Audit report on the City of Atlantic, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006

Audit report on the City of Atlantic, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006.

Audit report on Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006

Audit report on Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the year ending June 30, 2006.

Audit report on Jasper County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on Jasper County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the Heart of Iowa Regional Transit Agency, Des Moines, for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on Adams County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on Adams County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Pocahontas County Solid Waste Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the City of Durant, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the City of Durant, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the City of Mount Ayr, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the City of Mount Ayr, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the City of Hazleton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the City of Hazleton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Crawford County Area Solid Waste Agency Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on the Crawford County Area Solid Waste Agency Commission for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Evaluation of professional knowledge and attitudes on dementia patient care: a trans-cultural adaptation of an evaluation instrument

Objective To describe the trans-cultural adaptation of the evaluation instrument entitled Atenció Sanitària de Les Demències: la visió de L' Atenció Primarià from Catalan into versions in Portuguese for doctors and nurses. This study evaluates the knowledge and perspectives of these professionals in their treatment of patients diagnosed with dementia in cases of primary care. Method The adaptation followed internationally accepted rules, which include the following steps: translation, synthesis, back-translation, revision by a committee of specialists, and a test run with 35 practicing doctors and 35 practicing nurses in Brazil's Family Health Strategy (Estratégia Saúde da Família, or ESF in Portuguese). Results The translation, synthesis, and back-translation steps were performed satisfactorily; only small adjustments were required. The committee of specialists verified the face validity in the version translated into Portuguese, and all of the items that received an agreement score lower than 80% during the initial evaluation were revised. In the test run, the difficulties presented by the health care professionals did not reach 15% of the sample, and therefore, no changes were made. Conclusion The Portuguese translation of the instrument can be considered semantically, idiomatically, culturally, and conceptually equivalent to the original Catalan version and is, therefore, appropriate for use in Brazil.

A Condição de Mediador Político-Cultural em Cabo Verde: Intelectuais e Diferentes Versões da Identidade Nacional

Este artigo examina dois processos correlacionados à constituição de elites intelectuais em Cabo Verde: a disputa das várias versões sobre a identidade cultural das ilhas e a problemática da mediação política e cultural, isto é, de como diferentes lógicas (políticas, literárias) se articulam na relação entre a posição de produtor cultural e a condição de mediação cultural e política. Em Cabo Verde essa condição de mediador político-cultural tem sido disputada, ao longo deste século, por grupos que se definem como intelectuais. Além de demonstrar o caráter arbitrário da invenção de “essências” nacionais como a “cabo-verdianidade”, pretende-se aqui estabelecer correlações entre as lutas de legitimação das diversas versões de identidade nacional e a constituição de um espaço de mediação que proporciona importantes lucros materiais e simbólicos a quem o monopoliza.

Audit report on O’Brien County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on O’Brien County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on Audubon County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.

Audit report on Audubon County, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006.