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Objetivo: Apresentar uma revisão integrativa, sobre o uso da Realidade Virtual na técnica de exposição gradual no tratamento dos transtornos de ansiedade. Materiais e Método: Revisão Bibliográfica, do tipo Integrativa, que tem como característica a capacidade de síntese frente a vasta produção de conhecimento nas mais variadas áreas, a exemplo da saúde. A pesquisa foi realizada em quatro bases de dados: SciELO, e através da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), pesquisou-se na MEDLINE, LILACS e na Index Psicologia.

The tribal communities are basically worshipers of nature. They worship trees, plants, stones, hills, and rivers in some form of supernatural gods and goddess. Therefore, each tribe believed in the existence of supernatural forces and it is transmitted to generations orally. It is remembered through observance of festivals every year as per the fixed month and date to commemorate their supernatural objects. The tribes of each region have close relationships with supernatural powers in two ways.

This study was aimed at analyzing the market supply of turmeric in Yeki District Sheka Zones of South West Ethiopia with specific objectives of analyzing the determinants of turmeric supply to the market in the study area. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data for this study were collected from 333 farmers and from key informants through application of appropriate statistical procedures.

The study carried out was entitled “Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) and socio-economic empowerment of vulnerable people in Kamuganguzi Sub County, Kabale District. According to UBOS 2018, Kamuganguzi Sub County which was the study area was among the poorest sub counties of Ndorwa County, Kabale District where a total of 3,516 people were food insecure, 769 people had no access to safe water, 691 children (6-17years) were out of school, 1,142 children were involved in child labour and 110 children were currently married.

The study investigated the problems hindering effective implementation of inclusive school practices for person with special needs in public primary schools in Akwa Ibom and Cross River State of Nigeria. Two research questions and three research hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey design and accidental sampling techniques was used to elicit responses from 40 head teachers and 160 classroom teachers in the two states.

The study investigated the strategies for sustaining livelihood among hearing impaired school leavers in southeast-south south geo-political zone. To achieve the objective of the study two research questions and hypotheses were formulated. The researcher’s constructed 15 items statement instrument named “Relationship of Selected Empowerment Strategies and Sustaining Livelihood of Persons with Hearing Impaired School Leavers (Rsesslpwhisl)” The instrument was faced and content validated by experts in measurement and evaluation, special education and guidance and counseling.

This work presents as its central goal to analyze whether the electricity auctions that occurred between 2009 and 2014 favored the growth of wind energy participation in the Brazilian energy matrix. It aims to evaluate how the new theoretical frameworks of regulation in the electric industry collaborate to increase the search for alternative sources, specifically regarding wind power. It uses Demsetz’s analysis (1968) to discuss the mechanism of operation of public services utility in order to understand the wind power auctions that happened in the analyzed period.

This study investigated the influence of congenital dental malformation and speech development of Pupils in Cross River State, Nigeria. To achieve the aim of the study, three research questions were generated with three corresponding hypotheses to guide the study. Survey research design was used for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw 1200 pupils that serve as sample.

The study was designed to determine the effect of selected coping Strategies on the worry oriented academic stress of the pupils with visual impairment in school for the blind South Eastern Nigeria. The study was a non-equivalent control group pre-test and post-test quasi experimental design involving two treatments and one control. Multi-stage sampling cluster sampling and random sampling were used appropriately to arrive at the sample.

This article focuses on a research on the historical-sociological advances about the education of the deaf in Juazeiro-Bahia. The objective of this study is to evaluate the real dimension of education in this city, aimed at the deaf, in order to present a historical panorama of the experiences lived in municipal schools with deaf students enrolled; the profile of teachers and the modalities of teaching directed to the deaf.