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The management of distal tibial fractures is a challenge for surgeons. We report the results of our experience with minimally invasive osteosynthesis of these fractures using the latest generation of Synthes® locking screw plates. This was a prospective study of 13 patients. All were closed fractures associated with a distal fibular fracture. Osteosynthesis was performed on a reduced fracture using traction on an orthopaedic table or an external fixator. All fibular fractures were osteosynthesised. Primary osteosynthesis of these fibular fractures was performed in 61.53% of cases. Osteosynthesis is feasible if reduction criteria are met before synthesis. No complications were observed apart from 2 malunion fractures, with no functional consequences, which occurred at the beginning of our experience. Patients were satisfied in 84.61% of cases and returned to work. Minimally invasive osteosynthesis using a plate with locked screws ensures sufficient and rapid autonomy with fewer complications.

This work looks at the Institutional Foster Care Services for Children and Adolescents (SAICAs), especially at those who remain outside the home: the family members. Thus, anchored in Institutional Discourse Analysis, the work focuses above all on the relationship between the family and SAICA. Starting from the legal text and the historical production trajectory of these practices, it seeks to think about the expectations and institutional places that constitute them. In relation to the discourse of family members, it points out the encounters and disagreements that mark this relationship. These appear between the different institutional actors, marking places and displacing established positions, and the question is at stake: who is legitimately responsible for these children and adolescents? In the midst of this tension, it is possible to delineate a certain family designed at the interface with foster care, as well as a certain SAICA recognized in the discourse. This path invites us to (re)think the practices of institutional foster care and what places we attribute to the family and the service. And in this way, perhaps we can foster more powerful encounters between children, adolescents, family members and professionals in shelters and other settings.

Obtaining acceleration data for the Northeast of Brazil was not possible until recently. With the installation of RSISNE (Petrobras/UFRN/FUNPEC), this panorama has changed. It is now possible to acquire accelerometry data for the entire region. This work made use of these types of seismological records in order to obtain an equation that models how acceleration decays with distance, both in the vertical and horizontal components for the southern part of the Borborema Province. Secondly, it is also part of the objectives to establish relationships between acceleration and magnitude for the region. It was possible to establish an attenuation equation for the state of Pernambuco. While, for the state of Alagoas, it was possible to obtain a relationship between magnitude and acceleration for two new epicentral areas in the region.

The awakening of civil society and the active participation of citizens in the process of social development are remarkable phenomena in our current history, which has helped to solidify democratic practices and processes, where citizens start to act, monitor and take initiatives through channels that are open to them in the public sphere. It is essential for public administration to be able to effectively guarantee popular participation and social control in public activities in Brazil. Through participation in public management, citizens can intervene in administrative decision-making, guiding the Administration to adopt measures that really serve the public interest and, at the same time, exercise control over the actions of the State, demanding that public managers account for their actions. In this context, the Ombudsman's Office represents a channel for serving citizens, a kind of invitation for society to participate in the administrative life of public entities, offering criticism or praise, through which the Public Administration can build a feedback system to improve the course of its actions.

From a rights-based approach, understanding that the State is the main guarantor for the realisation of the human right to food by providing food security, the Plurinational State would be strengthening the vision of food sovereignty, understanding that, as part of the consolidation of its struggle against neoliberalism, the primordial networks of the traditional peasant economy should be prioritised. Through their recognition and the implementation of public policies, a new community paradigm could be consolidated, translated into a model built on the vindication of the practices of the indigenous and peasant peoples it represents. Along these lines, the aim of this paper is to show how, from the philosophical vision of sumaj qamaña, the Bolivian state implements public policies that ensure food security with sovereignty by promoting traditional forms of food production or by incorporating policies and plans to improve the means of production, with the aim of promoting peasant family farming.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of low-power laser therapy (LLLT) on nociceptive behavior and neuronal activity of the trigeminal nucleus after unilateral disc injury of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in rats. Forty rats were used. Surgical access was made to the TMJ under general anesthesia. The animals were divided into 4 groups (n=10): Group 1: Surgical lesion of the articular disc and LLLT; Group 2: Sham - operated and LLLT; Group 3: Surgical lesion of the articular disc; Group 4, Naive: control without articular lesion or LLLT. Ten sessions of LLLT were carried out using a GaAs laser with a wavelength of 904 nm and an energy density of 6J/cm2. The development of neuropathic symptoms was assessed using the Von Frey test. Trigeminal ganglion samples were prepared for determination of protein expression of substance P (SP), transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype-1 (TRPV-1) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Statistical analysis was performed (p

The new configuration of the role of hospitals, from the perspective of building health care networks, has implications for the work of nurses in managerial positions in terms of their administrative, care and teaching actions/decisions. With this in mind, the aim of this study was to identify the aspects that facilitate and hinder the work of nurses in managerial positions in a public emergency hospital in the interior of São Paulo. To this end, a descriptive study was carried out with a quantitative approach to qualitative data, using the Critical Incident Technique to survey perceptions and attitudes towards the object of investigation. The study was carried out in a public, tertiary-level teaching hospital in the northeast of the state of São Paulo.

The study of the relationships that individuals maintain with each other has always been at the centre of the concerns of the most diverse areas of knowledge. Due to the plurality and multiplicity of approaches adopted as legitimate references for the production of knowledge about group processes, this study is a theoretical review centred on a specific model called: Operative Groups. Every operative group presupposes learning and learning, from the perspective of operative groups, is synonymous with change. In this way, it can be concluded that the study of a model for working in groups centred on principles of change is particularly appropriate in the face of the challenges and demands of the many different groups to which we belong today.

The aim of this work is to identify and discuss the particularities and difficulties of the process of creating and managing Environmental Protection Areas, a category of Conservation Unit established by Law 9.985/00 (SNUC). To this end, it sought to discuss the process of making the Maracanã APA effective, and the possible consequences caused in the unit, contributing to the greater viability of the APA as an instrument of Environmental Policy.

This book brings together scientific articles and essays, both published and unpublished, by different authors with different backgrounds and perspectives, all of whom are trying to understand education in some way. The aim of the book is to create a dialogue through the collection of works with current and relevant themes in the scientific scenario, so that the reader can come into contact with convergent and divergent conceptions and theories.

Going before a civil court to have a contract for the sale of real estate belonging to another person annulled on the basis of article 276 CCC L III, is a path that is not recommended by case law (courts and tribunals) and doctrine (lawyers, researchers).Indeed, the aforementioned provision only concerns movable property, but to have such a contract annulled, what is the path that case law and doctrine advise?Moreover, a victim would no longer be able to go before a civil judge to cancel a certificate of registration that has been in force for two years. In other words, the certificate of registration has become unassailable, but the question remains: how do you cancel a certificate of registration that is more than two years old and tainted by irregularity?the nine chapters that make up this manual revolve around these two questions.above all, this work enriches Congolese legal doctrine with a high-quality scientific work from a school of excellence in Congolese civil law. This précis de droit civil congolais des biens is an invaluable working tool that will enable professionals to better orient themselves.

The Gilbués Desertification Centre, located in the state of Piauí, covers at least fifteen municipalities, seven of which (Gilbués, Riacho Frio, São Gonçalo do Gurguéia, Monte Alegre do Piauí, Redenção do Gurguéia, Corrente and Barreiras do Piauí) are degraded by more than 45%. The aim of the study was to identify the economic dynamics and verify the economic and social indicators in the Gilbués-PI Desertification Centre. Information was obtained from the database of the National Semi-Arid Institute (INSA), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCTI), the Brazilian Semi-Arid Information and Knowledge Management System (SIGSAB) and the database of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the IBGE Automatic Retrieval System (SIDRA), with a focus on rural dynamics.

This work is the result of an analysis of the textbooks used in our Portuguese and History primary and secondary school classrooms, with the aim of discovering the profile and place reserved for black people in their content. There is a great lack of information about Afro-descendant culture in Brazil and its contributions to shaping the identity of the Brazilian people. The injustice of not publicising the legacy brought by native Africans, who were forcibly inserted into a strange and distant land and had to adapt and establish their roots on Brazilian soil, is visible. The culture they brought was incorporated into customs, such as dance, cuisine, music, religion, the language itself and a host of other elements. All of this constitutes the cultural wealth that Afro-descendants brought with them and, in a way, imposed on our culture, contributing in a big way to the formation of our identity.

This work consisted of mapping the environmental fragility of the municipality of Ubatuba/SP by cross-referencing data on land use and occupation, pedology and slope, generated through the digital terrain elevation model. The entire process was carried out using digital GIS, where the data was correlated using GIS processing software, in order to improve the reliability of the data generated.

This text is the result of reflections provided by PIBIC (UFSC) in 2015 and 2016. It analyses Kant's concept of evil and how it has impacted other philosophies. Some commentators support the possibility of this concept being able to solve contemporary problems. For example, Hannah Arendt analyses the case of Eichmann in Jerusalem, influenced by Kant's concept of evil. In this book, we will also analyse Claudia Card's reflections on the concept of evil.

The product of a two-year research project stemming from a master's degree in Education (UERJ), this work takes cinema as an object of scientific research by looking for schools in western films. Anchored in a theoretical foundation that includes Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamim and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the methodology of research into/with everyday life, the history of the United States and cinema, the book sets out to show the importance of cinema beyond entertainment.

This paper describes the trajectory, of life and thought, of Carl Gustav Jung. Antonella Valeria Cobianco establishes a comparison with the highlights of Jung's biography, which are then translated into figures of thought. Indeed, in Jung, life and work are not disjointed, but are in continuous relation: the analyst made his life a work and his work a life. The biographical and theoretical planes work together and hybridize continuously.

This work is situated in the area of Computer-Assisted Composition, CAC. More specifically, in the generation of pre-compositional material at a symbolic level. Our use and appropriation of this technological resource was, however, influenced by the philosophy of Vilém Flusser, especially his work Black Box Philosophy. The aims of this research were both to contribute (via Flusser) to the debate on the current compositional environment, and to use the computational resource that is notably characteristic of this environment to solve a problem of organizing pitches and ordering musical events. The treatment given to pitch space in post-tonal music favors, in its generality and abstraction, more analytical than practical approaches. In this way, we introduced the concept of the Table of Interval Differences, TDI, as a photograph of the interval relationships in a temporal sequence that incorporates both intervals between successive events and intervals between non-adjacent events, in a way taking up a proposal by Ernest Ansermet (1987).

The debates on the implementation of teacher career plans represent education workers' search for professional development in aspects such as entry procedures, working hours, planning hours, progression, promotion and working conditions. In Minas Gerais, the new guidelines for valuing teachers, with the creation of a career plan for education workers and an increase in remuneration based on funding (FUNDEF/FUNDEB), took place in the same context as the policy of fiscal adjustment and shrinking of the state advocated by the program called Management Shock. The competition between these two elements meant a dispute between projects on the issue of valorization, with the public administration on one side and the teaching professionals on the other. This work studies the impacts of this competition on education funding in Minas Gerais, in terms of the valorization of teachers in the state's public basic education network. With this analysis, we hope to contribute to the field of Educational Public Policy, as well as filling in some of the gaps in the public funding structure of the state's education network.

Head and neck cancer, as well as its treatment, cause major aesthetic and basic function changes for the patient, and can cause alterations in Quality of Life, Body Image and Self-Esteem. The general aim of this study was to assess Quality of Life, Body Image and Self-Esteem in patients with sequelae following treatment for head and neck cancer in the municipality of Natal-RN who were candidates for prosthetic rehabilitation. This was a cross-sectional study. Data was collected using a sociodemographic questionnaire, the University of Washington Assessment Questionnaire, the Body Investment Scale, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. The sample consisted of 10 patients (6 men and 4 women), aged between 35 and 82.

Have you ever gone beyond your capacity? Have you experienced surprising mental strength to carry out a project or achieve an accomplishment of which you were proud? What did this achievement enable you to discover about yourself?The aim of this book, published at the start of 2024, is to introduce you to an experience-filled process that can inspire and propel you to unexpected heights and extraordinary achievements.Perhaps you'll realize that you can push your limits to an extreme level thanks to your mental strength? You can push your intellectual limits! You can push back your spiritual limits! You can push back your emotional limits! You can push your mental limits! You can push back your physical limits! You can push your creative limits! You can push back your financial limits! You can push back the limits that have been holding you back, so that you can create magnificent works of art that will have meaning and inestimable value in your life!

The entry into force of Royal Decree 158/2023, of March 7, gave rise to the last formal requirement for the formation of the Spanish Space Agency. An institution that is part of the Spanish institutional public sector and that, therefore, will be subject to the administrative regime of our legal system in its start-up and in the development of its actions. The aim of this article will be to place the Agency in the context of the administrative system in force in our country in order to get to know its idiosyncrasy, its values and its mode of operation. This will provide a general administrative perspective of the agency and will simplify the understanding of its future actions.

This work is made up of three articles that together make up a history of Soviet war cinema. Some themes of the war films produced in the USSR are not dealt with, such as the campaign in Afghanistan, which produced films with heroic content until the mid-1980s, and critical content in the last years of the regime. The focus is on the two main stages of this film genre: the Russian Civil War and the Second World War. The first chapter seeks to demonstrate that the cinema of the socialist realism school did not disappear after the artistic renewal that Soviet cinematography presented in the 1950s and 1960s. It has always found a place in historical cinema, especially the most ufanistic of them all: the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. Films such as Ozvobozhdenie, from 1969, or Bitva za Moskvu, from 1985, by Yuri Ozerov, present compositions, angles, details derived from the paintings made by artists of socialist realism immediately after the war, especially between 1945 and 1953, the years when Stalin was at the head of the country and Zhdanov, who died in 1949, aimed to dictate the paths of art.

This book, the fruit of collective reflections, has a bold commitment: to understand the faces of education on the threshold of the 21st century. We believe that education provides an insight into social processes and frees us from the ignorance and alienation of the prevailing social and economic system. We were therefore interested in writing a manuscript that would reveal the faces of public schools and discuss their weaknesses and potential. We have tried to demonstrate aspects of various sectors of basic education linked both to public schools in general, aimed exclusively at elementary, middle and high school education, and the particularities of vocational and technical education. Happy reading!

The aim of this work was to study depressed patients' perception of themselves through the classic depressive icon treated at the Psychosocial Care Centre (CAPS) in the municipality of Pindamonhangaba, located in the eastern cone of São Paulo. To this end, a qualitative study was carried out, using a systematisation of mental health nursing care together with a semi-structured interview. Nursing care proved to be satisfactory in terms of the initial aim of studying depressive psychopathology. There is, however, a problem regarding causal determination in the social-cognitive explanation of depression. Convictions of failure, personal guilt and negative attributions certainly underpin depression. Depressive thoughts coincide with a depressed mood. A depressed mood brings negative thoughts and it is in this state that the depressed person's perception becomes blurred, distorted and fragmented. Perception plays a decisively important role in the organism's adaptation to the environment and is determined not only by the characteristics of the stimulus but also by the characteristics of the subject.

In recent years, the land pact region has experienced the vulnerability and adverse effects of climate change. This research analyses the adaptation strategies used by farmers to improve their living conditions. The methodology used consists of collecting, processing and analysing results based on 120 farmers in two districts of each commune. The field results reveal that the indicators are: the delay in the start of the rains, the appearance of pockets of drought during the rainy season, the early end of the rainy season, the increase in daily temperature, the appearance of violent winds, the multiplication of pockets of drought during the rainy season, the increase in the level of plant attack and finally the poor spatial distribution of the rains. Added to all this are the main climatic risks: pockets of drought (83%), poor spatial distribution of rainfall (71%) and rising temperatures (39%). Appropriate methods of adaptation to climate change are needed.

This paper presents the results of the preparation, characterization and application of DNA and DNA-PEDOT:PSS membranes as hole transport material (HTM) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). UV-Vis analysis of the samples revealed 80% transparency at 600 nm for the isolated DNA and decreasing to 62% at 550 nm for the 2% PEDOT:PSS DNA. FTIR analysis of the samples revealed the characteristic peaks of both DNA and PEDOT:PSS, confirming the incorporation of the latter into the membranes. The results of the DSC thermal analysis showed the presence of Tg at -67oC and its disappearance with the addition of PEDOT:PSS to the HTM formulation. The TGA analyses showed that the stability of the samples increased with the addition of PEDOT:PSS, reaching 200 oC. All the samples showed 19% residue at 900 oC.

This manuscript analyses affirmative action policies in the educational field, focusing on the access and permanence of indigenous university students in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The general objectives were to discuss the entry and permanence of indigenous students at universities in the state of Rio de Janeiro and to debate the need to open a dialogue with indigenous students in order to democratically define permanence policies that are appropriate to their concrete needs. The methodology of this work involved two fronts: a literature review and interviews with indigenous university students in the state of Rio de Janeiro in order to find out more about their university trajectories, their university experiences and other issues. We found that there is a need to improve the admission process and the conditions for these students to remain in university, implementing and enabling an expansion of public affirmative action policies aimed at including indigenous populations in higher education in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Nietzsche's theme of the affirmation of life is very broad. In his youthful writings, we can find an aesthetic-cultural project aimed at overcoming pessimism. However, in his middle and mature writings, the philosopher's project seems to gain in depth and breadth. In this case, Nietzsche aims to overcome metaphysical thinking, which divides the world into a polarity of opposites, because such thinking encloses man in a negation of life. In metaphysics, man comes to value a reality that doesn't exist to the detriment of life itself, for example: heaven instead of earth, soul instead of body, God instead of man. In his later texts, Nietzsche developed the project of the will to power and began to interpret the world based on the concept of impulse. In this new worldview, man comes to accept destruction and creation, health and illness, death and life. Therefore, Nietzsche's affirmation of life means reinterpreting the world based on the notion of impulse, enabling a new way of thinking and, consequently, loving life in its entirety.