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The present paper aims to analyze the process of management and evaluation of teaching performance during the probationary internship at the Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia [IF], based on the documents that guide these processes. The specific goals include debating the context of the probationary period; to point out the specificities of this evaluation of the performance of new teachers in the 38 Institutos Federais spread across the country, and present a new evaluation form. To this end, descriptive documental research was adopted with a qualitative approach. As for the results obtained, it observed that 63% of the IF have a standardizing document for the evaluation process in the probationary stage. Among the Institutes that have regulations, 58% are dated before 2012 and among the 42% of IF that have regulations after, only 4 are updated. In addition, it found that only 32% of the Institutos Federais have a teacher evaluation performed by the students. As for the forms used by these institutions, 87% use closed forms, 10% mixed and only 3% opened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The general goal of this study was to analyse the coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games conducted by the press office of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB), verifying possible convergences and divergences in the numeric distribution of publications and forms of portrayals of male and female athletes. The specific goals were: to identify the newsworthiness criteria of the publications; to analyse the narratives about the athletes; to verify the distribution of publications and images between genres. We collected the articles published on the CPB website from September 1 to 24, 2016 and performed a quantitativequalitative analysis of the data. The main news criterion was "results/victories", which was more associated to men than women. Athletes had less visibility and prominence in texts and images. Ensuring a higher quality presence for athletes in press coverage is essential for legitimizing women's parasports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper submitted to the Colloquium Humanarum Journal deals with the Project of Life, selfmanagement and the culture of entrepreneurship. Our general objective is to analyze how the Project of Life - as a transversal curricular component - is associated with the culture of entrepreneurship. According to this culture, the Project of Life promises to develop the individuals in multiple dimensions, motivating them to solve problems and make decisions to achieve goals and accomplish professional fulfillment. When associated to the Project of Life, such culture imposes business devices - like competitiveness, performance and productivity - to the educational scope, submitting the training processes to a new governmentality. From that, we raise the following question: What have we made of ourselves under the control forms of life? We believe that the academic debate on the Project of Life is grounded in principles from the neoliberal market, prioritizing the formation of economically productive individuals, whose are, however, politically submissive and docile. Thus, we intend to discuss the role played by entrepreneurial pedagogical rationality in directing the forms of self-government. To develop our criticism, we adopt an analytical standpoint from Foucault's thoughts, which emerges as a theoretical framework capable of presenting the limits of neoliberal devices that place Education in the guidelines of productivity and effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Piracicaba river basin, located in the central-eastern region of Minas Gerais, owns one of the largest and most importante remnants of Atlantic Forest biome in this State. Despite that, environmental pressures created by several economic activities, specially mining, are observed. To understand specificities of regional environmental dynamics could support the creation of more effective public policies for its conservation challenges. The main goal of this study is to identify vulnerable areas to soil loss in Piracicaba river basin, in order to support actions to mitigate environmental impacts and other socio-environmental processes. Specific goals are: to annalyze the role of every environmental component in the vulnerability generated map; to integrate the variables of the physical environment which directly influences the soil loss: climate, geology, soils, geomorphology and use and occupation. The integration of those variables was done by using the environmental vulnerability model of the basic territorial units proposed by Crepani et al. (2001). The results obtained in the model shows that, the southern region of the Piracicaba River basin, located in the edge of Quadrilátero Ferrífero, is more vulnerable to soil loss. The most stable areas are located in the northwest region of the basin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Changes in sperm morphology have an impact on the fertility of swine reproducers, with losses in the productive indexes, constituting one of the causes of discarding males. In this context, the objective was to identify more frequent abnormalities in semen samples from boars that failed, at an insemination center, in addition to exploring considerations about the disposal of breeders based on the morphological examination. To achieve this goal, semen was collected from 95 pigs and sperm morphology was evaluated. Among the 95 breeders that had their semen evaluated in the first collection, 78% had their semen approved and 22% failed. During the first semen collection, most of the sperm abnormalities (31.52 % ± 8.85) identified were distal (13.76 % ± 7.48) and proximal (11.95 % ± 6.72) cytoplasmic gout. The 21 breeders with failed samples in the first collection, were again evaluated and 19% failed (4 boars), the average recurrent abnormalities (33.75 % ± 2.38) were distal (14.25 % ± 1.92) and proximal (12.5 % ± 4.39) cytoplasmic gout. Through this study it was possible to observe that the morphological evaluation of sperm in swine farms is an extremely necessary tool to identify animals for selection and reproductive disposal. The repetition of the morphological examination in males that had their semen failed should be performed in order to avoid false conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses how organizational identity and mission are constructed and reproduced over time through processes of remembering and forgetting. Building on literature that views organizational memory as a strategic resource, this paper showcases the enabling effects of history, memory, and the past for organizational resilience and survival. Although temporal narratives may be employed as rhetorical tools to construct coherency between the past, present, and future, we find they also have the potential of sidetracking and hijacking an organization's direction. Our study shows how an excessive focus on the future can cause mission drift and identity dilution. However, the identity dilution can be adressed through revisiting and remembering the past. The organizational past is not merely a strategic resource for identity construction, it is also a temporal anchor from which the organization may rediscover its original purpose. The findings are based on a qualitative, in-depth, ethnographic case study of a nonprofit organization whose goal is to establish a national network of local school gardens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to evaluate how an intelligent tool can contribute to the monitoring of municipal health indicators. Method: descriptive study, carried out in the city of São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data collection took place in January 2021. For data analysis, descriptive statistics were performed. The data were organized according to the national pact health indicators achieved in the years 2017-2019, made available by the State of Santa Catarina. All ethical aspects were respected. Results: the development and application of the smart tool enabled trend analysis, the achievement of goals and indicators, of the national agreement, enabling directors to have a systemic view of health planning at the municipal level. Conclusion: strategic planning and local health programming through the development of an intelligent tool, allowed the transformation of the relationships between the supply and demand of services, redirecting the reorganization of health practices, directing them to the solution of problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study proposes to discover relations between gender and school performance, composed in particular by values of academic goals (3 non-cognitive psychosocial factors), from a sample of students aged 11 to 17 inserted in the fundamental II and high school network of Brasilia-DF, capital of Brazil. The research was enrolled in a motivational perspective, which is based on a cross-sectional descriptive and correlational design with qualitative and quantitative methodology. The Hayamizu and Weiner's (1991) Goals Questionnaire was applied. It was described and applied, empirically, to a gender of male and female students. It was possible to demonstrate that there were no correlations between the variables due to the statistical normality of the sample. However, the results of the description suggest positive impacts on learning goals and achievement goals, due to the high level of punctuation obtained in the sample description and the consistency of the data, and negative impacts on social reinforcement goals. The most striking fact was the contradiction found with the results obtained by Cominetti and Ruiz (1997), which are based on maintaining that the gender factor helps to modulate the relations with school performance. This research contributes scientifically with new elements to the literature on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Cervical cancer is a serious public health problem in Brazil and around the world. Its screening through the Pap smear screening is crucial for prevention and early detection. Objective: The objective of the study was to evaluate the Pap smear ratio in the regions of the State of Rio Grande do Norte from 2008 to 2014, and to describe the regions with lower and higher screening for cervical cancer according to the space. Methods: It is a quantitative, retrospective, descriptive and cross-sectional study that used secondary data from SISCOLO/DATASUS. The sample was composed by the 167 municipalities of the State of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, divided by the eight regions of that State. The results were expressed in absolute and relative frequencies, the differences between means were analyzed by the T student tests, in which significant differences were considered when p<0.05. The mapping of results was done through the TabWin program 32. Conclusion: The average ratio of Pap smear varied considerably between the regions of the State in the years 2008 to 2014. There was decrease in the average of the ratio between the years 2008 and 2014, especially in the metropolitan region. Regarding the space, it was seen that most of the municipalities with the lower ratio are located at the ends of the map. Knowing the cytopathological ratio indicator in the regions of the State is fundamental for the management of health in that State, in order to better qualify practitioners and to establish specific goals for the evaluation of coverage of cervical cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent decades, Brazil has proposed and implemented a set of public policies in the field of education that propose actions aimed at improving the process of literacy, and establish goals aimed at improving the quality of education. The results obtained through the application of large-scale assessment tools show that one of Brazil's great challenges is to improve levels of proficiency in reading, writing and mathematics, since even after three years of schooling 22% of students only developed elementary skills. The use of technology as a playful, motivating element has proven to be an efficient resource capable of promoting the cognitive development of children. Thus, we have developed Learning Objects, as a resource to support the literacy process, in order to verify their possible contributions through a systematic analysis of practices in 1st and 2nd grade classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering that due to the growing competitiveness in the current market, companies must seek continuous improvement to remain active. An important point is to have a competitive price for its products and to achieve this goal the company must reduce its production costs. This article seeks to present a strategic management proposal for reducing logistical costs through the Milk Run method, used to optimize the route, collecting parts from suppliers and returning empty packages. For this, an applied research was carried out, with an exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach, through the Google Maps website, through the application of the Milk Run method to reduce logistical costs of a multinational company operating in the automobile sector. In this way, a budget was made for the new route together with the carrier used by the industry, where the associations made between the new and old routes allowed to indicate which ones should be adopted, as well as the financial gains shown numerically through the indicators. This allowed us to conclude that it is necessary for organizations that intend to remain active in the market and who want success, to have the ability to better control the company's processes that influence production costs and thus guaranteeing sustainability and continuity in operations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of study of the article is linked to the hegemony of the powers in the international system, given the growing discussions for space and power aiming at a new systemic rebalancing. Consequently, its main objective is to analyze, under the Hegemonic War Theory, the phenomena in the present, taking into account the history of wars, international relations and strategic studies in the strict sense. The research is justified because projects of power gain may lead to changes in the current status quo, resulting in a new hegemony, the maintenance of the current or a new balance of power, involving mainly the United States - as the main Hegemon - and China - as the main revisionist power - which does not rule out the effective use of force to achieve its political goals. Finally, it is concluded the Hegemonic Power Theory, its concepts and theories derived contribute to the survival of the state in an international system increasingly uncertain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to understand the use of the WhatsApp application as a pedagogical resource in Portuguese language classes in high school. To achieve this goal, a qualitative research of bibliographic character was adopted, in which approaches that defend the applicability of this web interface in the process of teaching and learning the Portuguese language were explored. Therefore, it is based on authors such as Kenski (2011), Oliveira (2010), Antunes (2007) and Moran (2000). The study in question shows that the teacher should use this resource to his advantage and seek to work with activities that involve him, providing students with moments of interaction and dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to analyze the homicides of women in the southeastern region of Brazil from 2003 to 2014, from a perspective of social and economic factors that could correlate with this social problem. We adopt the perspective of gender violence and public policy to understand the phenomenon and seek ways to overcome this problem. To reach the goal we divided the research into seven sections. Initially we presented some barriers related to the feminine gender and then, we pointed out a section that seeks to conceptualize and discuss violence. In the third section, we briefly present what public policies are. The next section is about the methods in which we use simple linear regressions. The sixth presents the results found, with a final model composed of a social variable with a prediction of 87.20% (R² = 0.872). And so, we conclude that public policies geared to social and economic areas can be a good outcome in confronting violence against women. This research aims to contribute to studies related to public policies regarding violence against women, seeking to bring an understanding about this social problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The public administration has the power to encourage sustainable development, using e acquisition of goods as a tool to promote Sustainable Public Purchases (CPS) and reduce social and environmental impacts. Public administration acting responsibly in relation to their own consumption and highlighting the importance of the production of goods linked to sustainability ends up sensitizing and alerting other producers about socio-environmental impacts. Research of an applied nature was carried out, with a qualitative and exploratory approach in the construction of goals to promote sustainable public procurement. The proposed guidelines are based on criteria that are based on literature review, documentary research and questionnaires filled out by specialists. The results show that the experts believe in the relevance and need to develop a set of goals to promote PHC, in addition to approving all the requirements mentioned in the questionnaire. Pearson's coefficient indicates a strong correlation between the "practices" dimension and the "barriers" dimension. The proposal demonstrates its adherence to encourage the use of Sustainable Public Procurement through the management of requirements approved by specialists. In addition, the research instrument can be described by the results of the experts, showing the relevance and the need to develop guidelines for the promotion of sustainable public procurement, such as prescribing that in estimating prices one must be concerned with socio-environmental impacts in addition to the economic one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first-order Contrast Sensitivity (SC) measure is often used to assess spatial perception. Our goal was to develop and validate a second-order SC test for clinical application. Methodological changes were made in the psychophysical routine to reduce testing time and in the first experiment we validated the new methodology. In a second experiment, normal values were derived from the result of sixteen participants who were tested under the same conditions as the first experiment. Validity measures were obtained using Spearman-Brown Split-Half Reliability Coefficient for all tested spatial frequencies (r> 0.90). The development and validation of this new experiment for second-order SC measures will allow to advance in the studies of the basic mechanisms of the perception of space for complex stimuli, as well as the clinical application in several diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Goal Management Training (GMT) is a cognitive training technique that aims to improve executive functions based on the stimulation of metacognitive components in performing tasks. The present study aimed to conduct a systematic review of gains from GMT intervention in daily tasks, in individuals with executive dysfunctions. For this, a search was made in the PsycNET, PubMed and Web of Science databases, using the keywords: "rehabilitation" AND "goal management training" AND "executive function". As inclusion criteria, the following were adopted: (1) Articles written in English and Portuguese; (2) Empirical studies; (3) Studies with patients, clinical or not, of any age group; (4) Evaluation of executive functions using observable methods, i.e., performance in tests and neuropsychological tasks; (5) Evaluation of executive functions occurred in, at least, two moments: pre-intervention and post-intervention; (6) Application of GMT as an intervention strategy; (7) Use of activities of daily living measures, that involve executive functions, after intervention, to assess their effectiveness. 12 articles were published, published between 2007 and 2016, after an analysis according to the PRISMA model. Despite the heterogeneity of the data, the results suggest benefits on functions of planning, inhibitory control and sustained attention, that demonstrates the effectiveness of this training modality. In addition, evidence was found of the benefits of intervention on ecological tasks and self-reactive measures. It is possible to conclude about the importance and effectiveness of GMT in the management of executive dysfunctions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Human society is marked by cooperation. From the evolution of their needs, the human being incorporated this activity as a means of subsistence, in order to obtain benefits in a communitarian and plural way. The transformation of this process into what we know today as cooperativism, a movement that has at its root democratic principles and the goal of mutual development, has taken place gradually. Of European origin, the cooperative wave spread to the rest of the globe, reaching Brazil between 1960 and 1970. From the legal framework of cooperativism in our country there were numerous adaptations. The historical course, therefore, is of utmost importance to understand the movement's movement, its representativeness and form of legal and social organization. This article aims to expose the path of cooperativism in the Brazilian legal system, considering that there is a need for a multidisciplinary approach between them. The main hypothesis is that cooperativism is a major driver of development in southwestern Paraná. Through an exploratory research, conducted together with the collection of information through an interview with the Advisor of UNICAFES (Union of Family Farming Cooperatives and Solidarity Economy) Alcidir Mazzutti Zanco, it was possible to bring to light the urgencies of cooperativism in Brazil. Faced with the characteristic plurality of this movement, the lack of changes that began in the legislative sphere remained evident. In order to achieve the state task of supporting the development of cooperative activity in all spheres: technical, financial and operational. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies demonstrate that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can assist in the emancipation of users, offering them the possibility of accessing information and knowledge in order to become agents of their own history. In this sense, the objective of this investigation is to analyze the use of ICTs by farming families in the southern region of Brazil, pointing out the limits and possibilities in the context of family farming. To achieve this goal, forms were applied to thirty family units in the municipalities of Xaxim / SC and Pato Branco / PR. The research found that the possibility of accessing and using ICTs represents a need for family farmers in view of the competitiveness of the current market. Despite the importance and significance that ICTs represent to rural areas, the field of study reveals that the conditions of this access have limitations, as the technical system is deficient, which prevents effective access to all the potential that these technologies hold. In some cases, even with a high investment, the farmer cannot access a better service or even use it properly. Finally, it appears that ICTs are inserted in the context of family farming and represent the possibility of network integration and shared construction of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the effectiveness of the actions of the Territorial Development Board (CODETER) of Baixo Tocantins-PA, focusing on the social participation of public actors and civil society in the consolidation of territorial strategies. To achieve this goal, the essentially qualitative research included bibliographic research, participant observation and 20 semistructured interviews. The construction of data was carried out in September 2018 and, in a second moment, from February to July 2019. For data analysis, Content Analysis was used, which allowed us to conclude that CODETER is currently undergoing a moment of fragility with regard to its functioning process, mainly due to the lack of participation of civil society entities and public authorities. In the analyzes, the lamentations of the interviewees about the low level of participation and the assumption of responsibility by the regional actors towards the territorial development policy are evident. In addition, the interlocutors confirm the prevalence of particular interests over territorial ones in making decisions about the allocation of resources from the Support Program for Infrastructure and Services Projects in Rural Territories (PROINF). More broadly, what is verified in the analyzed context is that most of the actors involved with CODETER do not have a systemic view of the Collegiate, understanding it in a partial way, as a disarticulated local construction of a territorial dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of people unhappy with the usual practice of religious institutions has increased significantly in Brazil, throughout recent decades. In the Brazilian religious scenario, the Christian churches are those that feel the impact of this phenomenon most strongly. Along with this discontentment, the disaffiliations occur. More and more people abandon traditional religious institutions and experiences and seek, in one way or another, to regularize their religiosity or spirituality. Some of these people may be viewed as without institution, some as without religion. This thesis intends to listen to some of these people and to understand at what extent a non-religious spirituality is forming in the pilgrimage of the current Brazilian society. Due to the relevance of these characters in the Brazilian religious context, the phenomenon of non-religion is the object of study of the present research, and the theme developed is non-religious spirituality. That being said, the purpose of this study is to analyze and interpret the phenomenon of non-religion in Brazil, through a representative sample of the universe, in order to build an essay on non-religious spirituality in contemporary times. To accomplish this goal, the thesis is developed through three methodological procedures. Initially, we analyze quantitative data about the demographic profile of the nonreligious in Brazil. Then, data collected from a field research entitled The Word of the Unreligious are examined and interpreted. Subsequently, the study enters a more theoretical path, which uses authors congruent to the thematic of nonreligious spirituality. Because it encompasses three research techniques, the method chosen for the development of the present thesis is a mixed method approach, notably an explanatory sequential project. The essay culminates with the idea that from the experience of Brazilians who claim to have no religion, a nonreligious spirituality is forming, albeit quite incipiently. However, in order not to be restricted to the result of the analysis and interpretation of field data, the present study concludes with three conceptions of non-religious spirituality, in order to stimulate not the end, but the continuity of reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article consists in the delimitation of the place occupied by the private dispute resolution methods within the frame of the Brazilian constitutional order. More specifically, the main goal is to determinate if those methods can fall under the protective system of the eternal clauses, considering that their practices are associated with the access to justice, which, as a legal guarantee, is declared by the fifth article, XXXV, of the current Brazilian Constitution. The same Constitution, according to the 60th article, IV, protects that guarantee as an eternal clause. Thus, we investigate if and to what extent the use of private dispute resolution methods can be found inserted in the core of the legal guarantee of access to justice. Such relation will be mainly explained with the help of the philosophical themes provided by the Contractualism and also by legal theory themes concerning sovereign power and jurisdiction. In order to achieve this goal, this article employs the hypothetical-deductive method assisted by literature review and documental analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a survey of articles involving research on journalism and its intersections with Marxism and the Political Economy of Communication (PEC) from 2006 to 2020. I review the main themes and concerns that motivate researchers who use Marxism and PEC to understand journalism. My goal is to understand the evolution of this kind of research in Brazilian Communication and Information journals during the present century. To achieve this goal, we performed a content analysis on a sample of 38 papers based on a search in scientific databases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the implementation of the Open Social Student Model in the virtual learning environment of an introductory computer programming course in higher education. The Open Social Student Model presents, in a visual and interactive way, a representation of the students' performance and that of their colleagues, thus allowing them to compare, evaluate and reflect about their own performance. As introductory programming courses have a high failure and dropout rate, the aim of this study has been to investigate how the metacognitive scaffolding provided by the interaction with the Open Social Student Model could contribute to the learning processes. To achieve this goal, a quasi-experiment was carried out involving 40 students during one semester, following a quali-quantitative approach. Results showed that the students used the Open Social Student Model to evaluate and monitor their own performance, to organize their studies and identify colleagues who could provide them support or who could be helped by them,. However, changes in the students' meta-cognitive awareness were not observed when comparing pre-test and post-test results. Thus, the study led to the conclusion that students who already master their metacognitive processes and know how to apply them in their learning process are the ones who can benefit the most with the use of the Open Social Student Model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to reflect on the discourses of subjects who are undergoing psychoanalytic treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). To achieve that goal, we selected some signifiers which imposed themselves to the therapists' listening over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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