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    Training Programmes Can Change Behaviour and Encourage the Cultivation of Over-Harvested Plant Species

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    Cultivation of wild-harvested plant species has been proposed as a way of reducing over-exploitation of wild populations but lack of technical knowledge is thought to be a barrier preventing people from cultivating a new species. Training programmes are therefore used to increase technical knowledge to encourage people to adopt cultivation. We assessed the impact of a training programme aiming to encourage cultivation of xaté (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti), an over-harvested palm from Central America. Five years after the training programme ended, we surveyed untrained and trained individuals focusing on four potential predictors of behaviour: technical knowledge, attitudes (what individuals think about a behaviour), subjective norms (what individuals perceive others to think of a behaviour) and perceived behavioural control (self assessment of whether individuals can enact the behaviour successfully). Whilst accounting for socioeconomic variables, we investigate the influence of training upon these behavioural predictors and examine the factors that determine whether people adopt cultivation of a novel species. Those who had been trained had higher levels of technical knowledge about xaté cultivation and higher belief in their ability to cultivate it while training was not associated with differences in attitudes or subjective norms. Technical knowledge and perceived behavioural control (along with socio-economic variables such as forest ownership and age) were predictors of whether individuals cultivate xaté. We suggest that training programmes can have a long lasting effect on individuals and can change behaviour. However, in many situations other barriers to cultivation, such as access to seeds or appropriate markets, will need to be addressed

    Can fiber posts increase root stresses and reduce fracture?

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    Representações Sociais das implicações legais da infecção hospitalar e de seu controle Representaciones Sociales de las implicaciones legales de la infección hospitalária y sú control Social Representations of the legal implications of nosocomial infection and its control

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    O estudo objetivou apreender as Representações Sociais das implicações legais da infecção hospitalar (IH) e analisar como essas representações se articulam com a qualidade do trabalho desenvolvido pelos profissionais da saúde e de direito. Os dados foram produzidos através de entrevistas e processados pelo software Alceste 4.8. A análise hierárquica descendente mostrou 04 classes de palavras, que objetivaram as implicações legais da IH, ancoradas nos aspectos ideológicos, históricos e sócio-culturais, no direito que o usuário da saúde tem de não correr riscos, resultantes de ocorrências causadas por negligência dos envolvidos no processo, devendo ser fiscalizadas pelos órgãos competentes para que os responsáveis respondam civilmente e penalmente, pelo descaso ou descuido na assistência hospitalar.<br>El estudio objectivó aprehender las representaciones sociales de las implicaciones legales de la infección hospitalaria (IH) y analizar como esas representaciones se articulan con la cualidad de trabajo desarrollado por los profesionales de la salud y de derecho. Los datos fueron producidos a través de encuestas y procesados por el software Alceste 4.8. El analisis jierarquico decendiente enseñó 04 clases de palabras que objectivaron las impliciones legales de IH , atracado en los aspectos ideológicos, históricos y socio-culturales, en el derecho que el usuario de la salud tiene de no correr riesgos, resultantes de ocurrencias causadas por negligencia de los involuncrados en el proceso, debendo ser fiscalizado por los órganos competentes para que los responsables contesten civilmente y penalmente, por el descaso y descuido en asistencia hospitalaria.<br>The study aimed at learning the social representations of the legal implications of hospital infections (HI) and analyze how these representations are articulated with the quality of work developed by the health and law professionals.The data were produced through interviews and processed by software Alceste4.8. The descendant hierarchical analysis showed 04 classes of words, that objected the legal implications of HI, anchored in the ideological, historical and socio-cultural aspects, in the rights that the health user has not run risks, resulting of occurences caused by negligence of involved in the process having to be fiscalized by the competent organs in order the responsibles answer civily and penaltily, miscase or miscare in hospital assistance

    Influence of Fiber Post Cementation Length on Coronal Microleakage Values in vitro and Finite Element Analysis

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