University of São Paulo

About: University of São Paulo is a education organization based out in São Paulo, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 136513 authors who have published 272320 publications receiving 5127869 citations. The organization is also known as: USP & Universidade de São Paulo.

Construindo o conceito de competência

Abstract: The issue of competence building and management is currently gaining momentum at the academic and the managerial instances. The debates usually focus on one of three distinct levels of analysis: the level of the person (individual competences), the level of the enterprise (core competences of the organization) and the level of a region or nation (educational systems for the formation of local competences). The objective of this paper is to contribute to the theorethical discussion about competence building and management through the development of a conceptual framework, elaborated upon both the American and the European approaches. The key feature of that framework is the dynamic relationship between competitive strategy and competence management.

Nutrition and health. The issue is not food, nor nutrients, so much as processing.

Abstract: Orthodox teaching and practice on nutrition and health almost always focuses on nutrients, or else on foods and drinks. Thus, diets that are high in folate and in green leafy vegetables are recommended, whereas diets high in saturated fat and in full-fat milk and other dairy products are not recommended. Food guides such as the US Food Guide Pyramid are designed to encourage consumption of healthier foods, by which is usually meant those higher in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients seen as desirable. What is generally overlooked in such approaches, which currently dominate official and other authoritative information and education programmes, and also food and nutrition public health policies, is food processing. It is now generally acknowledged that the current pandemic of obesity and related chronic diseases has as one of its important causes increased consumption of convenience including pre-prepared foods. However, the issue of food processing is largely ignored or minimised in education and information about food, nutrition and health, and also in public health policies. A short commentary cannot be comprehensive, and a general proposal such as that made here is bound to have some problems and exceptions. Also, the social, cultural, economic and environmental consequences of food processing are not discussed here. Readers’ comments and queries are invited.

EthoLog 2.2: A tool for the transcription and timing of behavior observation sessions

Abstract: EthoLog is a tool that aids in the transcription and timing of behavior observation sessions--experimental or naturalistic, from video/audio tapes or registering real time. It was created with Visual Basic and runs on Windows (3.x/9x). The user types the key codes for the predefined behavioral categories, and EthoLog registers their sequence and timing and saves the resulting data in ASCII output files. A sequential analysis matrix can be generated from the sequential data. The output files may be edited, converted to plain text files for printing, or exported to a spreadsheet program, such as MS Excel, for further analyses.