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Practices and Parental Perspectives on Children’s Play in Portugal: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Acta Médica Portuguesa
Introduction: Play is recognized as a fundamental right and an essential component of healthy development. However, modern lifestyles and digital media use have transformed children’s play patterns.
Marta Martins Carvalho, João Filipe Nico, Armanda Rebelo, Mariana Flórido, Filipa Inês Cunha   +4 more
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Playing in the waiting room of an infant outpatient clinic from the perspective of children and their companions Jugando en la sala de espera de un servicio ambulatorio infantil bajo la perspectiva de niños y sus acompañantes O brincar em sala de espera de um ambulatório infantil na perspectiva de crianças e seus acompanhantes

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2007
Playing is one way children use to communicate with the world that surrounds them. This descriptive-exploratory study aimed to understand the experience of playing for children and their companions in an outpatient waiting room.
Iara Cristina da Silva Pedro, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento, Livia Capelani Poleti, Regina Aparecida Garcia de Lima, Débora Falleiros de Mello, Flávia Mendonça Rosa Luiz   +5 more
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The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson, Andrew B. Hargadon, José Osvaldo De Sordi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protocolo de preparo da criança pré-escolar para punção venosa, com utilização do brinquedo terapêutico Protocolo de preparación de niños en edad preescolar para la punción venosa con utilización del juguete terapeutico Protocol for the preparation of preschool children to venous puncture using therapeutic play

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2001
Este trabalho, do tipo exploratório descritivo, consiste na elaboração de um protocolo utilizando brinquedo terapêutico para preparar crianças pré-escolares que seriam submetidas à punção venosa, assim como testá-lo em algumas crianças para verificar sua
Maria do Rosário Martins, Circéa Amalia Ribeiro, Regina Issuzu Hirooka de Borba, Conceição Vieira da Silva   +3 more
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Playthings and Playtimes: Play, affect and material culture in the ludic world

In 2024 at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the Mexico-based Belgian artist Francis Alÿs exhibited films of children from across the world playing with sticks, hoops, marbles and other toys. The implication was clear: play feels and looks like a universal language but takes on specific local forms.
openaire   +3 more sources

The Brand‐New Overestimation Effect: Materialism and Identity Misforecasting As Cognitive Barriers to Second‐Hand Consumption

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the rise of circular fashion, buying brand‐new garments remains the societal norm. This research identifies a cognitive bias hindering sustainable consumption: identity misforecasting, by which consumers mispredict how much a brand‐new purchase will enhance their identity.
Olaya Moldes, Nicole Koenig‐Lewis, Carmela Bosangit   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic play as a pain relief strategy for children with cancer [PDF]

Einstein (São Paulo), 2006
Objective: To evaluate pain characteristics and alterations,demonstrated by children hospitalized with cancer, before and aftertherapeutic play. Methods: A descriptive field research using aquantitative approach conducted at the Pediatric Cancer Clinic ...
Michelle Batista de Mello Sabino, Fabiane de Amorim Almeida   +1 more
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Investigating Tuberculosis Dynamics Under Various Control Strategies: A Comprehensive Analysis Using Real Statistical Data

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the present investigation, a mathematical model with vaccination, treatment, and environmental impact under real data is presented. Initially, we present the model without any interventions, followed by an examination of its equilibrium points.
Bashir Al‐Hdaibat, Mahmoud H. DarAssi, Irfan Ahmad, Muhammad Altaf Khan, Reem Algethamie   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intestinal fistula after magnets ingestion

Einstein (São Paulo)
Accidental ingestion of magnetic foreign bodies has become more common due to increased availability of objects and toys with magnetic elements. The majority of them traverse the gastrointestinal system spontaneously without complication.
Maurício Macedo, Manoel Carlos Prieto Velhote, Rafael Forti Maschietto, Renata Dejtiar Waksman   +3 more
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Allocation of Indivisible Items With a Common Preference Graph: Minimizing Total Dissatisfaction

Networks, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Allocating indivisible items among a set of agents is a frequently studied discrete optimization problem. In the setting considered in this work, the agents' preferences over the items are assumed to be identical. We consider a very recent measure for the overall quality of an allocation which does not rely on numerical valuations of the items.
Nina Chiarelli, Clément Dallard, Andreas Darmann, Stefan Lendl, Martin Milanič, Peter Muršič, Ulrich Pferschy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source