Tourism Master Plan For The Island Of Santiago, Cape Verde : 2020–2030 – Part 1

Cape Verde, a small insular development economy (SIDS), has been confronted and faces various economic, social and environmental constraints throughout its history that have been conditioning its growth strategy. In recent years, tourism has been growing and consolidating an important contribution to economic development, which is observable in the evolution of the number of nights spent in the country, revenue, number of guests, employment generation, and incentive to export among others. The gross added value of tourism currently has a weight that is already more than 20% of its GDP (excluding the COVID-19 pandemic period). Aware of this potential, the Government created conditions for a greater use of its effects as a mobilizing factor in the economy. Accordingly, various official supporting documents and strategic orientations have been approved, such as the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development and the Main Options of the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development for the Tourism Activity. It was also decided that each island or region should develop its own strategic tourism plan (Masterplan). This paper integrates the main strategic reflections regarding the Tourism Master Plan for the Island of Santiago. Revenue from tourism on the Island of Santiago, where the capital of Cape Verde is located, has been much less than the values of the main islands with a high volume of tourists – Sal and Boa Vista. However, the potential of Santiago is high, and therefore it is necessary to adopt the correct measures required to transform this potential into reality. Therefore, this paper presents a short, medium and long-term vision, with a proposal for strategic objectives that will constitute the anchor on which all operational strategic and objectives that will translate into specific lines of action will be based. In summary, this document proposes a strategy based on a diversified and differentiated touristic offer from the other islands of the country, which maximises its potential, counteracting regional asymmetries and preserving the historical and intangible heritage, as well as the natural resources, with the aim for the whole population to benefit from the resultant economic development, especially the most disadvantaged.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Tourism Master Plan For The Island Of Santiago, Cape Verde : 2020–2030 – Part 2

Cape Verde, a small insular development economy (SIDS), has been confronted and faces various economic, social and environmental constraints throughout its history that have been conditioning its growth strategy. In recent years, tourism has been growing and consolidating an important contribution to economic development, which is observable in the evolution of the number of nights spent in the country, revenue, number of guests, employment generation, and incentive to exports, among others. The gross added value of tourism currently has a weight that is already more than 20% of its GDP (excluding the COVID-19 pandemic period). Aware of this potential, the government created conditions for a greater use of its effects as a mobilizing factor in the economy, as reflected in various official supporting documents and strategic orientations, such as the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development, and the Main Options of the Strategic Plan for Sustainable Development for the Tourism Activity. The Government decided that each island or region should develop its own strategic tourism plan (Masterplan). This paper proposes several main strategic reflections about the Tourism Master Plan for the Island of Santiago in order to improve its competitiveness.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Projeto de intervenção: capacitar os profissionais de enfermagem do hospital municipal Nossa Senhora da Penha de Conceição do Castelo no atendimento de urgência e emergência no extra e intra hospitalar

TCC(especialização) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem. Linhas de Cuidado em Urgência e EmergênciaA capacitação dos profissionais que atuam em unidades de emergência, no Brasil, tornou-se aspecto relevante somente a partir da década de 80, entretanto, a escassez de estudos de enfermagem na literatura nacional determina a necessidade constante manter investigações que retratam a realidade do contexto nacional. Deste modo, a elaboração da capacitação oferece um olhar diferenciado do atendimento na urgência e emergência, de forma proporcionará mais segurança para os profissionais atuarem. Com base nestes parâmetros, será proposta para os profissionais de enfermagem do Hospital Municipal Nossa Senhora da Penha de Conceição do Castelo no atendimento extra e intra – hospitalar, na pretensão de colaborar para uma reflexão quanto à importância de se utilizar a adequadamente o serviço de urgência e emergencia garantindo um acesso de qualidade e com um prognostico diferenciado

Discriminating different classes of biological networks by analyzing the graphs spectra distribution

The brain's structural and functional systems, protein-protein interaction, and gene networks are examples of biological systems that share some features of complex networks, such as highly connected nodes, modularity, and small-world topology. Recent studies indicate that some pathologies present topological network alterations relative to norms seen in the general population. Therefore, methods to discriminate the processes that generate the different classes of networks (e.g., normal and disease) might be crucial for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of the disease. It is known that several topological properties of a network (graph) can be described by the distribution of the spectrum of its adjacency matrix. Moreover, large networks generated by the same random process have the same spectrum distribution, allowing us to use it as a "fingerprint". Based on this relationship, we introduce and propose the entropy of a graph spectrum to measure the "uncertainty" of a random graph and the Kullback-Leibler and Jensen-Shannon divergences between graph spectra to compare networks. We also introduce general methods for model selection and network model parameter estimation, as well as a statistical procedure to test the nullity of divergence between two classes of complex networks. Finally, we demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methods by applying them on (1) protein-protein interaction networks of different species and (2) on networks derived from children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and typically developing children. We conclude that scale-free networks best describe all the protein-protein interactions. Also, we show that our proposed measures succeeded in the identification of topological changes in the network while other commonly used measures (number of edges, clustering coefficient, average path length) failed

Reasons and benefits associated with ISO 9001 - Certification for sugar and ethanol companies

With increasing business competitiveness, companies have sought to adapt their processes and / or products to worldwide established quality standards in order to achieve a greater share of consumers having as favorable aspect the quality assurance of the products and/or services provided. It was observed that companies of different sizes have different challenges regarding the certification however, the degree of difficulty is the same for all of them. The objective of this paper is to verify the reasons for the implementation of ISO 9001, the obstacles encountered during the implementation, the benefits arising from the use of the quality management system and the degree of difficulty to implement this standard. This work was developed based on a survey involving companies certified with ISO 9001:2008 from the productive sector of sugar, ethanol and derivatives of sugarcane, located in all Brazilian states. It was observed that companies of different sizes have different challenges regarding the certification however the degree of difficulty is the same for all of them. Thus, we believe that expected results represent a very important contribution to examining the reasons, benefits and difficulties of the ISO 9001 to both, the companies and certification bodies, and to researchers.CAPES Foundation, (Process PE024/2008), the FAPEMIG Foundation (Processes: T EC-PPM-00520/13 and TEC-PPM-000 58-13) and the CNPq (Processes: 2 49160/2013-7, 310660/ 2012-2, 401082/2 014-8 and 478509/2012-

Reasons, benefits and difficulties associated with ISO 9001 certification for sugar and ethanol companies

Purpose: With increasing business competitiveness, companies have sought to adapt their processes and / or products to worldwide established quality standards in order to achieve a greater share of consumers having as favorable aspect the quality assurance of the products and/or services provided. It was observed that companies of different sizes have different challenges regarding the certification however, the degree of difficulty is the same for all of them. The objective of this paper is to verify the reasons for the implementation of ISO 9001, the obstacles encountered during the implementation, the benefits arising from the use of the quality management system and the degree of difficulty to implement this standard. Design/methodology/approach: This work was developed based on a survey involving companies certified with ISO 9001:2008 from the productive sector of sugar, ethanol and derivatives of sugarcane, located in all Brazilian states. Findings: It was observed that companies of different sizes have different challenges regarding the certification however the degree of difficulty is the same for all of them. Originality/value: Thus, we believe that expected results represent a very important contribution to examining the reasons, benefits and difficulties of the ISO 9001 to both, the companies and certification bodies, and to researchers

Uma Base de Conhecimento contendo Esquemas de Argumentação para Sistemas Multiagentes

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Campus Araranguá, Engenharia de Computação.A argumentação constitui-se em um dos componentes mais relevantes da inteligência humana, e consequentemente tem desempenhado um papel significativo na comunidade de Inteligência Artificial, onde muitos pesquisadores estudam como esse comportamento inteligente pode ser reproduzido por programas de computador. Esse trabalho segue similar direções, onde desenvolvemos uma base de conhecimento que permite agentes inteligentes não apenas raciocinar e se comunicar entre si, mas também com humanos, utilizando argumentos. A comunicação com seres humano resulta da abordagem aqui proposta utilizando templates de tradução modelados juntamente com cada esquema de argumentação, os quais permitem os agentes traduzirem argumentos de linguagem computacional para uma representação de argumentos em linguagem natural. A fim de ilustrar a abordagem desenvolvida, é apresentado um cenário em que um agente raciocina sobre a ocorrência de um crime, no domínio do direito. O agente inteligente infere, de acordo com os esquemas de argumentação e fatos que lhe são disponibilizados, se o réu cometeu ou não o crime dolosamente. Ao final do processo, o agente explica a conclusão alcançada utilizando linguagem natural