José Fernando Pereira Mesquita, Thiago Faria Ramos, Felipe Pereira Mesquita, José Murillo Bastos Netto, Marcus Gomes Bastos, André Avarese de Figueiredo I Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Curso de Pós Graduação em Saúde Brasileira, Juiz de Fora/MG, Brasil. II Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora/MG, Brasil. III Faculdade de Me...

As the title suggests, our paper deals with web discussion fora, whose content can be considered to be a special type of comparable corpora. We discuss the potential of this vast amount of data available now on the World Wide Web nearly for every language, regarding both general and common topics as well as the most obscure and specific ones. To illustrate our ideas, we propose a case study of ...

Communication is an essential and necessary aspect of professional work in science and business. Besides the traditional face to face communication more and more face-file-face communication is used in newsgroups, email, or communication fora. We introduce a index number system to evaluate the benefit of communication fora. We distinguish the overall quality of communication fora into five area...

Violent extremist groups are currently making intensive use of Internet fora for recruitment to terrorism. These fora are under constant scrutiny by security agencies, private vigilante groups, and hackers, who sometimes shut them down with cybernetic attacks. However, there is a lack of experimental and formal understanding of the recruitment dynamics of online extremist fora and the effect of...

1 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, UFJF; Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos do Desenvolvimento Infantil NIEDI, Faculdade de Fisioterapia, UFJF; 3Núcleo de Assessoria, Treinamento e Estudos em Saúde NATES, UFJF, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil. 2 Mestre em Saúde Coletiva (UFJF), Departamento de. Saúde Coletiva Faculdade de Medicin...

Cite this article: Lucchetti G, Granero Lucchetti AL (2014) Spirituality, Religiosity and Substance use: Evidence and Proposed Mechanisms. J Subst Abuse Alcohol 2(2): 1016. *Corresponding author Giancarlo Lucchetti, Federal University of Juiz de Fora and Brazilian Medical Spiritist Association, Avenue Eugenio do Nascimento s/n o, Don Bosco neighborhood Juiz de Fora, Brazil, Tel: 55 32 21023845;...

Online health fora are increasingly visited by patients to get help and information related to their health. However, these fora are not limited to patients: a significant number of health professionals actively participate in many discussions. As experts their posted information are very important since, they are able to well explain the problems, the symptoms, correct false affirmations and g...

Bohmian Quantum Mechanics J. Acacio de Barros, J. P. R. F. de Mendonça Departamento de Física – ICE Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora 36036-330, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil N. Pinto-Neto Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas R. Dr. Xavier Sigaud 15

Studies have shown that professionals working in organizations with a more positive organizational climate (OC) perform better at work. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between preventive practices in relation to risky use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and perceived OC among 149 professionals in Brazilian primary health-care (PHC) settings. The OC was measured by a s...