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The aim was to assess the social and health aspects and perception about the diagnosis of individuals co-infected with HIV/tuberculosis. This descriptive study, with quantitative-qualitative approach was accomplished at a referral hospital in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, between January and April 2009, using semistructured interviews held in a private environment. Data were analyzed descriptively and through content analysis. Participants were 16 patients co-infected with HIV/tuberculosis, 56.25% male. The predominant age range was between 31 and 39 years (43.75%), education levels were low and the monthly family income was approximately one minimum wage. Pulmonary tuberculosis was the predominant form (62.50%). Patients' perception about the discovery of the co-infection was demonstrated through two categories: Fear and anguish in view of the diagnosis and Changes in health habits and lifestyle. In view of the findings, there is an urgent need to promote these patients' psychological and physical wellbeing through political and health actions.

"Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and public debates about the moralities, practices, and imaginaries of tax systems, using tax to explore the nature of citizenship, personal freedom, and moral and economic value. Their ethnographically grounded accounts show how taxation may be influenced by spaces of fiscal sovereignty that exist outside or alongside the state, taking various forms, from alternative religious communities to economic collectives."

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Frontiers of research on social communication : introduction and overview /Klaus Fiedler --Grounding : sharing information in social interaction /Yoshi Kashima, Olivier. Klein, and Anna E. Clark --Language, stereotypes, and intergroup relations /Daniël Wigboldus and Karen Douglas --How communication shapes culture /Lucian Gideon Conway, III and Mark Schaller --Accommodating a new frontier : the context of law enforcement /Howard Giles [and others] --Representation of the sexes in language /Dagmar Stahlberg [and others] --Social influence and persuasion : recent theoretical developments and integrative attempts /Hans-Peter Erb and Gerd Bohner --What is said and what is meant : conversational implicatures in natural conversations, research settings, media, and advertising /Michaela Wänke --Motives and goals in context : a strategic analysis of information sharing in groups /Andrea B. Hollingshead, Gwendolyn Costa Jacobsohn, and Stephenson J. Beck --Conversational hand gestures and facial displays in face-to-face dialogue /Janet Bavelas and Jennifer Gerwing --Deception : a social lubricant and a selfish act /Aldert Vrij --The psychological functions of function words /Cindy Chung and James Pennebaker --Interpersonal processes in context : understanding the influence of settings and situations on social interaction /Mark Snyder and Arthur Stukas, Jr. --Linguistic markers of social distance and proximity /Gün R. Semin --The evolution of language /Michael Corballis.