This thesis deals with the problems of babysitting children with special needs. The theoretical part is primarily devoted to the characteristics of healthy child development. Consequently, it provides a comparison of optimal child development with the development of handicapped children. It highlights the difficulty of care for disadvantaged children, the importance of preventing parents becoming overloaded and the various possibilities for support of the families. The next chapter focuses on the educational assessment of healthy children and children with special needs. It describes the availability of babysitting services for those children, the offers of current agencies and the profile of good quality carers. The last chapter presents the empirical part of this thesis. The quantitative research was, with the use of questionnaires, addressed to the parents of children with special needs. This section presents the course of the research and the method by which the goals were attained. It presents the views of parents of children with special needs with regards to: their level of interest in, and the problems with, babysitting services. Key words: baby, babysitting, nanny, promotion, prevention, parents, services, special needs, education, development, health disadvantage

Submitted by Everton Chagas (everton.chagas@uol.com.br) on 2018-03-23T13:58:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao IoT Everton Chagas (final).pdf: 5895742 bytes, checksum: 391c612ed7e137e0c4f3afda3b608a56 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Debora Nunes Ferreira (debora.nunes@fgv.br) on 2018-03-23T15:59:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao IoT Everton Chagas (final).pdf: 5895742 bytes, checksum: 391c612ed7e137e0c4f3afda3b608a56 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzane Guimarães (suzane.guimaraes@fgv.br) on 2018-03-23T16:38:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao IoT Everton Chagas (final).pdf: 5895742 bytes, checksum: 391c612ed7e137e0c4f3afda3b608a56 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-23T16:38:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao IoT Everton Chagas (final).pdf: 5895742 bytes, checksum: 391c612ed7e137e0c4f3afda3b608a56 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-26 / Após avanços significativos nas redes e infraestrutura de telecomunicações nas últimas décadas, surge o conceito da Internet das Coisas, termo em inglês Internet of Things (IoT). O campo de pesquisa sobre a IoT perpassa diversas áreas de conhecimento, como computação, engenharias, telecomunicações, economia e negócios. Esse estudo considera o fato de que a IoT pode permitir uma verdadeira transformação no segmento de telecomunicações para fornecedores e operadoras. A Internet das Coisas poderá influenciar vários componentes do modelo de negócios das operadoras de telecomunicações, os quais podem ser estudados sob vários aspectos. Entretanto, este trabalho trata especificamente do desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços da IoT no ambiente das operadoras de telecomunicações no Brasil. Desse modo, o objetivo principal deste estudo exploratório é identificar a influência da demanda por aplicações da IoT no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços das operadoras de telecomunicações no Brasil. Essa influência é analisada a partir do estudo de caso múltiplo realizado em três operadoras, observando em cada uma delas aspectos ligados à demanda por soluções da IoT, ao desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços da IoT e à oferta das soluções ligadas à IoT. Os resultados mostram que, na percepção das operadoras, a demanda por soluções ligadas à IoT tem crescido fortemente, principalmente no segmento empresarial, justamente onde as operadoras têm atuado com maior foco. Contudo, o modelo de desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços para a IoT pede uma clara adaptação, exigindo mais participação de parceiros tecnológicos, apoio a aceleradoras de startups e laboratórios de tecnologia, abrindo espaço para a utilização de metodologias ágeis nesse processo de desenvolvimento, objetivando consolidar e ampliar o portfólio de ofertas para a IoT, que, apesar dos esforços recentes das operadoras, mostra-se reduzido. / After significant advances in telecommunications networks and infrastructure in recent decades, there emerges the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). The field of research on IoT spreads through several knowledge areas, such as computing, engineering, telecommunications, economics and business. The present study considers the fact that IoT can make an actual transformation in the telecommunications industry possible both for suppliers and operators. The Internet of Things may influence various components of telecommunications operators’ business model, which can be studied from various perspectives. However, this work deals specifically with IoT product and service development in the environment of Brazil’s telecommunications operators. Thus, the main goal of this exploratory study is to identify how the demand for IoT applications can influence telecommunications operators’ product and services development in Brazil. We analyzed this influence based on the multiple case study we conducted with three communications operators, examining each of them for aspects related to IoT solution demand, IoT product and service development and offer IoT solutions. Results show that the operators perceive IoT-related solution demand to have increased strongly, mainly in the corporate segment, precisely where the operators have been focusing most on. However, the IoT product and service development model calls for a clear adaptation, i.e., it requires a greater participation of technology partners, support for startup accelerators and technology labs, thus making way for the use of agile methodologies in this development process, in order to consolidate and expand the IoT offer portfolio, which, despite these operators’ recent efforts, has so far proved small.

The goal of this thesis is to analyse development of two municipalities through the usage of attractions in the tourism industry. The first part focuses on the evaluation of demand side and supply side of tourism services and their impact on local development based on defined primary and secondary potentials in selected municipalities. The second part describes the options of utilization of funding programmes for tourism industry in selected municipalities and their impact on production in the region, including description of successfully completed or on-going projects that have an impact on the socio-economic development of municipalities.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a computer-assisted career information delivery system (CIDS), Virginia VIEW, with a computer-assisted guidance system (CAGS), DISCOVER, at a Virginia community college using parts of Shealy' s 1982 evaluation model patterned on the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee's specifications. User impact, user satisfaction, and economic efficiency components were studied. Screened volunteers in this five-week unstructured study were randomly assigned to four treatment groups of 25 students each: (A) Virginia VIEW; (B) Virginia VIEW and DISCOVER; (C) Control, wait for five weeks before using DISCOVER or VIEW; and (D) DISCOVER. Program completers (A=l7), (B=l8), (C=l9), and (D=20) took the Career Development Inventory (CDI) developed by Super and the Career Decision Scale (CDS) developed by Osipow as pre- and post-test instruments. Counseling assistance was available at all times upon request and records were kept on CIDS/CAGS User Logs. Student Planning and Counselor's Observation Logs were also kept. Based on the pre- and post-test results of the CDI and CDS, students did not differ in the affective, behavioral, and cognitive areas of career development and decision making at the end of five weeks (user impact). Students did not differ in their opinions (user satisfaction) of the information development, information delivery, or user service components of the two systems. Results on economic efficiency revealed that Virginia VIEW was less expensive per student user, while DISCOVER was less expensive per student hour of use. There were no clear differences in the three areas evaluated by this study between Virginia VIEW or DISCOVER. It was recommended that Shealy' s model be used again to evaluate the Interactive Virginia VIEW against DISCOVER and SIGI. Further research was also recommended in the use of the weekly Quantitative and Qualitative Student Career Planning Log. / Ed. D.