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Toward prioritization of self-admitted technical debt: an approach to support decision to payment
(2022-01-01)
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 ...
Determinants of the use of technical assistance by Brazilian family famers in 2014Análise dos determinantes da utilização de assistência técnica por agricultores familiares do Brasil em 2014
(2019-01-01)
This paper analyzes the determinants of the use of technical assistance by Brazilian family farmers in 2014. Using data from the National Survey by Household Samples (PNAD) of 2014, a qualitative probit regression model ...
Pollution: Incompatibilities between the legal and technical conceptsPoluição: Incompatibilidades entre conceitos legal e técnico
(2009-01-01)
This paper presents the method, procedures and results obtained through the comparison between legal and technical of pollution terms. The purpose was to show if the correct or wrong forms wrote these concepts and to check ...
Predicting academic success of engineering students in technical drawing from working memory
(2012-11-27)
Tests on spatial aptitude, in particular Visualization, have been shown to be efficient predictors of the academic performance of Technical Drawing stu-dents. It has recently been found that Spatial Working Memory (a ...
The school evasion in the amazon context: A case from a technical courseAnálise da evasão escolar no contexto amazônico: O caso de um curso técnico
(2018-01-01)
School dropout is a worrisome phenomenon at Brazilian public education, whose causes comprise different aspects. The present study analyzed the school dropout from a technical course in North of Brazil in order to minimize ...
A new way for comparing solutions to non-technical electricity losses in South America
(2020-12-01)
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 ...
O perfil do aluno de cursos técnicos ou Parem as máquinas: o aluno envelheceu
(2014)
The enrollments in technical courses outgrew beyond 70% between 2002 and 2010. It has made fundamental to look after this educational segment because of the changes in the job market, associated with the promulgation of ...
Unsupervised non-technical losses identification through optimum-path forest
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-11-01)
Non-technical losses (NTL) identification has been paramount in the last years. However, it is not straightforward to obtain labelled datasets to perform a supervised NTL recognition task. In this paper, the optimum-path ...
¿Mejora la visualización espacial con el aprendizaje del dibujo técnico?
(2008-06-01)
The present study article whether instruction in technical drawing improves aptitude for spatial visualization. Tests for visualization were administered to a sample of first year engineering students at the beginning and ...