A escrita autobiográfica exige que o escritor se identifique com narrador e a personagem principal gravadas no papel. O sujeito auto-representa identifica-se uma alteridade de natureza linguística maneira poder reflectir acerca si próprio. Este ensaio pretende demonstrar como conceito prosopopeia é pertinente para melhor compreensão deste fenómeno auto-reflexivo mediado pela linguagem. De forma...

AIM The aim of this clinical investigation was to determine the efficacy of distraction and counterstimulation in the reduction of pain during the administration of local anesthetics in pediatric dental patients. METHODS AND MATERIALS A total of 78 healthy children (male: 40, female: 38) ages four to five years (mean age: 4.72 years old) without any history of previous intraoral injection wer...

INTRODUCTION Analogous to the business model of customer satisfaction and retention, patient satisfaction could serve as an innovative, patient-centered focus for increasing retention in HIV care and adherence to HAART, and ultimately HIV suppression. OBJECTIVE To test, through structural equation modeling (SEM), a model of HIV suppression in which patient satisfaction influences HIV suppress...

OBJECTIVE To establish the test-retest reproducibility of performance measures of physical function based on the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI) questionnaire in patients with AS. METHODS Data were obtained from 65 AS patients. They were tested on two occasions by one assessor with a 1-week interval. Physical function was assessed via eight performance measures based on i...