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Renewable Energy Technologies have transformed rural lives in several developing and BRICs lands with a growing number of public, private, international and partnership model-based energy enterprises in the industry. This research investigates how solar energy entrepreneurs in rural India are supported, built and developed by a private renewables company which is structured with a highly interactive stakeholder management portfolio.

Green spaces are vegetation areas in urban landscapes, including forests, parks, gardens, wetlands and street trees. Their loss has great consequences for the aesthetic, recreational, economic and human health value and sustainability of urban environments. The literature on urban green spaces has focused on locations and effects on human well-being with limited attention to the spatio-temporal patterns of green spaces. Ibadan is Africa’s largest traditional city with a long history of green spaces which has reduced over the years, thus providing a suitable environment for this research.

This study was conducted in order to find the relationship between Diabetes Mellitus type II (D.M) and hypertension, and to know which one may cause the other from records of 53 patients who are frequently visiting the Center for Chronic Diseases. Also a questionnaire was designed to study the relationship of the two diseases among 31 patients. Considering the factors of sex, age and weight, five consecutive readings of blood pressure and blood sugar, were collected and analyzed. Also the data of the questionnaire was analyzed.

O açaizeiro (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) é uma palmeira nativa da região amazônica e se destaca por sua grande importância econômica com a produção de frutos e extração de palmito, diante disso, o estudo da calagem faz-se de extrema importância para sua produção, visto que a acidez do solo é um fator limitante. Desta forma, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a produção de matéria seca em plantas jovens de açaizeiro em função da calagem. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em casa de vegetação na Fazenda Escola de Igarapé-açu.

This article examines the residual amounts of chemicals in the composition of milk and dairy products in the daily diet of the population. The chemical substances studied residual amounts of salts of heavy metals, like lead, mercury, cadmium, copper, also nitrates and nitrites, mycotoxins. The study was conducted using hygienic, chemical, instrumental and statistical methods for the study of milk and dairy products produced by dairy enterprises and private farms in the Fergana, Namangan and Andijan regions.

Objective: Map the types and details of instruments used in the assessment health-related quality of life (HRQoL) available to people with chronic wounds. Materials and Methods: systematic scoping review study will follow the guidelines of the Joanna Briggs Institute and the conformities recommended by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation. The databases MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), Web of Science and Scopus will be used for the search.

Congenital cardiac anomalies are characterized by structural abnormalities or cardiocirculatory appearing during their formation, being present since birth and may lead to death in intrauterine life, childhood or adult life, requiring diagnosis in the first days of life because of their rapid evolution. Early diagnosis by means of oximetry and echocardiography tests increases the chances of survival, reducing neonatal mortality. Nurses and physicians involved should know their possible results.

This study aimed to identify the advances and challenges in the organization of primary care care practices in the last decade. For this, an integrative literature review was performed in the databases BDENF, LILACS, SCIELO, SCOPUS and COCHRANE. As a result, 43 articles were found, of which only 9 met the inclusion criteria. After a thorough analysis of the content of each study, the advances indicated by the review were: multidisciplinary and integrated care, willingness to improve care and holistic treatment of the patient.

Este estudo buscou compreender o significado atribuído, pela mulher, ao cuidado prestado pelos profissionais de saúde durante o processo de parturição. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, envolvendo uma maternidade pública de São Luís, Maranhão, no período de outubro a dezembro de 2014, com 27 puérperas. Para a coleta de dados foi realizada uma entrevista semiestruturada. Os dados foram organizados por meio da Análise de Conteúdo e analisados a luz do Interacionismo Simbólico. Dos resultados emergiram as categorias: Cuidado emocional, Cuidado Clínico e Descuidado.

Suicide is a complex and universal human phenomenon consisting of self-injury to a fatal degree, associated with social, biological, psychiatric, socioeconomic and cultural factors. Given as a public health problem, proper attention to those susceptible to suicide becomes important. Hanging is one of the most frequent ways of committing suicide. Objetives: the objective was to delineate an epidemiological profile of the act for a better understanding of the risks associating them with specific populations, causology and consequences.