cooperation has the meaning of democratic management, collective participation in the processes of work, of collective management and decision making, that, as for the capitalist enterprises, undergo changes for a better insertion of their products in the market. So, at COPAVI, the analysis focused the way changes occur in the organization and work processes, oriented to the implementation of integrated arrangements of productive chains, keeping the characteristics of cooperation as a proposition of non-alienation of the worker. It should be emphasized that this dissertation has not the purpose of creating a model, but show that it is possible to create and develop alternatives for organization and work processes on the basis of self-management.
Florística e efeito de borda em fragmentos da floresta ombrófila mista na região de Guarapuava, PR
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-04)
Silva, Adriana Massaê Kataoka
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Soares, João Juares
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6093800182799882
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6163079816594256
This survey was carried out in a Araucaria Forest of an area of a legal reserve of Três Capões Farm and Trindade Farm, situated at south central of the state of Paraná, Brazil. The local climate is the tipe Cfb, don't have a dry season the average temperature is about 18oC at the more cold month. The average altitude is about 1250m cliff of scarp at 350m at Guarapuava region. The geomorfology is characterized by conver rill and largue valley originated on Quaternary. The forest in this study was sampled with transects positionaded at north, west, south and east, where the floristic surveyed was realized beyond the walk for all the area. A number of 144 species. The families with the highest number of species was Lauraceae (8,0%), Myrtaceae (8,0%), Solanaceae (7,2%), Euphorbiaceae (4,8%), Fabaceae (4,8%) and Verbenaceae (4,8%). Currently, forests are found as fragments inserted in a variety of matrixes. Hence, these fragments are under constant influence of the matrixes, fact known as edge effects. This work investigated the occurrence of edge effectsin the regulation of three Araucaria Forest fragments located in the south-center region of the Parana state, Brazil. Several approaches were realized in 12 transects of 4x100 m: floristic survey, density calculations, basal area, pioneer and secondary species, richness and behavior. A total of 3271 arborescent and arboreal specimens belonging to 152 species were sampled in the north, south, east and west side of the three forest fragments. There were no analyzed parameters that resulted in an expected pattern of edge effects. An ANOVA test was applied to analyze a correlation of the data with positioning (north, south, east and west) in each fragment. No significant correlation was detected in the fragments. The results are possibly related to the fact these fragments are not only under the edge effect, but also to the continous anthropic interference that could mask the known edge effects through the intensification of such interference farther than the first meters from the border to the interior of the fragment. This lead to another concern about this type of fragment because it could means a pure conservation of this vegetation, considering the small portion of conserved areas and discounted the edge effects.
Termodinâmica de líquidos iônicos via simulação computacional
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-04)
Prado, Carlos Eduardo Resende
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Freitas, Luiz Carlos Gomide
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3461414255262928
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7988928010539984
In this work classical molecular dynamics was used to study the pure ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, [BMIM]+[BF4]-, and some solutions based in it. The OPLS-AA force field and CHelpG derived charges were used to represent the interactions. The results obtained for the pure liquid agreed well with theoretical and experimental data available. The diffusion of ions in this liquid was investigated through the solvation of KCl salt. The result showed that the diffusion of K+ and Cl- are small when compared with the diffusion observed in aqueous solution. The results obtained for K+ and Cl- ions are also small compared to the diffusion regime observed for the ionic pair [BMIM]+[BF4]- in water. The solvation of an oligopeptídeo, formed by six alanines, aminoacids in this liquid was investigated at two temperatures, 300K and 400K. The effect of water molecules in the oligopeptide neighborhood was also investigated. The spc-model (Simple Point Charge) was used to represent the water molecules. Compared to the peptide behavior in water the results obtained in the ionic liquid showed that the peptide structure was constrained. It was also observed that the presence of water molecules near the oligopeptide increased its conformational mobility. The effect media polarization on the electronic structure of ionic liquid components was analyzed investigating the dipole momentum distribution for 1,4-dimethylimidazolio cation in both isolated and in condensed phase. The dipole distribution for chloride in condensed phase was also performed.
Práticas de leitura de professoras de educação infantil: narrativas de professoras - Catalão-GO
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-04)
Peres, Selma Martines
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Abramowicz, Anete
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9475119206646509
The present research is about the reading practices of teachers for child education that work in a day nursery of the city of Catalão, in the state of Goias, Brazil. The aim of this research is to provide cartography of the reading experiences of these teachers in order to analyze how they became readers and how this process is still developing. The idea is not to define the meaning of reading, but with what it works and how in terms of intensity and its connections. Therefore, the main question to be answered with this work is how these teachers for child education became readers and how this process is still developing? The methodology is based on narratives produced by five teachers that work in a day nursery. The teachers were requested to write their reading experiences in the form of narratives. Those narratives were on their first experiences with reading, the memories of the earlier stage of learning how to read, their readings during childhood and adolescence, reading at school, their reading spaces, the moments of reading, their reading practices at last. The theoretical framework is based on Deleuze and Guatarri, Chartier, Agamben, Larrosa, Butler, Louro, and other authors. The map of the narratives provided by the teachers point to reading territories composed by protocols and imperatives that give them a sensation of incompleteness and even makes them believe they are not as good as they wish to be as readers. Even though, the narratives provided ground to perceive the lines of flight, the movements of deterritorialization and destratification that have potential for becomings: becoming-teacher, becoming-woman, becoming-reader, and becoming-child.
Avaliação do uso de simulação como ferramenta complementar no desenvolvimento do mapeamento do fluxo de valor futuro
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-05)
Paço, Tatiany da Rocha
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Politano, Paulo Rogério
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7216170325557676
Nowadays companies are part of a global environment, which makes the market more competitive. In this context, the lean production system is very important for companies to become more efficient and therefore competitive. The value stream marketing is an essential tool used in the lean production system that uses an updated and a future map of process. The stationary aspect of this tool coupled with the need to obtain more accurate data highlighted the importance of computer simulations to assist in the development of value stream mapping. The present work describes all the steps of the development of a computer model in simulation software. The main aspect of it is the representation of the lean production system. The different sceneries built for the model developed in this work contributed to find the number of produced parts, dimensions of the supermarket considering the setup timing, the time of the operation, and planned or unplanned pauses of the machines. Therefore, it demonstrated that the simulation is a very useful tool to assist in the construction of the value stream mapping.
A significação do conceito de inclusão escolar por professoras.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-05)
Carlino, Eliana Prado
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Reyes, Cláudia Raimundo
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7645796071676232
Departing from a framework that considers man as a cultural and historical being and, therefore, a synthesis of psychic and ideological, social and individual forces, this work aim to apprehend the ocurrence of signification processes, characterizing and making visible the discursive movement as it keeps constituting the signification process of a concept. To analyse this route and make visible the social marks of the produced enunciations, we choose the concept of school inclusion, according to its complexity and relevance for the educational reality of today. This issue is posed as a demand for teachers and his formers and is inserted in a widest movement of the society that is of the social inclusion. The research group was constituted by seven elementary school teachers to whom we offered a course of extension in which we discussed the issue of school inclusion with the intention to analyse the ways of signification of this concept in the interlocution process that ocurrs in situations that configures itself as of teaching and learning.Our work is based, mainly, on Vygotsky and Bakhtin, authors that offers foresights by means of which we can understand the language dynamicity. On the enunciative-discursive view as we adopt the nature of language is social and dialogical and the word when expressed enclose in itself a intense game of social forces; is not unique, is not univocal and neither clear. To analyse the dates, we choose the microgenetic approach. Alongside the analysis we discarded the idea that to signify a concept we evoke just cognitive functions, in the sense of something strictly internal and personal. The voices that are present by are many, although physically departed; the elaborations produced by the teachers have historicity, have marks of the socio-historical contexts. In spite of having an extensive display and different resources during the class, that presumably ought to guide the signification processes that individual realize, marking their enunciations on a certain matter or concept, the class is just a moment of this elaboration; nevertheless, an important moment that produces new enunciations. In the end of the work, we compose some considerations about being both a teacher and researcher and the conflicts engendered by this double role. We point further some of the ways how the teachers were (re)signifying their concepts about school inclusion alongside the interlocutions.
Controle motor do joelho durante a marcha em sujeitos com e sem dor femoropatelar.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-06)
Santos, Gilmar Moraes
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Pedro, Vanessa Monteiro
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4302307099019276
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6376483004167320
The purpose of this study was to investigate onset, amplitude and ratio of electric activity of the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis oblique (VLO) and vastus lateralis longus (VLL) muscle and the angle of the knee joint flexion at heel strike during walking on a treadmill. Fifteen subjects without (22-SD3 years) and twelve with patellofemoral pain syndrome (21-SD2 years) participated in this study. The subjects walked on a treadmill without and with inclination of 5 degrees for 10 minutes. Eight strides were analyzed for each situation. An eletrogoniometer was used to verify the knee flexion angle and a footswitch sensor to determinate the beginning and the end of each stride. An eletrogoniometer was used to verify the knee flexion and a footswitch sensor to inform the beginning and the end of each stride. The electric activity was recorded by surface electrodes (Ag/AgCl), an EMG device with 8 channels (EMG System of Brazil) and a software of acquisition data (AqDados 7.02.06). The electromyographic (EMG) data was processed by Matlab software, that calculated the onset timing of the muscles, the integral values of EMG signal and the EMG ratio (VMO:VLO and VMO:VLL). Knee flexion angle was significantly less in the subject with patellofemoral pain syndrome when compared with the subjects of control group. In the patellofemoral pain syndrome subjects, the EMG onset of vastus lateralis longus ocurred before that vastus medialis oblique, in contrast no such differences ocurred in the control group both during walking on a flat surface and on an inclined surface.The EMG activity of vastus lateralis longus muscle was significantly greater during walking in graded treadmill in the subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome in relation to the subjects of the control group. The results also showed that to the electric activity of the vastus lateralis oblique muscles was always less than the electric activity of the vastus medialis oblique and/or vastus lateralis longus muscle in both groups, regardless condition. Furthermore, VMO:VLL and VMO:VLO activity ratios showed no significant differences between groups and conditions. The results of the present study showed that subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome decreased the angle of the knee joint flexion, increased the EMG activity of the vastus muscles and presented EMG onset of vastus lateralis longus before that vastus medialis oblique during graded treadmill walking, suggesting that 5º of the inclination would not be safe for treatment for patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome. In addtion, findings showed less electric activity of the vastus lateralis oblique muscle in relation to the other stabilizers of patella, suggesting that vastus medialis oblique and vastus lateralis longus muscles maintain patellar alignment while VLO doesn t act as lateral stabilizer of the patella, but it acts in the dynamics of patellofemoral joint during gait.
Arqueologia fenomenológica de Merleau-Ponty
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-09)
Mantovani, Harley Juliano
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Ferraz Júnior, Bento Prado de Almeida
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2255412497679553
This dissertation is based the relationship between Phenomenology and Metaphysics, one of the pillars of contemporary French Philosophy. If, in that context, there seems to be a consensus according to which the metaphysical is originary, we, on the other hand, aim at investigating its place and its origins. This work focuses on one of the aspects over which that relationship has developed, and which, at the same time, characterize one novelty of contemporary Philosophy, namely, the concern with language and with writing. When the phenomenological discourse unveiled what it first denied, the Being, when it neutralized itself in this incapability of expression, it brought the metaphysical, which thereafter needed to be seen as originary. What characterizes the metaphysical in discourse is, thus, a rational cohesion without a concept, that is, the absence of abstract and objective categories and of pure meanings given a priori, for a thought which could possibly be prior to language. With this rearrangement of the metaphysical concerning language, and taking it as a Philosophical theme, we return to the origins and to the inauguration of Philosophy. Finally, we analyze this surpassing of Phenomenology through the return to language phenomenon, which meant having another encounter with Philosophy after Phenomenology. This re-visitation meant the narrative of a new beginning. As we proceeded in this process, the importance of language for the whole ontological project of Merleau-Ponty became more and more clear, especially concerning the initial moments of a Phenomenology of perception, when it was not in the center of our analysis, and when it was not discussed. This silence was revealing to us.
A temática indígena e a diversidade cultural nos livros didáticos de história: uma análise dos livros recomendados pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-09)
Gobbi, Izabel
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Machado, Igor José de Renó
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4705450652848752
Avaliação da planta de valores genéricos da cidade de Lins
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-10)
Miyazaki, Douglas Keniti
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Röhm, Sergio Antonio
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7332654261230826
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0423081087469086
The great majority of Brazilian cities use Planta de Valores Genéricos (Generic Values Map) to make their sites (lands) valuable. It is really important that all the unitary values presented in this plant, must be in accordance with the values used in the real estate market. This work (paper) has the purposes of explore and evaluate the Planta de Valores Genéricos (Generic Values Map) in the city of Lins and the technical procedures that were used for its conception. It is broached too the potential use of other data sources and methodologies to make values homogeneous, besides the one traditionally used, which comprehends offers made in newspaper’s classified sections, in the real estate market and the use of the traditional methodology to make values homogeneous. It’s presented some aspects that lead to the record current state and to the evaluation system current state, and some damages originated by its delay.
Um sistema inteligente para o seqüenciamento da produção com o apoio de simulação
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-15)
Roman, Eros Schettini
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Morandin Júnior, Orides
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4192845106907956
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0995082265255073
The production sequencing is an area of great importance in Production Planning and Control, because businesses are looking for higher productivity and competitivity, in order to meet the demands and expectations of their respective markets. To hasten and to be flexible the production processes through efficient production sequencing contributes to satisfy this market. Simulation technologies have been used to model, plan and control complex manufacturing systems. To accomplish the production sequencing in these environments, with the support of the simulation, it is necessary to reduce the total amount of simulated scenarios and evaluate the simulation results. Artificial Intelligence techniques can help these tasks. This work has proposed an intelligent system for production sequencing, supported by simulation techniques and Artificial Intelligence. This goal is based on ideas already studied in the research group of the Computer Science Department at Federal University of São Carlos. The system was implanted and many tests were accomplished. First, some sequences are selected with products that are able to enter the production system. Then the sequences are simulated and, forward, put on action an estimate process that classifies them. To run the tests was considered a specific Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS).
Estabilidade dinâmica para sistemas quânticos dependentes do tempo
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-16)
Simsen, Mariza Stefanello
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Oliveira, César Rogério de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5485204156806697
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0789877452144510
We study if a time-dependent system is either dynamically stable or unstable, i.e., if the expected value of a positive and discrete observable is a bounded function of time or not. Initially we consider topological properties of the orbits of the states of the system and how these properties are related to dynamical stability. In the case of periodic time dependence, we present a formula that allows one to decide about stability from the behavior of the matrix elements of the resolvent associated with the Floquet operator. Finally, we give an example of Floquet operator with purely point spectrum and exponentially decaying eigenfunctions and dynamical instability.
A neurodinâmica pode explicar a consciência? Uma análise da proposta de Walter Freeman
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-17)
Oliveira, Rodrigo Travitzki Teixeira de
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Teixeira, João de Fernandes
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8864985279295912
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0826151726569392
This work is a critical analysis of Walter Freeman´s neurodynamic model in several aspects, especially the consciousness as an order parameter that constraints brain dynamics. According to our research, this proposal is not only based in empirical data, but also in ideas as: 1) mathematical metaphor valorization to explain the nature and man; 2) the consciousness as an integrative rational action that limits and selects local fluctuations. We found some gaps in the model, as the author himself admits, and also other interpretations for some empirical results. Therefore, the meaning of neurodynamic patterns found by Freeman remains open. His emergentism is defined by dualism and reductionism denial, and is based in circular causality between whole and parts. Motor cause (and material, we suppose) from the base to the top, and formal and final cause from top to base. It seems to be a pragmatic solution for the mind-brain problem, in order to make possible a wider scientific acceptance of mind effects on the body, contributing to a paradigm change in neuroscience. For Eliasmith, the role of non-linear dynamics would be description, discussion and analysis of complex cognitive systems, as brain. The interpretation of information and dynamic patterns found, however, is not evident nor consensual. This work corroborates such conclusions in particular case of Walter Freeman's model, still highlighting a non scientific role for his work, in the sense of valuing the systemic effects of consciouseness on the body.
Um voto de fé : fidelização e clientelismo eleitoral na bancada evangélica paulista
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-17)
Rudi, Luciana de Matos
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Cepêda, Vera Alves
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4917331423373631
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0683360221239571
The present work examine, historically, all the Brazilian period republican observing practical of advantages politics that had been present in the sphere politic to analyze the performance of the gospel members of the house legislative of São Paulo. The choice of the members with religious filiation was given in reason of the expressive increase of evangelicals, temples and visibility of the gospels. The objective of the work is to verify where measured the clientelism it is present in the analyzed group and of that forms this practical if differentiates of the definite clientelist relation for specific literature. For in such a way, the Projects of Law had been analyzed presented by the group during two mandates, understood between the years of 1999 and 2006, taking in consideration categories defined for the authoress of the work. The study it demonstrates that, even so the clientelism is practical current between these politicians, it operates in the direction of attainment of recognition for the religious ones as well as, for the on entities to the denominations of which there are members. And, operates not more in the geographic level, or either, of electoral redoubts as the traditional clientelism when benefiting cities or regions as a whole. This is clearly when comparing the result of the clientelist exchange in the form of fidelization of the vote that is, basically, the electoral success.
Fitoquímica do caule de Citrus limonia enxertado com C. sinensis e da espécie de Nycticalanthus speciosus (RUTACEAE) e biossíntese de cumarinas preniladas
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-19)
Ribeiro, Alan Bezerra
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Silva, Maria Fátima das Graças Fernandes da
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0457632122660653
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1660039142489971
The Cravo lime species (C. limonia) acts as the grafting host, mostly used in the Brazilian citriculture and because of its precocious productivity, besides its good adaptation to most common soils, permitting for an optimum harvest. With the aim to contribute to the chemical knowledge of these graftings and to better understand its mechanisms, a phytochemical study of the rootstock from C. sinensis onto C. limonia were carried out. Earlier studies indicated the presence of a remarkable amount of prenylated compounds in the lower part of the C. sinensis graft, onto the C. limonia, while at the same time in the upper part these compounds was found in a very small amounts, rising to the assumption that these compounds could have been translocated from the host to the introduced graft species. In this way, biosynthetical studies of prenylated coumarines were also carried out aiming to evaluate the activity of the prenyltransferase enzyme, responsible by the incorporation of the isoprene units in these compounds. With the objective to advance our knowledge and chemical profile of the Rutaceae family, in which the Citrus genus is inserted. This study also describes the phytochemical and phytosystematics of the Nycticalanthus specious species pertaining to the same family. In the study of the rootstock, several different chromatographic methods were applied permitting to identify nine substances one of them being an unpublished flavanone. From the Nycticalanthus speciuous, eleven compounds were isolated as well as an indolopiridoquinazolic alkaloid and also three limonoids previously unheard of. The isolated compounds from the rootstock were assayed against the fungus Guignardia citricarpa, responsible for the black stains in Citrus species , with the objective to find a possible antifungus for this disease. Two coumarines showed premissory inhibitory activities. The biosynthetical study carried out with the prenyltransferase enzyme DMAPP, Umbelliferone and Herniarin showed that the translocation of the pyranocoumarine Xanthylentin should have happened. Seen in the different parts of the grafting of C. sinensis onto the C. limonia the enzyme were active only in the roots and with this observation, it appears that the coumarine is being metabolized in the lower part and translocated to the upper parts of the graft.
Estudo de interação lectina-carboidrato por meio da técnica de microbalança de cristal de quartzo
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-20)
Pedroso, Mariele Mucio
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Faria, Ronaldo Censi
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8659496864305621
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9851115714877073
In this work a study of proteins Jacalin and Concanavalin A, belonging to the class of lectins, and the interaction with different carbohydrates was accomplished through Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM). The lectins were immobilized by self-assembly monolayer by means three methods. In two of them were used the cystamine and glutaraldehyde and the protein immobilized in a single layer or multilayer. In the third method, a solution of thiols, 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid and 2-mercaptoethanol, in a proportion of 1:10, and the reagents reagents Nethyl- N-(dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) and N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) were used to formed a intermediated reactive to binding a protein of interest. Significant differences were not observed among the methods, being opted for the lectins immobilization in a single layer using cystamine and glutaraldehyde due to the simple preparation and low consumption of reagents. The formation of self-assembly monolayer formation was studied using the Electroacoustic Admittance, QCM and a flow injection system coupled to QCM. In all studies a cystamine concentration of 15 mmol. L-1 produced the highest frequency variation and therefore the largest observed mass deposition on the gold surface with good repetitivity. However, it was observed a strong interaction between the free cystamine and to that was binding to the gold surface forming a monolayer, but this interaction was not specific. The flow injection system coupled to the QCM technique was also used to study the interaction between the lectin-carbohydrate and lectin-glicoconjugate. This study allows determining that the variation of the quartz crystal frequency was the same magnitude that observed for a system when using a QCM technique. The Langmuir adsorption isotherm was used to calculate the values of the apparent affinity constant for the lectins with different ligands. The apparent affinity constant was 1.4x105 M-1, 9.4x103 M-1 and 5.6x102 M-1 for Jacalin- Fetuin, Jacalin-Galactose and ConA-Maltose interactions respectively. The determinations of the apparent affinity constants using QCM, demonstrated the viability of the technique in the study of molecular interactions.
Análise genética de características de cresciemento e de reprodução em um rebanho da raça Canchim
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-20)
Mucari, Talita Buttarello
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Alencar, Maurício Melo de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7762361734413347
The objective in this study was to estimate genetic parameters for the traits days to calving (DC), days to first calving (DFC) and gestation length (GL), associated with reproductive performance of females, as well as to evaluate the relationships of DC and DFC with scrotal circumference at 12 months of age (SC12) and body weights at 12 months of age (W12), at calving (WC), at first calving (WFC), at beginning of the breeding season (WBS) and at beginning of the first breeding season (WFBS), and of GL with weight at birth (BW) and W12. Analyses were done using animal models and the derivative free restricted maximum likelihood methodology. Estimates of heritabilities varied from 0.02 to 0.09 for DC, from 0.15 to 0.23 for DFC and from 0.04 to 0.41 for GL, depending on the data set and the model used for each trait. Genetic correlations of DC and DFC with SC12 showed that it is possible to improve these female reproductive traits by selecting for increase in SC12. With respect to W12, selection to increase this trait should not produce significant changes in DC, but may increase DFC. Associations of the other female body weights with DFC and DC indicated that heavier females experience lower reproductive performance. Estimates of genetic correlations of GL with BW and W12 indicated that selection to change GL will result in correlated response in BW with no changes in W12.
A gestão do desenvolvimento de produtos em pequenas e médias empresas de base tecnológica do setor de equipamentos médico-hospitalares.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2006-10-23)
Paula, Sabrina Medina de
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Toledo, José Carlos de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9421627326330417
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2071596135475407
The subject of this work is the product development management in small and medium sized technology-based firms in the sector of health care equipment production. The product development is critical for these firms and the management of this process affect the performance of it and consequently the competitiveness of these firms. The work has for objective to identify and to analyze the practices adopted by those firms and the main problems in the management of product development in small and medium sized technology-based firms of the State of São Paulo in the sector of health care equipment production, as well as the critical success factors in the management of the projects ahead developed. The diagnosis encloses the identification and analysis of practices of organization and the management adopted by the firms for this process and the main problems faced in the management of it, as well as the performance gotten for the firms in the product development. The field research enclosed a sample of 30 firms distributed among the cities of Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, Rio Claro, São Carlos, São José do Rio Preto and the metropolitan region of São Paulo. This work was developed by means of: 1. bibliographical research on the subject (Product Development Management and Management in small and medium sized technology-based firms); 2. Field research of the type survey (data-collecting) in small and medium sized technology-based firms through questionnaires applied in visit to the firms; 3. compilation and analysis of the data. In general, it was observed that the firms searched in its majority exports to other markets, the most use the platform concept, in general, the firms invest between 5 and 10% of invoicing in R&D, most of firms developed 5 new products in the last 5 years. For the considered products of success for the firms, joined the critical success factors had been: the activities of pre-product development well had been carried through, focus on the requirements of the consumers; integration among firms departments for creation and selection of new ideas and the head of the project was able to motivate the team.