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Buildings must perform the function of shelter with low environmental impact. Among the parameters for efficient building projects, there are the adaptive thermal comfort models, which impose limits on the daily thermal amplitudes in indoor environments. Between the strategies to provide buildings with adequate levels of thermal inertia are thermal capacity and thermal insulation, aiming to reduce the use of air conditioners and appliances, contributing to the population's comfort and quality of life. Thus, for the correct application of these measures, it is necessary to know the daily thermal amplitudes of the external environments. However, in Brazil, maps of daily thermal amplitudes or levels of thermal inertia recommended by climatic regions are not available. This research aimed to verify the daily thermal amplitudes and the levels of thermal inertia recommended for housing in the state of Paraná. For this purpose, data from meteorological stations installed in 49 municipalities were used, 29 of them in Paraná and the rest in the surroundings of the study area. Analyzes were performed based on different percentiles (99.5, 99, 97.5 and 95), 10 amplitude profiles and two reference values of the maximum recommended daily amplitude for the indoor environment of a building (5 °C and 7 °C). The maps produced allow designers, with coordinates of any location in the state, to obtain the daily thermal amplitudes of reference (external) for the project and the levels of thermal inertia (internal) recommended for houses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the partial results of research that aims to build tools to evaluate educational policy. One dimension of the assessment of educational policy refers to the material conditions of the school, taking as a source the contextual questionnaire of the National System of Basic Education (Saeb), 2003. From these conditions it creates an index to evaluate the school with respect to such resources. In analyzing the public schools of the state of Paraná, it becomes evident that they have good conditions, in general, but with a strong difference between those located in urban and rural areas. Deriving from the index combined with the results pertaining to student proficiency, a tendency has been identified that indicates that student proficiencies are greater in schools that offer favorable material and structural conditions [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]