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The emergence of the Web in the 90's and its constant dissemination made possible the access to an immensurable quantity of information. However, a large part of the information available on the Web has, as its main feature, content interpretation directed to people and not to software programs. Therefore, this paper presents a tool for selecting terms of an ontology from text mining techniques and knowledge management, applied over collections of unstructured documents written in Brazilian Portuguese.

Introduction: Adolescence has a huge influence on the learning potential of students .Our purpose is to look for factors that impact Lebanese adolescents’ academic performance. Materials and Methods: A multiregional epidemiological national study from 18 schools during 2014-2015.Questionnaires were distributed to 2506 students 11-18 y.old. Internationally validated scores were used. School performance was evaluated subjectively and objectively. Results were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics.

Aim of the study: To assess the quality of life among patients with chronic renal failure undergoing Hemodialysis and the post- renal transplant patients. Background: The quality of life is the standard of health, comfort and happiness experienced by the group or an individual. This experience of the individual is affected when they fall sick. In case of the patients with chronic disease it is completely diminished. CKD burden is rising rapidly worldwide.

The modifications in the lifestyle have led to the increase in the number of overweight and obesity worldwide. Many are the medications, supplements or other products that promise a fast and easy weight loss and the use of Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin (HCG) is becoming very popular with this purpose. For these reasons, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of HCG on the metabolic profile, or Wistar rats fed a hypercaloric diet. Twenty male Wistar rats were treated with a hypercaloric diet and water ad libitum for four weeks.

Objective: To evaluate the opinion of Nursing students regarding the methodology developed in the discipline of Human Anatomy, and the insertion of different didactic resources in the classes. Method: A cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach was conducted with 62 nursing students. It was observed that the majority of the students were women (90.32%).

Tuberculosis (TB) is spiraling out of control at an alarming rate where reports implicate TNF-α to proliferate MTB 85B in infected host during early stage of infection. Reactive oxygen species plays an important role augmenting TNF-α, which in turn proliferates MTB 85B in bacilli-infected monocytes. Thus, in view of the above, an attempt was made to probe the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects of phytochemicals from plants having medicinal value in combating TB.

The right to life is a constituent part of the legal prerogatives of the human being, guaranteed by the constitutions in several modern countries. Nevertheless, the right to die through assisted suicide in the cases of terminally ill patients and / or victims of degenerative and irreversible diseases is still taboo. The manuscript presented here aims to discuss from the point of view of the theoretical contributions of the Law, Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, the main issues related to suicide.

Rafts constitute an eminent cultural symbol of the fishing communities of the northeast coast of Brazil. This study aimed to describe the use of forest resoures for rafts by identifying the wood used in the construction of rafts housed in the collection of National Sea Museum, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Wood samples were acquired with an increment auger for standard histological preparation for the study of wood anatomy. The species was identified as Apeiba tibourbou (Malvaceae), known locally as pau-jangada, which possesses low density wood that is lightweight and highly buoyant.

The study aims to isolate genus of non specific bacteria in reproductive tract of dairy cattle that experienced Repeat Breeder at KSU Tunas Setia Baru, Pasuruan Regency.. Bacteria isolate was done using Gram coloring, Catalase test, Motility test, Spore test, further bio-chemical test using medium of TSIA, Mannitol and Glucose. Result of observation on 10 bacteria samples was Gram positive bacteria of coccus with white round colony and those that changed MSA medium to be yellowish 2/10 (20%) were samples of number 4 and 5.

The present study was conducted in SUBHARTI UNIVERSITY (CSS HOSPITAL), situated in Meerut city (NH-58), UTTAR PRADESH .The purpose of study was to assess the impact of patient counseling, dietary intake, exercise and eating habits in patient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. The study was conducted on 50 patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. The samples were randomly assigned into 2 groups counseling. Self constructed questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data was interpreted in terms of frequency and percentage.