Assessing the potential of golf among university students to leverage SDG 3 in Planbelas : a consulting project

Mestrado Bolonha em ManagementThis consulting project was executed under the partnership of ISEG school of economics and Planbelas, with the main goal of addressing Planbelas’ main concern, which was the potential of profitability of Belas’ new plots of land. In order to disintegrate the case, the project focused on a key component, which was the Assessment of the Potential of Golf Among University Students to Leverage SDG 3 in Planbelas. To resolve this issue, both an internal and external analysis were executed in Belas, comprising a SWOT analysis and the five forces of porter, where it was possible to access the potential and further comprehend the on-going status of Belas. The methodology of the project encompassed both interviews and surveys, where the interviews were semi-structured. The surveys conducted were used solely to support the already available data obtained from the interviews conducted, no deep analysis was conducted. The data was analysed to make new observations and provide a more comprehensive insight of the consulting project. The data analysed reinforces the position that Belas targeting SDG 3 and making use of the golf course to promote itself could also prove beneficial to university students. Golf being able to offer advantages both physically and mentally, would give students a chance not only to socialize but also to lead a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, Belas would be promoting both golf and a healthy lifestyle, as socialisation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Effect of adolescent pregnancy on maternal and foetal health

Background: Adolescence is a time when structural, functional, and psychosocial developments occur. Pregnancy during teenage can adversely affect the health of both the mother and the foetus as the adolescent female concerned is yet to attain her full growth potential. Adolescent pregnancy is a global phenomenon with serious health, social and economic consequences. Methods: It was a single centric, prospective, observational study. 211 Patients who attended the inpatient or outpatient department of obstetrics and gynaecology in an urban tertiary care hospital and followed up till outcome. Results: As per the study conducted, almost 83% of teenage mothers conceive by 19 years of age. Owing to the increasing awareness regarding maternal and foetal wellbeing, majority of the teenage mothers were booked. Teenage mothers and their babies are prone to intrapartum and postpartum complications as well as stillbirths. The most common comorbidity associated in teenage mothers was pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) spectrum disorders followed by anaemia. The rate of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission for babies of teenage mothers was 10%. Conclusions: Adolescent mothers and their babies are at a risk of complications than other mothers in the twenties. The need of the hour are comprehensive measures and convergence among various departments to address all the needs of adolescents. Robust measures and policies to end teenage marriages and consequent pregnancies are exactly what the developing nations need at present

Audiological findings in individual with glomus tympanicum: A case report

Paragangliomas are also called glomus tumors, a rare, neuroendocrine neoplasm that arises from the paraganglia in the glomus cells derived from the embryo in the neural crest of the sympathetic nervous system (a branch of the autonomic nervous system). This case report is on glomus tympanicum on the right side in a 36-year-old male presented with pulsatile tinnitus and ear pain. On otoscopic examination and radiological findings, it appears as a reddish mass behind the tympanic membrane. The pre-operative and the post-operative audiological findings are profiled and discussed

Implicações económicas do contrabando em Moçambique: 2006-2016

A presente pesquisa analisa as implicações económicas do contrabando, em Moçambique, no período de 2006-2016, recorrendo aos métodos qualitativos e quantitativos. Com esses recursos, o estudo atesta a vulnerabilidade das fronteiras nacionais ao contrabando de diversas mercadorias de elevado valor comercial, identificando as rotas utilizadas e os produtos mais vulneráveis, com ênfase para os fluxos que ocorrem através dos corredores que ligam os portos nacionais ao hinterland. Tendo presente as diferentes apurações; recorrendo aos regimes aduaneiros de importação, exportação e de trânsito; e usando modelos económicos de cálculo da sonegação de impostos aduaneiros estimou-se o valor da evasão fiscal em Moçambique e determinou-se o seu peso na Receita Fiscal (RF) e no Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), numa análise que permitiu avaliar que Moçambique sem contrabando seria um país superavitário. Recorrendo a estatística descritiva e a análise factorial constatou-se que existe um paradoxo e uma dicotomia na percepção do contrabando, como um evento social, na sobrevivência das populações e como uma ocorrência de dimensão internacional, na procura de superlucros por redes criminosas, com implicações na soberania económica dos Estados. Com base nessas ilações, o estudo apreciou a correlação entre os vários determinantes do contrabando e concluiu haver associação dos seguintes factores: (i) acções protagonizadas pelas redes de crime internacional; (ii) influência dos hábitos culturais das populações que habitam ao longo da linha de fronteira; (iii) desajuste do modelo de organização nacional das Alfândegas; (iv) fracas políticas institucionais na gestão e desenvolvimento de recursos humanos; (v) corrupção nas instituições públicas; e (vi) tráfico de influências nos processos de tomada de decisão. Com isso, viu-se que a mudança de mentalidade na gestão da coisa pública e a reformulação do paradigma na gestão dos processos aduaneiros no país seriam o ponto de partida para o sucesso de qualquer reforma visando o combate ao contrabando.This research aims at analysing the economic implications of smuggling in Mozambique covering a time span from 2006 to 2016, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Based on these methods, the study examines the vulnerability of national borders to smuggling of diverse goods of high trade value, identifying common utilised routes and the more vulnerable goods, with emphasis on steams that occur across the corridors linking national ports to hinterland countries. Having gone through different results; using different customs regimes such as import, export, and transit; and using economic models in order to calculate customs tax evasion, the study estimated the value of tax evasion in Mozambique and determined its weight for tax revenue (TR) and for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in an analysis that allowed to assess that without smuggling, Mozambique would be financial self-sufficient. Using descriptive statistic and factorial analysis, it was noticed that there is a paradox and a dichotomy in perception of smuggling, which is understood as a social event for the subsistence of the population and as an occurrence of international dimension wherein the search for super profits by criminal networks casts implications to economic sovereignty of States. Based on these lessons, the study looked at the correlation between different determinants of smuggling and concluded that the phenomenon is associated to the following factors: (i) actions driven by international criminal networks; (ii) influence of cultural habits of the population dwelling in the border regions; (iii) mismatch of the national model for customs organization; (iv) weak institutional policies for management and development of human resources; (v) corruption at public institutions; and (vi) traffic of influence in the decision making process. In light of these factors, it was noticed that mindset change in managing public goods; and the reset of paradigm in managing customs affairs in the country would be a starting point for the success of any reform aiming at cracking down smuggling

Tuberculosis chemotherapy: current drug delivery approaches

Tuberculosis is a leading killer of young adults worldwide and the global scourge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is reaching epidemic proportions. It is endemic in most developing countries and resurgent in developed and developing countries with high rates of human immunodeficiency virus infection. This article reviews the current situation in terms of drug delivery approaches for tuberculosis chemotherapy. A number of novel implant-, microparticulate-, and various other carrier-based drug delivery systems incorporating the principal anti-tuberculosis agents have been fabricated that either target the site of tuberculosis infection or reduce the dosing frequency with the aim of improving patient outcomes. These developments in drug delivery represent attractive options with significant merit, however, there is a requisite to manufacture an oral system, which directly addresses issues of unacceptable rifampicin bioavailability in fixed-dose combinations. This is fostered by the need to deliver medications to patients more efficiently and with fewer side effects, especially in developing countries. The fabrication of a polymeric once-daily oral multiparticulate fixed-dose combination of the principal anti-tuberculosis drugs, which attains segregated delivery of rifampicin and isoniazid for improved rifampicin bioavailability, could be a step in the right direction in addressing issues of treatment failure due to patient non-compliance

Implicações económicas do contrabando em Moçambique: 2006-2016

A presente pesquisa analisa as implicações económicas do contrabando, em Moçambique, no período de 2006-2016, recorrendo aos métodos qualitativos e quantitativos. Com esses recursos, o estudo atesta a vulnerabilidade das fronteiras nacionais ao contrabando de diversas mercadorias de elevado valor comercial, identificando as rotas utilizadas e os produtos mais vulneráveis, com ênfase para os fluxos que ocorrem através dos corredores que ligam os portos nacionais ao hinterland. Tendo presente as diferentes apurações; recorrendo aos regimes aduaneiros de importação, exportação e de trânsito; e usando modelos económicos de cálculo da sonegação de impostos aduaneiros estimou-se o valor da evasão fiscal em Moçambique e determinou-se o seu peso na Receita Fiscal (RF) e no Produto Interno Bruto (PIB), numa análise que permitiu avaliar que Moçambique sem contrabando seria um país superavitário. Recorrendo a estatística descritiva e a análise factorial constatou-se que existe um paradoxo e uma dicotomia na percepção do contrabando, como um evento social, na sobrevivência das populações e como uma ocorrência de dimensão internacional, na procura de superlucros por redes criminosas, com implicações na soberania económica dos Estados. Com base nessas ilações, o estudo apreciou a correlação entre os vários determinantes do contrabando e concluiu haver associação dos seguintes factores: (i) acções protagonizadas pelas redes de crime internacional; (ii) influência dos hábitos culturais das populações que habitam ao longo da linha de fronteira; (iii) desajuste do modelo de organização nacional das Alfândegas; (iv) fracas políticas institucionais na gestão e desenvolvimento de recursos humanos; (v) corrupção nas instituições públicas; e (vi) tráfico de influências nos processos de tomada de decisão. Com isso, viu-se que a mudança de mentalidade na gestão da coisa pública e a reformulação do paradigma na gestão dos processos aduaneiros no país seriam o ponto de partida para o sucesso de qualquer reforma visando o combate ao contrabando.This research aims at analysing the economic implications of smuggling in Mozambique covering a time span from 2006 to 2016, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Based on these methods, the study examines the vulnerability of national borders to smuggling of diverse goods of high trade value, identifying common utilised routes and the more vulnerable goods, with emphasis on steams that occur across the corridors linking national ports to hinterland countries. Having gone through different results; using different customs regimes such as import, export, and transit; and using economic models in order to calculate customs tax evasion, the study estimated the value of tax evasion in Mozambique and determined its weight for tax revenue (TR) and for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in an analysis that allowed to assess that without smuggling, Mozambique would be financial self-sufficient. Using descriptive statistic and factorial analysis, it was noticed that there is a paradox and a dichotomy in perception of smuggling, which is understood as a social event for the subsistence of the population and as an occurrence of international dimension wherein the search for super profits by criminal networks casts implications to economic sovereignty of States. Based on these lessons, the study looked at the correlation between different determinants of smuggling and concluded that the phenomenon is associated to the following factors: (i) actions driven by international criminal networks; (ii) influence of cultural habits of the population dwelling in the border regions; (iii) mismatch of the national model for customs organization; (iv) weak institutional policies for management and development of human resources; (v) corruption at public institutions; and (vi) traffic of influence in the decision making process. In light of these factors, it was noticed that mindset change in managing public goods; and the reset of paradigm in managing customs affairs in the country would be a starting point for the success of any reform aiming at cracking down smuggling