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In recent years, salad has become a very popular component of menu served at birthdays, wedding parties and at home; they are also sold in fast food centers in most major cities in Nigeria. Reports of unverified rampant cases of gastroenteritis following consumption of meals served with fresh vegetable salads have become serious public health concern which necessitate the need for this investigation. Ready to eat salad samples were investigated for pathogenic bacteria and the strains isolated were subjected to biochemical and morphological test for identification.

This paper aims to identify the main causes of accidents with elderly at home and the consequences they cause to this population. This is a qualitative study, which adopted the integrative literature review (IR) as a methodology, which allows the synthesis of multiple published studies on the subject. Of the 200 articles located in the LILACS, SciELO and VHL databases, 10 were selected according to the inclusion criteria proposed by the research.

Motivation is a multifaceted construct whose application in educational settings has been extensively studied. In learning environments, it has been shown to influence grade achievement, effort expended on a task, task performance and completion, choice of track as well as career choice among others.

The Tocantins Court of Justice (TJTO) has achieved high levels of computerization of its cases, whether in the judicial or extrajudicial area. This scenario brings with it the need for transparency in the performance of such procedures, as well as the engagement of Tocantins citizens. The development and availability of a mobile app that enables citizens to access extrajudicial information may contribute to the consolidation of these aspects. In this sense, the objective of this research is to develop a mobile app aimed at accessing the extrajudicial information of the TJTO.

Celiac disease is a condition in which genetically predisposed people have an autoimmune reaction to gluten proteins found mainly in wheat. Celiac disease patients have few and expensive options of gluten-free food products. The aim of this study was to create a gluten-free alternative to the wheat chicken croquette, a food largely consumed in Brazil.

The present study had as objective to evaluate the effects of the use of the conditions lime virgin, agricultural gypsum and diatomaceous earth in the treatment of avian bed on the physicochemical, microbiological and toxicological aspects. The treatments consisted of: T1- Avian bed control (without treatment), T2- Avian bed + virgin lime (CaO) 600g/m², T3- Avian bed + gypsum agricultural (CaSO4) 600g/m² and T4- Avian bed + Earth diatomaceous 200 g/m².

Piper aduncum L., conhecido como pimenta-de-macaco, é um arbusto produtor de óleo essencial, com uso promissor tanto na agricultura como na medicina, devido à sua ação inseticida e fungicida. Embora haja interesse comercial pela espécie, são escassos os estudos sobre o seu ambiente de cultivo. Dentre as tecnologias utilizadas para se obter características agronômicas desejáveis, o sombreamento com malhas fotoseletivas tem se destacado como viável no cultivo de diversas espécies.

Soil management systems, when performed properly, give good quality. In this sense, the objective was to evaluate the physical properties of the soil and its inferences on the use and management of the soil in the Faculty of Agrarian and Technological Sciences of UNESP - Campus de Dracena / SP. The evaluated treatments were five areas: anthropic intervention, degraded pasture, no-till, reforestation and APP.

Introdução: A analgesia preemptiva tem relevância em procedimentos cirúrgicos, pois ela elimina o problema antes mesmo que ele apareça, ou nem dar a oportunidade ao aparecimento dele. Nos procedimentos odontológicos mais invasivos, a dor inflamatória se constitui no componente mais importante em resposta ao agravo tecidual. Sendo assim, a idéia da analgesia preemptiva se baseia no fato de que a estimulação de fibras nociceptivas promovem mudanças neurais e comportamentais, que podem persistir após a cessação do estímulo nocivo (Pinheiro, 2014).

Background/Purpose: Congenital syphilis is defined as the contamination of the fetus with Treponema pallidum by means of transplacental transmission at any period of gestation or clinical stage of the disease in pregnant women who have not undergone adequate treatment. The present study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of pregnant women about congenital syphilis, based on the research regarding the guidelines received on syphilis during prenatal care and the obstacles faced by pregnant women in the consultations.