This dissertation discusses the contract inspection service of federal public universities established in the state of São Paulo. Contract inspectors have the responsibility of ensuring compliance with administrative ...

For the last decades, many Machine Learning methods have been proposed aiming categorizing data. Given many tentative models, those methods try to find the one that fits the dataset by building a hypothesis that predicts ...

This study analyzes the dynamics of Brazilian structural external vulnerability in perspective compared to the other BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the period of high commodity prices ...

In the current knowledge age, with the continuous growth of the web data volume and where business decisions must be made quickly, traditional BI mechanisms become increasingly inaccurate in order to help the decision-making ...

The technological and economical changes observed in the last quarter of 20th century, associated with the tech-economical paradigm based on the microelectronic, built the bases to the resurgence of the Networking company, ...

Waste generation is a global challenge to be faced, especially in industrializing countries such as Brazil, where high waste generation in line with structural problems and inadequate waste management can result in ...

The self-management practiced in the current cooperatives lost the grandeur of their origin, when it was treated as government system where the people would be sovereign and the decisions would flow from the bottom up. The ...

The main objective of this research is to propose a Cleaner Production (CP) management methodology for small companies. CP can be understood as continual application of a preventive environmental strategy integrated to ...

There are many studies in the literature that have shown the relationship between stock levels and financial performance, through profitability indicators, mostly to US manufacturing firms. However, the influence of the ...

The production strategy has been considered important to obtain advantages over competitors. Its content is made up of competitive priorities and decision categories (or areas) that should develop such priorities. Among ...