November 2013

Volume 38 Issue 11

/Editorial/

Scientific Committee – First National Symposium on Climate Change: Perspectives for Venezuela

CARACAS’ DECLARATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

758
 /Articles/

Ricardo Moreira da Silva and Marcos André Mendes Primo

FRAMEWORK FOR MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY BETWEEN ENERGY SOURCES (in Portuguese)

760

Geison Jader Mello, Iramaia Jorge Cabral De Paulo, Sérgio Roberto De Paulo, Raphael De Souza Rosa Gomes, Nadja Gomes Machado, José De Souza Nogueira and Marcelo Sacardi Biudes

SEASONAL AND INTERANUAL VARIABILITY OF THE FRACTAL DIMENTION OF TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY SERIES IN THE AMAZONIA AND PANTANAL (in Portuguese)

769

Dionicio Peña Torres, Carlos Rodríguez Monroy, Pablo Solana and Javier Portela García-Miguel

DETECTION OF OPERATIONAL RISKS IN ENTERPRISES OF THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR APPLYING THE RECOMENDATIONS OF THE BASEL COMMITTE (in Spanish)

777

Claudia Tania Picinin, Luiz Alberto Pilatti, João Luiz Kovaleski and Bruno Pedroso

GENERAL CRITERIA FOR THE RESEARCH GRANT CONCESSION IN BRAZIL: A STUDY IN PRODUCTION ENGINEERING (in Portuguese)

785

Anne Morris-Díaz, Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy, Antonio Vizán-Idoipe, Moisés Martínez-Soto and Marcelo Gil-Araujo

QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE VENEZUELAN OIL INDUSTRY (in Spanish)

793
/Reports/

Néstor J. Mariani, Roberto Pereiras, Sergio D. Keegan and Guillermo F. Barreto

WASTE HEAT RECOVERY FROM COMBUSTION GASES OF RESIDENTIAL BALANCED FLUE SPACE HEATERS (in Spanish)

803

Divina Aparecida Anunciação Vilhalva, Manoel Soares Soares Júnior, Fabrícia Paula de Faria, Gabriel Luis Castiglioni and Márcio Caliari and Flávio Alves da Silva

PRODUCTION OF BRANDY FROM CASSAVA STARCH INDUSTRY WASTE (in Portuguese)

808
/Essays/

Daniel Coelho de Oliveirae and Rômulo Soares Barbosa

“ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR”: AN ANALYSIS OF THE METAMORPHOSIS OF CAPITALISM (in Portuguese)

814