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Arrastão do Pavulagem e o " estar junto" em Belém do Pará durante a Pandemia de COVID-19: comunicação, sociabilidades e consumos da cultura material
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-03-22) SANTOS, Lucas Gil Corrêa dos; VIEIRA, Manuela do Corral; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1758973354834768; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2034-5359
This master's dissertation seeks to understand how the practices of communication, consumption and sociability, involving the June procession Arrastão do Pavulagem, held annually between the months of June and July, were resiginified, with the scenario of social isolation, arising from the Covid-19 virus pandemic. To this end, the following procedures will be used as methodology: netnographic analysis, as pointed out by Kozinets (2014); interviews with semi-structured script; snowball sampling, according to studies by Bockorni and Gomes (2021); and participant observation. In order to ground the axes of analysis, the notes of França (2008) and Muniz Sodré (2008; 2002) about communication will be used; Amaral Filho (2017; 2019) about cultural shows and entertainment; Santos (2010) and Castro (2012; 2020) about Amazonia; Simmel (1983) and Maffesoli (2016) about sociabilities; Miller (2007) about material culture; and McCracken (2003; 2007), Barbosa, and Campbell (2006) about consumption. We highlight the experimental and successful character in the preparation and realization of the digital programming of the analyzed period, the sharing of similar feelings and sensations that enabled the subjects to connect with each other even at a distance, and the sensitive dimensions that crossed the practices of consumption of the arrastões and their material aspects.
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Avaliação da seletividade olfatória causada pela infecção por SARS-COV-2
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-09-16) ALMEIDA, José Ramon Gama; BASTOS, Gilmara de Nazareth Tavares; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2487879058181806; ÁVILA, Paulo Eduardo Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4673218055614655
Introduction: Sudden loss of smell is one of the most prevalent symptoms of COVID-19. The sense of smell ranges from detecting warning odors in the environment to building our most pleasurable experiences. This sense stimulates a complex neural network, including the temporal lobe, the amygdala, the insula and a large part of the limbic lobe: the loss of smell should not, only, be considered a sensory symptom, but also a psycho-sensory syndrome. Objectives: This study was aimed to evaluate the olfactory selectivity and trigeminal sensation in olfactory alterations reported by patients diagnosed with COVID-19. Methods: The Randomized case-control study involving 88 individuals: COVID-19 without olfactory dysfunction previously diagnosed prior to the pandemic period; with COVID-19 with olfactory dysfunction diagnosed before the pandemic period; and without COVID-19 and loss of olfactory sensitivity during the pandemic period, with persistent anosmia or hyposmia after SARS-CoV-2 infection. All individuals participating in the study (Control/intervention groups) diagnosed with or without COVID-19 underwent evaluation data collection form and psychophysical sensory test which included olfactory test, olfactory memory test, olfactory threshold test and trigeminal sensation test (CEP-UFPA: 40962420.2.0000.0018). ANOVA follow the Tukey test. Results: The results demonstrated which all patients with or without COVID-19 diagnosis, loss the ability to not identify the odorant of banana essence when compared to the healthy health group being significant control vs. COVID-19 without p<0.0002 and significant control vs. COVID-19 with p<0.0010 and not significant COVID-19 without vs. COVID-19 with p>0.05. For the short-term olfactory memory test which all patients with or without COVID-19 diagnosis, demonstrated an increase in the misidentification of odorants presented when compared to healthy controls, as well as in the olfactory threshold differences in perception were observed between the groups. analyzed. The absence of at least one chemosensory function (cooling sensation) of the trigeminal during the test period was reported by which all patients with or without COVID-19 diagnosis, when compared to the healthy control group. Conclusion: In this way, SARS-CoV-2 infection may be promoting an olfactory dysfunction that affects the perception of banana odor, as well as the affected long-term characteristic such as olfactory memory, olfactory threshold and trigeminal sensation of olfactory loss that COVID-19. 19 generates in patients may provide clues to therapeutic interventions aimed at preventing, alleviating or curing long-term olfactory dysfunction in COVID-19.
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Compreensão das vivências de psicólogas sobre o trabalho no hospital durante a Covid-19
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-12-07) LIMA, Natasha Cabral Ferraz de; PIMENTEL, Adelma do Socorro Gonçalves; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4534230240595626
The research focuses on understanding the experiences of Psychologists who worked in a hospital in Belém/Pará, the capital located in the Northern Region of Brazil, during the Covid-19 pandemic which, specifically, had significant repercussions on the lives of those who experienced it. As in all social sectors, psychological action during the pandemic period found it necessary to adjust its practice to the emerging challenges posed by Covid-19. With the aim of carrying out a study on the perceptions of psychology professionals who worked in the hospital area during the Covid-19 pandemic, this dissertation is a qualitative study based on existential phenomenological theory. The data analysis method comes from Amedeo Giorgi's perspective. The study was approved by the UFPA Ethics Committee. The profile of the research participants was limited to five psychologists, over 18 years old, residents of greater Belém/PA, who cared for people infected and hospitalized by Covid-19 between March 2019 and March 2022. Based on the analysis of the structure From experience we identified common meanings in all interviews: 1. Volatility of information, speed of daily changes, intrinsic characteristics of the health emergency; 2. PPE issues affecting service and physical and humanized contact; 3. From the patient to the healthcare team, the pandemic affected everyone's mental health, in different forms and degrees of suffering; 4. During the pandemic, Information and Communication Technologies became essential to care; 5. Clinical Psychology was considered an essential service; 6. Healthcare professionals expressed the need for self-care. Also from the contextualization of the unique aspects of subjectivity between the interviews, we revealed the variant aspects: 1. Capacity for personal creative adjustment based on self-perception and self-knowledge; 2. Pandemic and gender issues; 3. Weakening post-pandemic health. The research is considered relevant due to the unveiling of subjective and intersubjective findings from the experience of Psychologists during the pandemic. We conclude that the study pointed out indicators for new research in mental health and care strategies, as well as the deepening of the modalities of providing psychological care, through ICTs.
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Comunicar no instagram em tempos de pandemia: um estudo de caso do Sesc na Região do Norte
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-03-28) RODRIGUES, Samara Sarmanho; LIMA JUNIOR, Walter Teixeira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2230911862328122; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0678-7062
The covid-19 pandemic affected people and organizations on a global scale and social isolation, imposed as a safety measure, had a major impact on the world economy. From this, society as a whole needed to adapt and organizations needed to take their communication to the digital environment in order to maintain interaction with their audience and minimize the damage caused by the pandemic. In this way, Social Media, with strong growth during the pandemic period, were essential tools in this process, as they allowed the relationship between the company and the public, seeking to reduce the distance caused by this atypical situation. The problematization of this study concerns how the Social Service of Commerce (Sesc) in the North Region used Instagram as a tool to disseminate its programs in the area of culture and how its communication strategies were changed with the advent of the pandemic, since activities ceased to be face-to-face and began to take place in the digital environment. In this sense, the present master's research seeks to analyze how the covid-19 pandemic modified Sesc's communication strategies on the social media Instagram during the years 2020 and 2021. This study is characterized as mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative) of the multiple case study type, as it analyzed the seven Sesc in the North Region. First, through exploratory research, publications in the Instagram feed were analyzed in general, and also those related to the area of culture, obtaining data for carrying out the quantitative analysis, as well as for the qualitative analysis. The qualitative character of the research took place through interviews with a semi-structured script with the communication coordinators and their subsequent content analysis. The result found was the intensification of the use of social media as a general communication strategy with the public, in addition to these media serving as a tool for publicizing the institution's various activities and programs. The highlight was the social media Instagram, which was the main social media used and the one that brought the most results for the regionals during the period studied, including the dissemination of activities and programs in the area of culture at Sesc.
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A concepção de movimentos cíclicos em tempos de crise pandêmica: implicações socioeconômicas da Covid-19 no Brasil
(Unversidad del Zulia, 2022-07) CARVALHO, André Cutrim; CARVALHO, David Ferreira; CASTRO, Auristela Correa
Economic cycles have a dynamic that manifests itself in the form of waves. The inflection from the economic boom phase to the recession phase is the moment of crisis. Disregarded by many, it can be said that the effects of the pandemic crisis resulting from Covid-19 have gained typical implications of a major global crisis, especially in Brazil. In this pandemic scenario, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global economy has been inserted into a serious socioeconomic crisis. The fundamental objective of this article is to discuss the conceptual conception of crisis and cyclical movements in times of the Covid-19 pandemic and the main socioeconomic implications in Brazil. To achieve this objective, the article will use exploratory and qualitative research methodology. The main conclusion is that the pandemic crisis brought to Brazil a series of economic problems, such as unemployment and high inflation, but the most serious fact was the social problems, mainly the significant increase in poverty and social inequality. . The use of “auxílio emergencial”, as a counter-cyclical policy and to support the most vulnerable social stratifications in times of a pandemic, was extremely important for having created a “mattress” of social protection. However, based on a series of official data, it can be said that the Bolsonaro government was unable to succeed in its endeavor to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis in Brazil, much of it due to denialist rhetoric and a lot of disinformation (fake news) about vaccines.
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Emendas parlamentares no contexto da pandemia de covid-19 no Brasil
(Câmara dos deputados, 2021-03) BONFIM, Raul; FREITAS, Vítor Eduardo Veras de Sandes; RUBIATTI, Bruno de Castro
The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of budgetary amendments proposed by Brazilian parliamentarians to combat Covid-19. The pandemic demanded an unprecedented effort from the federal government in managing resources in fighting the virus, leading to the relocation of budgetary allocations for specific actions. However, was the Brazilian Legislative able to reorient its priorities and reallocate its budgetary amendments for actions to fight the new Coronavirus? To answer this question, all individual and state benches’ amendments approved by the National Congress and paid by the Executive between the March and September 2020 were analyzed. Our results indicate that not only did the legislator reallocate their amendments to the specific actions indicated by the government, but also these resources were one of the pillars of the Ministry of Health’s budgetary execution in the first months of the pandemics in Brazil.
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Estimativa de parâmetros aplicados em modelos epidemiológicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-01-28) PINTO, Thiago Moreira; ESTUMANO, Diego Cardoso; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5521162828533153
In this study, the Bayesian Monte Carlo technique via Markov Chain (MCMC) was selected to estimate the parameters of the differential equations of the SQUIDER3 and SEIR4 compartmental models, seeking to reflect the propagation of Covid-19 in the state of Pará. An algorithm was developed in Matlab, reproducing the MCMC technique that uses stochastic processes and simulates a random selection of values of each parameter. When sampling proportionally to the probability of the values, a probability distribution was reached in order to be able to both adjust the model parameters and converge to the stationary distribution of interest. The parameters estimated in this paper for the SQUIDER and SEIR compartmental models were compared to real data using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) metrics. Both of these were applied for a better definition of the model that best represents the Covid-19 propagation phenomenon in the state of Pará. As a result, histograms were obtained that indicate a convergence of parameters in the SQUIDER model, which did not happen in the SEIR model. By applying the AIC and BIC, it was demonstrated that the SQUIDER model was the best model to represent the phenomena (i.e. the propagation of Covid-19 in the state of Pará), and has the potential to be used as a predictive model.
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Gestão dos corpos nas favelas e periferias no Rio de Janeiro: das remoções à Covid-19
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-06) SILVA, Flávio da Rocha Pires da
In the course of the Brazilian Republic, the favelas and peripheries were the targets of several public administration interventions. These places were always placed as "the other", as vulnerable, as "problems". From a state point of view, these problems must be addressed through removals, militarization, the real estate market, among other different ways of managing a given population. Or simply, it can be left at the mercy of a purposeful precariousness in a time of crisis. Therefore, this study will use the city of Rio de Janeiro as a case study to exemplify the different production and management.
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Os impactos da pandemia da covid-19 nas micro e pequenas empresas de desenvolvimento de software no estado do Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2023-02-16) CRUZ, Jamison da Silva Vera; MERLIN, Bruno; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7336467549495208; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-9960; REIS, Rodrigo Quites; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9839778710074372; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3657-4175
Software development has great positive impacts on the economy and management of several companies from different segments. There are several studies that show that the advancement of information technology (IT) in recent years has allowed companies to perform operations that were previously unimaginable. Currently, there are several examples of companies that use IT to obtain cost reductions and/or generate competitive advantage. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global change in the health scenario has changed the way we work, affecting various socioeconomic areas around the world. When undergoing changes in consumption patterns, it is necessary for companies and entrepreneurs to think about modifying and adapting strategies, in order to seek ways to meet new market demands. The objective of the work presented here was to analyze the impacts that the Covid-19 Pandemic brought to the daily lives of professionals from micro, small and medium-sized software development companies (MSEs) in the state of Pará, identifying how they adapted to the new reality and what are the legacies left by the crisis.
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Nem localistas nem setorialistas, as assembleias estaduais são “classe-médistas”: ganhos e perdas das leis estaduais durante a crise da covid-19
(Câmara dos deputados, 2021-03) JUNQUEIRA, Murilo de Oliveira
This aim of this paper is to analyze the content of the state’s laws in the fight against the economic and social crisis generated by Covid-19. Sixteen Brazilian states were analyzed, including 309 laws. The methodology used was content analysis and exploratory data analysis. It was observed that the pattern of relations between the Legislative Assembly and State governments varied enormously, with some parliaments passing many laws and others very few. Especially in the parliaments that passed many laws, there was a notable increase in economic interventionism, mainly in policies that benefited, in a diffuse way, the middle class. This finding is contrary to what is expected by the literature, which advocates that the greatest interest of parliamentarians are measures of local or sectorial interest.
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“No olho do furação”: a construção projeto de isolamento social frente ao Covid-19, em um grupo indígena na Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-06) POTIGUAR JUNIOR, Petrônio Lauro
Here we expose this experience report, the result of a journey of five months of field research in the village Mapuera, where several indigenous groups live, generically called “Wai Wai Ethnicity”, in the city of Oriximiná, northwest of the state of Pará, because of the final phase of the doctoral thesis that is underway. Here we present the moments of distress and concerns experienced by the author of this report and native people in this place, in the first manifestations of the Covid-19 pandemic, here denominated “eye of the hurricane”, in March 2020. This experience leads us to the following question: How could an anthropologist help in the pandemic context that affects indigenous groups, especially in Mapuera? From that question, articulations were made involving the cacique chief, leadership, Mapuera Health Council, leaders of the local evangelical church, teachers and health professionals who provide service on the scene by Ovídio Machado Foundation, in front of the Guamá Tocantins- DSEI-GUATOC Sanitary District, focused on the development of a social isolation project. Until the first half of June 2020, moment of field departure, the referred project had not been used, since no case of Covid-19 had 1 Doutorando em Sociologia e Antropologia/PPGSA UFPA; Mestrado em Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Sustentável. Graduado em Ciências Sociais, com ênfase em Antropologia. Já foi bolsista do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. É professor Efetivo da Universidade do Estado do Pará-UEPA, no Centro de Ciências Sociais e da Educação. Realiza estudos sobre povos indígenas, especificamente a saúde/doença/cura e participa de grupos de estudo credenciado pelo CNPQ e possui texto e orienta trabalhos sobre a temática mencionada. E-mail: ppotiguar@yahoo.com.br. 52 NOVA REVISTA AMAZÔNICA - VOLUME IX - Nº 02 - JUNHO 2021 - ISSN: 2318-1346 affected any indigenous in the place, but only reached some of them who were outside that space, as in the city of Belém, Santarém and Oriximiná, including death. Also news reports that, despite the non adherence to the “Social Isolation project” by the DSEI-GUATOC, its production served as a parameter for the development of a protection plan for the health team and the native people of the place, revealing one of the goals of this proposition: Inspire public policy actions in times of pandemic to protect indigenous peoples in the Amazonia, regardless of whoever they are.
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Predição de séries temporais da covid-19: uma avaliação do uso dos modelos suavização exponencial, ARIMA, MLP & LSTM
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-01-21) LEITE, Saulo Joel Oliveira; OLIVEIRA, Roberto Célio Limão de; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4497607460894318
In this master’s degree dissertation, it will be discussed how the predictive models ARIMA, LSTM, MLP and Exponential Smoothin were developed and implemented to predict time series of confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19, to assess which among these obtains the best result. COVID-19 is a disease caused by the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which has resulted in a large number of infected people globally. According to the WHO, more than 305 million people are estimated to be infected worldwide. As it was necessary to use reliable data to carry out the predictions, the database used for the development of this dissertation is in the public domain and was provided by the Johns Hopkins University. Time series data of confirmed cases and deaths from Brazil, India, Italy and the United States of America were compared and selected to make predictions. About the predict models, the Long Short-Term Memory neural network is capable of learning long sequences of observations to make predictions. Besides this, the Multi-Layer Perceptron is a neural network with one or more hidden layers with an undetermined number of neurons. In addition, the ARIMA is an autoregressive integrated moving average. Finally, Exponential Smoothing is a highly accurate prediction model for smoothing time series data. Therefore, after carrying out the training and testing of each of the models, the performance evaluation was carried out with the root-mean-square error (RMSE) method and based on the results of the implemented models for the prediction of data referring to the confirmed cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, it was possible to evaluate that the ARIMA model had the best performance among the others.
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O programa “Máscara para todos” de enfrentamento da covid-19 no Pará: possibilidades, limites e proposições
(Universidade da Amazônia, 2020-11) PINHEIRO, Ailton Castro; FARIAS, Elciene do Vale; BARBOSA, Wagner Luiz Ramos; VASCONCELLOS SOBRINHO, Mário
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Territorialização de políticas públicas: apontamentos sobre a Covid-19 e o código de endereçamento postal nas favelas cariocas
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-06) LIMA, André Luiz da Silva
In times of humanitarian crisis, caused by the Pandemic of the new coronavirus, debates about the intelligent use of public resources occupy the tabloids with the opinion of experts. In Brazilian society as a whole, the fracture of social inequality was even more exposed, and with this the discussion around public policies and the role of the State in the face of this delicate moment gained space in the public sphere. In this sense, it is worth mentioning the existence of significant population contingents living in locations that do not have adequate access to basic public services, that do not enjoy the right to the City, and that are systematically made invisible, including in terms of public statistics. They are locations without CEP (Postal Address Code), important not only for the essential service of receiving letters and parcels by the Post Office, but for assigning addresses to individuals in contact with the state's networks. Not having a postal address, by street address, means having one's existence - spatially speaking - linked to another place that is not where one lives, and consequently, with damage to the exercise of full citizenship. The confrontation with Covid-19 implies an effective government action, articulated public policies, duly financed, transparent and, not least, territorialized.
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Os usos da medicina tradicional na pandemia de Covid-19 em São Caetano de Odivelas-PA
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-12-29) SILVA, Gisele Maria Cardoso da; BARBOSA, Wagner Luiz Ramos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1372405563294070; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2421-8245; FERNANDES, José Guilherme dos Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7023812449790431; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9946-4961
In the context of the covid-19 pandemic local communities located far from capital cities suffered from a saturated health system and difficulties in getting medical care, resorting to their ancestral knowledge of nature to stay healthy and treat the symptoms of the disease. This study aimed to understand the use of traditional medicine in times of the covid-19 pandemic in the city of São Caetano de Odivelas. This is a qualitative descriptive and quantitative study in which applied ethnographic methods and instruments were used for data collection such as participant observation, oral interviews, field diary, recordings and photographic records. It was observed that the municipality suffered the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic and created strategies for its confrontation from the implementation of new services and medical protocols. Traditional medicine from traditional health practices were used by 110 (87.3%) Odivelenses residents for prevention and cure of covid-19, mainly in the form of teas, syrups and juices. Lemon (Cittrus limon) was the most frequently used medicinal plant, in the preparations of home remedies for the disease, 71.3% and the belief in faith constituted the fundamental ingredient for the success of the therapy applied in 78.6% of the people. Thus, it was shown that traditional medicine was used during the covid- 19 pandemic by the population of São Caetano de Odivelas as an important element to complement the established medical therapy, contributing to the maintenance of memory, cultural identity and increasing the sense of local belonging.