939 resultados para Methodological Issues
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Background and Purpose: The circadian rhythm of melatonin in saliva or plasma, or of the melatonin metabolite 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (a6MTs) in urine, is a defining feature of suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) function, the body's endogenous oscillatory pacemaker. The primary objective of this review is to ascertain the clinical benefits and limitations of current methodologies employed for detection and quantification of melatonin in biological fluids and tissues. Data Identification: A search of the English-language literature (Medline) and a systematic review of published articles were carried out. Study Selection: Articles that specified both the methodology for quantifying melatonin and indicated the clinical purpose were chosen for inclusion in the review. Data Extraction: The authors critically evaluated the methodological issues associated with various tools and techniques (e.g. standards, protocols, and procedures). Results of Data Synthesis: Melatonin measurements are useful for evaluating problems related to the onset or offset of sleep and for assessing phase delays or advances of rhythms in entrained individuals. They have also become an important tool for psychiatric diagnosis, their use being recommended for phase typing in patients suffering from sleep and mood disorders. Additionally, there has been a continuous interest in the use of melatonin as a marker for neoplasms of the pineal region. Melatonin decreases such as found with aging are or post pinealectomy can cause alterations in the sleep/wake cycle. The development of sensitive and selective methods for the precise detection of melatonin in tissues and fluids has increasingly been shown to have direct relevance for clinical decision making. Conclusions: Due to melatonin's low concentration, as well as the coexistence of numerous other compounds in the blood, the routine determination of melatonin has been an analytical challenge. The available evidence indicates however that these challenges can be overcome and consequently that evaluation of melatonin's presence and activity can be an accessible and useful tool for clinical diagnosis. © Springer-Verlag 2010.
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Pós-graduação em Geografia - FCT
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Pós-graduação em Educação para a Ciência - FC
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Analisa os principais problemas teóricos, práticos e metodológicos diretamente relacionados à concepção e elaboração de materiais de ensino da escrita na língua apurinã, uma língua sem tradição escrita. A partir da metodologia de análise de um caso, a pesquisa incluiu a revisão da literatura relevante e análise de dados coletados in loco nas comunidades de língua apurinã. Os problemas são identificados e as soluções propostas foram implementadas na elaboração do material didático resultante, "Escrevendo em apurinã". Esse material foi elaborado por mim em co-autoria com o indivíduo apurinã Norá, falante nativo da língua, com o objetivo de apresentar de maneira didática o alfabeto da língua apurinã. Descreve como esse material foi desenvolvido, quais foram as dificuldades encontradas durante a elaboração do livro, quais foram os critérios considerados na sequenciação e organização dos conteúdos, além de apresentar as dificuldades encontradas pelos professores em entender e utilizar esse material nas suas aulas, quais soluções foram encontradas para cada problema. Mostra também como esse material de cunho didático/pedagógico pode contribuir no processo de revitalização da língua apurinã, uma língua minoritária, quase sem nenhum prestígio social e falada pela minoria dos apurinã.
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Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS
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A investigação em foco aconteceu no âmbito da formação inicial de professores de Matemática. Houve inserção de licenciandos no contexto da pesquisa. Nesse sentido, conjugaram-se estágio supervisionado e práticas de pesquisa. Os graduandos analisados eram estudantes da disciplina Estágio Supervisionado IV (voltada para o magistério de nível médio) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). Nos encontros de planejamento – durante o semestre letivo anterior, mais especificamente no transcorrer da disciplina Estágio Supervisionado III –, aconteceram discussões acerca da figura do professor pesquisador e a propósito da elaboração de projetos de pesquisa, além de explanações, por especialistas convidados, sobre os seguintes assuntos: (i) tendências em Educação Matemática; (ii) avaliação docente; (iii) didática da Matemática e (iv) projetos de “investigação em aula”. Tais explanações constituíram-se em fontes de auxílio e de motivação para os licenciandos, não em imposições de assuntos a investigar. Eles foram exortados a fazer leituras em periódicos, em livros, em textos disponíveis na Internet etc., com vistas tanto à aquisição de respaldo para a construção de seus projetos quanto ao ganho de subsídios para – no semestre letivo seguinte – as suas intervenções didático-investigativas. Quanto às atividades na escola-laboratório, os estagiários realizaram, em ambiente onde dispuseram de anuência da comunidade escolar, “pesquisas acerca de sua prática docente”. Por sua vez, o autor desta tese, o qual era professor das disciplinas Estágio Supervisionado III e Estágio Supervisionado IV, portanto orientador dos estagiários, analisou as pesquisas realizadas por eles. Mais especificamente, o autor buscou responder [através da análise qualitativa de: (i) diálogos; (ii) relatos orais; (iii) entrevistas semiestruturadas; (iv) observações/percepções; (v) relatórios (escritos) de pesquisa elaborados pelos estagiários; e (vi) respostas dos estagiários a questionários semiabertos] à seguinte pergunta: “que aspectos das práticas de investigação repercutem na constituição da identidade de professores de Matemática em formação inicial?”. Estágio supervisionado, Pesquisa docente & Identidade do (futuro) professor de Matemática denotaram, em uma perspectiva complexa, elementos centrais neste trabalho. O objetivo foi “investigar a constituição da identidade de professores de Matemática em formação inicial na realização de atividades investigativas durante o estágio supervisionado”. Concluiu-se, por ocasião da fase prática deste trabalho doutoral, que “houve repercussão de aspectos das práticas de investigação tanto na constituição da dimensão particular ou individual quanto na constituição da dimensão geral, formal ou conceitual da identidade profissional de cada sujeito/estagiário analisado”.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
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Thinking about research with children, giving time and voice to them is a discussion that is still fresh. Thus, in order to establish some reflections on the theoretical and methodological issues in research with children, we hope with this article to give visibility to the theoretical assumptions of authors who are concerned to place the child and childhood in the center of the research process. Thus, contributing to this discussion, this text is divided into three stages: initially bring some contributions of sociology of childhood and the various fields of knowledge to think about research with children. Secondly, we propose to discuss some methods and procedures that may favor the development of research with children. When we trace the historical development related to research with children and recover the concept of childhood and child while being active and producer of culture, we headed for the third time this work presents some results and conclusions, which can direct our gaze on pursuit of research instruments that capture what children think, feel and build in the world that they live and live together.
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Introduction: This paper considers that information science (IS) literature covers a diversity of thematics with low emphasis on researches about conducting research. The study analyzes the scientific production of authors who investigate about research methodology in the information science (IS) literature, and the references used to lay the foundation of the methodological issues regarding the area. It discusses the methodological and epistemological positions of the leading researchers highlighted as the most productive investigators on the subject in the country. Method: The research adopts the content analysis coupled with metric studies to contextualize the indicators related to productivity, to the types of authorship and citation analysis. The bibliographic coupling method is considered an analysis mode which analyzes concomitant citations. It develops a theoretical framework about the importance of scientific production analysis in different knowledge fields. The study investigates, from a theoretical perspective, the concepts about research methodology and the complementarity between methodology and epistemology in conducting research. Results: The results of the analysis showed that the production of the highlighted authors presents the methodology as a thematic focus to be applied to IS contexts, as well as a research object in the field. The prominent productivity of the authors is justified especially by deepening the meta studies about the ways to conduct research in IS. This study also identifies a trend to single-authored studies about the theme. Conclusions: The research considers that meta studies and applied and methodological studies are important to recognize a consistent theoretical and practical core in the IS area. Regarding the epistemological influences identified by the citation analysis, the study observes that the critical rationalist epistemology and the social and political epistemology are highlighted in the construction of the theoretical framework of the most productive authors.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento em Pesquisa (CNPq)
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Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais - FFC
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This paper is a contribution to the debate on the methodological issues surrounding the Land Geography, demonstrating why the Brazilian Agrarian Geography is dynamic, varied and complex. It was chosen as the theme of Research Groups in Geography Agrarian present in Directory Groups CNPq and they held on a characterization considering: home institution, location, year of training, Group name, words and lines of research. The survey allowed the treatment of 70 groups in 2009 had the agrarian geography, agriculture, rural development, rural, rural areas, organization of space and rural development as guiding their research and performances. The analysis of the research lines identifi ed groups concerned with economic, political, ecological, demographic and cultural, and also found concerns with farmers, with their production and the functioning of the agricultural system, being thus, the set of raised lines one can say that there is signifi cant diversity in themes, which reinforces the hypothesis of dynamism, variety and complexity of studies on agriculture today.
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This text presents the Pedagogy of Alternating methodology, highlighting its contribution to re-think the formation of catadores of recycling materials (rubbish collectors). Whereas the use of this approach in the urban area is unusual, the goal of the article is to initiate a debate to promote further elaborations. Initially an overview of the Pedagogy of Alternating is presented and the main instruments used in this approach are commented. Two theoretical and methodological issues are indicated as challenges for catadores formation: the relations between Education and Work and the relations between Theory and Practice. The need to overcome dichotomy between these dimensions of human activity (that predominates in today's society) is defended. The catadores work reveals the exclusion of these workers of less organized sectors of production chains, with few opportunities to obtain better income and qualification. Overcome this gap requires an intense training to turn the catadores in recycling workers . To reach this goal the implementation of Alternating experiences between study and work in cooperatives and schools is not enough. A deep transformation is needed over the ways and subjects of both study and work, in order to create emancipating activities that promotes a full development of these workers.