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The performance evaluation of urban bus companies is considered a difficult task. One of the reasons for that is the variety of aspects to be considered and the involved interests. Such complexity constitutes an obstacle for the structuring of an evaluation model that takes into ...

The call for change in Medical Education highlights the curriculum as a central dimension of practice, demanding from evaluators to demonstrate the effectiveness of new curricula. The critical review of international literature in order to analyze the present status of curriculum...

The evaluation of the quality faces a difficulty in companies that offer services, related to the no access of the services that can be an obstacle to the creation of indicators that represent the services. The main indicators of success of the companies are the financial indicat...

The current globalized world demands more and more that companies concentrate efforts in the way of adapt themselves to new environments, so that they can compete even with great international conglomerates. In this sense, Vale do Rio Doce Company - CVRD comes working intensely i...

Once-weekly therapy with combinations of isoniazid plus a rifamycin was tested in the mouse low-dose aerosol infection model against two strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Combinations of isoniazid and rifalizil and isoniazid and rifapentine were both highly effective. These ...

Abstract Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the emotional contagion theory in print ads, and expand the literature of smiling to different type of smiles and gender congruency. Emotional contagion happens when an emotion is transferred from a sender to a receive...

This thesis proposes a product development process (PDP) reference model for software companies. The PDP reference model was developed based on the MPS.Br existing model and an extensive bibliography revision which allowed for a state of the art context analysis. This work also p...

This dissertation presents a study of project performance evaluation through the development of a multidimensional model that integrates the dimensions of cost, schedule and quality of the project end product. The foundation for the development of this multidimensional approach i...

This paper explores the existing relationship between the learning of school scientific argumentation and the acquisition of a complex model of health and diseases, more specifically to explain the emerging and re- emerging of diseasess. It is assumed that school scientific argum...

We present a new experimental model for the simultaneous evaluation of the activities of drugs against Pneumocystis carinii, Toxoplasma gondii, and Mycobacterium avium complex infections. Rats latently infected with P. carinii were challenged with the MO-1 strain of M. avium and ...

The present study deals with the management of skills, which is awakening interest of researchers and organizations, and there is a production expressive academic and a growing number of companies who decide to adopt models of management referenced in this concept. This survey re...

The use of the Internet is growing in exponential proportion, and following this tendency, the use of the collaborative systems (i.e. systems that allows people to interact with each other) is also increasing. Since the eighties, researchers have pointed out the importance of the...

The aim of this article is to describe a mathematical model and an associated numerical method for the basic problem of evaluating the void fraction of a slab material from the responses of a typical source-detector system for backscattered neutrons. The mathematical model and vo...

This paper proposes a tool to support decision-makers of social institutions in the process of selection and evaluation of their projects. The proposed model was created out of necessity mapped in the organization¿s strategic planning process, to obtain indicators for evaluating ...

In this thesis, an evaluation model of knowledge management in the product development process is proposed and it is focused on the relationship among four types of knowledge conversion (which are theorically consolidated) and four integrated dimensions that form the related proc...

The care models represent an important knowledge in nursing. There are different nursing care models, which have been progressively developed and represent an important possibility of development in the area of nursing. However, there is not any proposition which allows to verity...

This work seeks to provide a new multi-criteria approach to assess IT Governance (ITG) in the area of Strategic Alignment. The complete methodological development process is described. The evaluation model uses Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and it is targeted to IT proc...

Several murine models have been used to evaluate the activities of antimicrobial agents against Mycobacterium avium infection. The main model used is the beige mouse model, but beige mice are expensive and not easily available. Thus, we developed a model of infection in wild C57B...

A structured evaluation of the construction industry's suppliers, considering aspects which make their quality and credibility evident, can be a strategic tool to manage this specific supply chain. This study proposes a multi-criteria decision model for suppliers' selection from ...

The germfree mouse model of Vibrio cholerae infection can be used to judge immune responses to V. cholerae vaccine and vector strains. In the original model, a single oral inoculation was administered on day 0, a booster oral inoculation was administered on day 14, and immune res...

This paper proposes the development of an evaluation model and support the integrated management of municipal solid waste, based on environmental indicators, specifically on the steps of collection, sweeping, weeding and mowing service in planning and cleaning. An opinion poll (D...