Avaliação e validação de instalações interativas para museus

Desenhar e avaliar experiências interativas digitais para museus, são processos complexos que requerem muita atenção, sobretudo nos aspectos que contribuem para que a mesma seja uma experiência de aprendizagem rica e cativante. Por outro lado, a avaliação de instalações interativas em museus é uma tarefa muito exigente devido à interseção de múltiplos campos de pesquisa, como a interação humano computador, design e multimédia, museologia, estudo de audiências e outros. Neste projeto foi criada uma plataforma com dez parâmetros específicos que permite avaliar e guiar o desenho de instalações interativas, concebidos especificamente para museus. A conceção da plataforma foi baseada em métodos e princípios de avaliação de usabilidade atuais, bem como na literatura sobre museologia. Seguidamente foi refinada de forma iterativa e, por fim, foi validada através de um estudo de longo prazo, sobre a interatividade do em todos os museus interativos da Ilha da Madeira. Além disso, e em paralelo com a criação desta plataforma de avaliação, foi criada, desenhada e desenvolvida uma instalação interativa cujo objetivo principal seria oferecer uma experiência de visita ao museu completamente diferente do que os visitantes estão habituados, na Madeira. Foi instalada na Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas e apresentou um feedback muito positivo por parte dos visitantes do museu, que afirmaram ter gostado da experiência e ter adquirido algum conhecimento sobre a história e cultura da Madeira. A criação desta instalação permitiu aplicar a plataforma de avaliação criada, de forma iterativa ao longo de todo o processo de design e desenvolvimento, guiando e apoiando todas as fases e tomadas de decisão. Os resultados obtidos enfatizam a importância de adotar a plataforma proposta para futuras pesquisas sobre avaliação museus interativos. Além disso, demonstram a utilidade desta plataforma no design e desenvolvimento de instalações interativas que, por sua vez, revelaram ter um impacto positivo na integração nos museus da Região.

O badminton no desporto escolar e a transição para o desporto federado no Concelho de Cascais

O objetivo do presente estudo foi triplo quádruplo: (1) apresentar os núcleos e número de alunos do desporto escolar (DE) de Badminton nas escolas do concelho de Cascais (CC); (2) distinguir entre aqueles que apresentam uma prática no DE, e nos quadros da Federação Portuguesa de Badminton (FPB); (3) apresentar os núcleos e número de alunos do DE em Portugal continental; e (4) apresentar um breve enquadramento teórico do DE e a interligação com o desporto federado (DF). Os dados foram recolhidos entre 2007/2008 e 2011/2012, fruto do nosso envolvimento direto na modalidade desportiva, no sistema desportivo escolar e no sistema desportivo federado. Em conclusão, um total de 14 núcleos das escolas do CC realizou competições no quadro competitivo do DE e apenas 4 no DF, nos escalões de não seniores. A experiência vivida nas escolas do CC constitui o verdadeiro nicho de desenvolvimento do Badminton no DE. Algumas crianças e jovens alcançam um rendimento desportivo na escola, que lhes permite competir no DF. Assim, o CC surge como um exemplo de sucesso na transição do DE para o DF, que poderá ser seguido por outras regiões do país. A competição federada tem permitido aumentar o rendimento desportivo dos atletas e contribuído para que os alunos da iniciação (mais jovens) tenham boas referências desportivas (modelos) para o desenvolvimento das suas potencialidades. O DE incide sobre a educação, a generalização, a recreação e a saúde. O DF tem como missão o rendimento, o espetáculo e o profissionalismo. É necessário considerar os princípios de interação e clarificar o papel de ambos os setores, para que haja uma relação de cooperação e complementaridade.

A importância de oportunidades de participação na formação de jovens futebolistas: a influência da data de nascimento e decisões do treinador nas oportunidades de participação do jovem futebolista

O treino com jovens é desafiante, pois estes são orientados para a prática desportiva como se fossem profissionais, começando desde muito cedo a seleção de jogadores. Agrupados em escalões consoante a sua idade cronológica, os jovens mais desenvolvidos têm mais oportunidades de participar e competir, impedindo os restantes de fazer aquilo que mais gostam: jogar futebol. O estudo apresenta os seguintes objetivos: 1º avaliar a influência da idade cronológica nas oportunidades oferecidas para a participação dos jovens na prática desportiva, mais concretamente no Futebol; 2º conhecer o pensamento dos treinadores sob a organização e quadros de atividades para crianças e jovens no Futebol; 3º avaliar o tempo de participação desportiva dos jovens. Para este estudo optou-se por uma metodologia qualitativa-quantitativa aplicando-se um questionário aos treinadores de Futebol da Região Autónoma da Madeira. A amostra foi constituída por um total de 30 treinadores de Futebol Jovem masculino dos escalões de Infantis, Iniciados e Juvenis. Recorreu-se também à observação das datas de nascimento e fichas de jogo em que participaram 1173 jovens jogadores inscritos em equipas pertencentes à A.F.M. do escalão de Infantis (428 jogadores), Iniciados (397 jogadores) e Juvenis (348). Para analisar os dados recorreu-se à estatística descritiva (média, percentagem e desvio padrão) e ainda aos testes qui-2; Kruskal-Wallis, Jonckheere-Terpstra e Mann-Whitney: para obter resultados relativos à data de nascimento; titularidade e tempo de jogo. Considerando os objetivos do estudo, os resultados demonstram que: os jovens nascidos numa data mais próxima do início do ano são beneficiados em relação aos que nascem numa data próxima do fim do ano; os treinadores afirmam ser importante a rotatividade dos jogadores na convocatória; o tempo de participação desportiva dos jovens é desequilibrado, visto os nascidos no 1º trimestre jogarem mais tempo do que os nascidos no 4º trimestre.

Desporto, recreação e turismo em áreas protegidas: modelo de gestão participada para o Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros

O usufruto de áreas protegidas com propósitos recreativos e turísticos é um fenómeno atual e em crescimento em todo o mundo e os desportos de natureza revelam-se uma manifestação moderna destas tendências. É por isso que o desporto merece atenção nos quadros do planeamento e gestão destes espaços, temática desta investigação, e consiste num estudo de caso desenvolvido no Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros. Teve como principal objetivo a formulação de um modelo de iniciação à gestão participada do subsetor do desporto, desenvolvido nos âmbitos da recreação e do turismo nesta área protegida. Metodologicamente adotou-se um método misto, predominantemente interpretativo e complementado com a aplicação de questionários. Fez-se recurso à triangulação de dados como principal processo metodológico de confirmação, inferência e validade dos resultados. O corpus de estudo é constituído por documentos (n=103) e por instituições de abrangência nacional, regional e local, denominados de stakeholders (n=36). Num primeiro nível de interpretação dos resultados, deparamo-nos com um país cuja história relacionada com as práticas de gestão deste subsetor tem sido caracterizada pela ausência e por oscilações constantes em termos ideológicos, revelando-se a falta de estratégia e de coordenação entre institutos públicos os principais fatores causadores deste estado. Num segundo, especificou-se o estudo de caso e os resultados revelaram um conjunto de stakeholders motivados para o desenvolvimento das atividades desportivas, recreativas e turísticas na área em estudo, com pontos de vista consonantes e reconhecedores dos seus benefícios, mas ao mesmo tempo, fortemente críticos face às atuais condições encontradas no planeamento e gestão. Concluímos que existem condições humanas que tornam possível o desenvolvimento de um processo de gestão participativo e o modelo proposto sugere que uma série de considerações prévias devem ser tidas em conta antes da iniciação efetiva de um processo desta natureza.

Trabalho em equipe de saúde: uma análise contextual

COSTA, Roberta Kaliny de Souza ; ENDERS, Bertha Cruz ; MENEZES, Rejane Maria Paiva de . Trabalho em equipe em saúde: uma análise contextual. Ciência, Cuidado e Saúde, v. 7, p. 530-536, 2008.

A descentralização das políticas de desenvolvimento rural: uma análise da experiência do Rio Grande do Norte

MATOS FILHO, João. A descentralização das Políticas de desenvolvimento rural - uma análise da experiência do Rio Grande do Norte. 2002. 259f. Tese (Doutorado em Ciências Econômicas)– Instituto de Economia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 2002.

O estágio extracurricular remunerado no cuidar da enfermagem nos hospitais de ensino

OLIVEIRA,Jonas Sâmi Albuquerque de; ENDERS, Bertha Cruz; MENEZES, Rejane Maria Paiva de MEDEIROS, Soraya Maria de. O estágio extracurricular remunerado no cuidar da enfermagem nos hospitais de ensino. Revista Gaúcha de Enfermagem, Porto Alegre(RS),v.30,n.2, p.311-8,jun.2009.

Análise do processo de aprendizagem e alfabetização científica sobre a evolução dos veterbrados em um museu de ciências

Os museus como centros de ciências, enquanto espaços de educação não formal podem, por meio da participação ativa do público, promover a compreensão da ciência ao aguçar a curiosidade do indivíduo e estimular o prazer pela descoberta. Ação desenvolvida como intervenção acadêmica, social e cultural associada ao PIBID/UFRN/Biologia, tem como objetivo avaliar o uso de espaço de ensino não formal, na aprendizagem de conceitos, promovendo a alfabetização científica através de uma exposição em um museu de ciências e morfológicas. A visitação foi realizada no Museu de Ciências Morfológicas da UFRN, com alunos do 1º ano do ensino médio da escola Estadual Lourdes Guilherme, sendo aplicados questionários de pré e pós-visita sobre a Evolução dos Vertebrados, com intuito de analisar a contribuição do museu na aprendizagem destes conteúdos. A porcentagem de acertos no questionário pré-visita variou entre 8 e 68% em relação ao conhecimento geral dos alunos quanto à evolução dos vertebrados, enquanto no pós-visita essa variação foi de 16 a 90%. Com base nesses primeiros resultados verificamos o quanto os museus interativos de ciência se apresentam como um espaço educativo complementar à educação formal, possibilitando a ampliação e a melhoria do conhecimento científico de estudantes. Isso demonstra que o uso de espaços não formais contribui para a aprendizagem significativa, além de promover a alfabetização científica destes alunos ao gerar a compreensão da ciência e aguçar a curiosidade dos mesmos para o prazer da descoberta.

Síndrome de burnout e autoeficácia: um estudo com profissionais de enfermagem de hospitais privados de Natal/rn

This research verifies the influence of the self-efficacy level on burnout syndrome incidence in relation to nursing professionals from private hospitals located in the Municipality of Natal, State of Rio Grande do Norte. The nature of the research was descriptive, and the used data analysis method was quantitative which was developed through SPSS computational package, version 17.0. The used instrument for the investigation was Maslach-Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the General Perceived Self-efficacy Scale (GPSES) was applied to a sample formed from 230 nursing professionals. The statistic techniques to data analysis were: frequency analysis; factor analysis; Cronbach.s alpha; Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test (KMO); Bartlett efericity test; percentual analysis; Spearman rank correlation analysis; and simple regression. The achieved factors from factor analysis of MBI were the same, taking into account the dimensions which Maslach initially suggested to the instrument (emotional exhaustion, lack of personal realization, and depersonalization). However, one highlights that the low internal consistence of the depersonalization dimension can occur from people.s difficulty (caused by cultural aspects) of assuming this attitude in their work environment. Through GSE, it was achieved a factor which confirmed the unidimensionality showed by the author of the instrument. In relation to the syndrome incidence, it was verified that about 50% of the researched sample presented burnout syndrome evidence. Referring to self-efficacy level, about 65% of the researched sample presented low level of self-efficacy, what can be explained by the work characteristics of these professionals. In relation to the self-efficacy influence on the Burnout syndrome, it was verified that self-efficacy can be one of the aspects which influences occupational stress chronification (burnout), mainly to the personal realization dimension. Therefore, the researched hospital organizations need reflect about their attitudes in respect to their professionals, since the numbers showed a dangerous tendency regarding a predisposition to burnout syndrome of their staff, what implies not only a significant amount of individuals who can present high levels of emotional exhaustion, lack of personal realization, and depersonalization, but also the fact that this group presents low level of self-efficacy

Fatores críticos de sucesso como antecedentes da aceitação de um sistema de informação em uma universidade federal

In recent decades the public sector comes under pressure in order to improve its performance. The use of Information Technology (IT) has been a tool increasingly used in reaching that goal. Thus, it has become an important issue in public organizations, particularly in institutions of higher education, determine which factors influence the acceptance and use of technology, impacting on the success of its implementation and the desired organizational results. The Technology Acceptance Model - TAM was used as the basis for this study and is based on the constructs perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. However, when it comes to integrated management systems due to the complexity of its implementation,organizational factors were added to thus seek further explanation of the acceptance of such systems. Thus, added to the model five TAM constructs related to critical success factors in implementing ERP systems, they are: support of top management, communication, training, cooperation, and technological complexity (BUENO and SALMERON, 2008). Based on the foregoing, launches the following research problem: What factors influence the acceptance and use of SIE / module academic at the Federal University of Para, from the users' perception of teachers and technicians? The purpose of this study was to identify the influence of organizational factors, and behavioral antecedents of behavioral intention to use the SIE / module academic UFPA in the perspective of teachers and technical users. This is applied research, exploratory and descriptive, quantitative with the implementation of a survey, and data collection occurred through a structured questionnaire applied to a sample of 229 teachers and 30 technical and administrative staff. Data analysis was carried out through descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling with the technique of partial least squares (PLS). Effected primarily to assess the measurement model, which were verified reliability, convergent and discriminant validity for all indicators and constructs. Then the structural model was analyzed using the bootstrap resampling technique like. In assessing statistical significance, all hypotheses were supported. The coefficient of determination (R ²) was high or average in five of the six endogenous variables, so the model explains 47.3% of the variation in behavioral intention. It is noteworthy that among the antecedents of behavioral intention (BI) analyzed in this study, perceived usefulness is the variable that has a greater effect on behavioral intention, followed by ease of use (PEU) and attitude (AT). Among the organizational aspects (critical success factors) studied technological complexity (TC) and training (ERT) were those with greatest effect on behavioral intention to use, although these effects were lower than those produced by behavioral factors (originating from TAM). It is pointed out further that the support of senior management (TMS) showed, among all variables, the least effect on the intention to use (BI) and was followed by communications (COM) and cooperation (CO), which exert a low effect on behavioral intention (BI). Therefore, as other studies on the TAM constructs were adequate for the present research. Thus, the study contributed towards proving evidence that the Technology Acceptance Model can be applied to predict the acceptance of integrated management systems, even in public. Keywords: Technology

Autoeficácia, características sociodemográficas e capacitação profissional: um estudo com servidores de uma Universidade Federal

Self-efficacy, the construct developed by Albert Bandura in 1977 and widely studied around the world, means the individual's belief in his own capacity to successfully perform a certain activity. This study aims to determine the degree of association between sociodemographic characteristics and professional training to the levels of Self-Efficacy at Work (SEW) of the Administrative Assistants in a federal university. This is a descriptive research submitted to and approved by the Ethics Committee of UFRN. The method of data analysis, in quantitative nature, was accomplished with the aid of the statistical programs R and Minitab. The instrument used in research was a sociodemographic data questionnaire, variables of professional training and the General Perception of Self-efficacy Scale (GPSES), applied to the sample by 289 Assistants in Administration. Statistical techniques for data analysis were descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, reliability test (Cronbach's alpha), and test of significance (Pearson). Results show a sociodemographic profile of Assistants in Administration of UFRN with well-distributed characteristics, with 48.4% men and 51.6% female; 59.9% of them were aged over 40 years, married (49.3%), color or race white (58%) and Catholics (67.8%); families are composed of up to four people (75.8%) with children (59.4%) of all age groups; the occupation of the mothers of these professionals is mostly housewives (51.6%) with high school education up to parents (72%) and mothers (75.8%). Assistants in Administration have high levels of professional training, most of them composed two groups of servers: the former, recently hired public servants (30.7%) and another with long service (59%), the majority enter young in career and it stays until retirement, 72.4% of these professionals have training above the minimum requirement for the job. The analysis of SEW levels shows medium to high levels for 72% of assistants in administration; low SEWclassified people have shown a high average of 2.7, considered close to the overall mean presented in other studies, which is 2.9. The cluster analysis has allowed us to say that the characteristics of the three groups (Low, Medium and High SEW) are similar and can be found in the three levels of SEW representatives with all the characteristics investigated. The results indicate no association between the sociodemographic variables and professional training to the levels of self-efficacy at work of Assistants in Administration of UFRN, except for the variable color or race. However, due to the small number of people who declared themselves in color or black race (4% of the sample), this result can be interpreted as mere coincidence or the black people addressed in this study have provided a sense of efficacy higher than white and brown ones. The study has corroborated other studies and highlighted the subjectivity of the self-efficacy construct. They are needed more researches, especially with public servants for the continuity and expansion of studies on the subject, making it possible to compare and confirm the results

Ribeira, técnica versus natureza: transformações em prol de um projeto de modernização (1860-1932)

The necessity of the insertion of the capital of Rio Grande do Norte in the world-wide commercial scene and its claim as the seat of political power, in ends of nineteenth and beginning of twentieth century, determined the direction of urban interventions undertaken by government to restructure the city. In that matter, there were several actions of improvements and embellishment in Natal, which had, as a starting point, the adequacy works of the port, located in the Ribeira quarter, with the aim of ending the physical isolation that reinforced its economic stagnation. Besides the problems faced in the opening bar of the Potengi River, and would complement the required improvements, other barriers demonstrate the tension established between the physic-geographic field and the man: the flooded and slope which connected Cidade Alta and Ribeira the first two quarters of the city.The execution of these works demanded knowledge whose domain and application it was for engineering. But, how the actions done for the engineers, in sense to transform natural areas into constructed spaces made possible the intentional conformation of the quarter of the Ribeira in a commercial and politician-administrative center, in the middle of the XIX century and beginning of the XX? Understand, therefore, the employment effects of technology on the physical-geographical Ribeira, is the objective of this work that uses theoretical and methodological procedures of Urban Environmental History, by analyzing the relationship between the environment and the man, mediated by knowledge and use of technologies. The documental research was used, as primary sources, the Messages of the Provincial Assembly Government that later became the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte reports and articles on specialized publications, in addition to local newspapers. The work is structured in five chapters. First, some comments about Urban Environmental History (Chapter 1) supplemented with analysis of the conceptual construction of nature in the Contemporary Era and its application in the city (chapter 02), the following chapters (03 and 04) deal with the rise of engineers as a active group in the Brazilian government frameworks and their vision about the nature inside the urban environment and it is studied how the professional technicians dealt with the improvement work of the harbor and in the shock with the natural forces. Other works that would complement this "project" of modernization and had had natural obstacles to be removed the Ribeira flood and slope constitute the subject of the fifth chapter. Finally, some final considerations retake the initial discussions aiming an association between the technique and the nature as junction elements inside the process of constitution of a Modern Natal

Análise do transcriptoma das glândulas venenosas do escorpião Tityus stigmurus

In Brazil, accidents with scorpions are considered of medical importance, not only by the high incidence, but also for the potentiality of the venom from some species in determining severe clinical conditions. Tityus stigmurus is a widely distributed scorpion species in Northeastern Brazil and known to cause severe human envenomations, inducing pain, hyposthesia, edema, erythema, paresthesia, headaches and vomiting. The present study uses a transcriptomic approach to characterize the molecular repertoire from the non-stimulated venom gland of Tityus stigmurus scorpion. A cDNA library was constructed and 540 clones were sequenced and grouped into 37 clusters, with more than one EST (expressed sequence tag) and 116 singlets. Forty-one percent of ESTs belong to recognized toxin-coding sequences, with antimicrobial toxins (AMP-like) the most abundant transcripts, followed by alfa KTx- like, beta KTx-like, beta NaTx-like and alfa NaTx-like. Our analysis indicated that 34% include other possible venom molecules , whose transcripts correspond to anionic peptides, hypothetical secreted peptides, metalloproteinases, cystein-rich peptides and lectins. Fifteen percent of ESTs are similar to cellular transcripts. Sequences without good matches corresponded to 11%. This investigation provides the first global view of cDNAs from Tityus stigmurus. This approach enables characterization of a large number of venom gland component molecules, which belong either to known or atypical types of venom peptides and proteins from the Buthidae family

Avaliação demográfica, clinico-laboratorial e genética de indivíduos com lupus eritematoso sistêmico e artrite reumatóide residentes em região tropical

The aetiology of autoimmunes disease is multifactorial and involves interactions among environmental, hormonal and genetic factors. Many different genes may contribute to autoimmunes disease susceptibility. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes have been extensively studied, however many non-polymorphic MHC genes have also been reported to contribute to autoimmune diseases susceptibility. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of SLC11A1 gene in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Ninety-six patients with SLE, 37 with RA and 202 controls enrolled in this case-control study, were evaluated with regard to demographic, genetic, laboratorial and clinical data. SLE mainly affects females in the ratio of 18 women for each man, 88,3% of the patients aged from 15 to 45 years old and it occurs with similar frequency in whites and mulattos. The rate of RA between women and men was 11:1, with 77,1% of the cases occurring from 31 to 60 years. The genetic analysis of the point mutation -236 of the SLC11A1 gene by SSCP did not show significant differences between alleles/genotypes in patients with SLE or RA when compared to controls. The most frequent clinical manifestations in patients with SLE were cutaneous (87%) and joint (84.9%). In patients with RA, the most frequent out-joint clinical manifestation were rheumatoid nodules (13,5%). Antinuclear antibodies were present in 100% of the patients with SLE. There was no significant relation between activity of disease and presence of rheumatoid factor in patients with RA, however 55,6% of patients with active disease presented positive rheumatoid factor. Significant association between alleles/genotypes of point mutation -236 and clinical manifestations was not found

Gestão compartilhada de P&D em petróleo:a interação entre a Petrobrás e a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

This work addresses the relationship between University-Firm aims to understand the model of shared management of R&D in petroleum of Petrobras with UFRN. This is a case study which sought to investigate whether the model of cooperation established by the two institutions brings innovation to generate technical-scientific knowledge and contribute to the coordination with other actors in the promotion of technological innovation. In addition to desk research the necessary data for analysis were obtained by sending questionnaires to the coordinators of projects in R&D at the company and university. Also, interviews were conducted with subjects who participated in the study since its inception to the present day. This case study were analysed through the Resource-Based View and Interorganizational Networks theory. The sample data also stands that: searches were aligned to the strategic planning and that 29% of R&D projects have been successful on the scope of the proposed objectives (of which 11% were incorporated into business processes); which was produced technical and scientific knowledge caracterized by hundreds of national and international publications; thesis, dissertations, eleven patents, and radical and incremental innovations; the partnership has also brought benefits to the academic processes induced by the improved infrastructure UFRN and changing the "attitude" of the university (currently with national prominence in research and staff training for the oil sector). As for the model, the technical point of view, although it has some problems, it follows that it is appropriate. From the viewpoint of the management model is criticized for containing an excess of bureaucracy. From the standpoint of strategic allocation of resources from the legal framework needs to be reassessed, because it is focused only on the college level and it is understood that should also reach the high school given the new reality of the oil sector in Brazil. For this it is desirable to add the local government to this partnership. The set of information leads to the conclusion that the model is identified and named as a innovation of organizational arrangement here known as Shared Management of R&D in petroleum of Petrobras with UFRN. It is said that the shared management model it is possible to exist, which is a simple and effective way to manage partnerships between firms and Science and Technology Institutions. It was created by contingencies arising from regulatory stand points and resource dependence. The partnership is the result of a process of Convergence, Construction and Evaluation supported by the tripod Simplicity, Systematization and Continuity, important factors for its consolidation. In practice an organizational arrangement was built to manage innovative university-industry partnership that is defined by a dyadic relationship on two levels (institutional and technical, therefore governance is hybrid), by measuring the quarterly meetings of systematic and standardized financial contribution proportional to the advancement of research. These details have led to the establishment of a point of interaction between the scientific and technological-business dimension, demystifying they are two worlds apart