The Prisoner Transportation Problem is an NP-hard combinatorial problem and a complex variant of the Dial-aRide Problem. Given a set of requests for pick-up and delivery and a homogeneous fleet, it consists of assigning requests to vehicles to serve all requests, respecting the problem constraints such as route duration, capacity, ride time, time windows, multi-compartment assignment of conflicting prisoners an...
Background: The concept of oral frailty has gained scientific and clinical relevance in recent years, and early detection can facilitate timely intervention to manage its progression. The Oral Frailty Index-8 (OFI-8) was developed to assess community-dwelling older adults at risk for oral frailty. Objective: This study aims to investigate the psychometric validity of the OFI-8 in the Portuguese population, name...
Orientador: Prof. Dr. Alexandre Reis Graeml; Monografia (Especializaçao) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas, Curso de Especializaçao em Gestao de Negócios; Resumo: Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o beneficio que a aplicação de estratégias e o advento da Tecnologia da informação podem proporcionar as empresas. O instrumento, e um estudo teórico mediante análise de biblio...
Orientador : Prof. Dr. Marco Cavalieri; Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Desenvolvimento Ecônomico. Defesa :28/10/2014; Inclui referências; Resumo: Este estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o benefício que a aplicação das teorias conômicas e administrativas podem proporcionar aos pequenos A primeira fase deu base teórica sufi...
This research aimed at developing a Didactic Organisation and identify possible obstacles that appear along the construction of the Poincaré model plan using Geogebra software with the use of a short course in Hiperbóica Geometry applied to students of 4th year degree in mathematics from University State of Paraná. The thesis intended to contribute to the teaching and learning of Geometry, specially of Hyperbol...
This research had as its objective to write the discourse regarding the dropout subject of the mathematics graduation course at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), according to Michel Foucault s theory, through the dropout students own utterances. The objective, besides that of verifying dropout students representations, is to incite a critical discussion regarding their representations on dropping-out. The...
The importance and complexity of the supplier selection problem have encouraged organizations to look for tools and techniques to improve this logistic process. The goal of this paper is present a model based on multicriteria decision theory to support managers from the collective feeding area to assess the performance of food suppliers, given its economic and social importance in Brazil. Our model was designed...
Este trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as visões de diversos stakeholders acerca do relacionamento entre a religião e o turismo na cidade de Lamego. Ou seja, procurar saber o que pensam sobre o potencial do turismo religioso (TR) para o desenvolvimento desta cidade histórica. Utilizamos uma abordagem qualitativa, através de entrevistas em profundidade a 19 agentes locais, sendo feita a análise de conteúdo ...
This paper presents an analysis of the use of artificial neural networks as a strategy for forecasting prices in the context of agribusiness. For this purpose, data were adopted from EMATER/RS (1992-2006) on four specific commodities: soybean, live cattle, corn, and wheat. The methodology adopted during the research followed the steps shown in Hair et al. (2005), using neural network perception. The data discus...
O Projeto T&D-Bench (Teaching and Design Workbench) tern como objetivo fornecer um ambiente didático para fins de avaliação de desempenho de processadores utilizando modelagem e simulação interativas visuais. A aplicação dos conceitos de orientação a objetos (abstração, encapsulamento, herança e polimorfismo) em modelagem de hardware vem sendo amplamente discutida na literatura. Entre os benefícios que este par...