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Handbook of Research on Assertiveness, Clarity, and Positivity in Health Literacy
Health literacy in practice requires the development of techniques that ensure that the patient can better access information, understand its content, know how to use this information, and make better health decisions. If the patient makes better health decisions, there are immediate reflexes in health outcomes. The aim is to develop an approach based on the commitment and creation of an atmosphere of trust that reduces uncertainty, anxiety, and embarrassment based on a process of assertive, clear, and positive communication (ACP model).
The Handbook of Research on Assertiveness, Clarity, and Positivity in Health Literacy brings the consolidation of knowledge, strategies, and techniques to improve health literacy. This book discusses the importance of making sound health decisions: decisions that can save lives, prevent premature deaths, avoid hospitalizations and abusive resources to medical emergencies, and improve overall health outcomes for the individual, family, community, and society. Covering topics such as dietary guidance, health behavior change models, and medication reconciliation, this resource has theoretical and practical aspects essential to health information libraries, hospitals, clinics, health centers, health schools, patient associations, health professionals, medical students, researchers, professors, and academicians.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Clear detection of dusty torus signatures in a Weak-Line Radio Galaxy: the case of PKS 0043-42
We report the clearest detection to date of dusty torus signatures in a
Weak-Line Radio Galaxy (WLRG). The deep Spitzer InfraRed Spectrograph (IRS)
rest-frame mid-infrared (MIR) spectrum of the WLRG PKS 0043-42 (z=0.116) shows
a clear spectral turnover at wavelengths longer than ~20 micron suggestive of
warm dust, as well as a 9.7 micron silicate absorption feature. In addition,
the hard X-ray results, based on Chandra data, strongly support a picture in
which PKS 0043-42 has a torus and accretion disc more typical of Strong-Line
Radio Galaxies (SLRGs). The MIR and X-ray spectra are markedly different from
those of other WLRGs at similar redshifts, and here we show that the former can
be successfully fitted with clumpy torus models with parameters characteristic
of Type-2 AGN tori: close to edge-on (i=74 deg) and relatively broad (torus
angular width=60 deg), with an outer radius of 2 pc, hydrogen column density
~1.6x10^(23) cm^(-2), and AGN bolometric luminosity ~1.6x10^(44) erg s^(-1).
The presence of a compact torus in PKS 0043-42 provides evidence that this WLRG
is fuelled by cold, rather than hot, gas accretion. We suggest that WLRGs are a
diverse population, and PKS 0043-42 may represent a type of radio galaxy in
which the AGN activity has been recently re-triggered as a consequence of
intermittent gas supply, or in which the covering factor of the Narrow-Line
Region (NLR) clouds is relatively low.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. Accepted by MNRA
A comparison between the soft X-ray and [O III] morphologies of active galactic nuclei
Several studies of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) have shown that the
soft X-ray emission presents a size and morphology that resembles that of the
narrow-line region (NLR) traced by [O III]. Since the NLR is mainly constituted
by gas photoionised by the AGN, it seems logical to assume that this is also
the primary source of the soft X-ray emission. However, these results are based
on individual sources or small samples, particularly focused on type-2 Seyfert
galaxies. Very little has been said concerning other types of AGN. The purpose
of this work is to compare the circumnuclear morphologies of soft X-ray and [O
III] images to test whether they match in different optical classes of AGN. Our
sample is composed of 27 AGN: nine type-1 Seyferts, 10 type-2 Seyferts, and
eight low ionisation nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs). We find a good
match in 100% of the type-2 Seyferts in our sample. This correspondence is less
frequent in type-1 Seyferts (22%) and it is not seen in LINERs. The good
resemblance in type-2 Seyferts constitutes an evidence for a common physical
origin. We argue that the lack of correspondence in type-1 Seyferts might be
due to the line of sight perpendicular to the accretion disk. Based on the
morphologies of the eight LINERs in our sample, we discard a common origin for
the soft X-ray and [O III] emissions in these objects. Regarding the X-ray
properties, both high column density and hard X-ray luminosity are associated
with matched morphologies.Comment: Accepted by MNRAS. 20 pages, 9 figure
Impacto da troca de auditores nos honorários pagos pelos clientes
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (graduação)—Universidade de BrasÃlia, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Departamento de Ciências Contábeis e Atuariais, 2017.Este estudo teve por objetivo identificar se a troca de auditores impacta nos honorários pagos a esses profissionais por parte dos clientes, incorporando a análise tanto dos casos em que a troca realizada é obrigatória – definida em função das regras de rodÃzio - ou de forma voluntária. Para a realização dos testes empÃricos foram utilizados dados de uma amostra de 325 companhias não financeiras listadas na BM&FBovespa, extraÃdos das Demonstrações Financeiras e dos Formulários de Referência dessas empresas, disponÃveis no sÃtio da CVM na internet, considerando o perÃodo de 2009 a 2016. Os resultados dos testes revelaram que a remuneração dos auditores no mercado de capitais tem relação negativa com a troca de auditoria, ou seja, as empresas que promovem a troca de auditores, em geral reduzem os honorários dos auditores. Testes adicionais revelaram que essa redução só ocorre nos casos de trocas voluntárias. Quando a troca de auditores se dá em função do atendimento à s regras do rodÃzio obrigatório essa redução na remuneração não é constatada. Em relação à s variáveis de controle, foram constatadas associações positivas entre a remuneração dos auditores e o tamanho do cliente, o fato da firma de auditoria ser uma das big four e a classificação da empresa nos nÃveis de governança corporativa da BM&FBovespa. Não foi constatada relevância estatisticamente relevante entre remuneração e o grau de alavancagem do cliente
Uncovering the host galaxy of the -ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy FBQS J1644+2619
The discovery of -ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1
(NLSy1) galaxies has questioned the need for large black hole masses (> 10
M) to launch relativistic jets. We present near-infrared data of the
-ray-emitting NLSy1 FBQS J1644+2619 that were collected using the
camera CIRCE (Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment) at the 10.4-m Gran
Telescopio Canarias to investigate the structural properties of its host galaxy
and to infer the black hole mass. The 2D surface brightness profile is modelled
by the combination of a nuclear and a bulge component with a S\'ersic profile
with index = 3.7, indicative of an elliptical galaxy. The structural
parameters of the host are consistent with the correlations of effective radius
and surface brightness against absolute magnitude measured for elliptical
galaxies. From the bulge luminosity, we estimated a black hole mass of
(2.10.2) 10 M, consistent with the values
characterizing radio-loud active galactic nuclei.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society Letter, Vol. 469, L11-L1
Air fungal contamination in ten hospitals’ food units from Lisbon
A descriptive study was developed to monitor air fungal contamination in ten food units from hospitals. Fifty air samples of 250 litres were collected through impaction method. Samples were collected in food storage facilities, kitchen, food plating, canteen and also, outside premises, since this is the place regarded as reference. Simultaneously, environmental parameters were also monitored, including temperature and relative humidity through the equipment Babouc, LSI Sistems and according to the International Standard ISO 7726
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