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Reflecting the greenhouse effect and the increasingly indiscriminate use of natural resources, the worsening of environmental conditions has led an increase in natural disasters around the world, the number of people affected and the costs related to damage caused; for that national and international organizations raise the tone in the measures for prevention and civil defense. Supporting greater performance from institutions and objectives for Disaster Risk Reduction.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the salinity of irrigation water on the growth, productivity and land-use efficiency in mono- and intercropping systems, using maize and cowpea plants. The experiment was carried out in a randomized-block design in split plots. The plots consisted of the crop year (2012 and 2013), the irrigation water salinity treatments (0.9, 2.5 and 5.0 dS m-1) made up the sub-plots, and the sub-sub-plots included the cropping system tested (cowpea, maize, and maize intercropped with cowpea).

O impacto que o câncer causa na família atinge também diretamente o cuidador, e o acolhimento de forma humanizada deve envolver a família, sendo um fator primordial no sucesso para a assistência de qualidade. Diante disso, questiona-se, o que a literatura aborda sobre a percepção do paciente oncológico diante do acolhimento de enfermagem? O objetivodesse estudo é conhecer a satisfação do paciente oncológico acerca do acolhimento de enfermagem, conforme a literatura. Trata-se de um estudo de cunho bibliográfico, com enfoque na revisão sistemática de literatura.

Objective: to carry out a study with women diagnosed with breast cancer and under hormone therapy with Tamoxifen (TAM) and to represent the adverse effects and the lifestyle of the patients, as well as their sociodemographic and therapeutic characteristics in a public oncology hospital of Brazil. Methodology: exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study whose population was composed of women (n = 20) under hormonal treatment.

The research aims to understand the concepts in the literature about smart cities and sustainable cities. The study provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts that characterize smart and sustainable cities today. For this study, 32 scientific articles related to the concepts and practices of smart cities were analyzed.

One of the sources that contribute to food shortage is poor productivity levels. This study examines the impact of employing irrigation on grain maize productivity using 350 sample farm households in Ethiopia. Propensity score matching technique was employed since it is one of the most common and increasingly utilized standard methods for evaluating impacts using observational data. And the study found that irrigators enjoy a positive and significantly higher productivity, on the average from 42-45% higher, than their counterparts, non-users.

Urticaria is a disease characterized by erythematous and pruritic rashes in the dermis or large hypodermal swellings. It is lumpy and itchy rashes which look like the effect of a nettle sting and occurs for more than six weeks. It affects 20% of people at some time in their life time.Though the disease is not life threatening, it makes patient worried, due to its appearance and severe pruritus. Management primarily aimed at patient’s education, avoidance of known triggers and pharmacotherapy i.e. antihistamines, glucocorticoids.

The purpose of this study was to identify the learning styles of undergraduate dental students at private education institutions in the State of Ceará, Brazil, and the factors that influence their formation. 459 students participated in this study by answering the VARK questionnaire and filling out a sociodemographic form. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s Chi-squared test and multinomial logistic regression. 46.40% of the participants were unimodal (n=213) and 53.60% were panmodal (n=246). The most prevalent learning style was the K (13.9%; n=64).

As Condições Sensíveis a Atenção Primária (CSAP) é importante marcador de acesso aos serviços de saúde. Há estudos de revisão que abordam as CSAP, entretanto, esta focará em internações e óbitos de homens adultos. O objetivo da revisão aqui proposta será identificar a prevalência e/ou incidência de CSAP em homens adultos e avaliar a tendência das condições sensíveis à atenção primária à saúde em homens adultos. Trata-se de um protocolo de revisão sistemática, utilizará as bases de dados PUBMED-MEDLINE, SCOPUS, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane, BDTD e OpenGrey.

The outcomes in cochlear implants' cases depend on several factors, including the condition of and propagating of the stimulus in the auditory nerve. The auditory nerve’s time constant can provide temporal information about the auditory nerve's behaviour when facing cochlear implant stimuli.We recruited cochlear implanted children with intraoperative neural response, and the recovery functionwas evaluated usingcommercially available cochlear implant software.