OBJECTIVE To analyze the Miniquestionário de Qualidade de Vida em Hipertensão Arterial (MINICHAL - Mini-questionnaire of Quality of Life in Hypertension) using the Item Response Theory. METHODS This is an analytical study conducted with 712 persons with hypertension treated in thirteen primary health care units of Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil, in 2015. The steps of the analysis by the It...

Little quantitative data about the movement rates of freshwater gastropods is available. Knowledge of these rates can lead to a better understanding of gastropods and their interactions with the environment. Rate of movement at an individual level has several implications for survival and reproduction. In patchy freshwater systems, movement rates are a limiting factor in the gastropod's ongoing...

Pacing from the right ventricular apex has been the clinical standard for decades but has recently come into question with a growing trend towards reducing ventricular pacing as much as possible. The earliest devices provided asynchronous ventricular pacing in patients whose indication for pacing was asystolic complete heart block. RV apical pacing was literally the difference between life and ...

the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of physical practices on the reduction of slow-pace children's aggression. for this purpose, 20 guidance school students with slow pace were selected through simple random sampling. they were divided into experiment (10 persons) and control (10 persons) groups. rosenzweig frustration scale was administered to both groups as the prete...

In this paper we examine the problem of nding the optimal solution of the stochastic dynamic growth problem with in nite time horizon for a decision maker described in the prospect theory (PT decision maker) that has asymmetric attitude with respect to a reference level of consumption. We compare the optimal solution of the PT decision maker with the optimal solution of the decision maker with ...

In a Maker-Breaker game on a graph G, Breaker and Maker alternately claim edges of G. Maker wins if, after all edges have been claimed, the graph induced by his edges has some desired property. We consider four Maker-Breaker games played on random geometric graphs. For each of our four games we show that if we add edges between n points chosen uniformly at random in the unit square by order of ...