Physical Sciences and Engineering

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate conflict management practices and the main causes of conflict in the university administration in Ghana. The researcher used quantitative methods to classify variables in the study and administered questionnaires as tools to enable accurate data collection. The target population for the research included management staff, senior staff and junior staff at the University for Development Studies UDS central administration in Tamale, Ghana.

A silica-rich geomaterial of a mining tail was prepared and tested as a heterogeneous catalyst in the transesterification reaction in soybean oil to produce the corresponding fatty acid methyl esters (biodiesel). The dry raw geomaterial was characterized by powder X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and 57Fe-Mössbauer spectroscopy. The raw mineral sample was then dispersed in aqueous solution containing 35 g KI 100 mL-1 to form the chemically active solid catalyst.

Citta is one of the four ultimate realities (paramaṭṭha), Citta is translated as consciousness, in Abhidhamma, consciousness (citta) is the pure awareness of the object. Here awareness means just pure awareness, not the awareness we use in meditation. Awareness in meditation is actually mindfulness. In defining the word ‘citta’, awareness means just the bare awareness. It knows that something is there. It is something like that. Consciousness is the pure or bare awareness of the object. It is like water which is clear.

The continuous growth of the population and industrial has provided an increase in the environmental impact and human health, due to the greater quantities of waste generated, mainly by the presence of organic toxic compounds, such as the dyes. Then, the work aims to evaluate the applicability of heterogeneous photocatalysis in the degradation of the rhodamine B dye, such as a target molecule, using the commercial titanium dioxide catalyst, under ultraviolet and visible radiation.

Assistive technology is an interdisciplinary area contemplated by health, engineering and computer science, aiming to generate means that allow social insertion and improvement of the quality of life of people with disabilities. Disability can be defined as any loss or abnormality of a structure or psychological, physiological or anatomical function that generates inability to perform activity, within the standard considered normal for humans.

The objective of this research was to analyze interdisciplinary teaching / learning strategies from the socio environmental perspective in the technical course in Legal Services of the Federal Institute of the State of Piauí, Brazil. This is a qualitative investigation. As data collection instruments were used aquestionnaire applied to 182 students and an interview with eight teacher tutors from the Legal Services technician training course. It is concluded that interdisciplinary practices require actions that promote greater qualification of the actors involved in the process.

In the following article it is proposed to evaluate the impact of the strategies of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on Aguascalientes’ industry and workforce based on official quantitative data. With the previous statement, it is intended to perceive how far the CSR’s strategies have had bearing in the course of the industry and the conditions of the workforce in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico, emphasizing manly on the branches of the clothing and textile industry.

In this work, the monotonicity properties for some functions involving the gamma function are investigated. Moreover, some inequalities involving gamma function are proved.

This technical report exemplifies a collaborative work between an academic research center and a company and highlights the importance of incentives for innovation. Pneumatic conveying is a highly diffused industrial process for material displacement, commonly disposing of pressure vessels of high design complexity, making its installation expensive.

In today's society, it is not difficult to feel pressured on our bodily structure and the standards set as ideal or perfect. The self perception of the subject in relation to their weight, body fat, musculature may be, due to this social pressure, related to a distortion of body image, is a psychopathology called Vigorexia. Vigorexia is a body dysmorphic disorder where the subject has a self-image distortion of reality.