Fertirrigação na produção e qualidade de mudas de Eucalyptus spp. nos períodos de inverno e de verão

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A práxis dos trabalhadores da Cooperativa Agrícola Resistência Tocantina em Cametá/PA

O presente trabalho teve como objeto de estudo a práxis dos trabalhadores da Cooperativa Agrícola Resistência Tocantina/CART. Dessa forma, buscou-se responder as seguintes questões: de que forma a cooperativa, como realidade objetiva, apresenta-se ao trabalhador como elemento da contradição, ou seja, como a objetividade criada pelos trabalhadores forja a práxis dos trabalhadores? De que forma a objetividade criada se relaciona com a estrutura econômica e superestrutura política e ideológica? E como essa relação reflete na práxis do trabalhador organizado na CART? Com isso, objetivou-se analisar a dinâmica da formação social do trabalhador, tomando por base a categoria da práxis. A metodologia ocorreu a partir da revisão bibliográfica e entrevista semi-estruturada, tendo como método de análise o materialismo histórico-dialético. A pesquisa chegou às seguintes conclusões: A práxis dos trabalhadores no interior da cooperativa forja-se a partir das diversas situações vividas pelo coletivo, seja de natureza econômica, política, técnica, ou científica; Os interesses externos (do capital) se materializam na CART pelo condicionamento da formação empreendida pelas ONGs, as quais fornecem uma formação restrita ao processo produtivo (assistência técnica e comercial); Ocorre também pelo condicionamento do planejamento anual da CART que obedece às exigências das parceiras comerciais (qualidade e quantidade e o tipo de produto que irá fornecer). Esse fato contribui para o desenvolvimento e reprodução da práxis utilitária, a qual se caracteriza por não proporcionar ao homem a compreensão das coisas e da realidade. No entanto, a práxis utilitária, no percurso histórico, produz objetivamente a sua contradição. Isso, porque, ela não se constitui simplesmente como um saber prático, mas se sustenta pela realização concreta; o que a torna elemento das relações econômicas e sociais. Assim, ela oportuniza ao trabalhador/associado um “novo” movimento dialético. Possibilitando, pela atividade cognoscitiva do sujeito, a apreensão da contradição a partir dessa realidade concreta; o que poderá refletir na qualidade da elaboração, ainda que no plano ideal, da atividade teleológica, caracterizada pela exigência prática. Esse processo denomina-se como: a dialética da práxis.

Qualidades intrínsecas para inovação de produtos em piso e revestimento de cerâmica vermelha do APL de São Miguel do Guamá

A presente dissertação representa uma contribuição na resolução de problema de inovação de produtos na indústria de cerâmica vermelha no Município de São Miguel do Guamá, no Estado do Pará. Apresenta-se uma metodologia, baseada na estratégia do QFD (Desdobramento da Função Qualidade), que associa os requisitos dos consumidores na elaboração dos projetos do produto e dos processos de produção. A falta de conhecimento dos produtos ou serviços a serem vendidos é uma das principais (e óbvias) razões do fracasso de pequenas empresas varejistas e de serviços. No atual nível de competitividade, a informação é o elemento fundamental para o sucesso empresarial e adaptação ao mercado, não só no sentido de obter e acumular estas informações, mas também de saber interpretá-las e utilizálas adequadamente e de forma criativa. A qualidade do produto é avaliada tanto no aspecto interno (especificações técnicas) quanto no aspecto externo (qualidades exigidas pelos clientes). A pesquisa mostra, além da realidade que vive o setor das indústrias de cerâmica, a importância e os atributos da qualidade definidos pelos consumidores relativo as cerâmicas vermelhas. O trabalho também mostra os resultados da aplicação da metodologia em uma das empresas do setor, mediante o desdobramentos da qualidade exigida, estabelece a qualidade planejada.

Aplicação do desdobramento da função qualidade (QFD) para melhoria da qualidade em um restaurante self-service

Currently, with the competitiveness that is seen in the market, it is crucial to the success of the business, develop new strategies to keep and win new customer preference. To ensure the success of a particular service or product, the secret is to continually meet the wishes and demands of the customers, which are the key parts of the business, through innovation, variety and quality assurance. To achieve this goal managers should be aware of all types of process that exist in the company, as they are primarily responsible and interested by quality service, customer satisfaction and consequently, generating favorable financial results. A tool used to ensure good results to business is the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) that seeks to hear and interpret customers requirements and turn them into essential features for a project

Socio-eco-efficiency of integrated and non-integrated systems of crop, forestry and livestock in the Ipameri city, at brazilian Cerrado

Pós-graduação em Ciências Ambientais - Sorocaba

Ricerca ed applicazione di nuovi metodi di progettazione meccanica e di industrial design

The present dissertation relates to methodologies and technics about industrial and mechanical design. The author intends to give a complete idea about the world of design, showing the theories of Quality Function Deployment and TRIZ, of other methods just like planning, budgeting, Value Analysis and Engineering, Concurrent Engineering, Design for Assembly and Manufactoring, etc., and their applications to five concrete cases. In these cases there are also illustrated design technics as CAD, CAS, CAM; Rendering, which are ways to transform an idea into reality. The most important object of the work is, however, the birth of a new methodology, coming up from a comparison between QFD and TRIZ and their integration through other methodologies, just like Time and Cost Analysis, learned and skilled during an important experience in a very famous Italian automotive factory.

MODULARITY BASED FUZZY COMMUNITY DETECTION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Fuzzy community detection is to identify fuzzy communities in a network, which are groups of vertices in the network such that the membership of a vertex in one community is in [0,1] and that the sum of memberships of vertices in all communities equals to 1. Fuzzy communities are pervasive in social networks, but only a few works have been done for fuzzy community detection. Recently, a one-step forward extension of Newman’s Modularity, the most popular quality function for disjoint community detection, results into the Generalized Modularity (GM) that demonstrates good performance in finding well-known fuzzy communities. Thus, GMis chosen as the quality function in our research. We first propose a generalized fuzzy t-norm modularity to investigate the effect of different fuzzy intersection operators on fuzzy community detection, since the introduction of a fuzzy intersection operation is made feasible by GM. The experimental results show that the Yager operator with a proper parameter value performs better than the product operator in revealing community structure. Then, we focus on how to find optimal fuzzy communities in a network by directly maximizing GM, which we call it Fuzzy Modularity Maximization (FMM) problem. The effort on FMM problem results into the major contribution of this thesis, an efficient and effective GM-based fuzzy community detection method that could automatically discover a fuzzy partition of a network when it is appropriate, which is much better than fuzzy partitions found by existing fuzzy community detection methods, and a crisp partition of a network when appropriate, which is competitive with partitions resulted from the best disjoint community detections up to now. We address FMM problem by iteratively solving a sub-problem called One-Step Modularity Maximization (OSMM). We present two approaches for solving this iterative procedure: a tree-based global optimizer called Find Best Leaf Node (FBLN) and a heuristic-based local optimizer. The OSMM problem is based on a simplified quadratic knapsack problem that can be solved in linear time; thus, a solution of OSMM can be found in linear time. Since the OSMM algorithm is called within FBLN recursively and the structure of the search tree is non-deterministic, we can see that the FMM/FBLN algorithm runs in a time complexity of at least O (n2). So, we also propose several highly efficient and very effective heuristic algorithms namely FMM/H algorithms. We compared our proposed FMM/H algorithms with two state-of-the-art community detection methods, modified MULTICUT Spectral Fuzzy c-Means (MSFCM) and Genetic Algorithm with a Local Search strategy (GALS), on 10 real-world data sets. The experimental results suggest that the H2 variant of FMM/H is the best performing version. The H2 algorithm is very competitive with GALS in producing maximum modularity partitions and performs much better than MSFCM. On all the 10 data sets, H2 is also 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than GALS. Furthermore, by adopting a simply modified version of the H2 algorithm as a mutation operator, we designed a genetic algorithm for fuzzy community detection, namely GAFCD, where elite selection and early termination are applied. The crossover operator is designed to make GAFCD converge fast and to enhance GAFCD’s ability of jumping out of local minimums. Experimental results on all the data sets show that GAFCD uncovers better community structure than GALS.

The Black-White Achievement Gap Amongst Struggling Readers: A Case Study of Early Intervention Outcomes in Massachusetts

A number of analyses of large data sets have suggested that the reading achievement gap between African American and White U.S. is negligible or small at school entry, but widens substantially during the school years because African American students show slower rates of growth in elementary and secondary school. Identifying when and why gaps occur, therefore, is a an important research endeavor. In addition, being able to predict which African American children are most likely to fall behind can contribute to efforts to close the achievement gap. This paper analyzes first grade and third grade data on African American and White children in Massachusetts who all were identified in first grade as struggling readers and enrolled in Reading Recovery—an individualized intervention. All the children were low-income and attending urban schools. Using Observation Survey data from first grade, and MCAS Reading data from 3rd grade, we found that the African American and White students made equal average progress while in first grade, but by the end of third grade showed a large gap in MCAS proficiency rates. We discuss the results in terms of school quality, reading development, dialect issues, testing formats, and the need to provide long-term support to vulnerable learners.

Approach to integrate product conceptual design information into a computer-aided design system

Commercial computer-aided design systems support the geometric definition of product, but they lack utilities to support initial design stages. Typical tasks such as customer need capture, functional requirement formalization, or design parameter definition are conducted in applications that, for instance, support ?quality function deployment? and ?failure modes and effects analysis? techniques. Such applications are noninteroperable with the computer-aided design systems, leading to discontinuous design information flows. This study addresses this issue and proposes a method to enhance the integration of design information generated in the early design stages into a commercial computer-aided design system. To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach adopted, a prototype application was developed and two case studies were executed.

Metodología para definir los criterios de diseño de una estructura robótica en tuberías petroleras de operación vertical

Este trabajo propone la aplicación de la metodología de despliegue de la función de calidad para definir los criterios de diseño de un robot deslizante para trabajar en tareas de inspección y mantenimiento en pozos petroleros. Dicho estudio analiza inicialmente el sistema y las diferentes opciones para la colocación de una estructura robótica evaluando alternativas y estudiando una estructura robótica para tal fin. Para ello se realizó una consulta por medio de encuesta a varios expertos en el tema con la finalidad de definir las características que debe tener el robot de acuerdo con los requerimientos críticos que tiene la aplicación. En este trabajo se muestran los resultados arrojados por la matriz QFD (Quality Function Deployment) cuando los datos de entrada son los proporcionados por el grupo de expertos encuestados. A partir de estos resultados es posible determinar los requisitos técnicos que debe reunir la estructura robótica que se desea diseñar.

Molecular characterization of Glu-B3 locus in wheat cultivars and segregating populations

Bread wheat quality constitutes a key trait for the demands of the baking industry as well as the broad consumer preferences. The role of the low molecular weight glutenin subunits (LMW-GS) with regard to bread quality is so far not well understood owing to their genetic complexity and to the use of different nomenclatures and standards for the LMW-GS assignment by different research groups, which has made difficult the undertaking of association studies between genotypes and bread quality. The development of molecular markers to carry out genetic characterization and allele determination is demanding. Nowadays, the most promising LMW gene marker system is based on PCR and high resolution capillary electrophoresis for the simultaneous analysis of the complete multigene family. The molecular analysis of the bread wheat Glu-B3 locus in F2 and F4:6 populations expressed the expected one-locus Mendelian segregation pattern, thus validating the suitability of this marker system for the characterization of LMW-GS genes in segregating populations, allowing for the successful undertaking of studies related to bread-making quality. Moreover, the Glu-B3 allele characterization of standard cultivars with the molecular marker system has revealed its potential as a complementary tool for the allelic determination of this complex multigene family.

A primeira dança : o papel da intersubjectividade na interacção mãe-bebé

Tese de doutoramento, Psicologia (Psicologia Clínica), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Psicologia, 2016

The design and implementation of a repository for the management of spatial data integrity constraints

This paper reviews the key features of an environment to support domain users in spatial information system (SIS) development. It presents a full design and prototype implementation of a repository system for the storage and management of metadata, focusing on a subset of spatial data integrity constraint classes. The system is designed to support spatial system development and customization by users within the domain that the system will operate.

Measuring performance of virtual learning environment system in higher education

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the performance of commercial virtual learning environment (VLE) systems, which helps the decision makers to select the appropriate system for their institutions. Design/methodology/approach – This paper develops an integrated multiple criteria decision making approach, which combines the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and quality function deployment (QFD), to evaluate and select the best system. The evaluating criteria are derived from the requirements of those who use the system. A case study is provided to demonstrate how the integrated approach works. Findings – The major advantage of the integrated approach is that the evaluating criteria are of interest to the stakeholders. This ensures that the selected system will achieve the requirements and satisfy the stakeholders most. Another advantage is that the approach can guarantee the benchmarking to be consistent and reliable. From the case study, it is proved that the performance of a VLE system being used at the university is the best. Therefore, the university should continue to run the system in order to support and facilitate both teaching and learning. Originality/value – It is believed that there is no study that measures the performance of VLE systems, and thus decision makers may have difficulties in system evaluation and selection for their institutions.

Using QFD for e-business planning and analysis in a micro-sized enterprise

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to show how QFD can be used as part of a structured planning and analysis framework for micro-sized enterprises to build-up their e-business capabilities. Design/methodology/approach - This case study has been produced using a new framework which integrates the balanced scorecard, value chain and quality function deployment techniques into an integrated framework known as the E-Business Planning and Analysis Framework (E-PAF). It has been produced using an action research approach. Findings - A new framework with a supporting case study is provided. This case study has demonstrated that the framework can be applied successfully to micro-sized enterprises (those with less than ten employees) to successfully plan new strategic and technical developments. This will enhance the online service that the company is able to provide. Research limitations/implications - This paper presents a single case study. The technical recommendations are currently being implemented. Originality/value - Such analytical techniques are most commonly associated with large organisations, and are not specifically associated with e-business planning. This paper provides a new framework that will be of general applicability to other similarly sized enterprises that are looking to improve e-business capabilities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.