O presente estudo teve como objetivos descrever a prevalência diária das categorias de intervenções terapêuticas e identificar a prevalência dos itens componentes de cada categoria de intervenções terapêuticas, segundo o TISS-28. A amostra incluiu 89 admissões consecutivas na UTI geral de um Hospital Universitário do município de São Paulo. Das 7 categorias do TISS-28, houve prevalência na pontuação das categorias Atividades Básicas e Suportes Ventilatório, Cardiovascular e Renal, com freqüência entre 73,0% e 100,0%. A freqüência dos itens componentes da categoria Atividades Básicas foi maior do que 90,0%. O sub-iten medida quantitativa do débito urinário foi pontuado em 98,2% na categoria Suporte Renal. Os resultados obtidos podem imprimir qualidade a assistência prestada aos clientes, na medida em que contribuem para a previsão de recursos humanos e materiais na UTI.

One of the major motivational sources humans have is feeling happy. The issue of Happiness has been studied since Ancient Greece. Recently, though, this has become a research topic in social fields such as Economics. In the past three decades, studies have been made on Happiness in the frameworks of Economics. However, not many of them concerned the Economics of Happiness, since it is a relatively new research field. Thus, our study aims to present a literature review that includes references to the main factors behind the increase of happiness, as well as the relation between economics and happiness. We also offer our own validity analysis methodology in which Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is considered as an indicator of excellence representing the population's satisfaction level, evidencing the restraints and limitations to national income. We will describe the elements of the Well-Being Index of Portugal for 2004 to 2017 and link them to the country's position in the World Happiness Index and in the world GDP. Considering that national wealth is one of the elements in the analysis of Happiness, there is a positive relation between the two variables in the referred time span. However, our analysis has led us to discover other variables, more relevant for the analysis of the happiness level and thus the results are debatable.

En las últimas décadas y en el ámbito de las ciencias económicas, se han desarrollado nuevas formas interdisciplinares, de las cuales se destaca la Econofísica. Esta, utiliza bases teóricas de la física y de la física-estadística para explicar fenómenos económicos, y particularmente financieros. Este trabajo muestra, a través de posibles formas físicas de estadísticas, el análisis gráfico de un índice bursátil, realizando la aplicación práctica de la teoría del movimiento de la onda de Elliott del índice bursátil portugués, el PSI 20. Con la aplicación empírica efectuada al PSI20 destacamos el grado de fiabilidad que el método de Elliott ha venido a demostrar cuando se aplica a los grandes índices, generando escenarios de proyección basados en patrones de comportamiento cíclico repetitivo. Es posible, y para varios momentos, identificar el patrón de ondas de Elliott, especialmente en el período de crisis.

Establishing a business relationship is a complex action influenced by different variables. When we approach the international context, the complexity becomes even greater, with communication between commercial actors playing a crucial role. In this sense, the promotion of effective and unimpeded verbal communication between international partners is crucial for the success of any transaction. It is in this context that economics of language gains relevance, allowing the inclusion of the language spoken by the commercial partners as one of the explanatory factors of international trade, assuming in the explanatory gravitational models of trade flows between countries the role of facilitator of trade exchanges or, on the contrary, of an obstacle to the commercial relationship. Studies in the area of economics of language reveal that economic relations are strongly influenced by language, but language choices can also be influenced by economic factors, which is why this is a bilateral relationship. The study we present here focuses on how verbal communication (measured according to linguistic proximity, that is, a greater or lesser degree of similarity between the language spoken by two business partners) influences the commercial relations established in an international context. In this study, we conclude that, based on data on the volume of Portuguese exports in 2015, the ease of verbal communication with the trading partner has a positive influence on the increase in trade -in empirical terms, this conclusion is corroborated by the fact that Spain is Portugal's main trading partner. We conclude that the language factor is not being well used by the Portuguese State, as the linguistic proximity could be used to increase Portuguese exports, namely with the countries that compose the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and with those that integrate the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).

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