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Universidade Católica de Santos

EducationSantos, Brazil
About: Universidade Católica de Santos is a education organization based out in Santos, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cluster analysis. The organization has 546 authors who have published 813 publications receiving 9738 citations.


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TL;DR: This paper provides an overview of the fundamentals of natural computing, particularly the fields listed above, emphasizing the biological motivation, some design principles, their scope of applications, current research trends and open problems.

278 citations

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TL;DR: The present paper proposes a new cluster validity measure, named Fuzzy Silhouette, a generalization to the fuzzy case of the Average Silhouettes Width Criterion, originally conceived to assess crisp (non-fuzzy) data partitions, which is designed to improve performance of the original silhouette criterion.

248 citations

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TL;DR: A pesquisa-acao deve ser essencialmente uma enablera intencionada a transformacao participativa, em que sujeitos e pesquisadores interagem na producao de novos conhecimentos, buscando indicativos de respostas as questoes as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: A pesquisa-acao tem sido utilizada, nas ultimas decadas, de diferentes maneiras, a partir de diversas intencionalidades, passando a compor um vasto mosaico de abordagens teorico-metodologicas, instigando-nos a refletir sobre sua essencialidade epistemologica, bem como sobre suas possibilidades como praxis investigativa. O presente trabalho aprofunda reflexoes sobre a pertinencia e as possibilidades da pesquisa-acao como instrumento pedagogico e cientifico, buscando indicativos de respostas as questoes: a pesquisa-acao deve ser essencialmente uma pesquisa intencionada a transformacao participativa, em que sujeitos e pesquisadores interagem na producao de novos conhecimentos? Deve assumir o carater formativo-emancipatorio? Mediando pesquisas e estudos ja realizados, buscou-se estruturar um processo pedagogico para a pesquisa-acao, que organize a questao da coerencia entre a ontologia e a epistemologia pretendida na pesquisa. Para tanto, foi necessario estabelecer referencias as questoes: de que pesquisa falamos quando nos referimos a pesquisa-acao? Ou mesmo, de que acao falamos quando nos referimos a pesquisa-acao? E ainda, como pesquisa e acao se integram na pratica pedagogica da pesquisa-acao? O trabalho realca que a pesquisa-acao, estruturada dentro de seus principios geradores, e uma pesquisa eminentemente pedagogica, dentro da perspectiva de ser o exercicio pedagogico, configurado como uma acao que cientificiza a pratica educativa, a partir de principios eticos que visualizam a continua formacao e emancipacao de todos os sujeitos da pratica.

241 citations

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TL;DR: The data refute the recently proposed hypothesis of a southern Holocene colonization of the Atlantic Forest from northern refugia, suggesting instead persistence of forested habitats in the south.

214 citations

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TL;DR: Within the baseline studies of the PROESF, the comparison of PSF and UBS with regard to the different socially excluded stratums shows no differences between the opinions of managers and professionals.
Abstract: Within the baseline studies of the PROESF, this article aims to compare the assistance modalities PSF and the traditional UBS per stratum of socially excluded users in Sao Paulo. The study is considering the opinions of users, health professionals and managers. The tool used for this comparison was the Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCAT), which contemplates eight dimensions of primary care. The questionnaire was answered by several professionals of the 384 primary care units. The best evaluated PSF and UBS units (Basic Care Index ­ BCI) were selected from each of the three groups and socially excluded stratums. An opinion survey was carried out in each one of these units. The study resulted in scores of perception of users, managers and health professionals in each modality, focusing the eight dimensions of primary care. With exception to one stratum, the opinions of managers and health professionals were found very similar with regard to all studied dimensions and, compared with the opinion of users, they were always better, especially as refers to orientation towards the family and the community. The comparison of PSF and UBS with regard to the different socially excluded stratums shows no differences between the opinions of managers and professionals. The BCI found based on the opinion of users however was higher for the PSF than for the traditional UBS units.

174 citations


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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20232
20228
202142
202047
201958
201845