Métricas em negócios de impacto social

O artigo aborda as referências de avaliação presentes no emergente campo dos negócios sociais com ênfase na avaliação de impacto, na descrição dos principais desenhos metodológicos que podem ser utilizados e na exploração das ferramentas centrais existentes. Ao final, descreve-se um conjunto objetivo de recomendações para fortalecer a avaliação entre os negócios sociais.Este texto surgiu do debate entre diferentes atores que compõem o emergente ecossistema de finanças sociais e negócios sociais no Brasil. Reunidos para refletir sobre formas e abordagens de avaliação do impacto de seus investimentos, o Grupode Estudos sobre Métricas de Impacto Social (GEMNS) foi articulado pelo Instituto de Cidadania Empresarial (ICE), em parceria com a MOVE, e estabeleceu reuniões rotineiras entre 2012 e 2013 durante as quais se debruçou sobre artigos, experiências empíricas e troca de vivências com avaliadores internacionais. A reflexão gerada pelo grupo provocou análises e questões pelos quais percorrem as ideias deste artigo

Appendiceal abscess in a giant left-sided inguinoscrotal hernia: a rare case of Amyand hernia

The hernia of Amyand is an inguinal hernia containing the appendix in the sac. It is a rare pathology often diagnosed only intra-operatively. We report a case even more rare of a giant left-sided inguinoscrotal Amyand hernia with appendiceal abscess without clinical findings of incarceration/strangulation, occlusion, perforation, or acute scrotum and with the presence in the sac of the caecum and other anatomical structures (last ileal loops, bladder and omentum). The 68-years-old man patient successfully underwent surgical treatment only through the hernia sac (meshless repair according to Postempski technique)

No Last Words: Class, Cultural Production, and the Black Radical Tradition in the Pre-Classical Civil Rights Movement, 1909–1948

This paper argues that the strategic shape of the 1954–1965 classical civil rights movement was neither inevitable nor a simple progression of American values, but was the result of extensive ideological contestation during the pre-classical civil rights movement. Between the inflection points of 1929 and 1948, two ideologies, one rooted in Progressive Era racial stewardship and the other in the Black Radical Tradition, engaged in a Gramscian “war of position” for leadership of their coalition against white supremacy. An important tool in this Pre-Classical War of Position was cultural production.

Balancing the Social Media Seesaw in Public Sector: A Sociomaterial Perspective

The use of social media in the public sector changes the professionals\u27 everyday work practice. This paper sheds light on the emerging challenges of using social media as a part of work, based on the analysis of three contexts within the public sector in Sweden and through the lens of sociomateriality and affordances. The approach is interpretive field studies with a narrative analysis, where we interpret and analyse key elements of the storylines, focusing on the transition to social media use among professionals (nurses, municipal communicators, and physicians) in the three contexts. Social media enables an open work environment where information is visible and potentially spreadable to an unknown audience. The process of interacting with an unknown audience and finding a professional tone is analysed here as context collapse. The unknown, and at times imagined complex audience, makes it hard to balance the seesaw between friendliness on the one hand and an authoritative tone on the other; a tonality which leaves most of the potential audience unreached. The interplay between social media and the professionals shapes the professionals’ practice. We analyse this interplaying practice more specifically, as sociomateriality in action