Technical Debt (TD) is a metaphor that describes the cost–benefit relationship between postponing technical development activities and the consequences of this long-term postponement. The lack of TD Management compromises ...

To analyze if learning Technical Drawing improves the spatial visualization aptitude, a visualization test was applied, at the beginning and at the end of a Technical Drawing course, on a sample of first year engineering ...

This article analyzes the Brazilian manufacturing industry through structural indicators between 1996 and 2012. It discusses if different sectoral technological features are important to their technical and economic results. ...

Non-technical losses are a component of energy losses associated with energy theft and fraud by the final consumers, hindering revenues of distribution utilities. This paper aims to compare the implemented solutions in the ...

The objectives of the meeting were to: (a); strengthen the relationship between users and producers of gender statistics; (b); define a set of basic indicators necessary for the completion of the situational analysis on ...

Quality assurance for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is currently quite a prominent area in the Caribbean because of the expansion of the global marketplace and the need to provide training of ...

This thesis aims to analyze the behavior of Brazilian manufacturing industry through technical and economic indicators from 1996 to 2011. Methodology includes the use of technical indicators as productive density, labor ...