Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-03-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:51:29Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 capelassi_ch_me_bauru.pdf: 627447 bytes, checksum: 83dab2e4ec1827c37529ad2ca27180a3 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Para o lançamento de novos produtos industriais na área do vestuário, os profissionais responsáveis necessitam utilizar a ergonomia durante as etapas de construção do produto. A pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar os métodos de desenvolvimento de produtos utilizados pelas indústrias do vestuário/moda da região noroeste do Paraná e sua interface com a tabela de medidas do vestuário. O estudo inicia-se tratando das relações com a antropometria e as tabelas de medidas utilizadas pelas modelistas nas empresas e da fundamentação teórica acerca de métodos de projeto de produto de design e métodos de projetação para vestuário. A pesquisa qualitativa tem como ambiente industrial pesquisado os municípios de Cianorte e Maringá, e os sujeitos participantes são os designers responsáveis pelo setor de desenvolvimento de produto. Pela análise da revisão bibliográfica e dos resultados obtidos mediante entrevista constatou-se a preocupação com aspectos ergonômicos durante o processo de projetação dos produtos, assim como atenção especial para a etapa de planejamento da coleção / For the launch of new industrial products in the clothing area, the responsible professionals need to use ergonomics during the phases of the product construction. This research aims to identify methods of product development used by the clothing industries in the northwest region of Paraná and its interface with the measurement tables of clothing. The study initiates by considering the relationship with anthropometry and measurement tables used by designers in companies and the theoretical framework about methods of product design and methods for clothing designing. The qualitative research ha as an industrial environment researched the cities of Maringá and Cianorte, and the subjects participants are the designers responsible by the product development sector. By analyzing the literature and the during the process of the designing of the products, as well as a special attention to the planning phase of the collection

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T14:49:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1374760 bytes, checksum: 668ddae8afa6991f24f94e768321a334 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-09 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Understanding the relationship between the human being and the environment is a need present in the agenda of companies, governments, academy and consumers. Towards the sustainable development, everyone is looking for the causes and possible solutions to mitigate the environmental problems, since these might affect all of us. So, this study aimed to identify if the awareness of adverse consequences and the consumers' environmental concern contribute to the environmental conscious behaviors. These objectives were reached through the application of in-depth interviews allied with the projective technique with 33 consumers aged between 18 to 66 years old that were residents in João Pessoa city. The interpretation of the speeches through the content analysis with qualitative approach oriented by Bardin (1977) generated thematic categories and variables. These, when confronted in the light of the theoretical references, allowed the analysis of the environmental conscious behaviors and if these are oriented by selfish values (anthropocentric) or are guided by altruistic and biospheric values (ecocentric). The results showed a paradoxical consumers relationship that ranges among consuming less to preserve the environment and the planet (values oriented to our interests ) or consuming more to reach personal satisfaction in a way to maintain the own life quality, the health and the personal well-being ( my interests ). The study reveals a high concern and understanding referred to the negative consequences of the environmental degradation. However, despite of the declared intention of acting on behalf of the environment, the consumers demonstrate passivity and selfish behaviors. In this context, the consumers impute to the companies and the governments the environmental care and do not exercise their power to maintain the society s balance. From these verifications, it is necessary to make the consumers aware and to motivate them to change values and behaviors, towards this new thought related to an ecological rationality. The sustainable development can be reached by addressing the government actions together with the marketing strategies, but also counting with the consumer's active participation in this sense. / Entender as relações entre o homem e o meio ambiente é uma necessidade presente na agenda de empresas, governos, academia e consumidores. Na onda do desenvolvimento sustentável, todos buscam as causas e possíveis soluções para mitigar os problemas ambientais, já que estes acabam afetando a todos. Neste sentido, esta dissertação busca identificar se a conscientização acerca das consequências adversas e a preocupação ambiental dos consumidores contribuem para seus comportamentos ambientalmente conscientes. Estes objetivos foram alcançados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade aliadas à técnica projetiva conduzidas com 33 consumidores de idades entre 18 a 66 anos e moradores da cidade de João Pessoa. A análise qualitativa de conteúdo orientada por Bardin (1977) possibilitou interpretar as falas e gerou categorias temáticas e variáveis. Estas, confrontadas à luz das referências teóricas, permitiram analisar o comportamento ambientalmente consciente dos consumidores e verificar se são consoantes com valores egoístas (antropocêntricos) ou são orientados por valores altruístas e biosféricos (ecocêntricos). Os resultados apontam para uma relação paradoxal dos consumidores que se baseia entre consumir menos para preservar o meio ambiente e o planeta (valores voltados aos nossos interesses ) ou consumir mais para atingir satisfação pessoal e manter a própria qualidade de vida, a saúde e o bem-estar pessoal ( meus interesses ). O estudo revela alta preocupação e conscientização acerca das consequências negativas da degradação ambiental. Porém, apesar de os entrevistados declararem a intenção de agir em prol do meio ambiente, demonstram passividade e egoísmo nos comportamentos. Neste contexto, os consumidores imputam às empresas e aos governos os cuidados com o ambiente e não exercem seu poder para manter a sociedade em equilíbrio. A partir destas constatações, infere-se a necessidade de conscientizar os consumidores e incentivar a mudança de valores e comportamentos, face ao novo pensamento voltado à racionalidade ecológica. O desenvolvimento sustentável poderá ser alcançado a partir do direcionamento das ações governamentais aliadas às estratégias de marketing, mas também com a participação do consumidor mais atuante neste sentido.

Pesquisas em que se procura investigar a relação entre os fatores ambientais e o comportamento dos consumidores são ainda embrionárias no Brasil, o que constitui uma oportunidade para estudos que relacionam o comportamento de compra dos consumidores com as questões ambientais. Nessa perspectiva, o objetivo da presente pesquisa foi verificar se existe correlação entre os construtos: conhecimento ecológico, afeto ecológico, preocupação ecológica, normas subjetivas e o comportamento de compras verdes. Na busca do alcance dos objetivos propostos, adotou-se uma metodologia caracterizada pela pesquisa exploratória, utilizando-se o método transversal simples no processo de coleta dos dados. Foram adotados no estudo dados secundários, provenientes de artigos, livros, dissertações, teses e internet, além de dados primários, coletados com a aplicação de questionários à população-alvo. Partindo-se de uma amostragem aleatória estratificada, essa população foi constituída pelas mulheres acima dos 18 anos, por representarem consumidoras potenciais de produtos cosméticos. No tratamento dos dados dos 500 questionários validados, contemplouse a utilização do coeficiente Alpha de Cronbach e da técnica multivariada de análise fatorial exploratória. Um modelo de regressão múltipla foi testado para explicar o comportamento de compra de cosméticos ecológicos. Os resultados deixam evidências de que as variáveis Normas Subjetivas (NS), Afeto Ecológico (AE), Preocupação Ecológica (PE) e Conhecimento Ecológico (CE) foram consideradas estatisticamente significantes para explicar as variações em Comportamento de Compra de Cosméticos Ecológicos (CCCE), com um R2 de 0,555. Entre as variáveis demográficas testadas, verificou-se que apenas a faixa etária e a classe social exercem influência moderada sobre a variável dependente. Tais resultados sinalizam similaridade entre os resultados obtidos na mensuração da correlação múltipla entre as variáveis independentes, a variável dependente e aqueles observados na teoria sobre a influência da primeira sobre o comportamento de compra de produtos ambientalmente corretos. Os resultados desta tese oferecem uma compreensão adicional sobre os fatores que afetam o processo de decisão de compra do consumidor. Considera-se, portanto, que este trabalho constitui um avanço no estado da arte das pesquisas sobre a relação entre os fatores ambientais e o comportamento dos consumidores, uma vez que foram investigados aspectos não contemplados em estudos anteriores. / Research which seeks to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and the consumer behavior is still embryonic in Brazil, which is a unique opportunity for those studies that relate the purchasing behavior of consumers to environmental issues. In this perspective, the goal of this research was to ascertain whether there is correlation between the following constructs: ecological knowledge, ecological affection, ecological concern, subjective norms and green purchase behavior. In pursuit of achieving the proposed objectives, a methodology characterized by exploratory search was used, adopting the simple transverse method in data collection process. In the study, secondary data from articles, books, dissertations, theses and the internet were used, in addition to the primary data, collected with the application of questionnaires to the target population. Based on a stratified random sampling, the population was constituted by women over 18 years old, since they represent potential consumers of cosmetic products. Regarding the data processing of 500 validated questionnaires, the use of Cronbach\'s Coefficient Alpha and multivariate exploratory technique of factor analysis were contemplated. A multiple regression model was tested to explain the behavior of buying ecological cosmetics. The results produce evidence that Subjective Norms (SN), Ecological Affection (EA), Ecological Concern (EC) and Ecological Knowledge (EC) variables were considered statistically significant to explain the variations in Purchase Behavior of Ecological Cosmetics (PBEC), with an R2 of 0.555. Among the demographic variables tested, it was found that only the age and social class exercise moderate influence over the dependent variable. Such results indicate similarity among the results obtained in the measurement of multiple correlations among independent variables, the dependent variable and those observed in theory concerning the influence of the former over the purchasing behavior of environmentally correct products. The results of this thesis offer additional insight about the factors that affect the purchase decision process. Therefore, it is considered that this work is an advance in the state of the art of research about the relationship between environmental factors and the consumer behavior, since aspects not covered in previous studies were investigated.

Submitted by Pedro Henrique Rodrigues (pedro.henriquer@ufpe.br) on 2015-03-04T17:46:47Z No. of bitstreams: 2 dissertation_dmc4_final.pdf: 2547061 bytes, checksum: 37ab52f20fadfed5e6ba1cfb7649f971 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T17:46:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 dissertation_dmc4_final.pdf: 2547061 bytes, checksum: 37ab52f20fadfed5e6ba1cfb7649f971 (MD5) license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-16 / Since the very first graphical user interfaces, progress indicators have been widely used to provide feedback regarding the execution of a system long-running tasks. In fact, practical experience and formal experiments suggest that such indicators are an important user interface tool, as they enhance the attractiveness and effectiveness of the programs that incorporate them. However, in order to make progress feedback possible, the system services involved must provide on-line monitoring capabilities. As the software systems become increasingly larger and more complex — often involving complex interactions between various different components and abstraction layers —, the crosscutting nature of monitoring concerns can introduce several inherent challenges to the software development: (1) code quality degradation with respect to tangling and scattering; (2) costly software evolution and maintenance difficulties; (3) absence of specific development patterns and regular standardized process guidance; (4) loss of development productivity; and (5) inconsistent monitoring results. In this context, this work provides an analysis of monitoring requirements, possible approaches towards its implementation along with an analysis of the main benefits and weaknesses involved. Furthermore, it is proposed and evaluated a solution to aid the software development by overcoming the monitoring-related inherent challenges, rather by mitigating or completely eliminating the problems. The solution consists of a framework, extended libraries, and generic software process guidelines regarding the monitoring requirements, with focus on the Rational Unified Process (RUP), for exemplification purpose, but not limited to it.

Denna uppsats behandlar frågeställningen “Hur underlättar man en parallell utveckling av en- samt flerspelar-funktionalitet i ett spel?”. Anledningen till frågeställningen är att en separation mellan de två lägena, tror vi, får en positiv inverkan på agilitet i mjukvaruutvecklingsprojekt inriktat mot spel, något som spelutvecklingsföretagen och utvecklare historiskt sett haft problem med. Samtidigt som en separation av funktionaliteten delar de olika kunskapsområden (spellogik och nätverk) så att rätt person kan arbeta med rätt sak. Målet med denna uppsats är att försöka bana väg för vidare forskning snarare än att helt lösa problemet. Problemet har studerats genom att applicera aktionsforskning vilket praktiskt har lett till en iterativ process som resulterat i en potentiell lösning vilket på veckovis basis reflekterats över samt förbättrats. I rapporten beskriver vi en lösning i form av en mjukvarudesign och regler att förhålla sig till, samt erfarenheter vi har erhållit under arbetets gång. / This paper addresses the question formulation “How does one aid a parallel development of singleplayer and multiplayer in game development?” The reasoning behind is that we believe a separation between the two achieves a greater agility in software development minded towards games. Something that the industry and developers alike historically have struggled and had problems with. At the same time a separation of functionality divides the different areas of expertise (game logic and network) so that the right person can focus on the right thing in a development cycle. The contribution to the scarce research in the general area computer science more narrowly and specific, game development research is mainly to pave the way for further research. The problem has been tackled through Action Research, meaning the use of practical development iterated towards a potential solution, and on a weekly basis considered the solution and made improvements and adjustments on it. This paper describes a solution in form of a software design and a couple of rules to relate to as well as the experience we obtained throughout this project.

The objective and main aim of this Master´s Thesis is to analyze the working capital and its management in the company Siemens, s.r.o. as a member of concern Siemens and eventually to propose the appropriate arrangements to improve the procedures and reduce the shortcomings detected. Financial statements and annual reports are to be subject to horizontal and vertical analyses, as well as financial ratios. Furthermore, each separate component within the working capital will be reviewed; receivables, inventories, cash and current liabilities. In conclusion, the results of analyses will be explicated a possible influence on company´s or concern´s performance revealed.

In view of the overall dissatisfaction with the preaching of God’s Word in general, it is necessary to find a practical theological solution to the problem. The importance of a personal house call by the minister or preacher with a view to actual and topical preaching already seems to pose an answer. A visit by the preacher gives the member of his congregation an opportunity to make a contribution to the sermon/message. The preacher must not only give a thorough exergesis of the text, but it is imperative that he should also be familiar with his listeners. The text as well as its context is of cardinal importance for the actual preaching. Knowledge of the context creates space for the text to make the message topical under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The listeners want to hear the Lord in their own circumstances as well as to experience Him as their personal living redeemer. When either the context or the listeners’ participation in the preaching is underrated, the listeners remain untouched by the message and hardly experience a Word- or Spiritual event. The dialogical communication process requires personal contact between preacher and listeners during which not only the preacher hears the voice of God and delivers a message in the course of his visit, but so that the church member will also be able to share his experience with God with the preacher, and then with the congregation. Members of the congregation are also biblically tasked to uplift one another with the Word of God. It is a source of great concern that more and more preachers and church councils have come to regard personal home visits as old-fashioned or even obsolete. The empirical research has strongly supported the concern and needs of church members as regards fruitful home visits by officials of the church. Church councils and spiritual leaders should firmly establish the practice of house calls as one of the basic cornerstones of a healthy and constructive communication with the view to the practical and topical preaching of God’s Word. / Dissertation (MA (Theology) : Practical Theology)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2016-06-20T13:52:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Geraldo Luiz Filho.pdf: 1412544 bytes, checksum: c51ae0533c317b450405046a5b2c324f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-20T13:52:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Geraldo Luiz Filho.pdf: 1412544 bytes, checksum: c51ae0533c317b450405046a5b2c324f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-06 / Companies that are social responsible tend to be more recognized in the market. However, for this practice to happen, graduates need to be prepared to work within these expectations. In this sense and to understand if there are environmental performances in the Brazilian federal universities and their business students, this study was aimed to verify this relationship, using a scale translated and validated for the Brazilian context, based on belief, attitude, concern and consumption. The methodological approach is quantitative, allowing to analyze the environmental performance and which aspects have environmental practices. The survey data was performed using a questionnaire administered in 60 campuses of federal universities where, effectively, 35 of them participated, with a total of 1,146 respondents. Data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), with partial least squares and paths models (PLS-PM) using the SmartPLS 2.0 software - M3, the results indicate that the development of environmental issues are not favorable in the academic world. / Empresas que demonstram ter responsabilidade social tendem a ser mais reconhecidas no mercado. Contudo, para que esta prática aconteça, os gestores sendo formados pelas universidades precisam se preparar para atuar dentro destas expectativas. Neste sentido e para entender se o comportamento ambiental dos estudantes de administração das universidades federais brasileiras exibem práticas ambientais, o presente estudo teve por objetivo verificar esta relação, utilizando-se uma escala traduzida e validada para o contexto brasileiro, baseada em crença, atitude, preocupação e consumo. A abordagem metodológica é de natureza quantitativa, o que possibilitou analisar o comportamento ambiental e quais aspectos apresentam práticas ambientais. O levantamento dos dados foi realizado utilizando-se um questionário aplicado em 60 campi de universidades federais onde, efetivamente, 35 deles participaram, com um total de 1.146 respondentes. Os dados foram analisados através da Modelagem de Equações Estruturais (SEM), com mínimos quadrados parciais e modelos de caminhos (PLS-PM) utilizando-se o software SmartPLS 2.0 – M3, cujos resultados indicam que o desenvolvimento das questões ambientais não são favoráveis no universo acadêmico.

Avec le développement d’un tourisme pas toujours maîtrisé par les populations locales, les territoires insulaires de Méditerranée sont soumis à d’importantes pressions, qu’elles soient foncières et immobilières, environnementales, économiques ou encore socioculturelles avec notamment la recomposition des sociétés locales liée aux migrations. Face à ces risques, on pourrait attendre des communautés insulaires qu’elles réagissent et s’organisent, et ce d’autant plus que les îles semblent constituer a priori des territoires, si l’on se base sur les postulats de leurs frontières géographiques déterminées, de leur homogénéité socioculturelle, de leur cohésion identitaire et de leurs liens de solidarité traditionnels. Cependant, les mutations relativement importantes de ces dernières décennies ont entraîné une distension de ces liens tout en favorisant l’émergence de nouveaux conflits liés notamment à des appropriations et des visions différenciées du devenir touristique des territoires insulaires. Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier les conditions d’émergence d’une gouvernance partagéedu tourisme dans deux territoires insulaires méditerranéens, l’un en Corse -la Castagniccia Mare è Monti -et l’autre en Crète -le dème de Sitia -, dans la perspective d’une meilleure maîtrise par les sociétés locales d’un développement touristique qui soit soutenable pour le territoire. L’une des composantes majeures de ce travail de recherche a consisté en la conception et l’expérimentation, dans les territoires d’étude, d’un processus participatif pour l'identification, la mobilisation et l’action coordonnée des personnes concernées, suivant trois étapes opérationnelles: la première étape a consisté en un croisement des trajectoires touristiques et des dynamiques organisationnelles de nos deux territoires d’étude, replacées dans leur contexte insulaire régional, afin de mieux comprendre quels pouvaient être les enjeux et les conflits liés au déploiement des activités touristiques. La seconde étape avait pour fonction d’identifier,de collecter et de comprendre quelles étaient les points de vue et positions des personnes concernées quant aux dynamiques et perspectives touristiques de leurs territoires. Enfin, la troisième et dernière étape avait pour objectif d’ouvrir un espace de négociation entre les personnes concernées pour la co-construction d’une vision partagée du devenir touristique de leurs territoires. / The islands of the Mediterranean area are confronted to a massive tourism development which is not systematically well-controlled by their local societies. The issues and pressures related to the touristic development are various and significant, including land pressure linked to real estatespeculation, environmental damages, socioeconomic vulnerability, and the fragmentation of the socio-cultural cohesion due to the restructuration of local societies linked to migrations. Facing such important issues, we could expect from island communitiesthat they would react and organize themselves, especially since islands appear to be archetypical local territories if we consider their natural boundaries, their socio-cultural homogeneity, their cohesive identity and their traditional links and solidarity. However, major mutations in the last decades have resulted in distension of these links while fostering the emergence of new conflicts revealing differentiated appropriations and visions of the touristic future of their island territories.This PhD thesis aims to study the conditions for the emergence of a shared governance of tourism in two Mediterranean island territories, one in Corsica -the Castagniccia Mare è Monti -and one in Crete -the dimos of Sitia -, that could support the empowerment of local societies for the management of a touristic development that could be sustainable for their territories. The central action of the present research was to design and experiment a participative process in the study areas, for the identification, mobilization and coordinated action of the concerned persons. This action included three operational stages: the first step was to realize a cross-study of both tourist trajectories and organizational dynamics of our two study areas, within their insular regional context, to better understand what might be the challenges and conflicts linked to tourism development. The second step was to identify, collect and understand the point of views and positions of the concerned persons about tourism dynamics and perspectives of their territories. The third and final step was to start a negotiation process between the concerned persons in order for them to co-build a shared vision of the tourism future in their territories.

The purpose of this study was to understand why so few notifications of concern regarding children are made from sports clubs to social services, the organisation charged with managing such concerns. To be able to understand this phenomenon organisational factors and sport coaches knowledge of warning signs of child maltreatment was studied. There was also an interest to study this further regarding the facts that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children, UNCRC, will be incorporated in the Swedish law January 2020. To answer these questions a qualitative method was used where six sport coaches, independent from each other, were interviewed using semi structured questions. The coaches represent different sports of which three are team sports, two are individual and one is both. The interviews were conducted in personal and were recorded. The analysing method used on the empirical data was coding and thematisation. The empirical data was analysed using relevant theoretical perspectives, namely ethics and organisational theory and an overview of relevant information on the subject. The results of this study showed that as well as there is a gap within the sport clubs regarding information, there is also a gap of information from the bigger organizations to the smaller local clubs. The findings also point towards the struggle coaches have when it comes to the ethical dilemmas that they encounter. How they choose to try and solve situations are directly related to the lack of knowledge - what happens in the process after one makes a referral of concern regarding a child and the fear of making the child's situation worse. One of the conclusions of this study is that if the coaches were given the right information and knowledge enabling them to have a good foundation to stand on, it is likely that more coaches would feel more confident regarding these dilemmas. This would help them know what to do if they notice that a child may be maltreated or abused. Each sports club also needs an existing updated child protection policy outlining how a coach should react when faced with concerns about welfare and protection. The thesis concludes by discussing whether sports clubs should have a duty to report child welfare concerns in the same way, for example, as teachers do.