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Current environmental concern has motivated the establishment of a legal protection policy which demands that industries minimize their activities’ effects on the population and the environment. Therefore, requiring the integration of particulate air pollution control equipment has been seen as the best course of action. Among the high-performance pollution control devices cyclone, bag filter and electrostatic precipitator are the most commonly used.

This work presents a computational tool for Integrated Risk Management in a transmission enterprise, through data integration and analysis using Artificial Intelligence (AI), statistical and Business Intelligence (BI) methods.

The Indication of Origin is one of the types of Geographical Indication provided for in Brazilian legislation, granted to certain products when the region's notoriety as a center of extraction or production is proven. This research aims to analyze the possibility of certification by Indication of Origin for honey produced in the Development Territory of Serra da Capivara.

Chronic Kidney Disease - CKD is a worldwide public health problem, due to its high mortality rate. The multiple experiences and complications experienced by the chronic renal patient– CRP incite inquietudes around the understanding of Quality of Life - QL of those on hemodialysis treatment. Objective: To analyze the self-perception of QL related to health of CRP on hemodialysis, in the light Abraham Maslow's theory.

The objective of this paper was to measure the drivers of the variation in employment and to make a comparative analysis of the results among 43 countries in the period 2000-2014. The methodology of Structural Decomposition Analysis was used to decompose the employment variation into four effects: intensity of labor use, technology, structure of final demand and volume of final demand.

The environmental pollution and unrestrained consumption of natural resources have become the subject of research. In this context, the construction industry has been contributing, for example, with the reinsertion of construction and demolition waste (CDW) as aggregates in concrete. Thus, this research aimed to verify the influence of the treatment of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) on the mechanical performance of concrete blocks.

Este Cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen (N2) has been effective to eliminate microorganisms such as Enterococcus faecalis, but its effects on dental tissues have not yet been well established. This in vitro study evaluated the formation of cracks in root apexes after cryotherapy. Forty uniradicular human teeth were endodonticall treated, resected (apicectomy), retroprepared and submitted to two 60-second freezing cycles with N2.

Os primeiros registros a respeito do trabalho de enfermagem no contexto escolar foram em 1910, quando foi criado o primeiro curso de Higiene Escolar na Faculdade de Medicina e Cirurgia de São Paulo. Foi a partir desse momento que a Educação em Saúde começou a ser reconhecida como uma ação contribuinte para a saúde dos escolares. Objetivou-se investigar os principais desafios enfrentados e as perspectivas da enfermagem escolar.

Objetivo: mapear as evidências científicas disponíveis sobre a atuação do enfermeiro na prevenção da violência obstétrica. Materiais e Métodos: trata-se de uma revisão de escopo, construída conforme recomendação do manual da Joanna Briggs Institute. O levantamento dos dados ocorreu entre maio e junho de 2021. Os dados foram processados no software gratuito IRaMuTeQ através do método Classificação Hierárquica Descendente. Resultados: 15 produções compuseram essa revisão de escopo e após o processamento do software resultaram dois eixos temáticos divididos em seis classes.

Despite being a complication that is commonly identified in severe patients, constipation is not a frequent topic in intensive care journals. In Brazil, little is known about constipation in critically-ill adults. The objective of this study is to assess the incidence and factors associated with constipation in critically-ill patients by means of an integrative review conducted from 2016 to 2020 in the following databases: BVS, LILACS, SciELO and PUBMED.