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This dissertation implements the plant of an unit of pumping water supplied by electricity from the wind energy, to make possible the wells water extraction in semi-arid regions installed at the Station of Engineering Fishing on Pici's Campus of University Federal of the Ceará (UFC), in Fortaleza - CE, Brazil. The unit has a wind turbine (1kW-220 Vac), a load controller, and a water pumping system from a well to an elevated reservoir. The electricity to water pumping system can be powered by wind turbine or conventional grid. Other aspect that improves the work was the development of a piping that can be configured to submit the water pumping system to several hydraulics loads to accomplish the operational tests. The developed plant was able to pump, on an average, 4.318 L/day of water with the maximum value of 10.698 L/day to an average wind speed of 3,84 m/s. The reached average efficiency were : 10% (wind/hydraulic) and 41% (electric/hydraulic) by a wind speed of 6,5 m/s. The accomplished rehearsals demonstrated low robustness of the wind turbine used, pledging, thus, the operational availability and the equipment reliability. Actions are suggested to guarantee the viability of this model of water pumping powered by small size wind turbines.

In the last decades, the main cities in Brazil have been suffered from the level of urban mobility as a result of the undiscriminating use of automobiles due to the high frequency of daily trips and to the deficient highway spaces. Thus, the demand for trips started a conflict, resulting in an instability presented in several problems such as atmospheric pollution, car accidents and high levels of congestion. Drivers try to minimize the travel time avoiding the principal ways with high levels of congestion, starting to utilize the collectors or local roads to get to their destinations. With such high speed in residential areas, the agencies, in order to guarantee the safety of the users, implanted speed reducers as a way to improve the conditions of circulation in urban areas. The Brazilian Traffic Code – CTB regulated the utilization of the speed hump only for special cases, requiring studies that justify its implantation in order to avoid the conflicts between the way users. Therefore, this objective dissertation aims at studying the effects of speed hump in the traffic operations in urban ways, also identifying other factors which influence the drivers' behavior in segments which precede and succeed such speed hump. From the study of the impacts, a method to determine the most appropriate positioning of the speed hump in the roadway was proposed upstream of the pedestrian crossing site.

This paper analyses the process of convergence in the world economy in the 1950-1992 period, with the purpose of examining the factors that have contributed to the ocurrence of that process and to the ∗ Agradecemos o apoio recebido da FUNCAP e a bolsista do PIBIC/CNPq, Emanuela Andrade Costa, para realização desta pesquisa. ** Coordenador da pesquisa. Professor do curso de pós- graduação em economia(CAEN)da Universidade Federal do Ceará-UFC. *** Professor do Curso de Economia da Universidade Federal do Piauí e doutorando do CAEN.3 formation of “Convergence Clubs” . The data used have as sources the Penn World Table (1992) and Barro and Lee (1993). In the empirical tests the neoclassical model was used. Persistence tests were also performed. The results indicate the existence of a divergence process when all countries were considered, and a convergence process for the group of rich countries. Formation of Convergence Clubs was also identified. The introduction of auxiliary variables, schooling levels, degree of economic openess, to explain the conditional convergence did not result significant. The persistence tests, on the other hand, do indicate a trend in consolidation of the “Convergence Clubs”

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Differentials in the rates of growth of income per capita among countries has been a pemianent issue in the economic literature, particularly in those areas related to Economic Development and Economic Growth. Recently, empirical studies have shown a process of reduction on those differentials among developed countries. The analysis of this process, and of its theoretical and empirical foundations, namely of the Convergence Hypothesis (H-C), has given rise to an important research area. In analytical temis this analysis can be roughly classified into two approaches: The Appreciative and the Formal Theorizing Model. In this paper both approaches are considered. Adittionally a brief analysis of the literature and of the relationship between the expansion of world trade and the H-C is also made.

ALENCAR , Helenira Fonseca de. Participação social e estima de lugar: caminhos traçados por jovens estudantes moradores de bairros da Regional III da Cidade de Fortaleza pelos mapas afetivos. 2010. 239 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.

PINHEIRO , Heráclito Aragão. O fantasma no castelo do materialismo: uma história do inconsciente Freudiano. 2009. 91 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

The coronary reperfusion therapy with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and stent placement constitutes, now, the preferential treatment to the patient attacked by acute myocardial infarction. In the period after to angioplasty, the patient with infarct demands peculiar cares of the nursing team due cardiac compromising and physical dependence. The identification of the nursing diagnoses addresses the actions attended and delegated by the nurse. The objective of the study was to analyze the nursing diagnoses in patients with acute myocardial infarction submitted to the primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with use of coronary stent. Cross sectional study of descriptive-exploratory character, accomplished in a public hospital of Fortaleza-Ce. The population consisted of 51 patients in their first infarct episode that they accomplished angioplasty with success in the placement stent and interned in the cardiac infirmaries. The data were collected by means of interview, physical exam and it consults to the records’ patient during the months of January to August of 2006. The results showed predominance men, brown, with average of 54 year-old age and it lowers education level. It identified high frequency of previous infarct, with artery descending previous left accused by the ischemia and Killip Classification I. They were found, on the average, 11 nursing diagnoses, 28 defining characteristics, 6 related factors and 5 risk factors for patient. The nursing diagnoses of larger frequency were: Risk for infection, Altered dentition , Activity intolerance, Bathing/hygiene self-care deficit, Toileting self-care deficit, Dressing/grooming self-care deficit, Sleep pattern disturbance, Impaired walking and Impaired physical mobility. The variable number of diagnoses presented statistic association with the diagnoses self-care deficits, Impaired walking and Impaired physical mobility. There was significant association between the diagnoses related to the self-care, mobility and locomotion, and of these with the factors related prescribed restrictions of movements, limitation imposed by the retreat of the hem and state of harmed mobility. The data revealed predominance of phenomenons related to the biological order and importance in the identification of the nursing diagnoses in the specific clientele in way to base a nursing care plan of activities returned to the attendance of the physiologic needs of self-care and physical dependence.

REIS , Inês Maria de Oliveira. Os sentidos do adoecer: refazendo o percurso Freudiano. 2008. 144 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008.

Estudos empíricos têm constatado a existência de diferenciais de produtividade e renda per capita entre países e uma tendência à sua redução para os países desenvolvidos. Esta tendência, denominada de Hipótese da Convergência (H-C), tem recentemente ganho relevo em face da queda relativa das taxas de crescimento da produtividade e renda per capita americana desde a segunda metade da década dos 60’S. A análise deste processo, no geral, tem-se dado em duas grandes linhas de pesquisa: uma baseada em modelos econométricos de crescimento econômico e outra na hipótese de catch-up, mais próxima da análise do processo de desenvolvimento econômico. Este trabalho se insere na segunda linha e procura analisar a H-C, a partir da experiência recente da economia americana, as principais razões, primeiro, para sua ocorrência, como a expansão do comércio mundial, produção em massa entre outros. Segundo, para a manutenção, apesar da queda relativa observada, da posição de liderança na economia mundial. Entre os fatores responsáveis por este fato destacase a posição de liderança dos Estados Unidos na área tecnológica, em particular nas indústrias de alta tecnologia (expressa pela participação americana na exportação mundial de produtos considerados de alta tecnologia). Esta liderança inconteste, ao longo do período 1965/88, acentuou-se a partir da segunda metade dos anos 80.

The lack of knowledge on the part of mothers about their children’s ocular health is a common denominator found when they are asked about this theme, mainly concerning the visual stimulation, which is a component of significant value to the newborn babies’ ocular health. Thus, one aimed to apply a handbook highlighting the visual stimulation for mothers of children with risk to visual alterations and to validate material and method for education and health applied to visual stimulation of premature children and/or with risks to visual alterations. Data collection was carried out from April to June, 2005 in three methodological moments. On the first moment, the handbook was analyzed by three experts, on the second one, the handbook was reformulated starting from the suggestions and on the third moment the handbook was applied to the mothers admitted to the kangaroo-mother ward, with record of interviews where the items of evaluation were approached after the reading of the handbook. The data were described according to Bardin (1977) and Nietsche(2000). Referring to the first moment, one suggested changes in the handbook’s back page, with the complete identification of the authors, addition of an item about the obstetric history and another about signs and symptoms of visual alterations; change of a drawing that was over the text making it difficult to read; emphasis on the topic about the participation of parents on the promotion of ocular health to their children; update on the literature; and enlargement of the material created for all the children with risks to visual alterations, not only the premature ones. Next, one carried out the second methodological moment, with the corrections suggested by the experts, being all obeyed. After the thematic analysis of the 12 interviews, one identified four themes: Perception of the handbook, Knowledge of mothers about ocular health, Handbook’s structure and Promotion of the ocular health. We concluded that the handbook facilitated the learning about visual stimulation, as well as it will make that the visual deficit, in case it appears, is noticed as precocious as possible, in the family life. Besides encouraging the stimulation at home as an indispensable factor to the development of the child, be it premature or not. By mentioning the components contemplated by the emancipatory technology, to know: the exercise of critical conscience, citizenship, freedom and autonomy; we affirm that each one of them was present at the application of the handbook about visual stimulation, what makes the handbook, as well as the practice together with the mothers as emancipatory technology.

In this paper, we analyzed the time as a privilege category of subject and society study; aiming to analyze its action as a social solvent when presents itself in the new configurations between time and work in contemporaneity, we performed a theoretical analysis of time category and its new ways of presenting itself in work contemporaneity. Thereunto, we delimitated a few study fields where temporality inserted itself as category, as of Philosophy, Physics, Biology and Sociology, we studied the work Time, the free Time and the leisure Time. Based on these studies, we delimitated a few Psychology study fields of temporality, so we can finally focus in the temporality issue for Psychoanalysis. Once the subjective temporality was delimitated, we could search for the interface between it and the world, finding a temporality marked by social mediation. In this context, we verified the time acting with the work, forming one of the categories which works as social glue. Analyzing the new configurations admitted by the labor temporality, after the work has become predominant social category, we verified that it can lose its society wide glue characteristic and present itself as a social solvent in a few social groups, fortifying other groups’ attachments, helping, thereby, in time ghettos formation related to work.

In response to growing consumption of alcohol and its related problems, exemplified by harmful use and/or dependence, Brazil has been setting public policies such as full attention on alcohol and drugs users which, in turn, highlights the psychosocial care based on a support network organized by the Psychosocial Care Center (PCA), linked to other health services and community groups. Self-help groups as the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are becoming increasingly common, as its members organize themselves in order to live and solve their own alcohol related problems. This research aimed to learn, from the experience of handling with alcoholics, how a self-help group develops itself as a social support network. The descriptive study took place in an AA from Fortaleza (CE), with 20 participants aged over 18 years-old, who wished to take part and were affiliated and regularly attending the group meetings for at least one year, and also were in physical and emotional conditions to properly respond the questionnaire. Data were collected through individual interviews, using a semi-structured road map and organized in tables, then grouped in four main categories that emerged from the interviewed testimonies. The analysis process was based on the precepts of Bardin´s Content Analysis. The results shows the diversity of characteristics about social, demographic and historical aspects related to the use of drugs, with a history of heavy use of alcohol and its adverse consequences to the health of the participants, including all sorts of negative interference in all aspects of their lives: personal, family, social and economic. It was reported by the participants the search for spiritual assistance in health services and self-help groups to drug-dependency treatment. It was also emphasized the AA contribution to the Health Promotion, not only because it restores their physical condition, but also by offering them subsidies for empowerment, and giving the possibility of reintegration of those ones previously victimized by social exclusion. The self-help group proved to be an efficient support environment to the participants, permeated by the offer of a program with attainable goals, by working as a space where the participant has a voice, and by its intersectorial ability of articulation within support network groups. Based on the perceived reality, comes the perception about the need of more health professionals engaged in the fight against the use of psychoactive drugs, taking a more decisive role in the construction of policies and practices that meet this condition and provide solutions for it. To the given complexity, this participation requires some key conditions, such as the recognition of the importance of knowledge from other areas and the capability of building partnerships as a strategy for care and social inclusion.

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Objetivou-se, com este estudo, identificar os fatores de risco para diabetes tipo 2 numa população de adolescentes de escolas particulares da cidade de Fortaleza.Trata-se de um estudo transversal realizado com 794 alunos de 12 a 17 anos nos meses de maio, junho, agosto e setembro de 2007. Doze escolas particulares das seis regionais que compõem a cidade de Fortaleza foram selecionadas. Utilizou-se um formulário onde se registraram dados pessoais, características sociodemográficas, hábitos alimentares e de exercícios físicos dos consultados. Também se mensurou o peso, a altura, a pressão arterial e a glicemia capilar de todos os alunos. Os pais dos alunos responderam sobre os casos de DM2 em familiares através de um questionário enviado aos respectivos domicílios. Os dados sofreram dupla digitação e foram analisados com base em literatura específica. Este estudo atendeu as exigências das Diretrizes e Normas da Pesquisa em Seres Humanos. Dos 794 adolescentes participantes 57,3% eram do sexo feminino e 42,7% do sexo masculino. A idade variou de 12 a 17 anos, com média de 14 anos, sendo a maioria compreendida na faixa etária de 12 a 14 anos (53,4%). A maior parte deles estava entre o 8º e o 9º ano do ensino fundamental (43,6%). Foram investigados os fatores de risco excesso de peso, sedentarismo, antecedentes familiares de DM2 em parentes de primeiro e segundo graus e níveis elevados de pressão arterial e glicemia capilar. Dos adolescentes participantes 23,7% tinham o IMC elevado, 65,1% eram sedentários, 51,1% tinham antecedentes familiares de DM2, 19,7% tinham pressão arterial elevada e 4,9% tinham glicemia capilar fora dos padrões de normalidade. Os dados, em relação ao número de fatores de risco apresentados por cada adolescente, apontam que 10,5% deles não tinham nenhum dos fatores investigados, mostrando que eles não estavam, portanto, expostos ao risco de adquirir DM2. No entanto, 33,8% dos jovens tinham pelo menos um fator, 39,2% dois, 14,2% três e 2,3% quatro fatores associados. Apenas um adolescente tinha os cinco fatores presentes, estando esse jovem, portanto, com grande chance de adquirir a doença. Essa investigação permitiu à enfermagem ter o conhecimento dos fatores de risco para DM2 nos jovens participantes e os resultados encontrados podem proporcionar ao enfermeiro a atuação no ambiente escolar através da proposta e a atuação efetiva na realização de oficinas educativas com o objetivo de incentivar mudanças de comportamento para combater, sobretudo, o excesso de peso e o sedentarismo, contribuindo dessa forma com a promoção da saúde e a prevenção de DM2 naquela população.

This is a quantitative study, which took place in a public maternity of Fortaleza - CE during the months of March and May of 2004. The aim was to describe the implementation of a visual evaluation during the intern of 114 premature newborns (PN) whose gestation age until birth was under 37 weeks. The babies’ mothers gave their permission to be subject of the study. The evaluation questionnaire consisted of three categories: 1) maternal and newborn history, 2) ocular exam and 3) nursing care. The data was analysed with the help of SPSS software 11.0 version and presented through table charts. To analyse the 2x2 tables it was used Fisher’s tests and for the rxc tables, Fisher-Freeman-Halton’s tests, adopting a significance level of 5%. Under the category maternal history, the data showed that the age’s ratio of the mothers was 23 and 3.8 was the average number of pre - natal consultation. Under family history/ophthalmologic, it stood out deflection errors (17%) followed by diabetes (14%) and in a lower frequency, cataract (4%) and glaucoma (1%). Under personal history it stood out high blood pressure (12%) followed by visual disorder (8%). Under newborn history it was found that 71% of PN were born thought caesarean section, also 52% are female and 68% had an apgar lower than seven during the first minute of their lives. 78% were average PN according to the premature classification. It was found that 112 PN used oxigenotherapy in which 71% of them were between the ages of 1 and 10 days. Also 68 PN were under phototherapy in which 53% were between 1 and 5 days old. The prophylaxis against newborn ophthalmologic disease was done in 27% of the premature newborns. As for the external ocular exam, 27% of those babies showed alteration in the eyelid, 16% in the conjunctiva, 14% in the sclera, 9% in the lachrymal duct, 6% in the cornea and 5% in the pupil (opening of the iris). None of the premature newborns showed any alterations on the eyebrow or iris. There was a meaning variation between the sclera and the ophthalmologic medication used (p=0,055). Thirteen premature newborns (11%) showed variation of the extra-ocular movements (physiologic strabismus) and thirteen (11%) had their red reflex altered. It was found a relevant relation among the red reflex, the apgar in the first minute of the newborns’ lives (p=0,041) and the time of oxigenotherapy treatment (p=0,028). The nursing care, based on visual assessment, was noted on the register book, informed to the nursing team, conducted as an specific treatment for the newborns’ vision, transmitted to their parents and other professionals (if one was to be needed). The results showed that the method used was efficient because it emphasizes and identifies factors that may help cooperate treatments against premature visual disorders. Indeed a technology resource contributes to the knowledge and nursing practice for the newborns’ visual health. The evaluation process came to be useful and necessary during a newborn intern period as one of the nursing treatments to reduce children’s ocular disorders.

Spinal cord injury represents great problem in public health, which affects physically the body, leading to paraplegia or tetraplegia, bringing consequences that modify family’s dynamics, which determine a new life style to its members. This context takes family to organize itself and to reconfigure its shapes, in search for understanding the individual and learning how to live with the injury implications. We aimed, in this study, to understand the meaning of caring given by the family to a person with spinal cord injury; to find out the feelings that surround the care relationship of the spinal cord injury person’s family based on the considerations of Jean Watson’s Theory; and to analyze the family attitudes face to caring process. This study is a descriptive type, with a qualitative approach, developed at an institution reference on trauma assistance, settled on Fortaleza-CE. Seven family caregivers participated to this study. The data were collected in September to October 2007, by a semi-structured interview. The speeches were analyzed using the content analysis method. We interpreted and inferred the information supported by Jean Watson’s Transpersonal Caring Theory. We concluded that the caring meaning for the family member’s perception is expressed by difficulties related to knowledge deficit, to the fact of caring is supposed to be an exhaustive activity and to the resignation of the new role of caregiver. About the feelings aroused in response to this neurological lesion, highlighted affection, faith, sadness, anxiety and fear, preoccupation and hope. As attitudes patterns face to caring process, we pointed the aspects linked to responsibility, resignation, non-acceptance and attitudes ambivalence. Thus, we realized that it is also necessary to focus Nursing care on the family of those people affected by spinal cord injury.

NETO, Isaac Vilanova e Silva. A teoria das pulsões em Freud e Lacan: pontos de convergência e de divergência. 2009. 81f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Psicologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

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The modeling of the traffic flow on the urban road infrastructure have become one of the most important tools to analyze the performance of new strategies and policies of traffic control aimed at improving the efficiency of the transportation system. However, to model the traffic flow in a solid way it is essential that the stages of calibration and validation of the simulation model are satisfactorily accomplished. This work presents a procedure, with an eminently practical focus, for the calibration and validation of simulation models to analyze tactical and operational interventions in the urban road network. This procedure comprises the following stages: i) definition of the road network to be modeled; ii) selection of the simulation model; iii) definition of the simulation network; and iv) calibration and validation of the simulation model. After specifying the tasks necessary to develop each one of these stages, this procedure was applied in an area of the city of Fortaleza-Ceará, using a traffic microsimulation software (INTEGRATION) and a mesosimulation package (TransCAD), to compare the calibration processes in each one, emphasizing their specificities. Nowadays, the use of traffic simulation models is not very spread in the Brazilian technical community and there are no calibration and validation procedures to facilitate the use of these programs. The author hopes that the procedure proposed in this research, as well as the discussions about its application, help to diffuse the use of traffic simulation to support the evaluation of interventions that provide a better use of the actual transportation infrastructure.