Past Issue

A sarcopenia está associada com a piora da resposta imunológica e do estresse metabólico, favorecendo a infecção pelo Covid-19 seja como fator de risco para doença mais grave ou como complicação após a infecção. Cerca de 85% destes pacientes internados desenvolvem fadiga muscular. A Tecnologia Assistiva (TA) busca promover funcionalidade de pessoas com deficiência utilizando desde recursos tecnológicos à capacitação de profissionais. Assim, torna-se importante conhecer a atuação da TA para a prevenção ou reabilitação da sarcopenia em pacientes afetados pelo Covid-19.

Introducción: La diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es un trastorno metabólico y su principal consecuencia, la hiperglucemia crónica, tiene un impacto significativo en la morbilidad y mortalidad de sus pacientes. Objetivo: El estudio evaluó la influencia de los parámetros antropométricos, metabólicos y hemodinámicos en los niveles de glucosa en sangre en ayunas en los trabajadores de salud comunitarios (CHA).

Objetivo: procurou-se, na presente pesquisa, avaliar o módulo de faturamento da Autorização de Internação Hospitalar (AIH) em busca de melhor consistência dos dados exportados para o aplicativo de entrada de dados do governo, visando diminuir ou zerar o número de AIH’s rejeitas pela crítica da DRS I.

Objetivo: analisar a sobrevivência e fatores prognósticos associados à mortalidade em pacientes com SRAG por COVID-19 admitidos em UTI no Brasil. Metodologia: trata-se de estudo transversal, retrospectivo, observacional e analítico utilizando dados públicos dos formulários de notificações de pacientes com SRAG por COVID-19 hospitalizados no Brasil, disponíveis no site https://opendatasus.saude.gov.br, no período de fevereiro de 2020 a março de 2021. As funções de sobrevivência foram calculadas utilizando o método de Kaplan-Meier.

This study aimed to investigate aspects associated to the quality of life and work conditions of the Sign Language Translator Interpreter (SLTI) at teaching institutions of Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. The presence of this professional at teaching institutions is a public policy that arose from social and political movements to fill the gap of communication between the Deaf and the non-Deaf. This is a qualitative research of the descriptive kind. Our participants were ten SLTIs from the city of Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.

This text, under a linguistic-discursive and cognitive approach (LAKOFF, 1987; GEE, 1999; LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980/2000; FAIRCLOUGH, 2001, CHARTERIS-BLACK, 2004; VEREZA, 2010; SPERANDIO, 2010, among others), aims to analyze the “toxic mother” metaphor concerning social family practices, as it differs from the archetypal form of mother, consolidated in common sense as the housewife, of unconditional love and unrestrained conduct (SCAVONI, 2001; CARMO, 2020).

It is a widely cited fact that over half of the human population today lives in cities and urban dwellings. The implications of this shift in the 20th century are wide ranging, complex and have significance for all kinds of actors, not just the ones involved in the delivery of humanitarian aid and assistance. The response to disaster led crises has completely reformed as the precise definition of disasters and the vulnerabilities it leads to, have blurred in the recent past.

The theme of phenomenological psychotherapies within the existentialist approaches is part of the investigation into clinical psychology from an existentialist perspective, undertaken at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.The main aim of this text is to clarify the phenomenological, hermeneutic and existentialist bases that arise in our clinical practices.To that end, we undertook a narrative review of the literature in order to be able to analyze the elements to be found in the perspectives on psychotherapy classified as phenomenological and existentialist.We arrived at the following c

The studies of Social Cognition are the background of the present research, particularly the concept of Beliefs. The research question is: which relationships can we establish between Beliefs in Spirituality and the realization of a Sense of Life in a sample of 1298 Brazilian college students? This research aims to correlate beliefs in spirituality with the meaning in life realization.

Although Brazil is the largest producer of passion fruit, the mean fruit yield is only 13 t ha-1 and may be attributed to susceptibility to pests and diseases. An attractive solution to the problem would be to improve traits by grafting onto a rootstock presenting enhanced vegetative vigor. To this end, the commercial cultivar Passiflora edulis 'BRS Gigante Amarelo' was grafted onto rootstocks that included three native species of Passiflora and four passion fruit hybrids that are still under development.