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Artificial intelligence (AI) has played an increasingly important role in various aspects of our lives, including the way we relate to and search for a partner. The search for the "better half" is a fundamental part of the human experience, and AI has proven to be a valuable tool for improving and facilitating this process. The importance of AI in matchmaking lies in its ability to analyze and process large amounts of data and complex patterns. Using advanced machine learning algorithms, AI can examine profiles, preferences and behaviors of individuals to find potential matches more efficiently and accurately than traditional methods. One of the biggest benefits of AI in matchmaking is its ability to overcome geographic and cultural barriers. AI-based dating apps and platforms can connect people from different parts of the world, expanding opportunities to meet someone compatible that would otherwise be difficult to reach. AI can help improve the quality of matches.

Jorge Octavio Guzmán Sánchez is a professor in the Computer Systems Engineering department of the Tecnológico Nacional de México / IT of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, and it is here where he teaches "Web Programming With Frameworks" and thanks to this that for several years he has been able to collect this knowledge that seeks to be in a text that can serve as teaching material for students studying the aforementioned subject.

The specific object of our study, the Municipality of San Casimiro, located in the south of the State of Aragua in the Republic of Venezuela, is in a process of agricultural regression, demographic stagnation in its rural area and presents underutilization or non-utilization of natural resources such as minerals and land, and of the cultural resources of the population such as patron saint festivities, Carnival, empirical knowledge of the environment, artistic and culinary traditions and others, which has influenced the poverty of its inhabitants who suffer from unemployment, lack of housing, malnutrition and social injustice. The knowledge of the historical and geographical process that generated this human reality, can allow to offer viable solutions to the economic and social situation described.

Innovative transformation of ecosystem and infrastructure characteristics of a smart real estate object into a developed combined supersystem with interconnected subsystems of on-line control in real time of energy supply and water treatment modules.The supersystem includes preliminary analysis of long-term forecasts of development of this field of technology, use of the analysis results to form the process of integration of 44 commercial system criteria of smart real estate object assessment with the systems of 40 + 10 criteria and methods of obtaining the ideal final result according to the qualification of the Theory and Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving.Specificity of design and logistics of construction of the ecosystem of a smart object or real estate complex and its innovative ecosystem components as an autonomous supersystem and incoming autonomous innovative infrastructure subsystems, ensuring its maximum economic efficiency and environmental friendliness of construction and operation processes, with maximum energy and other resources saving.

In an era of the consequences of migration and interculturality in their diversity, aspects of post-migration become important for considerations in political education, which is primarily concerned with the triad of policy, politics and polity. The study, as an approach to a social development, deals with central elements of a development that finds interest and meaning in political elements of the current legal situation, the learning field of politics - political education, intercultural competence - interculturality, political economy, ecology, sustainability, inclusion, future-oriented education and culture - religion, thematically and in terms of specialist literature, based on the author's many years of work as a political educator in adult education, primarily out of personal interest. It is about social design processes with similarities in Germany, Austria and Europe.

From the 1970s onwards, the sharp increase in threats to the environment, coupled with an improved understanding of these threats, gave rise to an unprecedented normative movement. This proliferation of standards affected all legal orders, from national law to domestic legislation. This plethora of standards requires judges to work rigorously and meticulously to decipher the truth behind them. This is why the administrative judge is called upon to interpret these texts to give them meaning and spirit, with a view to ensuring maximum protection of the environment. They are called upon to play their role as guardians of the law, and see themselves invested with the role of good shepherd for the application of environmental protection laws. While the administration is sometimes tempted to neglect the environment, the judge is in the last line and cannot shy away from the environmental rule.

Foreign immigration represents an increasingly relevant phenomenon in contemporary Italian society. The presence of people from different cultures and backgrounds requires careful reflection on the ways of integration and intercultural dynamics that develop within our country. In this context, education represents one of the main challenges for the integration of migrants into Italian society. In fact, the teaching of Italian as a second language (L2) is a fundamental factor for the success of the integration process. Over the years, the ways in which Italian as L2 is taught have undergone continuous changes as a result of the evolution of the migration phenomenon and Italian school regulations.

Since the economic viability of using biodigesters has been proven, several cities in Paraná are already using the method. It basically consists of transforming pig feces into renewable energy through the biomass by-product, biogas. Another by-product that can be used is biofertilizer - an excellent substitute for regular fertilizer. The basis of this work is the characterization of the study region and the subsequent sizing of the Canadian-style biodigester. From the calculations, it was found that the amount of energy used monthly on the property is 449.7 kWh/month, which is less than the amount that would be produced, approximately 2,706 kWh/month. Therefore, the monthly surplus would be 2,256.3 kWh/month, which could be sold to COPEL through a public call - the value adopted for calculation purposes was R$ 0.30. Based on this, the payback time, taking into account the savings on the electricity bill and on the quantity of gas cylinders used, would be around 11 months, making it feasible to implement this form of renewable energy on this rural property in the interior of the municipality of Nova Prata do Iguaçú - PR.

This course on pharmacognosy, toxicology, pharmacology and phytochemistry explores the essential areas of naturally occurring drug science, toxicity assessment, mechanisms of drug action and the study of plant chemical compounds.This course provides an in-depth understanding of naturally occurring drugs, chemical safety, mechanisms of drug action and the study of plant chemical compounds. It prepares students to participate in drug research, development and use, as well as to assess risks and ensure the safety of chemical substances.

The monograph presents the results of the author's long-term research on the problem of determination of pharmaceuticals, namely, the development of new chromatographic methods for the determination of framycetin sulfate, as well as the perfection of existing methods. The monograph is intended for undergraduate and graduate students studying in the programs of "analytical chemistry", as well as specialists in the field of pharmachemistry.

In children, paratesticular tumors represent approximately 1-2% of solid tumors, with an incidence of 0.5-2 per 100,000 children. The most frequent anatomopathological type in children is rhabdomyosarcoma, and other types of paratesticular tumours are exceptional. In most cases, these tumors are unrecognized and sometimes initially misdiagnosed. These tumors require multidisciplinary management to improve patient survival. Treatment is essentially surgical, irrespective of tumour type and stage, and often requires chemotherapy depending on the tumour and tumour extension.

This article seeks to establish the relationship between the dimensions that make up brand loyalty and the lifestyles of older consumers in the fresh meat category in the city of Bogotá. To achieve this goal, a literature review of the concepts related to brand, brand loyalty, the dimensions that make up brand loyalty and lifestyles will be carried out. Through the information collected, we will explore the relationship between brand loyalty and lifestyles of consumers in the fresh meat category by means of a quantitative research design with a descriptive correlational scope. The results suggest valid and reliable information on the psychographic attributes of greatest importance for each level of fresh meat purchase loyalty, leading to optimise marketing planning in this industry.

This research, the result of a master's dissertation defended in 2017 at UDESC, has as its central theme to discuss the perspectives of teaching the history of the Africas from the Supervised Curricular Internships of the Undergraduate History course at UDESC, that is, from the initial training in History. The aim was to investigate the representations of the history of the Africas and people of African descent that are appropriated by students as interns in the Supervised Curricular Internship course. Taking Federal Law 10.639/2003 as a milestone, which made it compulsory to teach African and Afro-Brazilian history in schools, this research sought to understand the changes and continuities following the regulation of this law. In this context, this research contributes to thinking about the main clashes and obstacles that surround the experience of teaching the history of the Africas in basic education, observed from the teachers' practice in the initial training process and enabling the development and updating of new teaching and learning strategies on this subject, both at university and at school.

Some sectors are more affected by stress than others. The level of stress at work is said to be higher in the national health service than in other professional environments. Care staff who have to cope with increasing professional demands without being able to control their workload end up feeling a great deal of physical, psychological and emotional exhaustion. Exhaustion that could also affect their performance at work. It is this sector of activity, and nursing work in particular, that our study focuses on. The presence of stress in both public and private institutions is well established. The overloaded timetable, lack of motivation, sudden death of some staff, workload, confrontation with the pain and death of patients, observed among staff at Kyeshero Hospital, all led us to carry out a study on the stress suffered by staff at Kyeshero Hospital.

Born in Pentecoste - CE. She has a degree in Languages/English from the State University of Ceará (UECE) and a degree in Hospitality Technology from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará (IFCE). She was awarded an IFCE International Scholarship and studied Hospitality in Canada for one semester. She has a Master's degree in Translation Studies from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). Currently a substitute English teacher at IFCE.

In September 2023, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus held a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus on the development of cooperation with the countries of Africa, where the Belarusian government outlined the main directions in this continent: medicine, education, ensuring food security of African countries, supply of agricultural machinery, industrial cooperation. Assessing the objective foreign trade situation, Belarusian Prime Minister R. Golovchenko emphasized that Africa has a huge potential for development, but the accumulated political capital of Belarus has not yet been converted into successful trade and economic projects. In 2022, exports of Belarusian goods to Africa amounted to just over $200 million and are showing a slight downward trend. For this reason, the government of Belarus has set a clear task - it is necessary to make every effort to find the right tools to reverse the negative dynamics in cooperation with African countries, to form roadmaps, to look for specific projects that can be implemented. What steps are being taken in Belarus in this direction? This is the subject of this proposed study.

The production of energy in the form of hydrogen through industrial, rural and urban waste is a sustainable technology concept, since this waste does not add economic value and is considered an environmental obstacle. The use of hydrogen as an energy vector, produced from residual biomass, can be evaluated as an interesting form of energy storage. Hydrogen can be produced by gasifying biomass with a high water content. Supercritical water (Tc ¿ 374 °C, Pc ¿ 221 bar) has unique physicochemical properties that minimize mass transport limitations, making it an excellent medium for decomposing organic compounds. In view of this, it is extremely important to know the key factors necessary for the efficient application of biomass gasification in supercritical water. Therefore, this review aims to gather information on the main factors involved in these reactions. In addition, some of the operational challenges and the state of the art regarding the main biomass models have been raised.

The aim of this work is to build an intelligent control system for a brain-machine interface, using the Artificial Neural Networks paradigm. The interface built translates brain signals to move a cursor on a digital screen. The control system uses a feedback signal from the user to calibrate itself, allowing it to adjust the movement of the cursor in a personalized way, according to the signals sent by the user. By using artificial neural networks, we were able to reduce the training time, which in traditional control systems can take two to three months, to around five minutes. The project aims to facilitate accessibility for individuals with limited physical and motor abilities, whether temporary or permanent. The construction of a system that translates limbic signals into digital responses makes it possible to develop a range of new applications to increase the autonomy of people with motor limitations. As a continuation of this work, many applications could be developed for home automation of basic tasks, such as turning on a light or a household appliance

This research aims to investigate the processes of reading, interpretation and creative writing within the specific space of a public school. The guiding objective is to identify in the textual productions of the participating students how the processes of interaction between reading and writing, creative processes and the production of texts take place in the classroom. It is in this sense that this research is justified, since it recognises the importance of the communicative, educational and social functions that literacy practices can offer students, enabling them to read, interact with reading and writing, and produce texts. The research falls within the interpretivist paradigm and consists of a case study, using non-participant observation and content analysis of the students' productions as research techniques. To this end, a number of Portuguese language classes were observed, with classes corresponding to the 5th year of primary school. This observation, based on the theoretical framework discussed, allowed us to analyse the data we collected in order to investigate how written production was taking place in the classroom and also the role of creativity in this process.

This book aims to revive regional memory and culture by listing traditional recipes from Minas Gerais families, so that they don't get lost over time and become a legacy for the future. As such, it provides an overview of the origins of local cuisine and the influences that ethnic groups have had on food customs in Minas Gerais, especially in the city of Passos and the surrounding region. It then identifies local ingredients and typical recipes, and notes that some food habits have fallen into disuse, but others still persist in the daily lives of traditional families.

Ergonomics has taken on an increasingly prominent role in the design of work environments, characterising everything from man's relationship with the various techniques to the need for quality, productivity and cost reduction inherent in production. In general terms, an ergonomic analysis is used to analyse the working conditions of a given task in order to provide comfort and safety for workers. So this monograph aims to ergonomically analyse the working conditions and safety of the production environment at Cerâmica Tramontin, based on Regulatory Standard No. 17 - Occupational Safety, Health and Medicine, which aims to establish parameters that allow for adaptations and working conditions, conditioning the psycho-physiological characteristics of workers in order to meet their needs for work performance. As a result of this study, it is hoped that the environments of the pottery and ceramics industries in Amapá will have appropriate conditions for the development of their activity, increasing productivity as well as the quality of life of workers.

Biological weed control using the 'natural herbicide' potential of certain allelopathic species is an alternative to conventional methods. The aim of the present study was to investigate the allelopathy of a sorghum-fodder hybrid 'Super graze II', used as a cover crop in conservation agriculture, to control two weeds, broomrape and milk thistle. The germination and young plant bioassay technique was used to study sorghum allelopathy. The components of the sorghum plant expressed an allelopathic/phyto-toxic effect. The stem showed the most inhibitory effect for both weeds. Root exudates from soil cultivated with sorghum showed an inhibitory allelopathic effect. The types of sorghum residue management expressed a differential allelopathic effect. No-tillage systems showed a relatively higher phytotoxicity than incorporated residues. The results showed a potential natural herbicide in sorghum that could be used as a means of biological control.

Floods and inundations are among the main types of natural disasters, often marked by intense rainfall of both short and long duration. Floods occur in many regions of the Earth and are intensified by environmental changes and anthropogenic interventions near rivers. In 2008 and 2009, the municipality of Mossoró-RN experienced above-normal rainfall, drastically increasing the volume of water in the river that cuts through the city, the Apodi-Mossoró. With this in mind, the aim of this study was to carry out an assessment of the socio-environmental damage that occurred in the city of Mossoró, especially in the community of the Ilha de Santa Luzia neighborhood, based on the Damage Assessment Report (AVANDAN) drawn up by the Municipal Civil Defense Coordination (CONDEC), as well as the perception of the people affected by the floods, since the neighborhood is located in a special riverside zone, and an area suitable for permanent preservation and restricted use, subject to flooding. The scenario is aggravated by the lack of continuous preventive actions and only assistance actions during events.

The period of transition from the aquatic to the terrestrial environment involved the development of a greater degree of activity, and the regions of the reptile brain most affected by these changes were the telencephalon, thalamus, mesencephalic roof and cerebellum. The aim was to identify and morphologically map, internally and externally, the regions of the encephalon in different reptile species and Podocnemis expansa embryos. Juvenile reptile species (P. expansa, Podocnemis unifilis, Phrynops geoffroanus, Melanosuchus niger, Bothrops jararaca and Salvator merianae) and P. expansa eggs incubated artificially until stage 25 were used, after which the brain was euthanised and removed. For macroscopic analysis, the brains were fixed in formaldehyde, and for microscopic analysis of the embryos, semi-serial cryosections were made and stained with eosin and counterstained with Nissl. It was concluded that in B. jararaca there is the presence of a fourth ventricle and a choroid plexus internal to the encephalon, a rudimentary cerebellum and the absence of the accessory nerve (XI), and the embryos have a prominent dorsal ventricular crest and tegmentum nuclei in the ventral region of the bulb.

With the belief that the traditional and hegemonic media contribute to the resurgence of social problems caused by globalization, spreading and defending neoliberal ideas and the discourse of the inevitability of the phenomenon, various forms of alternative press have emerged around the world, mainly in cyberspace, inspired by anti-globalization movements such as the World Social Forum. Among the various alternative media that have emerged on the web and share the values of social movements, some have followed the model of news agencies, at least in their nomenclature. This paper aims to understand the phenomenon of these media by analyzing the characteristics of Adital (Frei Tito Information Agency for Latin America), Agência Carta Maior and IPS (Inter Press Service). These agencies function as prophets of the weak, oppressed and excluded of the world. Prophets, not bearers of the divine message, but who impose a mission, in this case, to exhort, warn and denounce the social injustices and concentration of wealth of the globalized era.

Starting from the concept of identity, we reflect on the teaching identity and its articulation with the process of learning to be a teacher, embodied in the professional internship, the object of multiple perspectives, which are explored in their evolution throughout the professional experience of six former interns. The commitment to professional identity was rebuilt through actions, values and dispositions to learn, always in an attitude of reflection-action, to which the intervention of the cooperating teacher within the community of practice greatly contributed. The personal and professional development of the new teachers had a solid and consistent start, which proved to be proficient for the exercise of the profession in other contexts. During the internship, conditions must be met to provide trainees with emotional support (proximity or scaffolding measure) and to promote the achievement of growing autonomy (distancing or fading measure). Only in this way will trainees be able to properly prepare themselves for the difficulties and uncertainties of the profession, demonstrating the capacity for agency to intervene in the context and promote transformation.

The quality of education in Angola/Cabinda calls for quality research. The research carried out on the basis of monographs on learning difficulties and school failure by ISCED undergraduates in Cabinda schools calls for more careful and systematic attention to education and teaching, from primary to higher education, in this province. The novice researchers at this house of science have uncovered serious problems that deserve the attention of managers and designers of education policies in Angola, particularly in Cabinda: difficulties in writing and reading, mathematics and various other subjects. This means that ISCED has the triple responsibility of teaching, researching and publishing the results of this research in order to fulfill its noble mission. In this way, ISCED, as a teacher training institution, can help improve the quality of education and teaching in Cabinda. The results of the research carried out at ISCED, if published, will serve as a vehicle for raising the awareness of those who make decisions for the improvement and quality of education in Angola.

Feed is one of the most important factors in the economic exploitation of poultry and is the most costly. In this context, together with the growing development of the food industry and the consequent increase in products and co-products, researchers in the field of nutrition have been looking for ways to make it possible to partially or totally replace corn and soya in poultry rations without compromising their performance. This book therefore provides relevant information on the production performance of layers fed alternative diets made up of cashew nut bran.

The aim of this study is to analyze the perception of the teaching staff and students on the Business Administration courses at the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the RMBH - MG regarding teaching and learning in the training of the new generation of Sustainability Administrators. It will also present the perception of course coordinators, teaching strategies and the characterization of these HEIs as a set of categories that influence the teaching-learning relationship. The theoretical model used was based on research by Hart and Milstein (2004) and Sgarbi et al. (2008) defining 47 sustainable jargons present in studies related to Administration. Thirty-two HEIs with sustainability or sustainability-related subjects were selected for this analysis. It's worth checking out the results!

The collective organisation of farmers is a factor aimed at increasing productivity, reaching new markets and income, raising the self-esteem of associated producers and making economic organisation viable. In this study, the family farmers are part of an association that owns an agro-industry, with the aim of benefiting the production of their agroforestry systems, adding value and gaining access to institutional and local markets through the supply of frozen fruit pulp. This work analyses the aspects that make up the general context of the activities carried out by the Association, through a study of the influence of the açaí production chain on the generation of income for rural producers, including the influence of quality control in the processing of fruit pulps, as well as the importance of the degree of satisfaction of the associated producer as part of a collective organisation and concluding with a proposal for a management tool to optimise the processing of the agroindustry as a strategy for decision-making and improving competitiveness, contributing to the effective planning of the production of cupuaçu and açaí pulps.