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In this work we present some constructions of the regular pentagon, the main one is a construction of Euclid found in his book The Elements. We also present some applications of this construction.

This work deals with the relationship between vocational training of social work guided the Curriculum Guidelines, intrinsic Ethical-Political Project of critical nature component to conservatism and the practice of these professionals on bases of this project. The objective was to analyze the direction given by the practice of social worker, understanding this direction as a challenge, since the socio-occupational spaces in which work social work are also structural part of the conservative rationality present in the current model of society. In this sense, we sought to investigate the existence, or not, of contradictions between the formation, a critical perspective and the professional practice of social workers inserted in these spaces. Thus, the Family Grant Program of João Pessoa city was chosen as a research field, since this program includes elements underlying what we treat as neoconservative, to be characterized as strategic, emergency and palliative, highlighting the tract the social question only in its superficiality and not at its core. The survey was conducted through semi-structured interview, recorded in digital media with ten social workers working in this program and who had professional training within the current curriculum ABEPSS. The purpose was to examine whether the training held in a Ethical and policy perspective, the critical nature conservatism and capitalist society, is ensuring a critical practice, or if the characteristics inherent to the rule of neoliberal nature, impose their rationality to practice of Social Work, leading her to play this conservative nature and also to reproduce as a conservative practice. The hypothesis that conducted the study was that, although the social worker has aligned its training with the Ethical-Political Project, a practice developed in areas of activity that work in the conservative logic, ends up reproducing some extent conservatism, a situation that would be inherent in determining institutional objectives, where such reproduction would be an obligation and not a choice of agents. This study has qualitative and adopts as methodological approach the critical analysis of the contents of the statements of the interviewed subjects. From the data, we find that under the Family Grant Program, are conditions of objective nature, inherent to the operating system and the local government relationship structure, which pose challenges that limit and intend to professional practice of social worker, which is constituted as factors that directs you partner and politically to take a feature that is closest to a practice of reproduction of conservatism. However, this feature appears, contrary to critical discourse exposed by the research subjects, so that the most critically adopts the conservative nature of their practice, since recognize the mechanisms and formal and regulatory procedures, forms of regulation of relations built in social conservative logic of bourgeois society.

Health policies and Welfare in Brazil were ratified as a universal and selective, respectively, and for their efforts to achieve effective results, simultaneous cooperation of other policies is essential. Recognizing their indispensability, we propose to study (through the documentary and bibliographic research) and has set the intersectoral between these policies from the analysis of the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) and the Family Health Program (PSF), which later assumed the naming of the Family Health Strategy (ESF). Focusing on studying the mechanisms for intersectoral coordination between them. Our goal is to identify these mechanisms present in the contribution of legislation such programs, seen in the legislation the intersections between the ESF and the PBF, critically analyze the differences and intersectoral approaches between them. With this study we realize that the laws and normative documents highlight the need for intersectoral joints, but that alone is not enough. We found that these intersectoral mechanisms flagged by the documents leave gaps and suggest that these are solved by professionals and planned locally. In addition, the planning of these initiatives is at the mercy of the political will of managers and little power to enforce the collective bodies. Even with this realization that at the municipal level intersectoral proposals can be implemented in the literature shows that very few successful experiences, since there are political disputes that hinder the support at the state and federal levels to municipalities as well as at the state level towards municipalities and the Union. We stress that the principle of decentralization got a better development, PBF and ESF not managed to consolidate seen recenter the power that imposed measures adjust- which undermined the power of decision of the municipal and state health departments and social assistance. Contradictions about intersectionality observed in official documents are a constant. In addition, there omission of key policy for health, such as housing and transportation. Such situations reflect the tract reductionist and minimizing the Brazilian social policy. We can conclude that management tools such as shared planning between different policies, shared information systems, shared goals, encouraging the approximation of officials from different policies for implementation of interconnected tasks, provision for intersectoral teams, common agenda, meetings, forums and conferences intersectoral tend not to appear in the documents establishing the ESF and the PBF or appear as initiatives to meet the PBF conditionalities. The adoption of such instruments requires political will and social pressure to achieve the fact that policies meet in full, the right to health and assistance to citizens who need it.

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The relationship between sport and society is on a topic of great relevance to studies of social sciences. This proposal is to investigate the football. However, realizing this phenomenon related to the issue of professional projection, considering that football in Brazil is a project of life for many young people and their families. Although this work presents professional football as a starting point, the focus of research is not professional sports and high level performance. The proposal is directed to the moment of transition between amateur football and professional football. Focus will be on the way in which children become professionals in the called “world of the ball”. From the trajectories of young athletes, this work attempts to present the nuances in the production of soccer players to the market of the ball. The survey was conducted in Auto Esporte Clube, college sports located in João Pessoa-PB. The methodology used for data collection was by conducting a qualitative study, based on the use of individual interviews and using the voice recorder and direct observation with a view to better understand and perceive the environment formed in the athletes.

In an attempt to control the social issues caused by rising crime, the managers of police organizations demonstrate having a preoccupation with typically repressive actions and with the application of logic of instrumental rationality in police management, which focuses on relentless pursuit by the results and implementation of essentially strategic actions. In this context there is a crisis of the current standards of practice adopted by police, which little or no practical result, and thus the goal to protect citizens is no longer performing, guaranteeing wellness and life protect, being only the achievement of goals and fixed management purposes. Historically police organizations always applied management solutions empirically with a strong tradition bureaucrat, which resulted in practices that tarnish its corporate image. Therefore, it is necessary to get objective standards of performance appropriate to the democratic perspective, demanding police officers able to deal with this social instability and interact appropriately with citizens. Thus, the role of police training is decisive for the cops to obtain an apprenticeship throughout its functional life and they handle with conflicts and social contradictions, stimulating the perception of injustice overcome, in an attempt to reduce or eliminate them, and perception of increasing justice in the life of citizens through police practices best suited to the democratic State of law. This research proposes a new perception of public security and the construction of a theoretical-conceptual corpus to assist management in Civil Police based on the concepts of learning organizations that is supported on pillars of human security and the communicative action, for arise more humanistic perspective and less instrumental for management of police training, so that the new learning to be possible under this new perspective can reflect on more democratic police practices and more effective social achievements. The communicative action enables coordination of action plans of the actors of public safety, sow the principles of rationality in a social dialogue and in organizational decision-making processes, uses a language which is not restricted only to inform, but to create opportunities for people and socially meaningful learning interactions. Human security shows that it is necessary to ensure the full use of substantive freedoms of citizens and to promote a world free of needs and free from fear, besides emphasizing that social development should be shared by the whole society and start within each location that suffers the consequences of criminality. Finally, the problems of public safety are of each of the social actors and it is important that they can be involved in the construction of interactive solutions as subjects capable of speaking and acting to effective social pact for the safety of all. Investing in police training is crucial to the development of police organizations. But this is only the first step to be completed so that, soon after, it's necessary a great cooperative effort of all toward a proper organizational change management. However, it will take longer for police officers and managers to change the police organization than the organization change them through an institutionalized ongoing training process.

This research aims at analyzing the work reality of kaolin prospectors in the town of Junco do Seridó. The world of prospecting is well known for its informality and precariousness. Workers undergo excessively long working hours and constant unsafety conditions, being an easy target of labor accidents, most of the times the fatal ones. Not only does this problem affect the prospector but also his family as well, which becomes forsaken and are not entitled to any social benefit. This project was developed from June 2010 to September 2011. Its first step was a vast bibliographical research collect related to the topic. Its second step corresponded to entering the field of work in order to, from that point on, know deeply the work reality in the mines of the town. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews and informal talks with prospectors, local businessmen, residents and politicians from the town of Junco were held. The mentioned instruments aimed at understanding how the prospectors see themselves in their job and how they analyze their work universe.

Within the organizational context of a university library, the reference sector has an important role in information management, by integrating all the sectors in the information flow directed to the "useful" service user, to achieve better results in their demand within the system of library information. This dissertation thus contributes to a better understanding of the features of processes and information flows and the Ortodocs, Sigaa system in order to allow managers, optimize the use of the system in one of its main functions, that is , taking strategic decisions, in order to minimize the deviations found in the procedures used by system users , that have direct bearing on the quality of the product or service offered for informational unit, which is the library . This set of actions have significant impact by maximizing the effective use of the tools provided by the information system. However, it is relevant record, the importance of effective integration of the system in any organizational environment of the institution to which the decisions implemented to achieve the desired goals. This work was performed at the Central Library of the Federal University of Paraíba - UFPB , coordinator of the Library System - SISTEMOTECA the institution where the library module of the Integrated Academic Management System - SIGAA been deployed and is in the process of technical adequacy . The research is a qualitative, descriptive and through the method of analysis of Focus Group and discourse analysis type , had as main objective to analyze and critique existing judgment on the information in the Library Sector Reference system processes , identifying their implications on the flow information within the Central Library UFPB . And as a result, obtained the building requirements and suggestions for improvement of the system in order to contribute to the management of information users (librarians) managers of the Library.

This research sought to understand the relationship between the academic higher education of students who obtained the Bachelor of Music degree at the Universidade Federal da Paraiba (UFPB) and their insertion and professional performance in the labor market in the city of Joao Pessoa, through their own perception. Thus, we have develop a qualitative research based on interviews, with ten out of the 21 students who fitted the selection criteria – i.e. instrumentalists who obtained the title of Bachelor of Music between the years of 2010 and 2011, and worked professionally in the city of Joao Pessoa. As an instrument for data collection, semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to recognize the alumni‟s own experience through out the undergraduate course, as well as in the labor market, to identify recurrent social representations in their discourses, and to understand how the University proposed curriculum of the course contributed to labor opportunities in the professional job market. The critical analysis of the reports was done from the perspective of the Social Representations Theory and studies from the Music Education area that showed some relation with the chosen theme and the data collected. In this sense, we discussed how the relation between the students and the music was established and how the social representation of the artist‟s roll can be recognized through the family‟s support (or their lack of support) to the option of being a professional musician. From the data obtained and the bibliographic and documental analysis, we could find the influence of the Conservatory Teaching Model in the course‟s curriculum, although it had been adapted. Besides, we make some considerations about the student‟s perceptions and expectations on their education, reflecting about possible innovations and adaptations for the curriculum. The dichotomy between being a musician against being a professor is also emphasized, as teaching appeared on the reports as a professional option for the bachelors as, in fact, these two possibilities appear as complementary activities. Thus, we conclude that the course curriculum as propose by the University is not properly articulated to the job market reality, notably in relation to the labor market in city of Joao Pessoa.

Music education has undergone a number of changes in recent centuries. These changes do not happen in isolation but interact and are interdependent events with another knowledge areas. Dominant paradigm in musical instrument teaching, since the establishment of music education model appeared at eighteenth century conservatorie, has roots in Newtonian-Cartesian thinking. Nowadays can be observed a change of mindset from almost all areas, is the rise of new paradigms fleeing from fragmentation, mechanization and mind-body dissolution that the old paradigm suggests, these new paradigms are heading to a holistic and integrative vision. The aim of this study was to observe and analyze imagery utilization in guitar student's daily practice, as it considered them a key component in these emerging paradigms. Data were gathered with three UFPB bachelor's guitar students. Were observed the student's study routines, data analysis gave the understanding of the current state of the relationship and interactions between knowledge of the cognitive sciences and the musical instrument teaching / learning process in our context today.

This research aimed at rescuing the Concerto in A major for the Piano with Orchestral Accompaniment by the Brazilian composer Octávio Meneleu de Campos, from the state of Pará, regarding pianistic practice and analysis. This concerto was composed in the most productive period of the musician’s career, between 1903 and 1904, in the city of Milan. The manuscript transcription, the analytical study of the piece as well as the study of the Concerto piano part were of utmost importance to the development of this paper. The ways through which this analysis was carried out were mainly based on Bergson’s philosophy of duration (1934) and on Seincman’s study of the musical tempo (2001). Some of the Amazon Belle Époque musical memory investigation results are shown throughout the Concerto in A major for the Piano with Orchestral Accompaniment, where the composer’s style, his aesthetical referential within the Brazilian musical scenario and also his relationship with the romantic period are verified.

Cette thèse est née de la recherche sur l'archéologie de la notion de la sexualité dans les pratiques discursives développées à l'école primaire, dans les discours diffusés par les projets éducatifs des années 1960 et 1970 (Education Morale et Civique - CME) et les décennies 1990 et 2000 (Paramètres Curriculaires Nationaux - PCN). On propose d'examiner les processus "de contention" par lesquels les sexualités sont objectivées et subjectivées à travers et dans les dispositifs pédagogiques. On utilise la méthode archéologique (Foucault, 2008), en essayant de comprendre comment ces sexualités sont constituées par les discours véhiculés a travers les projets et les programmes qui ont composé les actions gouvernementales de cette période, traduites en politiques publiques engagées pour répondre à la demande sociale issues d'individus et/ou des groupes considérés comme différents "étranges ou anormales." La collecte et l'analyse des données ont été organisées à partir des thématiques: grossesse (précoce, non désirée ou non planifiée) et MST/SIDA. Le corpus est constitué de discours des enseignants, des techniciens/ennes et des étudiants de l'école primaire, à travers les interviews de type focal de l'observation sur le terrain et des conférences sur la sexualité. Pour accéder à la motivation des entrevues, on a utilisé des photos de personnes célèbres qui ont évoqué le thème de la sexualité. Le choix des photos a été fait à partir d'un sondage élaboré sur les côtes et au centre ville de Joao Pessoa/PB. Pour l'analyse des données, on s’est guidé par la théorie de l'Analyse du Discours dans la perspective développe par Foucault (1992, 1999 et 2008). On a conclu qu’ à l'école enquêtée, les sexualités sont objectivées et subjectivées à partir des stratégies de règlement découlant des épistèmes dominantes, des mythes et des tabous constitués historique et socialement enraciné dans l'hétéronormativité perfomatique. Cette compréhension des différences apparaît pour justifier les processus d'exclusion, guidés par des préjugés, par l'homophobie émergents de la masculinité, la féminité, les corps, et même les identités sexuelle conçues comme des entités naturelles, essentielles et fixe. Pour l'établissement d'enseignement recherché, l'école et la famille sont des Institutions d'enseignement qui ne sont pas constituées comme un lieu de discussions sur les sexualités et ses manifestations, en particulier quand ils brouillent les frontières établies.

The Folias de Reis is one of the important cultural manifestations present in Brazil. Inserting within the field of cultural manifestations of Brazilian popular Catholicism, are characterized by joining religious elements, musical, theatrical and plastics. Among the Brazilian states that have the Folias Kings as a living expression of their culture, stands out in this study a reality of the state of Minas Gerais. This work addressed in a specific way the Serra dos Barbosa community, located in the countryside of Leopoldina, which is included in the Forest Zone East of Minas Gerais. This region is an expressive representation of Folias Kings in the state. In this universe, there was a ethnomusicological study of the manifestation of the Folia de Reis da Serra, aiming to present and analyze the key factors which shape and give meaning to the musical performance of this revelry, and these elements tradition, religion and belonging. Through this study it was concluded that the performance of revelry da Serra is characterized by religious-musical aspects that are configured by the addition of music to wider cultural dimensions, including the worldviews and the ethos of the people involved, the social perspectives and the relations surrounding the demonstration. It also covers the rite structures, tradition and own religiosity of the rural community, the "foundation" of revelry and finally the membership of this community to this sound-ritual manifestation. The music of revelry in this universe, incorporates aspects of social relations established among the revelers and assistance in the process of performance. Faith and devotion to the Three Kings of the East explained in musical moments within the sacred universe determine the specific performance evidenced in "snippets" in the "tunes", body movements, and the relationship between performance and the sacred objects and consecrated that makes up the symbolic universe of Folia da Serra. Characteristics, associated with traditional conceptions of a demonstration that preserves significant aspects of their original identities shape the world of Folia de Reis da Serra, cultural context where the revelry performs, ritualized and renews its manifestation in the present. The tradition in which the revelry is inserted, the "foundation" of revelry, the lived religion and the people belonging to this event, determine the particularities of their musical performance and are essential for the existence of revelry and the way in which these people think, feel and live in the world.

The Patient Safety has been, in the last decades a thematic evidenced in the Brazilian and world scenario. There are cases that refer to bad prescription, errors in medication administration , stress and professional disillusion. Attached to concerns regarding the quality of medical records, Patient Safety becomes a study of high importance for Risk Reduction, both for patients as for professionals and health services. Therefore, this study concerned to better understand the reality of management of records of Alcides Carneiro University Hospital (ACUH) a federal public institution in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba. The aspirations for improvements in service hospital records, along with initial actions of ACUH Management Risk and Patient Safety Center, were the main indicators for this study to have its start up. The focus of this work was to understand the situation seen as problematic by the institution Hospital Records Division and, through observations and systemic reviews, identify opportunities for improvement. The methodology used was the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), recognized worldwide in the management of public health services, especially in studies carried out in National Health Service (NHS) in Britain. The application of SSM had allowed greater understanding of how the records management is conducted in ACUH, and the main obstacles for attendance to Brazilian national guidelines Risk Management and Patient Safety. In addition to organizational learning, this study led to the construction of a project named the Medical Records Management Improvement Program (MRMIP), which may be applied by the administration of ACUH.

Religious intolerance is a topic that has attracted the attention of researchers especially in relation to african-brazilian religions. In Paraiba, these studies are still incipient and thus this study aimed to identify manifestations of intolerance and reactions that have been engendered in the cities of Joao Pessoa, Sape, Guarabira and Alagoa Grande. To account for the theoretical support of the research came from the symbolic interactionism of weberian concepts and bourdianos, and authors who study the field of african-brazilian religions. The qualitative research made use of the techniques of field observation and interviews in order to favor their own data in the search field and by the agents themselves religious. In this theoretical part were visited twenty-three yards, and selected and contacted twenty-three religious leaders. After interviewing the twenty-three leaders, nine were chosen to interact in the interview technique with depth, resulting sometimes in more than two interviews with the same person. From the thematic readings and field work defined the field of religious african-brazilian religions in Paraiba. Religious intolerance was approached conceptually and empirically allowing the understanding that legitimacy in its social sense is a condition not yet achieved by these religions in spite of legal legitimacy. In search of social acceptance of the construction of legitimacy is a process that is being developed through the development of mechanisms called, from the contribution of concepts berger: cognitive, normative and cognitive-normative.

Les récits délinquants autobiographiques et biographiques représentent, pour mon corps de fille/petite-fille très aimeé et soignée par un corps ridé qui a toujours inspire de la confiance, de la loyauté, du courage et de la nutrition affective, um geste d’amour et grande gratitude à ma grand-maman Donzinha, mon grand appui existentiel. Un regret mouvent et affirmateur de ma qualité d’ancestral m’a conduit à la forêt de mes subjectivités d’enfant, de jeune et d’adulte en fortifiant mon individualité et mes relations entre les générations dans le présent. Raconter des histoires e’est une forme de sauver nos corps disseques par le paradigme de la fonctionnnalité, mon désir d’âme est nourri par le contact avec des histoires de vie de personnes qui battent et reinventent avec beaucoup d’artifices son quotidien. Selon souligne le sensible historicien CERTEAU (1994). Ma plus grande indignation comme petite-fille et professionnelle de Sciences Humaines c’est l’état d’invisibilité des persones âgées dans le décor contemporain. Comment se fait qu’une experience et un corps tellement importants sont impraticables par notre culture? Les corps rides emergent dans le décor actuel comme des grands protagonists dans la vie publique et privée et en meme temps sont les disparus de la ville. Je parle dans mon travail de la ville de Campina Grande et de João Pessoa en mettant au point les corps rides ou pás. Ils sont ridés parce qu’ils sont vieux, pauvres et habitent dans lês territoires consideres des cartographies du mal. Comme chercheur de frontiére entre les corps idéalisés et ceux illisibles, entre lês quartiers du bien et les quartiers du mal, je suis allée à la recontre d’enfants, de jeunes, d’adultes et d’âgés pauvres dans les communautés et dans deux écoles publiques où ils étudiaient. Mon parcours métodologique était: la recherche-action et interviews directifs dans les écoles et l’histoire orale chez les grands-parents qui s’occupent des petits-enfants. La recherche dans les écoles publuques renforcent ma perception que cet organisme se presente comme dévoreur de tous les corps et sens qui batent différemment de leurs croyances homogéneisées. Dans l’essai de dénoncer l’invisibilité des corps ridés, j’ai été tellement refusée comme les corps étranges, j’ai été apperçuepar les éducateurs comme une présence menaçante aux masques scolaires. J’ai constante que parmi le milieu chaotique des élèves (enfants et jeunes), la rigidité, l’impuissance et même le désespoir des éducateurs scolaires, Il y avait de la vie dans ce quotidien meurtrier, e’est-à-dire, la présence des corps adultes et âgés et leur enchantement par l’école. Différement de ce qui défend l’éducation majeur, les corps scolarisés aujourd’hui ne sont ni enfants ni jeunes, mais adultes et âgés. Comme ce qui donne sens à ce territoire public ce sont les corps adultes et âgés; dans le territoire domestique des quartiers où j’ai méné la recherche, qui donne sens et fonctionnalité aux configurations familiales pauvres dans la majorité, ce sont les corps ridés. Lá, la direction de la famile et le soin familial sont des attibutions presque du domaine féminin et géront. Dans ce décor-lá, les péres symboliques et les mères soigneuses sont remplacés par des grands-mamans et arrières-grands-mères. Ainsi, le mythe de I’avoternagem réinvente les enfants, en les enfants, em les empêchant de disparaître.

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Considering that journalism assists the construction of reality rather than reflect it, this thesis seeks to show how Newspapers from the state of Paraiba build the notion of politics. For this purpose, we analyze the Paraiba political journalism in an essentially vital context for politics: elections. Specifically the race for state governor in 2010. With the help of the phenomenological approach of Alfred Schutz, we observed that newspapers understand very well the subjects of their political coverage. But, also, these same papers present state politics as a broader object than it appears to be. The political journalism dedicated to the State's actions and the interaction of its main characters is therefore only a part of what the papers understand as politics. The other part, more complex and less apparent, is related to sociocultural constructions that permeate the journalistic production context. Therefore, to get to the proposed analyses, we were dedicated to examine the components of these sociocultural constructions: the notion of politics as interpreted by three authors - Aristotle, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt - how the political imaginary of a place is permeated by sociocultural aspects, the characteristics of political journalism and the theoretical perspectives that include journalism in a constructivist sense. The disposition of these subjects is justified by understanding that journalism is driven from technical and news production rules, but is also in a constant interaction with the environment in which it is produced as well as reframes and reproduces the results of these interactions on their content. In this sense, we use the methodological framework supported by Discourse Analysis to grasp and understand how these results are explained in the news and how they make their own notions of policy. To develop this study were collected in total, 23 stories, 15 from the “Jornal da Paraíba” and 8 from “Correio da Paraíba”. The gathering of these materials took place from July to November of 2010 and took into account factors such as incidence of speeches of leading candidates of the elections we analyze here and the relevance of these speeches for the proposed analysis. With the aforementioned information, we present an analysis of the meanings of politics built by the newspapers of Paraíba during this period: the common good of Aristotle, the power of Weber and the freedom of Arendt, each occupying a specific function in these senses.

Phenolic compounds are a major class of plant secondary metabolites synthesized for plant and adaptation to environmental stress defense. Are divided into three groups: phenolic acids, flavonoids and tannins. Have been proposed as having a variety of biological effects on human health and microorganisms such as S. aureus. Cases of infections caused by strains of S. aureus multi drug resistant (MDR) has increased over the years. Among the strategies to combat resistance of S. aureus to antibiotics, is the discovery of so-called modifiers resistance (Resistance-Modifying Agents - RMA). In this study, we evaluated the potential modulator and synergistic effect of flavonoids, tannins and phenolic acid on antibiotic activity norfloxanina (NOR), tetracycline (TET) and erythromycin (ERI) in strains of S. aureus. Six flavonoids have been tested - O-glycoside and C-glycoside - and their aglycone derivatives, two tannins (gallotannin and ellagitannin), phenolic acids (hydroxydiphenic acid and cinnamic acid derivatives). The compounds tested showed no antimicrobial activity at 128 μg/mL (MIC between 256 and 512 μg/mL). In the modulation test, the O-glycosylated flavonoids showed no reducing effect of the MIC of antibiotics tested, however, its aglycone derivatives reduced the MIC in the NOR sixteen fold (8 to 128 μg/mL), in contrast, the Cglycosylated flavonoids, quercetin and myricetin, reduced the MIC in the NOR up to four fold (32 to 128 μg/mL) and their aglycone derivatives showed no reducing effect MIC of the tested antibiotics; the hexahydroxydiphenic acid (gallic acid) showed no reducing effect of MIC of the tested antibiotics; among the cinnamic acid derivatives tested, only 3-methoxycinnamic acid, 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid and 3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic acid reduced the MIC in the NOR (64 to 128 μg/mL), while the 3-methoxycinnamic acid presented reducing effect of tetracycline MIC (64 to 32 μg/mL); the ellagitannin (ellagic acid) showed no reducing effect of MIC of antibiotics tested, already the gallotannin (tannic acid - TA) reduced thirty-two fold the MIC NOR (128 to 4 μg/mL), the test checkerboard TA had effect synergistic when applied in combination with NOR (FICI = 0.15) TA MIC decreased from 512 to 64 μg/mL (eight fold) while the MIC of NOR decreased from 128 to 4 μg/mL (thirty-two fold). The results demonstrate that the phenolic compounds have a potential application as an adjunct to antibiotics, particularly when in combination with NOR.

The present dissertation aims to present the institutional self-assessment conducted by the own assessment Committees (CPA´s), as a generating and disseminating knowledge tool that can help in the process of making strategic decisions on the part of Higher Education Institutions (IES). The approach chosen was the exploratory research. Based on the literary review of national and international authors to meet and analyze more deeply the concepts of institutional self-assessment, organizational strategy, knowledge management and organizational learning. From this point, it was possible to construct arguments capable of enabling the attainment of the objective proposed. At the end of the work it could be noted that the process of institutional self- assessment conducted annually by the CPAs can, in fact, generate knowledge which are able to potentiate the taking of strategic actions on the part of the IES.