RCAAP Repository

One of the main features of postmodernity is the worldwide expansion of capitalism effects, both positive and negatives effects. Money appears to be volatile; the goods become global, being produced and consumed in different continents; different cultures mingle, collide and sometimes originate new cultural expressions; inequalities and tensions grow in geometric scale; and the current social and environmental problems become planetary. In this scenario, the emerging global citizen now requires the States and the market sustainable positions, so that the companies are pressured to incorporate ethical values and to act with social responsibility. This dissertation is a reflection on corporate social responsibility as part of employment relationships, and presents the cardinal facets of this movement, with an indication of relevant historical facts to its emergence, some concepts, distinctions, justification, legal basis, enabling mechanisms, stimulation and accountability tools. It also exposes some views about the scope of the term sustainability, and analyses the connections between social actions of corporations and certain aspects of citizenship. Finally, it suggests ways for this new style of business management, still under development in Brazil, to enforce labor rights.

The objective of this piece of work A Teaching Cooperative Approach in Popular Music Education - CLEMP is to demonstrate aspects of methodological contents of collective learning of music and using rock bands performance in school classrooms. This survey has been based on oral history statements of teachers, staff and students from the Technical School of Sao Paulo, Brazil CEFET, which were used to compile the history of the school and the evolution of their teaching methods as well as the analysis of the growth and improvement of musical skills of 13-16-year-old students attending the first year of Junior High School in 2007. The theoretical reference used to support the ideas contained in this piece of work derived from two schools of psychology: the significant learning of Ausubel, and the social-interactive approach of Vygotsky. The methodological procedure is the qualitative and participative research and selecting three aspects: the explanatory - to provide greater familiarity with the problem; the descriptive - to identify a group of students establishing their personal relationship with their instrument; and finally, the explanatory - to identify the factors that truly contributed to the musical improvement of the team as a whole. This work has made possible important links among the students having a great musical experience and the ones with little experience thus representing their first teamwork interaction which brought them a sense of happiness, friendship and pleasure in learning under a cooperative and natural environment - the appropriate scenario for rock bands musical production and performance.

This paper is an analysis study of bank spreads in South American countries and their relationship with economic freedom. Bank spread is a major element of the cost of credit as it represents the difference between the funding rate and the rate charged on lending operations. Thus, spread is one of the key components for increasing demand for credit in economies, as low spreads reduce borrowing costs and stimulate increased financing for investments, projects and consumption. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the level of economic freedom and the size of the bank spread in South America countries. The methodology adopted in this dissertation is quantitative, using panel data (cross section combined with time series).

The following research has as main objective estimating the net social benefit of recycling plastic within the electronic sector. Using environmental valuation methodologies and databases from governmental fonts, private and academic sources, it aims to describe the benefits and costs of recycling and using recycled plastics as source of raw material to produce durable goods. In order to estimate that, were used models of environmental evaluation of Motta (2017) called Net Social Benefit of the Recycling, and of Calderoni (2003) called Economic Savings. Besides that, the home appliances sales projection, and the benefit of using recycled plastic for the production of air conditioners was updated to present value. Although the Circular Economy has not yet been adapted and recognized in Brazil, this study concludes that recycling is an advantageous alternative to the growing increase of the electronic materials disposal in the country, and that recycling the plastic, the social benefit linked to this activity is higher than its cost.

Based on the Line of Research, discursive process and textual production , the present work focuses on the relation between the ethos and the discourse. The ethos is revealed through the discourse, in the same way, the discourse is supported by a body and a voice . We followed the Discourse Analysis of French way, backed to the social historic lingüistic process, in the work O Alienista by Machado de Assis. In this corpus (text) we used the Maingueneau s perspective, that each ethos express a different discourse; considering the Aristotle s principle of verisimility who affirms that to the poet is not necessary to tell what happened exactly; but what could have happened. For this perspective, we analysed many fictional ethé in interaction, that results in a dialogue between many ideologies that argument with each other, promoting the text development. In this fictional world, criated by Machado de Assis, we worked with the concepts of poliphony and interdiscursivity. The presence of many voices has a functional purpose, because they are articuled strategically, to visualize the dialogue between many discourses; and, as a result, the conflit between many ideologies. If we look with attention, we will see that O Alienista projects the structure of a fictional world, reported by the narrator s ironical ethos, that denounces the society of his time, or, apart from this, the society that exists in the eternal present.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

The right to health has a new outline under the Constitution of 1988. A right formerly guaranteed only to insured parties and dependents of the social security system, became right to all people and a duty of the State, effected through social and economic policies. In this context, the demands related to the realization of social rights, especially the right to health, are each day more taken to the analysis of legal scholars, who became real agents participating in the implementation of public policies. This phenomenon has transferred to legal scholars, upon justiciability of social rights, the burden of examining certain conditions of public policies that had previously been restricted to public administrators. Thus, this thesis will analyze the positioning of the chief judges of the Federal Circuit Court of the 3rd Circuit in relation to certain economic arguments that impact on the achievement, by the judiciary, of social rights, notably, in this dissertation, the supply of medicines.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível

This study aimed to establish the influence of Organizational Values on Practices of Organizational Dignity, by using two scales: the scale of Organizational Dignity Practices, developed by Teixeira et al. (2010) for use by stakeholders of companies and created from research conducted with employees; and the scale of Organizational Values, developed by Guardani (2008), and dedicated exclusively to customers. The descriptive research, quantitative, was developed from a non-probability sample and used the Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Analysis. The results confirmed the influence of Organizational Values factors on the Dignity of Organizational factors, especially values for Respect for stakeholders and Well-being of employees, but it was found that values related to Authority and Power do not show significant relationship with Organizational Dignity. The results achieved reinforce the need of organizations to establish, together with their employees and customers, practices based on moral and ethical values, which may benchmark their actions and allow advantageous business both for companies and for customers.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

The objective of this research is to analyse the theme of the deconstruction of the school as space science in the making of chronic Rubem Alves. The interest in the subject arose of our observation, in our context of job, that the author, so convergent and / or divergent, exerts great influence in the Brazilian educational scenario in addressing school education as a theme for its chronic. As a starting point of work, selected three texts of the author cited most often constituting the corpus of search: Pinoquio às avessas, Gaiolas ou asas? e As lições dos moluscos. In these texts, we have seen that in the speech Alves, it is certain tendency to disregard the school as a place to make scientific and present it, however, as the area of "ideal" (not true) to do so playful - empirical, translated in "learning with pleasure." Although they object to the design of fatalistic formal system of education, such speeches, based on a romantic vision of the world, collaborate, in our view, to divert us the action of the school in the cultivation of values and carrying out functions essential for the formation citizen facing the demands of real life. To demonstrate that the chronicles of Rubem Alves desconstructing the school as an area of scientific and propose how to make that space a playful-empirical, support us an analysis based on the principles of theoretical and methodological Greimasiana semiotic discourse. In this sense, assume that the speech of Alves, with the design of school that argues, has a narrative structure different from that which maintains the speeches in favor of a school whose goal is to promote understanding through rational make-cognitive. And in being true, as semiotics, that distinct narratives involve fundamental structures and discursive specific achievements, we can identify the chronic Rubem Alves, a concept of promoting school education second a vision of a romantic ideal of life in which the affection and pleasure prevail as teaching strategies.

Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

This work is a study of correspondence in the area of English and Portuguese verb tenses, and takes as focus the Present Perfect verb tense. In this study it is used as corpus the occurrences of this English verb tense in North American articles of the National Geographic magazine, and its statements and sense effects compared with the translations of the respective Brazilian articles. With the purpose of reflecting on this correspondence, this work is based on the description of the Present Perfect presented by grammars of different theoretical orientations, on the analysis of the grammatical categories of aspect and tense in both English and Portuguese languages, and, also, on theoretical aspects related to the problem of foreign language acquisition.

Many studies have been undertaken in order to develop theories in the field of text analysis. For the diversity of study methods and the great variety of meanings that may result from such studies, it is necessary to apply these procedures to assess its effectiveness in practice. This work is studied, based on theories of discourse analysis and text linguistics, the effect of a sense of figurative language in the translated text in three versions that aim to reach different audiences. The text chosen is The Sermon on the Mount, in the Bible, the passage of the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 5-7. The examination of the text include the identification of the terms of the figurative meaning and its relation to other elements of phrasal construction, followed by application of the theories of the discursive possibilities for finding meaning and purpose as a form of rhetoric.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

This work is based on research conducted by the group that studied the preferred orientation of crystallographic planes of polycrystalline materials by a systematic carefull analysis of the mathematical equations envolved. It aims to continue the X rays diffraction study on the crystallographic texture in polycrystalline metallic materials by a systematic carefull analysis of the mathematical equations envolved. For this purpose we used the GSAS (General Structural Analysis System) a package free software, created by scientists Allen C. Larson and Robert B. Von Dreele in 1991, which uses the Rietveld method to analyze data collected by neutrons or X rays diffraction, text repeated in the footnote. The equations used in this work were established in the study of crystallography and are provided in the GSAS manual.

Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie