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Objective: To investigate Brazilian publications on leprosy program evaluations from the components: inputs,
processes, results and impact. Methods: Consultation in the LILACS database of the Virtual Health Library on the
keywords "leprosy", "evaluation". Inclusion Criteria: Publications from 2001 to 2008, in Portuguese and descriptor
"leprosy." Results: 27 approaches for components of input, process, outcome and impact studies in August of this
review. The process component prevailed with 41%. Of all approaches and inputs and outputs were performed in 26%
and 22% respectively and the impact component with the lowest percentage approaches 11%. Conclusion: The
evaluation must be present throughout the process of implementing a particular program.

OBJETIVO: analisar as vulnerabilidades à saúde na adolescência, associadas às condições socioeconômicas, redes sociais, drogas e violência, na perspectiva de escolares. MÉTODO: estudo transversal com uma amostra de 678 escolares, com idade entre 14 e 15 anos, de Contagem, Minas Gerais. Utilizou-se questionário autoaplicável dividido em módulos por assunto. Realizaram-se análises quantitativa, descritiva e estratificada por sexo. RESULTADOS: percentual elevado de adolescentes (40,4%) era beneficiado pelo Programa Bolsa Família, 14,6% trabalhava, 57,1% e 23,6% já havia experimentado bebida alcoólica e tabaco, respectivamente. Identificaram-se 15% de relato de agressão e 26,7% de bullying. A maioria informou nunca/raramente conversar com os pais sobre as dificuldades cotidianas (64,5%) e 22% das adolescentes relataram insônia e/ou sentimento de solidão. CONCLUSÃO: o estudo demonstra a necessidade de intensificar ações educativas, nas quais a enfermagem desempenha papel fundamental, visando desenvolver competências cognitivas, afetivas e sociais que favoreçam melhor posicionamento dos adolescentes frente às questões de vulnerabilidades à saúde. ; OBJETIVO: analizar las vulnerabilidades a la salud en la adolescencia asociadas a las condiciones socioeconómicas, redes sociales, drogas y violencia, en la perspectiva de escolares. MÉTODO: estudio transversal con una muestra de 678 escolares, con edad entre 14 y 15 años, en la ciudad de Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Se utilizó un cuestionario autoaplicable dividido en módulos por asunto. Se realizaron análisis cuantitativo y descriptivo, estratificado por sexo. RESULTADOS: un porcentaje elevado de adolescentes (40,4%) eran beneficiados por el Programa Bolsa Familia, 14,6% trabajaban, 57,1% y 23,6% ya habían experimentado bebida alcohólica y tabaco, respectivamente. Se identificaron 15% de relatos de agresión y 26,7% de bullying. La mayoría informó nunca/raramente conversar con los padres sobre las dificultades cotidianas (64,5%) y 22% de las adolescentes relataron insomnio y/o sentimiento de soledad. CONCLUSIÓN: el estudio demuestra la necesidad de intensificar acciones educativas, en las que la enfermería desempeña un papel fundamental, objetivando desarrollar competencias cognitivas, afectivas y sociales que favorezcan un mejor posicionamiento de los adolescentes frente a las cuestiones de vulnerabilidad a la salud. ; OBJECTIVE: to analyze the health vulnerabilities in adolescence associated with socioeconomic conditions, social networks, drugs and violence from the perspective of students. METHOD: cross-sectional study with 678 students between 14-15 years old in Contagem, Brazil. A self-administered questionnaire divided into modules by subject was used. Quantitative, descriptive and stratified analyses were performed by sex. RESULTS: high percentage of adolescents (40.4%) were beneficiaries of Government financial support called "Bolsa Família" and 14.6% had a job, 57.1% and 23.6% had tried alcohol and tobacco, respectively. We identified 15% of aggression and 26.7% of bullying. The majority informed they never/rarely talk to parents about the daily difficulties (64.5%) and 22% reported insomnia and/or feelings of loneliness. CONCLUSION: the results indicated that there is a need to intensify educational activities that seek to develop cognitive, affective and social skills aimed at improving the way adolescents face the vulnerabilities, in these activities, nursing has a fundamental role.

In this work, the author focuses on the difficulties and contradictions faced by human rights when faced with movements that demand the presence of religion in the public sphere. He proposes an alliance between the different theologies of liberation existing in different religions and counter-hegemonic conceptions of human rights

Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar o processo de desinstitucionalização, quanto ao uso das práticas contábeis de correção monetária, pelas grandes empresas brasileiras. Os pressupostos teóricos utilizados foram baseados na teoria institucional, que representa uma abordagem sociológica interpretativa do comportamento humano, que reconhece fenômenos de racionalidade limitada e o caráter político da ação social. As análises empíricas foram baseadas na abordagem proposta por Oliver (1992). A estratégia de pesquisa compreendeu aplicação de questionários e entrevistas a uma população de 118 empresas brasileiras, de grande porte, constantes da Revista Exame 500 Maiores Empresas e teve como principais respondentes os contadores e gerentes de controladoria. Foram utilizadas as técnicas estatísticas de Análise Fatorial, ANOVA one way e Kruskal-Wallis. A partir da abordagem proposta por Oliver (1992), que contemplou 22 variáveis, que compõem 12 constructos e 6 hipóteses qualitativas, sobre as pressões motivadoras do processo de desinstitucionalização das práticas contábeis de correção monetária. Portanto, em relação aos constructos avaliados, cabe destaque para as pressões políticas (nível do ambiente), pressões funcionais em ambas as dimensões (organizacional e ambiente). No entanto, as pressões sociais não se demonstraram significativas. Conclui-se que o processo de desinstitucionalização é decorrente de uma combinação distinta de fatores institucionais e os resultados da pesquisa estão aderentes aos achados das pesquisas realizadas no Mercado Americano e no Reino Unido. ; This article aims to analyze the deinstitutionalization of the inflation-adjustment accounting practices used by large Brazilian companies. The theoretical assumptions used were based on institutional theory, which provides a sociological interpretation of human behavior that recognizes the phenomenon of limited rationality and the political character of social action. Analyses were based on the empirical approach that was proposed by Oliver (1992). The research strategy consisted of questionnaires and interviews conducted in a population of 118 large Brazilian companies from Exame Magazine's list of the 500 largest companies. The primary respondents were accountants and controllers. Factor analysis, one-way ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis test were conducted using the approach proposed by Oliver (1992), and the research included 22 variables comprising 12 constructs and 6 qualitative hypotheses regarding the pressures that motivate the deinstitutionalization of inflation-adjusted accounting practices. Therefore, with regard to the constructs assessed, emphasis was placed on identifying the political pressures (the environment) and the functional pressures in both the organizational and environmental dimensions. However, the social pressures did not prove to be significant. We conclude that the process of deinstitutionalization results from a distinct combination of institutional factors, and these results are consistent with the findings from research conducted in the US market and in the UK.

Kenneth N. Waltz's magnum opus, Theory of International Politics, first published in 1979, is the single most widely read contribution to neorealism. Waltz claimed the establishment of a nomothetic theory of international politics that deals in regularities and repetitions, arguing that the structural component of the international system greatly influences state behaviour and hence outcomes. The author proposes a macrotheoretical solution to the micro account of traditional realism that focuses on unit and individual level explanations. Adapted from the source document.

The author discusses the progressive transformation of the cyberspace into one more battleground for international conflicts. The article begins with an analysis of the concept of cyber war, and a discussion about the difficulties of establishing a rigorous conceptualisation within the framework of the Law of Armed Conflict/International Humanitarian Law. Then, the capabilities and vulnerabilities of great powers are also object of analysis, and the complex role of non-state actors in cyber conflicts. The article ends with a discussion about the difficulty of assessing the economic impact of cyber attacks. Adapted from the source document.

This article aims to address how two specific national identities, Basque and Catalan enhanced by their nationalisms and by the Spanish democratization process were able to materialize politically and legally in what is qualified as "autonomies-nation". To get to the analysis of this case study we start to cover the role of the nation-State and the relationship between the concepts of State and nation. It specially highlights the emergence of new political units, which the author classifies as "autonomies-nation", which constitute a real challenge to the traditional concept of sovereignty, focusing the Spanish case. Adapted from the source document.

The present paper aims to show that, not only the concept of anarchy cannot be anchored in the author that traditionally has worked as its validator -- Hobbes -- it has no foundation whatsoever, except possibly a mythical one. International anarchy entails an ontological state, not a phenomenological one, of permanent war, of chaos incompatible with the presence of sovereign powers in the international scene. The concept of anarchy, despite the structural aporiae that thwart its sustainability, serves a particular status quo, pursues the preservation of the logic of power internationally and, for that reason alone, it remains an object of affection to those who dictate the rules, as an ideological apparatus that does not bind them. Adapted from the source document.

O artigo oferece uma série de reflexões a respeito de uma fase dos trabalhos de Michel Foucault e de alguns de seus colaboradores apresentada no volume The Foucault effect: studies in governmentality (1991), coeditado pelo autor. Tais reflexões se organizam em três partes. Primeiro, há uma revisão de alguns aspectos das aulas de Foucault sobre governamentalidade que, por diferentes razões, foram deixados de lado quando o livro foi publicado. Em seguida, faz-se um balanço de temas importantes que, embora presentes no livro, não receberam suficiente atenção dos leitores. Finalmente, no eixo que ocupa a maior parte do artigo, examinam-se as últimas discussões de Foucault a respeito do que o autor denomina múltiplos nascimentos da política, a fim de demonstrar a continuidade da pertinência do empreendimento foucaultiano nos anos 1970, tornado possível devido à noção de governamentalidade, ao mesmo tempo tão estranha e operacional. Tal atualidade é indicada não somente pelo incremento dos estudos sobre governamentalidade após o aparecimento dos cursos que Foucault deu no Collège de France, mas principalmente pelos dilemas e aporias que a cultura política em que estamos mergulhados nos trouxe. Nesse sentido, o artigo se encerra com uma espécie de agenda de pesquisa para dar continuidade ao trabalho inacabado de Foucault, uma agenda que nos convida a aprofundar nossa compreensão das relações entre a filosofia crítica, a racionalidade política e a cultura política, compreendidas como um conjunto de formas de conduta e de sociabilidade, modos de vida e estilos de subjetivação e dizer verdadeiro. ; The article offers a series of reflections on the presentation of a phase of work by Michel Foucault and some of his co-researchers in the volume The Foucault Effect: studies in governmentality (1991), co-edited by the author. These reflections fall into three parts. First, there is a review of some important aspects of Foucault's 'governmentality' lectures that, due to different reasons, were left aside when the book was published. Second, there is the account of important themes that, although presented in the book, have not received so much consideration from the readers. And last, in the axis that occupies the greater part of the article, the author examines Foucault's later discussions of what Gordon calls "the multiple births of politics", in order to show the continuing pertinence of Michel Foucault's enterprise during the 1970s, made possible by this notion of governmentality, at once so strange and so operative. That this is an enterprise of continuing contemporary relevance is indicated not only by the spread of governmentality studies since the appearance of Michel Foucault's lectures at Collège de France, but specially by the dilemmas and "dead-ends" that our political culture has brought us to. In this sense, the article concludes with a sort of research agenda for continuing Foucault's unfinished investigation, one that invites us to deepen our understanding of the relationships between philosophical critique, governmental rationality and political culture, understood as a set of forms of conduct and sociability, modes of life, and styles of subject-formation and truth-telling.

O trabalho exposto a seguir se dispõe a examinar o caráter ambíguo das identidades segundo as análises do filósofo francês Étienne Balibar. O texto irá se concentrar em suas obras a partir do final da década de oitenta, aonde ocorre um distanciamento do círculo formado em torno de Althusser e uma aproximação às filosofias da diferença de Foucault, Deleuze e Derrida. Buscaremos explicitar como o autor, mediante o prisma marxista do conflito de classes, irá denunciar o escalonamento dos indivíduos de modo hierárquico dentro da economia-mundo capitalista mediante múltiplos processos identitários, que respeitam uma lógica de manutenção da estrutura social internacional existente. O pano de fundo de tais análises são os crescentes movimentos xenófobos e neo-fascistas na Europa hodierna como reação à uma profunda crise do Estado-Nação, de suas instituições e da fragmentação de comunidades idealmente estabelecidas. ; The work exposed hereafter intends to examine the ambiguous character of identities according to the analyses of the French philosopher Étienne Balibar. The text will focus on his works from the late eighties, where there is a distancing from the circle formed around Althusser and an approach to the philosophies of difference of Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida. We will seek to explain how the author, through the prism of Marxist class conflicts, will denounce the echelonment process of individuals in a hierarchical fashion within the capitalist world-economy based on multiple identity processes which respect the logic of maintaining the existing international social structure. The background of such analyses is the rise of xenophobic and neo-fascists movements which have not ceased to increase in today's Europe as a reaction to a profound crisis of the nation-state, its institutions and the fragmentation of ideally established communities.