Itens de prova do Enem: cognição e ação à luz da linguística sistêmico-funcional

Este estudo investiga a Matriz de Referência e 117 itens de provas de Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias, do Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem), no período compreendido entre 2009 e 2013, a fim de se estabelecerem relações entre os enunciados de comando dos itens e as ações requeridas do participante, focalizando-se especialmente os processos verbais. A leitura do material teórico-metodológico que constitui o Enem revela uma visão sociointeracionista de língua, centrada no desenvolvimento de competências e habilidades que levarão o aluno ao domínio da língua, importante fator de representação e inclusão social. Por extensão, tal concepção permite compreender a prova do Enem como um ato de interação entre o agente público organizador e os participantes do exame. Como principal referencial teórico, elegeu-se a Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), enfocando-se especialmente a metafunção ideacional do sistema de transitividade, por ser ela a reveladora da experiência e da representação de mundo, sendo capaz, portanto, de expressar os sentidos de aprendizagem linguística e de ação por meio da língua materna/linguagem. Dois objetivos orientaram este estudo. O objetivo específico consistiu em verificar a relação entre os processos verbais mais recorrentes na Matriz e nos itens analisados, a fim de compreender a relação entre o comando do item e a ação de um cidadão letrado, competente e hábil para a produção e recepção de textos em língua materna. Como objetivo geral, espera-se que este estudo possa contribuir para o ensino da Língua Portuguesa, a partir da análise e das reflexões desenvolvidas. Percorreu-se do suporte legal que dá origem ao Enem à configuração do item como um gênero textual para, então, passar-se ao exame do corpus. O exame da Matriz de Referência para a área de Linguagens, Códigos e suas Tecnologias e dos itens selecionados apontou a predominância de processos materiais, mentais e relacionais nos enunciados de comando, que, por sua vez, deflagram ações mentais cognitivas nos participantes. Esse resultado indica que dominar a língua para atuar na sociedade com autonomia e competência implica, principalmente, a mobilização interna e intelectual do indivíduo, com base em seus conhecimentos e reflexões.

Report of streams examination, chemic and bacteriologic of the waters between Lake Michigan at Chicago and the Mississippi River at St. Louis.

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Improvement of rivers and harbors. Letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting compilation of preliminary examination, survey, and review reports on river and harbor and flood-control improvements, authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved on May 17, 1950

Spine title: Preliminary examination, survey, and review reports on river and harbor and flood-control improvements

A full and true statement of the examination and ordination of Mr. Arthur Carey /

"Marginal note to accompany the editorial article from the Churchman of Aug. 19th" mounted on blank leaf following t.-p.

Physiology and pathology of the urine, with methods of its examination,

Bibliographical foot-notes.

An introduction to the Latin language: comprising the accidence, prosody, and syntax: exercises and vocabularies: together with hundreds of original examination questions on the text; and sundry hints to teachers ... also the "Syllabus of Latin pronunciation" ...

v. 1. The accidence and prosody.--v. 2. The syntax &c.

The importance of small things : or, A plain course of self-examination; to which is added, Signs of the times /

Errata included on the last page.

Report of special examination of the accounts and methods of the office of coroner in the city of New York.

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Statistics. Periodic reports of physical examination.

Mode of access: Internet.

The theory of the law of evidence as established in the United States, and of the conduct of the examination of witnesses.

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The feeding ecology of some zooplankters that are important prey items of larval fish

Diets of 76 species of fish larvae from most oceans of the world were inventoried on the basis of information in 40 published studies. Although certaln geographlc, size- and taxon-specific patterns were apparent, certain zooplankton taxa appeared in the diets of larvae of a variety of fish species in numerous localities. Included were six genera of calanoid copepods (Acartia, Calanus, Centropages, Paracalanus, Pseudocaianus, Temora), three genera of cyclopoid copepods (Corycaeus, Oilhona, Oncata), harpacticoid copepods, copepod nauplii, tintinoids, cladocerans of the genera Evadne and Podon, barnacle nauplii, gastropod larvae, pteropods of the genus Limacina, and appendicularians. Literature on feeding habits of these zooplankters reveals that most of the copepods are omnivorous, feeding upon both phytoplankton and other zooplankton. Some taxa, such as Calanus, Paracalanus, Pseudocalanus, and copepod nauplii appear to be primarily herbivorous, while others, such as Acartia, Centropages, Temora, and cyclopoids exhibit broad omnivory or carnivory. The noncopepod zooplankters are primarily filter-feeders upon pbytoplankton and/or bacterioplankton. Despite the importance of zooplankters in larval fish food webs, spectic knowledge of the feeding ecology of many taxa is poor. Further, much present knowledge comes only from laboratory investigations that may not accurately portray feeding habits of zooplankters in nature. Lack of knowledge of the feeding ecology of many abundant zooplankters, which are also important in larval fish food webs, precludes realistic understanding of pelagic ecosystem dynamics. (PDF file contains 34 pages.)

An Investigation of Fuzzy Multiple Heuristic Orderings in the Construction of University Examination Timetables

In this paper, we present an investigation into using fuzzy methodologies to guide the construction of high quality feasible examination timetabling solutions. The provision of automated solutions to the examination timetabling problem is achieved through a combination of construction and improvement. The enhancement of solutions through the use of techniques such as metaheuristics is, in some cases, dependent on the quality of the solution obtained during the construction process. With a few notable exceptions, recent research has concentrated on the improvement of solutions as opposed to focusing on investigating the ‘best’ approaches to the construction phase. Addressing this issue, our approach is based on combining multiple criteria in deciding on how the construction phase should proceed. Fuzzy methods were used to combine three single construction heuristics into three different pair wise combinations of heuristics in order to guide the order in which exams were selected to be inserted into the timetable solution. In order to investigate the approach, we compared the performance of the various heuristic approaches with respect to a number of important criteria (overall cost penalty, number of skipped exams, number of iterations of a rescheduling procedure required and computational time) on twelve well-known benchmark problems. We demonstrate that the fuzzy combination of heuristics allows high quality solutions to be constructed. On one of the twelve problems we obtained lower penalty than any previously published constructive method and for all twelve we obtained lower penalty than when any of the single heuristics were used alone. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the fuzzy approach used less backtracking when constructing solutions than any of the single heuristics. We conclude that this novel fuzzy approach is a highly effective method for heuristically constructing solutions and, as such, has particular relevance to real-world situations in which the construction of feasible solutions is often a difficult task in its own right.

Predictive values of neurological examination, otoscopic examination and brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) in calves with otisis media-interna

Présentement, le diagnostic d’otite moyenne-interne chez le veau est basé sur la présence de signes cliniques appropriés ainsi que les tests diagnostiques tels que la radiographie et la tomodensitométrie. L’objectif de cette étude prospective était d’évaluer les valeurs prédictives de l’examen neurologique, l’examen otoscopique et le test des potentiels auditifs évoqués (PAE) dans le diagnostic d’otite moyenne-interne chez le veau, en utilisant la tomodensitométrie comme test standard. Le deuxième objectif était de définir les valeurs de référence pour le PAE chez le veau normal et d’en décrire les anomalies chez des veaux atteints d’otite moyenne-interne. Dix-sept veaux de race Holstein entre 5-7 semaines d’âge ont été inclus. Tous les veaux ont eu un examen neurologique, un examen otoscopique et une évaluation des PAEs. Les veaux ont été tranquillisés avec de la xylazine intraveineuse (0,05-0,15mg/kg) pour la tomodensitométrie des bulles tympaniques afin d’évaluer pour la présence d’otite moyenne-interne. Selon les résultats de la tomodensitométrie, 11 des 17 veaux étaient atteints avec otite moyenne, 4 de façon unilatérale et 7 bilatéralement. Cinq ondes ont été identifiées de façon constante sur les tracés des PAEs des 6 veaux normaux. Les valeurs positives prédictives pour le PAE, l’examen neurologique et l’examen otoscopique étaient 94,7%, 91,7% et 66,7% respectivement. D’un point de vue clinique, le test le plus fiable dans le diagnostic d’otite moyenne-interne chez le veau est le PAE. Les anomalies ont été observées au PAE avant le développement des signes neurologiques chez certains veaux.