Signs Workshop: the importance of natural gestures in the promotion of early communication skills of children with developmental disabilities

This article emphasises the importance of natural gestures and describes the framework and the development process of the “Signs Workshop” CD-ROM, which is a multimedia application for the promotion of early communication skills of children with developmental disabilities. Signs Workshop CD-ROM was created in the scope of Down’s Comm Project, which was financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and is the result of a partnership between UNICA (Communication and Arts Research Unit of the University of Aveiro) and the Portuguese Down Syndrome Association (APPT21/Differences).Calouste Gulbenkian Foundatio

Comportamento parental face Trissomia 21

Neste artigo são apresentados, brevemente, os resultados de um estudo exploratório realizado com cinquenta utentes da Extensão da Brandoa do Centro de Saúde da Venda Nova (Amadora) com a finalidade de investigar a relação entre participação comunitária no desenvolvimento dos cuidados de saúde primários e a satisfação dos utentes em relação à qualidade dos cuidados. Os resultados evidenciam a importância de fomentar uma mudança organizacional nos Centros de Saúde que centre o processo da qualidade nos utentes, para que estes sejam envolvidos e participem activamente no desenvolvimento dos cuidados de saúde primários

Comportamento parental face à Trissomia 21

O objectivo deste estudo consistiu na construção de uma teoria sobre o comportamento parental em mães de crianças com Trissomia 21. Os participantes foram dezoito mães de crianças com Trissomia 21, cujos filhos tinham idades compreendidas entre os dois e os nove anos. Foram utilizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, analisadas de acordo com o método Grounded Theory. Encontram-se nestas mães três preocupações fundamentais: o desenvolvimento, o futuro e a discriminação que os seus filhos sofrem ou podem vir a sofrer da parte da sociedade. Para lidar com estas preocupações os pais desenvolvem estratégias, nomeadamente: estimular, fazer comparações favoráveis, minimizar a situação, aprender a viver, viver o dia-a-dia, preparar os restantes irmãos, construir o futuro, promover a autonomia e a auto-estima da criança, normalizar, igualizar a educação, valorizar a situação e valorizar a criança e as suas características positivas

Depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior after first-episode psychosis : a comprehensive systematic review

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior are common among patients that suffered a first-episode psychosis. We searched Web of KnowledgeSM and Pubmed® for English and Portuguese original articles investigating prevalence of depressive symptoms and/or suicidal behavior and associated factors after first-episode psychosis. We included 19 studies from 12 countries, 7 studied depressive symptoms and 12 suicidal behavior. The findings confirm that depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior have high rates in the years after first-episode psychosis. Factors identified as being associated with depressive symptoms after first-episode psychosis were anomalies of psychosocial development, poor premorbid childhood adjustment, greater insight, loss, shame, low level of continuing positive symptoms and longer duration of untreated psychosis. Suicidal behavior was associated with previous suicide attempt, sexual abuse, comorbid polysubstance use, lower baseline functioning, longer time in treatment, recent negative events, older patients, longer duration of untreated psychosis, higher positive and negative psychotic symptoms, family history of severe mental disorder, substance use, depressive symptoms and cannabis use. Data also indicate that treatment and early intervention programs reduce depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior after first-episode psychosis. Future research should overcome some methodological discrepancies that exist between studies and limit generalization of current findings.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Endocarditis infecciosa en válvula aórtica por Aggregatibacter aphrophilus

Resumen Hoy día, la endocarditis infecciosa continúa siendo una causa importante de mor-bimortalidad en todo el mundo y es preocupante el aumento del número de infecciones asociadas con agentes virulentos y procedimientos médicos. Presentamos el caso de un indigente con antecedentes médicos desconocidos, ingresado por dolor lumbar, que comenzó a sentirse confuso, hipotenso y taquicárdico. Poco después de su ingreso su estado evolucionó a septicemia grave. Los resultados de las pruebas iniciales también eran indicativos de infarto agudo de miocardio, pero el ecocardiograma transtorácico reveló una vegetación masiva en la válvula aórtica con absceso perivalvular condicionando regurgitación aórtica grave. El paciente murió, con el diagnóstico definitivo de endocarditis infecciosa. Más tarde, en los hemocultivos se identificó Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, un microorganismo del grupo HACEK. Este caso confirma que, a pesar de los resultados favorables en general, hay casos de infecciones graves, sobre todo si el diagnóstico y el tratamiento fueron tardíos

A review of the order mysida in marine ecosystems: What we know what is yet to be known

We acknowledge financial support to FCT through a PhD grant awarded to Oliveira A.F. (2021.06254. BD). Also, we acknowledge financial support to CESAM by FCT/MCTES (UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020+ LA/P/0094/2020) and MARE (UIDB/04292/2020+UIDP/04292/2020) and the project LA/P/0069/2020 granted to the Associate Laboratory ARNET, through national funds.Mysids have a high ecological importance, particularly by their role in marine food chains as a link between the benthic and pelagic realms. Here we describe the relevant taxonomy, ecological aspects such as distribution and production, and their potential as ideal test organisms for environmental research. We also highlight their importance in estuarine communities, trophic webs, and their life history, while demonstrating their potential in addressing emergent problems. This review emphasizes the importance of mysids in understanding the impacts of climate change and their role in the ecology of estuarine communities. Although there is a dearth of research in genomic studies, this review emphasizes the relevance of mysids and their potential as a model organism in environmental assessment studies of prospective or retrospective nature and highlights the need for further research to enhance our understanding of this group’s ecological significance.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Oficina dos Gestos: promoção das competências comunicativas precoces das crianças com défice cognitivo

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkia

Signs Workshop: promotion of early communication skills of children with developmental disabilities

This article presents and describes the framework and the development process of the “Signs Workshop” CD-ROM, which is a multimedia application for the promotion of early communication skills of children with developmental disabilities. Signs Workshop CD-ROM was created in the scope of Down’s Comm Project, which was financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and is the result of a partnership between UNICA (Communication and Arts Research Unit of the University of Aveiro) and the Portuguese Association of Trisomy 21 Carriers (APPT21/Differenças).Calouste Gulbenkian Foundatio

Mass spectrometry approaches to study breast cancer

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