Libido e angústia: economia de gozo na obesidade

Reflexos das Alternâncias de Governo na Governança de TI em uma Organização de Economia Mista

Obesidade e gravidez

Obesity is a serious public health problem and affects women of reproductive age. During the last decades, women have become more obese, with twice the prevalence found among men. In countries like the U.S., about two thirds of women are overweight, and of these, one third is obese. In the seventies, the prevalence of obesity in women of reproductive age was 9%. In 2004 (data from NHANES 2003-2...

Variáveis Psicossociais No Excesso De Peso E Na Obesidade Infantil Psychosocial Correlates of Overweight and Obesity in Infancy

Obesity is a complex disease with not only physical consequences but also psychological. The aim of the present work was to analyze differences between community children with normal weight versus community overweight children versus children with overweight in clinical setting, at the level of quality of life, psychological morbidity and self-concept . The study sample has 267 children represe...

Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica

We study how personal relations affect performance in organizations. In the experimental game we use a manager has to assign different degrees of decision power to two employees. These two employees then have to make distributive decisions which affect themselves and the manager. Our focus is on the effects on managers’ assignment of decision power and on employees’ distributive decisions of on...

Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica

We consider one-to-one matching (roommate) problems in which agents (students) can either be matched as pairs or remain single. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we review a key result for roommate problems (the “lonely wolf” theorem) for which we provide a concise and elementary proof. Second, and related to the title of this paper, we show how the often incompatible concepts of stabili...