RESUMEN Este artículo discutió los conceptos de igualdad y equidad en salud, tomando como escenario el Sistema Único de Salud (SUS) de Brasil. Para tal, se realizó un comentario acerca de los principios del SUS, enfatizando la Universalidad y la Integralidad. Se hizo una breve revisión sobre la historia de la constitución del SUS y del proceso de implantación. Se comentó el contexto de los gran...

OBJECTIVE The evaluation of quality and equity in healthcare attendance requires adequate study methods and information systems. Thus, this study was performed with the objective of comparing mortality among elderly patients attended within the private network and within the Brazilian national health system (SUS). METHOD An information system that recorded causes of hospitalization and associ...

In many organisms, an increasing number of proteins seem to play two or more unrelated roles. Here we report that maize sucrose synthase (SUS) is distributed in organelles not involved in sucrose metabolism and may have novel roles beyond sucrose degradation. Bioinformatics analysis predicts that among the three maize SUS isoforms, SH1 protein has a putative mitochondrial targeting peptide (mTP...

This study examined whether the average usability score for a series of tasks was the same as the usability score for the product if usability was measured only after all the tasks had been completed. Fifty participants completed a set of tasks for five websites and fourteen mock voting ballots. Subjective usability assessment was made with the System Usability Scale (SUS). Participants complet...

The present study aimed to study the changes of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) expression of intrafusal muscle fibers in rat soleus muscles under simulated weightlessness. The tail-suspension (SUS) rat model was used to simulate weightlessness. Forty mature female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned to ambulatory control (CON), 3-day SUS, 7-day SUS, 14-day SUS and 21-day SUS groups. Immunohistoch...

OBJECTIVE to identify the perceptions of professionals working in a facility connected with the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS in regard to what they know, think and talk about public health policy. METHOD this exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative nature was conducted with 28 professionals working in a facility connected with the SUS. Data were collected through interviews ...

Cognitive radio (CR) can significantly alleviate the network pressure caused by the rapid development of wireless communications through allowing secondary users (SUs) to obtain spectrum resource from primary users (PUs). One key issue of CR technology is spectrum sharing, that is, how spectrum should be allocated between SUs without causing interference to PUs. In this paper, we propose a bila...

Metabolic enzymes have been found to play roles in plant development. Sucrose synthase (SUS) is one of the two enzyme families involved in sucrose cleavage in plants. In tomato, six SUS genes have been found. We generated transgenic tomato plants with RNAi suppression of SlSUS1, SlSUS3 and SlSUS4 genes. Independent transgenic lines with RNAi suppression of more than one SUS gene exhibited morph...

Since its introduction in 1986, the 10-item System Usability Scale (SUS) has been assumed to be unidimensional. Factor analysis of two independent SUS data sets reveals that the SUS actually has two factors – Usability (8 items) and Learnability (2 items). These new scales have reasonable reliability (coefficient alpha of .91 and .70, respectively). They correlate highly with the overall SUS (r...

In this paper, we propose a heterogeneous-prioritized spectrum sharing policy for coordinated dynamic spectrum access networks, where a centralized spectrum manager coordinates the access of primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs) to the spectrum. Through modeling the access of PUs and multiple classes of SUs as continuous-time Markov chains, we analyze the overall system performance with...