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The main objective of this paper is to verify the importance of institutional quality and human capital on the accumulation of wealth by nations, according to an extended Solow's model. A variable capturing institutional quality increases the explanation power. Despite the difficulty of measuring institutional quality, the experiment provides results which are consistent with the ones obtained by Acemoglu et al. (2001) on the causality between economic growth and the quality of institutions, illustrating the importance of history in the growth process of a country.

The furniture industry of the Metropolitan Region of Belém provides many jobs opportunities and help to reduce the environmental impacts of sawmill, given that the shavings and wood residues of these firms are used as raw material. Factorial analysis was used to estimate the index of competitive performance (ICP) and to determine the competitive position of the firms in the furniture industry. The results showed that most of the furniture firms were located in an intermediate competitive level, which is due to the limiting factors such as lack of workforce, low technological level, difficult access to credit and low level of horizontal and vertical integration in the supply chain. The final results showed that only one, among the furniture firms, achieved a high competitive performance position.

PONTE, Alexandre Quintela. Afetividade de idosos de vida religiosa consagrada e a moradia na casa de saúde: projetos de vida e processo de estabilização residencial. 2010. 125 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.

The objective of this study was to verify the evolution of economic indicators of the families, living in 27 communities, benefited by Rural Poverty Reduction Program in the state of Ceará. For this purpose, the years of 1998 (base year) and 2001 were selected. The information was obtained from the beneficiaries of projects such as water supply, rural electrification, agriculture mechanization and land reform. The results allowed to conclude that there was an improvement in living conditions, acquisition of durable goods and income level of population benefited by the Program. Also, comparison between per capita income of these families and rural population of the state was made.

MARTINS, Ana Carolina Borges Leão. O percurso do conceito de fim de análise de Freud a Lacan 2010. 139f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.

PINHO, Ana Maria Melo de. Pintando janelas em muros: a arte como método vivencial de facilitação de grupos populares. 2010. 230f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.

GONDIM , Andressa Alencar. Compreendendo o sofrimento decorrente do trabalho nos motoboys de Fortaleza-CE . 2009. 106f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

LINS, Daniel Soares. O gozo e o poder: sobre a dimensão genealógica do gozo. 2006. 355f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós- Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006.

BYLAARDT, Cid Ottoni. Heresias da letra sem corpo e do espírito errante uma leitura do romance "As iniciais" , de Bernardo Carvalho. Revista de Letras, Fortaleza, v. 1/2, n. 28, p. 84-96, 2006.

The success in the recruitment of reef fish depends on the number of individuals who survive after larvae have entered in the reef environment. Different post-recruitment processes are responsible for the distribution of recruits and adults and consequently, for the structure of their populations. The distribution of Abudefduf saxatilis, Stegastes rocasensis, Thalassoma noronhanum, Acanthurus chirurgus and Acanthurus coeruleus recruits and adults were assessed through visual censuses in the Atol das Rocas. 13 sample stations with contrasting features were pooled in five categories: nine pools, a tidal pond formation, a patch reef formation, a sandstone reef and an algae crest. Pools were classified as connected (Barretinha, Barreta Falsa and Podes Crer) and non-permanently connected (Farol 2, Garoupinha, Cemitério, Âncoras, Abrolhos and Tartarugas) with the ocean. Non-connected pools were classified in shallow (Farol 2, Garoupinha and Cemitério) and deep (Âncoras, Abrolhos and Tartarugas). Unifactorial analysis of variance revealed that tidal ponds and pools were the most preferred categories among recruits, while the majority of adults avoided tidal ponds. Independent t-tests per groups demonstrated that the type of pool connectivity with the ocean affected the distribution of the largest part of recruits, however to a much lesser extent in the case of adults. Non-connected pool depth affected the distribution of most recruits and all adults. Migratory movements, structural complexity, reef substrate coverage, the presence of conspecifics, food availability and predator presence are post-recruitment processes that probably affected recruit and adult distribution. Depth may have also influenced A. chirurgus, A. saxatilis recruits and A. coeruleus adults to a certain extent. No A. coeruleus recruits have been observed.

The penaeid shrimp Farfantepenaeus subtilis is an important native species for fisheries industry in Brazil. Among marine shrimps of commercial importance, penaeids are recognized as a valuable resource for fishery and aquaculture in tropical and subtropical regions. However, data on these species is extremely reduced, especially concerning genetic elements involved in animal muscle growth. Therefore, aiming at identifying shrimp genes directly associated with muscle contraction in this research, beta-actin and myosin heavy chain genes of the pink shrimp F. subtilis were isolated from its muscular abdominal and partially sequenced. Shrimps collected from Pacoti estuary, Ceará, were first identified through taxonomy and, then, through DNA amplification followed by sequencing of Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I (COI) and 16S. From fresh shrimp tissues, total RNA was extracted and complementary cDNA was obtained. Based on specific primers designed after sequence alignments performed against sequences at GenBank/NCBI, genes were amplified from RT-PCR (reverse transcriptase - polimerase chain reaction) and sequenced. A 760bp partial F. subtilis beta-actin cDNA fragment was obtained, while the partial F. subtilis myosin heavy chain cDNA was 570bp long. Sequence analyses using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) program indicated that F. subtilis beta-actin gene product is very similar to betaactin of other species of shrimps, while the myosin heavy chain protein is highly homologous to crustacean myosins heavy chain, confirming the identity of the isolated gene sequences. Alignment of these gene sequences with other sequences in GenBank showed high similarity with Penaeus monodon (93%) and Farfantepenaeus paulensis (88%). Results have showed the feasibility of partial gene identification as a means to identify genes of strategic interest. These data would help further attempts to elucidate the complete isolation of these genes, as well as the detection of other important genes, especially from shrimp species occurring at the Brazilian coast. Genes analyses involved with muscle growth might provide important genetic information on native species that are overexploited and may be viable for the shrimp cultivation. In addition, these data might also benefit the scientific community, improving a range of research areas such as physiology, phylogeny and evolution of penaeids

A technical and economic analysis tilapia, Orechromis niloticus, juvenile production on a small scale in the state of Ceara. The technical analysis was restricted to the production and handling, compared to its initial design and actual situation. The economic analysis was divided into three parts: measures of economic outcomes, financial analysis and sensitivity analysis. To measure the economic outcomes were considered the following parameters: net income, the point of flatness, profitability ratios and profitability, ability to pay, the rate of return and spare time on invested capital, profit rate and cost-benefit ratio. In the financial evaluation, we used the parameters of the internal rate of return (IRR), net present value (NPV) and benefit cost updated. The sensitivity analysis considered variations in market interest rates, revenues and costs for feed and fingerlings. The results were all positive, demonstrating the feasibility of production of juvenile Nile tilapia fish farming by Santa Tereza, today and over the next years

LOURENÇO, Jullyermes Araújo. Desenvolvimento de juvenis recentes de lagosta espinhosa Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palinuridae) submetidos a diferentes temperaturas em condições de laboratório. 2006. 147f. Dissertação(Mestrado em Engenharia de Pesca) - Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, 2006.

Seaweed consists in a vital resource to the economy of many countries and it has been explored all over the world thanks to its capacity of producing colloids such as agar, carrageen and sodium alginate as well as the useful aspect either in food industry, fertilizers or medicine area. Studies on induction, cultivation and callus reorganization have been shown an important issue on tissue culture technique and its usage. In different tissue experience in vitro the usage of regulating growth is so fundamental to establish the competence and necessary conditions to callus formation and regeneration. In this present study has been tested the auxin and citocinin effects in different dosages of agar in ASP 12-NTA. The indolacetic acid effect and 6- benzilalaminopurine have been tested as well in seaweed in the species Gracilaria birdiae with two separated doses, 0,5mg/L and 0,8mg/L and together in concentration of 1:5mg/L and 5;1mg/L. Regarding to agar concentration, it has been tested two concentrations with 0,5% and 0,8% in all treatments. As to sterilization process has been done with fungicide (nistatina) and antibiotic (ciprofloxacin) besides iodopovidona and the sodium hypochlorite. The complete experiment had been lead in a germination chamber with 25±2ºC and photoperiod of more or less 16 hs of light and 08hs dark and 30,2‰ saltiness, pH around 7,6 within 60 days approximately. In more or less 50 days of cultivation had been noticed callus formation and regeneration process therein. The results had been underwent by statistic analyze treatments of contingent through (x2) where many meaningful different observations had been checked in callus and regeneration and the agar levels studied, that is to say the agar level treatments in 0,8% presented a major number of regeneration

PINHEIRO, Joceny de Deus. Arte de contar, exercício de rememorar: história, memória e narrativa dos indios pitaguary. 2002. 127 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2002.

CAVALCANTE, João Paulo Braga. Conexões entre o mundo on-line e a vida off-line: otakus e cultura de consumo na era da internet. 2008. 153 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008.

FORTE, Joannes Paulus Silva. A igreja dos homens: o trabalho dos agentes de Cáritas para o desenvolvimento da economia popular solidária no Ceará. 2008. 296 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008.

About the tension between the institutions and their "users", about strategic calls and tactical deviations, about logics and cunnings, it´s that the present work seeks be structured. Having as reference Michel de Certeau´s conceptions, this dissertation takes Abril Despedaçado film as a investigation field, trying to think about revenge practices and their effects on them involved in the family contentions. Therefore, know that does such practice an institution, analyze their constituent elements and, above all, examine the ways like it is consumed by the habitants of Riacho das Almas - place of the interior baiano, stage of the conflict between Breves and Ferreiras -, are the main objectives. The "reflexivity" made possible by the estrangement and, consequently, the interpellation of the protagonists of the death cycle, is here a reflection object too. It is important to say, that this present work leaves of the idea that the cinema, as aesthetic experience, supplies tracks for understanding the social and cultural world.

COELHO, Juliana Frota da Justa. Bastidores e estreias: performers trans e boates gays abalando a cidade. 2009. 157 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

GADELHA, José Juliano Barbosa. Masculinos em mutação: a performance drag queen em Fortaleza. 2009. 265f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.