The development of studies on technological innovations in the public sector, specifically in justice system, is still little explored in the literature. This article aimed to develop and validate a scale of technological innovation in the justice system during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection procedures were carried out by means of questionnaires sent to 20.727 e-mails of civil servants and judges of the state courts of justice in Brazil. The relationships among the innovation variables that make up the technological innovation construct in the Brazilian judiciary were studied. The factor analyses resulted in the main factors listed by the respondents, as the innovative trend factor (IT); technological resources factor (TR); governance factor and its evidence (G); and innovation and technology factor (IT). For responses to the studies, descriptive statistical analysis was performed, and the innovative sensitivity and technological integration variables presented greater commonalities, and the two factors extracted explain 74% and 67% of the variance. After the descriptive statistical treatment, the confidence level was 99% and the error margin was 4.87%, resulting in a sample of 679 respondents.

Current Quilombola communities are remnants of Brazilian slave communities. The community of Cedro, municipality of Mineiros – GO, uses botanical resources from the Cerrado biome to compose herb-based remedies, that constitute an important source of income for residents. The aim of this work was to evaluate this slave tradition considering i. the pattern of plant use; ii. the relationship between origin and compound taxonomic richness; and iii. the consensus on plant use X pharmacological actions proposed in local medicine. Data were obtained using free listing and snowball techniques, semistructured interviews and guided tours. The results indicated that the community presents a wide pattern of species use; in 380 ethno-references, 166 species were mentioned. The families Fabaceae, Asteraceae and Lamiaceae were richer in species and ethno-references; most of the plants are native and were collected in backyards or a typical Cerrado. Infused and decocted teas were the most diverse preparation methods (H' = 2.6201), and they were primarily used to address diseases of the digestive and metabolic system. The species with higher use values (UV) were Cymbopogon citratus, Citrus limon, Hymenaea courbaril, Dysphania ambrosioides and Baccharis trimera (UV>1). This work constitutes an important survey about the ethnobotanical knowledge of descendants of slaves and demonstrates the importance of the resources of the Cerrado biome for therapy in Quilombola communities that developed in the center of this biome.

This study aims to investigate the theoretical contributions on organisational behaviour and meritocracy. The methodology used involved exploratory analysis, based on bibliometric research. The data were extracted from the Scopus and Web of Science journal databases, accessed through the journals portal of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and through the restricted access of the Federated Academic Community (Café) of the Instituto Federal Goiano (IF Goiano). The result obtained indicated the combination of the search terms, "organisational behaviour and merit". (Scopus and Web of Science). It was used as technical support, a set of open source solutions, R software, with techniques for filtering duplicate and non-pertinent publications, totaling 63 articles, ranging from the years 2015 to June 2021. It is clear that there is a concentration of terms reporting on public educational organisations, which focus on issues about performance and the positive effects of human behaviour. Finally, it was identified that the term merit is closer to contexts involving perspectives, gender, and market, while meritocracy subsidizes studies that address organisational social inequality and human resource management.

Cover plants, due to their high biomass production capacity, and plants provide the soil with several benefits such as nutrient cycling, greater water retention and storage capacity, reduced temperature, increased aggregation and microbiota, physical protection against compaction. The objective of this work was to verify the growth of the fruit species of the cerrado, Dipteryx alata Vogel, as a consortium strategy with green fertilizers, Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg./Callopogonium mucunoides Desv., Crotalaria juncea L, Dolichos lablab L., [Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D.Webster] with nitrogen and [Urochloa decumbens (Stapf) R.D.Webster] without nitrogen (control). The experiment covered the period from 2013 to 2017, in Rio Verde, Goiás, installed in a randomized block design, with five treatments (cover plants) and four replications. The evaluations included the macro and micronutrient contents in D. alata, biomass production by cover plants, soil moisture and biometric determinations of D. alata. The use of U. decumbens with nitrogen, D. lablab and C. juncea showed better performances in maintaining soil moisture, growth and early fruiting of D. alata, making it advantageous to use these types of consortium in its establishment under conditions of the Cerrado.

This study is part of the context of the Research Project signed between the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) and the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Goiano (IF Goiano) for the development of methodologies with a view to implement and operate an agreement monitoring center. Its objective is to present the tool (software) developed via web to organize the structure of the chain of value of the Ministry of Agriculture's system of agreements, map performance indicators and classify process optimization priorities, based on parameters of efficiency and effectiveness of the reengineering processes. This is applied research in the empirical scenario of the Agreements Sector of MAPA, which uses the case study procedure to achieve its objective. The software development is based on the theoretical framework of Business Process Management (BPM) and Lean Six Sigma, with the application of the GUT Matrix tool and the Eisenhower Matrix for decision making. The primary data were collected through unstructured interviews with nine key informants working in the macro-processes of formalization, execution and monitoring and rendering of accounts of agreements. The results contain the characterization of the MAPA agreement area, highlighting the main activities carried out in the three macroprocesses, the description of the modelling characteristics and functionalities of the developed software and the discussion of benefits arising from the application of information technologies to the Business Process Management (BPM).  It can be inferred that the Lean methodology is plausible as a logical “production line”, since it is adaptable to a structured algorithm, which provides an orderly solution of problems focused on continuous improvement.