Childhood adversity and leisure time physical and sports activity in older adults: A cross-sectional analysis from the International Mobility in Aging Study

Aim: The purpose is to examine the relationship between childhood adversity and leisure time physical activity (LTPA) among community-dwelling older adults from high and middle-income sites. Methods: Cross-sectional analysis of 2012 data from older adult ages 64-75 years old from King-ston, Canada; St. Hyacinthe, Canada; Tirana, Albania; Manizales, Colombia; and Natal, Brazil. Principal exposure variables were childhood social and economic adversity. Covariates included participant age, sex, income, and educational attainment. Outcome variables were LTPA and lei-sure time sports activity (LTSA). Results: High-income sites had higher LTPA prevalence than middle-income sites. Females were less likely to engage in LTPA compared to males in Tirana (OR:0.53, 95%CI:0.30-0.94), but were more likely to engage in LTPA in Manizales (OR:2.54, 95%CI:1.54-4.18). Low education was less likely than high education to engage in LTPA in Kingston (OR:0.38, 95%CI:0.19-0.73) and Natal (OR: 0.52, 95%CI:0.28-0.97). Low income was less likely than high income to engage in LTPA in St. Hyacinthe (OR: 0.42, 95%CI:0.20-0.89) and Manizales (OR:0.33, 95%CI:0.16-0.55). In Tirana, low income was more likely than high income to engage in LTPA (OR:5.27, 95%CI:2.06-13.51). Conclusions: Childhood economic and social adversity were not significantly associated with LTPA. Sex, income, and education were associated with older adult PA engagement, however the direction of the association varied by site location. This suggests that the paradigms surrounding PA behavior may vary from city to city. Understanding the site-specific risk factors to PA engage-ment may better inform clinical recommendations and public health approaches to increase PA engagement among older adults across the globe

Educação em Sergipe no início do século XX: uma leitura a partir das comemorações escolares

O presente texto tem como objetivo apresentar alguns aspectos das Festas escolares em Sergipe no início do século XX. Consideramos o início do século XX um momento relevante para a consolidação do projeto de Brasil civilizatório. A historiografia educacional apresenta o final do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX um forte impulso para o fortalecimento da instituição escolar. Nesta pesquisa de abordagem qualitativa, utilizamos a análise histórica documental e a bibliográfica e o fio condutor das apreciações é o da História cultural. As comemorações estão atreladas as tradições e aos rituais, dessa forma foi possível perceber como as instituições de ensino organizavam suas comemorações e atrelavam aos conteúdos curriculares apresentando a sociedade do período estudado a forma d

Non-Deterministic Computational Thinking: Challenges and Opportunities

An educational paradigm that has improved problem-solving capacity is computational thinking, which uses characteristics such as decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and algorithmic thinking. However, most of the resources developed under this paradigm are deterministic. However, the current world is not linear. Non-deterministic dynamics play a vital role in today\u27s world. Decisions about the same fact can cause different events, and students must be prepared to live with such uncertainties. This article discusses challenges and possibilities in the development of non-deterministic computational thinking resources. This work shows a large field of research yet to be worked on, with new possibilities and a great potential to connect new resources with the students\u27 daily lives

Dominó Orgânico: uma proposta inovadora para a aprimoração e utilização do lúdico no ensino da química orgânica

..

O lúdico como ferramenta de aprendizagem

..

Preparation of parents of preterm newborn for hospital discharge: proposal for a protocol / Preparo dos pais de recém-nascido pré-termo para alta hospitalar: proposta de um protocolo

Objetivo: levantar na literatura os critérios descritos para preparo dos pais para alta do recém-nascido pré-termo e propor um protocolo para esse fim. Metodologia: revisão bibliográfica integrativa, qualitativa e exploratória, com busca a partir da estratégia PICO. Resultados: Emergiram da busca três categorias: educação dos pais quanto aos cuidados ao recém-nascido; limitações e desafios enfrentados pela equipe para o preparo dos pais e estratégias utilizadas pela equipe para o preparo dos pais. Propôs-se o protocolo para o preparo dos pais com orientações sobre alimentação, banho, sono, cuidados com a pele e sinais de alerta quanto a saúde do bebê. Discussão: Os resultados apontam a importância do preparo dos pais para a alta do pré-termo, evidenciando que a manutenção da saúde quando em domicilio, terá uma direta relação com tal preparo. Considerações finais: Diante do discutido, há uma necessidade de se estabelecer um processo sistemático, para a implementação de tal ação

Preparation of parents of preterm newborn for hospital discharge: proposal for a protocol / Preparo dos pais de recém-nascido pré-termo para alta hospitalar: proposta de um protocolo

Objetivo: levantar na literatura os critérios descritos para preparo dos pais para alta do recém-nascido pré-termo e propor um protocolo para esse fim. Metodologia: revisão bibliográfica integrativa, qualitativa e exploratória, com busca a partir da estratégia PICO. Resultados: Emergiram da busca três categorias: educação dos pais quanto aos cuidados ao recém-nascido; limitações e desafios enfrentados pela equipe para o preparo dos pais e estratégias utilizadas pela equipe para o preparo dos pais. Propôs-se o protocolo para o preparo dos pais com orientações sobre alimentação, banho, sono, cuidados com a pele e sinais de alerta quanto a saúde do bebê. Discussão: Os resultados apontam a importância do preparo dos pais para a alta do pré-termo, evidenciando que a manutenção da saúde quando em domicilio, terá uma direta relação com tal preparo. Considerações finais: Diante do discutido, há uma necessidade de se estabelecer um processo sistemático, para a implementação de tal ação

Delayed Fluorescence by Triplet–Triplet Annihilation from Columnar Liquid Crystal Films

Delayed fluorescence (DF) by triplet–triplet annihilation (TTA) is observed in solutions of a benzoperylene-imidoester mesogen that shows a hexagonal columnar mesophase at room temperature in the neat state. A similar benzoperylene-imide with a slightly smaller HOMO–LUMO gap, that also is hexagonal columnar liquid crystalline at room temperature, does not show DF in solution, and mixtures of the two mesogens show no DF in solution either, because of collisional quenching of the excited triplet states on the imidoester by the imide. In contrast, DF by TTA from the imide but not from the imidoester is observed in condensed films of such mixtures, even though neat films of either single material are not displaying DF. In contrast to the DF from the monomeric imidoester in solution, DF of the imide occurs from dimeric aggregates in the blend films, assisted by the imidoester. Thus, the close contact of intimately stacked molecules of the two different species in the columnar mesophase leads to a unique mesophase-assisted aggregate DF. This constitutes the first observation of DF by TTA from the columnar liquid crystalline state. If the imide is dispersed in films of polybromostyrene, which provides an external heavy-atom effect facilitating triplet formation, DF is also observed. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) devices incorporating these liquid crystal molecules demonstrated high external quantum efficiency (EQE). On the basis of the literature and to the best of our knowledge, the EQE reported is the highest among nondoped solution-processed OLED devices using a columnar liquid crystal molecule as the emitting layer

Verification and Validation of a Methodology to Numerically Generate Waves Using Transient Discrete Data as Prescribed Velocity Boundary Condition

This work presents a two-dimensional numerical analysis of a wave channel and a oscillating water column (OWC) device. The main goal is to validate a methodology which uses transient velocity data as a means to impose velocity boundary condition for the generation of numerical waves. To achieve this, a numerical wave channel was simulated using regular waves with the same parameters as those used in a laboratory experiment. First, these waves were imposed as prescribed velocity boundary condition and compared with the analytical solution; then, the OWC device was inserted into the computational domain, aiming to validate this methodology. For the numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics ANSYS Fluent software was employed, and to tackle with water–air interaction, the nonlinear multiphase model volume of fluid (VOF) was applied. Although the results obtained through the use of discrete data as velocity boundary condition presented a little disparity; in general, they showed a good agreement with laboratory experiment results. Since many studies use regular waves, there is a lack of analysis with ocean waves realistic data; thus, the proposed methodology stands out for its capacity of using realistic sea state data in numerical simulations regarding wave energy converters (WECs)

Perceptions of puerperas on nursing care in joint accommodation

Objective: To know the perception of the mothers on the care of nursing professionals in collective accommodations. Methods: A descriptive exploratory qualitative study in a medium-sized hospital in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul with 15 women in the immediate postpartum period. The project was approved by the Ethics Committee in Research of the University of the Campaign Region under number 62/2013 CAAE. We used the letter "P" to identify postpartum women, followed by the sequential number of the interviews. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews applied to postpartum women in the months from October to November 2013. Data analysis was used to treat the data. Result: The statements gave rise to two categories: care provided by nursing as a whole and accommodation guidelines about self-care and care of the newborn. Conclusion: The perception of the mothers as to the care of the nursing staff was positive, but educational activities proved fragile