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Objective: To make a clinical and epidemiological characterization of children with congenital heart disease submitted to cardiac surgery at a referral hospital in Paraíba and correlate these data with death. Materials and Methods: Quantitative, cross-sectional, retrospective study with 101 children. Categorical variables were presented in tables. To determinethe associations of dependence, the Fisher's exact Chi-Square test was used and analyses were run in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, adopting a significance level of 5%.

Radiotherapy treatment for left breast cancer may include the ipsilateral lung and especially the heart in the treatment fields. One way to minimize doses to these risky organs is to use the Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH) technique, called deep breath holding. The objective of this study was to propose a standard operating procedure for the stages of simulation and tele-therapeutic treatment using the DIBH technique.

Objective: To evaluate the perception of educators and music therapists about the use of musical experiences to inclusion of children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder. Method: A descriptive-exploratory survey was carried out from March 2016 to March 2017, with 182 participants of which 63 Basic Education teachers, 59 Music teachers, 35 Professionals in Education (not teachers) and 25 Music Therapists.

Introduction: The nosocomial infections are responsible for long hospital stays, morbidity, and mortality and are costly to manage. While episodes of NIs are recognized in hospitalized patients worldwide, and in all age groups, higher incidences are found in resource-limited settings, especially in Africa. The healthcare workers, particularly nurses, play a critical role in the spread, prevention and control of NIs. However, in poor resource settings, limited studies have been conducted to ascertain this.

This study aimed to verify the perception of the patient safety culture from point of view of professionals in the health institutions. This is a systemic literature review study based on the guiding question. This is a systematic literature review study based on the guiding question. "What is the patient safety culture in health institutions by health professionals?". The survey article was conducted at the Virtual Health Library (VHL), applying the indicators “Quality in Health” and Patient Safety and Safety Culture”, in a way isolation and associated.

The purpose of this study is to draw on the existing literature of the strategic thinking. Then conduct a review of the studies that identified the obstacles of strategic thinking in Arab culture. This will enable to conclude with recommendations to draw the map of raising the level of strategic thinking. The urgent need to think globally instead confined internally then draw the lines which leads to this point. This study is the first theoretically based discussion to detail the specific obstacles required to pave the way to think strategically in Arab culture.

There are more than 200 Human Papilloma Virus serotypes, or commonly called HPV (Human Papillomavirus), they participate in a frequent number of pathologies that can affect various organs of the human body. Among high-risk HPVs, serotypes 16 and 18 can be highlighted, since most of them are associated with potentially pre-neoplastic lesions in certain anogenital carcinomas, with high tropism for cervical cells.

O crisântemo (Dendranthemagrandiflora), cultivado em vaso é uma das plantas mais populares no Brasil. O Agrosilício ® e o silicato de potássio são fontes de silício, embora esse não seja um elemento essencial para a nutrição das plantas têm mostrado benefícios na produção e qualidade pós-colheita de flores. Assim, este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar o desempenho produtivo e qualidade pós-colheita do crisântemo cv. Puritan, cultivado em condições de campo aberto, sob diferentes doses de Agrosilício ® e Silicato de potássio.

Objetivou-se por este estudo, encontrar o melhor modelo matemático que estime a área das folhas trifoliolada de Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh de maneira não destrutiva, a partir das dimensões lineares do comprimento e da largura da folha central. Foram utilizadas 380 folhas trifolioladas, sendo 300 utilizadas para a modelagem e 80 utilizada para a validação. Cada folha central foi mensurada quanto ao maior comprimento (C) e a maior largura (L). Posteriormente determinou-se o produto da multiplicação entra o comprimento e largura (CL).

The purpose of this study was to determine how different characteristics of Florida public high schools are related to students’ performances on the mathematics component of Advanced Placement (AP) exams, End of Course (EOC) exams, The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Test (ACT) tests. The study also provides a summary of key findings and details about how students perform in STEM schools on the AP pass rates, EOC percentiles, and SAT and ACT test scores comparing to students in non-STEM schools in the State of Florida.