Universidade Federal Fluminense Research Articles

A influência das tecnologias da informação e comunicação em uma instituição federal de ensino

This paper, the product of theoretical and practical research, aims to analyze how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) influence communication processes in a public organization. First the research analyzes the evolution of Information and Communication Technologies as a factor of Innovation in the business context making a theoretical analysis of previous studies and published articles, as well as a comparative study of works on the theme and then evolves to the practical part that analyzes sectors of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. The sample had 100 employees and 100 students. This analysis aims to understand how communication failures can compromise service excellence and define strategies to prevent this from happening. A qualitative research was conducted using Case Study method. Data collection techniques were bibliographic review, direct and open observation, questionnaires for primary data collection and the application of structured interviews with people involved in this process within the UFF. The fieldwork was carried out in independent sectors of the University. At the end of the study, it was possible to infer the degree of importance given to Information and Communication Technologies in the educational institution and to propose simple solutions that can improve performance in service delivery. Additionally, there is a consensus among the authors that ICT alone does not generate the expected excellence. Based on the results, new possibilities for future research are suggested, such as the motivation of public institutions to create training systems and the extent to which the humanization of care influences the satisfaction of the public service user.

Nacionalismo, esportes e TV, uma reflexão sobre significados: entrevista com Marco Roxo

Nesta entrevista, o professor doutor e mestre em Comunicação pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense, graduado em Comunicação Social/Jornalismo pela mesma universidade, Marco Roxo, discorre sobre formatos e os múltiplos significados associados à mediatização de grandes eventos esportivos por emissoras de TV. Durante o período de Copa do Mundo Fifa de futebol masculino, umas das questões que volta à discussão é a da nacionalização. Sendo assim, torna-se importante refletir sobre a autoridade jornalística e seu papel na mediação.

A hospitalidade no destino turístico Rio de Janeiro: a percepção do turista intercambista da Universidade Federal Fluminense

O Rio de Janeiro é conhecido como: cidade maravilhosa, cidade do carnaval e cidade hospitaleira. Nesse sentido, a proposta do presente artigo é a de compreender se o destino Rio de Janeiro é realmente hospitaleiro, por meio das categorias de hospitalidade na cidade (Grinover, 2006): acessibilidade, legibilidade e identidade. Assim, este trabalho tem como objetivo geral analisar a hospitalidade de alguns pontos turísticos da cidade do Rio de Janeiro pelo olhar do turista intercambista que estudou na Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). A metodologia para este estudo foi descritiva com uso de diferentes técnicas: uma pesquisa quantitativa por meio de questionário aplicado a 54 intercambistas, uma pesquisa qualitativa com entrevistas semiestruturadas aplicadas a seis intercambistas e a análise de dados qualitativamente de acordo com o estudo bibliográfico. Para os intercambistas da UFF, existem evidências de hospitalidade nos lugares turísticos do Rio de Janeiro, mas todas as categorias – acessibilidade, legibilidade e identidade – precisam ser melhoradas. Sobre as pessoas, o resultado da pesquisa indicou que os moradores locais se demonstraram receptivos com estrangeiros.

Juventude e consumo de notícias: comportamento geracional e hábitos culturais

Este artigo apresenta os resultados da pesquisa “Juventude, produção e consumo de notícias: novas dinâmicas, usos e apropriações”. Analisamos os hábitos de 100 jovens entre 18 e 23 anos, pertencentes a dois grupos distintos: alunos do curso de Comunicação Social-Jornalismo, da Universidade Federal Fluminense, e estudantes do Pré-Universitário Popular. A análise buscou identificar a relação entre dados demográficos, hábitos de consumo e percepções, num ambiente marcado pela proliferação de conteúdos e dispositivos midiáticos. A especificidade da proposta está na investigação das formas de apropriação e consumo das notícias, um conceito, aliás, em transição, como analisamos. Buscou-se, ainda, estabelecer diferenças entre os comportamentos e crenças desse grupo etário, no que diz respeito à mídia, e dos demais extratos da população, mapeando o que seria um comportamento geracional.

Letter From the Editor

Letter From the Editor Christopher Gaffney Colegas e camaradas, As many of you know, this is my last issue as editor of JLAG. It has been a rewarding and intense four years and I have been fortunate to work with a talented and dedicated team of associate editors, book review editors, guest editors, copy editors, International Board members, graphic designers, authors, reviewers, and collaborators. Before going any further, I would like to thank the core members of the JLAG team: Jörn Seemann, Johnny Finn, Eric Carter, Martha Bell, Jim Freeman, Andrew Sluyter, Kendra McSweeney, Brad Jockish, and the CLAG board. Your heavy lifting, conversations, and teamwork in bringing the 12 issues of my tenure to fruition were of vital importance to our collective success. As I have moved the editorship from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, to the University of Zürich, to New York University, JLAG’s form and content has been enriched through the conversas, inspiration, and support from colleagues in each of those institutions. In taking over the editorship from David Robinson, my team and I were faced with persistent questions about how to open JLAG more explicitly to new contributors while maintaining the journal as a traditional and accessible outlet for CLAG members. In this project, I feel we have been successful as our full-text downloads have increased by around 10,000 per year, with more than 28,000 downloads in 2017. We are on pace to top this in 2018. A felicitous outcome of this readership increase is that we have a steady pipeline of articles and are publishing thicker volumes with extremely good content. Our rankings in citation indices have crept up steadily and we are attracting a broader, more diverse range of scholars to our pages. Increased readership has brought more money to CLAG and JLAG, allowing us to take longer working with authors and reviewers and to invest in copy editing. This extra revenue will result in more grants for students which will hopefully create a virtuous feedback loop with JLAG for years to come. These gains might not have been possible without a number of other critical interventions that we undertook over the past four years. We instituted an online submission and review platform, created a new website for the journal and for CLAG (with thanks to Tim Norris). We introduced a JLAG forum section, JLAG Perspectives, JLAG Retrospective, and a series of special issues. We have started ad swaps with prominent Latin American academic publications, actively promote our articles on Twitter @JLatAm-Geog, and will be hosting the second JLAG Annual Lecture at the 2019 AAG in Washington D.C. This year we published abstracts in Mandarin for the first time and have created significant momentum for the incoming editorial team, led by Johnny Finn, to pick up and run with. As the Americas move deeper into turbulent political waters, maintaining JLAG as a site of sustained, critical engagement will [End Page 6] become ever more necessary. The unfolding traumas of the “border” between the United States and Latin America have never been more poignant; we have sought to publish authors who speak to the need for academics to engage public policy debates and to become more deeply involved in the lived realities of the regions most vulnerable populations. While I understand that there are some concerns about the “overt politicization” of academic debates, I hold that the academy is not a politically neutral site of intellectual production but rather an active political field. The need for critical scholarship that reaches beyond the academy has never been more urgent. While this is not, of course, the only form of political engagement that is open to us, it is one to which I hope these four years of my editorship have given some impetus for this to occur in the pages of JLAG. This last issue of my tenure is the product of a classic CLAG interaction. Matt Fry and Elvin Delgado approached me back in 2016 with an idea for a special issue on the petroleum industry in Latin America. We met over pints at the AAG in Boston in 2017 and hashed out the broad outlines of a...

Editors’ Note

It is our pleasure to introduce you the second issue of JIS in 2017. This issue contains six papers of the Special Issue of the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC 2016). As we have been doing since IHC 2014, the best papers of the conference are invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of JIS, guest edited by the conference program chairs. In the current publication, our guest editors are Profs. Carla Leitão, from Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and Luciana Salgado, from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), who we thank a lot for the dedication in the preparation of this issue. We invited you to read their editorial in the following.We also have in this issue an original paper by Paulo Paiva, Liliane Machado, Jauvane de Oliveira, and Ronei de Moraes, entitled “Networking Issues for 3D Medical Collaborative Virtual Environments: Design and Applications”. The authors discuss specific networking issues for Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) applied to the simulation of medical procedures. They designed, developed, and validated a peer-to-peer multicast architecture on the collaborative module of the CyberMed Virtual Reality framework, aiming at providing better network scalability.Finally, we would like to thank the authors and reviewers that contributed to JIS. At the end of the issue we acknowledge the reviewers that contributed to JIS in 2015, 2016, and 2017.JIS Editorial Board is looking forward to receiving your contributions. We hope you enjoy reading this issue!

From oral history to the research film: the audiovisual as a tool of the historian

An analytical essay of the process of image production, audiovisual archive formation, analysis of sources, and creation of the filmic narrative of the four historiographic films that form the DVD set Passados presentes (Present pasts) from the Oral History and Image Laboratory of Universidade Federal Fluminense (Labhoi/UFF). From excerpts from the audiovisual archive of Labhoi and the films made, the article analyzes: how the problem of research (the memory of slavery, and the legacy of the slave song in the agrofluminense region) led us to the production of images in a research situation; the analytical shift in relation to the cinematographic documentary and the ethnographic film; the specificities of revisiting the audiovisual collection constituted by the formulation of new research problems.

Homeopatia na Graduação Médica: Trajetória da Universidade Federal Fluminense

RESUMO A medicina homeopática foi reconhecida pelo Conselho Federal de Medicina como especialidade médica em 1980 e desde então a presença de seu ensino na formação médica tem se ampliado no Brasil. Na graduação médica da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), iniciou-se em 1994. Em estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa, analisou-se a trajetória do ensino da Homeopatia no curso de Medicina da UFF utilizando-se análise documental, observação direta, entrevistas individuais de coordenadores e alunos, e grupo focal com ex-alunos das cinco disciplinas que abordam a medicina homeopática. Identificou-se uma trajetória de resistência e avanços, desencadeada no processo de reforma curricular em contexto de implantação do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e ampliação da atenção primária. Apoiado na colaboração de profissionais externos à instituição, o ensino da Homeopatia na Medicina da UFF apresenta como principais desafios sua consolidação no currículo obrigatório, integração às demais clínicas, contratação de professores especialistas e recriação do ambulatório-escola em Homeopatia para prática supervisionada. A humanização da prática médica e a integralidade do cuidado foram suas contribuições mais mencionadas, numa perspectiva de integração e complementaridade da abordagem biomédica. Nas disciplinas obrigatórias, defende-se que os alunos possam desenvolver competências e habilidades para: (a) orientar e encaminhar pacientes à Homeopatia quando puderem ser beneficiados por esta medicina; (b) dialogar com colegas homeopatas no acompanhamento de pacientes comuns. As disciplinas optativas são importantes para alunos que queiram ampliar sua formação teórico-prática em Homeopatia, tendo em vista uma atuação profissional que inclua esta especialidade e lhes permita integrar os paradigmas vitalista e biomédico no cuidado em saúde. O ensino da Homeopatia na graduação médica da UFF é sustentado no compromisso de sua comunidade acadêmica com uma formação plural em saúde, capaz de propiciar aos futuros profissionais o uso de diferentes paradigmas para lidar com o processo de adoecimento, o corpo e as pessoas na sociedade contemporânea e, desta forma, contribuir para melhorar o relacionamento com pacientes, promover autonomia, diminuir abordagens invasivas e insensíveis, ampliar a integralidade do cuidado e a resolutividade do trabalho em saúde. O estudo crítico de sua trajetória oferece contribuições para uma reflexão sobre o ensino da Homeopatia também em outras escolas médicas, sejam as que já contemplem a Homeopatia em sua grade de disciplinas, sejam aquelas que estejam planejando inseri-la no currículo em resposta à demanda de alunos e professores.

Exploring the 14C Bomb Peak with Tree Rings of Tropical Species from the Amazon Forest

AbstractIn this work we explore the radiocarbon (14C) signal as an independent tool to assess the year of formation of individual tree rings of tropical species in northern Brazil. Three different species were analyzed in this work: Dipteryx magnifica, Enterolobium maximum, and Hymenolobium petraeum. The studied samples are from the stem of only one individual of each species, all cut down in 2008 in Porto Trombetas, Pará, Brazil. Individual tree rings were identified based on wood anatomy and they were counted from bark to pith. Several rings were selected for 14C analysis in order to cover the overall shape of the 14C atmospheric bomb peak (after 1955). The 14C content was measured at Laboratory of Radiocarbon, Universidade Federal Fluminense (LAC-UFF). Results are compared with the Southern Hemisphere 14C atmospheric calibration curves. For E. maximum and H. petraeum the 14C signal exhibits an overall good match with the SH zone 3 and suggests annual seasonality in the growth-ring formation. These species offer suitable characteristics for dendrochronology. The D. magnifica shows mismatches in the 14C measurements that are likely a result of difficulties in identifying ring boundaries with certainty. Additional techniques may be helpful to disentangle the origin of this discrepancy.

Rethinking Brand’s Presence: Universidade Federal Fluminense’s Website Project Focusing on the Users

This article presents a redesign concept project for the main websites of Universidade Federal Fluminense, associated with Usability practices like information architecture and the application of researches to assess the usability grade of a website. The process also includes qualitative exploration with users and elaboration of guidelines that will set the future steps for the online presence of a brand. Keywords: accessibility; Universidade Federal Fluminense; website.

Profile of special needs patients assisted in a dental project

Objective: The aim of this paper was to outline the profile of patients with special needs who sought treatment at School of Dentistry, Universidade Federal Fluminense (FO-UFF). Material and Methods: We evaluated the charts of 17 patients who sought care during the survey period. The variables were gender, age, reason for consultation, continuous use of psychotropic drugs, socioeconomic status, consumption of sugar, toothbrushing frequency, dental occlusion dental care and length of treatment. All patients were treated by two undergraduate students linked to the project under supervision. Results: The mean age of the patients was 9.65 years old and males were the most prevalent (52.94%). Individuals with mental retardation and Down´s syndrome were the predominant group seeking dental care (35,3%) and pain was cited as the main reason (58,82%). The average dmft 0.9 (±1,4) and DMFT was 3.29 (±7,07) among patients and restorative treatment was provided for 25% of the patients. Conclusions: In conclusion the greatest demand was for curative and not preventive procedures and that the prevalence of caries is high in this group of patients.Keywords: Dental caries; DMFT index; Intellectual disability.

Radiocarbon Marine Reservoir Effect on the Northwestern Coast of Cuba

AbstractThe regional component (∆R) of the marine reservoir effect (MRE), which is crucial for the accurate calibration of radiocarbon ages of marine-influenced samples, was determined for the Cuban northwestern coast. Fifteen different locations were studied by14C dating of pre-bomb known-age marine shells specimens of bivalves and gastropods from the Felipe Poey Museum collection. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS)14C measurements were performed at the Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Universidade Federal Fluminense (LAC-UFF) and mean ΔR values were estimated. The distribution of results indicates ∆R values from −46±38 to 140±5214C yr and a possible pattern related to the position along the coast and ocean dynamics. We present both mean values for each region and a general ∆R of 28±1314C yr for the northwestern coast of Cuba.

Optimization of the Amount of Zinc in the Graphitization Reaction for Radiocarbon AMS Measurements at LAC-UFF

AbstractThe Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Universidade Federal Fluminense, in Brazil, has been successfully applying the zinc reduction method for graphitization of carbon samples since the development of its early protocols in 2009. Successive methodological research aiming to improve and, ultimately, optimize the precision and accuracy of our results indicates that graphitization temperatures as low as 460°C promote erratic 13C isotopic fractionation, but an approximately constant fractionation of about –5‰ is achieved at 520°C. In this work, we present isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) δ13C results for 14C reference materials graphitized at 550°C with variable amounts of zinc. Based on the results obtained from the addition of 20, 35, and 50 mg of zinc, we conclude that a slightly lower variation in 13C isotope fractionation during graphitization is obtained with less zinc. Moreover, the average isotopic fractionation is not altered by increasing the graphitization temperature from 520°C to 550°C.

A Oferta tecnológica acadêmica da mesorregião do sul fluminense: um estudo informétrico do Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa (DGP)

The South of Rio de Janeiro State has a significant contribution for the Brazilian GNP. This contribution is because of the number of established companies and also by the amount of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper aims at identifying the profile of academic technological offer through a informetric study of research groups certificates in the Brazilian Research Groups Directory. The theoretical framework addresses the technological offer, which are innovations created in order to meet the market needs for technology. The methodology can be summarized in: (1) filtering the state groups in Rio de Janeiro; (2) development of an algorithm for the extraction of data; (3) cleaning incomplete data; (4) data analysis. As a result, there are a increase in the amount of research group per year; the city of Volta Redonda concentrates most of the research group in the south of the State; Engineering, Health Sciences and Social Sciences are the themes with a larger amount of technological offer in the South of Rio de Janeiro State. These themes are associated to local needsStill, there is evidence of collaboration between Company and HEI. The main HEI in technological offer is the Universidade Federal Fluminense. The database used is the main limitation of this study because it does not contain data from independent researchers or research groups not registered. We propose to replicate this study in other regions of the Rio de Janeiro State. Keywords: Technological Offer. South Of Rio De Janeiro State. Research Groups.

Cardiac MRI and CT: the eyes to visualize coronary arterial disease and their effect on the prognosis explained by the Schrödinger's cat paradox.

Radiol Bras. 2016 Jan/Fev;49(1):VII–VIII In the present issue of Radiologia Brasileira, Assuncao et al. provide a detailed, accurate and updated description of cardiac MRI and CT techniques and their applications in cardiological diseases, more specifically in coronary artery disease, whose clinical relevance does not need to be highlighted. Two recent articles published in this journal have approached relevant aspects of the imaging study of the heart as well. On the grounds of an extensive literature review, the authors describe how the current scientific developments and an appropriately conducted research have led to the present level of utilization, thus benefiting patients in the daily clinical routine, and how under some circumstances such imaging methods are still underutilized. The following points will be discussed: the scientific development and respective mechanisms, and the utilization of so accurate diagnostic methods. We must congratulate the authors on their initiative and on the production of that extremely educative text. Also, we should highlight the role played by the authors’ institution of origin – Universidade Federal Fluminense – for continually supporting meritocracy and the most recognized researchers at both national and international levels. Even at difficult times like these Brazil is currently experiencing, one can find a silver lining ahead with institutions and individuals appreciating talented people involved in medical research that is not given the due consideration in our country. Such individuals are the ones who will emerge from the dark as true leaders of a future, active and engaged scientific community that will be the driving force for the development of our country. Similar efforts constitute common examples in the international scientific community. Fortunately, in some rare opportunities, Brazil almost always has a significant participation in such scientific cooperation. The CORE64 e CORE320 studies represent personal examples as landmarks or seminal studies, validating coronary CT angiography and myocardial CT perfusion techniques, respectively. Such studies developed under the leadership

Impact of gender in early structural changes of contrast induced nephropathy in rats.

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is a major iatrogenic cause of acute kidney injury. Experimental studies have shown that intravascular injection causes intense vacuolization of the contrast agent in the proximal renal tubules cells, preceding the increase in serum creatinine, and that the female may be at a higher risk for CIN. To study the early kidney histomorphometric changes in contrast-induced nephropathy according to the gender. Twenty previously uninephrectomized Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups (n = 5): control males; control females; contrast exposed males; and contrast exposed females. The animals were sacrificed immediately after contrast administration and kidney tissue samples were collected for histomorphometric analysis. The research project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the School of Medicine of Universidade Federal Fluminense. There was a more intense presence of microvacuoles in proximal tubules in the rats exposed to contrast than in the control groups. Such proximal tubular vacuolation was more intensive in the female rats (p = 0.001). Proximal tubular vacuolation is a very early change in CIN and is more intensive in female than in male rats.

AVALIAÇÃO DA COLONIZAÇÃO POR Streptococcus agalactiae EM GESTANTES DE ALTO RISCO ATENDIDAS EM NITERÓI-RJ, BRASIL

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a colonização por Streptococcus agalactiae em gestantes e determinar a susceptibilidade aos antimicrobianos e o tipo capsular das amostras bacterianas isoladas. Foi avaliado um total de 114 gestantes de alto risco, atendidas no serviço de pré- natal do Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, entre 1º de setembro de 2013 e 31 de agosto de 2014. Secreções vaginais/anorretais, coletadas com auxílio de swabs, foram cultivadas e as culturas positivas submetidas à identificação da espécie e à determinação do perfil susceptibilidade aos antimicrobianos pela técnica de difusão em agar e o tipo capsular por PCR-multiplex. A taxa de colonização foi de 6,1%, sem diferenças significativas entre as gestantes colonizadas ou não no que diz respeito a idade, grau de instrução e ocorrência de gestações anteriores. Por outro lado, a ausência de infecções bacterianas no momento da coleta foi significativamente associada à colonização por S. agalactiae. As amostras mostraram-se susceptíveis aos antimicrobianos ceftriaxona, clindamicina, eritromicina, levofloxacina, penicilina e vancomicina. Resistência à tetraciclina foi observada em 75% das amostras. Os tipos capsulares encontrados foram Ia (50%) e III (50%). A frequência de colonização por S. agalactiae foi inferior à observada em outros estudos, o que pode estar associado à clientela assistida nesta instituição. As amostras isoladas foram susceptíveis aos antimicrobianos recomendados para a profilaxia da infecção neonatal. Tais amostras albergaram os determinantes genéticos de tipos capsulares associados às infecções neonatais. Estes resultados realçam a necessidade do contínuo monitoramento da colonização a fim de se prevenir a infecção esteptocócica neonatal.

Alunos com deficiência: investigação e análise das condições de atendimento de um Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia no Brasil

Educational institutions seek to offer inclusive education to all students. However, accessibility is still not fully guaranteed to all individuals with special needs. The public has the right of proper education, but it still has to be remembered, considering the different environments that permeate their lives, including the top-level educational environments. In this paper, we investigate the institutional conditions offered by one of the 38 Federal Institutions that compose the Federal Network of Professional Education, science and technology. A Federal Institute was compared with the Universidade Federal Fluminense which already works with the issue of accessibility in their campuses. The results show that there is the goal of fitness on the four campuses of the Federal Institute. However, the completeness of care still distances itself from the provision of a truly inclusive education. The data from this work indicates a need for this institution to promote continuous adequacy in order to attend its public and it also infers that, possibly, this framework of inadequacy can be shared by other Federal Institutions.

Patterns and characteristics of university-industry relationships: evidences from a college of engineering in Brazil

The university-industry interactions have been perceived by academics and governments as one of the key drivers for social and economic development of nations. In Brazil, these interactions are still a recent phenomenon, with no conclusive results on its effectiveness and with no clear guidelines on how to tackle the main problems faced by the professionals, researchers and institutions involved on such interactions. In order to provide an accurate diagnosis of the characteristics, challenges and peculiarities of these phenomena, the present study investigates the university-industry relations in the School of Engineering of Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), located in the municipality of Niteroi/RJ. In order to contribute to the analysis of the problem, interviews were conducted with professors and researchers affiliated with the School. The results shows, from the perspective of the respondents, the main motivations of the parties involved in these relationships, as well as the main limitations and difficulties in its establishment.

AVALIAÇÃO ANTROPOMÉTRICA DE IDOSOS ATENDIDOS NO AMBULATÓRIO DE NUTRIÇÃO DO CENTRO DE REFERÊNCIA EM ASSISTÊNCIA À SAÚDE DO IDOSO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE, NO MUNICÍPIO DE NITERÓI-RJ

Objective: To describe the body and anthropometric compositionof the elderly assisted in the Nutrition Clinic of the ReferenceHealthcare Center for the Elderly, Universidade Federal Fluminense,Niteroi city, Brazil. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional studywith 52 subjects aged 60 years or older treated at the nutritionclinic. Anthropometric measurements were performed accordingto the guidelines of the International Society for the Advancementof Kineanthropometry considering the following variables: bodyweight, height, biceps, triceps, subscapular, supra-iliac skinfoldthicknesses, body fat percentage based on the sum of the fourskinfolds, waist circumference and arm circumference. Statisticalanalyzes were performed using Graph Pad Instat® software,version 3.1, considering p <0.05 as significant value. Results:There was prevalence of overweight (43.5% of the sample),adequacy of the arm circumference, arm muscle circumferenceand triceps skinfold. Most women (67.6%) had high risk forcardiovascular disease according to waist circumference. Therewas high percentage of body fat in both sexes (89.2% and 66.7%in female and male, respectively). Conclusion: We observedthe presence of inadequacies of the nutritional status of thepopulation under study according to anthropometric parameters- body mass index, waist circumference, and percent of body fatbased on the skinfold sum. DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2015.15949