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This study aims to identify the not verbal perceptions that pacientes with HIV/Aids do about body expressions in nursing admission. It is a descriptive and transversal study with a qualitative approach. The research was performed with 10 patientsn the Center for Health Care in Infectious Diseases –Casa Dia. Reference in multidisciplinary care in the testing, counseling and treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS, in the city of Belém, Pará. Data analysis was performed through content analysis of Bardin.

People Management has assumed a greater role as a competitive differential in the structures of organizations trying to create a management that has its employees as the main actor. A bibliographic review was carried out based on the publications on policies and practices of people management. The survey and bibliographical analysis was carried out through the search tool of the Brazilian Portal of Periodicals of CAPES - Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel.

Nowadays it is relevant to improve the thermal-energy performance in housing envelopes and heating water systems, assuming or not an acceptable increase in costs. This issue is due to the growth of electricity demand expected in the residential sector for the next two decades. The objective of this research was to develop a multicriteria decision tool to assist in decision making about housing envelope solutions and heating water system during the initial stages of the building venture.

The goal of this study is to understand how the Design Thinking tool helps the identification of opportunities, creation and development of new products or services developed by academics. Therefore, the stages of identification, inspiration, ideation and implementation of the development of products and services were studied through observation, interviews and questionnaires applied to the teams of academics who developed a product as a curricular activity to be presented at the Entrepreneur Fair, which happens every year.

This study aims todesign and developa Collapsible Four Valve Spring Compressorand assess its functionality in terms ofdesign, construction and operating performance. The study employed a descriptive - development design, weighted mean as the statistical tool, questionnaire and actual observation to gather data. Based on the findings of the assessment, the researcher concluded that the Collapsible Four Valve Spring Compressorishighly functional in terms of design, construction and operating performance.

The developed electronic biomedical dynamometer was able to measure palmar grip strengths and varying forces over time produced by grip forces ranging from 5 N to 1000 N. This dynamometer has a very affordable mechanical structure, compact signal conditioning circuit and microcomputer. The mechanical structure consists of a dynamic support developed in Metalon and a static support also developed in Metalon.

This article is an extract from the study: ‘Decentralization and Quality Education in Community Schools on the Coper-belt Province’ which sought to investigate the decentralized structural and administrative challenges, as well as opportunities faced by community schools. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. Purposive sampling was used to select 45 head teachers, two District Education Board Secretaries, two District Resource Centre Coordinators and the Chief of Party of Education Development Centre, Time To Learn Project USAID, Zambia.

All in all, there is a need to address the issue of shisha smoking as it is becoming a disturbing habit among the younger generation. This means this generation is faced with one more health threat on top of those already arising due to stressful lifestyles.

The man of the backlands in his daily experiences establishes a relationship with the wild fauna and flora, and in this relationship, he interprets the natural phenomena, as well as the behaviors of the animals, amongst them, the sounds emitted mainly the vocalization of birds. This paper records the influence of the beliefs associated with the birds amongst the dwellers at FazendaFervente, in the municipality of Ribeira do Amparo, state of Bahia, northeastern Brazil.

We aim to analyze how the world of work in the Family Health Strategy was configured in the first decade of the 2000s from the nurses’ perspective, especially with regard to permanent and continuing health education; selection and recruitment of professionals; and the guarantee of sufficient material resources, equipment and supplies for the operation of the health units and teams. It is a qualitative study, with a critical analytical approach, developed in a Brazilian city in the state of Bahia.