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Police action is critical because it prevents, represses, and neutralizes criminal activities to ensure security. Police mortality in the state of Pará, Brazil, is a worrying factor, since the occurence of such crimes only increase, mainly in the capital Belém. In view of the invisibility of this issue, and of the constant murders that occurred after the death of a police officer, this paper seeks to present and analyze the characteristics of the facts and the number of homicides registered in the 72 hours before and after the deaths of the policemen under study.

Does foreign aid really work? Many inhibited questions raise such a vociferous debate.

There are still few studies in Brazil on violence against black women, despite being the most affected by this phenomenon, regarding violence against white women. Thus, the present study aimed to discuss the pertinence of research that addresses the race/ethnicity of the black woman, target of violence, and its implications for Public Safety. Based on a systematic review of the literature, we searched for references in the CAPES periodicals from 2003 to 2017, conditioned by the term "violence against black women".

Study objective: To Correlate of 4-meter gait speed with 6 MWD in COPD patients. Materials and methods: 50 diagnosed COPD patients underwent 4-meter gait speed test and six minute walk test by two examiners. Data obtained from both the tests was correlated. Design: Prospective observational study. Setting: Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation setup Time duration: Three months Participants: 50 diagnosed COPD patients. Conclusion: There is a weak positive correlation between 4-meter gait speed and Six minute walk distance in COPD patients

There are several types of Diabetes Mellitus, type 1 is a metabolic disease, chronic and multifactorial resulting in serious consequences to the human organism and e intraoral as periodontal diseases, dental cavity, xerostomia and change in salivary pH decreasing its protective effect and favoring an acidogenic environment increasing the incidence of dental caries in patients with Diabetes Mellitus.

The concern of the world population has been increasing due to the significant augmentation of people affected by chronic degenerative diseases. These diseases are usually caused by oxidative stress, so there is a growing interest in the discovery of natural substances as an alternative medical resource that can act as antioxidants. Authors have shown that Annona muricata L is associated with several benefits to human health and can be associated to improve risk factors of developing some chronic degenerative diseases.

The content of this article focuses on the construct validity of the Polish Self-Regulation Questionnaire-Learning (SRQ-L). The assessment of students' level of self-regulation can be a powerful tool in enhancing and understanding students' functioning in the school environment. Theoretical consideration is based on the Theory of Self-Regulation by Deci & Ryan. The aim of the present study is to adapt, validate and determine the psychometric properties of the SRQ-L on a Polish student sample, consisting of 200 teenagers, ages 14–17 from middle schools.

This study aimed to characterize the stress of the nursing team in an intensive care unit. It is an observational, descriptive, cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted between April and June 2016, with 93 professionals from the nursing team of three public hospitals in São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. Three questionnaires, a semi-structured one composed by socioeconomic and occupational data, the Stress Inventory in Nursesand the Stress Symptom Scale were used.

Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) have had positive results with elderly people, thus the purpose of this study was to analyze the scientific publications on the effects of Mindfulness on the elderly population. It is an integrative literature review based on the following steps: development of the guiding question; search for studies in databases; selection of papers; data extraction; evaluation of the selected studies; analysis and synthesis of the results; and review presentation.

Objectives: To determine surgical site infection (SSI) rates, after abdominal Surgery and To determine risk factors associated with surgical site infections. Settings: AL-Jumhoori Teaching Hospital, Department of surgery, Mosul Medical City, Mosul, Iraq. Starting from October 2007-October 2008. Patients and methods: A prospective cohort study included 78 patients with surgical site infection after elective and emergency abdominal surgery.