1000 resultados para regressão linear múltipla


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OBJECTIVE: To analyze lifestyle risk factors related to direct healthcare costs and the indirect costs due to sick leave among workers of an airline company in Brazil. METHODS: In this longitudinal 12-month study of 2,201 employees of a Brazilian airline company, the costs of sick leave and healthcare were the primary outcomes of interest. Information on the independent variables, such as gender, age, educational level, type of work, stress, and lifestyle-related factors (body mass index, physical activity, and smoking), was collected using a questionnaire on enrolment in the study. Data on sick leave days were available from the company register, and data on healthcare costs were obtained from insurance records. Multivariate linear regression analysis was used to investigate the association between direct and indirect healthcare costs with sociodemographic, work, and lifestyle-related factors. RESULTS: Over the 12-month study period, the average direct healthcare expenditure per worker was US$505.00 and the average indirect cost because of sick leave was US$249.00 per worker. Direct costs were more than twice the indirect costs and both were higher in women. Body mass index was a determinant of direct costs and smoking was a determinant of indirect costs. CONCLUSIONS: Obesity and smoking among workers in a Brazilian airline company were associated with increased health costs. Therefore, promoting a healthy diet, physical activity, and anti-tobacco campaigns are important targets for health promotion in this study population.

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O mercado de securitização através de Fundos de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios (FIDCs) no Brasil ainda não é tão desenvolvido quando comparado aos mercados internacionais. O desenvolvimento desse mercado facultaria a bancos e empresas acesso a fontes de financiamento além da sua geração de caixa ou da emissão de novas ações. Bancos e empresas devem manter a busca por formas alternativas de financiamento, obtendo, assim, diversificação de suas fontes de recursos. O objetivo desse trabalho é avaliar como as características dos FIDCs afetam a taxa de captação de suas cotas sênior. Para isso foram avaliadas 151 séries de cotas, emitidas entre 2002 e 2014. Na análise foram usadas análises multivariadas através da regressão linear múltipla, usando o método de Mínimos Quadrados Ordinários (MQO), para avaliar o efeito das variáveis sobre o spread das cotas. Os resultados apontaram que o volume de emissão afeta a forma como outras variáveis afetam o spread. Os fundos com tamanho de oferta maior têm seu spread influenciado por características de seus cedentes e por características de sua estruturação, enquanto que fundos menores são apreçados por negociações entre emissor e investidores.

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Este estudo quantitativo, transversal e preditivo tem como objectivo analisar a influência da autoeficácia na satisfação profissional dos professores portugueses. A amostra é constituída por 327 professores do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico (trabalham com alunos dos 6 aos 10 anos) que responderam a um questionário de dados sociodemográficos e escalas validadas para a população portuguesa para as variáveis em estudo. Realizada a análise de regressão linear múltipla, verificou-se que o aumento da “eficácia instrucional” e da “eficácia nos relacionamentos interpessoais” predizem um aumento da satisfação docente na dimensão “relação com a profissão” (R2 = .27). A uma melhor perceção da “relação interpessoal/institucional” (R2 = .20), corresponde uma diminuição da “eficácia instrucional” e um aumento da eficácia nos relacionamentos interpessoais.

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Os objetivos centrais da presente pesquisa foram quatro: (1) recolher informação nos domínios do crescimento físico humano, composição corporal, tipo físico, aptidão física e prática desportiva do atleta infanto-juvenil praticante de atletismo; (2) estudar a variação associada à idade e ao sexo; (3) investigar as diferenças entre atletas e não-atletas; e (4) identificar os preditores da capacidade funcional. A amostra foi constituída por 105 praticantes de atletismo, 49 do sexo masculino e 56 do sexo feminino, com idades compreendidas entre os 11 e os 17 anos, de cinco clubes da Região Autónoma da Madeira. As variáveis de estudo incluíram a altura, o peso corporal, os diâmetros ósseos, os perímetros musculares, as pregas de adiposidade subcutânea, a massa isenta de gordura (MIG), a massa gorda, o tipo físico, os testes motores, e os anos e as horas de treino semanal. Os ‘scores’ Z, os testes t-student e Mann-Whitney U, a ANOVA e a regressão linear múltipla foram os procedimentos estatísticos utilizados nas análises. O atleta do sexo masculino foi mais alto, pesado, robusto e apresentou mais MIG do que o sexo feminino (p<0,05). Os atletas apresentaram um físico mesomorfo equilibrado (sexo masculino) e meso-endomorfo (sexo feminino). Os rapazes apresentaram valores significativamente superiores na aptidão física geral e específica, comparativamente às raparigas. As raparigas apresentaram melhores desempenhos no ‘sit and reach’(p<0,05). Os valores médios para a altura, peso corporal, testes motores e características da prática desportiva foram superiores nas atletas mais velhas (p<0,05). Os praticantes de atletismo apresentaram menos gordura subcutânea e melhores desempenhos no salto em comprimento sem corrida preparatória e corrida de 12 minutos, do que as não-atletas. A altura, a percentagem de gordura, os anos de prática desportiva e o número de horas de treino por semana foram os preditores que mais contribuíram para explicar a variância nos testes motores.Os resultados demonstraram um dimorfismo entre atletas do sexo masculino e feminino. O treino estava associado a melhores desempenhos nos testes motores e a valores mais baixos de gordura corporal. A altura, a gordura corporal e as características da prática desportiva foram importantes na predição da capacidade funcional.

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Esta dissertação contempla dois estudos e possui como objetivos: (1) estudar a relação entre a participação desportiva, aptidão física (AptF), atividade física (AF) e sedentarismo e (2) determinar a influência do apoio parental, dos pares e da autoeficácia nos níveis de AF geral e organizada. Participaram em ambos os estudos 240 raparigas, com idades entre os 9 e 15 anos, 71 praticantes de ginástica rítmica (GR), 87 de desportos coletivos (DC) e 82 não praticantes (NP). As participantes foram avaliadas na altura, peso, perímetro da cintura e pregas de adiposidade tricipital e geminal. A AptF foi avaliada através da bateria de teste FitnessGram (Cooper Institute, 2010). A AF (Crocker et al., 1997), atividades sedentárias (ASed), a maturação sexual (Tanner, 1962), o apoio parental e dos pares (Prochaska et al., 2002) e a autoeficácia (Motl et al., 2000) foram avaliados através de questionários. Principais resultados: (1) independentemente do grupo de participação desportiva constataram-se reduzidos níveis de AF e de AptF; as ginastas apresentam níveis de AptF e de AF mais elevados comparativamente às NP (p<0,05) e praticantes de DC (p>0,05), não se registando diferenças nas ASed (p>0,05). (2) Verificou-se diferenças no apoio social (parental e dos pares) e na autoeficácia, entre as NP com as praticantes de DC (p<0,05) e com as praticantes de GR (p<0,05). As ginastas reportaram, em média, níveis mais elevados de apoio social (parental e dos pares) e de autoeficácia. Através da regressão linear múltipla, constata-se que níveis mais elevados de apoio parental e dos pares estão associados a níveis de AF mais elevados (p>0,05), sendo que 9,8% da variabilidade dos níveis de AF é explicado pelo apoio parental e 4,1% pelo apoio dos pares. Este trabalho reforça a necessidade de elaboração de programas de intervenção que potencializem a AF, e que devem contemplar estratégias de apoio social e promoção da autoeficácia.

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When a company desires to invest in a project, it must obtain resources needed to make the investment. The alternatives are using firm s internal resources or obtain external resources through contracts of debt and issuance of shares. Decisions involving the composition of internal resources, debt and shares in the total resources used to finance the activities of a company related to the choice of its capital structure. Although there are studies in the area of finance on the debt determinants of firms, the issue of capital structure is still controversial. This work sought to identify the predominant factors that determine the capital structure of Brazilian share capital, non-financial firms. This work was used a quantitative approach, with application of the statistical technique of multiple linear regression on data in panel. Estimates were made by the method of ordinary least squares with model of fixed effects. About 116 companies were selected to participate in this research. The period considered is from 2003 to 2007. The variables and hypotheses tested in this study were built based on theories of capital structure and in empirical researches. Results indicate that the variables, such as risk, size, and composition of assets and firms growth influence their indebtedness. The profitability variable was not relevant to the composition of indebtedness of the companies analyzed. However, analyzing only the long-term debt, comes to the conclusion that the relevant variables are the size of firms and, especially, the composition of its assets (tangibility).This sense, the smaller the size of the undertaking or the greater the representation of fixed assets in total assets, the greater its propensity to long-term debt. Furthermore, this research could not identify a predominant theory to explain the capital structure of Brazilian

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This study examines the complex hotel buyer decision process in front of the tourism distribution channels. Its objective is to describe the influence level of the tourism marketing intermediaries, mainly the travel agents and tour operators, over the hotel decision process by the buyer-tourist. The data collection process was done trough a survey with three hundred brazilian tourists hosted in nineteen hotels of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The data analysis was done using some multivariate statistic techniques as correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, factor analysis and multiple discriminant analysis. The research characterizes the hotel services consumers profile and his trip, and identifying the distribution channels used by them. Furthermore, the research verifies the intermediaries influence exercised over hotel buyer decision process, looking for identify causality relations between the influence level and the buyer profile. Verifies that information about hotels available on internet reduces the probability that this influence can be practiced; however it was possible identifying those consumers considers this information complementary and non-substitutes than the information from intermediaries. The characteristics of the data do not allow indentifying the factors that constraint the intermediaries influence neither identifying discriminant functions of the specific distribution channel choice by consumers. The study concludes that consumers don t agree in have been influenced by intermediaries or don t know if they have, still considering important to consult them and internet doesn t substitute their function as information source

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This study examines the factors that influence public managers in the adoption of advanced practices related to Information Security Management. This research used, as the basis of assertions, Security Standard ISO 27001:2005 and theoretical model based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) from Venkatesh and Davis (2000). The method adopted was field research of national scope with participation of eighty public administrators from states of Brazil, all of them managers and planners of state governments. The approach was quantitative and research methods were descriptive statistics, factor analysis and multiple linear regression for data analysis. The survey results showed correlation between the constructs of the TAM model (ease of use, perceptions of value, attitude and intention to use) and agreement with the assertions made in accordance with ISO 27001, showing that these factors influence the managers in adoption of such practices. On the other independent variables of the model (organizational profile, demographic profile and managers behavior) no significant correlation was identified with the assertions of the same standard, witch means the need for expansion researches using such constructs. It is hoped that this study may contribute positively to the progress on discussions about Information Security Management, Adoption of Safety Standards and Technology Acceptance Model

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This Thesis presents the elaboration of a methodological propose for the development of an intelligent system, able to automatically achieve the effective porosity, in sedimentary layers, from a data bank built with information from the Ground Penetrating Radar GPR. The intelligent system was built to model the relation between the porosity (response variable) and the electromagnetic attribute from the GPR (explicative variables). Using it, the porosity was estimated using the artificial neural network (Multilayer Perceptron MLP) and the multiple linear regression. The data from the response variable and from the explicative variables were achieved in laboratory and in GPR surveys outlined in controlled sites, on site and in laboratory. The proposed intelligent system has the capacity of estimating the porosity from any available data bank, which has the same variables used in this Thesis. The architecture of the neural network used can be modified according to the existing necessity, adapting to the available data bank. The use of the multiple linear regression model allowed the identification and quantification of the influence (level of effect) from each explicative variable in the estimation of the porosity. The proposed methodology can revolutionize the use of the GPR, not only for the imaging of the sedimentary geometry and faces, but mainly for the automatically achievement of the porosity one of the most important parameters for the characterization of reservoir rocks (from petroleum or water)

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Existem diversas equações para predição do VO2máx a partir de variáveis dentro do teste ergométrico em vários ergômetros, no entanto equação semelhante utilizando os limiares ventilatórios na ergoespirometria em teste sub-máximo no cicloergômetro não está disponível. O objetivo do presente estudo foi avaliar a precisão de modelos de predição do VO2máx com base em indicadores de esforço sub-máximo. Neste sentido foram testados em protocolo incremental máximo no cicloergômetro 7.877 voluntários, sendo 4640 indivíduos do sexo feminino e 3147 do sexo masculino, todos saudáveis não atletas, com idades acima de 20 anos, divididos randomicamente em dois grupos: A de estimação e B de validação. A partir das variáveis independentes massa corporal (MC) em kg, carga de trabalho no limiar 2 (WL2) e freqüência cardíaca no limiar 2 (FCL2) foi possível construir um modelo de regressão linear múltipla para predição do VO2máx. Os resultados demonstram que em indivíduos saudáveis não atletas de ambos os sexos é possível predizer o VO2máx com um erro mínimo (EPE = 1,00%) a partir de indicadores submáximos obtidos em teste incremental. O caráter multidisciplinar do trabalho pôde ser caracterizado pelo emprego de técnicas que envolveram pneumologia, educação física, fisiologia e estatística

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The imprecision of the frontier that separates those cognitive deficits inherent to the human physiological aging process from those which represent the early signs of nervous system degenerative pathologies ,very prevalent among the elderly, has brought attention to the need of studies aiming to establish clinical and/or laboratorial criteria to allow this differentiation. Elderly people living in poor and developing countries are frequently exposed to precarious socioeconomic conditions which facilitate the development of an array of pathologies which have metabolic and nutritional dysfunctions as the established or proposed etiological agents. The levels of certain micronutrients, such as the vitamins B12 and B9 (folic acid), and of some intermediary metabolites, such as homocysteine are being thought of as etiological factors and/or as biological markers of a group of alterations which affect the normal functioning of the nervous system with important reflexes upon cognitive performance. This study aims to investigate the influence of homocysteine, B12 vitamin and folic acid levels on the cognitive performance of the low income elderly population. This transversal study took place in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil, and involved 205 dwelling elderly people, users of the Programa de Saúde da Família, a public healthcare program, maintained by the city s health authorities. A multidimensional questionnaire was used to assess the socio-demographic aspects and the overall health and nutrition conditions. The cognitive performance was measured by the use of the Portuguese version of the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE). The serum levels of homocysteine, B12 vitamin and folic acid were determined by chemiluminescence. The association between the socio-demographic and serum levels of Hcy, B12 vitamin and folic acid was determined by multiple linear regression. Serum levels higher than 13.5 μmol/l, indicative of hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy), were found on 25.4% of the sample, being more prevalent in men (p<0.05). Deficitary levels of folic acid (<5ng/mol) and of B12 vitamin (<193 pg/ml) were found on 3.9% and 10.2% of the sample respectively. A negative correlation was found between cognitive performance with both age and HHcy and a positive correlation was found between cognitive performance and schooling. The isolated HHcy R2 values were an explanation to only 4% of the variance of the MMSE scores. However, when associated with schooling and age, this model explains about 25% of this association