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This research refers to a socio-anthropological study of contemporary therapeutic spiritualities. After defining a specific circuit composed by the group Meditation Sahaja Yoga, Worshiping place Peregrinos da Luz Divina Pai Benedito and Reiki therapy (Espaço Plenitude and Instituto Seva) it was observed from the sayings and practices that therapeutic spiritualities are part of the New Age phenomenon. Thus, the work has as one of the objectives to list the common elements which are present in the circuit that are consistent with the phenomenon, namely: holistic and vitalistic fundamentals, transcultural and hybrid nature, occidental orientation, psychological, experimentalist and idiosyncratic language, new religious consciousness. Supported by a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective we attempted to demonstrate how therapeutic spiritualities foster the construction of an integrative corporeality as well as a set of gentle techniques of integrative character. Both integrative corporeality and the study of spiritual techniques were placed in opposition to dualistic corporeality that emerges with modern conceptions of body and instrumental rational perspective of biomedicine, and, to some extent, with the hegemonic representations in official religious circles. We conclude that the phenomenon of therapeutic spiritualities that emerge amid a crisis of institutions that produce meaning collaborate to build new patterns of behavior, new symbolic codes, new sensibilities conforming another somatic culture grounded in holistic and vitalist principles with contra-modern and post-traditional traits.

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This thesis reflects on progress and limitations faced by the Combat Network Violence against Children and Adolescents in Uberlândia to ensure the promotion, control and protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents, with the participation of the various bodies and institutions governmental and non-governmental, in all spheres, and awareness and participation in social control by civil society. The first chapter presents a history of the Children and Adolescents, depicting aspects of the historical and social reasons, which encouraged the foundation for the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, describing the importance of groups and social movements in all sectors of society . In the second chapter we analyzed the emergence of public policies in Brazil, and the Rights Guarantee System, addressing the social, political and economic issues as well as the history of the two doctrines, which came to complement the Statute of Children and Adolescents: doctrine of full protection and principle of the absolute priority of Children and Adolescents. The third chapter aimed to, address the reality of the city of Uberlândia, in relation to social and legal equipment belonging to Fight Network on Violence Against Children and Adolescents, presenting analytical data regarding the geopolitical structure, economic and social development of municipality, and its service capacity in relation to that structure offered by the government to the municipality. At the end of this dissertation are the final considerations whose purpose is to foster the continuation of studies and reflections on the issues addressed by this dissertation. Regarding the methodology, it is recorded that at the research stage, a literature search on the topic in question took place, and the second time conducted a literature review with methodological criteria and a critical view in order to separate the articles valid to sediment through a careful reading and a critical and analytical look, the result obtained that the intention of which is encouraging the participatory analysis and contribution to the continuation of other studies of the same nature.

The present dissertation has as object the Violence against women Confrontation Network in Uberlândia and it s acting to restrain and prevent gender violence in intra-family and marital environments, as well as the performance of the institutions that integrate them and currently based on Law 11.340/2006, also known as Maria da Penha Law. Such law created mechanisms to suppress and prevent violence against women in home and familiar environment, under the terms of article 226, paragraph 8º of the brazilian Constitution. The purpose is to restrain domestic violence, besides providing greater personal and professional autonomy to women in situations of violence. To understand the specificities of these interactions marked by intimacy, violence and affection, as well as the special treatment granted to them, we begin from gender studies and analyze the relationships of power resulting from asymmetrical gendered relationships between social subjects and, furthermore, the included related implications that refers to violence against women. In the analyzed ambience, it is perceived that gender relations are characterized by hierarchy, since exercising power doesn t occur equitably between women and men. Gender violence, in turn occurs in the context of this construction, being characterized by all form of violence that involves gender motivation regardless of the form or location it happens. The collected data in SOS Mulher Família, PAM, PM, TJMG and DEAM date from 2013, since they were the most current, considering that the year of the research was 2014, and also by being duly registered in these agencies, permitting a more accurate analysis of the current reality. The research problem consisted on verifying the processes and mechanisms of joint action of public entities and social organizations in confronting violence against women in city of Uberlândia-MG, as well as the impacts and results of such actions.

This study aims to investigate how the constitution of the child in consumer addressing the following assumptions: through the family teachings or television can realize the greatest preponderance of one or the other? For the production of the corpus were mobilized conceptions of Carl Ginzburg´s (1999) clues research, the investigative sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and Passeron Chaboredon (2007) and abstract empiricism Wright Mills (2010). These thinkers converge towards privileging a union between science and empiricism. This was the central concern in the construction of the research, which is: to combine sociological method with empiricism to analyze how eight families think and act with respect to consumption. Mainly interested in analyzing how they see the consumer society and fundamentally ago, these families, practices and way collaborating or not for their children to gradually have the perception of what being a consumer in today\'s society. Still: what is the role of television in the formation of these children into consumers. This research sought to find out what are the characteristics that the child himself falls as prospect of being a consumer. Their wants and desires that may show the influence of teachings and consumer perceptions that operates this subject and the conditions to be a social actor in our world of consumption. Analyses were grounded in habitus theory of Pierre Bourdieu (2008), which exemplifies customs and values that give meaning to how and why individuals consume, and liquidity of the theory in the contemporary world of Bauman (2008). Liquidity, according to this author, determines the contemporary life of intensive flow, the speed and the sense that everything in society is diluted intensively. This term social fluidity is Bauman noted that the modern era individuals behave as a commodity which must be seen and appreciated before it can be consumed. From these goals and theoretical and methodological bases interviews were analyzed (semi-structured) carried out with eight families in the city of Uberaba-MG. The children of these families were at the time of the survey, aged between 7:10 years old. In short, this study focuses on the practices, values, attitudes and feelings that define the parents and especially the children as consumers in the world of contemporary consumption.

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This paper is an overview on the process of outsourcing of technical and administrative staff in the education of Federal Institutions of Higher Education and the impact of this process on precarious work, for the period 2010 through 2014. The specific object of the study was the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. The theoretical framework discussed rests on the categories of work and labor force present in Marxist theory, and its precarious process that shows intrinsic to the capitalist mode of production. The hypothesis discussed in this paper deals with how outsourcing, which becomes relevant from the flexible accumulation and the process of internationalization of the labor market, is presented as a specific form of capital\'s response to its crises, which implies flexibility and precariousness of labor and worker\'s quality of life. Finally, it was discussed how outsourcing work force becomes the private sector to the public sector, reaching the specific object that this work aims to use - outsourcing in Federal Institutions of Higher Education and its impact on the lives of their workers. The methodology used was the literature on the outsourcing process in Brazil and particularly in Federal Institutions of Higher Education, associated with data analysis raised about the process of outsourcing of technical and administrative staff in education at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Thus it can be seen as the process of outsourcing has led to the gradual deterioration of the quality of work, a worker\'s life and its forms of organization and mobilization as a class.

CHAPTER II: The objective was to identify the pelvic girdle, stylopod and zeugopod bone anatomy of the Caiman crocodilus, assuming that such information contributes to improve the knowledge about the locomotor system of these animals. Four samples of the C. crocodilus, males, measuring an average length of 1,50m, adults belonging to the didactic collection of the Laboratory of Education and Research of Wild Animals (Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Animais Silvestres - LAPAS), from the Federal University of Uberlândia (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia), already set in 10% formalin, were used. The dissection was performed, initiating with a longitudinal incision, along the ventral median line of the trunk, folding the skin laterally, from the cervical region to the caudal thoracolumbar level, allowing the removal of the viscera en bloc. In the following, the pelvic girdle, the stylopod and zeugopod were disarticulated from the trunk, going through a maceration process with boiling and submersion in hydrogen peroxide at 20 volumes, until satisfactory clarification, for the identification and description of the bone features. A pelvic girdle was identified with three bony constituents: ilium, ischium and pubis. The ilium, with dorsolateral localization, is constituted by a wing and a body. The ischium, localized ventrolaterally and caudal, is constituted by a body, a ramus and a slate with a larger caudal extension. The pubis, with ventral and cranial placement, is constituted by a body, a ramus and a slate with larger cranial extension. The stylopod consists of the femur, with emphasis to the fourth trochanter most prominent in fossil reptiles. The zeugopod consists of the tibia with larger diameter, located medially, and the fibula, with smaller diameter, located laterally. The C. crocodilus presents larger similarity with living archosaurs, in view of the locomotor behavior that defines and explains, in large part, the adaptations to the evolutionary process, as well as the influence of habits from terrestrial ancestrals, and currently, the semiaquatic Crocodylia. CHAPTER III: The objective was to study the muscular anatomy of the pelvic girdle and stylopod of the Caiman crocodilus, augmented of kinesiological correlations, and homology in some groups of tetrapods, under the assumption that such information can contribute to improve the knowledge about the locomotor system of these animals. Four samples of the C. crocodilus, set in 10% formalin, males, measuring an average length of 1,50m, adults belonging to the didactic collection of the Laboratory of Education and Research of Wild Animals (Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Animais Silvestres), from the Federal University of Uberlândia (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia), were used. The dissection was performed, initiating with a longitudinal incision, along the ventral median line of the trunk, folding the skin laterally, until the tail. Next, the muscles of the pelvic girdle and stylopod of the C. crocodilus were individualized and identified, with verification of the respective muscular origins and insertions. In a lateral and superficial view, there was the identification of the internal puboischiofemoral muscle 2, iliotibial group (heads 1, 2 and 3), and iliofibular muscle. In a deep lateral view (Table 2) the external femorotibial and iliofemoral muscles were identified. In a superficial and medial view, there was the identification of the ambiens group (head 1 and 2), internal puboischiofemoral muscle 1, external puboischiofemoral group (heads 1, 2 and 3), femoral adductor muscle 1, puboischiotibial, internal tibial flexor (heads 1 and 2), external tibial flexor, and caudofemoral group (long and short). In a deep medial view, the internal puboischiofemoral muscle 1, femoral adductor 2, internal tibial flexor 3, and ischiotrochanteric muscles were identified. The muscular anatomy of the pelvic girdle and stylopod of the Caiman crocodilus confirms the morphological diversity, in terms of greater responsibility directed to functional activities, for presenting differences, including with the living Crocodylia. The external pubioischiofemoral group was considered the most similar in the comparisons, and the internal tibial flexor group, the most diverse. Functional adaptations due to evolution happen, with tendency to minimize and redirection functions.

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Bovine sexed semen has been commercially evaluated due to its great economic value for sex selection in milk and beef cattle raising, with purity around 90% for the desired sex. However, its employment depends on the cryopreservation use. The objective of the present study was to analyze the spermatic chromatin stability and morphometric alterations in spermatozoid heads from semen-donor bulls through computerized images obtained from microscopic slides of in natura sexed semen stained with toluidine blue, unfrozen sexed semen and from unfrozen conventional semen. Seventeen ejaculated from 17 bulls were used in the confection the microscopic slides for the morphometric analysis of the spermatic head and 15 ejaculated from 15 bulls were used for the analysis of the spermatic chromatin stability. One hundred digital images were obtained from each slide and were used to segment 100 spermatozoid heads from each slide. Area (A), perimeter (P), width (W), length (L), width/length ratio (W/L), elipcity (E), shape factor (SF), lateral symmetry (LS) and anterior-posterior symmetry (APS) of all heads were determined through the use of softwares developed in the SCILAB. Fourier descriptors with amplitude from 0 to 2 (F0, F1, F2) were also considered for the characterization and analysis of shape, and the spermatic chromatin was evaluated in relation to compaction intensity and homogeneity. Based on results obtained, the dilution, staining and incubation process previous to the separation process through flow cytometry and cryopreservation influenced the morphometry of spermatic cells; however, the chromatic compaction was slightly affected by the sexed process through flow cytometry.

With the objective of to evaluate the performance of steers belonging to the groups racial Bos indicus (Nelore) and crossbreed Bos taurus (crossbreed holstein) in intensive grazing, during the dry (DS) and rainy stations (RS), with offer or not of organic chrome (OC) and of artificial shadow, 20 bovine of each racial group were distributed equally among the treatments T1(mineral supplement with inorganic source of chromium, without shadow), T2 (T1 more shadow), T3 (mineral supplement with organic source of chromium, without shadow) and T4 (T3 more shadow), with randomized entirely design experimental in factorial scheme 2x2x2. The weightings and crop of blood of animal happened every 28 days. The appraised sanguine parameters were the leukocytes and the cortisol, glucose, protein, urea, calcium and phosphorus values. Daily the climatic data and the consumption of the mineral supplements were logged. During the DS and RS, Nelores presented larger concentrations of cortisol (7,46 and 4,81 µg/dL), glucose (79,83 and 90,17 mg/dL), urea (27,40 and 32,5 mg/dL) and phosphorus (6,04 and 6,68 mg/dL); in this same period, the bovine suplemented with OC presented larger protein level (7,60 and 7,56 mg/dL) (P< 0,05). The consumption was larger (P< 0,05) for the supplement with OC (159,7 g/UA/day). OC and also the shadow made possible larger earnings in weight (0,189 and 0,194 kg/day, respectively) for the race Nelore in the DS (P< 0,05); in RS, the inorganic chrome (IC) it propitiated larger performance (P< 0,05) to the crossbreed holstein (0,871 kg/day). The association of the OC with shadow guaranteed better results to Nelores (0,250 kg/day) and to the crossbreed holstein (0,240 kg/day) during the RS (P< 0,05). Conclude that the treatment T4 came more efficient, mainly in the DS.

CHAPTER I: Pharmacological restraint of chelonians is a necessary procedure in zoos or in the treatment of wild and exotic animals. With the purpose of describing the results and side effects of the rocuronium restraint in Podocnemis expansa, twenty commercially bred P. expansa, weighing on average 1.59 ± 0.28 kg, were subjected to two protocols: G1 was given 0.25 mg/kg IM of rocuronium and 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine, while G2 received 0.50 mg/kg IM of rocuronium and 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine. The drugs were applied, respectively, in the left and right thoracic members. Assessments were made of the anesthetic parameters of respiratory frequency, heartbeat, righting reflex, cloacal relaxation, palpebral and pupilar reflexes, easy handling, muscle relaxation, locomotion, response to pain. CHAPTER II: Pharmacological restraint of chelonians is a necessary procedure in zoos or in the treatment of wild and exotic animals. With the purpose of describing the results and side effects of the pancuronium restraint in Podocnemis expansa, twenty commercially bred P. expansa, weighing on average 1.58 ± 0.40 kg, were subjected to two protocols: G1 was given 0.02 mg/kg IM of pancuronium and, if necessary, 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine, while G2 received 0.04 mg/kg IM of pancuronium and 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine. The drugs were applied, respectively, in the left and right thoracic members. Assessments were made of the anesthetic parameters of respiratory frequency, heartbeat, righting reflex, cloacal relaxation, palpebral and pupilar reflexes, easy handling, muscle relaxation, locomotion, and response to pain stimuli in the right thoracic members, pelvic members and tail, as well as ambient humidity and temperature. A consistent neuromuscular blockade effect was recorded only in five turtles after 20 ± 7.07 minutes in G1 and 15 ± 5.27 minutes in all members of G2. All the animals were recovered in 180 minutes. The pancuronium in the doses 0.04 mg/kg IM in P. expansa is safe and effective as support of pre-anesthetic and clinical procedures, observing itself complete muscular relaxation, easy of manipulation and loss of the capacity of locomotion in dose-dependent times. Dose 0.02 mg/kg IM presented satisfactory effects in 50% of the animals quizzed, considered helpful for facilitate physical exams, collection of biological samples and others painless procedures. CHAPTER III: Pharmacological restraint of chelonians is a necessary procedure in zoos or in the treatment of wild and exotic animals. With the purpose of describing the results and side effects of the pancuronium restraint in Podocnemis expansa, twenty commercially bred P. expansa, weighing on average 2.13 ± 0.50 kg, were subjected to two protocols: G1 was given 0.60 mg/kg IM of atracurium and 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine, while G2 received 0.80 mg/kg IM of atracurium and 0.07 mg/kg IM of neostigmine. The drugs were applied, respectively, in the left and right thoracic members. Assessments were made of the anesthetic parameters of respiratory frequency, heartbeat, righting reflex, cloacal relaxation, palpebral and pupilar reflexes, easy handling, muscle relaxation, locomotion, and response to pain stimuli in the right thoracic members, pelvic members and tail, as well as ambient humidity and temperature. A consistent neuromuscular blockade effect was recorded only in five turtles after 20 minutes in G1 and 13.33 ± 5 minutes in nine members of G2. All the animals were recovered in 150 minutes in G1 and 280 minutes in G2. The atracurium in the doses 0.60 mg/kg IM presented satisfactory effects in 50% of the animals quizzed, considered helpful for facilitate physical exams, collection of biological samples and others painless procedures. Despite of the dose of 0.80 mg/kg IM presented satisfactory neuromuscular blockade in nine animals quizzed, observing itself muscular relaxation, facility of manipulation and loses of the capacity of locomotion, diverse side effects occurred and one didn t present satisfactory and complete blockade. With that, we recommend more studies before of this drug to be utilized in the routine. stimuli in the right thoracic members, pelvic members and tail, as well as ambient humidity and temperature. A consistent neuromuscular blockade effect was recorded after 12 ± 4.21 minutes in G1 and G2. All the animals were recovered in 150 minutes. The rocuronium in the doses 0.25 and 0.50 mg/kg IM in P. expansa is safe and effective as support of pre-anesthetic and clinical procedures, observing itself complete muscular relaxation, easy of manipulation and loss of the capacity of locomotion in dose-dependent times. They were not found statistical differences between the doses for the majority of the assessments. G1 was as efficient as G2.

Previous studies with pharmacopuncture in dogs showed its advantage for sedation, minimizing undesirable effects. The use of pharmocopuncture with xylazine in Yin Tang acupoint of dogs is investigated. Eight dogs were randomly submitted to four different treatment protocols according to a Latin Square double blind design: 1) 0.01 mL/kg of saline injected into Yin Tang acupoint (aquapuncture), 2) 1 mg/kg of xylazine injected subcutaneously at the dorsal region, 3) 0.2 mg/kg of xylazine injected subcutaneously at the dorsal region and 4) 0.2 mg/kg of xylazine injected into Yin-Tang acupoint (pharmacopuncture). Rectal temperature, heart and respiratory rates, arterial blood pressure, oxygen hemoglobin saturation and pulse rate and degree of sedation were measured before and at 5, 10, 30, 40, 50 and 60 minutes after treatments. Sedation was observed in xylazine and pharmacopuncture groups while saline injection and sub -dose of xylazine did not induce sedation. Both xylazine and pharmacopuncture induced reduction in respiratory rate, heart rate and arterial blood pressure. In conclusion, pharmacopuncture and the conventional dose of xylazine produced similar sedation in dogs. The results indicate the potential application of pharmacopuncture in dogs. Further studies could elucidate the optimal doses, drugs and acupoints to achieve the best effect.

The mandibular foramen was evaluated in domestical cats, to its exact localization to support the alveolar mandibular nerve anesthesic block. Thirty adults domestic cat (Felis catus), 5 male and 25 female were study. Six reference points were measured with universal pachimeter, after mandibular colects preparing. LONG (more lateral edge of the condilar process until the firts incisive lower incisive); TRANS (ventral edge of mandibule until dorsal edge between the second pre-molar teeth and the first teeth inferior); FVENTRAL (more rostrail edge of mandibular foramen until the ventral edge of mandibule); ANG (extremity of the edge more rostral mandibular); COND (extremity more rostral mandibular foramen until the medial edge of the mandibulae condilar of process); COR (more rostral edge of mandibular foramen until mandibule condilar process). The results were submited to descritive estatistics analysis and its use T of Student with p=0,05 where observe the best local anesthesic block of inferior alveolar nerve with a needle would to introduce of 4,1 at 4,4 mm mandibule ventral edge and 12,37 at 12,57 mm of angular process.

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The objective of this work to evaluate the estimate daily gain, body measurements, gastrointestinal development of the rumen and small intestine, the diarrhea incidence and morphometric of intestinal villous and rumen papillae, in sucking calves in function of the addition of probiotics in the liquid diet. Thirty male crossbred calves Holstein x Zebu, were distributed in completely randomized design with three treatments: Treatment 1 - whole milk (control), Treatment 2 - whole milk + Sacharomyces cerevisiae and Treatment 3 - whole milk + Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Sacharomyces cerevisae, Bacillus subtilis, Aspergillus oryzae, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Enterococcus faecium. The feeding supplied daily was constituted of milk, concentrated and hay of grass-Tifton-85. Calves were weighed and measured every fifteen days until slaughter. The incidence of diarrheas was analysed through the verification of the consistence oh the feces. For macroscopic evaluation, it was measured the back-ventral length, crown-rump and rumen weight, length and weight of the small intestine and lumen of the duodenum, jejunum and ileum. In the analysis of small intestine and rumen histomorphometric, the height and width of villous were measured, it distance between them and height of the rumen papillae. There were not differences among treatments to daily gain, body and the diarrhea incidence in sucking calves but there were differences to absorptive surface of the jejunum and ileum (90 days) and to absorptive surface of the rumen papillae (45 days). The supply of probiotics in the liquid diet did not influence the performance and development of the sucking calves.

The prostate gland consists of 30 to 50 ramified glands around the bladder neck and the pelvic urethra in the male. It is a medium lobe and two side ones, covered by a fibrous vessel which contains smooth muscular fibers. Dogs, such as men are the unique mammals that suffer natural pathologic process in the prostate gland related to their age. The purpose of this study was to research microscopic alterations of the prostate gland in dogs in different ages that were submitted to orchiectomy as well as dogs that were not submitted to that process. In both group of animals many points were considered, e.g., weight, size and prostatic extent. These findings were correlated to the kind of tissue lesion found. So that it could be checked if there is any linking between the different lesions of the prostatic tissue and androgenic hormonic stimulus. A hundred adult, male dogs from several breeds and different ages (about 7 years old) were submitted to necropsy. They were classified in two groups; 50 castrated animals and 50 non-castrated ones. The glands were collected, measured, weighed and evaluated thru naked eye; considering their coloration, consistency and aspect. After resting in a 10% formaldehyde solution, transverse cuts were made and sample of the lobes were observed. Then those samples were processed in order to make the slides according to the protocol used by histopathology laboratory of Universidade de Uberaba. At the end, the incidence of each prostatic disease was evaluated, correlating the histopathologic findings to the age of the animals as well as to the pertaining group. The results were ruled in the following tests: Sperman, test t of Student and binomial test; considering a level minor than 5%. The average weight and size of the normal prostate gland in castrated and noncastrated dogs were 0,67g/kg , 0,78 cc/kg ,0,58 g/kg, 0.73cc/kg. In the group of animals that were not submitted to orchiectomy the most common histopathologic diagnoses were: benign prostatic hyperplasia (H.P.B) (56,0%), prostatitis (54%) and H.P.B (14%). Most of the prostatic tissues which were analyzed, had 2 or more concurrent histopathologic alterations; 60% in the noncastrated group of dogs and 70% in the castrated one. Normal prostatic tissue was not found in dogs older than 7 years old that were submitted to orchiectomy, however it may be concluded that orchiectomy does not interfere significantly in the occurrence of different pathologies of the prostatic tissue, but its development depends on hormones. Though the age is a variable to be considered, concerning to prostatic tissue pathology, since all the animals older than seven years had glandular lesions.