The lack or precariousness of basic sanitation as an adequate cause of environmental damage is a determinant to establish State liability. In this context, the formulation of effective public policies becomes relevant, in ...

Some elements of historical and cultural reality, identified in fiction about the State of Rio Grande do Sul, have contributed and still contribute to the construction of a social imaginary and of a regional identity, ...

This thesis aims analyzing, in an ethical-political line, the thought of the modern authors Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt through the trilogy Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth. The implicit philosophical question in ...

The use of fear appeals in persuasive messages has been explored and proven effective in the issues surrounding smoking. However, there are not many studies relating persuasive messages that appeal to fear and their influence ...

With the major changes that have occurred in rural areas, it was necessary to develop new non-agricultural activities to increase rural household incomes. As a parallel activity, tourism in rural areas has been helping ...

This study intended to narrate the historical process of Colégio do Carmo, located in Caxias do Sul, from the period of 1908 until 1933. The paper focus is especially in relation to the teaching practices and school routines ...

This thesis is part of the literary texts reading field, specifically children's narratives, and focuses its attention on the performance of the narrator, a narrative body responsible for conducting our reading and, thus, ...

This dissertation focuses on the representations of the female figure in Presença de Thalia (1989), by Ruth Laus, a writer from Santa Catarina, dialoguing and relating to issues inherent to the identity and the space of ...

This research has as a main topic the corporate social responsibility and its relationship to ethic, delimited on the internal dimension of the companies. The principal theoretical reference is the work of the German ...

Organizations depend on timely and effective knowledge flow to enhance their skills and execution of activities. Studies on the knowledge flow - moving process knowledge from a sender to a receiver - are considered essential, ...

In the scenario of Rio Grande do Sul State that was for many years the scene of disputes, with border lines that enabled mobile linguistic and cultural-exchange, Gaucho's songs (local music) can be characterized as major ...

Mental models are described as a set of representations, a world view. They are biases and assumptions that impact directly on the individual actions. Based on the theoretical assumptions this study had the purpose to ...

The presente work examines the Bolsa Família (Family Allowance), a brazilian redistributive public policy that provided the individual fundamental rights of freedom and equality inserted in the Federal Constitution of 1988. ...

The lakes located in Rio Grande do Sul – RS, like other lacustrine environments in the world, have the potential to become important tourist attractions. In the present study, the focused area comprises the city of Osório ...

The use of plants in various ailments healing is traditionally known and used for centuries by mankind. Plant cells produce a large variety of chemical compounds between the primary and secondary metabolism. The secondary ...

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) is a thin film material that has attracted much attention due to its properties as high wear resistance and super-low friction coefficient. Although silicon-based intermediate layers are employed ...

The use of polymeric membranes has been extensively studied for separation processes. The study of materials and methodologies for development of such membranes for cost reduction and improvement in their properties are ...

Citrus latifolia Tanaka (Tahiti lime) essential oil has a high commercial value and a large application in different industries. The enzymatic extraction of vegetable oils increases yields extraction, energy efficient and ...

The subject of this dissertation consists of analyzing the female identity and subjectivity construction of the character Clara, protagonist-narrator of the novel Duas iguais, by Cíntia Moscovich. Therefore, it is observed ...