Um estudo introdutório da literatura de João Carlos Marinho

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Rubem Braga : crônica e censura no Estado Novo (1938-1939)

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A recepção do mito de Heráclio por Gautier d’Arras

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Meninices de uma poetisa: um estudo de O menino poeta, de Henriqueta Lisboa

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The pain and pleasure of being what one is: Viewpoints of health professionals and patients about being overweight/obese

The objective of this article is to discuss the meanings that health professionals and patients in treatment attribute to obesity. The research consisted of a qualitative survey in health, based on in-depth interviews with patients and professionals at an out-patient clinic at the University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Here, we discuss the concept of obesity, the meanings of diagnoses, the singularities involved in managing treatment, and the process of becoming ill, all in the light of the anthropology of health that has a sociocultural orientation. Obesity is usually seen by the professionals as a risk-factor disease. For patients, the incorporation of this rationality is procedural and is mixed in with other meanings attributed to being overweight/obese that have been gradually developed throughout life. A patient's autonomy in choosing to be fat, or obese, and to adhere to treatment, is defined as a process that requires support in order to come to joint proposals in caring for these problems.

De autor a personagem: Jorge Luis Borges na mira de romancistas latino-americanos

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Confidências: os ensaios críticos de Kate Chopin

Between 1894 and 1899 Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904), one of the main exponents of American Realism and Feminism, published seven critical essays in newspapers and journals. To this number, it might be added the sketch ―Confidences‖ and the two first entrances of Impressions, her second diary, totalizing nine texts. These texts unveil a refined critical spirit, an outspoken and edge-cutting style in writing, sometimes sarcastically merciless, and an eager reader, all of them aspects that would be put into practice by the Feminist criticism expressed in the author‘s novels and short stories. To introduce and briefly discuss these essays are the main purposes of this paper.

A presença da angústia em um conto de Mia Couto

This article intends an approach among literary analysis, philosophy and psichoanalysis in a short story from Mia Couto, Mozambican author. From the trajectory of the main character and from their relationship with the others, we intended to do a reading on the presence of anguish within this literary text. In order to do that, two definitions were used to explain what would be considered torment: one from the philosopher Kierkegaard and the other from the psichoanalyst Freud. Concluding, we aim to compare this two readings in a way that we establish bounds between both.

Uma história que não tem fim: um estudo sobre a fantasia literária

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Narrativa e representação: uma leitura de Cidade de Deus

Pós-graduação em Estudos Literários - FCLAR

Efficiency comparison of hyperbranched polymers as toughening agents for a one-part epoxy resin

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Identidades em movimento: a representação feminina e as relações de gênero na obra de Angela Carter

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

O engenho e os retábulos de Osman Lins

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Hemodynamic response in one session of strength exercise with and without electrostimulation in heart failure patients: a randomized controlled trial

Background: Studies have investigated the influence of neuromuscular electrostimulation on the exercise/muscle capacity of patients with heart failure (HF), but the hemodynamic overload has never been investigated. The aim of our study was to evaluate the heart rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressures in one session of strength exercises with and without neuromuscular electrostimulation (quadriceps) in HF patients and in healthy subjects. Methods: Ten (50% male) HF patients and healthy subjects performed three sets of eight repetitions with and without neuromuscular electrostimulation randomly, with one week between sessions. Throughout, electromyography was performed to guarantee the electrostimulation was effective. The hemodynamic variables were measured at rest, again immediately after the end of each set of exercises, and during the recovery period. Results: Systolic and diastolic blood pressures did not change during each set of exercises among either the HF patients or the controls. Without electrostimulation: among the controls, the HR corresponding to the first (85 ± 13 bpm, p = 0.002), second (84 ± 10 bpm, p < 0.001), third (89 ± 17, p < 0.001) sets and recuperation (83 ± 16 bpm, p = 0.012) were different compared to the resting HR (77 bpm). Moreover, the recuperation was different to the third set (0.018). Among HF patients, the HR corresponding to the first (84 ± 9 bpm, p = 0.041) and third (84 ± 10 bpm, p = 0.036) sets were different compared to the resting HR (80 ± 7 bpm), but this increase of 4 bpm is clinically irrelevant to HF. With electrostimulation: among the controls, the HR corresponding to the third set (84 ± 9 bpm) was different compared to the resting HR (80 ± 7 bmp, p = 0.016). Among HF patients, there were no statistical differences between the sets. The procedure was well tolerated and no subjects reported muscle pain after 24 hours. Conclusions: One session of strength exercises with and without neuromuscular electrostimulation does not promote a hemodynamic overload in HF patients. (Cardiol J 2011; 18, 1: 39-46)

Biografia e história: panteonização e iconoclastia em narrativas de Raimundo Magalhães Junior

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS