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Quality of death certification in Colombia

Colomb. med; 49 (1), 2018
Abstract Objective: To evaluate the quality of the certification of general death and cancer in Colombia. Methods: Validity indicators were described for each province and the cities of Bogotá, Cali, Manizales, Pasto and Bucaramanga. A factorial analysis of principal components was carried out in or...

Propiedades psicométricas del inventario de estilos de aprendizaje de Kolb y del cuestionario de Felder-Silverman en estudiantes de educación física de Santiago de Chile

El objetivo del presente estudio fue conocer las propiedades psicométricas del Inventario de Estilos de Aprendizaje de Kolb y del Cuestionario de Felder-Silverman en una muestra de estudiantes de educación física de Chile. Para ello se aplicó ambos instrumentos a 141 estu...

Desconfortos associados às cirurgias de extração dentária e construção de instrumento de medida (QCirDental). Parte I: impactos e consistência interna

Resumo O estudo objetivou criar um instrumento de medida que pudesse quantificar os desconfortos associados ao procedimento cirúrgico de pacientes submetidos a cirurgias dento-alveolares (QCirDental). O instrumento QCirDental foi desenvolvido em duas etapas iniciais: (1) geração e seleção das pergun...

NMR-based metabolomics to select a surgical method for treating papillary thyroid carcinoma

Clinics; 73 (), 2018
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate differences in the metabolomic profiles of patients who received different surgeries for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). METHODS: Two surgical methods, i.e., unilateral and total thyroidectomy, were employed according to different disease conditions. Sera fro...

Psychometric Validation of the Short Form of the Smoking Consequences Questionnaire (S-SCQ) for Brazil

Abstract Smoking accounts for 24% of deaths in the general population and is also the factor that explains the biggest amount of years of life lost. It is important to understand the expectations regarding smoking behavior. The present study aimed to validate the Short Form of the Smoking Consequences Qu...

Psychometric validation of the Columbia-Suicide Severity rating scale in Spanish-speaking adolescents

Colomb. med; 48 (4), 2017
Abstract Introduction: Adolescent suicide is a major public health issue, and early and accurate detection is of great concern. There are many reliable instruments for this purpose, such as the Columbia-Suicide severity rating scale (C-SSRS), but no validation exists for Spanish speaking Latin American ...

Physiological response and productivity of safflower lines under water deficit and rehydration

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 89 (4), 2017
ABSTRACT Water deficit is one of the major stresses affecting plant growth and productivity worldwide. Plants induce various morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular changes to adapt to the changing environment. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.), a potential oil producer, is highly adapt...

Eating behaviors in a male and female community sample: psychometric properties of the DEBQ

Ter. psicol; 35 (2), 2017
The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) in a community sample of chilean adults. The sample comprised 627 participants who completed a battery of questionnaires. The mean age of the sample was 36.07 years (SD =12.49), and 66.2% of ...

Propolis from Southwest of Parana produced by selected bees: Influence of seasonality and food supplementation on antioxidant activity and phenolic profile

An. acad. bras. ciênc; 89 (1), 2017
ABSTRACT Propolis produced by selected bees Apis mellifera were collected from March to June of 2013 and in March of 2015 and analyzed in order to evaluate the influence of climate, colony of origin, and food supplementation of colonies on the content of total phenolic and flavonoid by chromatographic an...

Benchmarking pathway interaction network for colorectal cancer to identify dysregulated pathways

Braz. j. med. biol. res; 50 (5), 2017
Different pathways act synergistically to participate in many biological processes. Thus, the purpose of our study was to extract dysregulated pathways to investigate the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer (CRC) based on the functional dependency among pathways. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) informati...