Nowadays several nursing courses are seeking innovative pedagogical alternatives that can consolidate an education which is more coherent with the desired professional profile for everyday life in health services. One of the alternatives adopted by nursing schools in the country is the methodology known as Tutorial. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the use of the tutorial as learning methodology for nursing education, verify student satisfaction regarding its use and identify the role of tutorial methodology on the construction of student’s critical stance in relation to the reality of health sector. As the tutorial is a student centered methodology where the teacher’s role is to guide them on the development of their professional career and personal life, the study has begun on the hypothesis that the tutorial leads to a meaningful learning, which stimulates the learning process and the student ability to meddle in the reality of the health system in which they are inserted. This was a case study with quantitative and qualitative methodological approach (mixed method). The research’s subjects were students of the second and fifth year of the nursing school at the University of Health Sciences of Alagoas. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and a problem situation for the student to analyze and narrate their intervention. The answers to the questions were analyzed by Kruskal Wallis non-parametric test with a confidence interval of 95 % (p≤ 0.05) and the problem situation was investigated using content analysis. The results of both analyzes showed that the methodology of the tutorial has the potential to promote the development of a more critical and reflective capacity of the student. However...

Teaching model of the Police Negotiation Process Based on Petri Nets is a study that aims to help the teaching process of strategic negotiation in critical situations involving hostages, allowing the improvement of the Military Police of the State of Alagoas in non-routine police reports. Two types of research were used in the methodology construction of this study: literature research through printed and electronic sources, as well as field research, questionnaires and interviews with military policemen working at the Center of Crisis Management, Human Rights and Community Police (CGCDHPC) in the State of Alagoas. Initially, it discussed the Learning Environment, focusing them as a support system to the learning process. Strategies of persuasion are formally defined in order to be applied in the police negotiation process. We understood the process of strategic negotiation in situations where hostages are involved. We studied different teaching models of the strategic negotiation process. At the end of the study the following results were achieved: proposal for a working model of the persuasion techniques, propose an organizational model of strategic negotiation process and formalization of the model of negotiation process where hostages are involved...

The article aims to contribute to the discussion of teaching materials recommendation prototype system’ architecture to be used at virtual learning systems. The study also aims to present a literature review that elucidates a method of recommendation suitable for this prototype development. The prototype was built to validate the suggested model, generating recommendation based on student’s profile using hybrid model. The study was conducted through an extension course held at the Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas, in 2010. The model has satisfactory results at preliminary tests in this experiment. As future work, new experiments should be done to apprimorate the recommender system in order to produce better results.; O artigo objetiva contribuir com discussões de um modelo de sistema de recomendações de materiais didáticos, para ser utilizado em ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem. Também objetiva um resgate teórico de forma a elucidar o modelo apropriado ao protótipo em questão. Foi construído um protótipo de sistema de recomendação para testar o modelo adotado, por meio de um curso de extensão realizado na Faculdade Estácio de Alagoas, no ano de 2010, o qual efetuava gerações baseadas no perfil dos usuários, sendo estas recomendações alvo de análise do estudo. Diante dos estudos efetivados...

This study is a preclinical research on the use of banana (Musa paradisiacal L.), whose main objective was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential, antiedematogenic, healing and cell viability of the extracts of the leaves and pseudostem of Musa paradisiacal L. Extracts were listed according to the plant part used, Musa 1 (ethanol extract of the leaf), Musa 2 (aqueous extract of the leaf), Musa 3 (ethanol extract pseudostem) and Musa 4 (aqueous extract pseudostem). In vitro tests were conducted cell viability by MTT method - [bromide 3 - (4,5 - dimethylthiazol - 2 - yl) tetrazolium] and for antimicrobial disk diffusion and agar drilling. For in vivo tests were used 36 Wistar rats in the experiment healing and 36 mice in Swis ear edema induced by capsaicin, provided by the Central Animal Laboratory Creation of Federal University of Alagoas, and handled in accordance with standards established by the Commission on Ethics Use of Laboratory Animals. It was found in testing antibiotics on the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the yeast Candida albicans, the ethanol and aqueous extracts of Musa paradisiacal L. do not inhibit microbial growth. The test was conducted cell viability at concentrations of 100...

It is a socio-historical study that aimed to examine the contribution of the faculty to the formation of professional identity of the students of the first undergraduate degree in nursing from Alagoas and discuss the contributions of this faculty to the nursing in Alagoas. The clipping was the social and temporal city of Maceió, in the period between 1973 and 1977, with the initial mark the official news of the course creation and as late mark the graduation of the first class in June 1977. The theoretical framework was the "Civilizing Process" of Norbert Elias. The primary sources were the official documents of the Central Archive of the Nursing Course Coordination Council and Federal University of Alagoas, the documents resulting from the transcription of the interviews of teachers and their personal files. Secondary sources were written by authors who discuss the history of Brazil and Alagoas. To collect the testimonials we used the Oral History theme through a semistructured interview. All subjects signed an informed consent and the project was approved by CEPE / UFAL (No. 23065.015735/2011-40 process). 13 people were interviewed and data analysis did understand that the rearrangement of teachers in the course contributed to the professional identity of students from the first group...

Medicinal plants have been growing in their social, cultural and economic importance in Brazil, which has the greatest biodiversity of the planet. Caatinga is the main ecosystem in the northeastern region and the only biome exclusively Brazilian. There is a great diversity of species popularly used for medicinal purposes in communities in the semiarid region of Alagoas. However, research proving their therapeutic efficacy is still insufficient. Ethanol extracts of two endemic species of the Caatinga, Bauhinia cheilantha (Bong.) Steud. and Lippia gracilis Schauer, known popularly as "mororó" and " alecrim-da-chapada", underwent in vitro assays to evaluate its antimicrobial and antioxidant potential, as well as identification of the class of its constituents through phytochemical screening. The bacterial strains Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Klebisiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the fungal strain Candida albicans were used in the Agar diffusion method and broth microdilution, which determined the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of extracts. For the evaluation of the scavenging capacity of antioxidants free radicals present in the extracts, the method of measuring the reduction of the synthetic radical 2...

This study addresses the host in Primary Care and aimed to understand and analyze how the host is designed and practiced by nurses of the Family Health Strategy. This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive, held at Basic Health Units in the municipality of Arapiraca-Alagoas/Brasil, the subjects their nurses. The subjects were visited at health facilities and conducted semi-structured interviews, allowing the construction of five categories for thematic analysis: (1) conceptions and understanding of the host; (2) The user embracement in primary care: do the collective and individual nurses; (3) host in the light of the National Humanization Policy: Guidelines, adoption and training; (4) limits and challenges to implementation and realization of the host; and (5) the role and contribution of nurses in the host. That incorporate concepts and perform the host was concluded still constitutes a great need for services and health professionals, particularly in primary care, where moments of team training and implementation processes of the host, while operating guidelines for the organization of services are nascent or nonexistent; and in which, in spite of the host by nurses to be understood as a form of approved user, we note that there is also the understanding that the user is welcome to listen carefully and try to give positive feedback to their demands. We also identified that the participation of nurses occurs mainly in the form of trainings...

This investigative process has as its object of study the organization of the Pedagogical Projects (PP) of the Undergraduate Nursing from Maceió/AL. This is a survey with a qualitative approach type exploratory-descriptive that follows a complex perspective of education and adopted the document analysis as a technique for processing data and production of information. Was used as primary sources the PP of the six courses of graduation in Nursing from Maceió/AL and data collection instrument was constructed from the landmarks that makes up the PP and its constituent elements. Pre-analysis of the information produced was given from the drafting tables and summaries, and then the analysis of the three categories and eight subcategories identified from the PP studied. Was possible to see, from the analysis of the PP, which under graduate courses in nursing are experiencing a transition from a liberal perspective to a progressive perspective. In general, the courses have sought to break with the traditional Cartesian model, adhering initially DCNEnf and adopting the theories, methods and strategies of teaching-learning in an active way, dynamic and formative even structuring their curricula in disciplines. However, the conflict of concepts which sometimes are directed to liberators models and another for conservatives show that has not been an easy task to organize a PP in a new perspective. The analysis outlined from the idea of operators/principles of complexity and organizational tetragrammaton...

Cocos nucifera Linn is a tropical palm tree whose fruit is used for alimentary, cosmetics, handmade and medicinal purposes. However the research from other parts of this species is incipient. The researchs about therapeutic activities from plants used by population is encouraged by the Health World Organisation and, in Brazil, fomented by 10 thousand vegetable species cataloged and only 10% evaluated with respect to their biological activities and safety. The resolution No. 197/1997 of the Federal Council of Nursing endorses the use of plants in the practice of nursing care and linked to the need for alternatives against microbial multirresistance and oxidative diseases which are problems contemporaries of humanity. This preclinical experimental research was performed at the Master’s Program in Nursing at the Federal University of Alagoas in order to investigate the antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity and free radical scavenging capacity of crude ethanol extracts of the leaves, stem and stalk's husk of Cocos nucifera L. (coconut palm) in vitro. It was evaluated the extract's antimicrobial activities against the Gram positive bacteria: S. aureus and Gram negative: E. coli and P. aeruginosa and C. albicans fungus by Àgar diffusion methods and identification of the Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations by microdilution. It was performed cytotoxicity assay in J774 lineage cells by MTT [3 - (4...

Despite existing several pharmacological alternatives, it is growing the number of researchers interested in studying the pathophysiology and mediators of inflammation, because the drugs that are currently available on the market have limited efficiency and/ or have adverse effects that limit their use. Thus, it is necessary to continue the research in the search for more effective options. One alternative is the use of Punica granatum (pomegranate) that in the literature there are reports of the use of many of its parts in the treatment of infectious and inflammatory diseases. Considering the results obtained in previous studies on the actions of P. granatum and the need to increase the knowledge about their applications, this study aimed to evaluate the anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory potencial effects of ethanolic extract from fruits peels's Punica granatum (EEPG). Peels, from Maragogi-AL, were lyophilized, grinded, macerated in ethanol PA, filtered and the final product rotaevaporated, obtaining 65 g EEPG in which the phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of flavonoids, tannins and saponins. Toxicity tests were performed in vitro (MTT assay at doses of 1, 10 and 100 mg/ mL) and in vivo (acute toxicity test at doses of 500 and 1000 mg/ kg). To evaluate the antinociceptive activity were used as experimental models: writhing test induced by acetic acid...

The following study has as its object the refuge to women victims of rape in the health services. Violence against women is a complex phenomenon with roots in inequality of gender, showing repercussion on the lives of those who has experienced it, making it a health problem with substantial prevalence and incidence. Sexual violence is one of the expressions of violence against women, and it involves rape, sexual violation by fraud and sexual harassment. This is a descriptive, exploratory study with a qualitative approach that aims to understand the experience of female rape victims in search for health care in the network that assists women in situation of sexual violence. 11 women, aged over 18 years were interviewed, with rape report, assisted in the clinic of a maternity-hospital, reference to support women in situation of sexual violence in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. Ethical aspects were respected, based on Resolution 196/96 and 466 /2012 of the Brazilian Health Council approved by the Research Ethics Committee from Federal University of Alagoas under No. 16313413.9.0000.5013, the data collection was held between the months of July and November in 2013. The data were organized with support of Minayo’s content analysis, based on the following categories: (De) Access to health care...

Most part of the energy demand on the planet is derived from petroleum, a nonrenewable energy source that releases large amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Many researches have been devoted to the development of renewable energy sources that are less agressive to the environment. Biodiesel is a renewable, non-toxic and less polluent fuel, thus being a potential alternative to mineral diesel. It is produced from vegetable oils or animal fats. The transformation of vegetable oil into biodiesel by transesterification reaction consisting of a reaction between triglyceride oil and a lower alcohol, usually methanol or ethanol. The soil and climate in BR is attractive to a diversity of oil plants that can be used in biodiesel production. Among them, it can mentioned the castor bean, which grows in regions with low rainfall, as the semi - arid northeastern region. This work aimed to study the effect of stirring and mixing in the production of biodiesel from castor oil via transesterification and methyl alkaline catalysis process. Stirring rate, molar ratio oil / alcohol, the impeller type, the reaction time, the temperature, presence or absence of baffles and catalyst type. Therefore, a fractional factorial design 27-2, having as variables was used. We initially determined the physicochemical properties of castor oil. The experiment was performed in duplicate...

With the press of the society on environmental issues and the requirement to produce more using fewer resources, became necessary to develop a way for companies to measure their environmental impacts. An instrument for examining the sustainability of the industry that indicates a relationship between economic activities and their cost or environmental impact is to use ecoindicators, also known as eco-efficiency indicators. The indicators are based on principles that ensure their environmental relevance, accuracy and usability in every business worldwide. The primary goal is to improve business performance and monitor it with verifiable measurements and thus relevant for both business managers and for the various stakeholders. The ecoindicators show themselves as been an important tool in the management of companies, assisting in the identification of waste and unnecessary, so the environment as the economy affects the business. With detailed analysis can assess opportunities for improvement, monitor performance and set goals based on the results. Currently many companies in the industrial chemical sector use the eco-indicators as a way to track the evolution of its environmental efficiency based on its own history. The challenge is to establish a standard for the calculation of ecoindicators for business or industrial unit and it becomes possible to obtain figures that represent the reality of the environmental efficiency of the business. That would be extremely advantageous to companies because it values the initiatives to reduce unnecessary consumption and environmental impacts associated with the production...

The aim of this study was to investigate the catalytic activity of three complexes exhibiting Lewis acid character: butylstannoic acid, di-n-butyl-oxo-stannane and ibutyltin dilaurate. These catalysts were tested in ethanolysis of soybean oil in order to obtain a mixture of alkyl esters, known as biodiesel. The interest of this study is to verify the efficiency of catalysts in reactions of ethanolysis and determine the yield of biodiesel. Ethanol was employed as alcoholysis agent due their renewable nature and be less toxic than methanol. In all conditions tested the following order of activity can be established: DBTO> DBTDL> BTA. All experiments performed in the closed reactor shown higher yields compared to those obtained employing one reactor operating under reflux conditions. In the reactions carried out in the presence of ethanol, lower yields were obtained compared to methanol.; O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar a atividade catalítica de três complexos metálicos exibindo caráter ácido de Lewis: ácido butilestanóico, óxido de dibutil estanho e dibutildilaurato de estanho. Esses catalisadores foram testados na etanólise do óleo de soja visando a obtenção de uma mistura de ésteres alquílicos, denominada biodiesel. O interesse desse estudo é verificar a eficiência dos catalisadores em reações de etanólise e determinar o rendimento em biodiesel. O etanol foi empregado como agente de alcóolise por ser proveniente de fontes renováveis e ser menos tóxico que o metanol. Em todas as condições testadas a seguinte ordem de atividade pode ser estabelecida: DBTO > DBTDL > BTA. Todos os experimentos realizados no reator fechado apresentaram rendimentos superiores comparados ao reator operando em condições de refluxo. Nas reações conduzidas na presença do etanol...

Due to the growing concern for the environment, several Technologies for treatment of industrial effluents are being developed in order to minimize the impacts on water resources. Amid the various studied technologies, Advanced Oxidations Processes (AOPs) have received attention considerable. Among AOPs, the Fenton reaction, as source of generation hydroxyl radicals, has been outstanding. The Fenton reaction is the catalytic process of decomposition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by ferrous ion (Fe2+) generating hydroxyl radicals, (HO•). The hydroxyl radical has a high oxidizing power, which leads to a partial or total degradation of large number of pollutants compounds. The ferrous ion, in appropriate pH, has the coagulant properties and may contribute to the removal of suspended particles in solution. The efficiency of the Fenton reaction can be enhanced when combined with the settling process. Depending of effluent, the sedimentation may be a slow step that can to reduce the application process on an industrial scale. The use of settler can accelerate the process, allowing the use of the method and also in continuous flow and also the use of iron concentrations higher, increasing the efficiency of treatment. In this study it was evaluated the efficiency of the coagulation processes...

Currently there is a clear trend of increased production of heavier oils, as oil reserves with better quality are being depleted. This implies the development of new refining technologies for the processing of these oils in order to maximize the acquisition of liquid fuels that are the main demand of the markets. The main process of refining is the fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC process) that requires an acid catalyst able to crack the hydrocarbon molecules present in the feed. The problem is that the current catalysts, formulated with Y zeolite, which has small pores, do not allow access of large molecules. This project will be studied the synthesis of mesostructure materials from a gel formed by seeds of Y and ZSM-5 zeolites. Therefore, in this project, we studied the synthesis of materials mesoestruturados from a gel formed by seeds of zeolite Y and ZSM-5 which has been submitted or not to adjust the pH to the range of 8-10 by addition of acid. From the physico-chemical characterizations was observed that all samples formed a phase mesoporous MCM-41 type. It was found that the materials synthesized from seeds of zeolite ZSM-5 had evidence of the presence of seeds of the solid mesoporous zeolites, regardless of whether or not samples subjected to pH adjustment. While the materials synthesized from seeds of zeolite Y with only those adjust the gel pH to the range 8 to 10 before the hydrothermal crystallization seeds showed evidence of the X-ray diffractograms and infrared spectra...

In a country of vast land area and a large agricultural potential such as Brazil, one of the biggest challenges is to develop arrays of energy from alternative sources of low cost, making them economically competitive. In this situation, several research institutions of the country have struggled to develop new alternatives, and among the various possibilities, we highlight the use of biomass residues for power generation by burning. The Terminalia catappa L. popularly known as walnut is a species adapted to all regions of Brazil, which make it a viable source of biomass. In this study, we evaluated the quality of some parts of the nut for energy purposes. The samples were crushed immediately after being collected and were made the following physico-chemical characterizations: gross calorific value, ash content, moisture and density. The calorific value observed for the species studied had values between 13 643 J / g to 18 842 J / g, especially if Pie castanets due to the higher amounts of available energy both in its fresh form with values of 18 620 J / g or as briquettes with values of 18 842 J / g, values that are considered satisfactory for biomass waste. The ash content of the samples had values between 2.89% to 6.54% for the sample is fresh and in form of briquettes values that are considered acceptable...

Recently, the textbook has taken up an important position about public politics of Brazilian education and it has been a matter of several researches in all the country. However, some criticism about the quality of this teaching material is done by several studious people. This research has the purpose to analyze the use which the teacher makes of the proposal of text production of Portuguese textbook of third grade of fundamental teaching and production conditions that are provided for the students. We analyzed five textbooks, the most used textbooks in Maceio and we observed five teacher s text practice of Municipal Teaching. Therefore, considering fundamentals practiced by National Curriculum Standard which advises about writing process, we realized the teacher s practical way contributes to educate competent writers at school. Referring to textbook use, the proposals about text production developed from this material are rare and, when they are made, they are connected with a traditional practice which not favors the handy writer s formation with written language. The teacher develops activities which not value interretional character. The texts are produced without any purpose. Furthermore, the opportunities which the students find to produce texts...

The study investigated the course TV na Escola e os Desafios de Hoje offered nationally to the teachers of the public teaching, through SEED/MEC and Unirede, in order to characterize the teachers in the technologies of audiovisual languages, by means of the use of the television and the video as pedagogical tools inserted in the teaching/learning process. The research emerged from a case study on the course on the pedagogical practice of the teachers who had participated in the course and analyzed the consequences of this formation process. Initially 33 teachers who participated in the course were selected, however, during the investigation, it was testified that some of these teachers did not explore the technologies. The sampling privileged three female teachers of the Elementary Teaching from 5th to 8th grades, High School and and of a school with cycle system. They had attended the course from the 1st to the 4th editions and incorporated the audiovisual technologies on the pedagogical practice. Two pedagogical coordinators and the coordinator of the course for UFAL also participated in. Data collection instruments had involved bibliographical, documentary and field research in which observations and questionnaries application were carried out...

From analytical, descriptive and historical perspectives, this dissertation aims at expressing the Public Relation professional s background at the Federal University of Alagoas over the past twenty-six years. It traces the background memory as the one inserted in a national movement of the Social Communication teaching and presents its current profile highlighting some aspects of the categories considered in graduation programs analysis. It registers subjects understanding involved in the process, and discusses the Public Relations curriculum as a field of possibilities. These investigations result in clues for the constitution of a memory of this field in Alagoas, aspects and impressions of the background in question as well as subsidy for the configuration of a new curriculum.; Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas; Adotando perspectivas histórica, descritiva e analítica, esta dissertação busca revelar a formação do profissional de relações públicas na Universidade Federal de Alagoas constituída ao longo de 26 anos. Faz um resgate da memória da formação, como inserida num movimento nacional de ensino de Comunicação Social e apresenta seu perfil atual, privilegiando alguns aspetos das categorias consideradas em análises de programas de graduação. Registra representações dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo e discute o currículo de Relações Públicas como um campo de possibilidades. Resultam destas investigações pistas para a constituição de uma memória desse campo em Alagoas...