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"There`s only beauty if there is an interlocutor. The beauty of the lagoon is always someone” (Mãe, 2017, p.40). Valter Hugo Mãe expresses our desire in the making of this paper to share our experience of meeting refugee children, as part of an ongoing research project dedicated to exploring the conditions in which they live in Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the influences they bring with them from their birth countries. In the process of conducting this research, we were surprised by a group of children who belong to the Warao ethnic group, and who have been welcomed by the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, which is part of Baixada Fluminense. The Warao are indigenous peoples from the North of Venezuela and their name means "canoe,” given their close relationship with water. A group of displaced Warao children and their families arrived in Nova Iguaçu after having "camped” out in the surroundings of Novo Rio bus station for a few weeks, followed by a sojourn in a public shelter, where the differences between them and the existing members of the institution led to conflict. Through a religious institution's initiative, the families then found shelter in a small farm in the city of Japeri. They stayed there for six months, but once again were threatened by the prospect of eviction, after which they were finally welcomed in the city of Nova Iguaçu. The families–five interconnected units–expressed the wish to remain together and a social service institution found them a closed school building, which was modified to accommodate the group. When the Covid pandemic struck, the research and study group GEPELID began following the daily routine of these children at the shelter school and at the Marambaia welfare center. In their meetings with the Warao, the researchers were struck by their references to the Buriti tree as the "tree of life,” and the depths of its implications for their identity. In exploring this concept, the research group's experience of radical cultural difference revealed the extent to which research in the human sciences is always a meeting with the other, and the relation between researcher and subjects an occasion for dialogue. © 2022 State Univ of Rio de Janeiro - Center of Childhood and Philosophy Studies. All rights reserved.
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Purpose: Reducing our carbon footprint (CF) or decarbonizing is a sustainable development goal. Although there has been an increase in research on this topic, little is known about the status of CF research within universities. The purpose of this paper is to identify the initiatives implemented in universities aimed at reducing CF in their efforts toward creating a Green Campus. Design/methodology/approach: Using a bibliometric method, the status of this field of research was examined for the purpose of identifying the main publications and the most central researchers in terms of productivity and citations. Also, by using an exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the regions of the world with the most active research, as well as the direction of research, were identified. Findings: The survey identified the region that published the most on the subject in the past 10 years, as well as the most relevant authors in the publications. Through this factor analysis, it was possible to identify, among the 105 publications analyzed, four distinct factors (clusters) with different thematic strands that appear to define a difference between the related studies on this topic. These factors were identified as campus management: supply and consumption operations;greenhouse gases emissions assessment: CF calculation;university air travel;sustainable food systems. The changes in people's attitudes and in the use of university spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to the CF was also noted as a point that can be investigated in future research. As well as the reflection of the reduction in academic air travel and the "forced” occurrence of online events during the same period. Originality/value: The paper aims to innovate by applying the multidimensional scaling method and EFA to scientific articles on the topic of decarbonizing campuses and identifying the clusters that constitute this field of study. The research seeks to contribute to current metric knowledge on the topic and to the creation of a specific research agenda. © 2022, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Due to the consequences of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, home office has been adopted by companies to enable the continuity of their activities in an emergency and preventive feature. A survey has been conducted through interviews with ten project managers from multinational IT companies, in order to analyse and understand how project management processes are performed during the development of software projects in home office format. Impacts were identified in different aspects, positively and negatively, in the project management processes. Concerning software development teams, it was possible to observe that the greatest impact is related to communication and start using online tools for daily activities. We have also learned that there are differences between the consequences of the home office and consequences of the pandemic. And there are permanent changes and lessons learned during the management in pandemic. Copyright © 2021 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
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The global pandemic of COVID19 demanded that professors rethink teaching strategies considering the use of online environments due to the social isolation stipulated to reduce the rate of contagion of the disease. A challenge for software engineering professors is to develop fundamental professional skills in students who are in the process of learning using these virtual environments. The purpose of this study is to identify how an online educational hackathon can support students of a Software Engineering program to develop professional skills. We also seek to understand how intense collaboration takes place between student teams, considering the digital context for the production of a technological solution. We conducted a Case Study on an educational hackathon that took place in the online context, collecting data through questionnaires, interviews, and observations. As some results, the skills that students most considered that this hackathon helped them to develop were communication, initiative, and creativity/innovation, among others. Also, the strategies of collaboration adopted by the students during this competition, considering the remote context. Therefore, the main contribution is the identification of how the realization of this event supported students to develop professional skills and to practice collaboration skills with each other. © 2021 ACM.
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The COVID-19 pandemic can be divided into two waves: the first is associated with health problems, and the second with economic and environmental problems. However, it is necessary to analyze the existence of a third wave that, in the long run, can have a deeper impact on people's lives. This wave emerged from the virus capacity to accentuate social, economic, political, and cultural inequalities. In this sense, the novel coronavirus has profoundly affected efforts to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), established in the 2030 Agenda, especially with regard to SDG 3, SDG 10, SDG 12 and SDG 16. In that spectrum, this chapter aims to demonstrate how the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic affect compliance with the SDGs. The impact of this pandemic had been such that it is possible that it will mean the beginning of a new era, based on the need for global solidarity and the desire to pursue sustainable development paths. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to propose new actions for a more sustainable world, drafting a recovery from economic and social crises that finds comprehensive solutions. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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The Covid-19 pandemic presents itself as one of the greatest health challenges on a global scale. Brazil has thehighest number of cases and deaths in Latin America, given these underestimates. Teófilo Otoni is the polemunicipality of the northeast macroregion of Minas Gerais (MG) and its health network is a reference for 448,438inhabitants. The study aims to assess the current panorama of Covid-19 in the city of Teófilo Otoni, its futureperspective, and the impacts on mortality. For the preparation of this study, data were collected on Covid-19 inTeófilo Otoni according to official bulletins issued daily by the Health Department of the State of Minas Gerais. Adescriptive analysis of the data was carried out via a map with spatialization of the cases, and, for the numericalsimulation of the evolution of the cases, the epidemiologic mathematical model S.I.R (Susceptible, Infected andRecovered) was used, combining the Code Blocks software combined with Matlab. The northeastern macroregionhas high levels of illiteracy, many rural residents, and the presence of indigenous communities in situations of socialvulnerability. Thus, in this region are found about 54% of the municipalities classified among the 100 worst MunicipalHuman Development Indexes in MG. Although a reference, Teófilo Otoni, until April 12, had only 7 beds of intensivecare units (ICU) for Covid-19.The first confirmed case of the disease in the city occurred on April 22 and themunicipality followed the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, launched on April 6, to adopt the SelectiveSocial Distancing, since there were not more than 50% of the ICU beds occupied, thus helping the Expanded SocialDistancing that was being carried out. However, the cases increased, and on May 22 the city decreed the closure ofnonessential trade, intensifying the distance measures. Until June 8, Teófilo Otoni had 372 confirmed cases and 10deaths from Covid-19, which is worthy of the simulations of the research project “Covid-19/UFVJM Bulletin,” since298 and 535 infected were expected in the first week of this month, considering the contact rate close to reality(70%). However, by another analysis, the numbers are high, since the expectation for the first week of June, withhorizontal isolation, was between 5 and 6 cases. In addition, it is imperative to highlight that deaths in the regiontend to increase, since, on June 7, the two main hospitals in the city had 100% of their beds occupied. It appearsthat Teófilo Otoni is in a situation of public calamity, since the health network is not prepared to receive all patientsreferred with Covid-19 and who require ICU, which corresponds to about 3% (13,453) of cases. This reinforces theneed to analyze epidemiologic data, expand the region's hospital network, and improve mitigation measures, as theforecasts can supplement public policies to contain the progress of the disease.
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Introduction: the COVID19 pandemic has caused a strong impact on surgical practices around the world, and after 15 months of differing surgeries and selecting patients, the actual magnitude of the problem has not been defined yet. Objective: to learn about the evolution of elective surgeries and behaviour profiles at the Maciel Hospital during the COVID19 pandemic. Method: the study analyses the delivery of elective surgeries at Maciel Hospital during the pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic (2020/2021) periods by studying timing and area of specialization of the surgery performed and demand ICU beds. Results: during the pandemic period (13.3.2020-30.6.2021) 5302 patients were operated;and only 132 of them (2.5%) were COVID 19 positive. Global surgical services dropped 22.2% and 37.4% in elective surgeries. The number of emergency surgeries remained the same when compared to the pre-pandemic period. A huge growth was seen in traumatology (214%) and otorhinolaryngology (57.4%) services, a slight increase in thoracic consultations (12.7%) and no change was observed in vascular surgery consultations (0.3%). Consultations in other areas of specialization, such as urology, neurosurgery and general surgery significantly dropped, between 7.8% and 65.5%. Conclusions: health services were delivered to oncologic patients given their urgency, which, modfied the surgical profile, increasing activity in specializations and at the expense of general surgeries and the specialization areas the mainly operate bening conditions that may be delayed that are highly prevalent.
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Introduction: the COVID19 pandemic has caused a strong impact on surgical practices around the world, and after 15 months of differing surgeries and selecting patients, the actual magnitude of the problem has not been defined yet.