Performance of the fully automated progesterone assays on the Abbott AxSYM and the Technicon Immuno 1 Analyser compared with the radioimmunoassay progesterone MAIA

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Reinsberg, J.; Jost, E.; Van der Ven, H.

1997-01-01

Test performance of two automated progesterone assays available on the immunoassay analysers Abbott AxSYM and Technicon Immuno 1, respectively, was evaluated in comparison with the radioimmunoassay Progesterone MAIA. For assessment of test performance imprecision, functional sensitivity and linearity of dilution was examined. Correlation with the manual radioimmunoassay was assessed using 122 serum samples over the range 0-110 nmol/L. Imprecision studies revealed for the AxSYM Progesterone within-run CV's of 1.8-6.4% and day-to-day CV's of 3.5-9.7% (concentration range 2.3-75 nmol/L); Immuno 1 Progesterone: within-run CV's 1.0-7.3%, day-to-day CV's 2.3-7.7% (concentration range 1.2-60 nmol/L). The functional sensitivity was <1.7 nmol/L for the AxSYM Progesterone and <1.1 nmol/L for the Immuno 1 Progesterone. With the AxSYM Progesterone the mean recovery after dilution from five samples was 102% (89-107%), from one sample only 69-80% was recovered; with the Immuno 1 Progesterone the mean recovery was 95% (80-105%). Despite of a quite good overall correlation (coefficients 0.972 and 0.981) the relationship of both assays to the Progesterone MAIA significantly deviate from linearity with a considerably higher slope within the lower concentration range. The relationship between the automated assays was linear over the entire concentration range (Immuno = 1.207 * AxSYM + 1; r = 0.986). The time to first result was 20 min for the AxSYM Progesterone, 45 min for the Immuno 1 Progesterone and 90 min for the Progesterone MAIA. The evaluated progesterone assays both exhibit an excellent precision and a high degree of sensitivity. They offer a rapid and flexible method for progesterone determination which may be especially useful for the monitoring of ovarian stimulation during in-vitro fertilization. (author)

The Maia Spectroscopy Detector System: Engineering for Integrated Pulse Capture, Low-Latency Scanning and Real-Time Processing

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Kirkham, R.; Siddons, D.; Dunn, P.A.; Kuczewski, A.J.; Dodanwela, R.; Moorhead, G.F.; Ryan, C.G.; De Geronimo, G.; Beuttenmuller, R.; Pinelli, D.; Pfeffer, M.; Davey, P.; Jensen, M.; de Jonge, M.D.; Howard, D.L.; Kusel, M.; McKinlay, J.

2010-01-01

The Maia detector system is engineered for energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and elemental imaging at photon rates exceeding 10 7 /s, integrated scanning of samples for pixel transit times as small as 50 (micro)s and high definition images of 10 8 pixels and real-time processing of detected events for spectral deconvolution and online display of pure elemental images. The system developed by CSIRO and BNL combines a planar silicon 384 detector array, application-specific integrated circuits for pulse shaping and peak detection and sampling and optical data transmission to an FPGA-based pipelined, parallel processor. This paper describes the system and the underpinning engineering solutions.

Representações da violência em A guerra dos bastardos, de Ana Paula Maia

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Elena Losada Soler

2017-01-01

Full Text Available La novela A Guerra dos Bastardos, de Ana Paula Maia presenta un denso cuadro de violencias ficcionales. El hecho de su autoría femenina es relevante para nuestro análisis. Encontramos en este texto todas las formas de violencia contenidas en el triángulo de Johan Galtung: violencias visibles o directas, invisibles o estructurales, y violencias culturales, así como diversas manifestaciones de la violencia simbólica como la analizó Pierre Bourdieu. Estas violencias son representadas con técnicas diversas: brutalismo, ironía, “gore”, distanciamiento etc. Nuestro trabajo tiene como eje el análisis de estas formas de representación, y en especial el tratamiento literario dado a la descripción de la violencia contra la mujer y de la violencia ejercida por la mujer.

Õigusteaduse osa Eesti õiguskorra kujunemises : teaduskonverents professor Kalle Meruski 60. juubeli auks / koost. Peep Pruks. K. Meruski bibliograafia: Maia Ruttu

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Sisu: Programm. Õigusteaduse rollist Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse aluspõhimõtete sisustamisel / Raul Narits. Keskkonnaõiguse kodifitseerimise teaduslikud alused / Hannes Veinla. "Kord Vestmann peal ja Piibeleht all, siis jälle..." : praktika ja õigusteaduse vahekord õiguse kujundamisel 19. sajandi Läänemereprovintsides / Marju Luts-Sootak. Teaduslik analüüs tsiviilõigusloomes / Paul Varul. Õiguslaenud ja võrdlev õigusteadus Eesti eraõiguse süsteemi kujundamisel / Irene Kull. Professor Meruski juubeliks / Märt Rask. Kolleegi kiituseks / Raul Narits. Professor Kalle Merusk : õpetaja ja inimene / Ivo Pilving. Kalle Merusk : valikbibliograafia 1990-2009 / koost. Maia Ruttu

Método para el análisis de investigaciones en Administración (MAIA. El caso de la sostenibilidad de las organizaciones

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Raquel Sastre

2016-12-01

Full Text Available En el ámbito de la dirección de negocios existe una tendencia por parte de los directivos a razonar de un modo lineal, con relaciones de tipo causa-efecto. Esta forma de pensar limita la comprensión de fenómenos complejos, como los que enfrentan los directivos y empresarios en su accionar. Este trabajo propone una Metodología para el Análisis en las Investigaciones en Administración (MAIA, utilizando la lógica triádica que propone la semiótica. Sobre la base de las tres categorías lógicas de la semiótica se construye un instrumento para el análisis de un concepto complejo como el “éxito de las organizaciones”, entendiendo por éxito la sostenibilidad de las organizaciones en el tiempo. El trabajo presenta un ejemplo de aplicación del método MAIA a una muestra de empresarios y directivos de organizaciones públicas y privadas. El trabajo concluye que el método enriquece el análisis del fenómeno que se estudia de un modo creativo, abriendo múltiples posibilidades de respuestas. El método puede ser aplicado para el diagnóstico en directivos y empresarios de diferentes organizaciones, o a personas que trabajan en la misma organización en diferentes niveles jerárquicos. Asimismo, el análisis puede ser realizado de forma individual o en forma colectiva.

Life history of the gall-maker Eugeniamyia dispar Maia, Mendonça-Jr. & Romanowski, 1996 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae

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Full Text Available The development of the galls of the midge Eugeniamyia dispar Maia, Mendonça-Jr. & Romanowski, 1996 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae was monitored weekly on its host plant, Eugenia uniflora (Myrtaceae. The work was carried out in the urban area of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, from October 1993 to September 1995. Galls were collected from the field and raised in the laboratory to obtain adults. The females oviposit on young leaves of the host plant, with the first instar larvae inducing the gall, which is unilocular. The last instar larvae drop to the soil to pupate and later emerge as adults. The galls occur from late August to early June, when young leaves of the host can be found, with populations peaking during the summer. So far this species is only known from the two southernmost states of Brazil (RS and SC.

Life history of the gall-maker Eugeniamyia dispar Maia, Mendonça-Jr. & Romanowski, 1996 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae).

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Mendonça, M de S; Romanowski, H P

2002-05-01

The development of the galls of the midge Eugeniamyia dispar Maia, Mendonça-Jr. & Romanowski, 1996 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) was monitored weekly on its host plant, Eugenia uniflora (Myrtaceae). The work was carried out in the urban area of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, from October 1993 to September 1995. Galls were collected from the field and raised in the laboratory to obtain adults. The females oviposit on young leaves of the host plant, with the first instar larvae inducing the gall, which is unilocular. The last instar larvae drop to the soil to pupate and later emerge as adults. The galls occur from late August to early June, when young leaves of the host can be found, with populations peaking during the summer. So far this species is only known from the two southernmost states of Brazil (RS and SC).

Mujeres, agroecología y soberanía alimentaria en la comunidad Moreno Maia del Estado de Acre. Brasil

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Irene García Roces

2010-05-01

Full Text Available La Agroecología, en coherencia con la propuesta política de la Soberanía Alimentaria, propone estrategias de desarrollo rural alternativas al modelo agroindustrial dominante en el actual contexto de la globalización. En este trabajo argumentamos que, pese a la ceguera conceptual hacia el género de la Agroecología, los proyectos agroecológicos abren puertas a la participación, visibilización y valorización del trabajo de las mujeres a la vez que avanzan hacia una organización agroalimentaria menos insustentable, confluyendo con las tesis ecofeministas. Las reflexiones se fundamentan en la experiencia de las mujeres del Comunidad Moreno-Maia que participan en la red agroecológica ACS-Amazonía en el Estado de Acre en Brasil.

MAIA - Method for Architecture of Information Applied: methodological construct of information processing in complex contexts

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Ismael de Moura Costa

2017-04-01

Full Text Available Introduction: Paper to presentation the MAIA Method for Architecture of Information Applied evolution, its structure, results obtained and three practical applications.Objective: Proposal of a methodological constructo for treatment of complex information, distinguishing information spaces and revealing inherent configurations of those spaces. Metodology: The argument is elaborated from theoretical research of analitical hallmark, using distinction as a way to express concepts. Phenomenology is used as a philosophical position, which considers the correlation between Subject↔Object. The research also considers the notion of interpretation as an integrating element for concepts definition. With these postulates, the steps to transform the information spaces are formulated. Results: This article explores not only how the method is structured to process information in its contexts, starting from a succession of evolutive cicles, divided in moments, which, on their turn, evolve to transformation acts. Conclusions: This article explores not only how the method is structured to process information in its contexts, starting from a succession of evolutive cicles, divided in moments, which, on their turn, evolve to transformation acts. Besides that, the article presents not only possible applications as a cientific method, but also as configuration tool in information spaces, as well as generator of ontologies. At last, but not least, presents a brief summary of the analysis made by researchers who have already evaluated the method considering the three aspects mentioned.

Invasão tolteca em Chichén Itzá? Uma nova leitura da questão a partir da cultura material das Terras Maias Baixas do Norte

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Navarro, Alexandre Guida

2010-01-01

Este artigo trata de uma das questões mais controversas da Arqueologia do México: uma possível invasão tolteca na cidade de Chichén Itzá. O assunto divide opiniões. Para um grupo de pesquisadores, Chichén Itzá é fruto da invasão dos habitantes de Tula, uma cidade do altiplano mexicano, a mais de 100 de distância dela. Já para outros pesquisadores, esta invasão não ocorreu e Chichén Itzá tem seu desenvolvimento dentro de uma tradição maia. Neste texto, mostramos algumas evidências arqueológica...

Complex interactions envolving a gall midge Myrciamyia maricaensis Maia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, phytophagous modifiers and parasitoids

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Fernando Fortunato Faria Ferraz

2003-09-01

Full Text Available Myrciamyia maricaensis Maia, 1995 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae induces a gall in lateral and apical shoots in the plant Myrcia lundiana Kiaersk (Myrtaceae which is used and modified by two eulophid wasps species. In both cases the gall former species suffer high rate of attack exceeding the importance of parasitoid species as mortality factors. In this study these interactions are described and their effects as mortality of gall former. The intensity of occurrence of the two eulophid species as modifiers and of microhymenopteran parasitoids, and the relative importance of these species as mortality agents of the M. maricaensis larvae is compared. This comparison reveals that two modifiers species found in the gall tissue modification causing the death of the M. maricaensis larva and it is a more important factor of mortality than the cecidomyiid larva parasitism. The fluctuation of the number of each type of gall along the year was monitored in the research field and confirmed in numerical and in synchronic terms of occurrence of the galls; the importance of the species of the gall modifier eulophids, particularly one of these species, as factors of mortality of the M. maricaensis larvae and justified our comparing the relationship between these species and M. maricaensis as similar to the parasitoid-host relationship. The gall shape modification by one of the eulophids allows the occurrence of other inquiline insect species, what means that this gall modification becomes it more heterogeneous and allows the increase of the species richness to the system.

Food allergy guidance in the United States Military: A work group report from the AAAAI Military Allergy and Immunology Assembly (MAIA).

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Waibel, Kirk; Lee, Rachel; Coop, Christopher; Mendoza, Yun; White, Kevin

2018-05-16

A diagnosis of food allergy adversely impacts one's ability to join or remain in the military. Inadequate knowledge or misconceptions of current military-specific standards regarding food allergy and how these apply to enlistment, induction, and retention in the United States military can potentially lead to inaccurate counseling as each military service has specific regulations which impact the evaluation and decision-making process. Recognizing this knowledge gap, the American Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) Military Allergy and Immunology Assembly (MAIA) established a Work Group who reviewed and summarized all aspects of military instructions, policies, and regulations regarding IgE mediated food allergy. A flowchart was developed outlining each step of the military entry process for an individual with a history of food allergy. Further, summary tables were made to provide improved "fluency" regarding each service's medical regulations while key considerations were outlined for the allergist who is evaluating an individual who is seeking military entry or retention. Both civilian and military allergists play an essential role in the evaluation, counseling, and management of patients with a food allergy history. Understanding the service-specific language and regulations regarding food allergy will improve the allergist's awareness, counseling, and management of these individuals. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.

NAVARRO, Alexandre Guida. Kakupacal e Kukulcán: iconografia e contexto espacial de dois reis-guerreiros maias em Chichén Itzá. São Luís: Café & Lápis; EDUFMA, 2012, 96 p.

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Luiz Estevam de Oliveira Fernandes

2013-08-01

Full Text Available O México tem mais de 32 mil sítios arqueológicos catalogados. Dentre eles, Chichén Itzá é um dos três mais visitados. Patrimônio Cultural da Humanidade, foi eleita em 2007 uma das novas Sete Maravilhas do Mundo. A antiga cidade maia, por situar-se a meros 200 km de Cancún, principal destino turístico do país, recebe milhares de turistas por ano, que, por sua  vez, atraem algumas centenas de “guias locais”, vendedores de artesanato “maia” e toda sorte de pessoas tentando ganhar a vida à custa dos visitantes, quase sempre boquiabertos diante da magnificência do local.

Baltische Rechtswissenschaftsgeschichte : Professor Jüri Uluots (1890-1945) in seiner und unserer Zeit = Baltijas tiesibu vestures zinatne : profesors Jiri Uluotss (1890-1945) toreiz un musu laikos = The scholarship of history of law in the Baltics

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2008-01-01

Lisatud: Publikationen von Professor Jüri Uluots / koost. Maia Ruttu, Karmen Visnapuu, lk. 86-91 ; Publikationen über Professor Jüri Uluots 1925-2000 / koost. Maia Ruttu, Karmen Visnapuu, lk. 91-93

Phylogeny of the genus Stephomyia Tavares, 1916 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae

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V. C. Maia

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Abstract Stephomyia Tavares, 1916 comprises seven species, all Neotropical: S. clavata (Tavares, 1920; S. epeugeniae Gagné, 1994; S. espiralis Maia, 1993; S. mina Maia, 1993; S. rotundifoliorum Maia, 1993; S. tetralobae Maia, 1993; and S. eugeniae (Felt, 1913. In the present study, a cladistic analysis based upon adult, pupa, larva and gall morphological characters as well as host plant data is carried out in order to discuss the monophyly of the genus and the relationships among the known species. The Stephomyia monophyly was supported by eight synapomorphies: five homoplastic characters and three non-homoplastic characters. Analyzes showed S. clavata with great instability within the genus, probably due to lack of larva, pupa and female data, so S. clavata was deactivated in analyze. The topology found was (S. mina ((S. eugeniae + S. epeugeniae (S. tetralobae (S. rotundifoliorum + S. espiralis.

Evaluation of four methods for platelet compatibility testing

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McFarland, J.G.; Aster, R.H.

1987-01-01

Four platelet compatibility assays were performed on serum and platelet or lymphocyte samples from 38 closely HLA-matched donor/recipient pairs involved in 55 single-donor platelet transfusions. The 22 patients studied were refractory to transfusions of pooled random-donor platelets. Of the four assays (platelet suspension immunofluorescence, PSIFT; 51 Cr release; microlymphocytotoxicity; and a monoclonal anti-IgG assay, MAIA), the MAIA was most predictive of platelet transfusion outcome (predictability, 74% for one-hour posttransfusion platelet recovery and 76% for 24-hour recovery). The only other assay to reach statistical significance was the PSIFT (63% predictability for one-hour posttransfusion recovery). The degree of HLA compatibility between donor and recipient (exact matches v those utilizing cross-reactive associations) was unrelated to the ability of the MAIA to predict transfusion results. The MAIA may be capable of differentiating HLA antibodies, ABO antibodies, and platelet-specific antibodies responsible for failure of HLA-matched and selectively mismatched single-donor platelet transfusions

Contribución al estudio de los Hyphomycetes de España. III

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Calvo Torras, Ma. de los Ángeles

1981-01-01

Se describen cuatro especies de Aspergillus: Aspergillus flavo-furcatis Batista et Maia, Aspergillus pulvinus Kwon et Fennell, Aspergillus ustus (Bainier) Thom et Church y Aspergillus conjunctus Kwon et Fennell. Description of four species of Aspergillus are presented: Aspergillus flavo-furcatis Batista et Maia, Aspergillus pulvinus Kwon et Fennell, Aspergillus ustus (Bainier) Thom et Church and Aspergillus conjunctus Kwon et Fennell.

Evaluation of Two Systems for Fundus-Controlled Scotopic and Mesopic Perimetry in Eye with Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

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Steinberg, Julia S; Saßmannshausen, Marlene; Pfau, Maximilian; Fleckenstein, Monika; Finger, Robert P; Holz, Frank G; Schmitz-Valckenberg, Steffen

2017-07-01

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the MP-1S (Nidek Technologies, Padova, Italy) and the S-MAIA (CenterVue, Padova, Italy) for mesopic and scotopic fundus-controlled perimetry (FCP) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Eleven eyes from 11 patients underwent mesopic and, after 30 minutes of dark adaptation, scotopic (MP-1S: Goldmann V, 200 ms, background luminance 0.0032 cd/m 2 ; S-MAIA: Goldman III, 200 ms, background luminance grid of 56 stimulus points covering 16° of the central macula was used. Examination time, fixation stability, and threshold values were analyzed. The upper end of the dynamic range (≤4 dB of lowest threshold) was frequently reached by the MP-1S for mesopic testing (median 34 of 56 stimuli), while threshold values within the lower 4 dB of the dynamic range were occasionally found with the S-MAIA for scotopic testing (median 3 for cyan, median 2 for red). After correction of the stimulus intensity for the S-MAIA results, the median difference for all stimuli between both devices for mesopic testing was -2.0 dB (interquartile range [-4;0], range -14 to 6). The results indicate that robust testing of mesopic and scotopic function is feasible with both devices in patients with AMD, although both devices are susceptible to floor and ceiling effects. The interpretation and particularly the comparison of both scotopic and mesopic FCP results between the MP-1S and the S-MAIA in AMD eyes need to consider variable susceptibility of floor and ceiling effects. Further software updates are desirable as FCP captures visual functional loss that is not noted with best-corrected central visual acuity and is important for clinical trials in AMD.

A new genus and species of gall midge (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae associated with Myrcia retorta (Myrtaceae Um novo gênero e espécie de mosquito galhador (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae associados com Myrcia retorta (Myrtaceae

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Valéria Cid Maia

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Brethesia Maia, new genus and Brethesia myrciae Maia, new species of Cecidomyiidae are described and illustrated (male, female, pupa and gall based on material collected in Minas Gerais (Brazil. This new species induces leaf galls on Myrcia retorta (Myrtaceae.Brethesia myrciae, um novo gênero e espécie de Cecidomyiidae que induz galhas em Myrcia retorta (Myrtaceae são descritos e ilustrados (macho, fêmea, pupa e galha baseados em material coletado em Minas Gerais (Brazil.

New strategy of the optimized nuclear medicine procedures for diagnosis and management of thyroid disorder

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Megahed, Y.M.; El-Haleg, M.O.; Abdel-Aziz, S.M.; Fahim, F.A.; Mahmoud, A.; Ezz-El-Arab, A.; El-Aassar, S.T.; Youssef, A.

1991-01-01

This investigation aims to find the optimal contributary RIA test for the final diagnosis of the thyroid disorder subjects. T 3 , T 4 , and TSH-RIA were performed either as a single or a combined test. However, additional tests such as T 3 -uptake, FTI-calculation, and TRH-test were performed when needed. The second part of this work deals with new TSH-MAIA kit delivered by IAEA in order to evaluate its diagnostic efficiency in comparison with the conventional TSH-RIA kit widely used in the developing countries. The obtained data revealed the following: 1. T 4 -RIA is considered to be the optimal contributary single test in the final diagnosis of all thyroid disorders. 2. T 3 + T 4 is the decisive contributary combined RIA-test in the final diagnosis of all thyroid disorders. 3. S.S. TSH-MAIA is more sensitive, specific, and simple to be performed in comparison with the TSH -RIA. Moreover, considerable minute of TSH could be detected by using S.S. TSH-MAIA which was previously considered undetectable.2 fig.2 tab

New genera and species of gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae from three restingas of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

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Valéria Cid Maia

2001-07-01

Full Text Available Five new genera and fourteen new species of gall midges from restingas of Rio de Janeiro State are described. The larva, pupa, male, female and gall are described for each species. The new genera are: Arrabidaeamyia, Epihormomyia, Manilkaramyia, Mayteniella and Parazalepidota. The new species are: Arrabidaeamyia serrata, Asphondylia peploniae, Clinodiplosis diodiae, Clinodiplosis profusa, Clusiamyia granulosa, Dasineura couepiae, Epihormomyia miconiae, Lopesia grandis, Lopesia marginalis, Lopesia singularis, Manilkaramyia notabilis, Mayteniella distincta, Parazalepidota clusiae and Paulliniamyia ampla. Also, the larva of a previously described species, Clusiamyia nitida Maia, 1996 is described and Asphondylia byrsonimae Maia & Couri is transferred to Bruggmaniella.

Self-reported interoceptive awareness in primary care patients with past or current low back pain

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Mehling WE

2013-05-01

Full Text Available Wolf E Mehling,1,2 Jennifer Daubenmier,1,3 Cynthia J Price,5 Mike Acree,1 Elizabeth Bartmess,1 Anita L Stewart41Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, 2Department of Family and Community Medicine, 3Department of Medicine, 4School of Nursing, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 5School of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USABackground: Mind–body interactions play a major role in the prognosis of chronic pain, and mind–body therapies such as meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, and Feldenkrais presumably provide benefits for pain patients. The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA scales, designed to measure key aspects of mind–body interaction, were developed and validated with individuals practicing mind–body therapies, but have never been used in pain patients.Methods: We administered the MAIA to primary care patients with past or current low back pain and explored differences in the performance of the MAIA scales between this and the original validation sample. We compared scale means, exploratory item cluster and confirmatory factor analyses, scale–scale correlations, and internal-consistency reliability between the two samples and explored correlations with validity measures.Results: Responses were analyzed from 435 patients, of whom 40% reported current pain. Cross-sectional comparison between the two groups showed marked differences in eight aspects of interoceptive awareness. Factor and cluster analyses generally confirmed the conceptual model with its eight dimensions in a pain population. Correlations with validity measures were in the expected direction. Internal-consistency reliability was good for six of eight MAIA scales. We provided specific suggestions for their further development.Conclusion: Self-reported aspects of interoceptive awareness differ between primary care patients with past or current

Uniting Satellite Data With Health Records to Address the Societal Impacts of Particulate Air Pollution: NASA's Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols

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Nastan, A.; Diner, D. J.

2017-12-01

Epidemiological studies have demonstrated convincingly that airborne particulate matter has a major impact on human health, particularly in urban areas. However, providing an accurate picture of the health effects of various particle mixtures — distinguished by size, shape, and composition — is difficult due to the constraints of currently available measurement tools and the heterogeneity of atmospheric chemistry and human activities over space and time. The Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) investigation, currently in development as part of NASA's Earth Venture Instrument Program, will address this issue through a powerful combination of technologies and informatics. Atmospheric measurements collected by the MAIA satellite instrument featuring multiangle and innovative polarimetric imaging capabilities will be combined with available ground monitor data and a chemical transport model to produce maps of speciated particulate matter at 1 km spatial resolution for a selected set of globally distributed cities. The MAIA investigation is also original in integrating data providers (atmospheric scientists), data users (epidemiologists), and stakeholders (public health experts) into a multidisciplinary science team that will tailor the observation and analysis strategy within each target area to improve our understanding of the linkages between different particle types and adverse human health outcomes.

Correlation of structure and function of the macula in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

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Battu, R; Khanna, A; Hegde, B; Berendschot, T T J M; Grover, S; Schouten, J S A G

2015-07-01

To correlate the structure of the macula, as measured by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and function, as measured by microperimetry (MAIA) in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and relatively good visual acuity. Prospective, cross-sectional, non-intervention study. Patients with RP. Thirty patients with RP and good central visual acuity were identified. Each patient underwent SD-OCT of the macula and microperimetry. The images were overlaid using the custom-designed software. The retinal sensitivity by microperimetry was correlated with corresponding retinal thickness, as measured by the SD-OCT. ELM, COST, and IS/OS junction were scored as intact, disrupted, or absent. Comparing the retinal sensitivity on the MAIA with various measurements on the SD-OCT. The retinal sensitivity on the MAIA showed a significant correlation with total retinal thickness and outer retinal thickness on the SD-OCT. There was no association with either the inner retinal thickness or the choroidal thickness. ORT showed a statistically significant correlation with the anatomical classification of ELM (r=-0.76, Pmacula in patients with RP. These studies are important to establish surrogate markers that can be used as end points for various tests in future therapeutic clinical trials.

Descobrindo o contemporâneo no tradicional: reavaliação do impacto das pedagogias indígena maia e ocidental moderna sobre a identidade e oSelf

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Sheryl Ann Ludwig

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Resumo Este trabalho compara o que é ensinado e aprendido – e não o que se pretende – em diferentes cenários educativos e dois momentos históricos. Considerando estudos etnográficos realizados nos Estados Unidos e na Guatemala, compara o “currículo oculto” (KOHLBERG, 1975 da escolarização ocidental formal – normas, valores e práticas transmitidos pelo conteúdo de conhecimento ensinado, e os padrões de interação, procedimentos de avaliação e estruturas de participação utilizados (PHILLIPS, 1983 - com estruturas similares em uma comunidade indígena maia da Guatemala. Analisa o que as crianças aprendem, o impacto sobre suas identidades e como esse aprendizado se conecta com os destinos sociais e ocupacionais futuros. Os cenários educacionais diferem quanto aos tipos de aprendizagem e de ensino que mantêm; produzem tipos diferentes de educandos com resultantes identidades e metas diversas. Tem sido afirmado que a escolarização moderna realmente interfere nos valores e práticas das assim chamadas culturas tradicionais, levando ao abandono das línguas, práticas e crenças tradicionais. Esse tipo de argumento ignora a flexibilidade das culturas tradicionais, relegando-as a um “presente” estático que não é característico das identidades dinâmicas que de fato se constroem no século XXI. Nós afirmamos o contrário: que as pedagogias tradicionais podem proteger a durabilidade da identidade cultural (SPINDLER, G; SPINDELER, L, 2000 e levar a uma acomodação mais bem-sucedida à modernidade (RUDOLPH, L; RUDOLPH, S, 1984. Ligamos esse argumento às pesquisas que estudam mitos a respeito do que a escolarização pode e não pode fazer para alcançar a mobilidade social e condições sociais melhores.

Bõt russkim v Estonii... / Uljana Faleva

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Faleva, Uljana

2005-01-01

Vähemusrahvuste probleemidest laienenud Euroopa Liidus. Euroopa Liidu projektist Early Warning. Projekti raames Saksamaal Essenis toimunud ümarlauas esindas Eestit Maia Meos noorteühendusest "Siin"

Tallinnasse Rävala pst. 19 kavandatava Tallinna Muusikakeskkooli, Tallinna Balletikooli ning G. Otsa nimelise muusikakooli ühise õppehoone arhitektuurikonkurss = Architectural Competition for the Joint School Building of Tallinn Music-Specialised

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Puusepp, Raivo

2003-01-01

I preemia - Andres Siim, Krister Ausing, II - Marika Lõoke, III - Maia Tüür, Andres Sevtshuk, Gabriel Evangelisti, ostupreemiad: Armin Valter, Vilen Künnapu ning Siiri Vallner, Katrin Koov, Veronika Valk

Kirjandus ja riigikirjand / Maia Madisso

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Madisso, Maia

2001-01-01

2001.a. riigieksami kirjandite analüüs, milles vaadeldakse, kuivõrd on töödes tuginetud kirjandusteostele. 2001.a. riigikirjand oli esimene omataoline, mille puhul kirjandusele toetumine ei olnud ühegi teema puhul obligatoorne. Analüüsiks kasutati 279 kirjandist koosnevat juhuslikku valikut.

Saateks / Maia Muldma, Maie Vikat

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Muldma, Maia

2008-01-01

2007. a. 20. märtsil toimus rahvusvaheline konverents "Mitmekultuuriline õpikeskkond - probleem või väärtus?". Kogumik sisaldab konverentsimaterjale, mille temaatika on ajendatud mitmekultuurilise keskkonna edendamisvõimalustest

Imperatritsa ili sovetskaja zhenshtshina? / Aleksandr Vassiljev ; interv. N. Rumjantseva

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Vassiljev, Aleksandr

2002-01-01

Kunstnik ja moeajaloolane oma intervjuust kuulsa baleriini Maia Plissetskajaga (1925), mille ta tegi detsembris Monte-Carlos esilinastuva baleriini portreefilmi jaoks. Telekanali "Arte" filmi stsenarist on Kristian Lvovski ja stsenarist krahvinna Jelizaveta Kapnist

Eesti õiguskirjandus võõrkeeltes / Giina Kaskla

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Kaskla, Giina

2000-01-01

Koostamisel olevast kirjandusnimestikust võõrkeelse eesti õiguskirjanduse kohta: Bibliographia Iuridica Estonica: selected bibliography of works published in English, German, French, Finnish and Swedish, 1991-1999 / koostaja Maia Ruttu. Tallinn: Rahvusraamatukogu, 2000

"Demokratiseerimine" Guatemala moodi / Tõnu Prei

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Prei, Tõnu, 1950-

2004-01-01

Guatemala ajaloost, Ameerika Ühendriikide poolt Guatemalas toime pandud riigipööretest ja kodusõjas toimunud maia-indiaanlaste genotsiidist, mille eest vastutavaid isikuid on nüüd hakatud kohtu alla andma

Rõnok polutshil signal / Kairi Teesalu

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Teesalu, Kairi

2008-01-01

Eluasemeturul on müügipakkumiste arv hakanud sujuvalt langema, olles kahanenud sõltuvalt linnast kuni paarikümne protsendi võrra. Diagramm: Tartu ja Tallinna korteriturg. Kommenteerivad Tõnu Toompark ja Maia Daljajev

Hunnitud hütid / Karin Paulus

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Paulus, Karin, 1975-

2016-01-01

Arhitektuuribüroos KOKO Arhitektid (Raivo Kotov, Andrus Kõresaar, Sten-Mark Mändmaa, Indrek Mikk, Martin Tago, Liis Uustal, Maia Grimitliht, Raili Paling, Kadri Kaldam) kavandatud puidust matkahütid Norras Skåpetis

Reducing fat and sodium content in pork sausage | Junior | African ...

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Reducing fat and sodium content in pork sausage. Jonhny De Azevedo Maia Junior, Fábio Da Costa Henry, Felipe Roberto Ferreira Amaral Do Valle, Meire Lelis Leal Martins, Célia Raquel Quirino, Rafael Dos Santos Costa ...

Moostes taas mõtte- ja kunstitalgud

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2002-01-01

17. ja 18. VIII lõpetatakse Moostes teised "Postsovkhozi" mõtte- ja keskkonnakunsti talgud "Kihid". Organiseerijad Evelyn Müürsepp ja Maia Möller. Moostes nädal aega elanud ja loonud kunstnikud. Seminari kavast, esinejatest, filmiprogrammist

Kungla rahva kuldne aeg / Karin Paulus

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Paulus, Karin, 1975-

2016-01-01

1970ndal aastal Lomonossovi tänavale (praegune Gonsiori tänav) ehitatud Kungla hotellist. Arhitektid Ilmar Puumets, Herbert Rüütlane; sisearhitektid Valter Pormeister, Ingrid Pormeister, Maia Laul. Samale kohale ehitati hiljem 13-korruseline Hilton hotell

INVENTORY OF ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION PROJECTS - PUBLISHED ON THE OFFICE OF WATER WEB PAGE

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USEPA's National Risk Management Research Laboratory working jointly with the Office of Water, has developed an Internet-accessible database of ecosystem restoration projects within the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) region. This article informs project owners of the i...

Sovhoos sinus eneses / Mari Sobolev

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Sobolev, Mari, 1968-

2001-01-01

9.-11. VIII Moostes toimunud Evelyn Müürsepa ja Maia Mölleri korraldatud kultuurisündmusest "Postsovkhoz City & Postsovkhoz Person", mis püüdis praeguses eesti külas toimuvat lahti mõtestada. Esinejatest, ettekannetest, kunstinäitustest

Lugupeetud emakeeleõpetaja! / Martin Ehala

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Ehala, Martin, 1963-

2006-01-01

Tutvustatakse eesti keele õpikuid: Ehala, Martin. Eesti keele struktuur. Tallinn, 2001 ; Ehala, Martin. Kirjutamise kunst. Tallinn, 2000 ; Ehala, Martin. Eesti kirjakeel. Tallinn, 2002 ; Madisso, Maia. Keele- ja tekstiharjutusi abiturientidele. Tallinn, 2002 ; Ehala, Martin ; Veismann, Tiina jt. Noor keelekasutaja. Tallinn, 2005

Hai-tek derevjannogo remeslennitshestva / Maia Melts

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Melts, Maia

2004-01-01

Nürnbergis toimus spetsialiseeritud näitus Holz-Handwerk, kus erinevad ettevõtted esitlesid tööpinke ja seadmeid puidutöötlemise jaoks. Samaaegselt toimus näitus uste-akende tootmise tehnoloogiatest

Beyond the Kepler/K2 bright limit

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White, T. R.; Pope, B. J. S.; Antoci, V.

2017-01-01

The most powerful tests of stellar models come from the brightest stars in the sky, for which complementary techniques, such as astrometry, asteroseismology, spectroscopy and interferometry, can be combined. The K2 mission is providing a unique opportunity to obtain high-precision photometric time...... have developed a new photometric technique, which we call halo photometry, to observe very bright stars using a limited number of pixels. Halo photometry is simple, fast and does not require extensive pixel allocation, and will allow us to use K2 and other photometric missions, such as TESS, to observe...... to 2000 ppm. For the star Maia, we demonstrate the utility of combining K2 photometry with spectroscopy and interferometry to show that it is not a 'Maia variable', and to establish that its variability is caused by rotational modulation of a large chemical spot on a 10 d time-scale....

75 FR 74713 - Product Cancellation Order for Certain Pesticide Registrations; Correction

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2010-12-01

... Sergeant's Pet Care Products' pesticide product, EPA Reg. No. 2517-79. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Maia Tatinclaux, Pesticide Re- evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental... hard copy, at the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S- 4400, One...

27. XI esitles Kanuti gildi saalis Mooste avatud ateljee MOKS video-, heli- ja tegevuskunstiprogrammi "Põhi silmab kagu"...

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2003-01-01

Esinesid MOKSiga seotud kunstnikud ja rühmitused: John Grzinich, OPA: Slobodanka Stevceska, Denis Saraginovski (Obsessive Possessive Aggression, Makedoonia), Kaarel Vulla, Irene Roos, Jane Remm, OMP: maalikunstnikud Maris Palgi, Eva Orav ja ajakirjanik Maia Möller, Pink Punk: Kristin Kalamees, Margus Tamm, Sandra Jõgeva

Structuring Qualitative Data for Agent-Based Modelling

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Ghorbani, Amineh; Dijkema, Gerard P.J.; Schrauwen, Noortje

2015-01-01

Using ethnography to build agent-based models may result in more empirically grounded simulations. Our study on innovation practice and culture in the Westland horticulture sector served to explore what information and data from ethnographic analysis could be used in models and how. MAIA, a

Postsovkhoz ئ kuidas ühendada küla ja kultuur / Margus Kiis

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Kiis, Margus

2001-01-01

9.-11. VIII Moostes toimunud Evelyn Müürsepa ja Maia Mölleri korraldatud kompleksüritusest ehk mõtte- ja keskkonnakunsti talgutest "Postsovkhoz City & Postsovkhoz Person", mis püüdis praeguses eesti külas toimuvat lahti mõtestada. Esinejatest, ettekannetest, kunstinäitustest

Remont käib võidu etendustega / Raimu Hanson

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Hanson, Raimu, 1957-

2007-01-01

Tartus Küütri tn. 1 asuva hoone ajaloost, sinna rajatavast Athena kultuuri- ja konverentsikeskusest ning Volga restoranist. Kinosaali kipsreljeefide autor on Ferdi Sannamees, restorani ajaloolise vitraažlae autor on Nikolai Willer. Kommenteerivad Margus Kasterpalu, Mart Kivastik, Anne Erm, Ain Mäeots ja projektijuht Maia Kurm

Naine : masin või loom? / Maris Palgi

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Palgi, Maris

2007-01-01

Eero Taltsi, Margus Kiisi, Maia Mölleri, Kaie Luige, Eva Orava ja Maris Palgi projektist "Maine-loom, naine-masin", mida tutvustati 2006. a. Moostes üritusel "Postsovkhoz 6", 2007. a. jaanuaris-veebruaris Tartu Kunstimajas ja Tartu Tampere Majas. Näitused avati E. Taltsi ja M. Kiisi loeng-performance'itega

Migração internacional de trabalho qualificado e o fenômeno do brain drain no Brasil

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FARIA, Bruna Maia de

2008-01-01

Maia de Faria, Bruna; Barrantes Hidalgo, Álvaro. Migração internacional de trabalho qualificado e o fenômeno do brain drain no Brasil. 2008. Dissertação (Mestrado). Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2008.

Advanced spot quality analysis in two-colour microarray experiments

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Vetter Guillaume

2008-09-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Image analysis of microarrays and, in particular, spot quantification and spot quality control, is one of the most important steps in statistical analysis of microarray data. Recent methods of spot quality control are still in early age of development, often leading to underestimation of true positive microarray features and, consequently, to loss of important biological information. Therefore, improving and standardizing the statistical approaches of spot quality control are essential to facilitate the overall analysis of microarray data and subsequent extraction of biological information. Findings We evaluated the performance of two image analysis packages MAIA and GenePix (GP using two complementary experimental approaches with a focus on the statistical analysis of spot quality factors. First, we developed control microarrays with a priori known fluorescence ratios to verify the accuracy and precision of the ratio estimation of signal intensities. Next, we developed advanced semi-automatic protocols of spot quality evaluation in MAIA and GP and compared their performance with available facilities of spot quantitative filtering in GP. We evaluated these algorithms for standardised spot quality analysis in a whole-genome microarray experiment assessing well-characterised transcriptional modifications induced by the transcription regulator SNAI1. Using a set of RT-PCR or qRT-PCR validated microarray data, we found that the semi-automatic protocol of spot quality control we developed with MAIA allowed recovering approximately 13% more spots and 38% more differentially expressed genes (at FDR = 5% than GP with default spot filtering conditions. Conclusion Careful control of spot quality characteristics with advanced spot quality evaluation can significantly increase the amount of confident and accurate data resulting in more meaningful biological conclusions.

Eesti Vabaõhumuuseumi külastuskeskus - ennistuskoda Kanut - Tallinna muuseumide ühishoidla arhitektuurne ideevõistlus = Estonian Open Air Museum Visitor Centre - Kanut Restoration Centre - Joint Depository for Tallinn museums : an Idea Competitio

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Põdra, Laila, 1967-

2007-01-01

Ideekonkursi eesmärgist, I preemia pälvinud tööst "Raudjas" (autorid: Siiri Vallner, Imdrek Peil), ostupreemia pälvinud töödest "Leevike" (autor AB Kosmos: Ott Kadarik, Mihkel Tüür, Villem Tomiste) ja "Vurr" (autorid: Leena Torim, Maia Tüür, Veronika Valk)

Homme kell 13 avatakse Y-galerii hoovis linnafestivali "Eclectica" raames...

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2004-01-01

Performance'ikunsti ja kunstipärase rokkmuusika ühisfestival "In/Out". Esinevad Tartu Popi & Roki Instituut, Maris Palgi, Eva Orav, Kaie Luik, Maia Möller, Trikotaaž, Enn Tegova, Ruumi Trummid, Fashist Lendas Üle ja Avangard (Sandra Jõgeva & Margus Tamm). Festival päädib Erkki Hüva LP "Varjust rambini" esitlusega

Na võstavku za znanijami / Maia Melts

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Melts, Maia

2004-01-01

Saksamaa masinaehitajate liidu ja selle juurde asutatud fondi ProWood esindajad otsivad koostöövõimalusi Eestis, et levitada uusi tehnoloogilisi võimalusi puidutöötlemisel ja aidata kaasa kaasaegse kaadri ettevalmistamisele

Assessing the Impacts of Forests on Human Welfare: Prelimnary Results from the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessement

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D. Evan Mercer; P.B. Aruna

2000-01-01

Abstract. This paper presents results from the first phase of the socio-economic assessment of forest ecosystems in the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA). First, we present results of the analysis of changes in the distribution of human population and forest land use in the region. Then, trends in wood products employment and income between...

First record of Histiotus laephotis Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae from Brazil Primeiro registro de Histiotus laephotis Thomas (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae no Brasil

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João M. D. Miranda

2007-12-01

Full Text Available The first record of Histiotus laephotis Thomas, 1916 from Brazil is reported here. An adult male was caught with a mist net in a barn located within an Araucaria pine forest in the municipality of Passos Maia, State of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil (26º46'48"S and 52º03'34"W. This record extends the distribution of this species in South America. Morphological and taxonomic notes of this species are described as well.O primeiro registro de Histiotus laephotis Thomas, 1916 o Brasil é aqui reportado. Um macho adulto foi coletado com rede de neblina (em abrigo artificial nos domínios da Floresta com Araucária, no Município de Passos Maia, Estado de Santa Catarina, Sul do Brasil (26º46'48"S e 52º03'34"W. Este registro amplia a distribuição da própria espécie na América do Sul. Aspectos morfológicos e taxonômicos desta espécie são também descritos.

Me võime liigutada tooli / Kristina Pai

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Pai, Kristina, 1967-

2014-01-01

Põhja- ja Baltimaade raamatukoguhoidjate kohtumisest 2013. aasta septembris Helsingis jagasid muljeid Toila raamatukogu juhataja Lea Rand, Viljandi Linnaraamatukogu lugemissaalide juhataja Veronika Raudsepp-Linnupuu, Lääne Maakonna Keskraamatukogu direktor Ilme Sepp, Võrumaa Keskraamatukogu direktor Inga Kuljus, ERÜ esimees Katre Riisalu, Tallinna Keskraamatukogu direktor Kaie Holm, Tartu Linnaraamatukogu spetsialist Maia Tammjärv, Lääne-Virumaa Keskraamatukogu direktor Kaili Õunapuu-Seidelberg

MFA Graduate Show 2015: In the Usual Direction of Travel

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2015-01-01

Avgangsstudenter: Patrik Berg, Christian Magnus Tømmeraas Berg, Maia Birkeland, Matilda Björkne, Stine Bråthen, Stein Are Kjærås Dahl, Emil Gustafsson, Jeanett Gustavsen, hÅkon gÅre, Jørgen Frederik Scheel Haarstad, Anita Hanch-Hansen, Elin Hedberg, Andrea Wikhammer Heir, Steinar Laumann, Aron-Irving Li, Tina Lindvall, Rebecca Szabo Onstad, Zahra Rashid, Hege Cathrine Hauge Thoresen

Tallinna korterite järelturg jahtub / Maia Daljajev

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Daljajev, Maia, 1966-

2006-01-01

Ilmunud ka: Molodjozh Estonii : Nedvizhimost 9. aug. lk. 1. Ülevaade Tallinna tüüpkorterite ostu-müügitehingute aeglustumisest ja hindade stabiliseerumisest 2006. aastal. Vt. samas: Tabelid: Eluasemelaenude tingimused Eesti pankades

Muusikaõpetus ja sotsiaal-kultuuriline kasvatus / Maia Muldma

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Muldma, Maia

2008-01-01

Muusikaõpetuse võimalustest õpilaste sotsiaal-kultuuriliste pädevuste kujundamisel. Analüüsitud on vene õppekeelega üldhariduskooli viimaste aastate muusikaalast õppekirjandust. Eesti ja vene õppekeelega koolide muusikaõpetajate hoiakute väljaselgitamisel korraldati ankeetküsitlus

M45

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Murdin, P.

2000-11-01

M45 is better known as the Pleiades, a young open cluster in Taurus. Again, this is a very bright (1.6 mag) object known since antiquity. The Pleiades are sometimes referred to as the `Seven Sisters' since that is the number of stars normally visible to the naked eye. In Greek mythology these represent Pleione and her daughters with Atlas: Alcyone, Asterope (a double star), Electra, Maia, Merope,...

AMONG EMBROIDERIES, JEWELS AND JASMIN PERFUME: FASHION ACCORDING TO EÇA DE QUEIRÓS

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Monica Figueiredo

2010-11-01

Full Text Available From reading of The Maias, we intend to analyze images that have been created by the fictional discourse of Eça de Queirós, based on the barthesian concept that all “written clothing” is built in view of a signification. In this romance, clothes and its garment subscribe a critical discourse that reconsiders social, historical, and psychological relationships experienced by the reality of nineteenth-century.

Magistritööde kaitsmine

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1998-01-01

30.01.98. omistati Anne Uusenile, Maia Muldmale ja Monika Pulleritsule pedagoogikamagistri kraad, 12.02.98. Kaire Tõugule ja Tõnu Martmale magister scientsarum geoökoloogia alal, 6.03.98. Tõnu Laasile magister scientsarum füüsika alal, 20.03.98. Joe Noormetsale magister artium sporditeaduste alal, 25.03.98. Ülle Soosalule magister artium infoteaduste alal, 1.04.98. Ene Kullile ja Lea Kivipõllule magister artium sotsiaaltöö alal

Uusimmigrantide laste integreerumine Eesti kooli / Maris Tuulik, Maia Muldma

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Tuulik, Maris

2008-01-01

Analüüsitakse uusimmigrantõpilaste õpetamisega seotud peamisi raskusi ja probleeme. Ankeetküsitlus on läbi viidud 2007.a. veebruaris ühes Tallinna gümnaasiumis, millel on nelja-aastane kogemus uusimmigrantidest laste õpetamisel

THE EDUCATIONAL POLICY GO TO RURAL EDUCATION IN BRAZIL: Case Study in West of Paraná mesoregion

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Anderson Bem

2015-12-01

Full Text Available The rural school crisis is a concrete fact, manifested in almost all Brazilian regions because of the continuous process of closing of schools located in rural areas. Several authors as Mennucci (2006, Werebe (1994, Maia (1992, highlighted the neglect of educational policies in relation to rural areas. However, one of the objectives of this research is to demonstrate that historically were formed two policies for rural education: one for the large property and one for the small farm. To deepen the theoretical analysis and to corroborate the proposed hypothesis, we conducted an empirical investigation having how spatial area the mesoregion of the Western Paraná. A crise da escola rural é um fato concreto, manifestado em praticamente todas as regiões brasileiras em virtude do processo continuo de fechamento dos estabelecimentos escolares localizados no espaço rural. Vários autores como Mennucci (2006, Werebe (1994, Maia (1992, destacaram o descaso das políticas educacionais em relação às zonas rurais. Todavia, um dos objetivos da presente pesquisa é demonstrar que historicamente foram se constituindo duas políticas para a educação rural: uma destinada à grande propriedade e outra para a pequena propriedade agrícola. Para aprofundarmos a análise teórica e corroborar com a hipótese formulada, realizamos uma investigação empírica tendo como recorte espacial a mesorregião Oeste do Paraná.

Beyond the Kepler/K2 bright limit: variability in the seven brightest members of the Pleiades

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White, T. R.; Pope, B. J. S.; Antoci, V.; Pápics, P. I.; Aerts, C.; Gies, D. R.; Gordon, K.; Huber, D.; Schaefer, G. H.; Aigrain, S.; Albrecht, S.; Barclay, T.; Barentsen, G.; Beck, P. G.; Bedding, T. R.; Fredslund Andersen, M.; Grundahl, F.; Howell, S. B.; Ireland, M. J.; Murphy, S. J.; Nielsen, M. B.; Silva Aguirre, V.; Tuthill, P. G.

2017-11-01

The most powerful tests of stellar models come from the brightest stars in the sky, for which complementary techniques, such as astrometry, asteroseismology, spectroscopy and interferometry, can be combined. The K2 mission is providing a unique opportunity to obtain high-precision photometric time series for bright stars along the ecliptic. However, bright targets require a large number of pixels to capture the entirety of the stellar flux, and CCD saturation, as well as restrictions on data storage and bandwidth, limit the number and brightness of stars that can be observed. To overcome this, we have developed a new photometric technique, which we call halo photometry, to observe very bright stars using a limited number of pixels. Halo photometry is simple, fast and does not require extensive pixel allocation, and will allow us to use K2 and other photometric missions, such as TESS, to observe very bright stars for asteroseismology and to search for transiting exoplanets. We apply this method to the seven brightest stars in the Pleiades open cluster. Each star exhibits variability; six of the stars show what are most likely slowly pulsating B-star pulsations, with amplitudes ranging from 20 to 2000 ppm. For the star Maia, we demonstrate the utility of combining K2 photometry with spectroscopy and interferometry to show that it is not a `Maia variable', and to establish that its variability is caused by rotational modulation of a large chemical spot on a 10 d time-scale.

MAIA, Eigenvalues for MHD Equation of Tokamak Plasma Stability Problems

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Tanaka, Y.; Azumi, M.; Kurita, G.; Tsunematsu, T.; Takeda, T.

1986-01-01

1 - Description of program or function: This program solves an eigenvalue problem zBx=Ax where A and B are real block tri-diagonal matrices. This eigenvalue problem is derived from a reduced set of linear resistive MHD equations which is often employed to study tokamak plasma stability problem. 2 - Method of solution: Both the determinant and inverse iteration methods are employed. 3 - Restrictions on the complexity of the problem: The eigenvalue z must be real

Revisão: Composição química, propriedades funcionais e aplicações tecnológicas da semente de chia (Salvia hispanica L) em alimentos

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Coelho, Michele Silveira; Salas-Mellado, Myriam de Las Mercedes

2014-01-01

A chia (Salvia hispanica L.) é uma semente antiga utilizada pelos maias e astecas como alimento para aumentar a resistência física. Essa semente é fonte natural de ácidos graxos ômega-3, fibras e proteínas, além de outros componentes nutricionais importantes, como os antioxidantes. Além disso, oferece um potencial na indústria de alimentos devido aos seus componentes funcionais, com aplicações no enriquecimento de pães, bolos e barras de cereais, produção de hidrolisados proteicos para aplica...

Position Data Analysis Job Aid (PDAT-JA) Prototype Software (Version 2. 0), User’s Manual

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1993-08-01

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Modelo de framework de arquitetura da informação baseado em roteiros

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Albuquerque, Fernando Antônio de Araújo Chacon de

2014-01-01

A pesquisa relatada nesta dissertação investigou o desenvolvimento e uso de um modelo de framework de arquitetura da informação. O modelo de framework foi desenvolvido a partir de informações em The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide, Método de Arquitetura da Informação Aplicada (MAIA) e em outras fontes. Esta dissertação inclui resultados de pesquisa bibliográfica acerca de arquitetura da informação, frameworks e métodos de arquitetu...

Prevalência de sequelas auditivas pós meningite piogênica em crianças Prevalence of auditory sequelae after pyogenic meningitis in children

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Luzia Poliana Anjos da Silva

2009-01-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Analisar a prevalência de déficit auditivo e caracterizar as principais sequelas auditivas e neurológicas pós-meningite, correlacionando o tipo de antibiótico utilizado durante o período de internação e a frequência de surdez, além do tipo de meningite mais prevalente como causa de déficit auditivo. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de um estudo de coorte transversal. Foram enviadas 289 cartas para os responsáveis pelas crianças que apresentaram meningite piogênica entre 28 dias e 24 meses, admitidas no Hospital Couto Maia (HC Maia entre janeiro de 2002 a dezembro de 2003. A amostra foi constituída por 55 crianças que sobreviveram com ou sem sequelas evidentes, que compareceram para as avaliações audiológica e neurológica. Foi realizada avaliação audiológica completa, incluindo a bateria subjetiva e objetiva de avaliação, com utilização de instrumentos validados para investigação da audição da criança. RESULTADOS: A faixa etária, no momento da avaliação audiológica, variou de dois a cinco anos. A deficiência auditiva foi encontrada em 29% da amostra, sendo a maioria do tipo neurossensorial, bilateral e de grau profundo. As principais sequelas neurológicas encontradas foram epilepsia, hemiparesia, hidrocefalia, disfasia e hiperatividade. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados destacam a necessidade de monitoramento audiológico e acompanhamento neurológico nas crianças com história prévia de meningite piogênica, especialmente aquelas infectadas em idade precoce, buscando, desta forma, detectar as possíveis alterações auditivas e intervir o mais precocemente possível, por meio de intervenção especializada, protetização e reabilitação da linguagem oral.PURPOSE: To analyze the prevalence of hearing impairment and to characterize the main auditory and neurological sequelae after meningitis, correlating the type of antibiotic used during the hospitali66zation period and the frequency of deafness, as well as the most

Activity report of the Commission for Grid Perspectives

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Mignon, Herve; Rabouche, Ikram

2015-01-01

After an introduction by the Commission chairman, this report briefly evokes actions undertaken in cooperation with other actors: Meteo France for climate scenarios, Artelys and Enea consulting for a study on the potential of energy storage, Maias Eolis for its tools of management of wind energy variability, the French-German office for renewable energies for its report on challenges for renewable energies in Germany, and the Ancre for the presentation of long term energetic scenarios. It discusses how the Commission is a privileged body for the consultation about RTE's prospective visions, as well as far as data transparency is concerned

REGISTOS DE MODERNIDADE. Arquitetura e Fotografia. Livro de resumos

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AZEVEDO, Inês; BANDEIRA, Pedro; CARDOSO, Alexandra; MAIA, Maria Helena; MATEUS, Joana; MOREIRA, César Machado; PIMENTEL, Jorge Cunha; TREVISAN, Alexandra

2015-01-01

Livro de resumos das comunicações no colóquio REGISTOS DE MODERNIDADE. ARQUITETURA E FOTOGRAFIA, realizado na ESAP no âmbito do Seminário 4.2 do Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura em colaboração com a Secção Autónoma de Teoria e História e o Centro de estudos Arnaldo Araújo da ESAP -projeto ESAP/2015/P20/SATH. Inclui resumos das seguintes comunicações: Teófilo Rego, a "Escola do Porto" e a cidade - Maria Helena Maia; Fotografar para os Arquitetos: hipóteses de enquadramento - Alexandra Trevisa...

ARQUITETURA E TEATRO. Livro de Resumos

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BARROS, Né; CANNATÀ, Michele; CARNEIRO, Maria; CARREIRA, João; GUIMARÃES, José Luís; LOURO, Gonçalo; MAIA, Maria Helena; PALINHOS, Jorge; SÁ, Daniela; TREVISAN, Alexandra

2015-01-01

Livro de resumos das comunicações no colóquio ARQUITETURA E TEATRO realizado na ESAP no âmbito do Seminário 4 do Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura em colaboração com a Secção Autónoma de Teoria e História e o Centro de estudos Arnaldo Araújo - projeto Arquiteturas Dramáticas (ESAP/2015/P24/SATH). Inclui resumos das seguintes comunicações: A descoberta setecentista do teatro romano de Lisboa - Maria Helena Maia; Um teatro ambulante para o concurso da UIA - Alexandra Trevisan; Cena, Representaç...

Magistritööd : [Piret Jamnes jt.] / Maia Kööts

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Kööts, Maia

2001-01-01

20.12.2000 kaitses TPÜ organisatsioonikäitumise magistritööde kaitsmisnõukogu koosolekul Piret Jamnes magistritöö "Trends in Estonian career Counselling in the Light of Societal Transformation and Constructive Framework"; 21.12 TPÜ kasvatusteaduste ja pedagoogika magistritööde kaitsmisnõukogu koosolekul Olesja Šigajeva "Mõningate psühholoogiliste aspektide kasutamine innovatsiooniliste tehnoloogiate õpetamisel"; Sirje Priks "Kutsekooliõpilaste sotsiaalse valmiduse arendamise võimalusi eesti keele ja kirjanduse tundide kaudu". 9.01.2001 TPÜ demograafia magistritööde kaitsmisnõukogu koosolekul Enel Pungas "Siserändevoogude vanuskäsitlus : Eesti Pere- ja sündimusuuringu andmetel". 11.01 TPÜ sotsioloogia magistritööde kaitsmisnõukogu koosolekul Virve-Ines Laidmäe "Muutused eestimaalaste tervisehinnangutes ja -käitumises 1990. aastatel"

L'intermédialité au Portugal: bilan des rencontres scientifiques à l'ISMAI

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Vieira, Célia; Rio Novo, Isabel

2015-01-01

Dans cet article nous nous proposons de dresser un bilan des apports critiques sur l’intermédialité issus des rencontres scientifiques que nous avons organisées, à l’Institut Universitaire de Maia (ISMAI), au Portugal. Lors de la première édition du Colloque International en Études d’Intermédialité, en 2009, le concept d’intermédialité avait déjà fait l’objet d’une réflexion systématique au Canada, surtout dans le contexte du CRI (Centre de Recherche sur l’Intermédialité), alors qu’il était, ...

<> influência do fraccionamento alimentar no tratamento do Excesso de Peso e da Obesidade : Trabalho de Investigação : <> influence of food fractionation in the treatment of Overweight and Obesity

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Rocha, Tânia Gil da

2010-01-01

Contém um relatório de estágio curricular realizado no Gabinete de Nutrição dos Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde da Maia e no Serviços de Oncologia Médica e de Ginecologia do Hospital de São João, Porto, no âmbito da licenciatura em Ciências da Nutrição pela Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação da Universidade do Porto. O exemplar do relatório de estágio existe apenas em formato papel e está disponível para consulta na Biblioteca da FCNAUP

A guerra e o espetaculo : origens e transformações da estrategia do EZLN

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Guilherme Gitahy de Figueiredo

2003-01-01

Resumo: Em 1994 levantou-se no estado mexicano de Chiapas o Exército Zapatista de Libertação Nacional (EZLN), formado majoritariamente por indígenas maias. Numa transformação muito peculiar, esta guerrilha mudou de uma estratégia que tinha como fundamental a organização política e militar da população para a tomada revolucionária do poder, para outra em que predominam práticas, formas de organização, discursos e objetivos que têm a comunicação e a criação de mecanismos de participação como el...

Avaliação energética da empresa RENOPEL

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Silva, Fábio André Pereira da

2016-01-01

A presente dissertação insere-se no âmbito da unidade curricular “Dissertação” do 2º ano de Mestrado de Engenharia Eletrotécnica- Sistemas Elétricos de Energia, tendo sido realizada na empresa Renopel que é uma Lavandaria Industrial que se situa na Maia. O objetivo desta dissertação era a realização de uma Avaliação energética (AE) à Renopel que tem elevados consumos de energia, tanto a nível térmico como elétrico e no ano de 2015 consumiu aproximadamente 800 MWh em gás natural...

International banks' CSR disclosures after the 2008 crisis / Laivi Laidroo, Maia Sokolova

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Laidroo, Laivi

2014-01-01

Artiklis käsitletakse rahvusvaheliste pankade sotsiaalset vastutust oma tegevuse avalikustamise aspektist enne ja pärast viimast majanduskriisi. Kontentanalüüsi meetodil analüüsitakse 35 panga veebilehti ja ettevõtete sotsiaalse vastutuse raporteid.

Muusikaalane õppekirjandus ühiskonnaväärtuste edasikandjana / Tatjana Lindeberg, Maia Muldma

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Lindeberg, Tatjana

2008-01-01

Artiklis on analüüsitud aastatel 1991-2007 Eesti ja Soome muusikaõpikute laulurepertuaaris olevaid väärtusi (sotsiaalsed-, esteetilised ja eetilised ning etnokultuurilised väärtused). Võrdluseks tagasivaade nõukogude aastatesse 1985-1990/91

Mechanical Mixing and Metamorphism of Mafic and Ultramafic Lithologies during Mylonisis at the ST. Paul Transform System, Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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Adrião, Á.; Maia, M.; Hemond, C.; Kaczmarek, M. A.; Briais, A.; Vincent, C.; Brunelli, D.

2017-12-01

The St. Paul Transform System offsets by 630 km the Equatorial Mid Atlantic Ridge at 1° N. It consists of four major faults separating three intra transform ridge axes. This region shows a transition from a transpressive, hot spot affected, regional-scale shear zone to the North to a region dominated by a particular oceanic core complex spreading to the South (Vincent et al., this congress). Samples collected in the region during the COLMEIA cruise (Maia et al., 2016) were studied for textures and whole-rock major and trace element contents. All samples experienced pervasive deformation at ductile to brittle conditions overprinted by late low-T alteration. Mylonitic and ultramylonitic rocks can be grouped in three main types: peridotitic, gabbroic and talc-chlorite schist. Peridotitic ultramylonites preserve few opx, cpx and sp porphyroclasts; they have homogeneous nano-micro grain size groundmass, banded foliation and late amphibole and sulfide crystallization. Locally S-C fabric overprints the mylonitic texture. Micro cracks, filled with serpentine, chlorite and oxides are common, as well fluid inclusions trails in olivine and plagioclase crystals of peridotite and gabbros respectively. Major and trace element content of the peridotitic mylonites plot in the depleted field of the abyssal peridotites; however, they present marked LREE enrichment and Eu positive anomaly. Gabbroic and talc-chlorite mylonites display REE-enriched patterns (up to 100x CI) and variable Eu anomalies. Major elements show a remarkable linear trend in the talc-chlorite group suggesting mixing of pure talc and chlorite end-members. These compositional characteristics suggest variable assimilation of MORB and E-MORB during mylonisis or early melt-rock interaction and hydrothermal evolution at variable metamorphic conditions. Vincent et al., 2017. Particular Oceanic Core Complex evolution …; this congress Maia et al., 2016. Extreme mantle uplift and exhumation ... Nat. Geo. doi:10

Effect of a hormone-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena® on aromatase and Cox-2 expression in patients with adenomyosis submitted or not, to endometrial resection

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Maia R

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Hugo Maia Jr1,2, Clarice Haddad1, Julio Casoy1, Rebeca Maia1, Nathanael Pinheiro3, Elsimar M Coutinho11Centro de Pesquisa e Assistência em Reprodução Humana (CEPARH, 2Itaigara Memorial Day Hospital, 3IMAGEPAT, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilObjective: To investigate the effect of a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (Mirena® on aromatase and cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2 expression in the endometrium of patients with adenomyosis who were submitted to endometrial resection at the time of insertion, compared to a group not submitted to endometrial resection and a group of controls with adenomyosis not submitted to any previous hormonal treatment.Patients and methods: Patients with adenomyosis (n = 89 were included in this study. Twenty-two patients had been using Mirena® for 5 years but had not been submitted to endometrial resection prior to insertion of the device. Twenty-four patients were submitted to endometrial resection at the time of Mirena® insertion. The remaining 43 patients with adenomyosis had undergone no previous hormonal treatment and served as a control group. Cox-2 and aromatase expression were determined in the endometrium by immunohistochemistry.Results: Use of Mirena® for 5 years reduced aromatase expression in the endometrium; however, this reduction was significantly greater in the uteri previously submitted to endometrial resection. The reduction in Cox-2 expression was significant only in the uteri submitted to endometrial resection followed by the insertion of Mirena®.Conclusion: Endometrial resection followed by the insertion of Mirena® was associated with greater rates of amenorrhea in patients with adenomyosis, which in turn were associated with a more effective inhibition of aromatase and Cox-2 expression in the endometrium.Keywords: aromatase, Mirena®, adenomyosis, Cox-2, endometrium, levonorgestrel

Media discourses on the World Social Forums: Towards comparative analyses

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Jan Ekecrantz

2004-12-01

Full Text Available The reflections to be presented in this and a parallel article by Maia and Castro are based on ongoing studies of Brazilian, Swedish and Russian and Chinese media materials dealing with the World Social Forums (WSF in 2001-2004. The overriding question in this paper concerns the ways mainstream media of very different societieshave re-constructed the global and local issues addressed by the Forums. Of the four market-oriented economies, Communist China and Post-Socialist Russia stand out as being almost silent about the WSF, favouring economic globalization - seemingly at odds with cultural globalization. In Brazil and Sweden the dominant media harbourcontradictory discourses reflecting different political positions visavi the WSF.

Espaço e imaginação social brasileira

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Maro Lara Martins

2010-02-01

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Este livro de João Marcelo Ehlert Maia é fruto de sua tese de doutorado, defendida no Iuperj sob orientação de Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho, sendo o vencedor do Prêmio Jorge Zahar de Ciências Sociais e o prêmio de melhor tese defendida na área de sociologia concedido anualmente pela Anpocs. Não resta dúvida da poderosa contribuição dos seus argumentos para re-pensarmos as nossas tradições de pensamento social e político.

Personal involvement as a special style of Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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Takhir Yu. Bazarov

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The author, being a former student of the Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and now is teacher, professor, remembers those who created and maintained such traditions of the Department as depth of knowledge and coherence of ideas, methodological clarity and dialogue, holistic view of the issue and using problem solving in teaching, and also the joint work of professors and students in the way of perceiving the truth. According to the author the 50th anniversary of the Department of Psychology is an occasion to both recall the path members of the Department went over the years, including several epochs, and to outline the prospects for further development. Considerable attention is paid to the personality of G.M. Andreeva, who is a gifted teacher, a brilliant scholar, and one of the founders of social psychology in the Russia. Particular attention is drawn to Galina Andreeva collecting the brightest staff of the Chair of Social Psychology, whose key feature was involvement in both the scientific and also collective life of the Department, which contributed to the development of the new important branch of psychology. The author also singles out the figure of the wonderful teacher L.A. Petrovskaya who encouraged the students to cherish their individuality as she believed it to be the main tool of the professional psychologist. With much gratitude the author recalls tips for organizing the teaching process received from A.U. Kharash. The paper characterizes the current state and the importance of the Department, and outlines the prospects for further development. In particular, the author speaks of the need for developing student personal involvement in professional activities, and also of creating favourable conditions at the Deaprtment for a student successful transition from training to real life.

Agra, arboreal beetles of Neotropical forests: pusilla group and piranha group systematics and notes on their ways of life (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina

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Terry Erwin

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Revisions of two new species groups of the genus Agra Fabricius are presented with the following species described as new: pusilla group - Agra cruciaria sp. n. (Brazil, Agra grace sp. n. (Ecuador, Perú, Agra max sp. n. (Brazil, Agra minasianus sp. n. (Brazil, Agra notpusilla sp. n. (Brazil, Agra pseudopusilla sp. n. (Brazil; piranha group - Agra ce sp. n. (Perú, Agra risseri sp. n. (Bolivia, Brazil, Agra maia sp. n. (Bolivia, Agra piranha sp. n. (Ecuador; Agra tiputini sp. n. (Ecuador. Species of these two groups have adults that are the smallest in the entire genus, although this does not indicate they are closely related based on other attributes. All species are Amazonian in distribution.

Very unsuccessful attempts to quit: examining correlates in the 13 countries where almost 2/3 of smokers live

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João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia

2017-05-01

The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS functions as a multi-partner initiative that represents global, regional, and national organizations. We acknowledge WHO, CDC, GATS Implementing Agency, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, RTI International, and the National Governments of Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vietnam, for carrying out such an important survey, and releasing data for public use. Dr. Castaldelli-Maia receives a Pfizer Independent Grant for Learning and Change (IGLC managed by Global Bridges (Healthcare Alliance for Tobacco Dependence Treatment hosted at the Mayo Clinic, to support free smoking cessation treatment training in addiction/mental health care units in Brazil (grant IGLC 13513957. The above had no connection to the present study.

Intelectuales Indígenas y Literaturas en México. El campo literario entre los zapotecas y los mayas

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Luz Maria Lepe Lira

2017-08-01

on the strategies of the generation of Andrés Henestrosa, the relationship between COCEI and Casa de Cultura de Juchitán, and the links that the intellectuals of the region hold with other intellectuals of the national sphere. As for the Yucatecan Mayan literature, a reflection on the creation of literary workshops as the main engine of the new Mayan literature, both from government agencies and civil associations and groups managed by Mayan intellectuals, will be developed. Keywords: indigenous intellectuals, intellectual field, zapotec literature, mayan literature Intelectuais e Literaturas Indígenas no México. O Campo Literário entre os Zapotecas e Mayas Resumo O presente artigo explora a conformação do campo intelectual na literatura zapoteca do istmo de Tehuantepec e na literatura maia da Península de Yucatán. Através do conceito de campo intelectual de Pierre Bordieu (2002 e sob a premissa de que existem tantos campos literários quanto literaturas indígenas, se evidencia que estos espaços de poder simbólico estão condicionados por elementos socio-culturais e políticos que vão desde a alfabetização e uso da escrita nas línguas indígenas à função dos intelectuais nas redes locais e nacionais. Na literatura zapoteca indicam-se as estratégias da geração de Andrés Henestrosa, a relação entre a COCEI e a Casa de Cultura de Juchitán bem como os vínculos que sustentam os intelectuais da região com outros intelectuais da esfera nacional. Para a literatura maia iucateca reflecte-se sobre a criação de ateliês literários como principal motor da nova literatura maia, tanto a partir das instâncias governamentais como das associações civis e grupos geridos por intelectuais maias. Palabras chave: intelectuas indígenas, campo intelectual, literatura zapoteca, literatura maya

Características clínicas e laboratoriais da meningite asséptica associada à vacina tríplice viral

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Lucena Rita

2002-01-01

Full Text Available Objetivos. Descrever os achados epidemiológicos, clínicos e liquóricos dos casos de meningite asséptica associada à vacina tríplice viral (sarampo, caxumba e rubéola, ocorridos no Estado da Bahia após campanha de vacinação em massa promovida pelo Ministério da Saúde do Brasil em agosto de 1997, e comparar esses casos aos de meningite asséptica não associada à vacina ocorridos no mesmo ano. Métodos. Entre março e outubro de 1997, foi realizado acompanhamento prospectivo de todos os indivíduos com idade de 1 a 12 anos admitidos no Hospital Couto Maia com diagnóstico clínico e laboratorial de meningite asséptica. A população do estudo foi dividida em dois grupos, representando indivíduos vacinados e não vacinados. Foram coletadas informações demográficas, clínicas e laboratoriais para ambos os grupos. Resultados. No mês de setembro, logo após a campanha de vacinação, 74 casos de meningite asséptica foram atendidos no Hospital Couto Maia, em comparação com a média mensal de 7,5 casos. Verificamos maior freqüência de rigidez de nuca e níveis mais altos de celularidade liquórica nas crianças cuja meningite foi associada à vacina. Por outro lado, houve maior número de casos com comprometimento encefálico no grupo de meningites não associadas à vacinação. Conclusões. Embora a meningite pós-vacinal tenha curso mais benigno, seu tratamento continua gerando custos com exames complementares e internações. As campanhas de vacinação em larga escala devem utilizar vacinas contendo cepas menos reatogênicas.

Origens do movimento pós-moderno em Minas Gerais

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Matteo Santi Cremasco

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Este ensaio procura apresentar os principais condicionantes históricos do movimento pós-moderno em Minas Gerais,destacando o processo de abertura política e cultural após os anos de chumbo, a crise econômica, a articulação e a atualidade dos círculos intelectuais mineiros, o clima favorável à renovação nas artes e na arquitetura em Belo Horizonte, no final da década de 1970, e a atuação do arquiteto Éolo Maia. Além disso, são analisados dois exemplos construídos, a saber, a Casa Arquiepiscopal, em Mariana, e a Rainha da Sucata, em Belo Horizonte.

Osseointegrated Supported Prosthesis and Interdisciplinary Approach for Prosthodontic Rehabilitation of a Young Patient with Ectodermal Dysplasia

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Karthik M. Sadashiva

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is a triad of hypodontia or anodontia, hypotrichosis, and hypohydrosis, associated with other problems that result from the defective development of structures of ectodermal origin (Freire-Maia, Pinheiro (1988. Early and extensive dental treatment is needed keeping in mind the effect on the craniofacial growth. Due to rapid growth of the jaws, the patients are rehabilitated using removable prostheses (Tarjan et al. (2005. Hence for a young patient in this case report, the placement of endosseous osseointegrated implants was delayed till adulthood. Finally a definitive fixed tooth-supported and osseointegrated implant supported fixed partial denture therapy was used to rehabilitate the patient satisfactorily after she had completed her growth (Sweeney et al. (2005. A review of the current literature relevant to several aspects of syndromic hypodontia, patient selection, and implant planning is discussed.

Features of Inner Structure of Placer Gold of the North-Eastern Part Siberian Platform

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Gerasimov, Boris; Zhuravlev, Anatolii; Ivanov, Alexey

2017-12-01

Mineral and raw material base of placer and ore gold is based on prognosis evaluation, which allows to define promising areas regarding gold-bearing deposit prospecting. But there are some difficulties in gold primary source predicting and prospecting at the North-east Siberian platform, because the studied area is overlapped by thick cover of the Cenozoic deposits, where traditional methods of gold deposit prospecting are ineffective. In this connection, detailed study of typomorphic features of placer gold is important, because it contains key genetic information, necessary for development of mineralogical criteria of prognosis evaluation of ore gold content. Authors studied mineralogical-geochemical features of placer gold of the Anabar placer area for 15 years, with a view to identify indicators of gold, typical for different formation types of primary sources. This article presents results of these works. In placer regions, where primary sources of gold are not identified, there is need to study typomorphic features of placer gold, because it contains important genetic information, necessary for the development of mineralogical criteria of prognosis evaluation of ore gold content. Inner structures of gold from the Anabar placer region are studied, as one of the diagnostic typomorphic criteria as described in prominent method, developed by N.V. Petrovskaya [1980]. Etching of gold was carried out using reagent: HCl + HNO3 + FeCl3 × 6H2O + CrO3 +thioureat + water. Identified inner structures wer studied in details by means of scanning electron microscope JEOL JSM-6480LV. Two types of gold are identified according to the features of inner structure of placer gold of the Anabar region. First type - medium-high karat fine, well processed gold with significantly changed inner structure. This gold is allochthonous, which was redeposited many times from ancient intermediate reservoirs to younger deposits. Second type - low-medium karat, poorly rounded gold with

Complex Tectono-Magmatic Interaction along the George V Transform Fault, South-East Indian Ridge, 140°E, and Implications for Mantle Dynamics

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Briais, A.; Ruellan, E.; Ceuleneer, G.; Maia, M.

2017-12-01

The 300 km-offset George V Transform Fault (TF) is the westernmost of the major, right-stepping transform faults that offset the South-East Indian Ridge between 140°E and 155°E. All these TFs have multiple shear zones with intra-transform ridge segments (ITRS), mostly unmapped yet. We present the results of the analysis of geophysical and petrological data collected during the STORM cruise (South Tasmania Ocean Ridge and Mantle). The data cover the western shear zone and part of two ITRSs. They reveal a complex interaction between tectonic processes at the plate boundary and near-axis volcanic activity along and across the transform fault. The western TF shear zone consists of two segments offset by a 50 km-long, 15 km-wide, up to 2000 m-high serpentinite massif. We infer that the massif is a push-up resulting from transpression along the transform, due to the lengthening of the western ITRS, with a mechanism similar to the processes currently uplifting the mylonitic massif along the St. Paul TF in the Equatorial Atlantic (1). The western ITRS is relatively shallow and magmatically robust, which is unexpected in a TF system. The bathymetric and backscatter maps also reveal a series of recent off-axis oblique volcanic ridges. Rocks dredged on one of these ridges consist of picrites (i.e. basalts rich in olivine phenocrysts). These observations suggest that the TF there is not magma starved like many mid-ocean ridge transforms, but is the locus of significant primitive melt supply. Such an unexpected production of high-Mg melt might be related to the presence of a mantle thermal anomaly beneath the easternmost SEIR, and/or to a western flow of mantle across the TF. *STORM cruise scientific party: A. Briais, F. Barrere, C. Boulart, D. Brunelli, G. Ceuleneer, N. Ferreira, B. Hanan, C. Hémond, S. Macleod, M. Maia, A. Maillard, S. Merkuryev, S.H. Park, S. Révillon, E. Ruellan, A. Schohn, S. Watson, and Y.S. Yang. (1) Maia et al. 2016 Nature Geo. doi:10.1038/ngeo2759

Improved interoceptive awareness in chronic low back pain: a comparison of Back school versus Feldenkrais method.

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Paolucci, Teresa; Zangrando, Federico; Iosa, Marco; De Angelis, Simona; Marzoli, Caterina; Piccinini, Giulia; Saraceni, Vincenzo Maria

2017-05-01

To determine the efficacy of the Feldenkrais method for relieving pain in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and the improvement of interoceptive awareness. This study was designed as a single-blind randomized controlled trial. Fifty-three patients with a diagnosis of CLBP for at least 3 months were randomly allocated to the Feldenkrais (mean age 61.21 ± 11.53 years) or Back School group (mean age 60.70 ± 11.72 years). Pain was assessed using the visual analog scale (VAS) and McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), disability was evaluated with the Waddel Disability Index, quality of life was measured with the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), and mind-body interactions were studied using the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness Questionnaire (MAIA). Data were collected at baseline, at the end of treatment, and at the 3-month follow-up. The two groups were matched at baseline for all the computed parameters. At the end of treatment (Tend), there were no significant differences between groups regarding chronic pain reduction (p = 0.290); VAS and MAIA-N sub scores correlated at Tend (R = 0.296, p = 0.037). By the Friedman analysis, both groups experienced significant changes in pain (p Back School in CLBP. Implications for rehabilitation The Feldenkrais method is a mind-body therapy that is based on awareness through movement lessons, which are verbally guided explorations of movement that are conducted by a physiotherapist who is experienced and trained in this method. It aims to increase self-awareness, expand a person's repertoire of movements, and to promote increased functioning in contexts in which the entire body cooperates in the execution of movements. Interoceptive awareness, which improves with rehabilitation, has a complex function in the perception of chronic pain and should be investigated further in future research. The efficacy of the Feldenkrais method is comparable with that of BS for nonspecific chronic

Restructuring, Rationalizing and Modernizing Higher Education Sector in the Republic of Moldova

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, Romania, Scotland and Sweden and discusses best practices internal to a university on organizational, financial, human resource and academic autonomy. This book is the final, third major deliverable of the EUniAM project. It builds on and is derived from the first two deliverables of the project: „The...... by comparing it with the legislative proposals presented in part 1; the commentary on the Code of Education is restricted to the sections on Higher Education. In part three, a guide of good practice is presented. It draws on the benchmark analysis of the institutional university autonomy in Denmark, Lithuania...... analysis of the institutional university autonomy in Moldova” (Turcan and Bugaian, 2014)1 and „The benchmark analysis of institutional university autonomy in Denmark, Lithuania, Romania, Scotland and Sweden” (Turcan and Bugaian, 2015)2. We would like to acknowledge the Minister of Education, Maia Sandu...

Interoception and gender: What aspects should we pay attention to?

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Grabauskaitė, Aida; Baranauskas, Mindaugas; Griškova-Bulanova, Inga

2017-02-01

Interoception is involved in both somatic and mental disorders with different prevalence between genders; however, gender differences are often neglected. To examine the potential gender differences in interoceptive awareness, we recruited 376 healthy subjects (51% males, aged 17-30years), to fill in the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA). Of that sample, in a subgroup of 40 subjects (50% males), interoceptive accuracy was assessed by heartbeat counting task (HCT). The results on interroceptive awareness suggest that females tendto notice bodily sensations more often, better understand relations between bodily sensations and emotional states, worry or experience more emotional distress with sensations of pain or discomfort and see body as less safe. The results of interoceptive accuracy further suggest that females are less efficient in consciously detecting heartbeats. Therefore, gender should be considered when interoceptive evaluation is performed in disorders associated to bodily sensations and to the emotional/mood states. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

O Ciborgue Zapatista: tecendo a poética virtual de resistência no Chiapas cibernético

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ABDEL-MONEIM SARAH GRUSSING

2002-01-01

Full Text Available A circulação global, entre 1994 e 2001, do neo-zapatismo e do ativismo solidário não-indígena como símbolos de resistência no ciber-espaço sugere a necessidade de novas formas de leitura dos movimentos sociais na era digital. Uma leitura feminista do binarismo local/global do espaço discursivo em torno da rebelião maia em Chiapas tanto afirma quanto contesta teorias predominantes pós-modernas sobre a relação entre corpo humano e tecnologias cibernéticas. Esse espaço híbrido transgride e confirma fronteiras entre ator/atriz e audiência, escritor/a e leitor/a, humano e máquina. A relação entre o teatro da resistência material na Zona de Conflito e o crescimento da resistência virtual no Ciber-Chiapas ilustra a natureza ciborgue material/tecnológica da rebelião de Chiapas.

BOTANICAL AND PHYTOCHEMICAL APPROACH ON PASSIFLORA SPP. – NEW NUTRACEUTICAL CROP IN ROMANIA

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2016-12-01

Full Text Available It has been performed a complex investigation – morpho-anatomical, physiological, taxonomical and phytochemical one – of Passiflora nutraceutical plants from Hofigal S.A., in the frame of project PN-II-PCCA-2013-4-0995, contract 160 (MAIA/2014. Anatomic analysis of leaf lamina, petiole and stem, provided data with taxonomical importance, leading to the conclusion that plant material belongs to Passiflora caerulea L., in concordance with world monographers of Passiflora genus: VANDERPLANK (2000 and ULMAN & MacDOUGAL (2004. Physiological investigation referred to the following parameters: coefficient k, leaf area index (LAI, chlorophyll fluorescence, stomatal conductance and yield of green plant biomass. Phytochemical investigation consisted in analyzing active principles (polyphenols, flavonoids content, in correlation with their antioxidant activity and determination of cytotoxicity of Passiflora extracts in NCTC cell line. At 10-150 µg/ml concentrations, it was recorded a normal cell morphology. At concentrations over 250 µg/ml, the plant extract become cytotoxic, altering the cell membrane structure, cells viability and proliferation.

Evaluation of Functionalized Spider Silk Matrices: Choice of Cell Types and Controls are Important for Detecting Specific Effects

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The ideal scaffold for engineering and regeneration of tissues would be a replica of the extracellular matrix (ECM), which is unique for each tissue type. The scaffold should mimic the mechanical properties of the targeted tissue and serve as matrix for adhesion, growth, migration, and differentiation of endogenous and/or implanted cells. Recent research has highlighted the potential of targeting also the environment of the intermediate states that are formed during tissue repair, since progenitor cells that contribute to tissue formation in a regenerative niche exist in an environment that is different from the final tissue (e.g., the fracture callus that is formed during osteogenesis is softer than mature bone tissue) (Polo-Corrales et al., 2014). In addition, the scaffold should not evoke inappropriate immune responses and should be degradable. To improve cell interactions, ECM-derived cell-binding peptide motifs have been extensively used (Sengupta and Heilshorn, 2010; Maia et al.,).

Revisão: Composição química, propriedades funcionais e aplicações tecnológicas da semente de chia (Salvia hispanica L em alimentos

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Michele Silveira Coelho

2014-12-01

Full Text Available A chia (Salvia hispanica L. é uma semente antiga utilizada pelos maias e astecas como alimento para aumentar a resistência física. Essa semente é fonte natural de ácidos graxos ômega-3, fibras e proteínas, além de outros componentes nutricionais importantes, como os antioxidantes. Além disso, oferece um potencial na indústria de alimentos devido aos seus componentes funcionais, com aplicações no enriquecimento de pães, bolos e barras de cereais, produção de hidrolisados proteicos para aplicação em produtos de panificação, produção de maionese com adição de mucilagem de chia, entre outros produtos. Esta revisão tem como objetivo apresentar as possíveis aplicações em alimentos, demonstrando o quanto a chia ainda pode ser explorada nessa área.

The decline of Dom Pedro II's empire and health: neurophatogenic implications O declínio do império e da saúde de Dom Pedro II: implicações neuropatogênicas

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Marleide da Mota Gomes

2007-12-01

Full Text Available The main objective of this paper is to know the medical doctors of the Emperor, the preconized treatment, and the knowledge about diabetes at that time, its repercussions on the Emperor's nervous system, and the related political implications. A narrative revision was made, based on primary and secondary sources. Dom Pedro II was examined by the aristocracy of the medicine at the time, especially Jean-Martin Charcot, amongst the doctors of international reputation, and Cláudio Velho da Motta Maia, amongst the Brazilian doctors. Charcot diagnosed in the Monarch: mental stress, diabetic neuropathy, and a cerebral vascular lesion, probably a stroke, that he differentiated from other vascular obliterations elsewhere. He demonstrated his knowledge about diabetic neuropathy, possible topographical alternatives to justify the urinary incontinence, and Dom Pedro's weakness in the legs. Throughout his illness, Dom Pedro II presented others manifestations that contributed to his physical fragility, and that, certainly too, to his political decline, deposition and the proclamation of the Brazilian Republic.O objetivo principal deste artigo é conhecer os médicos do Imperador, o tratamento preconizado e o conhecimento da ocasião sobre o diabetes, principalmente sobre suas repercussões no sistema nervoso do imperador e suas implicações políticas. Isso foi feito por uma revisão narrativa, baseado em fontes primárias e secundárias. Dom Pedro II foi examinado na ocasião pela aristocracia da medicina, a ressaltar Jean-Martin Charcot, dentre os médicos de reputação internacional, e Cláudio Velho da Motta Maia, dentre os brasileiros. Charcot diagnosticou no Monarca, além de tensão mental, neuropatia diabética e quadro vascular cerebral que ele diferenciou de outras obliterações vasculares em localizações diversas. Ele demonstrou o seu conhecimento sobre a neuropatia diabética, possíveis alternativas topográficas para justificar a incontin

Pest control: A modelling approach. Comment on “Multiscale approach to pest insect monitoring: Random walks, pattern formation, synchronization, and networks” by S. Petrovskii, N. Petrovskaya and D. Bearup

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Tyson, Rebecca C.

2014-09-01

Successful food production results in the delivery to market of beautiful produce, free of damage from insects. All of that produce however, is an excellent and plentiful food source, and nature has evolved a multitude of insects that compete with humans for access. There exist a number of management strategies to combat pests, including traditional crop rotation and companion planting techniques, as well as more sophisticated techniques including mating disruption using pheromones and the application of chemical sprays. Chemical sprays are extremely effective, and are in widespread use around the globe [1,12,20]. Indeed, pesticides are the dominant form of pest management in current use [10,20].

Real-Time Detection of Sporadic Meteors in the Intensified TV Imaging Systems.

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Vítek, Stanislav; Nasyrova, Maria

2017-12-29

The automatic observation of the night sky through wide-angle video systems with the aim of detecting meteor and fireballs is currently among routine astronomical observations. The observation is usually done in multi-station or network mode, so it is possible to estimate the direction and the speed of the body flight. The high velocity of the meteorite flying through the atmosphere determines the important features of the camera systems, namely the high frame rate. Thanks to high frame rates, such imaging systems produce a large amount of data, of which only a small fragment has scientific potential. This paper focuses on methods for the real-time detection of fast moving objects in the video sequences recorded by intensified TV systems with frame rates of about 60 frames per second. The goal of our effort is to remove all unnecessary data during the daytime and make free hard-drive capacity for the next observation. The processing of data from the MAIA (Meteor Automatic Imager and Analyzer) system is demonstrated in the paper.

Introduction and Committees

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Angelova, Maia; Zakrzewski, Wojciech; Hussin, Véronique; Piette, Bernard

2011-03-01

This volume contains contributions to the XXVIIIth International Colloquium on Group-Theoretical Methods in Physics, the GROUP 28 conference, which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne from 26-30 July 2010. All plenary and contributed papers have undergone an independent review; as a result of this review and the decisions of the Editorial Board most but not all of the contributions were accepted. The volume is organised as follows: it starts with notes in memory of Marcos Moshinsky, followed by contributions related to the Wigner Medal and Hermann Weyl prize. Then the invited talks at the plenary sessions and the public lecture are published followed by contributions in the parallel and poster sessions in alphabetical order. The Editors:Maia Angelova, Wojciech Zakrzewski, Véronique Hussin and Bernard Piette International Advisory Committee Michael BaakeUniversity of Bielefeld, Germany Gerald DunneUniversity of Connecticut, USA J F (Frank) GomesUNESP, Sao Paolo, Brazil Peter HanggiUniversity of Augsburg, Germany Jeffrey C LagariasUniversity of Michigan, USA Michael MackeyMcGill University, Canada Nicholas MantonCambridge University, UK Alexei MorozovITEP, Moscow, Russia Valery RubakovINR, Moscow, Russia Barry SandersUniversity of Calgary, Canada Allan SolomonOpen University, Milton Keynes, UK Christoph SchweigertUniversity of Hamburg, Germany Standing Committee Twareque AliConcordia University, Canada Luis BoyaSalamanca University, Spain Enrico CeleghiniFirenze University, Italy Vladimir DobrevBulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Heinz-Dietrich DoebnerHonorary Member, Clausthal University, Germany Jean-Pierre GazeauChairman, Paris Diderot University, France Mo-Lin GeNankai University. China Gerald GoldinRutgers University, USA Francesco IachelloYale University, USA Joris Van der JeugtGhent University, Belgium Richard KernerPierre et Marie Curie University, France Piotr KielanowskiCINVESTAV, Mexico Alan KosteleckyIndiana University, USA Mariano del Olmo

Seismicity And Accretion Process Along The North Mid-Atlantic Ridge From The SIRENA Autonomous Hydrophone Data

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Perrot, J.; Goslin, J.; Dziak, R. P.; Haxel, J. H.; Maia, M. A.; Tisseau, C.; Royer, J.

2009-12-01

Anomalies (MBAs)(Maia et al., 2007) are observed, indicating the presence of thinner/colder and thicker/warmer crust respectively. Our results thus show that hydrophone data can be fruitfully used to help and characterize active ridge processes at various spatial scales. Maia M., J. Goslin, and P. Gente (2007), Evolution of accretion processes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of the Azores since 5.5 Ma: An insight into the interactions between the ridge and the plume, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8.

Kritik Sosial terhadap Sistem Pendidikan Formal di Indonesia: Kajian Sosiologis Atas Novel Catatan Seorang Novelis Karya Maia Rosyida

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PURARIYANI, ELOK DEWI

2013-01-01

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengungkap kaitan antarunsur struktur danmengungkapkan mendeskripsikan unsur-unsur struktur novel CSN dan mengungkapkanbagaimana penyimpangan-penyimpangan yang terjadi dalam sistem dan penyelenggaraanpendidikan di Indonesia. Untuk mengetahui penyimpangan-penyimpangan dalam sistempendidikan dalam novel Catatan Seorang Novelis makan penulis menggunakan teorisosiologi sastra. Penyajian hasil analisis data menggunakan metode deskriptif analisis. Metode inidigunakan un...

Ümber mõtestades piire ja kaugust = Distance Between the Vision and the Context / Maia Tüür

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2006-01-01

Musee du Quai Branly Pariisis. Arhitekt Jean Nouvel, maastikuarhitekt Gilles Clement. Pargi üldskeemi kujundab teede ja pinkide võrgustik, mis põhineb kilpkonna kilbi mustril. Yann Kersale teosest pargis. Maja Seine'i-äärset fassaadi katab Patrick Blanci loodud taimevaip

Breves notas sobre a produção de espaço urbano de São Paulo e os movimentos de luta por transporte

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Gustavo Mello

2015-09-01

Full Text Available Neste artigo, procuramos considerar alguns aspectos da influência da indústria de transporte, e particularmente da automobilística, na produção social do espaço urbano de São Paulo, tendo como ponto de partida a elaboração do Plano de Avenidas (1930 de Prestes Maia. A despeito da inexistência de um efetivo planejamento urbano, tais considerações objetivam delinear de modo bastante sumário e indicativo uma lógica subjacente ao crescimento paulistano, a qual possui nexos com a emergência de movimentos sociais e de processos organizativos em torno da pauta do transporte público, dimensão candente da chamada “questão urbana” brasileira. Com um escopo histórico mais reduzido, é a essa análise que dedicaremos a segunda parte do texto, salientando as particularidades de lutas por melhorias da mobilidade urbana que recentemente foram travadas, sob princípios e parâmetros pretensamente antagônicos em relação às formas tradicionais de organização de esquerda.

Needs, practices and social support: subjective dimensions of social determinants of health - DOI: 10.3395/reciis.v2i2.124en

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Deise Lisboa Riquinho

2009-03-01

Full Text Available The individual’s role in view of the social and health inequalities does not occur passively; there are strategies, many times ignored by the social services, which cause the search for care. It is believed that the social groups set forth support relationships by configuring social networks which define therapeutic practices and cooperate in confrontation of daily situations. Thus the purpose of this research is to know and understand the needs in health, the therapeutic practices and the social support in the community of Rincão dos Maia, Canguçu, RS, having social inequalities as background. For that a quantitative-qualitative methodology was used by means of forms, semi-structured interview, participant observation and field journal. By considering that the health needs are heterogeneous, the practices performed to meet them correspond to different strategies such as deployment of resources by means of social support of adopted therapeutic practices. The approach of these dynamics will lead to the understanding of health needs, incorporating local realities aiming to contribute to the formulation of decentralized public policies accounting for the citizens’ demands.

A quadrilha e o circo: aspectos linguísticos, discursivos e intertextuais em uma análise comparativa de editoriais de jornal

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Renata Aparecida Freitas

2011-07-01

Full Text Available This article presents the results of a comparative analysis of two metropolitan newspaper editorials, published at the same day and concerning to the same subject: the dossier about the governmental expenses of former Brazilian President Cardoso. Its aim was to analyze the editorials under linguistic and discursive points of view, and to identify intertextual references. The discursive and linguistic analysis was based on the conception of discursive genre by Bakhtin (1992 rescued by Charaudeau (2006 and applied to the genre newspaper editorial, considering the conditions in which it is produced and its instance of enunciation. The analysis was also based on the ideas of Melo (1985, Fuser (2002 and Cheida (2002 to comment the neutrality searched by the editorialist when expressing the newspaper opinion. Intertextual references were identified and classified according to Maia (2006 and Walty and Cury (2005. Proverbs analysis was based on the papers of Rodrigues (2009, Vellasco (2009 and Sande (2009. The results showed linguistic similarities, intertextual references to add a literary aspect or credibility to the texts, critics to the ruling government and search for neutrality in both editorials.

Ten years of integrated care for the older in France

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Dominique Somme

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Background: This paper analyzes progress made toward the integration of the French health care system for the older and chronically ill population. Policies: Over the last ten years, the French health care system has been principally influenced by two competing linkage models that failed to integrate social and health care services: local information and coordination centers, governed by the social field, and the gerontological health networks governed by the health field. In response to this fragmentation, Homes for the Integration and Autonomy for Alzheimer patients (MAIAs is currently being implemented at experimental sites in the French national Alzheimer plan, using an evidence-based model of integrated care. In addition, the state's reforms recently created regional health agencies (ARSs by merging seven strategic institutions to manage the overall delivery of care. Conclusion: The French health care system is moving from a linkage-based model to a more integrated care system. We draw some early lessons from these changes, including the importance of national leadership and governance and a change management strategy that uses both top-down and bottom-up approaches to implement these reforms.

Brazil builds in Campinas: a symbolic tool of the strategy to legitimate the implementation of the urban-improvement plan

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Silvia A. Palazzi Zakia

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Este artículo trae una reflexión sobre la exposición Brazil Builds que se presentó en Campinas en febrero de 1945. La ciudad era parte del circuito de la exposición que comenzó el 13 de enero de 1943 en el Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York (MoMA. El evento nos lleva a reflexionar sobre cómo se han concertado los distintos intereses involucrados en su realización en esa ciudad. Los esfuerzos del poder público y de sectores de la elite local evidencian una tela de intereses relacionados a la exposición de arquitectura. El objetivo principal es discutir las estructuras de poder locales que se han beneficiado de la dimensión simbólica del arte, usando la exposición como instrumento para legitimar la implantación de un plan de urbanismo para la ciudad (Plan de Mejorías Urbanas, que fue desarrollado por el urbanista Prestes Maia, contratado por la alcadía de la ciudad desde 1934. Ese plan era una parte de un gran proyecto para modernizar la ciudad.

Eesti Vabariigi põhiseadus : kommenteeritud väljaanne / toimetuskolleegium: Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Oliver Kask, Lasse Lehis, Heiki Lindpere, Uno Lõhmus, Ülle Madise, Kalle Merusk, Raul Narits, Vallo Olle, Jüri Põld, Heinrich Schneider

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Kommentaaride autorid ja sisu: Sissejuhatus / Raul Narits, Heinrich Schneider, Lauri Madise. [Preambul] / Heinrich Schneider. I ptk. / Kalle Merusk, Taavi Annus, Madis Ernits, Heiki Lindpere, Lauri Madise. II ptk. / Uno Lõhmus, Taavi Annus, Madis Ernits, Oliver Kask, Eerik Kergandberg, Rait Maruste, Peeter Roosma. III ptk. / Oliver Kask. IV ptk. / Jüri Põld, Lauri Madise, Aaro Mõttus. V ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Ülle Madise, Jüri Põld, Urmas Reinsalu. VI ptk. / Kalle Merusk, Jüri Põld. VII ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Jüri Põld. VIII ptk. / Lasse Lehis. IX ptk. / Heiki Lindpere, Kristi Land, Lauri Madise, Heiki Pisuke. X ptk. / Oliver Kask, Enn Markvart, Jüri Põld. XI ptk. / Heinrich Schneider. XII ptk. / Raul Narits, Aare Reenumägi, Peeter Roosma, Enn Markvart. XIII ptk. / Uno Lõhmus, Madis Ernits, Jüri Põld. XIV ptk. / Vallo Olle, Arno Almann, Ülle Madise, Jüri Liventaal. XV ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Aaro Mõttus. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse rakendamise seadus / Raul Narits, Peeter Roosma, Oliver Kask. Märksõnastik / koost. Ülle Madise, Peep Pruks. Kasutatud õigusaktide lühendid / koost. Virgo Saarmets. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseadus 1990-2002 : bibliograafia / koost. Maia Ruttu

Género, etnia y generación en la prevención e interrupción de embarazos en jóvenes estudiantes hablantes de lenguas mayas migrantes a San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas (México Gênero, etnia e geração na prevenção e interrupção da gravidez em jovens estudantes de língua maia migrantes para San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (México Gender, ethnicity and generation in pregnancy prevention and interruption among young Mayan speaking migrant students in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas (Mexico

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Full Text Available Desde hace algunos años la investigación sociodemográfica en México está registrando procesos de cambios importantes en la vida sexual y reproductiva de las y los jóvenes, particularmente entre aquellas/os jóvenes urbanos. De ahí la importancia de explorar qué está ocurriendo con los jóvenes rurales e indígenas al tomar en cuenta eventos tales como el inicio sexual, el uso del condón, la adopción de anticonceptivos o los conocimientos que cambian en función de la escolaridad alcanzada, el lugar de residencia, la lengua que habla, entre otros. El artículo se aproxima a las modalidades que adquiere la prevención e interrupción de embarazos entre estudiantes (mujeres y varones hablantes de lenguas mayas que han migrado de comunidades indígenas a la ciudad de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, en Chiapas.Nos últimos anos a pesquisa sócio-demográficas no México está passando por grandes mudanças nos processos da juventude sexual e reprodutiva e, particularmente entre a juventude urbana. Daí a importância de explorar o que está acontecendo com a juventude rural e indígena estar ciente que eventos como a iniciação sexual, uso de preservativos, a adoção de contracepção ou mudar o que é conhecido em termos de escolaridade, local de residência, idioma falado, entre outros. O artigo aborda as modalidades de prevenção e se torna a interrupção da gravidez entre os alunos (masculino e feminino falantes de línguas maias das comunidades indígenas migraram para a cidade de San Cristobal de las Casas, em Chiapas.In the past several years socio-demographic research in Mexico has been showing important changes in the sexual and reproductive lives of youth, especially among urban population. Hence the importance of exploring what processes are taking place among rural and indigenous youth, where events such as sexual initiation, the use of condoms or other forms of contraception, and knowledge vary according to the level of

Mujeres, agroecología y soberanía alimentaria en la comunidad Moreno Maia del Estado de Acre. Brasil

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Irene García Roces; Marta Soler Montiel

2010-01-01

La Agroecología, en coherencia con la propuesta política de la Soberanía Alimentaria, propone estrategias de desarrollo rural alternativas al modelo agroindustrial dominante en el actual contexto de la globalización. En este trabajo argumentamos que, pese a la ceguera conceptual hacia el género de la Agroecología, los proyectos agroecológicos abren puertas a la participación, visibilización y valorización del trabajo de las mujeres a la vez que avanzan hacia una organización agroalimentaria m...

Prognóstico audiológico tardio relacionado à meningite em lactentes Audiologic late prognosis due to meningitis in children

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Luzia Poliana Anjos

2004-09-01

Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: Déficit auditivo tem sido considerado uma das principais manifestações tardias das meningites, sobretudo quando esta ocorre nos dois primeiros anos de vida. No país, poucos são os estudos relatando a evolução de crianças acometidas por meningite e a percentagem e gravidade dos transtornos auditivos e seqüelas neurológicas após a alta hospitalar. OBJETIVO: Caracterizar as principais seqüelas auditivas e neurológicas, delineando o perfil do comprometimento auditivo encontrado cinco anos após a infecção do sistema nervoso central. MÉTODO: Foram incluídas crianças com idade entre 5 e 7 anos, admitidas no Hospital Couto Maia no ano de 1997, e que tiveram diagnóstico de meningite com idade inferior a dois anos. RESULTADOS: 19 crianças passaram pela avaliação neurológica e auditiva. A idade média foi 6 anos e 68,42% eram do sexo masculino. Quanto à etiologia, 52,63% piogênica, 42,1%viral, 5,26% tuberculosa. Alterações auditivas ocorreram em 26,31% da população. CONCLUSÃO: Distúrbios auditivos trazem implicações acadêmicas e sociais às crianças afetadas, especialmente aquelas em idade escolar. Destacamos a necessidade de monitoramento audiológico de todas as crianças com história prévia de meningite.INTRODUCTION: Auditory deficit has been considered one of the main late manifestations of meningitis, when it occurs during the two first years of life. Few studies have been conducted in Brazil explaining the evolution of children who had meningitis and the percentage, as well the neurological gravity, the auditory problems and sequels after the children left the hospital. OBJECTIVE: To characterize the main auditory and neurological correlation, delineating the profile of the auditory deficits found five years after the central nervous system infection. METHOD: We evaluated children between 5 and 7 years old, admitted in Couto Maia Hospital in the year of 1997, that had been diagnosed with meningitis

Doença e incapacidade: dimensões subjetivas e identidade social do trabalhador rural Illness and disability: rural workers' subjective dimensions and social identities

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Deise Lisboa Riquinho

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Este artigo aborda a interface entre os determinantes sociais de saúde, as condições de vida e as concepções de saúde e doença de moradores de uma localidade rural no sul do Brasil. O objetivo é conhecer e compreender as necessidades em saúde, por meio das concepções de doença, considerando as desigualdades sociais presentes na localidade rural do Rincão dos Maia, Canguçu-RS. Utilizou-se a triangulação de métodos. No desenho qualitativo entrevistaram-se 20 sujeitos. A amostra foi intencional, ilustrativa das diferentes situações de vida. Os resultados referem-se à doença como incapacidade ou restrição de locomoção, uso de remédios e trabalho ou, ainda, como resultante do comportamento cotidiano, de perdas e exposição a diversas temperaturas na lavoura, da alimentação e da presença de enfermidade, geralmente "doenças metáforas". Apesar das desigualdades socioeconômicas, não se observaram diferenças nas concepções de saúde e doença, possivelmente devido ao contexto cultural comum e à matriz de trabalhador rural. Evidenciou-se a relevância de se conhecer os determinantes sociais em saúde, por meio das condições de vida materiais e dos aspectos subjetivos dos processos cotidianos, como forma de aproximação da construção de saberes e lógicas locais.This article addresses the interfaces between social determinants of health, life conditions and the health and illness conceptions of residents of a rural community in the south of Brazil. The objective is to investigate and learn about their health needs based on their conceptions of illness and considering social inequalities in the rural community Rincão dos Maia, in Canguçu, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Triangulation of methods was adopted. In the qualitative design, 20 subjects were interviewed. The sample was intentional and illustrative of different life contexts. Results show references to illness as disability or movement restriction, medicine

Resenha de 1976: Movimento Black Rio, de Luiz Felipe de Lima Peixoto e Zé Otávio Sabadelhe (Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 2016

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Carlos Palombini

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Lançado em 10 de novembro de 2016, o livro 1976: Movimento Black Rio, dos jornalistas Luiz Felipe de Lima Peixoto e Zé Otávio Sabadelhe, celebra os quarenta anos da manchete de Lena Frias, Black Rio: o orgulho (importado de ser negro no Brasil, publicada em 17 de julho de 1976 no Caderno B do Jornal do Brasil. Em 28 reportagens, os autores recorrem a entrevistas e material previamente publicado para contar a história da cultura de bailes que, alimentados por soul, funk e disco afro-norte-americanos, espalharam-se pela Zona Norte carioca nos anos 1970, bem como a história do conjunto das apropriações desses gêneros por Tim Maia, Toni Tornado, Hyldon, Carlos Dafé, Cassiano, Gerson King Combo, Dom Salvador e Abolição, União Black, e Banda Black Rio. O livro tenciona constituir “uma contribuição à construção discursiva de uma memória social positiva da população negra brasileira” e oferece elementos para um trabalho necessário de revisão historiográfica que transcende o âmbito do tema tratado, apesar de erros fatuais que poderiam ter sido corrigidos por cruzamento de dados.

Interoception and sexual response in women with low sexual desire

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Velten, Julia

2017-01-01

Sexual concordance is defined as the association between genital response and self-reported sexual arousal. Though one might predict a strong association between sexual concordance and awareness of other internal physiological sensations (termed interoception), past research on sexually healthy women has not found these different domains to be related. The aim of the present study was to test the association between interoception and sexual concordance in a clinical sample of women with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (SIAD). Fifty-two women with SIAD completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA), a validated self-report measure of interoception, and completed a heart-beat accuracy test, an objective measure of interoception. They also participated in a laboratory-based assessment of physiological sexual arousal and self-reported sexual arousal while viewing an erotic film. Mental and physiological arousal were correlated at r = 0.27 (range -0.80 to 0.95). There was no significant association between sexual concordance and women’s heartrate awareness. However, five aspects of interoceptive awareness (noticing, emotional awareness, self-regulation, body-listening, and trusting), were predictive of lower, and one aspect (not-distracting) was predictive of higher sexual concordance. We discuss the findings in relation to the role of emotions and arousal states in the interoception-sexual concordance relationship. PMID:29020067

Interoception and sexual response in women with low sexual desire.

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Julia Velten

Full Text Available Sexual concordance is defined as the association between genital response and self-reported sexual arousal. Though one might predict a strong association between sexual concordance and awareness of other internal physiological sensations (termed interoception, past research on sexually healthy women has not found these different domains to be related. The aim of the present study was to test the association between interoception and sexual concordance in a clinical sample of women with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (SIAD. Fifty-two women with SIAD completed the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA, a validated self-report measure of interoception, and completed a heart-beat accuracy test, an objective measure of interoception. They also participated in a laboratory-based assessment of physiological sexual arousal and self-reported sexual arousal while viewing an erotic film. Mental and physiological arousal were correlated at r = 0.27 (range -0.80 to 0.95. There was no significant association between sexual concordance and women's heartrate awareness. However, five aspects of interoceptive awareness (noticing, emotional awareness, self-regulation, body-listening, and trusting, were predictive of lower, and one aspect (not-distracting was predictive of higher sexual concordance. We discuss the findings in relation to the role of emotions and arousal states in the interoception-sexual concordance relationship.

Eesti Vabariigi põhiseadus : kommenteeritud väljaanne / toimetuskolleegium: Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Berit Aaviksoo, Oliver Kask, Lasse Lehis, Lauri Madise, Ülle Madise, Kalle Merusk, Lauri Mälksoo, Raul Narits, Vallo Olle, Peep Pruks

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Kommentaaride autorid ja sisu: Sissejuhatus / Raul Narits, Lauri Madise, Heinrich Schneider. Preambul / Raul Narits, Heinrich Schneider. I ptk. / Kalle Merusk, Taavi Annus, Madis Ernits, Heiki Lindpere, Lauri Madise. II ptk. / Oliver Kask, Madis Ernits, Taavi Annus, Peeter Roosma, Rait Maruste, Eerik Kergandberg, Ivo Pilving, Uno Lõhmus, Merilin Kiviorg, Einar Vene, Ülle Madise. III ptk. / Oliver Kask. IV ptk. / Lauri Madise, Aaro Mõttus, Jüri Põld, Tiina Runthal. V ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Ülle Madise, Jüri Põld, Urmas Reinsalu. VI ptk. / Kalle Merusk, Jüri Põld. VII ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Jüri Liventaal, Jüri Põld. VIII ptk. / Lasse Lehis. IX ptk. / Kristi Land, Heiki Lindpere, Lauri Madise, Heiki Pisuke. X ptk. / Oliver Kask, Enn Markvart, Jüri Põld. XI ptk. / Ülle Madise, Janek Laidvee, Heinrich Schneider. XII ptk. / Berit Aaviksoo, Mihkel Allik, Enn Markvart, Raul Narits, Aare Reenumägi, Peeter Roosma. XIII ptk. / Raul Narits, Uno Lõhmus, Madis Ernits, Jüri Põld. XIV ptk. / Vallo Olle, Arno Almann, Jüri Liventaal, Ülle Madise. XV ptk. / Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, Aaro Mõttus. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse rakendamise seadus / Oliver Kask, Raul Narits, Peeter Roosma. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseaduse täiendamise seadus / Berit Aaviksoo, Julia Laffranque, Ülle Madise, Jüri Põld. Eesti Vabariigi põhiseadus 1990-2008 : bibliograafia (seisuga september 2008) / koost. Maia Ruttu

A Game of One’s Own: Towards a New Gendered Poetics of Digital Space

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Jacquelyn Ford Morie

2008-01-01

Full Text Available The techno-fetishism of computer game culture has lead to a predominately male sensibility towards the construction of space in digital entertainment. Real-time strategy games conceive of space as a domain to be conquered; first-person shooters create labyrinthine battlefields in which space becomes a context for combat. Massively multiplayer games offer the opportunity for non-linear exploration, but emphasize linear achievement within a combat-based narrative. In this paper, we argue for a new gendered, regendered and perhaps degendered poetics of game space, rethinking ways in which space is conceptualized and represented as a domain for play. We argue for a more egalitarian virtual playground that acknowledges and embraces a wider range of spatial and cognitive models, referencing literature, philosophy, fine art and non-digital games for inspiration. Reflecting on a variety of sources, beginning with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, feminist writings of Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Simone de Beauvoir, Hélène Cixous, Judith Butler, Janet Murray, and including contemporary game writers such as Lizbeth Klastrup, Mary Flanagan, Maia Engeli, and T.L. Taylor, we will argue for a new gendered poetics of game space, proposing an inclusionary approach that integrates feminine conceptions of space into the gaming landscape.

Um modelo de Arquitetura da Informação para processos de investigação científica

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Alberto Magno Carvalho de Melo

2015-06-01

Full Text Available O desenvolvimento da ciência, tecnologia e inovação são fundamentais para a sociedade contemporânea. Este trabalho procura discutir que o espaço de informação onde acontece um processo de investigação científica possui uma arquitetura da informação inerente e que o Método de Arquitetura da Informação Aplicada (MAIA, além de instrumento para construção de arquiteturas da informação, pode ser usado como método para condução de processos de investigação científica na área de Ciência da Informação. O modelo de representação da realidade usado para delimitar o espaço de informação em que se dá a investigação científica é expresso na forma de uma proposta de ontologia para a área. O Paradigma de Metassistema foi usado como instrumento de aproximação da realidade, pois auxilia o investigador a estabelecer corretamente os níveis de abstração adequados à resolução de problemas científicos de sua área.

Pelo direito de ouvir: Falcão, música brega e estereótipos

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Ivan Fortunato

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Neste artigo são apresentados argumentos para refutar a ideia de que o gosto musical está intrinsicamente relacionado ao status social, econômico e cultural de cada indivíduo. Porque, com isso, especificamente, marginaliza-se um dos mais complexos compositores brasileiros que é Marcondes Falcão Maia, conhecido como Falcão, ou pelas roupas coloridas e um girassol aderente ao seu paletó. Rotulado como brega, suas canções podem ser interpretadas como uma afronta ao pensamento culto sendo que, portanto, intelectuais não deveriam escutá-lo. O principal objetivo dessa comunicação é o de compartilhar como sua catilogência (alto grau de categoria, lógica e inteligência é revelada ao longo de suas composições, apresentando, dentre outros, análise de conjuntura socioeconômica, crítica à política nacional e a processos burocráticos, controle midiático, homofobia, consumismo e até a própria ciência cartesiana... Ao final, defende-se não apenas a qualidade de sua produção cultural, que se torna pública por meio de um humor colorido de sátiras e paródias, mas o direito de ouvi-lo e com ele aprender.

Chronic ulcers and myasis as ports of entry for Clostridium tetani

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Greco Jiuseppe Benitivoglio

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Evaluating tetanus immune status is not yet the usual clinical practice regarding patients with chronic ulcers or myasis. However, of 858 tetanus patients at Hospital Couto Maia (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil aged 1 year or above, 2 had pressure ulcers and 17 had chronic ulceration of the lower limbs where these skin lesions were the ports of entry for Clostridium tetani. In these 19 cases, the following predisposing factors were described: venous insufficiency (n=6, sickle cell anemia (n=2, Hansen's disease (n=1, malnutrition (n=1, diabetes mellitus (n=1, trauma (n=1 and unknown factors (n=7. In 6 other cases, in addition to the Hansen's disease patient, the port of entry for tetanus was the site of extraction of Tunga penetrans larvae. In these 25 cases, the majority of patients (68% were over 40 years old (17/25 and all of these patients stated that they had either not followed a tetanus toxoid vaccination regimen (19/25, or had partially completed such a regimen, or did not give precise information (6/25. Among the same series studied, over half (52% of the patients died (13/25. We conclude that tetanus prevention must be included in the treatment of chronic skin ulcer patients, vaccination coverage should be increased among older people, and strategies aimed at improving coverage for all age groups must be reviewed.

Sistema Salicweb: democratização no acesso à lei Rouanet?

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Thabatta Pamela Toscan dos Santos

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Este artigo contribui com pesquisas na interface da comunicação, da democracia e dos serviços públicos, na medida em que analisa o real benefício da implantação da plataforma digital SALICWEB no Ministério da Cultura, especificamente em relação aos pedidos de incentivo fiscal da Lei Rouanet. Para tanto, o texto se utiliza dos seguintes teóricos: Max Weber, que analisa os processos de dominação e autoridade; Edson de Oliveira Nunes, que aborda o clientelismo na burocracia; e Moreira e Maia, que questiona se as tecnologias geram independência ou dependência nos usuários. Como conclusão, este artigo defende que a implantação do sistema SALICWEB pelo Ministério da Cultura foi benéfica e importante, principalmente por minimizar a demora burocrática da Lei Rouanet. Por outro lado, defende-se que o formato de envio de propostas por correspondência não deveria ser extinto, pois atualmente há uma dependência do proponente em relação à tecnologia, que já apresentou e ainda apresenta falhas e problemas técnicos.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21882/ruc.v4i7.645 Recebido: 15/07/2016 Publicado: 07/12/2016 

ELISA-based assay of immunoglobulin G antibodies against mammalian cell entry 1A (Mce1A) protein: a novel diagnostic approach for leprosy.

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Lima, Filipe R; Takenami, Iukary; Cavalcanti, Maurílio Al; Riley, Lee W; Arruda, Sérgio

2017-12-01

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by the obligate intracellular bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. Because leprosy diagnosis is complex and requires professional expertise, new tools and methodologies are needed to detect cases in early stages and prevent transmission. The M. leprae genome contains mce1A, which encodes a putative mammalian cell entry protein (Mce1A). We hypothesised that the presence of Mce1A on the cell surface could be detected by the host's immune system. The aim of this study was to evaluate antibody responses against the Mce1A protein in leprosy patients, household contacts of patients, and the general population to present an addition tool for leprosy diagnosis. A cross-sectional study involving 89 volunteers [55 leprosy cases, 12 household contacts (HHC) and 22 endemic controls (EC)] was conducted at Couto Maia Hospital, in Salvador, Bahia (BA), Brazil. The median anti-Mce1A IgA was significantly higher in multibacillary (MB) and paucibacillary (PB) cases than in EC (p leprosy cases, IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay sensitivity and specificity were 92.7% and 97.1%, respectively. IgG positivity was confirmed in 92.1% and 94.1% of MB and PB patients, respectively. This novel diagnostic approach presents an easy, non-invasive, and inexpensive method for leprosy screening, which may be applicable in endemic areas.

MAIA, Ana Cláudia Bortolozzi. Inclusão e sexualidade: Na voz de pessoas com deficiência física

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Jordana da Rocha Bittencourt

2014-08-01

Full Text Available This paper presents a synthesis and discussion of some aspects which contribute to demystifying the sexuality of people with disabilities while understanding the sexual dimension of their lives through their own testimonials − therefore presenting their histories. Sexuality is seen as a social construct accompanied by countless values and meanings. Amidst this broad cultural concept of sexuality, it is possible to perceive how this very concept is intertwined with prejudice and discrimination. When connected to the idea of disabilities, they escalade to even higher proportions.

Kataloogimaja : võimalus arendada eramumütoloogiat = A Catalogue House : a Chance to Improve Single-Family House Typology / Maia Tüür

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Tüür, Maia

2004-01-01

Prantsusmaa arhitektuuribüroode ühingu Peripheriques'i algatusel anti 36 Euroopa arhitektile ülesandeks luua tänapäevast eramutüpoloogiat otsiv projekt. Tulemusi eksponeeriti 1997. a. Bordeaux's, anti välja kataloog "36 modeles pour une Maison". Kataloogi põhjal 2005. a. valmivast Reze näidiselamukvartalist, mille planeeringu tegid Peripheriques'i arhitektid. Ehitamisele läksid büroode Marin-Trottin, Paillard-Jumeau, AAC, Actar ja arhitekt Jacques Moussafiri kataloogimajad. Ehitusmaterjaliks puit. Ill.: 2 plaani, 3 vaadet

Late differentiation of proximal and distal margins in the Gulf of Aden

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Bache, F.; Leroy, S.; D'Acremont, E.; Autin, J.; Watremez, L.; Rouzo, S.

2009-04-01

, F. Klingelhoefer, C. Labails, L. Matias, H. Nouzé, and M. Rabineau, 2008, Brazilian and African Passive Margins of the Central Segment of the South Atlantic Ocean: Kinematic constraints: Tectonophysics, v. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.12.016. Autin, J., 2008, Déchirure continentale et segmentation du Golfe d'Aden oriental en contexte de rifting oblique: Ph. D. thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, 310 p. Bache, F., 2008, Evolution Oligo-Miocène des marges du micro océan Liguro Provençal.: Ph. D. thesis, Université de Bretagne Occidentale/CNRS/IFREMER. http://www.ifremer.fr/docelec/notice/2008/notice4768-EN.htm, Brest, 328 p. Boillot, G., J. Girardeau, and J. Kornprobst, 1988, The rifting of the Galicia margin: crustal thinning and emplacement of mantle rocks on the seafloor (ODP Leg 103). In Boillot, G., Winterer, E.L., et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, v. 103, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), p. 741-756. d'Acremont, E., S. Leroy, M. O. Beslier, N. bellahsen, M. Fournier, C. Robin, M. Maia, and P. Gente, 2005, Structure and evolution of the eastern Gulf of Aden conjugate margins from seismic reflection data: Geophys. J. Int., v. 160, p. 869-890. d'Acremont, E., S. Leroy, M. Maia, P. Patriat, M. O. Beslier, N. Bellahsen, M. Fournier, and P. Gente, 2006, Structure and evolution of the eastern Gulf of Aden: insights from magnetic and gravity data (Encens-Sheba MD117 cruise): Geophys. J. Int., v. 165, p. 786-803. Dupré, S., G. Bertotti, and S. Cloetingh, 2007, Tectonic history along the South Gabon Basin: Anomalous early post-rift subsidence: Mar. Pet. Geol., v. 24, p. 151-172. Labails, C., 2007, La marge sud-marocaine et les premières phases d'ouverture de l'océan Atlantique Central: Ph. D. thesis, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest. Leroy, S., P. Gente, M. Fournier, E. d'Acremont, P. Patriat, M. O. Beslier, N. Bellahsen, M. Maia, A. Blais, J. Perrot, A. Al-Kathiri, S. Merkouriev, J. M. Fleury, P. Y. Ruellan, C. Lepvrier, and P

Prevalence of malocclusion in schoolchildren in the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

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Cassiano Arashiro

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and types of malocclusion in schoolchildren in the municipality of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.Method: Six hundred and sixty schoolchildren at three schools in the municipality of Campinas were examined. The age bracket ranged from 6.5 up to18.1 years (mean ± s.d. = 12.2 ± 2.3 years The intraoral clinical exams were performed by four duly trained and calibrated dentists, consisted of visual inspection using only disposable wooden spatulas and millimetric probes, performed in rooms provided by the schools, with good conditions of visibility and natural lighting. The criteria adopted for classifying normal and malocclusion were those stipulated by Andrews1, Angle2 and Maia3. Results: The data obtained indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the genders. Malocclusion was found in 87.4% of the schoolchildren examined, in agreement with the majority of Brazilian and International studies. Class I malocclusion was the most prevalent (39.7% among the schoolchildren examined, followed by Class II, with 36% of the cases, and there was higher prevalence of Class II division 1 (22.7% in comparison with Class II division 2 (13.3%. Class III malocclusion was present in 11.7% of the sample.Conclusion: There is high prevalence of malocclusion, irrespective of gender, in the studied population of schoolchildren. The most prevalent malocclusion was Class I, followed by Class I division 1.

The brazilian indigenous planetary-observatory

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Afonso, G. B.

2003-08-01

We have performed observations of the sky alongside with the Indians of all Brazilian regions that made it possible localize many indigenous constellations. Some of these constellations are the same as the other South American Indians and Australian aborigines constellations. The scientific community does not have much of this information, which may be lost in one or two generations. In this work, we present a planetary-observatory that we have made in the Park of Science Newton Freire-Maia of Paraná State, in order to popularize the astronomical knowledge of the Brazilian Indians. The planetary consists, essentially, of a sphere of six meters in diameter and a projection cylinder of indigenous constellations. In this planetary we can identify a lot of constellations that we have gotten from the Brazilian Indians; for instance, the four seasonal constellations: the Tapir (spring), the Old Man (summer), the Deer (autumn) and the Rhea (winter). A two-meter height wooden staff that is posted vertically on the horizontal ground similar to a Gnomon and stones aligned with the cardinal points and the soltices directions constitutes the observatory. A stone circle of ten meters in diameter surrounds the staff and the aligned stones. During the day we observe the Sun apparent motions and at night the indigenous constellations. Due to the great community interest in our work, we are designing an itinerant indigenous planetary-observatory to be used in other cities mainly by indigenous and primary schools teachers.

The Pleiades Using Astronomical Spectroscopic Technique within the Range of H-α Region

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Zambri Zainuddin, Mohd; Muhyidin, Meer Ashwinkumar; Ahmad, Nazhatulshima; Mohd Saadon, Mohd Hafiz

2011-01-01

The Pleiades is an open star cluster located in the constellation of Taurus, which mainly consists of hot and luminous B-type stars. Observations were conducted over five-day period in December 2009 at Langkawi National Observatory, Malaysia by using 20-inch telescope diameter of Ritchey-Chretien reflector telescope, together with SBIG Self Guided Spectrograph and SBIG ST-7 CCD camera. The spectra of seven main members of the cluster, namely Alcyone; Atlas; Celaeno; Electra; Maia; Merope and Taygeta; and of Alcyone B; a smaller component of Alcyone quadruple system, were obtained in the optical range of approximately 6300 A to 7100 A. This range was picked due to the vicinity of Balmer H-α spectral line at 6562.852 A. Alcyone, Electra and Merope were found to have H-α emissions possibly caused by the presence of equatorial circumstellar disks or envelopes made up of ejected matter. Electra and Merope in particular exhibited peculiar asymmetric double emission peaks, which could be evidence of one-armed density wave in each of their circumstellar disks. Atlas, Celaeno, Merope, Taygeta and Alcyone B showed strong H-α absorptions with broadening characteristic of high rotational velocities. As deduced from the spectra, the stars were found to have atmospheres with similar chemical content, with spectral lines characteristics of singly ionized silicon, singly ionized iron and singly ionized oxygen. The measured radial velocities of all eight stars also suggest that the cluster could someday disperse.

RESTORED RIPARIAN BUFFERS AS TOOLS FOR ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION IN THE MAIA PROCESSES, ENDPOINTS, AND MEASURES OF SUCCESS FOR WATER, SOIL, FLORA AND FAUNA

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Riparian buffer restorations are used as management tools to produce favorable water quality impacts, moreover the basis for riparian buffers as an instrument of water quality restoration rests on a relatively firm foundation. However, the extent to which buffers can restore rip...

Elementos do trágico em Eça de Queirós: A tragédia da Rua das Flores e Os Maias

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Leal, Luciana Ferreira [UNESP

2006-01-01

Esta tese analisa dois romances queirosianos vinculados ao gênero dramático, mais especificamente ao trágico. No primeiro momento, busca-se levar a efeito considerações teóricas acerca do trágico, caracterizando a sua especificidade, tanto na origem, quanto no seu desenvolvimento ulterior. Nesta busca da peculiaridade do sentido do trágico, a atenção volta-se para a evolução do gênero da Antigüidade ao Tempo Cristão, do trágico grego ao trágico moderno. Assim, elementos como Hybris, Antinomia...

Análise da forma de descarte de medicamentos por usuários de uma Unidade de Saúde no município de Porto Alegre/RS

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Gelson Antonio IOB

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Não há em nosso país uma normatização que regulamente o descarte de medicamentos domiciliares. Em vista disso, realizou-se um estudo quantitativo, contemporâneo, observacional, realizado por meio da aplicação de um questioná- rio estruturado objetivando analisar a forma mais comum de descarte de medicamentos por usuários da Unidade de Saúde Parque dos Maias (USPM do Grupo Hospitalar Conceição (GHC, localizada no município de Porto Alegre/ RS. O estudo incluiu 238 moradores, com erro aceitável de 5% e um nível de confiança de 95%. Em relação à análise da população estudada observou-se que 97,9% relataram que possuem medicamentos em suas residências; 86,6% nunca receberam orientação de como descartar medicamentos; 60% descartam no meio ambiente os medicamentos vencidos encontrados nos domicílios. A investigação estatística realizada pelo teste de Qui-quadrado para as variáveis analisadas não apresentou associação estatisticamente significativa entre escolaridade e renda com boa parte das ações de descarte de medicamentos pesquisadas. Constatou-se que medidas efetivas deveriam ser melhor organizadas para diminuir e regulamentar a geração e o destino dos medicamentos impróprios para o consumo presentes nas residências, minimizando assim danos ao meio ambiente e a saúde pública.

2008 International Conference on Ectodermal Dysplasias Classification Conference Report

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Salinas, Carlos F.; Jorgenson, Ronald J.; Wright, J. Timothy; DiGiovanna, John J.; Fete, Mary D.

2009-01-01

There are many ways to classify ectodermal dysplasia syndromes. Clinicians in practice use a list of syndromes from which to choose a potential diagnosis, paging through a volume, such as Freire-Maia and Pinheiro's corpus, matching their patient's findings to listed syndromes. Medical researchers may want a list of syndromes that share one (monothetic system) or several (polythetic system) traits in order to focus research on a narrowly defined group. Special interest groups may want a list from which they can choose constituencies, and insurance companies and government agencies may want a list to determine for whom to provide (or deny) health care coverage. Furthermore, various molecular biologists are now promoting classification systems based on gene mutation (e.g. TP63 associated syndromes) or common molecular pathways. The challenge will be to balance comprehensiveness within the classification with usability and accessibility so that the benefits truly serve the needs of researchers, health care providers and ultimately the individuals and families directly affected by ectodermal dysplasias. It is also recognized that a new classification approach is an ongoing process and will require periodical reviews or updates. Whatever scheme is developed, however, will have far-reaching application for other groups of disorders for which classification is complicated by the number of interested parties and advances in diagnostic acumen. Consensus among interested parties is necessary for optimizing communication among the diverse groups whether it be for equitable distribution of funds, correctness of diagnosis and treatment, or focusing research efforts. PMID:19681152

Large area synchrotron X-ray fluorescence mapping of biological samples

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Kempson, I.; Thierry, B.; Smith, E.; Gao, M.; De Jonge, M.

2014-01-01

Large area mapping of inorganic material in biological samples has suffered severely from prohibitively long acquisition times. With the advent of new detector technology we can now generate statistically relevant information for studying cell populations, inter-variability and bioinorganic chemistry in large specimen. We have been implementing ultrafast synchrotron-based XRF mapping afforded by the MAIA detector for large area mapping of biological material. For example, a 2.5 million pixel map can be acquired in 3 hours, compared to a typical synchrotron XRF set-up needing over 1 month of uninterrupted beamtime. Of particular focus to us is the fate of metals and nanoparticles in cells, 3D tissue models and animal tissues. The large area scanning has for the first time provided statistically significant information on sufficiently large numbers of cells to provide data on intercellular variability in uptake of nanoparticles. Techniques such as flow cytometry generally require analysis of thousands of cells for statistically meaningful comparison, due to the large degree of variability. Large area XRF now gives comparable information in a quantifiable manner. Furthermore, we can now image localised deposition of nanoparticles in tissues that would be highly improbable to 'find' by typical XRF imaging. In addition, the ultra fast nature also makes it viable to conduct 3D XRF tomography over large dimensions. This technology avails new opportunities in biomonitoring and understanding metal and nanoparticle fate ex-vivo. Following from this is extension to molecular imaging through specific anti-body targeted nanoparticles to label specific tissues and monitor cellular process or biological consequence

Validation of structural design of JHR fuel element

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Brisson, S.; Miras, G.; Le Bourdonnec, L.; Lemoine, P.; Anselmet, M.C.; Marelle, V.

2010-01-01

The validation of the structural design of the Jules Horowitz Reactor fuel element was made by the Finite Element Method, starting from the Computer Aided Design. The JHR fuel element is a cylindrical assembly of three sectors composed of eight rolled fuel plates. A roll-swaging process is used to join the fuel plates to three aluminium stiffeners. The hydraulic gap between each plate is 1.95 mm. The JHR fuel assembly is fastened at both ends to the upper and lower endfittings by riveting. The main stresses are essentially thermal loads, imposed on the fuel zone of the plates. These thermal loads result from the nuclear heat flux (W/cm 2 ). The mechanical loads are mainly hydraulic thrust forces. The average coolant velocity is 15 m/s. Seismic effects are also studied. The fuel assembly is entirely modelled by thin shells. The model takes into account asymmetric thermal loads which often appear in Research Reactors. The mechanics of the fuel plates vary in function of the burn up. These mechanical properties are derived from the data sets used in the MAIA code, and the validity of the structure is demonstrable at throughout the life of the fuel. Results concerning displacement are compared to functional criteria, while results concerning stress are compared to RCC-MX criteria. The results of this analysis show that the mechanical and geometrical integrity of the JHR fuel elements is respected for Operating Categories 1 and 2. This paper presents the methodology of this demonstration for the results obtained. (author)

Advantages of the association of resveratrol with oral contraceptives for management of endometriosis-related pain

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Maia Jr H

2012-10-01

Full Text Available Hugo Maia Jr,1,2 Clarice Haddad,2 Nathanael Pinheiro,3,4 Julio Casoy21Itaigara Memorial Day Hospital, 2Centro de Pesquisas e Assistência em Reprodução Humana, 3ImagePat, Pathology Laboratory, 4Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilBackground: The effect of resveratrol on the management of endometriosis-related pain was investigated in 12 patients who failed to obtain pain relief during use of an oral contraceptive containing drospirenone + ethinylestradiol.Methods and results: The addition of 30 mg of resveratrol to the contraceptive regimen resulted in a significant reduction in pain scores, with 82% of patients reporting complete resolution of dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain after 2 months of use. In a separate experiment, aromatase and cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression were investigated in the endometrial tissue of 42 patients submitted to laparoscopy and hysteroscopy for the management of endometriosis. Sixteen of these patients were using oral contraceptives alone prior to hospital admission, while the remaining 26 were using them in combination with resveratrol. Inhibition of both aromatase and cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression was significantly greater in the eutopic endometrium of patients using combined drospirenone + resveratrol therapy compared with the endometrium of patients using oral contraceptives alone.Conclusion: These results suggest that resveratrol potentiates the effect of oral contraceptives in the management of endometriosis-associated dysmenorrhea by further decreasing aromatase and cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression in the endometrium.Keywords: resveratrol, drospirenone, endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, cyclo-oxygenase-2

The Mozart effect in biofeedback visual rehabilitation: a case report.

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Salvatore, Serena; Librando, Aloisa; Esposito, Mariacristina; Vingolo, Enzo M

2011-01-01

To evaluate the usefulness of acoustic biofeedback by means of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K. 448 to maintain and/or restore visual performance in a patient with macular pucker and glaucoma. A 74-year-old patient with open angle glaucoma in both eyes and macular pucker in the right eye (RE) underwent visual rehabilitation with acoustic biofeedback by means of the MAIA™ Vision Training Module (Centervue, Padova, Italy) 10 minutes each eye once a week for 5 weeks. The patient was asked to move his eyes according to a sound which changed into Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos when the patient locked the fixation target. Best-corrected visual acuity improved in his right eye (RE) and was stable in the left eye (LE). Fixation stability improved in both eyes, and retinal sensitivity decreased in the RE and improved in the LE. The characteristic of the macular pucker did not change during the training as demonstrated with optical coherence tomography. The patient was very satisfied with the training, as demonstrated by a 25-item questionnaire (National Eye Institute - Visual Functioning Questionnaire, NEI-VFQ-25). The patient's reading speed and the character size which he was able to read improved in his RE. Music could enhance synaptic plasticity and affect neural learning and fixation training by means of MAIA vision training. Therefore it can improve visual performance in patients with macular pucker, postpone the surgical time, and assure a better quality of life for the patient.

Individual Test Point Fluctuations of Macular Sensitivity in Healthy Eyes and Eyes With Age-Related Macular Degeneration Measured With Microperimetry.

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Barboni, Mirella Telles Salgueiro; Szepessy, Zsuzsanna; Ventura, Dora Fix; Németh, János

2018-04-01

To establish fluctuation limits, it was considered that not only overall macular sensitivity but also fluctuations of individual test points in the macula might have clinical value. Three repeated measurements of microperimetry were performed using the Standard Expert test of Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA) in healthy subjects ( N = 12, age = 23.8 ± 1.5 years old) and in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) ( N = 11, age = 68.5 ± 7.4 years old). A total of 37 macular points arranged in four concentric rings and in four quadrants were analyzed individually and in groups. The data show low fluctuation of macular sensitivity of individual test points in healthy subjects (average = 1.38 ± 0.28 dB) and AMD patients (average = 2.12 ± 0.60 dB). Lower sensitivity points are more related to higher fluctuation than to the distance from the central point. Fixation stability showed no effect on the sensitivity fluctuation. The 95th percentile of the standard deviations of healthy subjects was, on average, 2.7 dB, ranging from 1.2 to 4 dB, depending on the point tested. Point analysis and regional analysis might be considered prior to evaluating macular sensitivity fluctuation in order to distinguish between normal variation and a clinical change. S tatistical methods were used to compare repeated microperimetry measurements and to establish fluctuation limits of the macular sensitivity. This analysis could add information regarding the integrity of different macular areas and provide new insights into fixation points prior to the biofeedback fixation training.

Microscopic and molecular characterization of Hepatozoon domerguei (Apicomplexa) and Foleyella furcata (Nematoda) in wild endemic reptiles from Madagascar.

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Maia, João P; Crottini, Angelica; Harris, David James

2014-01-01

Madagascar is one of the world's top twelve "megadiversity" hot spots hosting unique and threatened flora and fauna. Parasites are a major component of biodiversity but remain largely uncharacterized in wildlife. In this study we combine microscopic and molecular assessment of hemoparasites in endemic reptile species from Madagascar. We detected three distinct parasites: the apicomplexans Hepatozoon and Sarcocystis, and filarial nematodes. The prevalence and intensity of these apicomplexans were low overall, while microfilarial infections in chameleons were relatively high. We detected mixed infections of two Hepatozoon haplotypes in Madagascarophis colubrinus, and of Hepatozoon and microfilariae in a Furcifer sp. Phylogenetic analyses of Hepatozoon showed evidence of prey-predator transmission, with identical sequences found in the snakes M. colubrinus and Ithycyphus oursi, and their prey Furcifer sp. Based on previous studies regarding the life cycle of Hepatozoon domerguei Landau, Chabaud, Michel, and Brygoo, 1970 in these hosts and due to their morphological similarity, we propose that this Hepatozoon haplotype is Hepatozoon domerguei. Future studies, including the examination of invertebrate hosts, are needed to verify this preliminary taxonomic identification. A distinct hemogregarine haplotype was found in Oplurus sp., which displayed morphologically different gametocytes, some of which were apparently inside leukocytes. The Sarcocystis identified from Tracheloptychus petersi was identical to that reported in a North African snake, indicating that the same lineage is found in geographically distinct regions. By combining morphological and genetic information, Foleyella furcata (Linstow, 1899) filarial nematodes were identified in several Furcifer chameleons. This study provides insights into the distribution, diversity and host-parasite interactions of hemoparasites in wild reptile populations from Madagascar. © J.P. Maia et al., published by EDP Sciences

Meliponiculture in Rio Grande do Norte

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Ulysses Madureira Maia

2015-12-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACT. Maia U.M., Jaffe R., Carvalho A.T. & Imperatriz-Fonseca V.L. [Meliponiculture in Rio Grande do Norte.] Meliponicultura no Rio Grande do Norte. Revista Brasileira de Medicina Veterinária, 37(4:327-333, 2015. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes, 3900, Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, SP 14040-901, Brasil. E-mail: ummaia@usp.br This study aimed to assess the current status of stingless bee beekeeping (meliponiculture in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with the aid of structured questionnaires made during visits to beekeepers. The results were compared with a previous census made in the state and with a similar study from Australia. Meliponiculture in Rio Grande do Norte is still informal and little standardized. The activity has grown in recent years considering the mean number of nests per beekeeper. Most apiaries are formed of up to 50 colonies, usually distributed in the backyards of homes. Twelve species of stingless bees were reared in the state, and the most common was the “Jandaíra” bee (Melipona subnitida, whose honey is considered medicinal. While many beekeepers already know the importance of bees as pollinators, stingless bees are still not used for crop pollination. Compared to a recent analysis of beekeeping in Australia, meliponiculture in Brazil is more traditional, honey is the main product and the number of colonies per beekeeper is much higher. Our results highlight the need to reinforce knowledge about bees and promote specific training aimed at improving and standardizing management practices.

Transpressive mantle uplift at large offset oceanic transform faults

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Maia, M.; Briais, A.; Brunelli, D.; Ligi, M.; Sichel, S. E.; Campos, T.

2017-12-01

Large-offset transform faults deform due to changes in plate motions and local processes. At the St. Paul transform, in the Equatorial Atlantic, a large body of ultramafic rocks composed of variably serpentinized and mylonitized peridotites is presently being tectonically uplifted. We recently discovered that the origin of the regional mantle uplift is linked to long-standing compressive stresses along the transform fault (1). A positive flower structure, mainly made of mylonitized mantle rocks, can be recognized on the 200 km large push-up ridge. Compressive earthquakes mechanisms reveal seismically active thrust faults on the southern flank of the ridge . The regional transpressive stress field affects a large portion of the ridge segment south of the transform, as revealed by the presence of faults and dykes striking obliquely to the direction of the central ridge axis. A smaller thrust, affecting recent sediments, was mapped south of this segment, suggesting a regional active compressive stress field. The transpressive stress field is interpreted to derive from the propagation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) segment into the transform domain as a response to the enhanced melt supply at the ridge axis. The propagation forced the migration and segmentation of the transform fault southward and the formation of restraining step-overs. The process started after a counterclockwise change in plate motion at 11 Ma initially resulting in extensive stress of the transform domain. A flexural transverse ridge formed in response. Shortly after plate reorganization, the MAR segment started to propagate southwards due to the interaction of the ridge and the Sierra Leone thermal anomaly. 1- Maia et al., 2016. Extreme mantle uplift and exhumation along a transpressive transform fault Nat. Geo. doi:10.1038/ngeo2759

Evaluation of AirMSPI photopolarimetric retrievals of smoke properties with in-situ observations collected during the ImPACT-PM field campaign

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Kalashnikova, O. V.; Garay, M. J.; Xu, F.; Seidel, F.; Diner, D. J.; Seinfeld, J.; Bates, K. H.; Kong, W.; Kenseth, C.; Cappa, C. D.

2017-12-01

We introduce and evaluate an approach for obtaining closure between in situ and polarimetric remote sensing observations of smoke properties obtained during the collocated CIRPAS Twin Otter and ER-2 aircraft measurements of the Lebec fire event on July 8, 2016. We investigate the utility of multi-angle, spectropolarimetric remote sensing imagery to evaluate the relative contribution of organics, non-organic and black carbon particles to smoke particulate composition. The remote sensing data were collected during the Imaging Polarimetric and Characterization of Tropospheric Particular Matter (ImPACT-PM) field campaign by the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI), which flew on NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft. The ImPACT-PM field campaign was a joint JPL/Caltech effort to combine measurements from the Terra Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR), AirMSPI, in situ airborne measurements, and a chemical transport model to validate remote sensing retrievals of different types of airborne particulate matter with a particular emphasis on carbonaceous aerosols. The in-situ aerosol data were collected with a suite of Caltech instruments on board the CIRPAS Twin Otter aircraft and included the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS), the Differential Mobility Analyzer (DMA), and the Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP-2). The CIRPAS Twin Otter aircraft was also equipped with the Particle Soot Absorption Photometer (PSAP), nephelometer, a particle counter, and meteorological sensors. We found that the multi-angle polarimetric observations are capable of fire particulate emission monitoring by particle type as inferred from the in-situ airborne measurements. Modeling of retrieval sensitivities show that the characterization of black carbon is the most challenging. The work aims at evaluating multi-angle, spectropolarimetric capabilities for particulate matter characterization in support of the Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) satellite investigation

Exteroceptive and Interoceptive Body-Self Awareness in Fibromyalgia Patients

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Valenzuela-Moguillansky, Camila; Reyes-Reyes, Alejandro; Gaete, María I.

2017-01-01

Fibromyalgia is a widespread chronic pain disease characterized by generalized musculoskeletal pain and fatigue. It substantially affects patients' relationship with their bodies and quality of life, but few studies have investigated the relationship between pain and body awareness in fibromyalgia. We examined exteroceptive and interoceptive aspects of body awareness in 30 women with fibromyalgia and 29 control participants. Exteroceptive body awareness was assessed by a body-scaled action-anticipation task in which participants estimated whether they could pass through apertures of different widths. Interoceptive sensitivity (IS) was assessed by a heartbeat detection task where participants counted their heartbeats during different time intervals. Interoceptive awareness was assessed by the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA). The “passability ratio” (the aperture size for a 50% positive response rate, divided by shoulder width), assessed by the body-scaled action-anticipation task, was higher for fibromyalgia participants, indicating disrupted exteroceptive awareness. Overestimating body size correlated positively with pain and its impact on functionality, but not with pain intensity. There was no difference in IS between groups. Fibromyalgia patients exhibited a higher tendency to note bodily sensations and decreased body confidence. In addition, the passability ratio and IS score correlated negatively across the whole sample, suggesting an inverse relationship between exteroceptive and interoceptive body awareness. There was a lower tendency to actively listen to the body for insight, with higher passability ratios across the whole sample. Based on our results and building on the fear-avoidance model, we outline a proposal that highlights possible interactions between exteroceptive and interoceptive body awareness and pain. Movement based contemplative practices that target sensory-motor integration and foster non

Insect galls from Atlantic Forest areas of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Brazil: characterization and occurrence

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Valéria Cid Maia

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Galhas de insetos de areas de Mata Atlântica de Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, Brasil: caracterização e ocorrência. Três áreas protegidas de Mata atlântica foram investigadas em  Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo, de junho de 2007 a agosto de 2009: Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Reserva Biológica Augusto Ruschi e Parque Natural Municipal São Lourenço. A vegetação local foi examinada à procura de galhas de insetos. Foram encontrados 265 morfotipos de galhas em 141 espécies de plantas (104 gêneros e 49 famílias. Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, Melastomataceae e Rubiaceae foram as famílias de planta com maior riqueza de galhas. Os gêneros super-hospedeiros foram Mikania Willd. (Asteraceae, Myrcia DC. ex. Guill. (Myrtaceae e Inga Mill. (Fabaceae. A espécie super-hospedeira foi Guapira opposita (Vell. Reitz. (Nyctaginaceae. As galhas foram encontradas em folhas, caules, botões, raízes e gavinhas. As folhas foram o órgão vegetal mais galhado, seguidas pelos caules e botões. Os indutores pertencem a quatro ordens de insetos: Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera e Thysanoptera, sendo Cecidomyiidae (Diptera os mais frequentes e diversificados galhadores. Inquilinos foram obtidos de seis morfotipos de galhas, estando representados por Cecidomyiidae and Muscomorpha. Nove species galhadoras são registradas pela primeira vez no Estado do Espírito Santo, e Cordiamyia globosa Maia, 1996 é assinalada pela primeira vez para o município de Santa Teresa. O presente estudo indica Santa Teresa (ES como a área de Mata Atlântica com maior riqueza de galhas de insetos.

Open Praxis, volumen 1 issue 1

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Editor Open Praxis

2007-01-01

Full Text Available Table of Contents - A Study on the Importance of Fostering Trust in a Distance Learning Community Sónia Sousa, David Lamas & Brian Hudson (1-10 - Teacher Upgrading through Distance Education in a South African Context C. G. Kruger & Prof. E. J. Spamer (11-19 - An Investigation into Delivery of On-Line Courses within an Early Childhood Teacher Education Distance Programme in New Zealand Susan E. Smart (20-29 - Transnational Online Project Management Curriculum Model for Engineering Students Enrique Benimeli Bofarull, Anke Muendler, Peter Haber (30-39 - China Rural Distance Education and Construction of the New Countryside Li Fanghong & Zeng Yichun (40-46 - E-Learning in Japan: Steam Locomotive on Shinkansen Ali E. Ozkul, Ph.D. & Kumiko Aoki, Ph.D.  (47-55 - Widening Access to Higher Education: Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education Setting in Indonesia Paulina Pannen (56-65 - Research and Development of a Costing Toolkit for Distance, Flexible and ICT-Based Education for Teacher Development in Africa Frank R J Banks (66-75 - Fostering E-Learning in Medical Education: The Eurovacc Team Experience Guilherme Andrade Marson, Nathalie Debard, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, Pascal Py, Yan Cornneille, Laurent Richard, Alain Meystre (76-86 - Program Upgrading Teachers in Education Irene Hardy de Gómez (87-95 - ICT based learning strategies for Educating nomads Yogesh Kulkarni & Dr. Madhav Gaikwad (96-102 - Information and Communication Technology and Distance Education in Brazil Marta de Campos Maia & Fernando de Souza Meirelles (103-112 - ICDE’s interview with Susan D’Antoni, UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP (113-117 - ICDE Task Force Open Educational Resources – Inquiry Results (118-125 - 22nd ICDE – World Conference on Distance Education: Facts and figures (126-131

Impacto da responsabilidade social sob a óptica empresarial do norte litoral de Portugal

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Valentin Alejandro Martínez Fernández

2014-01-01

Full Text Available La responsabilidad social surge en la literatura del siglo XIX y desde entonces ha ganado una mayor expresión, atención e interés de los estudiosos, empresarios y público en general, debido a su impacto en particular. Por lo tanto, la responsabi- lidad social ha tenido en las últimas décadas una fuerte expansión que ha llevado a su aplicabilidad en la estrategia empresarial. Hoy, académicos y hombres de negocios van juntos tratando nuevas estrategias que incluyen nuevas variables en un estudio propiciado por la aparición de nuevas formas de actividad empresarial y por la creación de redes sociales. Ante esta nueva situación, el propósito de este artículo es comprobar si hay un impacto en la adopción de prácticas de respon- sabilidad social de las empresas de Maia y, en caso afirmativo, si afecta positiva o negativamente a la imagen corporativa de las empresas en el litoral norte de Portugal. Este artículo se estructura en dos secciones. La primera consiste en una revisión de la literatura sobre el tema, presentando el tema principal de los marcos conceptuales para el análisis. La segunda parte consiste en un estudio empírico que utiliza un análisis multivariado factorial que permite la activación de las primeras conclusiones sobre el impacto de la responsabilidad social en Portugal, sobre todo en las empresas objeto de estudio. Se encontró en el estudio que la práctica de la responsabilidad social crea impacto en las acciones de las empresas, pero no se produce de manera significativa en sus resultados económicos.

The Mozart effect in biofeedback visual rehabilitation: a case report

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Salvatore S

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Serena Salvatore, Aloisa Librando, Mariacristina Esposito, Enzo M VingoloDepartment of Ophthalmology, University La Sapienza, Polo Pontino, Alfredo Fiorini Hospital, Terracina, ItalyPurpose: To evaluate the usefulness of acoustic biofeedback by means of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K. 448 to maintain and/or restore visual performance in a patient with macular pucker and glaucoma.Methods: A 74-year-old patient with open angle glaucoma in both eyes and macular pucker in the right eye (RE underwent visual rehabilitation with acoustic biofeedback by means of the MAIA™ Vision Training Module (Centervue, Padova, Italy 10 minutes each eye once a week for 5 weeks. The patient was asked to move his eyes according to a sound which changed into Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos when the patient locked the fixation target.Results: Best-corrected visual acuity improved in his right eye (RE and was stable in the left eye (LE. Fixation stability improved in both eyes, and retinal sensitivity decreased in the RE and improved in the LE. The characteristic of the macular pucker did not change during the training as demonstrated with optical coherence tomography. The patient was very satisfied with the training, as demonstrated by a 25-item questionnaire (National Eye Institute – Visual Functioning Questionnaire, NEI-VFQ-25. The patient’s reading speed and the character size which he was able to read improved in his RE.Conclusion: Music could enhance synaptic plasticity and affect neural learning and fixation training by means of MAIA vision training. Therefore it can improve visual performance in patients with macular pucker, postpone the surgical time, and assure a better quality of life for the patient.Keywords: glaucoma, macular cellophane, music, vision training

Violência, culpa e ato: causas e efeitos subjetivos em adolescentes

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Henrique Figueiredo Carneiro

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho apresenta um relato de pesquisa realizada sobre a violência e o adolescente, evidenciando o objetivo, as causas e os efeitos subjetivos que desencadeiam a violência na atualidade. Apresenta também uma investigação qualitativa com referencial teórico-conceitual da psicanálise, em destaque os conceitos de mal-estar, lei, anomia, limites, laços sociais, necessidade, desejo, culpa, passagem ao ato, individualismo, discurso capitalista, amor, vida e morte. Foram utilizados fotografias e fragmentos de filmes apresentados aos adolescentes inseridos no projeto Pró-jovem, desenvolvido na cidade de Maracanaú, Ceará, Brasil. As análises confirmaram os pressupostos da pesquisa de que a violência guarda relação direta com a ineficácia dos discursos normativos, que a culpa não comparece em consequência dos atos desfechados contra o próximo e que o sujeito não se guia por uma referência mítica do representante da lei.(* Colaboradores da pesquisa: doutora Marta Gerez Ambertín (Universidad de Santiago del Estero - Argentina; mestra em Psicologia Márcia Batista dos Santos (Universidade de Fortaleza - Brasil; alunos de Mestrado em Psicologia: Thiago Costa Matos Carneiro da Cunha (Labio, Rossana Vaz Borja (Labio, Carla Renata Braga de Souza (Labio/Leipcs, Lisieux D’Jesus Luzia de Araújo Rocha (Labio/Otium - Universidade de Fortaleza - Brasil; graduado em Psicologia Marcus Vinicius Ximenes Rocha (Universidade de Fortaleza – Brasil; bolsista de I. C. CNPq: Ricardo Pinheiro Maia Júnior; bolsista de I. C. Funcap: Rayana Silva Lima (Universidade de Fortaleza. Projeto apoiado pelo CNPq por meio de Bolsa de Produtividade em Pesquisa concedida ao Prof. Dr. Henrique Figueiredo Carneiro.

Correlation between aromatase expression in the eutopic endometrium of symptomatic patients and the presence of endometriosis

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Maia Jr H

2012-02-01

Full Text Available Hugo Maia Jr1,2, Clarice Haddad1,2, Julio Casoy11CEPARH, 2Itaigara Memorial Day Hospital, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilObjective: To investigate whether aromatase expression in the eutopic endometrium correlates with the presence and severity of endometriosis in patients with infertility and/or dysmenorrhea undergoing laparoscopy and hysteroscopy.Patients: The study involved 106 patients of reproductive age with symptoms of dysmenorrhea and infertility. Sixteen endometriosis-free asymptomatic patients were used as a control group.Methods: Concomitant laparoscopy and hysteroscopy was carried out in all cases. An endometrial biopsy was taken to determine aromatase p450 expression by immunohistochemistry. Endometriosis was staged according to the American Society of Reproductive Medicine classification.Results: Endometriosis was diagnosed by laparoscopy in 92/106 symptomatic patients. In this group, aromatase expression was detected in the eutopic endometrium of 66/92 patients with endometriosis (72% and in 13/14 (95% patients in the symptomatic, endometriosis-free group (P = 0.09. Aromatase expression was not detected in any patients from the control group. In the endometriosis group, aromatase expression was detected in the eutopic endometrium of 28/45 patients (62% with American Society of Reproductive Medicine classification stage 1 of the disease, in 11/14 patients (78% with stage II, 14/20 patients (70% with stage III, and in 12/13 patients (92% with stage IV; however, the difference was only statistically significant between stages I and IV (P = 0.04.Conclusion: Aromatase expression in the endometrium was associated with the presence of dysmenorrhea and infertility irrespective of the presence of endometriosis. When endometriosis was present, however, there was a tendency for aromatase expression to be positively correlated with dysmenorrhea severity.Keywords: aromatase, endometrium, endometriosis, Cox-2, dysmenorrhea

Comparison of Macular Integrity Assessment (MAIA ™, MP-3, and the Humphrey Field Analyzer in the Evaluation of the Relationship between the Structure and Function of the Macula.

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Kazuyuki Hirooka

Full Text Available This study was conducted in order to compare relationships between the macular visual field (VF mean sensitivity measured by MAIATM (Macular Integrity Assessment, MP-3, or Humphry field analyzer (HFA and the ganglion cell and inner plexiform layer (GCA thicknesses.This cross-sectional study examined 73 glaucoma patients and 19 normal subjects. All subjects underwent measurements for GCA thickness by Cirrus HD-OCT and static threshold perimetry using MAIATM, MP-3, or HFA. VF and OCT in the retinal view were used to examine both the global relationship between the VF sensitivity and GCA thickness, and the superior hemiretina and inferior hemiretina. The relationship between the GCA thickness and macular sensitivity was examined by Spearman correlation analysis.For each instrument, statistically significant macular VF sensitivity (dB and GCA thickness relationships were observed using the decibel scale (R = 0.547-0.687, all P < 0.001. The highest correlation for the global (R = 0.682 and the superior hemiretina (R = 0.594 GCA thickness-VF mean sensitivity was observed by the HFA. The highest correlation for the inferior hemiretina (R = 0.687 GCA thickness-VF mean sensitivity was observed by the MP-3. Among the three VF measurement instruments, however, no significant differences were found for the structure-function relationships.All three VF measurement instruments found similar structure-function relationships in the central VF.

The EURONEAR Lightcurve Survey of Near Earth Asteroids

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Vaduvescu, O.; Macias, A. Aznar; Tudor, V.; Predatu, M.; Galád, A.; Gajdoš, Š.; Világi, J.; Stevance, H. F.; Errmann, R.; Unda-Sanzana, E.; Char, F.; Peixinho, N.; Popescu, M.; Sonka, A.; Cornea, R.; Suciu, O.; Toma, R.; Santos-Sanz, P.; Sota, A.; Licandro, J.; Serra-Ricart, M.; Morate, D.; Mocnik, T.; Diaz Alfaro, M.; Lopez-Martinez, F.; McCormac, J.; Humphries, N.

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This data paper presents lightcurves of 101 near Earth asteroids (NEAs) observed mostly between 2014 and 2017 as part of the EURONEAR photometric survey using 11 telescopes with diameters between 0.4 and 4.2 m located in Spain, Chile, Slovakia and Romania. Most targets had no published data at the time of observing, but some objects were observed in the same period mainly by B. Warner, allowing us to confirm or improve the existing results. To plan the runs and select the targets, we developed the public Long Planning tool in PHP. For preliminary data reduction and rapid follow-up planning we developed the LiDAS pipeline in Python and IRAF. For final data reduction, flux calibration, night linkage and Fourier fitting, we used mainly MPO Canopus. Periods of 18 targets are presented for the first time, and we could solve or constrain rotation for 16 of them. We secured periods for 45 targets (U˜ 3), found candidate periods for other 16 targets (U˜ 2), and we propose tentative periods for other 32 targets (U˜ 1). We observed 7 known or candidate binary NEAs, fiting 3 of them (2102 Tantalus, 5143 Heracles and 68348). We observed 8 known or candidate tumbling NEAs, deriving primary periods for 3 objects (9400, 242708 and 470510). We evidenced rapid oscillations (few minutes) and could fit fast tentative periods TP2 for 5 large newly suggested tumbling or binary candidates (27346, 112985, 285625, 377732, 408980), probably discovering at least one new binary NEA (2011 WO41). We resolved periods of 4 special objects which include two proposed space mission targets (163249 and 101955 Bennu), one very fast rotator NEA discovered by EURONEAR (2014 NL52) and the "Halloween asteroid" (2015 TB145). Using Mercator in simultaneous 3 band MAIA imaging, we could evidence for the first time clear variation in the color lightcurves of 10 NEAs. The periods derived from the g- r color lightcurves are found to match individual band period fits for 4 NEAs (27346, 86067, 112985 and

Características clínicas e laboratoriais de 62 casos de meningoencefalite tuberculosa Clinical and laboratory characteristics of 62 tuberculous meningoencephalitis cases

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Ceuci Nunes

1996-06-01

Full Text Available Meningite tuberculosa se constitui em uma patologia endêmica há vários anos em várias cidades de países em desenvolvimento. Em Salvador foram estudados 62 pacientes com diagnóstico comprovado de meningoencefalite tuberculosa. A idade dos pacientes variou de 2 meses a 50 anos, 59,7% dos casos se encontravam na faixa etária inferior a 4 anos. O tempo de doença antes do diagnóstico variou de horas a 90 dias, com média de 13 dias. Os sinais e sintomas clínicos mais comuns foram febre (86,7% e rigidez de nuca (81,8%. O exame de líquido cefalorraquidiano mostrou: em média celularidade de 406/mm³(4 a 1509, glicose de 37,3 mg/dL (20 a 70 e proteínas de 203 mg/dL (30 a 500; predominância de linfócitos foi observada na maioria dos casos, mas em 21,3% havia mais que 50% de polimorfonucleares.The authors present clinical, demographic and laboratory characteristics of 62 patients with proven tuberculous meningoencephalitis admitted at Couto Maia Hospital, reference for patients with infectious diseases in the State of Bahia. The patients' age varied from 2 months to 50 years, 59.7% of the cases with ages ranging from 0 to 4 years, no sex predominance. The time length for the disease varied from 0 to 90 days, average around 13 days. The most common signs and symptoms were fever and neck stiffness in 86.7 and 81.8% of the cases respectively. The cerebrospinal fluid showed cells varying from 4 to 1549/mm³, average of 406; glucose from 20 to 70 mg/dL, average of 37.3, protein from 30 to 500mg/dL, average of 203; lymphocyte predominance occurred in most cases, however in 21.3% there was predominance of neutrophils.

CARTOGRAFIA DA AÇÃO SOCIAL: REFLEXÃO E CRIATIVIDADE NO CONTATO DA ESCOLA COM A CIDADE

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Catia Antonia da Silva

2012-09-01

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The effect of pycnogenol on patients with dysmenorrhea using low-dose oral contraceptives

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Maia Jr H

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Hugo Maia Jr, Clarice Haddad, Julio Casoy Centro de Pesquisa e Assistência em Reprodução Humana (CEPARH, Salvador, Bahia, BrazilObjective: Menstrual symptoms such as dysmenorrhea usually occur during the hormone-free interval in oral contraceptive users. Progestin withdrawal activates NF-κB transcription factor, which upregulates both vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF and Cox-2 expression in the endometrium. The use of natural NF-κB inhibitors such as pycnogenol may block this response, improving dysmenorrhea.Patients and methods: Twenty-four patients with severe dysmenorrhea were allocated to one of two treatment groups. In Group A (n=13, women were treated with an oral contraceptive containing 15 µg of ethinyl estradiol and 60 mg of gestodene (Adoless® in a 24/4 regimen for three consecutive cycles. Women in Group B (n=11 used the same contraceptive regimen together with 100 mg of pycnogenol (Flebon® continuously for 3 months. Pain scores were graded using a visual analog scale (VAS before and during the hormone-free interval at the end of the third treatment cycle.Results: Before treatment, VAS pain scores for dysmenorrhea were 8 and 9 in Groups A and B, respectively. However, by the end of the third treatment cycle, pain scores had decreased significantly (P<0.05 both in groups A and B. The final pain scores were 6 in Group A and 2 in Group B, a difference that was statistically significant (P<0.0001. In Group B, 27% of the patients became pain-free, while in Group A, none of the women reported complete disappearance of this symptom. The number of bleeding days was also lower in Group B.Discussion: Pycnogenol effectively decreased pain scores and the number of bleeding days when administered concomitantly with a low-dose 24/4 oral contraceptive containing gestodene.Keywords: gestodene, hormone-free interval, pain

O currículo em movimento: o (redesenho e a inserção do programa ensino médio inovador em uma escola pública do estado do Rio Grande do Norte

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Falconiere Leone Bezerra de Oliveira

2016-12-01

Full Text Available No campo da ciência da educação, estudos acerca do currículo da escola básica são frequentes e têm crescido nos últimos anos, em decorrência da necessidade atribuída aos currículos em adequar os conhecimentos historicamente acumulados à demanda de sujeitos que frequentam a escola nos dias atuais. Inserido nesse contexto, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal compreender como o Programa Ensino Médio Inovador - ProEMI se insere num (redesenho do currículo em movimento e quais os desdobramentos desta inserção para a escola e a Formação das Juventudes. O aporte teórico do estudo foi a abordagem oferecida pela pedagogia crítica, bem como trabalhos da literatura especializada em currículo. Para entender o currículo do Ensino Médio e a formação para as juventudes usamos como principais referenciais teóricos Juarez Dayrell; Paulo Carrano; Carla Linhares Maia e Miguel Arroyo; para entendermos o ProEMI as discussões de Vanessa Jakimiu sobre os documentos oficiais foram de fundamental importância. Os elementos norteadores para o entendimento do diálogo estão apontados teoricamente por Paulo Freire; Hostina Nascimento e Marta Pernambuco, entre outros. Em relação à Integração Curricular usamos Maria Matos e Edi Paiva; James Beane, entre outros. Na parte empírica do trabalho, utilizamos como principal instrumento de obtenção de informação a entrevista individualizada com educadores, e a coletiva, com educandos, complementando as informações com a observação simples e análise documental. O redesenho curricular do Ensino Médio necessita integrar os saberes das juventudes para que os conhecimentos escolares se tornem mais significativos. Palavras-chave: currículo em movimento; ensino médio inovador; juventudes.

Antibiotic-modifying activity of riachin, a non-cyanogenic cyanoglycoside extracted from Bauhinia pentandra

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Farias PAM

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Pablo Antonio Maia de Farias,1,3 Fernando Gomes Figueredo,2,3 Aline Maria Brito Lucas,3 Rafael Barbosa de Moura,3 Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho,2 Tania Maria Sarmento da Silva,4 Ana Luiza de Aguiar Rocha Martin,2,3 Marta Maria de França Fonteles1 1Development and Technological Innovation in Medicines, Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, Fortaleza-CE, 2College of Biomedicine, Faculdade Leão Sampaio-FLS, 3College of Pharmacy, Faculdade de Medicina Estácio de Juazeiro do Norte-Estácio, Juazeiro do Norte-CE, 4Department of Molecular Sciences, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil Background: The search for new active compounds from the Brazilian flora has intensified in recent years, especially for new drugs with antibiotic potential. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to determine whether riachin has antibiotic activity in itself or is able to modulate the activity of conventional antibiotics.Methods: A non-cyanogenic cyanoglycoside known as riachin was isolated from Bauhinia pentandra, and was tested alone and in combination with three antibiotics (clindamycin, amikacin, and gentamicin against multiresistant bacterial strains (Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus.Results: Riachin did not show significant antibiotic activity when tested alone against any strain (P>0.05. However, when combined with conventional antibiotics, it showed drug-modifying activity against strains of S. aureus exposed to clindamycin (P<0.001 as well as against P. aeruginosa exposed to amikacin (P<0.001. Although riachin did not show direct antibiotic activity, it had synergistic activity when combined with amikacin or clindamycin. The mechanism of action of this synergism is under investigation.Conclusion: The results of this work demonstrate that some substances of natural origin can enhance the effectiveness of certain antibiotics, which means a substantial reduction in the drug dose required and

Holistic flood risk assessment using agent-based modelling: the case of Sint Maarten Island

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Abayneh Abebe, Yared; Vojinovic, Zoran; Nikolic, Igor; Hammond, Michael; Sanchez, Arlex; Pelling, Mark

2015-04-01

Floods in coastal regions are regarded as one of the most dangerous and harmful disasters. Though commonly referred to as natural disasters, coastal floods are also attributable to various social, economic, historical and political issues. Rapid urbanisation in coastal areas combined with climate change and poor governance can lead to a significant increase in the risk of pluvial flooding coinciding with fluvial and coastal flooding posing a greater risk of devastation in coastal communities. Disasters that can be triggered by hydro-meteorological events are interconnected and interrelated with both human activities and natural processes. They, therefore, require holistic approaches to help understand their complexity in order to design and develop adaptive risk management approaches that minimise social and economic losses and environmental impacts, and increase resilience to such events. Being located in the North Atlantic Ocean, Sint Maarten is frequently subjected to hurricanes. In addition, the stormwater catchments and streams on Sint Maarten have several unique characteristics that contribute to the severity of flood-related impacts. Urban environments are usually situated in low-lying areas, with little consideration for stormwater drainage, and as such are subject to flash flooding. Hence, Sint Maarten authorities drafted policies to minimise the risk of flood-related disasters on the island. In this study, an agent-based model is designed and applied to understand the implications of introduced policies and regulations, and to understand how different actors' behaviours influence the formation, propagation and accumulation of flood risk. The agent-based model built for this study is based on the MAIA meta-model, which helps to decompose, structure and conceptualize socio-technical systems with an agent-oriented perspective, and is developed using the NetLogo simulation environment. The agents described in this model are households and businesses, and

Comparative effects of the ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives resolvins E1 and D1 and protectin DX in models of inflammation and pain

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Fonseca FCS

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Flávia CS Fonseca,1 Ricardo M Orlando,2 Regina MM Turchetti-Maia,1 Janetti Nogueira de Francischi1 1Department of Pharmacology, Biological Sciences Institute, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2Department of Chemistry, Exact Sciences Institute, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Purpose: Specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs, also known as lipoxins, resolvins (Rvs, protectins and maresins, have been implicated in the resolution of the inflammatory process. However, a systematic comparison of their activity in the relief of inflammation and pain models is still lacking.Materials and methods: The effects of Rvs E1 and D1 and protectin DX (PDX were assessed in rat paws inflamed by the standard proinflammatory stimulus carrageenan or by histamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, substance P or prostaglandin E2. The experimental outcomes were the mechanical nociceptive threshold and increase in paw volume as a measure of pain and edema formation, respectively. The analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities of the indicated SPMs were also compared with nonsteroidal (indomethacin and celecoxib and steroidal (dexamethasone anti-inflammatory drugs.Results: Only RvE1 and RvD1 presented analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities in the carrageenan model, and RvE1 was twice as potent as RvD1. Both substances tended to be better analgesics than anti-inflammatory agents, with a modeling profile similar to steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. However, proinflammatory effects (edema formation were also detected when the mediators histamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine or substance P replaced carrageenan as the proinflammatory stimuli. The analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of resolvins were specifically prevented by an antagonist of the leukotriene B4 receptor 1 (BLT1.Conclusion: Rvs, as analgesic agents, may be better therapeutic agents than nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, the

Is rhabdomyolysis an additional factor in the pathogenesis of acute renal failure in leptospirosis? É a rabdomiólise um fator adicional na patogônese da insuficiencia renal aguda na leptospirose?

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Reinaldo Martinelli

1994-04-01

Full Text Available Leptospirosis is an important cause of acute renal failure in our environment. Although several mechanisms are implicated, the role of rhabdomyolysis in the pathogenesis of acute renal failure in leptospirosis has not been analysed. Sixteen patients with the diagnosis of leptospiroses consecutively admitted to the hospital were prospectively studied. The disease was characterized by sudden onset in all patients and, at admission, jaundice, conjunctival suffusion and myalgias. Mild to moderate proteinuria with unremarkable urinary sediment was recorded in 37.5% of the patients and abnormal levels of urea creatinine were found in 87.5% and 74.0%, respectively. Increased levels of aminotranspherase were documented in all 12 and CPK in all 10 patients studied. Serum myoglobin levels greater than 120µg/l recorded in 56.2%. A correlation between myoglobin and renal failure or severity of disease, however, could not be established.Leptospirose é uma importante causa de insuficiência renal aguda, em nosso ambiente. Embora vários sejam os mecanismos implicados, o papel da rabdomiólise na patogênese da insuficiência renal aguda na leptospirose ainda não foi analisado. Com esse objetivo, 16 pacientes com o diagnóstico da forma icterohemorrágica da leptospirose consecutivamente admitidos no Hospital Couto Maia, Salvador, Bahia, foram prospectivamente estudados. A doença foi caracterizada por início súbito e, à admissão, ictericia, sufusões hemorrágicas conjuntivais e mialgias. Proteinúria de intensidade média a moderada com sedimento urinário inexpressivo foi observada em 37,5% dos pacientes e níveis séricos elevados de uréia e creatinina em 78,5% e 74,0%, respectivamente. Níveis aumentados de aminotransferase foram documentados em todos os 12 e de CPK em todos os 10 pacientes avaliados para essas enzimas. Níveis séricos maiores que 120µg/l foram observados em 56,2% dos pacientes. Não foram encontradas correlações, entretanto

Eesti vähemuskultuuride seltside tegevus integratsiooniprotsessi edendamisel = The Activities of National Minority Cultural Societies / Collectives as the Possibility to Promote the Integration Process in Estonia / Maia Muldma, Anastasija Villemson

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Muldma, Maia, 1948-

2013-01-01

Artikkel baseerub 2012. aastal läbiviidud uurimusel, mille eesmärgiks oli selgitada välja Slaavi Haridus- ja Kultuuriühingu Bõliina (SHKÜ) tegevuse mõju integratsiooniprotsessile Haapsalu haridusjuhtide ning eesti ja vene õppekeelega koolide õpilaste arvamuse põhjal

Association of age and macular pigment optical density using dual-wavelength autofluorescence imaging

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Lima VC

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Verônica Castro Lima,1,2 Richard B Rosen,1,3 Tiago Santos Prata,2 Syril Dorairaj,4 Leigh Spielberg,1 Mauricio Maia,2 Juliana M Sallum21Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, 2Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; 3New York Medical College, New York, NY, 4Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USABackground: Several lines of evidence suggest that macular pigment may play a protective role against age-related macular degeneration, but the influence of age on macular pigment density levels remains unclear. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between age and the normal distribution of macular pigment optical density (MPOD values surrounding the fovea.Methods: Consecutive healthy subjects with no evidence of ocular disease were enrolled in this study. After inclusion, MPOD values were measured at specific eccentricities (0.5, 1, and 2 degrees from the foveal center using a dual-wavelength autofluorescence method employing a modified confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope. Whenever both eyes were eligible, one was randomly selected for analysis. The correlation between age and MPOD values was investigated using regression analysis.Results: Thirty subjects (30 eyes were included (mean age 48.6 ± 16.4 [range 23–77] years. Significant differences were found between MPOD values measured at 0.5, 1, and 2 degrees from the center of the fovea (0.49 ± 0.12 density units, 0.37 ± 0.11 density units, and 0.13 ± 0.05 density units, respectively, P < 0.05. Significant correlations between age and MPOD values at 0.5 and 1 degree were found (P ≤ 0.02. Values measured at 2 degrees did not correlate significantly with age (P = 0.06.Conclusion: In healthy subjects, MPOD values were highest near the foveal center. These values appeared to increase during adulthood (peak at 45–50 years, followed by a gradual reduction

ProAtlantic - The Atlantic Checkpoint - Data Availability and Adequacy in the Atlantic Basin

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McGrath, F.

2017-12-01

mitigation or climate monitoring, leading to comprehensive data sets (e.g. the INTERREG MAIA MPA network). The results of the ProAtlantic project indicate that there is a requirement internationally for improving access to, and visibility of these data sets. This is a continuous process and will impact current and future initiatives in the Atlantic basin.

The results of diagnostic and treatment of patients with diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration at a diabetes type 2.

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I. V. Vorobyova

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Purpose: Explore the changing clinical and functional and morphological changes of the retina against application of angiogenesis inhibitor in patients with diabetes type 2 with comorbidity fundus: diabetic retinopathy (DR and agerelated macular degeneration (AMD.Patients and Methods. In the main study group included 22 patients (22 eyes with type 2 diabetes with combined fundus pathology DR and AMD. All patients before and after intravitreal injection of an angiogenesis inhibitor ranibizumab (Lucentis, Novartis was assessed visual acuity, macular thickness and macular morphology based on the results of OCT, the retinal sensitivity according to the data of microperimetry (MAIA. The control group study included 30 people (15 healthy and 15 with type 2 diabetes without DR.Results. When comparing the main group with the control group was revealed that visual acuity in the main group (0,27±0,05 was significantly lower than in the control group (0,8±0,01, p <0.05; retinal thickness was significantly higher in the control group, and the retinal sensitivity was significantly lower. On the background of intravitreal injection of ranibizumab all patients with DR and AMD had significantly increase in visual acuity on average by 37 % (from 0,27±0,05 before treatment to 0,37±0,05 after treatment, a significantly reduction of macular thickness in 9 out of 9 areas, including the fovea centralis, an average of 32.6 % and increase retinal sensitivity by 24 % (from 11,75±1,68 (dB to 14,58±1,68 (dB, (p <0.05. The correlations were found between visual acuity and retinal thickness, as well as between visual acuity and retinal sensitivity of the macula, before treatment r = –0,26, p <0.01 and r = 0,7 p <0.01, respectively, after treatment with r = –0,14, p <0.01 and r = 0,64, p <0.01, respectively. Conclusions. Intravitreal injection of angiogenesis inhibitor ranibizumab to patients with comorbidity fundus DR and AMD on a background of

Segmentation and Contrasting Magma Supply Along the South-East Indian Ridge, 130°E to 140°E: Results of the STORM Cruise

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Briais, A.; Ruellan, E.; Maia, M.; Hemond, C.; Hanan, B. B.; Ceuleneer, G.; Graham, D. W.; Park, S. H.

2017-12-01

We present observations of the South-East Indian Ridge (SEIR) between 130°E to 140°E, mostly collected during the STORM cruise (South Tasmania Ocean Ridge and Mantle) on the N/O L'Atalante. The SEIR displays large variations of axial depth despite an almost constant intermediate full spreading rate of 75 km/m.y. In the study area the analysis of multibeam bathymetry maps shows that the axis displays a rise morphology to the east away from the discontinuities, and a rifted high morphology in the west and near the OSCs, as often observed along intermediate-spreading mid-ocean ridges. The ridge axis is offset by 27 km at 131°E and 20 km at 135°E by two large-offset overlapping spreading centers (OSCs) propagating westward, and by a smaller OSC at 137°17'E. These OSCs define four second-order ridge segments (A2 to A5 from west to east). We observe a general shallowing of the ridge axis from 3100 m depth in the west to 2400 m depth in the east, and a prominent deepening of the axis near the large OSCs. The easternmost segment A5 shows a very shallow axial ridge suggesting a robust magma supply despite its proximity to the George V transform fault (140°E). Major element variations in basalt glasses are systematically related to morphotectonic segmentation of the ridge axis, showing contrasts in crystal fractionation from one segment to another that may relate to differences in replenishment of axial melt lenses by primitive melts. Along segment A5, crystallization increases with proximity to the George V transform fault, consistent with an expected cold edge effect. In contrast, along segment A3 the extent of crystallization increases progressively from east to west in the direction of ridge propagation. *STORM Cruise Scientific Party: F. Barrere, C. Boulart, A. Briais, D. Brunelli, G. Ceuleneer, N. Ferreira, D. Graham, B. Hanan, C. Hémond, S. Macleod, M. Maia, A. Maillard, S. Merkuryev, S.H. Park, S. Révillon, E. Ruellan, A. Schohn, S. Watson, and Y.S. Yang.

Structure and Dynamics of the Southeast Indian Ridge and Off-axis Volcanism, 129°E to 140°E: Preliminary Results of the STORM Cruise

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Maia, M.; Briais, A.; Barrere, F.; Boulart, C.; Ceuleneer, G.; Ferreira, N.; Hanan, B. B.; Hemond, C.; MacLeod, S.; Maillard, A. L.; Merkuryev, S. A.; Park, S. H.; Revillon, S.; Ruellan, E.; Schohn, A.; Watson, S. J.; Yang, Y. S.

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We present observations of the South-East Indian Ridge (SEIR) collected during the STORM cruise (South Tasmania Ocean Ridge and Mantle) on the N/O L'Atalante early 2015. The SEIR between Australia and Antarctica displays large variations of axial morphology despite an almost constant intermediate spreading rate. The Australia-Antarctic Discordance (AAD) between 120°E and 128°E is a section of the mid-ocean ridge where the magma budget is abnormally low, and which marks the boundary between Indian and Pacific mantle domains with distinct geochemical isotopic compositions. The STORM project focuses on the area east of the discordance from 128 to 140°E, where gravity highs observed on satellite-derived maps of the flanks of the SEIR reveal numerous volcanic seamounts. A major objective of the STORM cruise was to test the hypothesis of a mantle flow from the Pacific to the Indian domains. We collected multibeam bathymetry and magnetic data between 136 and 138°E to map off-axis volcanic ridges up to 10 Ma-old crust. We mapped the SEIR axis between 129 and 140°E, and the northern part of the George V transform fault. We collected rock samples on seamounts and in the transform fault, basaltic glass samples along the ridge axis, and near-bottom samples and in-situ measurements in the water column. Our observations reveal that the off-axis seamounts form near the SEIR axis, and are not associated to off-axis deformation of the ocean floor. They show a general shallowing of the ridge axis from the AAD to the George V TF and the presence of robust axial segments near the transform fault. They allow us to describe the complex evolution of the transform fault system. They also permit to locate new hydrothermal systems along the ridge axis. STORM cruise scientific party: F. Barrere, C. Boulart, G. Ceuleneer, N. Ferreira, B. Hanan, C. Hémond, S. Macleod, M. Maia, A. Maillard, S. Merkuryev, S.H. Park, S. Révillon, E. Ruellan, A. Schohn, S. Watson, and Y.S. Yang.

The results of diagnostic and treatment of patients with diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration at a diabetes type 2.

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2014-01-01

Full Text Available Purpose: Explore the changing clinical and functional and morphological changes of the retina against application of angiogenesis inhibitor in patients with diabetes type 2 with comorbidity fundus: diabetic retinopathy (DR and agerelated macular degeneration (AMD.Patients and Methods. In the main study group included 22 patients (22 eyes with type 2 diabetes with combined fundus pathology DR and AMD. All patients before and after intravitreal injection of an angiogenesis inhibitor ranibizumab (Lucentis, Novartis was assessed visual acuity, macular thickness and macular morphology based on the results of OCT, the retinal sensitivity according to the data of microperimetry (MAIA. The control group study included 30 people (15 healthy and 15 with type 2 diabetes without DR.Results. When comparing the main group with the control group was revealed that visual acuity in the main group (0,27±0,05 was significantly lower than in the control group (0,8±0,01, p <0.05; retinal thickness was significantly higher in the control group, and the retinal sensitivity was significantly lower. On the background of intravitreal injection of ranibizumab all patients with DR and AMD had significantly increase in visual acuity on average by 37 % (from 0,27±0,05 before treatment to 0,37±0,05 after treatment, a significantly reduction of macular thickness in 9 out of 9 areas, including the fovea centralis, an average of 32.6 % and increase retinal sensitivity by 24 % (from 11,75±1,68 (dB to 14,58±1,68 (dB, (p <0.05. The correlations were found between visual acuity and retinal thickness, as well as between visual acuity and retinal sensitivity of the macula, before treatment r = –0,26, p <0.01 and r = 0,7 p <0.01, respectively, after treatment with r = –0,14, p <0.01 and r = 0,64, p <0.01, respectively. Conclusions. Intravitreal injection of angiogenesis inhibitor ranibizumab to patients with comorbidity fundus DR and AMD on a background of

Uptake of uranium in Atlantic salmon gills following exposure experiments demonstrated by SR-XRF tomography

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Lind, O.C.; Cagno, S.; Brit Salbu, H.C.T. [Centre of Excellence in Environmental Radioactivity - CERAD, Norwegian University of Life Sciences - UMB (Norway); Vanmeert, F.; Nuyts, G.; Janssens, K. [University of Antwerp (Belgium); Alfeld, M.; Falkenberg, G. [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron - DESY (Germany)

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Uranium is a naturally occurring radionuclide as well as a heavy metal that can be found in elevated concentrations (mg/L) in the aquatic environment and therefore may pose a risk to aquatic organisms including fish. The major challenges in monitoring the fate of U in complex media, such as soils, sediments and water are to identify mobile and bioavailable U species, interactions with environmental components, transfer to organisms via sorption to surfaces and across membranes, and the internal distribution of target organs. As part of a larger study, U accumulation in gills and internal organs (e.g. liver) as well as mortality of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) were studied as a function of U concentration as well as pH of the exposure water. As Atlantic salmon does not ingest freshwater, the major pathway for uptake of U in the liver is hypothesized to be by transfer across the gills. However, to our best knowledge, active uptake of U within gill filaments has never been proven. In the present work, we demonstrate that following 96 hours exposure of 6 mg U/l in freshwater at pH 7 and 1 mg U/l at pH 5, U was actively taken up in the Atlantic Salmon gill filaments. The internal distribution of U within exposed organisms was visualized using μXRF/μXRD two-dimensional scanning and XRF/XRD tomography at the microprobe end-station of the PETRA III P06 beamline. The recently developed and highly efficient Maia detector array was successfully employed to record extended high-resolution element-specific maps of the tissue samples. First, conventional 2D μXRF/μXRD mapping allowed to identify the axial planes in the samples actually containing U. On the same samples, higher resolution virtual cross-sections were obtained (18 keV, 0.6 μm beam size) by means of μXRF/μXRD tomography of the planes in which U was encountered. The results proved that U not only adheres to the external boundary of the fish gills, but it is also taken up via gills. The results of this work

Is There Evidence of Cost Benefits of Electronic Medical Records, Standards, or Interoperability in Hospital Information Systems? Overview of Systematic Reviews.

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Reis, Zilma Silveira Nogueira; Maia, Thais Abreu; Marcolino, Milena Soriano; Becerra-Posada, Francisco; Novillo-Ortiz, David; Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz Pinho

2017-08-29

, monitoring infections more effectively, and enhancing the continuity of care during physician handoffs. This review identified some benefits in the quality of care but did not provide evidence that the implementation of eHealth interventions had a measurable impact on cost-effectiveness in hospital settings. However, further evidence is needed to infer the impact of standards adoption or interoperability in cost benefits of health care; this in turn requires further research. ©Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Thais Abreu Maia, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Francisco Becerra-Posada, David Novillo-Ortiz, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (http://medinform.jmir.org), 29.08.2017.

Suhted õpetajatega kui õpilaste koolirõõmu ennustav tegur: eesti ja vene koolide võrdlus = Relationships Between Students and Teachers as a Predictor of School Motivation in Estonia and Russian Schools / Leida Talts, Eva-Maria Kangro, Maia Muldm

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2013-01-01

Artikkel käsitleb õpilaste ja õpetajate vaheliste suhete seoseid koolirõõmuga. Andmed tuginevad projekti "Aktiivne ja turvaline koolipäev - SAS" raames korraldatud uuringu osale, mis käsitleb õpilaste arvamusi suhete kvaliteedist koolikeskkonnas

St Paul fracture zone intratransform ridge basalts (Equatorial Atlantic): Insight within the mantle source diversity

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Hemond, C.; Brunelli, D.; Maia, M.; Prigent, S.; Sichel, S. E.

2017-12-01

The St Paul Transform System offsets by 630 km the Equatorial Mid Atlantic Ridge at 1° N. It consists of four Major faults separating three intra transform ridge axes. Volcanic glassy samples were collected inside two intratransform ridge (ITR) segments during the COLMEIA cruise (Maia et al ; 2016) and samples from the third ITR available from a previous cruise ST PAUL (Hékinian et al. 2000). Major, trace elements and Hf, Pb, Sr and Nd isotopes were determined on selected hand picked glass chips. Few glassy samples recovered and analysed from abyssal hill samples open a time window of about 4.5 million years in the chemistry of the northern ITR. Results show that all samples are basaltic in composition but trace elements display contrasting images for the three ITR. The northern ITR samples are all light REE and highly incompatible enriched and are E-MORB; the central ITR samples display rather flat REE pattern with a level on enrichment of the HREE higher than the other two ITR and are T-MORB. Southern ITR samples are more heterogeneous N-MORB to T-MORB with a lower level of HREE. Isotopes reveal that the ITRs sample distinct mantle sources. In various isotope plans, the northern ITR samples plot together with published results from the MAR directly north of the St Paul F.Z. Therefore they exhibit some flavor of the Sierra Leone hotspot interacting with the MAR at 1.7°N. Central and southern ITR samples have very distinct composition from the northern ITR but resemble each other. However, for identical 206Pb/204Pb ratios, central ITR has slightly but significantly higher 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb, also higher 143Nd/144Nd for a given 87Sr/86Sr. Southern ITR is in chemical continuity of the MAR southward. So that central ITR samples display a rather specific composition. Off axis samples corresponding to the activity of the northern ITR up to 4.6 m.y. show that the hotspot contribution was even bigger on the spreading axis than today and might be fading with

Coffee seeds isotopic composition as a potential proxy to evaluate Minas Gerais, Brazil seasonal variations during seed maturation

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Rodrigues, Carla; Maia, Rodrigo; Brunner, Marion; Carvalho, Eduardo; Prohaska, Thomas; Máguas, Cristina

2010-05-01

between plant physiology and local climate variations as well as the particularly soil geology. De Castro, R. D., Marraccini, P., 2006. Cytology, biochemistry and molecular changes during coffee fruit development. Braz. J. Plant Physiol., 18(1) : 175 - 199. Rodrigues, C. I., Maia, R. Miranda, M., Ribeirinho, M., Nogueira, J. M. F., Máguas, C., 2009. Stable isotope analysis for green coffee bean: A possible method for geographical origin discrimination. J. Food Comp. Anal. 22, 463-471 Rodrigues, C., Prohaska, T., Máguas, C., 2009. Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Fingerprinting of Green Coffee Beans and its Potential to Proof Authenticity of Coffee. Food Chem. (submitted). Acknowledgements Carla Rodrigues wishes to thank Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia for a grant (SFRH/BD/28354/2006). Financial support by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF START grant 267 N11) is highly acknowledged.

The results of correction of endothelial dysfunction in type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with diabetic retinopathy and associated hypertension

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2013-01-01

Full Text Available Purpose:Studying the dynamics of clinical functional and morphological status of the retina against the metabolic and antiischemic therapy of retinopathy in type 2 diabetes associated with hypertension based on indicators in the tear fluid and serum nitric oxide metabolites.Methods: Following a standard ophthalmologic examination of 50 patients, among which are the two groups are similar in age andsex. The main group (n = 37 with Cd 2, DR and DR I and II hypertension II, III stage, the average age was 62,2±1,2 years, antihypertensive therapy — an ACE inhibitor Prestarium (5 mg. Patients of the group were divided into two subgroups: the first subgroup (n = 19who underwent parabulbarnom Mildronate (10 injections, the second subgroup (n = 18, which the drug was administered intranasally Semaks (20 days. The control group (n = 13 healthy (n = 6, and patients with type 2 diabetes without DR and GB (n = 7. Quantitative determination of the stable NO metabolites was determined in biochemical method samples of serum and lacrimal fluid.Results: After completing a course of therapy for patients of the first subgroup marked decrease in retinal thickness (p ≤ 0,05 in f.centralis, temporal lobe, the upper and lower bands parafovea and temporal area perifovea, while in the second group — in 9 areas of the macular area (p ≤ 0.05. It is also noted a significant increase in sensitivity to light in the macular area in patients of both subgroups (MAIA. On the background of the treatment observed reduction of NOx in the lacrimal fluid and serum of patients in both clinical groups. Thus, reduction of NOx in the lacrimal fluid was statistically significant in the subgroup of patients receiving anti-ischemic therapy semaks (p <0,05. In both clinical subgroups after treatment revealed correlation between systolic blood pressure and the level of NOx in the serum (r = 0,4; p <0,05.Conclusion: The positive effect (p <0,05 antioxidant (Mildronat and

Chitosan–tripolyphosphate nanoparticles as Arrabidaea chica standardized extract carrier: synthesis, characterization, biocompatibility, and antiulcerogenic activity

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Full Text Available Leila Servat-Medina,1,2 Alvaro González-Gómez,2,3 Felisa Reyes-Ortega,2 Ilza Maria Oliveira Sousa,1 Nubia de Cássia Almeida Queiroz,1 Patricia Maria Wiziack Zago,1 Michelle Pedrosa Jorge,1 Karin Maia Monteiro,1,4 João Ernesto de Carvalho,1 Julio San Román,2,3 Mary Ann Foglio1 1Chemical, Biological and Agricultural Pluridisciplinary Research Center-State University of Campinas (CPQBA-UNICAMP, Campinas-SP, Brazil; 2Biomaterials Group, Polymer Science and Technology Institute-Spanish National Research Council (ICTP-CSIC, 3CIBER-BBN, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red, Madrid, Spain; 4Department of Medical Clinics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas-SP, Brazil Abstract: Natural products using plants have received considerable attention because of their potential to treat various diseases. Arrabidaea chica (Humb. & Bonpl. B. Verlot is a native tropical American vine with healing properties employed in folk medicine for wound healing, inflammation, and gastrointestinal colic. Applying nanotechnology to plant extracts has revealed an advantageous strategy for herbal drugs considering the numerous features that nanostructured systems offer, including solubility, bioavailability, and pharmacological activity enhancement. The present study reports the preparation and characterization of chitosan–sodium tripolyphosphate nanoparticles (NPs charged with A. chica standardized extract (AcE. Particle size and zeta potential were measured using a Zetasizer Nano ZS. The NP morphological characteristics were observed using scanning electron microscopy. Our studies indicated that the chitosan/sodium tripolyphosphate mass ratio of 5 and volume ratio of 10 were found to be the best condition to achieve the lowest NP sizes, with an average hydrodynamic diameter of 150±13 nm and a zeta potential of +45±2 mV. Particle size decreased with AcE addition (60±10.2 nm, suggesting an interaction between the extract’s composition

PREFACE: 22nd International Congress on X-Ray Optics and Microanalysis

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Falkenberg, Gerald; Schroer, Christian G.

2014-04-01

ICXOM22 The 22nd edition of the International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalysis (ICXOM 22) was held from 2-6 September 2013, in Hamburg, Germany. The congress was organized by scientists from DESY in collaboration with TU Dresden and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, who also formed the scientific advisory board. The congress was hosted in the historical lecture hall building of the University of Hamburg located in the city center. ICXOM22 was attended by about 210 registered participants, including 67 students, and was open for listeners. The attendance was split between 26 countries (Germany 120, rest of Europe 57, America 20, Asia 8, Australia 6). The ICXOM series is a forum for the discussion of new developments in instrumentation, methods and applications in the fields of micro- and nano-analysis by means of X-ray beams. Following the trend of the last 10 years, the conference focusses more and more on synchrotron radiation rather than X-ray laboratory sources. Besides micro-beam X-ray fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy, different methods based on diffraction and full-field imaging were covered. Newly introduced to the ICXOM series was scanning coherent X-ray diffraction imaging, which was shown to evolve into a mature method for the imaging of nanostructures, defects and strain fields. New developments on fast X-ray detectors were discussed (Lambda, Maia) and advances in X-ray optics — like the generation of a sub 5nm point focus by Multilayer Zone plates — were presented. Talks on micro- and nano-analysis applications were distributed in special sessions on bio-imaging, Earth and environmental sciences, and Cultural heritage. The congress featured nine keynote and ten plenary talks, 56 talks in 14 parallel sessions and about 120 posters in three afternoon sessions. Seventeen commercial exhibitors exposed related X-ray instrumentation products, and two luncheon seminars on detector electronics were given. This allowed us to keep the student

Geomagnetic Paleointensity Variations as a Cheap, High-Resolution Geochronometer for Recent Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes

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DYMENT, J.; HEMOND, C.

2001-12-01

of the data confirms the quality of the oceanic crust as a recorder of the geomagnetic variations. Future work in the framework of Project GIMNAUT include 1) the processing and interpretation of the available magnetic signals to obtain a detailed sequence of the geomagnetic fluctuations for the last 800 ka; 2) the dating of collected samples with different radiochronologic methods such as K-Ar and Ar-Ar for samples older than 100-150 ka and 230Th-238U for samples aged between 300-10 ka; and 3) the calibration of the geomagnetic intensity variation sequence as a high resolution geochronometer for the last 800 ka. Such a magnetic geochronometer would present an obvious interest for mid-ocean ridge studies, because of its low cost and simplicity of operation: it would only require the addition of a deep-sea magnetometer onto existing means of investigation such as submersibles, ROVs or AUVs. Beyond this application, this magnetic geochronometer could also be used for accurate dating of pelagic sedimentary sequences, through the analysis of relative paleointensities on cores, or of continental or island volcanic flows, through the determination of absolute paleointensities by the Thellier-Thellier method. (*) N. Arnaud, C. Bassoullet, M.. Benoit, A. Briais, F. Chabaux, A.K. Chaubey, A. Chauvin, P. Gente, H. Guillou, H. Horen, M. Kitazawa, B. Le Gall, M. Maia, M. Ravilly

Radio Astronomers Get Their First Glimpse of Powerful Solar Storm

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2001-08-01

Astronomers have made the first radio-telescope images of a powerful coronal mass ejection on the Sun, giving them a long-sought glimpse of hitherto unseen aspects of these potentially dangerous events. "These observations are going to provide us with a new and unique tool for deciphering the mechanisms of coronal mass ejections and how they are related to other solar events," said Tim Bastian, an astronomer at the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia. Radio image of coronal mass ejection; circle indicates the size and location of the Sun. White dots are where radio spectral measurements were made. Bastian, along with Monique Pick, Alain Kerdraon and Dalmiro Maia of the Paris Observatory, and Angelos Vourlidas of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., used a solar radio telescope in Nancay, France, to study a coronal mass ejection that occurred on April 20, 1998. Their results will be published in the September 1 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Coronal mass ejections are powerful magnetic explosions in the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, that can blast billions of tons of charged particles into interplanetary space at tremendous speeds. If the ejection is aimed in the direction of Earth, the speeding particles interact with our planet's magnetic field to cause auroral displays, radio-communication blackouts, and potentially damage satellites and electric-power systems. "Coronal mass ejections have been observed for many years, but only with visible-light telescopes, usually in space. While previous radio observations have provided us with powerful diagnostics of mass ejections and associated phenomena in the corona, this is the first time that one has been directly imaged in wavelengths other than visible light," Bastian said. "These new data from the radio observations give us important clues about how these very energetic events work," he added. The radio images show an

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�BLICO EM GOIÂNIA – GO – BRASIL QUALITY AND INNOVATION IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IN GOIANIA – GO – BRAZIL Maria Regina Silva Lima Bento Alves Costa Filho Cesar Ricardo Maia Vasconcelos CRESCIMENTO OU MANUTENÇÃO DA POSIÇÃO: O DILEMA DOS GESTORES DE UMA INDÚSTRIA DE PLÁSTICOS DA SERRA GAÚCHA GROWTH OR MAINTENANCE OF THE POSITION: THE DILEMMA OF THE MANAGERS OF A PLASTICS INDUSTRY SERRA GAUCHA Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimarães Eliana Andréa Severo Sylvia Maria Azevedo Roesch Pelayo Munhoz Olea Eric Charles Henri Dorion ESTRATÉGIA E COMUNICAÇÃO COM O MERCADO. PERCEPÇÃO DOS GESTORES DAS INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR SOBRE AS AÇÕES DE RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL NA PERSPECTIVA DO MÉTODO FENOMENOLÓGICO STRATEGY AND COMMUNICATION WITH THE MARKET. PERCEPTION OF MANAGERS OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD VIEW Roberto Bazanini Ademir Antonio Ferreira Homero Leoni Bazanini Rosalina Florindo da Silva REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN BRAZIL: A REVIEW OF EVALUATION LITERATURE POLÍTICA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL NO BRASIL: UMA REVISÃO DA LITERATURA SOBRE AVALIAÇÃO Guilherme Mendes Resende FLORESTAS E PARTICIPAÇÃO COMO VETORES DO DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL: REFLEXÕES SOBRE OS CASOS ACRE E RIO GRANDE DO SUL FORESTRY AND CIVIC PARTICIPATION AS DRIVERS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSIS OF THE CASES ACRE AND RIO GRANDE DO SUL Markus Erwin Brose A IMPORTÂNCIA DA INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE PARA COMPREENSÃO DAS QUESTÕES AMBIENTAIS THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY FOR UNDERSTADING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUBJETCTS Cidonea Machado Deponti PROJETOS DE VIDA, MOBILIDADE E METRÓPOLE: AS TRAJETÓRIAS DE JOVENS ADULTOS NO CONTEXTO INTERNACIONAL LIFE PROJECTS, MOBILITY AND METROPOLIS : YOUNG ADULTS’ IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT Grazielle Betina Brandt Serge Côté

Tambos de Filosofía Indígenas: la perspectiva de la nosotridad

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: o primeiro é sobre filosofias indígenas e cosmo-visões e o segundo falará respeito a nosotridad dentro das comunidades Incas e Maias-tojolabales. Palavras-chave: filosofia indígena, nosotridad, visão de mundo, América Latina. Tambos of indigenous philosopies: the perspective of the nosotridad Abstract The existence of a philosophy within the ancestral cultures of Latin America has been a widely debated matter until the recent days, ever since the question about the philosophizing of these populations rose. The epistemological colonization of the western culture has led to the denial the existence of other means of knowledge and different ways to live life of several indigenous communities. Philosophy as rational exercise for answering big questions in life, is not just one, it does not have a homeland, or time, but they are multiple, multicultural, and some of them are communal. Among indigenous population there is a Cosmo-experience (the way towns adapt the plural visions of the world to their daily living experience and a “pensamiento nosotrico” (a Spanish term related to those elements that can identify a specific population that can improve life quality in every single aspect of it, that in essence are relational. Two main topics are the starting point of this work. The first is about American – indigenous philosophies and Cosmo-visions and the second will talk about the “nosotridad” between Incas and Mayas-tojolabales. Key words: indigenous philosophy, nosotridad, world-view, Latin America.

PREFACE: Preface

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Angelova, Maia; Zakrzewski, Wojciech

2011-03-01

organising the conference, Sarah Howells for her devoted secretarial, administrative and organisational work, Rosemary Zakrzewski for arranging the "Accompanying persons' programme" and to the research assistants and research students of the Intelligent Modelling research group at Northumbria University - Mu Niu, Sujan Rajbhandari, Helen Gibson, Ahmed Lawgali, Kushwanth Koya, Thuli Mazwi, Osemeke Mosindi and Sirichai Triamlumlerd - for their energetic assistance to the organisers. Finally, a big thank you to all the members of the Local Organising Committee for their devoted and tireless work in preparing and running the conference and our colleagues from both universities for their help and moral support. Maia Angelova and Wojciech ZakrzewskiChairs of the Local Organising Committee

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concepção de ética e de cidadania gestados na história da cultura protestante com Martin Lutero e John Amos Comenius como expoentes da reforma luterana e da construção de um projeto pedagógico humanista, respectivamente, em consonância com os valores da pessoa humana O trabalho de Maria Juraci Maia Cavalcante Estado absoluto e ensino das primeiras letras: as escolas régias (1772-1794, na tese de Áurea Adão (1997 investiga um dos períodos mais controversos da história da educação no Brasil e em Portugal - o da reforma pombalina. Com uma abordagem inovadora esta pesquisa contribui de maneira significativa para uma maior compreensão deste período histórico.

Encerrando a seção de artigos o professor Danilo R. Streck faz um estudo comparativo entre Paulo Freire (Brasil e Lorenzo Milani (Itália, tendo como eixo da reflexão o caráter radical e revolucionário de suas práticas educativas. Evidencia a importância de ler comparativamente autores que em seus contextos sociais e históricos ousaram propor alternativas pedagógicas emancipatórias.

Em nossa tradicional seção Documentos, o professor Jorge Nascimento nos apresenta o trabalho de Silvio Romero, um dos maiores expoentes da literatura brasileira.

Esperamos que nossos leitores possam desfrutar com prazer as contribuições que estes investigadores trazem à comunidade científica.

A comissão editorial

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período de 1930 a 1945, os quais explicitaram os pressupostos da política educacional então vigente, e os manuais didáticos de leitura utilizados nas escolas primárias do Rio Grande do Sul.

Com o texto A educação no Brasil Império: análise da organização da instrução na Província de Minas Gerais (1850-1889, os investigadores Renata Fernandes Maia de Andrade e Carlos Henrique de Carvalho propõem-se a discutir as concepções de educação do governo mineiro na segunda metade do século 19. Há um destaque na compreensão de importantes facetas das políticas provinciais para a instrução, tais como a profissão docente e as escolas normais; a organização administrativa; a instrução pública e particular dentre outras apontadas e discutidas ao longo trabalho.

No artigo seguinte Trabalho do professor: do dizer das tradições a emergência de sentidos contemporâneos os investigadores Rosa Maria Filippozzi Martini e Paulo Roberto Corrêa Glasorester analisam as diferentes tradições que deram sentido ao trabalho docente. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, realizada em textos de história da educação e de filosofia com caráter interdisciplinar.. Foi possível constatar a emergência de antigos significados que assumiram novas dimensões na atualidade.

O professor Wenceslau Gonçalves Neto no trabalho O município e a educação em minas gerais: a implementação da instrução pública no início do período republicano, apresente o resultado de pesquisa realizada com financiamento do CNPq, evidencia como o poder local participa do esforço pela instrução pública, a aproximação/distanciamento com a proposta oficial do Estado, as dimensões político-ideológicas, o grau de complexidade das iniciativas, as perspectivas que se abrem, o funcionamento e a eficácia do sistema, etc. Ou seja, estender aos municípios a análise da formação dos sistemas públicos de ensino no início do per

Reflexions on oral health in Brazil

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2013-12-01

circumstances. The evaluation of health services can be regarded as a means to promote the continuous improvement in care, providing the user a quality service(8. In this context, evaluating these actions is an essential factor to determine their performance, efficacy and behavior in oral health services and, based on the references produced, meet the needs for public policies that generate oral health promotion in primary care. In the current issue of the Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde - RBPS (Brazilian Journal in Health Promotion, two papers discuss the evaluation of actions aimed at promotion and prevention in oral health. One of them verifies the habits of oral hygiene and the oral hygiene index in schoolchildren, while the other evaluates the efficacy of oral hygiene instructions, particularly in the control of dental biofilm. REFERENCES 1. Benjamin RM. Oral health: the silent epidemic. Public Health Rep. 2010;125(2:158-9. 2. Narvai PC, Frazão P, Roncalli AG, Antunes JL. Cárie dentária no Brasil: declínio, polarização, iniqüidade e exclusão social. Rev Panam Salud Pública. 2006;19(6:385–93. 3. World Health Organization, Organização Mundial de Saúde. Oral Health: Media Centre [acesso em 2013 Fev 28]. (Fact sheet n° 318, Abril 2012. Disponível em: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs318/en/ index.html. 4. Petersen PE, Bourgeois D, Ogawa H, Estupinan- Day S, Ndiaye C. The global burden of oral diseases and risks to oral health. Bull World Health Organ. 2005;83(9:661-9. 5. Ministério da Saúde (BR, Secretaria de Atenção à Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. SBBrasil 2010: Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde Bucal: resultados principais. Brasília; 2011. 6. Valença AMG, Senna MAA, Faria LCM. Paradigmas do Atendimento de Crianças no Contexto da Saúde Pública Brasileira. In: Maia LC, Primo LG. Odontologia Integrada na Infância. São Paulo: Santos; 2011. p. 11- 22. 7. Vieira-da-Silva LM. Conceitos, abordagens e estratégias para a

PREFACE: XXXth International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) (Group30)

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Brackx, Fred; De Schepper, Hennie; Van der Jeugt, Joris

2015-04-01

panel discussion on recent advances and future challenges in group theoretical methods in physics was held on Wednesday morning. The panel members were: Maia Angelova, Heinz-Dietrich Doebner, Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Norbert Hounkonnou, Peter Olver and Luc Vinet, with Willard Miller Jr. as moderator. In this discussion, the importance of "symmetry" in physics (and other sciences) was emphasized, and some challenges were made explicit. On Wednesday evening there was a separate ceremony in the Aula Academica (the "University Palace") of Ghent University, for the presentation of the 2014 Wigner Medal and Hermann Weyl Prize. The Hermann Weyl Prize was established in 2000 to provide recognition for young scientists having performed original work of significant scientific quality in the area of the understanding of physics through symmetries. The 2014 Hermann Weyl Prize was awarded to Yuji Tachikawa (Tokyo University). He is praised for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of supersymmetric quantum field theories and in particular, to the discovery of the Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa correspondence that has led to spectacular advances in both mathematics and quantum physics. The Wigner Medal, established in 1978, is an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory", and can be considered as a "lifetime achievement award". It was awarded to Joshua Zak (Technion, Haifa, Israel) for his discovery of the magnetic translation group and the phase and transform that bear his name. In his work, the relationship between mathematics and physics could hardly be closer, with mathematicians being familiar with the "Zak transform" and physicists with the "Zak phase", both concepts originating in group theory. The ceremony was graced by a saxophone quintet, "Sax Obsession", and followed by a reception in the adjacent Peristylium. The social programme included a variety of events. On Monday evening, the welcome address by

Reflexões sobre a saúde bucal no Brasil

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Anya Pimentel Gomes Fernandes Vieira Meyer

2013-12-01

ção dos serviços de saúde pode ser consideradaum meio de promover a melhoria contínua da atenção, propiciando ao usuário um atendimento de qualidade(8.Nesse contexto, avaliar essas ações constitui fator essencial para se averiguar sua atuação, comportamento e eficácia nos serviços de saúde bucal e, a partir do referencial produzido, atender às necessidades de políticas públicas geradoras de promoção de saúde bucal na atenção básica. No presente número da Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, apresentam-se dois artigos que versam exatamente sobre a avaliação de ações de promoção e prevenção em saúde bucal. Um dos artigos verifica os hábitos de higiene bucal e o índice de higiene oral em escolares, enquanto o outro avalia a eficácia das instruções de higiene oral, em particular no controle do biofilme dentário. REFERÊNCIAS 1. Benjamin RM. Oral health: the silent epidemic. Public Health Rep. 2010;125(2:158-9. 2. Narvai PC, Frazão P, Roncalli AG, Antunes JL. Cárie dentária no Brasil: declínio, polarização, iniqüidade e exclusão social. Rev Panam Salud Pública. 2006;19(6:385–93. 3. World Health Organization, Organização Mundial de Saúde. Oral Health: Media Centre [acesso em 2013 Fev 28]. (Fact sheet n° 318, Abril 2012. Disponível em: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs318/en/ index.html. 4. Petersen PE, Bourgeois D, Ogawa H, Estupinan- Day S, Ndiaye C. The global burden of oral diseases and risks to oral health. Bull World Health Organ. 2005;83(9:661-9. 5. Ministério da Saúde (BR, Secretaria de Atenção à Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. SBBrasil 2010: Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde Bucal: resultados principais. Brasília; 2011. 6. Valença AMG, Senna MAA, Faria LCM. Paradigmas do Atendimento de Crianças no Contexto da Saúde Pública Brasileira. In: Maia LC, Primo LG. Odontologia Integrada na Infância. São Paulo: Santos; 2011. p. 11- 22. 7. Vieira-da-Silva LM. Conceitos, abordagens e estrat

Book Review: Aullón de Haro, P. (ed. (2015. Historiografía y Teoría de la Historia del Pensamiento, la Literatura y el Arte. Madrid: Dykinson.

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ía literaria angloamericana"; and by Efrain Kristal with "En torno a la historia del concepto de historia literaria hispanoamericana"; plus the study on Brazil, by Margarida Maia Gouveia: "Análisis de la historiografía literaria en Brasil”. Thirdly, Rosario Martí Marco reconstructs "La historiografía literaria alemana"; Jesús García Gabaldón "La evolución de la historiografía literaria eslava" and Natalia Timoshenko completes the historiographical reconstruction with an "Introducción a la historiografía literaria rusa". There is not any monography reconstructing a Roman historiography (Spanish, French, Italian as this is the most comprehensive and less problematic field in regard to availability and is the best known to Western readers. And finally, the African world, including chapters by Antonio Constán Nava, with "Historiografía árabe islámica (Siglos XVIII-XX Perspectiva española y europea"; by José Manuel Mora Fandos with "La historiografía de la literatura Africana"; and by M’bare M'gom, whose article "Sobre la historiografía literaria hispanoafricana" serves both to complement and as conclusion to this volume. According to the editor, Aullón de Haro, the idea of action and human sense depends on the concept and knowledge of history. The possibility to overcome the decline of the discipline -and even civilizational- divisions depends on an alive historical self-consciousness. After the fall of structural-formalism, a form of self-consciousness has ended, being now necessary to re-establish a historiographical methodology of ethical, critical and humanistic value, and with this, a philosophical, literary and artistic History: a project capable of assuming a conception of the object as synthesis of idea and form, and where it is universal, not the mere sum of parts. With this contribution, the Research Group Humanism-Europe provides a tool for examining a great humanistic problem that now, for a necessarily common future, demands a proper

6th International Symposium on Molecular Allergology (ISMA

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�� Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal; Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal P10 Component-resolved IgE profiles in Georgian patients Tamar Abramidze, Nino Lomidze, Maia Gotua P11 Cross reactivity between food and pollen allergens in Lithuania according to spIgE evaluation Austeja Dapkeviciute, Ruta Einikyte, Jolita Norkuniene, Laima Skrickiene, Asta Miskiniene, Violeta Kvedariene P12 Distribution of inhalant allergy in the population of Lithuania Ruta Einikyte, Austeja Dapkeviciute, Jolita Norkuniene, Laima Skrickiene, Asta Miskiniene, Violeta Kvedariene Poster Session 2: Allergen molecules: identification, characterization, structure and function P13 Interference of antigen 5-based cross-reactivity in the diagnosis of hymenoptera venom allergy Maximilian Schiener, Bernadette Eberlein, Carmen Moreno-Aguilar, Gunilla Pietsch, Mareike Mc Intyre, Lea Schwarze, Dennis Rußkamp, Tilo Biedermann, Edzard Spillner, Ulf Darsow, Carsten Schmidt-Weber, Markus Ollert, Simon Blank P14 IgE cross-reactivity between European Hymenoptera and Asian hornet (Vespa velutina venom allergens Cyril Longé, Andrea Brazdova, Jean-Louis Brunet, Claire Schwartz, Bruno Girodet, François Lavaud, Joelle Birnbaum, Nhân Pham Thi, Magalie Duchateau, Julia Chamot-Rooke, Laurence Guilloux, Marie-Ange Selva, Rémy Couderc, Hélène Sénéchal, Jean-Pierre Sutra, Pascal Poncet P15 Carbohydrate composition of house dust mite extracts and major group 1 and group 2 allergens Steffen Augustin, Linda Pump, Martin Wald, Thomas Eichhorn, Frank Fischer, Christoph Willers P16 Specificity of monoclonal antibodies against cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants Michaela Miehe, Melanie Plum, Sara Wolf, Frederic Jabs, Tim Raiber, Frank Bantleon, Henning Seismann, Thilo Jakob, Edzard Spillner P17 Red meat allergic patients have a selective IgE response to the a-Gal glycan Danijela Apostolovic, Anh Thu Tran, Sara Sanchez-Vidaurre, Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, Maria Starkhammar, Carl Hamsten

Commentary on "identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array." Eeles RA, Olama AA, Benlloch S, Saunders EJ, Leongamornlert DA, Tymrakiewicz M, Ghoussaini M, Luccarini C, Dennis J, Jugurnauth-Little S, Dadaev T, Neal DE, Hamdy FC, Donovan JL, Muir K, Giles GG, Severi G, Wiklund F, Gronberg H, Haiman CA, Schumacher F, Henderson BE, Le Marchand L, Lindstrom S, Kraft P, Hunter DJ, Gapstur S, Chanock SJ, Berndt SI, Albanes D, Andriole G, Schleutker J, Weischer M, Canzian F, Riboli E, Key TJ, Travis RC, Campa D, Ingles SA, John EM, Hayes RB, Pharoah PD, Pashayan N, Khaw KT, Stanford JL, Ostrander EA, Signorello LB, Thibodeau SN, Schaid D, Maier C, Vogel W, Kibel AS, Cybulski C, Lubinski J, Cannon-Albright L, Brenner H, Park JY, Kaneva R, Batra J, Spurdle AB, Clements JA, Teixeira MR, Dicks E, Lee A, Dunning AM, Baynes C, Conroy D, Maranian MJ, Ahmed S, Govindasami K, Guy M, Wilkinson RA, Sawyer EJ, Morgan A, Dearnaley DP, Horwich A, Huddart RA, Khoo VS, Parker CC, Van As NJ, Woodhouse CJ, Thompson A, Dudderidge T, Ogden C, Cooper CS, Lophatananon A, Cox A, Southey MC, Hopper JL, English DR, Aly M, Adolfsson J, Xu J, Zheng SL, Yeager M, Kaaks R, Diver WR, Gaudet MM, Stern MC, Corral R, Joshi AD, Shahabi A, Wahlfors T, Tammela TL, Auvinen A, Virtamo J, Klarskov P, Nordestgaard BG, Røder MA, Nielsen SF, Bojesen SE, Siddiq A, Fitzgerald LM, Kolb S, Kwon EM, Karyadi DM, Blot WJ, Zheng W, Cai Q, McDonnell SK, Rinckleb AE, Drake B, Colditz G, Wokolorczyk D, Stephenson RA, Teerlink C, Muller H, Rothenbacher D, Sellers TA, Lin HY, Slavov C, Mitev V, Lose F, Srinivasan S, Maia S, Paulo P, Lange E, Cooney KA, Antoniou AC, Vincent D, Bacot F, Tessier DC; COGS-Cancer Research UK GWAS-ELLIPSE (part of GAME-ON) Initiative; Australian Prostate Cancer Bioresource; UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study Collaborators/British Association of Urological Surgeons' Section of Oncology; UK ProtecT (Prostate testing for cancer and Treatment

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Olumi, Aria F

2014-02-01

Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in males in developed countries. To identify common prostate cancer susceptibility alleles, we genotyped 211,155 SNPs on a custom Illumina array (iCOGS) in blood DNA from 25,074 prostate cancer cases and 24,272 controls from the international PRACTICAL Consortium. Twenty-three new prostate cancer susceptibility loci were identified at genome-wide significance (P<5×10(-8)). More than 70 prostate cancer susceptibility loci, explaining ~30% of the familial risk for this disease, have now been identified. On the basis of combined risks conferred by the new and previously known risk loci, the top 1% of the risk distribution has a 4.7-fold higher risk than the average of the population being profiled. These results will facilitate population risk stratification for clinical studies. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.