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The volunteer work exercised in non-governmental organizations by citizens who give their time, talents and abilities for the benefit of others, aims to intercede in the social reality and benefit groups, people or organizations. This work differs from formal work in relation to the payment and the time spent on the exercise of this activity, those are the main differences between the voluntary and formal activities. Regarding the above, the study analyzed the motivations that drive current and would-be volunteers to engage in voluntary activity of the Cidade Viva Foundation in the city of João Pessoa - PB. Justified this work in relation to turnover problems related to the non-governmental organizations, therefore, on these problems are associated as the high cost consequences to the recruitment, selection and training of volunteers, miss a continuous service of those who already do part of the organization. The research comprise approximately 350 volunteers of the Cidade Viva Foundation and removed two samples with the survey respondents, one with 250 candidates for the volunteer work and the other with 65 volunteers already active in Cidade Viva Foundation up to a year. The theoretical model used in the research was proposed by Cavalcante (2012) that has as its basis the constructs: altruistic, social justice, affiliation, learning and selfish, which allows to trace the motivational profile of volunteers at different times, both for the expectation, entry and avoidance of volunteers. Data were collected through a questionnaire, during the meetings held at the Foundation from July to August 2014. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics were used (frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and coefficient of variation) and inferential statistics (Student's t test for independent samples and comparisons / multiple correlations through the Bonferroni test - ANOVA). As the most significant achievements, it appears prevalence of altruistic profile, followed by social justice Profile, learning, affiliation, and the selfish profile both in the Expectations model when the input. Similar to this, the selfish profile was the least accepted by survey respondents. Other revenues related to the shutdown of volunteer activity in the Cidade Viva Foundation, indicated that no reason was leading off the volunteers.

This work is an adaptation of Peterson, Ekici and Hunt (2010) research to Brazilian context. Its main objective was to investigate the influence of Consumer Trust and Consumer Attitude constructs in Business Contribution to My QOL construct. According to previous investigations, in economic development context similar to Brazilian, the Business Contribution to My QOL is a mediator construct among the first order construct QOL and second order constructs Consumer Trust and Consumer Attitude. The objective of this work was achieved through two steps: (1) the adaptation and validation of original scale, to the Brazilian reality and (2) the validation of the structural model using structural equation modeling. The scale adaptation was performed through twelve in-depth interviews, conducted between consumers and professionals related to marketing. As result, variables relevant to the Brazilian context were added to the original scale. The scale was verified through the techniques of Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). A positive mediation was found between Business Contribution to My QOL and QOL constructs in the structural model. The relationship between Consumer Attitude construct and My QOL construct was negative. These relationships were similar to those found in the original study proposed by Peterson, Ekici and Hunt (2010).

The developmental policies, implemented in the Northeast by means of PAC, have Suape as its greatest expression. The indices of economic growth in that region are high, however this does not seem to reflect in a direct improvement of the people's lives. Would the new developmental policies be in fact rescuing historical social debts? In that sense, it is our task to ask how the local development is taking place, taking in consideration the work conditions of the region's workers, in special the workers employed at companies that outsource services to big companies such as the Estaleiro Atlântico Sul. Thus, this work has the goal to analyse the work conditions in the companies that provide services to the production activities of the Estaleiro Atlântico Sul, at Complexo Portuário de Suape. For this, subjects such as contracting, promotion/qualification, working hours, wage, conflict resolution, hierarchies, relation between the outsourced workers and the contractor, workplace security, etc. The choice for the Estaleiro Atlântico Sul was made as it is a company with a great expression inside Complexo de Suape, in addition to being the biggest shipyard in Latin America. The in-depth interview method was used. Four outsourced workers were interviewed. For the analysis it was also considered the testimonials of an employee of the shipyard, two union representatives, and two jurists. Thereby it was possible to conclude that the work conditions of the outsourced workers reiterate the precarious standard of the labor relations of the historical developmental policy of the country, since labor has been kept precarious in the region, relying on extensive work hours, worker cooptation in ways derived from management of the paternalist kind, low qualification, among other features of a kind of "predatory" outsourcing in the country.

Due to environmental degradation, stemming mainly from increased consumption and industrial activities, since the 1960s, organizations are aiming for a narrowing between technological progress and the promotion of social and environmental well-being. With the growing concern for the environment, sustainable management has become a key differentiator and thus organizations seek, through innovation in products and services, meet the new market demands. However, efforts directed towards efficient environmental management are typically driven by the demands of established markets. Nevertheless, Hart and Christensen (2002) argue that emerging markets, also known as "base of the pyramid", represent great business opportunities, as they are considered ideal for welcome new environmentally friendly technologies and high impact. In this sense, the purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the sustainable innovations developed by Brazilian organizations to the base of the pyramid. Specifically, by characterizing the sustainable innovations aimed at the base of the pyramid developed by Brazilian organizations; identifying the determinants of sustainable innovations to the base of the pyramid markets; justifying the reasons for the adoption of sustainable innovations aimed at the base of the pyramid considering the perspective of the Institutional Theory. The analysis of data was through descriptive analysis of multiple case study, which is commonly suggested by authors to fill gaps in empirical contribution. Data analysis was carried out individually and cross-case. Based on the characterization found, the results show that at the national level, sustainable innovations developed for the bottom of the pyramid are still in an incipient moment, because although they provide small benefits under social and environmental point of view, they do not produce large impacts on society as a whole. It was also verified the existence of determinants that stimulated the development of these innovations in the cases studied such as regulations, incentives, base of pyramid market, specific firm factors and sustainable technology. These findings served to delineate the mechanisms of institutional isomorphism present in the analyzed cases. It was found that the coercive isomorphism is still very dominant, being the predominant reason for the adoption of sustainable innovations in the bottom of the pyramid, followed by mimetic isomorphism.

Coalho cheese is a semi-hard cheese typically produced in the Northeast region of Brazil using an enzymatic coagulating agent and mesophilic lactic acid starter cultures. Some physicochemical characteristics of this product, such as low acidity, high moisture and pH, may favor the survival and growth de pathogenic bacteria frequently associated to food outbreaks. Increasing concerns about the safety of cheeses, have led to the development of alternative preservation techniques using naturally derived ingredients as essential oils (EOs) to ensure the microbiological quality of these products. EO from Origanum vulgare L. (oregano – OVEO) has recognized inhibitory effects against pathogenic bacteria associated to cheeses, however, there is a lack of information regarding the effects of OVEO toward lactic acid bacteria used as starter cultures in processing of these products. Considering these aspects, with the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of OVEO on the cell viabilities of strains Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes, well as of strains Lactococcus spp. used in the processing of coalho cheese. These effects were measured by determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of OVEO in microdilution in broth and assessing the viability of pathogenic and starter strains in cheese based broth containing OVEO (0.60 μL.mL-1, 1.25 μL.mL-1, 2.5 μL.mL-1 e 5 μL.mL-1) at 37 °C, 24 h and in semi-solid coalho cheese (0.60 μL.g-1, 1.25 μL.g-1 e 2.5 μL.g-1) at 10 °C during 72 h. The major constituents of OVEO, identified by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry GC-MS were carvacrol (69,0%) and thymol (14.12%). MIC of OVEO was 2.5 μL.mL-1 against both S. aureus and L. monocytogenes and 0.6 μL.mL-1 against the tested starter co-culture. Assays in cheese-based broth containing OVEO at 0.6 μL.mL-1 revealed no decrease in viable cell counts of both pathogenic bacteria, while the starter co-culture decreased 1.0 CFU.mL-1 after 24 h of exposure compared with the initial viable counts. OVEO at 1.25 μL.mL-1 and 2.5 μL.mL-1 caused reductions of up to 2.0 log CFU.mL-1 and 2.5 log CFU.mL-1 in S. aureus and L. monocytogenes, respectively. At these same concentrations, OVEO severely affected the cell viability of the starter co-culture following a short period of exposure. Higher concentrations of OVEO were required to decrease the viable cell counts of all target bacteria in the semi-solid coalho cheese model compared to cheese-based broth. Over the assessed time points, viable cell counts of Lactococcus spp. in coalho cheese containing OVEO were lower than those of S. aureus and L. monocytogenes. These results suggest that the concentrations of OVEO used to control pathogenic bacteria in semi-hard cheese could be carefully evaluated because of their possible inhibitory effects on the growth and survival of starter lactic acid culture used during the production of this product.

The complexity of the health problems that are presented to family health teams requires more strongly the need for interdisciplinary actions, aiming at integral care. However, the formation of professionals that make up these teams, the overload work with which they live and the own organization of the work process does not always favor the achievement of these practices. This is the problem in which this study focuses. The objective of this study is to analyze the limits, and possibilities of interdisciplinary actions in professional practice of nurses, doctors and dentists in family health units. This is a cross-sectional study, exploratory, descriptive and inferential, developed from the qualitative and quantitative approaches. The sample consisted of Nurses, Physicians and Surgeon dentists of Family Health Teams in João Pessoa city. The questionnaire was constructed, validated and applied to all professionals by lot of the Family Health Teams. The qualitative part was made from participant observation during two months. The results of the questionnaires were submitted to Cluster Analysis. While the observation, thematic analysis was performed and the data were compared with quantitative results. The three professions had limitations on the interdisciplinary practice. The findings of this study show that the exercise of interdisciplinary professional practice depends on the objective order factors related to the labor process, and subjective factors inherent to the worker himself.

Diseases of the circulatory system (CDs) represent the main group of causes of death in the world and in Brazil, whose main causes of death are ischemic heart disease (IHD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). In Brazil, even with CDs mortality decrease, several studies have found social disadvantages in the geographical areas. In the brazilian semiarid there were found higher mortality levels, differentiated from the rest of the country. In the area the problem that exists is remarkable regarding the quality mortality indicators. Without a proper treatment of such data it is difficult to draw tracing scenarios that regard to decisions to be taken by managers. In this context this research sought to understand the relationship of mortality from cardiovascular disease with indicators that express the living conditions of the adult population of the brazilian semiarid. This was an ecological cross-sectional study for 2010, with the unit of analysis the micro-regions that make up the Brazilian semiarid region. Mortality data were obtained from the Mortality Information System (MIS) of the Ministry of Health. The disease classification is defined according to ICD-10, adapted to Brazil by ICD-10-BR and that are available. Population data are sourced from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The socioeconomic demographic information was obtained from the Programme for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Percentage, mortality rates and the regional mortality rate were calculated to draw the profile of mortality from DCs and the main causes of death of micro-regions of semiarid region. The beta regression was used to examine relationships between death from DCs and socioeconomic and demographic factors for both sexes. Association was found in mortality of men with the survival probability indicators up to 60 years, life expectancy at birth, domicile percentage with electricity and aging rate and the IDHMRenda women, percentage of households with bathrooms and water plumbing fixtures and the probability of survival up to 60 years. It is expected that the understanding of these findings will contribute to the development of preventive actions in a region with few studies on this approach.

The deficits caused by stroke causes severe changes in everyday life, when, almost always, the subject involved need assistance in the field of rehabilitation, which is found mainly in secondary care. The objective of this study is to analyze the impairment in quality of life of people with stroke sequelae in accordance with the severity of the sequel. This is a longitudinal study, composed of 33 individuals of both sexes affected by stroke and admitted to a public hospital in João Pessoa / PB. Data collection was conducted through household interviews in 21, 90 and 180 days after hospital discharge. The degree of post-stroke functional impairment was assessed using the modified Rankin scale, and quality of life, by the scale of specific quality of life for stroke (EQVE-AVE). Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The mean age of the subjects was 59.76 years. Ischemic stroke was the predominant (72.7%). The areas of EQVE-stroke that had lower scores were: energy, social roles, family roles and personality. The post-stroke functional impairment, according to the modified Rankin scale, affected 81.8% of patients, and of these, 60.7% had moderate to severe disabilities. The EQVE-stroke scale, the first evaluation was associated with functional impairment and the existence of a caregiver. The second assessment, the EQVE-stroke scale showed that it was associated with age and the presence of a caregiver. The use of cluster analysis (CA) analysis allowed us to observe perception changes as the fields of EQVE-stroke the third time (T2). These changes grouped fields by similarities according to the average quality of life scores. The study provided information of individuals with stroke on the quality of your life and the relationship of this variable with some clinical features. The stroke affects different dimensions of QOL, you can change family relations and restrict the social participation of affected people by limiting the affected individuals to enjoy the activities that normally develop.

Severe oral mucositis constitutes a condition that often affects children and adolescents undergoing chemotherapy. This study aimed to construct statistical models for onset of severe oral mucositis in cancer pediatric patients from own variables of the patient and related to chemotherapy treatment regimen in order to guide the oral health decision making in disease prevention the oral mucosa during chemotherapy. This is a longitudinal, prospective and observational study, where oral mucositis was monitored during chemotherapy in 105 children and adolescents assisted in Napoleão Laureano Hospital between april 2013 and july 2015. It was evaluated by multiple regression binary logistic the association of different variables to the occurrence of severe oral mucositis (MOG) in accordance with the identification indicated by Oral Assessment Guide (OAG) modified in 10 different evaluation periods from the start of chemotherapy. Analyses were performed by the backward method, the R (3.1.3) software, adopting a 5% significance level. Over the 10 consecutive weeks of evaluation, it was observed that: in the 1st week of chemotherapy, being female (OR = 5.84), black skin color (OR=14.85) as well as be taking chemotherapy the class of antimetabolites (OR = 3.52), depending on the increase of time after drug administration (OR=1.13), were risk factors for the occurrence of MOG, whereas in the 2nd week, risk was associated with the fact that the child / adolescent be black skin color (OR=3.53). In the 3rd week, be blood group type B (OR=4.19) was a risk factor, while the increase in blood creatinine, a protective factor (OR = 0.67).In the 4th week, time since last chemotherapy was a protective factor (OR=0.92), as well as 8 weeks (OR=0.93). On the 5th week of chemotherapy, the use of chemotherapeutic agents from the class of natural products (OR=0.19) was considered a protective factor, while the increase in the number of platelets (OR=1.04) was considered a risk factor. In the 6th week, so chemotherapy Antimetabolites type (OR=5.80), and the increase of leukocytes (OR=1.06) and blood creatinine (OR=1.60) were considered risk factors, as well as also the increase of creatinine 7 review period (OR=1.46). For the first 8 weeks of chemotherapy pediatric cancer patients was possible to build predictive models for the occurrence of severe oral mucositis from the patient's own variables and related to chemotherapy treatment regimen. It was concluded that own patient factors such as being female, color black skin, blood group type B and increase in blood creatinine level were associated with increased odds of patients presenting to MOG. As for the treatment, the more likely development of MOG were related to chemotherapy class of Antimetabolites.

Hospitalization for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions is a set of pathology groups attended in tertiary health services that should have been, a priori, remedied and/or controlled by effective health actions in the primary care. Thus, this research is justified by the need to experience these hospitalizations as an indicator of access and quality of the Brazilian primary care. For this, the objective is to build a Synthetic Statistical Indicator able to provide data on dialogicity between Hospitalization for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions and health actions offered in the Strategy Units of the Family Health throughout the national territory, besides understanding the temporal evolution of the occurrence of Hospitalization for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions in Brazil and in cities with extreme scores in the indicator from the socio-political and economic implications that interfere in health care offered at the primary level of health care. The thesis defended is that the existence of a synthetic statistical indicator able to support decision making in the Family Health Units will assist the reference and counter reference system, providing safety and quickness to it. It is an ecological study of quantitative and qualitative approaches conducted from the secondary database of Hospital Information System with a selection of the absolute frequencies of the main Diagnosis for hospitalization of diseases sensitive to primary care per Brazilian city with over 100,000 inhabitants from 2009 to 2014, followed by groups of pathologies transformed into rates per 10,000 inhabitants and processed by the Principal Component Analysis technique with the help of TabNet Win 32 2.7 tools, Excel for Windows and software R 3.0.3. Qualitative analysis was funded by situationality analysis. The results showed a trend to reducing Hospitalization for Primary Care Sensitive Conditions in recent years, especially the ones standing out with the higher percentages, which are pneumonia, cerebrovascular disease and heart failure. Among Brazilian regions, despite presenting approximate values in rates, the North and the Southeast stood out for the highest and lowest incidence of these hospitalizations, respectively. The Main Component Analysis method was used from the data covariance matrix to support the construction of a Synthetic Statistical Indicator and the ranking of cities. In 2014, Nilópolis in the state of Rio de Janeiro and Altamira in the state of Pará occupied the best and worst position among the cities studied. It was also noticed that the majority of the fifteen worst cities were located in the North and Northeast. In the score in classes according to the indicator, a low percentage of cities in intermediate and poor classes was registered. Although progress is perceived in the context of primary health care in Brazil, the prospect of total reduction of ICSAP to minimum, as it is desirable, is still at the level of utopias. The use of this synthetic indicator will be a powerful tool to service managers in order to subsidize proposals for health actions in the territories under their responsibility in situations requiring greater attention in this field.

Various segments of society have increasingly claiming efficient public services, which has created new philosophies of work focused on enhancing the public dialogue and transparency of information in the custody of the state. Within this approach, there is the Access to Information Act (LAI), which brought significant changes in the treatment and provision of information by the Brazilian Public Administration. Faced with the developments and changes that have occurred on the issue of access to information by various forces - government, international organizations, society, technology - it becomes much important to know how is in practice the implementations provided by the legislation, as far it is known, the full implementation of the resolutions on the LAI is not yet a reality in all organs of the Brazilian Public Administration. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the implementation process of the access Act to Information under the Federal Institute of Education , Science and Technology of Paraíba (IFPB), a federal agency that provides public services within the technology education at different levels and modalities teaching, research and extension. Then were collected through literature, from books, websites, magazines and periodicals, issues such as efficiency in the Public Service, Information Society and the Access to Information Act. As a case study, took up as drive object of the Rectory of IFPB, from which it was possible to analyze how is the implementation of LAI in your environment using the technique of observation of their official website, as well as interviews with six of its servers. According to its qualitative method of processing the data, we used content analysis to analyze the results, where categories were created for the results, which was presented from its relation to the specific objectives of the work. After analyzing the results and their confrontation with the theoretical basis of this research, it was concluded that the implementation process of LAI in IFPB has not met all the main determinations of law listed in this work. It was found that, in relation to the awareness about the law, it is necessary to create mechanisms that foster more properly and that the institute's website has met the vast majority of determinations. With regard to the Citizen Information Service (SIC), some specific changes presented in this work need to be done to realize their full operation.

Public and private organizations are both experiencing a moment when the intellectual capital has become a source of differentiation and success for them to achieve their goals, so that they can produce wealth and a more important value than those ones previously generated by capital and labor. This new point of view is influenced by Knowledge Management (KM), which has raised the knowledge to an important administrative role in the organizational routine activities. In public service, KM has changed the focus of the sectors that deal with knowledge. With it, favorable conditions for creating new skills to improve efficiency and quality of services provided to citizens and society are being raised among the newest concerns of the managers. Given the above, this study aims to analyze GC practices in the Attendance Center for Civil Servants (CAS) of the Dean of Human Resources Management (PROGEP) of the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB), and to raise subsidies that promote KM improvement initiatives for carrying out their activities. The research consisted of a case study of applied nature, descriptive and bibliographic character, and its target population was all CAS servers involved in care processes. The method used to gather data collection was the Knowledge Management Diagnostic (KMD) elaborated by Bukowitz and Williams (2002), which consists of a questionnaire containing 140 questions with indicators for appreciation of seven sections of the knowledge. The result analysis was based on documentary evaluations associated to methodological procedures and metrics criteria established by KMD method. In view of this, the final results enabled the recognition of shortcomings and gaps in the areas of KM, as well as indicate some initiatives for building an action plan in the section ‘Evaluate’ which got the lowest score - 57%. For this, we can see that CAS develops in approximate proportions KM initiatives in the seven sections of KMD, with performances considered acceptable in all sections of the method and, in addition, it reached 63 percentile points in the overall result. This performance is higher than that found by Bukowitz and Williams in their field tests, 55%. Although the results are favorably disposed to GC practices, it is clear that much remains to be done, because there is no official, regular or continuous process to facilitate the engagement and learning conditions to be part of the organizational culture of CAS.

This research was developed with the purpose of creating an audiovisual proposal of storytelling for deaf children, with accessibility for listeners in order to provide a common programming for both audiences. This pilot program aims to produce a video that will continue to a TV series of tales of the Northeastern oral literature for children. Here we describe how was the creative process for the production of this pilot, from the choice of narrated history, the construction of the literary script, design the scenery and costumes, the composition of the soundtrack, art illustrations, selecting the deaf presenter, the tests and the recordings until the editing of the final product. Thus, it was chosen as a way to research this unique scientific work, applied research, qualitative, exploratory and as a procedure, the aesthetic analysis of a similar nature videos, the final product presented in this report. The visual aesthetics of the program was based on the observation of the culture of the deaf, the Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and technical elements of the television media. The result of this work: a produced pilot program, as entertainment proposal for the deaf community, will be presented as a model of producing a comprehensive program with popular narratives for children and youth, as part of the program of educational TV Federal University of Paraíba, seeking to meet a social demand for deaf viewers. While bilingual storytelling program for deaf and hearing children, the tale of oral literature chosen will be narrated simultaneously through Libras and Portuguese. As a model of audiovisual, new product on Brazilian television, could serve as a creative lever for other audiovisual productions for the public of deaf children, encouraging other managers of Brazilian public TVs, to accept this challenge. The survey revealed that accessibility in Brazilian television for deaf people, still is under construction, the search for a cultural identity that is born from the reinterpretation of international standards and that this search should be constantly evaluated for consolidation a national aesthetics.

Sensitive Conditions Primary health problems are treated by typical actions of the first level of health care, so that in situations of absence of effective service requires the use of specialized services in hospitals. Thus, hospitalizations are used as indicators to assess and monitor the effectiveness of Primary Health Care. The study is justified by the need to advance the discussion on health indicators to support managers in the decision-making process with regard to the proper planning of health actions that are often distorted and generate financial losses due to failure in planning, so that meet the needs of users of health services, primarily in the area of primary care while ordinate of health care. It is an exploratory, descriptive, ecological and inferential with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Quantitative results were analyzed based on the hypothesis tests for equal proportions and trends in proportions. Qualitative analysis was performed based on discourse analysis technique to shed proposed by José Luiz Fiorin. There was a downward trend in hospitalizations caused by primary care-sensitive conditions. in the city of João Pessoa/PB, from 2008 to 2013. However, there was an average of 16% of hospital expenses with preventable diseases. Analysis of the 19 groups of hospitalizations sensitive conditions. revealed that three groups (16%) did not show any trend and seven groups (37%) had growing trend of admissions. It was also observed that there are weaknesses in the planning process managers; failures in the network of health care and professional work process. It is suggested continuous investment in primary care in order to strengthen services so that health actions are carried out in an efficient and timely manner, aiming to avoid Sensitive Conditions Hospitalization for primary care; reduction in financial costs and unnecessary access to the services offered by the municipal health.

The Metabolic Syndrome (SM) corresponds to a group of components which has three or more cardiovascular risk factors of metabolic disorders including obesity, insulin resistance, elevated triglycerides and blood pressure as well as low levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL), and other abnormalities. Each component of the metabolic syndrome, in itself, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, but there are several criteria and factors possibly associated with its constitution to diagnosis of MS. The objective of this study is to obtain a model for support to aid decision-making related to the need of the school intervention with metabolic syndrome enrolled in public schools in João Pessoa - PB. This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted with a sample of 779 adolescents (both sexes) in the sixth year of public elementary schools II in the city of João Pessoa, PB, part of LONCAFS study. The statistical method of logistic regression to calculate the probability of diagnosis and assist the decision-making was used was used to support decision-ahead decision the diagnosis of SM. The sample showed mostly female adolescents (55.7%), brown/brown (70.9%), between 11 years (31.6%) and 12 years (39.2%) of age, economy class C (70.86%) whose parents completed high school (38.55%). In building the logistic regression model the variables that were statistically significant (p-value <0.05) were: Triglycerides (OR = 1.003), abdominal circumference (OR = 1.27), systolic blood pressure (OR = 1.404), Glucose (OR = 1.002), cholesterol (OR = 1.0007) and HDL (OR = 0.995). The logistic regression model developed in this study was adequate to calculate the probability of a diagnosis of metabolic syndrome. The estimate of this probability is a useful strategy to assist the direction and implementation of healthy habits of life in children with metabolic syndrome. Therefore the findings of this study present a valid logistic model, suitable for diagnosis of metabolic syndrome in school in the city of João Pessoa - PB, to facilitate the selection of individuals with a higher risk of developing or developing metabolic syndrome, thus guiding, taking decision in this context.

Engagement and continuity in voice treatment is still a field to bewidely discussed because the frequent abandonment and resistance to change behavior are impediments to occur success in voice therapy. It has been the assumption that group therapy provides an opportunity to individual exchange of experiences and the sharing of their anguish and frustrations. Given this, it is proposed to check the stage of readiness voice therapy to pre and post group therapy in patients with behavioral dysphonia. For this, it was performed an intervention research, field, descriptive in nature. The population consisted of 60 subjects, divided into two groups, group therapy (GT, n = 35) and individual therapy (IT, n = 25), seeking speech therapy in Clinical School Voice Therapy at UFPB in the city of João Pessoa - PB. We used the URICA-Voice protocol to assess the patient's pre and post stage of readiness voice therapy. For data analysis, we used statistical analysis descriptive and inferential such as the Student's T test, and tests to verify the association between the variable compromise with age, sex, education and laringeal report. How characterization of the research, most, 71.7% (n = 43) were female; with respect to education, in GT 31.4% were in elementary school incomplete, while in IT 40% completed high school; laringeal report both groups showed a higher percentage in the injury category in the membranous portion the vocal folds, with 42.9% and 68% in GT IT; on the stage of readiness, the two groups had a higher percentage in the contemplation stage, with 80% and 71.4% in GT; and 84% and 72% in IT, in pre and post moments respectively. The results revealed no statistical difference among the groups. Only in the association between post-therapy gain with education in individual therapy group showed significant (P = 0.035) in all other variables showed no significance.

The changes imposed on society and to work itself in consequence of globalization exposed health professionals to an environment full of demands and expectations due to the spread of new technologies and continuous requirements for adaptations to the new work processes. Currently, there are still important gaps to be clarified about the interaction between the worlds of work and education. In face of this reality, this scientific research had as object of study the skills and abilities that guide the formative process of the physiotherapist as director of professional practice, justified by the need to form a qualified and skilled professional in terms of technical activities, but also capable to evaluate the situation since its political origins to the immediate and mediate results in primary, secondary and tertiary health care. Thus, it became an objective to evaluate the connection between the worlds of education and work based on the skills and abilities proposed in the National Curriculum Guidelines for the development process of physiotherapists. The study was exploratory, observational, descriptive and inferential with quantitative and qualitative approaches, performed in higher education institutions that offer undergraduate courses in Physiotherapy, located in the city of João Pessoa and Campina Grande, in which the target population brought together 463 participants, being 370 of them students and 93 professors. The qualitative analysis was subsidized by the speech analysis technique which made it possible to identify the gaps analyzed in the context of the labor activities, through the positioning of seven representatives of the working world. In quantitative analysis, methods of factor analysis were used and cluster analysis that demonstrated the gaps particularly in the following expertise and general skills, Administration and Management, Communication, Permanent Education and Leadership, and within the scope of expertise and general skills, gaps on items VI and XII. Therefore, it was confirmed the assumption that physiotherapists don’t use the expertise and skills proposed by the world of education or do it in some extent, proving the need for constant revisions of the National Curriculum Guidelines regarding the lack of dialogicity between the worlds of work and education.

Domestic violence understood as synonymous with violence against women is a phenomenon of multiple determinations, defined as any act based on gender relations that results in physical and psychological harm or suffering to women. It refers to the hierarchy of power, domination and suppression of desires of the other. Can be used sometimes consciously in marital relations, the violation of human dignity in its entirety, as a mechanism for subordination of women to partner. It is known that the concept of quality of life is a dynamic concept, broad, subjective and polysemic and it would be the sum of factors resulting from the interaction between society and environment, affecting life in relation to their biological and psychological needs. The quality of life therefore involves organic levels, psychological, social, behavioral, and structural materials. The objective was to analyze the association between domestic violence against women and the quality of life. This is a Household Survey to cut in health care of women, exploratory, with a quantitative approach. It was conducted with 427 women living in the city of João Pessoa. In view of Resolution 466/12 of December 12, 2012, the National Health Council, after explaining the objectives, the women who agreed to participate signed the Term of Free and Clear. It is worth noting that the research project was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Lauro Wanderley and obtained approval under CAAE n ° 20418813.0.0000.5183 in August 2013. It was used for decision-making purposes the model of logistic regression. It showed that the prevalence of domestic violence against women in Singapore estimated at 54%. It was found that women in this study have a low quality of life (61.59). The variables used in the model only those relating to the domain of social relations, overall assessment of quality of life, safety and medical treatment provision were statistically significant. The repetition of VCDM with its shocking consequences ineffable leaves marks on women, undermining their self-esteem and directly influencing the quality of life, according to data from this study.

This research aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Individual Venture Programme at Paraíba State, which is within the Paraíba Entrepreneurship Programme. The main feature of this Programme is the generation of employment and income and its assessment was developed through the perspective of program users. Evaluation of public policies is considered an important tool for public management, insofar as it serves as a subsidy for the control of public spending and decision-making in respect of these policies. This research is quantitative in nature and was developed from the elaboration of a questionnaire as a research tool. This instrument was drawn from the definitions of the variables of the theoretical model SIAPS developed by (Almeida,2008), adopted in this research. To achieve this, all the procedures established in literature with regard to the preparation of these instruments were followed. For the empirical analysis of the research the questionnaire was applied in 345 (three hundred and forty five) programme users belonging to the municipalities of João Pessoa, Campina Grande, Patos, Santa Rita, Bayeux and Cabedelo. Through the application of this research questionnaire it was found that the Individual Venture Programme was partially effective in its actions, on the perspective of its users. It was found that in most of its actions the Programme is well evaluated by users, however, aspects related to consultancy offered by the Programme and the initial value of the loan were factors that contributed in order that the Programme had not their full effectiveness from its users’ point of view.

The critical fortune on Madonna's musical production brings out elements that make the speech of journalists in the coverage of cultural affairs. This work concerns the way in which this music criticism in cultural journalism legitimized Madonna especially Rolling Stone magazine. This is a historical process in which the construction of value was being scheduled by the authorities - above all - of cultural journalism. Synthesized Thus, the objectives of this work: to analyze how the Rolling Stone scheduled Madonna's career over its 30 years of existence, in his critical reviews of their albums and performances on tours. Identifies discursive marks related to cultural values undertaken by journalists in treating artist's works. It is understood, therefore, the contradictions of the products presented as Madonna articles endowed with aesthetic connected to the pop culture. Maps the notion of value and how it is used by Rolling Stone for products presented by Madonna.