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Sensorial functioning, social participation, perceptions of death and dying, and intimacy play an important role in the positive relationship between physical activity and QOL.

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Background:The shift in age structure is having a profound impact, suggesting that the aged should be consulted as reporters on the quality of their own lives.Objectives:The aim of this research was to establish the possible impact of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) techniques on the quality of life (QOL) of the elderly.Sample:Two non-selected, volunteer groups of Rio de Janeiro municipality inhabitants: a control group (36 individuals), not using TCM, and an experimental group (28 individuals), using TCM at ABACO/Sohaku-in Institute, Brazil.Methods:A questionnaire on elderly QOL devised by the World Health Organization, the WHOQOL-Old, was adopted and descriptive statistical techniques were used: mean and standard deviation. The Shapiro–Wilk test checked the normality of the distribution. Furthermore, based on its normality distribution for the intergroup comparison, the Student t test was applied to facets 2, 4, 5, 6, and total score, and the Mann–Whitney U rank test to facets 1 and 3, both tests aiming to analyze the P value between experimental and control groups. The significance level utilized was 95% (P < 0.05).Results:The experimental group reported the highest QOL for every facet and the total score.Conclusions:The results suggest that TCM raises the level of QOL.

We propose a cross-lingual framework for fine-grained opinion mining using bitext projection. The only requirements are a running system in a source language and word-aligned parallel data. Our method projects opinion frames from the source to the target language, and then trains a system on the target language using the automatic annotations. Key to our approach is a novel dependency-based model for opinion mining, which we show, as a byproduct, to be on par with the current state of the art for English, while avoiding the need for integer programming or reranking. In cross-lingual mode (English to Portuguese), our approach compares favorably to a supervised system (with scarce labeled data), and to a delexicalized model trained using universal tags and bilingual word embeddings.

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Background: With population aging occurring worldwide, promoting climacteric women's health has become the object of important studies. Purpose: Observing the prevalence of depression in climacteric women and their self-evaluation of the depression factors is the main goal of this study. Design: This cross-sectional research is enquiry descriptive. Methods: The sample was composed of 48 climacteric women (between 45 and 65 years old) non-selected volunteers, served by the Centers for Psycho and Social Attention (CAPS) of Specialized Mental Medicine, in Sorocaba, via the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) questionnaire. Results: Checking the mean and frequency distribution, the climacteric women presented a prevalence of 37.5% of moderate depression (BDI index = 24.39 ± 3.13), and 47.92% of severe depression (BDI index = 38.13 ± 6.78). Concerning the symptoms, Spearman rank order correlation was found as the highest concerns,

Objetivo: analisar as estratégias propostas no meio científico para a promoção do envelhecimento ativo no cenário brasileiro, e identificar as possíveis lacunas que o impedem de se tornar uma realidade. Método: revisão integrativa realizada nas bases de dados Scientific Eletronic Library (Scielo), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs), e Pubmed, em Setembro 2020, com os descritores; envelhecimento saudável, bom envelhecimento, envelhecer bem, envelhecer saudável, envelhecimento bem-sucedido e envelhecimento sadio, nos idiomas Português, Espanhol e Inglês, publicadas entre 2016 e 2020, que abordassem pelo menos uma das dimensões dos fatores determinados pela Organização Mundial da Saúde para o desenvolvimento do envelhecimento ativo. Resultados: Dezessete estudos foram integrados à pesquisa pois abordavam as dimensões definidas pela OMS para o desenvolvimento do envelhecimento ativo, sendo uma única dimensão abordada na maior parte deles: a dimensão social é amplamente abordada em 11, a cultural e de lazer em 1; os outros 4 abordam duas dimensões conjuntamente, e nenhum aborda a dimensão econômica. Conclusão: A literatura científica tem demonstrado formas de promover o envelhecimento ativo, porém, muitas importantes dimensões ainda são pouco exploradas.