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A sexualidade como aspecto inclusivo : uma proposta de intervenção para pais e professores de jovens com deficiência mental
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-26)
Albuquerque, Paloma Pegolo de
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Almeida, Maria Amélia
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6930633065111660
The matter of sexuality in mental retardation still generates mistakes and prejudices. Parents and teachers, for example, often find difficulties over this subject, depriving people with mental retardation of having effective access to sexual orientation and, therefore, of reaching more autonomy and personal fulfillment. This work had as main objective to investigate what parents and teachers think about the sexuality of their sons and daughters as well as students with mental retardation, aiming to draw and introduce an intervention proposal. First of all, 17 parents and 23 teachers from one special school were interviewed with regards to picking necessary information to subsequent intervention. It was aimed, by means of a semi-structured interview script made by the researcher, to know more about the participants viewpoints and opinions about issues related to sexuality in general, to sexuality in mental retardation and to sexual education/orientation behavior towards their children/students, as well as their main needs and doubts. Then, a course named "Sexuality and mental retardation" was offered to two groups of participants: one for parents and other for teachers. The course was carried out on weekly meetings, summing up eight meetings with each group (two months on the whole). Such meetings had a theoretical part and moments to discuss the difficulties and needs related by participants, with discussions, dynamics, role-playing and problem-solving activities, movies and others. After the intervention, new interviews with the parents and teachers were made to check the effects of it. The qualitative analysis of the results was made based on information got in pre- and post-intervention and on the assessment of the questionnaire results about the course answered by the participants, that were grouped in categories; besides, all practical activities taken in the course were described and analyzed, like the Instrument for registration of sexual behaviors of children/students and the Activity in class for teachers. Some signs of changes in the participants' opinion were noticed, like an enlargement of reflections about the sexuality - mental retardation subject, and a perception of the importance of sexuality in the lives of people with mental retardation, as well as a greater attention and respect for their emotional-sexual interest and needs. Some attitude changes were also noticed, like a predisposition to act the right way when facing sexuality-related situations by means of a greater questioning of their role in this process; as well as an increase in confidence and preparation to deal with the subject. Besides, we noticed some behavior changes regarding sexual orientation, like an increase in dialogue about sexuality. Nevertheless, given the needs and difficulties presented by the populations of parents and teachers of people with mental retardation, new studies in the area are still recommended.
Atividade curricular de integração entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão (ACIEPE) : anseios, conjunturas e contornos de inovações curriculares em movimento.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-28)
Souza, Marcos Lopes de
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Freitas, Denise de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2396459642306557
This research describes and discusses about the conjuncture and the movements of the program so-called as Curricular Integration Activity between Teaching, Research and Outreach (ACIEPE) since its implantation in Sao Carlos Federal University from year 2002 up to 2006, analyzing in a focused way one of its proposals. During the investigation the information have been acquired by interviews with the Program s idealizers and executers, also by the Program s (ACIEPE) documents, questionnaires applied to the coordinators of the program proposals, the registries of one of the program s proposal meetings and by interviews realized with the participants of this experience. The ACIEPE Program had been created during a period in which UFSCar was trying to consolidate itself as a University based on the concepts of democratic participation, academic competence and Social commitment, a perspective that contested the neoliberal politics, which, has occupied a large area into University space. The implantation of the program occurred within a period in which UFSCar s graduation courses were passing through a curriculum reformulation process that began since the establishment of Brazilian Universities Institutional Valuation Program (PAIUB). Initially, the ACIEPE was incorporated to the courses s curriculum as an elective discipline, lately, within the curricular flexibilization, it happened to be a complementary curricular activity. Within the period comprehended between the years 2002-2006, 49 different proposals were done, some of them were re-offered, and now 107 classes can be counted in. New projects of ACIEPEs have been offered each semester (at least five), at the same time, new professors have adhered to different proposals of ACIEPEs demonstrating that the program have been recognized as an opportunity for curricular innovation. Because of the thematics that were chosen, the outreach guidelines, the external public and the methodological approaches, the ACIEPEs presented different faces, which made it different from traditional academic spaces. The proposals of ACIEPEs were consolidated as educative spaces; constituted especially by multidisciplinary teams, which involved learning and professors from distinct majors. In those spaces the formation offered to the graduation students could embrace things beyond the society of the knowledge, involving aspects like citizenship, social equality, environment sustainability, social cooperation, Human values and etc., increasing the student s knowledge experiences, which includes the interaction with different social groups. The practice of the inseparability between teaching, research and outreach at ACIEPEs occurred in a diffuse and incipient manner, overall, when it comes to the interlocution between university and External community. Focusing on one of the experiences of the ACIEPE program entitled as The comprehension about biological knowledge essence and its relationship with Science and biology on Basic Education it could have been evidenced that the ACIEPEs program s intentions were approximately reached, especially the ones related to the construction of a space that could give to the graduation students also professional education and citizenship, even, establishing a strong link between University and several social segments. At the same time, this ACIEPE, basing on its specific objectives and on the perspective of complexity, can be denominated, besides its own limitations, as a curricular innovation, based on the construction of dialogue spaces among the disciplines, whereas it made possible to the participants, especially, the biology teachers and the undergraduate level students of biological sciences course, to find a new significance for the nature of biological knowledge trough the articulation with Philosophy and sociology.
Avaliação de um critério de equivalência entre dados de tração a quente e fluência em aços
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-28)
Santos, Noeli Bragalda dos
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Bueno, Levi de Oliveira
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0333912025909549
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6389344977532376
This work was conducted in four stages, the first to understand the phenomena that affect the 2.25Cr-1Mo steel hot tensile in different conditions, observing their behavior in a wide range of temperature and strain rates, to complete the initial study of Reis Sobrinho [10], that employed the following test conditions: Crosshead speed (VC) = 20; 5; 1.0; 0.1; 0.01 mm/min and Temperatures (T) 500, 550, 600, 650 and 700°C. In the present study were used to further test the parameters of: VC from 200 to 0.001 mm/min and Temperatures: room temperature, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 450°C providing more complete information of the behavior of the material. The third step aimed to achieve the detailed analysis of the data set of the hot tensile and creep for 2.25Cr-1Mo steel in applying the criterion of equivalence, emphasizing that this range of data provided by testing, had increased because of bibliographic information obtained with the same steel at different test conditions in the temperature range from 500°C to 600°C generated by Klueh [48,49] and Klueh & Oakes [50 52]. The analysis of these parameters, which consisted in verifying the validity of the criterion of equivalence proposed for 2.25Cr-1Mo steel, closes the first stage of this work, starting a fourth phase, to verify the reliability of the methodology proposed for other materials, in which the same type of analysis was applied to the AISI 310 steel. The closure was to attempt preliminary creep study in 2.25 Cr-1Mo steel at room temperature, whose possible existence was indicated by analysis of the tension data applying the criterion of equivalence.
Procedimentos informatizados de ensino de sinais para adolescentes e adultos com surdez e/ou deficiência mental.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-30)
Elias, Nassim Chamel
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Goyos, Antônio Celso de Noronha
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3407008711535651
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4216525883778695
Language is essential to pass on complex concepts and allows the human being to communicate. In Behavior Analysis, the term verbal behavior has been used instead of language because it suggests its environmental determination. Stimulus equivalence paradigm treats verbal behavior as a complex behavior, installed through conditional discriminations, and has been largely used as a basis to investigate the process of complex cognitive skill acquisition and in practical applications to teach academic skills, such as reading, writing and mathematic, to individuals with and without developmental deficit. Conditional discriminations may be installed through matching-to-sample (MTS) tasks. In the present work Study 1, an automated tool was developed to present MTS tasks which were used in four experiments, in Study 2, to teach relations between signs (set A), pictures (set B) and printed words (set C) to teenagers and adults with deafness and mental retardation. The first experiment investigated whether, through the teaching of a receptive repertoire, the expressive repertoire would emerge without direct teaching to four adults with mental retardation and little or no experience in manual signing. The receptive repertoire refers to the selection of a picture in the presence of the corresponding sign (relations AB), in automated MTS tasks. The expressive repertoire refers to the expressive signing (A ) in the presence of a given picture (B). In the second experiment, a set of printed words was added and three adults with mental retardation and deafness and good signing experience were taught relations between printed words and pictures (CB) and between signs and pictures (AB); after teaching, the emergence of the relations between signs and printed words (AC) and of the expressive signing in the presence of the pictures (BA ) and printed words (CA ) were tested. The third experiment intended to replicate the second experiment with three teenagers with mental retardation and deafness and good signing experience, and also intended to investigate whether the repetition of the sign in MTS tasks would influence the acquisition of the taught relations (AB and AC) and the emergence of the tested relations (CB, BA and CA ). The fourth experiment investigated whether the introduction of consequences to the signing response in the presence of the pictures (BA ) would influence the signing performance in the presence of the printed words (CA ). In general, the emergence of the tested relations between signs, pictures and printed words and of expressive signing after the teaching in MTS tasks was observed. However, a better singing performance in the presence of the pictures (BA ) than in the presence of the printed words (CA ) was noted. Thus, future works could investigate the variables that would influence the acquisition of the signing repertoire in the presence of printed words, being this repertoire one of the reading components.
Aspectos da história de vida de Guadua tagoara (Nees) Kunth (Poaceae:Bambuseae) na Serra dos Órgãos, RJ
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-30)
Alves, Gilberto Terra Ribeiro
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Matos, Dalva Maria da Silva
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/4728734263109138
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6910599718979116
Guadua tagoara (Nees) Kunth is a large sized bamboo native of the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest, with a semi-scandent habitat, pachymorphic rhizome and thorns for fixation on trees. Nowadays this bamboo is considered an invasive species in secondary forests, where its populations are supposedly in expansion. The general objective of this study, developed in Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos (PARNASO), RJ, was to investigate the life history of G. tagoara from two perspectives: (a) to know the ecological basis of its supposed invasive potential and (b) to discuss it in the context of theoretical ecology and evolution of mast seeding plants. This dissertation was based primarily on three moments of the G. tagoara life cycle, studied in the scales of clump, genet and ramet. The investigated aspects of its life history were: mast seeding followed by parental death (monocarpy), regeneration from seed, synchrony and reproductive interval, development, morphological plasticity and intra and infra-specific diversity. At least at PARNASO, the life cycle of G. tagoara is strictly monocarpic, its regeneration from seeds occurred mainly in the interior of the senescent clumps. The majority of reproductive events were concentrated in 2004, suggesting a pattern known as flowering distribution for this region. The spatial gregarism of G. tagoara seems to be associated to the intra-clump reproductive synchrony, and the selective advantage of monocarpy seems to be the creation of regeneration sites for the following cohort. The same seems to be valid for other monocarpic species of Guadua with a tendency for gregarism. It was not possible to establish a reproductive interval for G. tagoara, but four possible flowering patterns were proposed for its life history. Although the adult genets have long spacers (necks), the rhizomes in the 2004 and 2006 cohorts did not present this character. Culm ramification occurred before rhizome ramification, and the thorns appeared just in the second year of the young genets. These cohorts (2004 and 2005) differed among them in structural characters, except in the number of living culms per genet, and presented characteristics here considered to be adaptations for the regeneration inside the clumps or other kinds of gaps. The morphological plasticity presented by the different patterns of ramification, by the reiterative growth and by the deviance from obstacles during elongation was observed in the culms of adult genets. The reiterative growth was also seen in the 2004 and 2005 cohorts, as well as articulated culms and the presence of invertebrates in their interior, including the internodes filled with water. Climatic seasonality doesn t restrict the growth of G. tagoara, but it is potentialized in the rainy season. Adult genets of this bamboo seem to grow during the whole year in PARNASO. Morphological plasticity observed in their culms can be considered a foraging behavior searching for light and space in the canopy. G. tagoara also has a large opportunistic growing behavior, expressed in ramets and genets, and can be considered a structural parasite of trees. Morphological elasticity, potential for clonal growth and integration of phalanx and guerilla strategies seem to be key aspects of its life history and its expansion and dominance in secondary forests. The results of this study support the hypothesis that the expansion of G. tagoara in secondary forests is facilitated by activities altering the structure of the forest. I suggest that the selfperpetuating disturbance cycle proposed to explain the formation and expansion of forests dominated by Guadua spp. in the Amazon forest must also act in the G. tagoara dominated forests, but in this latter case the anthropogenic activities seem to be very important for the origin and expansion of dominance. Some possible causes of its intra and infraspecific diversity of G. tagoara were discussed, based on the knowledge acquired about its life history, as well as some possible relations between its life cycle and the forest dynamics. The need and viability of the management of its populations were also discussed.
Massificação da consultoria: descrição e análise dos processos de mudança do SEBRAE-SP
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-31)
Silveira, Frederico Zenorini da
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Donadone, Julio César
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7643906508178259
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8045226363525359
In the whole world, the economical changes, incremented by the information tecnology´s advance and by the pouplarization of basic manegement methods, associeted to the desindustrialization process and to the expansion of the service field, made that the small firms have become the highlights in the economy of several countries, being responsable for a large part of the employment and profits. In that context, this study intend to contribute with the understanding of the growing process of the brazilian consultant field, its acting forms and its relationship with the other organizations. Particularly, analysing the SEBRAE-SP´s acting form, with a parallel between its goals and its posicional manners in the face of other organizations. That is why, it is necessary to comprehend how much that ocurried changes in the acting forms of the institution in the past few decads, are a reflexion of a new form of interaction with the management consultant field.
Avaliação das atividades de crianças com paralisia cerebral na escola regular : participação, níveis de auxílio e desempenho
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-31)
Silva, Daniela Baleroni Rodrigues
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Martinez, Claudia Maria Simões
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5716518628833379
Facing the great debate on the inclusion of students with special needs, this study investigated the involvement, level of support and activities performances of children with cerebral palsy on the school context through the School Function Assessment ( SFA ). It also demonstrates the valuation s contributions through the presentation of a case on the identification of the capacities and limitation of those students and also to determine possible intervention points along with the teacher. On this study, 10 teachers and their respective students with cerebral palsy of public and private schools in São Paulo and neighbor cities were involved. Was applied the SFA the consists of a test in questionary s format systematized answered by the teachers. The results indicated children s involvement were more restricted on the restrooms, transportation and transitions, once that those environments demanded practice of physical tasks such as go to the restrooms, managing clothes flushing the toilet, embark and disembark of schools transportation and move inside the school. It also notable high levels of assistance on the execution of those tasks and minimal or no adaptation in environment as restrooms or adapted vehicles, such as a flat surface of easy access at schools. Also, the use of mobility resources such as crutches and walkers consisted as important facilitators of participation, opposite of the students who moved helped by other people. Regarding the cognitive/behavior aspects required at school like memory, attention, communication and integration with classmates and adults, it s notable that happened minimal limitation that consists in favorable points for inclusion in regular schools. It is also accentuated the importance of special education professionals such as occupational therapists, physical therapists, on the school environment in order to accomplish the as with the teachers to potentiate the participation those students. Also, it s necessary governmental actions for introduce environment s adaptations at schools.
Avaliação da grade curricular e conhecimentos de residentes em pediatria sobre vigilância do desenvolvimento.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-05-31)
Barba, Patrícia Carla de Souza Della
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Aiello, Ana Lúcia Rossito
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6448489426438006
Studies have shown that developmental surveillance is an important task to be performed by the pediatrician and its objective is to precociously identify children who may need more complex evaluation as well as provide information about their development and not only their physical health. It also makes possible a definite diagnosis and the elaboration of an interdisciplinary plan of care for children in order to undergo early intervention. Other studies indicate that the pediatricians´ knowledge regarding developmental surveillance and their use of instruments to accomplish this practice is defective. Despite the fact that just a few perform developmental surveillance, they consider this issue important and demonstrate interest in updating themselves. According to these studies, the pediatricians should update their knowledge concerning development aspects and risk factors, use sorting techniques and lead the child presenting development delay to early stimulation programs. The general objective of this work is to analyze the knowledge related to health promotion, developmental surveillance and pediatric residents´ perception of babies´ delays in the state of São Paulo by analyzing the curriculum description and the performance in questionnaires. The curriculum guidelines from MEC (Brazilian Education Ministry) for pediatric residence teaching, the relation of vacancies for this specialty and the curriculum of seven medical pediatric residence courses in the state of São Paulo were analyzed, with the objective of identify elements concerning developmental surveillance in pediatric teaching (first stage). In the second stage of this study, the data regarding developmental surveillance practices and the knowledge about children s development were collected and correlated. It was carried out by the replication of two questionnaires, which were answered by 65 first and second-year pediatric residents of five specialization courses in the state of São Paulo. According to the analysis of MEC´s curriculum guidelines in relation to the subjects to be studied about developmental surveillance, it is possible to assert that they are general and non-specific, and the curriculums are superficial and not clear enough to make the identification of the practices related to developmental surveillance possible. Only one course of this research has the necessary requirements that allow the identification of elements related to this topic. The results of the second stage has shown that the majority of pediatric residents has different attitudes compared to the ones performed by doctors who are dealing with children s health for longer time. These different attitudes may reduce the efficacy of the developmental surveillance carried out by pediatricians. The correlation between the pediatric teaching and the residents´ knowledge about developmental surveillance has shown that the courses which have higher average in the questionnaires also have better developmental surveillance s contents described in their curriculums. The residents who justified why they ask or not the mothers about development and the ones who confirmed the use of evaluation scales had higher scores in the questionnaire. This study proposes further investigation related to the continuous professional development for pediatric residents, distance learning, the use of Moodle tools and topics such as: Promotion of health concept and developmental surveillance, non-identified precocious delays consequences, protocols about developmental surveillance, guidelines for normal infant development to the pediatricians, identification of development delays, and quick and easy measures to be used during practice and inserted in institutional dynamics. Using these results as a basis, a contribution to the pediatrician s mobilization regarding the importance of developmental surveillance and precocious identification of children with development delay is expected.
Gestão dos recursos pesqueiros do complexo estuarinolagunar de Cananéia-Iguape-Ilha Comprida, litoral sul de São Paulo, Brasil
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-01)
Mendonça, Jocemar Tomasino
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Verani, José Roberto
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0053232138684810
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1652112592780902
Mendonça J. T., 2007 The south coast of the São Paulo State the fisheries resources are the economic base of the region, with a variety of fish, crustaceans and clams, with diversification of the arts fishiries by the local communities. The work was developed in the south coast of the State of São Paulo (Brazil), in the Estuarino-lagunar Iguape-Cananéia-Paranaguá Complex, in the area called of lagamar of Cananéia, Iguape and Ilha Comprida, and final portion in the Ribeira of Iguape river, with the total period of the information between February of 1995 the December of 2006, with dates of each city. The region fisheries activit presents a concern aspect, but don t despairing aspect, since involve three cities (Cananéia, Iguape and Ilha Comprida cities) with IDH medium and clear conditions of improvements. It involves 50 fishing communities with particular and similar characteristics between itself, with the agricultural comunities with lesser incomes, having devotion to fisheries and the parallels activities as agriculture and the extrativismo, mainly vegetal. The main fishing products of the south coast are: broadband anchovy (Anchoviella lepidentostole), the seabob shrimp (Xiphopenaeus kroyeri), the king weakfish (Macrodon ancylodon), the grey mullet (Mugil platanus), the white mullet (Mugil curema), the whitemouth croaker (Micropogonias furnieri), the blue swimming crab (Callinectes sapidus) and the mangrove oyster (Crassostrea brasiliana). The fishing fleet of the region has as characteristic to be of small scale and artesanal, with boats wooden with small autonomy of sea or of estuary, with high number of arts and methods of fisheries, as well as dependence of harvests. The problems main problems found in the activity fishing are the lack or inadequate fiscalization, the commercialization of the products the values insufficient for the maintenance of the activity the levels compensatory and deficiency in the management fisheries regional, without endorsement of the state and federal managing agencies. Seven species presented significant reduction in its abundance (seabob shrimp, broadband anchovy, mangrove oyster, white mullet, king weakfish, blue crab and atlantic thread herring Opistonema oglinum); three species presented increase in the abundance index (pink shrimp, crab-uçá and grey mullet); and four has its abundance indices stasble (whitemouth croaker, white sea catfish Genidens barbus, southern white shrimp Litopenaeus schmitti and castin leatherjacket Oligoplites saliens). To implement the fisheries recources management is necessary the strengthem of the Management Council of the APA-CIP with co-management, of deliberative character and with discussion of the problems and guiding of the solutions, including normatives, control and promotion of the activity through the institutions that compose it. The biggest problem for the implementation of a co-management is the lack of compromise of the management agencies with the society, presenting lack structure agencies, as well as the lack of will politics to share decisions and to divide the actions power. The fisheries management would have to be ecosystem approach fisheries, since the fishing of some species (multispecific), dependents of harvests, with fisheries diversify, arts and methods fisheries, with other productive activities to fishery. For fisheries resources with recuction of abundance indices the fisheries management could be local with the species that have its confined live cycles in the region, don t making part of the captures in other areas of the Brazilian coast, having as main management instrument the limitation of the fisheries effort through the fisheries cadastre and licensing of the fishermen and boats in regional way, with administration through the Management Council, its assign to rules and requirements to guarantee the activity to the fishermen local. For fisheries resources that have its live cycles outside region, to make part of the captures of other fishing capture to long of Brasilian coast, the best way of fisheries management, possibly would be of analysis of all area of fish of the resource, with joint actions with all involved ones, limiting the number of users, establishing exploration areas, with new licensing and permissions fisheries of the boats that will act in each area.
Influência da medição de desempenho nos projetos seis sigma : estudos de caso
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-01)
Mergulhão, Ricardo Coser
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Martins, Roberto Antonio
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3518820028045730
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0598720328915137
Six Sigma and performance measurement are subjects under investigation for practical and academic purposes. In this way, Six Sigma Program is a remarkable continuous improvement program with exceptional results in short term accomplished by Six Sigma Projects. Like others improvement approaches, some factors can influence the results of these projects. Beside this, the performance measurement plays an important role as a support to the continuous improvement program, acting as its inhibiting or enabling mechanism. In this sense, the performance measurement becomes a necessary condition to guarantee the success of Six Sigma Projects. Nevertheless, a bibliography review has shown the non-existence of detailed academic researches on these two topics, studied in the same work. Due to this, the objective of this thesis is to investigate the influence of the performance measurement on Six Sigma Projects with the intention of highlighting the factors found during the development of these projects. The explanatory multiple case studies has chosen as the research method for this work. In order to achieve the objective, a field research was conducted on five companies belong to different industrial sectors. The empirical evidences have shown that developments of Six Sigma Projects are influenced by different factors. Some of them were found in many companies. It was verified also that the development of Six Sigma Projects affects the performance measurement, better said, there is a reciprocal influence between Six Sigma Projects and performance measurement. Establishing relationships between financial and non-financial performance measures is an important issue to develop Six Sigma Projects, as observed, due to the financial orientation of Six Sigma Projects. It means that the factor mentioned above has a great impact over other ones that have also their influences on the development of Six Sigma Projects. At last, this thesis aimed a contribution to the academic as well as to practical purposes since knowledge about factors that rule the relationship between performance measurement and Six Sigma Projects can support the construction of a framework related to both aspects and, then, reinforcing the benefits of the Six Sigma Program.
Saberes da vida na noite : percepções de mulheres que prestam serviços sexuais sobre o educar-se nas relações com seus clientes.
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-02)
Sousa, Fabiana Rodrigues de
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Oliveira, Maria Waldenez de
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3404769527869004
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/8905398833724166
This study had as objective to identify educational processes those are established in the relationship between prostitutes and their clients, and hat is stating point on the perception that those women has about the process. The dialog concept, writing by Paulo Freire orientated the way of collect and interpret the data on this study. These data was collected through three interviews made with seven prostitutes at nightclubs in São Carlos/SP. The analysis of the data discloses that, as well as in other social practical, in their relationship, prostitutes and their clients learn and teach each other. Some abilities as learning how to look at, to hear, to talk, to advice and to be humble are required from those women to broaden the understanding of their reality, not only at the nightclubs, but in all their lives.
Reconstrução de superfícies 3D a partir de nuvens de pontos usando redes neurais auto-organizáveis
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-06)
Mari, João Fernando
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Saito, José Hiroki
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7065615446493390
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/3582704696209050
This work consists of the implementation of a 3D surface reconstruction algorithm from point clouds, using Self-Organizing Neural Networks. Among the Neural Networks the SOM (Self-Organizing Map) is distinguished, since it is a self-organized model based on competitive learning. The proposed system is based on the GCC (Growing Cell Structures), a self-organizing neural network that is a SOM incremental variation with some alteration in the way that the positions of the direct neighbors of the winner node are updated, and also in the way that new nodes are inserted and inactive nodes are removed. The system has been improved by the inclusion of the edge-swap operation, improving the quality of the generated mesh and the convergence of the algorithm. The algorithm than has been called GCS-M (GCS-Modified). To evaluate the results obtained by the implementation of the proposed system had been used metrics to evaluate the quality of the mesh, based on the values of the minimum distances between the point cloud and the elements that compose the polygon mesh. With this comparison mechanism, it had been performed comparisons of the GCS-M algorithm results and the traditional methods results of surface reconstruction. The obtained results show that the proposed algorithm is very efficient, obtaining realistically reconstructed surfaces with low error measures.
Rustificação de plantas jovens de Coffea arabica L
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-06)
Novaes, Paula
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Prado, Carlos Henrique Britto de Assis
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7561749470600567
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1499847216040850
Young plants of Coffea arabica grafted over C. canephora were submitted to six watering cycles (WC) during 35 days. Each WC was accomplished until net photosynthesis (PN) close to zero or leaf water potential (Ψ) close to -2.0 MPa in Acauã (AC), Mundo- Novo (MN), and Obatã (OB) cultivars. After 2 WC (about 10 days) gs dropped from 0.15 to 0.01 mol m-2 s-1 in all cultivars changing the pattern of leaf gas exchange in subsequent WC. From 3 to 6 WC the cultivars showed high oscillations of water use efficiency or substomatal CO2 concentration (Ci) besides negative PN at the end of WC. After 3 WC, gs increased faster than PN after watering and Ci increased indicating some damage in photosynthetic machinery. It happened strongly in OB, which showed progressive reduction of PN after 3 WC and the lowest values of Ψ (-2.0 MPa) at the end of 6 WC. The survivorships for cultivars were 80% till 3 WC and 70% after 6 WC. The gas exchange pattern alteration could indicate the potential hardening of AC, MN and OB cultivars. After field plantation of hardened and control (without perivous hardening) Mundo-Novo and Obatã cultivars, with 180-days-old, it was observed significant (p<0.05) greater accumulation of leaf, stem and root biomass in hardened in control plants. Stem diameter, height and the number of leaf and branch were also higher (p<0.05) in previous hardened individuals. Greater differences in crown structure and biomass between control and hardened plants were observed mainly after the first period of low water availability (210 days under field conditions). The higher leaf number and leaf area in more branched crowns could carbon assimilation and grain production. For practical proposes, 3 WC before growing under field conditions are sufficient for changing consistently the leaf gas exchange pattern in 3 cultivars studied, keeping photosynthetic machinery free of damage and high survivorship. Previous hardening proportioned less interrupted vegetative development after transplantation under field conditions in both cultivars.
Macrófitas aquáticas submersas: fotossíntese, crescimento e variáveis abióticas da água
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-06)
Pezzato, Maura Maria
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Bianchini Júnior, Irineu
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/0659731944736389
Cabomba furcata and Egeria najas are rooted submerged species of aquatic macrophytes that occurred in Oleo Lagoon (21° 36 S e 47° 49 W), Mogi-Guaçu river floodplain (Ecological Station of Jataí, Luiz Antônio, SP). Limnological characteristics of the water and the net photosynthesis of C. furcata were determined in Oleo lagoon at the rainy and the dry periods (summer and winter, respectively); aiming to evaluate the influence of abiotic variables on photosynthetic rates in situ. The dry season, the lagoon s water was highly transparent, conversely, at the rainy season, the water presented high amounts of suspended matter, which decreased the water transparency. In laboratory, experiments were performed with C. furcata and E. najas to verify the influence of pH and light on net photosynthetic. Besides, the effect of temperature on growth rates and net photosynthesis were analyzed for E. najas. Photosynthesis rates were determined by changes in dissolved oxygen concentration using the light and dark bottles technique (Winkler´s method). The growth rates were estimated by increment of biomass. The abiotic variables examined and the net photosynthesis of C. furcata presented clear seasonal pattern. C. furcata and E. najas were capable to use only free CO2 dissolved in the water. Both species showed adaptability to low intensities of light and perhaps considered shade species. Nevertheless, C. furcata presented lower values of Ks than E. najas (25 and 55 µmol m-2 s-1, respectively), probably because it is less tolerant to high light intensities. The optimal temperature for E. najas growth rate was 25 ºC; with generally higher biomass gain between 20 and 30 ºC. The largest values of net photosynthesis of E. najas were obtained to 25 ºC, independent of the temperature it was acclimated (15 - 30 ºC). The processes of photosynthesis and growth of E. najas presented low sensibility to the temperature increase (Q10 = 1.85 and 1.17, respectively).
Ecologia trófica de aves de sub-bosque em duas áreas de Mata Atlântica no Sudeste do Brasil
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-11)
Manhães, Marco Antônio
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Dias Filho, Manoel Martins
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1346547036069954
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6353914519446994
Investigando a capacidade de comunicação e o consumo de bateria de PDAs em redes Bluetooth e Wi-Fi
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-11)
Lopes, Roberto Rigolin Ferreira
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Guardia, Hélio Crestana
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1780902767520967
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1889092865795289
This work presents an investigation about the behavior of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) in wireless networks, focusing on the communication capability and battery consumption. Our hypothesis consists that hardware features of a PDA influence the communication capability and battery consumption; therefore, they are relevant in the access selection. This hypothesis is pertinent because the automatic access selection is still a challenge in the next generation of wireless networks. These networks aim the interoperability among the various technologies of access to allow users to be connected always using the best possible network environment (ABC - Always Best Connected). With the objective of verifying the hypothesis, we have developed an application called PDA Stress which, through experiments, makes the quantitative evaluation of the communication capability and battery consumption of PDAs. In our experiments, we have used two PDAs with different processing capabilities in three different networks: Bluetooth, infra-structured Wi-Fi and ad hoc Wi-Fi. The results of this work confirm the presented hypothesis. As the ABC concept is still a subject of research, we believe that the choice of the mobile device and the communication technology should be done during the project phase of an application. To help this choice, we have developed an application called PDA Chooser, which is a Decision Support System (DSS) that supports selecting an appropriate PDA and communication technology to an specific scenario. The knowledge basis of the DSS was created based on the results we collected in the case studies.
Efeitos do cloreto mercuroso sobre o desenvolvimento do tecido ósseo : propriedades físicas, químicas e biomecânicas do fêmur de ratos
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-12)
Vidal, Fernando D´avila
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Nonaka, Keico Okino
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/7711249418825579
Because of the lack of data about the mercury influence on bone metabolism it is important to investigate the bone parameters that can be affected by its effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physical and biomechanical bone alterations in adult rats contaminated with mercurous chloride during their development. The animals were separated in experimental and control groups: 9 male rats treated with saline 0.9% (0.1 ml/100g BW) and 16 male rats treated with mercurous chloride (1.25mg/kg BW) during 60 days, 5 days/week, by the stomacal gavage. After that, the animals were sacrificed and the right femur was dissected. The body weight, femoral length and thickness of femoral diaphysis were measured. The mechanical properties (maximum and failure forces, stiffness and yield) of femurs were evaluated by the tree-point bending test using the universal machine Instron model 4444. The bone volume was estimated by the Archimedes Principle. The wet and ash weight were also determined. The weight, length and major and minor diameters of the femurs were not different between the groups; however the length and the major diameter showed tendency to decrease. There was an increase (p=0,0460) of bone density of the contaminated animals. The mineral density and the mechanical properties were not different between the both groups. The dose of mercurous chloride used had little effect on bone development. It was observed a tendency of higher values of bone biomechanical properties and a decrease of the biometric values of the contaminated group. This would characterize a more resistant bone in spite of a lower mineral content.
Alterações no desenvolvimento de Lactuca sativa L. e Dalbergia miscolobium Benth. produzidas por extratos de folhas de Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. e Melinis minutiflora Beauv
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-13)
Bonfim, Daniela Cristina
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Lima, Maria Inês Salgueiro
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/2171993314203162
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/9790013207172196
The present study objected to appraise in vitro the kind of interference that is produced by addicion of leaves extracts Brachiaria decumbens Stapf and Melinis minutiflora Beauv. (exotic species, alien weeds) collected in raining season (12/01/2006) and dry season (10/08/2006) over germination and initial development of Lactuca sativa L. (bioindicator species) and Dalbergia miscolobium Benth. (native species of savanna). It were verified also that pH and osmotic potencial of both B. decumbens and M. minutiflora extracts did not cause interference in seed germination indices. The germination of D. miscolobium was not affected by leaves extracts obtained of material collected in dry season and raining season. The germination speed was more sensitive to action of extracts than germination percentage of L. sativa. The total length of the seedlings was reduced in practically all treatments when, compared with the control group, however significative statistical differences were observed just in above-ground part of the seedlings of L. sativa treated with leaves extracts of B. decumbens collected in dry season. The L. sativa root was stimulated when leaves extracts of M. minutiflora collected in dry season was added in Petri dishes. For seedlings of D. miscolobium the leaves extracts of B. decumbens collected in dry season decreased the length of the above-ground part and the root, and the same was observed for leaves extracts of M. minutiflora collected in the raining season. Anatomy studies of root-tip cells carried of D. miscolobium e L. sativa showed that the extracts of B. decumbens e M. minutiflora cause damage on the root cells of seedlings with different intensities, but the root cells of D. miscolobium, showed alterations most emphasized.
Nos nervos, na carne, na pele : uma etnografia sobre prostituição travesti e o modelo preventivo de AIDS
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-13)
Silva, Larissa Maués Pelúcio
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Cardoso, Marina Denise
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/5018385548495872
This dissertation looks at the discussion that unfolds within the official STD/AIDS prevention model set up to provide attention to travestis involved in prostitution in the city of São Paulo. Using ethnographic methods, I have attempted to investigate how preventive discourse circulates through the travesti universe and what logic presides over the process, from the point of view of the particular ethos of this clientele. The concerns within the field have turned toward how AIDS is signified by travestis, the meanings of illness and suffering, as well as the care that is given to the body and thereby, to the construction of personhood. The project Tudo de Bom!, housed within the public health organ STD/AIDS City of São Paulo which belongs to the Municipal Secretariat of Health, provided empirical bases for my study of how the preventive model was operationalized. My point of departure is the notion that the adopted preventive model - notwithstanding the specific and differentiated connotation it is given in the case of particular segments - can be characterized by a scientific and technical rationality and universalizing normative values that are not necessarily compatible with the social logic that prevails in the organization of the pertinent social networks and the differentiated values upon which they are based. I go on to suggest the hypothesis that recent public policies devoted to this segment have focused their attention on bearers of deviant sexualities as a target population - among which travestis are included - without any greater consideration of the relationship of the latter to the men with whom they relate sexually. Since these men fall within normalized categories, they become invisible for hetero-centered health policies that choose their target groups through criteria based on epidemiological references rather than considering the social and cultural dimensions of relationships in the different contexts in which these populations act.
Entre a solidariedade e o risco: sindicatos e fundos de pensão em tempos de governo Lula
(Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007-06-13)
Jardim, Maria Aparecida Chaves
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Grün, Roberto
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/6028266827740491
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https://lattes.cnpq.br/1100188232208602
The social inclusion projects of President Lula s first term accordingly proceeded through the market, as for instance: the Microcredit project, Banco Popular do Brasil (Brazil s Popular Bank) and especially the pension funds. Social inclusion by way of market is part of PT s political policies, which surveys have provisionally considered as moralization and/or domestication of capitalism, seeing that it strives to apply the money from speculation into productive activities that are capable of generating employment and income for workers. The moralization and/or domestication of capitalism is perceptible in the creation and management guidelines of the pension funds, which became consolidated as a great concern in the Federal Government s program, the three central unions of the country (especially CUT) and the labor unions, especially in the banking and electricity federations. The interaction among the syndicalists and former syndicalists in the Lula Government, businessmen from the pension funds sector and the Federal Government, bespeaks the complicity of interests and the convergence of the elite around the precise configuration of the pension funds. Thus, supported by the discourse of social responsibility, ethical investment, democratic management of the funds, protection of workers savings and the fight against capitalism, by means of their own instruments (domestication of capitalism), the Brazilian syndicalists have expanded accumulated legitimacy to the financial area in the workers scope. Therefore, their argument on management/protection of workers savings is justified as morally legitimate. Taking into account the aforementioned context, the present doctorate thesis set out to understand the social convention changes that the Brazilian syndicalism undergoes, the ambiguities and contradictions of such syndicate actions and the factual role and power our syndicates command. By the same token, it sought to comprehend the social inclusion policies by means of the market of the Lula Government. Lastly, it placed emphasis on the international ideas regarding the pension funds project, as well as the new institutionalizations created by the market s consolidation of pension funds in Brazil. The present work was theoretically influenced by Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Marcel Mauss, Robert Castel, among renowned professionals of the Brazilian and international Social Sciences. Empirically, interviews were conducted with syndicalists, members of the Lula Government and those who oppose the pension funds project, in addition to observation participation in the events of this sector. Moreover, field work was carried out in central unions in France