The objectives of this study are to analyze the use of accounting information by local politicians in electoral campaign of last municipal elections (2013) and to identify factors that potentially explain such use, taking as reference the municipalities of region of Trás os Montes and Alto Douro. The results indicate that local politicians tend to use accounting information for municipal campaign’s purposes. T...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of group B Streptococcus (GBS) cultures at 35-37 weeks of gestation relative to GBS colonization status at delivery. METHODS: Rectovaginal swabs from 221 women at labor in four Lisbon hospitals were collected for GBS screening according to the CDC guidelines. RESULTS: The PPV was 24.4%. IAP was administered to 100% of prenatally GBS positive women. Ther...
The ability to monitor fetal heart rate is vital during late pregnancy and labor in order to evaluate fetal well-being. Current monitoring practice is essentially based on external cardiotocography and, less frequently, during labor, invasive fetal scalp electrocardiography. Many current and envisaged applications could benefi t from simpler devices using a 3-lead ECG confi guration. We are designing a maternit...
OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether delirium is associated with an unbalanced inflammatory response or a dysfunctional interaction between the cholinergic and immune systems. DESIGN: Cohort observational study. SETTING: General hospital orthopedic ward. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred one individuals aged 60 and older with no previous cognitive impairment undergoing elective arthroplasty. MEASUREMENTS: Incidence o...
É descrito caso de paciente portador de volumosos aneurismas coronários, submetidos à RCM, na qual foi adotada a exclusão cirúrgica destes aneurismas, seguido do implante de pontes de safena para as artérias comprometidas, com resultado a curto e longo prazos satisfatório.
FUNDAMENTO: A cirurgia de revascularização do miocárdio (CRM) é a cirurgia cardíaca mais frequentemente praticada no país, sendo a maior parte realizada pelo Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). OBJETIVO: Avaliar os resultados da CRM, não associada a outros procedimentos. MÉTODOS: Analisaram-se as informações do banco de dados SIH/DATASUS, disponibilizado on-line. Esse banco de dados contém informações relativas a: se...
The objective of this study is the development of an anticorrosive primer with less zinc content. Partial substitution of zinc by electrical conductive resins should rend the process more cost effective. In the present work, a standard epoxy coating with a high zinc content (93 wt. % as specified in the Steel Structures Paint Council), was used as a starting formulation in which part of the zinc was replaced by...
Sustainability has strong implications on the practice of engineering. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an appropriate methodology for assessing the sustainability of a wastewater treatment plant design. The present study used a LCA approach for comparing alternative wastewater treatment processes for small and decentralised rural communities. The assessment was focused on two energy-saving systems (constructed w...
The control of wastewater treatment plants requires an extensive monitoring programme based on physicochemical costly routine analysis. Microbial populations are well known indicators of operational conditions in biological reactors. This research was carried out by the CENTA and the University of Minho in the scope of the Erasmus programme. The aim of the work was the development of a simplified approach, base...
Um sistema de tratamento tem como objectivo remover os compostos presentes nos efluentes industriais que, se não forem eliminados, exercerão impactes negativos nos meios aquáticos, excedendo a resiliência dos ecossistemas. Nessa perspectiva, a presente comunicação foca as principais características dos efluentes da indústria vitivinícola e apresenta o caso de estudo de uma unidade de tratamento de águas residua...
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