Discussions about gender have been expanding and achieving consistency in the last years. Transsexuality, in a specific way, has been the subject of debates and production of studies inside and outside of the academic areas. Transgender people are recognized for seeking to transform their bodies according to their gender identity, the one that they feel they belong to. Physical activities can be considered as r...
Introduction: the practice of resistance exercise (RE) combined with blood restriction (BFR) has appeared as an alternative to improve the muscle mass and strength performance in people with cardiovascular and orthopedic diseases. However, the hemodynamic changes with that method, performed with continuous and intermittent pressure, in the upper and lower limbs, in hypertensive individuals, still have knowledge...
Iron deficiency anemia is an important public health problem, being children, women of childbearing age and pregnant women the most vulnerable biological groups. The National Iron Supplementation, coupled with mandatory fortification of wheat flour and corn flour with iron and folic acid and nutritional guidance, constitute the set of strategies aimed at controlling and reducing the problem in Brazil. The objec...
Cactaceae are abundantly present in the semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil. Among its species, the Xique-xique (Pilosocereus gounellei) is found in the drier regions of the Caatinga biome, which although little knowledge about its constitution, has its use in popular medicine, in the treatment of inflammations, as well as in periods of scarcity is used for food and feed in this region. In this study, water, p...
ABSTRACT Introduction: the labour exercise of women sex workers favors the contagion by HIV and requires knowledge to the adherence to safe sexual practices. Objective: to analyze the knowledge of female sex workers on HIVAids, considering socio-demographic variables and the relationship of this knowledge with sexual practices. Methodology: exploratory and quantitative study, conducted from May to September 201...
The growing demand for food has generated a significant increase in the production and use of pesticides in various crops. These products tend to accumulate in the environment and thus cause several problems of environmental pollution and public health. Conventional systems of treatment of effluent are not efficient in the removal of these contaminants. For this reason, the objective of this work was to evaluat...
The growing search for clean energy technologies has led to the discovery of new sources of sustainable energy. This research aimed to study the effect of the route of synthesis on the microstructure and the electrical properties of an electrolyte material for the electrochemical conversion of energy to solid oxide fuel cells. A sol-gel protein method and the solid state reaction route preceded by high-energy g...
According to data from RENAVAM, Brazil currently has a fleet of more than 42 million vehicles. In 2010, 182,900 accidents were recorded on public roads in Brazil, of which 7,073 were fatal. In addition to the crashes that cause accidents, there are those that affect the cars' capacity of locomotion, causing inconvenience to their passengers and putting them at risk of eventual car crashes. Most accidents are ca...
This study aim was evaluate the performance of dairy heifers in growing under two mineral supplementation strategies. Was used 16 Holstein x Zebu heifers with 135.25±15,50 kg average weight, divided into 2 treatments (protein salt and mineral salt) and managed in Brachiaria brizantha pasture Marandu cultivar under rotational system with 28 paddocks (14 per treatment) with 2 occupation days and 26 rest days for ...
Aimed to investigate the prevalence, the pattern of antimicrobial susceptibility and the genotypic ratio of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) isolated from pigs in differents age groups. Based of calculation of sample size, were collected 282 nasal swabs of pigs from three differents farms in Northest, located in the citys of Areia and Santa Rita (Paraiba State) and Itapetim (Pernambuco State). Considering the ...