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ABSTRACT Deformation intensity analysis for mechanical parts are very important data for machine design. For farm machines, these parameters present difficulties for determination due to its particularities. The Machinery industry searches for advanced technologies to determine the mechanical behavior of parts. This article shows the analysis of the reliability in the application of the laser triangulation technique (LTT) to determine the deformation of the mechanical elements of farm machines. A flat cutting disc with standardized dimension was selected as the object of study, as it is commonly used in farm machines, exhibiting a simple geometry made of steel, making the analysis procedure easier both for experimental execution and for data validation. Displacements of 1.0 mm to 10 mm were applied on the specimen. The theoretical behavior of specimen displacement was defined by finite element modelling with same condition of loading and dimension to compare the generated data by the experimental tests. Results indicated a displacement with maximum variation of 2.56% between experimental data and theoretical results and were considered satisfactory. LTT was able to determine deformation curve behavior of machine elements. It was concluded that Laser Triangulation Technique (LTT) was satisfactory to determine the deformation of a specimen.

Objective: To characterize the perceptions and feelings of parents diagnosed with cancer in relation to communication with their children between 3 and 12 years old., Method: A cross-sectional, multicenter, with data triangulation, through structured and semi-structured interviews, with a question with a Semantic Differential Scale, carried out with the father or mother with cancer undergoing outpatient treatment in two hospital institutions in the city of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, content analysis, using the ATLAS.ti 8.0R software and the Social Representation Theory., Results: Forty-three respondents participated, 37 (86.0%) were female, 23 (53.5%) aged between 31 and 50 years old, 29 (67.5%) with only children between 7 and 12 years old. The experience was considered painful (73.1%), stressful (53.6%), clear (53.7%) and safe (51.2%). The feelings experienced generated two categories: Trial by fire; and Grateful rewards. Children's reactions from parents' perspective generated the categories: Sadness and suffering; Trust and support; Change of behavior; and Denial or insensitivity., Conclusion: Communication was assessed as negative and conflicting, positive and welcoming, and causing changes in children's behaviors.

Adopting an essay-oriented form, I propose to read Marques Rebelo's trilogy The broken mirror in dialogue with some ideas found in Otto Maria Carpeaux's essays. Based on Carpeaux's remarks about the quest for an inherent balance in the Brazilian novel between the notions of veritas and realitas, grounded in an innate semi-historicity, I intend to demonstrate how Rebelo's novel exemplarily realizes this triangulation in its "adverse form". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To analyze how dynamic capabilities are associated with the processes of identifying and exploiting international opportunities. Method: The research consists of a case study, qualitative in nature, with a retrospective approach. Data were collected through interviews, documentary research and observation, with triangulation of data sources. The data were analyzed using the Constant Comparison Method and with the help of the Atlas.ti software, version 8.0. Main Results: The company analyzed is able to identify international opportunities using network, entrepreneurial and innovation capabilities. The innovation capacity was used only in creation processes, while the others were used in both discovery and creation processes. However, to explore some opportunities, these capabilities were not sufficient, and it was necessary to develop market orientation, learning and adaptation capabilities. Relevance / Originality: The literature has sought to explain the processes of identifying and exploiting opportunities based on ordinary capabilities. The approach adopted in this research considers a set of capabilities that are created, adapted or transformed depending on environmental demands, which makes them truly dynamic and enables companies to access international opportunities. Theoretical / Methodological Contributions: The contribution of the study lies in understanding what capabilities companies need to develop to expand their international operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the participatory institutionality promoted by the rise of municipalism governments in Spain from 2015 to 2019. It focuses on the institutional advances made by this new wave of participation, as well as on the most important limits. In terms of the most important advances, it highlights the generation of a new administrative participatory structure reflected both in the municipal organisation structure, the budget and the transversality achieved through the integration of other municipal services into the participatory processes. In terms of limits, the inherited strategic selectivity as a brake on change, the reduced transformative capacity of the new participatory institutionality, the difficulty of integrating traditional absences and the problem of time as a factor that prevents greater institutionalisation, sustainability and embedding of participatory processes. In order to reach these conclusions, an in-depth study of three municipal governments (Zaragoza, Valladolid and A Coruña) was carried out using a methodological triangulation that included documentary analysis, interviews with key actors and participant observation.

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ABSTRACT The management of natural and planted forests can be conducted sustainably by implementing techniques that consider the spatial and temporal variability of the plant and soil. In this context, precision silviculture through remote sensing can play a vital role, mainly when using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with specific sensors. In the present study, an automated computational routine (based on computer vision techniques) was developed and validated to perform forest inventory in commercial Eucalyptus grandis forests, using an orthophoto mosaic obtained with an RGB sensor built-in to a UAV. The developed routine employs computer vision techniques, including template matching to locate plants, Delaunay triangulation to create a mesh and indicate the predominant orientations of the planting rows, and an adaptation of the Hough transform to estimate the analytical parameters of each row. These parameters are refined using linear regression to generate the lines best fitting the input data. Finally, the failure segments on each row are identified by detecting the plants in each row. A simulation of regular point distribution on the segment is then used to identify the planting failure. This process allows the geolocation of each failure point for replanting to be quantified. The routine has significant potential in the forest inventory, allowing the geolocation of failures with an overall accuracy of 0.97 and 0.99, respectively, and a maximum positional error of 0.15 m and 0.20 m, respectively.

Given limitations of resource and market access reported by traditional local communities and a limiting institutional environment for socio-biodiversity in Amazônia, the main question is: how do institutions (re)shape natural resource and market access by Quilombolas in the protected area of the Trombetas River Biological Reserve (TRBR) and the Implications of the TRBR Term of Compromise (TC) – a formal institution written by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio) – on livelihoodrelevant access to socio-biodiversity products (Brazil nuts) and markets. Methods include semi-structured interviews (n=89) focusing on Non-timber forest products gatherers, as well as observation and focusgroup interviews for data triangulation. An analytical framework is developed, combining access theory, institutions and property rights scholarship. Findings reveal that the TC overwrites institutionalised norms of Quilombola communities, which regulated such livelihood-relevant access long before the TRBR establishment (1979). The TC not only formalises BN use but also unintentionally restricts natural resources and market access, limiting Quilombolas’ bioeconomy-benefits.

The idea of editorial decoloniality is elaborated from the coverage of the National Women's Meeting (ENM) and 1st São Paulo Women's Congress held in Brazil in 1979, conveyed by the newspaper Lampião da Esquina, which highlighted the sociologist Lélia Gonzalez. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research are decolonial studies and decolonial feminism through the notion of intersectionality, which enables other epistemologies to communication and journalism. The proposal characterizes the intention to reconfigure editorial guidelines and processes in order to contemplate the visibility of politically and publicly marginalized groups and subjects. The coverage of the events crosses homoerotic themes, addressing facts in triangulations with issues of gender, social class and race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Objectives: to understand the role of Primary Health Care teams in caring for people with stroke after hospital discharge. Methods: single case study, with integrated units of analysis, with a qualitative approach. Data triangulation occurred through interviews with professionals and family caregivers involved in transition of care, in addition to direct observations in rounds and document analysis. For the analyses, the analytical strategies of theoretical propositions and construction of explanations were used, with the help of ATLAS.ti®. Results: the importance of counter-referral, the role of community health workers and the multidisciplinary team, health promotion, secondary prevention, home visits as a visceral attribute and nurses as care managers are evident. Final Considerations: the high demand on teams and the Social Determinants of Health interfere with adequate continuity of care. Transitional care programs that enable continuity of care are recommended.

Qualitative research has traditionally relied on specific methodologies for data collection, with interviews being the predominant and preferred approach. Vast quantities of information have been published regarding traditional mechanisms for collecting qualitative data, but few studies have addressed more unconventional mechanisms such as body mapping. This is a distinctive technique commonly used in health sciences. It offers a versatile alternative that encourages participant creativity, reflexivity, and protagonism. It was adapted for use in an educational study with the aim of eliciting participants' constructivist experiences and emotions related to a particular social phenomenon. It was used as part of a descriptive case study which employed two other triangulation techniques, namely semi-structured virtual interviews, and document collection. After the researchers’ reflective processes, it was concluded that body mapping represented an ideal means to facilitate the data collection process. The primary objective of the study, grounded in qualitative research, was to explore the perceptions of five primary English teachers in the Sarapiquí Regional Directorate of Education in Costa Rica regarding the return to in-person education amid the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the body mapping technique, three participants engaged in a face-to-face session, structured into seven phases: map outlining, reflections on distance education, reflections on combined education, reflections on in-person education, finalization of body maps, testimony giving, and concluding reflections on the technique. Although the focus was on in-person education (2022), the distance and combined modalities (2020-2021) were used to activate participants’ prior knowledge and to provide context for the study. This paper demonstrates the procedure followed in applying the body mapping technique for qualitative data collection in a study on the perspective and experiences of teachers, and highlights the valuable insights gained through its use.

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Lung cancer (LC) is a relevant public health problem in Brazil and worldwide, given its high incidence and mortality. Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the distribution of smoking and smoking status according to sociodemographic characteristics and disparities in access, treatment, and mortality due to LC in Brazil in 2013 and 2019. METHOD Retrospective study of triangulation of national data sources: a) analysis of the distribution of smoking, based on the National Survey of Health (PNS); b) investigation of LC records via Hospital-based Cancer Registry (HCR); and c) distribution of mortality due to LC in the Mortality Information System (SIM). RESULTS There was a decrease in the percentage of people who had never smoked from 2013 (68.5%) to 2019 (60.2%) and in smoking history (pack-years). This was observed to be greater in men, people of older age groups, and those with less education. Concerning patients registered in the HCR, entry into the healthcare service occurs at the age of 50, and only 19% have never smoked. While smokers in the population are mainly Mixed-race, patients in the HCR are primarily White. As for the initial stage (I and II), it is more common in White people and people who have never smoked. The mortality rate varied from 1.00 for people with higher education to 3.36 for people without education. Furthermore, White people have a mortality rate three times higher than that of Black and mixed-race people. CONCLUSION This article highlighted relevant sociodemographic disparities in access to LC diagnosis, treatment, and mortality. Therefore, the recommendation is to strengthen the Population-Based Cancer Registry and develop and implement a nationwide LC screening strategy in Brazil since combined prevention and early diagnosis strategies work better in controlling mortality from the disease and continued investment in tobacco prevention and control policies.

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Schools play a crucial role in education for sustainable development. The aims of this study are to determine the extent of the incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the secondary science curriculum and the extent of knowledge and attitude of science teachers regarding SDGs. The research design was concurrent triangulation mixed method. Purposive sampling was used in the selection of the science curriculum while convenience sampling was used in determining the participants for the survey and focus group discussion. The locale of the study is at Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. Findings show that the clusters of the SDGs related competencies of the Junior High School science curriculum are 51.61% knowledge, 21.29% values, and 21.19% skills. The dimensions reveal 14 learning competencies for social, 25 environmental, and 23 economic. This means that students are taught the interconnection of social, ecological and economic issues as evident in the curriculum. Furthermore, the extent of knowledge of science teachers regarding SDGs is high (M = 3.10, SD = 0.15) while the attitude is very positive (M = 3.46, SD = 0.09). Pearson correlation indicates weak positive correlation between the two variables, r=.37 while regression test showed significant correlation between knowledge and attitude, r=.37, p=0.03. Therefore, due to the inclusive nature of the SDGs, they are a great tool for expanding the science curriculum by giving real-world scenarios and life skills. SDGs are also helpful teaching resources that offer depth and perspective to scientific lessons.