Past Issue

Periodicamente as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) passam por avaliações que mensuram a qualidade dos cursos superiores, sendo o Exame Nacional de Desempenho dos Estudantes (ENADE) uma das avaliações escolhida como objeto de estudo desta pesquisa. Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo apresentar um modelo de compartilhamento de conhecimento que possa solucionar lacunas detectadas no processo de aplicabilidade do ENADE em uma IFES.

Knee osteoarthritis (OAJ) is a degenerative, chronic and irreversible condition of the articular cartilage, which is associated to injuries and inflammations in the other periarticular structures to the knee, being capable of causing pain, physical, psychosocial, functional impairments and impaired quality of life of affected people. The cause is multifactorial, involving old age, trauma, biomechanical changes, genetic, immunological, endocrine, biomechanical and osteometabolic factors. Its identification is made by clinical and imaging investigation and the treatment is multiprofessional.

Allophylus edulis, known as cocum, is a medicinal species native to Brazil and used for its anti-diarrheal, anti-inflammatory and antihypertensive properties. The species also produces high quality wood, which can be used in the production of charcoal, is considered a valuable ornamental species, being useful for urban afforestation, in addition to the recovery of degraded areas. Despite the considerable increase in the use of native species, few studies have focused on the in vitro cultivation of these species.

Arterial hypertension is a public health issue of great importance because it reduces life expectancy and leads to several complications, generating high financial and social costs. The adherence to treatment is the basis for controlling and decreasing chronic disease morbimortality. However, the degree of worldwide adherence in chronic treatments lies between 50% and 75%, hence the importance of devising a way of using physical exercise as a tool for disease prevention and control.

Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 é desordem metabólica de etiologia heterogênea, caracterizada por hiperglicemia crônica e distúrbios no metabolismo. O rastreamento de DM2 é realizado na Atenção Primária de Saúde com o objetivo de diagnosticar pessoas sintomáticas ou assintomáticas, ou pessoas com risco de desenvolver a doença. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o perfil de usuários com alto risco para DM2 no Distrito de Dourados em Horizonte, Ceará, Brasil.

Students’ Approaches to Learning is an important theory in Educational Psychology that investigates the interaction of students with objects of knowledge and how this interaction affects learning outcomes. Recently, the Students’ Learning Approach Test (SLAT-Thinking) was proposed as a pioneer methodology to investigate approaches to learning through performance in a given task. Nevertheless, this test has presented some issues regarding the high probably of answering correctly by chance. This paper presents a new version of this performance test, SLAT-Thinking 2.

Objective: to analyze the occurrence of tuberculosis and HIV in a prison system. Method: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out in a penitentiary in the of city Santa Izabel, located in the metropolitan region of Belém/Pará. Six nurses working in the prison system were interviewed. Results: as in other studies, tuberculosis and HIV are prevalent within the penitentiary, thus demonstrating the need for more effective public health policies to face this problem.

Objetivo: Identificar o nível de conhecimento sobre o câncer de colo uterino, as possíveis limitações e dificuldades na realização da citologia oncológica e a vacinação contra o HPV de universitárias da Universidade de Franca. Métodos: Foi aplicado um formulário online em alunas da UNIFRAN (Universidade de Franca) pelo Google Forms após consentimento do TCLE. Os dados coletados foram analisados utilizando o Excel. Resultados: Quando questionadas sobre o Papanicolau 97,4% das participantes dizem conhecer o exame sendo que 45,17% foram apresentadas a ele pelos profissionais de saúde.

A precária situação carcerária brasileira e sua permanência no que se convencionou chamar, no Brasil, de “estado de coisas inconstitucional”, culminou no reconhecimento pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal, por meio da Arguição de Descumprimento de Preceito Fundamental n. 347, de 2015 da inconstitucionalidade do sistema prisional brasileiro. O objetivo do presente foi buscar compreender os limites e possibilidades de aplicação da Teoria da Cegueira Deliberada como causa do Estado de Coisas Inconstitucional no sistema prisional no Brasil e no Estado de Rondônia.

Non-cultivated plants that produce nectar and pollen, are already seen as important sources of food for bees, supporting the development of beekeeping and meliponiculture. Stingless indigenous bees are fundamental to ecosystems, considering their efficiency as pollinators. The objective was to identify the main botanical species of non-cultivated plants explored during the foraging of meliponines, during the four climatic seasons of the year, and the capacity of the Jataí bee (Tetragoniscaangustula), as pollinator of these plants.