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Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Reproducibility of the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+): The Brazilian Portuguese Version

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Background: The Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire for Everyone (PAR-Q+) is the international standard for pre-participation risk stratification and screening.
J. Schwartz, P. Oh, M. Takito, B. Saunders, E. Dolan, E. Franchini, R. Rhodes, S. Bredin, J.P. Coelho, Pedro dos Santos, Melina Mazzuco, D. Warburton   +11 more
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Porttinari - a Large Multi-genre Treebank for Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology, 2021
This paper presents the project of a large multi-genre treebank for Brazilian Portuguese, called Porttinari. We address relevant research questions in its construction and annotation, reporting the work already done.
T. Pardo, M. Duran, Lucelene Lopes, Ariani Di Felippo, N. T. Roman, M. G. V. Nunes   +5 more
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the painDETECT questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2021
Background and objectives Neuropathic pain is common in the general population worldwide and Brazil. The painDETECT questionnaire is a notable instrument for screening on neuropathic pain. A Brazilian version of the painDETECT is necessary to broaden the
Jéssica Pinto Martins do Rio, J. V. Bittencourt, L. Corrêa, R. Freynhagen, F. Reis, T. B. Melo, Diego Galace, L. Nogueira   +7 more
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TTS-Portuguese Corpus: a corpus for speech synthesis in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2020
Speech provides a natural way for human–computer interaction. In particular, speech synthesis systems are popular in different applications, such as personal assistants, GPS applications, screen readers and accessibility tools. However, not all languages
Edresson Casanova, A. Júnior, C. Shulby, F. S. Oliveira, J. P. Teixeira, M. Ponti, S. Aluísio   +6 more
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Molecular characterisation of congenital myasthenic syndromes in Southern Brazil [PDF]

, 1989
Objective To perform genetic testing of patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) from the Southern Brazilian state of Parana. Patients and methods Twenty-five CMS patients from 18 independent families were included in the study.
Abicht, A., Gervini, B., Guergueltcheva, V., Hagen, M. von der, Huebner, A., Kay, C. K., Lochmueller, H., Lorenzoni, P. J., Mihaylova, V., Mueller, J. S., Scola, R. H., Stucka, R., Werneck, L. C.   +12 more
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation for Brazilian Portuguese of the Cardiff Acne Disability Index instrument [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016
BACKGROUND: The Cardiff Acne Disability Index was originally developed in English for measuring quality of life of acne patients. Considering the psychosocial impact of this disease, it is important to have instruments culturally and linguistically ...
Luciana Rosa Grando, Roberta Horn, Vivian Trein Cunha, Tania Ferreira Cestari   +3 more
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Translation and validation of Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: The evaluation of patients with hyperhidrosis (HH) can be accomplished, among other ways, through questionnaires and scales. The Hyperhidrosis Disease Severity Scale (HDSS) has been used as a simple and quick tool to perform this evaluation.
Cucato, Gabriel, de Campos, José Ribas Milanez, Fukuda, Juliana Maria, Kauffman, Paulo, Puech-Leão, Pedro, Teivelis, Marcelo Passos, Varella, Andrea Yasbek Monteiro, Wolosker, Nelson   +7 more
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The Stress and Adversity Inventory for Adults (Adult STRAIN) in Brazilian Portuguese: Initial Validation and Links With Executive Function, Sleep, and Mental and Physical Health

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
It has been widely hypothesized that stressors occurring over the lifespan exert a cumulative impact on health, but little work has directly tested these theories given the difficulty associated with measuring cumulative stress exposure over the lifespan.
M. J. Cazassa, M. D. S. Oliveira, Chandler M. Spahr, G. Shields, George M. Slavich   +4 more
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Lateral vocalization in Brazilian Portuguese

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022
Lateral vocalization is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon where a lateral is realized as a glide, such as [w, j], or a vowel [u, i]. In this paper, we focus on the articulatory triggers that could cause lateral vocalization. We examined Brazilian Portuguese, a language known for the process of lateral vocalization in coda position.
Howson, Phil J., Moisik, Scott Reid, Żygis, Marzena   +2 more
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Interrelationships among international stock market indices: Europe, Asia and the Americas [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper, we investigate the price interdependence between seven international stock markets, namely Irish, UK, Portuguese, US, Brazilian, Japanese and Hong Kong, using a new testing method, based on the wavelet transform to reconstruct the data ...
Crane, Martin, Ruskin, Heather J., Sharkasi, Adel   +2 more
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