A mulher é a tal: visões de compositores de marchinhas carnavalescas sobre as mulheres no Rio de Janeiro dos anos de 1930 e 1940

Esta tese entrelaça o repertório de marchinhas carnavalescas e os estudos de gênero, vislumbrando identificar, nas composições de Lamartine Babo, João de Barro e Ari Barroso, visões sociais sobre as mulheres do Rio de Janeiro no decurso dos anos de 1930 e 1940. Os debates sobre as relações de gênero estão longe de serem esgotadas, sobretudo, quando se propõe lançar um olhar psicossocial sobre tal temática por meio da análise de discurso das letras de músicas de Carnaval. O trabalho afasta-se da concepção da categoria mulher como um lugar comum e sinônimo de identidade feminina. Este posicionamento reflexivo entende o conceito de gênero como uma construção agenciada no mundo social. Concomitantemente ao processo de produção e circulação de diferentes discursos sobre os papéis sociais de homens e mulheres, os compositores de marchinhas inseriram a linguagem carnavalesca como mais uma possibilidade de abordar o tema das relações de gênero no contexto sócio-histórico investigado. Nesses termos, este estudo explicita a pretensão de inserir as letras desse gênero musical como um lugar privilegiado para o entendimento de uma parcela de um pensamento social brasileiro referente ao estatuto de ser homem ou mulher no país. A tese busca desvelar as visões sobre mulheres nas letras de marchinhas carnavalescas a partir de das reflexões bakhtinianas sobre a Psicologia, as quais, continuamente, permitiram estabelecer uma relação estreita entre o contexto sócio-histórico do Rio de Janeiro nas décadas de 1930 e 1940 e as mensagens sociais contidas nas marchinhas carnavalescas desse período.

Cooperação intermunicipal? Um estudo sobre o consórcio de saúde da região do Médio Paraíba do Rio de Janeiro

O estudo aqui apresentado teve por temática os processos de cooperação intermunicipal possibilitados pela formação e atuação de consórcios municipais, tomando como caso as ações desenvolvidas pelo Consórcio Intermunicipal de Saúde da Região do Médio Paraíba do Rio de Janeiro CISMEPA. Esses consórcio surgiu nos anos 90 a partir de uma discussão regional acerca da necessidade de realizar a programação e a pactuação da oferta de serviços entre os doze municípios que compõem essa região fluminense. Esta pesquisa se propôs analisar o processo evolutivo do CISMEPA, conhecendo sua organização técnica e administrativa, os principais projetos e serviços desenvolvidos e analisando o resultado das ações por ele implementadas. A partir da análise da articulação técnico-política regional no âmbito do SUS, espera-se agregar subsídios para o processo evolutivo da descentralização no SUS e da estratégia de regionalização. O caminho metodológico utilizado foi a análise qualitativa sobre o CISMEPA, que tomou por base a realização de pesquisa bibliográfica, estudo dos documentos oficiais do consórcio, análise da forma de execução dos projetos, entrevistas semiestruturadas com participantes do processo de elaboração, execução e acompanhamento dos projetos e observação participantes das reuniões. Os projetos desenvolvidos pelo CISMEPA foram bem sucedidos e o consórcio desempenhou importante papel não só na gestão, como também na captação de recursos. O êxito é devido, sobretudo, à forma participativa com que os projetos foram elaborados e desenvolvidos pelo grupo de gestores e técnicos. Em que pese a região ter se organizado sua PPI, o CISMEPA não logrou organizar a oferta micro e macrorregional de serviços, um dos seus objetivos iniciais. No entanto, seu mérito foi configurar-se num importante fórum de debates e pactuação, mesmo contando com baixa adesão e presença do Estado. Tal característica o potencializa como estratégia de regionalização do SUS.

A valorização a mulher na obra de José Saramago: Blimunda e a mulher do médico, olhares que se cruzam

A presente pesquisa objetiva ressaltar a valorização da mulher na obra do autor português José Saramago. Buscou-se encontrar os argumentos que justificam esta proposta através da leitura sistemática de dois de seus textos: Memorial do convento e Ensaio sobre a cegueira. Serviram de objeto de estudo as trajetórias percorridas pelas personagens Blimunda, do primeiro título, e a mulher do médico, do segundo e, assim, foi possível destacar e analisar, com o auxílio de teóricos da literatura e de especialistas na vida e na obra de Saramago, traços que comprovam a importância das mulheres, de modo geral, em suas histórias. Além disso, observou-se, nos excertos aqui contidos e retirados das obras estudadas, o modo como estas mulheres assumem o controle das narrativas das quais fazem parte, assumindo a função de protagonistas. Insta registrar que, assim como elas passam a figurar como personagens principais, também foi importante constatar o olhar analítico lançado por José Saramago, através de suas criações, sobre a condição humana na sociedade contemporânea, apresentanto a mulher como saída para as crises que acometem o homem moderno

Identificações do feminino em materiais didáticos contemporâneos

Dada a persistente restrição da presença feminina em diferentes espaços-tempos das sociedades contemporâneas, desenvolvemos esta pesquisa com o objetivo de discutir os significados atribuídos ao feminino em materiais didáticos da atualidade. Partindo da hipótese de que a educação escolar, embora não determine, participa dos processos sociais que resultam em tal quadro de subalternização da mulher, focalizamos as apostilas utilizadas pelos anos finais do ensino fundamental das escolas públicas da rede da Secretaria Municipal de Educação da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, durante o ano de 2013. Foram selecionadas as apostilas das disciplinas Ciência, História e Matemática. Desenvolvemos também estudo sobre a apropriação da noção de gênero na produção acadêmica recente da pesquisa em Educação, de modo a mapear e discutir sobre esta outra importante instância de atribuição de sentido ao ser mulher. Em diálogo com o filósofo Jacques Derrida e suas teorizações sobre os processos sociais de construção de sentidos, nossas análises se basearam no entendimento de que as palavras possuem significados instáveis, provisórios e precários, instituídos de modo relacional e diferencial. Com as teorizações de Joan Scott e Judith Butler, trazemos as proposições de Derrida para pensar os mecanismos de produção do feminino no social, através do conceito de gênero e da noção de identidade performativa. Entre os resultados construídos, está a invisibilidade que a história das mulheres apresenta no material de História, a naturalização de funções apresentadas como femininas nas apostilas de Ciência e a reprodução de concepções tradicionais sobre o lugar de meninas e meninos no corpus de Matemática. Mas concluímos também que os materiais didáticos pesquisados já possuem concepções menos sexistas na forma de significar o feminino, observando-se deslocamentos que sugerem certa hibridação. Porém, esses deslocamentos são inseridos nos textos de forma tímida, fazendo com que os postulados com maior poder de iteração sejam aqueles que ainda reproduzem velhas formas de ser mulher e de ser homem, podendo reforçar os estereótipos de gênero, caso não haja acesso a informações que se contraponham às encontradas.

Tecnologia da Informação no Controle Gerencial: um estudo de caso na estruturação de um modelo de metas de indicadores de desempenho da Empresa Alfa

A presente pesquisa objetiva verificar a contribuição da tecnologia da informação na previsão de indicadores de desempenho da Empresa Alfa. Para a realização deste estudo, foi realizado um estudo de caso único a fim de aprofundar na pesquisa de forma exploratória e descritiva. As técnicas utilizadas para tal foram análise documental e entrevista, que deram suporte à pesquisa quantitativa atendendo ao objetivo proposto no estudo e na fundamentação teórica. A pesquisa teve como base principal os resultados dos indicadores de desempenho dos anos de 2012 e 2013 descritos no planejamento estratégico referente ao ano de 2013. Através desses resultados foi possível prever os resultados dos indicadores para 2014 utilizando o software Weka e assim realizar as análises necessárias. Os principais achados demonstram que a Empresa Alfa precisará antecipar ações para maximizar seus resultados evitando que impactem negativamente na rentabilidade, além de ter a necessidade de manter uma base de dados sólida e estruturada que possa subsidiar previsões confiáveis e alimentar futuramente o programa a fim de realizar novas previsões. O resultado da pesquisa aponta que o sistema de informações Weka contribui para a previsão de resultados, podendo antecipar ações para que a organização possa otimizar suas tomadas de decisões, tornando-as mais eficientes e eficazes.

Integration of fisheries acoustics surveys and bathymetric mapping to characterize midwater-seafloor habitats of US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico (2008-2010)

NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation program (CRCP) develops coral reef management priorities by bringing together various partners to better understand threats to coral reef ecosystems with the goal of conserving, protecting and restoring these resources. Place-based and ecosystem-based management approaches employed by CRCP require that spatially explicit information about benthic habitats and fish utilization are available to characterize coral reef ecosystems and set conservation priorities. To accomplish this, seafloor habitat mapping of coral reefs around the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) and Puerto Rico has been ongoing since 2004. In 2008, fishery acoustics surveys were added to NOAA survey missions in the USVI and Puerto Rico to assess fish distribution and abundance in relation to benthic habitats in high priority conservation areas. NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) have developed fisheries acoustics survey capabilities onboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster to complement the CRCP seafloor habitat mapping effort spearheaded by the Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment Biogeography Branch (CCMA-BB). The integration of these activities has evolved on the Nancy Foster over the three years summarized in this report. A strategy for improved operations and products has emerged over that time. Not only has the concurrent operation of multibeam and fisheries acoustics surveys been beneficial in terms of optimizing ship time and resources, this joint effort has advanced an integrated approach to characterizing bottom and mid-water habitats and the fishes associated with them. CCMA conducts multibeam surveys to systematically map and characterize coral reef ecosystems, resulting in products such as high resolution bathymetric maps, backscatter information, and benthic habitat classification maps. These products focus on benthic features and live bottom habitats associated with them. NCCOS Centers (the Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research and the Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research) characterize coral reef ecosystems by using fisheries acoustics methods to capture biological information through the entire water column. Spatially-explicit information on marine resources derived from fisheries acoustics surveys, such as maps of fish density, supports marine spatial planning strategies and decision making by providing a biological metric for evaluating coral reef ecosystems and assessing impacts from pollution, fishing pressure, and climate change. Data from fisheries acoustics surveys address management needs by providing a measure of biomass in management areas, detecting spatial and temporal responses in distribution relative to natural and anthropogenic impacts, and identifying hotspots that support high fish abundance or fish aggregations. Fisheries acoustics surveys conducted alongside multibeam mapping efforts inherently couple water column data with information on benthic habitats and provide information on the heterogeneity of both benthic habitats and biota in the water column. Building on this information serves to inform resource managers regarding how fishes are organized around habitat structure and the scale at which these relationships are important. Where resource managers require place-based assessments regarding the location of critical habitats along with high abundances of fish, concurrent multibeam and fisheries acoustics surveys serve as an important tool for characterizing and prioritizing coral reef ecosystems. This report summarizes the evolution of fisheries acoustics surveys onboard the NOAA ship Nancy Foster from 2008 to 2010, in conjunction with multibeam data collection, aimed at characterizing benthic and mid-water habitats in high priority conservation areas around the USVI and Puerto Rico. It also serves as a resource for the continued development of consistent data products derived from acoustic surveys. By focusing on the activities of 2010, this report highlights the progress made to date and illustrates the potential application of fisheries data derived from acoustic surveys to the management of coral reef ecosystems.

A Review of Nontraditional Biomanipulation

The aim of this review is to identify problems, find general patterns, and extract recommendations for successful management using nontraditional biomanipulation to improve water quality. There are many obstacles that prevent traditional biomanipulation from achieving expectations: expending largely to remove planktivorous fish, reduction of external and internal phosphorus, and macrophyte re-establishment. Grazing pressure from large zooplankton is decoupled in hypereutrophic waters where cyanobacterial blooms flourish. The original idea of biomanipulation (increased zooplankton grazing rate as a tool for controlling nuisance algae) is not the only means of controlling nuisance algae via biotic manipulations. Stocking phytoplanktivorous fish may be considered to be a nontraditional method; however, it can be an effective management tool to control nuisance algal blooms in tropical lakes that are highly productive and unmanageable to reduce nutrient concentrations to low levels. Although small enclosures increase spatial overlap between predators and prey, leading to overestimates of the impact of predation, microcosm and whole-lake experiments have revealed similar community responses to major factors that regulate lake communities, such as nutrients and planktivorous fish. Both enclosure experiments and large-scale observations revealed that the initial phytoplankton community composition greatly impacted the success of biomanipulation. Long-term observations in Lake Donghu and Lake Qiandaohu have documented that silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead carp (H. nobilis) (two filter-feeding planktivorous species commonly used in management) can suppress Microcystis blooms efficiently. The introduction of silver and bighead carp could be an effective management technique in eutrophic systems that lack macrozooplankton. We confirmed that nontraditional biomanipulation is only appropriate if the primary aim is to reduce nuisance blooms of large algal species, which cannot be controlled effectively by large herbivorous zooplankton. Alternatively, this type of biomanipulation did not work efficiently in less eutrophic systems where nanophytoplankton dominated.

Validation of a method of estimating age, modelling growth, and describing the age composition of Coilia mystus from the Yangtze Estuary, China

A collection of 577 Coilia mystus was made during April 2006 and 2007 from China's Yangtze Estuary to estimate the age structure and growth patterns of the population. Examination of sectioned sagittal otoliths revealed a periodic straight/curved growth pattern. The straight zone was from April to November, and the curved zone from October to May, indicating annual periodicity. Annual periodicity was also verified by margin zone analysis. The shift from a curved-zone to the next straight-zone stanza was defined as an annulus. The fish from which the otoliths were taken were 0-5 years old. The von Bertalanffy growth function was fitted to standard length (LS)-at-age data as L-S = 215.16 (1 - e(-0.53(t+0.30))) (n = 577, r(2) = 0.81, p < 0.05). The mature females included five age classes, ages 1 and 2 accounting for 74.3% of the population. The mature males included fish aged 1 and 2, those at age 1 accounting for 86.4% of the population. Mean length was smaller, and annual growth less, for mature males than for females of comparable age. The study demonstrated that the Yangtze population of C. mystus consists of more age classes than previously thought and that the age structure of the population needs to be considered in management decisions.

民众社会风险认知的影响因素及作用机制

Risk perception is one of important subjects in management psychology and cognitive psychology. It is of great value in the theory and practice to investigate the social risk events that the public cares a lot especially in this social transition period. Furthermore, this study explored the factors that influence the risk perception and the results caused by risk perception. A survey including 30 hazards and 8 risk attributes was designed and distributed to about 3, 200 residents of 8 districts, Beijing. The major findings are listed as following： Firstly, combining the methods of system science and psychology, GAE program was used to indentify 7 groups of social risk events, such as national safe, government management, social stability, general mood of society, economic and finance, resources and environment & daily life problems. This study provided substance for the following studies and it was also a new attempt in research method which is of certain reference value for the related researches. Secondly, a scale of societal risk perception was designed and 2 factors were identified (Dread Risk & Unknown Risk). Reliability analysis, EFA and CFA show the reliability and validity of the societal risk questionnaire is good enough. The investigation using this scale showed that older participants and higher socioeconomic status perceived the societal hazards to be more threatening than did younger participants and lower socioeconomic status. However, there is no gender difference. Thirdly, structural equation model was used to analyze the influence factors and mechanism of societal risk perception. Risk taking, government support and social justice could influence societal risk perception directly. Government support moderated the relationship between government trust and societal risk perception. Societal risk perception influenced life satisfaction, public policy preferences and social development belief. Multi-group analysis was used to find out that the participants who have different socioeconomic status express different mechanism. Fourthly, the result of the research was used to explore the risk event of 2008 Olympic game. The results showed that government support and preparation of Olympic game influenced societal risk perception directly. Preparation moderated the relationship between government trust and risk perception. Risk perception influenced worry, effect of Olympic game and belief of successl. This result proved that risk perception could be used as an indicator. The indictor of risk perception was used to identify the characteristics of higher risk perception group. Finally, suggestions to the related decision were provide to the government.

An analysis of manufacturing simulation software.

As a management tool Similation Software deserves greater analysis from both an academic and industrial viewpoint. A comparative study of three packages was carried out from a 'first time' use approach. This allowed the ease of use and package features to be assessed using a simple theoretical benchmark manufacturing process. To back the use of these packages an objective survey on simulation use and package features was carried out within the manufacturing industry.This identified the use of simulation software, its' applicability and preception of user requirements thereby proposing an ideal package.

Benchmarking the business and operations strategy link.

This paper reports on the use of benchmarking to improve the links between business and operations strategies. The use of benchmarking as a tool to facilitate improvement in these crucial links is examined. The existing literature on process benchmarking is used to form a structured questionnaire to apply to six case studies of major maunfacturing companies. Four of these case studies are presented drawing upon the critical success factors identified both in the literature and on the case results. Recommendations for further work are outlined.

Wilkie Collins

Pykett, L. (2005). Wilkie Collins. Authors in Context Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press. RAE2008

A gestão na medicina dentária

Projeto de Pós-Graduação/Dissertação apresentado à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Medicina Dentária

LISA SERGIO: HOW MUSSOLINI'S "GOLDEN VOICE" OF PROPAGANDA CREATED AN AMERICAN MASS COMMUNICATION CAREER

In 1937 Lisa Sergio, "The Golden Voice" of fascist broadcasting from Rome, fled Italy for the United States. Though her mother was American, Sergio was classified as an enemy alien once the United States entered World War II. Yet Sergio became a U.S. citizen in 1944 and built a successful career in radio, working first at NBC and then WQXR in New York City in the days when women's voices were not thought to be appropriate for news or "serious" programming. When she was blacklisted as a communist in the early 1950s, Sergio compensated for the loss of radio employment by becoming principally an author and lecturer in Washington, D.C., until her death in 1989. This dissertation, based on her personal papers, is the first study of Sergio's American mass communication career. It points out the personal, political and social obstacles she faced as a woman in her 52-year career as a commentator on varied aspects of world affairs, religion and feminism. This study includes an examination of the FBI investigations of Sergio and the anti-communist campaigns conducted against her. It concludes that Sergio's success as a public communicator was predicated on both her unusual talents and her ability to transform her public image to reflect ideal American values of womanhood in shifting political climates.

Reflective practice: the enduring influence of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory

Since 1984 David Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) has been a leading influence in the development of learner-centred pedagogy in management and business. It forms the basis of Kolb’s own Learning Styles’ Inventory and those of other authors including Honey and Mumford (2000). It also provides powerful underpinning for the emphasis, nay insistence, on reflection as a way of learning and the use of reflective practice in the preparation of students for business and management and other professions. In this paper, we confirm that Kolb’s ELT is still the most commonly cited source used in relation to reflective practice. Kolb himself continues to propound its relevance to teaching and learning in general. However, we also review some of the criticisms that ELT has attracted over the years and advance new criticisms that challenge its relevance to higher education and its validity as a model for formal, intentional learning.