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Pediatrics and Neonatology have changed profoundly in recent years. The very concept of Pediatrics and Neonatology has evolved in parallel to the changes in the professional practice, where aspects related to preventive medicine are becoming more and more important. Technological development has allowed the incorporation of new responsibilities, functions and new challenges. This book offers the reader a brief and clear vision of the different aspects of Pediatrics. The development of neonatology and the incorporation of neurodevelopmental care, the evaluation of the cognitive and motor development of the infant or the problems related to puberty or adolescence are some of the aspects raised, of interest to complete the training in Health Sciences.

These days, over 86% of companies claim to have a PMO (Project Management Officer), a true player in the company's transformation, a project coordinator and facilitator, even if their objectives and function are not always well understood, not to mention the thousands of start-ups springing up all over the world and in all sectors of activity. Despite this number, only 29% of companies complete their projects on time. Apart from the reasons given, these are often details that organizations overlook when setting up PMOs or in operation. In this book, the author presents : Firstly, the concept of "PMO", from its genesis: its emergence, through its function, the different types of PMO, its justification, composition and evaluation. Secondly, the toolbox: methods, techniques, artifacts, software, and over 300 Templates in digital formats for download. Thirdly, practical advice and guidance on how to successfully implement and operate a new PMO within an organization.

Digital technologies have had an impact on today's society, since they have enabled people to communicate quickly and interactively through their resources. These technologies are now important channels of information and communication; through them, information has circulated at an accelerated rate and is increasingly being used for various purposes, including educational purposes, as a teaching resource. Information mediation is an important task within a library, since it is through it that the link between librarian, information and user is made. It is understood that digital technologies in the context of the school library would bring a range of possibilities with regard to information mediation, since through them it becomes possible to access countless information sources and pedagogical practices, which could support the library's mission, functions and objectives for the community. With this in mind, the aim is to discuss the mediation of information in the school library using digital equipment, media and supports, including the internet, in dialogue with the possibilities and potential of each device.

This study was based on a rare sample (patients diagnosed with dementia and bipolar affective disorder simultaneously) whose small number, 130 patients, poses statistical challenges. A history of bipolar disorder is associated with a significantly higher risk of dementia in older adults and has been associated with cognitive decline. Some studies investigating the risk of dementia and death in older people with bipolar disorder have concluded that bipolar disorder in senile age is associated with an increased risk of dementia (designated as greater neurocognitive impairment in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) and premature death. Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric illness characterised by fluctuations in mood, with a relapsing and remitting course.The most common causes of dementia in individuals over the age of 65 are (1) Alzheimer's disease (2) vascular dementia and (3) vascular dementia and Alzheimer's type. Other diseases that account for around 10 per cent of the total include dementia with Lewy bodies; Pick's diseases; frontotemporal dementias.

Imagining the world without the World Wide Web is increasingly difficult, even though the Internet is still a new technology. Enjoying an intellectual work no longer implies buying physical material, as all it takes is a few clicks and everything can be "downloaded" to a device that fits in your pocket. Faced with technological innovations and the expansion of the Internet, the scenario is as follows: on the one hand there are the authors who see their rights constantly disrespected, on the other hand there are the individuals who have the right to access information and culture in a broad way, and between the two is a legislative apparatus that is completely out of step with the current reality. This book has been in my mind since before I started my degree and I never had any doubts that this would be the subject of my final year's work. So I present this book, as the fruit of a personal curiosity that resulted in it being passed with flying colours by the university examination board and can now be seen by all those who are also interested in the subject. João Luiz Correia de Lima.

Land use can be understood as the way in which geographical space is being occupied by human beings and their activities in it. Land management practices and forms of land use have a major impact on ecosystems and natural resources including water and soil. Information on land use can be used to develop solutions for managing problems related to natural resources such as water quality. Surveying land use is of great importance, as the disorderly occupation of land causes deterioration of the environment.

This special degree work shows how to design a heat exchanger as well as its internals according to international standards, the manual calculation of the heat exchanger dimensions was performed and additionally it was simulated with the Hysys simulator version 7.2. One of the most difficult steps for the manual calculation is the Global Heat Transfer Coefficient "U", in this work we show how to calculate it since it is done through an "Iteration" method to find the necessary area to satisfy the requirements demanded by the client. We hope to instruct designers or students by means of the developed procedure since in many occasions when making this type of calculations there are an endless number of unknown variables that this book shows the way to follow to reach the results.

In this work devoted to ¿Privacy put to the test of digital technology. The risks of the dissemination of intimate images in Congolese and French comparative law", the author analyzes, through direct observation, the phenomenon which is currently breaking records consisting of the publication of images of an intimate nature on certain websites or in social networks. There is evidence that when interacting with technology, people behave differently than when they encounter the ¿real¿ world. These images are first obtained by the consent of the victim, especially in the context of a romantic relationship, and, when the relationship turns sour, the images are released for revenge.The work lists, with a jurisprudential and doctrinal basis, the provisions in Congolese and French criminal law which punish such acts. It is an essential tool for the benefit not only of lawyers, but also of all digital users. Because legislation is decisive for preventing and combating cybercrime, whether perpetrator or victim of cybernetic missteps, everyone benefits.

This book is based on research carried out at the "15 de Outubro" State Elementary School in the Guamá neighbourhood, located in the city of Belém do Pará, Brazil, which aimed to show the process of drawing up the Political-Pedagogical Project (PPP) at the school, considering the process of participation, evaluation, importance and challenges for its implementation. The data was obtained through interviews. The PPP is very important in school organisation and is the guiding principle of any educational institution, as the school would not function without its own identity. In addition, it is necessary for everyone to participate, as this builds a democratic decision-making relationship. Thus, drawing up and implementing the PPP is essential for all schools, as it makes the school more organised and prepared to deal with the implications that will arise during the school year, generating a harvest of fruit in the school life of the entire community involved.

Chronic non-progressive encephalopathy (CNE), also known as cerebral palsy, is a disorder of movement and posture resulting from non-progressive damage to the immature or developing brain, which causes clinical manifestations (BAX et al., 2005). Aquatic physiotherapy is a physiotherapeutic resource that contributes to the treatment of patients with NPC, as it improves balance, motor coordination, temporal and spatial orientation, gait, muscle flexibility and social function. There is a need for studies with a larger number of homogeneous patients, control and experimental groups with statistical significance tests and treatments of choice for improving these aspects in these patients.

The methodical manual contains material on the technology of creating educational content, which allows to improve ICT-competence of teachers for the introduction of Smart - learning in the system of professional development of teaching staff, as well as the effectiveness of combining pedagogy, teaching methods and technologies in distance learning. The methodological manual is intended for pedagogical staff of professional development institutes, secondary schools and colleges.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease usually affects young adults and has a chronic and relapsing clinical course, with an impact on quality of life, particularly in aspects related to health, education, work, social and family life. It is globally considered to be a disabling disease and responsible for a marked reduction in the person's quality of life. Despite the technological advances witnessed in recent years in an attempt to reduce the incidence rates of some chronic diseases, there has been a significant increase with direct and indirect implications for the quality of life of those affected and their families. In this sense, nurses are involved in the dynamisation of innovative activities, seeking to provide creative solutions for dealing with situations of chronic illness, aiming to improve the care provided and making a real difference to the day-to-day life of the person, family and community.

In the first part, the book draws a parallel between the ideals of sustainability advocated around the world and the actions taken in Brazil and the Amazon to achieve this sustainability. In the second part, it analyses the environmental management process carried out in the Amazon and Acre, as well as its importance in overcoming the challenge of fostering economic growth without compromising the region's ecological sustainability. It points to the commercial exploitation of forest biodiversity as the main natural productive vocation of the Amazon as an inexorable way out. In the third and final part, it discusses and proposes the formation of a political pact to promote the Amazon's greatest competitive advantage: forest biodiversity.

What do children know about death? What thoughts surround their minds when faced with such a sad universe? How do they feel when they lose their parents, relatives or loved ones to death? And what do we know about the union of these two very different universes: childhood and death? Currently, the rates of urban violence, the emergence of diseases and the occurrence of natural phenomena have been responsible for a considerable number of deaths, of which the existence of children who are victims of the physical loss of their parents or loved ones is inevitable. This context led us to research the process of understanding death and children's mourning experience, in order to understand how they elaborate/introject this concept and how they experience the stages of physical mourning. Thus, we describe this evolution according to chronological age, outlining these processes and identifying the psychological aspects inherent in the context, in order to subsidise work with bereaved children and their families, providing them with elements that help them understand and identify the moment their child is going through, thus guaranteeing them adequate psychological care and support.

Electricity can be generated from different sources, but it is a limited resource. There has been great concern about the growth of energy consumption in the world and the environmental impacts caused by the generation process. Climate change and the greenhouse effect, for example, have prompted several countries to discuss ways of sustainable development. Conceptual content on electricity, the history of the sector in Brazil at different times and in different contexts, population and Gross Domestic Product growth, the relationship between development and consumption in the world, impacts on the environment, prospects and financial data from companies in the sector will be presented here. Interesting questions will be answered, such as: at what growth rates has electricity been consumed in Brazil? Is the growth in energy consumption proportional to the growth in the resident population and economic growth, as measured by the Gross Domestic Product? What is the correlation between them? I look forward to reading it.

Actions resulting from high emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), mainly carbon dioxide ( ) through industries, cars, burning fossil fuels, among others, have intensified global warming and generated a series of consequences, specifically in the oceans, affecting all marine fauna and flora. Coral Reefs are considered to be the most diverse marine ecosystems due to the abundance and variety of species. Of great social, economic and cultural importance, they are currently being damaged by high rates of deforestation. One of the most obvious causes of the influence of global warming on these ecosystems is the bleaching of corals, as they are very sensitive to climatic variations and easily stressed. However, it is not known to what extent these changes could be harmful to this ecosystem and to the planet as a whole. This study therefore seeks to raise awareness of the means and goals for preserving these organisms.

This book deals with the subject of inventory management and contains a range of notions about business logistics and materials management. This book is aimed above all at undergraduate students or people who are beginning their studies on the subject. Organised into four chapters, the book provides various notions about inventory management and its impact on logistics costs.

Participative management involves all employees in the life of the company, whether in strategic decision-making and day-to-day implementation, or in problem-solving. Its aim is to put people back at the heart of companies. Here, employee participation aims to boost commitment, productivity and loyalty. This type of management reduces staff turnover, improves the employer brand, enhances well-being at work and creates the conditions for increased productivity.Thus, participative management is part of a long-term vision of the working relationship, and relies on collective intelligence to improve both overall performance and individual productivity. In this relevant book, Dr. Brice NKAMGA guides the reader through a pleasant and motivating introduction.

The book PRACTICES IN MYCOLOGY: FROM CONCEPT TO LABORATORY, in its first edition, shows the need for greater knowledge of mycoses in the state of Piauí, with the intention of greater academic enrichment. It covers everything from fungal biology to clinical interpretation. The chapters were written with the help of health professional collaborators, who dedicated themselves to writing the book. It is therefore hoped that the book will contribute to knowledge and improvement in the field of mycoses.

In this book, students from the Pharmacy degree course at the FBV-Wyden University Centre (Recife/PE) analyse the role of hospital pharmacists in different areas. The ten chapters cover topics such as pharmacovigilance, pharmaceutical care, medication errors, clinical pharmacy, medicines management and purchasing, as well as the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in hospitals and pharmaceutical care for patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Fahr's disease (FD) or Familial Primary Calcification of the Basal Nuclei is a rare neurodegenerative disease, with an incidence of less than 1 in 1 million inhabitants (SALEEM et al., 2013) worldwide, autosomal dominant, characterised by symmetrical and bilateral calcifications in the basal nuclei (nb) and other areas of the cerebral cortex, thus allowing for diverse clinical presentations, mainly with extrapyramidal and psychiatric symptoms. In recent years, mutations in four genes have been identified as causing the disease (SLC20A2, PDGFRB, PDGFB and XPR1) allowing for a specific genotype-phenotype correlation as shown in Table 1 (TADIC et al., 2015). The author of this research is a neurologist working in the field of neuropediatrics. Through clinical history and examinations, she identified the likelihood of FD in the proband and found ways to develop this work in postgraduate studies.

NAFLD is a major cause of liver disease worldwide, currently becoming the 1st cause of chronic liver disease and the 3rd cause of liver transplantation in the USA.The management of this pathology, supported by pathophysiological data, relies largely on the identification of lifestyle habits and inadequate diet in order to propose the necessary corrections. Thus, the aim of our study was to describe dietary and lifestyle habits in patients with NAFLD.

"Every text is constructed as a mosaic of quotations, every text is the absorption and transformation of another text" (KRISTEVA, 1974a, p.64 apud SILVA, 2003, p.214). "[...] there is no discourse that does not relate to others. In other words, meanings are the result of relationships: a discourse points to others that support it, as well as to future sayings. [...] A saying is related to other realised, imagined or possible sayings." (ORLANDI, 2010, p. 39).

Through a case study of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this paper seeks to explain why sexual violence is used against men, especially rape. Through the discussion of hegemonic masculinities, I intend to explain the use of such practices. At the same time, I seek to criticise international society's position on the issue, which tends to neglect men and boys as victims of sexual violence, treating only women as victims.

Performance art has been the target of curious looks from various fields of human knowledge. Forming a hybrid and trans/interdisciplinary terrain, performance studies in the artistic sphere offer the possibility of producing knowledge with a multifocal lens, opening up spaces for the crossing of diverse epistemologies and broadening the spaces for discussion. This study approaches performance art through the lens of the philosophy of difference, political and critical theory and, above all, studies of subjectivity, presenting in its propositions the elaboration of a thought that has Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze and Jacques Rancière as its main interlocutors.

This paper is a research project carried out at the Pedagogical Advisory Office in Barra do Bugres - MT, during the supervised internship course of the undergraduate degree in Public Administration, with observation activities, bibliographic research on the subject and on the organization, informal communication and aimed at studying how organizational learning takes place in this environment. This research lasted two years and culminated in interviews, bibliographical research and informal conversations, with a presentation of the elements that facilitate organizational learning that are most present in the organization (Operational variety, Multiple mentors, Systemic perspective, Imperative to analyze the external environment, and Climate of openness) and a description of their dynamics.

As a final exam for her degree, she decided to gain a better understanding of employee knowledge management within large companies, and to do so she sought a theoretical basis in the work of various authors. The beginning of the creation of organisational knowledge is the transformation of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge and vice versa, and it should be understood as a process that extends the knowledge created by individuals "organisationally". Knowledge is an exclusive attribute of human beings, whose tacit knowledge forms the basis of organisational knowledge. Although organisations provide the means to generate, multiply and, above all, justify the use of knowledge in products and services that are desirable to societies, they cannot create knowledge on their own, which is why it is up to the organisation to provide the right context for the activities of individuals in order to facilitate the creation, dissemination, retention and application of knowledge in order to enrich the organisation as a whole and the environment in which it operates.

Strength and hypertrophy training using the RFS (Restricted Blood Flow) method has been shown to be very effective through experiments and is gaining ground every day, as it is proving to be a very beneficial way of gaining strength and hypertrophy using low weights. Some researchers have used kaatsu training or RFS in Japan and found good results in gyms, orthopaedic clinics and hospitals. In Japan, this method is already widely used, with kaatsu being used in 84% of the places surveyed. Chondropathy refers to diseased cartilage. This condition usually causes pain in the front of the knee and clicking, especially when the person squats, runs, gets up from a chair or goes up and down stairs. The more specific term for this condition is patellofemoral syndrome. Patellar chondropathy has different stages, depending on the degree of cartilage degeneration: softening, fragmentation or cracks, up to erosion or total loss. This is why it is necessary to consult a doctor immediately, even when the pain starts.

The logistics chain involved in the corneal transplant process must be efficient, advocate quality and seek to optimise the use of time, a preponderant factor in the success of the procedures. This chain consists of a set of activities that are directed towards making it possible to carry out a transplant. Its focus is on making tissues or organs available to recipients, saving lives and giving hope to those who undergo transplantation because they find it to be the only, or perhaps the best, therapeutic option. Ratz, a scholar on the subject, states that transplants and their logistical operations have a particular characteristic, which is to "[...] supply a known, registered and queued demand with an uncertain supply that can occur at points from the north to the south of the country". With this in mind, the main aim of this work is to demonstrate, by means of a case study carried out at the Sorocaba Eye Bank (BOS), the chain of logistical activities, from the moment the tissues are received until they are made available for transplantation.

The influence of the Gothic novel on French literature and on expressionist cinema is still little addressed in interdisciplinary research. As far as his romantic universe is concerned, certain literary topoi, be it the fantastic plot, medieval settings or numinous characters are the constants on which he is built. In order to identify its manifestations and explain its influences, this thesis proposes to study, within the short story La Morteamour by Théophile Gautier and the filmNosferatu le vampire by Wilhelm Murnau, the updating of its major characteristics codified by Maurice Lévy, namely the presence of the ¿Beyond¿, the use of medieval architecture and an atmosphere of anguish and mystery.