Os criterios de avaliacao sao declaradamente importantes para o desempenho escolar dos alunos. Apesar da diversidade dos criterios de avaliacao pelos quais os alunos, habitualmente, passam ao longo da sua formacao escolar, nao sao, geralmente, analisadas as diferencas nos resultados escolares...

In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and State agendas. Hence, the present...

In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and State agendas. Hence, the present...

The main objective of this paper is to do a content analysis of the production of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations of the graduate program in Demography at Cedeplar/UFMG between April 1989 and May 2009. More specifically, the paper aims at (i) verifying how the topics under study...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the acceleration of demographic transition in Brazil between 2000 and 2050. To do so, projections carried out by the Brazilian Bureau of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2004 and 2008 will be compared. In order to show that the country could grow old before...

Portuguese Abstract: Identifica como objetivo da ciência da informação — a partir de BUSH — sanar a explosão informacional por meio da recuperação da informação disponível; argumenta que o campo, embora venha problematizando a significação dessa informação, ainda coloca pouca...

Este artigo estuda a persistência das flutuações do crescimento econômico brasileiro com dados anuais de 1900 a 2008. Para a análise das séries são usados modelos ARFIMA e testes de raiz unitária com quebras estruturais. Os resultados indicam que ambos PIB e PIB per capita brasileiros...

In this article we investigate the capacity of antecedent variables, among them admissions for aggression, in the prediction of the number of homicides in Brazil. The main objective is to eliminate a gap regarding the large time lag in the dissemination of information about these deaths in the...