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The time machine (2018 [1895]), H. G. Wells’s first novel, is one of the books which represent the British dystopian impulse and that influenced the dystopian narratives of the twentieth century, so that its reflection is still perceived in the works of the 21st century. Dystopia, whose nomenclature is recent in literary studies, lacks further investigation in Portuguese, and I direct this study towards that sense. The essence of the dystopic universe, in the form that it reached the last two centuries, goes back to a set of nineteenth-century works and also to the utopian narratives that emerged in the sixteenth century, from Thomas More's Utopia. Socialist and visionary, Wells established, in his first novel, consistent dialogues that would reverberate in Science Fiction and in the twentieth century dystopias, according to aspects pointed out by Figueiredo (2009) and other scholars. The central aim of this research is to analyze Wells's first novel, in the light of dystopian fiction, as one of the essential narratives of the British dystopian impulse of the nineteenth century that helped establish the structural basis of contemporary dystopia; in addition, it sought to: delimit the similarities and differences between Science fiction and dystopian fiction; to compare the utopian, the (post) apocalyptic and the dystopian Literature; to investigate the unusual, social, and spontaneously dystopian aspects of Wells's narrative that influenced the canonical works of the genre in the twentieth century. The research is supported by the studies of Frost (2013), Tomachevski (2013), Oliveira (1999), Todorov (2013; 2014), Culler (1999), Castro (2007) Soares (2007), Saer (2012) García (2007), Jameson (2005; 1982), Cardoso (2003), Cardoso (2006), Bozzetto (2007), Vieira (2010), Silva (2013), Miranda (2016), Booker (1994), Figueiredo (2009), Moraes (2012), Pavlovski (2012), Baccolinni (1995), Moylan (2016), Perrone-Moisés (2016), Arendt (1979) Aristóteles (2007), Genette (2017), among others. The analysis of the work allowed the observation that The Time Machine (2018 [1895]) is, in fact, a hybrid work, that mixes utopian, post-apocalyptic and dystopic traits; not all of the aspects pointed out by Figueiredo (2009) are identified in the work, but through his book, Wells also laid foundations for contemporary dystopias: high technology and the republican and socialist view, with Marxist critiques of social classes.

In this research we analyze the work Plasmatio, by the artist José Rufino. The general objective was to analyze the main theoretical categories and concepts present in Plasmatio, since we start from the hypothesis that the artist works with more elements wich we use to experience time, not only memory, so that oblivion, erasure, missing‖ (saudade, in Portuguese) and anachronism are fundamental in the construction of this relationship. As a methodology, we applied the qualitative research, through the use of semi-structured interview, documentary analysis and bibliographical review, which besides being made on the production of José Rufino, also included the articulation with concepts such as hypermodernity of Gilles Lipovetsky, memory and forgetfulness in Andreas Huyssen and anachronism in Georges Didi-Huberman, we used the reflections on missing, an affection of great importance in Plasmatio, and the concept of capitalism as a religion in Walter Benjamin, as a means of understanding the sacrificial pathos that crosses the work and presents itself in the Shroud of Plasmatio.

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyze the possibilities developed by the youth from the Borborema Territory, based on the participation of these subjects in the Course on Agrarian Residence, offered by the National Program of Education on Agrarian Reform (PRONERA). The course is part of the extension program offered by the Federal University of Paraíba in partnership with the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). The present research results from a field work and follows a qualitative approach. The Participant Research is the central methodological base of the study; following this base, we focus our practice on participant observation and oral stories, drawing on references that supported the theoretical and empirical study and underpinned the analysis through the dialogue with theoretical discussions directed to Territory, Rural Education and Agroecology. Approximately 60 young peasants, distributed in two classes, attended the course between 2015 and 2017. Thus, space and subjects formed the empirical territory of this doctoral thesis, with a greater emphasis on the subjects following a geographic/territorial focus. We investigated the space of the Territory and the organizational trajectory of the young people present in the Borborema Territory, as well as followed their daily processes during and after the formation in the Agrarian Residence, elucidating the possible relations with practices directed to the dialogue with Agroecology. This research enabled an approximation to the historical and resistance context of the Agroecological Territory of Borborema, as well as an understanding of the role of the young peasants in their organizational processes. It still pointed to elements of the distinct formations of those young people, between distances and approaches to their peasant identities, which were understood through the narratives and experiences in the field of the research. The elements found in the results goes from past to present memories that construct and re-signify these identities, explain and give life to the plans by the youth in a present time, giving possibilities to the permanence in the countryside, through the articulation and organization of this political category: the peasant youths.

Neuropsychological assessment of visuoconstructive abitilies of the elderly is generally limited to two-dimensional measures of graphomotor tasks, while other modalities remain neglected, even with evidence that they are sensitive to detect visuoconstructive deficits. To date, we have not found studies that jointly evaluate two-dimensional, three-dimensional and mental non-graphomotor measures in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's Disease (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (CCL). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the different components of visuoconstructive abilities in the pathological aging process compared to healthy aging and to analyze the sensitivity and specificity of these components to detect AD and CCL. Were included 41 participants, 16 of whom had CCL, 10 had AD, and 15 were cognitively healthy elderly (CG). All volunteers underwent an extensive neuropsychological evaluation, which included non-graphomotor two-dimensional, three-dimensional and mental visuoconstructive task, in verbal command and copy modalities. The results indicated that, with the exception of the Stick Test, all measures found differences between groups, in which the lowest scores occurred in the AD group, followed by CCL and CG. The most consistent measures of discrimination between groups were found in the three-dimensional and mental tasks both by verbal command. These results indicate that other variations of visuoconstructive measures besides grafomotors are already compromised in the initial phase of AD and CCL and have relative sensitivity to the degenerative process. The findings also show evidence of the dissociation between visuoconstructive tasks, so that they cannot be considered equivalent during the evaluation of visuoconstructive deficits.

The preparation of composites and polymeric nanocomposites with fillers has been a means of obtaining materials that help to improve the performance of the polymeric materials. The nanofiller appeared with great potential for use in nanocomposites polymeric due to their mechanical and thermal properties. In this work, compositions of UHMWPE/PEG and polymer nanocomposites with carbon nanofibers (CNF) were prepared by grinding the powders in order to evaluate the modifications promoted by the incorporation of PEG in the UHMWPE. Then, the UHMWPE/PEG compositions and the nanocomposites were compression molded by the sequential application of pressures of 3, 6 and 9 ton, alternating every 4 minutes at a temperature of 160 ° C. In addition, we investigated the addition of carbon nanofibers in the matrix of UHMWPE/PEG through the mechanical and thermal properties. The mills were made in two sorts of mills (high-energy mill and jar mill). The high-energy mill was used for the processing of the UHMWPE/PEG mixtures with concentrations of 4, 8 and 12% (w/w) PEG. For the nanocomposites, the jar mill was used with concentrations of 0. 5, 1.0 and 1.5 % (w/w) NFC for a period of 24 hours. All samples were described by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and tensile mechanics tests. The results showed that there was a good distribution of the PEG in the UHMWPE, so that its mechanical properties were not altered with the addition of PEG. On the other hand, the thermal properties of the UHMWPE/PEG compositions were improved in terms of the degree of crystallinity and the initial and maximum degradation temperatures, especially the blended compositions in the pitcher mill. Regarding the nanocomposites, the DSC test showed that with increasing CNF concentration in the matrix, the degree of crystallinity decreased. In the TGA analysis, the addition of CNF improved the thermal stability of the matrix, and the mass losses remained in a single step. In relation to the mechanical and thermal properties of the nanocomposites, the CNFs were not so efficient, causing a decrease in these properties of the UHMWPE/12%PEG/24h mixture, due to the dispersion of the nanofibers being inefficient, as well as the formation of CNF agglomerates in the polymer matrix.

There are some years, the alloyes with Effect Memory of form (EMF) has been roughly studied, since, the materials with such properties, present a wide band of possible applications, due to high capacity of recuperation of the its pre-established geometry, after of being exposed to a thermal cycle determined, being thus qualified as unconventional functional materials. In the logic, the present study objective to analyze the thermomechanical properties of the alloy with effect memory of form of nominal composition: Cu-11,8%Al-0,58%Be-0,5Nb-0,27Ni 9% in weight), through of tests of ultra- microhardness in the angles of 0º, 30º, 60º e 90º using as reference the direction of solidification of the columnar grain, in order to get anisotropic knowledges of this alloy. Facing this, it understands that the alloys with effect memory of form have a large comercial attraction, because it treats of a material that in the practice, absorbs and cushions energy. In this perspective, the studied accomplished it is justified by research of a technological path different for the elaboration of the alloy with effect memory of form Cu-AlBe-Nb-Ni, with the pretension of improving the thermomechanical properties of this alloy, being able thus, to increase the field of application. As theoretical targeting, it was taken as base, authors that developed researches in the area and dedicate the studies about of the our object of study. This citing, should be emphasize that the alloy was fused, homogenized during 12h to 850ºC and machined via electroerosion to wire. Posteriorly, the proof bodies were temperate in water to room temperature, and in followed these were analyzed via optical microscopy, scanning differential calorimetric analysis (DSC) and instrumented indentation. From of the accomplished tests, it became possible to observe that, in fuction of the solidification direction, the Cu-Al-Be-Nb-Ni alloy presented a anisotropic behavior for their mechanical properties. It verified yet, a relevant distiction of behaviors of the superelasticity and of the remaining depth of the alloy. The tests yet allowed us to realize that the behavior of the modulus of elasticity, in relation to solidification direction, it is similar to presented by superlasticity. Regarding to application of the load and solidification direction, it was verified the increase and decrease of the hardness DHV-1 when angles varies in determined intervals. Posteriorly, the tests denounced that with the increase of the indentation speed and number of cycles, the superlaticity and the remaining depth pass by some changes. Lastly, it was observed that, as measure that the applied load increaase, the remaining depth plays a similar reaction. And that, concerning superlasticiy, the tests provided a specific perception of this property.

In this work, the properties of cementitious matrix composites were studied, using the Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) residue as an aggregate, with a view to its use as acoustic absorbent material, in the form of plates. In particular, the effect of porosity and resistivity on the air flow in the acoustic absorption capacity of the prepared plate was investigated. The method used to determine the acoustic absorption coefficient of the plates was by means of a reverberant chamber test, one of the objectives of the present work being to assemble and calibrate such reverberant chamber. The applied methodology was aimed at characterizing the relationship between granulometry, void index, resistivity to the air flow and the acoustic absorption capacity of plates made with the residue under study, besides defining the prototypes to be tested in reverberant chamber. The results indicated the possibility of replacing industrialized materials with the compounds produced from cement and EVA residue in frequency bands above 1 kHz.

The need for associations between entities from the most diverse areas for information sharing becomes increasingly common. Thus also it happens with the teleradiology, a telemedicine component that uses information technology to issue remote diagnostics through the sharing of medical images. However, the infrastructure (PACS / DICOM) in radiology departments is well consolidated in a local network environment, requiring adaptations to act in a global communication context that uses the Internet as an interconnection infrastructure between entities. One of these adaptations is the performance of access control to information shared between associated entities. Limitations were observed in current access control proposals to manage the authentication and authorization of shared information in a globallyopen and distributed network, limiting themto operate in a networkwiththesecharacteristics. The objective of this work was to elaborate the DICOMFlowAccess, an access control model for na open and distributed collaborative network for the practice of teleradiology. Forthispurpose, theDigitalCertificateofAttributesspecifiedbyICP-Brazilandother technologies already consolidated in the Internet was used, as digital certificate of identity, email infrastructure and content transmission protocols. Experiments in a virtual environment simulating a collaborative network between distinct entities, attest to its technical and operational feasibility. It was concluded that DICOMFlowAccess was successful in providing access control to shared medical image exams in an open and distributed collaborative networkin a global context of communication formed by distinct entities that use the Internet as a means of interconnection.

The mongrel complex described in 1958 by the Brazilian journalist Nelson Rodrigues is “a kind of inferiority that Brazilians feel, voluntarily, when compared with the rest of the world.” In the current work our research question is to know if the Brazilian individuals are “voluntarily” motived by the effect of the “mongrel complex”. Based on theories of Social Identity (Tajfel &Turner, 1979), System Justification (Jost & Banaji, 1994) and in the history of the formation of Brazilian culture, we have hypothesized that "mongrel complex" is a multifaceted phenomenon rather than merely outgroup favoritism. We propose that the “mongrel complex” is a national identity management strategy characterized by the negation of African cultural origin, marked by the black skin of the Brazilian population, and by the accentuation of aspects reminiscent of the European origin of this population. We tested this hypothesis in three studies using the experimental paradigm developed by Oliveira (2013),the participants indicated the compensation to be attributed to a victim of police violence. In Study 1, the participants were randomly assigned to one of six conditions according to the factorial design of type 2 (skin color of the victim: black vs. white) x 3 (origin of the victim: Africa, Brazil and Europe). The results show the presence of a selective “mongrel complex effect”: the participants "voluntarily" attributed lower indemnity to the Brazilian victim than to the European victim, but demonstrated ingroup favoritism when they attributed greater compensation to the Brazilian victim than to the African victim. We also verified this effect was motivated, primarily, by racism: the participants value the white victim more than the black one, this valorization being enhanced by the information about the victim's cultural origin. Study 2 replicated this effect, showing the victim's skin color as a central factor for the emergence of the “mongrel complex effect”. Study 3 analyzed the mechanism that mediates the “mongrel complex effect”. Specifically, it showed that the perception of injustice in the detention and treatment given by the police to the victim acts as mediator of the effect of the color and the cultural origin of the victim in the attributed indemnity. The discussion of the results suggests a "mongrel complex" in the participants' behavior and that this complex may represent a compromise between the desire to reaffirm the status quo of race relations in Brazil and their motivation to positively distinguish the national identity of attributes Africanized.

In this work, I study issues related to Information Retrieval, Information Representation and Information Users. I have as general objective to analyze the strategies of search by subject used by the internal users at the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic in the states of Paraiba, Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco in the Single System of Information for the purpose of recovering the civil and criminal court documents. I specifically aim to describe the functionalities of the Single System of Information regarding the activity of searching by subject for the purpose of recovering these court documents; to identify the search by subject strategies that the internal users of the Attorney General's Office in the State of Paraiba, Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco use for the recovery of court documents in this system; to verify if users associate their strategies with the table of subjects in the activity of searching court documents. I used the bibliographical and descriptive research with a qualitative approach as methodology, being the theoretical reference constituted by the literature of Information Science. As a data collection instrument, I used a semi-structured questionnaire developed in the light of the alternative approach of user studies and applied with workers of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic in the Civil and Criminal Nuclei and of the Citizen and User Assistance Section. I show that although the organ contains a controlled vocabulary, the subjects that participate in the research, for the most part, use natural language as the main strategy for searching and retrieving documents. I have identified that users commonly associate a search behavior as ideal by using it repeatedly, even if the demand or situation is different. I conclude by presenting proposals for improvements to the Single System and strategies that can have a positive impact on the retrieval of documents in this context.

This research proposes to perform a critical analysis on the requirements that the Law of Access to Information (LAI) (Law 12.527 / 2011) establishes for websites in public institutions with emphasis on Brazilian state and municipal public universities. The general objective of this research is to analyze the disposition of the information required by the LAI in the institutional electronic portals of the State and Municipal Public Universities, evaluating their conformity to what is required by law, with special emphasis on their transparency portals. For data collection, we opted for documentary research, considering the value of a site as a document that can be analyzed. For this, we used two methods: the comparative method, in which the analysis of all the institutional electronic sites was done and how they disposed the information characterized as obligatory by the Law of Access to Information; and the indicia method, used to verify innovative actions, good practices and barriers in transparency portals of the researched institutions. Finally, it was possible to analyze the degree of transparency of the Brazilian State and Municipal Public investigated universities for the information made available in their institutional websites. In conclusion, it was evidenced that universities urgently need to conform to the minimum requirements of LAI, in order to facilitate access to information, promoting democracy through participation and social control.

The objective of this research is to study the importance of information and knowledge for local development, aiming to analyze the factors that make feasible or prevent the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), as an integral agent of the process of production and dissemination of information and knowledge, to enable the dynamization of the territory of Paraíba. The hypothesis is that the Federal University of Paraíba university acts in the dynamics of economicsocial development with information actions, through a fragile process of integration with the social, political and economic actors, wasting the potential for interaction and cooperation, fundamental for the construction of knowledge, in its search for the process of promoting local development. The theoretical basis for the hypothesis is structured in Raffestin (1993), who establishes the constitution of a territory through a relational perspective, of the multiple political, social and economic dimensions, and linking the neo-Schumpeterian approach of the innovative process with the discussion of Information Science to address the importance of information, knowledge and innovation as central elements of development. The concepts of the Information System of González de Gomez (1999, 2002, 2008,2012) are intertwined with Cavalcanti Filho's Arrangement and Production System and Local Innovation System (ASPIL) (2011, 2013), which supports discussion related to politics and power in the relationship among actors. The methodology used in this study is of qualitative approach based in the case study, on the analysis of documentary research, institutional database, as well as semi-structured interviews with internal and external actors of the institution. The results show that the institution has an Information System in which there is external and internal power structure to the institution. The external structure acts through its promotion, regulation and control of actions, while internally there is a culture of non-integration of strategic actors for the construction of institutional policies, making them act in an isolated way. The university has strategic potential to work with local actors, considering its institutional weight, formed by its information, research, teaching and extension actions, which are not structured in favor of the development of the locality. Concerning its relations with Local Productive Arrangements (APL), UPFB usually has informal partnerships, not as an important actor in the dynamics of APL. It is concluded that the Federal University of Paraíba can and should improve its relationship with the territory in which it operates, seeking to strengthen integration with external actors, through restructuring that may favor the creation, promotion and articulation of internal networks, as well as the involvement with external actors so that the institution will strategically cooperate with local development and will be recognized as an actor of territory.

The object of study of the present thesis is to examinate the princple of the child’s best interest, wich integrates brasilian legal order, under the focus of Theodor Viehweg topic rationality. With the wars that afflicted Europe and the world in the beginning of the twentieth century, legal theory and its logical-deductive system, derived from apodictic rationality, couldn’t sustain as illicit the totalitarian orders installed and the atrocities committed. Therefor, the basis for legal positivism started to be rethinked during the second half of the century. Legal rationality needed to rearticulate between law and values. In such context,Theodor Viehweg publishes Topic and Jurisprudence in 1953, that introduces a project for rescueing topic rationality as an alternative to rethink legal theory. His thesis consists in admiting that the jurist finds topoi, reference points in the speech that are legitimated by historical acceptance of these values that they disseminate, providing coherence and adequability to the legal order, according to the particularities of the case. The childhood law, regulated by the Statute of Child and Adolecescent, affirms the full protection doctrine, that has as main principle the child’s best interest. With that, the judicial procedure, wich has the poer to materialize such parameters, very often breaks with the traditional systems dogmas. To break away from the regular systematic, the competetent judge to materialize the best interest principle has to build arguments corroborated by values that bring a close proximity to topic rationality, as described by Viehweg. The thesis problem is to investigate the uncompatibility between these break points that appear in child’s law decisions and the logic-deductive legal system. The hypothesis is this happens because, to guarantee the child’s best interest, the judge creates acceptable arguments based on values, the topoi, wich brings this area of the law closer to topic rationality. The research is bibliographyc, altough takkes advantage from judicial and empirical data to better corrobate the author’s hypothesis.

Cancer is characterized mainly by the uncontrolled proliferation of cells that have undergone genetic and/or epigenetic changes. Chemotherapy, one of the main treatment modalities for this disease, is associated with the emergence of resistance and significant adverse effects. Thinking about that, several molecules have been synthesized, aiming at the development of more effective drugs and/or with less toxicity. Piperine, an alkaloid found in plants of the genus Piper, has significant antitumor activity. However, this molecule is associated with significant toxicity. Thus, in order to potentiate the antitumor effect and/or reduce the toxicity of piperine, the inedited derivative butyl 4- (4-nitrobenzoate)-piperinoate (DE-07) was synthesized. The aim of this study was to evaluate the in vivo antitumor activity and non clinical toxicity of DE-07. In the acute toxicity test, treatment with doses of 300 and 2000 mg/kg intraperitoneally (i.p.) allowed the estimated mean lethal dose (LD50) to be estimated at approximately 1000 mg/kg. The use of the fish embryo toxicity test (FET test) indicated that the mean lethal concentration (LC50) of DE-07 is greater than 100 μg/mL. The exposure of zebrafish embryos/larvae to DE-07 did not show changes in the lethality indicators evaluated. Treatment with DE-07 (300 mg/kg, i.p.) did not increase the frequency of micronucleated erythrocytes in peripheral blood of Swiss mice. The evaluation of the antitumor activity, using Ehrlich ascitic carcinoma (CAE), showed a significant reduction in viability and total cell parameters. In the evaluation of possible antitumor mechanisms of action, treatment with DE-07 (50 mg/kg, i.p.) showed a significant reduction in peritoneal vascular microdensity, a significant increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) and a significant increase in IL-1β, TNF-α and IL-4. Assessment of toxicity after treatment with DE-07 did not show changes in heart, liver, kidney, spleen and thymus indices. Reduction in water and feed intake was observed, but there was no significant change in weight evaluation. Discrete histological changes in the liver were evidenced. Reduction of serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activity was also observed, but within normal values for the species. Histological analysis of the kidneys did not show any morphological alterations in these organs and, corroborating these results, no significant alterations were observed in the serum concentrations of urea and creatinine. Regarding hematological parameters, leukocytosis was observed, accompanied by lymphocytosis, which, in turn, is within the range of normality for the species. In addition, an increase in hematocrit (HCT) was observed, which was not accompanied by changes in the other parameters of the erythrogram and, therefore, has no clinical significance. These results allow us to infer that DE-07 has low non clinical toxicity and significant in vivo antitumor activity because it induces antiangiogenic, oxidative and modulation of the inflammatory response in the tumor microenvironment effects.

The continuous training of basic education teachers in Brazil has often been applied in an insufficient and punctual manner, with implications for the promotion of productive learning and student permanence in school. This framework contributes significantly to the recognition that the professional constitution of pedagogical coordinators regarding their initial and continuing training, pedagogical knowledge and practices, as well as their role as teacher trainers, should be assessed in its broad dimensions. The study object of this research is the initial formation of pedagogical coordinators, applying as reference the construction of their professional identity and pedagogical practices. The research locus was the Ceará State High School Network - 5th Regional Coordination of Education Development - Tianguá (CE). General objective: to investigate initial pedagogical coordinator formation, applying as reference the construction of their professional identity and pedagogical practices, based on specialized literature on the subject and reflections of coordinators from the Ceará State High School, 5th CREDE - Tianguá - CE; specific objectives: to identify and analyse the profiles, focusing on initial and continuous training and experiences, that reveal the professionals that work in the pedagogical coordination of the Ceará State High School Network, 5th Crede - Tianguá - CE; to analyze coordinator conceptions from the Ceará State High School Network, 5th CREDE - Tianguá - CE; regarding their work as teacher trainers and their pedagogical practices. The research was developed in light of a qualitative approach and based on historical-dialectical materialism. Four education professionals occupying positions in a school coordinator commission were the subjects of this research. The research instrument consisted in a semi-structured interview and, regarding the data analysis, a content analysis from Bardin's (1977) perspective was carried out. This study revealed that pedagogical coordinators apply their theoretical-practical experiences, especially as teachers, to build their professional identity, pedagogical practices and work mediation as teacher trainers. Above all, it was considered, that the theoretical-practical elements concerning pedagogical coordination in their initial formation are sparsely explored and problematized

Scientific evidence over time shows that Pseudomonas aeruginosa stands out among gram-negative, non-fermenting bacteria that promote high rates of morbidity, mortality and increased hospital costs worldwide. This microorganism is intrinsically resistant to the wide diversity of substances, being able to become resistant to several antimicrobial agents. There is now a significant limitation of the therapeutic arsenal that can be used to treat infections caused by this multiresistant bacterium, since Pseudomonas aeruginosa can develop resistance mechanisms during this therapy. Therefore, based on the resistance promoted by this bacterium, the researchers' attention is drawn to the possibility of the use of natural compounds, being these, medicinal plants and essential oils and their phytoconstituents in the prevention or treatment of diseases, among these phyto-constituents, , a phenylpropanoid. In this study, the antibacterial activity of isoeugenol against clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was evaluated by means of in vitro assays: Determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) and Minimum Bactericidal Concentration (MBC) and studies of the association of isoeugenol with conventional antimicrobials (gentamicin and meropenem). In the evaluation of the antibacterial activity, two standard strains and ten strains of microbial strains were used, isoeugenol had a MIC of 64 μg / mL and a CBM of 128 μg / mL, whereas for conventional antimicrobials gentamicin had an MIC of 1024 μg / mL and a CBM> 1024 μg / mL, whereas meropenem had its MIC and MBC of 32 μg / mL. The combination of phenylpropanoid with gentamicin showed a synergistic effect for both the standard strain and the microbial strain 297, whereas it was observed that the association of meropenem with the standard strain resulted in an additive or indifference effect and for the strain of microbial strain 297 an antagonistic effect. Therefore, the results obtained in this study suggest an antibacterial activity of isoeugenol against clonal strains of P. aeruginosa, either alone or in combination with standard antimicrobial agents.

Daily information disseminated for `informational subjects´ by the Brazilian State went through varied moments of control, repression and silencing. These subjects live, create meanings and memories in this realm. Thus, in the decade of 1940 the city of Natal, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil has a great deal of presence Second World War conflicts. According to this, the problematic of this research is: Considering memorial evidence present in the Brazilian newspaper A República how was daily information produced and disseminated in the city of Natal from 1941 to 1943?. The research aims to analyze the types of daily information that circulated in that newspaper in Natal considering control apparatus of the “Estado Novo”. Specifically, it is aimed to characterize daily information process in the years of 19371943 under the structure of “Estado Novo”; Identify and categorize informational contents that circulated from 1941 to 1943 in the newspaper as well as to verify in the types of informational contents, the presence of meanings and intentionality, relating them to their producers. Theoretical foundation was based on quotidian of Lefebvre (1991); Heller (1992); Martins (2014), daily information with Xifras-Heras (1975); Gonçalves; Freire (2015) and Memory according to Le Goff (1990), Certeau (2013), Halbwachs (1990), Gondar (2016), Assman (2011) and Pollak (1989). The research is of descriptive nature with a qualitative approach and a hermeneutic-dialectical analysis according to (MYNAYO, 1996) considering also the varied information fonts and corpus delimitation according to the Artificial week (BAUER, 2002) and content analysis (BARDIN, 2009) and categorization technique. The research aims to contribute with studies regarding Natal´s involvement and information control in “Estado Novo” in the decade of 1940. Through this research the understanding of the informational culture is perceived broadening prior research on daily information in the field of Information Science, considered the essential contribution of memory. According to the analysis of A República the production, dissemination and use of daily information, underwent processes of change and were under the control of the Brazilian Department of Press and Propaganda as well as the State Department of Press and Propaganda. It was also seen that in all of its forms, information had collaboration of elite groups as well as local politics.

Institutions and information units that have as purpose to grant access to information and perform their activities aimed at users, need to perform training actions for users, both internal users who organize documents and external users who wish to access them. Considering that the studies of users and, more precisely, the studies of user training are still little explored, a research was carried out whose general objective is to analyze the user training activities in the judicial file of the Federal Court in Paraíba. This is a descriptive research and quantitative-qualitative approach. The methodological procedures include a bibliographical research, on the subjects Science of Information and Archivology, Studies of Users and Competence in Information and Training of Users subjects that provide theoretical support to the research, and a field research, realized in the Judicial File of the Federal Justice of the Paraíba of the João Pessoa Section. The study population corresponded to 51 users, 20 of whom were internal to the institution and 31 external users. The data collection instrument applied was a questionnaire that includes open and closed questions and consists of two parts: the first to identify the profile of users and the second to verify user training activities and access and search procedures of information. The obtained data were analyzed and interpreted, systematizing them by electronic tabulation. For the analysis of the open questions we adopted the Content Analysis of Bardin (2009). The survey confirmed that there is no formal and standardized user education program, whether internal or external. Only instructions are passed orally to the first and by telephone to the seconds when they contact the JFPB. It also ratified the need to carry out user training activities in the JFPB judicial file. From the data analyzed and the literature review, we developed guidelines for the implementation of a user training program at the JFPB. It is concluded that the practical actions of training of users, currently, are expanding from the active use and implantation of the systems so that the users know how to use them and to obtain the information that they desire. This is the new activity that the archivist and all information professionals must exercise, mainly due to the institutions' anxiety to perform the digitization of their collections.

The evaluation of learning is a process that belongs, historically, to the human being's daily life. Institutionally speaking, the assessment of learning is directly related to the teachers' conception of it. n this context, Biology teaching is configured as an area that links theory and practice, and thus provides a more dynamic and less traditional teaching and assessment. The objective of this research was to understand the school evaluation process practiced by Biology teachers in high school through their conceptions and indications of practice. In order to reach the desired objectives, the qualitative approach and the assumptions of the phenomenological method were used, using the theoretical saturation to reach the sample closure. Seven semistructured interviews were carried out with professors who had graduated from the Biological Sciences course - UFPB and who work in the public high schools of the city of João Pessoa - PB. The results showed that the category "teaching of current biology in the teaching perspective" involves positive and negative aspects, with the theme "relation time schedule reduced to the extensive content", the characteristic most cited in the interviews, in contrast, the theme "relation with student's everyday life "was highlighted as the most important positive point in biology. The conceptions indicate that the investigated teachers have elements that fall into several types of evaluation, not having their knowledge and practice limited to only one specific type. Another characteristic highlighted from the interviews is the understanding of the evaluation process as something continuous and not punctual, having as main obstacles: a large number of students per class; infrastructure; time in the classroom; collection of the institution; Lack of resources. In view of the obtained results, it is possible to perceive the existence of weaknesses regarding the conceptions about evaluation of learning in the teaching of Biology, these weaknesses, not overcome during initial teacher training, however, can be overcome during a process of continuous formation. However, the restlessness and the desire of the teachers to heal their failures is notorious. In fact, this is a process that does not depend only on the teacher, because there are innumerable factors found in the educational system that limit the realization of an evaluation that promotes learning.

Our research focuses on the School and the Community: territories of popular knowledge for the construction of citizenship. Our work took place in the territory of the Municipal School of Early Childhood Education, Fundamental and EJA Professor Luiz Mendes Pontes, territory of knowledge for the neighborhoods Cristo, Varjão (Rangel) and Cruz das Armas in the city of João Pessoa / PB. Considering our intention to investigate the relationships between the School, the family and the community, we need to understand the linkages present in the construction of the place and the territory and the influence of these spaces on the popular subjects who share these experiences. It is necessary and urgent to seek to understand the relationship between the family and the school, also starting from this understanding, to verify the school interaction in the daily practices and experiences of the community, in which the school is inserted. The community is extremely important to the school, especially when it is involved in school dynamics. Paro (2016) teaches us that community participation in school, like any democratic process, is a way of walking, which does not eliminate the need to reflect previously on the obstacles and potentialities that reality presents for action. From the conceptual understanding and important characteristics of phenomenology, we understand that this research design is the one that most approached our object of investigation, since we wanted to understand the meaning of the experiences and relationships between school and community, through this understanding, to have the possibility of perceiving the place, the territorial construction and the social function of the school. For our qualitative and phenomenological research, we will use instruments that have led us to the answers to our research questions, among them: interview, questionnaire, observation, audiovisual materials, documents and maps. During the construction of our research, we conducted our theoretical reflection based on authors such as Brandão (2006), Paro (2016), Freire (2002), Gadotti (2016), Esteban and Tavares (2013), Cavalcanti (2016) among others that contributed theoretically to our work