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This study analyzes the process of productive specialization of the work in Maranhão, through the advance triggered by the implementation of the manufacturing unit of Suzano Paper and Cellulose in the municipality of Empress, southwest of the state. Methodologically, in addition to reviewing the relevant literature, secondary data on transformations in local employment and local professional qualifications derived from the implementation of Suzano were used together with field research. The data used originate from RAIS; CAGED; IBGE, in addition to technical schools and local universities. The results found made it possible to verify that there is a specialization of the workforce in progress to meet the logic and full functioning of the pulp production chain in Imperatriz - MA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pulp and paper sector has a notable highlight in the Brazilian economy, contributing significantly to the trade balance, job creation and investments. Currently, the sector basically uses wood from two genus to produce pulp for the short fiber and long fiber segments, Eucalyptus and Pinus, respectively. However, it's essential to study new raw materials, which may arise as an alternative to those already consolidated. In this sense, the objective is to evaluate the properties of Liquidambar styraciflua wood for the pulp and paper production. For this, five 7-year-old trees were used, from which discs were extracted along the trunk to evaluate the basic density, chemical composition and morphology of the wood fibers. The mean and weighted basic density values obtained for L. styraciflua wood were 0.482 and 0.484 g/cm², respectively, which allowed classifying it as medium density, a value close to that of other hardwood species used for pulp production. Regarding the chemical composition, low levels of ash (0.29%) and lignin (24.71%) and high levels of holocellulose (70.88%) and extractives (4.40%) were observed. As for the morphological characterization of the fibers, the mean values of length of 1.82 mm, width of 27.84 µm, lumen diameter of 16.10 µm and wall thickness of 5.87 µm were observed. In addition, mean values of 42.60%, 57.40%, 0.77 and 65.22 were obtained for the parameters of wall fraction, flexibility coefficient, Runkel index and felting index, respectively. In general, based on the physical-chemical-anatomical characteristics obtained for the L. styraciflua wood, it's concluded that it has aptitude for the pulp and paper production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to examine the themes produced by students in the research paper projects of the Pedagogy course, in Distance Education modality. This research is qualitative, of documentary character. The results of the analysis indicate that students prefer to frequent themes from academic literature (ludic). It was also noticed the insufficiency or absence of the theoretical framework in the projects. The methodology used by the students was, primarily, those of bibliographic and documentary nature. Regarding the sources, it was found difficulties in defining the search websites. During the writing of the project, students used non-scientific websites, such as blogs, portals and / or news reports. The analysis of the writing of the works evidenced difficulties of the students in relation to writing texts. It concludes the importance of the professor advisor, since the very beginning of the elaboration of research projects, once it is up to the professors to instrumentalize the students for the construction of cohesive and consistent theoretical and methodological references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizations remain competitive through investments in technology or changes in the production line, focusing on lean production. In a nutshell, companies evolve by adapting to new ways of work processes. To support innovation and maximize production with better use of inputs, the concept of Lean Manufacturing arose. Originally, Lean Manufacturing appears in the Toyota company, being recognized and used by companies around the world to optimize production processes. This paper discusses the implementation of some Lean Manufacturing tools in a company in the paper industry to identify and eliminate production bottlenecks, optimizing the manufacturing flow. In the form of a case study, methodologically, as an applied research, the Mario Bunge's CESM model (Composition, Environment, Structure and Mechanism) is used for understanding the production process as a system and facilitate the analysis of inherent phenomena. Based on some experiments, it is pointed out that the adoption of Lean Manufacturing tools allows optimizing the productive process of the organization under investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 21st century, there is a growing Brazilian academic interest from professors and students in researching realities from Asia, especially in postgraduate courses in Language Arts, Philosophy and Human Science. The paper aims not only to point to a broader panorama of Centers, Nuclei, Programs, Research, Study and Work Groups, Thematic Sessions and Events with Asian themes in the aforementioned academic areas in Brazil, but also to make a brief analysis of the papers carried out in Work Groups and Thematic Sessions of the ANPTECRE and PPCIR (CONACIR) national congresses dedicated to realities of Asian origin, taking into account three criteria, i.e. Religious Studies methodologies used, the genres of authorship, and the religious traditions that were approached by these papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The process of continuously updating technologies, processes, and products has placed innovation at the center of the discussions of different institutions. Once the need to remain competitive, and beyond that, to be at the forefront of these modifications has become something necessary for the survival of organizations, the process of renewing project portfolios, as well as their management, is fundamental to tread the path towards innovation. Several methodologies are available to promote the generation of ideas and enhance the processes already underway. Among these, the Tecnology Roadmap (TRM) is an important tool for collecting ideas, helping in the process of strategic formulation, as well as in the definition of actions related to the planning of new products, processes and technologies. The use of the TRM methodology allowed a company in the metal-mechanic segment to delineate its project portfolio from the collection and prioritization of ideas in a collaborative way. Thus, the hot forming process was considered in 2019 as a process aligned to the company's strategic direction, being prioritized and incorporated to the project portfolio. From the use of test specimens with 22MnB5 hot forming steel with 8.00 mm thickness, through the analysis of cooling rate, microstructure, and microhardness, it was possible to verify satisfactory mechanical and metallurgical behavior, enabling the use of steel for commercial road vehicle structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nurse is the main link for the patient's adaptation to his health condition. Based on observations, actions and clarifications from the former, the latter can understand what affects their health status, adopt practices or manage the new condition, and even perform self-care. The role modeling theory developed by Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin and Mary Swain portrays the nurse-patient interaction and caring as an instrument for adapting to the health situation. With the objective of knowing the scientific production that applies it in women's health care. An integrative review study was carried out on productions published between 1998 and 2016, in international journals, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, using the VHL Nursing, PubMed and Scopus platforms. Among the articles found, four were selected for analysis that addressed women's health care and the use of theory. It was observed the flexibility of adoption of the same in studies of assistance to the health of the parturient, of the chemical dependent, in addition to the prevention of diseases to the women's health. The usefulness of paper modeling and its potential for teaching and research promoting self-efficacy in women's health can be seen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand how violent deaths suffered by common people and their media coverage are approached in the field of Communication, focusing on the sense-making processes about violence and its structural nature. In order to do so, we analysed papers about the media coverage around murders, published in 26 journals in the field of Communication, classified as A2 and B1 in the Brazilian "Qualis Capes" ranking. Based on the ways of identifying the victims and the circumstances of their deaths, in interaction with the ways of naming such violence, presented in the papers' empirical and analytical dimensions, we designed an overview of the silences and absences in the epistemic constructions about violence in media and academia in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although they are pegged to receive, emergencies occur with some frequency and sometimes cannot be "predicted" or even when emergency situations occur they become crucial and can save an organization from a harmful disbursement. However, most urgent purchases are oriented toward the low or inexistent planning, which, in addition to the economic factor in increasing the value of the good or the service, affects the areas involved, and even the image of the organization, the environmental and safety factors. Thus, the cause of emergencies becomes an indication and the negotiations can mean reduction of millions in expenses of large industries. Thus, the study became systemic in the emergency purchases of a large Brazilian pulp and paper producer, in addition, a methodology that allowed the reduction of planting and application costs. As a result, the goal of a 10% reduction in emerging expenditures in 2018 when compared to the previous year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work sought to analyze and suggest improvements to the goods distribution process carried out by the goods distribution center of a food retail company, formed by four self-service stores, located in the city of Santa Maria, in Rio Grande do Sul. case study is characterized as a descriptive research, with a qualitative approach. For data collection, a bibliographic review was first carried out in order to understand concepts about the proposed theme in a second moment, the data survey was carried out through interviews and local observation. The results made it possible to identify and describe the macroprocess of distribution of goods that is pre-defined, which is composed of the subprocesses of receiving, storage and shipping, but all occur in an organic way, without any type of descriptive script or graphic diagram, formalized. Therefore, the implementation of the BPMN diagram, made it possible to clearly visualize the flow of the activities of the Distribution Center, thus making it possible to formalize its activities in future training of conferring employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paper Kinship: Law, Power and Resistance in an Ethnographic Scene with Foreign Migrants starts from an "ethnographic scene" with foreign migrants in a lawyer's office to discuss the role that migratory documents play on kinship in the transnational movement. By doing this, it highlights how the state and the Law discipline these relations and how migrants themselves, using the legal logic of documentary production, elaborate themselves as persons, in resistance to state power. Based on this experience, named here as paper kinship, a reelaboration of the concept of document is proposed, encompassing both the bureaucratic agency and that of the subjects of documentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the rhetorical structure of the results and discussion section of scientific papers of the colleges of Life Sciences and Exact, Technological and Multidisciplinary Sciences. In addition to investigating rhetorical relationships, clues (linguistic signals) that signal the relationships are also investigated. The theoretical-methodological model adopted is the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), a descriptive theory that studies the organization of texts, characterizing the relations held between its parts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on initial teacher education, in the development of teaching study tasks, especially related to the end-of-course work. The research question is: Which reasons support the mathematics undergraduates' choices for the theme and development of the end-of-course work? In connection with the problem, this research analyzes the reasons that justify undergraduates' choices in the production of that work. The text is based on historical-cultural theory, with emphasis on the psychological and didactic principles of activity theory, on the development of students' reasons and meanings when faced with the social meanings of initial education. The methodology is developed through a formative pedagogical intervention carried out with two mathematics undergraduate students. The data production has an empirical reference in the transcripts of interviews and moments of collective advice for the development of academic work materialized in article format. The analysis is carried out from the perspective of historical-dialectical materialism, which demonstrates results through the reasons that lead students to create meanings of their experiences in the development of initial training, especially during the training processes throughout graduation. In addition to these cases, the persuasion of peers was also observed, demonstrating relationships on the theoretical-methodological/ideological orientations in their perceptions about the pedagogical activity in the interventions carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we aim to analyze the effective practices of students in the 2nd grade of high school when they perform tasks on the representation of geometric solids in the paper/pencil environment, based on the manipulation of Concrete Object Construction Project (PCOC) models, obtained by rapid prototyping on the 3D printer. For that, we appropriated the Institutional Analysis and Didactic Sequence as a research methodology. We immerse our studies in the theoretical framework constituted by the Anthropology Theory of Didactics, with emphasis on its praxeological approach, to provide us with elements of analysis of the techno-theoretical techniques and speeches in Spatial Geometry, mobilized by the students in their effective practices. The results reveal that students can represent the solids considered in the paper/pencil environment but do not indicate or describe the techniques they use in the referred representations during their effective practices. Therefore, this is a problem of the reference institution, particularly the 2nd grade of high school, which does not provide training to students involving the indications and descriptions, as we proceeded in developing our a priori analysis around the PCOCs that we worked on with these students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we present a methodology to assess wrist pressure during the handwriting process. Using optical coherence tomography, it was possible to determine the deformation suffered by the paper during the handwriting process. A calibration of the deformation suffered by the paper as a function of the pressure exerted by the pen was performed, making it possible to determine several parameters of interest, such as the radius of the pen tip sphere R = 488 ± 2 ¡im, the Poisson coefficient v = 0.30 ± 0.02 and the effective Young's modulus of bond paper 75 g/m2. To this end, we developed a method for determining the Hooke modulus for a spring, with which we built a device for applying a known force to a ballpoint pen during the handwriting process. We also performed the study depending on the type of substrate, with five volunteers trying to copy the same signature on four different types of paper. Using the optical coherence tomography technique, we demonstrate that it is possible to differentiate the authorship of a signature also by the depth of deformation on the paper. The experimental procedure also made it possible to determine the Poisson's coefficient and determine the effective Young's Modulus of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze a high-impact management article to understand the contribution of rhetoric in it. To this end, we selected the most cited study in research about TQM in 25 years, the article on strategy "The capabilities of market-driven organizations", by George S. Day (1994). To ground this analysis, a theoretical framework was developed mainly considering the rhetorical concepts of speaker, auditorium, agreement, and types of argument, as elaborated by Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca (2010). Finally, the results showed that Day used rhetorical tools - such as the arguments of example, authority and reciprocity - consistently throughout the article, thus increasing the adhesion to his thesis, which may have contributed to the success and repercussion achieved by the author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the recent productive restructuring process inside the Imperatriz state of Maranhão territory, by the production chain of paper and cellulose. To achieve this objective, it presents the transformations created by this process from three strands: increase of the plantation area to grow eucalyptus, the mobility of the capital by the transportation facilities of raw material and labor force specialization, presenting the data of the cities that produce eucalyptus and its expansion based in the plantation area increase. Besides that, it maps the expansion of the paper and cellulose industries in Brazil and its logistics that transports the raw material. In addition, it presents the data of labor transformations based on the changes in the labor market, technical and college education. This is achieved presenting the cartographic and photo production, from statistical data of the Brazilian wood industry, from the annual report of social information, from the general registry of employed and unemployed people, labor statistics dissemination program and local teaching institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Revista de la Universidad Técnica del Estado (1969–1973) was an academic periodical publication. Its aim was to disseminate the institution’s processes of transformation, which drew from the university reform movement. The periodical was immersed in the period of political transition, from the Christian democratic regime of Eduardo Frei Montalva to the socialist government programs of Salvador Allende. Its editorial production and printing processes were handled by the Universidad Técnica del Estado’s editorial department and graphic workshop, respectively—areas of the university whose work extended beyond institutional walls. This article aims to establish a dialogue between the publication and its political-educational context through reviewing a variety of topics, authors, and writing styles. Finally, it seeks to make visible the dynamics and experiences of the journal’s design work through analyzing visual production (covers and part-title pages) and the previously unpublished testimonials of the group of designers responsible for each issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text aims to analyze the territorialization of the capital in Alagoa's agrarian space through the expansion of the wood-paper-cellulose complex. During a long period the monoculture of sugar cane occupied the best lands of the State, however within the last few years in the face of the sugar-ethanol sector crisis, extensive hectares of land, once designed to grasses, have been set as ide space to Eucalyptus monoculture. The phenomenon is inserted as part of the globalized accumulation of capitals context, in which capitalist stake possession of lands between the tropics for the monoculture of commercial trees, combining the trade of commodities, and to the financial capital. It is assumed that the extraordinary soil and climatic conditions found in Alagoas and the support offered by the State act as an incentive to the partial replacement the sugar cane for eucalyptus. The underlyingcontradictionsregardingthephenomenonfollowingtheexampleoftheState'sfoodsover eigntyweakeningandofenvironmentalimpacts, also are objects in the present reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to analyze how the digital environment has influenced the production of a specific genre: the paper presentation in scientific events. Thus, based on a brief overview of studies around the notion of genre (Voloschinov, 1997; Adam, 2001; Adam and Heidman, 2011, Marcuschi, 2008), we seek to point out to what extent this genre maintains or not its characteristics in the face of technodiscursive affordances (Paveau, 2017) in the online production mode. For this, we started by analyzing three presentations made during the Linguistweets event, organized by ABRALIN, on Twitter. The analysis of the productions allowed us to trace a continuum of possibilities of appropriation of the technodiscursive potentialities afforded by the platform from two poles. One tends to maintain a more traditional model of this genre, and the other moves towards its updating. These emerge from the way the readwriters mobilize Twitter's technodiscursive affordances. Thus, we verify, on the one hand, the maintenance of certain characteristics of offline presentations and, on the other hand, the production of multi/delinearized presentations, marked by relationality, by enunciative augmentation, by more horizontal and symmetrical dynamics, which characterize, therefore, the digital native discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten years ago the first version of the guiding document of the National Curriculum Guidelines (DCNs) was published, for the formation of bachelors in Journalism, and no longer in Social Communication. Almost simultaneously, the Supreme Court announced the end of the diploma requirement for professional practice. These apparently antagonistic facts impacted the demand for the course, the professional identity and the profile of the Brazilian journalist in the second decade of the third millennium. From the observation of the Undergraduate Conclusion Papers (TCCs), prepared by future bachelors in Journalism - and no longer in Social Communication, graduated at the Niterói campus of Estácio de Sá University, between 2014-2018, we sought to identify theoretical and perceptions of the changing professional identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the intention of following international changes in accounting practices, the Federal Accounting Council created, in 2005, through Resolution 1.055/05, the Accounting Pronouncements Committee, with the aim of centralizing the preparation of accounting standards in Brazil. Brazilian regulatory bodies approved CPC 29, in 2009, which deals with accounting treatment and disclosure of biological assets and agricultural products. Thus, the objective of this study was to find out what information the companies in the paper and cellulose segment, listed on B3 S.A., disclose about Biological Assets. Five companies with a balance of biological assets were analyzed in the financial statements, from 2010 to 2017. From an analysis structure, 11 items were observed to be followed by the companies, for the disclosure of biological assets, in accordance with the CPC 29. The results show that most companies chose to measure, initially, their biological assets at fair value. The five companies, from the period 2012 to 2017, showed 100% compliance with eight of the nine items to be disclosed, required by CPC 29, related to measurement at fair value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sludge generated in the paper recycling industries presents characteristics of a fibrous mass of brown color, being classified as residue II A - no inert. Previously, most of the industries have had the landfill as the final form of disposal of this kind of waste. However, nowadays, the companies are looking for better usable alternatives for those residues, as the treatment for using the residues as inputs in other processes and products, with the intention to avoid or to reduce environmental liabilities. In this context, the aim of the present work was the study of a biological treatment for the paper recycling sludge, through the construction, operation and monitoring of windrow composting. Due to the intrinsic characteristics of the sludge, as low C/N ratio and high content of nitrogen, it had been necessary to add residue of pruning and weeding and sugarcane bagasse in the experiments to reach appropriate values for the composting. At the end of the experiment, the residue of pruning and weeding with sludge composting, generated an organic compost, potentially usable as a fertilizer, which complies to the established values for the Ministry of Agriculture, instituted by the Instruction Normative n° 25 of 23/07/2009. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to investigate the Compós' WG papers: Epistemology of Communication and Communication and Cyberculture. The objective is to test the hypothesis that the field of communication in Brazil is still not very sensitive to neomaterialists theories, and that approaches to objects and to the field as a whole are developed under an anthropocentric perspective. 60 papers were analyzed. The data show that among the 37 texts with evident epistemological position, 62% are anthropocentric, and 13% non-anthropocentric, 50% are in Communication and Cyberculture WG, and 71% in Epistemology of Communication WG. Due to the non-probabilistic approach used in this investigation, we cannot generalize the findings. However, the results support our hypothesis, pointing out that although it is rising, anthropocentric perspectives still predominate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paulo Freire is the most cited author in bibliographic references of papers in the Brazilian area of Science Education destined for teacher training. However, analytical-contextual knowledge on this is lacking and still requires further investigation. For example, what would be the profile of the citations? In which types of citations does Freire appear? For what purpose? Why? To answer most of these questions, this study aims to analyze Paulo Freire citations in papers from the Brazilian area of Science Education. We carried out a Bibliometric survey where we analyzed citations. We researched five journals: Ciência & Educação, Ensaio Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, Investigações em Ensino de Ciências, Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, and Alexandria: Revista de Educação em Ciência e Tecnologia. If Freire's ideas have been challenged within the restricted environment of a few political parties in Brazil, in the area of scientific knowledge there was an opposite effect: in research on teacher training in the Brazilian area of Science Education, Paulo Freire's theoretical and methodological contributions prevailed quantitatively and qualitatively in citations characterized as organic, conceptual, evolutionary and confirmatory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Site Specific, um Romance, by Fábio Morais (2013), unites the narrative literary text in several arts and in an academic monograph. In order to analyze the structural arrangement of the book, this paper presents it as words converted into images and takes the essay "Voyage on The North Sea", by Rosalind Krauss (1999), as a foundation to the understanding of this singular literature work related to audiovisual. Besides noting the aesthetic efficacy of a written book that can be an image art, as conclusions, I suggest that the work seems to point to the relationship between humanity, literature and image as ever closer,. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze three types of syntactic structures with the verb acabar in Brazilian Portuguese: those with the verb acabar followed by a gerund clause (eu acabei escrevendo o artigo - I ended up writing the paper); those in which the same verb is followed by the preposition por and an infinitive clause (eu acabei por escrever o artigo - I ended up writing the paper (I finished for write the paper)); and those in which the verb is followed by a finite CP (acabou que eu escrevi o artigo - I ended up writing the paper (finished that I wrote the paper)). The three structures convey a close meaning, which includes a set of circumstances or events implied or mentioned in the context that culminates or causes the event expressed by the clause following the verb acabar, and in the three constructions the verb acabar behaves as a typical raising verb. The work argues that in the syntactic context of these three types of phrasal complement the meaning of the root of the verb acabar includes a superevent, let us call it S, which brings together the set of circumstances or events referred to above, and establishes that such set culminates or causes the event (or a state resulting or associated with such an event) conveyed by the complement clause. The paper also shows that the different phrasal complements can establish distinct temporal relationships between the culmination of the superevent S and the time of the event expressed by the subordinate clause, and also have distinct syntactic properties, such as the possibility of topicalization or contrastive focusing within the subordinate clause, in its left periphery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study drew statistical studies between the increased use of information technology and paper consumption in the Brazilian market, using data for twenty years. Through the literature review on the topic and statistical tests, it was investigated whether corporate investments in information technology provided to reduce the consumption of certain types of papers. The results corroborate the earlier study, developed by Moraes Meirelles and Nacimiento (2010), which was analyzed in a period of six years, indicating that the use of IT did not bring benefit to the reduction of paper consumption. It is evident through this study that the values of IT investments by companies participating in this research had positive correlation with the fall in consumption of newsprint and writing paper type, indicating that, possibly, access to digital information through reduced the use of newspapers. It is also evident in the increased consumption of other types of paper such as newsprint and packaging, consumption increased along with IT investments, thus we can deduce that the easy access to computer equipment, including printers would lead to the printing of electronic files, as well as increased sales of electronic equipment tends to increase the use of packing paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most of Health Services Waste (HSW) is similar to household waste. Therefore the proper waste segregation avoids the contamination of ordinary waste and that reduces the potential risk to public health, besides providing the recovery of recycling waste. Our main objective with this study was to promote the recovery of paper and to evaluate the disposal of recyclable waste or the reuse of the containers of infectious waste, in the maternity of a public hospital, located in São Paulo city. With this, a secondary objective was to promote the recovery of paper in such an environment. The initiative to recover recyclable paper took place in two stages: a period without orientation and a period with it. In the period without orientation we observed the loss of recyclable waste, due to the potential of contamination by the presence of infectious waste. On the other hand, during the period under orientation, the contamination of the wastes was avoided although inadequate segregation of other recyclable waste, such as plastic, occurred. In the containers of group A (infecting waste), we recorded 340 occurrences of waste that could be recycled or reused. Irregularities in the segregation stage demonstrate the need for continuing education programs on the importance of recycling and of proper segregation of HSW. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objetivo: Identificar evidencia de la relevancia de la estructura de capital y de las principales estrategias bancarias para la maximización del valor en los bancos. Metodología: Se trata de una investigación empírica-analítica, descriptiva, con un enfoque cuantitativo. Los datos longitudinales se obtuvieron de la base de datos Economatica® entre el primer trimestre de 2008 y el cuarto trimestre de 2018. Se realizaron pruebas de regresión lineal con datos de panel (panel data). Principales resultados: Existe evidencia de la relevancia de la estructura de capital y la influencia de estrategias bancarias para la rentabilidad de los bancos medida con base en ROICAJUSTADO. Relevancia y originalidad: La actualidad, relevancia y la discusión crítica inevitable sobre el tema despiertan el interés del ámbito académico por la investigación dirigida al análisis crítico de la relevancia de la estructura de capital y las estrategias operativas para la maximización del valor. Contribuciones teóricas: Proporciona el inevitable debate académico sobre la relevancia de la estructura de capital y las principales estrategias bancarias para la maximización del valor en los principales bancos brasileños cotizados en la bolsa. Contribuciones sociales: Contribuye al processo de toma de decisiones de gestores, inversores, analistas financieros y organismos reguladores del sector al abordar la relevancia de la estructura de capital para los bancos, los riesgos y costos involucrados, los principales aspectos que incentivan niveles elevados de apalancamiento financiero y factores determinantes para la rentabilidad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investments in training and development programs are steadily increasing in organizations. Along with them, the concern of companies in analyzing the results of their programs grows. This study has the objective of building an evaluation model of training results, proposed for the Coil Finishing area of a Pulp and Paper company, using the Kirkpatrick methodology, which proposes the division of the evaluation into 4 levels, which are: Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Results. The final model is presented, and may guide other studies in the creation of their own models, however, indicators and data should be adapted to each organizational situation, considering their particularities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the efforts of Salazar regime to "monopolize the legitimate means of people movement" (TORPEY, 2005) by showing that, during the Portuguese New State, the emigration control reached an apex on two circumstances in which the authorities had prohibited the boarding of some migrants who were ready to legally leave the country. The desperate letters written by some Portuguese families, who were forbidden to emigrate to São Paulo´s farms in 1938, and by those subjects prohibited to leave Portugal due to the 1947´s law demonstrate the materiality of boards made of decrees and ministerial dispatches signed by an authoritarian government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an experience report about the difficulties faced by an undergraduate student of the bachelor's degree in Geography at the Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA), to elaborate her final term paper, addressing the theme of gender issues, particularly on domestic violence against women. Given the need to seek for transforming and combating some conceptions rooted in this patriarchal, chauvinist, sexist and racist society, it is essential to put in the center of the academic discussions and reflections issues that afflict women, since the University is an important space for the deconstruction of paradigms. In this sense, this article aims to "provoke" Geography teachers and students to think/research on this subject. Such themes are not only important, but fundamental and should be treated/discussed in academic spaces, especially in the context of teacher training programs in Geography, which has as its object of study the geographical space and the relations between human beings and their environment. even demanding, therefore, that people who act as teachers be professionals prepared/formed to deconstruct "patriarchal" models and patterns that subdue and subjugate women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that researchers can carry out subtle and complex ways of elaborating the words of others (BAZERMAN, 2011) in the writing of academic-scientific texts, we intend to examine, in this study, forms of dialogue with the words of others in the writing of scientific articles produced by young researchers. Based on theoretical assumptions of the Bakhtin Circle about the dialogical approach of language and on papers that discuss academic-scientific writing, we have analyzed a corpus composed of 10 scientific articles produced by master's students. The results have indicated that, in the process of appropriation of scientific writing by the young researcher, the dialogue with the word of another in its interdiscursive dimension is marked, in a stressed way, by quotative practices with arrangements that, in terms of form and content, are not always considered acceptable from the point of view of academic-scientific conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the literary productions of "Chico hard, ink and paper" and how the process of crossing, or transposition of languages, present in their narrative structures, configures the signature of their new writing project. Therefore, we opted for a comparative study that happens in three different fronts: in the first, by problematizing categories such as translation, signature and writing, we seek to map the categories of thought that give theoretical support to the aesthetic work undertaken by Chico Buarque. In the second, we aim to demonstrate how the narrative structure of the novel Budapest is constructed through a mirror metaphor, in which cinema presents itself as the double of literature. Finally, we question how Chico Buarque's narratives can be metonymy of a contemporary Brazilian literary cartography that is characterized mainly by the intense processes of crossing and breaking borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowing the physiological potential of seeds under certain conditions and storage periods is essential to ensure their availability with adequate quality, as well as information on more productive genotypes. Thus, this work was carried out to analyze the quality of seeds of different cowpea genotypes stored in bags of multifolium paper in a cold chamber during a period of 48 months and subsequently to evaluate the yield potential in the field. For this, two studies were conducted, both at the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), campus of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil. The first stage was carried out in the laboratory with seed quality evaluation and the second stage was carried out in the field with evaluation of phytotechnical parameters of the genotypes of plants originated from seeds stored. The treatments consisted of eight genotypes of cowpea, of which five were cultivars (BRS Guariba, BRS Novaera, BRS Tumucumaque, BRS Itaim, BRS Cauamé) and three lines (MNC04-769F-49, MNC04-769F-62, MNC04-795F-159). The main conclusions of both experiments were that the seeds conserved in a cold chamber for 48 months did not suffer depreciation in quality, vigor and germination capacity, as well as the plants originated from these seeds also showed satisfactory yield, especially the line MNC04-769F-62. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to analyze, from the input-output matrix, sectoral interconnection level indicators of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) economy and demand impacts on employment and income. This general equilibrium model allows to generate employment and income policies, necessary for the development of the State based on a proposal directed to the Society, the Environment and Sustainable Regional Development. Thus, the sectors that impact the most were identified as follows: Trade and Services, Pulp and Paper Products, Mining and Quarrying, Clothing Items and Accessories, Leather Goods. The results presented provide guidance for the development and rational planning of public and private policies to stimulate the State's economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current stellar evolution models establish that stars which have up to approximately eight times the solar mass yield white dwarfs at the end of their lifes. Works appeared at the 1920s described such objects as formed essentially by a gas of electrons and nucleons, where the force of its degeneracy pressure equalized the gravitational contraction, giving rise to stable bodies with high densities. At the 1930s Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar launched his approach to the white dwarf problem in papers where he deduced the densities and the maximum mass allowed for those stars. Such a maximum value is known nowadays as the Chandrasekhar limit and the aim here is to analyze the original papers by its discoverer, presenting in a didactic form the steps which led to the deduction of that important result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work seeks to present the proposal and the ways of conducting the project to update the laboratory journal of the Bachelor's Degree in Journalism course at Centro Universitário Uninter, entitled Jornal Marco Zero, through the updating of the graphic project, as well as by the use of convergence resources and technological connection of printed journal whit the digital and virtual medium through the use of Qr-code and Augmented Reality application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For endodontic treatment is performed correctly every substance, instrumental and medication inserted into the root canals should be free from microorganisms. The moisture in the root canal system can interfere with the last step of the dental treatment. To perform the step of root canal filling is necessary drying with the use of these absorbent paper cones. In order to verify whether absorbent paper cones sold in the market were free of contamination or not, a study was conducted with two brands: Endopoints® cell pack, Dentsply®, Endopoints® conventional and conventional totaling 180 samples, which were taken to the laboratory of Microbiology at the Universidade Severino Sombra and performed the analysis. With the result of the research it was found to be indispensable better handling of absorbent paper cones and packaging cell type pack may be the best choice in controlling contamination and successful endodontic treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O tema-problema da pesquisa que se pretende desenvolver é o abandono por parte do Estado em relação aos refugiados venezuelanos, pela negação do visto. Em decorrência a este fenômeno, o número de refugiados que chega ao Estado de Roraima tem crescido de forma vertiginosa, o que causa receio na população local, como é sabido e ao mesmo tempo uma sobrecarga burocrática no estado para a legalização e emissão de vistos para todos os indivíduos como explicitado na Lei do Migrante, número 13.445 (BRASIL, 2017). Ademais, o atual contato com os refugiados por todo território brasileiro tem gerado um sentimento de aversão, principalmente no âmbito econômico, haja vista que a nação está em um momento de recessão e com isso, a dificuldade de emprego fixo e com carteira assinada, a deficiência ainda maior dos serviços públicos tem sido uma constante na vida dos nacionais e em suas mentalidades os imigrantes acirraram essa disputa. Os nativos sentem insegurança em relação aos refugiados, que no senso comum do Brasil são vistos como perigosos e criminosos. São esses medos gerados pelo preconceito e pela incapacidade do Estado em reconhecer e integrar os refugiados que acarretam em atos cruéis como a destruição de acampamentos improvisados de venezuelanos e a expulsão do país destes pelos brasileiros, ações que ferem os direitos individuais dos imigrantes. Dessa forma, o problema objeto da investigação científica proposta é: quais as principais repercussões jurídicas das violações da emissão de visto aos refugiados? A partir das reflexões preliminares sobre o tema, é possível afirmar inicialmente que a pesquisa busca entender formas que possam assegurar os plenos direitos humanos aos dos refugiados venezuelanos, a partir da regulamentação dos documentos. Além disso, visa buscar meios de se integrar socialmente esses imigrantes em solo brasileiro e dessa forma, tentar coibir o sentimento de xenofobia, que infelizmente já é uma realidade social. Sendo assim, o objetivo geral do trabalho é analisar as dificuldades em garantir os direitos dos venezuelanos sem visto, os quais estão inseridos na atual crise humanitária. E, outrossim como objetivos específicos do trabalho, enumeram-se os seguintes: levantar as privações que os venezuelanos sofrem atualmente, tais como fome, falta de trabalho e moradia; constatar os fatores que levam os venezuelanos a imigração; refletir as condições governamentais da Venezuela atual; analisar a influência da potência americana no cenário de crise venezuelano; investigar os motivos da ajuda humanitária não estar se concretizando, definindo as causas para essa realidade; avaliar a posição do governo brasileiro perante essa realidade de crise humanitária sofrida na Venezuela; levantar os requisitos para a emissão de visto aos refugiados venezuelanos em território brasileiro; analisar o respaldo jurídico brasileiro que garanta os direitos humanos dos refugiados, bem como analisar as causas para o crescente sentimento xenofóbico no atual cenário brasileiro. Além desse contexto, a pesquisa que se propõe pertence à vertente metodológica jurídico-sociológica. No tocante ao tipo de investigação, foi escolhido, na classificação de Witker (1985) e Gustin (2010), o tipo jurídico-projetivo. O raciocínio desenvolvido na pesquisa será predominantemente dialético. De acordo com a técnica de análise de conteúdo, afirma-se que se trata de uma pesquisa teórica, o que será possível a partir da análise de conteúdo dos textos doutrinários, normas e demais dados colhidos na pesquisa. Como conclusão parcial do trabalho, tem-se que as principais implicações na vida dos refugiados venezuelanos, como a não asseguração de seus plenos direitos e a xenofobia são resultados da falibilidade do Estado brasileiro de integrá-los à sociedade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text deals with the woman (non)concept in the ontological history of informing, whose figure is the formless. It addresses the marginal question of the feminine and its declassified condition in the broad lines of Western thought, especially in the view of Aristotle and, for the time being, also of Socrates (or Plato). As an argument, it outlines the formless as a blot in the concept of information and, in parallel, presents women as a marginalia simultaneous in this process of Western obliteration. Finally, it marks a reminder in the conceptual history of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of the BR101 highway in the late 1960s, connecting the Brazilian States of Espírito Santo (ES) and Bahia (BA), culminated in an intense process of exploration of native wood in the region, followed by pasture areas, which were later substituted by eucalyptus plantations for cellulose and paper production. The objective of this study is to present the environmental conflicts caused by the eucalyptus monoculture in the north of ES and south of BA states. There is also a consideration about the problems caused by the introduction of eucalyptus monoculture in this area, to provide the cellulose sector. This study presents a bibliographical review that analyzes the studies of Henri Acselrad and the Social Observatory which discuss the issues caused by the advance of eucalyptus monoculture in quilombola and indigenous communities in the same area of the present study. Both also make analyses of the documents provided by the cellulose companies' operating in this area. The conflicts between the communities and the companies involve the occupation of the soil, as well as the advance of the eucalyptus monoculture over the communities' land, a reality that has triggered resistance movements from these groups in the face of the expansion of the industries' activity in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to present an application of the Thinking Process (TP) that is a part of the Theory of Constraints (TOC). These tools were developed by Eliyahu Goldratt, and were applied to the preparation of the Undergraduate Final Paper (UFP) process. This study aimed to identify possible causes that prevent the publication of the UFP, and proposes ways in order to obtain such a result. The TP is a set of logical tools, based on cause-and-effect, designed to assist in solving organizational/systemic problems. This is an applied research, taken mainly from qualitative data. Data collection was done through online questionnaire. 336 responses were obtained from 48 courses at a Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the Midwest. The analysis allowed to diagnose, logically, that the difficulty in achieving publication of UFP comes mainly from unfamiliarity of the respondents with the methodological procedures. It is considered necessary to make the area that deals with the research methodology compulsory in the HEI searched. The management constraints, in light of TOC, can contribute to improving the quality level of preparation of the UFPs and thus increase the number of publications from this type of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2006's Chinese Defense White Paper settled goals for military modernization that would consolidate a force planning strategy aiming long-term results that could make it possible to win local wars under informationized conditions. The combination of policies of dual-use civil-military technology, catch up and absorption of foreign knowledge through joint ventures, China intends to overcome an imitation-based regime and to consolidate a defense industry with indigenous innovation. The paper analyzes how this strategy would reformulate logistic aspects of the Chinese military and promote the development of the fifth largest military industry in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measuring the citations of a paper has been a determinant factor in assessing its impact and its subsequent influence in a scientific community. Nevertheless, the development of web-driven communication networks, through which scientific knowledge is shared, has driven the emergence of several informal communication channels, drawing the attention to altmetrics as an additional index of scientific impact. However, the pertinence of its use as a form of measure is still understudied. This study employs a methodology of statistical data collection, using Spearman's correlation coefficient to analyse the data. The goal is to understand to what extent a great interest in certain papers, perceived through a high number of citations, is translated into an equally high influence in altmetric indexes. Complementarily, it is analysed whether papers with a high performance in altmetrics exhibit similar attention in the number of citations in formal databases. As a conclusion, a correlation between the number of citations and the number of mentions of a paper has not been found, with the exception of one of the five analyzed datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the product of doctoral research and aims to introduce the discussion and analysis of Ubuntu and traditional African philosophy as a contribution to thinking about the fragmentation of democracy in Latin America, giving way to the role that African movements and organizations have in assuming a political and ethical struggle to build a relational democracy as a necessary proposal to the crisis of liberal democracy. The methodology consists of a bibliographic review of literature and intellectuals from the social sciences and African thought to highlight a trend that is not only framed in the questioning of the democratic model in force in Latin America, but also provides some clues for the construction of a community society project in the region, based on relational ontology. It concludes that, in the crisis of the Western political model, the struggles of Afro-descendant movements must transcend the logic of strengthening liberal democracy, to propose the ethical path of Ubuntu as a route to deconstruct the political and societal structures in place, promoting a message of humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]