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ADHD is one of the most widely researched problems in child development, which has aroused unusual interest in recent years among the scientific community, but also among other stakeholders who live closely with this disorder, such as doctors, psychologists, teachers, educators and parents of these children. Despite significant scientific advances and its widespread dissemination, we are still referring to a subject shrouded in myths and misconceptions, which require clarification, so that students with ADHD can be better understood, thus safeguarding adequate school support for these children, and also ensuring an important contribution for those who deal with the problem on a daily basis, such as teachers, whose knowledge of this disorder is empirical and their actions/relationship with these students intuitive, and most of the time not the most appropriate. There is a consensus that the core symptoms of ADHD play a decisive role in the emergence of associated problems in the school context. At the same time, the literature highlights that the high degree of comorbidity in ADHD worsens its prognosis in this area. We need to know in order to intervene.

This book considers, the evolution of cotton ginning machines, in particular linter units, and analyzes the development and automation of linter units on the example of the leading countries of the world, for further improvement of the domestic light industry and its units. At studying theoretical sources and consideration of practical problems at cotton ginning plants it was revealed that the quality of processed seeds on linters and received products, namely "Cotton lint" need to take measures to improve their quality. This is the aim of the research conducted in this monograph.

The growing movement to end obstetric violence has a lot to do with a growing call for women to be given back their births, while offering them natural ways to relax and control labour pain. The literature review shows a clear advantage in using the aquatic environment to support women in labour, but very little can be found about the experiences of these women, "water mothers". This book arose from the author's interest in knowing and understanding this experience. It is a descriptive exploratory qualitative study, with an interpretative phenomenological orientation, carried out through semi-structured interviews with women with this experience, from Greater Porto and Greater Lisbon. The participants' great enthusiasm and recommendations regarding the use of water for childbirth and its implications for obstetric practices stand out.

This research addresses the issue of the environment, health and quality of life, with an emphasis on the public water supply in the Vila Vitória neighborhood in Imperatriz - MA. The main objective of the research is to analyze the quality of the water offered to the population of the Vila Vitória neighborhood, as well as to identify the reasons why residents do not have water in their taps throughout the day. In order to carry out the study, a bibliographical and documentary review was carried out with authors and laws that deal with the subject, and the hypothetical deductive method with a qualitative and quantitative approach was applied in the development of the research. In the field research, samples of the water distributed to the population were collected for microbiological and bacteriological analysis. Questionnaires were also administered to the residents of the Vila Vitória neighborhood, as well as to the person responsible for handling the well and the Secretariat of Agriculture of Imperatriz - MA. The results of the analysis showed that the water is suitable for consumption, but the deficit in the public supply harms the quality of life of the neighborhood's population, a fact proven by the answers obtained in the questionnaires applied to the interviewees.

Researching the cell we discovered that there is a large "alpha pi" complex organized in plexuses within it, under the hegemony of the guanine alpha pater (paternal fathers) in the microtubules. These plexuses are the organelles, always functioning in pairs. The golgi plexus is the most important maternal plexus, as it contains two groups of distinct gene inheritance; (CIS guanines and TRANS adenines) maternal and paternal fathers, with all plexuses under the hegemony of microtubules, always respecting a cellular criterion. Decoding the Human Genome in Microtubules follows the same line of decoding as the Human Genome found in chromosomes. This book also talks about the intermolecular relationships that exist in our organism, where molecules have an extraordinary capacity to standardize the most different treatments and are capable of reading, commanding, executing, arranging, transporting, cleavaging and closing in the same way as microtubules.

New contexts influence the debates and practices of art education in Brazil and open up new fields of enquiry for decolonial critique. By demanding consideration of the role of artistic representations in the production and reproduction of the "colonial difference", various studies have been initiated that question artistic disciplines and the regime of the gaze from the concepts proposed by decolonial criticism. In this way, the debates proposed to rethink art/education in contemporary times, including decolonial thinking, are called upon to reintroduce and represent the geographical and epistemological discontinuity regarding art and aesthetic expressions. This work was produced from these questions, seeking to investigate alternatives towards other educational narratives in the context of art education in everyday school life.

Our aim in writing this book has been to try, through the analysis of recognised authors, to arrive at a more exact vision of what alchemy is and what its practice consists of. We cover all the points of the alchemical work, starting with the initial materials, their preparation, the operations involved in the course of the whole process, right up to the final conclusion of the alchemical work. We quote various passages from different authors, many of them unpublished in Portuguese, so that the reader can draw their own conclusions. In this way, we hope to have been able to provide a more in-depth view of what alchemy is and how it is practised, and to enable those readers who wish to delve deeper to follow in their own footsteps.

Among the missions assigned to man, "educate and train" occupy a place of choice. The school is one of the notorious moulds for the positive development of human attitudes and aptitudes, with a view to personal fulfillment and social integration. In opting for this ideal, we must remember that an educational philosophy reflects a social philosophy. And social philosophy is seen as a blueprint for guiding the educational process, suggesting appropriate objectives based on life's diversities, while helping to prepare the younger generation to face the challenges of the modern age. It is in this context that this study, divided into three essential sections, has devoted itself to a concise and precise examination of the main problems of education, with concomitantly suggested attempts at solutions, under the semantic coding of remaking "the philosophy of education in Congo-Brazzaville". To intelligibly address some of the major challenges facing the Congolese education system, following the approach of a socio-philosophical ethic circumscribed to the context of the Congo; such is the problematic evoked in this work.

Basic sanitation in the world is still extremely poor, causing serious problems for public health and claiming the lives of millions of children every year. The construction of Evapotranspiration Tanks (TEvap), a decentralised environmental technology that is easy to apply and low cost, provides important local ecosystem services. This study looks at the implementation of 80 TEvap units in the Batoque Extractive Reserve in terms of environmental services and ecological aspects, related to the actions of the "Recovery of the Batoque Lagoon" project. 74 of the 80 planned units were implemented, with an approximate reduction of 88.8 tonnes of waste from the treatment of 11,444.4 kl of sewage and carbon sequestration of approximately 0.05 tC/ha.year-¹ during the period 03/2011 to 12/2012. This generated savings of R$50,620.18 for the public purse. The implementation of the TEvap demonstrated considerable environmental services for the residents of the Batoque Extractive Reserve, especially in the treatment of residential sewage and the reduction of local rubbish.

Parental Alienation is a social phenomenon in which one of the parents uses the child as an instrument of revenge against the other parent, in the face of marital breakdown, by implanting false ideas and without taking into account the damage that will be caused. This process is sneaky and takes place in the privacy of homes, which makes it difficult to prove. People often use clandestine recordings and hidden cameras as a means of proof. Obtaining evidence that violates any principle, such as privacy, is forbidden in the legal system. Observing the high incidence of cases of Parental Alienation in society and the prohibition of illicit evidence, the need was felt to verify the admissibility of evidence obtained by illicit means to prove Parental Alienation. To this end, the work studies Fundamental Principles and Rights, Parental Alienation and Evidence Law. The result of the research takes an unexpected turn.

Intersectoral actions are emerging at the moment as a way of tackling the population's complex needs in a more integrated way, seeking health effects from interventions in the chain of social determination of the health-disease process. It is based on the principle that it is not possible to promote health with the sector acting in isolation. In this study, the Family Health Strategy is valued for the possibility of inserting workers in the territory and for being the Brazilian strategy for reorienting the care model, which implies changes in the concept of health-disease, in health practice and paradigm. The aim was to find out the perception of the programme's workers in a region of São Paulo, Brazil, about intersectoral work, through a hermeneutic-dialectic analysis of the discussions held in a workshop on the subject. It was found that, despite their perception of the influence of precarious living and working conditions on the health of the population they serve, the workers do not identify intersectorality as a strategy, they have sporadic intersectoral relationships permeated by power relations and fragile social participation.

Water is a natural resource that is essential for human survival and has become an asset of high social and economic value. In João Lisboa over the years there have been several problems related to the consumption and waste of water resources arising from the activities carried out by car washes in the city's urban perimeter. Thus, this study aimed to analyze car washes and their environmental impacts in the urban area of João Lisboa-MA. A qualitative, quantitative, descriptive and field approach was used, with the aim of proposing a treatment method and analyzing the feasibility of setting up a car wash with water treatment and reuse. Water was also collected for laboratory analysis to identify four elements: cadmium, copper, iron and chunbo. As a result, a large amount of waste and water contamination by these car washes was noted. Within the scope of environmental management, it is essential to integrate the public and private sectors in order to promote awareness, rights and duties of the company within the proposed legal aspects, as well as promoting the best use of water resources.

Appendicitis remains the most frequent digestive pathology among abdominal surgical emergencies. Diagnosis of this condition is not always straightforward. In the past, diagnosis was based primarily on clinical manifestations and laboratory results, but in around half of all patients an atypical appendicular syndrome was present, making it impossible to confirm the diagnosis. Today, imaging tests such as ultrasound and CT scans are increasingly used to confirm or exclude the diagnosis quickly, and avoid unnecessary surgical intervention. Nonetheless, treatment remains surgical and involves emergency surgery, combined with antibiotic therapy, the duration of which depends on the severity of the inflammation. Anatomopathological analysis of the appendix is crucial, so as not to overlook an associated or underlying diagnosis, notably inflammatory or tumoral pathologies.

Growth is a central objective in the management of children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). This book reviews the growth patterns observed in children with CKD, as well as the causes of growth disorders and the signs and causes of protein energy loss in pediatric CKD.Methods of assessing growth and nutritional status, and the limitations of these measures in CKD, will also be reviewed.Management strategies to optimize growth and nutrition in children with CKD, including the use of recombinant growth hormone. Finally, the chapter concludes with information on the neurological development of the child with CKD.

Professional Training and Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Afro-Brazilian Culture. The book expresses the actualisation of a trajectory of many struggles and successes, both for me and for the students who became writers together with me, as well as for the life stories of the subjects researched. It was in these daily activities, in a pedagogical and academic training programme, that this scientific production emerged. The authors were centred on the need to construct meaning, on the urgency of recovering socio-cultural content in order to fully understand the history of Brazilian society and the contribution of black people to the social, economic and cultural construction of the country, and I was eager to learn how to contribute to this cause. Working on this line of research in Human Rights and Diversity represented the possibility of fulfilling a goal, highlighting the awareness of the school's role in avoiding silence about any form of discrimination, and racism is a cruel way of dominating some over others. To enable the intellectual potential of thousands of brilliant minds to flourish in Brazilian schools, preventing them from being imprisoned by prejudice.

This book analyzes school dropout at a Federal Public Education Institution. It is understood that this phenomenon encompasses the definitive departure of the student from their course of origin and as an object of national educational public policies. The aim was to analyze the causes that have been attributed to school dropout, drawing attention to the need to take into account the intra-school and extra-school factors involved in the process, be they social, political, economic and/or pedagogical. In this way, this book makes a qualitative analysis of the phenomenon of dropout within the scope of Technical Professional Education at Secondary Level and is part of the context of initiatives aimed not only at understanding the factors that motivate students to leave their courses, but also at contributing to discussions regarding the policies developed for this type of education.

The aim of this book is to systematise knowledge about the fundamental aspects of the rescission action in Brazilian procedural law, taking into account the legislative transition between the CPC/73 and the NCPC. To this end, fundamental notions about destabilisation in Brazilian law are presented. The following themes stand out in particular as the subject of the chapters: the axiological structure of the rescission action - the values and principles responsible for shaping the rules of destabilisation -; the object of the rescission action - which stabilities can be broken by means of the rescission mechanism -; the grounds for destabilisation - which hypotheses authorise the breaking of stability -; and, finally, the time limits for destabilisation - how long a procedural stability should last.

The craft beer market in Brazil is growing every year and artisanal producers are gaining more ground with consumers. Small breweries, brewpubs and other models of establishments have sprung up all over Brazil, aiming to offer products with greater quality and sensory complexity, inspired by the traditional brewing schools that are already well-established but without abandoning their Brazilian influences.

This paper aims to present the working conditions of the social worker in the CRAS in the municipality of Vianópolis, considering the societal transformations that have taken place in contemporary capitalism, their consequences for social policies, especially the Social Assistance Policy, as well as the transformations that have taken place within the profession. To this end, a bibliographical and documentary study was carried out on the central determinants that permeate the working conditions of the social worker, as well as a field study to get to know this reality, thus trying to identify the limitations imposed by the situation on the work of the social worker, and thus answer our problem, which is to know the main factors that interfere with the work of the social worker in the CRAS.

The proper disposal of waste from various human activities is a major challenge for society. This research therefore investigates the performance of solid waste management in the municipality of Imperatriz in 2016 and 2017. To this end, a bibliographic survey was initially carried out, followed by field research at the Municipal Department of Infrastructure, Transportation and Public Services of Imperatriz-MA, with analysis of the records of manual collection and transportation of household, commercial, sweeping and tree pruning waste, and final disposal of waste in the years 2016 and 2017, in order to understand how solid waste management developed and the problems faced. The data obtained showed that although they are different administrations, the handling, collection and final disposal of waste in the period studied did not show significant changes, however the current administration stands out for its interest in setting up the Sanitary Landfill in Imperatriz, the construction project for this work was released after the execution of the Municipal Plan for Integrated Solid Waste Management - PMGIRS, 2018, which will enable the dump to be extinguished.

This book deals with irregular urban development in the municipality of São Sebastião, on the north coast of São Paulo, Brazil. This development, resulting from urban exodus and property speculation, has caused major socio-environmental problems as well as a burden on public coffers. In order to mitigate this situation, a voluntary taxation methodology was devised to minimise the burden on public coffers and to ensure that the revenue generated by this methodology is exclusively earmarked for these urban centres, known as ZEIS - Special Social Interest Zones. In order to achieve the proposed objective, bibliographical research on the subject was carried out, as well as documentary research for technical surveys at the City Hall. Finally, the TADUS - Taxa de Auxílio para o Desenvolvimento Urbano e Social - was presented as a viable alternative for improving investment in infrastructure in these areas.

In this 21st century, whether we like it or not, computer technology remains the mainstay of modern state development. The technology itself will not be effective without the inescapable mode of encoding the information. The information of the technology is all digitally coded in a very resistant way. This digital coding strength is based on prime numbers. The digital information is coded through the products of two prime numbers. In computing, these two prime numbers are called the private keys. In computer science, it is the product of these two private keys that gives the public key. To make it easier to decode computer codes, I have set up a system that I have named "horizontal and vertical system", abbreviated (SHV). I will develop widely the (SHV) in all its meanings in this book.

Suicide is a global problem. The scientific and technological advances of modernity have changed the "meaning of life"; and lead to frustration, loss of values such as dignity, self-respect and respect for others, without such meaning, the adolescent is prone to suicidal behaviour. In this research we asked ourselves the following question: what are the risk factors associated with suicidal behaviour in nursing students at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud of the University of Guadalajara? Suicidal behaviour was assessed in 2624 students with a 107-item questionnaire in 8 dimensions of suicidal behaviour: non-modifiable suicidal risk factors, depression-anxiety, suicidal ideation, precipitating factors, beliefs and protectors to suicide. History of suicide attempt (HIS) was present in 20% and 61% reported suicidal ideation. Students with HIS had significantly higher frequency of risk factors vs. students without HIS; the proportion of protective factors was significantly higher in those without HIS. The highest frequency with HIS was shown between 20 and 25 years of age.

The general health of individuals during the period of growth and development is related to their lifestyle, which has repercussions on eating habits, body fat and blood pressure. In this sense, we can understand the epidemic of obesity and chronic diseases related to excessive and unbalanced food consumption, which have been a defining feature of recent decades. Scientific evidence shows that the development of various diseases begins in childhood and adolescence, especially chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs), which are linked to society's lifestyle. This phenomenon has raised interest in the behavioural factors that can lead to these diseases. Since the fundamental pillars in the treatment of nutritional disorders and the prevention of chronic diseases are changes in eating habits and the practice of physical activity, it is necessary to discuss the assessment of food consumption in order to identify the eating habits of young people and prevent the emergence of associated comorbidities.

The diagnosis and treatment of temporomandibular disorders is an important chapter in the daily clinical practice of dental surgeons. This book addresses manifestations that are not so well recognised during the assessment of patients with temporomandibular disorders. These manifestations include symptoms related to the hearing system. In this book, the authors discuss the pathogenesis of otological symptoms related to the temporomandibular joint, making it a useful reference for general practitioners, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, facial pain specialists and professionals in related medical fields.

Purpose: With the aim of finding out the relationship between emotional intelligence and the academic performance of eighth-year undergraduate psychology students. Method: The research carried out has a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and prospective approach. The phenomena were observed as they occur in their natural context, without manipulation of the variables (Hernández Sampieri, et al 2006). Universe: 71 students were studied, which corresponds to the total number of eighth semester students of the psychology degree in groups "A" and "B" of the Public Unit. As the universe was small, it was not necessary to take a sample. Results: In the analysis of emotional intelligence by dimensions, a high result was observed in terms of adequate perception and excellent understanding, in contrast to what was shown in the level of emotion regulation, a high percentage of the participants should improve their emotional regulation. Conclusion: Through Pearson's correlation test, no statistically significant relationship was observed between the variables academic performance and emotional intelligence.

This book explains the replacement of the existing generator protection system of a gas turbine generator, by a digital multifunction generator protection relay: SIEMENS, Type: 7UM62255EB093CG0 with a 7XT71 controller unit, 7XR6004 resistor unit for rotor faults, and a 3PP1326 resistor unit for excitation faults. A step-by-step description of the functions and configuration of the protection equipment is given, with a brief explanation of installation and commissioning.

This book aims to make a comparative analysis between the novel "The Song of the Grass" (1950) and the autobiography "Under My Skin" (1997) by British author Doris Lessing, from the perspective of the authorial voice, in order to establish the origins of this voice and how it became an engaged voice. It is known that the author was, in the context in which she wrote some of her works, in the midst of ethnic-racial conflicts in southern Africa, more specifically in Southern Rhodesia, where colonisation compared to other parts of the African continent had a difference: the white population held all the power over the land and refuted ethnic and cultural issues related to black people. Lessing also shows the socially subordinate position of women in this society. In this way, the author creates an engaged voice, as she tells us about the social problems of that historical context. Thus, when comparing the two narratives, it was possible to notice autobiographical marks in the work of fiction. These marks are evident in the details with which she describes the country, the farm, her parents' way of life and the power relations present in the situational context.

Vascular purpuras, indicative of leukocytoclastic vasculitis of the small vessels of the dermis, are either an isolated skin disorder or a clinical manifestation of a systemic, infectious or neoplastic disease. The aim of this study was to determine the etiological profile of vascular purpuras in a department of internal medicine. Retrospective study including 55 patients presenting with PV, collected in our internal medicine department. The etiological diagnosis was based on anamnesis, clinical history, biological and histological examinations. Our series included 34 women and 21 men with an average age of 44 years (14-80 years). An etiological diagnosis was made in 72.7% of cases. Systemic diseases were the most frequent etiology, found in 19 cases (34.5%). These included rheumatoid purpura (11 cases), Gougerot-Sjögren's syndrome (5 cases), systemic lupus erythematosus (2 cases) and Churg-Strauss syndrome (1 case). An infectious cause was found in 10 cases (18%): hepatitis (7 cases), poststreptococcal (1 case), cytomegalovirus infection (1 case), parvovirus B19 (1 case).

Cássio Bratti, Priscila Pelegrini and Adriana Redivo never intended to write a book, but they always thought about doing something for society that could contribute in some way to other people. While working in a meatpacking company to solve problems found in a sector of the industry, they saw the contribution the study could make to other academics, so the work was turned into an article and published in congresses and magazines. The aim of publishing this book is to continue distributing the knowledge and study carried out using the Arena program, in order to help both academics and company managers with the challenges encountered in industry on a daily basis.