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The aim of this diploma work was to specify the requirements for the front limb of a horse suitable for dressage competitions. The observed factors were individual parts of the front legs. Specifically, it was the shoulder angle, shoulder length, humerus length, shoulder joint angle, forearm length, carpal bones lenght, pastern lenght, horse height centimeters, and dimension from the shoulder joint to the hip. In total, 103 horses of eight different breeds used in dressage competitions were measured. The forearms of the horses were rated at performance levels L (58 horse), S (24 horses) and ST (21 horses). All measured horses did participate in dressage competitions in the past two years (2016 and 2017). From the dressage protocols belonging to the dressage racers, there were overall signs of walking, extended trot, extended canter, half-pass step and walk. For objective assessment, measurements were evaluated by Statistica program and by one-factor anova, Turkey's HSD test and Spearman correlations. The results of this work show that the most important dimension was the shoulder angle (ST 48 °). Furthermore, the horse height, where it turned out that the higher the horse (the ST 180 cm), the higher the performance and the better marks in dressage competitions. The length of the shoulder bone (about 44 cm) affects the marks for trot, canter and walk, but it does not affect whole performance too much. The pastern length (ST performance 18 cm) affects the grades behind the walk and the canter. On average, the shoulder length is about 61 cm, the size between the shoulder joint and the hip of the horse is 122 cm, the length of the forearm 46 47 cm, the length of the carpal bones 31 cm and the angle of the shoulder joint 99 °. Furthermore, the work shows that the higher the horse's performance, the less the dimensions were different, and thus the front legs were more similar. And the biggest differences are between performance horses L and ST or L and S, while the performance class horses at S and ST level are not so striking.

This paper examines the market orientation, innovation and organizacional performance from competitive parameters, adapted from Sandvik & Sandvik (2003) to the reality of hospitality companies of the Rio Grande do Sul. Through a descriptive research of transversal cut and based on the analysis of the data, the differences of averages of answers applying test- F, demonstrated that the majority of the searched hotels is in the market for 10 years and that 50% are small business companies. Moreover, 70% of the hospitality companies adopted as competitive strategy the adaptation to the necessities and demands of the customers. One evidenced is that the capacity of the hospitality companies in innovating for the market and for the companies happens independently of its competitive adoption, however considering market orientation and organizacional performance some elements had shown different behaviors, that had rejected the initial hypothesis. The research design consisted on Introduction, Theoretical Research, where the constructs and concepts are detached giving bases to the study, and Methodology. Finally, the Results descriptions of the survey, ending with final considerations in the Conclusion. / Este estudo apresenta a Orientação para o Mercado, a Inovação e a Performance Organizacional abordados através dos parâmetros de competitividade, adaptados do construto de Sandvik e Sandvik (2003) à realidade de 62 empresas hoteleiras localizadas no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Através de uma pesquisa descritiva de corte transversal único e da análise dos dados, através das diferenças de médias de respostas aplicando o teste-F, constatou-se inicialmente que a maioria dos hotéis pesquisados está no mercado há mais de 10 anos e que 50% são empresas de pequeno porte. Além disso, 70% das empresas hoteleiras do RS adotam como estratégia competitiva a adaptação para atender as necessidades e demandas dos clientes. Além disso, foi possível verificar que a capacidade das empresas hoteleiras em inovar acontece independentemente de sua adoção competitiva, comprovando a hipótese inicial, contudo algumas das variáveis constituidoras dos construtos de orientação para o mercado e de performance organizacional mostraram diferentes comportamento em relação as diferentes estratégias competitivas adotadas. Esta Dissertação de Mestrado está composta, respectivamente, por Introdução, pela Fundamentação Teórica, onde são destacados os construtos que dão base ao estudo, e pela Metodologia. Por último, apresenta os Resultados, que detalham o levantamento e as análises das informações, tendo seu fechamento nas considerações finais aportadas na Conclusão.