The Care Experience in the Family Health Program (PSF): Potentials and Limits

Objectives: To describe the comprehensiveness of care, and discuss the role of creativity and sensitivity of health professionals in the Family Health Program, and analyze the possibilities of institutionalization and sustainability in Natal, Brazil between 2005 and 2007

Direito Internacional

Divulgação dos SUMÁRIOS das obras recentemente incorporadas ao acervo da Biblioteca Ministro Oscar Saraiva do STJ. Em respeito à lei de Direitos Autorais, não disponibilizamos a obra na íntegra.Localização na estante: 341.1/.8 U17

New England farmers meet immigrant needs

A multi-institution agricultural collaborative is researching ways to help Massachusetts farmers grow and market local immigrants’ favorite home-country vegetables. In a related effort, immigrants are learning techniques for being successful farmers themselves.Immigrants - New England ; Agriculture - New England

A Multistage Method for SCMA Codebook Design Based on MDS Codes

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) has been recently proposed for the future generation of wireless communication standards. SCMA system design involves specifying several parameters. In order to simplify the procedure, most works consider a multistage design approach. Two main stages are usually emphasized in these methods: sparse signatures design (equivalently, resource allocation) and codebook design. In this paper, we present a novel SCMA codebook design method. The proposed method considers SCMA codebooks structured with an underlying vector space obtained from classical block codes. In particular, when using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, our proposed design provides maximum signal-space diversity with a relatively small alphabet. The use of small alphabets also helps to maintain desired properties in the codebooks, such as low peak-to-average power ratio and low-complexity detection.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communication Letter

The connection between legal and illegal firearms markets: how the change in gun control policy in Brazil intensified this link

In recent decades, the global debate on gun control has been prominent, with many countries adopting more restrictive policies. Brazil followed this trend by implementing stringent measures in 2003; however, the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 introduced normative changes aimed at facilitating public access to firearms and ammunition. Throughout his term, the legal firearms market doubled, allowing access to weaponry previously restricted to the general public. The analyzed hypothesis suggests that these normative changes, especially those related to the quantity and authorization of acquisition of previously restricted firearms, altered the types of firearms in circulation, strengthening the interaction between legal and illegal markets. Using data from the mandatory firearms re-registration, a total of 962,782 firearms were analyzed. The assessment of the increase in circulation of these firearms in the illegal market was conducted through the analysis of seizures in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, revealing a significant growth in seizures of these types of firearms, possibly correlated with the increase in their circulation. Three police investigations were selected to exemplify how the connection between markets intensified, allowing criminals to obtain firearms in the legal market that were previously only accessible through international trafficking or diversion from state agencies

Experiencing the dutch finest

This report will include a detailed study of the multinational brewery Heineken N.V. and comparison with its main competitors, alongside a thorough analysis on Heineken’s performance during the last years. To better understand how the market operates and what could happen to it in a near future, the industry trends and possible risks were observed and studied. All of this prior research would assist us to have a clear outlook for the two last steps, the forecasting of Heineken’s operations and future valuation. As a result, a HOLD recommendation was proposed to investors