Objective: To verify the application of the Operative Group as a care tool for the workers of Primary Health Care, with a view to the constitution of mental health care at work. Method: Convergent Care Research as a research process and health workers as subjects. The intervention strategy as a proposal to accommodate the mental suffering of the worker was the Operative Group. Results: Two categories emerged: "Evidence of Suffering at Work" and "Group Learning: Group Reception by the Group". Final considerations: The use of the Operative Group has been assertive in providing the subjects with a space for listening to adversities in the work environment and active learning of reality, reflection and confrontation of basic fears, development of a pro-change project through peer and active learning of reality.

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The mineral exploration activity consists of a set of successive stages that are interdependent on each other, in which the main goal is to discover and subsequently evaluate a mineral deposit for the feasibility of its extraction. This process involves setting the shape, dimensions and grades for eventual production. Geological modeling determines the orebody's possible format in subsoil, which can be done by two approaches: vertical sections (deterministic methods) or geostatistical methods. The latter approach is currently being preferred, as it is a more accurate alternative and therefore, more reliable for establishing the physical format of orebodies, especially in instances where geologic boundaries are soft and/or with widely spaced sample information. This study uses the concept of indicator kriging (IK) to model the geologic boundaries of a limestone deposit located at Indiara city, Goiás State, Brazil. In general, the results indicated a good adherence in relation to samples. However, there are reasonable differences, particularly in lithological domains with a small number of samples in relation to the total amount sampled. Therefore, the results showed that there is a need for additional sampling to better delineate the geological contacts, especially between carbonate and non-carbonate rocks. Uncertainty maps confirmed this necessity and also indicated potential sites for future sampling; information that would not be obtained by usage of deterministic methods.

Some nondestructive techniques of the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) have improved their analysis in the past decades. Among them, the electromechanical impedance-based SHM technique (EMI-SHM) has been tested in several fields and associated to different statistical methodologies. Considering the nature of the spatial variation of the damage metric data along structures, herein is proposed the use of the indicator kriging method for predicting the existence of a known damage located in the center of an aluminum plate. Maps showing the probability of the damage metric to fall in several value ranges were capable of outlining the areas affected by the damage and predict its location. Comparisons between scenarios with different spacing between PZT patches showed a reduction in the reliability of the model with the increasing of such spacing. Also, for the structure under study, it demonstrates that it is not possible to obtain results by the methodology for distance between sensors/actuators greater than 16.67 cm. However, the results show that this approach can be a viable alternative for using damage metrics to map regions affected by damage and its location.