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From the narratives of participants of the Divine Holy Spirit Festival held in the city of Alcântara-Maranhão-Brasil seeks to verify cultural tradition and collective memory as evidences of preservation of local identity. Celebrated in several parts of the country, this celebration acquires in the city of Alcântara a singular importance either by the representation of the royalty and its aggregating force in Republican times, or by the social hierarchy that is perpetuated and is symbolized in the paper of the characters during the celebration.

This research project was aimed to investigate the impact of reward package on employee’s performance in Nigerian Banks. In the globalised environment, it is of important to ensure a rewarded/motivated workforce because employees are the only asset that appreciates in value over time, thereby directly contributing to organisational performances. Employee reward package has been a major problem in the banking industries, due mainly to poor salaries and pecuniary benefits such as transport allowances and bonuses.

This article aims to analyze the effects of government regulation from the experience of the Port of Imbituba, located in the southern region of Brazil. Methodologically, it is a descriptive and exploratory research, adopting the strategy of a case study, with literature review, documentary survey and field research. For the data collection in the field, we conducted in-depth interviews out with the agents that have a relationship with the Port of Imbituba. The data were analyzed and discussed, using an essentially qualitative approach. We find that with Law no.

This study approaches the "Health in School Program in the current context of Brazilian Educational Policies". Based on the history of the development of the public health and education policy scenario, Brazil has a slow development, so the PSE has the important mission of integrating Educational Policies and the National Primary Care Policy to jointly seek, through health promotion and education, the quality of life of the population served.

This theoretical paper discusses swearwords. It is based on the data drawn from the wide literature of swearing and taboo language. A sociolinguistic approach was adopted to discuss and analyze various aspects of swearing. This paper aims to identify the nature, types, motives, and functions of swear words. Based on the analysis, this study concluded that there are several and different classification systems of ‘bad language’ and ‘swear words’ and that is due to the fact that the value of ‘badness’ in all languages are constantly changing.

Studies show that Brazil is a world champion in the use of agrochemicals, with 7.3 liters per year for each of the country's inhabitants. Only in the first three months of 2019, the Brazilian government released 121 new pesticides to be sold, totalizing 2,184 licensed products in the country. This work aims to discuss the permissive use of agrochemicals in Brazil and to point out the consequences generated for the ecosystems involved.

This study aimed to verify a theoretical model in which the subjective well-being construct explains self-esteem and depression in non-clinical Brazilian youth. A sample of 1864 subjects (men and women) aged 12 to 20 years of elementary or higher education from public institutions, in addition to socio-demographic data, responded to the subjective well-being inventory, the self-esteem scale and the depression inventory.

The present work analyzed the pedagogical practice of the university professor, focusing his initial and continued formation in the educational practice as well as to reflect the construction of this practice seeking a relation with the knowledge necessary for a teaching performance. We know that with so many technological advances, we see the need to adapt the professional from the higher level to the everyday life of a globalized society. It was a research of qualitative nature, important references were used to reach the objectives proposed in the work.

The present study aims to analyze and describe scientific publications on the functional capacity and Instruments for assessing elderly people accompanied by the family health strategy. Searches were not limited by date of publication or any other restrictions.

Mortar coatings, whether on an internal or external surface, are of great importance for the longevity of the work because they are directly exposed to adverse situations, such as: rainfall, temperature variation, trepidation, soil movement, among others, and must resist all without cracks and cracks, which can lead to infiltrations causing their performance to be compromised. In view of the above, we seek new mixtures and materials that improve the properties of the mortar coating and that may restrain future pathological manifestations.