Life Sciences

This work presents a literature review in order to assess the influence of different coverage and insulation on electric power consumption in two poultry houses, dark house model, located in the western region of the State of Paraná, Brazil. Designated as poultry house A1 and poultry house A2, installation A1 is characterized with trapezoidal aluzinc cover on the upper side interspersed with a layer of polyurethane and aluminized film on the lower side, while installation A2 presents aluzinc cover with black tarpaulin.

Objetivo: Analisar as condições de trabalho e aspectos emocionais dos profissionais de enfermagem durante a Pandemia da COVID-19. Métodos: Estudo quantitativo descritivo transversal realizado em uma instituição referência macrorregional de atenção terciáriaem saúde no Nordeste de Minas Gerais, por meio do uso de um questionário. Resultados: Dos 137 profissionais, 68 eram técnicos em enfermagem 32 enfermeiros, destes 78,1% não possuíam doença crônica não transmissível, e 73% não utilizavam medicamentos de uso contínuo.

Este artigo tem como tema a arte religiosa afro-brasileira analisada a partir da festa do Divino Espírito Santo que ocorre em São Luís, MA. Realizaremos uma reflexão sobre as categorias estéticas a respeito da arte afro-brasileira a partir da perspectiva filosófica sobre o Belo em relação ao pensamento decolonial (MIGNOLO, 2010).

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.

Os serviços residenciais terapêuticos vêm se consolidando como estratégia eficaz para a desinstitucionalização de egressos de longas internações psiquiátricas. Os moradores deste serviço podem apresentar alterações no perfil metabólico de lipídeos e da glicose, que podem ser induzidas pela exposição prolongada aos agentes antipsicóticos e pelo estilo de vida dos moradores portadores de transtorno mental. Este estudo objetivou-se a caracterizar a exposição prolongada aos agentes antipsicóticos dos moradores de um serviço residencial terapêutico da região Nordeste.

The State of Minas Gerais presents, unlike most Brazilian States, a transmission level that is still low, because Belo Horizontes, the state capital, as well as the cities of Betim and Araguari have not yet reached the level of transmission of the disease that can place the Public Health System in collapse due to lack of ICU beds, respirators and personal protective equipment for health professionals. At first, the pandemic in the state remained at low levels because social isolation measures were enough to flatten the transmission curve.

The potential high performance of self-managed teams materializes with implementing such teams properly and differently from traditional manager-led teams. This article contains a descriptive multiple case study that presents biomimicking as a unique and untapped resource to achieve that potential by applying a biomimicking lens to help understand successful decision-making patterns for self-managed teams.