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The objective of the study was to assess the perception of two officials in relation to the management control system (MCS) used to assess the performance of a Brazilian Credit Union. For this, a research instrument adapted from two studies by Ferreira and Otley (2006) and Beuren and Teixeira (2014) was applied to 82 employees representing 21.08% of the total number of employees of the cooperative. The data are treated by means of descriptive statistics and information entropy techniques. Among the results, it was observed that the SCG and the performance assessment of the cooperative are consolidated, with a mean response of 4.35, varying from level 4 (partial agreement) to 5 (total agreement). Also, one of the contributions of this study was the fact that it was provided to test in another context and segment the performance management and control instrument restructured by Beuren and Teixeira (2014), validating the proposed adaptation by the aforementioned authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research characterizes itself as a formative-investigative process starting from the problematic: how to mobilize the soaps of the high school youths intending protagonism in lifelong learning with the objective of understanding the production of knowledge and representations of high school students at the Vicente Dutra State Institute of Education, IEEVD, considering a shared process of building their life projects from reflections held in a shared way with the subjects involved. The theoretical-methodological conception was systematized from the research-formation with (auto) biographical approach having as a guiding thread the investigative-formative dialogic circles, prioritizing the narratives the subjectivities of the group of high school students, articulating the lived experiences to the contexts in which they are inserted, enabling them to express their interests and whishes in future prospecting. The research resulted in a Guiding script for the construction of the High School Students' Life Project. It is expected to enhance the cole in the protagonism and the grand intellectual autonomy of students in the High School for conscious decision making, avoiding dropping out and school failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Pain after liver resection can be difficult to manage. Epidural anesthesia (EA) is an effective technique in pain control in this surgery. However, postoperative coagulopathy and hypotension due to autonomic nervous system block in high-risk patients, may result that the EA is an inadequate analgesic technique in according to enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) recommendations for liver surgery. Regional block techniques have been recommended for liver surgery in ERAS guidelines. Erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a recent block described for thoracic and abdominal surgeries and provides both somatic and visceral analgesia. We describe an high risk patient with cardiac dysfunction and Parkinson's disease who underwent laparoscopic right liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. Satisfactory intra and postoperative analgesia was achieved by a combined continuous ESP block, transversus abdominis plane (TAP) and oblique subcostal transversus abdominis plane (OSTAP) blocks. Surgery and postoperative period was uneventful. No opioids were administered during hospitalization. A combined of thoracic and abdominal wall blocks can be an effective approach for intra and postoperative analgesia in high risk patients undergoing laparoscopic liver resection. Further clinical research is recommended to establish the effectiveness of the ESP block as an analgesic technique in this surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cycling as a mode of transport is associated with numerous social and environmental bene- fits. However, the benefits that are most valued by cyclists are unknown. This study sought to find out to what extent the Public Bike Sharing System (PBSS) of the city of Buenos Aires produced positive impacts on aspects that users value most when traveling, and analysing whether these evaluations vary according to the intensity of use of the PBSS. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire was designed based on a study on residential quality of life, which was administered to 161 PBSS users. Results indicated that travel aspects such as rapidity, control of arrival time, saving money and --to a lesser extent-- health were very important to users, and these aspects had the greatest improvement since they started to use the PBSS. Similarly, those who used the system with greater intensity perceived greater non-instrumental benefits, such as entertainment and comfort. These results suggest that, in order to achieve a sustainable change in mobility behaviours, it is necessary to maintain the instrumental advantages of bike sharing over other modes of transport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the historical and discursive mechanisms to construct evidentiality as part of the historical explanations used by History majors in written texts. The corpus of the research is composed of 16 written answers obtained from the reading tests taken by first to third year history majors from three different courses of History of Chile. The research methodology takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines theories and methods from historical literacy and Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly the appraisal framework (White, 2003; Martin & White, 2005; Martin & Rose, 2007). The article develops the methodological possibilities of the system of ENGAGEMENT with the purpose of identifying the source of interpersonal meanings used to incorporate evidentiality in the discourse. The results of the research presented in the article take into account the implicated factors by which evidentiality works, as well as the formulation of the test's questions and the type of evidence (primary source and secondary bibliography). The results show three predominant tendencies in the texts: a) the use of strategic heterogloss of intervocalization of dialogic contraction, which is used as a way to indicate the evaluator the knowledge of the facts presented in the primary source, without a more elaborated explanation of historical significance; b) the use of heterogloss of extravocalization of Attribution by Assimilation, without the implication that this incorporation of the evidence is of good quality, due to the fact that, in many cases, the evidence of the facts are incorporated in either a wrong or a strategic manner; and c) the use of heteroglossic resources of dialogic contraction and monoglossic resources that cover the voice of the evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A punto de cumplirse los 25 años de los saqueos producidos en Rosario de la República Argentina, este artículo se centra en el debate historiográfico y antropológico acerca del uso de esa categoría para describir el impacto producido entre los supermercados más afectados de la ciudad. Se relaciona este caso con sucesos acontecidos en el país, y en especial se reproducen y analizan los dibujos que elaboraron niños y niñas de tercer grado de escuela primaria durante el primer día en que la escuela reabrió sus puertas. El ámbito educativo forma parte de este análisis sobre el significado del saqueo y sobre su uso para garantizar la alimentación infantil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the historical and discursive mechanisms to construct evidentiality as part of the historical explanations used by History majors in written texts. The corpus of the research is composed of 16 written answers obtained from the reading tests taken by first to third year history majors from three different courses of History of Chile. The research methodology takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines theories and methods from historical literacy and Systemic Functional Linguistics, particularly the appraisal framework (White, 2003; Martin & White, 2005; Martin & Rose, 2007). The article develops the methodological possibilities of the system of engagement with the purpose of identifying the source of interpersonal meanings used to incorporate evidentiality in the discourse. The results of the research presented in the article take into account the implicated factors by which evidentiality works, as well as the formulation of the test’s questions and the type of evidence (primary source and secondary bibliography). The results show three predominant tendencies in the texts: a) the use of strategic heterogloss of intervocalization of dialogic contraction, which is used as a way to indicate the evaluator the knowledge of the facts presented in the primary source, without a more elaborated explanation of historical significance; b) the use of heterogloss of extravocalization of Attribution by Assimilation, without the implication that this incorporation of the evidence is of good quality, due to the fact that, in many cases, the evidence of the facts are incorporated in either a wrong or a strategic manner; and c) the use of heteroglossic resources of dialogic contraction and monoglossic resources that cover the voice of the evidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present the psychological construct self-criticism and its relationship with the construct of maladaptative perfectionism. It reviews the relevance of both self-criticism and maladaptative perfectionism in the literature and the results of current research on these topics. We put a special emphasis on the maladaptative dimension of selfcriticism and its relationship with maladaptative perfectionism. We present a case report to illustrate the therapeutic strategies applied to modify perfectionistic beliefs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In order to understand the concept of region it is essential to analyze the spatial dynamics of territories. The region as a concept has changed along time in the diverse schools of geography. Now, one of the more acepted concepts is the diferentiation of areas, that is, the earth surface is formed by differing territories. Then, to understand our metropolitan region it is necessary to make an analysis of the Brazilian urbanization process and metropolitan region. The methodology is based on the recopilation of bibliographic information about the topic in question. It was found that the Brazilian urbanization process was very dynamic during the xx century, when metropolis grew exorbitant and many cities passed to have more than one million inhabitants. The main attractive of these regions was to offer more job opportunities and therefore better living conditions. But, as result of the metropolitization appeared many social problems, which not only affected the core cities but their surrounding areas. This fact led to look for solutions and one of these was the creation of the metropolitan regions, by the integrated planning, administration and application of common interests. The first eight metropolitan regions were created on July 8, 1973 by the Ley Complementaria N° 14, and were: São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Curitiba, Belém, and Fortaleza. Now, Brazil has 26 metropolitan regions and three Integrated Regions of Economic Development (RIDE). Here, we emphasize the importance of urban planning to solve the city problems based on principles of continuousity, flexibility, and participative management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The bread making quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) depends on the quality and quantity of the gluten proteins --glutenins and gliadins-- which constitute 10 to 14% of the grain protein content. Various quantitative parameters, such as the total content of proteins of the flour, content of polymeric proteins present in the grain and the glutenin/gliadin ratio are related to baking quality. This work presents the characterization of high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS) by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) of 22 Uruguayan cultivars and breeding lines. 14 HMW-GS subunits were observed corresponding to 10 allele combinations. On the other hand, it is proposed a simple method to group and quantify the main storage proteins of bread wheat by SE-HPLC (Size Exclusion High Performance Liquid Chromatography). The chromatograms obtained showed an excellent separation of the endosperm proteins in three main peaks corresponding to polymeric, monomeric and non gluten proteins, respectively. The integrated areas of the chromatograms as well as the presence of subunits of the cultivars were analyzed. The genotypes analyzed showed quantitative differences in the quantity of glutenin/gliadin solubles in SDS and in the proportion of polymeric and monomeric proteins. The cultivar INIA Gorrión of good baking quality having the alleles Glu-D1 5+10 showed a lower percentage of SDS-soluble polymeric proteins and higher insoluble polymeric proteins than the experimental line LE 2265, which has the alleles Glu-D1 2+12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study is to determine the perception of a group of nurses about the causes of mental suffering in their daily work. Method: This is a study using qualitative methodology, obtaining information through a discussion group. The number of attendees was six and worked in different areas. Results: Moral suffering was grouped into three dimensions related to the personal dimension, in relation to the patient and their environment and ultimately to conflicts with the health team. Conclusions: The conceptualization of moral suffering seems complex, as it is clear from the study a large number of existing factors are involved, in relation to the work environment and the private sphere of individuals. About the latter, factors are related to personality, gender, lack of knowledge and commitment to the profession itself that causes pain when the right conditions to practise are not met. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]