A Importância da Tecnologia da Informação como Ferramenta para o Processo da Gestão Hospitalar no Setor Privado: Um Estudo de Caso em uma Organização Hospitalar em Feira de Santana (BA).

As organizações, nas mais diversas áreas estão sendo pressionadas a adotar a TI como estratégia para alcançar o sucesso no mundo em que a globalização exige cada vez mais que as empresas estejam sempre buscando a inovação e assim obter um diferencial competitivo. Este trabalho objetivou analisar a importância da TI como ferramenta para a gestão hospitalar, de forma a alcançar a melhoria contínua nos serviços prestados. Neste trabalho foi utilizada a técnica de estudo de caso em uma organização hospitalar do setor privado, em Feira de Santana-Ba, através do qual se utilizou a entrevista e questionários para obtenção dos dados. O resultado mostrou que a TI proporciona grandes benefícios para a gestão, destacando melhoria, qualidade e agilidades dos processos. Sendo assim, entende-se que é por meio da mesma que as empresas conseguem sobreviver e competir diante dos avanços tecnológicos.DOI: 10.5585/rgss.v2i1.5

O USO DA TECNOLOGIA DE INFORMAÇAO NAS MICRO E PEQUENAS EMPRESAS FAMILIARES DE CACHOEIRA-BA

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo identificar o uso da Tecnologia da Informação nas micro e pequenas empresas familiares de Cachoeira – BA em relação à média nacional, identificando os fatores de resistência ou não ao adotar a Tecnologia da Informação, entendendo assim o processo do uso nas empresas. Esse trabalho teve como embasamento os dados obtidos da pesquisa de campo, através dos questionários aplicados, observações feitas, e utilização dos dados da pesquisa realizado pelo do Comitê Gestor da Internet, para as devidas comparações a serem analisadas. A amostra das empresas foi obtida por amostragem aleatória simples sem reposição, com uma amostra inicial prevista de vinte e seis empresas. Propõe-se aqui uma 8fazem da tecnologia de informação, oferecendo subsídios para a discussão sobre a situação atual da cidade e o porquê de, eventualmente, não ser adotada nenhuma ou mais ferramentas de Tecnologia da Informação.

Utilização de software livre e proprietário, um estudo realizados em empresas no centro industrial Subaé – BA / Use of free and proprietary software, a study carried out in companies in the industrial center Subaé - BA

O setor tecnológico em organizações está diretamente ligado à escolha do software utilizado, sendo plataforma livre ou proprietária. O software livre é um elemento democrático, todas as organizações podem fazer uso, independente do seu porte. Levando em consideração a eliminação de licenciamento, robustez, adaptabilidade do sistema, o software livre conta com uma gama de colaboradores, programadores, idealistas que trabalham em função da liberdade com segurança. De diferente concepção, o software proprietário possui código fonte fechado, com pagamento de licença ao seu proprietário.O software proprietário é utilizado na maioria dos computadores do mundo, possuindo assim uma maior atenção do mercado na produção de software complementar. O software livre tem crescido e novos negócios estão sendo criados com empresas específicas para manutenção do software livre corporativo e pessoal.O estudo tem como objetivo analisar a utilização de software no Centro Industrial Subaé (CIS), localizado na Bahia, presente em 16 cidades na Bahia, sendo sua concentração na cidade de Feira de Santana. Buscaram-se todas as empresas cadastradas no CIS, e os critérios para seleção e validação era de empresas que possuíam site oficial cadastrado no CIS, e o site ativo. Foi utilizada uma ferramenta de busca disponível no site netcraft.com, que é um site que oferece análise de quota de mercado para mercados de hospedagem de sites e de servidores web, incluindo detecção do sistema operacional e do servidor web, além de oferecer testes de segurança.Os resultados indicaram que existe o cadastro de 200 empresas no CIS e após a filtragem apenas 18,5% das empresas atendiam os critérios de inclusão. Assim foi possível identificar em um universo de 37 organizações que 07 delas possuem o enquadramento tributário S/A, 26 LTDA e 01 EPP e 02 não consta enquadramento. Encontrou-se que 54,5% de organizações (20 empresas) hospedam seus sites em servidores com plataforma livre, 14 fazem uso do software proprietário, e identificou-se 03 que migram entre uma plataforma e outra.As organizações na sua maioria (54%) utilizam o software livre para hospedar os seus servidores, de acordo com a revisão bibliográfica possivelmente o fator determinante desta escolha pode ser o fato do não pagamento de licenças e o acesso ao código fonte, o que possibilita a economia financeira e adequação das particularidades de cada organização

Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Summary Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. Methods For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factor Collaboration. We applied a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends from 1985 to 2019 in mean height and mean BMI in 1-year age groups for ages 5–19 years. The model allowed for non-linear changes over time in mean height and mean BMI and for non-linear changes with age of children and adolescents, including periods of rapid growth during adolescence. Findings We pooled data from 2181 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in 65 million participants in 200 countries and territories. In 2019, we estimated a difference of 20 cm or higher in mean height of 19-year-old adolescents between countries with the tallest populations (the Netherlands, Montenegro, Estonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina for boys; and the Netherlands, Montenegro, Denmark, and Iceland for girls) and those with the shortest populations (Timor-Leste, Laos, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea for boys; and Guatemala, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Timor-Leste for girls). In the same year, the difference between the highest mean BMI (in Pacific island countries, Kuwait, Bahrain, The Bahamas, Chile, the USA, and New Zealand for both boys and girls and in South Africa for girls) and lowest mean BMI (in India, Bangladesh, Timor-Leste, Ethiopia, and Chad for boys and girls; and in Japan and Romania for girls) was approximately 9–10 kg/m2. In some countries, children aged 5 years started with healthier height or BMI than the global median and, in some cases, as healthy as the best performing countries, but they became progressively less healthy compared with their comparators as they grew older by not growing as tall (eg, boys in Austria and Barbados, and girls in Belgium and Puerto Rico) or gaining too much weight for their height (eg, girls and boys in Kuwait, Bahrain, Fiji, Jamaica, and Mexico; and girls in South Africa and New Zealand). In other countries, growing children overtook the height of their comparators (eg, Latvia, Czech Republic, Morocco, and Iran) or curbed their weight gain (eg, Italy, France, and Croatia) in late childhood and adolescence. When changes in both height and BMI were considered, girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries (eg, Armenia and Azerbaijan), and boys in central and western Europe (eg, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, and Montenegro) had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI. The unhealthiest changes—gaining too little height, too much weight for their height compared with children in other countries, or both—occurred in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, New Zealand, and the USA for boys and girls; in Malaysia and some Pacific island nations for boys; and in Mexico for girls. Interpretation The height and BMI trajectories over age and time of school-aged children and adolescents are highly variable across countries, which indicates heterogeneous nutritional quality and lifelong health advantages and risks

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe