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In view of the negative view of the phenomenon of menstruation and recent market changes aimed at the search for ecological consumption and real female representations, this research seeks to understand the relationship between women, menstruation and these new trends, in order to respond to the following question: How do consumers of ecological menstrual products perceive their relationship with menstruation and with these products? For that, texts were used as a basis that addressed the cultural aspects of menstruation in Brazil, the ecological market trends and how advertising and marketing aimed at the female audience and menstruation evolved over time. Data were collected from the analysis of cultural texts and interviews with consumers of ecological products. As a result, it was identified that the advertisements belonging to the second half of the century. XXI began to represent menstruation as a positive and natural phenomenon. With regard to consumers, the data indicate that their relationship with menstruation seems to have improved after using ecological menstrual products, as they feel safer and more confident, since the products generate greater autonomy and comfort for them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to show the dynamics of the Paraná transformation industry in the context of the process of slowing Brazilian economic growth in which the State is inserted, as well as the effects of the global crisis that occurred in 2008. It is assumed that the different industrial segments of Paraná are part of distinct dynamics in the national and international economic context, sometimes more connected to internal consumption activities, sometimes more connected to global value chains. As analytical instruments, information on employment and establishments obtained from the Annual Social Information Ratio (RAIS) and applied to the methodology of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESA) was used. As main results, it was possible to identify that the most service sectors to the domestic market, specifically Non-Durable Consumer Goods, were the ones that suffered less from the 2008 crisis, primarily the manufacture of food products, which, in view of the fall in domestic income and unemployment, is more related in the foreign market, taking advantage of the open opportunities in this market segment. The ESA revealed that the industrial segment with the highest spatial autocorrelation was intermediate goods, nolonger more integrated into global value chains, forming a large spatial cluster led by the Metropolitan Region of Curitiba. Durable and Capital Consumer Goods are located only in the major metropolises of the State, specifically in the regions of Curitiba, Londrina and Maringá, with those who feel the effects of the slowdown in economic growth since 2008. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the growth of the organic food market in Brazil, these foods remain restricted to a minor part of the population. In this scenario, the short circuits are presented as an alternative to the predominant food distribution model, which is characterized by impersonality and long distances. This paper aims to analyze the motivation of the organic products consumers and this market in Sorocaba (in the state of São Paulo). For this purpose, two methodological procedures were used: an online survey (quantitative approach) and semi-structured interviews (qualitative approach). As results, the consumers habits revealed two different positions: an appreciation of practicality and a search for diversity, both in products and in ways of purchasing them. Because of these choices the consumers alternate between short and long circuits possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, it is clear that children are increasingly appropriating digital devices not only to communicate and socialize but also to play. The play as a cultural practice strongly linked to childhood is modeled and even resignified as communication possibilities change. This paper aims to think about the crossing resulting from the mediatized context in which we live, to understand how the constitution of others and, perhaps, new ways of playing for the connected child. For this, we look at the consumption rituals of Maria Clara & JP to understand how such ritualistic actions contribute to these mediatized ways of playing. Therefore, thinking about youtubers kids' games as devices able to articulate senses, as a useful way to understand the child's place in its mediatized dimensions, since such practices can promote consumer goods, guide and shape tastes, as well as worldviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supermarkets are present in many cities by offering various products to end consumers. The consumers choose and evaluate supermarkets based on their qualitative attributes which are inherent to the service. The identification of these consumer choice attributes form the dimensions of service quality provided by supermarkets. Therefore, this is the main objective of this study: to identify the attributes which influence consumer choice and evaluation of service quality from supermarkets. The research method is exploratory qualitative, employing the critical incident technique to collect data and keywords analysis with 24 supermarket consumers in the Médio Alto Uruguai Gaúcho region. The main results from the research identified a group of 43 qualitative attributes categorized in nine theoretical dimensions that were important in customer perception related to supermarket service. This study also brings academic and scientific implications, because it widens the study of qualitative attributes mentioned by consumers, which influence their choice and evaluation of supermarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of studies of the Humanities and Social Sciences on Food, this manuscript problematizes the uses of dietary supplements as a sociocultural construction in the context of body practices. In the same way that the behavior of "eating" can be understood specifically from particular social groups in a given historical time, this essay discusses the relevance of the anthropological field for the analysis of the material and symbolic conditions of "taking" dietary supplements by practitioners of the fit culture. Thus, based on a narrative review, this manuscript aimed to analyze and discuss the emergence of the anthropological analysis to understand the relationships between body practices and dietary supplements, especially for professional health intervention. In general terms, this manuscript selected four arguments to support the theoretical and methodological potential of Anthropology for the health work profession regarding these products. In summary, this text considered that these substances intake reveals social experiences and practices that can be modulated, articulated, interpreted, and incorporated into the prescription or guidance in clinics or in the spaces of body practices. The study concludes that, due to the increase in the consumer market for these products, there is a need to defend a dialogical, affective, sensitive, integral, critical, reflective, emancipated professional intervention and, above all, human intervention on the supplementation process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family farming plays a key role in the generation of income and supplying urban centres with fresh food. However, the knowledge about the profile of family farmers, especially in the Northeast of Brazil is scarce. In light of this, this paper analyzes the regional influence of the Guanambi (BA) municipal marketplace, formed mostly by family farmers. The analyzes were based on data from field research with family farmers and consumers at the free market in Guanambi (BA), in addition to on-site observations. Among the results, it was identified that the Guanambi marketplace contributes to regional development since most rural properties are located within 100 km of the Guanambi. Most family farmers are unaware of production and transportation costs, confirming the precariousness of the management and control of costs on family farms. Regarding consumers, the quality of products and the price of goods attract consumers up to 19 km from Guanambi. However, the lack of intercity transport is observed in the transportation mode used by producers and consumers. The results make evident the importance of improving public policies with the inclusion of financial management programs and transportation cost calculations for the consolidation of family farming in the regional context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Competition among different brands in supermarkets motivates consumer goods companies to develop and implement and activate merchandising materials at the point of sales (POS). These merchandising materials attempt to influence shoppers and promote sales. On the other hand, behavioral economics studies the decision-making of individuals based on their preferences and beliefs, influenced by cognitive bias. This study attempts to understand the effect of loss aversion and mental accounting in POS materials on supermarket sales. We conduct two experiments with a consumer brand in a supermarket chain. The results reveal a positive and significant effect on sales only for the cognitive bias of loss aversion, applied to the POS materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Butter is a fatty lactic product produced from the kneading and churning of the cream of pasteurized milk. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the physicochemical quality of several brands of butter with salt marketed in the Botucatu city, São Paulo, Brazil. 30 samples of different batches for each brand (A, B and C) of butter with salt were analyzed. The physicochemical tests evaluated were acidity, humidity, ESD, lipid and NaCl. Each trial was performed in triplicate. The main result showed that brand B of butter with salt had a high NaCl value. Based on this, we conclude that there is a need for control and inspection in the production of butter with salt to guarantee the physicochemical quality of the product to the consumer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Projects based on open innovation concepts have been used by airlines, logistics operators and the industry that needs to transport its products to the final consumer in an agile, safe and without damage. The theme of this article is the transport of cargo in the air modal as part of the value chain of industry and commerce, impacting the productivity and competitiveness of these companies. The objective is to present a process innovation carried out in partnership between an airline and a logistics operator specialized in the transport of electronic products. The methodology used in this project was based on a case study based on the processes of a Brazilian airline, following a predominantly exploratory research protocol with collection of quantitative data. The researches were documentary, bibliographic and based on direct observation and interviews. The project demonstrated how the use of suitable packaging brought a reduction in the level of claims from up to 3% of the value of goods transported in January 2017 to 0.027% in April 2019. In addition, it demonstrates that the company's profitability went from negative in January 2018 to 6.28% in December of the same year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses a thesis on drug addict treatment as a segregation device. Its methods is based on clinical cases of patients admitted in specialized ward at psychiatric Hospital. It was identified association between hospitalization and places of drug intake as a logical continuity. Data was analyzed using Lacanian oriented psychoanalysis. Drug addiction is related to the development of the scientific discourse as science produces real from its work by mathematical formalization as capitalism expands and introduces new consumer goods. As Master Discourse induces a loss of jouissence object by incidence of language and produces a splitted subject, Capitalist Discourse is articulated to the homogenization of juissence made by science and increases risk of abolishing subjectivity. In consequence, segregation is the social bond that crosses these discourses and it is expressed by different means of freedom privation. Psychoanalytical treatment for drug addicts sustains a place for subject as resistence to materÂ's command. It imposes a limit to institutional tendance to supress subjectivity for a generalized cure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to think of cultural productions, transformed into consumer products, in the classroom, as dialogic strategies of critical formation. The proposal is to reflect on the presence of these productions and products from two iconic works of the cultural industry for their virality: Harry Potter and Despicable Me - the world's largest fandom community and the success of minions, specifically in Brazil. The theoretical foundation is based on Bakhtinian studies in dialogue with critical theory. Harry Potter will be thought through the production of fans and Despicable Me in the fields from the image of the minions. It is intended to think about the relationship between school and society, as well as about the constitution of school life as a citizen formation, and this is its relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will addresses the realization of the procedures of consensual solutions of conflicts involving companies and consumers of goods and services, due to the edition of recent norms of the National Council of Justice of Brazil and of the General Justice Department of the State of São Paulo, allowing the realization of conciliation and mediation in the field of out-of-court services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the debate about social justice taking as reference the world of work and the world of goods with respect to the constitutive and evaluative aspects of both spheres. In this perspective, the article revisits the theories on the goods in order to reflect on the role of property in everyday life, the distribution of work in the public space and its consequences. In the first part of the paper develops the general argument, according to which the work consists in a well. In this sense, the first part of the article develops a general argument, according to which the work is in a well. In the second part, the approach refers to those aspects of the structuring and distribution of work in public space and its consequences. The adoption of these analytical procedures allows a greater understanding of the uniqueness and the ways to produce and reproduce various forms of social inequality. The findings point to the fact that work is very important in access, produces an original model of rationality and constitutes an important moral source. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper evidences the changes which occurred in the economy of the state of Paraná, Brazil, as from the decentralization process of the regional productive structure and the integration of Brazilian economy. Changes in its inclusion on the national market are underscored whether it is predominantly the producer of non-durable consumer goods and intermediate goods or whether in the production of capital goods and durable consumer goods. Research outlines some of the most striking features of the industrial development of the Paraná from the mid-1980s up to the present. Results show that industrialization promoted by the state from the expansive cycle of the 1970s and more recently in the 1990s which provided greater diversification of the economy of the state of Paraná, especially towards consumer durables and capital goods, especially metal mechanical factories. However, this process is less intense in most of its meso-regions although a trend towards greater specialization is not indicated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the "Consumption of Domestic Goods" campaign. During the New State, the Army tried to reduce the dependency on warfare imports, avoid the evasion of assets, and leave industrial production, to develop research, as did the great powers. Such initiative had repercussions in the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo, and contributed to the modernization and creation of new industries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mission of the Health Surveillance is to promote and protect the health of the people through integrated and articulated shares of coordination, standardization, training, education, information, technical support, monitoring, supervision and evaluation in Health Surveillance, and always a center of reference, ensuring social inclusion and citizenship construction for the protection of life. His supervision is done through the power of police, exclusive of the state, run in audits, to enforce the subpoena and violations, prohibition of establishments, seizure of products and equipment etc. This study aimed to achieve a bibliographic survey to study the process of work of the Health Surveillance. The study brings concerning the lifting of bibliographic Health Surveillance. At the end of the bibliographic study, we can see the importance of the work of Health Surveillance to the population because ensures quality of services and consumer goods offered, providing greater credibility and quality of life for the population. The role of the Health Surveillance is important because it ensures the people a system of health aimed at health promotion, disease prevention and continuing education for the people, intervened in the health-disease, thus improving the quality of life of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumer goods carry and communicate mobile cultural meanings that are in constant transformation. In the model of movement of meaning presented by Grant McCracken (2003) there are two institutions that illustrate the symbolic transference: advertising and the fashion system. In this article we defend that the food system works in the same way as the fashion system. We pretend to update the instruments, agents and rituals of the theoretical model criated by McCracken in its application to the food system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the evolution of benzodiazepine use in the Portuguese population based on information provided by INFARMED - Portuguese authority of medicinal and health products, I.P., concerning benzodiazepines prescribed and dispensed in the ambulatory to the population covered by the National Health Service, from 2000 to 2007. Our results showed an annual increase on benzodiazepine utilization from 2000 to 2006, with a slight decrease in 2007. Anxyolitics benzodiazepines were the most commercialized ones and, within this group, the intermediate-acting benzodiazepines. Alprazolam was the most dispensed benzodiazepine in Portugal, followed by lorazepam, bromazepam and diazepam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the great relevance of innovation to the growth and development of organizations, there have been many efforts in order to develop means and tools to optimize the management of this process. Such tools vary according to the sector and production dynamics of industry. The innovation funnel is a tool designed from the observation of innovation management in companies belonging to sectors such as food, cosmetics, and other consumer goods. The funnel-based innovation management has been adopted by a number of companies, no matter if they are nationals or multinationals, headquarters or subsidiaries. Hence, it is of great interest to verify the effectiveness of the adoption of this tool, the advantages and difficulties of its use, and the differences between theory and the practical use of the funnel. Those interest points are the main focus of this work. The study was based on the case of a consumer goods organization, a subsidiary of a multinational company. From that study, it was possible to conclude that the funnel is an appropriate tool to consumer goods companies and that its practical adoption is not much divergent from the theory, being necessary only few adjustments, like the adaptation to cultural differences and managerial routines, the adoption of supporting tools, and activities to stimulate and motivate the employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural meaning in a consumer society moves ceaselessly from one location to another. In the usual trajectory, cultural meaning moves first from the culturally constituted world to consumer goods and then from these goods to the individual consumer. Several instruments are responsible for this movement: advertising, the fashion system, and four consumption rituals. This article analyses the movement of cultural meaning theoretically, showing both where cultural meaning is resident in the contemporary North American consumer system and the means by which this meaning is transferred from one location in this system to another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]