75 research outputs found
The Impact of the Bolsa Família Programme on Beneficiaries? Fertility
No full textThe Bolsa Família programme1 provides a benefit up to maximum of three benefits2 to every pregnant woman and child up to 15 years of age and another benefit to teenagers between 16 and 17 years old, up to a maximum of two benefits, in families with less than R$140.00 per capita monthly income. This feature of the programme has led some commentators to fear that it could trigger an increase in fertility of the poor. The possible impact on fertility behaviour has drawn very little attention from researchers, despite being one of the most popular criticisms against to Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programmes. To our knowledge, only two papers investigate this possible relationship in Brazil: Rocha (2010) and Signorini & Queiroz (2011). The empirical evidence from other countries suggests that CCTs have no significant impact on fertility. The evidence holds for other types of programmes, including those that provide only child care, traditional cash transfer programmes, and income tax exemption policies (Stecklov et al., 2007). (?)The Impact of the Bolsa Família Programme on Beneficiaries? Fertility
A constituição da competência linguística no processo formativo dos alunos do bacharelado presencial Letras-Libras
No full textTCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Curso de Bacharelado em Letras-LibrasA formação de tradutores/intérpretes de Libras tem ganhado mais espaço nas discussões acadêmicas e, os aspectos formativos relacionados à competência linguística é uma das premissas relevantes para a atuação profissional. Levando isso em consideração, este trabalho de conclusão de curso tem por objetivo, relatar o processo de constituição da competência linguística do alunado do curso presencial Letras-Libras presencial da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Através da investigação, amparada nas noções da Etnografia, procura-se ter acesso as vozes e memórias dos sujeitos que vivenciaram este processo de construção do curso, no intuito de verificar e descrever os aspectos que emergem das falas dos participantes. À vista disso, a geração dos registros se deu a partir da aplicação de questionário e entrevistas em áudio e, a partir deles, percebe-se o quão heterogêneo são os perfis linguísticos dos participantes deste cenário, assim como, a multiplicidade das formas de incidir sobre este espaço de interação e as diversas estratégias desenvolvidas para sanar lacunas advindas da interação dentro de sala de aula. Dessa mesma forma, evidencia-se a grande necessidade de uma reflexão sobre os conhecimentos linguísticos trazidos pelos alunos e/ou desenvolvidos no transcorrer do curso articulados com as demandas emergentes do contexto de atuação.The training of translators/interpreters of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) has gained more space in academic discussions and developing aspects related to language competence: one of the premises relevant to professional practice. Considering this scenario, this study aims at describing the linguistic competence development process of the students from the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) major in the federal university of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Through the investigation, based on notions from Ethnography, it is sought to have access to the voices and memories of the subjects, who experienced the creation process of the major, in order to verify and describe the aspects that emerge from the participants' speech. To do so, records were generated from the use of questionnaire and audio interviews. Examining the records, it is possible to realize how heterogeneous the participants' linguistic profiles in this scenario are, as well as, the multiplicity of ways of influencing this interaction space, and the various strategies developed to remedy shortcomings arising from the interaction within the classroom. In the same way, it is seen the great need for a reflection on the linguistic knowledge brought by students and/or developed during the courses articulated with the emerging demands of the working context
Some remarks on the coincidence set for the Signorini problem
No full textWe study some properties of the coincidence set for the boundary Signorini problem, improving some results from previous works by the second author and collaborators. Among other new results, we show here that the convexity assumption on the domain made previously in the literature on the location of the coincidence set can be avoided under suitable alternative conditions on the data
Sul S. Pantaleo 8 della Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma: una miscellanea dantesca di metà Trecento
No full textThe article discusses the MS S. Pantaleo 8, a remarkable collection of Dante’s works now
kept at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome. By investigating how the manuscript
was prepared, and on the basis of the eight different writings of the scribes who copied
the texts, as well as of the work of the three illuminators involved in the decoration of the
book, the author suggests that the manuscript might have been copied around the mid-14th
century either in eastern Tuscany or in Umbria
Diventare bolognese. L’ebreo converso Ippolito Boncompagni e i suoi legami con Guido Reni, Guido Signorini e Domenichino
No full textBecoming Bolognese: The Converted Jew Ippolito Boncompagni and his
Relationship
with Guido Reni, Guido Signorini and Domenichino
The essay moves from an introduction on Guido Reni’s friendship with the converted
Jew Ippolito Boncompagni, formerly Ruben Corcos, and presents the story
of the conversion of the four Corcos brothers (all of whom were baptized as
Catholics
in 1592 and took the name Boncompagni) as the backdrop to a discussion
of the Boncompagni collection of paintings inventoried in 1657. This
collection featured a remarkable number of Bolognese and Emilian works by
painters such as Reni, Guercino, Domenichino, Lanfranco, Albani, Sementi.
Through an analysis of the documents, it is established that a substantial number
of the works were owned by Ippolito, and the identification of some of them is
attempted. The study then focuses on Reni’s cousin and heir, the painter Guido
Signorini, bringing to light hitherto unpublished documents and new information
on the friendship between Signorini and Ippolito, and providing a close
reading of archival material concerning Reni’s will, inventory and Signorini’s
inheritance. The final section focuses on Ippolito and Domenichino. Archival
documents show that Ippolito
was financially involved not only with Guido
Reni, but also with Domenichino,
possibly as early as 1621–1623, and – after the
painter’s death in 1641 – with his widow. The Boncompagni owned two paintings
by Domenichino, one of which is an unknown Rebuke of Adam and Eve.
Expanding
on Richard Spear’s insights into the unusual iconography of another
version of the Rebuke by Domenichino
now in the Museum of Grenoble, the
author hypothesizes that these anomalies could reflect the Corcos’ Jewish background.
Finally, the study presents an interpretation of Boncompagni artistic
patronage
and collecting as instruments of self-representation, as well as means
to gain and consolidate social acceptanc
Linguística Aplicada Crítica e Transformação Social
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PENNYCOOK, Alastair. A Linguística Aplicada dos anos 90: em defesa de uma abordagem crítica. In: SIGNORINI, I.; CAVALCANTI, M.C. Linguística Aplicada e Transdisciplinaridade: questões e perspectivas. Campinas, SP: Mercado das Letras, 1998. cap. 1, p. 23-49
Minas Gerais: diferenciais de fecundidade de imigrantes e não-migrantes nos quinquênios 1986-1991 e 1995-2000
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to compare the fertility differentials between fixed date immigrants and non-migrants in the 12 meso regions of Minas Gerais, in the periods 1986-1991 and 1995-2000, and to discuss the probable effects of the womens migration in reproductive ages on the process of demographic transition in the state. The Brasss Method was used to correct the levels of fertility of fixed date immigrants and non-migrants in both periods. In addition, the main flows of immigrants in reproductive ages, interstates and among meso regions, were presented for each meso region of Minas Gerais. The data used in the estimations were collected in the Brazilian demographic census of 1991 and 2000.The results of the study suggest that there is relevant difference between the fertility of fixed date immigrant and non-migrant women resident in all of the 12 meso regions of Minas Gerais for the analyzed periods. This fact could have contributed to retard the demographic transition in all meso regions of the state, compared with the speed that this process would have in the absence of migration. Its important to note that the final effect of womens migration in reproductive age on the speed of the demographic transition process depends, likewise, on the proportion of women emigrants at the same ages in the resident population, and on the fertility of these women, facts that should be better investigated in future researches.O objetivo deste trabalho é comparar os diferenciais de fecundidade de imigrantes e não-migrantes de data-fixa, nos quinquênios 1986-1991 e 1995-2000, nas 12 mesorregiões de Minas Gerais, e discutir os possíveis efeitos da migração de mulheres em idade reprodutiva na transição demográfica do estado. Para isto, foi utilizada a técnica de Brass para correção dos níveis de fecundidade de imigrantes e não-migrantes de data-fixa nos dois períodos. Também foram apresentados os principais fluxos de mulheres imigrantes em idade reprodutiva, interestaduais e intermesorregionais, para cada mesorregião mineira. Os dados utilizados nas estimações foram retirados dos censos demográficos brasileiros de 1991 e 2000. Os resultados encontrados sugerem a existência de diferenciais de fecundidade significativos entre mulheres imigrantes e não-migrantes de data-fixa nos quinquênios 1986-1991 e 1995-2000, residentes nas mesorregiões de Minas Gerais em 1991 e 2000, o que pode ter contribuído para o retardamento do processo de transição demográfica em todas as mesorregiões mineiras, em comparação com a velocidade que esse processo teria na ausência de migração. Ressalta-se que o efeito final da migração de mulheres em idade reprodutiva sobre a velocidade do processo de transição demográfica depende, também, do peso das emigrações na população e da fecundidade das emigrantes, algo que deve ser aprofundado em trabalhos futuros
Efeitos da migração sobre a fecundidade: um estudo comparativo entre mulheres nordestinas imigrantes em São Paulo, mulheres não-migrantes naturais do estado e mulheres não-migrantes naturais do Nordeste
No full textThis dissertation compared the differences in fertility amongst groups of women with distinct migration status by using two different matching methods: the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and the Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM). The current fertility was represented by the probability of having an alive born child in the 12 months prior to the reference date of the Brazilian Demographic Census of 2010. Immigrant women born in the Northeast region of Brazil but living in the state of São Paulo, non-migrant women born and living in São Paulo and non-migrant women born and living in the states of the Northeast region during the census date were selected in order to control the migration context differences as much as possible. The final matching results obtained by the use of the CEM method showed evidences of disruption of fertility due to migration and evidences of fertility behavior assimilation of the destiny place by the northeastern immigrant women with a larger time of residence in São Paulo. The comparison between the matching methods showed the advantages of the Coarsened Exact Matching relatively to Propensity Score Matching. That was due specially to the operational simplicity of the CEM, which was crucial for obtaining the results with all the necessary variables.A proposta desta tese foi utilizar dois métodos distintos de pareamento, o Propensity Score Matching (PSM) e o Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM), para parear mulheres de condições migratórias distintas, mas com características observáveis muito semelhantes e, então, comparar suas fecundidades correntes, representadas pela probabilidade de terem gerado filhos nascidos vivos nos 12 meses anteriores à data de referência do Censo Demográfico Brasileiro de 2010. Os grupos de mulheres comparados, de imigrantes naturais dos estados da Região Nordeste em São Paulo, de não-migrantes naturais e residentes na região Nordeste e não-migrantes naturais e residentes no Estado de São Paulo, foram selecionados com o objetivo de reduzir o máximo possível as diferenças relativas ao contexto de migração. Os resultados dos pareamentos finais, feitos através do método CEM, mostraram evidências de ruptura da fecundidade devido à migração e de assimilação do comportamento reprodutivo das mulheres do local de destino por parte das imigrantes com maior tempo de residência em São Paulo. A comparação entre os métodos de pareamento demonstrou as vantagens do Coarsened Exact Matching em relação ao Propensity Score Matching, devido especialmente à simplicidade operacional do CEM, que foi fundamental para a obtenção dos resultados incluindo todas as variáveis necessárias
Efeitos da migração sobre a fecundidade: um estudo comparativo entre mulheres nordestinas imigrantes em São Paulo, mulheres não-migrantes naturais do estado e mulheres não-migrantes naturais do Nordeste
No full textThis dissertation compared the differences in fertility amongst groups of women with distinct migration status by using two different matching methods: the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and the Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM). The current fertility was represented by the probability of having an alive born child in the 12 months prior to the reference date of the Brazilian Demographic Census of 2010. Immigrant women born in the Northeast region of Brazil but living in the state of São Paulo, non-migrant women born and living in São Paulo and non-migrant women born and living in the states of the Northeast region during the census date were selected in order to control the migration context differences as much as possible. The final matching results obtained by the use of the CEM method showed evidences of disruption of fertility due to migration and evidences of fertility behavior assimilation of the destiny place by the northeastern immigrant women with a larger time of residence in São Paulo. The comparison between the matching methods showed the advantages of the Coarsened Exact Matching relatively to Propensity Score Matching. That was due specially to the operational simplicity of the CEM, which was crucial for obtaining the results with all the necessary variables.A proposta desta tese foi utilizar dois métodos distintos de pareamento, o Propensity Score Matching (PSM) e o Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM), para parear mulheres de condições migratórias distintas, mas com características observáveis muito semelhantes e, então, comparar suas fecundidades correntes, representadas pela probabilidade de terem gerado filhos nascidos vivos nos 12 meses anteriores à data de referência do Censo Demográfico Brasileiro de 2010. Os grupos de mulheres comparados, de imigrantes naturais dos estados da Região Nordeste em São Paulo, de não-migrantes naturais e residentes na região Nordeste e não-migrantes naturais e residentes no Estado de São Paulo, foram selecionados com o objetivo de reduzir o máximo possível as diferenças relativas ao contexto de migração. Os resultados dos pareamentos finais, feitos através do método CEM, mostraram evidências de ruptura da fecundidade devido à migração e de assimilação do comportamento reprodutivo das mulheres do local de destino por parte das imigrantes com maior tempo de residência em São Paulo. A comparação entre os métodos de pareamento demonstrou as vantagens do Coarsened Exact Matching em relação ao Propensity Score Matching, devido especialmente à simplicidade operacional do CEM, que foi fundamental para a obtenção dos resultados incluindo todas as variáveis necessárias
Integrating damping and non-linearities in a vibration design process
No full textClassical vibration design uses modes and transfer functions generated with the superposition principle to allow the verification of design objectives. If redesign is needed, one optimizes mass and stiffness in order to modify the transfer until the specification is met. Integrating damping and non-linearities in the optimization of detailed industrial models is however still considered a major difficulty, even though the physical mechanisms are well known. Approaches to handle viscoelastic damping and time domain modal damping are thus discussed. Distributed non-linearities, such as contact and friction, are becoming accessible to transient simulation, but lead to responses where modes are no longer defined. It is however illustrated that operational deflection shapes, associated with a singular value decomposition of the response, give similar information. Finally, a fundamental aspect of non-linear vibration simulation is the volume of output and the associated numerical cost. Model reduction is a key ingredient of practical approaches and a perspective on related issues is given
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