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Ceramic materials the alumina base are large industrial applications. They are required for these products, specific characteristics obtained by following strict criteria during the manufacturing process. However, after life, not always these products are reused by a suitable waste management process. In ceramist context, advance research aimed at the reuse of waste aimed at obtaining ceramics and composite materials, with marked reduction of conventional raw materials. Aiming to generate scientific, technological and environmental contribution, this work studied to obtain a composite of alumina ceramic (Al2O3) and sodium beta alumina (NaAl11O17 ), and as starting materials the residue of the ceramic insulator of spark plugs, as a source alumina (Al2O3) powder and unusable sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) of fire extinguishers, as a source of sodium oxide (Na2O). The final ceramic product was obtained from a conventional mixture of sodium aluminum oxide in appropriate molar proportions. Sample spark plugs were obtained, discarded by lifetime, specific to a manufacturer, which, after passing through mechanical stress (grinding, magnetic purification, washing, drying and grinding the high energy), which resulted in residue powder with ceramic content of 84.34 % alumina (Al2O3), found by FRX chemical analysis, the phases present and identified by DRX. The dry chemical fire extinguisher, baking soda-based (NaHCO3) with expired, was obtained through direct collection of the waste generated during maintenance. Subjected to heat treatment at 120 °C , the NaHCO3 powder was decomposed in sodium oxide ( Na2O), which, subjected to chemical analysis (FRX) and mineralogical (DRX) revealed a content of 86.62 % sodium oxide (Na2O) . In the following steps the experimental procedure, chemical formulations were made on a molar basis of the starting material (1:9, 1:10 and 1:11 de Na2O/ Al2O3) inclusion of additives, milling parameters, sieve analysis, dilatometry, conformation of specimens, sintering in firing steps at 800 °C , 1000 °C and 1.200 °C with varying stays 30 , 60 and 120 minutes in each of the levels. The characterization of the final product was made by the following physical tests: water absorption, porosity, linear shrinkage, mineralogical analysis by DRX and microstructural analysis by MEV. A higher formation of sodium beta alumina (NaAl11O17), in sintered specimens in levels of 1.200 °C and 120 minutes, despite the prevailing coexistence of alpha phase alumina (Al2O3). From the results obtained opens up prospects for the reuse of waste studied in this work, the potter context and in other technological areas.

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Crítica descentrada para o senso comum: MUNIZ, Euzébia Maria de Pontes Targino; DANTAS, Juliana Bulhões Alberto; ALBANO, Sebastião Guilherme (Orgs). Amostragem da reflexão acerca da comunicação contemporânea realizada na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN: EDUFRN, 2012.

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This research is part of the field of organizational studies, focusing on organizational purchase behavior and, specifically, trust interorganizational at the purchases. This topic is current and relevant by addressing the development of good relations between buyer-supplier that increases the exchange of information, increases the length of relationship, reduces the hierarchical controls and improves performance. Furthermore, although there is a vast literature on trust, the scientific work that deal specifically at the trust interorganizational still need further research to synthesize and validate the variables that generate this phenomenon. In this sense, this investigation is to explain the antecedents of trust interorganizational by the relationship between the variable operational performance, organizational characteristics, shared values and interpersonal relationships on purchases by manufacturing industries, in order to develop a robust literature, most consensual, that includes the current sociological and economic, considering the effect of interpersonal relationships in this phenomenon. This proposal is configured in a new vision of the antecedents of interorganizational trust, described as significant quantitative from models Morgan and Hunt (1994), Doney and Cannon (1997), Zhao and Cavusgil (2006) and Nyaga, Whipple, Lynch (2011), as well as qualitative analysis of Tacconi et al. (2011). With regard to methodological aspects, the study assumes the form of a descriptive, survey type, and causal trace theoretical and empirical. As for his nature, the investigation, explicative character, has developed a quantitative approach with the use of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling SEM, with the use of IBM software SPSS Amos 18.0, using the method of maximum verisimilitude, and supported by technical bootstraping. The unit of analysis was the buyer-supplier relationship, in which the object under investigation was the supplier organization in view of the purchasing company. 237 valid questionnaires were collected among key informants, using a simple random sampling developed in manufacturing industries (SIC 10-33), located in the city of Natal and in the region of Natal. The first results of descriptive analysis demonstrate the phenomenon of interorganizational trust, in which purchasing firms believe, feel secure about the supplier. This demonstration showed high levels of intensity, predominantly among the vendors that supply the company with materials that are used directly in the production process. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, performed on each variable alone, generated a set of observable and unobservable variables more consistent, giving rise to a model, that needed to be further specified. This again specify model consists of trajectories was positive, with a good fit, with a composite reliability and variance extracted satisfactory, and demonstrates convergent and discriminant validity, in which the factor loadings are significant and strong explanatory power. Given the findings that reinforce the model again specify data, suggesting a high probability that this model may be more suited for the study population, the results support the explanation that interorganizational trust depends on purchases directly from interpersonal relationships, sharing value and operating performance and indirectly of personal relationships, social networks, organizational characteristics, physical and relational aspect of performance. It is concluded that this trust can be explained by a set of interactions between these three determinants, where the focus is on interpersonal relationships, with the largest path coefficient for the factor under study

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The current study presents the characteristics of self-efficacy of students of Administration course, who work and do not work. The study was conducted through a field research, descriptive, addressed quantitatively using statistical procedures. Was studied a population composed of 394 students distributed in three Higher Education Institutions, in the metropolitan region of Belém, in the State of Pará. The sampling was not probabilistic by accessibility, with a sample of 254 subjects. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire composed of a set of questions divided into three sections: the first related to sociodemographic data, the second section was built to identify the work situation of the respondent and the third section was built with issues related to General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale proposed by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1999). Sociodemographic data were processed using methods of descriptive statistics. This procedure allowed characterizing the subjects of the sample. To identify the work situation, the analysis of frequency and percentage was used, which allowed to classify in percentage, the respondents who worked and those that did not work, and the data related to the scale of self-efficacy were processed quantitatively by the method of multivariate statistics using the software of program Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows - SPSS, version 17 from the process of Exploratory Factor Analysis. This procedure allowed characterizing the students who worked and the students who did not worked. The results were discussed based on Social Cognitive Theory from the construct of self-efficacy of Albert Bandura (1977). The study results showed a young sample, composed the majority of single women with work experience, and indicated that the characteristics of self-efficacy of students who work and students who do not work are different. The self-efficacy beliefs of students who do not work are based on psychological expectations, whereas the students who work demonstrated that their efficacy beliefs are sustained by previous experiences. A student who does not work proved to be reliant in their abilities to achieve a successful performance in their activities, believing it to be easy to achieve your goals and to face difficult situations at work, simply by invest a necessary effort and trust in their abilities. One who has experience working proved to be reliant in their abilities to conduct courses of action, although know that it is not easy to achieve your goals, and in unexpected situations showed its ability to solve difficult problems

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Nos últimos anos, tem-se assistido a um crescimento no interesse do estudo da ressuspensão de pó de estrada, dado o reconhecimento da importância que esta fração representa para os níveis de partículas atmosféricas em ambiente urbano. Dada a prematuridade deste tema e, de forma a compreender e conhecer a sua contribuição e caracterização, realizou-se um estudo sobre a ressuspensão de pó de estrada urbano para as cidades do Porto e Braga. No âmbito do projeto AIRUSE e URBE, realizaram-se amostragens de PM10 no terreno com um dispositivo de amostragem móvel e em ambiente laboratorial com uma câmara de ressuspensão, sendo posteriormente analisado o seu conteúdo carbonoso por um sistema de análise termo-ótico de transmitância e, os elementos por ICP-MS e ICP-AES. Da campanha in situ resultaram cargas de PM10 compreendidas entre 0.190 e 49.5 mg.m-2 para a cidade do Porto e 0.577 mg.m-2 para o túnel rodoviário em Braga. As amostras caracterizam-se por serem dominadas pelos elementos Al, Fe, K, e Ca e conterem enriquecimentos de Sb, Fe, Cu, Sn e Zn, fruto da contaminação antropogénica da atividade rodoviária. No que respeita às amostragens em laboratório, utilizou-se uma câmara de ressuspensão e o dispositivo móvel aplicado na campanha anteriormente descrita para estudar e caracterizar a fração PM10 do pó de estrada urbano proveniente do Túnel Avenida da Liberdade (Braga). Os resultados obtidos para as duas metodologias foram de um modo geral similares, com o carbono total a representar cerca de 6% da massa total de PM10. Esta última é composta maioritariamente por Al, Fe, Ca e K, elementos característicos da crosta terrestre. Quanto ao fatores de enriquecimento calculados, denotou-se a presença de Sb, Zn, Cu e Sn, tendo-se associando ao desgaste dos travões e pneus.

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O aumento considerável da esperança de vida, o prolongamento de algumas doenças crónicas e incapacitantes levaram ao aumento de pessoas com doença em fase terminal de vida. Assim, cabe aos Enfermeiros darem resposta às mudanças e tendências da população que cuidam, mantendo a sua excelência de cuidados (Watson, 2002). Neste contexto, projecta-se um trabalho de investigação cujo objectivo fulcral visa aprofundar o conhecimento de alguns factores/variáveis que podem influenciar a qualidade dos cuidados de saúde na generalidade e, em particular, no exercício da profissão de Enfermagem, perspectivado por Pessoas em Fim de Vida, através da investigação quantitativa (descritiva-correlacional). A amostragem não probabilística e acidental foi o procedimento de selecção para a realização do estudo. A amostra é constituída por Pessoas em Fim de Vida, internados numa unidade de cuidados paliativos ? da região centro, há pelo menos uma semana. Considerando os objectivos do estudo optou-se pelo uso de um questionário. O instrumento de recolha de informação utilizado para as Pessoas em Fim de Vida divide-se por: uma primeira parte onde se apresentam as questões de caracterização sóciodemográfica dos inquiridos; uma segunda parte composta pelas escalas (SUCEH21 ? Satisfação dos utentes com os Cuidados de Enfermagem; Avaliação da Qualidade Hospitalar (IAQH); Escala de Vinculação do Adulto). Num período de tempo de 3 meses, dos 47 inquiridos, internados há mais de uma semana, numa Unidade de Cuidados Paliativos, constatou-se que metade dos elementos da amostra tinham, pelo menos, 65 anos. Verificou-se ainda que, tendem a avaliar pior a Qualidade Hospitalar ao nível do Pessoal de Enfermagem. Verificou-se que, a Pessoa em Fim de Vida com padrão de Vinculação Ansiosa mais acentuado tendem a revelar menor Satisfação com os Cuidados de Enfermagem e a fazer uma avaliação menos positiva da Qualidade Hospitalar. Por outro lado, com padrões de Vinculação Segura ou Evitante mais acentuados tendem a estar mais satisfeitos com os Cuidados de Enfermagem e a avaliar melhor a Qualidade Hospitalar. Os utentes mais satisfeitos com os Cuidados de Enfermagem tendem a fazer uma melhor Avaliação da Qualidade Hospitalar. Importante referir que, esta tendência se inverte na dimensão referente à Avaliação da Qualidade da Alta, ou seja, nesta dimensão os doentes mais satisfeitos com os Cuidados de Enfermagem tendem a avaliar de forma menos positiva a Qualidade da Alta Hospitalar. Constatou-se que, os utentes que tinham Visita de Referência tenderam a evidenciar maior Satisfação com os Cuidados de Enfermagem e melhor Qualidade de Cuidados de Saúde. Após submissão dos resultados, considera-se que os objectivos propostos inerentes à realização do presente trabalho de investigação foram cumpridos, sendo que os resultados e as conclusões obtidas permitem-nos perspectivar a continuação de estudos destas temáticas, na área de Cuidados Paliativos. Assim, a realização desta dissertação permitiu aprender e fazer investigação em Enfermagem, por outro lado trouxe inúmeras mais-valias no desenvolvimento dos conhecimentos específicos da ciência, numa área específica dos cuidados, para o aumento da qualidade de vida da Pessoa em Fim de Vida.

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In order to add value to soybens crops, and hence the marketing, medium and large producers have been using precision agriculture techniques (PA), as the Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and positioning satellite, to assist the management of crops. Thus, given the economic relevance of that culture to the southwest of Paraná State and Brazil, scientific studies to increase their productivity and profitability are of main importance. The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the chemical soil properties and soybean yield for each estimated parameter of semivariogram (range, nugget and level effect), and the deployment of these correlations in direct and indirect effects, aiming to improve the mapping process of spatial variability of soil chemical properties for use in PA. The hypothesis is that not all attributes of soil used to estimate the semivariogram parameters has a direct effect on productivity, and that even in groups of plants within a larger area it is possible to estimate the parameters of the semivariograms. The experiment was conducted in a commercial area of 19.7 ha, located in the city of Pato Branco - PR, central geographic coordinates 26º 11 '35 "South, 52 43' 05" West longitude, and average altitude of 780 m. The area is planted with soybeans for over 30 years, currently being adopted to cultivate Brasmax Target RR - Don Mario 5.9i, with row spacing of 0.50 m and 13 plants m-1, totaling 260,000 plants ha-1. For georeferencing of the area of study and sampling points was used a couple of topographic ProMarkTM3 receptors, making a relative positioning to obtain the georeferenced coordinates. To collect data (chemical analyzes of soil and crop yield) were sampled 10 blocks in the experimental area, each with an area of 20 m2 (20 meters long x 1 meter wide) containing two spaced adjacent rows of 0.5 m. Each block was divided into 20 portions of 1 m2, and from each were collected four subsamples at a distance of 0.5 m in relation to the lines of blocks, making up a sample depth for 0-10 cm a sample to 10-20 cm for each plot, totaling 200 samples for each depth. The soybean crop was performed on the blocks depending on maturity, and in each block was considered a bundle at each meter. In the data analysis, it was performed a diagnosis of multicollinearity, and subsequently a path analysis of the main variables according to the explanatory variables (range of chemical attributes: pH, K, P, Ca, etc.). The results obtained by the path analysis of the parameters of the semivariogram of soil chemical properties, indicated that only the Fe, Mg, Mn, organic matter (OM), P and Saturation by bases (SB) exerted direct and indirect effects on soybean productivity, although they have not presented spatial variability, indicating that the distribution of blocks in the area was unable to identify the spatial dependence of these elements, making it impossible to draw up maps of the chemical attributes for use in PA.

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Crítica descentrada para o senso comum: MUNIZ, Euzébia Maria de Pontes Targino; DANTAS, Juliana Bulhões Alberto; ALBANO, Sebastião Guilherme (Orgs). Amostragem da reflexão acerca da comunicação contemporânea realizada na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, RN: EDUFRN, 2012.

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O tabagismo é a primeira causa isolada de doença e uma das principais causas de mortalidade prematura em todo o mundo. Morrem anualmente cerca de 6 milhões de pessoas por doenças relacionadas com o tabaco, valor que poderá ascender aos 10 milhões em 2030 se não forem instituídas medidas de prevenção efetivas (WHO 2011). O presente trabalho debruça-se sobre a área do consumo tabágico, intervindo assim num dos mais graves problemas da saúde pública moderna. Procuramos conhecer qual o consumo tabágico na população com idade igual ou superior a 18 anos do concelho de Macedo de Cavaleiros. Definimos como objetivos principais: identificar a prevalência tabágica e relacionar o consumo tabágico com as variáveis clínicas. Face aos objetivos delineados optamos por um estudo descritivo, transversal, epidemiológico e com abordagem quantitativa. A nossa amostra é composta por 900 indivíduos (6,3% da população), selecionados por processo de amostragem não probabilística por quotas, representativos da distribuição etária e geográfica da população. Para a colheita de dados utilizamos o formulário, aplicado pelos investigadores. Como principais resultados, destacamos a acentuada prevalência tabágica no concelho (29,9%), com índices alarmantes de consumo nos jovens (55% dos indivíduos da classe etária 18-25 anos) e nas mulheres (20%). Verificamos que os fumadores têm uma incidência de patologias em frequências superiores às observadas nos não fumadores das mesmas classes etárias. Face ao exposto, a intervenção no tabagismo é uma área de fulcral interesse, estando os cuidados de saúde primários e a saúde pública numa situação privilegiada para apoiar a cessação em todos os fumadores e para intervir na prevenção do consumo tabágico (Diário da República 2005; Health and Consumer Protection 2007; Nunes et al. 2007; WHO 2008).

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A avaliação da qualidade dos cuidados de enfermagem prestados em cuidados de saúde primários, deve ser tida em conta pelos gestores das instituições, uma vez que a satisfação dos utentes constitui uma realidade pertinente e é um elemento estrutural dos serviços de saúde. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo exploratório, baseado numa abordagem quantitativa, cuja população-alvo foram 162.318 utentes em cuidados de saúde primários. Resultou uma amostra composta por de 693 utentes, obtida por amostragem não probabilística acidental. Foi utilizado um formulário, para os dados sociodemográficos e aplicada a escala “Satisfação dos utentes com os cuidados de enfermagem no centro de saúde– SUCECS26” de Ribeiro (2003). Resultados: No nosso estudo, de uma forma global, a maioria dos utentes está satisfeita com os cuidados de enfermagem recebidos (92.2%). Existem diferenças em relação ao género, idade, habilitações literárias, estado civil, profissão, centro de sáude (CS), motivo da consulta e o número de consultas de enfermagem por ano. Discussão: Os resultados da presente investigação são corroborados pelos resultados obtidos por diversos autores, entre os quais destacamos Ribeiro (2003) e Alves (2007). Conclusão: Concluímos que os níveis de satisfação dos utentes com os cuidados de enfermagem em cuidados de saúde primários estão relacionados com várias variáveis sociodemográficas e de caracterização, devendo portanto ser tidas em consideração ao nível da tomada de decisão, objetivando maiores níveis de satisfação e maiores ganhos em saúde.

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The purpose of this work is to demonstrate and to assess a simple algorithm for automatic estimation of the most salient region in an image, that have possible application in computer vision. The algorithm uses the connection between color dissimilarities in the image and the image’s most salient region. The algorithm also avoids using image priors. Pixel dissimilarity is an informal function of the distance of a specific pixel’s color to other pixels’ colors in an image. We examine the relation between pixel color dissimilarity and salient region detection on the MSRA1K image dataset. We propose a simple algorithm for salient region detection through random pixel color dissimilarity. We define dissimilarity by accumulating the distance between each pixel and a sample of n other random pixels, in the CIELAB color space. An important result is that random dissimilarity between each pixel and just another pixel (n = 1) is enough to create adequate saliency maps when combined with median filter, with competitive average performance if compared with other related methods in the saliency detection research field. The assessment was performed by means of precision-recall curves. This idea is inspired on the human attention mechanism that is able to choose few specific regions to focus on, a biological system that the computer vision community aims to emulate. We also review some of the history on this topic of selective attention.

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This research is part of the field of organizational studies, focusing on organizational purchase behavior and, specifically, trust interorganizational at the purchases. This topic is current and relevant by addressing the development of good relations between buyer-supplier that increases the exchange of information, increases the length of relationship, reduces the hierarchical controls and improves performance. Furthermore, although there is a vast literature on trust, the scientific work that deal specifically at the trust interorganizational still need further research to synthesize and validate the variables that generate this phenomenon. In this sense, this investigation is to explain the antecedents of trust interorganizational by the relationship between the variable operational performance, organizational characteristics, shared values and interpersonal relationships on purchases by manufacturing industries, in order to develop a robust literature, most consensual, that includes the current sociological and economic, considering the effect of interpersonal relationships in this phenomenon. This proposal is configured in a new vision of the antecedents of interorganizational trust, described as significant quantitative from models Morgan and Hunt (1994), Doney and Cannon (1997), Zhao and Cavusgil (2006) and Nyaga, Whipple, Lynch (2011), as well as qualitative analysis of Tacconi et al. (2011). With regard to methodological aspects, the study assumes the form of a descriptive, survey type, and causal trace theoretical and empirical. As for his nature, the investigation, explicative character, has developed a quantitative approach with the use of exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling SEM, with the use of IBM software SPSS Amos 18.0, using the method of maximum verisimilitude, and supported by technical bootstraping. The unit of analysis was the buyer-supplier relationship, in which the object under investigation was the supplier organization in view of the purchasing company. 237 valid questionnaires were collected among key informants, using a simple random sampling developed in manufacturing industries (SIC 10-33), located in the city of Natal and in the region of Natal. The first results of descriptive analysis demonstrate the phenomenon of interorganizational trust, in which purchasing firms believe, feel secure about the supplier. This demonstration showed high levels of intensity, predominantly among the vendors that supply the company with materials that are used directly in the production process. The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, performed on each variable alone, generated a set of observable and unobservable variables more consistent, giving rise to a model, that needed to be further specified. This again specify model consists of trajectories was positive, with a good fit, with a composite reliability and variance extracted satisfactory, and demonstrates convergent and discriminant validity, in which the factor loadings are significant and strong explanatory power. Given the findings that reinforce the model again specify data, suggesting a high probability that this model may be more suited for the study population, the results support the explanation that interorganizational trust depends on purchases directly from interpersonal relationships, sharing value and operating performance and indirectly of personal relationships, social networks, organizational characteristics, physical and relational aspect of performance. It is concluded that this trust can be explained by a set of interactions between these three determinants, where the focus is on interpersonal relationships, with the largest path coefficient for the factor under study

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The current study presents the characteristics of self-efficacy of students of Administration course, who work and do not work. The study was conducted through a field research, descriptive, addressed quantitatively using statistical procedures. Was studied a population composed of 394 students distributed in three Higher Education Institutions, in the metropolitan region of Belém, in the State of Pará. The sampling was not probabilistic by accessibility, with a sample of 254 subjects. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire composed of a set of questions divided into three sections: the first related to sociodemographic data, the second section was built to identify the work situation of the respondent and the third section was built with issues related to General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale proposed by Schwarzer and Jerusalem (1999). Sociodemographic data were processed using methods of descriptive statistics. This procedure allowed characterizing the subjects of the sample. To identify the work situation, the analysis of frequency and percentage was used, which allowed to classify in percentage, the respondents who worked and those that did not work, and the data related to the scale of self-efficacy were processed quantitatively by the method of multivariate statistics using the software of program Statistical Package for Social Sciences for Windows - SPSS, version 17 from the process of Exploratory Factor Analysis. This procedure allowed characterizing the students who worked and the students who did not worked. The results were discussed based on Social Cognitive Theory from the construct of self-efficacy of Albert Bandura (1977). The study results showed a young sample, composed the majority of single women with work experience, and indicated that the characteristics of self-efficacy of students who work and students who do not work are different. The self-efficacy beliefs of students who do not work are based on psychological expectations, whereas the students who work demonstrated that their efficacy beliefs are sustained by previous experiences. A student who does not work proved to be reliant in their abilities to achieve a successful performance in their activities, believing it to be easy to achieve your goals and to face difficult situations at work, simply by invest a necessary effort and trust in their abilities. One who has experience working proved to be reliant in their abilities to conduct courses of action, although know that it is not easy to achieve your goals, and in unexpected situations showed its ability to solve difficult problems

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, 2015.