Past Issue

The importance of sazonal dynamics from a beach in the Amazon to a local tourism economy: the case of alter do Chão, Santarém, Pará, Brazil

The article presents an analysis of the seasonal dynamics of the river beach located in Amazônia, Brazil. The primary information was obtained in the village of Alter do Chão, through interviews with agents directly involved with the tourist activity in the beach that forms in the Amazonian summer period.

Determinants of profitability in Lebanese commercial banks

This study derives an empirical model for studying micro and macro-economic factors that affect the profits of Lebanese commercial banks represented by return of assets (ROA).The sample covers thirteen banks spanning the period 2007-2016. The panel least square is taken as the estimation procedure. Results are based on the cross section fixed effects model. Regression results shows that the whole model is significant, where capital adequacy ratio and total loans to total assets ratio have high negative significance in determining the bank’s profitability.

Social entrepreneurship in Indian health care sector –problms and prospects

Human resource development plays crucial role in economic development. Large scale investment in human resources is required to exploit the physical capital fully and efficiently. Improvement in the health of masses increases their productive capacity and leads to qualitative improvement in human capital. Therefore expenditures on health are important in building and maintaining a productive labour force as well as improving the lives of the people and the quality of society. The health care system in India is intended to provide free health care to all.

Risk of osteoporosis in smokers

The study was conducted on 2 groups including smokers group and nonsmokers control group at the outpatient clinic of Ibn Sina teaching hospital in Mosul during the period between 1/11/2010 and 1/5/2011. The first group consists of 100 subjects, and the second group also consists of 100 nonsmoker subjects matched for age and gender were kept as control group. The aim of this study was to assess whether there is an increase in the risk of osteoporosis in smokers compared to that in healthy age-matched control subjects.

Aids prevention in a virtual environment for homosexualmen

The objective of this study was to analyze aspects related to AIDS prevention in virtual homosexual male environments that focus on the exposition of the body. It was taken as a reference the idea that cyber-body is in cybersexuality, where the body of the other, virtualized, becomes only a place of visit, like a page on the Internet and sex between them is ideal. The methodological design used was of a qualitative nature, focusing both the analysis of the senses underlying ideas and their contextualization in the light of broader cultural meanings.

Spatial analysis of violence in adolescents: A tool for actions of prevention and reduction of inequalities

Objective: To analyze the correlation between the gross rates of general violence and year of occurrence and the spatial pattern of occurrence of reported cases of general violence against adolescents. Method: This is an ecological study with temporal trend, conducted from the records of the notification of cases of general violence against adolescents residing in the state of Pernambuco, in the period from 2009 to 2014, per municipality, obtained by the Health Information Systems Program (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação in Portuguese).

Metabolic sindrome: pathogenesis, prevention and treatment

In connection with a change in the lifestyle of a person, energy requirements for fats have decreased due to a decrease in physical exertion.On the contrary, there is a predominance of intellectual and operator types of activity, which are provided by the energy of glucose (the brain uses only glucose as a source of energy).This led to the development of an energy imbalance - a deficiency of one energy source (glucose) against the background of an excess of another (fat).

Health related quality of life of hospitalized patients

An exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional study to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of hospitalized patients in a public university hospital. The unit has 31 beds and serves patients aged 14 and older, adults and elderly, of both sexes, for clinical and surgical treatment. It was elaborated an instrument for the data referring to sociodemographic characterization and clinical data. The WHOQOL-Bref instrument, abbreviated version, was used to evaluate HRQoL. The sample consisted of 110 individuals.

Heat generation by gut flora metabolism and host cells bio-energy feedback

Cells, obtain energy from organic molecules, this energy is derived from the chemical bond energy in organic molecules to produce ATP and heat energy. In these growth independent reactions, energy sources were converted to heat energy. In the world, first time the energy of microorganism is absorbed, released or transformed one into another mechanism equation was discovered by Shagj J (Rolex awards Jambalyn Shagj: Heat generation and accumulation in the mammalian and human large intestine).

Avoidable conditions of infant deaths and associated factors

Objective: to describe the avoidability of infant deaths and verify the associated factors. Methods: Time-series epidemiological study on infant deaths of the live births, from 2006 to 2014, in the city of Ponta Grossa - PR. Results: In the historical series studied, there were 609 deaths, of which 61.91% were considered avoidable. Deaths that could be prevented by adequate care for women during gestation and delivery and for newborns were responsible for 51.40% of all deaths. Regardless of other causes, avoidability was associated with birth weight and death in the neonatal period.