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The purpose of this paper is to define the performanceoriented rating criteria for the portfolio and project managers. Therefore, through an action research, this article was based on the analysis of the projects in relation to their requirements uncertainty and technical knowledge uncertainty and also of the life cycle of each project, associated with an evaluation of the technical and behavioral competencies of the project team, here called soft skills and hard skills. The work was carried out from July to September 2018 in an agroindustrial cooperative in southern Brazil. Among the main results, we highlight the implementation of criteria to guide appropriate ways of project management according to their respective characteristics and selection of managers for each specific project; this was possible through a structured view of the project portfolio of the company. As a contribution to this study, we provide an overview of the most appropriate management approaches for each project and structure team competency criteria, so that the project office supervisor can direct team capacity building efforts to more specific competency knowledge allowing Information Technology sector to prioritize value from project deliverables. At the end of the paper, we also propose a structural model for future studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first-in first-out rule does not seem the most appropriated to manage the access of patients to health exams or services such as, for example, surgery. Indeed, each patient has his/her level of urgency and, furthermore, the utility that each patient retires from the service differs according to several clinical but also risk and social-related aspects. The decision of which patient to prioritize is tough because, in the current context, where capacity is much lower than demand, choosing one patient means to delay others. Thus, this paper proposes a project methodology to prioritize patients into a Urodynamic service. The methodology, developed by a multidisciplinary team, is applied in a public hospital in Brazil, taking into consideration clinical and social criteria. We interviewed Urodynamics specialists, and a Fuzzy-AHP method was used to compute the weight of each criterion. Our preliminary results show the potential of the proposed methodology and methods, and that not only for the described case, but for other health services facing similar problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A common scenario to be observed in the exact sciences courses of several universities around Brazil is a room composed mostly of male students. What we see is intense segregation by gender in higher education areas: men predominate in the exact sciences, while women continue professionalizing in health sciences or basic education. Some social aspects may contribute to this segmentation, such as girls being less exposed than boys to subjects related to Physics. As a way of encouraging female high school students to see Physics and other areas of the exact and natural sciences as a career opportunity, the “Tem Menina no Circuito� project was created in 2014, and has been developed since then. In order to understand the project's influences and contributions from 2014 to 2019, a questionnaire was distributed to the project's participants. As a conclusion, it was observed that the students' previous education seems to have influence over their career choice and that the project makes the students look to other areas of expertise as possibilities which were previously unknown to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to verify if there is any difference in the personality traits of Project Managers with different professional backgrounds - training, experience, and business sector (public or private). Using as theoretical basis the Big Five personality traits, this research was conducted with 244 Project Managers who work in Brazil. The results of tests of mean differences between groups showed that Project Managers with more experience have the trait agreeableness more pronounced than managers with less experience, while Project Managers with more schooling have a higher Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience, and Emotional Stability than Managers with less schooling. Project Managers who work in the public and private sectors showed different personality traits between themselves, and only for agreeableness no significant difference was found. These findings may contribute to the targeting of selection and training policies and the development of interpersonal and technical skills for this professional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil's Programa Institucional de Bolsa de Iniciação à Docência (PIBID) inserts undergraduate students, in their first teacher's training, in the school environment, allowing them to have first-hand experience in its daily routine. It makes real the desire of creating a school-university partnership. In addition to enhancing future teachers' didactical-pedagogic training, it is a unique opportunity for developing both area-specific and interdisciplinary projects which, well planned and implemented, promote Brazil's school system, specially State-sponsored. This paper aims at making known PIBID'S work, specifically in Linguistics and Literature fields, developed in the last 8 years by a federal university from Brazil south region with its undergraduates and public schools, having as a focus, at this moment, the inception of the project's implementing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article we will discuss statistical teaching through projects, highlighting the importance of active participation and dialogue in the teaching-learning process. A pedagogical proposal was created based on the curriculum for 3rd year students in high school state schools of São Paulo. We analyze students advance in respect to statistical literacy throughout the development of statistical projects. We believe students' research is essential in the learning process and especially in the construction of autonomous and critical individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to globalization and dynamic business environment, teams in companies are multicultural; as a result, culture may become an important aspect to be considered. The majority of articles regarding projects include factors of success and failure, but only a few embrace cultural perspectives. To provide more insight into the effects of cultural perspectives, this paper presents findings from an exploratory study that investigated how Brazilian information technology companies perceive project success and failure, and then makes inferences regarding the cultural factors. Interviews and questionnaires were applied, and the results provide insights for understanding how cultural factors may influence the project success perceptions. As the primary results, contributions regarding cultural perceptions are offered and related to different dimensions with a view to exploring the cultural aspects as determinant factors of success in a project management environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The principal aim of this article is analyzing the forms of financing the Cinema in Brazil. These forms are influenced by economical patterns with nature aesthetics-productive and by the popular techno-aesthetical pattern. The meeting of these patterns provokes a tension, made, on one hand, by the expression of popular identitarian preferences, and, on the other hand, by the interests of the agents who support film production. Focusing on the Brazilian Cinema Novo from the 1960s, it is brought context data and reflections that might lead the comprehension of the actual reality of filmmaking in Brazil, which is an ambience occupied by many agents since the conception of the projects up to their commercialization. It is suggested that innovative projects guided by the strategic design should make scenarios that consider the two tendencies in contrast, in a way that this economical segment keeps competitive in contemporary development of entertainment industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comfort is an issue that has gained relevance within the aeronautical industry due to the necessity of manufacturers and airline companies of differentiating themselves in a market that has become more and more competitive each day. This study's aim is to analyze the comfort/discomfort of passengers, based on the analysis of the activities performed in the aircrafts' cabin during real flights, in order to create ergonomics requirements and a methodology of comfort analysis. The study has been performed during domestic commercial flights, and the adopted data collection techniques have been: the application of 219 questionnaires to passengers, 44 registrations of postures and actions through filmings and 12 semistructured interviews. The method has made possible the reconstruction of the user's action course in performing activities in real flight situations, and the calculation of the area occupied by the passenger during his or her actions. The integrated analysis of the results corroborates data from previous studies in which both the space made available to each passenger and the activity performed interfere in their perception of comfort. From this study it has been concluded that the method constitutes itself as an innovative tool within the process of aircrafts' cabins project enabling the calculation of the action space based on the reconstructed course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many authors studied work situations and, mainly, ergonomics projects concerning the financial benefit point of view. At the same time seems to be little information available concerning these financial benefits in manufacturing companies' processes. The aim of this article is to identify if there enough information available within a company to quantify the financial benefits of an ergonomic project. The study was applied on two manufacturing companies, one in Brazil and other in Portugal. A literature review based checklist and a manager interview was applied on each company in order to identify if the information was available and how were been used. The two companies have revealed a good quantity of available information regarding ergonomics benefit calculation. The interviews showed that managers are not aware of the financial savings possibility with investments in ergonomics projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyzed two laboratories of liquid chromatography (LC), separation technique of mixtures and identification of its components, in order to identify projectual gaps relating to the environment and the working station. The methodology used was the ergonomic analysis with interactional and participatory techniques applied during the activity performance. This work incorporated and adapted the concept developed by Alexander (1979) - pattern languages - passing from architectural projects to workstations project and physical arrangement of the work environment. The adaptation of the concept resulted in a list of recommendations, requirements and concepts that have brought design solutions for the problematic aspects observed in the ergonomic analysis. The employed methodology, strongly supported in ergonomics principles, and in interactional and participatory techniques, contributed to achieve our gold that is what we now call Conceptual Standards. The patterns go beyond of a usual model of book a of ergonomics specification, once incorporating the viewpoint of the end user, it is also a set of best project practices and of project management in conception ergonomics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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