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This is a qualitative study based on indepth interviews, with the aim of analyzing the meanings associated with a social phenomenon, specifically disabilities in the military field. A total of 22 people were interviewed, 3 managers and 19 Brazilian Navy professionals responsible for coordinating, standardizing, enforcing and overseeing the Special Care Program (Programa de Assistência Especial) in Rio de Janeiro. Data was processed using the Interpretation of Meaning Approach, based on the concept of disablement and military habitus. The results show interpretations that completely deny the possibility of disabled persons in the military, considering such an idea to be insane. Others welcome the idea, albeit limited to administration, logistics and support functions. We find that the greatest hurdle for the involvement of people with disabilities in the Brazilian Navy is not their bodies, but the stigma associated with disablement. Their bodies become the main defining and deprecatory element of these subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study to verify the efficacy of reusing intravaginal progesterone (P4) devices on the reproductive parameters in Santa Inês ewes. It was done in Cachoeira de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It concludes that intravaginal progesterone devices may be used up to 3 times in sheep herds that do not have reproductive diseases without causing changes in the animals reproductive performance.

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Abstract: Physical and/or sexual abuse, negligence, and psychological abuse against children and adolescents, constitute a socially important syndrome, demanding preventive public policies and rules for its eradication. Sexual abuse, as a troublesome occurrence, or even its mere presumption, does not regularly undergo official notification. We have examined legal investigative registers at the Instituto Médico-Legal do Rio de Janeiro – Sede set up from January to March 2000, including women, children and adolescents, with medico-legal histories suggestive of sexual assault. From a sample of 1419 cases, we selected those involving vaginal coitus or other libidinous practices, with an upper age limit of 17 years, reducing our sample to 44 subjects. 84.09% of the assaults occurred between ages 0 and 14 years. In 62.36% of the studied cases there was no mention about perpetrators. Material for laboratory researches had not been collected in 84.09% of the cases. There is any lesions in 70.45% of the sample. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]