Objetivo: Apresentar com base na literatura científica o papel da enfermagem para a promoção saúde sexual e impacto vida dos adolescentes. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa literatura, realizada nas bases dados Literatura Latino-Americana do Caribe em Ciências Saúde (LILACS), Banco Dados Enfermagem (BDENF) Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), foram utilizados artigos es...

Sea turtles are a circumglobal taxon that receive considerable research and conservation attention; however, there is little published information about patterns of representation for people working with these species. To assess long-term trends in gender, geographic, institutional within the sea turtle community, we quantified from 7041 abstracts presented at International Turtle Symposium (IS...

This beautifully produced Atlas is a sort of 'guided tour' of intestinal stomas. It deals pictorially with the whole subject with the aid of excellent colour photographs, charts and diagrams, supplemented where necessary with explanatory text. Every aspect of the subject is touched upon starting with the general principles, indications and pathology. Major emphasis is on the technical aspects o...

The 2001 honoring of Russian twin researcher, Dr. Inna V. Ravich-Shcherbo, at the Tenth International Congress on Twin Studies (ISTS), in London, brought timely recognition to an international colleague. It also marked an occasion for reflecting on the course of twin studies in Russia. Historical trends and current accomplishments are examined with an eye toward future developments. Next, the d...

One of the most widespread approaches to reactive planning is Schoppers universal plans We propose a stricter de nition of univer sal plans which guarantees a weak notion of soundness not present in the original de nition and isolate three di erent types of complete ness that capture di erent behaviors exhibited by universal plans We show that universal plans which run in polynomial time and ar...

Trata-se de revisão cujo objetivo foi explorar evidências sobre as necessidades, os riscos e o acesso aos serviços saúde sexual reprodutiva entre mulheres migrantes ou refugiadas nos países da América Central, Sul Estados Unidos (EUA). Estudo integrativa, cuja questão norteadora utilizada foi: “Qual é a situação relativa às ao latino-americanas deslocadas Unidos?”. Foram realizadas buscas nas b...

Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis (IST’s) são doenças que têm sua disseminação facilitada, principalmente pela prática sexual sem a utilização de preservativos. Causam um problema abrangência mundial na saúde em suas consequências variam problemas infertilidade, desenvolvimento câncer, complicações gravidez, morte ou infecção fetal e até mesmo psicológicos vem afetando cada vez mais jovens a...

Background Dermatomyositis (DM) is a rare, chronic inflammatory disease characterized by skin manifestations and/or progressive muscle weakness and other systemic manifestations. Prior analyses have reported higher morbidity, hospitalization rates, mortality among patients with DM compared matched controls [1-3] ; however, more recent data on the burden treatments for are warranted. Objectives ...

Background: Postpoliom yelitis Syndrom e (PPS) is a com p lex o f late onset neurom uscu lar sym ptom s w ith new or increased m uscle w eakness and m uscle fatigab ility as key sym ptom s. Main clin ical com p la ints are severe fatigue, deterioration in functional ab ilities and health related quality o f life. Rehabilitation m anagem ent is the m ainstay o f treatm ent. Tw o different therap...

Remediation of coal tar at former Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) sites, and creosote associated with wood preservative sites is challenging due to the viscous nature of the dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) and the modest solubility and vapor pressure of the contaminants of concern (COCs). DNAPL seepage into surface water bodies, as well as groundwater plumes formed by the most mobile consti...