Este trabalho apresenta o projeto de um sistema gerador de \"set-point\" (GSP), utiliza-do na determinação dos parâmetros de trabalho de fornos industriais de têmpera contínua de aços ao carbono, cuja modelagem é baseada na lógica \"fuzzy\". O trabalho é constituído de três etapas básicas: primeiro, estudou-se os princípios metalúrgicos do aço e do processo de têmpera, necessários para o entendimento do problema, tendo como foco no aço CK75 de grande aplicação industrial. Segundo, estudou-se a funcionalidade de todas as partes constitu-intes do forno e seu modo de operação. Na terceira etapa, baseado em entrevistas com os ope-radores e técnicos em metalurgia, considerados especialistas no processo de têmpera, reali-zou-se a modelagem \"fuzzy\". Constatou-se de que forma as partes do forno afetam a trans-formação do aço, as variáveis de entrada e saída relevantes para o GSP e finalmente realizou-se o GSP com o MATLAB®. O modelo foi exaustivamente testado na produção de aço tem-perado, em um dos fornos da empresa Mangels, o que possibilitou sua validação de forma incontestável. / This work presents the project of a generating system of \"set-point\" (GSP), used in the determination of the parameters of work of a process of continuous tempering of carbon steels, whose modeling is based on the \"fuzzy\" logic. The work is made of three basic stages. First of all the principles of metallurgy for the steel and temper process, which are necessary for the understanding of the problem are studied. It is focused in the steel CK75 of great in-dustrial application. In the second stage, the functionality of all parts of the furnace and its operation way is studied. In the last stage a \"fuzzy\" modeling is accomplished, based on inter-views with the operators and technicians in metallurgy, who are considered specialists in the temper process. It is identified how the parts of the oven affect the transformation of the steel, variable input and output relevant to GSP. Finally will use the GSP with MATLAB® is car-ried out. The model was tested in exhaustive way in one of the furnace of the company Man-gels what made its incontrovertible validation possible.

Para a garantia do bom desempenho dos fluxantes para lingotamento contínuo de aços no molde, a determinação da sua composição química é importante para garantir as propriedades necessárias para o seu perfeito funcionamento. O carbono é adicionado ao fluxante para controlar a velocidade de fusão do fluxante sobre o aço líquido, já que, se adequada, colabora para a disponibilidade de escória líquida suficiente para alimentar o intervalo existente entre a placa de aço em solidificação e o molde, garantindo a perfeita lubrificação. Neste trabalho é demonstrada a influência do efeito de duas fontes de carbono na velocidade de fusão dos fluxantes, através da utilização de uma nova concepção de forno elétrico no qual são colocados dois cadinhos vazados contendo fluxante in natura. Um dos cadinhos é utilizado para avaliação da amostra de referência. O desenvolvimento das reações de fusão do fluxante com o aumento da temperatura resulta em uma escória que, em função de sua fluidez, gera o escorrimento da massa fundida a uma taxa característica, a qual é registrada em um gráfico de massa x temperatura. Desta forma, é demonstrada a eficiência do uso deste equipamento para avaliação da velocidade de fusão, e da influência da fonte e teor de carbono, possibilitando a avaliação de diferentes alternativas de composições. Os ensaios de microscopia com aquecimento e análises térmicas também foram utilizados. / In order to assure good performance of mould flux for continuous casting of steel, the chemical composition definition is important to guarantee the properties needs to its perfect behavior in the mould. Carbon is added to the mould flux to control the melting rate, since this property is related to the availability of liquid slag to fill in the gap between the solidified steel and the cupper wall that assure a perfect lubrication. This work presents the influence of two carbon sources evaluated by an apparatus designed for testing the melting rate of mould fluxes. It is an electric resistance furnace in which two perforated at the bottom crucibles contain flux sample in natura. One of the crucibles is used for the reference sample. As the temperature increases and the melting of the flux takes place, liquid slag starts dropping from the crucible, which is attached to a load cell. Weight losses and temperature are simultaneously recorded and a plot of mass (grams) versus temperature (degree Celsius) is produced. The effect of carbon content of the flux mixtures on the melting rate has been investigated. The heating microscope and thermal analysis were also evaluated.

Processos industriais de polimerização em emulsão são usualmente realizados em reatores tipo tanque agitado em batelada (ou semi-batelada) ou em contínuo (CSTR). Reatores contínuos tem a vantagem de serem comparativamente de menor porte, e propiciarem melhor controle da qualidade do produto pela redução de variações de batelada a batelada. Reatores tipo CSTR podem exibir oscilações periódicas e autosustentadas de conversão, de tamanho e concentração de partículas. Estas oscilações podem ser minimizadas nos reatores tubulares pulsados devido à diminuição da dispersão axial em relação aos reatores do tipo CSTR. Na presente tese, desenvolveu-se um novo tipo de reator tubular, a Coluna Pulsada de Pratos Perfurados, CPPP, para uso no processo de polimerização contínua do acetato de vinila em emulsão. O reator é operado com escoamento pulsado e contém pratos perfurados como dispositivos internos. Inicialmente foram realizados ensaios de distribuição de tempos de residência, em um reator montado em vidro, com o objetivo de caracterizar o escoamento no reator CPPP quanto ao grau de mistura axial. Os dados foram interpretados usando o modelo de escoamento pistonado com dispersão axial. Valores do coeficiente de dispersão axial foram medidos e correlacionados para diferentes condições de freqüência e amplitude de pulsação, vazão, espaçamento entre pratos, e viscosidade do fluido. Verificou-se que o grau de mistura axial pode ser variado em faixas relativamente amplas pela manipulação da freqüência e amplitude de pulsação. Foi também montado um reator em aço inox e encamisado, com as mesmas dimensões, onde foram realizados ensaios de polimerização em emulsão de acetato de vinila, medindo-se a conversão e a distribuição de tamanhos de partículas (DTP), na saída do reator em regime transiente e permanente, e também ao longo do reator em regime permanente. Verificou-se que as condições operacionais (tempo médio de residência e grau de dispersão axial) influenciam várias características do produto, como, a conversão, tamanho médio e concentração de partículas, porém, não influencia, significativamente, a viscosidade da emulsão produzida, para a receita da reação de polimerização e as condições operacionais estudadas. Os resultados experimentais foram interpretados usando um modelo matemático do reator, o qual foi estabelecido com base em um modelo cinético publicado na literatura para o processo de polimerização em emulsão de acetato de vinila em batelada. Tal modelo foi adaptado incluindo-se os termos convectivos e dispersivos nas equações de balanço de massa, e resolvido numericamente. Foram ajustados apenas dois parâmetros neste modelo, para todas as condições operacionais estudadas e os resultados simulados reproduziram adequadamente o comportamento das principais variáveis de processo para a condição de regime permanente. O novo tipo de reator contínuo apresentado neste trabalho mostrou-se ser possível obter altas conversões em tempos médios de residência da ordem ou mesmo inferiores aos do processo em batelada e atingir regime permanente de operação em um a dois tempos médios de residência. O reator é eficiente, robusto, construtivamente simples, de fácil limpeza e manutenção, e mostrou-se promissor para utilização industrial em processo de polimerização em emulsão de acetato de vinila. / Industrial emulsion polymerization processes are usually carried out in stirred tanks operated in batch/semibatch or in continuous mode (CSTR). In comparison to batch processes, continuous reactors present several advantages such as lower volumes and better quality control by reducing batch-to-batch variations. Continuous emulsion polymerization in CSTR may exhibit sustained oscillations in conversion, particle size and particle concentration. Such oscillations may be reduced in pulsed tubular reactors due to less axial mixing. In this thesis a new type of tubular reactor, called Pulsed Sieve Plate Column, PSPC, was developed for the continuous process of vinyl acetate emulsion polymerization. This reactor is operated using oscillatory pulsed flow and uses perforated plates as internals. Residence time distribution runs were carried out in a glass reactor in order to characterize the axial mixing and flow patterns in the PSPC. The data were treated using the axially dispersed plug flow model. Axial dispersion coefficient was measured for different conditions of pulse frequency and amplitude, flow rate, plate spacing and viscosity. It was found that the degree of axial mixing can be varied in wide ranges by manipulating pulsation frequency and/or amplitude. Vinyl acetate continuous emulsion polymerization runs were carried out in a jacketed stainless steel reactor (with the same size of the glass reactor). Monomer conversion and particle size distribution was measured both at the reactor exit in transient state and along the reactor length at steady-state. It was found that average residence time and degree of axial mixing affect process and product quality variables, such as monomer conversion, mean particle size and concentration, but did not affect the viscosity of the emulsion produced, for the recipe and conditions used. A mathematical model for the reactor was developed. The model used, based on a well-known kinetic model previously developed in the literature for batch emulsion polymerization, was adapted to the continuous tubular reactor by adding the dispersion and convective terms to the balance equations. The model was numerically solved. Only two parameters were adjusted in this model and the simulated results showed excellent agreement with the experimental results, for steady state conditions. The proposed tubular reactor allows to reach high monomer conversion with similar or even lower residence time than those in batch processes and reaches steady state operation in just one to two mean residence times. The reactor is efficient, easy-to-built, easy-to-clean, robust and promising for use in industrial continuous emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SA) set out its Vision 2030 of itself as a significant Knowledge Economy to position itself competitively in the world and in the Gulf region. The Government charged the education sector to prepare young people and build the creativity, innovation and technical skills for the country’s future. The Ministry of Education (MOE) selected TQM and has made strategic investments to achieve this strategic transformation in education. Despite this substantial investment in the infrastructure, teaching skills, information technology and advancement programmes for women to enter the workplace, the implementation of TQM has not so far delivered the outcomes expected in secondary schools (Bank, 2008; Chapman and Miric, 2009; TIMSS, 2011). This research proposes that a programme that primarily focuses on the hard aspects of change, without participatory leadership and without integrating the people concerned (as a soft programme would), cannot achieve sustainable transformation. An empirical study was designed to investigate staff perception of TQM implementation in girls’ secondary schools in the Kingdom. The 525 respondents from 61 schools in five districts of Riyadh suggest that the most pivotal critical success factors (CSFs) limiting the development of TQM culture were Top Management Commitment; Training; Tools and Techniques; and Reward and Recognition. The perception results were then used as the baseline to design a model that integrates the hard and soft CSFs of TQM in five stages of maturity. This assessment model could be used to support the schools and the MOE in objectively assessing the readiness of schools to implement TQM and identify the next major obstacles to reaching the next stage. The design approach of a maturity model is innovative in using context perception data as the baseline for designing the stages of maturity and the success factors the progress of change, making its use appropriate for the girls’ schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Este estudo determinou e comparou os efeitos da administração epidural ou infusão contínua intravenosa de dexmedetomidina em gatas anestesiadas com propofol e isofluorano para realização de ovariossalpingohisterectomia. Vinte e uma gatas (peso: 3.06&plusmn;0.35 kg) foram pré-tratadas com dexmedetomidina (4 mcg.kg-1, IM). Quinze minutos depois, administrou-se propofol para permitir entubação orotraqueal seguido de manutenção anestésica com isofluorano diluído em oxigênio por um circuito Mapleson D com respiração espontânea. As gatas foram distribuídas aleatoriamente, em três grupos, onde receberam, por via epidural, lidocaína (1 mg.kg-1, G1, n=7) ou lidocaína (1 mg.kg-1) + dexmedetomidina (4 mcg.kg-1, G2, n=7) ou lidocaína (1 mg.kg-1) + infusão contínua intravenosa de dexmedetomidina (0,25 mcg.kg-1.min-1, G3, n=7). O volume da solução para administração epidural foi ajustada para 0.3 mL.kg-1 com solução salina. A profundidade anestésica foi realizada por um único avaliador que não possuía conhecimento dos fármacos empregados pela via epidural e intravenosa. Foram mensurados freqüência cardíaca (FC) e respiratória (FR), pressão arterial sistólica (PAS) e temperatura retal (TR) antes e quinze minutos após a medicação pré-anestésica. Durante a anestesia, FC, FR, pressões arteriais, concentração expirada de CO2, concentração expirada de isofluorano (ISOe), TR e grau de relaxamento muscular foram avaliados em intervalos de 15 minutos de 20 até 80 minutos. A hemogasometria foi realizada aos 20 e 80 minutos após a indução anestésica. Os valores de FC, FR, TR, escore de analgesia, qualidade e os tempos de recuperação anestésica foram avaliados por três horas após o término da anestesia. Utilizou-se o teste t pareado para avaliar os efeitos do pré-tratamento e os valores hemogasométricos nos dois momentos. O teste análise de variância seguido de Tukey e Friedmann seguido de Dunn foram realizados para variáveis paramétricas e não paramétricas respectivamente (p&LT;0.05). O pré-tratamento com dexmedetomidina reduziu a FC, FR, PAS e TR. A dose de propofol utilizada para indução anestésica foi 7.4&plusmn;1.4 mg.kg-1. Quando comparado ao G1, a dexmedetomidina, por via epidural, reduziu significativamente a FC dos 20 aos 65 minutos da anestesia e aos 150 e 180 minutos após o término da anestesia, entretanto, por infusão contínua intravenosa reduziu a FC em todos os momentos avaliados da anestesia e recuperação anestésica. Quando comparado ao G2, a infusão contínua intravenosa de dexmedetomidina reduziu a FC aos 60 e 90 minutos da recuperação anestésica. No G1 a média&plusmn;DP ISOe variou de 0.86&plusmn;0.28% a 1.91&plusmn;0.63% de 20 a 80 minutos. Neste período, ISOe foi significativamente menor no G2 (variação de 0.70&plusmn;0.12% a 0.97&plusmn;0.20%) e G3 (variação de 0.69&plusmn;0.12% to 1.17&plusmn;0.25%). Aos 20 minutos, a PaCO2 foi significativamente superior em G3 em relação ao G1. Os tempos de recuperação anestésica foram significativamente menores no G1, exceto o tempo de extubação se comparado ao G2. Não houve diferença significativa nas outras variáveis entre os três grupos. Conclui-se que o pré-tratamento com dexmedetomidina promoveu depressão cardiorrespiratória. A administração epidural e a infusão contínua intravenosa de dexmedetomidina reduziram o consumo do agente inalatório e produziram recuperação de melhor qualidade e mais prolongada. As administrações de dexmedetomidina causaram bradicardia, porém sem afetar a pressão arterial. / This study compared the effects of epidural or continuous intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine in isoflurane-anesthetized cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy. Twenty-one cats (weight: 3.06±0.35 kg) were premedicated with dexmedetomidine (4 mcg.kg-1, IM). Fifteen minutes later, propofol was titrated to allow endotracheal intubation and anesthesia was maintained in spontaneously breathing cats with isoflurane in oxygen using a Mapleson D system. Cats were randomly allocated to receive either epidural lidocaine (1 mg.kg-1, G1, n=7) or epidural lidocaine (1 mg.kg-1) + dexmedetomidine (4 mcg.kg-1, G2, n=7) or epidural lidocaine (1 mg.kg-1) + continuous intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine (0,25 mcg.kg-1. min-1, G3, n=7). The volume of either epidural injection was adjusted to 0.3 mL.kg-1 with saline. The individual controlling depth of anesthesia was blinded to the drug being administered epidurally and intravenouslly. Heart (HR) and respiratory (RR) rates, systolic arterial blood pressure (SAP) and rectal temperature (RT) were recorded before and after 15 minutes of premedication. During anesthesia, heart (HR) and respiratory (RR) rates, invasive arterial blood pressures, end-tidal CO2, end-tidal isoflurane (ISOe), RT and muscular relaxation were recorded at 15 minute intervals from 20 until 80 minutes. Arterial blood gases were measured at 20 and 80 min after induction. HR, RR, RT, analgesia score, and recovery quality and times were compared for 3 hours after end of anesthesia. Paired t test were performed to compare the premedication effects and arterial blood gases at differents intervals. ANOVA with Tukey post-test and Friedmann with Dunn post-test were performed to parametric and nonparametric values, respectively (P<0.05). Dexmedetomidine premedication decreased HR, RR, SAP and RT. The induction dose of propofol was 7.4±1.4 mg.kg-1. When compared to the G1, epidural dexmedetomidine significantly decreased HR from 20 to 65 minutes of anesthesia and 150 and 180 minutes after end of anesthesia, however, continuous intravenous infusion decreased HR all times during anesthesia and recovery time. When compared to G2, continuous intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine decreased HR at 60 and 90 minutes during recovery. In the G1 mean±SD ISOe concentrations ranged form 0.86±0.28% to 1.91±0.63% from 20 to 80 min. At the same time interval, ISOe concentrations were significantly lower in the G2 (ISOe ranged from 0.70±0.12% to 0.97±0.20%) and G3 (ISOe ranged from 0.69±0.12% to 1.17±0.25%). PaCO2 was significantly greater in G3 than G1 at 20 minutes. The recovery times were significantly lower in the G1 except for extubation time when compared with G2. There were no significant differences among groups for the remaining variables. It was concluded that premedication with dexmedetomidine produced cardiorespiratory depression. Epidural administration and continuous intravenous infusion of dexmedetomidine significantly reduced inhalant requirements for maintaining anesthesia and produced a better anesthesia recovery although of longer duration. Dexmedetomidine administration may cause bradycardia, however reduced HR does not affect arterial blood pressure.

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When speciality chemicals are manufactured within the pharmaceutical industry, they are often produced in stirred batch/semi-batch reactors. A ‘methodology’ was explored, to help with the development of continuous fixed-bed catalytic reactors for this sector. This was tested on two different types of model reactions: (a) In the first, the viability of producing tertiary amines via ‘borrowing hydrogen’ was explored, and the reaction of morpholine and benzyl alcohol was studied, on Ru and Pt catalysts. This provided an opportunity for an early involvement in small-scale batch testing of catalysts, and then experiments were performed with the catalyst supported on granules in a packed bed (i.d. = 7 mm, length = 300 mm). Although it was shown that continuous processing is viable, and that high conversions (e.g. 73 to 98%, at 150 ºC) could be achieved, unfortunately further work was necessary to identify a more robust catalyst system, before moving on to pilot-scale trials. (b) In the second, the partial oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde was studied, using a Pt catalyst on a carbon support. This proved to be successful, and the reaction was finally demonstrated at pilot-scale. Carbon monoliths were used as catalyst supports (monolith o.d. = 19 mm; length = 50 mm long; square 0.7 mm x 0.7 mm channels; catalyst loading 2.5 and 2.7 wt% Pt). With a liquid flow of 1 L h-1 and a reactant concentration of ~1 mol L-1, operating at 110 ºC, conversion ranged from 80 to 90% and selectivity from 65 to 99%. The catalyst system was tested for 160 h of operation, and retained its performance. While testing the 2nd reaction, a pilot-scale reactor was also developed, which could be used for a variety of novel reactions. The design was flexible and it was easy to insert and remove the catalytic monoliths.

The pricing of options is one of the key problems in mathematical finance. In recent years, pricing models that are based on the continuous time random walk (CTRW), an anomalous diffusive random walk model widely used in physics, have been introduced. In this thesis, we investigate the pricing of European call options with CTRW and generalized CTRW models within the Black-Scholes framework. Here, the non-Markovian character of the underlying pricing model is manifest in Black-Scholes PDEs with fractional time derivatives containing memory terms. The inclusion of non-zero interest rates leads to a distinction between different types of \forward" and \backward" options, which are easily mapped onto each other in the standard Markovian framework, but exhibit significant dfferences in the non-Markovian case. The backward-type options require us in particular to include the multi-point statistics of the non-Markovian pricing model. Using a representation of the CTRW in terms of a subordination (time change) of a normal diffusive process with an inverse L evy-stable process, analytical results can be obtained. The extension of the formalism to arbitrary waiting time distributions and general payoff functions is discussed. The pricing of path-dependent Asian options leads to further distinctions between different variants of the subordination. We obtain analytical results that relate the option price to the solution of generalized Feynman-Kac equations containing non-local time derivatives such as the fractional substantial derivative. Results for L evy-stable and tempered L evy-stable subordinators, power options, arithmetic and geometric Asian options are presented.

This thesis explores the intersection of observational filmmaking with auto-ethnographic writing, a combination not used very often but with great potential for visual anthropologists. I examine how my research and filmmaking over a ten-year period have been shaped both by my cancer experience as well as by my Japanese background. Using the metaphor "journey", I approach my own traumatic cancer experience and turn it into a field of study. My journey begins from the moment of my first cancer diagnosis and treatment in the US, moving through my second diagnosis in Norway, and leading up to my most recent fieldwork with a cancer support community in Japan. My auto-ethnographic journey illustrates how I altered my own relationship to my cancer, moving through critical encounters that transformed me from a silent sufferer to an attentive listener. These experiences have also influenced my metaphorical thinking about "dying well" to "living well" with cancer. My personal journey is closely linked to my professional one, and also affects my approaches to filmmaking. By meeting the anthropologist Paul Stoller, who has also lived in the world of cancer, I learned the importance of coming to terms with one's own cancer mask. This mask can easily evoke a sense of being trapped in a "continuous liminality" (Stoller 2005), a transitional state between health and sickness, hopefulness and hopelessness, past and future, life and death. How am I able, as a researcher and filmmaker, to go on with my life in this in-between state and attend to the lives of others through this cancer mask? In my recent fieldwork, I decided to enter the world of the cancer patients' shadow and met with the families of patients and bereaved families in a support group in Japan. I learned that they too wore a mask, though I struggled to establish friendships with them as my cancer status versus their caregiver status distanced us somewhat. I overcame this challenge by using the technique of collaborative filmmaking to seek mutual fellowship with them, and trying to create a shared space in-between, ma in Japanese, where we could meet and feel with each other (kyokan empathy). For that purpose, and combined with the technique of feedback screening, I used a mobile phone as a filming device to free up my face and to make me available as a listener for the filmed persons. The fieldwork resulted in the film 'To the Last Drop' (2016). By combining the methods of auto-ethnographic writing and observational filmmaking, my personal account served to broaden my understanding of the experiences of those afflicted by cancer in Japan. Together, these methods expand on the space between, where suffering becomes visible and silence becomes audible, in a culturally sensitive way.

Orientador: José Antonio Marques / Banca: Jorge Luiz de Oliveira Costa / Banca: Carlos Augusto Araujo Valadão / Resumo: Foram utilizados 20 suínos machos ou fêmeas, distribuídos aleatoriamente em dois grupos experimentais, grupo 1 (G1) e grupo 2 (G2). Empregouse como medicação pré-anestésica (MPA) azaperona 1,0 mg/kg e midazolam 0,2 mg/kg, administrados por via intramuscular, nos animais de ambos os grupos. Decorridos 15 minutos da aplicação da MPA, aos animais dos grupos 1 e 2, procedeuse a indução anestésica com propofol na dose de 4,0 mg/kg, via intravenosa, mantendo-se por infusão contínua, por via intravenosa, propofol na dose de 0,4 mg/kg/minuto, durante uma hora. Aos animais do G2, administrou-se um "bolus" de tramadol na dose de 4,0 mg/kg, por via intravenosa, logo após a indução anestésica com propofol. Avaliaram-se as freqüências cardíaca e respiratória, temperatura retal, sedação, intubação orotraqueal, analgesia, pressões arteriais (sistólica, diastólica e média), saturação da oxihemoglobina, reflexos protetores, dosagem de cortisol e recuperação (tempo de extubação, tempo para decúbito esternal, tempo para posição quadrupedal), entre os grupos, dentro de cada momento. As freqüências cardíaca e respiratória e a dosagem de cortisol apresentaram diferenças significativas (P<0,05) entre os momentos. A temperatura retal apresentou efeito significativo (P<0,05) da interação entre grupo e momento. As pressões arteriais (sistólica, diastólica e média) apresentaram diferenças significativas (P<0,05) entre grupos e momentos. Os reflexos protetores (ocular, palpebral e anal), apresentaram diferenças significativas (P 0,05) entre os grupos, assim como o tempo de extubação, um dos parâmetros de recuperação. Sedação, intubação orotraqueal, analgesia, saturação de oxihemoglobina, tempo para decúbito esternal e tempo para posição quadrupedal não apresentaram diferenças significativas (P>0,05) entre os grupos e nem entre momentos. / Abstract: Twenty swines were used, among males or females, both duly spreaded over randomly performed, in two experimental groups: group 1 (G1) and group 2 (G2). The pre-anesthesic medication made up of an association of azaperone 1,0 mg/kg and midazolam 0,2 mg/kg, together IM, was common to both groups. After 15 minutes of the application of the pre-anesthesic medication, to the animals of the groups 1 and 2, the anesthesic induction with propofol was proceeded on the basis of 4,0 mg/kg, intravenous via, keeping a the a continuous intravenous infusion with the same drug, on the basis of 0,4 mg/kg/min, during the period of an hour. The G2 animals, it was administered a "bolus" of tramadol on the basis of 4,0 mg/kg, intravenous via, shortly after the anesthesic induction with propofol. It was assessed both cardiac and respiratory frequencies, rectal temperature, sedation, orotraqueal induction, analgesia, arterial pressures (systolic, diastolic and average), oxihemoglobine saturation, protective reflexes, cortisol dosage and recovery (extubation time, time for esternal decubitus and time for a four-footed standing), among the groups, within each moment. Both cardiac and respiratory frequencies besides the cortisol dosage showed significative differences (P<0,05) among the moments. The rectal temperature showed significative effect (P<0,05) in the interaction among groups and moments. The arterial pressures (systolic, diastolic and average) showed substantial differences (P<0,05) among groups and moments. The protective reflexes (ocular, eye-lids and rectal), showed substantial differences (P 0,05) among the groups, as well the time of extubation, one of the parameters of recovery. Sedation, orotraqueal intubation, analgesia, oxihemoglobine saturation, time for esternal decubitus and time for four-footed standing, did not present significative differences (P>0,05) among groups and nor among moments. / Mestre