Implementação de uma interface de programação e uma arquitetura de plugins para a plataforma de participação social “Empurrando Juntos”

Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (graduação)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade UnB Gama, 2017.O crescente número de discussões acerca de temas políticos e outros temas nas redes sociais tem acarretado em uma polarização das mensagens trocadas devido às características dos algoritmos de seleção de conteúdo dessas plataformas. Nesse sentido, o Instituto Cidade Democrática apresenta a ideia de uma nova plataforma de participação social que possa ser utilizada como aplicação Web e aplicativos, chamada de “Empurrando Juntos”. O intuito é que o usuário crie e participe de conversas, realizando comentários e/ou votos em um comentário de outro participante. Com os votos realizados, as pessoas que responderem de maneira similar são agrupadas, provendo ao usuário uma visão ampliada das opiniões acerca do assunto. Como o “Empurrando Juntos” possui a necessidade de ter essas funcionalidades de gerenciamento de usuários, conversas e de agrupamento de usuários para cumprir o seu propósito, oferecê-las como um serviço web seria uma contribuição significante ao projeto. Além disso, uma solução mais flexível seria possibilitar que o agrupamento seja feito utilizando diferentes técnicas de classificação configuráveis. O objetivo deste trabalho foi a implementação de uma API RESTful para o “Empurrando Juntos” que contemplasse as funcionalidades supracitadas e a proposta de uma arquitetura que permitisse a utilização de diferentes métodos de classificação para realizar o agrupamento dos usuários. O trabalho foi realizado em cinco etapas e a API foi implementada em seis iterações. Além do módulo de serviços (API), a arquitetura foi proposta com outros dois módulos, o módulo cliente, para prover a interface gráfica da plataforma, e o módulo matemático, responsável pelo agrupamento dos usuários. Ao final do desenvolvimento, foi construída uma aplicação para validação da API e da arquitetura proposta. Na validação apenas um módulo matemático foi integrado. A arquitetura proposta e a API foram consideradas adequadas e satisfatória para os requisitos identificados. Contudo, foi percebida a necessidade de evoluções para outras funcionalidades do “Empurrando Juntos” essenciais para a minimização da polarização das discussões e a carência de outros módulos matemáticos para teste da integração.The growing number of discussions on political issues and other issues on social networks result in the polarization of those messages, considering the characteristics of the content selection algorithms used in these platforms. Therefore, the “Cidade Democrática” institute presents the idea of a new social participation platform, the “Pushing Together”, to be used in web and mobile applications. The idea is to allow the user to create and participate of conversations, performing comments and/or votes on a comment of another participant. With the given votes, people who answered in a similar way are grouped, allowing the user to get a wide vision of all opinions. The “Pushing Together” platform need to have these funcionalities of user/conversations management and user grouping to fulfill its purpose. Offering these functionalities as web services would be meaningful contribution to the project. Moreover, a more flexible solution would be making possible to group the users using different configurable classification techniques. The goal of this study was the implementation of a RESTful API that holds all the functionalities mentioned above and an architecture that allows the use of different classification methods to group the users. The study was made in five steps and the API was implemented in six iterations. Along with the services module (API), the architecture was proposed with another two modules, the client module to provide the platform graphic interface and the math module to be responsible for the user grouping. At the end of development, an application was built to validate the API and the proposed architecture. In the validation only one math module was integrated. The proposed architecture and the API was considered adequate and satisfactory for the identified requirements. However, evolutions needs was perceived considering another functionalities for “ Pushing Together ”. Essentials functionalities to reduce the discussions polarization. The gap of math modules to integrated was perceived too

Transferência de conhecimento : conceitos, estratégias e casos de adoção : relatório técnico

Pesquisa realizada com financiamento do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações, Projeto de Cooperação “Aprimoramento do Framework de Soluções de Tecnologia da Informação”.Este Relatório é resultante de uma das frentes de pesquisa e desenvolvimento do Projeto P&D-MC/UnB (Projeto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento entre a Universidade de Brasília – UnB, Faculdade FGA e o Ministério das Comunicações - MC), oriundo de um termo de cooperação entre a UnB e o Ministério. Uma das metas do Projeto foi atender a demanda do Ministério quanto a definição de um processo de transferência do conhecimento durante o processo de desenvolvimento de software por fábricas de software e na transição e/ou término de contratos de Fábricas de Software. Este trabalho apresenta os processos definidos. Como produção técnica, o processo foi implantando, refinado e validado no MC. Como produção acadêmica, até o momento, foram geradas algumas publicações em conferências nacionais e internacionais, tais como: • Brito, M F de; Figueiredo, R M C;Venson, E; Canedo, E D.; Ribeiro Jr, L C M. “Knowledge Transfer in a Management Process for Outsourced Agile Software Development”, in 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 04-07, 2017, Hawaii. Link: http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/41921 • Morais, Emilie de; Jesus, Geovanni de; Figueiredo, R.; Venson, Elaine; Rafael Queiroz. “Knowledge Transfer in IT Service Provider Transition”. In: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 2017, Porto - Portugal. Link: http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=sbNJU7kvtOI=&t=1 • Brito, M. F.; Figueiredo, R. M. da C.;Venson, E.; Ribeiro. Jr, L. C. M.; Kosloski, R. A. D.; “Transferência de Conhecimento em Projetos de Desenvolvimento de Software no Contexto de Contratação, ” in 12oCONTECSI - InternationalConferenceon Information Systems and Technology Management, 2015. Link: http://www.contecsi.fea.usp.br/envio/index.php/contecsi/12CONTECSI/paper/view/3175 Além de outras produções relacionadas a esta temática, apresentadas no ANEXO 1. • Coletânea de artigos publicados em conferências, nacionais e internacionais, relacionados ao processo de desenvolvimento de software, de manutenção, e de inventariação. • Coletânea dos Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso da Faculdade GAMA – FGA, relacionados ao tema deste Relatório. Em 2016, houve a fusão do Ministério das Comunicações com o Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, surgindo o Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicações – MCTIC. O Projeto P&D-MC/UnB foi vinculado a esse novo Ministério. Neste relatório, apresentam-se os processos de transferência de conhecimento durante o desenvolvimento de software e na transição de fornecedores

Rhinitis associated with asthma is distinct from rhinitis alone: TARIA‐MeDALL hypothesis

Asthma, rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis (AD) are interrelated clinical phenotypes that partly overlap in the human interactome. The concept of “one-airway-one-disease,” coined over 20 years ago, is a simplistic approach of the links between upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases. With new data, it is time to reassess the concept. This article reviews (i) the clinical observations that led to Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA), (ii) new insights into polysensitization and multimorbidity, (iii) advances in mHealth for novel phenotype definitions, (iv) confirmation in canonical epidemiologic studies, (v) genomic findings, (vi) treatment approaches, and (vii) novel concepts on the onset of rhinitis and multimorbidity. One recent concept, bringing together upper- and lower-airway allergic diseases with skin, gut, and neuropsychiatric multimorbidities, is the “Epithelial Barrier Hypothesis.” This review determined that the “one-airway-one-disease” concept does not always hold true and that several phenotypes of disease can be defined. These phenotypes include an extreme “allergic” (asthma) phenotype combining asthma, rhinitis, and conjunctivitis.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The status of marine biodiversity in the Eastern Central Atlantic (West and Central Africa)

International audienceThe status of marine biodiversity in the Eastern Central Atlantic (ECA), especially of coastal and pelagic fishes, is of concern owing to a number of threats including overharvesting, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change combined with inadequate policy responses, legislation, and enforcement. This study provides the first comprehensive documentation of the presence, status, and level of extinction risk, based on IUCN Red List assessment methodology, for more than 1800 marine species, including all taxonomically described marine vertebrates (marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, fishes); complete clades of selected marine invertebrates (sea cucumbers, cone snails, cephalopods, lobsters, reef-building corals); and marine plants (mangroves, seagrasses). Approximately 8% of all marine species assessed in the ECA are in threatened categories, while 4% are listed as Near Threatened, 73% are Least Concern, and 15% are Data Deficient. Fisheries and overharvesting are the biggest threats to living marine resources in the ECA, with 87% of threatened species across all taxonomic groups affected by both large- and small-scale targeted fisheries, excessive capture as by-catch, or unsustainable harvest. The results of this study will transform the current state of knowledge and increase capacity for regional stakeholders to identify and enact marine conservation and research priorities, as a number of species are identified as having high conservation and/or research priorities in the region. Through the process of marine species data collection and risk assessments conducted over the past 5 years, several key conservation actions and research needs are identified to enable more effective conservation of marine biodiversity in the ECA, including increased governance, multilateral collaboration, taxonomic training, and improved reporting of fisheries catch and effort

Red List of Marine Bony Fishes of the Eastern Central Atlantic.

International audienceThe Red List of Marine Bony Fishes of the Eastern Central Atlantic (ECA) is a review of the conservation status of all native marine bony fishes in ECA according to the global Categories and Criteria of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the global level and occur within the ECA region. This comprehensive assessment, which is the first of its kind in the ECA, aims to provide improved knowledge of species presence and extinction risk status for the purposes of guiding conservation actions and improved policies for these species both globally and regionally

Adherence to treatment in allergic rhinitis using mobile technology. The MASK Study

Background: Mobile technology may help to better understand the adherence to treatment. MASK-rhinitis (Mobile Airways Sentinel NetworK for allergic rhinitis) is a patient-centred ICT system. A mobile phone app (the Allergy Diary) central to MASK is available in 22 countries. Objectives: To assess the adherence to treatment in allergic rhinitis patients using the Allergy Diary App. Methods: An observational cross-sectional study was carried out on all users who filled in the Allergy Diary from 1 January 2016 to 1 August 2017. Secondary adherence was assessed by using the modified Medication Possession Ratio (MPR) and the Proportion of days covered (PDC) approach. Results: A total of 12 143 users were registered. A total of 6 949 users reported at least one VAS data recording. Among them, 1 887 users reported ≥7 VAS data. About 1 195 subjects were included in the analysis of adherence. One hundred and thirty-six (11.28%) users were adherent (MPR ≥70% and PDC ≤1.25), 51 (4.23%) were partly adherent (MPR ≥70% and PDC = 1.50) and 176 (14.60%) were switchers. On the other hand, 832 (69.05%) users were non-adherent to medications (MPR <70%). Of those, the largest group was non-adherent to medications and the time interval was increased in 442 (36.68%) users. Conclusion and clinical relevance: Adherence to treatment is low. The relative efficacy of continuous vs on-demand treatment for allergic rhinitis symptoms is still a matter of debate. This study shows an approach for measuring retrospective adherence based on a mobile app. This also represents a novel approach for analysing medication-taking behaviour in a real-world setting

Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis

Background There is a substantial gap in provision of adequate surgical care in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the economic burden of unmet surgical need for the common condition of appendicitis. Methods Data on the incidence of appendicitis from 170 countries and two different approaches were used to estimate numbers of patients who do not receive surgery: as a fixed proportion of the total unmet surgical need per country (approach 1); and based on country income status (approach 2). Indirect costs with current levels of access and local quality, and those if quality were at the standards of high-income countries, were estimated. A human capital approach was applied, focusing on the economic burden resulting from premature death and absenteeism. Results Excess mortality was 4185 per 100 000 cases of appendicitis using approach 1 and 3448 per 100 000 using approach 2. The economic burden of continuing current levels of access and local quality was US $92 492 million using approach 1 and$73 141 million using approach 2. The economic burden of not providing surgical care to the standards of high-income countries was $95 004 million using approach 1 and$75 666 million using approach 2. The largest share of these costs resulted from premature death (97.7 per cent) and lack of access (97.0 per cent) in contrast to lack of quality. Conclusion For a comparatively non-complex emergency condition such as appendicitis, increasing access to care should be prioritized. Although improving quality of care should not be neglected, increasing provision of care at current standards could reduce societal costs substantially

Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis

Background There is a substantial gap in provision of adequate surgical care in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the economic burden of unmet surgical need for the common condition of appendicitis. Methods Data on the incidence of appendicitis from 170 countries and two different approaches were used to estimate numbers of patients who do not receive surgery: as a fixed proportion of the total unmet surgical need per country (approach 1); and based on country income status (approach 2). Indirect costs with current levels of access and local quality, and those if quality were at the standards of high-income countries, were estimated. A human capital approach was applied, focusing on the economic burden resulting from premature death and absenteeism. Results Excess mortality was 4185 per 100 000 cases of appendicitis using approach 1 and 3448 per 100 000 using approach 2. The economic burden of continuing current levels of access and local quality was US $92 492 million using approach 1 and$73 141 million using approach 2. The economic burden of not providing surgical care to the standards of high-income countries was $95 004 million using approach 1 and$75 666 million using approach 2. The largest share of these costs resulted from premature death (97.7 per cent) and lack of access (97.0 per cent) in contrast to lack of quality. Conclusion For a comparatively non-complex emergency condition such as appendicitis, increasing access to care should be prioritized. Although improving quality of care should not be neglected, increasing provision of care at current standards could reduce societal costs substantially