Past Issue

Environmental education is an educational action that helps to contribute to the formation of citizens aware of the preservation of the environment by turning them into critical beings on social and environmental issues. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of the methodology proposed by Joseph Cornell in the teaching of sciences from the experiences and experiences in the rural school space. A descriptive exploratory research was carried out with a quantitative approach.

Objective: To assess the caregivers’ perspectives about the care of the elderly person with Parkinson’s disease. Methodology: It is an exploratory study, of descriptive character with a qualitative approach held by the Snowball technique, collected in the residences of the 12 family members of the elderly people with Parkinson disease. Two instruments were used: a sociodemographic and economic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guide. The information’s examination was carried out using the Thematic Content Analysis technique of Laurenci Bardin.

Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon and has been increasing exponentially, this increase is due to several factors, but the main ones are the increase in life expectancy and the decrease in the birth rate. The main objective of this work is to analyze the association between the results of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Operational Memory Index (WAIS-III). The methodological design of the study is quantitative, descriptive and transversal. The sample of this study is non-probabilistic for convenience.

The study on factors influencing poor people’s accessibility to micro credit from Viet Nam Nam Bank for Social policies - Tra Vinh branch was conducted with a survey of 385 poor people in the districts of Cau Ngang, Duyen Hai, Chau Thanh, Tra Cu and Cang Long in Tra Vinh province. With the use of the Logistic regression method, the research result found that there are five factors affecting poor people’s accessibility to micro credit, including household size, level of education, average income, dependency ratio, and household savings.

Several studies on educational psychology have shown that factors such as personality, life history, culture, motivation, and environmental factors may affect perception of reality, influencing the learning processes. The process of absorbing information is a complex activity related to individual and social aspects.

A field survey involving (93) kola consumers who were randomly selected in Ijegun community of Ikotun axis of Lagos State was conducted to examine reasons why kola consumers prefer consumption of kola Garcinia (Bitter kola) to other types of kola-nuts in ceremonies. Data were collected with the use of structured interview schedule and data collected was analyzed using descriptive and frequency statistics. The results revealed that kola consumers in the study area preferred to consumed more of kola Garcinia than other types of kola-nuts with (63.4%) against (27.7%) and (8.6%) respectively.

A review of the literature that aimed to verify the results found regarding the methods of gait training for the elderly, its relevance for a healthy aging and improvement in the quality of life.

Considering the importance of studying the incidence of leprosy and the scarcity of studies that evaluate the occurrence of this phenomenon in the Brazilian Amazon region in relation to the Brazil, this study aimed to analyse the association between leprosy incidence and the municipal indicators of education, income and domicile population density, comparing municipalities of the Amazon region to those of the whole country.

The present study aims to analyze the characteristics of bullying acts among students of the municipality of Bujaru, Pará, in 2017, and to identify which type of bullying students are most involved in and what are its main consequences, by using the Stratified Random Sampling and Simple Random Sampling techniques. A sample composed of 46 students from the Bujaru-Pará Municipal School for Early Childhood and Elementary Education was analyzed. The data obtained from interviewing the students were submitted to descriptive statistical analysis.

During a nuclear power plant basic design accident, the containment integrity is a determining factor for the accident severity. The pressure and temperature conditions inside the containment in case of a Large Break Loss of Coolant Accident (LBLOCA) must be verified. This paper presents a containment pressure and temperature analysis methodology of a Brazilian PWR, Angra 2, using a code that simulates guillotine rupture - RELAP5 - and the COCOSYS code, which analyzes the containment pressure from the accident conditions.