Uso das Capacidades Dinâmicas – Análise da Presença Online das Agências de Turismo Receptivo

The present study aims to analyze how receptive tourism agencies have used the online presence to obtain a competitive advantage, through dynamic capabilities, in the commercialization of tourist services. adopted by these enterprises. Dynamic Capabilities are considered tools that allow the configuration of resources in search of better efficiency according to the dynamism of the market. The online presence has been a resource used by tourism enterprises in order to stand out in terms of competitiveness, through the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) improving the operational activities of travel agencies, enabling greater quality in the services provided, reducing costs. This study, therefore, was based on theories that approach the use of Information and Communication Technologies, Receptive Tourism Agencies, Online Presence in the travel sector and the approach of dynamic capacity as an organizational strategy. A qualitative content analysis was carried out in which three categories were verified that addressed dimensions regarding the website, information and purchase aspects. Four receptive tourism agencies in the city of Natal-RN were analyzed in order to achieve the proposed objectives. The study shows that the analyzed companies have used social networks and have their own websites that satisfactorily meet the chosen categories, demonstrating an understanding of the importance of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) resources to enhance their online presence and gain competitive advantage.El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar cómo las agencias de turismo receptivo han utilizado la presencia online para obtener una ventaja competitiva, a través de capacidades dinámicas, en la comercialización de servicios turísticos adoptadas por estas empresas. Las Capacidades Dinámicas son consideradas herramientas que permiten configurar los recursos en busca de una mayor eficiencia de acuerdo con el dinamismo del mercado. La presencia en línea ha sido un recurso utilizado por las empresas turísticas para diferenciarse en términos de competitividad, a través de la implementación de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TIC) mejorando las actividades operativas de las agencias de viajes, permitiendo una mayor calidad en los servicios prestados, reduciendo costos . Este estudio, por tanto, se basó en teorías que abordan el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación, las Agencias de Turismo Receptivo, la Presencia Online en el sector de viajes y el enfoque de la capacidad dinámica como estrategia organizacional. Se realizó un análisis de contenido cualitativo en el que se verificaron tres categorías que abordaban dimensiones respecto al sitio web, información y aspectos de compra. Se analizaron cuatro agencias de turismo receptivo en la ciudad de Natal-RN para lograr los objetivos propuestos. El estudio muestra que las empresas analizadas han utilizado las redes sociales y cuentan con sitios web propios que responden satisfactoriamente a las categorías elegidas, demostrando una comprensión de la importancia del uso de los recursos de las TIC's para mejorar su presencia en línea y obtener una ventaja competitiva.O presente estudo visa analisar como as agências de turismo receptivo têm utilizado a presença online para obter vantagem competitiva, por meio das capacidades dinâmicas, na comercialização de serviços turísticos, para isso, foram utilizadas as plataformas digitais das agências, em que se verificou os aspectos adotados por estes empreendimentos. As Capacidades dinâmicas são consideradas ferramentas que permitem a configuração de recursos em busca de melhor eficácia de acordo com o dinamismo do mercado. A presença online tem sido um recurso utilizado pelos empreendimentos turísticos a fim de se destacar em competitividade, por meio da implementação das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs) melhorando as atividades operacionais das agências de viagem, possibilitando uma maior qualidade nos serviços prestados, reduzindo custos.  Este estudo, portanto, se fundamentou a partir de teorias que abordam o uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, Agências de turismo Receptivo, Presença online no setor de viagens e a abordagem da capacidade dinâmica como estratégia organizacional. Foi realizada uma análise de conteúdo qualitativa em que se verificou três categorias que abordaram dimensões a respeito do site, das informações e dos aspectos de compra. Foram analisadas quatro agências de turismo receptivo do município de Natal-RN a fim de alcançar os objetivos propostos. O estudo mostra que as empresas analisadas têm utilizado as redes sociais e possuem sites próprios que atendem satisfatoriamente as categorias elegidas demonstrando o entendimento sobre a importância do uso de recursos das Tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) para potencializar sua presença online e obter vantagem competitiva

How can sexual difference make a difference : remarks on what could sexual difference be

Este artigo procura experimentar com a noção de diferença sexual, tentando dar-lhe outras roupagens, a partir de críticas que surgem no seio da produção teórica feminista – como as de Monique Wittig e Judith Butler – mas também de tentativas de resgatá-la ou re-significá-la como nos escritos de Luce Irigaray e Rosi Braidotti. Será que a teoria queer e a crítica a política de identidade acabam de vez com o projeto de diferença sexual, ou há algo que sobra _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTThe article endeavours to experiment with the notion of sexual difference, trying to dress it differently on the basis of the criticisms that came out of some feminist theory – particularly those of Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. It also attempts to rescue it from these criticisms based on the works of Luce Irigaray and Rosi Braidotti. Do queer theory and the criticisms to identity politics leave no more space to the project of sexual difference? Or there is still something that is left out

Perceptions of the Use of the Diode Laser in Dental Surgery: A Qualitative Study

Objective: To discover the perceptions of pediatric patients, their parents and undergraduate Dentistry students of the use of the diode laser in frenectomy surgeries. Material and Methods: A qualitative study was conducted through semi-structured interviews, recorded and transcribed with subsequent content analysis. Twelve healthy children (5-8 years old) who needed a frenectomy were selected and invited, together with their parents, to undergo laser diode surgery. In addition, 28 undergraduate  dentistry students were invited to attend the procedures. One week after performing the surgical procedures, the children (Group 1), their parents (Group 2) and the students who attended the procedures (Group 3) were individually interviewed for the thematic analysis. Results: The analysis of the conversations identified three emerging contents: positive thoughts on the use of diode laser; frustrations from the use of diode laser; and aspects related to professional training. Conclusion: The results pointed to the acceptance of surgical laser use in pediatric dentistry; however, the feelings of frustration indicate that its use requires guidance from the child and his/her parents, in addition to careful handling and specific training

Associação entre o nível de atividade física e autoestima de adolescentes praticantes e não praticantes de taekwondo

BACKGROUND: Practicing taekwondo is a dynamic form of physical activity that not only strengthens the body but can also boost teenagers’ self-esteem. Through overcoming physical and mental challenges, taekwondo practitioners develop a sense of personal accomplishment and self-confidence.OBJECTIVE: Compare the level of physical activity and self-esteem of adolescents who practice and do not practice taekwondo.METHODS: The study was cross-sectional, in which the sample was composed of 60 adolescents, 30 practitioners and 30 non-practitioners of taekwondo from a school in the interior of Minas Gerais. The instruments used were the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the Rosemberg Self-Esteem Scale. For all statistical treatments, a significance level of p<0.05 was adopted.RESULTS: It can be observed that among taekwondo practitioners, 80% were very active. When comparing the self-esteem scale between taekwondo practitioners and non-taekwondo practitioners, it was possible to observe that taekwondo practitioners had a lower average (6.70±3.02 and 19.03±3.85, respectively), which reflects a level better self-esteem.CONCLUSION: It is concluded that there is a difference between the level of physical activity and self-esteem of taekwondo practitioners and non-taekwondo practitioners, with practitioners having better self-esteem.INTRODUÇÃO: A prática do taekwondo é uma forma dinâmica de atividade física que não só fortalece o corpo, mas também pode elevar a autoestima dos adolescentes. Através da superação de desafios físicos e mentais, os praticantes de taekwondo desenvolvem um senso de realização pessoal e autoconfiança.OBJETIVO: Comparar o nível de atividade física e autoestima de adolescentes praticantes e não praticantes de taekwondo.MÉTODOS: O estudo foi de corte transversal, em que a amostra foi composta por 60 adolescentes, 30 praticantes e 30 não praticantes de taekwondo de uma escola do interior de Minas Gerais. Os instrumentos utilizados foram o Questionário Internacional de Atividade Física (IPAQ) e a Escala de Autoestima de Rosemberg. Para todos os tratamentos estatísticos foi adotado um nível de significância de p<0,05. RESULTADOS: Pode-se observar que entre os praticantes de taekwondo 80% eram muito ativos. Quando comparado a escala da autoestima entre os praticantes de taekwondo e não praticantes foi possível observar que os praticantes de taekwondo apresentavam menor média (6,70±3,02 e 19,03±3,85, respectivamente), o qual reflete um nível de autoestima melhor. CONCLUSÃO: It is concluded that there is a difference between the level of physical activity and self-esteem of taekwondo practitioners and non-taekwondo practitioners, with practitioners having better self-esteem

Uma capitania dos novos tempos: economia, sociedade e política na São Paulo restaurada (1765-1822)

O artigo reflete sobre a trajetória da Capitania de São Paulo, a partir de 1750, apontando sua transformação, de fronteira e "boca do sertão", para território estratégico da conquista e defesa das partes meridionais e área economicamente integrada aos circuitos mercantis atlânticos.In this article, we reflect upon the history of the Captaincy of São Paulo as from 1750, drawing attention to its transformation from frontier land and "door to the backcountry" into a territory of strategic value for the purposes of conquest and defense of the southern regions, and economically integrated into the Atlantic trade routes

DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves

Tanalgo, Krizler C., Tabora, John Aries G., de Oliveira, Hernani Fernandes Magalhães, Haelewaters, Danny, Beranek, Chad T., Otálora-Ardila, Aída, Bernard, Enrico, Gonçalves, Fernando, Eriksson, Alan, Donnelly, Melissa, González, Joel Monzón, Ramos, Humberto Fernández, Rivas, Alberto Clark, Webala, Paul W., Deleva, Stanimira, Dalhoumi, Ridha, Maula, Jaycelle, Lizarro, Dennis, Aguirre, Luis F., Bouillard, Nils, Quibod, Ma. Niña Regina M., Barros, Jennifer, Turcios-Casco, Manfredo Alejandro, Martínez, Marcio, Ordoñez-Mazier, Diego Iván, Orellana, José Alejandro Soler, Ordoñez-Trejo, Eduardo J., Ordoñez, Danny, Chornelia, Ada, Lu, Jian Mei, Xing, Chen, Baniya, Sanjeev, Muylaert, Renata L., Dias-Silva, Leonardo Henrique, Ruadreo, Nittaya, Hughes, Alice Catherine (2022): DarkCideS 1.0, a global database for bats in karsts and caves. Scientific Data 9 (1): 155, DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01234-4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01234-

SARS-CoV-2 introductions and early dynamics of the epidemic in Portugal

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal was rapidly implemented by the National Institute of Health in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic, in collaboration with more than 50 laboratories distributed nationwide. Methods By applying recent phylodynamic models that allow integration of individual-based travel history, we reconstructed and characterized the spatio-temporal dynamics of SARSCoV-2 introductions and early dissemination in Portugal. Results We detected at least 277 independent SARS-CoV-2 introductions, mostly from European countries (namely the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, and Switzerland), which were consistent with the countries with the highest connectivity with Portugal. Although most introductions were estimated to have occurred during early March 2020, it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 was silently circulating in Portugal throughout February, before the first cases were confirmed. Conclusions Here we conclude that the earlier implementation of measures could have minimized the number of introductions and subsequent virus expansion in Portugal. This study lays the foundation for genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal, and highlights the need for systematic and geographically-representative genomic surveillance.We gratefully acknowledge to Sara Hill and Nuno Faria (University of Oxford) and Joshua Quick and Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) for kindly providing us with the initial sets of Artic Network primers for NGS; Rafael Mamede (MRamirez team, IMM, Lisbon) for developing and sharing a bioinformatics script for sequence curation (https://github.com/rfm-targa/BioinfUtils); Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) for providing guidance on the implementation of the phylodynamic models; Joshua L. Cherry (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health) for providing guidance with the subsampling strategies; and all authors, originating and submitting laboratories who have contributed genome data on GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) on which part of this research is based. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government. This study is co-funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (234_596874175) on behalf of the Research 4 COVID-19 call. Some infrastructural resources used in this study come from the GenomePT project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022184), supported by COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Lisboa Portugal Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa2020), Algarve Portugal Regional Operational Programme (CRESC Algarve2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysis of 3663 population-representative studies with 222 million children, adolescents, and adults

Background Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. Methods We used data from 3663 population-based studies with 222 million participants that measured height and weight in representative samples of the general population. We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in the prevalence of different BMI categories, separately for adults (age ≥20 years) and school-aged children and adolescents (age 5–19 years), from 1990 to 2022 for 200 countries and territories. For adults, we report the individual and combined prevalence of underweight (BMI <18·5 kg/m2) and obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2). For schoolaged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI <2 SD below the median of the WHO growth reference) and obesity (BMI >2 SD above the median). Findings From 1990 to 2022, the combined prevalence of underweight and obesity in adults decreased in 11 countries (6%) for women and 17 (9%) for men with a posterior probability of at least 0·80 that the observed changes were true decreases. The combined prevalence increased in 162 countries (81%) for women and 140 countries (70%) for men with a posterior probability of at least 0·80. In 2022, the combined prevalence of underweight and obesity was highest in island nations in the Caribbean and Polynesia and Micronesia, and countries in the Middle East and north Africa. Obesity prevalence was higher than underweight with posterior probability of at least 0·80 in 177 countries (89%) for women and 145 (73%) for men in 2022, whereas the converse was true in 16 countries (8%) for women, and 39 (20%) for men. From 1990 to 2022, the combined prevalence of thinness and obesity decreased among girls in five countries (3%) and among boys in 15 countries (8%) with a posterior probability of at least 0·80, and increased among girls in 140 countries (70%) and boys in 137 countries (69%) with a posterior probability of at least 0·80. The countries with highest combined prevalence of thinness and obesity in school-aged children and adolescents in 2022 were in Polynesia and Micronesia and the Caribbean for both sexes, and Chile and Qatar for boys. Combined prevalence was also high in some countries in south Asia, such as India and Pakistan, where thinness remained prevalent despite having declined. In 2022, obesity in school-aged children and adolescents was more prevalent than thinness with a posterior probability of at least 0·80 among girls in 133 countries (67%) and boys in 125 countries (63%), whereas the converse was true in 35 countries (18%) and 42 countries (21%), respectively. In almost all countries for both adults and school-aged children and adolescents, the increases in double burden were driven by increases in obesity, and decreases in double burden by declining underweight or thinness. Interpretation The combined burden of underweight and obesity has increased in most countries, driven by an increase in obesity, while underweight and thinness remain prevalent in south Asia and parts of Africa. A healthy nutrition transition that enhances access to nutritious foods is needed to address the remaining burden of underweight while curbing and reversing the increase in obesit

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