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Resumo: Muitos elementos permeiam a configuração estratégica de uma empresa. Estes vão desde a dinâmica da concorrência industrial à simples resolução de problemas corriqueiros. Nesse sentido, foi realizada uma pesquisa empírica em 26 empresas produtoras de um polo cerâmico, cadastradas no Serviço de Apoio às Micro e Pequenas Empresas (SEBRAE) de São Paulo, a partir da aplicação de um modelo de áreas de decisão, com o intuito de verificar se a principal estratégia de produção, com foco em custos, estabelecida pelas empresas participantes do Arranjo Produtivo Local (APL), encontra-se alinhada às ações adotadas pelas mesmas. A pesquisa apresentou caráter quantitativoqualitativo e propósito descritivo. Por meio de um questionário misto, pôde-se identificar problemas que impactam, direta e indiretamente, no alcance da principal estratégia de produção das empresas do APL. Assim, cabe a elas rever as ações que vêm sendo adotadas, de forma a possibilitar um alinhamento dessas ações à estratégia de produção estabelecida pelas empresas, cuja essência refere-se à busca pela redução de custos, contribuindo para com o efetivo alcance dos objetivos traçados pelas empresas, ou seja, pelo Arranjo como um todo.Palavras-chave: Estratégia de Produção. Prioridades Competitivas. Áreas de decisão. Arranjo Produtivo Local. Cerâmica. Abstract:Many elements permeate a company strategic configuration. These range from the industrial competition dynamics to the simple resolution of common problems. Accordingly, it was conducted an empirical research on 26 producing companies of a ceramic pole, registered in the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises (SEBRAE) of São Paulo, through the application of a decision area model, in order to check if the main production strategy, focusing on costs, established by the companies participating in the Local Productive Arrangement (LPA) is aligned with their actions. The research presented a quantitative-qualitative type and descriptive purpose. Using a mixed questionnaire, it was identified problems that directly and indirectly impact in the achieving of the main production strategy of the LPA companies. Thus, it is up to them reviewing the actions being taken in order to enable an alignment of these actions to the production strategy established by the companies, whose essence refers to the pursuit of lower costs, contributing to the effective achievement of the objectives plotted by the companies, i.e., by the arrangement as a whole.

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Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune and chronic pathological condition characterized by an inflammatory process of the joints It is a complex and multifactorial, involving genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors and the use of experimental models is required to better understand its pathology and for drug testing. The aim of this study was to perform a systematic literature review on experimental models in rheumatoid arthritis using IRAMUTEQ, a software that analysis, qualitatively and quantitatively, text fragments, as a methodological tool. After searching for articles published in the last five years on Scopus database and applying the exclusion criteria, we ended with 84 articles. The most commonly employed experimental models was the arthritis induction by inoculation of the Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA), followed by the use of combined methodologies and the collagen-induced arthritis (CIA). The analyses of abstracts by the IRAMUTEQ software provided a classification according to their textual elements in four classes, which were grouped into three main themes: in vivo models (class 1), clinical practice and traditional medicine (classes 2 and 3) and in vitro models (class 4) and it was also possible to build a similarity tree of the terms present in the abstracts and a word cloud with the most cited terms. Thus, the use of the IRAMUTEQ software as a methodological tool has been satisfactory, since it was possible to identify the main experimental models used, keywords, pathological processes and molecules involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis free of the researchers’ bias, in addition to being a tool for visual and intuitive results.

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