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The research aims to survey, analyze and criticize the recent transformations taking place in São Paulo urban landscape, specifically in a selected axis located in the southwestern area of the city, historically it's most valued location. The selected axis connects Downtown and Marginal Pinheiros, starting in Martins Fontes St., continuing through Augusta St., Colômbia St., Europa Avenue and, finally, reaches Cidade Jardim Avenue. Several urban morphologies take place all over this axis, formed and consolidated during the 20th century, and important mutations are happening in this pre-existing urban fabric. Such transformations reveal themselves as a result of the constructive laws, and also of the society action which in several ways happens to encourage, through the products of the real estate market or the way of life citizens chose. The built landscape throughout the Augusta St. axis is now changing, specifically in sections Baixo Augusta and Cidade Jardim, through intense verticalization and homogenization of architectural language and products offered, compared to the pre-existing landscape.

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This research work aims to investigate and apply numerical methodologies for the micromechanical characterization of fracture toughness parameters of structural aluminum alloys. It is taken into perspective that the growing use of aluminum structures systems, of multiple constructive types, makes it relevant and necessary to guarantee adequate levels of structural safety and reliability. For this purpose, strategic scientific and industrial research programs are devoted to investigations related to the characterization of materials properties and the mechanical behavior of structural aluminum alloys. It is pertinent to develop robust methodologies for evaluating characteristic toughness parameters for Critical Integrity Assessments, consistent with rheological patterns of these materials. Computational Mechanics methodologies were reviewed that admit representative formulations of the microstructural and micromechanical conditions intrinsic of aluminum alloys, to numerically assess J Integral toughness values (Rice, J.R.-1966). An experimental database of characteristic toughness parameters of AL-5XXX Aluminum-Magnesium alloys (DRDC, 2007) were employed: AL-5083 H321; AL-5086 H116 and AL-5383 H116, tested according (ASTM E 1820,2001) criteria. The Micromechanical Analysis Methodology (XIA, L. and SHIH, 1995) is applied to characterize thel fracture toughness parameter JIc (critical fracture onset) and uses computational cells to represent the distribution of microstructural defects. Dilatant Plasticity constitutive formulations (GURSON, A.L., 1981), and non-linear elasto-plastic rheological behavior (RAMBERG-OSGOOD, 1943) are considered. Through means of the WARP3D V 17.8.2 FEM System resources, both large scale (SSY-MBL) and finite-size test specimens of type (C (T)) discrete models were analysed. Visualization of geometry and results is achieved through the PARAVIEW system, defined with PYTHON features. Key results show that the micromechanical methodology applied leads to the characterization of the Integral J toughness parameters, and allowed to establish of experimental correlation with JIc tenacity characterization parameters. The numerical procedures allowed to obtain the calibration of micromechanical parameters, related with the microestutural voids index fo.

The Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic parental disease caused by the absence of gene expression of the 15 chromosome (q11.2-q13) in a region controlled by the genomic imprinting. Physical, cognitive and behavioral changes as a severe neonatal hypotonia, delay on the global development, intellectual deficiency, deficiency on the growth hormone, behavior problems, hyperphagia and obesity, put the PWS people in death risk, and generates a high degree of physical and emotional stress on the family. The physical activity (PA) has claimed as an important tool of intervention against numerous pathologies and studies have shown its beneficial effects on PWS. There is no synthesized data as the health condition of people who have PWS in Brazil, and no information about the regular practice of physical activity for them. So, the present study objective was to evaluate the physical activity level held by a sample of 30 PWS people and their possible relation by physical health, behavioral profile and familiar life quality. This transverse descriptive study interviewed PWS 30 people parents, between 10 months and 21 years old, both sexes, and cytogenetic diagnoses confirming the PWS. Tools used during the interviews were: demographic questionary, exercise questionary, and medical history at the Prader-Willi Syndrome; Brief Problem Monitor - BPM (to identify the behavioral profile) and WHOQoL (to identify the life quality). The most important results pointed that the socioeconomic condition is associated to the bigger life quality at the social field. Besides, the study shows that the little the behavioral life problems are the bigger the parents’ life quality are at the social field. Furthermore, it was possible to identify an association that was different from the expected, where the higher the level of physical exercises, the lower the life quality of parents at the social field, very likely to the time that they exempt to follow the physical activity. We can conclude that the results reinforce the importance of considering the family at the treatment of PWS people, just as well as the prevention of the main characteristics and symptoms of the syndrome.

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Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Appealing to Louis Althuuser, french philosopher and teacher at the "École Normale Supérieure", we find an analysis of the marxist s theory and its relation with the law and the State s figure. With the approach in to the marxists traditions, searching for the real influences that deeply marked Marx, Althusser will find more in Feuerbach than in Hegel his raises, because the basic structures of the Hegelian and Marxist dialectic are essentially different. If by a side, the Hegel's idealist philosophy see the world as the realization of Absolute Spirit, at the Marxist analysis the economic base and superstructure (political and ideological practice) form a complex social whole, where the economic structure is determinant in the last instance. Althusser´s view of science and ideology was created in his rereading of the classic Marxian texts, wich inspired him to proclaim a epistemological break between the earlier (pre-1845) and mature writings of Marx. The inclusion of the law and another support s institutions in the superstructure guide a possible law s theory, based in a society wich reflects a historical process without a subject.

This research aims to verify the causality relationship between gamification and productivity in the context of software development. In order to achieve this, the two concepts were studied in the definition of seminal authors, who were confronted with more recent works in the search for a consistent definition of productivity and to find elements of gamification that could produce productivity at work. It was then hypothesized that gamification can significantly increase productivity (H1), as well as the hypothesis that certain profiles of professionals may have different reactions to gamification (H2). To verify these hypotheses, an experiment was carried out in a software development company during 149 days, in the first half of 2017, with 6 groups of professionals being compared speed and quality data (partial productivity) before and after applying a gamification focused on productivity, generating a total of 530 records collected. As a result, in four out of six groups (66.6%) a significant increase in productivity was observed, confirming the H1 hypothesis. Regarding the hypothesis H2, it was possible to verify the presence of profiles propitious to be gamified classified as "Achievers" and "Players".

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The present research aimed to investigate the form of control of public administration conceived as social control through a study of multiple cases, as it has been developed in the Brazilian State after the promulgation of the Constitution of 1988. Social Observatory of Brazil (OSB) and Friends of Ribeirão Bonito Associates (AMARRIBO Brazil) were the nongovernmental organizations and networks of control and supervision of public management which were chosen for the case study. The case study involved a qualitative and descriptive analysis of the actions developed by both civil society organizations, selected by their contribution to the strengthening of social control in our country, which enabled a more comprehensive basis for study. The main techniques used for the collecting of the study data were the use of documentary sources, semi-structured interviews with those who played a key role in the study and observations, aided by the analysis of the contents obtained by the incursion into the entities websites. The study was based on the analysis of the constitutional and infra-constitutional discipline about the possibilities of exercising social control, in contrast to bibliographical and jurisprudential research on the subject. The research theoretical framework was obtained by the analysis of contemporary theories about democracy and social participation, highlighting the role and initiatives of the social sphere that is called civil society, as well as the theoretical foundations of the public administration control, seeking possible answers to the problems of the research, from a critical analysis. It was found that the studied organizations seek to develop practices consistent with the statutory objectives through their voluntary actions, but endowed with high professionalism, finding limits only on the small number of social actors involved and on available financial resources. The case study also made it possible to see that the Brazilian legal system provides skilled instruments to allow the exercise of the right to participation and social control, lacking, however, on the one hand the urgent implementation by the entities and their responsible public officials and on the other, the interests of the holders of these rights, the citizens, individually and collectively, to require those rights and exercise them.

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Great attention has been dedicated to knowledge administration thematic in the last years. Articles and books have been published and companies have been increasing the investments in that study field, that presents multidisciplinary relationship with other themes, such as information, human resources administration and organizational behavior systems. Inserted in an environment of competition and competitiveness, great companies coexist with the constant variation of the demand for their products, turning essential the existence of a daily activity foreseeing future situations, in order to maximize the outcome and to provide value to the business. Such an activity is situated in a field of study which goes by the area of marketing and production planning. In this sense, the objective of this study was to list the knowledge management, under a Processual perspective, in the demand planning activity, in an exploratory nature research carried out in five different companies, pertaining companies to five different sectors, characterized as a multi-case case study. The evidences were acquired by means of interviews, observation and document analysis, where content analysis was employed for analyzing and interpreting data. The outcome revealed the presence of elements having explicit, tacit and cultural knowledge in the demand planning activity: information technology tools the and documents, experience of professionals, means for transferring knowledge, collective interaction, social relationships and corporative vision what directs the business. In addition, the creation, transfer, storage and knowledge use processes were also considered as an outcome of the research, standing out the different formal meetings scheduled for knowledge exchange and the "knowledge combination" element, characterized by the interaction among the people during the process of knowledge creation and proposed in the Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization process.

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Through a graphical interpretation, the building’s changes are represented in two different residential sets, since their construction until today: Modernist Village, designed by Flávio de Carvalho, between 1936 and 39 and the Boulevard Olga, with italian neoclassical features, built in the first decades of the 20th century, both in the city of São Paulo. To study occurrences during this period, is adopted a methodology to compile and select significant iconographic material, available in printed and digital sources. Those are converted to images through drawing language, made by the author of this research and later published as graphic pieces. The images aims to register basically two periods that marked the original and current state of Modernist Village and Olga Alley. Over 80 years, the two cases were the subject of interventions of vernacular character, a recurring phenomenon, which occurs in buildings, to meet occasional needs or adaptation of their spaces in the change of use. As a result, it is proposed a confrontation between both cases, to see the contradictions, loss of meaning and the antagonism that set them apart in their original settings, as well as the transformations that disqualify its conceptual purposes, creating, ironically, an identity between the two cases, to reveal the underlying elements veiled in everyday life. For perception of these particularities, it was adopted a methodology that uses drawing as a way to understand the problem of visual and comparative way in this period, the various interventions that occurred in that context, reinforcing the process chart the dialectic of emphasis and exclusion.

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Subject: Improvement in software change agility with adoption of management models and technology architecture. Application: This work presented a proposal to address problems in agility in software changes of the MDN bank (fictitious name), identified from the analysis of performance indicators and compared to large technology companies. Based on these indicators, it was found that there is a time-related problem to launch a new version of internet banking and mobile app for "legal entity" customers. Innovation: The solution adopted suggests, as a strategy, the innovation in processes incre-mentally, with the application of models adapted from agile. A proposal was elaborated, ob-serving the resources and capabilities necessary to s, the action plan and the implementation of the proposal to solve this problem through the adoption of agile practices and DevOps, including the modernization of the application architecture. Impact: The solution adopted has been increasing the speed of software delivery, reducing the waiting time to launch new features, and promoting greater competitiveness of MDN bank in its market. From this context is that this work contributes to meeting the expectations of the or-ganization. Thus, it is expected that the model presented, is replicated in other areas of tech-nology of the MDN bank. Complexity: Dealing with the area of technology of large organizations, as occurs in MDN brings a challenge due to the complexity of the relationships between the areas of develop-ment and operations, so there is a need for new ways of managing the process. Another criti-cal factor for success is the choice of what is effectively to modernize. Part of the develop-ment of this work took place over the COVID-19 crisis. Considering that the analyzed scenar-ios would not change significantly, it was understood to continue with work with teams and management remotely. In this sense, the creation and improvement of strategies to solve the problem, started from the recognition and understanding of values identified under the com-pany's strategy. Applied Methodology: The methodology for practical and applied work (PSPE/AO) of Mar-condes, Miguel, Franklin and Perez (2017) was used, with the use of interviews, the VRIO Model, Impact Grid Analysis, Value Chain Analysis, the SWOT Matrix.