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Systemic arterial hypertension with a significant incidence in the elderly population, associated with functional disability and other comorbidities, is a public health problem. This study aimed to verify the functional capacity and comorbidities of elderly patients with systemic arterial hypertension. It is a cross-sectional, population-based study using questionnaires on sociodemographic, behavioral and anthropometric data, as well as on morbidity, use of medicines and functional capacity assessment. We interviewed 286 elderly individuals who self-reported arterial hypertension.

Bangladesh has recently (2018) fulfilled the conditions for becoming a developing country from the least developed country which will be further reviewed by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy (UNCPD). If the progress become satisfactory, ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) of UN will confirm graduation of Bangladesh as a developing country by 2024. Therefore, this study evaluates the development transition including current progresses and challenges ahead of Bangladesh for its smooth graduation by using World Bank and UN data.

India is a democratic country. People are the masters; therefore masters have a right to know how the government meant to serve them are functioning. Thus, freedom of information is directly related to this connotation of democracy. RTI is an institutional reality of freedom of information which has been taken by the Indian Parliament. RTI ACT 2005 is a significant landmark that gives Indians access to government records. This legislation is a radical improvement on the relatively weak and ineffective statute which seeks to replace the Freedom of Information Act, 2002.

Participation in differ rent sports activities plays a significant role in the enrichment of a student’s social life and the development of social interaction skills. This study aimed to evaluate the Jose Rizal Memorial State University-Katipunan Campus students’ involvement in sports activities. It utilized the descriptive method that used 318 students participating sports activities.

For a long time, intimate partner violence was considered strictly of private nature, belonging to a household environment. However, this theme is gradually gaining notoriety in society and becoming more and more a matter of public and current importance. Marital violence translates the violence strictly based on the gender perspective, supported by the patriarchal and dichotomous differences that exists between men and women.

Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, Americans knew that he would be a different kind of president. Most individuals would agree that, on the surface, President Trump’s leadership style is unorthodox and unfamiliar to the political norms. However, as a leader of a major nation, his leadership style is easily critiqued and under constant scrutiny. Essential to campus leadership is the establishment and development of a strong culture.

Contextualization: Physiotherapy is considered a recent profession in the field of health and in the national field. In this almost a century of existence in Brazil, passed and goes through historical and curricular transformations showing the change of vision with the profession. The work within the Intensive Care Unit is one of the youngest sectors within the profession, often not being accompanied by Higher Education Institutions.

The paper aims to explore a comprehensive understanding and grab the concept about transition of second accord of Basel norms to the subsequent regulation i.e. Basel III and to study whether the effects are favorable or adverse for banks to comply with Basel-III norms effectively. The major concern for the banking sector of Bangladesh is that implementation of Basel III will cause banks to raise capital appreciably and thus strengthen their existing capital formation.

The present article analyzed the cumaru almond (Dipteryxodorada) in the municipality of Alenquer-Pará. The primary information was obtained at Vila Camburão, by means of interviews with agents involved in commercialization and extraction. The secondary information was obtained through the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), as well as other sites focused on agribusiness and rural commerce. The information collected shows the great productive potential that the municipality presents faced the national scenario.

This study aimed to understand the process of implementation of strategies in three Institutions of Higher Education in light of the Strategy as Social Practice. The theoretical approach adopted was the Practical Strategy - EPS - articulated with the discursive practices. EPS seeks to understand the process of formulating and implementing strategies, based on the activities carried out by practitioners in their daily lives, as well as, through culture, processes and the integration of their actors.