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Objective: to understand the perception of nurses about spiritual care for elderly patients in palliative care. Methods: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out with 27 care nurses at the University Hospital of Brasilia in 2018. The interviews were conducted through a semi-structured script and submitted to content analysis. The technique of structuring the discourse of the collective subject was carried out.

The objective of this work was to evaluate economic indexes of maize under water and nitrogen (N) levels. The experiment was conducted in two seeding seasons (spring/summer and autumn/winter) in Rio Largo, Alagoas, Brazil, with 20 treatments and four repetitions. Maize was submitted to five irrigation levels (40, 80, 120, 160 and 200% of crop evapotranspiration - ETc) and four nitrogen fertilization rates (0, 75, 150, 225 kg ha-1 of N).

Pereskia Aculeata Miller, also known as Ora-Pro-Nóbis (OPN), is an underutilized species that belongs to the Cactaceae family. It is mainly distributed in the southern United States and Brazil, from Bahia to the Rio Grande do Sul state, growing in stony and sandy coastal plains. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of the use of OPN leaves on the metabolic parameters of Wistar rats.

Objective: The calculation of some physical constants requires different lab equipment and tools and time to conduct practical experiments and repeat them in accordance with the student's manual skills in dealing with different devices and tools. These experiments are financially expensive and presented with physical risks in addition to the time taken. Therefore, we can take advantage of the computer in dispensing with devices and tools and reduce the time taken to conduct experiments. There are many programs used in automated testing, most notably Matlab.

Bearings are considered among the most important elements of power transmission in machines. The main purpose of using bearings is to carry or support rotating shafts in machines to reduce friction and transmit the applied loads from the shafts to the housings. They are classified as either sliding or rolling bearings. Rolling bearings are more efficient, and therefore much more widely used in various engineering applications than other bearing types due to their lower friction, lower maintenance, and more indication signals before failure.

O presente estudo visou identificar se há distúrbios de sono em policiais militares e descrever quais os fatores que mais colaboram para esta condição. Para tal, foram entrevistados através do questionário de Pittsburgh 119 praças da 8ª Companhia Independente da Polícia Militar do Paraná – Brasil, entre soldados e subtenentes com idade média de 34 anos e tempo médio de corporação de 11 anos, sendo 103 homens e 16 mulheres.

The influence of the mass media in making sure that the public are well informed, educated and mobilized towards active participation in government action plans cannot be over emphasized, especially, several government initiated programs were successful due to the active involvement of the mass media. It is on this premise that this study investigated the role of the mass media in the Nigerian government entrepreneurship campaigns. The study x-rayed previous government campaigns with particular reference to the current Buhari led government entrepreneurship programs.

In this paper, the researcher aims to elaborate the nature of euphemisms through carrying out an analysis of euphemisms in both Arabic and English. The present contrastive study is geared mainly towards probing into the euphemistic language that Arabic language speakers and English language speakers resort to when certain tabooed topics and concepts are brought to the fore. The analysis was done in the light of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory (1978, 1987).

The objective of this research was to analyze the viability and development of vegetable oil recycling (in post-consumer and post-sale phases), in the production of biodiesel for use and consumption in a company in the logistic operator branch of food distribution.

This work aimed to connect the basic strategies of reverse logistics applied in healthcare in the most varied processes. For this, it was necessary to elucidate the general assumptions about business logistics and outline a brief history of the historical evolution of services for ensuring the wholesomeness of the Brazilian population since the beginnings of colonization until the creation of the SUS.