23 research outputs found

    Portuguese Reflexivization and Some Related Problems

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    Correlation and Diagnosis of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Manifestations in Male or Female Genitalia and Oral Cavity

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    The prevalence of the human papilloma virus (HPV) in the oral cavity and oropharynx has not been well elucidated yet. The aim of this study was to correlate the concomitance of prevalence of HPV in genitalia of men and women with or without HIV/Aids, having manifestations in the oral cavity. Dentist’s (DS) attention is justified by the increase in Condylomata acuminatum in the oral cavity and the possible correlation of manifestations in patients´ genitalia. When associated with seropositivity for HIV/Aids, it becomes an important cofactor increasing the possibility of manifestations of the disease in view of the diminished immunity of these patients. The prevalence and concomitance of the percentage of C. acuminatum lesions in genitalia were correlated with those in the oral cavity by using the following variables: gender, age, skin color, category of exposure, habits, general and oral diseases, presence or absence of xerostomia, T-CD4 lymphocytes, and viral load. The results showed the prevalence of 7 (17.95%) for those who presented concomitant genital/oral lesions. Both the experience and results must become public, aiming to disseminate knowledge about the degree of complexity of the epidemic and need for preventive measures to ameliorate propagation of the disease in the population

    Crowdsourcing and minority languages: the case of Galician inflected infinitives

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    Results from a crowdsourced audio questionnaire show that inflected infinitives in Galician are still acceptable in a broad range of contexts, different from those described for European Portuguese. Crucially, inflected infinitives with referential subjects are widely accepted only inside strong islands in Galician (complements of nouns, adjunct clauses). They are widely rejected in non-islands, notably in the complements of epistemic/factive verbs, in contrast with Portuguese and older varieties of Galician (Gondar 1978, Raposo 1987). Statistical analysis shows, however, that, in the complements of epistemic/factive (and desiderative) verbs, inflected infinitives are significantly more acceptable in instances of control, whether partial or exhaustive. In fact, there is no significant difference between these two types of control in Galician, unlike in Portuguese, where inflection is generally better in instances of partial control and is not acceptable in instances of exhaustive local subject control (Modesto 2010, Sheehan 2018). We propose an analysis of this pattern in terms of phase theory. The inflectional domain of non-finite clauses remains visible to the thematic domain of the next clause up, according to the less strict version of the Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky 2001), allowing control to take place. Pronouns/or pronominal inflections in the inflectional domain of visible non-finite clauses therefore get controlled. In islands, however, material in the inflectional domain remains free/referential. Despite this basic pattern, the data are characterized by substantial interspeaker variation. Statistical analysis shows that gender, urban/rural birthplace and mother tongue are all significant factors in this variation, while age and region of birth are not. Most notably, urban-born male bilinguals with Spanish as their mother tongue consistently rate the sentences higher on the Likert scale. Overall, the results show that crowdsourcing can lead to empirically robust syntactic descriptions of minority languages which are likely to be subject to substantial sociolinguistic variation and where judgements from a single social group may be misrepresentative of the general picture. The study also highlights, however, the challenges associated with using crowd-sourced audio-questionnaires of this kind in languages of this kind and the need for statistical analysis of results to control for substantial amounts of variation

    The delay in the acquisition of wh-questions

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    The Vowel Contrast in Brazilian Portuguese

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    Depressão pós-parto- uma revisão de literatura

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    Na perspectiva das mulheres, a depressão é considerada a principal causa de incapacidades tanto em países desenvolvidos quanto em desenvolvimento. Especial atenção é dada à depressão puerperal, que acomete entre 10% e 15% das puérperas em países desenvolvidos, com uma prevalência variando de 16% a 39% no Brasil. Essa condição surge após eventos significativos como gestação, parto e período pós-parto, tornando-se uma preocupação crucial na saúde materna. A depressão puerperal requer cuidados especializados, uma vez que pode acarretar sérias implicações para o bem-estar emocional, social e físico das mulheres, bem como para suas famílias e comunidades. O reconhecimento precoce dos sintomas e a aplicação de intervenções adequadas e apoio emocional são fundamentais para evitar agravamentos e garantir uma recuperação saudável. A abordagem eficaz da depressão puerperal é essencial não apenas para o bem-estar das mães, mas também para promover o desenvolvimento saudável dos recém-nascidos e fortalecer os laços familiares
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