Mastócitos: promotores da fibrose miocárdica na doença hipertensiva cardíaca?

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The Potential of Printed Electronics and Personal Fabrication in Driving the Internet of Things

In the early nineties, Mark Weiser, a chief scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), wrote a series of seminal papers that introduced the concept of Ubiquitous Computing. Within this vision, computers and others digital technologies are integrated seamlessly into everyday objects and activities, hidden from our senses whenever not used or needed. An important facet of this vision is the interconnectivity of the various physical devices, which creates an Internet of Things. With the advent of Printed Electronics, new ways to link the physical and digital worlds became available. Common printing technologies, such as screen, flexography, and inkjet printing, are now starting to be used not only to mass-produce extremely thin, flexible and cost effective electronic circuits, but also to introduce electronic functionality into objects where it was previously unavailable. In turn, the growing accessibility to Personal Fabrication tools is leading to the democratization of the creation of technology by enabling end-users to design and produce their own material goods according to their needs. This paper presents a survey of commonly used technologies and foreseen applications in the field of Printed Electronics and Personal Fabrication, with emphasis on the potential to drive the Internet of Things

As birras na criança

Faz-se uma revisão das causas, manifestações e prevalência das birras na criança. São referidas perturbações do neurodesenvolvimento e síndromes genéticos cujo quadro clínico inclui birras, os sinais de alarme que devem levar o médico a considerar uma etiologia secundária e, também, as indicações para terapêutica farmacológica. Sugerem-se várias estratégias a aconselhar aos pais para lidar com as birras dos seus filhos

Sudden cardiac death and valvular pathology

Sudden death due to valvular heart disease is reported to range from 1% to 5% in native valves and around 0.2%-0.9%/year in prosthesis. The nature of the diseases is varied, from heritable, congenital to acquired. It may affect both genders in multiple age groups. The authors show and comment examples of the major nosologic aetiologies underlying unexpected exitus letalis of valvular nature.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Impact of the fear of Covid-19 on perceptions of physical shopping convenience and consumer behaviour in Portugal

The aim of this study is top rovide an insight of the fear of Covid-19 felt by the Portuguese and how it impacted their perceptions of physical shopping convenience and consumer behaviour. Specifically, utilitarian and hedonic shopping, the likelihood of stockpiling products and the probability to change the offline shopping to online channels. Statistical evidence was found that fear does influence consumer perceptions and behaviours. Results of this study can be used by companies to better understand customers’ reactions to fear-induced situations and quickly adapt to these changes

Utilização do Facebook como meio de comunicação eficiente com autistas

The article aims at presenting a complete study on the use of Internet, namely the social network "Facebook”, as an effective communication means and as a link of social interactions with knowledge society on Asperger Syndrome patients.The adopted methodology was the content analysis of the network profiles, concerning the ommunicational character which relates to the term “social interaction”. Following the data analysis, it has been verified that this type of communication may be inclusive but not efficient. It is important to mention that this study did not provide answers or present a concise solution for a given problem. However, the authors aimed at presenting a reflection on the theme and point out that there are issues to be thoroughly considered.It is through these interrogations that other studies may be developed and the quality of social life, particularly that of individuals with some kind of Autism Spectrum Disorder, may be increased

Dor no idoso: satisfação com o tratamento

Conscientes de que a dor é um flagelo a nível mundial, um fenómeno complexo e multifactorial presente na vida de qualquer ser humano, numa determinada fase da vida, e porque efectivamente nos preocupa o sofrimento dos idosos, a forma como eles vivenciam a dor, as repercussões que esta acarreta para as suas vidas, bem como se os tratamentos e as estratégias implementadas são eficazes, decidimos desenvolver este trabalho, cujo objectivo principal é o de “Identificar o grau de satisfação dos Idosos face ao tratamento da dor”. Sabe-se que a satisfação é hoje um indicador de qualidade dos cuidados de saúde, que permite responder às expectativas dos idosos e também identificar estratégias e implementar acções de melhoria, que visem obter ganhos em saúde. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, de natureza quantitativa (questionário sociodemográfico e a Escala de Satisfação com o Tratamento da Dor), seguindo uma via decritivo-correlacional. Utilizou-se uma amostra não probabilística por conveniência, constituída por 89 idosos do Concelho da Covilhã. A amostra estudada apresenta uma média de idades de 77 anos, casados, reformados, a residir no meio rural e detendo baixos níveis de instrução, apresentam na sua maioria dor crónica de origem músculo esquelética, de duração superior a 1 ano com predomínio na região dorso lombar. Grande parte da nossa amostra refere estar satisfeita com o tratamento para a sua dor, contudo as análises exploratórias revelaram que as variáveis como a idade, local de residência, rendimento mensal e religião têm um impacto na satisfação do tratamento com a dor. Palavras Chave: dor, idoso, satisfação com o tratamento da dor.ABSTRACT Conscious that pain is a worldwide scourge, a complex and multidimensional phenomena, present in a certain phase of life of any human being and deeply worried with older adults suffering, the way as they feel pain, its impact on their lives, as well as with efficacy of the treatment and of the implemented strategies, we decided to develop this work, which main purpose is “Evaluating the Older Adults satisfaction degree regarding pain treatment”. Today, it’s known that older adults satisfaction is an indicator of health care quality, allowing answering to their expectations as well as planning strategies and implementing actions to improve health of an increasing number of people in this stage of life. Therefore, the question is: in which way social, demographic and clinical conditions of the older adults are related with their pain treatment satisfaction. It is a transversal and quantitative (questionnaire social demographic and the Pain Treatment Satisfaction Scale) study in a descriptive and correlative way. We used a non probabilistic sample of 89 older adults, living in Covilhã Municipality. The studied sample states an average of 77 years old, married and retired old people, living in rural area, having low level of instruction, most of them suffering from musculoskeletal chronic pain, especially low back pain, lasting for more than one year. Most of them report satisfaction with their pain treatment; however deeper analyses showed that conditions such as age, place of living, monthly income and religion affect treatment pain satisfaction. This knowledge about old adults pain treatment satisfaction is relevant to the health care professionals in order to provide a greater autonomy and independence to those individuals, and consequently improving their quality of life. Keywords: pain, old adults, pain treatment satisfaction

Impacto da prática de exercício físico em adolescentes: bem-estar, autoestima e rendimento escolar

O presente estudo partiu de uma amostra de 472 estudantes, do 7º ao 9º ano de três escolas e duas entidades desportivas de Évora, e seis escolas de Lisboa. Procurou-se compreender qual o impacto que a prática de exercício físico tem na adolescência ao nível do bem-estar, autoestima e rendimento escolar através da aplicação da EBEPA e da Escala de Autoestima Global de Rosenberg. Objetivou-se também perceberquais as atitudes dos/as jovens face à educação física e ao exercício físico, através da aplicação do QAAEF e QAEFFCE. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que a prática de exercício físico extracurricular potencia os níveis de bem-estar, autoestima e rendimento escolar dos/as adolescentes. Ao praticarem exercício físico para além do proporcionado pelas aulas de educação física, estes jovens apresentam atitudes mais positivas no que diz respeito ao gosto e importância atribuídos à disciplina e à prática de exercício físico. Os rapazes apresentam resultados mais elevados do que as raparigas, no que diz respeito ao bem-estar e autoestima; Impact of physical exercise in adolescents: well-being, self-esteem and school performance Abstract: This study came from a sample of 472 students, from the 7th to the 9th grade of three schools and two sports entities of Évora, and six schools of Lisbon. We tried to understand the impact that the practice of physical exercise has in adolescence in terms of well-being, self-esteem and school performance through the application of the EBEPA and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale. The goal was also to understand the attitudes of young people in the face of physical education and physical exercise, through the application of QAAEF and QAEFFCE. The results suggest that the practice of extracurricular physical exercise increases levels of well-being, self-esteem and academic achievement of adolescents. By practice physical exercise,not counting physical education classes, these young people exhibit more positive attitudes giving more credit to the discipline and practice of physical exercise. This study confirmed that the boys have higher results than girls, with regard to the well-being and self-esteem

Rudolf Virchow: 200th birth anniversary

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Polymethyl methacrylate balls: an unexpected and surprising finding during an autopsy

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