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Unemployment insurance, as a social policy instrument, aims at reducing, for a period, the ordeal of families when the family income provider loses their job. In this context, we discuss the results of a research on the unemployment insurance policy in Brazil from 2006 to 2012, whose purpose is to investigate its effectiveness and sustainability in placing workers back in the labor market.

The importance of security for process control, product generation, utilities, etc., is undeniable. This study evaluates the ability of a PID controller (Proportional-Integral- Derivative) tuned with two different model-based techniques to reestablish its performance after suffering a disturbance. The experiments were performed in a process simulation plant, which consisted in temperature control by indirect heating, wherein the system was modelled and dynamically tuned by two different models: IMC (Internal Model Control) and Direct Synthesis.

Introduction: The presence of Higher Education Institutions triggers an economic-social change that modifies the productive structures of the regions where they are located. In the year 2000, 13 undergraduate courses in Biomedicine were described according to the National Institute of Educational Research Anísio Teixeira. Objective: To systematize the Institutions of Higher Education that have undergraduate courses of the Biomedicine Undergraduate Courses in Brazil through the localization indicators.

Migration and the creation of highways directly interfered with the deforestation of the Amazon, which resulted in the expansion of agriculture and cattle raising, which is the region's largest source of economy. In fact, in 2008, Paragominas was named by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the most deforested cities. Thus, a city council met to create a Zero Deforestation Pact, which is in the creation and implementation of the Green Municipalities Program. Soon, the municipality was the pioneer to get off the dirty list of deforestation.

Suicide is reported as one of the leading causes of death in young and middle-aged individuals and is therefore considered a public health problem. This study aimed to measure the prevalence of suicidal intention in students of the final grade of elementary and high school in a public school. The sample consisted of 337 students from the final grades of elementary and high school. The students answered a questionnaire containing the Suicidal Ideation Scale. Data collection was done in classrooms of the public school evaluated.

Basically, this paper examines traditional diplomacy in the Mbo region. It demonstrates that Mbo people never lived in isolation, but always in communion with each other. The study shows how the leaders and peoples of the various chiefdoms interacted in the twentieth century by living, working and trading together. It shows that cooperation and conflicts characterized the relationships among and between the chiefdoms and that through diplomatic methods, conflicts were always resolved and harmonious relations reestablished.

Leadership is a topic that has been discussed in the scientific community and in organizations, so that they need leaders to achieve their goals. Therefore, they value leaders who have the ability to develop the potential of their leaders. Therefore, the objective of this study was to verify the influence of leadership styles on the motivation of work teams, as well as to identify the predominant leadership style of leaders and managers.

Ear pinna keloid is a rare benign, dermal, fibro-proliferative growth characterized by excessive formation of collagen, without any malignant potential. It is one of the most challenging conditions to treat due to high recurence rate. Ksharsutra is the potential therapies mentioned in Ayurveda for such conditions. Ksharsutra is used simultaneously for excision, healing, after excision is considered to be effective in avoiding the recurrence in conditions of benign outgrowths such as ear pinna keloid.

Objetivo: descrever as experiências de uma discente da graduação em enfermagem na prática de educação em saúde relacionado às Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis (IST’s) à saúde do adolescente e jovem no contexto escolar. Método: trata-se de um relato de experiência de educação em saúde realizada com 120 estudantes na faixa etária entre 14 a 19 anos de escolas pública e privada da cidade de João Pessoa-PB, Brasil.

Objetivo: compreender o significado da visita domiciliar do enfermeiro a partir da percepção da pessoa idosa. Método: trata-se de um estudo do tipo transversal, com abordagem qualitativa desenvolvido em uma Unidade de Saúde da Família do município de Alhandra, Paraíba. Os dados foram coletados no período de setembro a outubro de 2018. Foram incluídos indivíduos com 60 anos ou mais, de ambos os sexos adscritos na Unidade de Saúde da Família e que residiam a mais de um ano na área, respeitando-se a saturação dos dados a amostra final contou com quatorze idosos.