Physical Sciences and Engineering

Knee osteoarthritis (OAJ) is a degenerative, chronic and irreversible condition of the articular cartilage, which is associated to injuries and inflammations in the other periarticular structures to the knee, being capable of causing pain, physical, psychosocial, functional impairments and impaired quality of life of affected people. The cause is multifactorial, involving old age, trauma, biomechanical changes, genetic, immunological, endocrine, biomechanical and osteometabolic factors. Its identification is made by clinical and imaging investigation and the treatment is multiprofessional.

Allophylus edulis, known as cocum, is a medicinal species native to Brazil and used for its anti-diarrheal, anti-inflammatory and antihypertensive properties. The species also produces high quality wood, which can be used in the production of charcoal, is considered a valuable ornamental species, being useful for urban afforestation, in addition to the recovery of degraded areas. Despite the considerable increase in the use of native species, few studies have focused on the in vitro cultivation of these species.

Arterial hypertension is a public health issue of great importance because it reduces life expectancy and leads to several complications, generating high financial and social costs. The adherence to treatment is the basis for controlling and decreasing chronic disease morbimortality. However, the degree of worldwide adherence in chronic treatments lies between 50% and 75%, hence the importance of devising a way of using physical exercise as a tool for disease prevention and control.

Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 é desordem metabólica de etiologia heterogênea, caracterizada por hiperglicemia crônica e distúrbios no metabolismo. O rastreamento de DM2 é realizado na Atenção Primária de Saúde com o objetivo de diagnosticar pessoas sintomáticas ou assintomáticas, ou pessoas com risco de desenvolver a doença. O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o perfil de usuários com alto risco para DM2 no Distrito de Dourados em Horizonte, Ceará, Brasil.

Students’ Approaches to Learning is an important theory in Educational Psychology that investigates the interaction of students with objects of knowledge and how this interaction affects learning outcomes. Recently, the Students’ Learning Approach Test (SLAT-Thinking) was proposed as a pioneer methodology to investigate approaches to learning through performance in a given task. Nevertheless, this test has presented some issues regarding the high probably of answering correctly by chance. This paper presents a new version of this performance test, SLAT-Thinking 2.

Objective: to analyze the occurrence of tuberculosis and HIV in a prison system. Method: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out in a penitentiary in the of city Santa Izabel, located in the metropolitan region of Belém/Pará. Six nurses working in the prison system were interviewed. Results: as in other studies, tuberculosis and HIV are prevalent within the penitentiary, thus demonstrating the need for more effective public health policies to face this problem.

Objetivo: Identificar o nível de conhecimento sobre o câncer de colo uterino, as possíveis limitações e dificuldades na realização da citologia oncológica e a vacinação contra o HPV de universitárias da Universidade de Franca. Métodos: Foi aplicado um formulário online em alunas da UNIFRAN (Universidade de Franca) pelo Google Forms após consentimento do TCLE. Os dados coletados foram analisados utilizando o Excel. Resultados: Quando questionadas sobre o Papanicolau 97,4% das participantes dizem conhecer o exame sendo que 45,17% foram apresentadas a ele pelos profissionais de saúde.

The main aim of this paper is to evaluate and model both leverage effect and persistent volatility of Bradesco Bank stock shares (BBDC3). The leverage effect was measured through the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model and some of its extensions, such as EGARCH, NGARCH, APGARCH, ALLGARCH, IGARCH, CGARCH and FIGARCH. The orical basis: These are mainly asymmetrical extensions that were chosen since they can overcome the possible limitation that negative returns might have a bigger impact in volatility than positive ones in this type of data.

Spare parts are important to maintain mining operations, which made necessary the development of consolidated classification methods, to help in the decision-making process. The management of spare parts aims to reduce the unnecessary inactivity time arising from the component failures and represent a significant part of the total operational cost. A way to manage the inventory of these materials is its classification.

The adsorption of ofloxacin (OFL) by the spent coffee grounds (SCGs) was investigated. The effect of solution pH and the amount of SCGs were also studied. The optimum solution pH and amount of SCGs were 6 and 100 mg, respectively. The adsorption isotherms were well described by the Henry model. This suggested that the strong interaction of OFL with the SCGs. Therefore, SCGs, as a green, environmental-friendly adsorbent, can be applied to the adsorption of contaminants in environment.