A gestão da informação na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina sob a abordagem da ecologia da informação

Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio Econômico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração UniversitáriaA relação expressiva e complexa entre universidade e sociedade ocorre em um ambiente de inter-relações em constante estado de transformação. Neste contexto, o valor da informação é determinante para que a universidade possa prever, compreender e responder às mudanças ambientais, no sentido de alcançar e manter a sua função de instituição social. O problema de pesquisa deste estudo de caso é como ocorre a gestão da informação na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) sob a abordagem da ecologia da informação; tendo como objetivo geral, analisar a gestão da informação na UFSC sob a abordagem da ecologia da informação; e como objetivos específicos, descrever o gerenciamento dos componentes do ambiente informacional, ambiente institucional e ambiente externo; além de buscar o aprimoramento da gestão da informação na UFSC. Este estudo é importante pela adoção de uma abordagem humana e menos tecnológica sobre o uso da informação, bem como, é oportuno neste momento de implementação e desenvolvimento dos procedimentos previstos na Lei de Acesso à Informação pelas instituições públicas. Este estudo de caso caracteriza-se como pesquisa aplicada, descritiva, bibliográfica, documental, e pesquisa participante, com abordagem predominantemente qualitativa, e aplicação do questionário como principal técnica na obtenção dos dados. O ambiente de pesquisa é o das universidades públicas federais brasileiras, delimitando-se a Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; tendo como objeto de estudo a gestão da informação; e participantes da pesquisa os Diretores Administrativos e Acadêmicos da UFSC. Sob a abordagem da ecologia da informação, as categorias de análise são assim definidas: para o ambiente informacional, princípios informacionais, política informacional, comportamento e cultura informacional, equipe informacional, processos informacionais e arquitetura informacional; para o ambiente institucional, situação administrativa, disposição do espaço físico e investimento tecnológico; e para o ambiente externo, ambiente social, ambiente tecnológico e ambiente informacional. A UFSC não vem aplicando, em sua maioria, os fundamentos do gerenciamento ecológico sobre os ambientes informacional, institucional e externo. Conclui-se que a gestão da informação na UFSC vem ocorrendo de maneira regular. Para sua melhoria é necessário prestar mais atenção ao lado humano do uso da informação, integrando os diversos componentes informacionais, e assimilando às informações da sociedade, em uma abordagem ecológica, colocando pessoas no centro do mundo universitário. Assim, apresenta-se o valor e a relação da informação para o desenvolvimento das atividades de ensino, pesquisa e extensão na UFSC, e a necessidade da gestão da informação, em uma perspectiva ecológica que possa assimilar alterações informacional, institucional e social.The expressive and complex relationship between university and society takes place in an environment of inter-relationships in a constant state of transformation. In this context, the value of information is crucial to the university be able to anticipate, understand and respond to environmental changes, to achieve and maintain its role as a social institution. The research problem of this case study is how information management is conducted at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in the information ecology approach, aiming at analyzing the information management in the information ecology approach, and describe the specific objectives of the management components information environment, institutional environment and external environment, and seek the improvement of information management at UFSC. This study is important to adopt a humane approach and less on the technological use of information, and it is appropriate at this time of development and implementation of procedures under the Access to Information Act by public institutions. This case study is characterized as applied, descriptive, documental, and participant research, with largely qualitative approach, and the questionnaire as the main technique in data collect. The research environment is the Brazilian federal public universities, delimited to the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where the object of study was information management, and the research participants were the Administrative and Academic Officers at UFSC. Under the approach to the ecology information, the categories of analysis are defined as follows: for the information environment, information principles, political, informational, behavioral and informational culture, staff, informational, information processes and information architecture, to the institutional environment, administrative status, provision of physical space and technological investment, and to the external environment, social environment, technological environment and information environment. Information management at UFSC, on the informational institutional and external environments, is not applying, in most cases, the foundations of ecological management. It is concluded that the management of information at UFSC has occurred on a regular basis. To improve it is necessary to pay more attention to the human side of information use, integrating the components informational and assimilating the information society, in an ecological approach, putting people at the center of the university world. Thus, it presents the value and relationship information for the development of teaching, research and extension at UFSC, and the need for information management in an ecological perspective that changes can assimilate informational, institutional and social

Managing Access to Service Providers in Federated Identity Environments: A Case Study in a Cloud Storage Service

© 2015 IEEE. Currently the diversity of services, which are adhering to Identity Federation, has raised new challenges in the area. Increasingly, service providers need to control the access to their resources by users from the federation as, even though the user is authenticated by the federation, its access to resources cannot be taken for granted. Each Service Provider (SP) of a federation implements their own access control mechanism. Moreover, SPs might need to allow different access control granularity. For instance, all users from a particular Identity Provider (IdP) may access the resources due to some financial agreement. On the other hand, it might be the case that only specific users, or groups of users, have access to the resources. This paper proposes a solution to this problem through a hierarchical authorization system. Our approach, which can be customized to different SPs, allows the SP administrator to manage which IdPs, or users, have access to the provided resources. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we present a case study in the context of a cloud storage solution

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PERPECTIVES OF THE UFSC ACCOUNTING SCIENCES STUDENTS

This goal of this study is to present the levels of importance and knowledge that students of the UFSC Undergraduate Program in Accounting Sciences identify for the exercise of the professional practice. The study was conducted through a survey that used two questionnaires (A and B) structured based on Likert scale. Questionnaire "A" sought to identify the importance of the course content to professional practice, and questionnaire "B" identified the level of perception that the students indicate to have of their ability for the professional practice. The contents of the two instruments were based on the dictionary of competencies developed by Cardoso (2006). Data were analyzed by means of national curriculum guidelines of Accounting Sciences, established by Resolution CNE / CES No 10/2004, which presents some caveats to the limits of the approach by competencies. The students in this study indicate how important it is to have knowledge on the language and orality inherent to the accounting practice, the state to have reasonable knowledge to work in the professional practice. Such data allow us to reflect and rethink the training organization model aimed at increasing more critical formative processes that will prioritize actions and knowledge in the articulation between accounting theory and practice

Knowledge Cartography: Software tools and mapping techniques

Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of mapping intellectual landscapes.The focus of this book is on the process by which manually crafting interactive, hypertextual maps clarifies one’s own understanding, as well as communicating it.The authors see mapping software as a set of visual tools for reading and writing in a networked age. In an information ocean, the primary challenge is to find meaningful patterns around which we can weave plausible narratives. Maps of concepts, discussions and arguments make the connections between ideas tangible and disputable. With 17 chapters from the leading researchers and practitioners, the reader will find the current state–of-the-art in the field. Part 1 focuses on educational applications in schools and universities, before Part 2 turns to applications in professional communitie

Knowledge management, project integration and corporate sustainability: is there a link?

The objective of this study was to analyse the possible use of knowledge management as a means to assist in project integration and corporate sustainability. Therefore, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research study was developed, through which some useful properties were found that could minimise this gap. From this, one can see that the link between knowledge management and project management is of utmost importance to the natural integration of the portfolio, and contributes effectively and adequately to corporate sustainability

Avaliando o papel da aprendizagem socioecológica em governança participativa: construindo resiliência em seis comitês de bacias hidrográficas brasileiras

Brazil has embedded the socio-ecological learning process in the participatory management of river basin councils through its “sister laws” on water and the environment. GTHIDRO or, Grupo Transdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Governança da Água e do Território/Tecnologias Sociais para a Gestão da Água (TSGA), a transdisciplinary group of researchers at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, took these laws and developed new interpretations of socio-ecological learning. They incorporated an ethical component and a dynamic and complex program of participatory “cycles of learning” that brought committees and communities to a common understanding of socio-ecological processes, laws, and potential for collective action. Using resilience theory as a framework for understanding how to sustain and enhance adaptive capacity (Folke et al., 2002), this paper analyzes the processes of socio-ecological learning, including focus groups, physical dynamics that blend the conceptual with the physical, visioning, socio-ecological mapping, project planning and community celebrations through interviews, meeting notes, and written documents of the six case studies. The potential for socio-ecological learning as a tool for building the capacity of basin committees (Turvo, Ermo, Nova Veneza, Orleans e Braço do Norte in the southern part of the state, Urubici in the mountainous region, and Concordia in the middle eastern part) to plan and implement projects is substantiated as an important tool for building the resilience of the combined systems. The case studies indicate that their greatest achievement is the Strategic Planning Model for Sustainable Development, entitled PEDS, which diagrams how to improve the management core group’s capacity to plan and implement projects of their own design, using strategies they have learned and networks they have established in their watershed and state. While the potential for conflict over water and energy between the various economic sectors is strong in Brazil and elsewhere, with the GTHIDRO model the potential for collaboration on resource issues becomes even stronger. Observação dos Editores: O artigo foi publicado online em 16 de julho de 2014. Em 30 de julho de 2014, o arquivo foi substituído para inclusão de nomes de coautores.O Brasil tem incorporado o processo de aprendizagem socioecológica na gestão participativa dos conselhos de bacias hidrográficas por meio de suas “leis-irmãs” sobre a água e o meio ambiente. GTHIDRO, ou Grupo Transdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Governança da Água e do Território/Tecnologias Sociais para a Gestão da Água (TSGA), um grupo transdisciplinar de pesquisadores da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, abordou essas leis e desenvolveu novas interpretações de aprendizagem socioecológica. Eles incorporaram um componente ético e um programa dinâmico e complexo dos “ciclos de aprendizagem” participativos que trouxeram as comissões e as comunidades a um entendimento comum sobre os processos socioecológicos, as leis e o potencial para a ação coletiva. Usando a teoria da resiliência como uma estrutura para a compreensão de como manter e melhorar a capacidade de adaptação (Folke et al., 2002), este artigo analisa os processos de aprendizagem socioecológica, incluindo grupos focais, a dinâmica física que mistura o conceitual com o físico, a visão de futuro, o mapeamento socioecológico, o planejamento de projetos e celebrações comunitárias por meio de entrevistas, notas de reuniões e documentos escritos dos seis estudos de caso. O potencial de aprendizagem socioecológica como ferramenta para a construção da capacidade dos comitês de bacias (Turvo, Ermo, Nova Veneza, Orleans e Braço do Norte, na parte sul do Estado, Urubici, na região montanhosa, e Concórdia, no centro-leste) para planejar e implementar projetos está fundamentado como uma ferramenta importante para a construção da resiliência dos sistemas combinados. Os estudos de caso indicam que a sua maior conquista é o Modelo de Planejamento Estratégico para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, intitulado PEDS, que esquematiza a forma de melhorar a capacidade do núcleo do grupo de gestão para planejar e implementar projetos de sua própria concepção, o uso de estratégias que se aprenderam e as redes que se estabeleceram em sua bacia hidrográfica e em seu Estado. Enquanto o potencial de conflito sobre a água e energia entre os diversos setores econômicos é forte no Brasil e em outros lugares, com o modelo GTHIDRO o potencial para a colaboração em questões de recursos torna-se ainda mais forte. Observação dos Editores: O artigo foi publicado online em 16 de julho de 2014. Em 30 de julho de 2014, o arquivo foi substituído para inclusão de nomes de coautores

Transcriptome analysis of Taenia solium cysticerci using Open reading Frame ESTS (ORESTES)

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Human infection by the pork tapeworm <it>Taenia solium </it>affects more than 50 million people worldwide, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries. Cysticercosis which arises from larval encystation can be life threatening and difficult to treat. Here, we investigate for the first time the transcriptome of the clinically relevant cysticerci larval form.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Using Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) produced by the ORESTES method, a total of 1,520 high quality ESTs were generated from 20 ORESTES cDNA mini-libraries and its analysis revealed fragments of genes with promising applications including 51 ESTs matching antigens previously described in other species, as well as 113 sequences representing proteins with potential extracellular localization, with obvious applications for immune-diagnosis or vaccine development.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The set of sequences described here will contribute to deciphering the expression profile of this important parasite and will be informative for the genome assembly and annotation, as well as for studies of intra- and inter-specific sequence variability. Genes of interest for developing new diagnostic and therapeutic tools are described and discussed.</p

Investigation of the Brazilian academic production in Ergonomics, from 1987 to 2017

Paper aims: To shed light on the state of the art of the academic production in Ergonomics. Originality: There is no study on the Brazilian academic production in Ergonomics for the last 30 years. Research method: Based on the Capes database, the abstracts of 1471 theses/dissertations from 2007 to 2017 were classified by approach and focus. Main findings: 58.9% of the studies are diagnoses and only 1.4% presents complete projects for work optimization, what might indicate a difficulty of implementing ergonomic interventions in Brazilian companies. 52% of the publications are from national meeting proceedings and only 5.4% from international journals. Implications for theory and practice: The lack of clear objectives, main results and applications in the abstracts reduces the potential interest in the studies. This, and the low number of intellectual production (less than one publication/study) impact the dissemination of knowledge

Some reasons to implement reverse logistics in companies

This article aims to present a reflexion on some of the main reasons for companies to implement reverse logistics processes. Companies have difficulties in implementing reverse logistics as part of their business processes due to high cost of implementation and due to difficulties in measuring material returns. However, companies that have succeeded in implementing it have increased their competitiveness and improved their corporate image. This paper proposes six critical success factors for the implementation of reverse logistics: good income control, standardised and mapped processes, reduced time cycle, information systems, planned logistic grid and collaborative relations between customers and suppliers. Well-structured and implemented reverse logistics process brings up benefits and advantages to companies, beyond environmental ones