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C50 socio-emotional competence and school performance in the 5th grade

TPM implementation and maintenance strategic plan: a case study

Maintenance has assumed an increasing importance in the reorganization of the industrial sector. However, there are several companies where a maintenance strategic plan needs to be implemented. This work was developed in an industrial context, in a company of Clutches and Hydraulic Controls. The focus was the implementation of a strategic plan for maintenance. The methodology chosen was Total Productive Mainten...

Level of physical activity and body image in Portuguese and French students, 1s...

Adolescents have a physiological need to move, therefore physical activity should be encouraged at an early age. In young adults, there are also various physical and psychological transformations. Associated with these transformations, there is a will to fit in the patterns of society’s beauty and, sometimes, a consequent bodily dissatisfaction. Thus, it is necessary to encourage physical activity, for its bene...

Level of physical activity of the Portuguese and French students in physiothera...

Physical activity (PA) comprises any kind of energetic expenditure above the stationary level and it is associated to the well being, life quality and health enhancement. Nowadays, he practice of PA is tending to decrease among university students. It is imperative that those students have the base concepts of PA and healthy habits so that they can alert and modify the community habits and mindsets in the future.

Physical activity level in Physical Therapy students

Physical activity is defined as any body movement that requests energy expenditure. The practice of physical activity allows to reinforce and increase the capacity of muscular-skeletal response and an improvement of physical aptitude. Currently, has been verified that university students have been decreasing healthy lifestyles and increasing their degree of sedentary lifestyle. Thus, it’s essential the Higher E...

Learning scorecard dashboards: visualizing student learning experience

This paper presents the design of dashboards for the Learning Scorecard, a platform designed for improving the student experience in a Higher Education course using gamification and Business Intelligence (BI) techniques. LS is a Learning Analytics application, that has been used in Data Warehouse and BI courses in a University setting since 2016. The LS platform has two independent views: student view and facul...

Eliciting nicotine craving with virtual smoking cues

Craving is a strong desire to consume that emerges in every case of substance addiction. Previous studies have shown that eliciting craving with an exposure cues protocol can be a useful option for the treatment of nicotine dependence. Thus, the main goal of this study was to develop a virtual platform in order to induce craving in smokers. Fifty-five undergraduate students were randomly assigned to two differe...

Stent Thrombosis Eight Years Past Drug-Eluting Stent Placement – A Case Report

Remote Nodes topologies for hybrid WDM-ring TDM-tree passive optical networks

In this paper is presented a WDM-ring TDM-tree passive optical network able to provide more than 1024 users spread over 100km with a symmetrical bandwidth of 100Mbps. A set of optically fed passive remote nodes are also presented able to provide increased efficiency and resiliency.

Hypertension profile in patients with cerebro­ vascular disease

Introdution: hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor for cerebrovascular disease. Some studies show that 25 to 40% of the population with cerebrovascular disease has hypertension while others show that the prevalence of hypertension in patients with cerebrovascular disease is 80%. It would be desirable to understand hypertension past history and evolution in patients with cerebrovascular disea...