Tópicos em Ciências da Saúde Volume 2

Inter-Individual Responses to Citrulline Malate Oral Supplementation on Post-Exercise Hypotension in Hypertensives: A 24-Hour Analysis

Studies have persuasively demonstrated that citrulline has a key role in the arginine-nitric oxide system, increasing nitric oxide bioavailability, an important mediator of peripheral vasodilation.

Methodical features of foreign language teaching to linguistically gifted students of non-linguistic specialties: Foreign experience

The relevance of the problem under investigation is caused by the fact that the issue of gifted students’ education is one of the most difficult and interesting aspects of contemporary Russian and foreign pedagogy. Nowadays working with gifted students appears as an important and priority educational policy worldwide. The analysis of the research literature shows that the problem of talented students is constantly attracts the attention of educators and psychologists. The purpose of the article is to reveal conditions and factors, forms and methods of development of gifted students’ abilities including linguistically gifted students of non-linguistic specialties. The article gives a detailed analysis of classroom work, extracurricular activities and independent forms of work. The author focuses on the specifics of working with gifted students, as well as on the analysis of foreign associations’ activities, projects and programs. The leading approach to the study of this problem is a method of historical and logical analysis of regulatory documents of foreign governments and research papers of leading scientists dealing with gifted education issues. The main result of the study is the identification of the forms for the learning organization that promote creative achievements of linguistically gifted students. The materials of the article can be used in different researches and will be interesting for a wide range of readers dealing with the problems of teacher training for work with gifted students.

A aplicabilidade da Norma Técnica nº 12/2007 – Brigada de Incêndio, que se aplica a todas as edificações e áreas de risco enquadradas na lei nº 1.787, de 15 de maio de 2007, do estado do Tocantins, no CMEI Contos de Fada

New Trends of Teaching Methodology in Embroidery Classes to Children with Intellectual Disability

Pegada hídrica de plantas hortículas cultivadas no semiárido brasileiro

A atual crise hídrica está relacionada a diversas ações antropogênicas no planeta, entre elas, a utilização demasiada da água no setor agrícola. A Pegada Hídrica (PH) é um indicador da apropriação de recursos hídricos que quantifica o uso direto e indireto deste recurso, possuindo o intuito de subsidiar o estabelecimento de políticas e ações concretas para economia de água. O objetivo desta pesquisa é determinar as pegadas hídricas de culturas do tomate (Solanum lycopersicum), cebola (Allium cepa), feijão (Phaseolus vulgaris), alface (Lactuca sativa L.) e o coentro (Coriandrum sativum). A parte experimental do estudo foi realizado na Estação Agrometeorológica Experimental (EstAgro - DCA da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande) e foram determinadas a PH de cada cultura com base na evapotranspiração das culturas determinadas pelo método do balanço hídrico do solo e pelo software Cropwat. A evapotranspiração de referência (ETo) foi determinada com base no método de Penman-Monteith. Os resultados deste trabalho permitem concluir que as hortaliças folhosas têm alto componente da PH cinza comparada com os componentes verde e azul da cultura. As pegadas hídricas azul e verde aumentam de acordo com o aumento da irrigação e precipitação pluvial, porém a pegada hídrica cinza varia apenas em função da produtividade.

Efecto de un programa de paciente experto en insuficiencia cardiaca

espanolIntroduccion: Una estrategia que ha mostrado ser efectiva para promover el autocuidado en los pacientes con falla cardiaca es la formacion de diadas y grupos que brinden apoyo de pares para favorecer el logro de metas individuales.Objetivo general: Determinar el efecto de un programa de paciente experto en falla cardiaca en los conocimientos relacionados con la adherencia al tratamiento y en la satisfaccion. Metodo: Se realizo un estudio piloto descriptivo de corte transversal en pacientes con diagnosticos de falla cardiaca en una institucion de cuarto nivel. El tamano de la muestra correspondio a toda la poblacion con los criterios de restriccion (N: 20 sujetos). Se implemento un programa de paciente experto durante 6 meses y se midieron los desenlaces de nivel de conocimientos y satisfaccion. Para la recoleccion de la informacion se utilizo un test de conocimientos sobre adherencia al tratamiento y una encuesta de satisfaccion. La informacion se proceso a traves del programa IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0, y se realizo un analisis descriptivo con distribucion de frecuencias absolutas y relativas. Resultados: Mas del 95% de los pacientes mostro mejoria significativa en el nivel de conocimientos y el 85% refirio el nivel de satisfaccion global mas alto (muy satisfechos), reflejado en la dimension de fidelizacion y efectividad. Conclusiones: El programa del paciente experto en insuficiencia cardiaca se constituye en una intervencion costo-efectiva que proporciona capacidades para ayudar a otros pacientes a adquirir autoconfianza y habilidades en el manejo de su condicion de salud. EnglishIntroduction: One of the strategies that has shown improvement in self-care for patients with heart failure is the formation of dyads and groups to provide peer support and achieve individual goals. General objective: To determine the effect of an expert patient program on heart failure related to the knowledge about adherence to treatment and satisfaction.Method: A sectional-descriptive pilot study was conducted in patients with heart failure diagnoses in a fourth-level institution. The sample size represents the entire population with the restriction criteria (N: 20 subjects). An expert patient program was implemented for 6 months and the measured outcomes were level of knowledge and satisfaction. Data was gathered from a knowledge test on adherence to treatment and a satisfaction poll. Information was processed with IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0. The distribution of absolute and relative frequencies was performed by descriptive analysis. Results: More than 95% of patients showed improvement in the level of knowledge and 85% reported a high global level of satisfaction (very satisfied), reflected in the dimension of loyalty and effectiveness. Conclusions: The expert patient in heart failure program is a cost-effective intervention, which provides capabilities to help other patients gain self-confidence and skills to manage their health condition.

METHODS FOR SYNTHESIS OF POLYETHERIMIDES

The review summarizes and systematizes the currently known data on the synthesis of polyetherimides. Polyetherimides are a promising class of high-quality polymeric materials with a valua-ble set of properties that can be directed to the appropriate design of the polymer chain. Thus, to obtain polyetherimide with a lower glass transition temperature, as much as possible of ether bonds are introduced into the macromolecule, as well as m-phenylene fragments that increase the flexibility of the polymer chain. Polyetherimides of this structure are amorphous and soluble in a number of amide solvents and chlorinated hydrocarbons. Three main methods for the preparation of polyetherimide are discussed in detail: high-temperature polycondensation by nucleophilic substitution in solution, polycondensation in a melt, and production of polyetherimide directly during extrusion. The most promising method for today is the method of high-temperature polycondensation in solution by the reaction of nucleophilic aromatic substitution. As a halogen-containing monomer, chlorine or fluorophthalic anhydrides are used in the synthesis. The reaction of diamines with chlorophthalic anhydride proceeds at lower rates in comparison with the fluorine-containing analog. However, the use of fluorophthalic anhydride proved to be inexpedient from the economic point of view. The economic availability of the corresponding nitrosubstituted phthalic derivatives and high rates of displacement of nitro groups with the help of aryl oxide ions allow to product the commercially avail-able polymers. As solvents, aprotic dipolar (dimethylsulfoxide, N,N-dimethylformamide, N,N-dimethylacetamide, N-methylpyrrolidone, etc.), nonpolar organic (o-dichlorobenzene, methylene chloride, etc.) and phenolic solvents can be used. However, the increasing attention of researchers is attracted to the synthesis in the environment of o-dichlorobenzene.

Two Approaches to Analyzing Data of Project Teams

MUSLIM DIASPORIC IDENTITIES IN KAMILA SHAMSIE’S HOME FIRE (2017)

Beside accepted with surprise across the world, the winning of Brexit referendum also brings up the tangled web into the United Kingdom’s political and cultural realms. Recent studies mention there is correlation between the voting behavior and issues of identity, immigration, and Islamophobia. Kamila Shamsie alludes these issues in her latest novel, Home Fire (2017). By focusing on three main protagonists, this close-textual analysis examines how Pakistani diasporic community construct their identities within the novel. To support the analysis, this article draws upon Hall’s identity theory (1990) and Bhabha’s Unhomely (1992). Research findings show how Shamsie’s novel represents heterogeneity within Pakistani Muslims diasporic identities, rather than frame them within single collective identity. Therefore, the novel criticizes Eurocentric biases point of view by portraying Muslim female protagonists’ fluid identities while defending their Muslimness by using veil and praying to God. On the other hand, the novel maintains established stereotype by drawing Muslim male protagonist’s affiliation with Daesh as representation of radical group to problematize the notion of radicalism.