MAPEAMENTO DE PROCESSO COMO CAMINHO ÓTIMO PARA GESTÃO PÚBLICA UNIVERSITÁRIA VISANDO À PADRONIZAÇÃO DE EDITAL DE SELEÇÃO EM UMA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO

Nas últimas décadas, o setor público viu-se sob maior pressão no sentido de buscar melhorias em sua forma de operar, tendo como pano de fundo os conceitos do Direito Administrativo e as Boas Práticas da Administração Pública no que tange os processos e as premissas relacionadas à legalidade, impessoalidade, moralidade, publicidade e eficiência. Diante deste contexto, várias estratégias de mudança têm sido adotadas por diferentes instituições públicas, geralmente utilizando práticas gerenciais do setor privado. Este artigo apresenta um estudo de caso realizado em uma Instituição Pública de Ensino Superior brasileira, de renome internacional, durante o desenvolvimento de uma proposta para nortear a elaboração de um Edital de Processo de Seleção de Mestrado e Doutorado. O objetivo da pesquisa é apresentar o mapeamento de processos, relatando as vantagens e limitações encontradas durante sua utilização. Além disso, o texto estabelece alguns elementos essenciais ao gestor de sistemas de educação, buscando orientações para a configuração de possíveis modelos de gestão e destacando alguns desafios e dificuldades enfrentadas pelos Técnicos-Administrativos em Educação (TAE) em seu cotidiano de trabalho

Introducing a corpus of human-authored dialogue summaries in Portuguese

In this paper, we introduce a corpus of human-authored dialogue summaries collected through a web-experiment. The corpus features (i) one of the few existing corpora of written dialogue summaries; (ii) the only corpus available for dialogue summaries in Portuguese; and (iii) the only available corpus of summaries produced for dialogues whose participants’ politeness alignment was systematically varied. Comprising 1,808 human-authored summaries, produced by 452 summarisers, for four different dialogues, this is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest individual corpus available for dialogue summaries, with the highest number of participants involved

Quality of the Portuguese Public Administration websites

O impacto da falta de qualidade dos sítios Web de organismos públicos pode ser oneroso. Num mercado onde não há concorrência e que muitas vezes obriga os cidadãos a usar este canal para interagir com serviços públicos, cabe ao Estado as-segurar que os seus sítios Web têm qualidade e são acessíveis. Este artigo evidencia as principais conclusões de um estudo de qualidade realizado a 130 sítios Web de organismos da Administração Pública Portuguesa. Para este efeito, foi usado um novo modelo de avaliação desenvolvido com base na literatura de referência e na legislação em vigor. Foram analisados 33 indicadores, distribuídos por quatro critérios: conteúdos, acessibilidade, usabilidade e eficiência. Os critérios de usabilidade e eficiência foram usados pela primeira vez num estudo deste género. Face à análise feita, foram detetadas lacunas, erros críticos e faltas de conformidade, pelo que são apresentadas sugestões de melhoria e mecanismos para assegurar o cumprimento dos requisitos de qualidade.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cardiovascular dysfunction in obesity and new diagnostic imaging techniques: the role of noninvasive image methods

Obesity is a major public health problem affecting adults and children in both developed and developing countries. This condition often leads to metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. A large number of studies have been carried out to understand the pathogenesis of cardiovascular dysfunction in obese patients. Endothelial dysfunction plays a key role in the progression of atherosclerosis and the development of coronary artery disease, hypertension and congestive heart failure. Noninvasive methods in the field of cardiovascular imaging, such as measuring intima-media thickness, flow-mediated dilatation, tissue Doppler, and strain, and strain rate, constitute new tools for the early detection of cardiac and vascular dysfunction. These techniques will certainly enable a better evaluation of initial cardiovascular injury and allow the correct, timely management of obese patients. The present review summarizes the main aspects of cardiovascular dysfunction in obesity and discusses the application of recent noninvasive imaging methods for the early detection of cardiovascular alterations

Characterization of Systemic Disease Development and Paw Inflammation in a Susceptible Mouse Model of Mayaro Virus Infection and Validation Using X-ray Synchrotron Microtomography

Mayaro virus (MAYV) is an emerging arthropod-borne virus endemic in Latin America and the causative agent of arthritogenic febrile disease. Mayaro fever is poorly understood; thus, we established an in vivo model of infection in susceptible type-I interferon receptor-deficient mice (IFNAR−/−) to characterize the disease. MAYV inoculations in the hind paws of IFNAR−/− mice result in visible paw inflammation, evolve into a disseminated infection and involve the activation of immune responses and inflammation. The histological analysis of inflamed paws indicated edema at the dermis and between muscle fibers and ligaments. Paw edema affected multiple tissues and was associated with MAYV replication, the local production of CXCL1 and the recruitment of granulocytes and mononuclear leukocytes to muscle. We developed a semi-automated X-ray microtomography method to visualize both soft tissue and bone, allowing for the quantification of MAYV-induced paw edema in 3D with a voxel size of 69 µm3. The results confirmed early edema onset and spreading through multiple tissues in inoculated paws. In conclusion, we detailed features of MAYV-induced systemic disease and the manifestation of paw edema in a mouse model extensively used to study infection with alphaviruses. The participation of lymphocytes and neutrophils and expression of CXCL1 are key features in both systemic and local manifestations of MAYV disease

On Strong Convergence to Equilibrium for the Boltzmann Equation with Soft Potentials

The paper concerns $L^1$- convergence to equilibrium for weak solutions of the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann Equation for soft potentials (-4\le \gm<0), with and without angular cutoff. We prove the time-averaged $L^1$-convergence to equilibrium for all weak solutions whose initial data have finite entropy and finite moments up to order greater than 2+|\gm|. For the usual $L^1$-convergence we prove that the convergence rate can be controlled from below by the initial energy tails, and hence, for initial data with long energy tails, the convergence can be arbitrarily slow. We also show that under the integrable angular cutoff on the collision kernel with -1\le \gm<0, there are algebraic upper and lower bounds on the rate of $L^1$-convergence to equilibrium. Our methods of proof are based on entropy inequalities and moment estimates.Comment: This version contains a strengthened theorem 3, on rate of convergence, considerably relaxing the hypotheses on the initial data, and introducing a new method for avoiding use of poitwise lower bounds in applications of entropy production to convergence problem