IN BONE REPRESENTATIVITY ANALYSES. In this work FTI is applied in order to obtain more refined conclusions about the transport process involved in taphonomic history of these accumulations. Data of bone representation from Fazenda Nova tank (in Brejo da Madre de Deus Municipality, Pernambuco State), Jirau and João Cativo tanks (both in Itapipoca Municipality, Ceará State) and the fluvial deposits of Araras/Taquara (outcrops of the Rio Madeira Formation, Rondonia State) were used in this analysis. Using the Spearman's nonparametric correlation between bone representation and FTI, we observed the quantitatively homogeneous preservation of skeletal elements less and more transportable in Fazenda Nova and João Cativo tanks, what would be expected for deposits of natural tanks, which were influenced by non-selective depositional processes. In Jirau and Araras/Taquara assemblages the preservation was of less transportable elements. In markedly fluvial deposits, as Araras/Taquara, was as expected sorting of elements due to transport, whereas sorting observed in Jirau tank may have not been related to transport, but to other biostratinomic and diagenetic factors. Simulation with Voorhies Groups (VG) for the same deposits showed conclusions contrary to those observed by use of the FTI, revealing that the taphonomic inferences about transport based in the use of VG for Pleistocene Megafauna assemblages can be misleading.

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Due to the need for flexibility to requirements changes, agile software development methods have been attracting the attention of academic and industrial domains. Unlike traditional approaches, agile methods focus on the rapid delivery of business value to customers through empirical and incremental development processes. Despite being effective in delivering quality functional requirements, agile practices generally neglect non-functional requirements until the later stages of software development. However, neglecting non-functional requirements during requirements analysis can lead to project failures. In this paper, we present the NFRec tool, which aims to support software developers in the elicitation of non-functional requirements in the context of agile software development. Additionally, we report the results from a case study to evaluate the acceptance of the NFRec tool from the point of view of software developers of four projects from a Brazilian software company. To gather information about the tool acceptance, we applied a questionnaire based on the indicators from the Technology Acceptance Model. Overall, the four teams considered the NFRec tool useful and easy to use for supporting the management of non-functional requirements in agile projects.

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