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This paper has two objectives: to analyse the mode of quantification of the prefixes, and to explain why only indefinite prefixes and universal ones can be degree modifiers. These prefixes can quantify the number of entities the base expresses (multitarea 'multi-task'), the argument of the base (multiadicción 'multi-addiction'), or the number of times a reality or condition takes place (bicampeón 'bi-champion'). Furthermore, indefinite prefixes and universal ones constitute scales, understood as gradable series with opposite poles, which makes them to function as degree modifiers (pluripoblado 'pluri-populated, very populated', omniconocido 'omni-known, well-known'). On the contrary, numeral prefixes establish ranks or non-gradable and unbounded series, a fact that disqualifies them as degree modifiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Industrial systems are not isolated socioeconomic units, but while they retain a certain unity and delimitation, they are articulated by social relations that are defined on different spatial scales. However, the observation of the territorial structure of industrial systems is not simple or direct, since these scalar social relations overlap and combine. Different methods have been developed for the study of industrial systems, emphasizing their multiscalarity; however, the theoretical and methodological issue persists. This paper will seek to contribute to this question by analyzing the notion of territorial structure both from a theoretical-methodological point of view, as well as through the analysis of the matrix of origin and destination of inputs and products, estimated for those of the industrial systems of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The article proposes a comprehensive point of view aimed at capturing the ways in which social relations, which operate on different scales, articulate the work of localized productive systems. An operationalization based on the observation of product and supply movements is proposed, in different spatial horizons, showing potential features of qualitatively different territorial structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research was to carry out a psychometric analysis using the version of the Ryff Psychological Well-Being Scale adapted for university students (Aranguren and Irrazabal, 2015) to find a better fit model. A sample of 1044 university students from Formosa (Argentina) was considered, being 24.9% men (n=260) and 75.1% women (n=784). This sample was randomly divided into two parts, the first one was used as a calibration sample and an Exploratory Factor Analysis was performed, obtaining a new model (Model 2) and the second was used as a validation sample and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis was performed. This last analysis confirmed the presence of three factors: (a) Autonomy, (b) Positive Relationships with Other People and (c) Competence and showed a better fit of Model 2 to the study population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pain is a very prevalent symptom in hospitalized patients; however, it is frequently underestimated, particularly in children and adolescents. When pain control is achieved, patients reduce their morbidity, facilitate recovery, and improve their quality of life. In the pediatric age, the evaluation and management of pain is a challenge for health professionals, because these patients are in a stage of development and there is difficulty in measuring pain. In the hospital setting, the evaluation, registration, treatment and monitoring of patients with pain are of great relevance. With the aim of improving the diagnosis and treatment of pain in pediatric patients, this review addresses information on the classification, physiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of pain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Since infants are not able to express their feelings during the preverbal stage of development, neonatal pain rating scales are good tools for nurses to use in clinical practice. Objective: To describe valid and reliable scales used in nursing practice to assess neonatal pain. Materials and Methods: An integrative review of articles published since 1990 was conducted from 2019 to 2020. The databases consulted were PubMed, Lilacs, ProQuest, ScienceDirect, Embase, VHL, Scopus, and Google Scholar metasearch engine. Twenty-two articles that met the inclusion criteria were analyzed. Results: Unidimensional and multidimensional instruments were found for assessing acute and prolonged pain in preterm and term neonates. Discussion: This integrative review provides healthcare professionals, especially nurses, with a conceptual basis for implementing clinical pain assessment tools according to gestational age, duration of pain, and type of indicator. Conclusions: According to the knowledge and characteristics of the scales, it is not possible to clearly establish the most appropriate one for general use or a gold standard; the selection will depend on different criteria, such as the type of stimulus, gestational age, and the newborn's context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective. To analyze the most frequently used self-report instruments to measure psychological wellbeing and reviewing their validity. Method. An analysis of the scientific literature included original articles on the psychometric analysis of self-report scales measuring psychological wellbeing and described the instrument and its validity. Databases searched included CONRICYT, Dialnet, Redalyc, SciELO and Scopus. A total of 1069 articles initially resulted, leaving seven final publications for analysis. Results. The results indicate that the studies examined the instruments' psychometric properties, and most of them reported acceptable reliability and validity, according to the established quality criteria. Discussion. All the instruments showed benefits and the seven scales are the most representative of the authors on psychological wellbeing. It cannot be established which is the best, since each scale was assessed on different populations, and their results depend on the correct adaptations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms in students. Method: A cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study with a quantitative approach, carried out in a University Center by applying an online electronic form to 170 university students, using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, an instrument that assesses depressive disorder, and the General Anxiety Disorder-7 scale, which assesses and monitors anxiety. Results: It was verified that 42.9% of the students had moderate anxiety and 37.0% of the participants had moderate depressive disorder. Medical students aged between 25 and 29 years old with no previous psychological disorder were the most susceptible to presenting greater signs of depression and anxiety during the pandemic, and the students reported that they would have liked to have received psychological support from the university during this period. Conclusions: Educational institutions need to provide multilateral support, including early mental health interventions, especially during pandemic times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objectives: to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation of The Postpartum Childcare Stress Checklist scale to be used in Brazil. Methods: the cross-cultural adaptation process followed internationally defined guidelines: double translation, synthesis and back-translation, analysis by a committee of experts, proposal for a pre-final and pre-test version, analysis of the psychometrics properties and generation of the final version. The reliability and validity of the final version were analyzed through a cross-sectional epidemiological study involving 190 women in the postpartum period. Cronbach's a indicator for reliability analysis and exploratory factor analysis with main component extraction were estimated for validity analysis. Results: a-Cronbach's was 0.894. The tested Brazilian version proved to be one-dimensional and the factor analysis pointed to four factors that were very closely distributed and explained 57.8% of the variance. All items of the original instrument were maintained in the proposed final version. Conclusions: the proposed Brazilian version proved to be valid and reliable for application in Brazilian populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The basic competences (such as Information Acquisition and Management; Understanding and Expression of Information and Emotions; Competence to Do and Undertake; Competence to Live Together; and Competence to Be) are necessary to achieve adequate personal, social and professional development. This study develops and validates, through Confi rmatory Factor Analysis, an instrument for assessing them. Data were collected from 751 secondary students, with ages ranging from 11 to 18. The results confi rm the structure of the instrument, comprising fi ve independent scales. The instrument is valid for its application, either as a whole or separately. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo: Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir dimensões da violência em três contextos empíricos em que as facetas física e simbólica da violência diferentemente se manifestaram: um relato de uma mulher vítima de violência sobre sua tentativa de realizar um boletim de ocorrência sobre ameaças sofridas pelo então marido; as declarações de um executivo sobre o pouco valor da vida de favelados no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19; uma capa jornalística em que a cabeça da ex-presidenta Dilma Rousseff aparece em chamas. O artigo invoca os conceitos de escala, comunicabilidade e indexicalidade para produzir sentido sobre como a violência foi percebida e enquadrada no primeiro contexto, sobre como ela circulou viralmente no segundo e sobre como ela participou da semiotização e contextualização de uma imagem no terceiro. Metodologicamente, o artigo combina abordagens etnográficas e documentais, diferentemente empregadas em cada contexto empírico. Além de promover uma discussão situada dessas três manifestações da violência, apontamos para formas de resistência à violência, algumas delas inscritas na própria produção da atividade reflexiva sobre a manifestação e os efeitos da violência. Palavras-chave: escalas; comunicabilidade; indexicalidade; violência empírica; violência simbólica. Abstract: This article aims at discussing dimensions of violence in three empirical scenarios in which physical and symbolic violence differently surfaced: an account of a female victim of violence about her attempt to press charges about threats made by her then husband; the comments by a businessman about the lack of value of the lives of favela residents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemics; a newspaper cover displaying the head of the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on fire. The article builds on the concepts of scales, communicability and indexicality in order to render intelligible the ways in which violence was perceived and framed in the first context; in addition to how it virally spread in the second, and to how it participated in the semiotization and contextualization of an image in the third. Methodologically, the paper combines ethnographic and documental approaches, and applies them differently in each empirical context. In addition to providing a situated discussion of these three manifestations of violence, we point to modes of resistance to violence, some of which are inscribed in the very production of reflexive activity about the manifestation and effects of violence. Keywords: scales; communicability; indexicality; empirical violence; symbolic violence.

Gaze still is a prevalent human sense in the experience of landscapes, although it is multisensory. Landscapes coexist in the dialogical confrontation between subject/object, distance/proximity, gaze/Earth. Here we pursue an interplay between contributions from Humanist-Cultural Geography and Tourist Studies, based on Edgar Morin's Complexity. That said, this theoretical essay has as its core goal to address the discussion revolving around the geographical scale in the study, perception, narrative and/or in the representation of landscapes, within the framework of the geographies of gazing and of the current regimes of visibility (GOMES, 2013). To attain that, we used qualitative bibliographic research, with an exploratory character. We seek to geographize the gaze, through its revisiting, reframing, and compatibilizing of key ideas, which are articulate and re-systematized in a conceptual network. We sustain that the gaze is a part of the body, and as such, it becomes an ocular practice, in which the psychophysiology of vision converges with the socio-cultural conditioning and aesthetic canons. Landscapes are also practiced and performed. In the field of Tourism know-how, and its resulting mobility, new paradigms of looking at landscapes seem to be necessary, which would incorporate motion, temporality, fluidity. These attributes do not differ from what is meant by landscape classically, but question and point to new ways of seeing, and also, of being landscape. Geographical scales prove to be decisive in the understanding of the multiple facets, presentations and landscape experiences, whether by tourists/visitors, or not. This concept sets the landscape in motion, and adds new layers of meaning, as well as new possibilities for inter-scale reading. Finally, we raise questions on limitations of looking at landscapes, and their different scale dimensions, from the body of the subjects who experience them, until reaching cosmographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Individuals differ in their tendency to follow or ignore feelings as a source of information to guide behavior, and it is relevant to examine these particularities. This study presents an assessment of the psychometric properties of the transcultural adaptation of the Following Affective States Test (FAST) for the Brazilian context. After translation and back translation, the adapted version was applied among adult volunteers (n=302), both sexes (208 women, 68.9%), aged between 18 and 61 years old (M=28.6; SD=9.4) along with the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the Brazilian version presented appropriate goodness of fit for the four-factor model (GFI=0.92; CFI=0.83; RMSEA=0.07) with appropriate internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha=0.60-0.72). Statistically significant positive correlations were found between the FAST and positive/negative affects (PANAS) and emotion regulation strategies (ERQ). The adapted version of the FAST presented promising indicators concerning validity and reliability evidence for the Brazilian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to develop and search for content validity evidences of an anxiety measure for athletes. An international literature review on the construct was carried out for the construction of 128 self-report items. The procedures of judge and semantic analysis were made after the elaboration of the instrument. The judges obtained 80.94% agreement and kappa indicated significant substantial agreement. By observing the kappa of each dimension, we conclude that the judges correctly identified the dimension of the items. However, the concordance in relation to the facets did not obtain the same indicators, a result that meets the studies of the three-dimensional model and may suggest the unsustainability of the facets. In the semantic analysis the participants indicated clarity regarding instructions and diagramming, with only three modified items. In general terms, the instrument presented favorable initial evidence of validity, and complementary studies are needed to gather evidence from other sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The territorial expansion of Brazilian cities has been widely debated in Urban Geography, especially when this process takes place through the transformation of rural land into urban land and involves the articulation of agents of different natures. The main objective of this work is to analyze the processes of urban expansion and restructuring of the city, having as an empirical approach the axis of the BR-040 located in Juiz de Fora/MG. This city is an important node in the urban network of Minas Gerais and therefore it is relevant to study the new agents and centralities that arise there, because, in addition to marking ruptures in the social division of the city's space, it also engenders changes in the regional space. Methodologically, the work was supported by a survey of secondary data and bibliographical research. It was found that urban expansion in Juiz de Fora, as in most Brazilian cities, comes from a coalition of forces from different agents, with a focus on the State, which through the municipal level expands the urban perimeter and, by transforming rural land in urban land, corroborates the valorization of the area. Within this scope, it was possible to observe that this expansion belongs to the larger process of restructuring the city, as it is part of the changes in the social division of space, as well as emerging as a new centrality for the city and the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resilience and social support enable the possible solution of perinatal bereavement. With the objective to determine the psychometric indexes of the Mexican Scale of Resilience (RESI-M) in women with perinatal loss and to establish the relation between resilience and social support within bereavement in an explanatory model, a cross-sectional study with 295 Mexican women in mourning was performed; they answered the RESI-M, the Scale of Network Quality and the Scale of Perinatal Grief. The psychometric indexes of the RESI-M were satisfactory, and the AFC showed acceptable levels of adjustment. The model explained 12% of the variance of active grief, with adequate adjustment indices; two resilient factors were significant predictors; support from family and friends, religious practice, and number of children predicted resilience. The role of these variables in the anticipation of complicated grief and the usefulness of RESI-M in clinical and research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at discussing dimensions of violence in three empirical scenarios in which physical and symbolic violence differently surfaced: an account of a female victim of violence about her attempt to press charges about threats made by her then husband; the comments by a businessman about the lack of value of the lives of favela residents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemics; a newspaper cover displaying the head of the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on fire. The article builds on the concepts of scales, communicability and indexicality in order to render intelligible the ways in which violence was perceived and framed in the first context; in addition to how it virally spread in the second, and to how it participated in the semiotization and contextualization of an image in the third. Methodologically, the paper combines ethnographic and documental approaches, and applies them differently in each empirical context. In addition to providing a situated discussion of these three manifestations of violence, we point to modes of resistance to violence, some of which are inscribed in the very production of reflexive activity about the manifestation and effects of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measuring quality of life and wellbeing is a huge challenge that we have just only started to address, as digital technologies tend to find new ways of measuring it and the researchers develop new methods, scales, and surveys. However, in these cases, incidental findings and ethical issues may appear. In order to better address possible conflicts arising in this context, this article provides a brief review of concepts (e.g. wellbeing, quality of life), followed by an attempt to pave the way for the future drawing on guidelines regarding improved technology-enabled measurement of wellbeing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes the classifications assigned to the Strait of Magellan in the politicalterritorial configuration of the New World during the sixteenth century and related global dynamics happening at the time. The text is divided into three parts. The first is a theoretical reading of the historiographic problems and the temporalities surrounding the discovery of the Strait, which led to its identification as a "world-passage." The second examines the facts, actors and territorialities that consolidated it as a geopolitical reference point between 1520 and 1560. And, finally, the third studies the variations in its strategic importance in the period between 1560-1580, variations that reveal its role in delineating, synchronizing and speculating on a series of continental issues that affected simultaneously local and global spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on the author's experience with the Pentecostal movement in Ghana, the commentary dialogues with Carly Machado's article "Making politics in other Congresses". It highlights the expansive and ethically contingent properties of the Pentecostal notion of glory, considered as a theopolitical force and as a source of moral instability in the lives of men and women of God. It articulates the Pentecostal case with the genealogy of glory offered by Agamben and highlights three contributions of Machado's article for an immanent study of Pentecostal politics: the concept of scales, its non-reductionist approach to religious mediatization, and the project of an anthropology of the Pentecostal torment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The assessment of empowerment can contribute to obtaining gains in health. Objectives: To develop and validate a scale for assessing the individual empowerment of chronically ill people. Methodology: The instrument was developed and applied to a convenience sample of 271 chronically ill people, between 18 and 65 years old, residing in Lisbon. The validation of the reliability of the instrument was carried out to assess the metric properties of the scale. Results: A 25-item scale was developed with 7 dimensions: Self-perception, Participation in health-related decisions, Mastery, Determination, Identity, Autonomy and power, and Relationship with health professionals. The factor analysis (principal components analysis with Varimax rotation) revealed that the 25 items were organized into seven factors with a total variance explained of 65.28% and a total Cronbach's alpha of 0.803. Conclusion: The creation of a valid and reliable measure of the empowerment of chronically ill people may assist health professionals in exploring the impact of this outcome on treatment regimen self-management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the distribution of the copulas ser and estar in Spanish, based on a scalar theoretical framework. The main proposal is that their distribution can be captured in terms of the scalar structure of the predicates involved and the presence of cognitive salient points on those scales. The proposed framework centers around ser predicates involving a single degree on the scale, while those with estar involve an interval, which additionally must involve an onset, or salient point. This analysis has two advantages. First, it accounts for subjects and closed-scale adjective pairs not being able to alternate between ser or estar. The endpoints present on closed-scales act as strong salient points that, based on the Principle of Interpretive Economy, require that the copula estar is used if it can. Second, this analysis also accounts for the distribution of estar with open-scale predicates and explains why adjectives like famoso 'famous' or rico 'rich' are virtually absent from estar predications, despite having the same temporal and aspectual reading. Cognitive salient points are also responsible for generating the appropriate scalar interval required for estar predications, although their being weaker than endpoints on closed-scales does not require estar be the only copula available. The article also accounts for the nature of these onsets on open-scale adjectives and provides a diagnostic tool to determine which adjectives have them, and consequently can appear in estar predications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From reflection on the uses of observation scales in the Historiography, as of those proposed by Microhistory to the approaches of Global History, the text questions the ways in which historiographical narration has reconstructed different social processes --for instancethe development of the modern State, the rural exodus, industrialization and urbanization-- recovering thearguments that questions their necessary and universal character. This analytical exercise allows pointing out how the rescue of the discontinuities and mismatches between the different levels of historical matter constitutes a critical instrument against the simplifying evidence of the reality of the historical world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which the current world economic crisis has exposed in particularly dramatic fashion. This rethinking seeks to bring to center stage the complex ways in which people attempt to make life worth living for themselves and for future generations, involving not only waged labor but also structures of provisioning, investments in social relations, relations of trust and care, and a multitude of other forms of social action that mainstream economic models generally consider trivial, marginal, and often counterproductive. A holistic understanding of how people organize their economic lives is attentive to both the temporality of value and the relationship between different scales of value. It is attentive to the spatial configuration of economic life in many societies in which the future has become synonymous with geographical mobility. Also to the fact that making a living is about making people in their physical, social, spiritual, affective, and intellectual dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conceptual problem upon the unity of religiosity and spirituality led to a systematic inconsistency within psychometric research. With this article it is intended to ascertain a metrical severance between the constructs as also to understand them as research objects in psychology. A sample composed by 279 participants with ages between 17 and 69 filled a questionnaire with two developed scales as also with the Portuguese version of the Spiritual Well-being Questionnaire. Both religiousness and spirituality can be operationalized independently in two distinct scales. The two measures hold more statistical significance in assessing their own constructs than the criterion measure. There is no convergence between each construct since due the weak correlation values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The promotion of health literacy and the development of strategies that facilitate informed choices are currently integrating a fundamental paradigm in the training processes of young people. Such premises are the framework of this article, aiming to share the operationalization, monitoring and dissemination of the "Your PEL" project. The methodology highlights the construction of the Your PEL scale, as an instrument for assessing the impact of health education programs, and a responsive website integrating several functionalities. The results in health, resulting from a program using a web platform and the possibility of assessing the needs and impact of the intervention program, were set in an example of good practices in empowering young people. The project contributed to scientific and technological knowledge, through the regional and national valorization, in a logic of knowledge translation, with the purpose of helping this generation to reach the fullness of their health potential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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