e-Consultation as a tool for participation in teachers’ unions: the greater the focus, the greater the number of visits

In the 2000’s, the Internet became the preferred mean for the citizens to communicate. The YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, i.e., the social networks in general appeared together with the Web 2.0, which allows an extraordinary interaction between citizens and the democratic institutions. The trade unions constantly fight governments’ decisions, especially in periods of crisis like the one that the world, Europe and, in particular, Portugal are facing. In this regard, the use of e-participation platforms is expected to strengthen the relationship between trade unions and the education community. This paper reports the research about the planning and driving of a series of experiments of online public consultation, launched by teachers’ trade unions. These experiments are compared with those of other countries, such as Australia, United Kingdom and United States of America. A quantitative analysis of the results regarding hits, subscriptions, and response rates is presented, and it is compared with the 90-9-1 rule, the ASCU model and data from government agencies. The experiments performed used the Liberopinion, an online platform that supports bidirectional asynchronous communication. A better understanding of the benefits of these collaborative environments is expected by promoting quality of interaction between actors.

Complex Congenital Heart Disease: The Influence of Prenatal Diagnosis

INTRODUCTION: Complex congenital heart disease is a group of severe conditions. Prenatal diagnosis has implications on morbidity and mortality for most severe conditions. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the influence of prenatal diagnosis and distance of residence and birth place to a reference center, on immediate morbidity and early mortality of complex congenital heart disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study of complex congenital heart disease patients of our Hospital, born between 2007 and 2012. RESULTS: There were 126 patients born with complex congenital heart disease. In 95%, pregnancy was followed since the first trimester, with prenatal diagnosis in 42%. There was a statistically significant relation between birth place and prenatal diagnosis. Transposition of great arteries was the most frequent complex congenital heart disease (45.2%), followed by pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (17.5%) and hypoplastic left ventricle (9.5%). Eighty-two patients (65.1%) had prostaglandin infusion and 38 (30.2%)were ventilated before an intervention. Surgery took place in the neonatal period in 73%. Actuarial survival rate at 30 days, 12 and 24 months was 85%, 80% and 75%, respectively. There was no statistically significant relation between prenatal diagnosis and mortality. DISCUSSION: Most patients with complex congenital heart disease did not have prenatal diagnosis. All cases with prenatal diagnosis were born in a tertiary center. Prenatal diagnosis did not influence significantly neonatal mortality, as already described in other studies with heterogeneous complex heart disease. CONCLUSION: prenatal diagnosis of complex congenital heart disease allowed an adequate referral. Most patients with complex congenital heart disease were not diagnosed prenatally. This data should be considered when planning prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart disease.

Housing: Chicago style : a consultation sponsored by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

Bibliography: p. 77-78.

Strengthening executive-legislative consultation on foreign policy.

Item 1017-A, 1017-B (microfiche)

Smoking cessation in pregnancy : abbreviated prenatal counseling protocols for WIC educators and/or health care professionals /

"Reprint December 1994"--P. [2] of cover.

Prenatal influences.

Mode of access: Internet.

Consultation de medecine au sujet du naufrage de sept personnes, arrivé au Bacq d'Argenteuil, au mois de Novembre 1751.

Mode of access: Internet.

Consultation sur une naissance tardive pour servir de reponse 1º a deux ecrits de M. le Bas ... 2º A une consultation de M. Bertin, 3º A une autre de M. Petit, tous deux de l'Académie Royale des Sciences ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Recueil des pieces relatives a la question des naissances tardives : Contenant: 1º. Un memoire sur le mechanisme & la cause de l'accouchement, lu a l'Academie Royale des sciences. 2º. Des observations sur ce que M. Astruc a ecrit touchant les naissances tardives. 3º. Une consultation en faveur desdites naissances tardives. 4º. Lettre a M. Bouvart, en reponse a la critique qu'il a faite de la consultation precedente /

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Le droit des prêtres dans le synode, ou concile diocesain : Avec un recueil de synodes de toutes les eglises du monde, qui prouve que le synode est un veritable concile, ou les pretres deliberent & jugent avec l'eveque : Suite de la refutation de la consultation publiee par M. de Condorcet, eveque de Lisieux, contre les cures de son diocese : Tome premier.

Mode of access: Internet.

Mémoire a consulter, et consultation, pour Jean Lioncy, Créancier & Syndic de la Masse de la Raison de Commerce établie à Marseille, sous le nom de Lioncy freres, & Gouffre, contre le Corps & Société des PP. Jésuites.

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Consultation médico-légale sur la maladie a laquelle a succombé M. le commandant d'ouvrier /

Mode of access: Internet.