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This dissertation consists of a research in the field of Education effected in the interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program of Education, Art, and History of Culture at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). We present the need to promote a continuous education of teachers that favors the reconnection of knowledge, pointing out the power that information and communication technologies can and should foster at work and in collaborative and networked learning. Therefore, we investigate how spaces of continuous training in virtual and international collaboration networks can contribute to a REconective teaching praxis (praxis REconectiva docente) in the digital culture, understood as an action that takes into account the need for immersive experiences for the appropriation of a connective cyberspace culture that allows the pedagogical appropriation of digital resources and promotes changes in the teaching practices of teachers involved in digital learning contexts. We seek to understand the conceptualization of connection and knowledge society, collaboration networks, digital culture, teacher training in higher education, the main theoretical assumptions in order to build a scenario for the analysis of a continued online training experience in an international collaboration network for higher education teachers. The virtual learning environment became the place of the immersive experience of the group of teachers, who built and implemented a collaborative course, “Methodologies for the Quality of online Education” (Metodologias para a Qualidade do Ensino online). We proceeded with data collection about the experience of the group, analyzing the records of the virtual environment where the experience happened through the online work meetings in videoconferences that allowed us to construct the scenario through the dialogues established by the group. Our research focused on identifying cyberspace as a place of learning, as well as establishing a dialogue about the need for continued teacher training, especially for online teachers, to take place in a collaborative way with horizontal experiences of immersion. The analysis of the experience of the group allowed us to trace the importance and effectiveness of collaboration networks in teacher training processes, the possibility of appropriation of virtual learning environments and also to identify dislocations towards new teaching practices, that is, to the development of REconective teaching praxis from the experience of immersion in the network of collaboration and participation in the online course in which the virtual spaces have become spaces of collective formation. This research was able to present the problem of teacher training from a contemporary perspective, looking for elements that could impel what we call the REconective teaching praxis as transformative action, and we launched a special look at the online teacher training. As a means of developing this form of teacher training we present an experience of collaboration in an international virtual network, as an example of initiatives that are presented in our educational scenario and that, because they provide immersion experiences, we consider more adequate to the current needs of continuing education of teachers for virtual contexts of learning in Higher Education. The research on the experience of the trainer group has allowed us to trace the importance and effectiveness of collaboration networks in teacher training processes, the possibility of appropriation of virtual learning environments and also to identify dislocations towards new practices teachers, that is to the development of praxis REconectivas teachers in spaces of collective formation.

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This work was developed to bring together components for setting up a digital transformation and innovation consulting firm through an opportunity identification process. Recognizing a favorable scenario, it was decided to open the company, with the creation of its business model, the elaboration of the action plan for the opening process, its development and the start of the company's activities, given the growth potential of the consulting and digital transformation market in the coming years. Digital transformation has brought new technologies and especially the change in business models of companies. The speed of transformation requires organizations to be able to manage and prepare for this new reality, which is often not available within their organizations. In this context, the market for digital transformation and innovation from new technologies is growing steadily and has become a reality for companies, regardless of their area of activity and size. It was noted that companies can make use of consulting services and current priorities are linked to the areas of innovation and digital transformation. This is mainly due to the complexity of the theme and the applicability of new and different technologies. In this sense, from the methodology of elaboration of practical and applied works according to Marcondes, Miguel, Franklin and Perez (2017), it was possible to identify an opportunity to create the consulting company for digital transformation and innovation, whose name is iCubbix. As a result, it was possible to gain experience with this work and could be shared and replicated through its applicability serving as the basis for the creation of consulting companies in different business segments.

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The Modern State appeared as a new type of State. Characterized for the sovereign power, it was instituted to assure the order and the peace in the State community, as well as providing a legal communitarian order in which the individuals could exert their basic rights and lived with dignity. In this way, the State it is constructed to guarantee to the individual the security to live in society, endorsed by laws which could provide the full exercise of their personal rights. The Modern State appears as a Liberal State or 'Rule of Law', characterized for the legal limitation of State power. It is followed by the Social State, and, later, for the Democratic State of Law, characterized for the consecration of the human rights and by the popular sovereignty. Amongst the consecrated human rights, we also could find the right to the public security which, by the way, always was present in the history of the human kind and in all of the Brazilian Constitutions. The Federal Constitution of Brazil in 1988, regulated the public security as a basic right in its article 5º, also as social right in its article 6º and as a State duty and a responsibility of the brazilian society in its article 144, in which regulated the responsible of police agencies for the exercise of the public security. Still thus, the public security is exerted by agencies that had not been regulated in the Constitution, what generates relative debate which also occur, even though, for the incapacity of the policies constitutionally established in consequence of the highest index of existing crime in our Country. Thus, it is necessary joint action of the State Powers, through its Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches, and also by the society, in order to elaborate and implement public policies towards the public security, that could contribute to prevent and to contain crime.

With the popularization of Internet, the advancement of electronic devices and the ease of storage, the volume of data stored and available at companies has increased substantially. Therefore, it becomes necessary to use intelligent techniques to extract useful information and knowledge from these data. In this context, Data Mining has been the aim of several researches by providing a set of intelligent techniques to the exploration of large volumes of data. The present project aims to research and develop new algorithms inspired by the collective behavior of bee colonies for solving complex clustering and classification tasks. More specifically, this project proposes adaptations of an optimization algorithm inspired by the behavior of bees so that it can be applied to solve clustering problems and also for positioning centers of RBF neural networks. The proposed approaches were applied to several benchmark problems with promising results.

In the social thought of Calvin, the cause of economic chaos, greed and social injustice in the sin which came into the world through the Fall in the Eden. But the work of Christ, through His church is responsible for the social and moral reorganization of the fallen society. Calvin denounces the spiritual danger of wealth, the moderation and the obligation to social assistance (giving donation). What should remain at any economical transaction, should be, always: honesty, love, moderation, christian conduct and charity. It is the christian way of living taken seriously. For him, the man carries out his complete humanity while working. The money, wealth and economic possessions are put at the human being disposition for the organization of his life and of society, which is solidarily responsible. Calvin used to combat the medieval theology of the optin for poverty in the monastic asceticism. For him the material life is intrinsically connected to the spiritual life. The humanist formation of Calvin, his piety, erutition and all the experience in the institutions he acted in (Genebra Academy, General Hospital and the French Fund) were determinat for the implantation of the Reform. It changed the attitude concerning money and poverty. Charity is a duty, a rewarding privilege, it is a social responsability of everyone. Calvin´s concept about the social use of wealth must reach us, in all areas of our life, in both spiritual and material ambit.

O trabalho apresentado tem como função evidenciar o uso e o papel de mineração de dados dentro do ambiente corporativo para que seja usada como uma ferramenta analítica preditiva, com a finalidade de entregar qualidade e valor de negócio as informações geradas, sejam elas, diretamente ou não pelas ações de uma área ajudando conhecê-las de maneira estruturada e contextualizada a ponto de que os usuários finais possam tomar decisões relativas ao seu ambiente de maneira mais coesa, ágil e que possam agregar ao produto final. Para alcançar determinado objetivo, o trabalho propõe analisar as informações produzidas por determinada área e mapear os fluxos de uso das aplicações e as interações entre eles a ponto de criar uma relação de processos que possa ser usada para identificar qual a real importância deles, além de poder prever qual a chance de ocorrerem.

The Down Syndrome (DS) is the most frequent genetic cause of mental disability and has been hundreds of studies around the world focusing on clinical, epidemiological, cytogenetic and more recently genomics. This study had as main objective to describe the main sociodemographic characteristics of families of individuals with DS, affecting the health and investigation of possible changes in routine maintenance of family and marriage. 100 families participated in this research not selected, persons with DS at different ages, independent of sex and commitment. Data were collected through semi-structured questionnaire specially developed for the researcher, applied to the main caregivers, traditional institution in the city of São Paulo. The main results were: high age of the mothers and fathers at birth of individuals with DS and low maternal education. The health problems were recorded at high frequency. The frequency of separation of parents (10%) was lower than expected for the general population (18%), but 50% of mothers reported that the reason for the separation was due to the birth of the child with DS. The general adaptation of families with disabled children was appropriate.

The objective of this work was to examine the construction of the image of the citizen (woman) in the announcements of lingerie of the Duloren mark (of 1997, 2000 and 2005) and which the used strategies in these announcements to persuade the readers to buy and to use the products of the Duloren mark. Three published announcements of lingerie of the Duloren in the New magazine had been analyzed, propagated in Brazil, in the theoretical perspective of the discursiva semiotics of French line. The results of the research had shown that all the analyzed levels, the announcements construct estereotipadas images of woman and had dealt with the subject to be able to have the forbidden and impossible pleasure (different forms of pleasure and prohibition). The announcements had emphasized only one trace of the feminism, that is the fight of the woman for the sexual freedom (active woman). One perceives that the constructed image of the woman in the announcements reproduces the values of the Brazilian middle class (classroom C). The research also points which had been to used the linguistic and discursivas strategies in the construction of these images.

The goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the public awareness with regards to the production and communication of academic knowledge in the field of design process, as well as present examples on how this type of work is being conducted in Brazil. It takes into consideration, the speculation on the validity of employing non-textual elements such as images, mock-ups, diagrams and other nontextual resources which are commonly used in this practice. The methodology in this research involved the analysis, both individually and comparatively, of eight scientific research projects in the area of design process which were conducted under the Architecture and Urbanism Graduate Program at the University of São Paulo and are available in the library of the School of Architecture and Urbanism FAUUSP - at the same university. These analyses are presented in the form of summaries and comparison tables. The conclusion, considering all the different characteristics found in these research projects which relate to their goals, methods, the text/image ratio and iconographic resources used therein, is that they all respond the academic research practice and effectively standards contributing to the production of knowledge in the area of design process in architecture.

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The educational game Calangos is based on the ecological modeling of a real case of lizards that inhabit the Dunes of the Middle São Francisco River, in the state of Bahia - Brazil. The goal of the game is to enable students to interact with an environment that promotes a proper understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes. The game should serve as a tool to support the teaching and learning of ecology and evolution to high school students. For the Calangos Game to achieve this goal, central concepts of evolution and ecology should be properly incorporated in the game. Thus, the first scientific challenge of the project, in addition to the technological challenge of developing the game itself, is related to modeling the population dynamics and evolutionary biology in the context of Calangos. To investigate these aspects independently of the game, this dissertation proposes a simulator for Calangos, as well as a genetic-evolutionary model for the lizards. Furthermore, it performs a set of experiments that examine the ecology and evolution of the lizards in the proposed simulated environment. More specifically, four experimental scenarios and three difficulty levels for each environmental scenario are proposed to carefully analyze the dynamics of populations and the influence of the evolution on the fertility and longevity of lizards populations located within the simulated environment. The results clearly show that in a balanced environment without predators it is possible to observe a dynamic equilibrium of populations in a typical Lotka-Volterra model of population dynamics. On the other hand, it is also observed that in the most hostile environments containing large numbers of predators, the capability of evolution allows the lizard species to survive in the environment, which does not occur if the lizards evolution is disabled during the simulations. In the context of the Calangos game, the results presented here serve as the initial proof of concept necessary for the modeling of the lizards to be incorporated in the game.

Trabalho indicado ao Prêmio TCC 2018.

Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa

This paper proposes to analyze oral narrative of a History teacher in the classroom. Research has started with the study of History as a narrative; continued with the investigation of dialogue-based lecture as the path to build a historical narrative; and established a comparative study of classes in which the voices of teacher and students are the main element in contrast to a class in which the oral narrative of a video is the source of the content to be worked. From this, it is possible to understand that the teacher´s role, especially when talking about didactic transposition and historical explanation, is essential to the success of teaching and irreplaceable in relation to the use of any technological tool.

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This work aims the analysis of the possibilities of working with projects using the computer in teaching practice. This research shows the experience of a pedagogical project realized in a school in Mauá City, São Paulo State, in Brazil. This project had been happening for four years (from 2003 until 2006). The aim was centered in the experience of teachers and students from second to fifth year, using new technologic resources, inside a methodological perspective that the grow of knowledge in an interdisciplinary action. Through three of studying: Technologies, teachers formation and project of work allowed us to reflect and analyze the paper of computing in the historical national scenery, just as, in establishing a discussion of the meaning about the use of computer in the scholar environment , and about the paper of the teacher in this context by the new educational paradigm. The teachers could see many possibilities that the computer represents in the process of learning. They signalized some difficulties in pedagogical aspect and in a development of a project using the computing laboratory of the school.

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The credit claims to be one of the most important tools to trigger and move the economic wheel. Once it is well used it will bring benefits on a large scale to society; although if it is used without any balance it might bring loss to the banks, companies, to governments and also to the population. In relation to this context it becomes fundamental to evaluate models of credit capable of anticipating processses of default with an adequate degree of accuracy so as to avoid or at least to reduce the risk of credit. This study also aims to evaluate three credit risk models, being two parametric models, discriminating analysis and logistic regression, and one non-parametric, decision tree, aiming to check the accuracy of them, before and after the segmentation of such sample through the criteria of costumer s size. This research relates to an applied study about Industry BASE.