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This book aims to analyse the film directed by Fernando Meirelles (1955) and scripted by Don McKellar, Blindness, released in 2008, as an adaptation of José Saramago's (1922-2010) book, Ensaio sobre a cegueira, published in 1995. To do this, we will first contextualise the book and the film in the artistic production of their respective creators, in order to make clear the differences between them, since the adapter of a literary work does not share the same point of view, aesthetic concern or historical moment with its author. We will then present various critical opinions on the relationship between literature and cinema, placed chronologically, to show the intrinsic relationship that one art form has with the other. In the end, we'll be able to see clearly how the study of Literature and Cinema views a film adaptation. A film based on a literary work is neither seen nor analysed as a mere transposition of the book into another medium.

The aim of this manual is to help engineers design balanced vibrating conveyors. They are used to transport bulk materials through stainless steel vibrating chutes for use in the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, tobacco and other industries. The equipment is considered hygienic to avoid contamination and is easy to clean. The conveyor belt is supported by elastic fibreglass springs fixed to a base. The vibration is produced by an eccentric driven by an electric motor. Below the chute is a steel profile frame with elastic springs fixed to the base with reverse vibrations of the chute. The weight of the chute must be equal to the weight of the counterweight. A vibrating conveyor in operation is balanced when the springs of the chute and counterweight are vibrating at their natural frequency, coinciding with or as close as possible to the rotation of the eccentric. This results in minimal vibration at the base, quiet operation and minimal maintenance.

The construction sector is known for its environmental impact, consuming large quantities of the planet's finite natural resources. In order to change this paradigm, a set of actions is needed linked to the introduction of sustainable practices that seek to reduce waste rates, improve quality in processes and qualify the workforce. In an attempt to identify how sustainable a construction site can be, this paper proposes a sustainability assessment methodology based on good practices adopted by existing environmental certification seals and research into reference cases, using a questionnaire with five themes: waste generation, water consumption, energy consumption, relationship with the environment and pollution prevention. As a case study, an assessment is presented of how the concept of sustainability is being absorbed on the construction sites of fifteen construction companies in Greater Vitória - ES, thus providing an overview of the practices adopted on the respective construction sites.

The castor bean tree is a plant that produces oilseeds and is of Asian origin. Its ease of adaptation has allowed it to be cultivated in Brazil. This book aims to present a review of the literature on castor bean oil (Ricinus communis L.) and various aspects relating to the use of Ricinus oil and its properties. Castor oil has been used in various activities such as: biofuel production, biotechnology, medicine and ethnobotany, among others. This raw material can be used to generate many products, which is why castor oil reaches a significant range of industries, from relatively simple products to sophisticated ones. Castor oil can be used in a versatile way, for example to treat stomatitis, to disinfect dental prostheses for anti-inflammatory purposes, to insulate or waterproof roofs and buildings, and it can also be used as a biofuel. Embark on this read full of technological applications and popular knowledge and expand your knowledge of this impressive vegetable oil.

Ideology, Military Forces and Society (Colombia 1994 - 1997) Reflects the actions of the military in Colombia and its relationship with society, as a result of the adoption of an ideology that is not its own and that has a great influence on the human rights of the citizens of this country. Therefore, it is of interest to those who study issues related to the State, society and the actions of the public force in a period of time of changes in all aspects.

The monograph explores space astronomy as a new scientific direction. Space astronomy complements classical astronomy and is its development. Space astronomy can be considered as the astronomy of points of observation of which observations are transferred from the Earth's surface and near-Earth space to space on space carriers. Space astronomy differs from classical astronomy not only by the transfer of observation points into outer space, but also by its methodological and organizational basis. Space astronomy, in addition to the basics of astronomy uses as components new sciences: space geodesy, space geoinformatics, geodesic astronomy, spatial analysis, spatial logic, systems analysis, informatics. The application of spatial logic is one of the features of space astronomy. The main means of observation in space astronomy is space monitoring. The application of the information field model is an important distinction of space astronomy/.

In the 5th century B.C., Hippocrates used the word "podagra" to designate the disease or its carrier. The term was descriptive. In Greek, it means "caught by the foot", evoking the trap in which the animal is captured (agra meaning hunt or catch). It was in the 9th century that the term gout was introduced into popular parlance. Rheuma (rheumatism or discharge) is compared to a noxious mood distilled "drop by drop" in the joints and organs. Its meaning narrowed in the 15th century, with the word gout corresponding to the condition known as podagre. In the Renaissance, Ambroise Paré used the term "gout" instead of podagre. There are many historical descriptions, but one of the most seminal is the 1683 treatise on podagre by Thomas Sydenham, the English Hippocrates. Gout has also been dubbed "the disease of kings". From Charlemagne to Louis XIV, it has struck down some of history's greatest names. In the 19th century, it was considered responsible for all ills. Gout is far from being a thing of the past, especially in Africa.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of patient safety culture, presents practical methodologies for its enhancement, and offers concrete applications for improving the quality and safety of care. Drawing on extensive research, this book begins by elucidating the fundamental theories underpinning patient safety culture. It examines the relationship between organizational culture, human behavior and patient safety, providing a sound theoretical framework to inform subsequent discussions. The book's application-oriented approach ensures that readers can translate theory and methodology into tangible improvements within healthcare organizations. It features case studies from the Algerian healthcare environment, demonstrating how a strong patient safety culture can lead to a reduction in medical errors, increased staff commitment and improved quality and safety of care.

This book is an academic work that provides a historical background, and the conclusions drawn lay a solid foundation for understanding the perpetual evolution of management theories.The most important thing to remember is that we live and work in dynamic, ever-changing environments, which exert significant and never-ending pressures on the organization wishing to maintain its competitiveness.A multitude of concepts and themes reflect this shifting complexity: increased demands for quality and performance excellence; ethics and social responsibility; heightened global awareness; and the importance of leadership, knowledge workers, information technology and new management methods.Management is a dynamic discipline in full evolution, offering valuable and varied tools to all those committed to achieving professional and organizational excellence.

To talk about Bioethics is to talk about life. There are several definitions of bioethics, all of them accurate, such as that of the National Bioethics Commission, "It is the branch of applied ethics that reflects, deliberates and makes regulatory and public policy approaches to regulate and resolve conflicts in social life, especially in the life sciences, as well as in medical practice and research that affect life on the planet, both now and in future generations".The Pan American Health Organization points out that bioethics should not be invoked after ethical principles have been broken and we are faced with an ethically questionable situation that must be resolved. Bioethics should be incorporated into the regular work of health professionals and policy makers so that public health policies are based on bioethical principles. If I were to define bioethics, I would say doing good for the sake of doing good. The basic principles of bioethics, autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and others such as solidarity, empathy, values such as respect and honesty.

The discovery of the theme of Nativity scenes, which began in 1998, in the village of Igatu, Chapada Diamantina - Bahia, led me to photograph them after a few trips to that mountainous site. Once the films had been developed, the subject motivated me to investigate more precisely why these people made such bold nativity scenes, rich in sacred and profane objects. The investigation took place between 2000 and 2004, during which time I obtained precious aesthetic information, spontaneous orality and theoretical and scientific knowledge about the rich subject. So, in this publication, I bring the photographic and theoretical research written, hoping to find in the readers who will get to know this rich universe of fantasy between the sacred and the profane, a dialog for exchanges, exchanges of knowledge and appreciation of popular culture which, in times of great technological advance, tends to be lost, to leave behind the creative imagination inherited by many generations, either through its oral history or through its day-to-day practice. So I think it's important that we seek to preserve our cultural memory, our origins and the origins of all peoples.

As Morocco seeks to establish itself on the world market as a competitive economy, it is a real breeding ground for SMEs. These companies make a positive contribution to economic prosperity through the creation of wealth, jobs and improved living standards.What's more, SMEs are engines of growth, job creation, economic and social development and poverty reduction.Moreover, the contribution of SMEs to innovation has increased in recent years: as innovation becomes more plural due to the changes it exerts on the economy (technological, social and institutional...), access to it becomes easier and more accessible to SMEs thanks to the digital transition, the social logic of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. Encouraging and stimulating innovation in SMEs over the long term therefore has a dual purpose: to help improve productivity within these structures and reduce the pay gap between SMEs and large companies; and to help establish the determinants of inclusive growth.

Ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and leishmaniasis are vector-borne diseases with a high incidence in many countries around the world. The causative agent of canine ehrlichiosis is Ehrlichia canis, while Leishmania infantum causes canine visceral leishmaniasis. Babesiosis is another disease caused by haemoparasites, the protozoa of the large Babesia spp family. Diseases caused by haemoparasites can trigger similar clinical and laboratory changes in the host, which can lead to conflicts when it comes to diagnosis. And often, because they share vectors, the animals could be co-infected. In addition, leishmaniasis is a zoonosis that is very harmful to human health. With this in mind, the aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of these diseases in the municipality of Concórdia, in the west of Santa Catarina, using the Indirect Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), Indirect Immunofluorescence Reaction (RIFI) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests. This book is aimed at veterinary medicine students, as well as trained professionals and researchers in the field.

It addresses the evaluation that indexers make of the Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Human Sciences through bibliometric indicators and citation analysis, which revealed that the publication under study is currently available in six indexing databases: Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CLASE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, Espanã y Portugal (LATINDEX), Scopus Elsevier and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). Based on the criteria used by the latter (SciELO), the journal was evaluated for the purposes of exemplification, noting that it plays a fundamentally important role in the development of the Human Sciences worldwide, as it publishes unpublished works in this line of research and is linked to a centenary institution as active in the context of scientific communication as the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará.

This paper aims to thread together some ideas to understand and explain the configuration of discourses and social representations in the history of social thought on childhood, starting with colonisation, and the imposition of a hierarchical and authoritarian pattern of power on the family and on indigenous, black and mestizo children, in the process of the coloniality of power and knowledge. Currently, in the social imaginary there are two cultural knots in dispute when it comes to childhood: the relational rationality of the original cultures from the global South; and Western instrumental rationality, which was consolidated in Peru with the social pact of modernity in the 19th century, and which persists to this day.

The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) aim to promote the communication of accounting worldwide and thus contribute to the exchange of capital, with the aim of ensuring the transparency and harmonization of financial statements. This study therefore aims to verify the improvement in Brazilian accounting after the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards. In order to achieve the proposed objective, the number of words present in the explanatory notes published in periods before and after the adoption of the IFRS was measured. The sample is made up of companies listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange in the cyclical consumer sector; the trade subsector and the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear segment in Brazil, excluding the company Grazziotin S.A., since it did not publish its explanatory notes in the years prior to 2010, the year in which publication in accordance with the IFRS became mandatory. A simple linear regression is used to analyze the data, and an additional test is the general average and average per company. The results show that the number of words in the explanatory notes increased after the adoption of IFRS, contributing to more disclosure

This paper will attempt to explain the position that the state should take in the face of new trends in online communication. Based on a historical review of Argentina, it will demonstrate the position taken by the different governments in the classic media field, in terms of radio and television, and will set out the theoretical content in order to begin to consider whether a legal system is necessary to deal with content on the net or whether the way forward is self-regulation of the sector by its main components. This study will seek to provide the reader with elements of understanding of what has happened in the past, but with the intention of providing resources for the future regarding the advance of audiovisual content on the web. Undoubtedly, from the author's point of view, the new era poses the need to think about what to do with audiovisual content that is conceived and transmitted exclusively on the internet, leaving aside traditional media. This is the challenge that journalists, lawyers and states will have to face in order to ensure that one of the most important values always prevails: freedom of expression.

Accounting professionals and managers are experiencing constant evolution, one of which is the new measures adopted by the tax authorities to set up new systems and accessory obligations in order to improve the monitoring of company transactions and avoid fraudulent operations. The newest requirement, called Block K, consists of sending the Production and Inventory Control Record Book to industries and companies treated as industries. This obligation makes it possible to monitor the entire production chain of companies, from the entry of inputs to the finished product. The new measures adopted will have an impact on company procedures, as it will be necessary to review production and stock control management. In view of this, the aim of this study is to demonstrate the perception of accountants and managers regarding the new accessory obligation. In order to achieve the proposed objective, bibliographical research was initially carried out based on books and virtual materials, and a questionnaire was applied to managers and accounting professionals in the city of Nova Serrana-MG, in order to test the hypotheses raised.

The present work is comprised of a series of studies linked to territorial development as a research topic. In principle, the interest is directed to the study of public policies for territorial development, new strategies within the framework of a new development paradigm, such as the capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship of regions and localities to face structural problems of regional inequality and thus improve the cohesion of these territorial spaces. On the other hand, certain recent social phenomena in Uruguay, such as municipalization and its correlation with the formal instances created within the framework of political decentralization processes that give rise to new emerging spaces for citizen participation, are discussed. Likewise, the issue of the conceptualization of development is debated, questioning the old definition linked to economic growth, with the irruption of the new way of contemplating development by the UNDP, such as the economist Amartya Sen, with his theoretical-methodological contributions regarding the alternative paradigm of human development, within the framework of globalization and asymmetrical character.

African culture manifests itself in different ways in people's lives, at all stages, from birth to death. However, we can see that some specific features, such as the polygamy discussed and analysed in this book, need to be updated and therefore deserve a conscious review. The aim of these changes and updates is to open up horizons so that current and future generations do not encounter obstacles in possible intercultural relationships. By way of example, the Makhuwa people must intelligently realise that accepting and practising polygamy as a type of marriage is a criminal offence in Western culture. However, with the current rapprochement resulting from globalisation, young Makhuwa people should be more open to new opportunities and create new friendships and marriages with people from other cultures, including those from the West, without fear of rejection or even prejudice.

Technological benefits of information systems represent the positive or positive effects of using information systems and technologies in different organizations. Entrepreneurial benefits of information systems represent the sources of opportunity for new production or increased productivity, to increase the business activity of the enterprise. Technological benefits of information systems in today's world include providing better opportunities for business and economic growth. Information systems also help in defining, measuring and monitoring performance indicators and comparing them with targets and benchmarks.

Cambodia today is a predominantly agrarian, lower-middle-income developing country that has only relatively recently joined the group of potentially high-growth Asian economies. It has followed a complex and contradictory path of modernization from French protectorate to independence and joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), repeatedly changing its political regime and social system. The author examines the characteristic features of its development, showing the role of technological progress in it. The theoretical framework of the study covers the key tenets of development economics and economic growth theory. For econometric analysis we used, first of all, a general growth model that takes into account not only physical and human capital, but also time as an event space of creative economic activity. It makes it possible to compare the total factor efficiency with the world level. In addition to considering the macro-level development of Cambodia's economy, the author for the first time attempted to model the growth of its manufacturing industry on the basis of available statistical data.

The theme of the book was the sad reality of the crime of trafficking in human organs and tissues in Brazil. An extremely thought-provoking topic, but one that is difficult to access. The aim of this work was to investigate, through bioethics, which legal and criminal asset is protected in the prohibition of trafficking in human organs, as well as the relationship between art. 149-A of the Penal Code (trafficking in persons) and art. 15 of Law 9.434/97 (Transplant Law). It discussed the permitted and prohibited types of organ transplants in Brazil. In addition, arguments were presented about the possible decriminalisation of the conduct, as well as its impact on the Brazilian health system. The crime was analysed through the lens of bioethics and its principles, as well as the doctor's conduct and responsibility for committing or participating in the crime of trafficking and trading in human organs. I invite the reader to take a look at this interdisciplinary investigation and wish you all a good read.

Based on the data obtained about the establishment and the information collected on Good Manufacturing Practices, an instruction manual was devised to implement this prerequisite. Current world problems indicate that 80% of Food Transmissible Diseases (FTEs) are linked to problems of poor handling and hygiene practices in the places where food is produced, as well as to the actions of operators who are not properly trained to carry out their work in a responsible manner and owners of companies who only want to produce large quantities without taking into account the safety and quality of their products. It is essential to comply with the requirements of the regulations of our country by implementing "Good Manufacturing Practices", with the primary objective of achieving safe and good quality food.

Having already published Volume 1 and Volume 2 on data analysis with SPSS, we are now presenting yet another work, this time detailing the various techniques of advanced analysis with SPSS,In this book, we'll take a look at the various advanced data processing techniques in SPSS,We begin with logistic regression, fish regression, linear regression, regression equation, MANOVA and multivariate analysis.For each technique, we illustrate an example, setting out the various steps to be followed in SPSS.We hope to bring back a valuable tool enabling learners to find solutions to different databases.

The Russian army's special intervention in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has turned international relations upside down and led the world into a profound global crisis unprecedented after the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not only the continuation of more than three decades of political tensions between Russia and Ukraine, but also the continuation of some twenty years of geopolitical tensions between Russia and the West as well as the United States to the east of Ukraine. In this book, we examine the reasons for the new geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and also with NATO, including the geopolitical strategies of the major international powers in eastern Ukraine, characterized by neo-realism, which are disrupting international relations. It also raises the question of the legality and legitimacy of Russia's intervention in Ukraine, a burning issue in this war which I have taken the liberty of examining. Important recommendations have been made for a way out of the crisis, as well as ways and means to save humanity from a future hell.

Believing that the use of the concept map technique can be a factor in the acquisition of new knowledge, its meanings and the guarantee of greater stability of the knowledge previously acquired by the student, this book aims to present a reflection on the potential of the concept map as a teaching/learning strategy. The work made it possible to analyse the influence of the concept map technique as a study stimulus for students, with reference to Ausubel's meaningful learning, using bibliographical research and questionnaires as data collection procedures.

In recent years, women professionals in public accounting have become increasingly interested in gaining access to leadership and decision-making positions in organisations, whether public or private. For this reason, this document presents a statistical analysis of the participation of women in the main national and international accounting regulatory bodies, The aim is to highlight the female leadership style in order to stop underestimating women and recognise that they have the potential and capacity to perform any position that involves high levels of leadership and decision-making and thus meet the current needs of organisations.

New technologies have led to a transformation of communication processes, a reality that significantly affects the professional practice of journalism. A New Look: Essays on Journalism and Communication brings together six academic texts written between 2017 and 2019 that address various topics related to the new media ecosystem. The suitability and ethics of the use of hidden cameras, the rise and power of social networks, the proliferation of fake news and the increasing incidence of visual content in journalistic pieces are, among others, some of the issues addressed in this book, which provides a necessary critical and reflective vision from an academic perspective.

This work was initiated by QFB Alejandra Jimenez Diaz with the interest of making a compilation of the main tests that are performed in a clinical laboratory, as part of her thesis work under the direction of M. en C. Ma del Socorro Martinez. This project describes some basic areas of a laboratory, as well as routine studies that are performed on patients who come to request clinical service. These activities of the Laboratory are proper of the Pharmaceutical Chemist Biologist to report the results of the analyses performed that are of valuable utility for the prevention, diagnosis, support to the treatment and follow-up of diseases.