La conexión de ejercicio físico y la calidad de vida de las personas mayores

La inactividad física ha sido reportado como un factor determinante de daño crítico a la calidad de vida en la vejez. La prática de actividad física regular como un componente esencial de una buena calidad de vida

Relating folksonomies with Dublin Core

This article presents a research carried out to continue the project Kinds of Tags, which intends to identify elements required for metadata originating from folksonomies. It will provide information that may be used by intelligent applications to assign tags to metadata elements. Despite the unquestionably high value of DC and DC Terms, the pilot study revealed a significant number of tags for which no corresponding properties yet existed. A need for new properties was determined. This article presents the problem, motivation and methodology of the underlying research. It further presents and discusses the findings from the pilot study.(undefined

Social tagging and Dublin Core : a preliminary proposal for an application profile fo DC social tagging

The Web 2.0 maximizes the Internet concept of encouraging its users to cooperate effectively for the offer of virtual services and content organization. Among the various potentialities of the Web 2.0, folksonomy appears as a result of the free assignment of tags to the Web’s resources by their users/ readers. Despite tags describe the Web’s resources, generally they are not integrated in the metadata. In order for them to be intelligible by machines and therefore used in the Semantic Web context, they have to be automatically allocated to specific metadata elements. There are many metadata formats. The focus of this investigation will be the Dublin Core Metadata Terms (DCTerms) that is a widely used set of properties for the description of electronic resources. A subset of DCTerms, the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), has been adopted by the majority of Institutional Repositories’ platforms as a way to promote interoperability. We propose a research that intends to identify elements of the metadata originated from folksonomies and propose an application profile for DC Social Tagging. That will allow tags to be conveniently processed by interoperability protocols, particularly the Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). This paper will present the results of the pilot study developed in the beginning of the research as well as the metadata elements preliminarily defined.Capes/MEC - Brasil.Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

Relating folksonomies with Dublin Core

Folksonomy is the result of describing Web resources with tags created by Web users. Although it has become a rich basis for the description of resources, in general terms it is not being conveniently integrated in metadata. However, if the appropriate metadata elements are identified, then further work may be done in order to automatically assign tags to these elements (RDF properties) and use them in Semantic Web applications. This article presents research carried out to continue the project Kinds of Tags, which intends to identify elements required for metadata originating from folksonomies and to propose an application profile for DC Social Tagging. It will provide information that may be used by software applications to assign tags to metadata elements and, therefore, means for tags to be conveniently gathered by metadata interoperability tools. Despite the unquestionably high value of DC and the significance of the already existing properties in DC Terms, the pilot study show revealed a significant number of tags for which no corresponding properties yet existed. A need for new properties, such as Action, Depth, Rate, and Utility was determined. Those potential new properties will have to be validated in a later stage by the DC Social Tagging Community.(undefined

The person on chronic haemodialysis treatment: influence of " self-actualization" in accepting desease

This study of the emotional state of the haemodialysis (HD)patients, evaluates the success, or not, to feel acceptance and value, becoming fulfilled itself, although the incapacity, dependency and uselessness feelings that the illness causes. To assess the relationship between the emotional state related as acceptance and the level of self-actualization that the haemodialysis patients. This is a quantitative descriptive and explanatory cross-correlated study of 150 adults’ haemodialysis patients. We selected two scales to assess the phenomena in question: “Acceptance of Illness Scale, Felton’s, 1984, and the “Self-Actualization Scale”, Guerra, 1992. The statistical tests had been based on the application of the coefÀ cient of Pearson’s correlation, analysis of variance ANOVA, T test and Levene’s test. The majority of the sample is constituted by men (62%) and the average of ages is about 52.7 years old. We found a moderate positive correlation (r = 640) and statistical signiÀ cant (p < 0,001) between the changeable self-actualization and the changeable acceptance of the illness, allows us to infer that an increase in the self-actualization levels permits the increase of the acceptance and vice-versa. From all the results we can infer, with significant statistics that how much bigger it will be the self-actualization biggest will be the acceptance of the illness. The person on haemodialysis treatment, it is collated with limitations in its daily life but it must react searching a direction for life, a reason that makes it move and not adopt a state of passive resignation. The health professionals can help it in this process of development of its potentials, necessary and positive to its accomplishment as person

Evaluation of acceptance of chronic disease: a need of health professionals

Acceptance means recognizing and understanding the limitations and losses caused by the disease, being instrumental in the adaptation of the individual to the disease. Objectives: In this study we analyze the acceptance of the disease, translated by some type of disability in individuals with chronic disease. Methods: This is a quantitative descriptive and explanatory study in 210 patients on hemodialysis and 53 diabetic patients, in Portugal. The acceptance was evaluated using the Acceptance of Illness Scale (AIS), (Felton, 1984), with only eight items and which directly focuses on the extent of acceptance of the disease, and analyzed their reliability. Results: The AIS is a scale to measure reliably the acceptance of the disease because it has good internal consistency (Cronbach’s a = 0.794). In descriptive statistics obtained for the behavior of the two samples, we find that the minimum and maximum values observed (10-40) are within the expected range (8-40). We observed no statistically significant differences in outcomes for the two groups analyzed. The hemodialysis and diabetic sample exhibit moderate levels of acceptance of the disease, respectively on average, 22.76/26.93. Conclusions: Regardless of the disease and the impact of your treatment, your acceptance is crucial in the adaptation process, by which healthcare professionals should consider as a positive variable, it is important to review the chronically ill

Avaliação da aceitação da doença crónica

A investigação na área da saúde volta-se cada vez mais para uma perspetiva mais abrangente ou holística de forma a avaliar os efeitos ou consequências que os cuidados de saúde têm sobre a saúde. O que importa e como se sente o doente e não o que os profissionais de saúde pensam como se deveria sentir em função das práticas terapêuticas

Transformative Orientation in Learning to Teach Physics and Chemistry

Initial teacher training (ITT) involves different perspectives regarding the role of theoretical versus practical knowledge in teaching and requires an answer to how students integrate theory and practice and how learning environments contribute to this integration. Many authors have been advocating the idea of teachers as researchers of their own practice as a way to establish connections between theoretical knowledge and the knowledge gained from their practice. The ITT program of the University of Lisbon is based on a conceptual framework that proposes that student-teachers construct professional knowledge from researching their own practice in a context of supervised practice. This paper aims at describing the interpretations that student-teachers make about the Portuguese science curriculum, as well as describe the research questions and methods that they used for collecting data concerning students learning, and their evaluation of the learning process. For that, 31 written reports were analyzed. While involved in the design of the didactic proposals, student-teachers were encouraged to interpret the formal curriculum and turn it into a teaching curriculum, and to critically reflect on the curriculum. By researching their own practice, they developed new understanding regarding students’ difficulties, promoting students’ conceptual change and managing classroom and students’ behavior

Science Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices: Collaboration as a Trigger of Change

This research aims to study a collaborative process between teachers and a facilitator and to examine how this process contributes for changing Physics and Chemistry teachers’ beliefs and practices. In order to achieve these goals, a specific program of professional development was studied, which characteristics were sourced on literature concerning the relationship between beliefs and practices and between reflection and collaboration. Five Physics and Chemistry teachers were involved in a qualitative study.  The results show that the collaboration, grounded on a trusting relationship and on a constant negotiation of meanings, was essential for teachers to overcome their fears and uncertainties, to stimulate teachers to develop different practices and to leave their comfort zone and review some of their beliefs

Nurses and supervision of clinical training

Clinical supervision gains an important role, understood as a process of guidance, monitoring and support of students, that makes the learning process easier and promotes personal and professional skills. The objective of the study is to analyze the prespetiva nurses on the management of clinical education in undergraduate nursing, because they are the ones who daily deal with the problems of educational, organizational, functional, ethical and professional countenance in the supervision of Clinical Training students. Methods: It’s an explorative, descriptive, correlational and transversal study, with quantitative nature, that comes next to an inquiry of questions, using CICRS (Clinical Instructor Characteristics Ranking Scale). Results: From the results, we point out the fact that supervisor nurses are mainly female, with ages between 30 and 39 years, with college degree, and professional experience between 10 and 19 years. The most valued aspects are Nurse and Human Being. To the extent Teacher the most important indicator was on average transmit knowledge (6.55). For the Nurse dimension: to be competent as a nurse (9.92). To the Person dimension: be honest (9.19). Conclusions: This study presents various important aspects to set the management of the supervising process, assuring the responsibility of the participants and promoting the safety and the quality of performances in the Nurse Clinical Teaching