When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

This article approaches nursing as a social practice, grounded in the work category to address the nursing work force in Brazil. It recovers the historical arrangement of its profile associated to the most general organization of the health sector in the country. Workers' profile is related to the aim of the health work process. Authors understand that the moving forces in the health context ar...

Correspondência: Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro • Rua Campanha, 98/101 30310-770 Belo Horizonte, MG Brasil E-mail: [email protected] O estabelecimento de tratamento eficaz para o infarto agudo do miocárdio (IAM) foi uma das conquistas médicas mais importantes da segunda metade do século XX1. A mortalidade hospitalar caiu de alarmantes 30% a 40% nas décadas de 1950 e 19602 para menos de 5% em 20063, em...