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Aim To compare changes in the shape and astigmatism of the total and posterior cornea between eyes with a nasal clear corneal incision (CCI) and eyes with a temporal CCI in cataract surgery. Methods The left eyes of 100 patients undergoing phacoemulsification were randomly assigned to undergo a 2.4 mm nasal (nasal CCI group) or temporal CCI (temporal CCI group). Corneal astigmatic changes were compared between groups using power vector analysis,and corneal shape changes were compared using videokeratography maps at 2 days, and at 2, 4 and 8weeks postoperatively.

The topic of “drugs” has been studied by several sectors especially society, education,and health. This study aims to understand the perception of undergraduate Nursing and Medicine teachers about care related to drug use in the context of social and health policies. This is phenomenological research, according to the perspective of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, carried out from November 2015 to May 2016, with ten teachers, through a semi-structured interview.

One hundared child age 2month-5years who admitted to almansur children teaching hospital were suffering from protein energy malnutriton, analysis of the various aspects of P.E.M was done, ninty four percent of the cases were in the first and second year age group. Marasmus was more prevalant which formed 49% of the total number of the cases while under weight type of malnutrition produced 29%of the cases. Kwashirkor and marasmic kwashirkor was formed 22% of the cases which represent high percent in comparison to prevous studies. Bottle feeding was the major cause of P.E.M.

Sepsis can be defined by the presence of a life-threatening organic dysfunction secondary to the host's unregulated response to infection. This article aims to analyze the knowledge of nurses and physicians of the intensive care unit about sepsis. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach, carried out with seven nurses and five physicians of an adult intensive care unit. It was evidenced in the study the predominance of male professionals, aged between 25 and 35 years, who only had the undergraduate course.

Toothclenching is multifactorial condition and it is responsible for generating an overload on the teeth, periodontium, muscles and temporomandibular joints (TMJ). Overload or hyperactivity in the joint can promote joint dysfunction that causes painful symptoms. A parafunctional habit such as the toothclenching involves a big context in the organism and may represent a predisposing factor as well as an exacerbation of temporomandibular dysfunction and chronic pain development. Furthermore, it has consequences on the survival of restorative and rehabilitation treatments.

This article aims to analyze the perception of students regarding the teaching in the modality of distance education (EaD), describing the changes of paradigm student/teacher/tutor, discussing whether this new methodology enables more empowering to the student in the exchange of knowledge with the facilitator, presented the challenges faced in interpersonal relationship, student/tutor in the teaching and learning process. This research is a descriptive, exploratory, approach a case study in a private institution of higher education in the interior of the northeast of Brazil.

The present manuscript seeks to analyze the appropriation of the writing of the book “In the Kingdom of Assunção, Truká reigns” produced by the Indigenous Truká teachers in Pernambuco. The work is guided by the social and ethnographic perspective of literacy process and focuses as an object of study the appropriation of the writing of the book, the collective authorship of the teachers and the cultural hybridism, in light of the reviews of Canclini.

This article exposes the course developed in research carried out to understand the conditions of possibilities that allowed the achievement of the film Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni, and his controversial recognition. For this, it takes into account the director's trajectory, raising the hypothesis that, assuming certain positions expressed in film production, structured learning becomes evident in a web of relationships established by Benigni in counterpart of the cultural poetics of the turn of the twentieth century.

Substantial consequences are things that are often reminded for every country when they fall into a debt crisis and face the risk of default. However, the impact of the sovereign debt crisis on the economy is still controversial when previous studies have produced mixed results. Some studies suggest that insolvent countries need to face serious penalties, while others mention forgiveness, or even an opportunity to boom after insolvency.

This study examines the covariates of poverty among rural farm households in Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Data for the study was collected from 168 randomly selected households using interview schedule. The FGT index was employed to analyze the extent &severity of poverty among poverty stricken households where as binary log it model was used to identify the major determinants of poverty in the study area. The finding from FGT index revealed that about 64 percent of households were found to be poor and the remaining 36 percent were non-poor.