In the modern world of technology, tools and gadgets, a huge amount of data is produced every second in applications ranging from medical science, education, business, agriculture, economics, and retail to telecom. Higher education institutes play an important role in the overall development of any nation. For the successful running of these institutions, continuous monitoring for improving the quality of education and students is required, which is the subject of this paper. Huge amount of data that education systems produce increases rapidly every year and it is difficult by traditional techniques to manage, predict and analyze this data. One way to address this challenge is through mining large amount of data. It enables the institutions to use their present reporting trends to unmask hidden patterns and identify the relationships in huge databases. These patterns are then used to forecast individual behavior with immense veracity. As an outcome of this, institutions are able to take necessary actions for improving the student’s dropout, grade, retention, predicting the student’s performance, weak areas and estimate the number of enrollments in a particular course. Researchers have widely used classification, categorization, estimation, regression and clustering approaches for extracting meaningful information to predict about various aspects of the students. However, there is a huge scope of exploring latest and emerging trends in education domain. Present paper conducts a detailed and exhaustive study on techniques and approaches implemented in education mining.

The article is the result of a study that sought to understand the required dynamic crossing points of a public-private partnership. The call for research proposals Vale-FAPs was the instrument that concretizes the partnership established by Vale with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Minas Gerais State Agency for Research and Development (FAPEMIG) and Amazon Foundation of Support for Studies and Research (FAPESPA). The article focused on the partnership Worth and FAPEMIG and adopted a qualitative approach and your analysis based on theoretical-methodological assumptions of Actor-Network Theory. We conclude that the interactions, agreements, and negotiations made during the partnership were positive. The Valley partnership and FAPEMIG allowed a learning project management for organizations. The partnership enabled the approximation of Vale with scientific and technological institutions (STIs) and researchers of these STIs that the company had no contact with. We observed that the work of monitoring and joint monitoring by the organizations contributed to the good execution of the partnership, bringing benefits and contributed to the internalization of the results.

No relatório Perspectivas da Urbanização Mundial, a ONU destaca que 54% da população global vive em meio urbano. Por evidente, isso implica no risco a atual e futura condição de desenvolvimento urbano sustentável dos habitantes nos grandes conglomerados urbanos. Como alternativa, a população busca alimentos mais saudáveis, produzidos de forma sustentável, particularmente as famílias vulneráveis, favorecendo uma dieta alimentar e nutricional rica e digna, ao mesmo tempo em que possibilita o aumento do seu poder aquisitivo e a promoção da agricultura sustentável. Nesse contexto, o objetivo desse trabalho é estudar, quantificar e caracterizar as diferentes práticas de Hortas Urbanas como instrumento de desenvolvimento urbano sustentável, desenvolvidas na cidade de João Pessoa-PB. A metodologia empregada no trabalho foi pesquisa quali-quantitativa, desenvolvida em quatro etapas: levantamentos preliminares, análise, síntese/resultados e conclusão. O trabalho revelou um número expressivo de hortas (comunitárias, escolares, particulares e terapêuticas) espalhadas em 36 bairros da cidade, desenvolvidas em espaços públicos ou privados, sendo a maioria cultivada em grande escala. A identificação dessas experiências possibilitou a criação de um mapa colaborativo, com auxílio do Google My Maps, com a caracterização de cada horta. A utilização do programa Horta Fácil se mostrou eficiente no planejamento, dimensionamento e gerenciamento de uma produção de hortaliças. A estimativa do potencial de produção de alimentos nas áreas de estudo indicou que não é possível alcançar a autossuficiência alimentar da população. As representações da comunidade reconstituídas pelo método Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo foram heterogêneas.

Aims: Mechanical bowel obstruction is a common surgical emergency and a frequently encountered burden in abdominal surgery. The present study was carried to find out the pattern of mechanical bowel obstruction in Iran population.\nMethods and materials: This is a prospective observational study of all patients admitted to the Department of Surgery of Baqiyatallah Hospital with a diagnosis of mechanical bowel obstruction between January 2012 and December 2015. Consequently, all patients with clinical and radiological evidence of mechanical bowel obstruction were included in the survey. The age, gender, symptoms operative details, postoperative complications, outcome, and mortality, were recorded.\nResults: 193 patients with mechanical bowel obstruction were admitted in our study. Regarding the clinical presentation of the patients, the absence of passage of flatus and/or feces with abdominal pain (65.8%) were the most common presenting symptoms. Adhesions, colonic volvulus, hernias, different types of colorectal cancer were the most frequent causes of obstruction (54.9%, 15.54%, 7.2%, and 9.8%, respectively). Twenty-one patients died, resulting in a mortality rate of 10.9%. In the 19 patients with colorectal cancer, 7 (31.6%) patients have died and cause of death in all them related to cancer disease.\nConclusion \nOur results show that absence of passage of flatus and/or feces and abdominal pain are the most common symptoms and physical finding of patients with mechanical bowel obstruction. Adhesions, colonic volvulus, hernias, different types of colorectal cancer are the most common causes of obstruction. Colorectal cancer is the causes of high mortality.