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A coletânea Convergências Científicas: Perspectivas Interdisciplinares – Volume 1 reúne estudos que integram Ciências Agrárias, da Saúde, Sociais Aplicadas e Engenharias, evidenciando como o diálogo

Este livro apresenta um estudo aprofundado sobre a implantação dos Sistemas Inteligentes de Transporte (ITS) no transporte público da cidade de São José dos Campos (SP), destacando seu papel estratég

For the last four decades, the business world prayed to a single deity: extreme efficiency through globalized supply chains. Components were sourced across three continents, assembled on a fourth, and shipped just-in-time to a fifth. But a combination of pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and trade wars has shattered this fragile illusion. The era of hyper-globalization is quietly coming to an end.What happens when the worlds biggest economies decide they can no longer trust their cheapest suppliers? Enter the massive economic shift of "decoupling." Western businesses are fundamentally rewriting their operational playbooks. The new mandates are nearshoring, regional resilience, and friend-shoringprioritizing national security and supply chain stability over the absolute lowest production cost.This comprehensive business analysis decodes the mechanics of tearing apart and rebuilding trillion-dollar networks. It reveals the staggering logistical friction and immense capital expenditure required to bring manufacturing closer to home. It examines the winners and losers of this shift, from emerging hubs in Mexico and Eastern Europe to the automated ghost factories being built in the American Midwest.For executives, investors, and policymakers, this book provides the definitive roadmap to the future of trade. Master the new logic of decoupling and ensure your business can withstand the structural earthquakes currently reshaping global commerce.

Esta obra desvela como as tramas da Inteligência Artificial e do Big Data transcendem o estatuto de meras ferramentas tecnológicas para se constituírem como forças motrizes que reconfiguram as relaçõ

Before armies crossed borders, currencies did. For more than a century, the most decisive battles in world history were fought not on battlefields but in central banks, treasury departments, and trading floors. Currency Wars and Silent Sanctions traces the hidden architecture of economic coercionfrom the gold standard rivalries that fractured European alliances before 1914, to the dollars quiet ascent as the postwar worlds enforcer of last resort.This book examines how nations weaponized money: freezing assets, manipulating exchange rates, and cutting rivals off from the global financial systemall without firing a single shot. Drawing on declassified diplomatic cables, central bank records, and firsthand testimony from policymakers, it reveals how financial sanctions shaped colonial hierarchies, accelerated imperial decline, and rewired the political map of the twentieth century.Accessible yet rigorously sourced, this is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how power truly operates in the modern worldnot through force alone, but through the invisible grip of money.

The tools have changed beyond recognition. The intent has not. From Posters to Personalized Feeds traces the unbroken line connecting the lithographed war posters of 1914 to the algorithmically curated content streams of the twenty-first centuryrevealing how each new medium inherited, refined, and amplified the persuasion techniques of its predecessor.This book examines propaganda not as an aberration of authoritarian regimes but as a structural feature of modern mass communication. It follows the evolution of influence across six transformative moments: the print mobilization of the First World War, the radio empires of the interwar period, the cinematic machinery of fascist and Soviet states, the television age of the Cold War, the cable news fragmentation of the 1990s, and the micro-targeted digital ecosystems of today. At each stage, the same core mechanisms reappearemotional priming, in-group identity, enemy construction, and the suppression of ambiguity.Drawing on archival propaganda materials, declassified government communication strategies, and media scholarship, this is an authoritative and accessible history of how mass belief is madeand what it costs when the engineering goes unexamined.

In August 1976, two American officers entered the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea to prune a massive poplar tree that was blocking the view between two allied checkpoints. Minutes later, they were brutally hacked to death with axes by North Korean guards. The unprovoked murders brought the entire Korean peninsula to the absolute brink of nuclear war.The United States had to retaliate to project strength, but a military strike would likely trigger World War III with the Soviet Union and China. The solution was "Operation Paul Bunyan"the most overwhelmingly armed, hyper-aggressive logging mission the world has ever seen. The US sent in a convoy of engineers with chainsaws to cut down the tree, backed by a massive armada of B-52 bombers, fighter jets, attack helicopters, and thousands of heavily armed troops waiting just out of sight.This gripping military history reconstructs the terrifying tension of those tense summer days. It delves into the strategy of overwhelming intimidation and the delicate psychological warfare of the Cold War, where a single misstep could have annihilated millions.Experience the pulse-pounding true story of a geopolitical standoff unlike any other. Discover how the fate of the world briefly rested on a convoy of engineers determined to cut down a single tree under the crosshairs of an entire army.

For high achievers, stopping feels more threatening than continuing. Rest is not reliefit is exposure. Without the momentum of productivity, something uncomfortable rises to the surface: the fear that without effort, there is nothing worth valuing.This book explores the inner experience of burnout in people who have built their identity around achievement. It examines how ambition, when driven by unexamined fears rather than genuine desire, quietly becomes a system of self-depletion. The harder you work, the more invisible the costuntil the body and mind find their own way to stop you.At the heart of this exploration is a pattern many high achievers recognize but rarely name: rest feels dangerous not because you are lazy, but because stillness removes the one thing that has always made you feel safe. Performance. Competence. Being useful.This book offers insight into the emotional architecture of burnouthow it develops beneath the surface of apparent success, what rest actually asks of someone who has never felt permission to stop, and how the relationship between effort and worth shapes professional and personal exhaustion alike. It does not prescribe recovery or promise restored motivation. It invites an honest look at what you have been protecting yourself from by staying so relentlessly busy.

In January 1916, a violent storm surge ripped through the Zuiderzee, swallowing villages and terrifying the Netherlands. The catastrophic flooding exposed the absolute vulnerability of a nation living below sea level. In the devastating aftermath, the Dutch decided they would no longer simply fight the waterthey would banish the sea itself.How does a small country in the early 20th century undertake the impossible task of physically closing off a volatile inland sea from the ocean? The answer was the Afsluitdijk, a 32-kilometer-long dam built straight across open, treacherous waters. It was a project born of sheer survival instinct, requiring innovations in fluid dynamics and heavy engineering that had never been attempted in human history.This gripping historical documentary delves into the mud, the math, and the sheer audacity behind this megastructure. It follows the brilliant visionary Cornelis Lely and the thousands of laborers who battled unpredictable tides, sinking foundations, and brutal weather to force the ocean back.Discover the incredible true story of how humanity won one of its greatest victories against nature, fundamentally altering the geography of Europe and securing the future of millions against the crushing weight of the sea.

Most people enter an argument trying to win it. By the time it is over, what they have actually lost is harder to namea degree of safety, a layer of trust, the quiet sense that this person is still on your side. The conflict itself was rarely the problem. How it was held was.This book explores the inner experience of relational conflict: not the dramatic ruptures, but the ordinary arguments that leave both people feeling misunderstood, depleted, and vaguely further apart than before. It examines the emotional patterns that turn disagreement into damagethe defensiveness that masks vulnerability, the pursuit that triggers withdrawal, the need to be right that quietly outgrows the need to stay connected.At the center of this exploration is a reframe that changes how conflict feels to enter: disagreement is not a threat to a relationship. It is one of the most honest things two people can do together. The question is not whether to argue, but whether both people can remain present enough to hear what is actually being said beneath the words being used.This book offers insight into the relational and emotional dynamics of conflict, what unspoken needs most commonly drive recurring arguments, and how the shift from winning to understanding changes not just the outcome of a disagreement but the texture of a relationship over time. It does not promise resolution or communication perfection. It invites a more honest and compassionate understanding of what it means to stay in genuine contact with someone even whenespecially whenyou do not agree.

O conhecimento de Transtornos Depressivos em grupos humanos na Amazônia brasileira e principalmente em tempos de pandemia, como a COVID-19, é considerado inexpressível. Pouco ou quase nada se conheci

Nestas páginas trazemos pensamentos e sentimentos sobre o viver. "A vida é a aventura das moléculas", como bem enfatiza Mujica. Nessa jornada, desenhamos nossa própria história enquanto interagimos com as dos outros. Tudo se conecta. Durante a caminhada, vivemos nossos melhores e piores momentos, ora rindo, ora chorando, ora ganhando, ora perdendo. O que voce encontrara aqui e a historia de Valdemir, um personagem ficticio que, enquanto revive momentos de sua vida, realiza profundas reflexes. Esse personagem poderia ser qualquer um de nos, pois todo ser humano busca por sentido, por pertencimento e por compreender o que se passa dentro e fora de si. No pretendemos, contudo, apresentar as respostas, mas provocar inquietaçes. O que nos propomos e apresentar um retrato da vida explorando sua propria dialetica: simples e complexa, harmoniosa e contraditoria, branda e dura, bela e monstruosa, jubilosa e melancolica, reveladora e misteriosa. A vida e cheia de nuances. Tem lugar para a poesia, a cotidianidade, os ruidos da consciencia e as pequenas epifanias. E nessa peregrinaço multifacetada que Valdemir se encontra. No um personagem de feitos extraordinarios, mas alguem comum, carregando seu passado na algibeira, com algumas recordaçes leves como plumas e outras pesadas como pedras, revisitando os percursos percorridos, as escolhas feitas e as portas que se fecharam.

No inicio de 2020, o mundo começou a conviver com as questoes que envolviam a pandemia do novo coronavirus. A Covid-19 gerou altos indices de desemprego e alteracoes significativas como reducao de salarios e mudancas de cargos em individuos que conseguiram manter seus vinculos empregaticios. Isso acabou por gerar altos niveis de insatisfacao com a condicao profissional vivida, o que pode acarretar danos psicologicos que podem afetar diretamente a saude mental dos individuos. Este trabalho destaca a importancia da trabalhabilidade - a capacidade de geracao propria de emprego e renda - com enfase na musica, um relevante setor da economia criativa. Alem das questoes laborais, ha um aprofundamento em termos de pesquisa no que diz respeito aos beneficios que a musica pode causar aos individuos, contribuindo, assim, para uma sensacao de bem-estar. O objetivo principal do trabalho e identificar como a musica pode atuar como um agente de bem-estar. Foram realizadas pesquisas qualitativas, por meio da aplicacao da tecnica de grupos focais. Durante o processo de coleta de dados, um questionario previo foi aplicado a todos os membros dos grupos focais. Os resultados alcancados nao so destacam o papel da musica enquanto agente de bem-estar, como tambem enaltecem a predilecao dos participantes por beneficios de natureza nao pecuniaria, e pela manutencao da atuacao no campo da musica em detrimento de outras opcoes do mercado.

A obra descreve as expectativas e a adaptação de alunos angolanos da Pós-Graduação à modalidade de ensino à distância (EAD), compreendida como um campo complexo e em expansão no ensino superior. A in

Hans é um ex-policial vivendo numa casa de repouso em Joanesburgo, assombrado pelas lembranças dos crimes que cometeu a serviço do governo. Já Zoe, enfermeira designada para cuidar dele, é uma mulher que cresceu enfrentando a desigualdade e o racismo, consequencias do violento passado politico de seu pais. A medida que ambos convivem e partilham suas memorias, um improvavel vinculo se estabelece. E, atraves dos seus segredos e remorsos, somos conduzidos por mais de um seculo da historia da Africa do Su

Why do you end up humming a pop song you initially hated just because it played on the radio every day? Why are consumers willing to pay double for a branded painkiller when the generic version has the exact same chemical makeup? The secret doesnt lie in the quality of the product or the melody of the song. It is driven by a primitive neurological glitch known as the Mere-Exposure Effect.Discovered by psychologist Robert Zajonc, this principle proves that the human brain is hardwired to automatically develop a preference for things simply because they are familiar. In our evolutionary past, if we encountered a plant or an animal multiple times and it didnt kill us, our brain categorized it as safe and, eventually, likable. Today, modern marketing empires weaponize this exact biological reflex. By bombarding our peripheral vision with logos and jingles, they bypass our critical thinking and manufacture unearned trust.This sharp marketing psychology guide dissects the mechanics of cognitive ease. It explores how politicians, tech giants, and influencers use relentless repetition to shape public opinion and forge billion-dollar brands out of thin air.Entrepreneurs and marketers will learn how to ethically harness the power of presence. Master the Familiarity Engine, optimize your brands visibility, and understand exactly why being seen repeatedly is infinitely more profitable than being perfectly understood.

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it." This profound observation by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman defines one of the most pervasive glitches in human cognition: the Focusing Illusion. When we fixate on a single aspect of our livesbe it a pending promotion, a perceived physical flaw, or a new gadget we want to buyour brain artificially inflates its significance to astronomical proportions.Why do we constantly misjudge what will make us happy or miserable? Our mental bandwidth is incredibly narrow. When we zoom in on one specific detail, the rest of our complex reality blurs out of existence. We convince ourselves that moving to a sunnier climate or buying a larger house will permanently transform our baseline happiness, completely ignoring the fact that we will still have to do laundry, sit in traffic, and deal with everyday stress.This enlightening journey into behavioral psychology deconstructs how the Focusing Illusion sabotages our long-term decision-making. It explains why we are consistently terrible at predicting our own future emotions and how marketers weaponize this bias to sell us things we dont need.Learn to widen your mental aperture. By understanding how to detach from obsessive focal points, you can make clearer life choices, stop chasing false milestones, and find genuine contentment in the broader picture of your reality.

They do not wear uniforms or carry party cards. They speak directly into your ear, recommend products, share opinions, and build communities of trustsometimes numbering in the millions. Yet the influencer, for all their apparent spontaneity, is the latest iteration of one of historys oldest instruments: the trusted voice deployed in service of a larger agenda. Influencers as New Propaganda Tools examines how digital creators became the most effective persuasion infrastructure of the early twenty-first century.This book traces the genealogy of influence from wartime celebrity endorsements and Cold War cultural diplomacy to the rise of social media platforms that gamified attention and monetized belief. It shows how state actors, corporations, and political campaigns discovered that authentic-seeming personal voices outperform traditional advertising and institutional messaging by orders of magnitudeand how entire influence industries were quietly built around that discovery.Drawing on platform data, declassified influence operation reports, and the testimony of former campaign strategists, this is a rigorous and timely history of how consent is manufactured in the age of the algorithmand why the most effective propaganda no longer looks like propaganda at all.

Imagine an investment fund where you pool your money with a group of strangers. The catch? The fund only pays out to the survivors. When someone dies, their share doesnt go to their family; it is distributed among the remaining living members. The last person standing takes the absolute jackpot. This isnt the plot of a thriller moviethis is the Tontine, one of the most popular financial instruments in history.Invented in the 17th century to fund European wars, the Tontine quickly became a global sensation. It preyed on human greed and the belief in ones own longevity. However, tying massive financial windfalls directly to the death of your neighbors inevitably led to a grim reality. Soon, participants were engaging in fraud, hiding corpses, and in some chilling cases, plotting murder to increase their personal payouts.This dark financial history unravels the mechanics of the product that birthed modern life insurance before being universally outlawed. It traces the math of mortality gambling, from the French royal court to massive syndicates in early America that used Tontines to build architectural landmarks.Discover the bizarre economics of betting on survival. The story of the Tontine is a fascinating look into the origins of actuarial science and what happens when the market assigns a literal, compounding dollar value to human life.

O livro Enfermagem em Centro Cirúrgico é uma leitura indispensável para profissionais e estudantes que desejam compreender o universo dinâmico e desafiador do ambiente cirúrgico. Estruturado com uma