Jogos narrativos de videogame: criação e manutenção do estado de imersão

O objetivo deste trabalho é entender como o jogo narrativo de aventura para videogame consegue atrair e manter a atenção do jogador, imergindo-o no mundo ficcional, em face dos inúmeros estímulos existentes a sua volta. É sugerida uma definição para o jogo narrativo de aventura e a imersão e, posteriormente, estabelece-se uma relação entre elementos presentes nos jogos e as estruturas que atraem a atenção do indivíduo. Para isso, consultou-se material produzido pelas duas principais linhas de estudos de jogos: Narratologia e Ludologia. O conteúdo teórico foi comparado e exemplificado através da prática de diversos jogos, principalmente do console Sony Playstation 3. O próprio conceito de jogo narrativo, a prática dos jogos e a relação percebida entre seus elementos e as ferramentas para criar e manter a atenção revelaram que o videogame, através dos jogos narrativos de aventura, representa um potente meio para criar e manter o estado de imersão sobre o jogador.

Possíveis relações entre a área de pesca, profundidade e tempo de imersão nas actividades da pesca com covos

A cruise aboard the vessel Cassiopeia was held from 14 to 22 November 2000. The objective to map the fishing areas, to study the variation of the catch, income, specific composition and length on wishbone Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (cachucho) in relation to fishing areas, depth and immersion time of the fish pots. The total capture registered was 4.350,00 Kg for 1600 fish pots and 32 effectuated throws. The highest capture per throw was registered in the interval of depth between the 140 to 180 meters. Regarding the time of immersion, the better captures were obtained in the interval between 25 and 30 hours. The profits during this cross were for fish-trap (2, 71 kg), per throw 135,00 Kg and for immersion hour 6,07 kg. P. coeruleopunctatus (cachucho) was more abundant in number in Quissico, while in Zavora it was abundant in number and also in weight. Likewise, the cachucho was more abundant in number and weight in the captures of the fish pots submerged less than 24 hours, 100-140 meters depth. Cachucho catch under 100 meters depth was quite reduced (less than 1 %). The middle length of the cachucho captured during the cross was 275,7 mm. There were significant differences in the lengths of the cachucho accordingly to depth or fishing area. The smallest individual (fish) was captured by fish pots that were submerged more than 24 hours. The principal recommendations of the study refer to maintenance of the current fishing effort with regard to the number of fish pots, and explore the fishing areas on a rotating basis, to avoid the local effort, currently high.

Da contemplação à imersão e subjetividade: estéticas dos museus de arte contemporânea e centros culturais

O estudo desenvolvido nesta Tese de Doutorado trata da análise crítica da estética dos conceitos: forma, tectônica, funcionalidade, semiótica e afetuosidade, no âmbito da arquitetura, no programa de museus de arte contemporânea e centros culturais. Os museus de arte contemporânea e centros culturais, estudos de caso, selecionados para nossa Tese de Doutorado foram inaugurados na década de 1990. Como segue: Centro Cultural Jean-Marie Tijibaou (Nova Caledônia, França), de Renzo Piano; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Naoshima (Japão), de Tadao Ando; Museu Guggenheim Bilbao (Espanha), de Frank O. Gehry; Museu de Arte Contemporânea Fundação Serralves (Portugal), de Álvaro Siza Vieira; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (Brasil), de Oscar Niemeyer; Fundació Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Espanha), de Richard Meier; Museu de Arte Contemporânea Carré d'Art de Nimes (França), de Norman Foster; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Lyon (França), de Renzo Piano; Centro Cultural Consonni (Espanha), ausência de um arquiteto autor do projeto. Tanto os estudos de caso como os arquitetos, autores dos projetos, são considerados de destaque no panorama da arquitetura internacional erudita contemporânea. Os teóricos que forneceram a fundamentação conceitual deste estudo multidisciplinar são, em primeiro lugar, o Professor Catedrático Luiz Felipe Baêta Neves Flores (Transdisciplinaridade) além da Professora Catedrática Maria Luisa Amigo Fernández de Arroyabe (Ócio Estético) e ainda, os também importantes, Manuel Cuenca Cabeza (Ócio Humanista), Charles Jencks e Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes (Crítica de Arquitetura), Jesús Pedro Lorente, Chris van Uffelen e Roberto Segre (Museus de Arte Contemporânea).

Influência do tratamento de material vegetativo de videira, por imersão em água quente, no seu desenvolvimento em viveiro e na eliminação da flavescência dourada

Dissertação de mestrado em Agricultura Sustentável, apresentada na Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém.

As disciplinas de desenho e de educação visual no sistema público de ensino em Portugal, entre 1836 e 1986 : da alienação à imersão no real

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Educação Artística), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2014

Biocompatibilidade de resinas acrílicas para base e reembasamento de próteses após períodos de imersão em soluções desinfetantes: análise do metabolismo celular

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A imersão social da ação econômica dos atores do setor coureiro-calçadista do Vale do Sinos : uma análise a partir dos mecanismos estrutural, cultural, cognitivo e político

Este trabalho consiste em um estudo sobre o setor coureiro-calçadista do Vale do Sinos/RS, cuja questão central investiga como os mecanismos de imersão social influenciam na ação econômica do setor. O objetivo é analisar como os mecanismos, estrutural, cognitivo, cultural e político afetam/afetaram a ação econômica do setor, criando tanto oportunidades como limites. O método adotado foi o estudo de caso, cuja abordagem longitudinal permite uma análise histórica desde a colonização da região até os dias atuais. Dados primários e secundários foram utilizados, possibilitando identificar mudanças na dinâmica competitiva do setor, nos principais atores e nas características organizacionais. A perspectiva da imersão permitiu compreender a natureza contingente da ação econômica, com foco nas assimetrias de poder existentes entre os diferentes atores (privados e público) e suas conseqüências (imersão política), bem como nas estruturas de rede sociais e na qualidade de suas relações (imersão estrutural); na forma com que o exercício da ação econômica foi limitado pelas regularidades estruturais do processo mental, produzindo categorias coletivas de julgamento (imersão cognitiva); e no processo de mediação dos atores, visando à legitimidade de suas ações e à produção de símbolos visíveis (imersão cultural). Conclui-se que as assimetrias de poder são melhor compreendidas quando inseridas no contexto social mais amplo, ou seja, inseridas na cadeia mundial de calçados que tanto criou oportunidades para o Vale do Sinos, como também limitou o upgrade dos produtores. No que se refere à imersão estrutural, aspectos concernentes tanto à posição na rede quanto à arquitetura da rede mostraram-se relevantes para a ação econômica. A constituição e os tipos de laços foram importantes para compreender decisões sobre com quem formar sociedade, com quem fazer negócios, sobre a relação entre empresários e entre estes e os operários. Observou-se, também, que categorias coletivas, oriundas da interação social entre os atores, eram utilizadas para julgamento. Tais categorias produziam limites para além daqueles considerados no conceito de racionalidade limitada. Por fim, observou-se como os elementos culturais constituíram e foram constituídos pela ação econômica dos diferentes atores, bem como tais ações são constituídas por aspectos do contexto local e mundial, denotando mudanças no processo de imersão do setor.

Influência da imersão em desinfetante a base de ácido peracético sobre as propriedades de um compósito odontológico de uso indireto

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência da imersão no desinfetante a base de ácido peracético 0,2% (STERILIFE, Lifemed Produtos Médicos Comércio Ltda, São Paulo, SP) sobre as propriedades de resistência flexural, sorção e solubilidade do compósito odontológico BelleGlass HP (Kerr, Orange, USA). Para cada ensaio foram confeccionados dez corpos de prova do compósito, utilizando-se as matrizes determinadas pela especificação no 4049 da International Organization for Standardization (ISO), sendo cinco submetidos a três imersões no desinfetante durante 10 minutos, intercaladas por 10 minutos em água destilada estéril e os outros cinco serviram como grupo controle. Para o ensaio de resistência flexural, após os corpos de prova ficarem imersos em água a 37° C, por 24 horas, foram levados à Máquina de Ensaio Universal DL 2000 (EMIC, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brasil). A norma ISO n0 4049 exige uma resistência flexural mínima de 100 MPa. Para os ensaios de sorção e solubilidade os corpos de prova foram submetidos a ciclos a 37 C em um dessecador por 22 horas e, 2 horas em um segundo dessecador, a 23C, até a obtenção de uma massa constante (m1). Após 7 dias em banho de água a 37 C, procedeu-se à avaliação da massa do corpo de prova hidratado (m2). Posteriormente as amostras retornaram para o primeiro dessecador e todo o ciclo foi repetido até encontrar-se a terceira massa (m3) recondicionada. A norma ISO n0 4049 exige valores menores ou iguais a 40 g/mm3 e 7,5g/mm3 para a aprovação, em relação à sorção e solubilidade. Os resultados deste trabalho mostraram que as propriedades de resistência flexural, sorção e solubilidade do compósito BelleGlass HP de todos os corpos de prova dos grupos experimental e controle atenderam às exigências da especificação. Portanto pode se prever que o procedimento da imersão neste desinfetante não trará prejuízo às restaurações indiretas do compósito considerando as propriedades avaliadas.

A formação e o desenvolvimento de arranjos cooperativos sob a ótica da imersão social e da economia dos custos de transação: um estrudo de caso na Coopercam e na Unipesca

The current study analyzes the birth and development of two strategic alliances established between shrimp producers in Rio Grande do Norte: the Unipesca and the Coopercam. To achieve this aim, two approaches which, at first sight, could be considered contradictory were used: the Transactional Costs Economy and Embeddedness. The first approach is fundamentally based in the studies of Williamson (1985; 1991; 1996; 1999; 2000; 2002). Embededness, on the other hand, went through the review of a series of authors, such as Burt (1992), Granovetter (1973; 1985), Uzzi (1997), Gulati (1994; 1995; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000), Nielsen (2005), Ring (2002), Ring and Van de Ven (1994), Zafirovski (2002), among others. To analyze the birth and development of the cooperatives in this study, Gulati s work (1998) was used. This study shows the steps to be studied for a better comprehension of an alliance: the decision of starting an alliance and the choice of the partners, the decision about the governance structure, the evolution of the alliance and the development of the companies which established this partnership. To carry this study out, a study case accordingly to Yin s proposal (2001) was adopted. Semi-structured interviews with pre-defined plots were conducted in two phases: in the beginning of 2006 and in the beginning of 2007. The subjects from the research were, in 2006, representative members of the main associations and corporations, besides the shrimp producers from the state, when the context of the activity was set. In the second phase, in 2007, representative members from the two cooperatives that were listed above were interviewed the president from Coopercam and the marketing manager from Unipesca. Besides these two members, directors from two important organizations in each of these cooperatives were also interviewed, giving out the necessary information for the research. Secondary data was also collected from the Brazilian Association of Crab producers website, as well as from news from important newspapers in RN, such as Tribuna do Norte. The primary data was analyzed in terms of quality, accordingly to the documental analysis technique. Thus, through the data that was collected, it can be concluded that the reasons that motivated the companies to cooperate can be explained in terms of the transactional costs economy. However, the choice of partners is more connected to aspects approached by the social embededness. When aspects related to development and evolution were analyzed, it could be seen that both aspects from TCE and Embededness were vital to explain the development of the cooperatives mentioned

As relações da tríplice hélice no setor da carcinicultura do Rio Grande do Norte: uma análise a partir das abordagens da imersão social e da dependência de recursos

This work consists in a study of the Shrimp Industry in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, whose central issue relates to the understanding of how the Triple Helix (University, Government and the productive sector) interrelationship limits or expands the industry s innovation process. The study aims to understand how the Triple Helix relationship interferes in the innovation process of shrimp in Rio Grande do Norte. As the knowledge becomes the resource key for production methods, the generation of new technologies, new products and processes which demands joint and integrated action of the institutions comprising the Triple Helix: University, Government and productive sector, which possess the essential resources to innovate the process and can be maximized from cooperative relationships between the referred Institutions. Thus, in this work, it was sharply used the pioneering studies of Sabato and Botana (1968) regarding the cooperation relationship between the scientific-technological sphere, the governmental and the productive base, and studies on the Triple Helix approach, proposed by Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff (2000), in which the university has a key role in the process of technological and innovative development of countries and regions, and under which it is assigned to the very University - the character of the entrepreneurial institution, through the concept of entrepreneurial University. Aiming to overcome the criticism of Cooke (2005), regarding the limitations of the Triple Helix approach, in this study it was used - as analytical perspectives - the perspective of social immersion (Granovetter, 1985, 2005) and the theory of resources dependence (PFEFFER; SALANCIK, 1978). The analytical perspectives presented in here, despite of the different assumptions, are essential to eliminate the bias that one only approach can lead (ASTLEY; VAN DE VEM; 2007). The authors arguments focus on the fact that the integration is possible if the researcher acknowledged that different perspectives may have different descriptions of the same phenomenon. As a research strategy, this study is characterized as a study case, along with the proposed objectives - the qualitative method was used as an approach and, depending on the gathering of the sector s historical, a sectional longitudinal view approach was applied (VIEIRA, 2004). The primary and secondary data were used in order to understand the sector s evolutionary process and its inter-institutional relations - regarding the shrimp culture in Rio Grande do Norte - to promote the development, as the content was used for the technical analysis (BARDIN, 1977). The approach of social immersion and resources addiction dependence made it possible to understand that relationships are established within and between each sphere (university, government and productive sector) characterizing a network of low density relationships and strongly internal and external dependence. Based on the speech of Etzkowitz and Mello (2006), a successful Triple Helix strategy of innovation requires not only the involvement and commitment of the parts, within the institutional sphere and among them, but also the development of mechanisms to coordinate the multiple and complex interactions and interfaces, focusing on promoting both environment and context for innovation and learning; it can be acknowledge from study results that the shrimp in the State of the RN, although there are several institutional mechanisms to promote greater integration and technological development, has been presented disjointed - both internally and between the spheres - and under no legitimate practice when facing the innovational promotion and integration institutions. Due to those factors, the central institutions of the network are crucial to the promotion of innovations, spreading through their direct contacts the importance factor of the sustainable competitive activity in the world market and on the national level. However, it may be concluded, from the data, that the Triple Helix relations are interfering in a negative way on what concerns the promotion of innovations in the shrimp industry in RN

A Geração de inovação na carcinicultura do RN: Uma análise a partir da imersão social

This dissertation examines the organizational innovation as a nonlinear process, which occurs in a social and political context and, therefore, socially immersed. Examines the case of shrimp in the state of RN, starting from the following problem: although the norteriograndense shrimp occupies the largest producer of farmed shrimp from Brazil, has a series of bottlenecks concerning the generation of industry innovation, concerning the social relationships and policies between the various actors in the network, whether private or public, and its consequences in terms of opportunity and limits generated for the innovative dynamics. The objective of the research is to understand how the social embeddedness of political actors affects norteriograndense shrimp within the context of structural relations, the industry generation of innovation, throughout its technological trajectory . The approach of social embeddedness balances atomised perspectives, undersocialized and oversocialized, of economic action, considering both the human capacity to act as sources of constraint, whose mechanisms are analyzed the structural and political. In methodological terms this is a case study, analyzed from the research literature, documentary and experimental. Primary data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed in depth by the technique of content analysis. Was adopted a longitudinal approach, seeking to understand the phenomenon from the perspective of the subjects, describing it in an inductive process of investigation. After characterizing the sector and defining their technological trajectory, the analysis of the results followed its four stages: (1) Introduction of Technology: 1973-1980, (2) Intensification of Research: 1981-1991, (3) Technological Adaptation, 1992 -2003, (4) Technological Crisis: 2004-2009. A cross-sectional analysis along the evolutionary trajectory revealed the character of structural changes and policies over time, and implications on the generating process of innovation. Note that, the technological limit to which the sector reached requires changes in technology standards, but is more likely that the potiguar shrimp is entering a new phase of his career in technology rather than a new technological paradigm

Canibalismo em larvas de matrinxã, Brycon cephalus, após imersão dos ovos à diferentes concentrações de triiodotironina (T3)

The present work evaluated larvae cannibalism of matrinxa, Brycon cephalus, originated from eggs exposed to triiodothyronine, in the period of 36 to 72 hours after hatching. Observed parameters were: weight and length of larvae, stomach content, presence of cannibalism and type of attacks. This study was carried out at Centro de Pesquisa e Gestao de Recursos Pesqueiros Continentais (CEPTA/IBAMA), Pirassununga-SP, in November 2004. Three females were hormonally induced to spawn and pooled oocytes were fertilized and separated into four batches that constituted the treatments: L-1 (control - water); L-2 (0.01 ppm T-3); L-3 (0.05 ppm T-3) and L-4 (0.1 ppm T-3). Eggs were exposed during 15 minutes to water or to solutions containing the different concentrations of T3. Eggs were distributed in 12 conic incubators (60 L), with three replicates per treatment. There was stocked 500 mL of eggs per incubator and hatched larvae were counted. Samples of 30 larvae per treatment were colleted during occurrence of cannibalism (36, 48, 60 and 72 hours post hatching). Predator larvae (with rests of larvae in the stomach) were 50% of the total number of larvae and they presented weight 50% higher compared to that of non predator larvae (without rests of larvae in the stomach) and 9% higher regarding length. Coefficient of variation of weight and length did not differ among treatments, showing similarity in relation to the size. The stomach content revealed that cannibalism occurred in around 50-60 % of larvae, regardless the exposure to the triiodothyronine, and attacks were characterized as head-tail and tail-head attacks.