Emergência: a vida integrada de formigas, cérebros, cidades e softwares

Qualidade De Vida E Trabalho Voluntário Em Idosos Calidad De Vida Y Trabajo Voluntario En Ancianos

This cross-sectional, comparative study was performed with the objective to evaluate the quality of life of elderly individuals who perform volunteer work, compared to those who do not. The WHO Quality of Life questionnaire was applies in a group of 166 elderly individuals who performed volunteer work and to another 33 who did not. Results show most are women, single and with high-level educati...

Uma Ferramenta Integrada de Apoio a Estimativas de Tamanho e Esforço em um Ambiente de Desenvolvimento de Software

Estimation requires experience and access to good historical information. Given software estimation complexity, project managers need tools to support them in doing this task. Ideally, these tools should allow applying different approaches for estimating. This paper presents EstimaODE, a tool that offers functionalities for estimating size and effort. EstimaODE is integrated to a software engin...

ALUPAS: Avaliação de desempenho e consumo de energia de softwares para sistemas embarcados

Due to the widespread expansion of battery operated mobile devices, the low power design of embedded system has gained close attention in recent years. In order to attend low power requirements, it is essential, even in earlier phases of design, to count on fast and accurate mechanisms to help the analysis of possible design alternatives. This work presents ALUPAS, a stochastic simulator based ...

Emergência da quinta onda de inovação bancária

Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index ÍNDICE DE QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE FERRANS E POWERS INDICE DE CALIDAD DE VIDA DE FERRANS Y POWERS

This article aims to describe the processes of conceptual and methodological development used for the creation of the Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index (QLI), and to make available the current generic version adapted to the Portuguese language, expecting to enlarge its application in different contexts and samples of the Brazilian population. QLI is an instrument designed to evaluate qua...