The study aimed to identify the knowledge of nursing students on the use, by nurses, of Complementary Alternative Therapies, especially acupuncture, and the information obtained during the Nursing undergraduate course. It is a prospective and descriptive study carried out with…

É inegável a importância da prescrição de enfermagem como um instrumento norteador das ações dos enfermeiros, técnicos de enfermagem e auxiliares de enfermagem, porém a realidade hospitalar cria diversas barreiras à sua implantação. Este estudo teve como objetivos conhecer a…

2nd edition



Authored by David L. Robinson



Pontoon Publications, 2009



Brain, Mind and Behaviour describes new discoveries concerning the relationship between brain-function and individual differences in human personality…

The problem of nuclear track overlapping is addressed assuming the stochastic character of charged particle registry and the fact that even monoenergetic beam perpendicularly impacting on detector surface will show a distribution for track radius values. Asymmetric distributions of overlapping…

Forecast models based on climatic conditions are of great interest in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. The success of these models depends, among other factors, on the knowledge of the temperature effect on the pests? population dynamics. In this direction,…

The purpose of this study was to identify the wood species of the marine and filling piles obtained from the ancient Byzantine port of Eleutherius/ Theodosius, Istanbul, Turkey. Anatomical descriptions and identifications of 12 marine and 4 filling piles were…

Recent years have seen explosive growth in research concerning the use of cellulosic materials, either in their as-recieved state or as modified products, for the removal of heavy metal ions from dilute aqueous solutions. Despite highly promising reports of progress…

The following article is an analysis about biographical childhood texts incorporation in Chile. From a cultural view and trying to gather the scarce critical tradition around this kind of writing in Latin America, it proposes an interpretation regarding the late…

Our purposes in part I of the essay are: 1) to suggest that womb envy has been a significant element in the formation of our culture (in the context of the traditions of Judaism, Roman Catholicism, and Islam), and 2)…

This study approaches the English navigations along the colonial Pacific during the first part of the 18th Century, mainly through the travel logs of the British expeditioners. The logs show the knowledge that these travelers had of the American territory…