Objectives: A descriptive study of exploratory character with the objective to determine the representation of a healthy tooth and an unhealthy tooth, associated with the concept of dental decay. Methods: Children of both genders (880), distributed in six age groups of low socio-economic level, some already having prior contact with the dentist and others not. Three instruments were used: a soc...

Video games are not just an important cultural artifact of youth culture but have considerable cognitive worth. Centered within an information processing theory and mediating processes’ framework, the empirical qualitative study investigated, via stimulated recall methods, the thinking skills and strategies of five teenagers while playing an action-adventure video game. Sixteen types and 600 in...

During the last decades, the expectancies towards sexual life of people with intellectual disability have been more and more recognized by researchers, clinicians, caregivers and parents. These expectancies, that largely depend on socio-cultural and personal factors, such as the level of disability, must be supported in order to help people with intellectual disability to reach the best quality...

E-learning arises in all educative contexts and levels with the use of information and communication technologies and massive access to internet connected computers. On the other hand, the fast development of social networking tools and web 2.0 technologies are producing an evolution of elearning towards what is called a learning 2.0 paradigm. In this short paper we shall present the main techn...

— The present article presents a software application, developed by the authors, in the digital signal processing field, with educative purposes. This tool offers a graphic interface to perform signal processing presentations via plugins. The program allows users to add plugins designed in both XML format and Java. Both kind of plugins allow the incorporation of Octave/Matlab functions in order...

Educational environment produces a lot of information related with many aspects, besides the traditional system, the growth of online educative systems and the called e-learning, have increased the amount of data available for its analysis. Data Mining offers different techniques for processing information in order to discover patterns that can be used for obtaining knowledge which helps improv...

To be responsive to the needs of today's pluralistic society, physicians require an understanding of the essential link between culture, power and ethical practice. Using a case example, the authors argue that medical educators need to: (a) critically consider how the educative process joins medical knowledge and power; (b) develop pedagogy that can bring questions of power, culture and ethics ...

A total of 42 students who had practical immunology course were included in the study. A series of 10 stations were established for OSCE. At each station the students were given a patient description were asked to answer questions for results and interpretation of tests within two minutes. Then, the MCQ examination consisting of 10 questions and oral examination with 10 same questions were cond...

This study has as objective the presentation of a proposal of curricular restructure, evaluating its influence in the health instruction, focusing the nursing school. It presents, initially, the real panorama of superior education in Brazil. After that, it shows one curricular restructure proposal. Finally, it approaches the nursing/health teaching configuration in this proposal. This study poi...

The objective of this study is to describe the case of a patient presenting advanced epidermoid carcinoma of the penis associated to myiasis. A 41-year-old patient presenting with a necrotic lesion of the distal third of the penis infested with myiasis was attended in the emergency room of our hospital and was submitted to an urgent penectomy. This is the first case of penile cancer associated ...