Objectives The methods currently available for the measurement of energy expenditure in patients, such as indirect calorimetry and double-labelled water, are expensive and are limited in Brazil to research projects. Thus, ...

We enhance a standard RBC model to account for military expenditure and the costs of an internal conflict or war. The model captures the natural trade-off in military expenditure: crowding out of private consumption and ...

Patients on intensive care present systemic, metabolic, and hormonal alterations that may adversely affect their nutritional condition and lead to fast and important depletion of lean mass and malnutrition. Several factors ...

Background Currently, the execution of indirect calorimetry, which is considered the gold standard for measuring energy expenditure, is not indicate during dialysis, and it may interfere on nutritional therapy of these ...

This study examines public expenditure and revenue data for 15 Latin American countries for the period 1975-1988, although, the focus of the analysis is generally on the period of 1979-1988 during which fundamental changes ...

The main idea of this working is to understand the ideological influence of both Executive (GOVI) and Legislative (LEGI) branches of government on the subnational government expenditures (states) in Brazil between 1987 and ...

O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a relação entre os componentes do gasto público federal e o crescimento econômico do Brasil no período entre 2002 a 2019. Os gastos públicos são decompostos primeiramente por categoria ...

This dissertation addresses the hurry-up spending and deferral of expenses by means of end-of-year flexibility on discretionary current and capital primary expenditure at the Federal University of Pampa, in parallel with ...

Background. the assessment of physical activity and energy expenditure is relevant to the care of maintenance haemodialysis (MHD) patients. in the current study, we aimed to evaluate measurements of physical activity and ...