Mapeamento da literaturada sobre empreendedorismo: uma abordagem bibliométrica

A pesquisa sobre empreendedorismo tem crescido de forma exponencial nos últimos anos. Este artigo teve como principal objetivo quantificar esta produção acadêmica, identificando os principais veículos de produção científica, os autores e artigos mais citados, os países e instituições mais produtivos, verificando a estrutura de co-citação entre os artigos. Dados relativos às citações foram coletados no site Web of Science presente na base de dados científicos do Institute for Scientific Information [ISI] da Thompson Reuters, considerado como o indicador de impacto científico mais reconhecido no mundo. Os dados foram importados e analisadas em um estudo bibliométrico usando o software HistCite. No total, foram encontrados 19.564 registros. Os resultados indicaram que a produção acadêmica e citações sobre empreendedorismo cresceu consideravelmente nos últimos anos. Os dados indicam que os dez países com artigos mais citados têm 68.586 citações, ou 79,50% do total, mostrando uma grande concentração. Concentrações semelhantes foram encontradas em relação a universidades e os principais periódicos. Outros achados e suas implicações, além de sugestões para futuras pesquisas são apresentadas.

Mobility in vehicular networks with multiple access points to the infrastructure

Nowadays there is a huge evolution in the technological world and in the wireless networks. The electronic devices have more capabilities and resources over the years, which makes the users more and more demanding. The necessity of being connected to the global world leads to the arising of wireless access points in the cities to provide internet access to the people in order to keep the constant interaction with the world. Vehicular networks arise to support safety related applications and to improve the traffic flow in the roads; however, nowadays they are also used to provide entertainment to the users present in the vehicles. The best way to increase the utilization of the vehicular networks is to give to the users what they want: a constant connection to the internet. Despite of all the advances in the vehicular networks, there were several issues to be solved. The presence of dedicated infrastructure to vehicular networks is not wide yet, which leads to the need of using the available Wi-Fi hotspots and the cellular networks as access networks. In order to make all the management of the mobility process and to keep the user’s connection and session active, a mobility protocol is needed. Taking into account the huge number of access points present at the range of a vehicle for example in a city, it will be beneficial to take advantage of all available resources in order to improve all the vehicular network, either to the users and to the operators. The concept of multihoming allows to take advantage of all available resources with multiple simultaneous connections. This dissertation has as objectives the integration of a mobility protocol, the Network-Proxy Mobile IPv6 protocol, with a host-multihoming per packet solution in order to increase the performance of the network by using more resources simultaneously, the support of multi-hop communications, either in IPv6 or IPv4, the capability of providing internet access to the users of the network, and the integration of the developed protocol in the vehicular environment, with the WAVE, Wi-Fi and cellular technologies. The performed tests focused on the multihoming features implemented on this dissertation, and on the IPv4 network access for the normal users. The obtained results show that the multihoming addition to the mobility protocol improves the network performance and provides a better resource management. Also, the results show the correct operation of the developed protocol in a vehicular environment.

Distribuição de conteúdos em redes veiculares usando mecanismos de comunicação tolerantes ao atraso

The last couple of decades have been the stage for the introduction of new telecommunication networks. It is expected that in the future all types of vehicles, such as cars, buses and trucks have the ability to intercommunicate and form a vehicular network. Vehicular networks display particularities when compared to other networks due to their continuous node mobility and their wide geographical dispersion, leading to a permanent network fragmentation. Therefore, the main challenges that this type of network entails relate to the intermittent connectivity and the long and variable delay in information delivery. To address the problems related to the intermittent connectivity, a new concept was introduced – Delay Tolerant Network (DTN). This architecture is built on a Store-Carry-and-Forward (SCF) mechanism in order to assure the delivery of information when there is no end-to-end path defined. Vehicular networks support a multiplicity of services, including the transportation of non-urgent information. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the use of a DTN for the dissemination of non-urgent information is able to surpass the aforementioned challenges. The work developed focused on the use of DTNs for the dissemination of non-urgent information. This information is originated in the network service provider and should be available on mobile network terminals during a limited period of time. In order to do so, four different strategies were deployed: Random, Least Number of Hops First (LNHF), Local Rarest Bundle First (LRBF) e Local Rarest Generation First (LRGF). All of these strategies have a common goal: to disseminate content into the network in the shortest period of time and minimizing network congestion. This work also contemplates the analysis and implementation of techniques that reduce network congestion. The design, implementation and validation of the proposed strategies was divided into three stages. The first stage focused on creating a Matlab emulator for the fast implementation and strategy validation. This stage resulted in the four strategies that were afterwards implemented in the DTNs software Helix – developed in a partnership between Instituto de Telecomunicac¸˜oes (IT) and Veniam R , which are responsible for the largest operating vehicular network worldwide that is located in Oporto city. The strategies were later evaluated on an emulator that was built for the largescale testing of DTN. Both emulators account for vehicular mobility based on information previously collected from the real platform. Finally, the strategy that presented the best overall performance was tested on a real platform – in a lab environment – for concept and operability demonstration. It is possible to conclude that two of the implemented strategies (LRBF and LRGF) can be deployed in the real network and guarantee a significant delivery rate. The LRBF strategy has the best performance in terms of delivery. However, it needs to add a significant overhead to the network in order to work. In the future, tests of scalability should be conducted in a real environment in order to confirm the emulator results. The real implementation of the strategies should be accompanied by the introduction of new types of services for content distribution.

Role of climate on barn owls road-kill likelihood and the effect on population viability in future climate change

Roads represent a new source of mortality due to animal-vehicle risk of collision threatening log-term populations’ viability. Risk of road-kill depends on species sensitivity to roads and their specific life-history traits. The risk of road mortality for each species depends on the characteristics of roads and bioecological characteristics of the species. In this study we intend to know the importance of climatic parameters (temperature and precipitation) together with traffic and life history traits and understand the role of drought in barn owl population viability, also affected by road mortality in three scenarios: high mobility, high population density and the combination of previous scenarios (mixed) (Manuscript). For the first objective we correlated the several parameters (climate, traffic and life history traits). We used the most correlated variables to build a predictive mixed model (GLMM) the influence of the same. Using a population model we evaluated barn owl population viability in all three scenarios. Model revealed precipitation, traffic and dispersal have negative relationship with road-kills, although the relationship was not significant. Scenarios showed different results, high mobility scenario showed greater population depletion, more fluctuations over time and greater risk of extinction. High population density scenario showed a more stable population with lower risk of extinction and mixed scenario showed similar results as first scenario. Climate seems to play an indirect role on barn owl road-kills, it may influence prey availability which influences barn owl reproductive success and activity. Also, high mobility scenario showed a greater negative impact on viability of populations which may affect their ability and resilience to other stochastic events. Future research should take in account climate and how it may influence species life cycles and activity periods for a more complete approach of road-kills. Also it is important to make the best mitigation decisions which might include improving prey quality habitat.

Avaliação do potencial de Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L., Bromeliaceae, como bioindicadora da poluição atmosférica urbana

Air pollution can threat the environment and public health, and is assess by pollutant ́s concentration measurements in order to verify whether the limits set by environmental agencies are being respected. However, these measures do not indicate immediately the impacts to living beings. To faced this problem, plants are been investigated as potential bioindicators of air pollution and, among them, stand out bromeliads Tillandsia genus which colonize various substrates,. obtaining water and nutrients from the atmosphere directly. In this context, this research assessed the potential of epiphytic bromeliad Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L. found in urbanized areas of the city of Curitiba - PR as a bioindicator of urban air pollution. According to vehicle traffic, five sample points were selected and classified. Points P1 and P2 were classified as high-traffic vehicle due presenting trucks and urban transport; point P3 was classified as moderate traffic due the predominance of private vehicles and urban transport; and points P4 and P5 were classified as low-traffic, presenting circulation of private vehicles only. There were analyzed the abundance of T. recurvata, morphophysiological parameters (leaf area, leaf specific area, sclerophylly index, percentage dry weight / fresh weight, chlorophyll (a + b), analysis of structural mesophyll organization) and the heavy metals accumulation (Fe, Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb and Zn). The abundance analysis and the results obtained for metals analysis were correlated with the intensity of vehicular traffic, directing the sampling points P1 > P2 = P3 > P4 = P5. This result demonstrate that the abundance of T. recurvata is greater in urban air pollution impacted areas, thus indicating that T. recurvata absorbs and accumulates metals and can be used in biomonitoring of urban air pollution in areas impacted by vehicular traffic. Morphophysiological parameters analyzed shows that the internal plant ́s structure is not significantly impacted by urban air pollution due plant ́s adptations. The presence of absorbing scales, the CAM metabolism pathway and it ́s store water ability, among other features, demonstrate their potential as bio-indicator in urban areas, especially regarding heavy metals accumulation .

Efeitos da adição da cal hidratada na estabilização de um solo sedimentar para pavimentação urbana na região de Curitiba

Urban paving is of paramount importance for a city, both socioeconomic and in quality of life. The urban flooring not different so-called road surface are constituted by a set of horizontal layers, overlaid on the ground, which have the main function of supporting the actions induced by the vehicle redistributing the stresses transmitted to the ground. Soils are important materials for the execution of paving, mainly because they are part of the basic structure of the floor and mostly be available in abundance, with a very low cost, however, their properties usually do not meet the requirements necessary to perform the floor. The soil stabilization for the implementation of urban pavement bases and sub-bases is an increasingly important aspect in the current situation, because always there is the concern with the environment, and there is now the clear awareness that every effort should be made to minimize the effects caused by the exploitation of deposits and deposition of material. In this sense this work presents the effects of adding different proportions of lime to stabilize a sedimentary soil sample from the urban area of the city of Curitiba. It selected a sample quantity of soil in the region to study the stabilization insertion of hydrated lime type (CHIII) powder. The two variables in the study are related to the content of lime mixed with the soil at 0% percentages of 3%, 6%, 8% and 16%, and cure times at which these mixtures were subjected to (0, 7, 14, 28 and 56 days). The tested mixtures were prepared from dosages defined by two methods: one checking the chemical behavior of the samples by means of changes in pH values, and the second analyzing the mechanical behavior through the RCS values. It has been found that the chemical stability analyzed by addition of lime, provided an average increase of RCS in most soil samples studied, because of some physical and chemical characteristics thereof. For mixtures with 6%, 8% and 16% of lime after 28 days of curing, the average RCS was 0,57 MPa, 1,06 MPa and 2,37 MPa, respectively, for the normal proctor, and as for intermediate proctor, in the same curing time and on the same percentages RCS results were 0,54 MPa, 1,04 MPa and 2,71 MPa, respectively. In global terms, the soil-lime mixtures studied showed acceptable behavior by law to use as layers of sub-base. However, only the mixture with 16% of lime, at 28 days, is recommended for use on floors bases. Even so, the mixtures studied constitute a good alternative economic and socio-environmental.

A revista O Cruzeiro e as primeiras memórias da revolução de 1930 no Brasil

El objetivo de este artículo es discutir las características de un conjunto de mensajes sobre la Revolución de 1930 e Getulio Vargas publicados en la Revista O Cruzeiro para el más poderoso conglomerado de comunicaciones del país de la época, los Diarios Associados. La revista Cruzeiro era el único periódico de circulación nacional y uno de los más importantes vehículos de los medios de comunicación brasileños. El 8 de noviembre de 1930, cinco días después de la posesión de Vargas en el gobierno, la revista publicó un extenso reportaje sobre los acontecimientos revolucionarios desde sus preparativos hasta la “victoria final”. Hubo también la impresión de un conjunto de imágenes de Getulio Vargas en la condición de organizador de la Revolución, conductor y líder victorioso tomando posesión de la presidencia. Se considera por lo tanto, esa edición como significativa, en un esfuerzo para atribuir los significados al conjunto de eventos, que abarca la gestación del proyecto revolucionario, su desarrollo marcado por la incertidumbre y en última instancia la victoria. En la realización del reportaje son bastante repetidos términos adicionales como: Nación y Región, Líder y Pueblo, presidente y jefe, que ayudaban a comprobar significados al discurso visual creado por la revista.

Determination of biodiesel quality parameters for optimization of production process conditions

According to many scientists third industrial revolution has already began and this primarily means the transition to renewable energy sources. Energy requirements are increasing rapidly due to fast industrialization and the increased number of vehicles on the roads. Massive consumption of fossil fuels leads to environmental pollution, therefore, biofuels are offered as an alternative. For example, the application of biodiesel in diesel engines instead of diesel results in the proven reduction of harmful exhaust emissions. One of the most important technologies, which has been already explored at the commercial level, is the production of a liquid biofuel applicable in compression-ignition engines (or diesel engines), from biomass rich in fats and oils. This biofuel is generically referred as biodiesel, and consists essentially of a mixture of FAME's (fatty acid methyl esters). This current work describes modern approaches of biodiesel production from vegetable oil and subsequent analysis of produced biodiesel main characteristics such as density, acidity, iodine value and FAME content.

Desenvolvimento de nanosistemas farmacêuticos para terapia gênica

Gene therapy is one of the major challenges of the post-genomic research and it is based on the transfer of genetic material into a cell, tissue or organ in order to cure or improve the patient s clinical status. In general, gene therapy consists in the insertion of functional genes aiming substitute, complement or inhibit defective genes. The achievement of a foreigner DNA expression into a population of cells requires its transfer to the target. Therefore, a key issue is to create systems, vectors, able to transfer and protect the DNA until it reaches the target. The disadvantages related to the use of viral vectors have encouraged efforts to develop emulsions as non-viral vectors. In fact, they are easy to produce, present suitable stability and enable transfection. The aim of this work was to evaluate two different non-viral vectors, cationic liposomes and nanoemulsions, and the possibility of their use in gene therapy. For the two systems, cationic lipids and helper lipids were used. Nanoemulsions were prepared using sonication method and were composed of Captex® 355; Tween® 80; Spam® 80; cationic lipid, Stearylamine (SA) or 1,2-dioleoyl-3-trimethylammoniumpropane (DOTAP) and water (Milli-Q®). These systems were characterized by average droplet size, Polidispersion Index (PI) and Zeta Potential. The stability of the systems; as well as the DNA compaction capacity; their cytotoxicity and the cytotoxicity of the isolated components; and their transfection capacity; were also evaluated. Liposomes were made by hydration film method and were composed of DOTAP; 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DOPE), containing or not Rhodaminephosphatidylethanolamine (PE- Rhodamine) and the conjugate Hyaluronic Acid DOPE (HA-DOPE). These systems were also characterized as nanoemulsions. Stability of the systems and the influence of time, size of plasmid and presence or absence of endotoxin in the formation of lipoplexes were also analyzed. Besides, the ophthalmic biodistribution of PE-Rhodamine containing liposomes was studied after intravitreal injection. The obtained results show that these systems are promising non-viral vector for further utilization in gene therapy and that this field seems to be very important in the clinical practice in this century. However, from the possibility to the practice, there is still a long way

Operacionalização, no contexto da Força Aérea, de um Sistema Aéreo Autónomo Não-Tripulado Classe II para Vigilância Marítima e Busca e Salvamento

Os sistemas de aeronaves não-tripuladas (UAS-Unmanned Aircraft Systems) são uma realidade nos mais distintos cenários, especialmente nos militares. Atualmente, qualquer força armada credível possui sistemas de armas deste tipo ou planeia adquiri-los a curto prazo. Os militares encontram nesta nova valência do poder aéreo uma forma de ultrapassar alguns desafios colocados, essencialmente, por problemas de restrições económicas, humanas e técnicas. O aumento da mobilidade no transporte marítimo e no transporte aéreo, sobre os oceanos leva a que a zona económica exclusiva possa estar ameaçada, especialmente, a costa portuguesa, justificando-se assim, a existência dos meios necessários à sua vigilância de forma eficiente e eficaz. Para isso o país conta com o apoio Força Aérea Portuguesa, que pretende integrar no seu dispositivo nacional UAS Classe II (peso máximo à descolagem entre os 150kg e os 600kg) e desta forma levar a cabo, juntamente com as outras Unidades Aéreas já existentes, missões de Vigilância Marítima e Busca e Salvamento. Não obstante da capacidade já existente, torna-se relevante que sejam estudadas soluções que possam complementar a missão por ela levada a cabo visando, assim, uma otimização de recursos se possível. Tendo em conta esta moldura enquadradora, a presente dissertação, através de um estudo teórico, tem por objetivo geral analisar a potencial operacionalização de um UAS do tipo Classe II, no contexto das missões da Força Aérea. Para a elaboração deste estudo investigou-se e recolheu-se informações sobre a missão VIMAR e SAR. Para a recolha de dados foram elaboradas entrevistas a alguns militares experientes da organização. Os dados recolhidos possibilitaram a criação e respetiva análise de uma matriz SWOT, assim como tipificar missões, no âmbito da Vigilância Marítima e Busca e Salvamento, nas quais a integração do UAS com as aeronaves tripuladas se revelaria fulcral para o sucesso das operações aéreas. Provado o potencial, termina-se com a enumeração de diversas tarefas, sensores, equipamentos e requisitos que poderão servir de referência aos responsáveis pelo desenho e conceção do UAS.

Modelagem da propagação sonora em dutos : abordagem matemática no domínio da frequência e do tempo utilizando transformada de laplace

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade UnB Gama, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Integridade de Materiais da Engenharia, 2016.

Modelo de mineração de dados em bases de dados acadêmicas

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Tecnologia, Departamento de Engenharia Elétrica, 2016.

Insatisfação com sistemas organizacionais e repercussão no atendimento a clientes

O objetivo central deste trabalho interdisciplinar é verter um facho de luz sobre a relação entre a insatisfação com sistemas organizacionais e a dissonância cognitiva no atendimento a clientes. Os vendedores e seus clientes, de três unidades de uma rede de vendas de veículos autorizada a atuar no Sul do Brasil, foram selecionados para a pesquisa. Dois instrumentos de coleta de dados foram construídos pelo autor, para investigar os selecionados. Eles foram aplicados em dois momentos distintos. No primeiro, os vendedores e seus clientes responderam a questões sobre atendimento, nas diversas fases de vendas. No segundo, os vendedores responderam a questões sobre o sistema organizacional da rede, por meio de instrumento construído com base nas proposições de Spitzer (1997). A teoria bidimensional de Herzberg foi utilizada na construção da ponte entre os resultadoschave observados nas duas pesquisas. A constatação desse autor, sobre a influência da insatisfação com fatores higiênicos na motivação, foi ratificada.

Ensaio sobre a cegueira : as regras do método jornalístico e a reprodução simbólica da realidade nos enquadramentos das notícias sobre a crise econômica em Portugal

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Sociologia, 2014.

Reconocimiento de una plataforma para aterrizaje de UAV mediante procesamiento de imágenes

En el año 2016 se vendieron en EE.UU más de un millón de Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs, Vehículos aéreos no tripulados), casi el doble que el año anterior, país del que se dispone de información. Para el año 2020 se estima que este mercado alcance los 5.600 millones de dólares en todo el mundo, creciendo a un ritmo del 30% anual. Este crecimiento demuestra que existe un mercado en expansión con muchas y diversas oportunidades de investigación. El rango de aplicaciones en los que se utiliza este tipo de vehículos es innumerable. Desde finales del s.XX, los UAVs han estado presentes en multitud de aplicaciones, principalmente en misiones de reconocimiento. Su principal ventaja radica en que pueden ser utilizados en situaciones de alto riesgo sin suponer una amenaza para ningún tripulante. En los últimos años, la fabricación de vehículos asequibles económicamente ha permitido que su uso se extienda a otros sectores. A día de hoy uno de los campos en los que ha adquirido gran relevancia es en agricultura, contribuyendo a la automatización y monitorización de cultivos, pero también se ha extendido su uso a diferentes sistemas, tales como seguridad, cartografía o monitorización, entre otros [1]. Es en esta situación en la que se propone el proyecto SALACOM [2], que explora la posibilidad de utilizar esta tecnología en sistemas de repuesta rápida para la detección y contención de vertidos contaminantes en entornos acuáticos con el apoyo de vehículos autónomos marinos de superficie (USV, Unmanned Surface Vehicles). En el mencionado proyecto se pretende utilizar sistemas UAVs para detectar y analizar las zonas de vertido y proveer la información respecto a la localización y las técnicas de contención adecuadas a los sistemas USV. Una vez se haya realizado el análisis de la situación del vertido, los USV trabajarían conjuntamente con los UAVs para desplegar las barreras de protección seleccionadas en la zona afectada. Para esto, los UAVs o drones, términos similares en lo que respecta a este proyecto y que a lo largo de esta memoria se usarán indistintamente, deben ser capaces de despegar desde los USV y volver a aterrizar sobre ellos una vez realizada su labor. El proyecto que se describe en la presente memoria se centra en la fase de aterrizaje y, más concretamente, en la detección de la plataforma seleccionada como plantilla mediante técnicas de tratamiento de imágenes. Esto serviría como sistema de apoyo para guiar el dron hacia la plataforma para que pueda realizar el descenso correctamente y finalizar así su misión o bien para realizar operaciones de recarga de la batería. El dron está equipado con la correspondiente cámara de visión a bordo, con la que obtiene las imágenes, las procesa e identifica la plataforma para dirigirse hacia ella, si bien, dado que el sistema de procesamiento de imágenes no se encuentra totalmente operativo, este trabajo se centra en el desarrollo de una aplicación software independiente del sistema de visión a bordo del dron, basada en el desarrollo de técnicas de reconocimiento de la plataforma. La plataforma a utilizar proviene de una patente [3], consistente en una figura geométrica con formas características, de muy difícil aparición en entornos de exterior. La figura pintada en negro se halla impresa sobre un panel de fondo blanco de 1m × 1m de superficie. En este trabajo se han explorado diversas opciones disponibles para realizar la identificación de las regiones de interés. El principal objetivo es realizar la selección de una tecnología que pueda cumplir potencialmente con los criterios necesarios para llevar a cabo la tarea y seleccionar los métodos de detección adecuados para realizar la identificación de la figura contenida en la plataforma. Se ha pretendido utilizar tecnologías de fácil uso, amplío soporte y, cuando ha sido posible, de código libre. Todo ello integrado en una aplicación informática, que es la que se presenta en el presente trabajo.