Objective: produce and validate an educational video about bowel emptying maneuvers for training of individuals with neurogenic bowel in bowel rehabilitation process. Method: this is a methodological study developed in four stages: script/storyboard production, validation, educational video production and pilot study, which was conducted from January 2013 to July 2015. Instruments for validation, which was performed from December 2014 to February 2015 by a group of experts. A value equal to or greater than 70% was considered for validation of agreement and relevance of the script and storyboard, using descriptive statistics for data analysis. Results: the script and storyboard were validated by 94% of the experts in the subject and 100% of the technicians. After validation and video recording, the pilot study was conducted with six individuals with neurogenic bowel – 100% of them evaluated the video positively. Conclusion: the video may contribute to the education of individuals with neurogenic bowel.
Consider the one-parameter generalizations of the logarithmic and exponential functions which are obtained from the integration of non-symmetrical hyperboles. These generalizations coincide to the one obtained in the context of non-extensive thermostatistics. We show that these functions are suitable to describe and unify the great majority of continuous growth models, which we briefly review. Physical interpretation to the generalization function parameter is given for the Richards' model, which has an underlying microscopic model to justify it.
Consider a medium characterized by N points whose coordinates are randomly generated by a uniform distribution along the edges of a unitary d-dimensional hypercube. A walker leaves from each point of this disordered medium and moves according to the deterministic rule to go to the nearest point which has not been visited in the preceding µ steps (deterministic tourist walk). Each trajectory generated by this dynamics has an initial non-periodic part of t steps (transient) and a final periodic part of p steps (attractor). The neighborhood rank probabilities are parameterized by the normalized incomplete beta functionis relevant, and the marginal distributions previously studied are particular cases. We show that, for the memory-less deterministic tourist walk in the euclidean space, this distribution is:is the gamma function and δi,j is the Kronecker's delta. The mean field models are random link model, which corresponds to d → ∞, and random map model which, even for µ = 0, presents non-trivial cycle distribution [SThe fundamental quantities are the number of explored points ne = t + p and I d . Although the obtained distributions are simple, they do not follow straightforwardly and they have been validated by numerical experiments.
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