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The detection of objetcs in digital images is one of the most studied and developed subjects within the computer vision field. Unlike the problem of object identification, where the basic task is classify objects into predefined classes, object detection has the difficult task of searching the entire image and answering the following questions: how many objects are in the image and what is the location of these objects? When the object being searched is a pedestrian, it is characterized the problem of pedestrian detection. In this research project we evaluated the use of additional information in the scene, here called context information, aiding the task of pedestrians detection. The context information explored in this research were the presence of floor area and the relationship between the pedestrian height and the pedestrian vertical position within the image. The information of floor area presence is obtained by means of an artificial neural network that classifies a region in the image as belonging or not to a floor area. The neural network is applied in an area below the bounding box that delimits a pedestrian detection candidate. The relationship between the pedestrian height and the pedestrian vertical position is obtained by the bounding box at the output of the pedestrian detection algorithm. Based on a statistical model, this relationship represents additional information that may indicate that the pedestrian detected by the algorithm represents a false positive and can be eliminated from the final result. This additional information is incorporated into the detector information improving its accuracy. Based on the tests performed in this thesis, we can say that the use of this additional information considerably improves the precision in the pedestrian detection algorithms proposed in the literature, considerably reducing the number of false positives.

Este trabalho analisa a importância do mercado de capitais no desenvolvimento econômico, seu lugar no financiamento de longo prazo, dividindo este peso com o Estado, permitindo a participação pequenos investidores em uma vasta gama de empreendimentos, pulverizando a propriedade das companhias, servindo como instrumento de hedge, diversificando portfolios de investimento e como meio para mobilização de poupança. O estudo aborda a evolução da regulamentação no Brasil em anos recentes, discutindo como o ambiente regulatório pode ser melhorado, garantindo eficiência tanto do ponto de vista da companhia quanto do investidor, investigando como o mercado de capitais brasileiro é afetado pela regulação, já que normas pouco eficientes podem causar aumento de custos enquanto não alcançam seus objetivos, ao mesmo tempo procurando por evidências que expliquem a razão de alguns negócios, em setores específicos, buscarem mercados de capitais estrangeiros para captação.

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Subject: This work presents an analysis of OCESP System problem in order to structure a business intelligence area. OCESP is an entity that represents São Paulo cooperatives. Application: A survey was conducted with internal and external stakeholders to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. After that, it was possible to elaborate an action plan to solve the problem identified. The plan implementation considered a new portfolio of products for the business intelligence area. Impact: The introduction of the business intelligence area allowed the internal areas of the OCESP System to obtain data and information to support daily operations and contribute to the decision-making process. Cooperatives had access to the content that knowledge-deepen in their fields. Although the OCB System operates nationwide most of the data was related to São Paulo state, however, it will be possible to replicate it, since the OCB System has national operations, the published products may contribute information to cooperatives and state units in other states. Innovation: The solutions adopted occurred in organizational, product, and process and through the strategy of jointly dealing with the themes of cooperativism and market intelligence, which is still little explored by the Brazilian cooperative system and by business literature. Complexity: The complexity was in the organization of the proposed solution to the problem presented in this work, taking into account the specificities of cooperativism and at the same time acting in the market competing with mercantile companies. Among the facilities is the support of the OCESP System in the implantation of the market intelligence nucleus and relationship with the other areas with the new structure and as for the difficulties, there is, mainly, the data culture as a challenge to be overcome. Applied Methodology: Based on the methodology for practical and applied research by Marcondes, Miguel, Franklin and Perez (2017), it was conducted surveys and interviews with employees, managers and clients of the OCESP System. Ke

The dissertation present aimed to analyze the National Council of Justice established by Constitutional Amendment nº 45/04, due to the conflicts that preceded its creation, as well as those who came later. At the beginning, it was discussed the historical Justice Councils around the world and the reasons that led its creation in Brazil, reflecting the administration of justice following Weber and Zaffaroni s models. Moreover, it was accentuated the importance of democratization of the Judiciary, giving an emphasis on popular participation. Then came to the conclusion that the organ is endowed with regulatory powers, checking their assignments. It was exposed the perspectives of the National Council of Justice in order to improve the judicial function, essential for the existence of a Democratic State of Law. Finally, was also considered the limits of its performance, culminating in an inability to regulate the activity of the tribunal judges.

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This dissertation discusses some tendencies of recent musicological thought, which has presented aspects that point to common perspectives, among them the historical and cultural context and interdisciplinarity. The work of German composer Claus Ogerman is the object of study of this research due to its reputation and standing during the expansion of the cultural industry, performing musical activities in diverse fields not only popular music of the XX and XXI centuries but also of minimalism, serialism and modernism (classifications which belong to the scope of classical music). This study focused on the composer's work allows us to analyze three important phases of his life and of his work through the two musical fields (popular and classical music), music XX and XXI century, comparing and analyzing their artistic production.

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O câncer, como uma das doenças mais acometidas no mundo todo, tem como um de seus principais tratamentos a quimioterapia, que, por mais eficiente que seja, promove muitos efeitos adversos, sendo prejudiciais à saúde do paciente. Com isso, muitas pessoas procuram formas alternativas de tratamento para auxiliar a terapia, buscando assim, nas Práticas Integrativas e Complementares, o caminho da cura. A utilização das plantas medicinais é a prática mais procurada pela população, em decorrência disso faz-se, neste presente trabalho, uma seleção de referenciais teóricos que compreendam os conhecimentos dessa medicina.

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The school is a space dedicated to the development of learning skills and socialization repertoires of children and adolescents in order to support them in the development of skills to deal with future experiences. In Brazil, the documents that parameterize education leave implicit how these skills should be developed together with curricular contents. One of teacher's challenges in the classroom is the development of appropriate strategies for stimulating cognitive and behavioral skills in the students. Studies have shown that interventions applied in the classroom context can stimulate cognitive and behavioral repertoire suitable for learning. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of the behavioral stimulation and attentional skills intervention, as well social skills and adaptive functioning in the academic performance. The sample consisted of 64 children aged 6 to 12 years old, attending the 2nd and 4th year of elementary school of Integral Education Center (CIS) in Curitiba/PR and the respective professors. The classes were divided by drawing in experimental groups (GE) and control group (CG). The data collection instruments were Child Behavior Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL / 6-18), Teacher's Report Form for ages 06 - 18 (FRR / 6-18), Guidance Behavioral Management for Children and Adolescents with signs of inattention and hyperactivity, a checklist to control the application of the student’s guide and academic performance registration on quarterly tests (bulletin). The results pointed out that the intervention for behavior management in the context of the classroom brought benefits to both experimental groups, given that the 2nd year group had better results than the group of 4th year, considering the improvement shown on the scales of the TRF Academic Performance, Working capacity, Behavior, Learning and Happiness, and the increase in the percentage of note "A" and reduction in the percentage of notes B and C in the subjects evaluated. In the home environment the parents report not confirmed the same level of improvement in adaptive functioning indicators. It is concluded that the intervention was effective in the increase of adaptive behavior and academic performance of students, especially according with teacher reports.

Neste trabalho será abordada as dinâmicas sociais do espaço urbano. Entende-se que a crianças e sua relação com a cidade é um dos principais indicadores da qualidade de vida desse de um meio urbano. Através da pesquisa históriaca e de pesquisa em campo, será analisado o bairro Jardim Lapenna, localizado na Zona Leste da Cidade de São Paulo. Após o entendimento das dinâmicas sociais e espacias do território analisado será proposto o desenho de um Centro Comunitário com um programa voltado para a infância e sua relação com o restante da comunidade.

The objective of this study was to identify, according to the perception of the collaborators of the Financial Institution, which are the most important factors and those most prone to risk in the tax activity. Thus, a case study was carried out in a Financial Institution that is present in 18 countries, besides Brazil, with activities of commercial bank and operations of institutional clients, investment bank, wholesale and private banking. The exploratory research with a qualitative and quantitative approach was carried out with a two-step survey: in the first stage a survey of fiscal risks was carried out, through an open question, addressed to employees directly involved in the tax process; In the second stage specific questions were elaborated, using the Likert scale, to measure the factors pointed out in the first stage. A total of 159 employees were consulted, of which 105 (66%) contributed to the survey, allowing the production of knowledge and the possibility of identifying the risk factors in which the Financial Institution may be exposed. The main results revealed that adherence to legislation, control and knowledge of accounting, taxes and fiscal processes, besides the availability of accounting information, support data and management are the most risk factors. These risks are represented by loss in the quality of tax information from its origin and may represent financial and operational losses. The study allowed the creation of an applied model of tax risk management, focusing on Control and Management, Fiscal Strategy, Information, People, Processes and Technology.

Generally speaking the tattoo is not a practice recognized as belonging to the artistic context, however, its characteristics and behavior of its materials as well as its support enable to relate its process with the process art. Each tattoo should be developed for a particular part of a particular person's body. Therefore, the process becomes specific and dependent on the properties of this body. External factors such as incidence of the sun, scars and artificial light on the tattooed area, as well as internal factors such as metabolism, cell regeneration etc. affect the tattoo constantly. Thus, it can be said that the tattoo is an ongoing process that undergoes changes until the complete destruction of its support, the skin. Reflecting on the tattoo as an open process, this research allows the establishment of relations between the tattoo process and process art. Thus two outstanding points will be developed: (i) moments in which contemporary artists and bioartistas used tattoos on his works and processes will be mapped; (Ii) by recording a theoretical and practical work called biotattoos the tattoo process will be shown and described. The biotattoos are abstract images chosen by the tattoo artist and adapted to fit a given region of the body of a specific person. These are tattoos designed to incorporate variables and changes in their structures during the procedure. The practical step allows to focus on the tattoo not as a finished object finalized in the skin, but rather in all its process.

This research aims to analyze a religious discourse, more precisely the sermon "The Talhas de Caná", given by the English Reverend Charles Haddon Spurgeon of the British Baptist Church, to his faithful, based on the verse of the biblical text of the Gospel of John, chapter 2, verse 7: "Jesus said to them, Fill the jars with water. And they filled them completely." We did the analysis of this religious discourse, based on the foundations of discursive semantics, just as it is understood by discursive semiotics. After contextualizing and defining the nature and context of our object of study and highlighting the objectives and justification of the work, we present the theoretical foundations. In this sense, we deal with discursive semantics and syntax, dealing with the figurative and thematic structure of narratives and their enunciative construction. We did the analysis of C H Spurgeon's sermon in two chapters. In the first, we focus on the different figurative paths that structure the text and we did the corresponding thematic reading that is transmitted by them. The text was predominantly figurative. The narrator highlighted, initially, figurative paths whose themes can be defined as complementary to what the sermon effectively proposes. Next, the text specifically thematizes the meaning of order in this passage of the Gospel of John: "Jesus said to them, Fill the jairs with water. And they filled them completely. " With regard to the enunciative projections, the enunciation is highlighted in the analysis. The narrator speaks in the first person and challenges his recipient for you, creating the effects of informality and proximity to your audience. In several passages, one has the impression that he is talking to his interlocutors. This proximity effect is consistent with the figurative features of the text, as they often evoke examples and comparisons of a person's daily life. We conclude the work with the final considerations, in which we give evidence to the central points of our study.

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The present study intends to analyze the intertextuality established between the superhero Superman, created by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel and the super-hero Overman, created by the Brazilian cartoonist Laerte. Overman was chosen for the analysis of intertextuality with Superman because he is the first "over" superhero whereas Superman was the first "super"; and also because he makes an opposition between an idealized hero in a rich country, the United States, and another idealized one in a developing country, Brazil, presenting, this way, the construction of different realities. From concepts by Mikhail Bakhtin and Linda Hutcheon, the carnivalization and the parody present in the texts are discussed. A comparative analyzis is done to establish the equalities and differences between the texts and the analise purpose is to present the criticism proposed by carnavalization. The Brazilian cartoonist dialogues with Superman, when he creates a superhero whose physical appearance reminds the American hero, this way the original text is mentioned and the intertextuality is established. The aim; however, is not to confirm the mentioned text, but to alter it with the intention of provoking the laughter. Once Overman was built with an antagonistic world view if compared to Superman, he dessacralizes the hero model that had been proposed. As it is possible to perceive, Overman is a carnivalized image of Superman; having been created in a different situation and in a different socioeconomic context, he establishes a parody of Superman wich, besides presenting satirical components, also becomes a homage.