University Of Santa Maria Research Articles

System Dynamics Modeling For Co2 Emission Reduction Through Paper Replacement By Electronic Processes In A Public Institution

Background: The study addresses the importance of reducing CO2 emissions to mitigate climate change, focusing on replacing paper use with electronic processes in a public institution. Paper usage significantly contributes to CO2 emissions, while electronic management can reduce these emissions. The study is a proposal that encouraged the electronic processing of administrative tasks to ensure speed. Decree 8.539/2015 made the electronic processing of documents in federal public administration mandatory. The Judiciary branch was a pioneer in implementing electronic processes in Brazilian public institutions. For this article, the Systems Dynamics (SD) methodology was used, and a simulation model was developed to assess the environmental impact of process automation at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Key results highlighted the reduction of CO2 emissions and cost savings. The implementation of digital processes resulted in a significant reduction in CO2 emissions, and the adoption of electronic processes generated financial savings. Therefore, System Dynamics modeling is a useful tool for institutions to plan scenarios and promote environmental sustainability. The transition to electronic processes in public institutions can bring significant environmental and economic benefits.

Design of a hydraulic ram pump for irrigation of the UFSM campus in Cachoeira do Sul

With the development of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) campus in the city of Cachoeira do Sul-RS, plans of arborization and landscaping were made, and the need of a constant and reliable water supply for irrigation appeared. Therefore, the hydraulic ram pump was selected to deliver water from the pond, present in the grounds of the campus, to a storage tank for the irrigation system. In this context, this paper addresses a review of studies about the design and manufacture of hydraulic ram pumps and, subsequently, presents the basic design and the fabrication steps of a PVC hydraulic ram pump that is capable of feeding the irrigation system.

First record of the occurrence of parasitoids of genus Eurytoma and Eupelmus (Hymenoptera: Calcidoidae) associated to the seeds of Cassia leptophylla in Brazil

The presence of parasitoids, predators, and pathogens that utilize the biological control of pest is important to agriculture and forestry is imperative as a dynamic equilibrium factor in agroecosystems. The insects of the order Hymenoptera possess a great diversity of habitats and are a species of insectivores predominate in population, frequencies, and effectiveness, in which they attack pest. The knowledge of the species that forms an ecosystem is one of the basic assumptions within a program of integrated pest management. This study objective identifies the parasitoid species of Cydia tonosticha and Pygiopachymerus lineola obtained from fruits of Cassia leptophylla (Fabaceae: Caesalpinoideae) collected from trees in an urban area of the municipal of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, and sent to the Entomology Laboratory of the Department of Plant Defense at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). The species found were identified as genus Eurytoma (Eurytomidae) and Eupelmus (Eupelmidae), and found as the first record of these parasitoids associated with the gold medallion tree (C. leptophylla).

A Young Professional’s Path in Control and Automation Engineering [Pathways

Born in the small town of Campo Novo in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, Guilherme Hübner believes that it was his curiosity that led him to pursue engineering. He recalled that, although it was a lot of fun to play with his toys as a kid, taking these toys apart to understand their finer intimacies and intricacies as well as how they worked was more enjoyable for him. Besides his curiosity to learn how things work, his love of numbers, which he inherited from his math teacher mother, was another influence that encouraged him to pursue a career in engineering. At the age of 4, Hübner moved with his parents to Três de Maio, a small city in his home state, where he lived until graduating from high school. While in high school, he fondly recalled that he very much enjoyed math, physics, and chemistry classes, atop which he fortified his broad education with English classes and a computer maintenance course as professional extracurricular activities. In 2012, Hübner completed his high school degree and moved to Santa Maria, another city in his home state, to study engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM).

Professor Valderi Dressler, a great admirer of young Brazilian scientists, kindly granted BrJAC an interview

Valderi Luiz Dressler holds a chemistry degree (1992) and a master’s in chemistry (1994) from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), RS, Brazil, a PhD in chemistry (1999) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, Brazil and post-doctorates from Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany (2007 and 2010). Currently, he is a full professor and coordinator of the industrial chemistry and bachelor's chemistry degree courses at the UFSM. Dr. Dressler’s research activities mainly include trace analysis and environmental chemistry, involving the techniques of atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), flow injection analysis (FIA), electrothermal vaporization (ETV) and laser ablation (LA). Furthermore, he performs chemical speciation analysis studies involving hyphenated techniques such as liquid and gas chromatography coupled to ICP-MS and also FIA systems coupled to AAS.

UFSM XIKA FW: sugarcane cultivar for southern Brazil

In Brazil, in view of the different soil and climatic conditions of the sugarcane-producing regions, a strategy of creating small breeding programs for the crop is being used. Since 2008, the sugarcane breeding program of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), has been developing new, better adapted and higher-yielding sugarcane cultivars for the climate conditions of the southern region of Brazil. Cultivar UFSM XIKA FW was developed at the Laboratories of Agroclimatology and Genetic Breeding and Plant Production of the UFSM, Campus Frederico Westphalen. It is the first mutation-induced sugarcane cultivar that was protected by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, Brazil. The genotype used for mutation induction was cultivar IAC 87-3396, due to its good performance characteristics in the southern region. The mutation mechanism was induced in 2011, by immersing individual buds in a solution of the chemical mutagenic agent methyl methane sulfonate. The best genotypes were selected and tested in plant cane in 2013 and 2018 and in ratoon cane trials in 2014 and 2015. The new cultivar has a higher sugar production potential, and the mean yield of four years was 8.2 t ha-1 higher than that of the control, indicating a high yield potential.

Use of anaerobic biodigestor in the treatment of organic waste from a university restaurant

Anaerobic digestion (AD) can be a viable treatment option of organic wastes from restaurants, also generating biogas and digestate. Therefore, the aim of this work is to assess the treatment of organic residues from a university restaurant of Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). For this purpose, a 200 L semi-pilot scale anaerobic digester was monitored over 240 days, operating at mesophilic temperature in different hydraulic retention times (30 and 60 days). Substrate and digestate pH varied from 4.8 to 6.3 and 6.2–7.3, respectively. The average removal of chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demand, total solids, sedimentable solids, and volatile solids were 95%, 95%, 53%, 93%, and 77%, respectively. Biogas yield was 0.22 m3∙kg−1 VS or 67 L kg−1 of substrate with 60% of CH4 in average. Despite the variability in substrate composition, the results show high efficiency of the AD operation on decreasing the polluting potential of food waste, simultaneously generating both biogas and digestate, as a potential organic fertilizer. This work is a pioneer in the energy use of food waste from university restaurants in RS-Brazil, providing important information on AD operation, which can be useful in the design of a larger scale plant.

Potencialidade do Moodle no gerenciamento de bolsistas em uma Universidade Federal

O artigo que se apresenta discorre sobre a potencialidade do uso do Ambiente Virtual de Ensino-Aprendizagem (AVEA) Moodle como ferramenta de apoio à gestão de bolsas da Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UAB), inserido na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), que é gerido pelo Núcleo de Tecnologia Educacional (NTE). O trabalho foi desenvolvido sob uma abordagem de pesquisa qualitativa, em um contexto de estudo de caso. O público-alvo foram os coordenadores gerais (22) e os coordenadores de tutoria (05) dos cursos da UAB/UFSM. Como instrumento de coleta de dados foi adotado um questionário, com 21 questões abertas e fechadas. Os dados revelados mostram a potencialidade de uso do Moodle na mediação do sistema de bolsas e a implementação de um tutorial que auxilie os coordenadores nos momentos de gestão de pagamento de bolsas. É uma ferramenta importante que torna o processo mais ágil e sem tantos entraves burocráticos. A utilização do AVA Moodle torna o processo mais fluído, democrático e transparente.

Narrativa, memória e saberes: entrevista com o professor Reiner Hildebrandt-Stramann

A presente entrevista busca registrar no contexto da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), especialmente em virtude das comemorações dos 50 anos do Centro de Educação Física e Desportos (CEFD), o testemunho de Reiner Hildebrandt-Stramann, um dos professores que subscreveu sua influência na referida instituição e no campo da Educação Física brasileira. A narrativa propõe rememorar, de modo particular, o período em que o professor dividiu suas ideias, compreensões e pensamentos sobre a Educação Física, no CEFD/UFSM. O testemunho sinaliza, especialmente, os sentidos e significados percebidos pelo docente sobre a recepção de sua proposta de intervenção relacionada às aulas abertas à experiência, na referida instituição. Sublinha-se que esta concepção de ensino contribuiu para a mudança de paradigma em relação ao movimento humano no contexto escolar brasileiro e colaborou para a legitimação da Educação Física neste âmbito.

Interfaz entre teoría y práctica

El autor describe en este trabajo la experiencia de los talleres para adolescentes que fueron desarrollados entre la Universidad Federal de Santa María (UFSM) y el Municipio de la ciudad de Jaguari, Río Grande del Sur, Brasil, que tuvo como objetivo de generar un espacio de reflexión sobre el desarrollo de la identidad y la elección de una carrera universitaria. Las actividades, llevadas a cabo por estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología, permitieron articular los conocimientos de las clases con las dinámicas inspiradas en los principios de la metodología de investigación-acción.

DINÂMICA DE SISTEMAS PARA ANALISAR O IMPACTO ECONÔMICO DE UMA AGÊNCIA DE INOVAÇÃO EM UMA INSTITUIÇÃO PÚBLICA Systems dynamics to analyze the economic impact of an innovation agency in a public institution

This research presents a financial economic analysis of the Agency of Innovation and Technology Transfer (AGITTEC) of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). With the intention of contributing to the scientific knowledge of the area, this article was built with a research problem defined in verifying how much AGITTEC needs to generate revenue so that it can be self-financed. A research protocol was systematized according to the dynamic systems method consistent with the required methodological rigor. The contribution of this research is linked to a discussion of the favorable results and benefits of the relationship between university and agency, which can extend to improve the competitiveness of companies by presenting a better development. The study served to verify that despite the revenues, There is a heavy dependence of the agency on UFSM resources, and about 90% of its costs and expenses.

Avaliação do nível de satisfação dos moradores da Casa do Estudante Universitário I da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria com relação a aspectos estruturais e sociais

The university student house, also known as CEU, is a housing developed for Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) students. There are two units of the housing in the city: one is located downtown and the other on campus. The present study aims to assess resident’s satisfaction with different structural and social aspects, and propose possible improvements. To this end, a questionnaire designed with 13 questions was applied among students selected through cluster sampling for apartments, with gender (male and female) being the reference variable. The project group members applied all questionnaires at the University Student House I - CEU I, located in downtown of Santa Maria - RS, within three hours of collection, divided into pairs and approaching each apartment sampled and applying the questionnaire to residents of the apartment individually. Inferences were then made in the data collected through multivariate techniques and descriptive analysis. From these analyzes it is suggested that some infrastructure complaints be considered in meetings with PRAE's (Pró-Reitoria de Assuntos Estudantis) senior management to seek solutions to the problems described by the students.

Ruy Jornada Krebs: Vida e Obra de um Educador

Este memorial tem como propósito narrar a vida e obra do Professor Ruy Jornada Krebs, um profissional dedicado à ao estudo do desenvolvimento humano e ao ensino, pesquisa e extensão na Educação Física brasileira. A formação acadêmica, as primeiras atividades profissionais e o ingresso e carreira universitária. Sua trajetória acadêmica no Centro de Educação Física e Desportos (CEFD) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), a dedicação a Metodologia Globalizada e a Teoria Bioecológica do Desenvolvimento Humano, a aposentadoria e a mudança para a Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC) e sua continuidade produtiva na carreira são destacadas. No ano em que o CEFD completa 50 anos, a homenagem para um dos principais profissionais da Educação Física brasileira e por suas contribuições para com o CEFD.

Trajetória profissional de Jefferson Thadeu Canfield

O objetivo desse ensaio é descrever a trajetória profissional de Jefferson Thadeu Canfield, trazendo especialmente detalhes de sua atuação junto ao Centro de Educação Física e Desportos (CEFD) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM. Ele foi pesquisador e professor do CEFD de 1971 a 1996, dedicando-se à área de Aprendizagem Motora. Integrou a Sociedade Brasileira de Comportamento Motor (SOCIBRACOM), tendo sido seu primeiro presidente. Ao aposentar-se dedicou seu tempo livre à fotografia. What do you want to do ?New mailCopy What do you want to do ?New mailCopy What do you want to do ?New mailCopy

Testemunho de um professor alemão visitante do CEFD/UFSM: Jürgen Dieckert

Diante da comemoração dos 50 anos da instauração do Centro de Educação Física e Desportos (CEFD) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), faz-se necessário rememorar acontecimentos e personagens, a fim de reunir indícios para refletir acerca das distintas versões históricas sobre o CEFD e a formação de professoras(es) na área da Educação Física, oferecida pela instituição ao longo de cinco décadas. Dentre essas(es) personagens, fazemos referência a Jürgen Alfred Fritz Dieckert, professor alemão visitante no curso de Mestrado em Ciência do Movimento Humano do CEFD, entre os anos de 1980 e 1983. Apresentamos uma entrevista, guiada pelos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da História Oral, realizada com o professor Jürgen Dieckert sobre o período em que atuou como professor visitante no CEFD/UFSM. Destacam-se informações referentes à comunidade acadêmica do CEFD e à concepção de Educação Física inerente à época.

A Dança no CEFD: da formação em Educação Física à criação de um Curso de Graduação em Dança

Este artigo apresenta como objetivo, além de homenagear o cinquentenário do Centro de Educação Física e Desportos (CEFD) da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, contextualizar, registrar e refletir acerca das questões de formação em Dança e seus desdobramentos, a partir da área da Educação Física e, mais recentemente, da área de Artes. Os saberes autobiográficos são apresentados em forma de registros escritos e de imagens, assim como os atravessamentos do trabalho artístico-pedagógico realizado por participantes, acadêmicos, professores, pesquisadores, que fizeram parte desse processo histórico construído por essas duas áreas, nesta mesma instituição. Aponta perspectivas e possibilidades da consolidação da área de Dança no Centro de Educação Física e Desportos a partir da formação e da produção comunitária e acadêmica dos docentes que a constituíram até a atualidade.

“Isso para mostrar como era o pioneirismo”: depoimento de Milo Darci Aita (*18/12/1917 +25/07/2010)

Este texto trata de apresentar uma entrevista com Milo Darci Aita, realizada pela professora Janice Zarpellon Mazo, no ano de 1993. O depoimento de Milo Aita denota sua atuação nos primórdios do Centro de Educação Física (CEF), da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), fundado em 11 de dezembro de 1969, e; posteriormente, no Departamento de Educação Física e Desportos (DEFD), do então Ministério da Educação e Cultura (MEC). Ademais, traz indícios de distintas práticas sociais que foram adotadas e compartilhadas entre os pioneiros do CEF, a fim de se engendrar os currículos do curso de Licenciatura em Educação Física, iniciado em 1970. Relata as adversidades com relação à recursos humanos, instalações físicas, dentre outras enfrentadas na época. O depoimento repleto de saudosismo, revela significados do CEF/UFSM à trajetória de Milo Aita, que só se aposentou da instituição quando completou 70 anos de vida.

Avaliação das complicações transanestésicas comparando a infusão contínua peridural versus analgésica em cães submetidos a neurocirurgias

Neurosurgeries have become more frequent in veterinary hospitals, however, there are some questions regarding anesthetics protocols and analgesic techniques. Thus, patient analgesia and hemodynamic stability play a key role in pre, post, and perioperative moments favoring an adequate recovery. This study aimed to evaluate the transanesthetic complications reported on anesthetic records of dogs submitted to hemilaminectomies in the university veterinary hospital of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) between January 2016 and August 2017, and compare three different analgesic protocols most commonly used in the routine for this surgery. In addition, transanesthetic parameters for each dog were equally recorded in five-minute intervals: cardiac frequency (FC), respiratory frequency (f) blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), mean artery pressure (PAM), temperature and end tidal CO2 (EtCO2). The patients were divided into three groups: Group M: animals receiving epidural analgesia with morphine 0.1mg/kg diluted in 0.26 ml/kg of saline solution 0.9%; Group FLK: bolus of fentanyl 2 μg/kg, lidocaine 1 mg/kg, and ketamine 1 mg/kg followed by infusion of fentanyl 0.1 μg/kg/min, lidocaine 50 μg/kg/min and ketamine 10 μg/ kg/min; and Group F: bolus of fentanyl 2 μg/kg followed by infusion of fentanyl 0.1 μg/kg/min. ANOVA was used to evaluate the anesthetic protocols complications, followed by Tukey’s post-hoc test with a significance level of 5% (p 45mmHg). With this study, it was observed that the use of continuous infusions of FLK, fentanyl, and epidural analgesia with morphine, in the used doses, were effective and safe in the dogs submitted to neurosurgeries, however, it was noticed that the use of morphine caused a greater reduction in temperature during the intraoperative period.

Desafios e perspectivas do estudante com deficiência visual na educação superior: análise da produção científica

The inclusion of students with visual impairments in higher education has still been challenging for managers and teachers to ensure academic success. Despite the investment initiatives by the government, but they are still insufficient in the face of the difficulties of access and permanence of these students. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze research on access and permanence with an emphasis on Specialized Educational Assistance for students with visual impairments in the productions of the Special Education Journal of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in the period from 2014 to 2019. We used a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the nature of reviewing scientific production in the journal in question, for this we work with the indicators of disability, visual impairment, higher education, access, permanence, specialized educational assistance and their combinations. The search resulted in 519 articles, of which only 39 address inclusion in higher education. 14 were selected for analysis, dealing with visual impairment, higher education, inclusion and permanence. We conclude that the number of visually impaired students in Higher Education has increased by more than 50% (fifty percent), that there is a set of legislation that favors inclusion, but the conditions, whether of resources/technologies or teacher formation, do not yet appear for its effectiveness, according to research. Specialized educational assistance, guaranteed by law, is not yet perceived as materialized. Publications are relevant for the creation of new policies, actions and strategies for the permanence of students with disabilities in higher education and specialized educational assistance according to their specificities, but it still need further study.

2,4-D em videiras: estudo de caso no Município de Jaguari-RS, estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Atualmente plantas de videira no município de Jaguari, localizado na região centro-oeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil, apresentam sintomas de fitotoxidez, possivelmente oriundos da aplicação de agrotóxicos em áreas de produção agrícola. A uva é um produto de grande valor econômico, social e cultural para a região. Neste sentido a Lei Municipal N° 3.163 restringe o uso de herbicidas derivados da composição química 2,4-D (diclorofenoxiacético) em todo o território do município de Jaguari no período de 15 de setembro a 15 de março de cada ano agrícola, independente da modalidade de sua aplicação. Portanto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi identificar e quantificar resíduos de 2,4-D nas folhas de videira pelo método QuEChERS e análise por HPLC-MS/MS. A coleta das amostras foi realizada em seis propriedades localizadas dentro do perímetro delimitado pela Lei Municipal N° 3.163. O período de amostragens foi semanal de 29/09/2017 a 06/12/2017, perfazendo um total de 62 amostras. Foram coletadas folhas de videiras e armazenadas em sacos plásticos devidamente identificados e encaminhados para o Laboratório de Análises de Resíduos e Pesticidas (LARP), na Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM). Durante o período de amostragem observou-se problemas de fitotoxidez das plantas. Comprovou-se a presença de resíduos do herbicida em 69% das amostras, concluindo-se que a deriva do produto pode ser a causa dos danos nas videiras apontados pelos produtores de Jaguari.