Reinventando a mística franciscana no Brasil do século XVIII: das quatro partes do mundo ao Novo Brasílico

Historicamente, o franciscanismo sempre utilizou os referenciais místicos da Ordem para renovar suas diretrizes em momentos de crise. Dentre os referenciais mais usados, dois se destacam: São Francisco e as Chagas de Cristo nele impressas. O franciscano colonial brasileiro em pleno século XVIII, precisamente a partir de 1750, é marcado por um retorno às fontes franciscanas. Procuramos trilhar esse momento de renovação espiritual no Brasil a partir da arte iconográfica nos conventos do Nordeste e da literatura desenvolvidas por franciscanos brasileiros. Em 1754, é pintado um magnífico Orbis Seraficus no Salão de Santana, no convento de Olinda. Em 1761, Fr. Antônio de Santa Maria Jaboatão retoma esse Orbis Seraficus e acrescenta a existência de um Novo Brasílico na sua crônica. A nossa pesquisa consiste em desvendar a importância da espiritualidade franciscana na formação de um novo perfil político para o Brasil em meados do século XVIII.

Building post crisis watchtowers: investment management Systems and new institutional logics for regulatory compliance

The financial crisis of 2007-2009 has precipitated large scale regulatory change. Tight deadlines for implementation require organizations to start working on remediation projects before final drafts of regulations are crystalized. Firms are faced with engaging in complex and costly change management programs at a time when profits are diminished. As a consequence of these factors, pre-crisis logics for organizing compliance practices are being questioned and new approaches introduced. Our study explores the use of Investment Management Systems (IMS) in facilitating compliance arrangements. Our motivation is to understand the new logics and the part played by IMS in supporting these approaches. The study adopts an institutional logics perspective to explore the use of such systems at eight financial organizations. The study found new logics for organizing compliance include consolidation, centralization, harmonization and consistency and that the IMS plays an important role in supporting and enabling related activities.

Information architecture for healthcare organizations: the case of a NHS Hospital in UK

Healthcare organizations are known for their complex and intense information environment. Healthcare information is facilitated via heterogeneous information systems or paper-based sources. Access to the right information under increasing time pressure is extremely challenging. This paper proposes an information architecture for healthcare organizations. It facilitates the provision of the right information to the right person in the right place and time tailored to their requirements. It adapts an abductive reasoning research approach. Organizational semiotics serves as its theoretical underpinning, guiding the data collection process through direct observation in the ophthalmology outpatient clinics of a UK hospital. It results the norm and information objects that form the information architecture. This is modeled by Archimate. The contribution of the information architecture can be seen from organizational, social and technical perspective. It clearly shows how information is facilitated within a healthcare organization, reducing duplicated data entry, and guiding the future technological implementation.

Low-cost HMD and EEG: using visual stimulation by the Oculus Rift® to detect stronger ERDs induced by motion imagery

Virtual Reality (VR) can provide visual stimuli for EEG studies that can be altered in real time and can produce effects that are difficult or impossible to reproduce in a non-virtual experimental platform. As part of this experiment the Oculus Rift, a commercial-grade, low-cost, Head Mounted Display (HMD) was assessed as a visual stimuli platform for experiments recording EEG. Following, the device was used to investigate the effect of congruent visual stimuli on Event Related Desynchronisation (ERD) due to motion imagery.

Exploring invention capability

Research on invention has focused on business invention and little work has been conducted on the process and capability required for the individual inventor or the capabilities required for an advice to be considered an invention. This paper synthesises the results of an empirical survey of ten inventor case studies with current research on invention and recent capability affordance research to develop an integrated capability process model of human capabilities for invention and specific capabilities of an invented device. We identify eight necessary human effectivities required for individual invention capability and six functional key activities using these effectivities, to deliver the functional capability of invention. We also identified key differences between invention and general problem solving processes. Results suggest that inventive step capability relies on a unique application of principles that relate to a new combination of affordance chain with a new mechanism and or space time (affordance) path representing the novel way the device works, in conjunction with defined critical affordance operating factors that are the subject of the patent claims.

Impact of socioeconomic and clinical factors on child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL)

Child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL) has been increasingly assessed; however, few studies appraised the influence of socioeconomic status on COHRQoL in developing countries. This study assessed the relationship of COHRQoL with socioeconomic backgrounds and clinical factors. This study followed a cross-sectional design, with a multistage random sample of 792 schoolchildren aged 12 years, representative of Santa Maria, a southern city in Brazil. Participants completed the Brazilian version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ(11-14)), their parents or guardians answered questions on socioeconomic status, and a dental examination provided information on the prevalence of caries, dental trauma and occlusion. The assessment of association used hierarchically adjusted Poisson regression models. Higher impacts on COHRQoL were observed for children presenting with untreated dental caries (RR 1.20; 95% CI 1.07-1.35) and maxillary overjet (RR 1.19; 95% CI 1.02-1.40). Socioeconomic factors also associated with COHRQoL; poorer scores were reported by children whose mothers have not completed primary education (RR 1.30; 95% CI 1.17-1.44) and those with lower household income (RR 1.13; 95% CI 1.02-1.26). Poor socioeconomic standings and poor dental status have a negative impact on COHRQoL; reducing health inequalities may demand dental programmes and policies targeting deprived population.

Gestão socioambiental em empresas industriais

Atualmente as questões ambientais têm sido foco de intensa discussão. Os primeiros debatedores dessa temática foram membros do meio científico, seguidos por ONGs e empresas. No entanto, a sociedade ao perceber o sentido da urgência do tema parece ter imergido nesse debate. Especificamente em relação às empresas, nota-se que a necessidade da aplicação de uma política de gestão ambiental torna-se cada vez mais indispensável, devendo estar respaldada em normas internacionalmente aplicadas, a exemplo da ISO 14000, entre outras. Uma das facetas da operacionalização da Gestão Ambiental é a produção mais limpa (P+L). Essa atitude das empresas acaba por propiciar o desenvolvimento sustentável, tão almejado pela sociedade. Por meio de uma pesquisa descritiva qualitativa que empregou o método de estudo de casos, este artigo tem como objetivo demonstrar algumas ações práticas já em operação em empresas brasileiras no tocante à redução, reutilização e reciclagem de materiais empregados nos processos produtivos geradores dos produtos industrializados. O que se percebeu a partir dos resultados obtidos foi um conjunto de ações reais e efetivas que sinalizam um significativo avanço no esforço das empresas industriais analisadas no sentido de viabilizar uma política de gestão ambiental.