A avaliação dos impactos da implantação de Business Intelligence na Construção Civil: Estudo de caso em uma construtora da Grande Florianópolis, com foco na análise de viabilidade financeira

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Tecnológico. Engenharia Civil.Tendo em vista que a indústria da construção civil no Brasil sofre influência direta de fatores como inadimplência, desemprego, variações nas taxas de financiamento, aumento no preço de materiais, controle orçamentário e velocidade de vendas, o desenvolvimento e uso de uma ferramenta que disponibilize diagnósticos relacionados à análise de viabilidade financeira de um empreendimento imobiliário de forma ágil pode ser decisivo para tomada de decisões. Dessa forma, o trabalho busca identificar na literatura a utilização de Business Intelligence na construção civil, analisar o uso de ferramentas de BI que atuem na análise de desempenho financeiro, bem como realizar uma análise de viabilidade financeira de um empreendimento, mapeando os processos de desenvolvimento e os obstáculos e vantagens de sua implantação. Para tal, o trabalho inicia-se com a caracterização de conceitos que abordam Business Intelligence e Gestão Financeira. Então, é apresentado o processo de desenvolvimento de uma dashboard responsável por auxiliar na análise de viabilidade financeira de um projeto imobiliário, a partir de informações cedidas por uma construtora que atua no mercado imobiliário da Grande Florianópolis. A ferramenta desenvolvida leva em consideração modelos de entrada e saída de recursos, a partir do levantamento dos custos para aquisição do terreno, previsões de desembolsos com a obra, formas de pagamento e velocidade de venda das unidades comercializadas. Além das informações levantadas, o dashboard possibilita ao usuário determinar parâmetros, como taxa mínima de atratividade e preço médio de vendas dos apartamentos, para análise dos impactos que a variação de tais fatores traz ao resultado do investimento, através do uso de indicadores de viabilidade financeira, como VPL, TIR e payback descontado. Por fim, apresentam-se os benefícios e obstáculos do desenvolvimento e implementação da ferramenta para tomada de decisões estratégicas em uma empresa que atua no setor da construção civil.Considering that the construction industry in Brazil is directly influenced by factors such as default, unemployment, variations in financing rates, increase in the price of materials, budget control and sales speed, the development and use of a tool that provides diagnostics related to the analysis of the financial viability of a real estate project in an agile way can be decisive for decision making. The work seeks to identify in the literature the use of Business Intelligence in civil construction, to analyze the use of BI tools that act in the analysis of financial performance, as well as to carry out an analysis of the financial viability of a real estate project, mapping the development processes, as well as the obstacles and advantages of its implementation. To obtain that, the work begins with the characterization of concepts regarding Business Intelligence and Financial Management. Then, the process of developing a dashboard responsible for assisting in the analysis of the financial viability of a real estate project is presented, based on information provided by a construction company that operates in the real estate market of Grande Florianópolis. The developed tool takes into account models of inflow and outflow of resources, from the survey of costs for acquiring the land, forecasts of disbursements with the execution of the project, forms of payment and speed of sale of the commercialized units. In addition to the information collected, the dashboard allows the user to determine parameters, such as minimum attractiveness rate and average sales price of apartments, to analyze the impacts that the variation of such factors brings to the investment result, through the use of financial viability indicators. such as NPV, IRR and discounted payback. Finally, the benefits and obstacles of the development and implementation of the tool for making strategic decisions in a company that operates in the civil construction sector are presented

Impact of in shoe and barefoot placed frontal wedges on plantar loading: A systematic review

Eleven papers were included in the final review. Four were cross-over studies, other four were quasi-experimental studies and three were RCTs. These eleven studies included 320 patients, with ages ranging from 20 to 60 years. Regarding the risk of bias, most of the observational studies and RCTs had a moderate level of quality. Conclusions: The results suggest that lateral wedges are more effective, producing a lateral shift of the centre of pressure and increasing the pressure. Regarding the impact on the peak impact force there seems to be less consensus among the published data.Funding for open access charge is provided by Universidad de Malaga/CBUA

Critical revision of some Myxomycetes deposited in the Buenos Aires HerbariaBAFC, BA and the Tucuman Herbarium LIL. IV

Fifty-seven collections preserved in herbaria BAFC, BA; LIL and Ah representing 26 different species of Myxomycetes are included in this paper. Five species, Comatricha ellae, Didymium megalosporum, Lycogala exiguum, Physarum flavicomum and P. stellatum, are new records from Argentina. Microphotograhs using both optical (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are included. these photographs illustrate the most representative characteristics of those species which are rare or not mentioned in Argentina before this work.Cincuenta y siete colecciones conservadas en los herbarios BAFC, BA LIL y AH se incluyen en este trabajo que representan 26 especies diferentes de Myxomycetes. Cinco especies, Comatricha ellae, Didymium megalosporum, Lycogala exiguum, Physarum flavicomum y P. stellatum, son nuevas citas para Argentina. Microfotografias de microscopía óptica y microscopía electrónica de barrido son incluidas. Estas fotografías ilustran las características más representativas de las especies que son raras o no citadas en Argentina

EFEITO DA SALINIDADE E DA TEMPERATURA SOBRE CRESCIMENTO DE 4 MICROALGAS MARINHAS:: “Efeito da salinidade e da temperatura sobre o crescimento da nannochloropsis oculata e da isochrysis galbana”

Diferentes salinidades (15, 20, 25 e 30‰) e temperaturas (20 e 25 ± 1°C) foramavaliadas para determinar as melhores condições de crescimento emNannochloropsis oculata e Isochrysis galbana durante 14 dias. Culturas com 10 diasde idade foram utilizadas como inóculo (1 x 10⁴ cells mL‾1) em meio F/2 de Guillardmodificado, iluminadas continuamente por 6 lâmpadas de led (2000Lm). Concluiu-seque tanto a Nannochloropsis sp. quanto a Isochrisis sp. conseguiram crescer entre assalinidades 15‰ e 30‰ nas duas temperaturas avaliadas. Para ambas algas ocrescimento foi melhor quando cultivada a 25°C

Genomic imprinting mediates dosage compensation in a young plant XY system.: An article peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology (PCI Evol Biol)

This preprint has been reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology (http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pci.evolbiol.100044). Sex chromosomes have repeatedly evolved from a pair of autosomes. Consequently, X and Y chromosomes initially have similar gene content, but ongoing Y degeneration leads to reduced Y gene expression and eventual Y gene loss. The resulting imbalance in gene expression between Y genes and the rest of the genome is expected to reduce male fitness, especially when protein networks have components from both autosomes and sex chromosomes. A diverse set of dosage compensating mechanisms that alleviates these negative effects has been described in animals. However, the early steps in the evolution of dosage compensation remain unknown and dosage compensation is poorly understood in plants. Here we show a novel dosage compensation mechanism in the evolutionarily young XY sex determination system of the plant Silene latifolia. Genomic imprinting results in higher expression from the maternal X chromosome in both males and females. This compensates for reduced Y expression in males but results in X overexpression in females and may be detrimental. It could represent a transient early stage in the evolution of dosage compensation. Our finding has striking resemblance to the first stage proposed by Ohno for the evolution of X inactivation in mammals

Rare mutations in SQSTM1 modify susceptibility to frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Mutations in the gene coding for Sequestosome 1 (SQSTM1) have been genetically associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Paget disease of bone. In the present study, we analyzed the SQSTM1 coding sequence for mutations in an extended cohort of 1,808 patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), ascertained within the European Early-Onset Dementia consortium. As control dataset, we sequenced 1,625 European control individuals and analyzed whole-exome sequence data of 2,274 German individuals (total n = 3,899). Association of rare SQSTM1 mutations was calculated in a meta-analysis of 4,332 FTLD and 10,240 control alleles. We identified 25 coding variants in FTLD patients of which 10 have not been described. Fifteen mutations were absent in the control individuals (carrier frequency < 0.00026) whilst the others were rare in both patients and control individuals. When pooling all variants with a minor allele frequency < 0.01, an overall frequency of 3.2 % was calculated in patients. Rare variant association analysis between patients and controls showed no difference over the whole protein, but suggested that rare mutations clustering in the UBA domain of SQSTM1 may influence disease susceptibility by doubling the risk for FTLD (RR = 2.18 [95 % CI 1.24-3.85]; corrected p value = 0.042). Detailed histopathology demonstrated that mutations in SQSTM1 associate with widespread neuronal and glial phospho-TDP-43 pathology. With this study, we provide further evidence for a putative role of rare mutations in SQSTM1 in the genetic etiology of FTLD and showed that, comparable to other FTLD/ALS genes, SQSTM1 mutations are associated with TDP-43 pathology

Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models

We discuss theoretical and phenomenological aspects of two-Higgs-doublet extensions of the Standard Model. In general, these extensions have scalar mediated flavour changing neutral currents which are strongly constrained by experiment. Various strategies are discussed to control these flavour changing scalar currents and their phenomenological consequences are analysed. In particular, scenarios with natural flavour conservation are investigated, including the so-called type I and type II models as well as lepton-specific and inert models. Type III models are then discussed, where scalar flavour changing neutral currents are present at tree level, but are suppressed by either specific ansatze for the Yukawa couplings or by the introduction of family symmetries. We also consider the phenomenology of charged scalars in these models. Next we turn to the role of symmetries in the scalar sector. We discuss the six symmetry-constrained scalar potentials and their extension into the fermion sector. The vacuum structure of the scalar potential is analysed, including a study of the vacuum stability conditions on the potential and its renormalization-group improvement. The stability of the tree level minimum of the scalar potential in connection with electric charge conservation and its behaviour under CP is analysed. The question of CP violation is addressed in detail, including the cases of explicit CP violation and spontaneous CP violation. We present a detailed study of weak basis invariants which are odd under CP. A careful study of spontaneous CP violation is presented, including an analysis of the conditions which have to be satisfied in order for a vacuum to violate CP. We present minimal models of CP violation where the vacuum phase is sufficient to generate a complex CKM matrix, which is at present a requirement for any realistic model of spontaneous CP violation.Comment: v3: 180 pages, 506 references, new chapter 7 with recent LHC results; referee comments taken into account; submitted to Physics Report

Observation of an Excited Bc+ State

Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb-1 recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of s=7, 8, and 13 TeV, the observation of an excited Bc+ state in the Bc+π+π- invariant-mass spectrum is reported. The observed peak has a mass of 6841.2±0.6(stat)±0.1(syst)±0.8(Bc+) MeV/c2, where the last uncertainty is due to the limited knowledge of the Bc+ mass. It is consistent with expectations of the Bc∗(2S31)+ state reconstructed without the low-energy photon from the Bc∗(1S31)+→Bc+γ decay following Bc∗(2S31)+→Bc∗(1S31)+π+π-. A second state is seen with a global (local) statistical significance of 2.2σ (3.2σ) and a mass of 6872.1±1.3(stat)±0.1(syst)±0.8(Bc+) MeV/c2, and is consistent with the Bc(2S10)+ state. These mass measurements are the most precise to date

Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign charged pions in the forward region in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

Bose-Einstein correlations of same-sign charged pions, produced in protonproton collisions at a 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy, are studied using a data sample collected by the LHCb experiment. The signature for Bose-Einstein correlations is observed in the form of an enhancement of pairs of like-sign charged pions with small four-momentum difference squared. The charged-particle multiplicity dependence of the Bose-Einstein correlation parameters describing the correlation strength and the size of the emitting source is investigated, determining both the correlation radius and the chaoticity parameter. The measured correlation radius is found to increase as a function of increasing charged-particle multiplicity, while the chaoticity parameter is seen to decreas