A Filosofia da Ciência e a Sua Extensão à Engenharia

A Escola de Viena da Filosofia da Ciência, que se desenvolveu nas primeiras décadas do século XX, tinha uma visão ambiciosa da Ciência. Acreditava, nomeadamente, que seria possível formular normas gerais para o processo científico, analisar a estrutura lógica dos conhecimentos científicos, e mostrar que a Ciência serve o objectivo racional de adquirir um conhecimento global e fiável do Universo. Os filósofos da Escola de Viena, que representaram em grande parte a corrente neo-positivista da Filosofia da Ciência, defendiam o chamado verificacionismo, segundo o qual as proposições das ciências empíricas só têm sentido se forem verificáveis por observações de carácter experimental. De acordo com os neo-positivistas, as construções teóricas susceptíveis de tornar possível explicar e prever, só seriam válidas se fossem apoiadas num procedimento hipotético-dedutivo resultante de uma combinação de indução e dedução

Extradyadic behaviors and gender: How do they relate with sexual desire, relationship quality, and attractiveness

Recent years have seen an increasing number of studies on relationship extradyadic behaviors (Pinto and Arantes, 2016; Pazhoohi et al., 2017; Silva et al., 2017; Fisher, 2018). However, much is still to learn about the impact of these extradyadic behaviors on subsequent relationships that an individual may have. Our main goal was to study the association between past extradyadic behaviors - inflicted and suffered - and current relationship quality, sexual desire and attractiveness. Specifically, we aimed to: (i) Understand if past extradyadic behaviors are related to current relationship quality, sexual desire, and self-perceived and partner's attractiveness; (ii) Identify possible gender differences in these variables. For that, 364 participants (251 females and 113 males) were recruited through personal and institutional e-mails, online social networks (e.g., Facebook), and the website of the Evolutionary Psychology Group from the University of Minho. All participants completed a demographic and relationship questionnaire, followed by questions related to extradyadic behaviors and self-perceived attractiveness, the Perceived Relationship Quality Components (PRQC) Inventory, the Sex Drive Scale (SDQ), and the Importance of Partner's Physical Attractiveness Scale (IPPAS). For those currently involved in a relationship, results suggested that extradyadic behaviors (both suffered or inflicted) are linked with current low relationship quality and high sexual desire in the present. In addition, individuals who perceived themselves as being more attractive tended to have a higher sexual desire and higher relationship quality. Overall, men reported higher levels of extradyadic behaviors and sexual desire, gave more importance to physical attractiveness, and perceived their current relationship as having less quality than women. These results add to the literature by focusing on different variables that play an important role in romantic relationships, and have important implications.This study was conducted at the Psychology Research Center (UID/PSI/01662/2013), University of Minho, and supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through national funds and co-financed by FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007653). JA was further supported by FCT - Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEECIND/03897/2018)

Sonoridades urbanas e engajamento juvenil no Chile dos anos de 1960

O presente artigo objetiva analisar o cenário musical chileno dos anos de 1960 a partir de três fenômenos musicais: o Neofolclore, a Nova Onda e a Nova Canção Chilena, que renovaram o repertório popular nacional, visando modernizar a canção popular urbana. O intuito de dar uma nova “roupagem” as formas musicais folclóricas do país investe-se de significado devido a questões caras ao período, como o conflito entre a oligarquia rural do país, relacionada a uma suposta tradição musical nacional, e setores sociais emergentes, como as camadas médias e os jovens, atrelados à uma cultura urbana e transnacional, que reivindicavam inovações na sociedade

BMW Motorrad Portugal, location of a new dealership : a case on industry analysis and location and pricing strategies

The motorcycling market in Portugal is growing significantly and the upcoming years seem extremely promising. In fact, in the segments where BMW Motorrad Portugal competes, we are observing growth rates of 20% from year to year. Therefore, there exist business opportunities that no brand can afford to ignore, and BMW Motorrad Portugal must not fall behind. With the possible opening of a new dealership, new opportunities emerge and Carlos Martins, the head-manager of BMW Motorrad Portugal, has to attain as much positive value as possible from those opportunities. The challenge is to find the best location for the new dealership, with the north or the south of Portugal as possible locations, while taking into account all the variables that enter in the process and new perspectives for the actual structure of BMW Motorrad Portugal, namely the aftersales' services and pricing strategies along the supply chain. The goal is to maximize profits and fulfil clients' needs. To do so, the cross-points are whether to locate the new dealership in the north of Portugal, where there exists high density levels of population, or in the south of Portugal, where we can find the higher levels of financial affluence, and whether a new after-sales paradigm should be implemented or a new pricing strategy within the supply chain should be taken into consideration

O “bom trabalho” e a formação de pedagogas

A pesquisa, de caráter exploratório, teve como objetivo analisar as compreensões de estudantes de licenciatura em pedagogia acerca do conceito de “bom trabalho” (good work), fundamentado em princípios de excelência, ética e engajamento. Para tanto, foram desenvolvidas atividades propostas pelo GoodWork Toolkit, contemplando as três dimensões do conceito. Participaram da investigação dezoito graduandas do último ano do curso de licenciatura em pedagogia de uma universidade pública estadual do Paraná. Os resultados indicam que as questões relacionadas à excelência e, de modo mais restrito, à ética são bastante presentes nas compreensões das licenciandas, embora estejam primordialmente centradas em componentes individuais e do âmbito da atividade, em detrimento de aspectos vinculados ao campo da educação e à sociedade de forma mais ampla. Já a dimensão do engajamento – centrado na satisfação e realização pessoal no desempenho da profissão, bem como no sentido que o trabalho adquire – acaba ficando em segundo plano, devido ao significado de necessidade e sobrevivência associado ao trabalho e, ainda, à ênfase dada ao exercício qualificado das funções. As análises sugerem a relevância de se trabalhar, na formação em pedagogia, a ética profissional, além do compromisso e as responsabilidades que abarquem não apenas o âmbito individual, mas também os impactos do trabalho na sociedade, e, ainda, de enfatizar a dimensão do engajamento, o que pode, inclusive, contribuir para a ressignificação do sentido da docência como vocação.The exploratory research aimed at analyzing how students of the Pedagogy Licentiate Course understand the Good Work concept, which is based on principles of excellence, ethics, and engagement. To that end, activities proposed by the GoodWork Toolkit were developed and contemplated the three dimensions of the concept. 18 licentiate degree students attending the final year of the Pedagogy program at a state university in Paraná took part in the investigation. The results indicate that issues related to excellence and, in a more restrict way, to ethics are strongly present in the participants’ comprehensions, although they primarily focus on individual components and those of the activity’s scope, to the detriment of aspects that are linked to the education field and the broader society. The engagement dimension – which focuses on personal satisfaction and accomplishment when performing professionally, as well as on the meaning that work acquires to the self – ends up in the background because of the necessity and survival aspects associated with work, and, also, to the emphasis given to the qualified practice of the functions. The analyses suggest the relevance in deepening, in the teacher training, subjects related to professional ethics, in addition to the commitment and responsibilities that embrace not just the individual scope but also the impacts of work on the society. It is also important to emphasize, in Pedagogy courses, the engagement dimension, which can even help to give a new meaning to teaching as a calling

The research like pedagogic strategy in the process of teachers' training: Statement of educational practice

This paper describes and analyses elements an experiment developed in the Curso de Pedagogia/ Faculdade de Educação/Campus de Belo Horizonte/Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (Brasil), in the classes of “Educational Valuation Studies” by using the procedure of process enquiry and free readings. The students after having been submitted to a pre-test and elaboratated a memoir about their experience in valuation, defined and sketched out and developed individual plans of study, under the assistance of their professors; they socialized the results obtained in their research at the end of the school semester; they made self-valuation all along the process of construction and systematization of knowledge; they elaborated and organized portfolios. This experience ratified the importance of researches, and the understanding of their life experiments by themselves, and so the elaboration of their own conceptions. It was pointed out the building of autonomy and the shared construction of knowledge in a collective context of collaboration, during what was adopted the proposal of a self-made knowledge in which the process of investigation in the daily pedagogic practices was the structural axis

O ambiente de trabalho e as doenças ocupacionais na perspectiva dos profissionais de enfermagem que atuam em hemodiálise do HC/UFU

This dissertation discusses the work environment and occupational diseases from the perspective of HC / UFU hemodialysis nursing professionals, related to some issues associated with weight / weight transportation, time worked in the institution, quality and lifestyle, satisfaction Work and diagnoses of leave for health leave. The objective of the study was to identify and analyze the frequency of sick leave, of nursing workers (auxiliaries, technicians and nurses) working on hemodialysis, from 2010 to 2015, in order to identify the main problems and common Your professional activity. The study scenario was the nephrology sector and the renal transplant of Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia-MG. From the descriptive, retrospective study with a qualitative / quantitative approach, performed with professionals of the nursing team, in January, 2015. We conducted a semi-structured interview and active search in the records of staff leave of the Institution. It was noted through this study that there were a large number of departures (70%) due to diseases according to the International Classification of Diseases (iCd-10). Thus, it is concluded that the difficulties, anguishes and working conditions interfere in the physical and mental health of these workers, in such a way that some difficulties and anxieties experienced by them interfere in the planning of strategies that benefit or minimize the problems and the search Solutions to diseases that reflect their quality of life at work and social life.Dissertação (Mestrado)A presente dissertação discute o ambiente de trabalho e as doenças ocupacionais na perspectiva dos profissionais de enfermagem do setor de hemodiálise do HC/UFU, relacionadas com algumas questões associadas ao transporte de carga/peso, tempo que trabalha na instituição, qualidade e estilo de vida, satisfação no trabalho e pelos diagnósticos dos afastamentos para licença saúde. O objetivo do estudo foi identificar e analisar a frequência de afastamentos por doenças dos trabalhadores de enfermagem (auxiliares, técnicos e enfermeiros) que atuam em hemodiálise, no período de 2010 a 2015, a fim de identificar os principais problemas e danos comuns face a sua atividade profissional. O cenário do estudo foi o setor de nefrologia e o transplante renal do Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia-MG. O estudo foi feito de modo descritivo, retrospectivo com abordagem quali/quantitativa, realizado com profissionais da equipe de enfermagem, em janeiro de 2015. Realizamos entrevista semiestruturada e busca ativa nos prontuários dos afastamentos dos funcionários da Instituição. Notou-se por meio deste estudo que houve um grande número de afastamentos (70%) por motivo de doenças de acordo com a Classificação Internacional de Doenças (CID-10). Desse modo, conclui-se que as dificuldades, angústias e condições de trabalho interferem na saúde física e mental desses trabalhadores, de tal modo que algumas dificuldades e angústias vivenciadas por eles interferem no planejamento de estratégias que beneficiem ou minimizem os problemas e a busca de soluções para as doenças que refletem a qualidade de vida no trabalho e na vida social

Actions to inhibit environmental impacts on clandestine landfills in the Amazon

This research studies the negative environmental impacts of clandestine landfills in the Amazon, caused by the illegal disposal of construction waste. In the city of Manaus, located in the center of the Amazon, Brazil, there is a public landfill comprising a solid waste collection complex with an area of 660,000.00 m2. In 2018, this landfill received approximately 932,927.00 t of solid urban waste, an average of 2,537.20 t/day. Unfortunately, less than 1% of this waste was destined for valorization (0.92% were for composting, and 0.05% were recycled). This legalized public landfill does not accept the disposal of construction and demolition waste, claiming the decrease in the lifetime of the landfill. However, this regional public policy prohibiting the disposal of construction and demolition waste in public landfills favors the use of clandestine landfills with harmful effects on the environment of the Amazon. This research presents proposals for actions to validate a mobile phone application with the authorities responsible for the Manaus landfill for recycling construction waste, with the aim of stimulating the circular economy and inhibiting the negative environmental impacts of illegal clandestine landfills.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio