Regional development and engineering education: an analysis of Brazil’s micro-regional scenario

Caldana, Vitor Mendes; Silva, Márcia Terra da

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“…1 and 4, Table 2). In general, these three macro-regions are considered the most economically developed of Brazil [66]. The Southeast and the South macro-regions have, in general, lower dengue incidence despite having the majority of cases (Fig.…”

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“…4, Table 2). Both macro-regions represent the fourth and fifth economies of Brazil, respectively [66]. GHT for the Amazonas state could complement traditional clinical surveillance approaches (adjusted R squared = 0.847) considering its large area extent, moderate dengue incidence aggregated across all years (= 3.014x10e-5), and geographical location (Western portion of the North macro-region and far from the developed Brazilian Southeast; Fig.…”

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Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states

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Background: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection transmitted by Aedes aegypti and mainly found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Since its re-introduction in 1986, Brazil has become a hotspot for dengue and has experienced yearly epidemics. As a notifiable infectious disease, Brazil uses a passive epidemiological surveillance system to collect and report cases; however, dengue burden is underestimated. Thus, Internet data streams may complement surveillance activities by providing real-time information in the face of reporting lags. Methods: We analyzed 19 terms related to dengue using Google Health Trends (GHT), a free-Internet data-source, and compared it with weekly dengue incidence between 2011 to 2016. We correlated GHT data with dengue incidence at the national and state-level for Brazil while using the adjusted R squared statistic as primary outcome measure (0/1). We used survey data on Internet access and variables from the official census of 2010 to identify where GHT could be useful in tracking dengue dynamics. Finally, we used a standardized volatility index on dengue incidence and developed models with different variables with the same objective. Results: From the 19 terms explored with GHT, only seven were able to consistently track dengue. From the 27 states, only 12 reported an adjusted R squared higher than 0.8; these states were distributed mainly in the Northeast, Southeast, and South of Brazil. The usefulness of GHT was explained by the logarithm of the number of Internet users in the last 3 months, the total population per state, and the standardized volatility index. Conclusions: The potential contribution of GHT in complementing traditional established surveillance strategies should be analyzed in the context of geographical resolutions smaller than countries. For Brazil, GHT implementation should be analyzed in a case-by-case basis. State variables including total population, Internet usage in the last 3 months, and the standardized volatility index could serve as indicators determining when GHT could complement dengue state level surveillance in other countries.

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“…Good quality engineering education and regional development go together [1], and, with the rapid evolution of technology, an essential feature of the teaching of this professional becomes flexibility, so that the teaching adapts to the new knowledge, techniques, and demands of the market.…”

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The Teaching of Engineers Focused on Innovative Entrepreneurship

Miquilim

Silva

2019

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Engineering schools have a traditional way of teaching based on a sequence of subjects, beginning with fundamental sciences, mathematics, technologies and finally exploring practice and technics. This kind of program allows to deepen each subject, however, hinders the perception of the connections among the parts of a problem. Some schools changed their course aiming to turn the program more attractive to the students and, at the same time, more focused on the solution of actual problems the professionals face. For that, they used an innovative entrepreneurship approach changing the teaching-learning process. This article aims to identify the factors necessary to implement an innovative entrepreneurial engineering education, as well as explain such factors through literature review. As a result, two major categories of factors are observed, the teaching-learning process and university management. The first one encompasses the role of teachers, students, curriculum, and extracurricular activities. The literature suggests an open speech among students and teachers where they can explore multiple and critical perspectives. The PBL (Project-Based Learning) is recommended as a teaching-learning process. Extracurricular activities like scientific initiation, Incubators, and patents are other factors that contribute to this type of teaching. In university management, the incentive to innovation in engineering education is strongly recommended, besides providing students and teachers with an infrastructure that supports research and development and deployment of organizational culture and structure focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Regional development and engineering education: an analysis of Brazil’s micro-regional scenario

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Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states

Google Health Trends performance reflecting dengue incidence for the Brazilian states

The Teaching of Engineers Focused on Innovative Entrepreneurship

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