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  1. Solución Oportuna de Pie Plano

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    Espol; Tabares Cedeno, Maria Veronica; Ribadeneira Coloma, Betsy Evelyn; Zurita Aviles, Salomon Efrain

    2015-01-01

    Proponer una nueva técnica, donde se obtenga como beneficio la reparación definitiva de una lesion muy común como es el pie plano flexible y al mismo tiempo consolidar una empresa rentable y que genere valor ala sociedad el indice de prevalencia con diagnóstico de pie plano en el Ecuador es la especialidad de traumatología presentan este tipo de lesión. Guayaquil Magíster en Gerencia Hospitalaria

  2. Obesidad infantil: factor de riesgo para desarrollar pie plano

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    Saldívar-Cerón, Héctor Iván; Garmendia Ramírez, Alberto; Rocha Acevedo, Marco Antonio; Pérez-Rodríguez, Pedro

    2015-01-01

    Introducción: En México, la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad en escolares es del 34.4% (ENSANUT 2012). Esta puede inducir un círculo vicioso “pie plano-plantalgia-sedentarismo-obesidad”. Sin embargo, la presencia y grado de pie plano en escolares con obesidad no se ha descrito en la población mexicana. El objetivo del estudio fue determinar la prevalencia de pie plano y su asociación con obesidad en escolares de Tamaulipas, México. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio analítico, transversal c...

  3. Pie plano-valgo adquirido

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    Albiol Ferrer, Josep Maria; Giralt de Veciana, Enrique; Marugán de los Bueis, Montse; Novel Martí, Virginia; Ogalla, José Manuel; Zalacain, Antonio

    1990-01-01

    Es la patología del pie que tiene mayor incidencia durante la infancia. Su recuperación eficaz, además de precisar un largo período de tratamiento, requiere un diagnóstico precoz. Durante la lactancia, a partir de los tres meses, y después, durante la infancia, hasta los tres años aproximadamente, una gruesa y blanda capa de panlculo adiposo determina una configuración que rellena la bóveda y ofrece una falsa imagen de pie plano.

  4. Valoración de los resultados del tratamiento quirúrgico del pie plano estático

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    Paz Jiménez, José; Amigo Fernandez, A.; Romo Contreras, I.

    1989-01-01

    La deformidad fundamental del pie plano es el valgo de talón. Existe siempre un movimiento helicoidal en pronación del retropic y supinación del antepic. En este trabajo se hace una revisión de los pacientes tratados en nuestro Servicio a lo largo de diez años, que han sido sometidos a intervención quirúrgica, mayoritariamente artrodesis. - El fotopodograma constituye un excelente método para controlar la evolución de un pie plano. El pie plano por astrágalo vertical es irreductible des...

  5. Valoración del pie plano en personas adultas con síndrome de Down y de su afectación en la vida diaria

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    Stafford, Frances

    2017-01-01

    Se realizó un estudio en 50 adultos con síndrome de Down, entre 18 y 40 años para analizar la incidencia e influencia del pie plano sobre el funcionamiento de la vida diaria. La incidencia fue del 70%, con grados diversos de pie plano. Hubo dolor en 4 personas, si bien era debido a otros problemas y no achacable al pie plano. En ningún caso la presencia de pie plano afectó al funcionamiento de la vida ordinaria.

  6. Pie plano astrágalo vertical asociado a sinovitis. Fases de tratamiento

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    Planell i Mas, Elena de; Bonilla Toyos, Elvira

    2008-01-01

    El pie plano astrágalo vertical congénito es una deformidad poco frecuente que se puede encontrar de forma aislada, dentro de un cuadro polimalformativo o en relación con afectaciones neurológicas. Se caracteriza por una luxación del escafoides por encima del astrágalo,lo que provoca un pie rígido o de dificil manipulación. En este artículo los autores describen un caso clínico de un paciente que acude a consulta por presentar una inflamación dolorosa en la zona de la cabeza del astrágalo del...

  7. Prevalencia y grado de pie plano según estado nutricional en niños escolares de las instituciones educativas Santa Isabel de Hungría y Santa Teresita de Jesús. Casma. 2010

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    Sánchez Reyna, Luis Fernando

    2016-01-01

    El objetivo del estudio fue establecer la prevalencia y grado de pie plano en relación al estado nutricional en niños escolares matriculados en las Instituciones Educativas Santa Isabel de Hungría y Santa Teresita de Jesús de la ciudad de Casma. Este estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y transversal evaluó a 321 niños escolares durante el año 2010. Se clasificó en niños eutróficos, con sobrepeso y obesidad según las tablas del IMC para la edad de la OMS, y en niños con pie normal o pie plano de...

  8. Consideraciones anatómicas y funcionales en la patología del quinto radio del pie

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    Gallart Ortega, José; Lahoz Gimeno, Manuel

    2013-01-01

    OBJETIVO: Se analiza si las diferentes alteraciones morfológicas y funcionales del pie se asocian estadísticamente a las diferentes desviaciones del quinto radio en el plano transverso y/o sagital como posible causa o agravantes de ésta. A su vez se describen las diferentes patologías quirúrgicas en quinto radio del pie y se evalúa el resultado goniométrico postquirúrgico de las diferentes técnicas quirúrgicas empleadas. MATERIAL MÉTODOS: En una muestra consecutiva de 121 pies intervenidos qu...

  9. Clínica del pie valgo

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    Marcelino Reyes, Jesús

    1998-01-01

    Genericamente reconocemos al pie valgo, por las características siguientes: - desviación de la linea de Helbing ( retropié) - aplanamiento de la bóveda longitudinal interna - pronación de antepié. - aspecto de pié plano. Pero no podemos contentarnos con estas cuatro reglas,y por lo tanto hemos de pormenorizar y clasificar en función de los diferentes elementos que intervienen en la morfogenética de pié. Con lo cual también tendremos una visión mas amplia a la hora de poder aplicar un tratamie...

  10. Técnica de Imhäuser en el pie zambo : resultados a medio y largo plazo

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    Fernández Gutiérrez, C.; Núñez Batalla, Daniel; Pena Vázquez, J.; Antuña Antuña, S.; González Méndez, J.; López Fernández, P; Paz Jiménez, José

    1996-01-01

    Se revisan un total de 60 pies con equinovaro congénito pertenecientes a 48 pacientes, todos con un seguimiento superior a 5 años. En todos los casos se realizó un tratamiento combinado: ortopédico (manipulaciones y enyesados desde el nacimiento) y quirúrgico (correcciones según el método de Imhäuser modificado). Se valoró morfológica, funcional y radiográficamente cada caso. En la valoración global sólo 1 caso fue considerado malo, 13 regulares (21,6%), 6 por pies planos valgo...

  11. Estudo comparativo dos traçados cefalometricos entre os planos de camper, plano oclusal de nobilo e plano oclusal natural, lado esquerdo e direito

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    Deise Luciane Paiva Oliveira

    2000-01-01

    Resumo: Na construção de próteses totais e pistas deslizantes de Nóbilo são utilizados como referência para o plano Dclusal , o ponto anterior, ângulo entre os Incisivos Centrais Superiores e as papilas retromolares. Após mais de 20 anos de experiência clínica com excelentes resultados, esse trabalho objetiva determinar as correlações entre os planos de Camper e o plano oclusal de Nóbilo, entre o plano de Camper e o plano oclusal Natural, entre o plano de Nóbilo e o plano oclusal Natural veri...

  12. Evaluación de la severidad de un plano en la superficie de rodadura de las ruedas de un tren

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    Elkin G. Flórez

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available La presencia de planos, aunque incipientes, en la superficie de rodadura es causa de un rápido deterioro del contacto rueda-carril con las consecuencias que ello conlleva tanto para el entorno corno para el propio material rodante. Es por ello que la detección de estos planos, antes que se hagan aparentes por sus consecuencias, es de gran interés y motivo de estudio. En este trabajo se presentan algunos de los resultados obtenidos en una extensa campaña de medidas llevadas a cabo en una linea del Ferrocarril Metropolitano de Barcelona. La vibración del carril al paso de las ruedas se detecta mediante un acelerómetro situado en el pie del carril y el instante exacto de paso de las ruedas por la sección donde se encuentra el acelerómetro se determina mediante la deformación cortante del alma del carril. Se proponen, y aplican a los registros experimentales, distintos indicadores para cuantificar la severidad de los planos. Uno de los aspectos analizados a partir de los datos experimentales es la variación del pico de energia de la vibración detectada en función de la distancia entre la sección donde incide un plano con la via y el acelerómetro. Este pico debe normalizarse para establecer correctamente la severidad del plano.

  13. Pie en espejo

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    Delgado Quiñones, Alberto; Pancorbo Sandoval, Enrique; Diaz Prieto, Giraldo; Martín Tirado, Juan Carlos; Hernández Varela, Duniesky; Cruz Alard, Ronald

    2014-01-01

    Paciente masculino de 79 años de edad, el cual presenta en el miembro inferior izquierdo a nivel del pie una malformación congénita que corresponde a un pie en espejo, representado por 9 artejos, articulados en 8 metatarsianos, pie zambo, seudoartrosis alta de la tibia y luxación congénita alta del peroné. Es inusual encontrar esta deformidad en el momento actual. Here is a 79 years-old patient who had in his left foot a congenital malformation called mirror foot, which is represented by 9...

  14. Tratamiento del pie equino

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    Robles, Fernanda

    2012-01-01

    El pie equino varo es una patología frecuente en los pacientes con Encefalopatía crónica no evolutiva (ECNE).Se observó que existe una mayor frecuencia en el sexo masculino. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo, comparativo y secundario, durante el periodo de septiembre del 2006 a septiembre del 2011, con un total de 125 pacientes con Ecne, de los cuales se encontraron 101 con pie equino varo congénito. Objetivo: observar los resultados obtenidos en la rehabilitación del pie equino, en niños de ...

  15. Post irradiation effects (PIE) in integrated circuits

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    Barnes, C.E.; Shaw, D.C.; Fleetwood, D.M.; Winokur, P.S.

    1992-01-01

    Post Irradiation Effects (PIE) ranging from normal recovery catastrophic failure have been observed in integrated circuits during the PIE period. These variations indicate that a rebound or PIE recipe used for radiation hardness assurance must be chosen with care. In this paper, the authors provide examples of PIE in a variety of integrated circuits of importance to spacecraft electronics

  16. Pie de madura

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    Julio E. Torres Reyes

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available En el Hospital provincial “Antonio Agosthino Neto” de la ciudad de NDalatando, Kwanza Norte, Republica de Angola, se recibe una paciente femenina de la raza negra de 20 años de edad, con antecedentes de trabajar en el campo, laborando habitualmente descalza. Desde hace dos años, después de haberse hecho una herida con una espina de acacia, presentaba lesiones en la región del tarso y metatarso del pie derecho. Las lesiones nodulares que abarcaban la planta y dorso del pie presentaban color rojo amarillento y supuraban constantemente, con aumento de partes blandas. Se le indicaron análisis complementarios y estudios imagenológicos. Después de obtener los resultados micológicos, bacteriológicos e imagenológicos y debido a las lesiones óseas y en partes blandas que presentaba la paciente, se decide la amputación quirúrgica del pie

  17. El pie diabético

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    Cespedes Cespedes, Tomás; Cuevas Gómez, Rafael; Dorca Coll, Adelina; Sacristán Valero, Sergi

    1991-01-01

    El pie diabético está considerado como un pie de alto riesgo, está demostrado que si aplicáramos una adecuada y correcta educación sanitaria a todos los profesionales de la salud y al propio paciente, se podrían evitar en la mayoría de los casos las tan temidas amputaciones. En el presente trabajo hacemos referencia de las características más importantes de la diabetes, pie diabético y a la actuación profesional del podólogo frente a estos pacientes.

  18. Simplemente: el plano inclinado

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    Wörner,C.H.

    2012-01-01

    Se describen algunos montajes experimentales simples de planos inclinados que pueden ser modelos de intervención didáctica para introducir y establecer las leyes del movimiento uniformemente acelerado. Especial énfasis se ha puesto en la utilización de un plano inclinado sincrónico para establecer una de las formulaciones de Galileo acerca de las leyes que rigen este movimiento.

  19. [In Process Citation].

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    López-Fuenzalida, Antonio; Rodríguez Canales, Carolina; Reyes Ponce, Álvaro; Contreras Molina, Ángela; Fernández Quezada, Javiera; Aguirre Polanco, Carolina

    2016-03-25

    Introducción: dado el incremento del sobrepeso y obesidad infantil, es relevante estudiar no solo las consecuencias metabólicas, sino también aquellas de índole musculoesqueléticas que pueden afectar la funcionalidad motriz, como es el pie plano, en esta población. Objetivo: identificar la asociación entre el estado nutricional y la prevalencia de pie plano en niños y niñas chilenos de 6 a 10 años. Métodos: el z-score del índice de masa corporal (IMC) y el registro y análisis de las huellas plantares según la metodología de Hernández-Corvo fue llevado a cabo en 388 escolares (52,3% niñas). Un test de diferencia para dos proporciones fue utilizado para evaluar las diferencias entre los grupos. Se considera una significancia estadística con p ≤ 0,05. Resultados: la prevalencia del exceso de peso fue de más del 40%. Esta prevalencia fue más alta en las niñas (47,8%) que en los niños (42,7%). La prevalencia de pie plano en todos los niños fue del 17%, presentando valores más elevados el pie derecho (18,3%) que el izquierdo (15,7%). Hay un incremento significativo de la prevalencia de pie plano en los niños obesos en relación con los niños con sobrepeso y normopeso. Conclusión: el estado nutricional está asociado con incrementos en la prevalencia de pie plano en niños. En la población infantil de 6 a 10 años de edad, la obesidad está asociada con la alteración morfológica del pie.

  20. transformada de Fourier en tiempos cortos utilizada en el análisis de señales de vibración para determinar planos en las ruedas de un tren

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    Elkin Flórez

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Uno de los problemas comunes que se presentan en las ruedas de los trenes, es la presencia de planos. Éstos generan un impacto suficiente como para afectar el funcionamiento normal del tren. La detección temprana de planos en las ruedas permite realizar las correcciones necesarias (tornear la superficie de la rueda a fin de evitar daños a los componentes del tren que degraden la prestación del servicio a los usuarios. Aunque existen muchos sensores de vibración en el mercado para detectar vibraciones generadas por el paso de un tren, no hay aún una herramienta estándar que permitan detectar la presencia de planos en las ruedas del mismo. Este estudio presenta la selección apropiada de una ventana temporal para utilizar la Transformada de Fourier en Tiempos Cortos (STFT, por sus siglas en inglés en el análisis de señales de vibración, tomadas al pie del carril y generadas al paso de un tren, que permita determinar la presencia de dichos planos. Para ello, en primer lugar se generó, utilizando la herramienta Matlab, una señal que simule la presencia de un plano y que permita conocer como la STFT, implementando diferentes ventanas temporales (Rectangular, Gauss, Hanning y Chebyshev, permite descubrir la presencia del mismo, en el dominio conjunto tiempo-frecuencia. Seguidamente, se aplica la STFT a señales tomadas en campo. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que la STFT es una herramienta efectiva para detectar planos en la rueda de los trenes, si la función ventana y sus parámetros se seleccionan correctamente al realizar un análisis tiempo-frecuencia.

  1. Simplemente: el plano inclinado

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    Wörner, C.H.

    2012-01-01

    Se describen algunos montajes experimentales simples de planos inclinados que pueden ser modelos de intervención didáctica para introducir y establecer las leyes del movimiento uniformemente acelerado. Especial énfasis se ha puesto en la utilización de un plano inclinado sincrónico para establecer una de las formulaciones de Galileo acerca de las leyes que rigen este movimiento. In this work it is described some simple experimental settings in order to establish - in a didactical mode - th...

  2. Nuestro concepto actual del pie valgo

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    Dorca Coll, Adelina; Cespedes Cespedes, Tomás; Concustell Gonfaus, Josep; Sacristán Valero, Sergi; Dorca Coll, Ma. Rosa

    1996-01-01

    Los autores hacen una revisión de los conceptos y etiologías que se han descrito del pie valgo. Incluyen una definición personal sobre el concepto funcional del pie valgo, definen por primera vez la marcha que cursa con estrés en valgo y presentan una descripción del comportamiento biomecánico de los diferentes pies valgos. Esta diferenciación será de gran utilidad para la posterior aplicación del tratamiento ortopodológico adecuado. Es de resaltar las imágenes que se presentan obtenidas de c...

  3. 9 CFR 319.500 - Meat pies.

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    2010-01-01

    ... 9 Animals and Animal Products 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Meat pies. 319.500 Section 319.500... ORGANIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY; MANDATORY MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION AND VOLUNTARY INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION DEFINITIONS AND STANDARDS OF IDENTITY OR COMPOSITION Meat Food Entree Products, Pies, and...

  4. plano de Marketing Digital

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    Bento, Daniel Jorge Cunha Correia

    2015-01-01

    O projeto aqui apresentado consiste no desenvolvimento de um plano estratégico de marketing digital para o projeto Laboratório de Criação Digital (LCDPorto). O LCDPorto tem sete anos de existência, sem nunca ter definido uma estratégia de comunicação. O principal objetivo passa por aprofundar os vários temas que integram Marketing Digital, e desenvolver um plano que permita ao LCDPorto ganhar mais notoriedade pelas atividades que desenvolve e, também, obter mais público para...

  5. Defective Reduction in Frozen Pie Manufacturing Process

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    Nooted, Oranuch; Tangjitsitcharoen, Somkiat

    2017-06-01

    The frozen pie production has a lot of defects resulting in high production cost. Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) technique has been applied to improve the frozen pie process. Pareto chart is also used to determine the major defects of frozen pie. There are 3 main processes that cause the defects which are the 1st freezing to glazing process, the forming process, and the folding process. The Risk Priority Number (RPN) obtained from FMEA is analyzed to reduce the defects. If RPN of each cause exceeds 45, the process will be considered to be improved and selected for the corrective and preventive actions. The results showed that RPN values decreased after the correction. Therefore, the implementation of FMEA technique can help to improve the performance of frozen pie process and reduce the defects approximately 51.9%.

  6. El pie del adulto mayor

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    Parodi García, José Francisco

    2005-01-01

    Acta Médica Peruana es una publicación del Colegio Médico del Perú El estudio del pie y sus patologías es un capítulo muy importante de la Geriatría. Las patologías del pie no escapan las características comunes de muchos síndromes geriátricos como son el ser asumidos como "normales para la edad", ser poco valorados, menospreciados, no tratados, con gran impacto sobre la salud en general y la calidad de vida.

  7. Tratamiento Actual del Pie Zambo

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    Salom Taverner, M.; Mínguez Rey, María Fe

    2015-01-01

    El pie zambo es una deformidad congénita en la que el pie presenta una deformidad en equino, varo de retropié, aductus del antepié y cavo. Su tratamiento ha variado con el tiempo. Clásicamente se trataba mediante distintas técnicas quirúrgicas que permitían corregir todas las deformidades pero que se acompañaban de frecuentes complicaciones a corto y largo plazo. Actualmente el tratamiento más extendido de esta deformidad es el tratamiento conservador mediante la técnica de Ponset...

  8. PIE analysis for minor actinide

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    Suyama, Kenya

    2005-01-01

    Minor actinide (MA) is generated in nuclear fuel during the operation of power reactor. For fuel design, reactivity decrease due to it should be considered. Out of reactors, MA plays key role to define the property of spent fuel (SF) such as α-radioactivity, neutron emission rate, and criticality of SF. In order to evaluate the calculation codes and libraries for predicting the amount of MA, comparison between calculation results and experimentally obtained data has been conducted. In this report, we will present the status of PIE data of MA taken by post irradiation examinations (PIE) and several calculation results. (author)

  9. Pied de Pulse

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    2016-01-01

    This project has two aims. The first is to study and implement a fractal-like structure of circles inspired by Apollonian circles, combined with a pied de poule (houndstooth). The second aim is to push the integration of electric actuators in garments, using the power of algorithmic design and

  10. Plano de social media marketing para a TAP Portugal

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    Lopes, Andreia Cristina Figueiredo

    2014-01-01

    Mestrado em Marketing O social media marketing adquire cada vez maior relevo para as empresas e exige, tal como noutras áreas de marketing, a delineação de um plano estratégico por forma a potenciar o seu sucesso. Tomando como objecto de estudo a companhia aérea TAP Portugal, foi elaborado um Plano de Social Media Marketing, com base no modelo conceptual de Barker et al. (2013), designado de "Social Media Planning Cycle". Para a elaboração do Plano, foram recolhidos dados primários, seguin...

  11. Personalized Information Environments: Do Public Libraries Want a Slice of the PIE?

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    Worcester, Lea

    2003-01-01

    Discussion of personalized information environments (PIEs) focuses on library personalized interfaces. Describes academic library PIEs and commercial sites, such as Amazon.com that use personalization; explores the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg's personalized interface; and discusses opportunities and challenges PIEs offer public…

  12. Pied de pulse: packing embroidered circles and coil actuators in pied de poule (houndstooth)

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    Feijs, L.M.G.; Toeters, M.J.; Torrence, E.; Torrence, B.; Sequin, C.; McKenna, D.; Fenyvesi, K.; Sarhangi, R.

    2016-01-01

    We report on the integration of fractal-like structures inspired by Appolonian circles with pied de poule (houndstooth) fabric patterns, and on the use of electric actuators in garments made with digital embroidery techniques.

  13. El pie en la danza clásica_

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    Nuria Massó Ortigosa.

    2010-05-01

    Full Text Available La danza es una forma de lenguaje que utiliza como instrumento al propio cuerpo, y su práctica continuada genera cambios y adaptaciones debidas a las altas exigencias de esta actividad. En este artículo se analizan las demandas, patologías y exigencias osteo-musculares del pie en la danza clásica. Para ello se ha partido del análisis de las estructuras del pie en distintas posiciones técnicas como la punta, media punta, o el “en dehors”. Como consecuencia de estas demandas de esfuerzo, se observa que una alta proporción de bailarines/as presenta alteraciones en el pie como hallux valgus y dedos en garra. También se ha estudiado la implicación en las técnicas básicas del pie de danza clásica de los músculos tríceps sural, peroneo lateral largo, tibial posterior, flexor largo y flexor corto del dedo gordo, tibial anterior, extensor propio del dedo gordo, abductor del dedo gordo, así como la musculatura interósea y plantar.

  14. La ortopodología en el pie de riesgo (1ª Parte)

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    Dorca Coll, Adelina; Céspedes Céspedes, Tomás; Concustell Gonfaus, Josep; Cuevas Gómez, Rafael; Sacristán Valero, Sergi

    1994-01-01

    Los autores definen por primera vez el concepto de 'pie de riesgo' y ofrecen diferentes alternativas podológicas para prevenir lesiones en el pie y en el supuesto de que estas lesiones estén establecidas, presentan tratamientos ortésicos que equilibren el pie y eviten mayores cambios degenerativos.

  15. Plano Diretor Municipal: A governança no processo de revisão do Plano Diretor do Recife

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    SILVA, Renata Maciel Marinho

    2009-01-01

    O objetivo da dissertação é refletir sobre as implicações dos conflitos de interesses ocorridos no processo de governança democrática, durante a revisão do Plano Diretor do Recife (PDR). O Estatuto da Cidade obrigou diversos municípios do Brasil a elaborar o plano diretor, principal instrumento de planejamento e gestão urbana, de acordo com o preceito constitucional de gestão democrática, ou seja, com a participação de diversos segmentos da sociedade. Com isso, inaugurou um nov...

  16. Constructing and applying the fractal pied de poule (houndstooth)

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    Feijs, L.M.G.; Toeters, M.J.; Hart, G.; Sarhangi, R.

    2013-01-01

    Time is ready for a fractal version of pied de poule; it is almost "in the air". Taking inspiration from the Cantor set, and using the analysis of the classical pattern, we obtain a family of elegant new fractal Pied de Poules. We calculate the fractal dimension and develop an attractive fashion

  17. Test requirement for PIE of HANARO irradiated fuel rod

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    Lim, I. C.; Cho, Y. G.

    2000-06-01

    Since the first criticality of HANARO reached in Feb. of 1995, the rod type U 3 Si-A1 fuel imported from AECL has been used. From the under-water fuel inspection which has been conducted since 1997, a ballooning-rupture type abnormality was observed in several fuel rods. In order to find the root cause of this abnormality and to find the resolution, the post irradiation examination(PIE) was proposed as the best way. In this document, the information from the under-water inspection as well as the PIE requirements are described. Based on the information in this document, a detail test plan will be developed by the project team who shall conduct the PIE

  18. Liquen plano bucal y displasia epitelial

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    Joaquín Urbizo Vélez

    Full Text Available Introducción: el liquen plano bucal es una enfermedad inflamatoria, crónica y recurrente considerada como una respuesta inmune anormal mediada por células T. Uno de los aspectos más importantes es su posible carácter premaligno y el papel de la displasia epitelial. Objetivo: describir los desórdenes celulares característicos de la displasia en las lesiones del liquen plano bucal y su relación con las formas clínicas y otras variables histopatológicas. Método: el universo estuvo constituido por el registro de 14,977 pacientes sometidos a estudio anatomopatológico en el Servicio de Anatomía Patológica en el Departamento de Patología de la Facultad de Estomatología de La Habana, en el período comprendido de 1970 al 2008 del que se extrajo una muestra integrada por 115 pacientes con diagnóstico histopatológico de liquen plano de la mucosa bucal. Se revisaron los archivos de biopsias tomándose aquellas solicitudes con suficientes datos clínicos en las cuales estuviera consignada la presencia de lesiones bilaterales o, en su defecto, más de una lesión distribuida en una o en más de una región anatómica. Las variables clínicas fueron: Liquen plano tipo reticular, atrófico erosivo e hipertrófico y las variables histopatológicas: tipo de queratinización, grosor epitelial, presencia de displasia epitelial. Se realizó observación microscópica de las láminas obtenidas del archivo. Se obtuvieron fotomicrografías. Para las variables cualitativas se calculó la frecuencia absoluta y el porcentaje. Para la estadística analítica se utilizó el test de Chi Cuadrado, aplicando la corrección de Yates, cuando esta era necesaria o bien la Prueba exacta de Fisher. Resultados: se hallaron signos de displasia epitelial ligera en 25 casos (21,73 % de los cuales correspondieron al tipo reticular un total de 17 casos (14,78 % y al erosivo 8 casos (6, 95%. Se observó asociación significativa entre el tipo clínico y la displasia

  19. Proceedings of 2005 JAEA-KAERI joint seminar on advanced irradiation and PIE technologies

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    In this seminar, total participants of over 100 were jointed from JAEA, KAERI, Hanyang University, Chungnam National University, Kyung Hee University, Oarai Branch of Institute for Materials Research (IMR) of Tohoku University, Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co., Ltd., Nuclear Development Corporation and others. The technical development and experimental data on the irradiation test and PIE were aggressively discussed in this seminar. Contributed presentations were 35 in three sessions; Current status and future program on irradiation test and PIE (10 presentations), Development of irradiation and PIE technologies (15 presentations) and Evaluation of irradiation and PIE data (10 presentations). Development of instrumented capsule technologies for HANARO irradiation, current PIE activities in each hot laboratory of both countries, development of irradiation capsules in JMTR for the Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking (IASCC) study, development of irradiation and PIE techniques for the safety research on the high burnup fuel, utilization plan of JOYO and development of MOX fuel containing americium have been widely noticed as topic items on irradiation and PIE technologies. This proceedings is containing papers presented in the 2005 JAEA-KAERI Joint Seminar. It also indicates the current status of the aggressive information exchange activity on two fields of irradiation test and PIE technologies between JAEA and KAERI under the Arrangement for the Implementation of Cooperative Research Program mentioned above. The 35 of the presented papers are indexed individually. (J.P.N.)

  20. The causal pie model: an epidemiological method applied to evolutionary biology and ecology.

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    Wensink, Maarten; Westendorp, Rudi G J; Baudisch, Annette

    2014-05-01

    A general concept for thinking about causality facilitates swift comprehension of results, and the vocabulary that belongs to the concept is instrumental in cross-disciplinary communication. The causal pie model has fulfilled this role in epidemiology and could be of similar value in evolutionary biology and ecology. In the causal pie model, outcomes result from sufficient causes. Each sufficient cause is made up of a "causal pie" of "component causes". Several different causal pies may exist for the same outcome. If and only if all component causes of a sufficient cause are present, that is, a causal pie is complete, does the outcome occur. The effect of a component cause hence depends on the presence of the other component causes that constitute some causal pie. Because all component causes are equally and fully causative for the outcome, the sum of causes for some outcome exceeds 100%. The causal pie model provides a way of thinking that maps into a number of recurrent themes in evolutionary biology and ecology: It charts when component causes have an effect and are subject to natural selection, and how component causes affect selection on other component causes; which partitions of outcomes with respect to causes are feasible and useful; and how to view the composition of a(n apparently homogeneous) population. The diversity of specific results that is directly understood from the causal pie model is a test for both the validity and the applicability of the model. The causal pie model provides a common language in which results across disciplines can be communicated and serves as a template along which future causal analyses can be made.

  1. Confiança, governos e estabilização econômica: os casos do Plano Real no Brasil e do Plano Cavallo na Argentina

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    Pinto, Jacques Salomon Crispim Soares

    2006-01-01

    O propósito desta investigação foi identificar, compreender e definir a relação entre a dimensão do capital social em sua vertente governamental, materializado na percepção do sentimento de confiança que a sociedade tem dos governos depositado no governo pela sociedade e os resultados da implementação de planos de estabilização econômica – PEEs. no Brasil e na Argentina, mais especificamente no que toca o Plano Real e o Plano de Conversibilidade, operados, nos dois países em momentos algo coi...

  2. El plano Bogotá Futuro. Primer intento de modernización urbana

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    José Miguel Alba Castro

    2013-07-01

    Full Text Available El crecimiento acelerado de Bogotá a comienzos del siglo XX llevo a Ricardo Olano, promotor del plano Medellín Futuro, a proponer a la Sociedad de Embellecimiento de Bogotá, en 1917, el plano Bogotá Futuro. El plano Bogotá Futuro (1923-1925 consigno los ideales de modernización urbanística del city planning, tras su discusión en los congresos de Mejoras Nacionales, las direcciones de obras públicas del departamento y del municipio y las sociedades de embellecimiento y de ingenieros. El plano, apoyado parcialmente en la modernización de la administración municipal (1915-1924 y considerado un plano de ensanche, contiene propuestas de intervenciones para sus calles centrales, reinterpretadas por Karl Brunner en sus proyectos de 1934 y 1935. Aunque efectivamente se modernizaron las instituciones de la ciudad, no se logró constituir un proyecto de sociedad moderna. Así, al tener influencias, francesas, anglosajonas y españolas, el plano propuso una ciudad bella, monumental y compacta, mientras que se caracterizó a Bogotá como una ciudad de parcelas y barracas.

  3. Current activities in development of PIE techniques in JMTR hot laboratory

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    Ishii, Toshimitsu; Ohmi, Masao; Shimizu, Michio; Kaji, Yoshiyuki; Ueno, Fumiyoshi

    2006-01-01

    A wide variety of post-irradiation examinations (PIEs) for research and development of nuclear fuels and materials to be utilized in nuclear field has been carried out since 1971 in three kinds of β-γ hot cells; concrete, lead and steel cells in the JMTR Hot Laboratory (JMTR HL) associated with the Japan Materials Testing Reactor (JMTR). In addition to PIEs, the re-capsuling work including re-instrumentation was also conducted for the power ramping tests of the irradiated LWR fuels using Boiling Water Capsule (BOCA). Recently, new PIE techniques are required for the advanced irradiation studies. In this paper, the irradiation assisted stress corrosion cracking (IASCC) growth test technique of irradiated in-core structural materials and the remote operation technique of the atomic force microscope (AFM) are described as JMTR HL's current activities in the development of new PIE techniques. (author)

  4. Enfoque integral del paciente con pie diabético

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    Galia Fonseca Portilla

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    Full Text Available Debe tenerse en cuenta que el diagnóstico de Diabetes Mellitus supone un cambio radical en las costumbres del paciente y que alcanzarlo puede requerir largo tiempo, por esto es necesario que los pacientes asistan a control cada dos o tres meses ye n cada visita insistirle en la importancia de curaciones. Si se continúa apoyando sobre la úlcera, se siguen exprimiendo, como esponja, las bacterias. Para el manejo del pie diabético se distinguen: prevención primaria (detección precoz del pie en riesgo, prevención secundaria (cuidado adecuado de las úlceras grado 1, 2 por el equipo interdisciplinario y prevención terciaria (a nivel hospitalario, para evitar la amputación de los pies con úlceras grado 3-5.

  5. Structural Conservation and Functional Diversity of the Poxvirus Immune Evasion (PIE) Domain Superfamily.

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    Nelson, Christopher A; Epperson, Megan L; Singh, Sukrit; Elliott, Jabari I; Fremont, Daved H

    2015-08-28

    Poxviruses encode a broad array of proteins that serve to undermine host immune defenses. Structural analysis of four of these seemingly unrelated proteins revealed the recurrent use of a conserved beta-sandwich fold that has not been observed in any eukaryotic or prokaryotic protein. Herein we propose to call this unique structural scaffolding the PIE (Poxvirus Immune Evasion) domain. PIE domain containing proteins are abundant in chordopoxvirinae, with our analysis identifying 20 likely PIE subfamilies among 33 representative genomes spanning 7 genera. For example, cowpox strain Brighton Red appears to encode 10 different PIEs: vCCI, A41, C8, M2, T4 (CPVX203), and the SECRET proteins CrmB, CrmD, SCP-1, SCP-2, and SCP-3. Characterized PIE proteins all appear to be nonessential for virus replication, and all contain signal peptides for targeting to the secretory pathway. The PIE subfamilies differ primarily in the number, size, and location of structural embellishments to the beta-sandwich core that confer unique functional specificities. Reported ligands include chemokines, GM-CSF, IL-2, MHC class I, and glycosaminoglycans. We expect that the list of ligands and receptors engaged by the PIE domain will grow as we come to better understand how this versatile structural architecture can be tailored to manipulate host responses to infection.

  6. Status of irradiation testing and PIE of MOX (Pu-containing) fuel

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    Dimayuga, F.C.; Zhou, Y.N.; Ryz, M.A.

    1995-01-01

    This paper describes AECL's mixed oxide (MOX) fuel-irradiation and post-irradiation examination (PIE) program. Post-irradiation examination results of two major irradiation experiments involving several (U, Pu)O 2 fuel bundles are highlighted. One experiment involved bundles irradiated to burnups ranging fro 400 to 1200 MWh/kgHe in the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor. The other experiment consisted of several (U, Pu)O 2 bundles irradiated to burnups of up to 500 Mwh/kgHe in the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor. Results of these experiments demonstrate the excellent performance of CANDU MOX fuel. This paper also outlines the status of current MOX fuel irradiation tests, including the irradiation of various (U, Pu)O 2 bundles. The strategic importance of MOX fuel to CANDU fuel-cycle flexibility is discussed. (author)

  7. Diferencia en la relación entre el plano S-N y el plano de Frankfort en las distintas maloclusiones

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    Lourdes Feregrino-Vejar

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available Introducción: Se ha visto que en algunos pacientes no concuerdan los resultados cefalométricos con lo que se observa clínicamente, estas discordancias pueden dar interpretaciones diagnósticas inadecuadas. Proffit recomienda siempre anotar la inclinación del plano S-N respecto al plano de Frankfort, si éste se aparta significativamente de los 6° deberán corregirse todas las medidas que se basen en este plano en función de esa diferencia. Objetivo: Determinar el ángulo formado por los planos SN y Frankfort en pacientes sin maloclusión dental y determinar si existe diferencia en dicho ángulo entre las distintas clases esqueletales. Metodología: La muestra consistió en 180 radiografías laterales de cráneo que se dividieron en 4 grupos de 45 radiografías de pacientes sin maloclusión dental, 45 de pacientes con maloclusión clase I de Angle, 45 de clase II y 45 de clase III. Se utilizaron los planos de S-N y Frankfort, así como el ángulo ANB. Resultados: En el grupo sin maloclusión el promedio del ángulo S-N Frankfort fue de 9.68º ± 2.6º, en la maloclusión clase I de Angle fue de 9.4º ± 2.58º, en la clase II de 8.48º ± 2.8º y en la clase III de 9.4º ± 2.45º. Conclusiones: De acuerdo con los resultados obtenidos se concluye que existe diferencia estadísticamente significativa entre la población estudiada que presenta ángulos mayores y la norma establecida por Proffit. Sin embargo, cuando se hizo la comparación entre los grupos sin maloclusión y con maloclusión clase I, II y III no se encontraron diferencias significativas.

  8. Interfaces da gestão ambiental urbana e gestão regional: análise da relação entre Planos Diretores Municipais e Planos de Bacia Hidrográfica

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    Renata Bovo Peres

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    Full Text Available Este artigo relata uma pesquisa que discute como a questão ambiental vem sendo tratada nos instrumentos e práticas de gestão localizadas em dois recortes territoriais: municípios e bacias hidrográficas. Foi analisada a relação da dimensão ambiental com a gestão regional e municipal, por meio dos instrumentos Planos de Bacia Hidrográfica e Planos Diretores Municipais, tendo como locus a Unidade de Gerenciamento de Recursos Hídricos Tietê-Jacaré do Estado de São Paulo. Os objetos de pesquisa selecionados foram o Plano de Bacia Hidrográfica Tietê-Jacaré e os Planos Diretores de Araraquara e São Carlos. A pesquisa abordou as seguintes categorias de análise: unidades de planejamento, instrumentos ambientais contidos no Plano de Bacia e nos Planos Diretores, instâncias de gestão e grau de influência entre os planos analisados. O método se pautou em levantamentos, análises bibliográficas e documentais, entrevistas semiestruturadas e questionários. Os resultados obtidos apontaram que o Plano de Bacia Hidrográfica ainda apresenta lacunas e dificuldades para uma atuação mais ampliada. Não reconhece os conflitos de uso da terra e de organização territorial como uma vulnerabilidade que precisa ser enfrentada. Mostraram, ainda, que os Planos Diretores Municipais concentram-se na aplicação dos instrumentos voltados ao parcelamento e ao zoneamento urbano. Nesses planos, as condições e os aspectos ambientais e regionais se apresentam como uma temática periférica e pouco articulada com as demais políticas. As análises procuraram demonstrar a complexa relação entre políticas, instrumentos e instâncias de planejamento e gestão, explicitando os obstáculos que dificultam a aplicação do conceito de gestão territorial integrada.

  9. 49 CFR 40.385 - Who bears the burden of proof in a PIE proceeding?

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    ... 49 Transportation 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Who bears the burden of proof in a PIE proceeding... TRANSPORTATION WORKPLACE DRUG AND ALCOHOL TESTING PROGRAMS Public Interest Exclusions § 40.385 Who bears the burden of proof in a PIE proceeding? (a) As the proponent of issuing a PIE, the initiating official bears...

  10. Code Analyses Supporting PIE of Weapons-Grade MOX Fuel

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    Ott, Larry J.; Bevard, Bruce Balkcom; Spellman, Donald J.; McCoy, Kevin

    2010-01-01

    The U.S. Department of energy has decided to dispose of a portion of the nation's surplus weapons-grade plutonium by reconstituting it into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and irradiating the fuel in commercial power reactors. Four lead test assemblies (LTAs) were manufactured with weapons-grade mixed oxide (WG-MOX) fuel and irradiated in the Catawba Nuclear Station Unit 1, to a maximum fuel rod burnup of ∼47.3 GWd/MTHM. As part of the fuel qualification process, five rods with varying burnups and initial plutonium contents were selected from one assembly and shipped to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for hot cell examination. ORNL has provided analytical support for the post-irradiation examination (PIE) of these rods via extensive fuel performance modeling which has aided in instrument settings and PIE data interpretation. The results of these fuel performance simulations are compared in this paper with available PIE data.

  11. Shelf life of pie caps with biodegradable films as spacers

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    Daniela Verónica Escobar Gianni

    2013-01-01

    Full Text Available Commonly pie caps at market use polyethylene films as spacers between them. This paper studies the conventional spacers replacement with edible and biodegradable films made with whey protein isolate (WPI and potassium sorbate as a preservative. Besides facilitating the separation of pie caps, with this application is intended to increase their shelf life. The films made by the compression molding method were used as spacers in pie caps without preservative in their formula (A and with preservative (B and they were compared with conventional polyethylene spacers (C. During four months, monthly sensory, microbiological and physicochemical (humidity evaluations were done on the pie caps, together with humidity and solubility evaluations of the films. None of the samples showed microbiological or sensory deterioration. The sensory attributes showed no or slight difference in study time. Between samples the differences were minor: the best scores were for sample A in color, sample C in flavor, and samples B and C in texture and overall liking. The edible films have an interesting potential for this application, although studies in disguise the flavor of serum should be done.

  12. Geophysical evidence for an extensive Pie de Palo Complex mafic-ultramafic belt, San Juan, Argentina

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    Chernicoff, Carlos J.; Vujovich, Graciela I.; van Staal, Cees R.

    2009-12-01

    The recent completion of a high-resolution aeromagnetic survey over the Pie de Palo uplift of the western Sierras Pampeanas has revealed an area of large magnetic anomalies associated with the Pie de Palo Complex. The Las Pirquitas thrust, which has transported and uplifted the Pie de Palo Complex, is recognized for at least 30 km in a roughly NE direction along the western boundary of the Pie de Palo Complex, beyond its limited outcrop. The type of sediments of the Caucete Group in the footwall of the Las Pirquitas thrust, which are regarded as the leading edge of the Precordillera terrane, are associated with much less pronounced magnetic anomalies. In addition, a conspicuous, NNE trending, broad magnetic high stands out in the survey, several kilometers to the east of the main outcrops of the Pie de Palo Complex; this broad magnetic anomaly bisects the Pie de Palo basement block, and continues further south at least as far as 32°S, the southern boundary of the latest aeromagnetic survey. This magnetic anomaly is interpreted to represent a structure corresponding to the Grenvillian Precordillera-Pie de Palo tectonic boundary zone, and would comprise the buried largest part of the mafic-ultramafic belt. The geophysical model of the magnetic data indicates that the boundary zone dips to the east, possibly suggesting the existence of a set of synthetic east dipping, west-verging thrusts, of which only one major structure (Las Pirquitas thrust) is exposed; the possibility of other slivers of upthrust boundary zone material cannot be excluded. It is considered that the Pie de Palo Complex represents a small sliver upthrust from the unexposed boundary zone material (containing highly magnetic mafic-ultramafic rocks). The east-dipping, west verging structures associated with the Pie de Palo Complex are suggested to represent an Ordovician reactivation of a Grenvillian suture zone developed when the Precordillera basement and Pie de Palo terrane docked; this

  13. Cartografar é traçar um plano comum

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    Virgínia Kastrup

    2013-08-01

    Full Text Available A pesquisa de campo sobre produção da subjetividade enfrenta o problema de construir conhecimento envolvendo pesquisadores e pesquisados, com territórios e semióticas singulares. Surgem questões relativas ao protagonismo dos participantes e a como traçar com eles um plano comum, garantindo o caráter participativo da pesquisa. No contexto do método da cartografia, o artigo tem como objetivo tratar do tema do comum num duplo aspecto. Num primeiro, discute o acesso ao plano comum. Com base em Gilles Deleuze e Felix Guattari, tal plano não é dito homogêneo nem reúne atores que manteriam entre si relações de identidade, mas opera comunicação entre singularidades, sendo pré-individual e coletivo. Num segundo aspecto, aponta que, enquanto pesquisa-intervenção, a cartografia se compromete com a criação de um mundo comum e heterogêneo. O artigo mostra que o traçado do comum tem como diretriz metodológica a tranversalidade e examina os procedimentos de participação, inclusão e tradução.

  14. Planos de classificação em arquivos: estudo comparativo de Planos de Classificação no cenário Brasileiro, Espanhol e Português

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    Thiago Roberto Lopes

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available O propósito desta pesquisa mostra um estudo comparativo de Planos de Classificação arquivística no cenário do Brasil, Portugal e Espanha. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental, caracterizando-se como descritiva e bibliográfica. O instrumento de coleta das informações foi um documento da Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica, contendo o Plano de Classificação do órgão e, também, documentos da Administração Local de Portugal e O Cuadro de Clasificación de Fondos para a Administração Local da Espanha, além do Cuadro general de clasificación archivística. Por meio de estudos comparativos destes Planos de Classificação, da análise dos dados contidos nesses documentos e da revisão bibliográfica, foi possível apontar características em comum entre os Planos de Classificação em cada país, assim como as diferenças e os pontos positivos e negativos.

  15. El pie del diabético

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    Parra Myriam

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    Existen complicaciones neurovasculares periféricas en el paciente diabético que de no prevenirse o tratarse precozmente pueden conducir a la formación de lesiones graves e irreversibles en el pie. Los grados de lesión pueden evolucionar desde la presencia de factores de riesgo hasta la formación de gangrena local o generalizada conllevando a la amputación del pie. La participación del paciente y la familia con relación a los cuidados podológicos, cumplimiento en el  tratamiento dietético, farmacológico, de ejercicio e identificación de riesgos son definitivos; estos aspectos requieren de la orientación e intervención del profesional de enfermería en el manejo de cada grado de lesión basándose en la identificación de diagnósticos reales y/o potenciales prioritarios.

  16. Plano de marketing : empresa HTH

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    Carneiro, Marta Fernandes

    2017-01-01

    Este plano de marketing na empresa HTH, visa garantir a qualidade dos seus produtos; garantir a excelente relação com os seus clientes; lutar para conseguir ter uma boa oferta de preços, fator decisivo neste mercado; minimizar os tempos de entrega para se diferenciar da concorrência; e, melhorar a divulgação da empresa e dos seus produtos.

  17. La ortopodología en el pie de riesgo (2ª Parte)

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    Céspedes Céspedes, Tomás; Dorca Coll, Adelina; Concustell Gonfaus, Josep; Cuevas Gómez, Rafael; Sacristán Valero, Sergi

    1994-01-01

    Los autores presentan y describen varios casos clínicos podológicos, en los que aprecia: Una alteración y limitació progresiva de las funciones del pie y como resultado un transtomo general del equilibrio estático y dinámico: características que corresponden al ya descrito «Pie de riesgo'

  18. El dolor patelofemoral en el baile flamenco y su relación con el pie

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    José M. Castillo-López

    2017-05-01

    Full Text Available El dolor patelofemoral es uno de los desórdenes más comunes que afectan a la rodilla. De las lesiones descritas en el baile flamenco profesional, destacan las relacionadas con el pie y la rodilla, en relación al microtraumatismo repetido del gesto técnico del zapateado y a la flexión de rodilla mantenida que requiere. El objetivo de este estudio es determinar la presencia de dolor patelo femoral en profesionales del baile de flamenco y comprobar si existe relación alguna con el pie pronador y genus valgo. En el estudio han participado 46 profesionales del baile flamenco, 38 bailaoras y 8 bailaores, con una carga media de 25.4 ± 8.25 horas de baile semanales. El 34.78% de los participantes presentaban dolor patelofemoral. El 24% presentaba también genus valgo. Se encontró un 34.78% de pies pronadores. La asociación de pies pronadores y genus valgo fue del 31.25%, mientras que la asociación de pies pronadores y dolor patelofemoral fue de 43.75 % de los casos. Factores predisponentes de esta patología se dan en la práctica del baile flamenco: el impacto repetitivo, una posición mantenida y forzada de la rodilla en un rango concreto, desplazamientos y los giros bruscos. Como conclusión, se demuestra relación directa entre la presencia de pies pronadores y dolor patelofemoral en el baile flamenco. Así como entre pies pronadores y genus valgo. Estudios científicos actuales demuestran la utilidad de soportes plantares en este síndrome. La incidencia de pies pronadores y dolor patelofemoral hace recomendable estudios biomecánicos y podológicos y el uso de soportes plantares personalizados en cada caso.

  19. PIE DIABÉTICO: ¿PODEMOS PREVENIRLO?

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    Dra. Oriana Paiva M.

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available La diabetes es una enfermedad epidémica, con más de 400 millones de personas diagnosticadas en la actualidad. Las úlceras del pie son una de las complicaciones crónicas más frecuentes de esta población, con un riesgo acumulado de desarrollarla a lo largo de la vida de 15%. La neuropatía y la enfermedad vascular son las principales causas de su aparición. Las amputaciones no traumáticas en diabéticos son 15 veces más frecuentes que en la población general, superando en 2 a 3 veces la tasa en hombres que en mujeres. El 80% se puede prevenir. La clave para ello incluye un examen periódico del pie a todo diabético al menos 1 vez al año, educación del paciente en autocuidado, para que logre identificar precozmente la aparición de lesiones evitando mayores complicaciones, un zapato adecuado y un buen control metabólico.

  20. Description of the PIE facility for research reactors irradiated fuels in CNEA

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    Bisca, A.; Coronel, R.; Homberger, V.; Quinteros, A.; Ratner, M.

    2002-01-01

    The PIE Facility (LAPEP), located at the Ezeiza Atomic Center (CAE), was designed to carry out destructive and non-destructive post-irradiation examinations (PIE) on research and power reactor spent fuels, reactor internals and other irradiated materials, and to perform studies related with: Station lifetime extension; Fuel performance; Development of new fuels; and Failures and determination of their causes. LAPEP is a relevant facility where research and development can be carried out. It is worth mentioning that in this facility the PIE corresponding to the Surveillance Program for the Atucha I Nuclear Power Plant (CNA-1) were successfully performed. Materials testing during the CNA-1 repair and the study of failures in fuel element plugs of the Embalse Nuclear Power Plant (CNE) were also performed. (author)

  1. Estudio del efecto del plano de masa en filtros pasa banda usando celdas OSRR

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    Iván Díaz-Pardo

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available En este artículo se presenta un estudio del efecto del plano de masa en filtros pasa banda mediante la utilización de celdas m eta material en estructura de resonadores abiertos en anillo dividi do OSRR (Open Split Ring Resonator sobre sustratos microstrip. Se plantean tres tipos de configuraciones, a saber: eliminar parci almente el plano de masa en la parte posterior a las celdas OSR R, diseñar ventanas sobre el plano de masa al respaldo de cada cel da y colocar el plano de masa co mpleto. El análisis llevado a cabo muestra que la respuesta de transmisión del filtro con ventanas en el plano de masa resulta ser la más plana de los tres caso s y de igual manera con un ancho de ba nda intermedio. Por otra parte, el desempeño de este tipo de filtros es similar al de un filtro convencional en tecnología microstrip de tres polos, sin embarg o su tamaño resulta ser un 60% más pequeño.

  2. IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE PLANO DE LUBRIFICAÇÃO EM INDÚSTRIA FRIGORÍFICA DE BOVINOS

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    Alano De La Torre Silva; Livia dos Santos; Aline Cristina Maciel

    2017-01-01

    Este trabalho foi realizado pelo meio de um estudo de caso em uma indústria frigorífica de bovinos. O plano de manutenção preventiva da empresa estudada possuía deficiências na parte de lubrificação dos equipamentos. Desta forma, este trabalho tem a finalidade de mostrar como é a implantação de um plano de lubrificação na empresa estudada. Foi implantado um plano de lubrificação destinado a cinco maquinas diferentes. Foram necessários três meses para a implantação do plano. Comparando-se o nú...

  3. Maqueta didáctica en plano inclinado para control de posición

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    Zomeño Zambudio, Darío Heri

    2016-01-01

    Se trata de diseñar y construir una maqueta con un plano inclinado en la que se pueda ajustar la inclinación del mismo. Sobre el plano habrá un dispositivo móvil cuya posición habrá que controlar. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

  4. La enfermedad de manos, pies y boca (Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease)

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    La enfermedad de manos, pies y boca es una enfermedad contagiosa que afecta principalmente a niños menores de cinco años. En este podcast, la doctora Eileen Schneider habla de los síntomas de la enfermedad de manos, pies y boca, cómo se propaga y cómo protegerse y proteger a sus hijos para que no se infecten con el virus.

  5. PIE on Safety-Tested AGR-1 Compact 5-1-1

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    Hunn, John D. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Morris, Robert Noel [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Baldwin, Charles A. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Montgomery, Fred C. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Gerczak, Tyler J. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

    2015-08-01

    Post-irradiation examination (PIE) is being performed in support of tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coated particle fuel development and qualification for High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs). AGR-1 was the first in a series of TRISO fuel irradiation experiments initiated in 2006 under the Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) Fuel Development and Qualification Program; this work continues to be funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy as part of the Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) initiative. AGR-1 fuel compacts were fabricated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2006 and irradiated for three years in the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) to demonstrate and evaluate fuel performance under HTGR irradiation conditions. PIE is being performed at INL and ORNL to study how the fuel behaved during irradiation, and to examine fuel performance during exposure to elevated temperatures at or above temperatures that could occur during a depressurized conduction cooldown event. This report summarizes safety testing of irradiated AGR-1 Compact 5-1-1 in the ORNL Core Conduction Cooldown Test Facility (CCCTF) and post-safety testing PIE.

  6. Development, irradiation testing and PIE of UMo fuel at AECL

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    Sears, D.F.

    2005-01-01

    This paper reviews recent U-Mo dispersion fuel development, irradiation testing and postirradiation examination (PIE) activities at AECL. Low-enriched uranium fuel alloys and powders have been fabricated at Chalk River Labs, with compositions ranging from U-7Mo to U-10Mo. The bulk alloys and powders were characterized using optical and scanning electron microscopy, chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction and neutron diffraction analysis. The analyses confirmed that the powders were of high quality, and in the desired gamma phase. Subsequently, kilogram quantities of DU-Mo and LEU-Mo powder have been manufactured for commercial customers. Mini-elements have been fabricated with LEU-7Mo and LEU-10Mo dispersed in aluminum, with a nominal loading of 4.5 gU/cm 3 . These have been irradiated in the NRU reactor at linear powers up to 100 kW/m. The mini-elements achieved 60 atom% 235 U burnup in 2004 March, and the irradiation is continuing to a planned discharge burnup of 80 atom% 235 U. Interim PIE has been conducted on mini-elements that were removed after 20 atom% 235 U burnup. The PIE results are presented in this paper. (author)

  7. Current status of PIE activities in O-arai Engineering Center of JNC on FBR MOX fuel

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    Koyama, Shin-ichi; Osaka, Masahiko; Namekawa, Takashi; Itoh, Masahiko

    2003-01-01

    Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) is now totally promoting the development of commercialized fast reactors to realize stable supply of energy in future. One of the important items is to develop high-performance fuel. For this purpose, it is essential to carry out post-irradiation examinations (PIE) for evaluation of irradiated fuel performance and also to establish the PIE technology. This paper describes the current status of PIE results including its technology in O-arai Engineering Center of JNC. The facilities have been operating safely and successfully since the 1960's. Obtained PIE data were reflected to the design and operation of the experimental fast reactor JOYO, the prototype fast reactor MONJU and future fast reactors. The core modification from the breeding core (MK-I) to the irradiation core (MK-II) of JOYO was performed in 1982. Irradiation tests of fuels and materials in MK-II core started in 1982. At PIE facilities in OEC, 65 of driver fuels, fuel irradiation test rigs, material irradiation test rigs and several other components were examined related to JOYO MK-II core operation, and thus a lot of aspects were accumulated for irradiated fuel behaviors. As topical activities of these PIE techniques, burnup measurement and analytical technique for Minor Actinides (MA), such as neptunium and americium were described here. (author)

  8. 21 CFR 152.126 - Frozen cherry pie.

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    2010-04-01

    ... incorporating in a filling contained in a pastry shell mature, pitted, stemmed cherries that are fresh, frozen, and/or canned. The top of the pie may be open or it may be wholly or partly covered with pastry or other suitable topping. Filling, pastry, and topping components of the food consist of optional...

  9. Diseño de planos indoor para aplicaciones móviles

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    Romagnoli, Nicolás

    2013-01-01

    Investigando el contexto de las aplicaciones de navegación indoor, encontramos que uno de los problemas en este dominio, es la generación de planos navegables. Este trabajo busca desarrollar una herramienta que permita la creación de planos de interiores, como así también la definición de marcadores posicionados espacialmente que permitan posteriormente brindar servicios de navegación para recorrerlo, a través de la definición de “caminos” entre el usuario y el destino seleccionado. El objeti...

  10. Recent and future PIE activities in KAERI

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    Ahn, Sangbok; Ryu, Woo-seok; Hong, Kwonpyo; Jeon, Yongbum; Kim, Dosik; Choo, Yongsun

    2012-01-01

    KAERI has two PIE hot cell facilities. One is Irradiated Material Examination Facility (IMEF) to examine irradiated nuclear fuels and core structural materials at HANARO, and the other is a Post Irradiation Examination Facility (PIEF) to do the operated PWR nuclear fuels and skeleton. Their activities are categorized by hot cell examinations, new technique developments, maintenance of facility utilities and a public acceptance work. In the past three years hot cell tests were executed over 2,000 times related to R and D projects of the future and next generation reactors such as SMART, U-Mo fuels, I-NERI etc., including 30 rods to be operated in domestic PWR's. To supply PIE data on time to the user schedules new equipment and techniques are being developed for 10 items which include an annealing fission gas release rate, thermal diffusivity measurement, a laser puncturing fission gas collection system and mechanical property measurements on PWR FA skeleton etc. For maintenance of facilities the aged utility equipment are refurbished and exchanged for new ones. The partly cracked and leaking building walls are completely repaired, and the aged electric UPS's, HVAC system parts, heating and cooling system are exchanged for new ones. Additionally efforts to upgrade the public acceptance for facility visiting events, open training courses to the university and graduated students have been made. Regarding the future of domestic R and D and a power reactor operating plan the demand for hot cell examinations will be steadily increased. Along with them new PIE techniques on TRISO fuels, minor actinide SFR fuels and CANDU fuels etc are required to be developed. New space to install small scale hot cells, and develop for the extreme conditioned test to meet future demands will be taken. (author)

  11. PIE the search: searching PubMed literature for protein interaction information.

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    Kim, Sun; Kwon, Dongseop; Shin, Soo-Yong; Wilbur, W John

    2012-02-15

    Finding protein-protein interaction (PPI) information from literature is challenging but an important issue. However, keyword search in PubMed(®) is often time consuming because it requires a series of actions that refine keywords and browse search results until it reaches a goal. Due to the rapid growth of biomedical literature, it has become more difficult for biologists and curators to locate PPI information quickly. Therefore, a tool for prioritizing PPI informative articles can be a useful assistant for finding this PPI-relevant information. PIE (Protein Interaction information Extraction) the search is a web service implementing a competition-winning approach utilizing word and syntactic analyses by machine learning techniques. For easy user access, PIE the search provides a PubMed-like search environment, but the output is the list of articles prioritized by PPI confidence scores. By obtaining PPI-related articles at high rank, researchers can more easily find the up-to-date PPI information, which cannot be found in manually curated PPI databases. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IRET/PIE/.

  12. IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE PLANO DE LUBRIFICAÇÃO EM INDÚSTRIA FRIGORÍFICA DE BOVINOS

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    Alano De La Torre Silva

    2017-04-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho foi realizado pelo meio de um estudo de caso em uma indústria frigorífica de bovinos. O plano de manutenção preventiva da empresa estudada possuía deficiências na parte de lubrificação dos equipamentos. Desta forma, este trabalho tem a finalidade de mostrar como é a implantação de um plano de lubrificação na empresa estudada. Foi implantado um plano de lubrificação destinado a cinco maquinas diferentes. Foram necessários três meses para a implantação do plano. Comparando-se o número de ordens de serviço de manutenções corretivas relacionadas à falta de lubrificação antes e três meses após a implantação do plano de lubrificação nas máquinas citadas, obteve-se um resultado satisfatório, pois houve uma redução de cerca de 50% das ordens de serviços para manutenção corretivas dos equipamentos,

  13. Geometry and computation of Houndstooth (Pied-de-poule)

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    Feijs, L.M.G.; Bosch, Robert; McKenna, Douglas; Sarhangi, Reza

    2012-01-01

    We apply a variety of geometric and computational tools to improve our understanding of the Houndstooth (Pied de poule) pattern. Although the pattern must have been known for centuries, it was made famous mostly by Christian Dior and is still frequently used in many variations. It is a

  14. Factores asociados al pie diabético en pacientes ambulatorios. Centro de Diabetes Cardiovascular del Caribe. Barranquilla (Colombia

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    Mildred Rosales Amarís

    2012-01-01

    respectivamente, la neuropatía (OR = 10.14; p = 0.00 y la deformidad de los pies (OR = 10.02; p = 0.00 se asociaron significativamente al pie diabético. Se encontró como factor protector el autocuidado (OR = 0.21; p = 0.00000 y la educación relacionada con el control de factores de riesgo para la diabetes (OR = 0.32; p = 0.00007. Conclusión: La macroangiopatía, la microangiopatía, la neuropatía y la deformidad en los pies se comportaron como factores asociados a la presencia del pie diabético. El autocuidado contribuyó a la prevención del mismo.

  15. Efectividad de un programa educativo en pacientes con pie diabético de riesgo

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    Olga Lidia Pereira Despaigne

    2015-01-01

    Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio de intervención terapéutica educativa en pacientes con pie diabético de riesgo, atendidos en la Consulta de Angiopatía Diabética del Hospital Provincial Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "Saturnino Lora Torres" de Santiago de Cuba, desde enero del 2011 hasta igual mes del 2013, a fin de determinar la efectividad de un programa educativo (momento de la intervención al respecto. Fueron indicativos de pie diabético de riesgo (momento del diagnóstico, la úlcera previa o amputación, la neuropatía periférica con pérdida de sensación protectora, la enfermedad arterial periférica, la hiperqueratosis y la afección grave de las uñas, la deformidad en el pie, la movilidad articular reducida, el calzado inadecuado, el tabaquismo, la edad avanzada, la larga evolución de la diabetes mellitus y la falta de educación diabetológica en pie diabético. La información fue analizada y procesada mediante las pruebas de hipótesis de Mann-Whitney y de comparación de medias, con un error de 5 %, y se obtuvo que con este programa (momento evaluativo se disminuyera la afectación que el pie diabético ocasiona a la actividad social, laboral y familiar de estas personas, así como el elevado costo económico, tanto para ellos como para el sistema de salud

  16. Great tit and pied flycatcher populations on the territory of radioactive trail in the eastern Urals

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    Lebedeva, N.V.

    1994-01-01

    The purpose of this preliminary study was to evaluate the prospects for using populations of the great tit (Parus major) and the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) in ecological monitoring of territories contaminated with radionuclides. Studies were performed in the summer of 1992 in birch forests of the Southern Urals. Artificial nesting sites (log houses) located 1.5 m above the ground were distributed over territories of two test plots: 30 log houses on the contaminated plot and 60 on the control plot (contamination with Sr-90 1.5 and 2 · 10 -3 mCi/m 2 , respectively). The nesting success in the great tit was similar on both plots, whereas that in the pied flycatcher was significantly greater on the control plot (in a open-quotes cleanclose quotes forest). Pied flycatchers build their nests out of highly radioactive materials, whereas great tits use nonradioactive or weakly emitting materials. Hence, pied flycatcher's nestlings receive a significant radiation dose from components of the nest: From the moment of egg laying, this dose amounts to 0.5 rem. The pied flycatcher can be used as an indicator of radioactive contamination. This species is more sensitive than the great tit, which has been successfully used as an indicator for monitoring the industrial air pollution

  17. Caracterización clínico epidemiológica de pacientes afectados por pie diabético

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    Dania Núñez Álvarez

    2018-01-01

    Full Text Available Introducción: el pie diabético constituye un problema de salud en los pacientes portadores de diabetes mellitus y se registra como la primera causa de amputación no traumática de los miembros. El conocimiento de sus particularidades clínico-epidemiológicas resulta de sumo interés. Objetivo: caracterizar clínica y epidemiológicamente a los pacientes con pie diabético neuroinfeccioso en el Hospital "Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany" de Santiago de Cuba. Método: se realizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo. El universo estuvo constituido por 96 pacientes diagnosticados con pie diabético durante el periodo comprendido entre el 2011 y el 2015. Se emplearon variables demográficas y relacionadas con factores de riesgo generales y específicos del pie diabético. Resultados: el pie diabético predominó entre la cuarta y sexta décadas de vida (24,7 % y en pacientes del sexo femenino (59,7 %. La diabetes mellitus tipo 2 estuvo representada en el 52,5 %. Mientras el factor de riesgo general de pie diabético más frecuente fue la obesidad (56,7 %, la neuropatía diabética, como factor de riesgo específico se presentó en el 98,9 % de los enfermos estudiados. Conclusiones: el pie diabético predominó en la cuarta y sexta décadas de la vida y en el sexo femenino. El mayor porcentaje de los pacientes era portador de diabetes mellitus tipo 2. La obesidad, la neuropatía diabética periférica, el sobrepeso, y la hiperglucemia constituyeron los factores de riesgo prevalecientes.

  18. Proceedings of 2012 JAEA/KAERI joint seminar on advanced irradiation and PIE technologies

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    Ishihara, Masahiro; Ishitsuka, Etsuo; Suzuki, Masahide

    2012-12-01

    Under the 'Arrangement for Corporation in the field of peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy between the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)', the 2012 JAEA/KAERI Joint Seminar on Advanced Irradiation and PIE (post-irradiation examination) Technologies has been held at Mito, Japan from March 28 to 30, 2012. This triennial seminar is the seventh in series of bilateral exchange of irradiation and PIE technologies and research reactor management. Since the first joint seminar on the PIE Technology between JAERI (Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, former agency of JAEA) and KAERI was held at JAERI Oarai Research Institute, Japan in 1992, the international cooperation program between JAEA and KAERI has been actively carried out in the field of neutron irradiation. At the fifth seminar in 2005 and sixth in 2008, the irradiation technology and the research reactor management fields were included, respectively, to the joint seminar, and it covers whole areas of irradiation using research reactors. In this seminar total 37 presentations were made in three technical sessions, which are 'research reactor management', 'advanced irradiation technology' and 'post-irradiation examination technology', and active information exchange was done among participants. Papers or manuscripts presented in the 2012 JAEA/KAERI Joint Seminar on Advanced Irradiation and PIE Technologies are contained in the proceedings. (author)

  19. The MEGAPIE PIE sample preparation

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    Wohlmuther, M.; Boutellier, V.; Dai, Y.; Gavillet, D.; Geissmann, K.; Hahl, S.; Hammer, B.; Lagotzki, A.; Leu, H.; Linder, H.P.; Kalt, A.; Kuster, D.; Neuhausen, J.; Schumann, D.; Schwarz, R.; Schweikert, H.; Spahr, A.; Suter, P.; Teichmann, S.; Thomsen, K.; Wiese, H.; Wagner, W.; Zimmermann, U.; Zumbach, C.

    2015-01-01

    On the way towards Accelerator-driven Systems (ADS), the MEGAPIE (Mega-Watt Pilot Experiment) project is one of the key milestones. The MEGAPIE project aimed to prove that a liquid Lead-Bismuth-Eutectic (LBE) spallation target can be licensed, planned, built, operated, dismantled, examined and disposed. The project has finished the phase of producing the samples for Post-irradiation Examination (PIE). Samples to study structural material property changes due to the harsh environment of high temperatures, contact with flowing liquid metal (LBE), proton and neutron irradiation will be investigated by all partner laboratories (CEA, CNRS, ENEA, KIT, PSI and SCK-CEN). (authors)

  20. PIE of test assembly of Qinshan nuclear power plant

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    Ran, M.; Yan, J.; Wang, S.

    2000-01-01

    The small dimensional test fuel assembly (3x3-2) for the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant was irradiated up to 25.7 Gwd/tU in the in-pile loop (15.5 Mpa,320 C) in Heavy Water Research Reactor (HWRR), CIAE, at simulative condition to Qinshan PWR normal and short time overpower operation for verifying the design, technology, and material properties of the fuel assembly. Comprehensive post-irradiation examination (PIE) including dimension measurement, gamma scanning, eddy current test, X ray, radiography, measurement of fission gas release, and quantitative metallography etc. were performed. PIE results show that the diameter of the fuel rods changed, ridges appeared on the cladding, pellets swelled, and the rate of fission gas release was higher than what we expected. The results would be an important basis for further improvement of design, technology and material properties for Qinshan PWR assembly. (author)

  1. The pied piper of Hamelin: Exploring the story

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    Leila Mury Bergmann

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available This article’s goal is to explore the story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. In order to do so, social aspects of childhood in the (probable time when the story was created are presented, as well as some curiosities about the text. Furthermore, this paper brings a personal statement (by the authors of a storytelling activity in a public school nursery in Porto Alegre, based upon the version of the book The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Tatiana Belinky. After some questions and informal conversation about the tale, the children’s verbal expositions were analyzed. The research brings, as a theoretical background, contributions of studies from authors connected, mainly, to the field of Children’s Literature and Education. It brought the conclusion that the piper’s story motivated representative interventions, since during the storytelling activity children used typical aspects of their culture and also showed their dominium of temporal arrangement of the text’s events, as well as their peculiar creativity – according to their age – of recreating in the situation of the so-called make-believe.

  2. Idosos com e sem plano de saúde e características socioepidemiológicas associadas

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    Elizabeth S. C. Hernandes

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Analisar fatores epidemiológicos e sociodemográficos associados à saúde de idosos com ou sem plano de saúde. MÉTODOS: Foram realizadas entrevistas com 2.143 pessoas de 60 anos e mais, no município de São Paulo, em 2000 e 2006. A variável dependente, dicotômica, foi ter ou não plano de saúde. As variáveis independentes abrangeram características sociodemográficas e de condição de saúde. Foram descritas as proporções encontradas para as variáveis analisadas e desenvolvido modelo de regressão logística que considerou significantes as variáveis com p < 0,05. RESULTADOS: Houve diferenças, favoráveis aos titulares de planos, para renda e escolaridade. O grupo sem planos privados realizou menos prevenção contra neoplasias e mais contra doenças respiratórias; esperou mais para ter acesso a consultas de saúde; realizou menos exames pós-consulta; referiu menor número de doenças; teve maior proporção de avaliação negativa da própria saúde e relatou mais episódios de queda. Os titulares de planos relataram menor adesão à vacinação e, dentre os que foram internados, 11,1% em 2000 e 17,9% em 2006 tiveram esse procedimento custeado pelo Sistema Único de Saúde. A única doença associada à condição de titular de plano privado foi a osteoporose. CONCLUSÕES: Há diferenças representadas pela renda e pela escolaridade favoráveis aos titulares de planos e seguros privados, as quais estão relacionadas com o uso de serviços e com os determinantes sociais de saúde.

  3. 9 CFR 381.158 - Poultry dinners (frozen) and pies.

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    2010-01-01

    ... 9 Animals and Animal Products 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Poultry dinners (frozen) and pies. 381... AGRICULTURE AGENCY ORGANIZATION AND TERMINOLOGY; MANDATORY MEAT AND POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION AND VOLUNTARY INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION POULTRY PRODUCTS INSPECTION REGULATIONS Definitions and Standards of Identity or...

  4. Plano de amostragem do biótipo B de Bemisia tabaci na cultura do pepino

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    Moura Marcelo Fialho de

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available A adoção de programas de manejo integrado de pragas permite reduzir a aplicação de inseticidas e os planos convencionais de amostragem representam o ponto inicial na geração desses programas. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar plano de amostragem convencional para o biótipo B da mosca-branca Bemisia tabaci Genn. (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae na cultura do pepino. Foram avaliadas as densidades de ninfas e de adultos em dez lavouras comerciais de pepino, Tocantins, MG, estudando nove sistemas amostrais formados pela combinação de três técnicas (batida de folha em bandeja de plástico branco, contagem direta dos insetos na face inferior da folha e coleta de folha em sacola de plástico e três unidades amostrais (folha do terço apical, mediano ou basal do espaldeiramento. A contagem direta em folha do terço basal foi o sistema com maior precisão econômica na amostragem de ninfas, mas não possibilitou a geração de plano de amostragem praticável. As batidas, em bandeja, de folha dos terços apicais, medianos ou basais do espaldeiramento foram os sistemas economicamente mais precisos na amostragem de adultos. Desses, apenas a batida de folha do terço mediano em bandeja gerou plano de amostragem praticável, sendo que este plano é composto de 196 amostras/lavoura.

  5. Comunicação integrada de marketing: plano de comunicação para a empresa Evicar

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    Trindade, Maria João da Conceição Alves

    2011-01-01

    Mestrado em Marketing O objectivo deste projecto é desenvolver um Plano de Comunicação Integrada de Marketing para o Grupo Evicar, especificamente para o seu projecto Evitrucks, distribuidor e reparador da marca DAF em Portugal. Adoptou-se o modelo conceptual de Clow e Baack (2007) para o desenvolvimento deste plano. Os objectivos do plano são a fidelização dos seus públicos-alvo, melhorar a imagem da marca e aumentar a notoriedade e a credibilidade da empresa, dos seus produtos e/ou servi...

  6. PIE and separate effect test of high burnup UO2 fuel

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    Yang, Yong Sik; Kim, S.K.; Kim, D.H.

    2005-01-01

    To investigate the performance of a high burnup UO 2 fuel, the highest burnup fuel assembly in KOREA was transported to the PIE facility in KAERI. It was a 17·17 fuel assembly irradiated at the Ulchin Unit 2 PWR. The peak fuel rod average burnup was about 57MWd/kgU and locally 65MWd/kgU. The general PIE was performed to investigate the fuel rod irradiation performance. Fission gas release, burnup, oxide thickness, hydrogen pickup, CRUD, and density change were measured by destructive of non-destructive test. Microstructure change, bubble and pore size distributions were observed by optical microscopy, SEM and EPMA. All generated and available PIE results were used to verify high burnup fuel performance code INFRA. Several rods were cut for additional separate effect test. For the high burnup fission gas release behaviour analysis, annealing apparatus were developed and installed in hot cell and preliminary test was performed. In addition to current apparatus new induction furnace will be installed in hot cell to investigate the high temperature and transient fission gas release behaviour. Ring tensile test was performed to analyze the material property degradation which caused by the oxidation and hydride, and additional mechanical tests will be performed. (Author)

  7. prepare_taxa_charts.py: A Python program to automate generation of publication ready taxonomic pie chart images from QIIME.

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    Lakhujani, Vijay; Badapanda, Chandan

    2017-06-01

    QIIME (Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology) is one of the most popular open-source bioinformatics suite for performing metagenome, 16S rRNA amplicon and Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) data analysis. Although, it is very comprehensive and powerful tool, it lacks a method to provide publication ready taxonomic pie charts. The script plot_taxa_summary . py bundled with QIIME generate a html file and a folder containing taxonomic pie chart and legend as separate images. The images have randomly generated alphanumeric names. Therefore, it is difficult to associate the pie chart with the legend and the corresponding sample identifier. Even if the option to have the legend within the html file is selected while executing plot_taxa_summary . py , it is very tedious to crop a complete image (having both the pie chart and the legend) due to unequal image sizes. It requires a lot of time to manually prepare the pie charts for multiple samples for publication purpose. Moreover, there are chances of error while identifying the pie chart and legend pair due to random alphanumeric names of the images. To bypass all these bottlenecks and make this process efficient, we have developed a python based program, prepare_taxa_charts . py , to automate the renaming, cropping and merging of taxonomic pie chart and corresponding legend image into a single, good quality publication ready image. This program not only augments the functionality of plot_taxa_summary . py but is also very fast in terms of CPU time and user friendly.

  8. Recent improvements in PIE-techniques at the IFE hot-laboratory

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    Jenssen, Haakon Kristian

    1999-01-01

    The PIE-techniques at the IFE nuclear fuel section are continuously improved through upgrading of equipment and methods, e.g. image handling techniques and components utilised in data acquisition and editing techniques. To improve the quality or spatial resolution of neutron radiographs the normal technique was complemented with another method. The dysprosium foil/X-ray film technique is now supplemented with a track-etch recorder consisting of a cellulose nitrate film. For further examination the cellulose nitrate film can be digitised to allow electronic image treatment. Promising results were obtained with this technique on neutron radiographs, namely higher spatial resolution compared to the normal technique, high contrast and sharp neutron radiography images. The traditional one-axial profilometry of fuel rods were modified so that diameter/bow measurements are possible at several angular orientations during one acquisition sequence. This extension is very useful in several ways, for instance the built-in data symmetry of the method is used to check the correctness of the measurement results. Diameter and bow measurements give in addition detailed and complete information of canning irregularities and fuel rod profiles. PIE data are collected and compiled in an image file. Inspection and examination of the file information is possible through an ideal user-interface, i.e. Adobe photoshop software with navigator possibilities. An example incorporating PIE data acquired from a fuel rod exposed in a loss of coolant experiment is utilised for illustration of the user-interface and some of its possibilities (author) (ml)

  9. Tratamiento del pie diabético en pacientes ancianos con Heberprot-P

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    José Luís Solís Licea

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available El pie diabético constituye la complicación crónica de mayor morbimortalidad de la diabetes mellitus, significando un problema de salud internacional, del cual no escapa nuestro país y nuestro sistema de salud. Se realizó un estudio de tipo clínico observacional y descriptivo, con el objetivo de evaluar el resultado del tratamiento con Heberprot-P en pacientes con úlceras del pie diabético, en ancianos ingresados en el servicio de Angiología del Hospital General Docente “Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna”, del municipio de Las Tunas, provincia de Las Tunas, en el período comprendido entre el 1ro de enero de 2010 al 31 de diciembre de 2011. Se estudiaron los pacientes según las variables de edad, localización de la lesión, resultado del tratamiento según la clasificación de Wagner y reacciones adversas presentadas. Con este estudio se pretende poner en manos del personal de la salud un material de consulta, que permita evaluar el tratamiento con Heberprot-P del pie diabético en el anciano.

  10. Problemas de Geología Estructural 4. Proyección polar de un plano. Proyección π

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    Babín Vich, Rosa Blanca; Gómez Ortiz, David

    2010-01-01

    la representación estereográfica de planos puede llevarse a cabo también si se proyecta únicamente el polo del plano en lugar de su intersección con la esfera de proyección (ciclográfica), de manera que se simplifica de manera importante la representación de grandes volúmenes de datos, facilitando así su interpretación. También es esencial para resolver algunos problemas como la obtención del ángulo entre dos planos.

  11. International Workshop on Characterization and PIE Needs for Fundamental Understanding of Fuels Performance and Safety

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    The International Workshop on Characterization and PIE Needs to Support Science-Based Development of Innovative Fuels was held June 16-17, 2011, in Paris, France. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Working Party on the Fuel Cycle (WPFC) sponsored the workshop to identify gaps in global capabilities that need to be filled to meet projected needs in the 21st century. First and foremost, the workshop brought nine countries and associated international organizations, together in support of common needs for nuclear fuels and materials testing, characterization, PIE, and modeling capabilities. Finland, France, Germany, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, IAEA, and ITU (on behalf of European Union Joint Research Centers) discussed issues and opportunities for future technical advancements and collaborations. Second, the presentations provided a base level of understanding of current international capabilities. Three main categories were covered: (1) status of facilities and near term plans, (2) PIE needs from fuels engineering and material science perspectives, and (3) novel PIE techniques being developed to meet the needs. The International presentations provided valuable data consistent with the outcome of the National Workshop held in March 2011. Finally, the panel discussion on 21st century PIE capabilities, created a unified approach for future collaborations. In conclusion, (1) existing capabilities are not sufficient to meet the needs of a science-based approach, (2) safety issues and fuels behavior during abnormal conditions will receive more focus post-Fukushima; therefore we need to adopt our techniques to those issues, and (3) International collaboration is needed in the areas of codes and standards development for the new techniques.

  12. Social suppliers: Exploring the cultural contours of the performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) market among bodybuilders in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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    van de Ven, Katinka; Mulrooney, Kyle J D

    2017-02-01

    This paper explores the understudied phenomenon of performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) markets by examining the structure and formation of the market for PIEDs among bodybuilders in the Netherlands and Belgium. This article specifically seeks to account for individual reasons and motivations for dealing PIEDs within these bodybuilding subcultures. Understanding illicit PIED markets is important for policy decisions as knowledge on the production and distribution of these substances may assist in designing law enforcement efforts, harm reduction initiatives and treatment options. This article draws on two years of fieldwork in various bodybuilding settings, 47 semi-structured interviews with individuals who are directly or indirectly involved in the PIED market and 64 PIED dealing cases initiated by criminal justice agencies in the Netherlands and Belgium. The data indicates that PIED dealing groups and individuals are often driven by motivations stemming from their social and cultural embeddedness in the bodybuilding subculture. Specifically, these PIED dealers are 'over-socialized' into the structure and culture of bodybuilding and follow the cultural scripts that come with their group affiliation and organization. As a result of the cultural context in which these transactions occur, PIED dealing networks among bodybuilders in the Netherlands and Belgium are more likely to consist of friends or 'friends of friends' tied together by threads of collective meaning found within the bodybuilding subculture. We argue that efforts seeking to explain the structure, formation and motivations of illicit PIED dealing must learn to appreciate how culture mediates structural forces and thereby influences individual and collective action. Policy makers, health care professionals and other relevant parties should consider a plurality of factors (social, economic and cultural) when designing and evaluating PIED-related interventions such as law enforcement efforts, harm

  13. Alteraciones biomecánicas del antepie en el pie zambo y su tratamiento

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    Oller Asensio, Antonio; Prats Climent, Baldiri

    1991-01-01

    Definición y recuerdo anátomo-fisio-patológico del pie zambo y de las alteraciones funcionales más frecuentes que se encuentran asociadas a esta patología. Se define la metodología básica de exploración física del paciente y estudio radiológico con la determinación de las tangentes tibio-calcáneas. Desarrollo de los tratamientos generales, ortopodológicos, fisioterapéuticos y quirúrgicos. Presentación de tres casos clínicos afectos de alteraciones biomecánicas por pie zambo con su tratamiento...

  14. Uso del método de Ilizarov en pie bot pediátrico. [Use of the Ilizarov method in pediatric clubfoot

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    Silvana Fiscina

    2013-05-01

    Full Text Available Introducción El objetivo de tratamiento del pie Bot está enfocado en lograr un pie plantígrado, indoloro y  que permita el uso del calzado habitual. El objetivo del trabajo fue medir la incidencia de recidiva luego de obtenida la corrección de la deformidad en pacientes con pie bot tratados con tutor de Ilizarov, y  analizar los factores pronósticos asociados. Material y Método Cohorte retrospectiva de factores pronóstico. Se trató con este método a 48 pacientes (70 pies desde 1988. Se excluyeron los pacientes con falta de corrección de la deformidad en el momento de retirar el tutor (deformidad residual o corrección incompleta. La variable de estudio fue la recidiva. Resultados El 77% de los 70 pies eran idiopáticos. Solo 18 pies no habían sido tratados. Todos eran pacien- tes pediátricos. El promedio de edad en el momento de la cirugía era de 7,9 años. Se incluyeron tres grupos de pacientes: tratados con Ilizarov solo (40,2%, en combi- nación con cirugía de partes blandas (38,5% y asociado con osteotomías (21,3%. El seguimiento promedio posoperatorio fue de 10,6 años (de 5,5 a 22. En el 71% de los pies, los resultados fueron pobres, la deformidad recidivó en un promedio de 38 meses, y fueron necesarias cirugías complementarias para lograr un pie plantígrado. Conclusión Presentamos una importante casuística con seguimiento alejado de pie bot recidivado o inveterado, con una alta recidiva de la deformidad (71%. No encontramos diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los subgrupos estudiados (edad, diagnóstico, trata- mientos previos y procedimientos asociados. Actualmente no consideramos a esta técnica de primera elección, pues nuestros resultados fueron poco alentadores.

  15. Development of PIE techniques for irradiated LWR pressure vessel steels

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    Nishi, Masahiro; Kizaki, Minoru; Sukegawa, Tomohide

    1999-01-01

    For the evaluation of safety and integrity of light water reactors (LWRs), various post irradiation examinations (PIEs) of reactor pressure vessel (RPV) steels and fuel claddings have been carried out in the Research Hot Laboratory (RHL). In recent years, the instrumented Charpy impact testing machine was remodeled aiming at the improvement of accuracy and reliability. By this remodeling, absorbed energy and other useful information on impact properties can be delivered from the force-displacement curve for the evaluation of neutron irradiation embrittlement behavior of LWR-RPV steels at one-time striking. In addition, two advanced PIE technologies are now under development. One is the remote machining of mechanical test pieces from actual irradiated pressure vessel steels. The other is development of low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue test technology in order to clarify the post-irradiation fatigue characteristics of structural and fuel cladding materials. (author)

  16. 49 CFR 40.403 - Must a service agent notify its clients when the Department issues a PIE?

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    2010-10-01

    ... 49 Transportation 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Must a service agent notify its clients when the... Must a service agent notify its clients when the Department issues a PIE? (a) As a service agent, if... clients, in writing, about the issuance, scope, duration, and effect of the PIE. You may meet this...

  17. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Tool for Pork Pie Development

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    Gaunt, Adam P.; Morris, Robert H.; Newton, Michael I.

    2013-01-01

    The traditional British pork pie consists of roughly chopped pork cooked in a hot water pastry crust. Due to shrinkage of the meat during cooking, the gap formed around the meat is usually sealed using a gelatin based jelly to exclude air and thus help to preserve the pie. The properties of the jelly are such that it will ingress into the pastry crust causing undesirable softening. The jelly is traditionally produced by simmering pig trotters with seasoning for several hours. In this work we demonstrate the potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a tool for investigating the conditions required for producing jellies with different properties and present two examples of this use. Firstly we demonstrate that MRI can determine the ability of water to diffuse through the jelly which is critical in minimizing the amount of moisture moving from the jelly to the crust. Secondly, the impact of jelly temperature on the penetration length into the crust is investigated. These examples highlight the power of MRI as a tool for food assessment. PMID:28239124

  18. Sistema Nacional de Educação articulado ao Plano Nacional de Educação

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    Dermeval Saviani

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Versando sobre el tema central de la Conferencia Nacional de Educación (CONAE, realizada en Brasilia del 28 de marzo al 1º de abril de 2010, el texto trata del concepto del Sistema Nacional de Educación en articulación con el Plano Nacional de Educación. Por tanto, después de indicar los usos básicos del concepto del sistema, aborda la cuestión del Sistema Nacional de Educación explorando, en especial, el problema federativo para mostrar la plena compatibilidad de la organización del Sistema Nacional de Educación con el régimen federativo. En la secuencia, aborda el significado histórico del Plano Nacional de Educación mostrando que el plano es una exigencia del sistema, una vez que la educación sistematizada envuelve la acción planeada. Así pues, el Plano Nacional de Educación constituye el medio por el cual se puede comparar el grado en que el Sistema Nacional de Educación está cumpliendo las metas y objetivos que le corresponde alcanzar.

  19. Interfaces da gestão ambiental urbana e gestão regional: análise da relação entre Planos Diretores Municipais e Planos de Bacia Hidrográfica

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    Renata Bovo Peres; Ricardo Siloto da Silva

    2013-01-01

    Este artigo relata uma pesquisa que discute como a questão ambiental vem sendo tratada nos instrumentos e práticas de gestão localizadas em dois recortes territoriais: municípios e bacias hidrográficas. Foi analisada a relação da dimensão ambiental com a gestão regional e municipal, por meio dos instrumentos Planos de Bacia Hidrográfica e Planos Diretores Municipais, tendo como locus a Unidade de Gerenciamento de Recursos Hídricos Tietê-Jacaré do Estado de São Paulo. Os objetos de pesquisa se...

  20. Microbiological evaluation of sweet pies marketed fairs in special city Goiânia-GO

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    Edmar Soares Nicolau

    2014-02-01

    Full Text Available The sweet pies are widely consumed in special fairs in Goiânia-GO city. In general they are marketed in inadequate way, without refrigeration and most of times without any protection against various types of contaminants, including microbial contamination that can cause food toxi-infections to consumers. This study aimed to evaluate the microbiological quality of pies sold in 105 stalls in 23 special fair city of Goiânia, and also the impact of training on the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP in the quality of these products. The micro-organisms investigated were those required the by standard microbiological: Salmonella, fecal coliforms, Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus coagulase positive. We also observed the temperature exposure of these foods on newsstands. We analyzed 259 samples in total, with 209 in the first stage, before the training of the fairground, and 50 in the second, after qualifying for the fair dealers in GMP. Pies sweets collected before training of fair dealers were considered unfit for consumption because it contains health indicators above the recommended limit (65.6% with fecal coliforms, 20.6% Staphylococcus coagulase positive and 16.8% with Bacillus cereus. In samples collected after training there was an improvement in the indices (28,0% contained coliforms, 14,0% Staphylococcus coagulase positive and 28,0% of Bacillus cereus, all above the limit set. None samples had Salmonella in both steps. It can be concluded that with the training of fair dealers there was an improvement in the microbiological quality of these products. These results reinforce the need for training of the fairground and the impact it can have on the quality of the products. The storage temperatures pies ranged from –5.3ºC to 28.7ºC in first step and –3.6ºC to 24.0ºC in the second. The presence of the refrigerated was not sufficient to maintain the optimal temperature (to 10 ° C for storage of pies.

  1. Oxidative stress in pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) nestlings from metal contaminated environments in northern Sweden

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    Berglund, A.M.M.; Sturve, J.; Foerlin, L.; Nyholm, N.E.I.

    2007-01-01

    Metals have been shown to induce oxidative stress in animals. One of the most metal polluted terrestrial environments in Sweden is the surroundings of a sulfide ore smelter plant located in the northern part of the country. Pied flycatcher nestlings (Ficedula hypoleuca) that grew up close to the industry had accumulated amounts of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead, iron and zinc in their liver tissue. The aim of this study was to investigate if pied flycatcher nestlings in the pollution gradient of the industry were affected by oxidative stress using antioxidant molecules and enzyme activities. The antioxidant assays were also evaluated in search for useful biomarkers in pied flycatchers. This study indicated that nestlings in metal contaminated areas showed signs of oxidative stress evidenced by up regulated hepatic antioxidant defense given as increased glutathione reductase (GR) and catalase (CAT) activities and slightly but not significantly elevated lipid peroxidation and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activities. Stepwise linear regression indicated that lipid peroxidation and CAT activities were influenced mostly by iron, but iron and lead influenced the CAT activity to a higher degree. Positive relationships were found between GST and lead as well as GR activities and cadmium. We conclude that GR, CAT, GST activities and lipid peroxidation levels may function as useful biomarkers for oxidative stress in free-living pied flycatcher nestlings exposed to metal contaminated environments

  2. Projeto de intervenção na Associação de Andebol de Aveiro: plano de marketing

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    Ferreira, Bárbara Patrícia Rodrigues

    2018-01-01

    Este trabalho de projeto tem como objetivo geral a elaboração de um plano de Marketing para a Associação de Andebol de Aveiro. Tem como objetivos específicos a realização de uma análise diagnóstico da situação, a definição de objetivos, o estabelecimento de opções estratégicas, a definição do plano operacional para esta associação e a concretização de parte do plano. Em termos metodológicos, este trabalho baseou-se em dados primários, nomeadamente, entrevistas e os trabalhos...

  3. A agência nacional de saúde suplementar - ANS: onze anos de regulação dos planos de saúde

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    Rachel Torres Salvatori

    2012-09-01

    Full Text Available Trata-se de um trabalho com objetivo de apresentar os principais resultados alcançados pela regulação dos planos de saúde exercida pela Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar, autarquia instituída para promover o equilíbrio das relações entre operadoras e consumidores, tornando o mercado de planos de saúde mais efi ciente. Como avanços mais significativos oriundos da regulação do setor podem ser citados: as barreiras à entrada e à saída das operadoras no mercado, a ampliação das coberturas assistenciais contratuais, o monitoramento e o controle dos reajustes, a indução a práticas de promoção da saúde e à qualifi cação do setor, e a possibilidade da portabilidade de carências. Como desafios a serem enfrentados, podem ser apontados: o monitoramento da qualidade da assistência prestada, a renúncia fiscal, a existência dos cartões de desconto, a operação de empresas como operadoras de planos de saúde sem o registro na ANS e a adoção de alguns mecanismos nocivos de regulação assistencial pelas operadoras de planos de saúde. ----- The National Agency of Supplementary Health – ANS: eleven years in regulating health insurance plans ----- ABSTRACT ----- This study aims to present the main results achieved in the regulation of health insurance plans through the National Agency of Supplementary Health, an agency set up to promote a balance in the relationship between health insurance plans and their consumers, making the health insurance market more efficient. As examples of the important progress achieved in regulating the sector, the authors emphasize: greater control of the infl ow and outfl ow of service operators in the market; the widening of contractual coverage; monitoring and control of readjustments; encouragement of health promotion practices and increased training in the sector; grace period flexibility. Examples of regulatory gaps however, include: problems monitoring the quality of the care provided

  4. Ajustamento EstratÃgico do Setor BancÃrio ao Plano Real

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    Maria Elisangela Rodrigues dos Santos

    2004-01-01

    Este estudo evendicia as transformaÃÃes ocorridas no setor bancÃrio apÃs o Plano Real, originado em 01 de Julho de 1994. Essas transformaÃÃes proporcionaram impactos no sistema bancÃrio, dando inÃcio a um amplo processo de reforma estrutural ocasionado por modificaÃÃes de aÃÃes exÃgenas macroeconÃmicas. Com inÃcio do Plano, sabia-se que o novo ambiente de estabilizaÃÃo econÃmico do paÃs nÃo seria condizente com a dimensÃo que o sistema bancÃrio havia alcanÃado, fruto de vÃrios anos de inflaÃÃ...

  5. Fitness costs of polygyny in female Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

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    Both, C.

    2002-01-01

    Variance in mating systems can only be understood if the fitness consequences of the available options are known for both sexes. In Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca it has for long been suggested that females pairing with already mated males pay a fitness cost, and it is still debated why females

  6. Prevención de úlceras en el pie del paciente diabético

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    Análida Pinilla Roa

    2000-01-01

    Full Text Available La Diabetes Mellitus tipo dos (1 es una de las enfermedades metabólicas más comunes dentro de la población adulta (mayor de 30 años, da lugar a múltiples complicaciones como insuficiencia renal, enfermedades cardiovasculares, ceguera, neuropatía periférica y amputaciones de los miembros inferiores. Vale la pena destacar el profundo impacto de la diabetes en los pies debido a la gran morbilidad y mortalidad que puede causar. Se sabe que los problemas en los pies de los diabéticos son el resultado de varios factores como son la neuropatía periférica, la vasculopatía, los trastornos de la inmunidad  y los traumatismos entre otros. Cada uno de estos factores contribuye a la formación de úlceras que no sanan fácilmente y en general se infectan causando un proceso séptico que requiere el tratamiento radical de la amputación. El objetivo de este artículo es concientizar al personal de salud sobre  la necesidad de la prevención de las úlceras en los pies de los pacientes diabéticos, mediante la educación para permitir una detección temprana y un tratamiento oportuno, disminuir la tasa de úlceras y por ende de amputaciones de los miembros inferiores. La educación al paciente y al personal de salud debe incluir: el reconocimiento de signos tempranos de ulceración en las áreas de mayor presión de los pies mediante un adecuado autoexamen diario, la asesoría para el uso de calzado protector, adecuados hábitos de aseo y corte de uñas, así como medidas preventivas para evitar el trauma.

  7. [Characterization and nutritional value of a food artisan: the meat pie of Murcia].

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    Ruiz-Cano, Domingo; Pérez-Llamas, Francisca; López-Jiménez, José Ángel; González-Silvera, Daniel; Frutos, Maria José; Zamora, Salvador

    2013-01-01

    The main aims of this study are to describe the characteristics of the meat pie, a typical product of the regional gastronomy of Murcia and to determine its nutritional and energy values, fatty acid profile and fat quality. There were studied 24 samples of Murcia's meat pie from the six best-selling retail establishments in this Region (four units per establishment).The moisture, protein, fat, carbohydrates, fibre and minerals, contents and the energy value, fatty acid profile and fat quality were analyzed using the Official Analysis Methods of Foods. All analyses were performed by triplicate. The average weight of this product was 192.3 ± 11.8 g, with three differentiated parts (base, filling and pastry lid). All ingredients were natural raw materials: wheat flour, lard, ground beef, sliced boiled egg and chorizo, water and spices (salt, pepper, garlic, paprika and nutmeg). Most of its organoleptic attributes are due to the type and amount of fat or lard. The combination of the other ingredients and the particular formulation of the spices are also responsible of other attributes. Due to its protein content (11.0%), this meat pie can replace other meat dishes, and be incorporated into a balanced diet. However, it is necessary to take into account its fat and energy contents (17.3 g and 317 kcal/100 g, respectively). Unlike many common pastry products, it contains no trans fatty acids. The results of the research show that the studied product remains, at present, an artisan food, and offer reliable information that it is representative of the energy and nutritional values of the Murcia's meat pie, a typical product of the gastronomy of the Region of Murcia. Copyright © AULA MEDICA EDICIONES 2013. Published by AULA MEDICA. All rights reserved.

  8. Plano de marketing internacional para a indústria metalomecânica no mercado da Indonésia : o caso ADIRA

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    Tedim, Ilda Filipa de Sousa

    2015-01-01

    Ao longo do presente estudo, serão analisados aspetos cruciais do desenvolvimento e implantação de um plano de marketing internacional no mercado da Indonésia para a indústria metalomecânica. O plano será desenvolvido com base na estrutura sugerida por Cateora, Gilly e Graham, em 2013. Este divide-se em quatro principais capítulos definidos como análise preliminar, definição do mercado e marketing mix, desenvolvimento do plano de marketing e implementação e controlo. A primeira etapa passa...

  9. Nesting ecology of Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta in Sfax salina ...

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    In this paper we use the results of a one-year monitoring of nests in Sfax salina to provide information on its nesting parameters, in particular nesting phenology, colony size and hatching success. Our results show that Pied Avocets formed dense colonies at the beginning of the nesting season, but colony size decreased as ...

  10. Tratamiento de la mordida cruzada anterior con plano inclinado anterior. Efecto sobre los arcos dentales

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    Carolina Rodríguez Manjarrés; Jesús Alberto Hernández Silva

    2017-01-01

    Objetivo: Evaluar los cambios dimensionales de los arcos dentales primarios tratados con plano inclinado anterior como método de corrección de la mordida cruzada anterior. Métodos: Se trataron 10 pacientes con edades entre 3 y 5 años afectados con mordida cruzada anterior completa, se colocó un plano inclinado anterior elaborado en acrílico, que estuvo en posición en promedio 8.5 semanas. Se obtuvieron modelos de estudio en 3 momentos T0: antes del tratamiento; T1: 6 meses después de iniciado...

  11. Fractal Pied de Poule (houndstooth) Collection SS'15 : Parka and Jacket

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    2015-01-01

    Fractal Pied de Poule (houndstooth) Spring/Summer '15 is a collection consisting of a body, a jacket and a parka. The last two will be shown here. Algorithms, new materials, digital prototyping, drapability, tessellations and fractals are recurring themes in our projects. The body, the jacket and

  12. Resistencia de radiación de altavoces planos

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    Escuder, Eva; Alba, Jesús; Ramis, Jaime

    2005-01-01

    En estos últimos meses se ha incorporado de forma natural a los sistemas de reproducción sonora los altavoces planos de modos distribuidos, que generan el campo acústico mediante la vibración de una superficie rectangular. La manera de colocar estos elementos es diversa: pueden colocarse como altavoces de techo, únicamente apoyados sobre los montantes, pueden colocarse verticalmente, apoyados en la pared como un cuadro o fijados sobre un marco de sujeción. Como se puede observar, ...

  13. PLANO REAL: ESTRATÉGIAS DE AÇÃO E PERSPECTIVAS

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    Ricardo Balistiero

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta alguns resultados obtidos pelo Plano Real, discutindo seus principais acertos e suas inconsistências macroeconômicas. Em seguida, apresenta as medidas de política econômica nos doze primeiros meses de Governo Lula, discutindo as oportunidades e deficiências, e sugerindo os possíveis caminhos a serem seguidos.

  14. Oral lichen planus: two case reports in male patients = Líquen plano oral: relato de dois casos em pacientes masculinos

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    Moraes, Maiara de

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: O líquen plano é uma doença crônica sistêmica comum que envolve a mucosa oral, na maioria das vezes na ausência de lesões em pele. Embora relativamente comum, o líquen plano oral é alvo de muita controvérsia, especialmente em relação à sua patogênese e possibilidade de uma eventual transformação maligna. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho é relatar dois casos de líquen plano em pacientes do sexo masculino e discutir os principais aspectos dessa lesão em relação a etiopatogênese e tratamento. Descrição do caso: Exames físicos e histopatológicos foram realizados para confirmar o diagnóstico de líquen plano oral. Foi prescrito elixir de dexametasona no primeiro caso e no segundo caso, foi prescrito o uso tópico de propionato de clobetasol 0,05%. Após quinze dias, os pacientes retornaram com regressão da lesão. Conclusão: Embora a ocorrência de líquen plano oral é comum, o diagnóstico preciso é necessário para que o correto tratamento possa ser realizado

  15. Moult, pied plumage and relationships within the genus of the Black ...

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    The pied plumage of the adult Black Sparrowhawk is rather exceptional in the genus Accipiter and it could be explained by functionality or by phylogenetic relationships. The moult pattern of museum specimens is presented, supplementing information from captive birds. The post-juvenile moulting sequence is similar to that ...

  16. Improvements in PIE-techniques at the IFE hot-laboratory. 'Neutron radiography, three dimensional profilometry and image compilation of PIE data for visualization in an image based user-interface'

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    Jenssen, H.K.; Oberlaender, B.C.

    2002-01-01

    The PIE-techniques used at IFE are continuously improved through upgrading of equipment and methods, e.g. image handling techniques and components utilized in data acquisition and editing techniques. To improve the quality or spatial resolution of neutron radiographs the normal technique was complemented with another method, i.e. the dysprosium foil/X ray film technique is supplemented with a track-etch recorder consisting of a cellulose nitrate film. For further examination of the neutron radiographs the cellulose nitrate film can be digitized to allow electronic image treatment. Promising results were obtained with this technique on neutron radiographs, namely higher spatial resolution compared to the normal technique, high contrast and sharp neutron radiography images. The traditional uniaxial profilometry of fuel rods was modified so that diameter/bow measurements are possible at several angular orientations during one acquisition sequence. This extension is very useful in several ways, for instance the built-in data symmetry of the method is used to check the correctness of the measurement results. Diameter and bow measurements give information of cladding irregularities and fuel rod profiles. Implementation of electronic image handling techniques is particularly useful in PIE when data are collected and compiled in an image file. Inspection and examination of the file contents (examination results) are possible through an ideal user-interface, i.e. Adobe Photoshop software with navigator possibilities. Examples incorporating PIE data acquired from neutron radiography, visual inspection and ceramography are utilized for illustration of the user-interface and some of its possibilities. (author)

  17. Spatial distribution of breeding Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca in respect to their natal sites

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    Sokolov, L.

    2004-06-01

    Full Text Available Study of philopatry and dispersal of pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca was launched on the Courish Spit (SE Baltic in 1981. Since then, ca. 9,000 nestlings were ringed at different sites in the Russian part of the Courish Spit. A total of 557 individuals ringed as pulli were recaptured in subsequent seasons in the study area. Both males and females are more often recaptured in the plots where they were ringed than in other plots. These results were interpreted in the framework of the hypothesis forwarded by Löhrl (1959 and supported by Berndt & Winkel (1979. These authors suggested that cavity nesters (pied flycatchers and collared flycatchers F. albicollis imprint their future local breeding area during the period of postfledging exploration. Birds that survive until the next spring, return to these imprinted areas to breed. A similar study done by Sokolov et al. (1984 on the Courish Spit in an open nesting species, the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs, confirmed this finding. We assumed that juvenile pied flycatchers disperse for varying distances during their postfledging movements and imprint a local area, some 1–5 kilometres in diameter. This area is the goal of their migration next spring. It is suggested that in spring, yearlings are non–randomly distributed in respect to the area they have imprinted as juveniles. Recently, Vysotsky (2000, 2001 re–analysed the same data on philopatry of pied flycatchers on the Courish Spit and forwarded an alternative hypothesis. He suggests that juveniles, both males and females, do not imprint any local area during the postfledging period, but are distributed randomly across the area of several dozens of kilometres in spring. Vysotsky was able to show that distribution of distances of natal dispersal did not differ from the random pattern the study plot which was an 8.5 km long line of nest boxes along the Courish Spit. The aim of this study was to test these two alternative hypotheses. To do so, we

  18. Active basement uplift as seen with cosmogenic lenses: the Sierra Pie de Palo case (Western Argentina)

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    Siame, L. L.; Sébrier, M.; Costa, C. H.; Ahumada, E. A.; Bellier, O.

    2013-12-01

    The Andean foreland of western Argentina (28°S-33°S) corresponds to retroarc deformations associated with the ongoing flat subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American lithosphere, and associated with high levels of seismic activity and crustal active faulting. To improve earthquake source identification and characterization in the San Juan region, data from seismology, structural geology and quantitative geomorphology can be integrated and combined to provide a seismotectonic model. In this model, the Andean back-arc of western Argentina has to be regarded as an obliquely converging foreland where Plio-Quaternary deformations are partitioned between strike-slip and thrust motions that are localized on the E-verging, thin-skinned Argentine Precordillera, and the W-verging thick-skinned Sierras Pampeanas, respectively. In this domain, the Sierra Pie de Palo is a key structure playing a major role in the partitioning of the Plio-Quaternary deformations. Located in the westernmost Sierras Pampeanas, the Sierra Pie de Palo forms a NNE striking, 80 km-long and 35-40 km-wide, ellipsoid range that reaches elevation as high as 3162 m. This mountain range is an actively growing basement fold associated with a high level of seismic activity (e.g., the November 23, 1977, Caucete, Mw 7.4 earthquake). To evaluate the degree of tectonic activity around the Sierra Pie de Palo, we combined a detailed morphometric analysis of the topography together with in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be concentrations measured in (1) bedrock outcrops corresponding to the exhumed erosional regional surface, (2) surface boulders abandoned on alluvial fans deformed by active faults, and (3) in fluvial sediments sampled at the outlets of selected watersheds that drains out from the Sierra Pie de Palo. All together, our results allows: (1) assessing quantitative constraints on the rate of tectonic and denudation processes that are responsible for the active growth and erosion of the Sierra

  19. Giant Paperclip Necklaces, Soup-Can Rings and Cherry-Pie Hats

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    Winters, Laurel A.

    2011-01-01

    In this article, the author describes an art project inspired by the wearable sculpture art created by artist Marjorie Schick. Students used wallpaper paste and newspapers to create papier-mache for a mountain hat, a cherry-pie mask/hat, a "dress" shoe and a Cubistic mask. Cardboard was used in many of these things, in addition to being used as…

  20. Análise cinemática da marcha de crianças com diparesia espástica em plano inclinado

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    Mélo, Tainá Ribas

    2011-01-01

    Resumo: O presente estudo visou caracterizar as variáveis cinemáticas da marcha de crianças com diparesia espástica em plano horizontal e em plano inclinado nas fases de subida e descida. Além disso objetivou-se comparar os dados da marcha de crianças com diparesia espástica com crianças com desenvolvimento típico. Participaram do estudo 20 crianças (10 crianças com diparesia espástica e 10 crianças com desenvolvimento típico), as quais foram avaliadas em condições experimentais (plano e incl...

  1. Detection of rhodopsin dimerization in situ by PIE-FCCS, a time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy.

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    Smith, Adam W

    2015-01-01

    Rhodopsin self-associates in the plasma membrane. At low concentrations, the interactions are consistent with a monomer-dimer equilibrium (Comar et al., J Am Chem Soc 136(23):8342-8349, 2014). At high concentrations in native tissue, higher-order clusters have been observed (Fotiadis et al., Nature 421:127-128, 2003). The physiological role of rhodopsin dimerization is still being investigated, but it is clear that a quantitative assessment is essential to determining the function of rhodopsin clusters in vision. To quantify rhodopsin interactions, I will outline the theory and methodology of a specialized time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy for measuring membrane protein-protein interactions called pulsed-interleaved excitation fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (PIE-FCCS). The strength of this technique is its ability to quantify rhodopsin interactions in situ (i.e., a live cell plasma membrane). There are two reasons for restricting the scope to live cell membranes. First, the compositional heterogeneity of the plasma membrane creates a complex milieu with thousands of lipid, protein, and carbohydrate species. This makes it difficult to infer quaternary interactions from detergent solubilized samples or construct a model phospholipid bilayer that recapitulates all of the interactions present in native membranes. Second, organizational structure and dynamics is a key feature of the plasma membrane, and fixation techniques like formaldehyde cross-linking and vitrification will modulate the interactions. PIE-FCCS is based on two-color fluorescence imaging with time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) (Becker et al., Rev Sci Instrum 70:1835-1841, 1999). By time-tagging every detected photon, the data can be analyzed as a fluorescence intensity distribution, fluorescence lifetime histogram, or fluorescence (cross-)correlation spectra (FCS/FCCS) (Becker, Advanced time-correlated single-photon counting techniques, Springer, Berlin, 2005). These

  2. Plano de negócio assiste care

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    Martins, António José Fernandes

    2013-01-01

    Dissertação de Mestrado em Empreendedorismo Neste projeto, é proposto um plano de negócio de uma empresa que aproveita as novas tecnologias, para a adaptação e criação de produtos e serviços de tecnologias de apoio ou dispositivos assistivos, dirigidos à população com necessidades especiais, entre os quais se encontram as pessoas com deficiência e idosas. A criação de um novo negócio de base tecnológica, a I&DT e a diversificação de produtos e serviços, pode ser encarada de div...

  3. Effect of the enriched filter pie with natural phosphate and microorganisms on soil and plant in a Vermelho-Distrófico Latossolo

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    Leónides Castellanos González

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available The objective of the research was to evaluate the use of filter pie and phosphate rock enriched with biofertilizer microorganisms on the population of microorganisms and phosphorus tenor in the soil and on plants. The experiment was conducted in a vegetation house with corn plants with Latossolo Red-Distrófico, containing seven treatments disposed in an entirely randomized design, where the treatments were: soil samples and filter pie with additions of phosphate of Araxá rock enriched with microorganisms coming from Biopack (1, Embrafos (2 and Azotofos (3, and without enrichment with microorganisms (4, and three controls, soil just with filter pie (5, soil just with phosphate rock (6 and only soil (7, with three repetitions. Height, stem diameter and number of leaves for plants were evaluated at 14, 28 and 42 days. At the 45 days the dry matters of leafs and roots were evaluated, as the same as populations of the microorganisms and phosphorus tenor in the soil and in the aerial part of the plant. The tenor of soluble phosphorus in the soil and accumulated phosphorous in the aerial part of corn plan were increased by the treatments with filter pie but not higher with filter pie enriched with biofertilizers, so its use isn’t justified. The pie treatments increase the fungus, total and solubilizers bacterial populations in the soil, provoking an increase of the height, diameter, number of leaves and dry matter of corn plants in a Red-Distrófico Latossolo.

  4. Plano de marketing para a venda de camiões Volvo em Portugal – Auto Sueco, Lda.

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    Martins, José Nuno da Rocha

    2014-01-01

    O principal objetivo deste estudo foi o desenvolvimento de um plano de marketing para a venda de camiões Volvo em Portugal. O estudo pretende dotar a Auto Sueco Lda. de ferramentas que lhe permitam melhorar a performance no negócio da venda de camiões Volvo em Portugal. Nesse sentido, o plano começa por fazer uma caracterização detalhada da envolvente externa, bem como elaborar um diagnóstico da situação interna da empresa. Mediante esta análise, são enumerados os pontos que a empresa deve...

  5. Liquen plano bucal. Presentación de un caso

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    Sánchez Gay, Juana María; Artze Caballero, Maritza; Artze Caballero, Guillermo

    2016-01-01

    El liquen plano es una enfermedad inflamatoria, eruptiva de la piel, pruriginosa, de marcha crónica o subaguda que puede involucrar las mucosas, sobre todo la bucal. Su etiología es desconocida, se relaciona con estímulos subjetivos (estados nerviosos, depresivos). Se mencionan también como posibles causas: las infecciones, los trastornos metabólicos y endocrinos, recientemente se ha considerado que la enfermedad puede presentar una reacción de hipersensibilidad retardada. El caso clínico del...

  6. Atritis gotosa como causa de pie de riesgo

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    Ortega-Avila, Ana Belén; Fernández Torres, Raúl; Agüera Jiménez, David

    2016-01-01

    INTRODUCCIÓN: La gota es una manifestación común de la artritis, cuya inflamación se debe al depóstido de cristales de uratao monosódico en articulaciones y tejidos blandos por un aumento de ácido úrico en sangre y su padecimiento muestra una relación creciente con la edad. OBJETIVOS: Analizar las características fisiopatológicas de la artritis gotosa en el pie así como justificar la repercusión negativa que tiene su padecimiento en la calidad de vida de la población basándose en la simple af...

  7. Proceedings of 2008 KAERI/JAEA joint seminar on advanced irradiation and PIE technologies

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    Ryu, Woo-Seog; Ishihara, Masahiro

    2008-12-01

    Under the Arrangement for Cooperation in the field of peaceful uses of Nuclear Energy between the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the 2008 KAERI-JAEA Joint Seminar on Advanced Irradiation and PIE (post-irradiation examination) Technologies has been held at KAERI in Daejeon, Korea, from November 5 to 7, 2008. This seminar was organized by the PIE and Radwaste Division, Research Reactor Engineering Division, and HANARO Management Division in KAERI. It was also the first time to hold the seminar under the agreement signed September 4, 2008. This triennial seminar is the sixth in series of bilateral exchange of irradiation technologies. Since the first joint seminar on Post Irradiation Examination Technology between JAERI and KAERI held at JAERI Oarai center, Japan in 1992, it has been a good model of international cooperation program between KAERI and JAEA in the field of neutron irradiation uses. At the fifth seminar in 2005, irradiation technology field was included to the joint seminar, moreover in this time it is expanded to the research reactor management field for covering whole areas of irradiation using in research reactors. The seminar was divided into three technical sessions; the sessions addressed the general topics of 'research reactor management', 'advanced irradiation technology' and 'post-irradiation examination technology'. Total 46 presentations were made, and active information exchange was done among participants. This proceeding is containing the papers or manuscripts presented in the 2008 KAERI-JAEA Joint Seminar on Advanced Irradiation and PIE Technologies. The 46 of the presented papers indexed individually. (J.P.N.)

  8. O Plano de Metas e seus possíveis efeitos no trabalho docente na rede estadual de ensino do Rio de Janeiro

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    Vera Lucia da Costa Nepomuceno

    2014-01-01

    O tema desta pesquisa é o Plano de Metas e seus possíveis efeitos no trabalho docente, com domínio de interesse no estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. O estudo também procura apresentar um breve e recente histórico das políticas de educação do Estado, no que tange ao período de transição do Programa Nova Escola para a implantação do Plano de Metas, procurando contextualizar o momento da implantação do Plano. Como desdobramento deste tema, buscase de um lado, analisar as características, estraté...

  9. Plano de Carreira nos Sistemas de Gestão Público e Privado: Uma Discussão a luz das Teorias Motivacionais

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    Marcelo da Silva Schuster

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta de forma sucinta um ponto de vista sobre o uso do plano de carreira nas organizações, focando na intensa competitividade presenciada nos últimos anos, apresentando este como uma ferramenta de gestão para o setor de recursos humanos nas organizações. É sabido que a diferença das organizações está centrada nos talentos humanos e sua capacidade de gerar resultados por meio deles, com bom uso dos recursos tecnológicos disponibilizados pela organização. Apresenta-se uma descrição do tema plano de carreira no contexto motivacional visando à reflexão acerca da influência ou não do plano ou organização da carreira na motivação dos colaboradores e seu desenvolvimento profissional, averiguando através de estudos existentes se a ferramenta pode ser uma fonte de retenção de talentos no mercado de trabalho. Em relação às considerações sobre o tema, cabe destacar que o plano de carreira pode ser um atrativo nas organizações para a busca e retenção de talentos corporativos no cenário competitivo, dependendo apenas da opção de uso dela ou não dentro do plano de gestão da organização. 

  10. Plano de Carreira nos Sistemas de Gestão Público e Privado: Uma Discussão a luz das Teorias Motivacionais

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    Marcelo da Silva Schuster

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo apresenta de forma sucinta um ponto de vista sobre o uso do plano de carreira nas organizações, focando na intensa competitividade presenciada nos últimos anos, apresentando este como uma ferramenta de gestão para o setor de recursos humanos nas organizações. É sabido que a diferença das organizações está centrada nos talentos humanos e sua capacidade de gerar resultados através deles, o bom uso dos recursos tecnológicos disponibilizados pela organização. Apresenta-se uma descrição do tema plano de carreira no contexto motivacional visando à reflexão acerca da influência ou não do plano ou organização da carreira na motivação dos colaboradores e seu desenvolvimento profissional, averiguando através de estudos existentes se a ferramenta pode ser uma fonte de retenção de talentos no mercado de trabalho. Em relação as considerações sobre o tema, cabe destacar que o plano de carreira pode ser um atrativo nas organizações para a busca e retenção de talentos corporativos no cenário competitivo que vivenciamos, dependendo apenas da opção de uso dela ou não dentro do plano de gestão da organização.

  11. Stuffed Turkey and Pumpkin Pie: In, Through and Out of American Contexts

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    Tamara Kohn

    2013-02-01

    Full Text Available This article explores the meanings embedded in the production, consumption, and symbolic positioning of turkey and pumpkin pie, foods closely associated with the American ritual feast of Thanksgiving. An analysis of turkey and pumpkin pie recipes used and adapted by first- and second-generation immigrants in north America, and by north Americans living abroad, throws into relief complex relations between food production, food consumption and the complexities of lived and often multiple sociocultural identifications. Through sharing the experiences, memories and associations evoked by individuals in the production of holiday recipes, I argue that ideas about ‘tradition’ and a desire to celebrate family and community through the ritual of baking, serving and consuming a ‘standard’ Thanksgiving holiday meal allow one to feel part of an imagined global American community. At the same time these details demonstrate celebration of individual and familial distinctiveness that is traced to (sometimes contested memories of childhood and/or ethnic background, as well as to exploration, innovation and experience in the world at large through travel, migration and imagination.

  12. Mamoplastia en plano dual ¿Es la técnica de elección?

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    Full Text Available Desde el año 2004 hemos empleado la técnica de plano dual en la mamoplastia de aumento de forma sistemática en todas nuestras pacientes, utilizándola como técnica de elección para la mamoplastia de aumento primaria, para el tratamiento de la contractura capsular mamaria y para la resolución de malformaciones del contorno mamario, la más frecuente de las cuales fue en nuestra práctica la mama tuberosa. Este plano permite que la prótesis se aloje simultáneamente por debajo y por encima del pectoral mayor, lográndose una adecuada cobertura del implante en todos los casos. Consideramos 650 mamoplastias bilaterales realizadas en el período comprendido entre enero del 2006 y diciembre del 2008 utilizando prótesis redondas de superficie lisa en todos los casos (Mentor®. La cirugía se realizó bajo anestesia local y sedación endovenosa. La tasa de complicaciones fue mínima y se debió fundamentalmente a hematomas y asimetría mamaria. En nuestra experiencia la técnica de plano dual puede utilizarse, con mínimas variaciones técnicas, basándose en fundamentos fisiológicos, patológicos y tipo de deformidad que presente la paciente, con una alta tasa de satisfacción y un riesgo mínimo.

  13. Conformação de plano de suprimento dos serviços em telecom integrado ao plano informacional

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    Fernando Luís De Castro Miquelino

    Full Text Available Na contemporaneidade, a vantagem competitiva das nações tem na geração endógena da inovação em telecomunicações um de seus pilares. A concorrência acirrada do setor requer arquiteturas de processos flexíveis para fazer face a constantes reposicionamentos empresarias e de produtos. Requer ainda adequações rápidas de práticas gerenciais às mudanças impostas por crescentes rearranjos de atores e tendências que exercem influência direta nos destinos das organizações. Alinhamento de planos operacionais e de inteligência competitiva apresenta-se como alternativa para assegurar o sucesso dos empreendimentos através de fluxos informacionais contínuos e uniformes em todas as fases do negócio.

  14. Introducing a Framework for Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) Education

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    Roughani, Bahram

    A desired outcome for Physics Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) education is preparing physics majors with an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset who are capable of opportunity recognition and adept in leveraging physics knowledge to address specific needs. Physics as a discipline is well-recognized to prepare students who become problem solvers and critical thinkers, gifted in dealing with abstract ideas and ambiguities in the context of complex and real-world problems. These characteristics when enhanced through appropriate combinations of curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular programs can prepare physics majors for careers and future challenges that may involve translating physics knowledge into useful products and services either as part of a technical team within an organization or through startups. A viable PIE education model prepares graduates for various career paths in addition to the traditional options such as pursuing graduate studies or becoming a science teacher. Having a well-defined ``third option'' for physics will benefit the robustness of the physics discipline through recruitment and retention of prospective students who in principle are interested in physics as a subject, but in practice they may overlook physics as their preferred major primarily because they are uncertain about a viable career path based on an undergraduate physics education. The ''Pathways to Innovation'' at Loyola is established based on the program developed by VentureWell and Epicenter (NSF Supported).

  15. 75 FR 52065 - SharePlus Federal Bank, Plano, TX; Approval of Conversion Application

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    2010-08-24

    ... DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Office of Thrift Supervision [AC-50: OTS Nos. 17972 and H4743] SharePlus Federal Bank, Plano, TX; Approval of Conversion Application Notice is hereby given that on August 12, 2010, the Office of Thrift Supervision approved the application of SharePlus Federal Bank, Piano...

  16. Calling Where It Counts: Subordinate Pied Babblers Target the Audience of Their Vocal Advertisements.

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    Humphries, David J; Finch, Fiona M; Bell, Matthew B V; Ridley, Amanda R

    2015-01-01

    For territorial group-living species, opportunities to reproduce on the natal territory can be limited by a number of factors including the availability of resources within a territory, access to unrelated individuals, and monopolies on reproduction by dominant group members. Individuals looking to reproduce are therefore faced with the options of either waiting for a breeding opportunity to arise in the natal territory, or searching for reproductive opportunities in non-natal groups. In the cooperatively breeding Southern pied babbler, Turdoides bicolor, most individuals who achieve reproductive success do so through taking up dominant breeding positions within non-natal groups. For subordinate pied babblers therefore, searching for breeding opportunities in non-natal groups is of primary importance as this represents the major route to reproductive success. However, prospecting (where individuals leave the group to search for reproductive opportunities within other groups) is costly and individuals rapidly lose weight when not part of a group. Here we demonstrate that subordinate pied babblers adopt an alternative strategy for mate attraction by vocal advertisement from within their natal territories. We show that subordinates focus their calling efforts on the edges of their territory, and specifically near boundaries with neighbouring groups that have potential breeding partners (unrelated individuals of the opposite sex). In contrast to prospecting, calling individuals showed no body mass loss associated with this behaviour, suggesting that calling from within the group may provide a 'cheap' advertisement strategy. Additionally, we show that subordinates use information regarding the composition of neighbouring groups to target the greatest number of potential mating partners.

  17. Plano de marketing digital: Fundação de Serralves

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    Melo, Maria Cardoso Gonçalves Carneiro de

    2017-01-01

    O presente relatório visa o desenvolvimento de um plano de marketing digital para a Fundação de Serralves, dada a importância inegável que esta área representa numa organização e as falhas detetadas na atual estratégia levada a cabo por eles. Pretende-se com este trabalho, aproximar a presença digital de Serralves aos interesses do consumidor, elemento essencial ao sucesso de qualquer estratégia.

  18. Oral lichen planus versus epithelial dysplasia: difficulties in diagnosis Líquen plano bucal versus displasia epitelial: dificuldades diagnósticas

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    Fernando Augusto Cervantes Garcia de Sousa

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    Full Text Available Histopathological diagnosis of oral lichen planus is not easy since some cases of epithelial dysplasia may present traits which are very similar to those from lichen planus. AIM: to compare cell alterations which suggest malignancy present in oral lichen planus with those from epithelial dysplasia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: histological cross-sections of oral lichen planus and dysplasia, dyed by hematoxylin-eosin, were analyzed by means of light microscopy. RESULTS: variance analysis (alpha=5% revealed a statistically significant difference between the average number of cell alterations in the lichen planus (5.83±1.61 and epithelial dysplasia (4.46±1.26. The chi-squared test did not show statistically significant differences between oral lichen planus and epithelial dysplasia in relation to the following cell alterations: increase in nucleus/cytoplasm ratio, nuclear hyperchromatism, irregular chromatin distribution and enlarged nuclei (p>0.05. CONCLUSION: Some cell alterations which suggest malignancy present in the oral lichen planus may also be found in epithelial dysplasia, impairing its diagnosis and, consequently, stressing the importance of following these patients in the long run.O diagnóstico histopatológico do líquen plano bucal não é fácil, pois alguns casos de displasia epitelial podem apresentar características bastante semelhantes às do líquen plano. OBJETIVO: Comparar as alterações celulares sugestivas de malignidade presentes no líquen plano bucal com as da displasia epitelial. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS: Cortes histológicos de líquen plano bucal e displasia, corados com hematoxilina-eosina, foram analisados por meio da microscopia de luz. RESULTADOS: A análise de variância (alfa=5% revelou haver diferença estatisticamente significante entre o número médio de alterações celulares no líquen plano bucal (5,83±1,61 e na displasia epitelial (4,46±1,26. O teste de qui-quadrado não mostrou diferença estatisticamente

  19. A satisfação do cliente : estudo do caso do franchising de fast-food King Pie na Cidade de Maputo em Moçambique

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    Ramos, Vânia Raquel Raimundo

    2014-01-01

    Dissertação de Mestrado em Gestão/MBA apresentada à Universidade Aberta O presente trabalho tem por objectivo central, estudar a satisfação dos clientes da empresa King Pie na Cidade de Maputo. O King Pie é uma cadeia sul-africana de fast-food, que em Moçambique opera em regime de franchising, estando presente no mercado local desde o ano de 2004. Neste momento, o King Pie dispõe quatro (4) estabelecimentos localizados na Cidade de Maputo com dois (2) investidores no país que detêm o direi...

  20. Planos econômicos de estabilizaçao nacional: uma análise sob o enfoque da responsabilidade extracontratual do Estado e da segurança nacional

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    Marlene

    2013-12-01

    Full Text Available Um dos temas de relevância na atualidade refere-se à responsabilidade do Estado por dano decorrente de plano econômico. Tal questão envolve em seu núcleo aspectos jurídicos do direito privado e do direito público, evidenciando a indiscutível superação desta dicotomia. Partindo destas premissas, o objetivo da pesquisa é defender que em suas funções interventivas de planejamento o governo deve observar com cautela a política econômica a ser praticada, bem como suas modificações, sob pena de prejudicar o setor privado e a coletividade. Assim, o dano à ordem econômica deve ser uma preocupação jurídica. Nesse sentido, a finalidade da pesquisa é resgatar a história econômica dos planos de estabilização nacional (Plano Cruzado, Plano Bresser, Plano Verão, Plano Collor e Plano Real e, a partir destas experiências, defender a responsabilidade extracontratual objetiva do Estado no caso de prejuízo, nos termos do art. 37, § 6º da CF/88, decorrente de planos econômicos nos quais os agentes envolvidos não têm liberdade de escolha entre alternativas viáveis para seus negócios. Entre os demais fundamentos desta responsabilização estão os argumentos da segurança jurídica, confiança e boa-fé, que devem reger as relações público-privadas. A pesquisa revela que a iniciativa privada, atuando no domínio econômico, necessita de um ambiente de estabilidade, previsibilidade, eficiência, porém, as experiências brasileiras mostram que em diversos planos econômicos esse ambiente não foi encontrado. A análise dos planos de estabilização adotados no Brasil no período de 1986-1994 demonstra que ocorreram intervenções imperativas que afetaram a livre iniciativa, a livre concorrência, o direito de propriedade, desconsiderando aspectos fundamentais de um Estado Democrático de Direito. Para alcançar os fins propostos utiliza-se o método científico-dedutivo com pesquisa na doutrina especializada

  1. Determinación y localización del plano oclusal en la rehabilitación de pacientes adultos mayores usuarios de prótesis completas

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    Vera, Mónica Mabel

    2015-01-01

    La orientación del plano oclusal es importante en el tratamiento protético en desdentados, al perder los dientes naturales las referencias oclusales están ausentes. Objetivo: Determinar el plano de oclusión posterior más adecuado que favorezca la funcionalidad de la rehabilitación protésica y conservación del reborde residual en la prótesis total removible. Determinar el punto anatómico posterior que conformará el plano protético más paralelo al reborde residual. Metodolog...

  2. Plano de Contas e Convergência aos Padrões Internacionais: Estudo Comparativo Entre as Propostas dos Governos Brasileiro e Espanhol

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    Poliana Alves de Araújo Moura

    2012-05-01

    Full Text Available Na Administração Pública, a relação de contas tem papel importante para o adequado registro dos atos e fatos, bem como para a geração de informações, sendo desejável uniformidade na linguagem do plano de contas. Considerando as ações do Brasil e da Espanha para a instituição de um plano de contas nacionalmente padronizado, este trabalho tem por objetivo comparar as propostas de plano de contas discutidas pelos dois países e verificar se elas estão alinhadas aos padrões internacionais da contabilidade aplicada ao setor público. Trata-se de ensaio baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, que identificou como estes países vêm conduzindo o processo de convergência no setor público com relação à estrutura de suas contas, tendo como referencial as Normas internacionais de Contabilidade Aplicadas ao Setor Público (IPSAS em inglês. A justificativa para o estudo está na comparação de propostas de plano de contas de dois países pertencentes a continentes e blocos econômicos distintos, mas que possuem aspectos culturais e até mesmo línguas (português e espanhol semelhantes. O estudo mostrou que a proposta do Governo brasileiro está mais alinhada aos padrões internacionais, e que, comparativamente, há diferenças significativas entre esta e a proposta do Governo espanhol. Como o IFAC vem considerando tanto o Brasil como a Espanha em processo de convergência, há de se discutir se a estratégia dos países em atender as suas tipicidades locais na construção dos seus planos de contas não prejudicará o processo de adoção das IPSAS.

  3. PIE Report on the KOMO-3 Irradiation Test Fuels

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    Park, Jong Man; Ryu, H. J.; Yang, J. H.

    2009-04-01

    In the KOMO-3, in-reactor irradiation test had been performed for 12 kinds of dispersed U-Mo fuel rods, a multi wire fuel rod and a tube fuel rod. In this report we described the PIE results on the KOMO-3 irradiation test fuels. The interaction layer thickness between fuel particle and matrix could be reduced by using a large size U-Mo fuel particle or introducing Al-Si matrix or adding the third element in the U-Mo particle. Monolithic fuel rod of multi-wire or tube fuel was also effective in reducing the interaction layer thickness

  4. ANÁLISE ECONÔMICO-COMPARATIVA DE PLANOS DE CULTIVO EM UM SOLO SÓDICO SUBMETIDO A UM MANEJO INTEGRADO DE RECUPERAÇÃO

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    Nemézio Moreira de Oliveira Júnior

    1998-08-01

    Full Text Available RESUMO A presente pesquisa foi desenvolvida com o objetivo de se proceder a uma análise econômico comparativa de três planos de cultivo envolvendo duas safras de curcubitáceas e uma de arroz por ano, em cada plano, em um solo aluvial afetado por sais e submetido a um manejo integrado de recuperação, utilizando-se a renda líquida como parâmetro determinante da melhor alternativa econômica. Três planos de cultivo foram utilizados: 1. Arroz (1o semestre + duas safras de melão (2o semestre; 2. Arroz (1o semestre + duas safras de melancia (2o semestre; 3. Arroz (1o semestre + duas safras de abóbora (2o semestre. A análise dos resultados demonstrou que o primeiro plano, constituído de uma safra de arroz (1o semestre e duas de melão (2o semestre apresentou-se como a melhor alternativa econômica.

  5. PIE on Safety-Tested Loose Particles from Irradiated Compact 4-4-2

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    Hunn, John D. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Gerczak, Tyler J. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Morris, Robert Noel [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Baldwin, Charles A. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Montgomery, Fred C. [Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

    2016-04-01

    Post-irradiation examination (PIE) is being performed in support of tristructural isotropic (TRISO) coated particle fuel development and qualification for High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGRs). This work is sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) through the Advanced Reactor Technologies (ART) Office under the Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification (AGR) Program. The AGR-1 experiment was the first in a series of TRISO fuel irradiation tests initiated in 2006. The AGR-1 TRISO particles and fuel compacts were fabricated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2006 using laboratory-scale equipment and irradiated for 3 years in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to demonstrate and evaluate fuel performance under HTGR irradiation conditions. Post-irradiation examination was performed at INL and ORNL to study how the fuel behaved during irradiation, and to test fuel performance during exposure to elevated temperatures at or above temperatures that could occur during a depressurized conduction cooldown event. This report summarizes safety testing and post-safety testing PIE conducted at ORNL on loose particles extracted from irradiated AGR-1 Compact 4-4-2.

  6. Corrections to the 148Nd method of evaluation of burnup for the PIE samples from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 reactors

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    Suyama, Kenya; Mochizuki, Hiroki

    2006-01-01

    The value of the burnup is one of the most important parameters of samples taken by post-irradiation examination (PIE). Generally, it is evaluated by the Neodymium-148 method. Precise evaluation of the burnup value requires: (1) an effective fission yield of 148 Nd; (2) neutron capture reactions of 147 Nd and 148 Nd; (3) a conversion factor from fissions per initial heavy metal to the burnup unit GWd/t. In this study, the burnup values of the PIE data from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 PWRs, which were taken by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, were re-evaluated using more accurate corrections for each of these three items. The PIE data were then re-analyzed using SWAT and SWAT2 code systems with JENDL-3.3 library. The re-evaluation of the effective fission yield of 148 Nd has an effect of 1.5-2.0% on burnup values. Considering the neutron capture reactions of 147 Nd and 148 Nd removes dependence of C/E values of 148 Nd on the burnup value. The conversion factor from FIMA(%) to GWd/t changes according to the burnup value. Its effect on the burnup evaluation is small for samples having burnup of larger than 30 GWd/t. The analyses using the corrected burnup values showed that the calculated 148 Nd concentrations and the PIE data is approximately 1%, whereas this was 3-5% in prior analyses. This analysis indicates that the burnup values of samples from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 PWRs should be corrected by 2-3%. The effect of re-evaluation of the burnup value on the neutron multiplication factor is an approximately 0.6% change in PIE samples having the burnup of larger than 30 GWd/t. Finally, comparison between calculation results using a single pin-cell model and an assembly model is carried out. Because the results agreed with each other within a few percent, we concluded that the single pin-cell model is suitable for the analysis of PIE samples and that the underestimation of plutonium isotopes, which occurred in the previous analyses, does not result from a geometry

  7. Elaboração de planos de transporte de pessoas

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    Correia, Marisol B.

    1996-01-01

    Dissertação mest., Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1996 O objectivo deste estudo é definir e apresentar as etapas necessárias para elaborar planos de transporte de pessoas e, de entre estes, escolher os melhores em função dos critérios indicados pelo utilizador. Este estudo apresenta, em primeiro lugar, o conhecimento adquirido sobre os transportes e uma possível representação deste utilizando os enquadramentos co...

  8. Acciones educativas de prevención del pie diabético Educational actions to prevent diabetic foot complications

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    Pedro Vejerano García

    2009-08-01

    Full Text Available La Diabetes Mellitus y sus complicaciones son causas de hospitalización, invalidez y afectación económica. Este trabajo hace referencia a la experiencia camagüeyana en prevención, seguimiento y control del pie diabético. Dicha experiencia demostró que la pobre educación para prevenir las complicaciones del pie diabético, se convierte en un factor de riesgo sociocultural modificable. Una consulta de mayor alcance como la Clínica del Pie Diabético, pone al territorio en condiciones ventajosas para atender la transición epidemiológica de la diabetes y sus complicaciones.Diabetes Mellitus and its complications are causes of hospitalization, disability, and financial problems. This paper deals with the experience in prevention, monitoring, and control of diabetic foot in the province of Camagüey. This experience proved that a poor education in the prevention of diabetic foot complications is a modifiable sociocultural risk factor. As an example of more comprehensive consultation, the Diabetic Foot Clinic has benefitted the territory in the assistance of Diabetes Mellitus and its complications.

  9. Slow improvements of metal exposure, health- and breeding conditions of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) after decreased industrial heavy metal emissions

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    Berglund, A.M.M.; Nyholm, N.E.I.

    2011-01-01

    The environment around metal industries, such as smelters, is often highly contaminated due to continuous deposition of metals. We studied nest box breeding populations of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) in a well-studied pollution gradient from a sulfide ore smelter in Northern Sweden, after reduced aerial metal emissions (by 93-99%) from the smelter. The deposition of arsenic, cadmium, copper and zinc (based on moss samples) reflected the reduced emissions fairly well. However, nestling pied flycatchers had similar concentrations of these elements and mercury in tissues (bone, liver and blood) and feces in the 2000s, as in the 1980s, when the emissions were substantially higher. The exposure to high metal concentrations in the close vicinity of the smelter resulted in inhibited ALAD activities, depressed hemoglobin and hematocrit levels and increased mortality of nestlings. Our results indicate that in the highly contaminated environment around the smelter, nestlings reflected the slowly cycling soil pool, rather than the atmospheric deposition, and the concentration in soils plays an important role for the response of pied flycatchers to reduced atmospheric deposition. - Highlights: → Pied flycatchers were studied in a pollution gradient from a sulfide smelter. → Metal emissions from the smelter have decreased substantially. → Nestling birds still had high metal concentrations in tissues. → Health and survival rates of nestlings were negatively affected. → Recovery of birds is not expected in the near future.

  10. Slow improvements of metal exposure, health- and breeding conditions of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) after decreased industrial heavy metal emissions

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    Berglund, A.M.M., E-mail: asa.berglund@emg.umu.se; Nyholm, N.E.I.

    2011-09-15

    The environment around metal industries, such as smelters, is often highly contaminated due to continuous deposition of metals. We studied nest box breeding populations of pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) in a well-studied pollution gradient from a sulfide ore smelter in Northern Sweden, after reduced aerial metal emissions (by 93-99%) from the smelter. The deposition of arsenic, cadmium, copper and zinc (based on moss samples) reflected the reduced emissions fairly well. However, nestling pied flycatchers had similar concentrations of these elements and mercury in tissues (bone, liver and blood) and feces in the 2000s, as in the 1980s, when the emissions were substantially higher. The exposure to high metal concentrations in the close vicinity of the smelter resulted in inhibited ALAD activities, depressed hemoglobin and hematocrit levels and increased mortality of nestlings. Our results indicate that in the highly contaminated environment around the smelter, nestlings reflected the slowly cycling soil pool, rather than the atmospheric deposition, and the concentration in soils plays an important role for the response of pied flycatchers to reduced atmospheric deposition. - Highlights: {yields} Pied flycatchers were studied in a pollution gradient from a sulfide smelter. {yields} Metal emissions from the smelter have decreased substantially. {yields} Nestling birds still had high metal concentrations in tissues. {yields} Health and survival rates of nestlings were negatively affected. {yields} Recovery of birds is not expected in the near future.

  11. 49 CFR 40.361 - What is the purpose of a public interest exclusion (PIE)?

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    2010-10-01

    ... transportation employers and employees from serious noncompliance with DOT drug and alcohol testing rules, the Department's policy is to ensure that employers conduct business only with responsible service agents. (b... alcohol testing regulations, has shown that it is not currently acting in a responsible manner. (c) A PIE...

  12. El plano secuencia: Pedro Costa y la trilogía de Fontainhas

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    Vieguer, Marcelo

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available [es] Desde la aparición del plano secuencia en forma expresiva con Citizen Kane, tal recurso se convirtió en sinónimo de modernidad cinematográfica. Ni tanto ni tan poco, el uso del plano secuencia, generalmente visible, se lo comprendió como maniera formal y toque de virtuosismo. Con el director portugués Pedro Costa, es posible entender de qué manera la crítica y teoría fílmica sobredimensionan criterios esté-ticos ante lo políticamente correcto. Con la realización de la trilogía sobre Fontainhas, Costa se ha convertido en uno de los directores excéntricos más relevantes de los últimos quince años. El recurrente uso del plano secuencia fílmico y su persuasión política a través de las imágenes discurre sobre las condiciones de producción y recepción del cine contemporáneo, poniendo énfasis en llevar a la luz del día del escenario audiovisual los sectores excluidos de su Lisboa, iniciando un periplo que comienza en Fontainhas. [en] Since the sequence shot expressively appeared with Citizen Kane, this resource became synonymous with cinematic modernity. Neither that much nor that little, the use of the sequence shot, usually visible, is understood as formal manieraand a touch of virtuosity. With the Portuguese director Pedro Costa it is possible to understand how film criticism and theory favor aesthetic criteria rather than what is politically correct. With the production of the trilogy about Fontainhas, Costa has become one of the most important marginal directors in the last fifteen years. The recurrent use of the film sequence shot and his political persuasion through images run on the conditions of production and reception of contemporary cinema, with a clear intention to bring into the light of audiovisual stage the excluded areas of Lisbon, starting a long journey that begins in Fontainhas.

  13. The Canonical Immediate Early 3 Gene Product pIE611 of Mouse Cytomegalovirus Is Dispensable for Viral Replication but Mediates Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Viral Gene Products.

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    Rattay, Stephanie; Trilling, Mirko; Megger, Dominik A; Sitek, Barbara; Meyer, Helmut E; Hengel, Hartmut; Le-Trilling, Vu Thuy Khanh

    2015-08-01

    Transcription of mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) immediate early ie1 and ie3 is controlled by the major immediate early promoter/enhancer (MIEP) and requires differential splicing. Based on complete loss of genome replication of an MCMV mutant carrying a deletion of the ie3-specific exon 5, the multifunctional IE3 protein (611 amino acids; pIE611) is considered essential for viral replication. Our analysis of ie3 transcription resulted in the identification of novel ie3 isoforms derived from alternatively spliced ie3 transcripts. Construction of an IE3-hemagglutinin (IE3-HA) virus by insertion of an in-frame HA epitope sequence allowed detection of the IE3 isoforms in infected cells, verifying that the newly identified transcripts code for proteins. This prompted the construction of an MCMV mutant lacking ie611 but retaining the coding capacity for the newly identified isoforms ie453 and ie310. Using Δie611 MCMV, we demonstrated the dispensability of the canonical ie3 gene product pIE611 for viral replication. To determine the role of pIE611 for viral gene expression during MCMV infection in an unbiased global approach, we used label-free quantitative mass spectrometry to delineate pIE611-dependent changes of the MCMV proteome. Interestingly, further analysis revealed transcriptional as well as posttranscriptional regulation of MCMV gene products by pIE611. Cytomegaloviruses are pathogenic betaherpesviruses persisting in a lifelong latency from which reactivation can occur under conditions of immunosuppression, immunoimmaturity, or inflammation. The switch from latency to reactivation requires expression of immediate early genes. Therefore, understanding of immediate early gene regulation might add insights into viral pathogenesis. The mouse cytomegalovirus (MCMV) immediate early 3 protein (611 amino acids; pIE611) is considered essential for viral replication. The identification of novel protein isoforms derived from alternatively spliced ie3 transcripts prompted

  14. A meta-analysis on PewDiePie, his swearing and its development

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    Mononen, O. (Ossi)

    2018-01-01

    Abstract This thesis discusses the swearing present in the videos of the YouTube content creator PewDiePie through meta-analysis of a research article on the subject. The thesis will approach the primary article from the points of view of the fields of language play, language policy, ecological language learning and linguistic superdiversities. The primary article is analysed from the point of view of each field in order t...

  15. The impact of conflict issues on fixed-pie perceptions, problem solving, and integrative outcomes in negotiation

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    Harinck, F.; de Dreu, C.K.W.; van Vianen, A.E.M.

    2000-01-01

    It is argued that a negotiators fixed-pie perception, cooperative motivation, problem-solving behavior, and integrative outcomes are influenced by the content of the negotiationthe conflict issue. Negotiation involves conflicting interests, conflicting ideas about intellective problems, or

  16. Plano de negócio: apartHotel Ílhavo

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    Alpoim, Ivan D`Avila

    2013-01-01

    Mestrado em Gestão/ Classificação: L83 – Tourism; M10 - General O Plano de Negócios “ApartHotel Ílhavo” analisado nesta tese consiste na segunda fase de construção do “Hotel de Ílhavo”, com recurso a fundos do QREN disponibilizados pelo Turismo de Portugal. O projeto implica a construção de um aparthotel com 20 apartamentos turísticos nas instalações do hotel, procurando obter elevadas taxas de ocupação fora da época estival e ainda durante a semana, pelo que se pretende atingir um clie...

  17. Corrections to the {sup 148}Nd method of evaluation of burnup for the PIE samples from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 reactors

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    Suyama, Kenya [Fuel Cycle Facility Safety Research Group, Nuclear Safety Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai-mura, Naka-gun, Ibaraki 319-1195 (Japan)]. E-mail: suyama.kenya@jaea.go.jp; Mochizuki, Hiroki [Japan Research Institute, Limited, 16 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0082 (Japan)

    2006-03-15

    The value of the burnup is one of the most important parameters of samples taken by post-irradiation examination (PIE). Generally, it is evaluated by the Neodymium-148 method. Precise evaluation of the burnup value requires: (1) an effective fission yield of {sup 148}Nd; (2) neutron capture reactions of {sup 147}Nd and {sup 148}Nd; (3) a conversion factor from fissions per initial heavy metal to the burnup unit GWd/t. In this study, the burnup values of the PIE data from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 PWRs, which were taken by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, were re-evaluated using more accurate corrections for each of these three items. The PIE data were then re-analyzed using SWAT and SWAT2 code systems with JENDL-3.3 library. The re-evaluation of the effective fission yield of {sup 148}Nd has an effect of 1.5-2.0% on burnup values. Considering the neutron capture reactions of {sup 147}Nd and {sup 148}Nd removes dependence of C/E values of {sup 148}Nd on the burnup value. The conversion factor from FIMA(%) to GWd/t changes according to the burnup value. Its effect on the burnup evaluation is small for samples having burnup of larger than 30 GWd/t. The analyses using the corrected burnup values showed that the calculated {sup 148}Nd concentrations and the PIE data is approximately 1%, whereas this was 3-5% in prior analyses. This analysis indicates that the burnup values of samples from Mihama-3 and Genkai-1 PWRs should be corrected by 2-3%. The effect of re-evaluation of the burnup value on the neutron multiplication factor is an approximately 0.6% change in PIE samples having the burnup of larger than 30 GWd/t. Finally, comparison between calculation results using a single pin-cell model and an assembly model is carried out. Because the results agreed with each other within a few percent, we concluded that the single pin-cell model is suitable for the analysis of PIE samples and that the underestimation of plutonium isotopes, which occurred in the previous

  18. Pie technique of LWR fuel cladding fracture toughness test

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    Endo, Shinya; Usami, Koji; Nakata, Masahito; Fukuda, Takuji; Numata, Masami; Kizaki, Minoru; Nishino, Yasuharu

    2006-01-01

    Remote-handling techniques were developed by cooperative research between the Department of Hot Laboratories in the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and the Nuclear Fuel Industries Ltd. (NFI) for evaluating the fracture toughness on irradiated LWR fuel cladding. The developed techniques, sample machining by using the electrical discharge machine (EDM), pre-cracking by fatigue tester, sample assembling to the compact tension (CT) shaped test fixture gave a satisfied result for a fracture toughness test developed by NFL. And post-irradiation examination (PIE) using the remote-handling techniques were carried out to evaluate the fracture toughness on BWR spent fuel cladding in the Waste Safety Testing Facility (WASTEF). (author)

  19. Transformada fraccional de Fourier en el caso de un plano imagen inclinado Fraccional Fourier transform in the case of an inclined image plane

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    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available La conocida fórmula de difracción de Fresnel relaciona la distribución de amplitud compleja de una onda en el plano objeto (campo ondulatorio de entrada con la distribución de amplitud compleja de la onda en el plano imagen(campo ondulatorio de salida cuando se trata de propagación en el espaciolibre; esto significa que si los planos objeto e imagen son paralelos entre sí, el sistema imagen correspondiente se dice que es un sistema lineal invariantea desplazamiento (LSI. Esta propiedad ventajosa es esencial para el desarrollo de técnicas de imagen sensitivas a fase; sin embargo, si el plano imagen está inclinado con respecto al haz incidente, la distancia efectiva de propagación cambiará sobre el plano imagen, consecuentemente el sistema imagen será no invariante a desplazamiento. En este artículo es propuesta una extensión del formalismo de la difracción de Fresnel al caso de un plano imageninclinado utilizando la transformada de Fourier de orden fraccional.The well-known Fresnel integral relates a known complex wave defined in the object plane (the input wave field to the observable complex wave (the output wave field defined in the image plane after free-space propagation; this means that if the object and image plane are parallel to each other, corresponding imaging system is said to be linear-shift-invariant (LSI. This advantageous property was essential for the development of phase sensitive imaging techniques; however, if the image plane is inclined with respect to the incident beam, the effective propagation distance will vary over the image plane, consequently, the imaging system is not shiftinvariant. In this paper an extension of the theoretical formalism of Fresnel diffraction to the case of an inclined image plane is proposed using the fractional Fourier transform.

  20. Análisis de los factores influyentes en la prevalencia de las úlceras de pie en pacientes en hemodiálisis

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    María Jesús Lechuga Domínguez

    Full Text Available Resumen Introducción Los pacientes en tratamiento renal sustitutivo con terapia de hemodiálisis, tienen elevado riesgo de sufrir úlceras en los pies, debido a la presencia de numerosos factores de riesgo asociados. Objetivos El presente estudio, se plantea como objetivo principal establecer la prevalencia de úlceras en los pies, en los pacientes que realizan tratamiento con hemodiálisis en el Hospital San Rafael de A Coruña. Como objetivo secundario, valorar los factores de riesgo de ulceración del pie. Material y Método Se realiza un estudio descriptivo transversal, en el que incluyen a los 131 pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica (IRC en tratamiento con hemodiálisis, que cumplen los criterios de inclusión. Se ha marcado como variable principal del estudio la presencia o ausencia de úlcera en el pie. Se valora el estado vascular, con la palpación de pulsos y con registro de sonido doppler de las arterias pedia y tibial posterior, además se realiza el cálculo del índice tobillo brazo (ITB. Se valora el estado neurológico, tras la exploración de la sensibilidad protectora con monofilamento y de la sensibilidad profunda con diapasón graduado. Resultados El 10,7% de los pacientes del estudio tienen úlcera activa en el pie. No se logra palpar pulso en la arteria pedia en un 43,5% de los pacientes y en la arteria tibial posterior en un 60% de la muestra estudiada. El 25% de los pacientes presenta un valor de ITB, por debajo de 0,90 y un 13,5% presenta arterias no compresibles. Presentan alteración de sensibilidad profunda un 48,9% de los pacientes y alteración de la sensibilidad protectora un 44,3%. Conclusión La prevención primaria a través de protocolos estandarizados de exploración del pie en las unidades de hemodiálisis, podrá minimizar la posibilidad de ulceraciones que comprometan la calidad de vida de los pacientes. Sistemáticamente habrá que realizar una valoración vascular, neurológica y de alteraciones

  1. A proposal for laminated pie mechanical construction of a toroidal magnet for the far detector for the MINOS experiment

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    Fields, T.; Guarino, V.; Petereit, E.; Schoessow, P.; Thompson, K.

    1996-01-01

    This proposal describes an alternative to the reference design for the construction of the toroidal magnet for the detector for the MINOS experiment. This design proposes to construct the steel planes from several steel sheets and laminate them into the required thickness of four centimeters. The 8 meter planes are constructed by cutting all of the steel plates to the same size, which is pie a pie shaped segment of either 30 or 22.5 degrees each. All of the plates in the construction are identical, which is conducive to rapid production and lower cost. The advantages of the proposed laminated construction over the reference design are listed in this paper

  2. Pie waste - A component of food waste and a renewable substrate for producing ethanol.

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    Magyar, Margaret; da Costa Sousa, Leonardo; Jayanthi, Singaram; Balan, Venkatesh

    2017-04-01

    Sugar-rich food waste is a sustainable feedstock that can be converted into ethanol without an expensive thermochemical pretreatment that is commonly used in first and second generation processes. In this manuscript we have outlined the pie waste conversion to ethanol through a two-step process, namely, enzyme hydrolysis using commercial enzyme products mixtures and microbial fermentation using yeast. Optimized enzyme cocktail was found to be 45% alpha amylase, 45% gamma amylase, and 10% pectinase at 2.5mg enzyme protein/g glucan produced a hydrolysate with high glucose concentration. All three solid loadings (20%, 30%, and 40%) produced sugar-rich hydrolysates and ethanol with little to no enzyme or yeast inhibition. Enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation process mass balance was carried out using pie waste on a 1000g dry weight basis that produced 329g ethanol at 20% solids loading. This process clearly demonstrate how food waste could be efficiently converted to ethanol that could be used for making biodiesel by reacting with waste cooking oil. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

  3. REFLEXOS DO PLANO DE NEGÓCIOS EM MICROEMPRESAS DE VENDA NOVA DO IMIGRANTE

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    Marcia Roberta Da Silva Louzada

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Empreender é uma arte de aplicar os conhecimentos adquiridos ao longo da vida em momentos propícios para atingir fins específicos. Mais que gestor, o empreendedor é um visionário que identifica oportunidades e traça caminhos para alcançar seus objetivos. Este trabalho buscou analisar o perfil do empreendedor vendanovense e sua visão sobre a importância da adoção do plano de negócios e ao mesmo tempo identificar os possíveis impactos sofridos por empresas que não o utilizaram. Como ferramenta metodológica para desenvolvimento da pesquisa, utilizou-se uma análise descritiva com aplicação da pesquisa de campo e como ferramenta de coleta de dados, adotou-se o questionário semiestruturado. Os resultados indicam que os empreendedores vendanovenses consideram o plano de negócio como uma ferramenta válida para o suporte na abertura e condução do empreendimento, sendo um instrumento auxiliador ao negócio em que estes atores estão inseridos.

  4. Diseño y manufactura de pie Protésico

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    Hernández Martin, John Alexander; Parra Piñeros, Luis Alberto; Pinzón Pinzón, Cesar Agusto; Bejarano Peña, Oscar Heli; Romero Gutiérrez, Jairo Alberto; García Benavides, Pedro Eladio

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    El término prótesis hace referencia al dispositivo que sustituye o compensa la pérdida de un miembro perdido, para el caso objeto de estudio, se da en una prótesis de miembro inferior, en el caso de una amputación de miembros inferiores a nivel transtibial, el pie es el elemento ausente más significativo ya que asume la estabilidad mínima del cuerpo del paciente, además de interferir en el balance intrínseco del cuerpo humano. Por lo anteriormente descrito uno de los pilares más importantes d...

  5. Energy use in the bread, cake, pastry, and pie baking industries

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    Cleland, A.C.; Earle, M.D.; Serrallach, G.F.

    1980-05-01

    A survey was carried out to determine energy consumption in the bread, cake, pastry, and pie baking industry. Information was obtained from 11 bread bakeries. Energy use in the bread bakeries over the period 1977/78 was found to average 2.45 MJ/kg of which 0.46 MJ/kg was electricity and the rest oven and boiler fuels. Process flow charts are shown. The purposes for which electricity are used are described. An energy consumption analysis is presented and energy conservation measures are described. (MCW)

  6. ''Cutie Pie,'' A portable radiation instrument

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    Ballou, C.O.

    1947-01-01

    A portable beta and gamma radiation meter of exceedingly small dimensions and weight has been developed. User acceptance has been more enthusiastic than any previous instrument of its type. The circuit, using one Victoreen V-32 tube, is the simplest electronic circuit possible for radiation work and gives high sensitivity. Stability exceeds anything of comparable sensitivity which has come to our attention. The short term stability is due to a circuit which prevents emission before the cathode reaches operating temperature. Long term stability has been improved by evacuating the tube enclosure and switch. The complete, one unit instrument, weighs four pounds two ounces, and is carried with a pistol grip. Exclusive of chamber and handle, its dimensions are 3'' wide, 6 1/2'' long, and 5'' high. The case is formed of aluminum and is designed to give excellent visibility of the meter. Three ranges of approximately 50, 500 and 5000 mr/hr have been incorporated in the instruments. The instrument has been named ''Cutie Pie'' due to its diminutive size

  7. Plano de comunicação integrada de marketing : Arcos Médica Centro Médico e Dentário

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    Cardoso, Joana Boaventura Sousa

    2012-01-01

    Mestrado em Marketing Este trabalho de projecto é um Plano de Comunicação Integrada de Marketing para a empresa Arcos Médica Centro Médico e Dentário e para a sua realização, adoptou-se o modelo conceptual de Clow e Baack (2004). Os objectivos do plano são: (1) aumentar a notoriedade e fortalecer a imagem da empresa, (2) estimular a repetição de compra dos serviços da organização, (3) reforçar as decisões de compra, assim como a marca no sector de saúde oral em Portugal e (4) atrair potenc...

  8. A pesquisa em psicologia: construindo outros planos de análise The research in psichology: building other plans of analysis

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    Maria Elizabeth Barros de Barros; Nelson Alves Lucero

    2005-01-01

    O texto procura traçar um quadro teórico do qual pretende derivar questões para uma discussão que visa a levantar alguns aspectos para o debate sobre a forma com está colocada hoje a questão da pesquisa em psicologia e os efeitos produzidos no plano político/subjetivo, dada a indissociabilidade desses planos. Oferece um certo ponto de vista sobre o problema do conhecimento a partir de algumas referências metodológicas que problematizam a racionalidade na qual estão apoiadas as ciências humana...

  9. Lifting the Curse of the Roman: Quintus Horatius Flaccus Meets the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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    Blackburn, William

    There are many similarities between Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" that are seldom noted by literary critics. Both works were begun for the amusement of specific children, both employ a strange subterranean journey as a central device, and both are works of nonsense…

  10. Enfermedad de mano, pie y boca en un hospital del Callao, 2016

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    Milton José Max Rodríguez-Zúñiga

    Full Text Available La enfermedad de mano, pie y boca (EMPB es una enfermedad exantemática viral, causada principalmente por Coxsackie A16, con una sintomatología típica consistente en fiebre; exantema pápulo-vesicular en manos, pies y genitales; y un enantema ulceroso en boca. En el verano del 2016 se presentó una diversidad de casos en un hospital del Callao en niños y adultos, con una sintomatología compatible con EMPB; el diagnóstico fue clínico, se aplicó terapia de soporte con resolución final de síntomas. En la última década se han presentado reportes en algunos países con una afectación atípica causada por el Coxsackie A6, produciendo lesiones más extensas y en adultos. Sin embargo, el diagnóstico sigue siendo clínico, solo necesitando confirmación virológica en casos atípicos o cuando el diagnóstico no es claro. La importancia de este reporte radica en describir los casos del Callao ocurridos en el verano del 2016, para servir de apoyo a los profesionales de la salud en el diagnóstico y manejo de pacientes con similar sintomatología.

  11. The relationship of family characteristics and bipolar disorder using causal-pie models.

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    Chen, Y-C; Kao, C-F; Lu, M-K; Yang, Y-K; Liao, S-C; Jang, F-L; Chen, W J; Lu, R-B; Kuo, P-H

    2014-01-01

    Many family characteristics were reported to increase the risk of bipolar disorder (BPD). The development of BPD may be mediated through different pathways, involving diverse risk factor profiles. We evaluated the associations of family characteristics to build influential causal-pie models to estimate their contributions on the risk of developing BPD at the population level. We recruited 329 clinically diagnosed BPD patients and 202 healthy controls to collect information in parental psychopathology, parent-child relationship, and conflict within family. Other than logistic regression models, we applied causal-pie models to identify pathways involved with different family factors for BPD. The risk of BPD was significantly increased with parental depression, neurosis, anxiety, paternal substance use problems, and poor relationship with parents. Having a depressed mother further predicted early onset of BPD. Additionally, a greater risk for BPD was observed with higher numbers of paternal/maternal psychopathologies. Three significant risk profiles were identified for BPD, including paternal substance use problems (73.0%), maternal depression (17.6%), and through poor relationship with parents and conflict within the family (6.3%). Our findings demonstrate that different aspects of family characteristics elicit negative impacts on bipolar illness, which can be utilized to target specific factors to design and employ efficient intervention programs. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

  12. Cobertura de Planos de Saúde na população brasileira, segundo a Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde, 2013

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    Deborah Carvalho Malta

    Full Text Available Resumo O objetivo do estudo é descrever as coberturas de planos de saúde no Brasil, conforme características sociodemográficas, a partir dos dados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde, realizada em 2013, e comparar com dados administrativos da Agencia Nacional de Saúde Suplementar para este mesmo ano. Foram utilizados dados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde e do Sistema de Informações de Beneficiários da Agência Nacional de Saúde para o ano de 2013. Foi descrita a cobertura dos planos de saúde segundo estratificação para Brasil, urbano/rural, Grandes Regiões, Unidades da Federação e Capitais, sexo, faixa etária, nível de instrução, posição na força de trabalho, cor/raça e estado de saúde. Como resultado, a proporção de pessoas que referiu ter algum plano de saúde no Brasil foi de 27,9% (IC95%: 27,1-28,8. Foi observada diferença significativa com relação a nível de instrução, sendo maior para os que referiram ter educação superior completa (68,8% IC95%: 67,2-70,4 e para aqueles que referiram ter ocupação (32,5% IC95%: 31,5-33,5. O aumento da cobertura de planos de saúde na população brasileira reflete a melhora da oferta de empregos e do crescimento da economia do país na época.

  13. Local survival of pied flycatcher males and females in a pollution gradient of a Cu smelter

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    Eeva, T.; Hakkarainen, H.; Belskii, E.

    2009-01-01

    Survival is one of the most central population measures when the effects of the pollution are studied in natural bird populations. However, only few studies have actually measured rigorous survival estimates on adult birds. In recent years there has been a methodological advance in survival analyses by mark-recapture models. We modelled local survival (including mortality and emigration) with the program MARK in a population of a small insectivorous passerine bird, the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), around a point source of heavy metals. The local survival of females in the polluted area was about 50% lower than in the other areas. Males, however, survived relatively well in the heavily polluted area, but showed somewhat lower survival in the moderately polluted area. Different pollution effects between two sexes might be due to pollution-related differences in reproductive effort in females and males, and/or more intensive uptake of heavy metals by laying females. - Female pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) show decreased local survival around a copper smelter.

  14. Avaliação do plano de desenvolvimento institucional das universidades federais do consórcio sul-sudeste de Minas Gerais

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    Glener Alvarenga Mizael

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1983-4535.2012v5n4p21   A ação dos gestores públicos diante do contexto do REUNI, tem o desafio de realizar uma gestão que garanta a eficácia e eficiência organizacional, pautando-se pelo instrumento de planejamento estratégico, representado pelo Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional – PDI, criado pelo Decreto 5.773/06. Logo, o objetivo desse artigo é avaliar os limites e as possibilidades do PDI como um instrumento gerencial mediante a visão dos docentes e técnico-administrativos das Ifes do Consórcio Sul-Sudeste. Esse artigo é parte dos resultados de uma pesquisa realizada com o consórcio de universidades públicas federais de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Nessa pesquisa adotou-se um questionário semi-estruturado para coleta dos dados e, como instrumento de análise, utilizou-se o Software estatístico SPSS. Os resultados mostram alguns desafios para os gestores como: aperfeiçoar os mecanismos de divulgação e transparência, motivar a comunidade acadêmica para o envolvimento no plano; integrar os novos servidores no processo de planejamento; associar o plano a gestão; romper com os limites burocráticos definidos no PDI e; interesse e apoio político da Administração das Universidades pela utilização do plano como uma ferramenta de apoio a gestão.

  15. Fragilização de grandes bancos no início do Plano Real The weakening of big banks in the beginnings of the Plano Real

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    Carlos Eduardo Carvalho

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    Full Text Available The bankruptcy of three big private banks (Econômico, Nacional and Bamerindus in the beginning of the Plano Real has been attributed to the fast and intense growth of loan after the fall of inflation. The three banks balance sheet data, however, show a decrease in credit amount or a very small growth from July 1994 to the bankruptcy. The article defends that the problems of the three banks came from the past and were aggravated by difficulties to face the new problems created by the end of high inflation and by the restrictive economic politics in 1995.

  16. Ontogenetic variation in the plumage colour of female European Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca

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    Potti, Jaime; Canal, David; Camacho, Carlos

    2014-01-01

    Although variation in the dorsal plumage colour of male European Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca has received a great deal of attention, females of the species have been usually considered to be nearly uniformly monochromatic brown. Using reflectance spectrophotometry, we explore the age-dependent variation of plumage colour in females. We disentangle the within- and between-individual effects of this pattern and show a within-individual darkening of the mantle colour with age, whereas di...

  17. Relating the effects of protein type and content in increased-protein cheese pies to consumers' perception of satiating capacity.

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    Marcano, J; Varela, P; Fiszman, S

    2015-02-01

    Since proteins have been shown to have the highest satiation-inducing effects of all the macronutrients, increasing the protein level is one of the main strategies for designing foods with enhanced satiating capacity. However, few studies analyze the effect that protein addition has on the texture and flavor characteristics of the target food item to relate it to the expected satiating capacity it elicits. The present work studied cheese pies with three levels of soy and whey proteins. Since the protein level altered the rheological behavior of the batters before baking and the texture of the baked pies, the feasibility of adding several protein levels for obtaining a range of final products was investigated. A check-all-that-apply questionnaire containing 32 sensory and non-sensory characteristics of the samples was given to consumers (n = 131) who also scored the perceived samples' satiating capacity. The results showed that the type and content of protein contributed distinctive sensory characteristics to the samples that could be related to their satiating capacity perception. Harder and drier samples (high protein levels) were perceived as more satiating with less perceptible sweet and milky cheese pie characteristic flavors. Soy contributed an off-flavour. These results will contribute to a better understanding of the interrelation of all these factors, aiding the development of highly palatable solid foods with enhanced satiating capacities.

  18. Planos de marketing vinculados a causas sociais: um estudo de caso

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    O problema que se configurou como ponto de partida para pesquisa nessa dissertação foi o fenômeno contemporâneo, caracterizado pela busca das organizações por um novo modelo de marketing, que visa quebrar a homogeneização vigente nos mercados devido à equalização de fatores competitivos e, por conseqüência, agregar valor a seus produtos, serviços e marcas. Dentro desse fenômeno, existem algumas questões ainda não claramente equacionadas. O objetivo dessa dissertação foi discutir como planos d...

  19. Plano de Fortalecimento da Gestão do Turismo (PFGT: uma avaliação ex ante no município de Nísia Floresta (RN

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    Richard Medeiros de Araújo

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    Full Text Available Atualmente, o Plano de Desenvolvimento do Turismo (Prodetur vem procurando fortalecer institucionalmente os destinos turísticos, a fim de garantir a ampliação e a continuidade das melhorias estruturais já realizadas quando da primeira fase do programa governamental, e ao mesmo tempo dotar os municípios de uma gestão pública mais eficiente, em que deverá também considerar o turismo como o eixo central na formulação e gerenciamento das políticas públicas municipais com foco no desenvolvimento local. Para tanto, o Prodetur lançou, no Rio Grande do Norte, o Plano de Fortalecimento da Gestão do Turismo, do Patrimônio Natural e Cultural em 2009. A pesquisa objetiva avaliar, de forma ex ante, a viabilidade da implementação do referido plano governamental no município de Nísia Floresta (RN. Adotaram-se as seis dimensões do modelo teórico de Draibe (2001 conjugadas com o modelo de Neves (1996 para conduzir a pesquisa. Metodologicamente, optou-se por uma abordagem qualitativa, na qual foram buscadas análises de documentos como o diagnóstico estratégico, o plano de ação proposto e realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com alguns secretários municipais. Usou-se a análise de conteúdo como técnica de tratamento dos conteúdos das entrevistas e foram feitas observações não participantes. Assim foi possível desenhar a pesquisa avaliativa, caracterizando o momento administrativo e político atual e como esse desenho poderia interferir na implementação do plano avaliado. Conclui-se que o município não apresenta condições institucionais suficientes para a implementação do Plano Governamental financiado com recursos federais.

  20. Enlarging the Societal Pie Through Wise Legislation: A Psychological Perspective.

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    Baron, Jonathan; Bazerman, Max H; Shonk, Katherine

    2006-06-01

    We offer a psychological perspective to explain the failure of governments to create near-Pareto improvements. Our tools for analyzing these failures reflect the difficulties people have trading small losses for large gains: the fixed-pie approach to negotiations, the omission bias and status quo bias, parochialism and dysfunctional competition, and the neglect of secondary effects. We examine the role of human judgment in the failure to find wise trade-offs by discussing diverse applications of citizen and government decision making, including AIDS treatment, organ-donation systems, endangered-species protection, subsidies, and free trade. Our overall goal is to offer a psychological approach for understanding suboptimality in government decision making. © 2006 Association for Psychological Science.

  1. Stovetop Earth Pecan Pie

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    Robin, C. M.

    2005-12-01

    Many fluid mechanical experiments with direct applications to Earth Science are performed with sugary syrups using conceptually straightforward procedures. Corn syrup has indeed proven to be a godsend for those studying convection and related non-linear phenomena. In addition, however, it gives experimentalists a deep physical intuition for the interior workings of hot planets. The basic concepts behind plate tectonics and mantle convection are not difficult; indeed, although they may not be aware of it, most students probably have a basic intuitive understanding of fluid mechanics gained in their daily life. However, the large size and long time scale of geophysical processes may be quite intimidating to young students. Even a simple geophysical experiment requires a complicated array of coolers, heaters and measuring and recording equipment. It is of interest to introduce students to the geodynamical concepts that can be visualized in a high-tech lab using familiar processes and equipment. Using a homemade apparatus and grocery store supplies, I propose using a 'Stove-top Earth pecan pie' to introduce simple geodynamic concepts to middle- and high-school students. The initially cold syrup heats up and the pecans begin to float (continent formation), the syrup begins to convect (mantle convection), and convection slows down after the heat is removed (secular cooling). Even Wilson cycles can be simulated by moving the pan to one side or the other of the stovetop or heating element. The activity formally introduces students to convection and its application to the earth, and makes them think about plate motion, heat transfer, scaling, and experimental procedures. As an added bonus, they can eat their experiments after recess!

  2. Efectividad a corto plazo del vendaje neuromuscular y vendaje funcional en la corrección del retropié pronado y supinado

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    Luque-Suárez, Alejandro

    2011-01-01

    La utilización de métodos de corrección articular de las dealineaciones del pie en el plano frontal dentro del campo de la medicina, fisioterapia o la podología se encuentra ampliamente documentado y ha sido comúnmente empleado. Dentro de estos dispositivos se encuentran el vendaje funcional y el vendaje neuromuscular (también denominado kinesiotaping, medical taping, neurotaping o balance taping). Objetivos: 1.Comparar la efectividad del vendaje funcional y el vendaje neuromuscular en la...

  3. Desempenho de cordeiros alimentados com inclusão de torta de macaúba na dieta Performance of lambs fed with macauba pie inclusion in the diet

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    Rafael Alves de Azevedo

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    Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o consumo de nutrientes e o desempenho produtivo e econômico de ovinos confinados da raça Santa Inês, alimentados com dietas com diferentes taxas de inclusão de torta de macaúba. Os animais (24 foram distribuídos em delineamento de blocos ao acaso, nos tratamentos com 0, 100, 200 e 300 g kg-1 de torta de macaúba na matéria seca da dieta, em seis repetições, durante 60 dias de confinamento. A adição de torta de macaúba a taxas crescentes à dieta aumentou linearmente o consumo de proteína bruta, extrato etéreo, fibra em detergente neutro e a conversão alimentar. Não houve diferença no consumo de matéria seca, ganho médio diário e ganho de peso vivo total com a adição da torta. O tratamento com inclusão de 100 g kg-1 apresentou a melhor relação custo:benefício na avaliação das receitas bruta e líquida obtidas com a venda dos animais vivos e abatidos. A adição da torta de macaúba em até 300 g kg-1 da dieta não altera o desempenho produtivo dos animais, entretanto, a inclusão de 100 g kg-1 proporciona melhor retorno econômico.The objective of this work was to evaluate the nutrient uptake and the productive and economic performance of confined Santa Inês lambs fed diets with different levels of macauba pie inclusion . The animals (24 were distributed in a randomized block design, in treatments with 0, 100, 200 and 300 g kg-1 macauba pie in the diet dry matter, with six replicates during 60 days of confinement. The addition of macauba pie at increasing rates to the diet linearly increased the intake of crude protein, ether extract, neutral detergent fiber and feed conversion. There was no difference in dry matter intake, average daily gain and total live weight gain with the macauba pie addition. Diet with 100 g kg-1 macauba pie inclusion showed the best cost:benefit ratio in the evaluation of gross and net revenues from the sale of live and slaughtered animals. The addition

  4. Captive breeding and reintroduction of the oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) in Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand.

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    Chaiyarat, Rattanawat; Kongprom, Urarikha; Manathamkamon, Darika; Wanpradab, Sunan; Sangarang, Satean

    2012-01-01

    This article discusses two related issues of the captive breeding and reintroduction of the Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) in order to increase its population in the natural habitats. Oriental pied hornbills were bred in Khao Kheow Open Zoo. Three pairs were separated and kept in breeding cages. Females occupied artificial nests between February and April 2005-2007. Eggs were laid and incubated between February and March each year from 2005 to 2007. Nestlings hatched in late March and left the nest in late April 2005-2007. Each breeding pair was fed with approximately 400 g of food each day. All three pairs reproduced resulting in mature offspring of seven in 2005, six in 2006, and five in 2007. Four of sixteen 3-year-old birds were randomly selected and equipped with a GPS receiver on their backs. Activities of the birds attached and unattached with GPS were not significantly different. The first two birds (one female, one male with GPS) were reintroduced on August 5, 2006, and another nine birds (four birds with GPS) were reintroduced on December 26, 2006. The average home range of these reintroduced birds was 0.13 km(2) . Their foods consisted of wild plants and animals in the home range. The first reintroduced pair was able to breed naturally by laying and hatching eggs in an artificial nest. Two juveniles left the nest in April 2008. These results indicate that both captive breeding and reintroduction are potentially important ways to increase the population of the Oriental pied hornbill in natural habitats. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

  5. Trade-offs between sexual advertisement and immune function in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca).

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    Kilpimaa, Janne; Alatalo, Rauno V.; Siitari, Heli

    2004-01-01

    Good genes models of sexual selection assume that sexual advertisement is costly and thus the level of advertisement honestly reveals heritable viability. Recently it has been suggested that an important cost of sexual advertisement might be impairment of the functioning of the immune system. In this field experiment we investigated the possible trade-offs between immune function and sexual advertisement by manipulating both mating effort and activity of immune defence in male pied flycatcher...

  6. The Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale (PIES): Development and psychometric properties of a novel measure of current emotion invalidation.

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    Zielinski, Melissa J; Veilleux, Jennifer C

    2018-05-24

    Emotion invalidation is theoretically and empirically associated with mental and physical health problems. However, existing measures of invalidation focus on past (e.g., childhood) invalidation and/or do not specifically emphasize invalidation of emotion. In this article, the authors articulate a clarified operational definition of emotion invalidation and use that definition as the foundation for development of a new measure of current perceived emotion invalidation across a series of five studies. Study 1 was a qualitative investigation of people's experiences with emotional invalidation from which we generated items. An initial item pool was vetted by expert reviewers in Study 2 and examined via exploratory factor analysis in Study 3 within both college student and online samples. The scale was reduced to 10 items via confirmatory factor analysis in Study 4, resulting in a brief but psychometrically promising measure, the Perceived Invalidation of Emotion Scale (PIES). A short-term longitudinal investigation (Study 5) revealed that PIES scores had strong test-retest reliability, and that greater perceived emotion invalidation was associated with greater emotion dysregulation, borderline features and symptoms of emotional distress. In addition, the PIES predicted changes in relational health and psychological health over a 1-month period. The current set of studies thus presents a psychometrically promising and practical measure of perceived emotion invalidation that can provide a foundation for future research in this burgeoning area. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

  7. Fatores Determinantes para Adoção de Planos de Opções de Ações em Companhias Abertas Brasileiras

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    Geovanne Dias de Moura

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    Full Text Available O objetivo do estudo foi identificar os fatores determinantes para adoção de planos de opções de ações em companhias abertas brasileiras. Para tal, realizou-se pesquisa descritiva, conduzida por meio de análise documental e abordagem quantitativa, com emprego de regressão logística. A amostra foi composta de 158 companhias, com dados referentes ao período de 2009 a 2012. Os resultados evidenciaram um crescimento na quantidade de empresas que possuíam planos de opções de ações no período. Entre os fatores tamanho da empresa, restrição de liquidez, concentração acionária, problema de horizonte, participação acionária do CEO, dualidade do cargo de CEO e presidente do conselho de administração, descritos na literatura como influenciadores para a utilização de planos de opções de ações, três se confirmaram na amostra analisada. Os fatores “liquidez corrente”, no período de 2010 a 2012; “problema de horizonte”, no período de 2009 a 2012; e “participação acionária”, no ano de 2012, fornecem mais evidências de relações positivas no cenário brasileiro.

  8. Impacto de las unidades a pie de carretera en las interferencias en redes vehiculares

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    Hernández Gañán, Carlos; Reñé Vicente, Sergi; Mata Diaz, Jorge; Alins Delgado, Juan José

    2013-01-01

    Las redes ad hoc vehiculares (VANETs) han emergido como una tecnolog´ıa clave que posibilita el despliegue diversas aplicaciones. Proporcionar seguridad a los servicios de informaci´on y entretenimiento en estos entornos requiere del uso de unidades a pie de la carretera (RSU) como puertas de acceso a los recursos solicitados. Idealmente, las RSUs deben desplegarse para proporcionar conectividad continua. Si bien esto aumenta la capacidad y cobertura, tambi´en acarrea un ...

  9. POPULATION ANALYSIS OF THE LOCAL ENDANGERED PŘEŠTICE BLACK-PIED PIG BREED

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    Emil Krupa

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available The pedigree analysis of the local endangered Přeštice Black-Pied pig breed (n=19 289 was performed. Animals born within the period 2012-2014 were assumed as the reference population (n=1 374. The pedigree completeness index reached 100% for four generations back. The 100 % of the genetic pool was explained by 66 ancestors. Although all animals of the reference population were inbred, 57% of them had inbreeding less than five percent. Average inbreeding, co-ancestry coefficient and rate of inbreeding reached 4.93%, 13.48% and 1.29% in reference population, respectively. The effective population size calculated by four different methods varied from 32 to 91 animals in 2014. Average generation interval, average family size for sire and dam parents was 2.5, 17.46 and 6.5 animals, respectively. Total number of founders, effective number of founders, effective number of founders’ genomes and effective number of non-founders genomes reached values 299, 98.05, 21.92 and 28.23 founders, respectively. The average genetic diversity (GD loss was 13.71% in reference population. The GD loss has increased within the last three year period mainly due to the random genetic drift (77.6% and by unequal contribution of founders (22.4%. The Preštice Black-Pied breed is highly endangered with GD loss. Mating of closely related animals has to be prevented in breeding and mating program of this breed.

  10. Manifestaciones mucocutáneas del liquen plano: Revisión bibliográfica

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    Orlando L Rodríguez Calzadilla

    2002-08-01

    Full Text Available El liquen plano es una enfermedad de la piel y las mucosas que aparece con relativa frecuencia. Las lesiones de las membranas mucosas son de color blanquecino y persisten durante años después que desaparecen las lesiones de la piel. El odontólogo la diagnostica con frecuencia por mostrar sus primeros síntomas y signos en la mucosa bucal. Se caracteriza por la aparición de un infiltrado inflamatorio en banda y degeneración vacuolizante de la capa basal del epitelio, hechos que hacen pensar en una reacción autoinmune celular como base del proceso. Dos fenómenos importantes se describen en la respuesta inmunitaria celular: la expresión de antígenos de histocompatibilidad leucocitaria (HLA-DR y la molécula de adhesión intercelular-1 (ICAM-1. Se han reportado casos de transformación maligna en el liquen plano eritematoso o erosivo. El pronóstico del liquen plano es satisfactorio, cura en un tiempo promedio de 2 a 6 meses, pero existen casos cuya evolución se hace crónica y permanece durante años. Se realizó esta revisión bibliográfica con el objetivo de actualizar sobre este tema a estudiantes, estomatólogos y médicos en nuestra provincia.Lichen planus is a skin and mucous disease that is relatively frequent. Mucous membrane lesions are white-coloured and persisted for years after the skin lesions have disappeared. The odontologist often diagnoses it because its first symptoms and signs occurred in the oral mucous membrane. It is characterized by a band inflammatory infiltrate and vacuolizing degeneration of the basal layer of epithelium, events that might indicate an autoimmune cell reaction as a basis of the process. Two important phenomena are described in the immune cell response: the leukocyte histocompatibility antigen expression (HLA-DR and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1. There have been reported cases of malignant transformation in erythematous or erosive lichen planus. The prognosis of lichen planus is

  11. "A New Kind of Rule": The Subversive Narrator in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin."

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    Blackburn, William

    1986-01-01

    Compares "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," noting that both: (1) were begun for the amusement of specific children; (2) use a subterranean journey as a device; (3) are critical of social authority; and (4) have problematic endings. (SRT)

  12. Morfologia dos pré-estômagos e de papilas ruminais de cordeiras Santa Inês em crescimento submetidas a dois planos nutricionais

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    Luigi F.L. Cavalcanti

    2014-04-01

    Full Text Available Para se avaliar o efeito do plano nutricional e crescimento sobre a massa dos pré-estômagos, morfologia e quantificação de papilas ruminais, trinta e seis cordeiras da raça Santa Inês foram submetidas a dois planos nutricionais (ad libitum ou restrito sendo abatidas em diferentes pesos vivo (20, 30 ou 40 kg de peso vivo, em um delineamento inteiramente casualizado balanceado em arranjo fatorial 2x3. Feito o abate, as vísceras foram pesadas livres de seu conteúdo em seguida mediu-se o volume de repleção do rúmen e retículo. Amostras do tecido ruminal oriundas dos sacos cranial e ventral foram coletadas para posteriormente serem realizadas com auxílio de lupa estereoscópica as medidas morfométricas das papilas ruminais, altura, largura da base, área, papilas por cm² e área absortiva por cm². Os resultados obtidos foram submetidos a análise de variância e as médias resultantes por tratamento foram comparadas por meio de teste de Student Newmann Keuls. Os diferentes planos nutricionais não influenciaram a massa das vísceras rúmen, retículo e omaso (P>0,05, no entanto, observou-se crescimento dessas vísceras em função do aumento do peso ao abate. O volume dessas vísceras foi afetado pelo peso ao abate, e observou-se menores volumes para animais com alimentação ad libitum (P<0,10. O número de papilas por cm² foi reduzido com o aumento do peso ao abate, sendo que altura e área foram aumentadas quando em pesos maiores. O plano nutricional afetou apenas a área e altura das papilas ruminais oriundas do saco cranial. A área absortiva não foi afetada pelos tratamentos. Plano nutricional e diferentes pesos vivos influenciam a morfologia dos pré-estômagos de cordeiras da raça Santa Inês.

  13. Estructuras hexaquirales con coeficiente de Poisson negativo bajo carga uniaxial en el plano

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    Oscar Gerardo Castro Ardila; Gonzalo Fernando Casanova García; Yesid Aguilar Castro

    2012-01-01

    El estudio y las aplicaciones de estructuras deformables con formas celulares y relación de Poisson efectiva negativa son de interés en la actualidad para los sectores automotriz y aeroespacial, como también para la aplicación en componentes ópticos, biológicos, micro electrónicos, estructurales y termo mecánicos. Estas estructuras poseen baja densidad, alta rigidez a cortante en el plano y la capacidad de sufrir grandes deformaciones en el rango elástico del material constitutivo, comparada ...

  14. Rapportering om going concern i den nye revisionspåtegning – særlige forhold for PIE-virksomheder

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    2017-01-01

    Artiklen omhandler særlige forhold for PIE-virksomheder, dvs. virksomheder af interesse for offentligheden, vedrørende going concern. Artikel skal læses i sammenhæng med min generelle artikel vedr. rapportering om going concern i den nye revisionspåtegning, idet denne artikel også er relevant...

  15. Planos municipais de saneamento básico: avaliação de 18 casos brasileiros*

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    Tatiana Santana Timóteo Pereira

    2015-09-01

    Full Text Available RESUMOA partir de 2007, os municípios brasileiros deparam-se com o novo desafio colocado pela Lei no11.445, que trouxe uma nova organização para a gestão do setor de Saneamento Básico, assumindo-a não só como a prestação dos serviços mas também integrando-a ao planejamento, à regulação, à fiscalização e ao controle social. Neste trabalho, visando compreender dificuldades e potencialidades para o planejamento, foram avaliados 18 planos municipais de saneamento básico em uma amostragem que inclui as 5 macrorregiões do país e 14 estados. A avaliação foi norteada pelos princípios da universalidade, equidade, integralidade, intersetorialidade e qualidade; pela instituição da política; pela capacidade de gestão; e pela sustentabilidade. Na maioria dos casos, constatou-se fragilidade na instituição da política e que a incorporação dos princípios nos planos ocorreu de forma incipiente, embora alguns deles tenham se destacado pela maior aderência aos princípios avaliados (Alagoinhas, BA; Morada Nova, CE; Ariquemes, RO, e Ouro Branco, MG.

  16. Fontes de financiamento para planos de mobilidade urbana: a sistematização das janelas de oportunidade de financiamento geridas pelo Ministério das Cidades

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    Ruiz, Isadora

    2015-01-01

    O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a sistematização das janelas de oportunidade de financiamento de elaboração e implementação dos Planos de Mobilidade Urbana, atualmente geridas pelo Ministério das Cidades. Para tanto, foi primeiramente realizado um diagnóstico da Mobilidade Urbana no Brasil, desenvolvido o conceito de Plano de Mobilidade Urbana, bem como identificadas as janelas de oportunidade de financiamento. Em seguida, o trabalho descreve em detalhes cada uma das janelas de oportuni...

  17. Estratificación de riesgo en pie diabético Risk stratification in diabetic foot

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    Héctor González de la Torre

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available El pie diabético es una complicación crónica de la diabetes mellitus y constituye una problemática sanitaria al conllevar un enorme gasto económico a los servicios sanitarios y provocar a las personas que lo padecen y a su entorno familiar enormes repercusiones emocionales. La educación sanitaria en el cuidado de los pies de los diabéticos, así como la cuantificación del riesgo son aspectos que el enfermero debe incorporar en los planes de cuidados de los pacientes diabéticos. La detección de los posibles factores de riesgo es un paso previo imprescindible para estos cometidos. Este estudio tiene como finalidad analizar la presencia de determinados factores de riesgo en pie diabético en la población diabética del Centro de Salud de Triana, con el objetivo de poder realizar, así, una estratificación del riesgo. Para ello, se optó por la realización de un estudio observacional descriptivo. La muestra analizada estaba constituida por 96 sujetos diabéticos pertenecientes a dicho centro de salud. Para la recogida de datos se utilizó un sistema de tres niveles consistente en entrevista, exploración física y consulta de registros disponibles (a través de las historias clínicas de los sujetos. Los datos se registraron en un formulario de recogida de datos para pie diabético. Se determinó la existencia de factores de riesgo, analizando las relaciones entre éstos y permitiendo la estratificación del riesgo en la población estudiada.The diabetic foot is a chronic complication of diabetes mellitus and constitutes a sanitary problem which causes not only enormous expenses for the sanitary system but also provokes emotional repercussions for the person who suffers the illness and for the family. The sanitary education in taking care of the feet of diabetics and the identification of the health risk are both aspects that the nurse must include in the healthcare planning of diabetic patients. The detection of the possible risk

  18. The YouTube Project: “The PewDiePie versus The Wall Street Journal Scandal – an in-depth analysis of PewDiePie’s online audience”

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    Jensen, Natalie Madeleine; Rasmussen, Anna Melanie Bæckmann; Cillo, Dominic

    2017-01-01

    In this dissertation, the aim is to investigate the multi-faceted events and belonging themes within The PewDiePie versus The Wall Street Journal Scandal – henceforth described as The PewDiePie Scandal. Here, the main goal within this dissertation is to answer questions in regards to PewDiePie’s online audience, how they perceive him and the relationship between the YouTuber and the viewership. Furthermore, the investigation will delve into matters of the major support provided by his audienc...

  19. Fragilidades e desafios do financiamento em planos de educação = Weaknesses and challenges of financing education plans = Fragilidades y retos de financiamiento en planes de educación

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    Davies, Nicholas

    2014-01-01

    Full Text Available O artigo analisa planos de educação no Brasil, com foco no financiamento. Aponta a fragilidade de planos numa sociedade, economia e Estado que não visam ao bem comum, agravada pelo descumprimento sistemático de leis pelos próprios governos. Registra a pouca confiabilidade das estatísticas educacionais e, portanto, a precariedade na elaboração de diagnósticos e avaliação de metas alcançadas e analisa as propostas de planos nacionais de educação (PNE formulados no final dos anos 1990, da Lei nº 10. 172, que instituiu o PNE em 2001, e do PDE (Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação, lançado pelo governo federal em 2007. Examina brevemente o documento final da CONAE (Conferência Nacional de Educação, de 2010, a Lei nº 13. 005, que instituiu o novo PNE em junho de 2014, comparando alguns de seus aspectos com o Projeto de Lei aprovado pela Câmara dos Deputados em outubro de 2012 e o PL original, encaminhado pelo governo federal em dezembro de 2010

  20. Song degradation in the hole-nesting pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca: Implications for polyterritorial behaviour in contrasting habitat-types

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    Lampe, Helene M.; Larsen, Ole Næsbye; Pedersen, Simon Boel

    2007-01-01

    In the hole-nesting pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, a male may become polyterritorial after attracting a primary female. However, the female may recognize her mate's song and attack other females that associate with him. Differences in sound degradation amongst different habitats and within ...

  1. The PIES2012 Code for Calculating 3D Equilibria with Islands and Stochastic Regions

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    Monticello, Donald; Reiman, Allan; Raburn, Daniel

    2013-10-01

    We have made major modifications to the PIES 3D equilibrium code to produce a new version, PIES2012. The new version uses an adaptive radial grid for calculating equilibrium currents. A subset of the flux surfaces conform closely to island separatrices, providing an accurate treatment of the effects driving the neoclassical tearing mode. There is now a set of grid surfaces that conform to the flux surfaces in the interiors of the islands, allowing the proper treatment of the current profiles in the islands, which play an important role in tearing phenomena. We have verified that we can introduce appropriate current profiles in the islands to suppress their growth, allowing us to simulate situations where islands are allowed to grow at some rational surfaces but not others. Placement of grid surfaces between islands is guided by the locations of high order fixed points, allowing us to avoid spectral polution and providing a more robust, and smoother convergence of the code. The code now has an option for turning on a vertical magnetic field to fix the position of the magnetic axis, which models the horizontal feedback positioning of a tokamak plasma. The code has a new option for using a Jacobian-Free Newton Krylov scheme for convergence. The code now also contains a model that properly handles stochastic regions with nonzero pressure gradients. Work supported by DOE contract DE-AC02-09CH11466.

  2. Phosphorus sources (P plus filter pie with or without azotofos on the available P in the soil

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    Maikel Abreu Jiménez

    2014-04-01

    Full Text Available The objective of the investigation was to evaluate the effect of four phosphorus sources plus filter pie with or without the biofertilizer Azotofos on the available phosphorus in the soil at different moments after the treatment. An experiment in factorial design 4(2+1 was established, being the four phosphorus sources: rock phosphate, natural phosphate, triple phosphate and Cuban phosphoric rock; two sources of the organic compound to base filter cake enriched with Azotofos microorganisms, only filter cake (without enrichment and a control treatment (without filter pie, neither Azotofos, with three repetitions. The evaluations of the tenor of available P (Bray-2 were carried out at the 30, 60, 90, 120 and 150 days after the installation of the experiment. The tenor of P (Bray-2 was influenced by the sources of P and the enrichment with biofertilizantes (factorial increasing the tenor of available P in front of the control. The triple superphosphate promoted the higher tenors in P in the soil at 60 and 90 days after its application, independently of the presence or not of the organic compound enriched with P solubilizing microorganisms, although this effect didn’t stay stable at the time.

  3. Preposition stranding versus pied-piping: Negative Shift of prepositional complements in dialects of Faroese

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    Eva Engels

    2009-01-01

             These asymmetries will be accounted for within Fox and Pesetsky's (2003, 2005 cyclic linearization model, which requires non-string-vacuous movement to proceed through the left edge of Spell-out domains, deriving cross-linguistic variation as to Negative Shift from differences in the availability of these left-edge positions. Thereby, pied-piping is considered a last resort strategy, possible only if the prepositional complement cannot undergo Negative Shift on its own due to the unavailability of the relevant left-edge position.

  4. Projeto : Plano de promoção para os roteiros municipais do Alto Alentejo

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    Dimas, Alicia

    2012-01-01

    Dissertação de Mestrado em Marketing e Promoção Turística apresentada à ESTM - Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria O presente projeto pretende delinear as linhas mestras de um plano de promoção para o produto Roteiros Municipais. O produto, cujo objetivo é auxiliar a atividade turística na região do Alto Alentejo (Portugal), foi colocado recentemente no mercado sem qualquer estratégia de marketing associada – este projeto pretende preencher ess...

  5. PLANO DE SEGURANÇA DA ÁGUA EM MANANCIAIS DE ABASTECIMENTO DE ÁGUA PARA CONSUMO HUMANO

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    José Manuel Pereira Vieira

    2013-03-01

    Full Text Available O progresso no acesso a água potável a nível mundial tem-se traduzido num incremento de infraestruturas que necessitam de ser adequadamente geridas por forma a garantir água segura às populações. Embora a qualidade da água para consumo humano seja um factor fundamental para a protecção da saúde pública, a sua garantia revela-se de uma grande dificuldade por razões técnicas e económicas. A implementação de planos de segurança da água, estabelecendo um processo sistemático para a identificação de perigos e procedimentos de gestão efectivos para o seu controlo em sistemas de abastecimento de água, constitui uma nova abordagem a esta problemática. No presente trabalho, apresenta-se uma proposta metodológica para a implementação de planos de segurança da água em mananciais de abastecimento, onde se estabelecem os aspectos mais relevantes a considerar, nomeadamente as limitações e necessidades relacionadas com modelos institucionais e organizacionais.

  6. Algunos dibujos de la primera arquitectura de Nueva España: mapas, planos y proyectos de arquitectura del siglo XVI

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    Moya Olmedo, Pilar

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    Moya Olmedo, P. (2014). Algunos dibujos de la primera arquitectura de Nueva España: mapas, planos y proyectos de arquitectura del siglo XVI. P+C: proyecto y ciudad: revista de temas de arquitectura (5), 75-88. ISSN 2172-9220 (ISOC; LATINDEX; DIALNET; RESH; DICE; MIAR)

  7. Degradation of song in a species using nesting holes: the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca

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    Helene M. Lampe

    2004-06-01

    Full Text Available The habitat, but also the nest hole of a hole-nesting species, will degrade the song during transmission. We investigated how the sounds degrade in a sound transmission experiment with the song of the Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (Muscicapidae. Ten different song elements were transmitted to microphones placed inside and outside a nest box. On average, song degradation was much greater inside than outside the nest boxes, especially with respect to excess attenuation and blurring of the song elements. Being inside a nest box therefore strongly reduces a Pied Flycatcher's possibility of detecting and recognizing songs or eavesdropping on singing interactions.O habitat, mas também a cavidade do ninho de uma espécie nidificando em ocos, provoca uma degradação do som durante sua transmissão. Pesquisamos como os sons são degradados num experimento de transmissão sonora usando o canto do pássaro Ficedula hypoleuca (Muscicapidae. Dez elementos diferentes do canto foram enviados para microfones colocados dentro e fora de uma caixa de nidificação. Em média, a degradação do canto foi muito maior dentro do que fora do ninho, particularmente no que diz respeito ao excesso de atenuação e à borrada dos elementos do canto. Estar dentro de uma cavidade de nidificação, portanto, reduz fortemente a capacidade da espécie de detectar e reconhecer cantos ou de interceptar interações vocais.

  8. Quality of pies obtained of the extraction of sunflower and crambe oil for biodiesel under different temperatures; Qualidade das tortas obtidas na extracao do oleo de girassol e crambe para biodiesel sob diferentes temperaturas

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    Bischoff, Tabata Zingano; Prado, Naimara Vieira do; Coelho, Silvia Renata Machado; Bischoff, Teodato Zingano [Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana (UNIOESTE), PR (Brazil)], emails: tabatazbi@yahoo.com.br, nai_mara@hotmail.com, srmcoelho@unioeste.br, teodato_zb@hotmail.com; Figueiredo, Paulo Roberto Abreu de [Instituto Agronomico do Parana (IAPAR), Londrina, PR (Brazil)

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    Sunflower and crambe are viable alternatives to ethanol. Used in food production, the sunflower crop has economic, rustic and does not require specialized machinery. The crambe oil is concentrated enough, it is feasible to farm and is not edible. The extraction efficiencies of these oils gives to the heating and moisture content of grain. The aim of this study was to evaluate temperatures of oil extraction in sunflower and crambe as pies obtained. For oil extraction and acquisition of pies, we used a high pressure extruder press. The sunflower seed and crambe were extruded without heating and at temperatures of 50 and 70 deg C with three replicates for each treatment, estimated to be the pie, the amount of fat, protein and moisture. Increasing the temperature, we observed a reduction of moisture in sunflower cake, but this did not occur in seeds of crambe. For sunflower, the higher levels of lipids occurred for pie without heating, and for crambe, the higher levels of lipids occurred at 50 deg C. As for the protein, was found in both cultures, the highest level at 70 deg C. It is concluded that the extraction temperature alters the composition of oilseed cakes. (author)

  9. PIE technology on mechanical tests for HTTR core component and structural materials developed at Research Hot Laboratory

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    Kizaki, Minoru; Honda, Junichi; Usami, Kouji; Ouchi, Asao; Oeda, Etsuro; Matsumoto, Seiichiro

    2001-02-01

    The high temperature engineering test reactor (HTTR) with the target operation temperature of 950degC established the first criticality on November, 1998 based on a large amount of R and D results on fuel and materials. In such R and D works, the development of reactor materials are one of the key issues from the view point of reactor environments such as extremely high temperature, neutron irradiation and so on for the HTTR. The Research Hot Laboratory (RHL) had carried out much kind of post irradiation examinations (PIEs) on core component and pressure vessel materials for during more than a quarter century. And obtained data played an important role in development, characterization and licensing of those materials for the HTTR. This paper describes the PIE technology developed at RHL and typical results on mechanical tests such as elevated temperature tensile and creep rupture tests for Hasteloy-X, Incolloy 800H and so on, and Charpy impact, J IC fracture toughness, K Id fracture toughness and small punch tests for normalized and tempered 2 1/4Cr-1Mo steel from historical view. In addition, an electrochemical test technique established for investigating the irradiation embrittlement mechanism on 2 1/4Cr-1Mo steel is also mentioned. (author)

  10. Implementação e avaliação de um plano de ensino para a auto-irrigação de colostomia: estudo de caso

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    Costa, Idevânia Geraldina; Maruyama, Sônia Ayako Tao

    2004-01-01

    Tendo como objetivos descrever e avaliar a implementação de um plano de ensino para a auto-irrigação da colostomia e relatar as percepções dos colostomizados relacionadas à auto-irrigação, este estudo de caso foi desenvolvido no ambulatório de colostomia do Hospital Universitário Júlio Müler, do município de Cuiabá, no período de fevereiro a março de 1997. O plano de ensino proposto favoreceu a esses colostomizados a aprendizagem quanto à técnica de irrigação e a reinserção social. With a ...

  11. Fernando González: caminando por su novela Viaje a pie

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    FRANCISCO LUIS GIRALDO GUTIÉRREZ

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    Full Text Available Fernando González, ícono de la tradición literaria antioqueña, ha hecho que hoy en día las profundas y polémicas ideas sobre la realidad de su época lo presenten como un escritor con alta sensibilidad social, política y un constante renegar religioso. “Caminar” por la obra Viaje a pie , es precisamente eso: recorrer los senderos que él transitó en un tiempo. En el presente artículo se busca conocer la concepción que el autor tiene sobre la geografía, el amor, el desamor, la familia, la política y la religión, procurando así una caracterización del pensador envigadeño, la contextualización de los hechos y escenarios presentes en la obra referenciada.

  12. R and D status and requirements for PIE in the fields of the HTGR fuel and the innovative basic research on High-Temperature Engineering

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    Sawa, Kazuhiro; Tobita, Tsutomu; Sumita, Junya [Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Oarai, Ibaraki (Japan). Oarai Research Establishment; Ishihara, Masahiro; Hayashi, Kimio; Hoshiya, Taiji; Sekino, Hajime; Ooeda, Etsurou

    1999-09-01

    The High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR), which is the first high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) in Japan, achieved its first criticality in November 1998 at the Oarai Research Establishment of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). In the field of HTGR fuel development, JAERI will proceed research and development (R and D) works by the following steps: (STEP-1) confirmation of irradiation performance of the first-loading fuel of the HTTR, (STEP-2) study on irradiation performance of high burnup SiC-coated fuel particle and (STEP-3) development of ZrC-coated fuel particle. Requirements for post-irradiation examination (PIE) are different for each R and D step. In STEP-1, firstly, hot cells will be prepared in the HTTR reactor building to handle spent fuels. In parallel, general equipments such as those for deconsolidation of fuel compacts and for handling coated fuel particles will be installed in the Hot Laboratory at Oarai. In STEP-2, precise PIE techniques, for example, Raman spectroscopy for measurement of stress on irradiated SiC layer, will be investigated. In STEP-3, new PIE techniques should be developed to investigate irradiation behavior of ZrC-coated particle. In the field of the innovative basic research on high-temperature engineering, some preliminary tests have been made on the research areas of (1) new materials development, (2) fusion technology, (3) radiation chemistry and (4) high-temperature in-core instrumentation. Requirements for PIE are under investigation, in particular in the field of the new materials development. Besides more general apparatuses including transmission electron microscopy (TEM), some special apparatuses such as an electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrometer, a specific resistance/Hall coefficient measuring system and a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) are planned to install in the Hot Laboratory at Oarai. Acquisition of advanced knowledge on the irradiation behavior is expected in

  13. Simulación de objetos planos deformables con resolución de contactos y colisiones

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    Manén Freixa, Santiago

    2010-01-01

    El proyecto descrito en esta memoria consiste en la implementación de una aplicación que permita simular la interacción de tejidos entre sí o con objetos rígidos en una plataforma Linux. Se implementa el algoritmo de detección y resolución de contactos y colisiones desarrollado por Bridson, Fedkiw y Anderson (Bridson, Fedkiw, & Anderson, 2002). El simulador, dpoSimulator, se ha desarrollado para el proyecto de manipulación automática de objetos planos deformables (Proyecto PAU, DPI-2008-06022...

  14. Planos privados de assistência à saúde: cobertura populacional no Brasil Private health plans: populational coverage in Brazil

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    Luiz Felipe Pinto

    2004-01-01

    Full Text Available Foram utilizados o Cadastro de Beneficiários da Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS e a Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD/IBGE para descrever o perfil da cobertura dos serviços por planos privados de saúde. Apesar da regulação pela ANS, não se deve perder de vista que o acesso, a utilização e a cobertura populacional em planos de saúde precisam ser periodicamente monitorados, principalmente na região Sudeste, que concentra 70% da população coberta por planos de saúde. Também são necessários estudos mais detalhados sobre as capitais brasileiras, que constituem grandes centros de concentração de clientela; e investigações para os subgrupos etários que mais utilizam os serviços de saúde: crianças menores de 5 anos, mulheres em idade fértil e idosos. Os resultados do estudo indicam que, no Sistema de Saúde Brasileiro, os planos privados de assistência à saúde se configuram como mais um fator de geração de desigualdades sociais no acesso e na utilização de serviços de saúde, pois cobrem apenas uma parcela específica da população brasileira: pessoas de maior renda familiar, de cor branca, com maior nível de escolaridade, inseridas em determinados ramos de atividade do mercado de trabalho, moradores das capitais/regiões metropolitanas.The Beneficiaries' Frame from ANS and the data of the PNAD/IBGE have been used to describe the profile of the private health plans' coverage. Although the regulation functions of ANS, one should not forget that private health insurance access, use and coverage should be monitored continuously, specially the private market of Southeast Region, which concentrate 70% of coverage people in Brazil. Others studies are also necessary for Brazilian capitals, which constitute great urban cities of insurance people. Besides this, more detailed investigation must be developed for age groups with higher utilization of health services: children up to 5 years, women

  15. LOCA testing of high burnup PWR fuel in the HBWR. Additional PIE on the cladding of the segment 650-5

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    Oberlaender, B.C.; Espeland, M.; Jenssen, H.K.

    2008-07-01

    IFA-650.5, a test with pre-irradiated fuel in the Halden Project LOCA test series, was conducted on October 23rd, 2006. The fuel rod had been used in a commercial PWR and had a high burnup, 83 MWd/kgU. Experimental arrangements of the fifth test were similar to the preceding LOCA tests. The peak cladding temperature (PCT) level was higher than in the third and fourth tests, 1050 C. A peak temperature close to the target was achieved and cladding burst occurred at approx. 750 C. Within the joint programme framework of the Halden Project PIE was done, consisting of gamma scanning, visual inspection, neutron-radiography, hydrogen analysis and metallography / ceramography. An additional extensive PIE including metallography, hydrogen analysis, and hardness measurements of cross-sections at seven axial elevations was done. It was completed to study the high burnup and LOCA induced effects on the Zr-4 cladding, namely the migration of oxygen into the cladding from the inside surface, the cladding distension, and the burst (author)(tk)

  16. Tipo de arcada y plano terminal molar de la dentición temporal y su correlación con las clases de maloclusión de la dentición permanente

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    Ana Pascual Serna

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available El objetivo fue establecer la correlación del tipo de arcada y plano terminal molar de la dentición temporal con las clases de maloclusión de Angle en niños de 5 años de edad que acuden al Hospital Nacional “Daniel Alcides Carrión”de Cerro de Pasco, 2010 - 2011. La investigación se desarrolló bajo un diseño descriptivo longitudinal prospectivo. La muestra estuvo conformada por 40 niños escogidos por muestreo no probabilístico. Se realizó inicialmente la evaluación clínica del tipo de arcada y plano terminal molar de la dentición temporal y posteriormente al erupcionar las primeras molares permanentes se verificó la correlación con las clases de maloclusión de Angle, el tratamiento estadístico de la hipótesis fue con la Chi Cuadrada. Entre los resultados podemos mencionar que existe diferencia estadística significativa para asumir que el tipo de plano terminal molar y tipo de arcada de la dentición temporal se correlaciona con las clases de maloclusión de Angle, teniendo en consideración que la X2c=12,724>X2t = 9,488(4gl-95 %, rechazándose la Ho. En conclusión, el tipo de plano terminal molar recto y el tipo de arcada abierta de la dentición temporal se relaciona con mayor frecuencia con la normoclusión y la Clase I de maloclusión. Mientras que el tipo de plano terminal molar escalón mesial y el tipo de arcada cerrada de la dentición temporal se relaciona con la Clase III de maloclusión.

  17. Zīmola nozīme patērētāju lēmuma pieņemšanā mēbeļu mazumtirdzniecībā.

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    Maģistra darba temats ir „Zīmola nozīme patērētāju lēmuma pieņemšanā mēbeļu mazumtirdzniecībā”. Darba mērķis ir teorētiski analizēt un praktiski noskaidrot zīmola nozīmi patērētāja lēmuma pieņemšanā par mēbeļu iegādi. Temats ir aktuāls un darbā apkopotie rezultāti var būt saistoši Latvijas mēbeļu nozares dalībniekiem. 1. nodaļā autors izvērtē patērētāju uzvedību noteicošos faktorus, kā arī zīmola nozīme lēmuma pieņemšanā. 2. nodaļā analizēta mēbeļu ražošanas nozare Latvijā, veikta uzņēm...

  18. Effect of Farm on Productive and Reproductive Performance in Sows of Prestice Black-pied Pig

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    Pavel Nevrkla

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available The aim of the study was to evaluate productive and reproductive performance of Prestice Black‑Pied sows including losses of piglets from birth to weaning in conditions of two farms. The experiment involved one hundred sows of Prestice Black‑Pied pig from the 1st to the 7th parity (50 from farm A and 50 from farm B. The evaluation of productive parameters revealed a highly statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.001 between gilts of the observed farms in percentage of lean meat. Backfat thickness was 0.19 cm lower in gilts from the farm A, which is a very highly statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.001. The evaluation of reproductive performance showed, that age at the time of the first insemination and farrowing was significantly higher (P ≤ 0.05 in gilts from the farm A compared to gilts from the farm B by 38 days on average. The analysis also indicates that there was no significant difference in length of gestation, total number of piglets and numbers of live-born and reared piglets between the sows of the evaluated farms. A highly statistically significant difference (P ≤ 0.01 was found in number of stillborn piglets. Interval length was significantly longer (P ≤ 0.05 in sows from the farm A, by 14.29 days. The evaluation of losses of piglets revealed a significant difference (P ≤ 0.05 between the farms in favor of piglets from the farm A.

  19. Bloqueio do plano transverso abdominal contínuo bilateral em doente com cirurgia abdominal prévia

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    Isabel Flor de Lima

    2013-10-01

    Full Text Available Os autores apresentam um caso clínico em que foi realizado um bloqueio do plano do músculo transverso abdominal, com colocação de cateter bilateral, para analgesia pós-operatória de laparotomia exploradora, em doente com cirurgia abdominal prévia, insuficiência cardíaca, renal e hepática, em opção à analgesia epidural e aos opioides endovenosos em perfusão.

  20. Generación automática de planos estructurales a través de pcs

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    Chomón Díaz, Jesús

    1991-12-01

    Full Text Available This is a brief description of the evolution, of sofware as well as hardware, in the world of personal computer, PC. It has thoroughly put into practice the automatic generation of drawings using this equipment, emphasizing in the software, data input moduli, calculations, reinforcement and drawing. In the last item it's deepened for Autocad specifically and it has explained the DXF files generation. Attached are two addenda, with the programs made in QuickBasic, for the generation of a drawing library, and another program of automatic output of a group of drawings to a plotter. In the same way are presented some examples of printer and plotter out-puts.

    Se realiza una breve descripción de la evolución, tanto en el aspecto del software como del hardware, en el mundo del ordenador personal, el PC. Se define como perfectamente realizable la generación automática de planos utilizando estos equipos, haciendo hincapié en el aspecto del software, módulos de entrada de datos, cálculo, armado y dibujo. Sobre este último se profundiza, para el caso específico de Autocad, y se explica la generación de ficheros DXF. Se acompañan dos anexos, con la programación realizada en QuickBasic, para la generación de una librería de dibujo y de un programa de volcado automático de una serie de planos a plotter. Igualmente se presentan ejemplos de salida impresa de ordenador y plotter

  1. Generación automática de planos estructurales a través de pcs

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    Chomón Díaz, Jesús; Gómez López, Eduardo

    1991-01-01

    Se realiza una breve descripción de la evolución, tanto en el aspecto del software como del hardware, en el mundo del ordenador personal, el PC. Se define como perfectamente realizable la generación automática de planos utilizando estos equipos, haciendo hincapié en el aspecto del software, módulos de entrada de datos, cálculo, armado y dibujo. Sobre este último se profundiza, para el caso específico de Autocad, y se explica la generación de ficheros DXF. Se acompañan dos anexos, con la p...

  2. O Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação: análise do projeto do MEC The Education Development Plan (EDP: analysis of the project of the Ministry of Education (MEC

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    Dermeval Saviani

    2007-10-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo se propõe a analisar globalmente a proposta do MEC, visando responder à seguinte pergunta: Em que medida esse novo plano se revela efetivamente capaz de enfrentar a questão da qualidade do ensino das escolas de educação básica? Para tanto, serão considerados os seguintes pontos: 1. A configuração do PDE, procurando entender sua composição e identificar cada uma das 30 ações em que ele se desdobra; 2. Análise da singularidade do plano em confronto com os planos anteriores, em especial com o vigente Plano Nacional de Educação; 3. A singularidade do PDE diante do problema da qualidade da educação básica; 4. As bases de sustentação do plano, visando verificar o grau em que está apto a assegurar a qualidade da educação básica; 5. Finalmente, à guisa de conclusão, sugere-se um caminho para superar as limitações do PDE.This article seeks to analyze globally the proposal of the Ministry of Education (MEC by answering the following question: to what extent is this new Plan effectively able to face the quality problem of basic education?* It thus explores the following elements: 1. The edp framework, in order to understand its composition and identify each one of the 30 actions in which it is divided; 2. An analysis of the singularity of this plan compared to the previous one, especially the current National Education Plan; 3. The singularity of the edp when faced with the problem of the quality of basic education; 4. The foundations of the plan, by verifying to what extent it is apt to ensure the quality of basic education; 5. Finally, as a conclusion, a way to overcome the limitations of the edp is suggested.

  3. Implantes mamarios en el plano subfascial en reemplazo del bolsillo subglandular: un cambio lógico Breast implants in the subfascial plane in replacement of the subglandular pocket: a logical change

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    O.D. Ventura

    2006-03-01

    Full Text Available Desde 1999 hemos cambiado el plano subglandular del bolsillo de los implantes mamarios por el plano subfascial (subaponeurótico. Este plano se halla por debajo de la fascia aponeurótica del músculo pectoral mayor, serrato, oblicuo lateral y recto anterior. Este artículo considera 150 casos implantados en este plano (subfascial. Se utilizaron prótesis de superficie texturada. El abordaje fue por una incisión periareolar inferior. En todos los pacientes se consiguió una excelente cobertura del implante, al igual que una forma y movilidad natural. En ningún caso se observó el desagradable ondulado de cuadrantes superiores, conocido como rippling. Cuatro de ellos presentaron procesos capsulares contráctiles grado II de Baker (2,6%. En el postoperatorio inmediato se registró menor edema y una recuperación más rápida de lo habitual, de acuerdo a nuestra experiencia con los otros procedimientos (submuscular y subglandular. Cuando la elección del bolsillo es subglandular, el plano subfascial parecería ser el lugar lógico de la colocación de los implantes mamarios.Since 1999, the subglandular plane of the pocket has been substituted in our practise for the subfascial (subaponeurotic plane in breast implants. This plane lies underneath the aponeurotic fascia of the pectoralis major , the serratus, the lateral oblique and the rectus anterior muscles. This article describes 150 patients with implants in the subaponeurotic plane and textured surface. Patients were approached through an inferior periareolar incision. Excellent coverage of the implant, as well as natural shape and mobility were achieved in all patients. No ondulation (rippling in the upper half of the breast has been observed. Four patients (2,6% had Baker grade II capsular contracture. In the immediate post-op, less edema and faster-than-usual recovery could be seen versus our experience with other (submuscular and subglandular procedures. When a subglandular pocket is the

  4. Implementação e avaliação de um plano de ensino para a auto-irrigação de colostomia: estudo de caso Plano de enseñanza para la auto-irrigación de la colostomía: estudio de caso Implementation and evaluation of a teaching plan for the auto-irrigation of colostomy: a case study

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    Idevânia Geraldina Costa

    2004-06-01

    Full Text Available Tendo como objetivos descrever e avaliar a implementação de um plano de ensino para a auto-irrigação da colostomia e relatar as percepções dos colostomizados relacionadas à auto-irrigação, este estudo de caso foi desenvolvido no ambulatório de colostomia do Hospital Universitário Júlio Müler, do município de Cuiabá, no período de fevereiro a março de 1997. O plano de ensino proposto favoreceu a esses colostomizados a aprendizagem quanto à técnica de irrigação e a reinserção social.Con la finalidad de describir y evaluar la implementación de un plano de enseñanza para preparar al colostomizado para la auto-irrigación y relatar las percepciones de pacientes colostomizados sobre auto-irrigación, este estudio de caso fue desarrollado en el ambulatorio de colostomía del Hospital Universitario Julio Müler del municipio de Cuiaba, en el periodo de febrero a marzo de 1997. El plano de enseñanza propuesto ayudó a estos colostomizados en el aprendizaje de la técnica de irrigación y la reinserción social.With a view to describing and evaluating the implementation of a teaching plan for the auto-irrigation of colostomy and reporting on the perceptions of colostomized patients related to auto-irrigation, this case study was developed at the colostomy out-patient clinic of the Júlio Müller University Hospital, Cuiabá, Brazil, from February to March 1997. The teaching plan helped the patients to learn about the irrigation technique and social rehabilitation.

  5. Uz nestriktas loģikas balstīta lēmumu pieņemšanas sistēma biznesa spēlēs

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    Vitkovska, Diāna

    2015-01-01

    Darbs ir veltīts uz nestriktās loģikas balstītas lēmumu pieľemšanas sistēmas pielietojumam stratēģiju izvēlei biznesa spēlēs. Darbā tika aplūkotas divu personu spēles kā matemātiskais modelis divu uzľēmumu konkurences analīzei. Tika aprakstīta stratēģiju izvēles metode, kas balstās uz nestriktās secinājumu sistēmas, izmanto sistēmas nestrikto ieejas un izejas mainīgo lingvistiskās vērtības un lēmumu pieľemšanas kārtulas un tiek īstenota programmatūras Matlab vidē. Šādas metodes efektivitāte i...

  6. Ana?lisis cinemático de la marcha en pacientes con pie zambo tratados mediante el me?todo de Ponseti frente a la te?cnica quiru?rgica de liberacio?n posterior

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    Ferrando, A.; Salom Taverner, M.; Page, A.

    2018-01-01

    El objetivo principal de este proyecto consiste en valorar la evolución de la marcha en niños en edad preadolescente tratados mediante el método de Ponseti frente a los tratados mediante liberación posterior a partir de técnicas de valoración de la marcha mediante análisis biomecánico. Material y Métodos Estudio retrospectivo de casos y controles aprobado por el comité de ética. Grupo 1: 28 niños (39 pies) tratados mediante liberación posterior. Grupo 2: 18 pacientes (31 pies) tratados median...

  7. Lead exposure and biological effects in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) before and after the closure of a lead mine in northern Sweden

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    Berglund, A.M.M.; Ingvarsson, P.K.; Danielsson, H.; Nyholm, N.E.I.

    2010-01-01

    Mining activities affect the surrounding environment by increasing exposure to metals. In this study, metal accumulation and its effects on reproduction and health of pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) nestlings were monitored before and up to five years after a lead mine and enrichment plant closed down. The lead concentration in moss, nestling blood, liver and feces all indicated decreased lead exposure by at least 31% after closure, although only blood lead decreased significantly. Although the birds responded fairly well to the changed atmospheric deposition (based on moss samples), concentrations were still higher compared with birds in a reference area, and breeding was affected at the mine (smaller clutches and higher mortality). Surviving nestlings suffered from lower hemoglobin levels, mean cell hemoglobin concentrations and inhibited δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase activity. Lead poisoning contributed to poor health and adverse reproductive effects, but other factors (e.g. increased parasitic load) probably also affected the birds. - Increased mortality and lower blood values in pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) nestlings near a closed lead mine.

  8. Opiniões dos adolescentes do ensino médio sobre o relacionamento familiar e seus planos para o futuro

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    Elisângela Maria Machado Pratta

    2007-04-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo objetivou levantar pontos positivos e negativos do relacionamento familiar segundo a opinião de adolescentes usuários e não usuários de substâncias psicoativas, bem como identificar os planos que esses grupos apresentam para o futuro. Participaram 568 adolescentes que responderam a um questionário de auto-preenchimento. As análises envolveram a descrição da distribuição das variáveis e a aplicação do teste qui-quadrado. Os resultados mostraram que, no que se refere aos pontos positivos e negativos do relacionamento familiar, foram destacados aspectos referentes à "dinâmica familiar". Quanto aos pontos negativos, no grupo de adolescentes que já utilizaram ou utilizam drogas, o principal tema foi a "falta de diálogo" na família. Por fim, os principais planos para o futuro que os adolescentes de ambos os grupos apresentaram envolvem questões referentes à família e à preparação e atuação profissional. Esses dados fornecem informações relevantes para o planejamento de estratégias preventivas ao uso de drogas na adolescência.

  9. FLUXOS DE CAPITAL NO BRASIL PÃS-PLANO REAL

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    Horst Dieter Möller

    2004-12-01

    Full Text Available O trabalho focaliza os fluxos de capital no Brasil pós-Plano Real sob os problemas da globalização financeira para mercados emergentes. A volatilidade dos fluxos de capital no Brasil sob crises cambiais e bancárias em mercados emergentes, começando com a crise mexicana em 1994/95, é analisada sob as perspectivas de ocorrências de reversões expressivas em tempos de crise e da influência das reversões sobre a eclosão das crises no Brasil. A análise econométrica mostra que a volatilidade dos fluxos de capital é diferente em seus segmentos, maior no segmento dos outros investimentos e nos investimentos em carteira do que nos investimentos diretos. Houve também reversões significativas em todos os segmentos em conseqüência das crises. Nesse sentido, os fluxos de capital trazem, em geral, benefícios para a economia nacional, mas podem também piorar expressivamente a situação econômica do país em tempos de crise.

  10. UMA ANÁLISE DO PROCESSO DE ELABORAÇÃO DO PLANO MUNICIPAL DE EDUCAÇÃO DE RIO CLARO-SP

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    Mariana Aparecida da SIlva

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available O Plano Municipal de Educação (PME é um importante instrumento que serve como guia de ação para o governo em oposição à imprevisibilidade. Ele deve expressar as diretrizes, as metas e os meios pelos quais o objetivos serão atingidos durante sua vigência, como as estratégias e as formas de colaboração dos entes federados, além do monitoramento e das avaliações constantes de sua implementação. O presente trabalho tem como objeto de análise o PME de Rio Claro (SP. De cunho qualitativo teve como objetivo acompanhar o processo de elaboração do PME como instrumento de política educacional, por meio da análise bibliográfica e documental. Fundamenta-se na pesquisa de mestrado intitulada Plano Municipal de Educação de Rio Claro – SP: desafios e perspectivas na garantia do direito à educação. A produção acadêmica, mais diretamente ligada ao objeto de pesquisa, e as obras que puderam elucidar o contexto socioeconômico e político do país, em suas relações com o contexto global, serviram de suporte para a análise dos dados documentais. A primeira parte do artigo revê as concepções de planos que perpassaram nossa história política educacional, evidenciando a importância do planejamento de políticas públicas enquanto política de Estado. A segunda procurou rastrear a construção do PME, desde sua deflagração, passando pela primeira versão do documento (elaborado coletivamente e sistematizado por uma Comissão, até a segunda versão (revisada pelo Conselho Municipal de Educação de Rio Claro.

  11. Estudo de satisfação dos beneficiários de planos de saúde de hospitais filantrópicos Consumer satisfaction study in philanthropic hospital health plans

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    Silvia Gerschman

    2007-04-01

    Full Text Available Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa que tem por objetivo identificar e analisar os argumentos e raciocínios que justificam a satisfação dos beneficiários com os planos. A metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa utilizada no estudo se baseia na técnica de discussão em grupo (focus group para cuja realização foram definidos: os critérios para a escolha dos planos analisados pelos grupos de discussão, a definição da distribuição e da composição dos grupos, a técnica de recrutamento, a infra-estrutura e a dinâmica dos encontros. Os beneficiários podem ser classificados em grupos de acordo com a classe social que pertencem, o local de moradia e, principalmente, a relação que estabelecem com a administração do plano, o que nos possibilitou elaborar uma tipologia de beneficiários dos planos. Inicialmente, apresentamos como os beneficiários vêem e utilizam o SUS e, a partir dos tipos de planos, foi possível avaliarmos a satisfação dos beneficiários com os diversos aspectos do serviço de saúde e identificar que aspectos mais contribuem para a satisfação dos usuários.This paper presents the findings of research aimed at identifying and analyzing the argumentation and rationale that justify the satisfaction of consumers with their health plans. The qualitative method applied used the focus group technique, for which the following aspects were defined: the criteria for choosing the health plans which were considered, the composition of the group and its distribution, recruitment strategy, and infrastructure and dynamics of the meetings. The health plan beneficiaries were classified into groups according to their social class, the place where they lived, mainly, the relationship that they established with the health plan operators which enabled us to develop a typology for the plan beneficiaries. Initially, we indicated how the health plan beneficiaries assess and use the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS, and, then

  12. Actividades prácticas del grupo GEIO automatizadas en la Celda Manufactura Flexible

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    Carlos Mauricio Zuluaga-Ramírez

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    Full Text Available El artículo expone los resultados de un proyecto que buscó la articulación de las investigaciones realizadas por el Laboratorio de Manufactura Flexible y el Grupo en la Enseñanza de la Investigación de Operaciones GEIO, pertenecientes a la Facultad de Ingeniería Industria de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira. Su objetivo principal consistió en permitir a los estudiantes la utilización de espacios de investigación en donde se pudieran generar trabajos para facilitar la interrelación y aplicación de conceptos vistos en diversas materias. Para alcanzar el objetivo, se hizo una adaptación de las lúdicas generadas desde el grupo GEIO, a través de la utilización de los centros automatizados y el software especializado del laboratorio de manufactura flexible, creando así prácticas en donde se unieron de forma sistémica los beneficios brindados desde la lúdica, como son aplicación, contextualización, vivencia de conceptos y los ofrecidos por la celda de manufactura flexible como la automatización de procesos, manejo del lenguaje de programación y uso de tecnologías para mejorar los sistemas productivos. La integración de estos espacios generadores de conocimiento aportó a la formación de competencias técnicas en los estudiantes de Ingeniería Industrial, ya que pudieron tomar un proceso productivo básico poco automatizado, proveniente de un micromundo generado a través de la lúdica y llevarlo a un plano profesional y tecnológico, mecanizándolo con el uso de maquinaria y herramienta especializada empleada en las industrias reales.

  13. Contribución a la Síntesis Dimensional de Mecanismos Planos para Generación de Trayectoria

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    2000-01-01

    En este trabajo se han analizado por separado los elementos que definen el problema de sintesis dimensional óptima de mecanismos planos para generacion de trayectoria. Se ha contribuido a la normalización de proposición de funciones objetivo mediante el enunciado de requisitos que deben cumplir.Se ha propuesto la comparación geométrica de las curvas como función objetivo y se han elaborado métodos discretos. Asimismo se ha utilizado un método de optimización combinado exhaustivo-gradiante que...

  14. Comparison of ATF and TJ-II stellarator equilibria as computed by the 3-D VMEC and PIES codes

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    Johnson, J.L.; Monticello, D.A.; Reiman, A.H.; Hirshman, S.P.

    1992-01-01

    A comparison is made of results from the PIES code, which determines the equilibrium properties of three-dimensional toroidal configurations by direct integration along the magnetic field lines, with those from the VMEC code, which uses an energy minimization in a flux representation to determine the equilibrium configuration, for two devices: the ATF stellarator at Oak Ridge and the TJ-11 heliac which is being built in Madrid. The results obtained from the two codes are in good agreement, providing additional validation for the codes

  15. Saúde coletiva nos cursos de Nutrição: análise de projetos político-pedagógicos e planos de ensino

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    Elisabetta Recine

    2014-12-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar os conteúdos dos planos de ensino das disciplinas da área de Nutrição em Saúde Coletiva, bem como os projetos político-pedagógicos de cursos de Nutrição no Brasil.Métodos: Trata-se de estudo qualitativo, exploratório, de base documental, utilizando-se técnica do software Alceste(r no corpus gerado pelos documentos analisados.Resultados: A partir dos 392 cursos de Nutrição existentes no Brasil em 2010, foram analisados 46 projetos político-pedagógicos e 517 planos de ensino de disciplinas em saúde coletiva. Na análise dos projetos político-pedagógicos foram consideradas três categorias: competências esperadas; ações no cuidado nutricional e operacionalização do curso, esta última correspondente a 75,5% do conteúdo. Já na análise dos planos de ensino foram classificadas as seguintes categorias: avaliação nutricional, clínica e dietoterapia no curso da vida; epidemiologia nutricional e vigilância em saúde; educação nutricional e comunicação; formação para atuação profissional; e cultura e ciências sociais. A primeira dessas categorias, correspondente a 34,2% do conteúdo, representa um dos eixos do corpus: portanto, a que compõe mais fortemente a disposição dos elementos. Essa categoria demonstrou abordar temas distantes daqueles tratados pelas demais. O outro eixo, das demais classes, estabeleceu associação menos distante no plano entre elementos, refletindo existir alguma ligação entre o que é explicitado e objetivos, conteúdos e processo de formação que correlacionam alimentação ao contexto social e à prática profissional.Conclusão: A distância dos conteúdos analisados indica uma dicotomia ao se descreverem objetivos, competências e prática profissional, apontando a insuficiência na articulação entre os elementos biológicos, as práticas sociais e a formação profissional.

  16. Plano de análise estatística para o Alveolar Recruitment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Trial (ART. Ensaio controlado randomizado

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    Lucas Petri Damiani

    Full Text Available RESUMO Fundamentação: O estudo Alveolar Recruitment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Trial (ART é um ensaio clínico internacional, multicêntrico, randomizado, pragmático e controlado com ocultação da alocação que envolve 120 unidades de terapia intensiva no Brasil, Argentina, Colômbia, Espanha, Itália, Polônia, Portugal, Malásia e Uruguai, com o objetivo primário de determinar se o recrutamento alveolar gradual máximo associado com titulação da pressão positiva expiratória final, ajustada segundo a complacência estática do sistema respiratório (estratégia ART, é capaz de aumentar, quando comparada aos resultados do tratamento convencional (estratégia ARDSNet, a sobrevivência em 28 dias de pacientes com síndrome do desconforto respiratório agudo. Objetivo: Descrever o processo de gerenciamento dos dados e o plano de análise estatística em um ensaio clínico internacional. Métodos: O plano de análise estatística foi delineado pelo comitê executivo e revisado pelo comitê diretivo do ART. Foi oferecida uma visão geral do delineamento do estudo, com foco especial na descrição de desfechos primário (sobrevivência aos 28 dias e secundários. Foram descritos o processo de gerenciamento dos dados, o comitê de monitoramento de dados, a análise interina e o cálculo do tamanho da amostra. Também foram registrados o plano de análise estatística para os desfechos primário e secundários, e os subgrupos de análise pré-especificados. Detalhes para apresentação dos resultados, inclusive modelos de tabelas para as características basais, adesão ao protocolo e efeito nos desfechos clínicos, foram fornecidos. Conclusão: Em acordo com as melhores práticas em ensaios clínicos, submetemos nossos planos de análise estatística e de gerenciamento de dados para publicação antes do fechamento da base de dados e início das análises. Antecipamos que este documento deve prevenir viés em análises e

  17. Inferred residual gaps for IFA-527 rods, compared to PIE measurements

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    Lanning, D.D.

    1983-05-01

    The NRC-sponsored assembly IFA-527 contained six xenon-filled rods, each instrumented with fuel thermocouples at each end. Five of the six rods contained stable UO 2 fuel pellets with a fabricated diametral gap size of 230 microns. The rods were unique among instrumented test rods in that their lifetime peak powers were quite low (less than 20 kW/m). The assembly was removed at low exposure (about 2 MWd/kgM) due to pressure seal failures. The prefailure measured fuel temperatures in the five identical rods were quite similar, and indicated an effective fuel relocation of about 30 to 35 percent of the as-fabricated gap. Examination of rod cross sections in PIE, however, reveals virtually no reduction in the as-fabricated gap. In an attempt to reconcile these two observations, it is demonstrated that pellet eccentricity could account for the inferred effective relocation for these xenon-filled rods. That analysis is extended to an estimate of the proper effective relocation value for low-powered He-filled rods

  18. PepsiCo un to piedāvāto produktu virzišanai izmantoto mārketinga komunikāciju pilnveidošanas iespējas.

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    Bičihina, Justīne

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    Bakalaura darba „PepsiCo un to piedāvāto produktu virzīšanai izmantoto mārketinga komunikāciju pilnveidošanas iespējas” mērķis ir - pamatojoties uz teorētiskām atziņām un autores veiktā pētījuma rezultātiem, izpētīt uzņēmuma darbību un tā izmantotos mārketinga komunikāciju veidus, ņemot vēra PepsiCo plašo zīmolu produktu skaitu, ko piedāvā uzņēmums, kā arī atklāt nepilnības un sniegt priekšlikumus to novēršanai. Darbs sastāv no teorētiskās daļas, kas ietver mārketinga komunikāciju uzskaiti un...

  19. Estudio preliminar. Patologías digitales más frecuentes en el pie de la bailaora de flamencoe

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    José Manuel Castillo López; Joaquín Pérez Rendón; Cristina Algaba Guisado

    2010-01-01

    Este estudio tiene como objetivos, en primer lugar, dar a conocer las principales deformidades digitales de los pies, asociadas -por su alta incidencia- a la práctica profesional del baile flamenco femenino. Así como, poner de manifiesto la necesidad de llevar a cabo estudios de mayor magnitud para determinar si existe una relación estadísticamente significativa entre la práctica del baile flamenco con las deformidades y patologías podológicas descritas, y la importancia de la investigación e...

  20. DA TRAGÉDIA URBANA À FARSA DO URBANISMO REFORMISTA: a fetichização dos planos diretores participativos

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    CARLOS FREDERICO LAGO BURNETT

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    Nos anos 80, como reação às desigualdades sócio-espaciais das cidades brasileiras, o projeto da Reforma Urbana logrou unificar, em torno de um movimento por política urbana igualitária e distributiva, intelectuais da Academia e entidades da organização popular. Parcialmente reconhecido pela Constituição Federal de 1988, o ideário da Reforma Urbana ficou subordinado ao planejamento urbano, pois o Plano Diretor foi declarado instrumento maior da política urbana municipal. Inic...

  1. Letalidade e internacoes de pacientes em hemodialise em plano de saude

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    Sergio Adriano Loureiro Bersan

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Analisar desfechos clínicos de pacientes incidentes em hemodiálise vinculados a operadora de plano de saúde. MÉTODOS: Estudo de coorte de incidentes em hemodiálise em Belo Horizonte, MG, de 2004 a 2008, a partir de registros no banco de dados de operadora de planos de saúde. Variáveis independentes: sexo, idade, tempo entre primeira consulta com nefrologista e início da hemodiálise, tipo do primeiro acesso vascular, diabetes mellitus, tempo de permanência hospitalar/ano de tratamento e óbito. Variáveis dependentes: tempo entre início da hemodiálise e óbito e tempo de permanência hospitalar/ano de tratamento > 7,5 dias. Análise estatística: teste Qui-quadrado de Pearson na análise univariada para os desfechos óbito e tempo de permanência hospitalar/ano de tratamento; método de Kaplan-Meier para análise de sobrevida; modelo de Cox e regressão Poisson para risco de óbito e chance de tempo de permanência hospitalar/ano de tratamento > 7,5 dias. Foi utilizada ferramenta de Business Intelligence para extração dos dados e software Stata(r 10.0. RESULTADOS: Estudados 311 indivíduos em hemodiálise, 55,5% homens, média de 62 anos (dp: 16,6 anos. A prevalência aumentou 160% no período estudado. Na análise de sobrevivência a mortalidade foi maior entre os mais idosos, nos que não realizaram consulta com nefrologista, fizeram uso de cateter vascular temporário como primeiro acesso, com diabetes mellitus, nos que foram internados no mesmo mês do início da hemodiálise. No modelo de Cox associaram-se a maior risco para óbito a idade avançada, diabetes mellitus, não realizar consulta prévia com nefrologista e internar-se no primeiro mês de hemodiálise. Maior tempo de permanência hospitalar/ano de tratamento não se associou ao sexo e diabetes. As variáveis não foram significativas na regressão Poisson. CONCLUSÕES: A avaliação pelo especialista antes do início da hemodiálise diminui o risco de

  2. Coalizões em educação no Brasil: relação com o governo e influência sobre o Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação (PDE

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    Lara Elena Ramos Simielli

    2013-06-01

    Full Text Available Atualmente, duas coalizões lutam pela melhoria da qualidade da educação no Brasil: a Campanha Nacional pelo Direito à Educação e o Todos pela Educação. Essas duas coalizões diferenciam-se dos movimentos históricos por sua capacidade de agregar atores provenientes de instituições governamentais e não governamentais, de diversos níveis, que possuem valores e crenças comuns em uma aliança única, aproximando-se do conceito de coalizões advocatórias proposto por Sabatier e Jenkins-Smith (1993. Apesar da bandeira comum, elas possuem origens, composições, metas e formas de atuação completamente diferentes - a relação com o governo é um dos pontos que mais as diferencia. O lançamento do Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação (PDE, com uma das medidas intitulada "Plano de Metas Compromisso Todos pela Educação", gerou questionamentos com relação à similaridade dos nomes entre um plano de governo e uma das coalizões. Neste artigo, apresentaremos as duas coalizões e a relação de ambas com o governo, utilizando o PDE como estudo de caso.

  3. Inovação aberta na gestão pública: análise do plano de ação brasileiro para a Open Government Partnership

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    Rony Klay Viana de Freitas

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo objetivou analisar o Plano de Ação brasileiro para o Governo Aberto, baseado na teoria da inovação aberta na gestão pública. Utilizou-se de uma pesquisa documental, com vistas a aprofundar o conhecimento do fenômeno em questão. O documento foi escolhido intencionalmente, por ser exemplo basilar das políticas públicas relacionadas à inovação aberta brasileira. Os resultados mostram que os compromissos firmados pelo governo brasileiro estão consoantes com o processo de inovação aberta pública. As ações previstas no Plano estão especificamente relacionadas a transparência, abertura de dados e preparação do corpo estatal para o processo aberto de inovação.

  4. Conocimientos y conductas de los pacientes con diabetes mellitus sobre el pie diabético Knowledge and behaviors of the patients with diabetes mellitus in relation to the diabetic foot

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    Ulises de Jesús Gallardo Pérez

    2008-03-01

    Full Text Available Se identificaron los conocimientos y conductas de los pacientes con diabetes mellitus sobre el pie diabético. Se realizó un estudio cualitativo en 2 consultorios del Policlínico "Hermanos Ruíz Aboy", del municipio San Miguel del Padrón. Se ejecutaron 4 grupos focales, con un total de 28 participantes de ambos sexos, entre 50 y 80 años de edad. La mayoría de los pacientes mostró falta de conocimientos sobre la definición de pie diabético y sus factores de riesgo. Los pacientes realizan un autocuidado insuficiente de sus pies y asumen conductas de riesgo por la falta de educación. Consideramos importante reforzar el componente educativo en la atención integral de los pacientes con diabetes mellitus para elevar su nivel de conocimientos, crear hábitos saludables y evitar la aparición del pie diabético. La técnica del grupo focal constituyó un instrumento rápido y efectivo para la obtención de información.The knowledge and behavior of the patients with diabetes mellitus in connection with the diabetic foot were identified. A qualitative study was conducted in 2 family physician's offices of "Hermanos Ruíz Aboy" Polyclinic of San Miguel del Padrón municipality. 4 focal groups were selected with a total of 28 participants aged 50-80 of both sexes. Most of the patients lacked knowledge to define the diabetic foot and its risk factors. The patients' self-care of their feet is insufficient and they assume risk conducts due to their deficient education. It is important to reinforce the educative component in the comprehensive attention of the patients with diabetes mellitus to raise their knowledge level, to create healthy habits and to prevent the appearance of diabetic foot. The focal group technique is a rapid and effective tool to obtain information.

  5. Mamoplastia de aumento en doble plano: una alternativa subfascial en la optimización de las indicaciones Breast augmentation in dual plane: a subfascial alternative towards optimizing indications

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    O. D. Ventura

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Proponemos el Doble Plano en la cirugía de aumento mamario como una alternativa a las indicaciones de uso del plano subfascial. Presentamos 30 casos en los que se utilizan variantes de la técnica en doble plano y discutimos sus indicaciones y ventajas a la vez que describimos detalles de la técnica. Este método consiste en crear un bolsillo donde el implante queda cubierto por el músculo pectoral solamente en su tercio superior y por la fascia en el resto. Las proporciones de estos componentes se ajustan según las características anatómicas de cada caso. Las indicaciones de la técnica son las mamoplastias primarias, y más específicamente, las secundarias con ptosis, encapsulamiento o ripling.We propose Dual Plane tecnique in augmentative mammoplasty as an alternative for individual adjustment when using the subfascial plane. Thirty cases are presented in which a variation of the dual plane technique is used. Its indications, advantages and surgical highpoints are discussed. This method consists on a pocket where the implant is covered by the pectoral muscle only on its upper pole, and by the fascia on the rest of it. The percentages of this components are adjusted to the anatomical characteristics of each case. Indications of this technique are primary mammoplasties, and more precisely secondary ones with ptosis, contractile capsule or ripling.

  6. Plano X mercado na história do pensamento econômico: quatro rodadas de um grande debate

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    Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque

    2008-01-01

    Full Text Available A bancarrota das burocracias do Leste Europeu contribuiu para uma retomada de debates em torno da possibilidade (ou impossibilidade de uma transição ao socialismo. O objetivo deste artigo é resenhar os aspectos principais de quatro rodadas: o debate do cálculo econômico no socialismo (Barone, Mises, Hayek e Lange; plano e mercado na industrialização na Rússia (Preobrazhesnky e Bukarin; plano, mercado e democracia na crise da URSS (Nove, Mandel e Elson e socialismo de mercado (Roemer, Wright. Essa resenha busca uma avaliação sintética das contribuições específicas de cada rodada para uma elaboração acadêmica atual sobre o tema. Na conclusão, esse balanço é articulado com possíveis linhas de investigação que poderiam contribuir para uma elaboração contemporânea.The collapse of USSR has stimulated a huge scholarly debate on socialist alternatives. This paper surveys four rounds of the debate on market and planning in the transition towards socialism: the socialist calculation debate (Barone, Mises, Lange and Hayek, market and plan in the Soviet industrialization (Preobrazhesnky and Bukharin, plan, market and democracy in the USSR’s crisis (Nove, Mandel and Elson and market socialism (Roemer, Wright. This survey summarizes the specific contributions of each round. The concluding section suggests a research agenda for a contemporary elaboration on this subject. This elaboration includes both these lessons and the structural changes within the capitalist system.

  7. Planos diretores: o caminho para o desenvolvimento sustentável das cidades

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    Alexsandro da Miranda

    2013-11-01

    Full Text Available Os Planos Diretores efetivam a existência de uma legislação geral estabelecendo as normas necessárias à implementação de políticas urbanas, previstas na Constituição Federal e no Estatuto da Cidade (Lei Federal 10.257/2001 e que em seu foco principal está o desenvolvimento e a expansão urbana.  Assim, o presente artigo aborda uma breve discussão teórica do tema, suas problemáticas e contextualizações na perspectiva de fundamentá-las à luz das teorias existentes. Três principais diretrizes devem ser destacadas: o desenvolvimento sustentável, a gestão democrática da cidade e o planejamento do desenvolvimento das cidades, onde os municípios, devem, portanto, utilizar as diretrizes e instrumentos do Estatuto da Cidade com o objetivo de estabelecer as regras que propiciem o pleno desenvolvimento econômico, social, ambiental e sustentável, com vistas a garantir o direito à cidade para todos os que nela vivem.

  8. Metodologia para estimativa do potencial de conservação de energia eletrica residencial pelo uso de coletores solares planos em uma região e sua aplicação na cidade de Campinas

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    Marco Vinicio Yanez Salcedo

    2002-01-01

    Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma metodologia que permite fazer uma estimativa do potencial de conservação de energia elétrica em uma região pelo uso de coletores solares planos para aquecimento de água residencial. A metodologia utiliza basicamente índices sócio-econômicos e climatológicos, assim como também a aplicação de questionários nos setores envolvidos (fabricantes, distribuidores e consumidores de coletores solares planos) e técnicas básicas de amostragem. A partir do número d...

  9. Plano municipal de gestão integrada de resíduos sólidos no município de Araraquara-SP: formulação e implementação

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    Audrey Moretti Martins

    2017-11-01

    Full Text Available A Lei 12.305, promulgada em 02 de agosto de 2010, surge como um marco regulatório junto às questões de resíduos sólidos no Brasil. Ela designou aos municípios a elaboração de planos de gestão de resíduos na tentativa de solucionar os problemas até então enfrentados pela administração local. Contudo, notada as variadas dificuldades municipais em atender as exigências da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (PNRS, o artigo visa analisar o caso do município de Araraquara-SP, por meio da investigação de seu Plano Municipal de Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Sólidos (PMGIRS sob a ótica do cumprimento do Artigo 19 da PNRS, que compreende o conteúdo mínimo dos planos municipais, bem como a aplicação da Matriz SWOT com base em entrevistas com gestores do Departamento Autônomo de Água e Esgotos (DAAE e Cooperativa Acácia, principais órgãos envolvidos na gestão de resíduos sólidos do município. Tais procedimentos tiveram como objetivo contribuir com a construção do cenário local de resíduos sólidos em Araraquara. Resultados evidenciam que o município organizou um estudo nos moldes do Artigo 19 em seu PMGIRS, fixando diretrizes e metas para cada tipo de resíduo sólido encontrado no território. Indicadores apontam que Araraquara, com o passar dos anos, vem se adequando aos preceitos da PNRS e apesar da infraestrutura básica já instalada, o município precisa expandir os investimentos se deseja cumprir as metas declaradas no plano, bem como promover o aprimoramento, modernização e integração do sistema municipal de resíduos sólidos.

  10. Sindicalismo, SUS e planos de saúde Trade unionism, Unified Health System (SUS and private health insurance

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    José Augusto Pina

    2006-09-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo discute a interlocução do sindicalismo brasileiro com o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS e os planos e seguros privados de saúde. São ponderadas algumas teses na Saúde Coletiva à luz de estudos mais recentes nas Ciências Sociais sobre o sindicalismo e realizada análise documental para o caso da Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT, tomado aqui como referência. Aponta-se a necessidade de considerar os pesos relativos que a ação sindical atribuiu a cada um dos aspectos da relação, SUS e planos privados de saúde, pelas distintas conjunturas do país. O conflito entre trabalhadores e empresas somado ao desemprego e à precarização do trabalho expõe os limites das coberturas assistenciais privadas e impele a representação sindical a pleitear a intervenção estatal. O trabalho refletiu sobre as distintas modalidades de ação sindical na empresa e no Estado. A complexidade dessa dinâmica fez emergir um setor sindical interessado na gestão da previdência complementar e dos planos de saúde e, ao mesmo tempo, recria as circunstâncias e traz novas possibilidades de as organizações sindicais se colocarem na cena política e aglutinar os interesses de amplos segmentos dos trabalhadores para pressionar o Estado na defesa da melhoria do sistema público de saúde.The article intends to discuss the patterns of interlocution between the Brazilian trade unionism, the public health system (SUS and the private health insurance sector. Some thesis originated in the Public Health area about the subject are debated, in the light of more recent Social Science's studies concerned the Brazilian unionism. It presents a documentary analysis for the case of the largest National Workers Organization, named CUT. The need to discuss the problem in distinct political and economic conjunctures of the country is pointed out. The conflicts between the workers and the companies, added to the unemployment and deregulation of the labor markets

  11. Flexibility.

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    Humphrey, L. Dennis

    1981-01-01

    Flexibility is an important aspect of all sports and recreational activities. Flexibility can be developed and maintained by stretching exercises. Exercises designed to develop flexibility in ankle joints, knees, hips, and the lower back are presented. (JN)

  12. Effect of shed rooftype and babassu pie on the productive characteristics of meat quails

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    Jordane de Oliveira Borges

    2017-08-01

    Full Text Available We aimed to evaluate the effects of shed roof(SR typeand the inclusion of babassu pie (BP in rations on the productive characteristics ofmeat quailsfrom days 14 to 28 and days14 to 40. We studied 896 meatquails. The experimental design was completely randomized with a 4x4 factorial arrangement, using four types of shedroofs (fiber cement, ceramic, straw, and painted fiber cement and four rations (with 0, 5, 10, and 15% inclusion of babassu pie. The performance variables evaluated from 14 to 28 and 14 to 40 days included food intake (FI, g/bird, mean weight gain (WG, g/bird, food conversion (FC, g/g, mean live weight on day 28 (MW28, g/bird, mean live weight on day 40 (MW40, g/bird, and energy efficiency (EF; g Mcal. After slautherthe birds on day 40, we measured the carcass weight (CW and the carcass yield (CY, %, obtained for the breast (BY, legs (LGY, and wings (WINGY. We also obtained the relative weight of the heart (HRW, liver (LRW, gizzard (GRW, and intestine (IRW. To compare the economic efficiency between the experimental rations, we analyzed the cost of ration per kg of carcass (CC and determined the gross margin (GM. Between day 14 and day 28, we found that the use of SR influenced the FI28, WG28, and the MW28 of the quails (p 0.05, but it linearly improved WG28, FC28, MW28, and EF28. Between days 14 and 40, we found that SR influenced the WG40, FC40, MW40, and EF40 of the quails (p < 0.05 and that a BP increased the FI40, WG40, and MW40 in a quadratic manner. SR and BP did not affect the CW, BY, WINGY, LGY, HRW, LRW,or IRW. However, BP influenced MGRW, which increased linearly with the inclusion of BP. We concluded that a ceramic roof provides better environmental conditions than do other shed roofs. The inclusion of BP improved the performance characteristics, and it was technically feasible to include up to 15% BP in the rations of meat quails. Based on the current cost analysis, however, the inclusion of BP is economically

  13. Nonperturbative path integral expansion II

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    Kaiser, H.J.

    1976-05-01

    The Feynman path integral representation of the 2-point function for a self-interacting Bose field is investigated using an expansion ('Path Integral Expansion', PIE) of the exponential of the kinetic term of the Lagrangian. This leads to a series - illustrated by a graph scheme - involving successively a coupling of more and more points of the lattice space commonly employed in the evaluation of path integrals. The values of the individual PIE graphs depend of course on the lattice constant. Two methods - Pade approximation and Borel-type extrapolation - are proposed to extract information about the continuum limit from a finite-order PIE. A more flexible PIE is possible by expanding besides the kinetic term a suitably chosen part of the interaction term too. In particular, if the co-expanded part is a mass term the calculation becomes only slightly more complicated than in the original formulation and the appearance of the graph scheme is unchanged. A significant reduction of the number of graphs and an improvement of the convergence of the PIE can be achieved by performing certain sums over an infinity of graph elements. (author)

  14. Amputación del miembro inferior por pie diabético en hospitales de la costa norte peruana 1990 - 2000: características clínico-epidemiológicas

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    David Escalante Gutiérrez

    2003-07-01

    Full Text Available Objetivo: Identificar las características clínico-epidemiológicas de la amputación del miembro inferior por pie diabético en pacientes de la costa norte peruana durante los años 1990-2000. Materiales y métodos: Estudio descriptivo, retrospectivo, basado en recolección de información de pacientes atendidos en cinco hospitales de cuatro capitales de departamento de la costa norte peruana. Se recolectaron datos demográficos y de la enfermedad (diagnóstico y manejo. Resultados: Se incluyeron 250 pacientes procedentes de: Hospital JAMO de Tumbes 8,4%, Hospital Cayetano Heredia de Piura 40,0%, Hospital Regional Docente Las Mercedes de Lambayeque 18,0%, Hospital Belén 24,4% y Hospital Regional Docente de La Libertad 9,2%. El 61,2% fueron varones y la edad promedio fue 63,5±10 años. El 98,4% presentaron diabetes mellitus tipo 2, 56,5% sufrieron amputaciones mayores (p<0,05 y 10,4% amputaciones mayores secuenciales. El tiempo de reamputación fue ≤ 24 meses en 71,3% (p<0,05. Se identificó estadiaje de pie diabético según Wagner en 44 (11,8%, con un cuarto grado en 45,0%. El tiempo con enfermedad de los pacientes hasta la primera amputación fue entre 11 y 20 años (31,2%, destacando 13,6% casos con pie diabético como primera forma de presentación de DM y 2,5% con sintomatología de larga data pero que carecían de diagnóstico de diabetes mellitus. De las amputaciones, sólo el 8,3% fueron sometidas a debridaciones y el 4,4% a revascularización. Conclusiones: Se encontró una frecuencia importante de pie diabético. Los problemas detectados fueron: carencia de ayuda diagnóstica complementaria, falta de aplicación de procedimientos de salvataje previos a la amputación y no fueron evaluados integralmente los pacientes. Estos problemas deben ser resueltos para mejorar la calidad de vida y reducir las amputaciones innecesarias.

  15. O Planejamento Estratégico sem plano: uma análise do empreendedorismo urbano no Brasil

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    Eugênio Silva

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available O modelo de planejamento estratégico de cidades chega à América Latina, passando a ser adotado em cidades brasileiras, com a formulação de planos estratégicos, desde a década de 1990. Em muitas cidades, porém, o padrão de produção da cidade não se deu de acordo com o modelo adotado internacionalmente, mas desenvolveram uma espécie de “planejamento estratégico sem plano” ou “empreendedorismo periférico”, no qual buscam construir atributos para qualificarem sua inserção no cenário competitivo internacional e regional, através da imitação de outros centros urbanos.

  16. Impacto do Plano Simplificado de Previdência Social sobre as contribuições voluntárias ao sistema de previdência

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    Miguel N. Foguel

    2012-12-01

    Full Text Available Em abril de 2007, com o objetivo de estimular a inserção previdenciária no Brasil, o governo federal apresentou um plano de previdência alternativo para os contribuintes individuais, o Plano Simplificado de Previdência Social (PSPS. Restringindo os optantes a requerem aposentadoria somente pelo critério de idade, o PSPS permite uma redução da alíquota de contribuição de 20% para 11% para os trabalhadores que contribuem voluntariamente sobre um salário mínimo. O principal objetivo deste estudo foi verificar se o PSPS teve algum impacto sobre a probabilidade de os trabalhadores não formais contribuírem para a Previdência Social. Para tanto, utilizou-se uma amostra aleatória do Cadastro Nacional de Informações Sociais (CNIS, uma base de dados administrativa que contém informações sobre a história previdenciária dos trabalhadores. O método empregado para estimar o impacto do PSPS foi o amplamente conhecido método das diferenças-em-diferenças. Os resultados mostram que o PSPS parece ter aumentado a probabilidade de os trabalhadores que contribuem em torno de um salário mínimo realizarem contribuição voluntária à Previdência.

  17. Sociālo tīklu un platformas "Facebook" ietekme uz patērētāja pirkuma lēmuma pieņemšanas procesu.

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    Ķiksis, Kristiāns

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    Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Sociālo tīklu un platformas “Facebook” ietekme uz patērētāja pirkuma lēmuma pieņemšanas procesu”. Veiktā darba mērķis ir izskaidrot, kāpēc, kad un kā sociālie mediji ir ietekmējuši patērētāju lēmumu pieņemšanas procesu. Teorētiskā daļa sastāv no 4 sadaļām- patērētāju uzvedība, sociālie mediji, sociālo mediju ietekme uz patērētājiem, kā arī platformas “Facebook” iespējas. Darbs ietver 4 nodaļas. Bakalaura darba teorētiskajā daļā apkopoti materiāli par patērētāju uzvedī...

  18. Cálculo do índice do arco plantar de staheli e a prevalência de pés planos: estudo em 100 crianças entre 5 e 9 anos de idade

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    Hernandez, Arnaldo José; Kimura, Luiz Koichi; Laraya, Marcos Henrique Ferreira; Fávaro, Edimar

    2007-01-01

    Os autores avaliam 100 crianças normais da população geral de ambos os sexos entre 5 e 9 anos de idade com o objetivo de verificar e avaliar o chamado índice do arco plantar e a ocorrência de pé plano. A avaliação do pé plano o foi feita através da obtenção da impressão plantar e do cálculo do índice do arco plantar (IP) que estabelece a relação entre a região central e posterior dessa impressão, determinando-se um IP médio e um limite para esse tipo de pé. Concluem que o índice do arco plant...

  19. Enfermería: Prevención y Cuidados del Pie Diabético Revisión Bibliográfica

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    Sevillano Gamarra, Laura

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    La diabetes mellitus es una de las enfermedades crónicas más prevalentes e incidentes en el mundo. Una de sus complicaciones más vigentes y que más costos socio-sanitarios acarrea, es el pie diabético que afecta al 15-25% de los pacientes diabéticos; siendo la primera causa de hospitalización, la amputación no traumática del miembro inferior. El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar los factores de riesgo relacionados con las complicaciones de la diabetes mellitus y conocer la función ed...

  20. La cofradía de la Santa Veracruz y los planos arquitectónicos más antiguos de San Luis Potosí: Un ejemplo del corporativismo novohispano a través de la arquitectura

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    El presente artículo discurre por tres ejes fundamentales. El primero de ellos es aportar información obtenida de fuentes primarias, referente a la cofradía de la Santa Veracruz de San Luis Potosí, lo que sirve para dar a conocer y analizar por primera vez los planos arquitectónicos más antiguos (1620) de San Luis Potosí, mismos que hasta ahora estaban inéditos. A la luz de estos planos y su interpretación, se mostrará su relación con el tratado de arquitectura de Sebastián Serlio y de cómo e...

  1. ENSAIO DE GEOGRAFIA FILOSÓFICA: DA CRÍTICA À FRAGMENTAÇÃO GEOGRÁFICA AO PLANO DE UMA HERMENÊUTICA DOS FENÔMENOS TERRESTRES

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    Humberto Goulart Guimarães

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    Full Text Available O trabalho é pautado na passagem da crítica ao plano. No primeiro momento busca-serevelar alguns dos fatos que fragmentaram o objeto da Geografia em três segmentosque não se interconectam pelo método, indicando que três dicotomias básicas formama Geografia do presente: Ser/Devir; Homem/Natureza; e Sujeito/Objeto. Cada umarelacionada com os paradigmas de mudança do método desta ciência levando aoquestionamento da extinção da Geografia, sua descrição pura de conceitos e das"ciências geográficas". O segundo momento ocorre como plano, que busca naproposta de uma Geografia Filosófica enquanto hermenêutica dos fenômenosterrestres. Como metodologia buscou-se a releitura de autores "clássicos" da Geografiamoderna através das categorias e princípios lógicos do método geográfico. O principalobjetivo é contribuir tanto para integração do método geográfico filosófico quantopara a consciência da condição humana terrestre perante as iniquidades vigentes.

  2. Agroindustria azucarera y Anca tradicional en el norte plano del Cauca (Colombia). Perspectivas históricas y claves etnográficas

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    Jaramillo Marín, Jefferson; Londoño Ortiz, Natalia; Sánchez González, Gina

    2015-01-01

    El artículo reflexiona en clave histórica y etnográfica sobre algunas fricciones y articulaciones entre agroindustria azucarera y finca tradicional en el norte plano del departamento del Cauca desde mediados del siglo xx hasta hoy. La perspectiva histórica permite rastrear la consolidación del modelo agroindustrial azucarero en la zona. La lectura etnográfica describe, desde las narrativas de los pobladores, algunos de los conflictos socioambientales que este modelo genera en la finca tradici...

  3. Associations of leisure-time physical activity with balance and lower extremity strength: a validation of the neuromuscular part of the Physical Activity Pie.

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    Lindström, Paula J; Suni, Jaana H; Nygård, Clas-Håkan

    2009-07-01

    The importance of neuromuscular-type exercise (NME) has been recognized in recent recommendations for public health. However, the knowledge on associations and dose response of different types of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) with musculoskeletal fitness and health is incomplete. This study evaluated the validity of the NME recommendation for public health introduced by the Physical Activity Pie. Engagement in LTPA and health-related fitness were assessed in 2 consecutive studies with the same adult population age 30 to 69 years (n = 575). Cross-sectional associations between different LTPA types and motor and musculoskeletal fitness were examined by logistic-regression models. Engagement in NME was associated with good static and dynamic balance and lower extremity strength. The highest odds ratios (OR) were found between brisk NME and static balance (most vs least fit OR = 2.39, moderate vs least fit OR = 1.94) and brisk NME and leg strength (more vs least fit OR = 2.10). Some associations were also found between brisk aerobic exercise and good balance. This cross-sectional study suggests that the recommendation for NME in the Physical Activity Pie is valid in terms of balance and leg strength, the 2 major fitness factors related to mobility functioning, especially among aging adults.

  4. Prevalência de Candida spp e xerostomia em pacientes com líquen plano oral. Um estudo grupo-controle

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    Gabriela Artico

    2011-01-01

    Enquanto lesões cutâneas do líquen plano (LP) são autolimitantes, suas manifestações orais (LPO) têm comportamento crônico, raramente apresentam remissão espontânea, e podem sofrer transformação maligna, embora subsista controvérsia sobre esta ultima questão. A este respeito, alguns autores têm dado ênfase ao envolvimento da Candida spp. na malignização LPO devido à capacidade deste fungo em produzir enzima carcinogênica N-nitrobenzilmetilamina e sua relativa freqüência em lesões LPO. Adicion...

  5. Gestão de Plano de Negócios: estudo de caso para o turismo rural Descobrir o Alentejo

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    Coelho, José Rafael Moita

    2017-01-01

    Este projeto de Turismo Rural denominado “Descobrir o Alentejo” consiste na criação de um espaço de turismo rural através da restauração de uma propriedade familiar centenária. Nestes termos, o presente trabalho tem por objeto a Gestão de um Plano de Negócios com vista a avaliar a viabilidade geral da concretização do Projeto. Pretende-se oferecer um alojamento de qualidade com outros serviços associados, no interior do Baixo Alentejo. Um conceito rural num espaço urbano, ligando o aloj...

  6. Metrología y arquitectura modular en el puerto de La Picola (Santa Pola, Alicante al final del siglo V a.C.

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    Moret, Pierre

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    Full Text Available La Picola (Santa Pola, Alicante is a fortified port to the south-east of Elche. Built c. 430 BC, it was abandoned within a hundred years. The surviving structures indicate that the same unit of measure was employed at every stage in the building of the port. This foot —equivalent to between 29,7 and 30 cm— is the basis of everything from mud bricks to the settlement's ground-plan. The network of streets and buildings is organised symmetrically, using a five-fathom or 30-foot division; houses are two fathoms or 12 feet wide. This type of modular organisation is probably Greek in origin.El puerto fortificado de La Picola (Santa Pola, situado en la costa alicantina al Sureste de Elche, fue construido hacia 430 a.C. y abandonado al cabo de un siglo. El estudio de las estructuras conservadas demuestra que se utilizó la misma unidad de medida —un pie de 29,7 a 30 cm— en todas las etapas del programa de construcción, desde la fabricación de los adobes hasta las grandes divisiones del plano regulador. La trama de las calles y de las manzanas, organizada en torno a un eje de simetría, se basa en un módulo de 5 brazas (5 x 6 pies, mientras que la anchura de las casas sigue un módulo de 2 brazas (2 x 6 pies. El origen de este esquema modular es probablemente griego.

  7. Das Abordagens de Desenvolvimento aos Instrumentos de Planejamento e Gestão Urbanos: A Influência de Idéias Exógenas nos Planos Diretores Amazônicos

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    Tiago Veloso

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available Na atualidade das políticas públicas para o espaço urbano no Brasil, tem sido criada uma normatização geral acerca da construção de instrumentos de planejamento e gestão urbana, constituídos especialmente no período pós-Constituição de 1988. A normatização dispõe acerca da obrigatoriedade de boa parte dos municípios brasileiros em construir seus instrumentos de planejamento e desenvolvimento urbano, notadamente o plano diretor. Nesse sentido, trata-se de compreender o processo de difusão das principais abordagens de desenvolvimento urbano, no contexto de estruturação de planos diretores municipais urbanos, analisando as cidades amazônicas pelo estudo de caso da conformação metropolitana de Belém a partir de suas duas principais cidades, Belém e Ananindeua. O estudo busca elucidar como a difusão dessas abordagens de desenvolvimento acontece na escala local, especialmente na construção de instrumentos de planejamento e gestão, como os planos diretores. Este estudo foi fundamentado teoricamente a partir da contribuição acerca das abordagens de desenvolvimento urbano de Souza (1998; 2000; 2002 e, do ponto de vista metodológico, adotou uma abordagem de pesquisa qualitativa, utilizando análise documental e dados primários provenientes de instituições de planejamento envolvidas no processo de difusão da agenda urbana na Amazônia.

  8. Surgical correction of hallux valgus complicated with adult-type pes plano-valgus.

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    Choi, Jun Young; Yoon, Hyeong Hwa; Suh, Yu Min; Suh, Jin Soo

    2017-01-01

    To investigate the efficiency of simultaneous correction of moderate to severe hallux valgus deformity and adult-type pes planus. Twenty cases of moderate to severe hallux valgus complicated with adult-type pes planus in 19 consecutive patients (15 (79%) women, 4 (11%) men; mean age: 44.50 ± 17.13 years, mean follow-up duration: 31.30 ± 17.02 months) were included. Medial calcaneal sliding osteotomy was performed to correct hindfoot valgus, whereas treatments of hallux valgus were case dependent. The mean postoperative hallux valgus angle, intermetatarsal angle, hindfoot alignment angle, and hindfoot alignment ratio were 8.40 ± 5.29°, 4.20 ± 2.54°, 3.09 ± 2.92º and 0.41 ± 0.17, respectively. Although a hallux varus deformity occurred as a postoperative complication in one case (5%), there were no cases of postoperative recurrence. Simultaneous correction of hallux valgus and pes plano-valgus using medial calcaneal sliding osteotomy is an effective technique that reduces recurrence of hallux valgus and increases satisfaction in patients with moderate to severe hallux valgus deformity complicated with adult-type pes planus accompanying hindfoot valgus.

  9. Flexible Bronchoscopy.

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    Miller, Russell J; Casal, Roberto F; Lazarus, Donald R; Ost, David E; Eapen, George A

    2018-03-01

    Flexible bronchoscopy has changed the course of pulmonary medicine. As technology advances, the role of the flexible bronchoscope for both diagnostic and therapeutic indications is continually expanding. This article reviews the historical development of the flexible bronchoscopy, fundamental uses of the flexible bronchoscope as a tool to examine the central airways and obtain diagnostic tissue, and the indications, complications, and contraindications to flexible bronchoscopy. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

  10. Perda pilosa por líquen plano pilar após transplante capilar: relato de dois casos e revisão da literatura Hair loss due to lichen planopilaris after hair transplantation: a report of two cases and a literature review

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    Márcio Rocha Crisóstomo

    2011-04-01

    Full Text Available Alopecia androgenética é tratada com frequência por meio de microtransplante capilar, téc nica em que os fios transplantados geralmente não caem, pois mantêm características da área doadora, mais resistente. O líquen plano pilar é uma alopecia cicatricial com permanente destruição pilosa. Este artigo relata dois casos de lesões compatíveis com líquen plano pilar em áreas receptora e doadora póstransplante. A dominância da área doadora foi aparentemente sobrepujada pelo líquen plano pilar, que deve ter gerado a queda dos fios. Relatos semelhantes são raros. À suspeita de líquen plano pilar, devese biopsiar o couro cabeludo e evitar o transplante durante a atividade da doença.Androgenetic alopecia is often treated by follicular unit transplantation, a technique that involves minimal risk of hair loss because of the more resistant nature of the donor area. Lichen planopilaris is a cicatricial alopecia that causes permanent destruction of hair follicles. We report two cases of post-transplantation lesions compatible with lichen planopilaris in both recipient and donor areas. The quality of the hair follicles in the donor area was apparently compromised by lichen planopilaris, the probable cause of hair loss. Similar reports are rare. When lichen planopilaris is suspected, a biopsy of the scalp must be performed to avoid transplantation during disease activity.

  11. Planos diretores e os dilemas da governança urbana no Brasil = Master plans and the dilemmas of urban governance in Brazil

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    Lima, Antônia Jesuíta de

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available O presente artigo aborda a temática da governança urbana e discute a inserção da sociedade civil na formulação de políticas públicas a partir da análise da experiência de elaboração do Plano Diretor de Teresina/PI, o qual foi ungido sob o discurso da participação. Intitulado de Agenda 2015, o novo Plano Diretor surge 14 anos após a edição do primeiro conjunto de leis de regulação urbanística e num contexto de vigência da nova carta constitucional e do Estatuto da Cidade (BRASIL, 2001. Com efeito, nasce sob o signo da descentralização e da participação. Mas, a análise permitiu concluir que o processo caracterizou-se por uma metodologia que inibiu o envolvimento dos setores populares no processo, ficando restrito aos agentes estatais e especialistas, o que leva à ponderação de Dagnino (2002, segundo a qual uma gestão que, de fato, incorpore a noção de participação como partilha do poder decisório, tem sido um desafio para a sociedade e o poder público

  12. A influência de imagens tridimensionais no plano de tratamento ortodôntico Orthodontic treatment plan changed by 3-D images

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    Iury Oliveira Castro

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    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: a tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico (TCFC foi introduzida no final da década de 90 e estudos têm aprimorado o seu emprego na Odontologia. OBJETIVO: o objetivo desse artigo foi verificar a influência de imagens tridimensionais (3D no plano de tratamento ortodôntico. MÉTODOS: duas situações clínicas (reabsorção cervical e deiscência óssea foram descritas por meio de imagens 3D. RESULTADOS: a conduta ortodôntica foi redirecionada para a simplificação da mecânica e o controle das lesões durante o tratamento ortodôntico. CONCLUSÃO: imagens 3D são capazes de aumentar a acurácia do diagnóstico e redirecionar o plano de tratamento ortodôntico.INTRODUCTION: Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT was introduced in the 90's and studies have improved its use in dentistry. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article was to investigate the influence of three-dimensional (3D images in orthodontic treatment planning. METHOD: Two clinical situations (bone dehiscence and cervical resorption were described by 3D images. RESULTS: The orthodontic treatment plan was redirected to a simplified mechanics and control of the lesions during orthodontic treatment. CONCLUSION: 3D images are able to increase diagnostic accuracy and redirect orthodontic treatment plan.

  13. DESARROLLO Y CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UN PROTOTIPO DE COLECTOR SOLAR TÉRMICO CON TECNOLOGÍA HÍBRIDA COLECTOR PLANO - CANAL PARABÓLICO

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    Jorge Arturo del Angel Ramos; Antonio Sarmiento Sera

    2011-01-01

    En la Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica Eléctrica, de la Universidad Veracruzana, México, y con la colaboración delCETER, CUJAE. Cuba, se inició la tarea de investigar sobre el aprovechamiento de la energía solar térmica, creandoun prototipo que combina las tecnologías del colector solar plano con la del colector concentrador de canal.Dentro de las innovaciones que presenta este colector solar se presenta la alternativa de reciclaje...

  14. Plano de classificação de documentos arquivísticos e a teoria da classificação: uma interlocução entre domínios do conhecimento

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    Elaine Rosa Rios

    Full Text Available Estudo sobre os princípios teóricos e metodológicos que envolvem a elaboração dos planos de classificação documental em arquivos, com ênfase no conhecimento do contexto, no qual se insere a instituição. Os princípios da teoria da classificação que regem a construção de linguagens documentárias e, em especial, as notacionais, no âmbito da organização do conhecimento, devem fundamentar a construção dos planos de classificação para documentos arquivísticos. Conclui que a Arquivologia deve aprofundar o diálogo com outras áreas do conhecimento, especialmente a Ciência da Informação, no que tange à análise e a representação do conhecimento.

  15. Discapacidad visual y orientación urbana. Estudio piloto sobre planos táctiles producidos en Impresión 3D

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    Gual Ortí, Jaume; Puyuelo Cazorla, Marina; Lloveras Macià, Joaquim; Merino, Lola

    2012-01-01

    El trabajo aquí expuesto presenta un estudio piloto llevado a cabo en Barcelona con personas invidentes y deficientes visuales. El objetivo del mismo ha sido analizar el uso y la eficacia de los planos táctiles producidos mediante Impresión en 3D. Para ello se han empleado entrevistas estructuradas, observación directa, realización de mapas cognitivos y tareas con prototipos. De esta manera se ha tratado de profundizar en el valor instrumental y comunicativo de estos productos a la hora de in...

  16. Portal de la Pau. Levantamiento con escáner láser para la generación de planos CAD

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    Roca Cladera, Josep; Garcia-Almirall, M. Pilar; Marambio Castillo, Alejandro Esteban; Corso Sarmiento, Juan Manuel

    2011-01-01

    Principalment imatges. La propuesta consiste en la elaboración de un modelo tridimensional de nube de puntos de alta resolución visualizable en un entorno interactivo en tiempo real, válido para su inspección y para la toma de medidas simples. (pointools pro 1.8 versión gratuita1) Este modelo servirá como base para la generación de orto imágenes a escala para la corrección y validación de planos CAD del edificio a escala 1:100 para completar las plantas, las fachadas exteriores y dos secci...

  17. O Plano Real à luz da experiência mexicana e argentina

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    Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.

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    Full Text Available O trabalho discute os primeiros dois anos do Plano Real e em especial os seus efeitos sobre as relações externas do Brasil, à luz da experiência de programas de estabilização adotados no México, em 1988-1994, e na Argentina, desde 1991. Embora cada experiência nacional apresente as suas peculiaridades, argumenta-se que a economia brasileira vem revivendo a experiência mexicana e argentina em alguns pontos importantes, combinando sucesso no combate à inflação com acentuada e persistente apreciação cambial, elevados déficits no balanço de pagamentos em conta corrente e dependência de fluxos voláteis de capital internacional.This paper discusses the first two years of Brazil's current stabilization programme - known as the Real Plan - and in particular its effects on the country's external economic relations, in the ligth of similar stabilization programmes adopted in Mexico from 1988 to 1994 and in Argentina since 1991. Although each national experience has its peculiarities, it is shown that the Brazilian economy has been reliving the Mexican and Argentinian experience in some important respects, combining success in terms of inflation reduction, with strong and persistent exchange rate appreciation, high deficits in the balance of payments on current account and dependence on volatile international capital flows.

  18. [Application of pie-crusting the medial collateral ligament release in arthroscopic surgery for posterior horn of 
medial meniscus in knee joint].

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    Zhu, Weihong; Tang, Qi; Liao, Lele; Li, Ding; Yang, Yang; Chen, You

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    To explore the effectiveness and safety of pie-crusting the medial collateral ligament release (MCL) in treating posterior horn of medial meniscus (PHMM) tear in tight medial tibiofemoral compartment of knee joint.
 Methods: Thirty-two consecutive patients with PHMM tear in tight medial tibiofemoral compartment of knee joint were admitted to our department from January, 2013 to December, 2014. All patients were performed pie-crusting the MCL release at its tibial insertion with 18-gauge intravenous needle. All patients were evaluated by valgus stress test and bilateral valgus stress radiograph at postoperative 1st day, 4th week and 12th week. Visual Analogue Scales (VAS), Lysholm scores, Tegner scores and International Knee Documentation Committee (IKDC) scores were recorded at the 1st, 3th, 6th month follow-up, then follow-up every 6 months.
 Results: The mean follow-up was 28 (24-36) months. All cases were negative in valgus stress test. MCL rupture, femoral fracture, articular cartilage lesion and neurovascular injury were not found at the last follow-up. The median medial joint space width of affected side and unaffected side for valgus stress radiographs were 6.8 mm and 4.3 mm (P0.05) at the 12th week, respectively. VAS scores was changed from 4.5±1.5 preoperatively to 1.7±1.0 at the final follow-up (t=16.561, Pjoint.

  19. Federalismo Cooperativo e Plano de Ações Articuladas (PAR – algumas aproximações teóricas

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    Karla Cristina Silva Sousa

    2017-06-01

    Full Text Available O artigo discute o federalismo brasileiro a partir da matriz teórica self rule plus shared rule, ou seja, o federalismo enquanto pacto. A partir desta matriz teórica defende-se que a política educacional voltada para dinamizar o pacto federativo na área educacional por meio do regime de colaboração por ora denominada de Plano de Ações Articuladas (PAR constitui-se na realidade um mecanismo de center constraining aos subgovernos nacionais em que a União situa-se como a grande demos constraining do federalismo brasileiro, caracterizando-se um pacto incompleto. Palavras-Chave: Federalismo Cooperativo. Plano de Ações Articuladas. Pacto federativo. Federalism Cooperative and Action Plan Articulated (PAR – some theoretical approaches ABSTRACT The article discusses the Brazilian federalism from the theoretical matrix self rule plus shared rule, ie federalism while pact. From this theoretical framework it is argued that the educational policy to streamline the federal pact in education through collaboration scheme now called Articulated Action Plan (PAR constitutes in fact a center constraining mechanism to sub governments national where the Union stands as the great demos constraining the Brazilian federalism, characterizing na incomplete agreement. Keywords: Cooperative Federalism. Plan Linked Shares. Federal pact. Federalismo Cooperativo y Plan de Acciones Articuladas (PAR – algunos enfoques teóricos RESUMEN El artículo discute el federalismo brasilero a partir de la matriz teórica self rule plus shared rule. O sea el federalismo como pacto. A partir de esta matriz teórica se defiende que la política educacional está encaminada para dinamizar el pacto federativo en el área educacional por medio del régimen de colaboración por ahora denominado Plan de Acciones Articuladas (PAR se constituye en una realidad, un mecanismo de center constraining a los subgobiernos nacionales donde la unión se sitúa como la grande demos

  20. Mamoplastia en plano dual ¿Es la técnica de elección? Dual plane mammoplasty, is it the election technique?

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    C.D. Lo Brutto

    2011-06-01

    Full Text Available Desde el año 2004 hemos empleado la técnica de plano dual en la mamoplastia de aumento de forma sistemática en todas nuestras pacientes, utilizándola como técnica de elección para la mamoplastia de aumento primaria, para el tratamiento de la contractura capsular mamaria y para la resolución de malformaciones del contorno mamario, la más frecuente de las cuales fue en nuestra práctica la mama tuberosa. Este plano permite que la prótesis se aloje simultáneamente por debajo y por encima del pectoral mayor, lográndose una adecuada cobertura del implante en todos los casos. Consideramos 650 mamoplastias bilaterales realizadas en el período comprendido entre enero del 2006 y diciembre del 2008 utilizando prótesis redondas de superficie lisa en todos los casos (Mentor®. La cirugía se realizó bajo anestesia local y sedación endovenosa. La tasa de complicaciones fue mínima y se debió fundamentalmente a hematomas y asimetría mamaria. En nuestra experiencia la técnica de plano dual puede utilizarse, con mínimas variaciones técnicas, basándose en fundamentos fisiológicos, patológicos y tipo de deformidad que presente la paciente, con una alta tasa de satisfacción y un riesgo mínimo.Since 2004 we have been implementing the dual plane technique for augmentation mammoplasty in all our patients as the best one in primary augmentation mammoplasty, treatment of the capsular contracture and in the resolution of breast malformations, among which the tuberous breast was the most frequent one. This plane allows the prosthesis to stand simultaneously under and over the pectoralis major muscle. We considered 650 bilateral mammoplasties operated between january 2006 and december 2008 using smooth round implants in all cases (Mentor®. The surgery was performed with the aid of local anesthesia as well as sedation. The complication rate was minimum and it was mostly produced by hematomas and breast asymmetries. In our experience the dual plane

  1. Food bike Rosa Mel: viabilidade do empreendimento por meio de Plano de Negócio

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    Danielle de Oliveira Barutti

    2016-02-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo objetiva propor a criação de um comércio itinerante de doces caseiros comercializando pão de mel, nos sabores brigadeiro, doce de leite e coco, trufas tradicionais, alfajor, café e água na modalidade Food Bike, na cidade de São Paulo. A modalidade Food Bike é o tipo de comércio itinerante em que se vendem comidas e bebidas, tendo como suporte uma bicicleta e não havendo necessidade de muito espaço para sua instalação. Utiliza-se como metodologia de análise, plano de negócio e pesquisa qualitativa exploratória para verificar o perfil do comércio itinerante e analisar o consumidor desse serviço. Foi concluído que este tipo de empreendimento é inovador, atraente, de baixo custo inicial, rentável e com taxa de retorno em torno de onze meses.

  2. Glass molding of 3mm diameter aspheric plano-convex lens

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    Sung, Hayeong; Hue, Myung sang; Lee, Giljae; Ryu, Geunman; Kim, Dongguk; Yang, Suncheol

    2017-10-01

    The many industries and research fields have demands for small scale optical systems. To satisfy the demands, many studies are conducted and the miniaturization technologies have been developed. The optical lens is directly related to the optical systems and a key component for the miniaturization. So the aspheric surface which can replace multispherical lenses is applied to the optical lens. And fabrication methods to reduce the diameter of the lens have been developed. The glass molding pressing (GMP) process is an attractive method to fabricate aspheric lens among the lens manufacturing processes. Because the GMP process has advantages of productivity, repeatability and so on. In this study, a 3 mm diameter aspheric plano-convex lens was fabricated using the GMP process. The GMP process was divided into heating, pressing, annealing and cooling. And the process was conducted using a commercial glass molding machine. Mold tools consist of an upper and a lower mold insert, an inner and an outer guide. The aspheric and the flat surfaces of the mold inserts were coated with ta-C to prevent the sticking of the glass to the mold. The surfaces of molded lens were measured by white interferometry and surface profilometer. The height and the diameter were measured using optical microscopy. As results, the aspheric surface of the lens was 5.1187 nm in Ra and 0.242 um in Pt. And the flat surface was 2.6697 nm in Ra and 0.13 um in Pt. The height and the diameter were 1.935 mm and 3.002 mm respectively.

  3. On flexibility

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    Weiss, Christoph R.; Briglauer, Wolfgang

    2000-01-01

    By building on theoretical work by Mills and Schumann (1985) and Ungern-Sternberg (1990) this paper provides evidence on the determinants of two dimensions of flexibility, the flexibility in adjusting aggregate output over time (tactical flexibility) as well as the ability to switch quickly between products (operational flexibility). Econometric analysis of a sample of 40.000 farms in Upper-Austria for the period 1980 to 1990 suggests that larger full-time farms operated by younger, better ed...

  4. Planos municipais de saneamento básico e a promoção de justiça social e ambiental: as experiências de Alagoinhas e Belo Horizonte

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    Gabriela Vieira de Toledo Lisboa Ataide

    2014-08-01

    Full Text Available Com o novo marco legal do saneamento no Brasil, a Lei nº 11.445/2007, o titular dos serviços públicos de saneamento básico (serviços de abastecimento de água, esgotamento sanitário, manejo de resíduos sólidos e manejo de águas pluviais e drenagem urbana se vê obrigado a exercitar a função de planejador, tarefa pouco praticada no País. No Brasil, por muitos anos, a atribuição de planejamento em saneamento básico ficou relegada aos prestadores dos serviços. Durante a vigência do Plano Nacional de Saneamento (1971 – 1986 uma das características mais marcantes foi a omissão do Poder Público municipal e a falta de participação dos usuários dos serviços no processo de planejamento das ações em saneamento básico. O País passou um período longo sem um arcabouço institucional e legal que orientasse as atividades relacionadas aos serviços públicos de saneamento básico. O novo marco legal do saneamento básico avança no sentido de colocar a ação de planejamento como estratégica na gestão dos serviços. Segundo a Lei nº 11.445/2007, o planejamento é uma atividade do titular dos serviços, o município, e indelegável a outro ente. A Lei também inaugura uma nova fase da área ao eleger como um dos seus princípios fundamentais o controle social, garantindo à sociedade o acesso a informações e a participação nos processos de formulação de políticas, de planejamento e de avaliação dos serviços. É nesse ambiente de crença no planejamento para a promoção de justiça social e ambiental que surge a questão da presente pesquisa. Para tanto, faz-se a pergunta: quais os vínculos entre a implementação de planos municipais de saneamento básico e a promoção de justiça social e ambiental? Para essa reflexão são estudados os PlanosMunicipais de Alagoinhas e Belo Horizonte, pois ambos os municípios têm experiências no planejamento em saneamento, sustentados em uma política pública. Assim, o objetivo

  5. Control lineal robusto de sistemas no lineales diferencialmente planos

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    Hebertt Sira-Ramirez

    2011-01-01

    Full Text Available Resumen: En este trabajo se proponen controladores basados en observadores lineales para el control robusto de una clase amplia de sistemas no lineales conocidos como sistemas diferencialmente planos, sean estos monovariables o multivariables. Se establece primeramente el modelo dinámico entrada - salida plana, simplificándolo a un modelo de carácter no fenomenológico que solamente considera como elementos claves en el diseño del controlador el orden de integración del sistema y el factor de ganancia de entrada, en el caso monovariable, y, los órdenes de los subsistemas de integración de Kronecker y la matriz de ganancias del vector de entradas en el caso multivariable. El resto de las no linealidades, dependientes del estado o de naturaleza exógena, son consideradas, en general, como perturbaciones desconocidas pero acotadas que toman valores en el tiempo. Se demuestra que estas perturbaciones son algebraicamente observables, permitiendo su determinación aproximada mediante observadores lineales de orden arbitrario. Estos observadores, llamados observadores GPI, incluyen modelos internos que representan polinomios en el tiempo, cuya actualización es de índole automática, permitiendo aproximaciones arbitrariamente cercanas a las perturbaciones desconocidas. El diseño del controlador se reduce entonces a lograr la cancelación de las perturbaciones aditivas a la vez de imponer una dinámica lineal en lazo cerrado mediante realimentación de estados estimados, los cuales se obtienen directamente del mismo observador lineal propuesto. Se presenta un ejemplo de simulación que considera un sistema físico no lineal de complejidad reconocida. También se incluyen resultados experimentales sobre dos prototipos de laboratorio. Palabras Clave: Rechazo a perturbaciones, Realimentación lineal de salida, Sistemas linealizables, Observadores, Sistemas no lineales

  6. Balance and flexibility.

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    2003-12-01

    The 'work-life balance' and flexible working are currently key buzz terms in the NHS. Those looking for more information on these topics should visit Flexibility at www.flexibility.co.uk for a host of resources designed to support new ways of working, including information on flexible workers and flexible rostering, the legal balancing act for work-life balance and home working.

  7. Análisis de la sentencia de la corte constitucional (C-871-10 sobre los derechos de autor de la obra de arquitectura construida, los proyectos arquitectónicos y los planos

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    Wilson Rafael Ríos Ruiz

    2011-07-01

    Full Text Available El reciente fallo de la Corte Constitucional deja a salvo y crea un justo medio entre los derechos morales del arquitecto-autor del proyecto arquitectónico, y el derecho de dominio de quien ejerce la titularidad de un bien inmueble construido. Así mismo determina que la obra de arquitectura construida, los proyectos arquitectónicos y los planos respectivos son objeto de protección a través de las normas autorales vigente tanto en el ámbito internacional como en el local en Colombia. Por lo tanto el proyecto arquitectónico como grupo de elementos de dibujo, planos, perspectivas, diseños presenta una connotación o forma bidimensional; en tanto que la obra arquitectónica acabada presenta una especificidad de volumen tridimensionalidad, que la hace ser la representación real del proyecto.

  8. Relaxações Lagrangianas e planos de corte faciais na resolução de problemas de particionamento de conjuntos

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    Andrei de Almeida Sampaio Braga

    2011-01-01

    Resumo: O problema de particionamento de conjuntos (SPP, do inglês set partitioning problem) é considerado um dos problemas de otimização combinatória com mais vasta gama de aplicações. Para solucioná-lo, utilizam-se comumente métodos tradicionais para a resolução de problemas NP - Difíceis. Nesta dissertação, estuda-se o uso da combinação de relaxação Lagrangiana com planos de corte. Relaxação Lagrangiana é uma técnica que tem sido usada com bastante sucesso para atacar vários problemas NP-D...

  9. Avaliação das diretrizes e ações do Plano de Mobilidade da cidade de Passo Fundo de acordo com a Lei n° 12.587/2012

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    Paola Pol Saraiva

    2017-12-01

    Full Text Available O agravamento dos problemas relacionados à mobilidade urbana traz à tona uma série de desafios para pensadores e corpo técnico das cidades. É de fundamental importância analisar, refletir e avaliar a consistência das políticas públicas voltadas à mobilidade, a fim de mensurar sua efetividade e aplicabilidade, bem como a coerência entre as políticas nacionais e as locais. Neste contexto, desde o ano de 2014 a cidade de Passo Fundo possui um Plano de Mobilidade, focado em ações e estratégias de curto, médio e longo prazo para melhoria da mobilidade local. Sendo assim, o presente estudo tem como objetivo principal analisar as diretrizes e ações do Plano de Mobilidade Urbana da cidade de Passo Fundo, a fim de avaliar sua compatibilidade com os princípios, diretrizes e objetivos da Lei Nacional n° 12.587/2012- Lei de Mobilidade Urbana, bem como compreender como as ações em nível local são influenciadas pelas políticas nacionais. Além disso, objetiva-se compreender como o processo de urbanização influenciou na mobilidade da cidade de Passo Fundo. A metodologia utilizada foi o levantamento documental de leis e regulamentos oficiais dedicados à mobilidade urbana das escalas nacional até a local bem como o estudo de caso da cidade analisada. Os resultados mostraram que há conformidade entre a Lei Nacional 12.587/2012 e o Plano Municipal de Mobilidade, com algumas lacunas, como a ausência de diretrizes voltadas ao uso de energias mais limpas. Nota-se, porém, que há uma grande distância entre boa parte das diretrizes locais e a aplicabilidade das mesmas na cidade, já que algumas requerem grandes investimentos.

  10. Biomechanical analysis of the support in race walking. Relationship between footprint, subtalar joint angles, and plantar pressures Análisis biomecánico del apoyo plantar en la marcha atlética. Relación entre la huella plantar, ángulos de la articulación subastragalina y presiones plantares

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    M. Meana

    2010-09-01

    mientras marchaban a velocidad individual de competición. Se calcularon las presiones máximas en cada región del pie y los valores máximos y mínimos de los tres ángulos que describen la articulación subastragalina. La máxima pronación ha mostrado ser mayor que la descrita en la marcha común y similar a la de la carrera (-13.6±3.90. Al inicio del apoyo, la articulación subastragalina se encuentra entre la marcha y la carrera, sugiriendo un ajuste en su mecanismo amortiguador según el tipo de locomoción. La zona que registra mayores presiones es el retropié externo (21.02 kPa/kg yseguida lu ego del antepié interno (13.12 kPa/kg, a diferencia de la carrera, que presenta presiones máximas similares. Los sujetos con pies más planos tienden a apoyar con la cara interna del pie (r=-0.713 y con la pierna inclinada medialmente (r=0.874. Asimismo, los marchadores con pies más cavos registran mayores presiones en la parte externa del retropié y, mientras que los más planos lo hacen en la parte interna del mediopié.
    Palabras Clave: Biomecánica, marcha atlética, huella plantar, articulación subastragalina, presiones plantares.

  11. Clasificaciones de lesiones en pie diabético: Un problema no resuelto Classifications of injuries on diabetic foot: A non-solved problem

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    Héctor González de la Torre

    2012-06-01

    Full Text Available La necesidad de unificar criterios empleando un mismo lenguaje que favorezca la comunicación y el intercambio de conocimientos unido al desconocimiento existente en cuanto a las distintas formas de clasificación de las heridas crónicas, ha motivado a los autores para llevar a cabo esta revisión bibliográfica en la que se analizan quince sistemas de clasificación de lesiones de pie diabético y se abordan entre otros, aspectos como la metodología, facilidad de utilización, grado de conocimiento, utilidad de la información aportada y limitaciones de cada uno de ellos. Con ello, los autores no pretenden sino facilitar que los profesionales implicados en el cuidado de las úlceras diabéticas conozcan las distintas formas de estadiaje existentes en el pie diabético y en general en las heridas crónicas.The need of unify criterions using a same idiom contributing communication and interchanging knowledge together with ignorance existing in relation to the different ways of classificating chronic wounds is the reason for the authors to carry out this review analyzing fifteen classification systems in diabetic foot wounds dealing with subjects such as methodology, simplicity of use, grade of knowledge, usefulness of the information provided and limitations of each one. And so the authors pretend helping that those professionals taking care of diabetic foot ulcers can get to know different ways of staging diabetic foot wounds and chronic wounds in general.

  12. Cuidados de enfermería en las úlceras del pie diabético. Reunión y puesta al día

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    Rincón Martín, Marina

    2016-01-01

    Entre las numerosas repercusiones de la diabetes mellitus a nivel sistémico, se pueden señalar la neuropatía, la angiopatía periférica y el aumento de la susceptibilidad para sufrir infecciones como las principales causas de la aparición de úlceras del denominado “pie diabético”, cuya incidencia en estos pacientes se estima alrededor del 15%. Debido a la magnitud de este problema, a su relación con un mayor riesgo para sufrir amputaciones, y a que en los últimos años ha aumentado el número...

  13. Office flexible cystoscopy.

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    Kavoussi, L R; Clayman, R V

    1988-11-01

    Since the development of the first purpose-built flexible cystoscope in 1984, flexible cystoscopy has become an accepted diagnostic and therapeutic modality. Indeed, it is estimated that more than 10 per cent of practicing urologists are already familiar with this technology. The flexible cystoscope has markedly extended the urologist's ability to examine the bladder, and it has become a valuable adjunct to the rigid cystoscope. Although the operation of this instrument is vastly different from that of its rigid counterpart, with practice, the technique can be learned. After experience is obtained with diagnostic flexible cystoscopy, the urologist will likely prefer this new instrument for bladder inspection, as it provides for a more thorough yet less morbid and less expensive examination. In the future, the development of improved and smaller instrumentation will further extend the therapeutic indications for flexible cystoscopy. Indeed, advances in laser technology are already providing the urologist with 300- to 600-micron (0.9 to 1.8F) flexible probes capable of incision (KTP laser), fulguration (Nd:YAG laser), and stone disintegration (tunable dye laser). Lastly, the skills obtained in using the flexible cystoscope are all readily applicable to the development of dexterity with the already available flexible nephroscope and the more recently developed flexible ureteroscope.

  14. A pesquisa em psicologia: construindo outros planos de análise The research in psichology: building other plans of analysis

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    Maria Elizabeth Barros de Barros

    2005-08-01

    Full Text Available O texto procura traçar um quadro teórico do qual pretende derivar questões para uma discussão que visa a levantar alguns aspectos para o debate sobre a forma com está colocada hoje a questão da pesquisa em psicologia e os efeitos produzidos no plano político/subjetivo, dada a indissociabilidade desses planos. Oferece um certo ponto de vista sobre o problema do conhecimento a partir de algumas referências metodológicas que problematizam a racionalidade na qual estão apoiadas as ciências humanas, pautadas numa lógica que persegue verdades inquestionáveis sobre uma realidade já dada. Propõe novas perguntas sobre a produção de conhecimento que possam reorientar as práticas de pesquisa no campo da psicologia, pois toda concepção de produção de conhecimento/pesquisa envolve sempre uma certa política, não possui apenas um sentido técnico e/ou metodológico.This text attempts to trace a theoretical frame to discuss some aspects about the manner in which the research in psychology is placed nowadays and the effects produced in the political/ subjective plan, given the inseparability of these plans. It offers a certain point of view on the knowledge issue, from some methodological references that question the rationality in which human sciences are supported, based on a logic that pursues unquestionable truths about an already given reality. This work proposes new questions about the production of knowledge that may reorient research practices in the psychology field, because every conception of production of knowledge/research always involves a certain politics, not having just one methodological and/or technological meaning.

  15. Proceedings of the third JAERI-KAERI joint seminar on post irradiation examination technology

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    1999-09-01

    Between the Department of JMTR of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Research Group of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), it has been periodically carried out the collaboration on technical information exchange by specialists and scientists, under the Arrangement of the Implementation of Cooperative Research Program in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear between JAERI and KAERI. And JAERI-KAERI joint seminar has been held every three years. The 1st and 2nd JAERI-KAERI Joint Seminars were held in November 1992 at JAERI and in September 1995 at KAERI, respectively. The 3rd JAERI-KAERI Joint Seminar was held on 25 and 26 March, 1999 at the Oarai Research Establishment of JAERI. In this seminar, total participants of 84 were joined from JAERI, KAERI, Hanyang University, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, Oarai Branch of Institute for Materials Research (IMR) of Tohoku University, Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co., Ltd., Nuclear Development Corporation and others. Contributed presentations were in three sessions; Current status and future perspectives on PIE, PIE techniques and Evaluation of PIE data. Re-assembling technique for JOYO fuel, Nd-YAG laser welding technique, grain boundary analysis using FEG-TEM, lift time estimation of PWR Rod Cluster Control Assembly (RCCA) rodlet and failure analysis of Korea Nuclear Power Plant (KNP) fuel have been widely noticed as topic items on PIE. And some comments from PIE user, were pointed out that the nano-PIE technique, the flexibility to ad-hoc demands on testing space or utilization, and the international collaboration were very important for the next generation's PIE. The 34 of the present papers are indexed individually. (J.P.N.)

  16. Proceedings of the third JAERI-KAERI joint seminar on post irradiation examination technology

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    Between the Department of JMTR of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Research Group of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), it has been periodically carried out the collaboration on technical information exchange by specialists and scientists, under the Arrangement of the Implementation of Cooperative Research Program in the Field of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear between JAERI and KAERI. And JAERI-KAERI joint seminar has been held every three years. The 1st and 2nd JAERI-KAERI Joint Seminars were held in November 1992 at JAERI and in September 1995 at KAERI, respectively. The 3rd JAERI-KAERI Joint Seminar was held on 25 and 26 March, 1999 at the Oarai Research Establishment of JAERI. In this seminar, total participants of 84 were joined from JAERI, KAERI, Hanyang University, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, Oarai Branch of Institute for Materials Research (IMR) of Tohoku University, Nippon Nuclear Fuel Development Co., Ltd., Nuclear Development Corporation and others. Contributed presentations were in three sessions; Current status and future perspectives on PIE, PIE techniques and Evaluation of PIE data. Re-assembling technique for JOYO fuel, Nd-YAG laser welding technique, grain boundary analysis using FEG-TEM, lift time estimation of PWR Rod Cluster Control Assembly (RCCA) rodlet and failure analysis of Korea Nuclear Power Plant (KNP) fuel have been widely noticed as topic items on PIE. And some comments from PIE user, were pointed out that the nano-PIE technique, the flexibility to ad-hoc demands on testing space or utilization, and the international collaboration were very important for the next generation's PIE. The 34 of the present papers are indexed individually. (J.P.N.)

  17. Flexible structured high-frequency film bulk acoustic resonator for flexible wireless electronics

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    Zhou, Changjian; Shu, Yi; Yang, Yi; Ren, Tian-Ling; Jin, Hao; Dong, Shu-Rong; Chan, Mansun

    2015-01-01

    Flexible electronics have inspired many novel and very important applications in recent years and various flexible electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, circuits, sensors, and radiofrequency (RF) passive devices including antennas and inductors have been reported. However, the lack of a high-performance RF resonator is one of the key bottlenecks to implement flexible wireless electronics. In this study, for the first time, a novel ultra-flexible structured film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) is proposed. The flexible FBAR is fabricated on a flexible polyimide substrate using piezoelectric thin film aluminum nitride (AlN) for acoustic wave excitation. Both the shear wave and longitudinal wave can be excited under the surface interdigital electrodes configuration we proposed. In the case of the thickness extension mode, a flexible resonator with a working frequency as high as of 5.2325 GHz has been realized. The resonators stay fully functional under bending status and after repeated bending and re-flattening operations. This flexible high-frequency resonator will serve as a key building block for the future flexible wireless electronics, greatly expanding the application scope of flexible electronics. (paper)

  18. BRAND EQUITY DA USIMINAS: UM ESTUDO NO SETOR SIDERÚRGICO BRASILEIRO DE AÇOS PLANOS

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    Daniel Hofer Bastos

    2015-02-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi medir o valor agregado (“Brand Equity” da marca USIMINAS® na percepção de compradores de aços planos no mercado brasileiro. Para tanto, foi testado o modelo desenvolvido por Juntunen, Juntunen e Juga (2011 relacionado a empresas industriais do setor de logística. Além disso, foi avaliado se a inserção do construto Confiança (BALLESTER, 2004  no modelo teórico original aumenta a variância explicada do Brand Equity. Foi feita pesquisa descritiva em que foi aplicado questionário de pesquisas anteriores com pequenas alterações ao setor de negócios contextual. Os resultados indicam que a inserção do construto Confiança aumenta a variância explicada do Brand Equity em relação ao modelo original de Juntunen, Juntunen e Juga (2011. Além disso, foram observados alguns resultados divergentes no que se refere à relação positiva entre Imagem e Brand Equity, e entre Imagem e Fidelidade.

  19. Evaluación de la demanda sísmica fuera del plano en edificios

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    Wilmer Julián Carrillo León

    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de una investigación analítica y computacional, donde se propone una metodología para evaluar la demanda sísmica fuera del plano, en edificaciones de pórticos con rellenos de mampostería no reforzada. Con esta metodología se obtienen los registros de aceleración en diferentes alturas del edificio. Las ecuaciones propuestas se basan en los resultados obtenidos mediante metodologías establecidas a nivel mundial, datos registrados de una edificación construida en la ciudad de los Ángeles, la cual se encontraba completamente instrumentada durante el sismo de Northrigde – 1994; y modelos analíticos de edificios típicos analizados mediante el método de elementos finitos - FEM. Por último, se presentan curvas de aceleración respecto a la altura (utilizando la metodología propuesta para edificios típicos con sistema estructural de pórticos con mampostería no reforzada construidos para las diferentes zonas establecidas en la microzonificación sísmica de la ciudad de Bogotá

  20. Placental immune editing switch (PIES): learning about immunomodulatory pathways from a unique case report

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    Bronchud, Miguel H.; Tresserra, Francesc; Xu, Wenjie; Warren, Sarah; Cusido, Maite; Zantop, Bernat; Zenclussen, Ana Claudia; Cesano, Alessandra

    2016-01-01

    The hypothesis of this work is that, in order to escape the natural immune surveillance mechanisms, cancer cells and the surrounding microenvironment might express ectopically genes that are physiologically present in the placenta to mediate fetal immune-tolerance. These natural “placental immune-editing switch” mechanisms (PIES) may represent the result of millions of years of mammalian evolution developed to allow materno-fetal tolerance. Here, we introduce genes of the immune regulatory pathways that are either similarly over- or under-expressed in tumor vs normal tissue. Our analysis was carried out in primary breast cancer with metastatic homolateral axillary lymph nodes as well as placenta tissue (both uterine decidual tissue and term placenta tissue) from a pregnant woman. Gene expression profiling of paired non-self and self tissues (i.e. placenta/uterus; breast cancer/normal breast tissue; metastatic lymphnode/normal lymphnode tissue) was performed using the PanCancer Immune gene panel, a 770 Nanostring gene expression panel. Our findings reveal overlapping in specific immune gene expression in placenta and cancer tissue, suggesting that these genes might play an important role in maintaining immune tolerance both physiologically (in the placenta) and pathologically (in the cancer setting). PMID:27852037

  1. Flexibility@Work 2013: yearly report on flexible labor and employment

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    Berkhout, E.; Heyma, A.; Prins, J.

    2013-01-01

    There is no clear evidence that the strong growth in the share of flexible labor relations between 2002 and 2007 points at a worldwide trend towards a larger share of flexible labor at the expense of traditional open-ended labor contracts. The growth in flexible labor varies too much between

  2. Emission computer tomography on a Dodewaard mixed oxide fuel pin. Comparative PIE work with non-destructive and destructive techniques

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    Buurveld, H.A.; Dassel, G.

    1993-12-01

    A nondestructive technique as well as a destructive PIE technique have been used to verify the results obtained with a newly 8-e computer tomography (GECT) system. Multi isotope Scanning (MIS), electron probe micro analysis (EPMA) and GECT were used on a mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rod from the Dodewaard reactor with an average burnup of 24 MWd/kg fuel. GECT shows migration of Cs to the periphery of fuel pellets and to radial cracks and pores in the fuel, whereas MIS shows Cs migration to pellet interfaces. The EPMA technique appeared not to be useful to show migration of Cs but, it shows the distribution of fission products from Pu. EPMA clearly shows the distribution of fission products from Pu, but did not reveal the Cs-migration. (orig./HP)

  3. Esfera em plano inclinado: conservação da energia mecânica e força de atrito

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    Silva Wilton Pereira da

    2003-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artigo propõe um experimento visando demonstrar que a força de atrito estático é conservativa. O experimento consiste em uma esfera rolando em um plano inclinado. para o qual a inclinação pode ser variada. Para cada ângulo estabelecido a energia mecânica no início e no fim da pista foi determinada. A análise dos resultados mostrou que a conservação da energia mecânica ocorre até um ângulo limite, a partir do qual há escorregamento. A determinação deste ângulo por inspeção gráfica possibilitou o cálculo do coeficiente de atrito estático entre a pista e a esfera em movimento.

  4. Dynamic Model of a Rotating Flexible Arm-Flexible Root Mechanism Driven by a Shaft Flexible in Torsion

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    S.Z. Ismail

    2006-01-01

    Full Text Available This paper presents a dynamic model of a rotating flexible beam carrying a payload at its tip. The model accounts for the driving shaft and the arm root flexibilities. The finite element method and the Lagrangian dynamics are used in deriving the equations of motion with the small deformation theory assumptions and the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The obtained model is a nonlinear-coupled system of differential equations. The model is simulated for different combinations of shaft and root flexibilities and arm properties. The simulation results showed that the root flexibility is an important factor that should be considered in association with the arm and shaft flexibilities, as its dynamics influence the motor motion. Moreover, the effect of system non-linearity on the dynamic behavior is investigated by simulating the equivalent linearized system and it was found to be an important factor that should be considered, particularly when designing a control strategy for practical implementation.

  5. Avaliação do Plano Operacional de Comercialização do Turismo: o caso de Bonito, município de Mato Grosso do Sul-Brasil

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    Milton Augusto Pasquotto Mariani

    2011-09-01

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    O presente estudo tem como objetivo geral analisar as percepções do trade turístico de Bonito acerca do plano de comercialização desenvolvido para o município, buscando a compreensão da interface marketing-turismo. Tratando-se o marketing turístico como uma ferramenta para a conquista e manutenção de clientes, a fim de que a experiência vivenciada pelo turista seja única e inesquecível, o presente estudo justifica-se na busca de contribuições para a gestão pública do destino turístico analisado, com vistas a sua consolidação como pólo na atração de visitantes. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, de natureza exploratória, descritiva e explicativa, cujo procedimento de coleta, análise e interpretação dos dados resumiu-se em entrevistas com os atores locais. Os resultados apontam que aproximadamente 89% dos sujeitos consideram o plano importante para o desenvolvimento da atividade turística local, sendo que 44% o consideram importante para “vender” o destino como ícone brasileiro no ecoturismo; 33% o consideram importante por propiciar o direcionamento da região rumo à atração de turistas do mundo todo e 11% o consideram importante como ação estratégica para superar as dificuldades existentes e construir um novo posicionamento estratégico no mercado turístico. Sendo assim, referindo-se ao turismo como um dos principais setores empregatícios e gerador de renda para o município, o plano de comercialização se apresenta como uma ferramenta importante para a consolidação do destino como um verdadeiro pólo na atração de turistas.

  6. Evaluación integral de la sensibilidad en los pies de las personas con diabetes mellitus tipo 2

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    Valentina Rivas Acuña

    2017-01-01

    Full Text Available Introducción: Actualmente la diabetes mellitus tipo 2 es considerada una epidemia en el mundo, es uno de los problemas de mayor trascendencia, por su alta prevalencia como por su enorme repercusión social y económica, por tal motivo el propósito del estudio fue evaluar de manera integral la sensibilidad en los pies de las personas con diabetes mellitus tipo 2, de Villahermosa, Tabasco, México. Materiales y Métodos: El diseño fue descriptivo correlacional, la muestra fue de 198 personas. Se utilizó el Test del Michigan Neuropathy Screening con monofilamento de Semme Weinstein, Diapasón, temperatura frío/calor y reflejo Aquileo. Resultados y Discusión: El sexo femenino predominó con un 70.2% y el 29.8% hombres, el promedio de edad fue 56.44 años y 12.34 años promedio con la enfermedad. El 46% registró síntomas neuropáticos moderados, 26.3% graves; el 65.7% riesgo de neuropatía positiva (40.9% mujeres y 24.8% hombres, 41.1% con pérdida de sensibilidad moderada y 29.3% sensibilidad normal; el 74.7% tiene un control glucémico deficiente. Los factores de riesgo detectados con mayor prevalencia fueron helomas, hiperqueratosis y deformidades. Conclusiones: Existe una correlación significativa entre la pérdida de la sensibilidad con los años con la enfermedad, con la hiperglucemia y síntomas de neuropatía, la pérdida de sensibilidad en mujeres es de moderada a grave y en los hombres la pérdida de la sensibilidad es moderada. Cómo citar este artículo: Rivas V, Mateo Y, García H, Martínez A, Magaña M, Carrillo R.  Evaluación integral de la sensibilidad en los pies de las personas con diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Rev Cuid. 2017; 8(1:1423-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v8i1.348

  7. Global Sourcing Flexibility

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    Ørberg Jensen, Peter D.; Petersen, Bent

    2013-01-01

    the higher costs (but decreased risk for value chain disruption) embedded in a more flexible global sourcing model that allows the firm to replicate and/or relocate activities across multiple locations. We develop a model and propositions on facilitating and constraining conditions of global sourcing...... sourcing flexibility. Here we draw on prior research in the fields of organizational flexibility, international business and global sourcing as well as case examples and secondary studies. In the second part of the paper, we discuss the implications of global sourcing flexibility for firm strategy...... and operations against the backdrop of the theory-based definition of the construct. We discuss in particular the importance of global sourcing flexibility for operational performance stability, and the trade-off between specialization benefits, emerging from location and service provider specialization, versus...

  8. A práxis jurídica brasileira: soluções alternativas em conflitos entre consumidores e os planos de saúde / Brazilian legal praxis: alternative resolution in conflicts between consumers and health insurance companies

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    Cristina Lobato

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo descrever as práticas extrajudiciais desenvolvidas pelos advogados que atuam no campo dos Planos de Saúde e na Defesa do Consumidor. Isto porque, os meios alternativos de solução de conflitos configuram práticas não adversariais inseridas numa cultura diferenciada de pacificação social, através de tentativas cooperativas entre as partes através do diálogo. Palavras–chave: Advocacia. Plano de Saúde. Consumidor. Direito à Saúde. Práticas Extrajudiciais.   Abstract This article aims to describe the extrajudicial practices performed by lawyers who work under the Health Insurance and Consumer Protection. This is because, the alternative ways of solution of conflicts configure non-adversarial practical inserted in a differentiated culture of social pacification, through cooperative efforts among the parties through dialogue. Keywords: Advocacy. Health Insurance. Consumer. Right to Health. Extrajudicial Practices.  

  9. Conflicting flexibility

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    De Jong, P.; Schaap, A.

    2011-01-01

    New buildings are designed for first users. For a sustainable approach there are many advantages in designing in flexibility and adjustability in order to enable and facilitate the other sequential users. For the first investor this flexibility is translated into improved exit values due to

  10. Meaningful call combinations and compositional processing in the southern pied babbler

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    Engesser, Sabrina; Ridley, Amanda R.; Townsend, Simon W.

    2016-01-01

    Language’s expressive power is largely attributable to its compositionality: meaningful words are combined into larger/higher-order structures with derived meaning. Despite its importance, little is known regarding the evolutionary origins and emergence of this syntactic ability. Although previous research has shown a rudimentary capability to combine meaningful calls in primates, because of a scarcity of comparative data, it is unclear to what extent analog forms might also exist outside of primates. Here, we address this ambiguity and provide evidence for rudimentary compositionality in the discrete vocal system of a social passerine, the pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor). Natural observations and predator presentations revealed that babblers produce acoustically distinct alert calls in response to close, low-urgency threats and recruitment calls when recruiting group members during locomotion. On encountering terrestrial predators, both vocalizations are combined into a “mobbing sequence,” potentially to recruit group members in a dangerous situation. To investigate whether babblers process the sequence in a compositional way, we conducted systematic experiments, playing back the individual calls in isolation as well as naturally occurring and artificial sequences. Babblers reacted most strongly to mobbing sequence playbacks, showing a greater attentiveness and a quicker approach to the loudspeaker, compared with individual calls or control sequences. We conclude that the sequence constitutes a compositional structure, communicating information on both the context and the requested action. Our work supports previous research suggesting combinatoriality as a viable mechanism to increase communicative output and indicates that the ability to combine and process meaningful vocal structures, a basic syntax, may be more widespread than previously thought. PMID:27155011

  11. Inter-vertebral flexibility of the ostrich neck: implications for estimating sauropod neck flexibility.

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    Cobley, Matthew J; Rayfield, Emily J; Barrett, Paul M

    2013-01-01

    The flexibility and posture of the neck in sauropod dinosaurs has long been contentious. Improved constraints on sauropod neck function will have major implications for what we know of their foraging strategies, ecology and overall biology. Several hypotheses have been proposed, based primarily on osteological data, suggesting different degrees of neck flexibility. This study attempts to assess the effects of reconstructed soft tissues on sauropod neck flexibility through systematic removal of muscle groups and measures of flexibility of the neck in a living analogue, the ostrich (Struthio camelus). The possible effect of cartilage on flexibility is also examined, as this was previously overlooked in osteological estimates of sauropod neck function. These comparisons show that soft tissues are likely to have limited the flexibility of the neck beyond the limits suggested by osteology alone. In addition, the inferred presence of cartilage, and varying the inter-vertebral spacing within the synovial capsule, also affect neck flexibility. One hypothesis proposed that flexibility is constrained by requiring a minimum overlap between successive zygapophyses equivalent to 50% of zygapophyseal articular surface length (ONP50). This assumption is tested by comparing the maximum flexibility of the articulated cervical column in ONP50 and the flexibility of the complete neck with all tissues intact. It is found that this model does not adequately convey the pattern of flexibility in the ostrich neck, suggesting that the ONP50 model may not be useful in determining neck function if considered in isolation from myological and other soft tissue data.

  12. Inter-vertebral flexibility of the ostrich neck: implications for estimating sauropod neck flexibility.

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    Matthew J Cobley

    Full Text Available The flexibility and posture of the neck in sauropod dinosaurs has long been contentious. Improved constraints on sauropod neck function will have major implications for what we know of their foraging strategies, ecology and overall biology. Several hypotheses have been proposed, based primarily on osteological data, suggesting different degrees of neck flexibility. This study attempts to assess the effects of reconstructed soft tissues on sauropod neck flexibility through systematic removal of muscle groups and measures of flexibility of the neck in a living analogue, the ostrich (Struthio camelus. The possible effect of cartilage on flexibility is also examined, as this was previously overlooked in osteological estimates of sauropod neck function. These comparisons show that soft tissues are likely to have limited the flexibility of the neck beyond the limits suggested by osteology alone. In addition, the inferred presence of cartilage, and varying the inter-vertebral spacing within the synovial capsule, also affect neck flexibility. One hypothesis proposed that flexibility is constrained by requiring a minimum overlap between successive zygapophyses equivalent to 50% of zygapophyseal articular surface length (ONP50. This assumption is tested by comparing the maximum flexibility of the articulated cervical column in ONP50 and the flexibility of the complete neck with all tissues intact. It is found that this model does not adequately convey the pattern of flexibility in the ostrich neck, suggesting that the ONP50 model may not be useful in determining neck function if considered in isolation from myological and other soft tissue data.

  13. A simetria e a topologia na concepção dos planos do plurifamiliar portuense na 1ª metade do séc. XX

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    Gisela Lameira

    2014-01-01

    No Porto, o surgimento de habitação plurifamiliar de nova implantação e promoção privada, é um fenómeno que se observa a partir da década de 20 do novecentos. É pertinente a compreensão dos processos de produção e adaptação dos planos arquitectónicos destes edifícios, e fundamentalmente o esclarecimento dos instrumentos utilizados pelos autores dos projectos de arquitectura para os conceber. Neste sentido, este artigo procura demonstrar o recurso à simetria e à topologia/transformação topológ...

  14. Plano de negócios da conversão de uma habitação antiga num hostel: “The Other Side - Porto Hostel”

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    Sousa, Ana Isabel Carvalho de

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    O intuito deste plano de negócios é avaliar a viabilidade financeira e económica da abertura de um hostel no Grande Porto, mais propriamente, na cidade de Vila Nova de Gaia. Assim, inicia-se com um muito breve enquadramento teórico sobre o empreendedorismo. Segue-se o estudo de mercado, onde se analisará a evolução do turismo no mundo e em Portugal, a evolução do alojamento em Portugal, a caracterização da região, e a oferta de alojamento turístico, mais especificamente, de hostels, junt...

  15. Efectividad de la terapia de presión negativa en las úlceras de pie diabético. Revisión crítica de la literatura

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    Liñeira García, Tamara

    2016-01-01

    El aumento de la esperanza de vida en el último siglo ha generado una población envejecida con problemas de salud crónicos, en ocasiones difíciles de tratar. Entre los problemas de salud crónicos destacan las heridas crónicas, concretamente las úlceras de pie diabético, que suponen un importante problema de salud tanto para las personas que las padecen como para los sistemas sanitarios. Este tipo de heridas crónicas se caracterizan por su difícil manejo con terapias convencionales que en o...

  16. Flexible Carbon Aerogels

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    Marina Schwan

    2016-09-01

    Full Text Available Carbon aerogels are highly porous materials with a large inner surface area. Due to their high electrical conductivity they are excellent electrode materials in supercapacitors. Their brittleness, however, imposes certain limitations in terms of applicability. In that context, novel carbon aerogels with varying degree of flexibility have been developed. These highly porous, light aerogels are characterized by a high surface area and possess pore structures in the micrometer range, allowing for a reversible deformation of the aerogel network. A high ratio of pore size to particle size was found to be crucial for high flexibility. For dynamic microstructural analysis, compression tests were performed in-situ within a scanning electron microscope allowing us to directly visualize the microstructural flexibility of an aerogel. The flexible carbon aerogels were found to withstand between 15% and 30% of uniaxial compression in a reversible fashion. These findings might stimulate further research and new application fields directed towards flexible supercapacitors and batteries.

  17. Effets de certaines pratiques oenologiques telles que : pied de cuve, sulfitage et régulation du pH sur la flore de fermentation dans les moûts de Xérès

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    Manuel José Valcárcel Muñoz

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    Les résultats mettent en évidence l'efficacité de l'usage correct du pied de cuve contenant des levures sélectionnées, l'influence relativement faible de la régulation du pH sur la flore blastomicète, et enfin la sélection correcte de la flore par un sulfitage adéquat.

  18. Valoración del riesgo de pie diabético en el paciente anciano en una consulta de enfermería Assessing the risk of "diabetic foot" in the elderly patient in a nursery office

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    Antonio Martínez Sabater

    2009-06-01

    Full Text Available Dentro del trabajo diario del profesional de enfermería con los mayores, la atención al paciente con diabetes mellitus (DM supone una parte importante del quehacer diario. El pie diabético supone una de las complicaciones más frecuentes que van a suponer un mayor coste, no sólo a nivel físico, sino social y económico, tanto para el paciente como para la sociedad. Nos planteamos realizar un estudio descriptivo observacional sobre los hábitos higiénicos respecto al cuidado de los pies de los pacientes mayores de 60 años afectos de diabetes mellitus remitidos a la consulta de enfermería, encontrándose un déficit importante de cuidados podológicos en los pacientes estudiados. El profesional de enfermería, por el alto contacto que tiene con el paciente afecto de diabetes mellitus, es un factor importante en la prevención y detección precoz del pie diabético y de la promoción de hábitos saludables.Taking care of diabetes mellitus (DM patients is one of the main chores in geriatric nursery. "Diabetic foot" is the most common problem and it actually entails a great deal of expenses, physically, socially and economically speaking, as well for the patient as for the community. What we did was an observational and descriptive research about foot cleansing habits in diabetes mellitus patients over 60 years old and we found out a severe lack of chiropody care. Due to the fact their work involves having a close contact with diabetes mellitus patients, nursing professionals become an outstanding agent on an early detection and prevention of the "diabetic foot" in addition of improving healthy cleaning habits.

  19. Adição de torta de mamona em substratos na aclimatação de mudas micropropagadas de bananeira Effect of addition of castor bean pie in substrates in acclimatization of micropropagated banana plantlets

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    Adriana Novais Martins

    2011-03-01

    Full Text Available A utilização de mudas micropropagadas de bananeira que oferecem qualidade genética e fitossanitária, favorecendo o desenvolvimento, instalação e uniformidade do pomar, é importante para a exploração comercial da bananicultura. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a influência da adição da torta de mamona nos substratos na aclimatação de mudas micropropagadas de bananeira da cv. Willians. O delineamento estatístico utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com 10 tratamentos, sendo 2 substratos e 5 dosagens de torta de mamona (0; 6; 12; 18 e 24 g vaso-1. O substrato Vivatto Slim Plus® possibilitou o melhor desenvolvimento das plantas na aclimatação. Não são recomendadas doses superiores a 12 g planta-1 de torta de mamona misturadas ao substrato na aclimatação de mudas de bananeira.The use of micropropagated banana tree seedlings offer genetic and phytosanitary qualities, favoring the development, installation and uniformity of the yield and it is very important for the commercial exploration of banana fruits. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of castor oil plant pie added to the substrate in the acclimatization of micropropagated banana plantlets cv. 'Willians'. It was use the completely randomized, with 10 treatments, being 2 substrates and 5 dosages of castor oil plant pie (0; 6; 12; 18 and 24 g for each recipient. The substrate Vivatto Slim Plus® showed the best development of the plants in acclimatization processes. Dosages above 12 g of castor oil plant pie for each plant are not recommended mixed to the substrate in the acclimatization of banana tree seedlings

  20. Does a rival’s song elicit territorial defense in a tropical songbird, the Pied Bush Chat (Saxicola caprata?

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    Navjeevan Dadwal

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    Full Text Available The purpose of bird song and the way in which it is delivered has been argued to be adapted mainly for territorial defense. We performed a field experiment with the combination of playbacks and a model to test how much song actually relates to increased territorial defense in the territorial tropical songbird, the Pied Bush Chat, during breeding season (Feb–May, 2015 at Haridwar, Himalayan Foothills, India. As expected, the results of the experiment indicated that song was the major cue used by territory holders to cope with rival intrusions. The song rate was particularly escalated during simulated territorial interactions when the model was presented with a playback song of conspecifics. Behaviors such as restlessness (perch change, the height of perch, and distance from the model appeared to be of relatively lesser importance. To our knowledge, no avian species from the Indian subcontinent has been studied to provide evidence that song can escalate aggressive response by a territory owner.

  1. Caracterização biológica e zoneamento ambiental do Parque Estadual do Jiquí \\2013 RN/Brasil:subsídios ao plano de maneio

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    Farias, Flávio Henrique Cunha de

    2009-01-01

    Tese de mestrado, Biologia (Biologia da Conservação), 2009, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências O presente trabalho teve como objectivos a caracterização biológica e proposição de um zoneamento ambiental para Parque Estadual do Jiquí, na perspectiva de subsidiar o plano de maneio desta Unidade de Conservação. O Parque está localizado no Município de Parnamirim, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil, com uma área de aproximadamente 398 ha, abrangendo importantes recursos hídri...

  2. La enseñanza de nociones especiales a través de mapas y planos en educación infantil: una propuesta de intervención

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    Clérigo García, Natalia

    2014-01-01

    El presente trabajo pretende poner de manifiesto la importancia de la enseñanza de nociones espaciales en el segundo ciclo de educación infantil. Por ello, se ha llevado a cabo una propuesta de intervención educativa puesta en práctica en un aula de infantil, basada en la enseñanza de nociones espaciales a través de mapas y planos, de una forma amena, lúdica, activa y participativa, con experiencias enriquecedoras a través de actividades vividas por ellos mismos y en continuo contacto con la ...

  3. Reversibly Bistable Flexible Electronics

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    Alfaraj, Nasir

    2015-05-01

    Introducing the notion of transformational silicon electronics has paved the way for integrating various applications with silicon-based, modern, high-performance electronic circuits that are mechanically flexible and optically semitransparent. While maintaining large-scale production and prototyping rapidity, this flexible and translucent scheme demonstrates the potential to transform conventionally stiff electronic devices into thin and foldable ones without compromising long-term performance and reliability. In this work, we report on the fabrication and characterization of reversibly bistable flexible electronic switches that utilize flexible n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors. The transistors are fabricated initially on rigid (100) silicon substrates before they are peeled off. They can be used to control flexible batches of light-emitting diodes, demonstrating both the relative ease of scaling at minimum cost and maximum reliability and the feasibility of integration. The peeled-off silicon fabric is about 25 µm thick. The fabricated devices are transferred to a reversibly bistable flexible platform through which, for example, a flexible smartphone can be wrapped around a user’s wrist and can also be set back to its original mechanical position. Buckling and cyclic bending of such host platforms brings a completely new dimension to the development of flexible electronics, especially rollable displays.

  4. Comparative calculations and operation-to-PIE data juxtaposition of the Zaporozhye NPP, WWER-1000 FA-E0325 fuel rods after 4 years of operation up to ∼49 MWd/kgU burnup

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    Passage, G.; Stefanova, S.; Scheglov, A.; Proselkov, V.

    2006-01-01

    Operational and PIE data for the Zaporozhe NPP, FA-E0325, WWER-1000 fuel rods were provided in the OECD NEA IFPE Database and were used to perform comparative calculations among several fuel performance codes. The fuel rods had been irradiated for 4 years of operation up to ∼49 MWd/kg U burnup. The fuel rod operation histories are developed for the PINw99, TRANSURANUS (V1M1J03) and TOPRA-2 codes. The initial state fuel rod parameters are analysed and calculations are carried out. The PIE data enable the comparison of experimental measurement with code-calculated values for cladding elongation (49 rods), FGR and gas pressure (35 rods). Cladding diameter creep-down and gap closure results are juxtaposed as well. The capability of the applied codes correctly to predict the WWER fuel rod performance is shown. The WWER-1000 fuel rod data include initial geometrical and design parameters of the fuel rods, as well as description of the operation regime, NPP unit loading history and PIE results at normal conditions. The data are sufficient for modelling all 312 fuel rod and for comparison of calculations with experimental results for a limited number of fuel rods. The comparison between the calculated and measured results discussed in this paper shows that the codes PINw99, TRANSURANUS and TOPRA-2, are capable of adequate predicting the thermophysical and the mechanical performance of the WWER-1000 fuel rods. The PINw99 code predicts conservative BOL FGR values and conservative gas pressure values in the region of burnups higher than 30 MWd/kg U, which can be explained by the underprediction of the cladding gas inner volume and cladding elongation. The improved version PIN2K (not applied in the present study) predicts much better FGR and gas pressure, though, it is still under development in the high burnup FGR modelling part. In the TRANSURANUS code, there are also areas, where refinements are clearly indicated. They are subjects of the ongoing research projects and

  5. Flexible MEMS: A novel technology to fabricate flexible sensors and electronics

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    Tu, Hongen

    This dissertation presents the design and fabrication techniques used to fabricate flexible MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) devices. MEMS devices and CMOS(Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) circuits are traditionally fabricated on rigid substrates with inorganic semiconductor materials such as Silicon. However, it is highly desirable that functional elements like sensors, actuators or micro fluidic components to be fabricated on flexible substrates for a wide variety of applications. Due to the fact that flexible substrate is temperature sensitive, typically only low temperature materials, such as polymers, metals, and organic semiconductor materials, can be directly fabricated on flexible substrates. A novel technology based on XeF2(xenon difluoride) isotropic silicon etching and parylene conformal coating, which is able to monolithically incorporate high temperature materials and fluidic channels, was developed at Wayne State University. The technology was first implemented in the development of out-of-plane parylene microneedle arrays that can be individually addressed by integrated flexible micro-channels. These devices enable the delivery of chemicals with controlled temporal and spatial patterns and allow us to study neurotransmitter-based retinal prosthesis. The technology was further explored by adopting the conventional SOI-CMOS processes. High performance and high density CMOS circuits can be first fabricated on SOI wafers, and then be integrated into flexible substrates. Flexible p-channel MOSFETs (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect-Transistors) were successfully integrated and tested. Integration of pressure sensors and flow sensors based on single crystal silicon has also been demonstrated. A novel smart yarn technology that enables the invisible integration of sensors and electronics into fabrics has been developed. The most significant advantage of this technology is its post-MEMS and post-CMOS compatibility. Various high

  6. Flexible Carpooling: Exploratory Study

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    Dorinson, Diana; Gay, Deanna; Minett, Paul; Shaheen, Susan

    2009-01-01

    Energy consumption could be reduced if more people shared rides rather than driving alone yet carpooling represents a small proportion of all potential carpoolers. Prior research has found that many who might carpool were concerned about reduced flexibility with carpooling. If flexibility is one of the barriers how could carpooling be organized to be more flexible? In Northern Virginia a flexible system has evolved where there are 3,500 single-use carpools per day. In another example there ...

  7. Local Flexibility Market Design for Aggregators Providing Multiple Flexibility Services at Distribution Network Level

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    Pol Olivella-Rosell

    2018-04-01

    Full Text Available This paper presents a general description of local flexibility markets as a market-based management mechanism for aggregators. The high penetration of distributed energy resources introduces new flexibility services like prosumer or community self-balancing, congestion management and time-of-use optimization. This work is focused on the flexibility framework to enable multiple participants to compete for selling or buying flexibility. In this framework, the aggregator acts as a local market operator and supervises flexibility transactions of the local energy community. Local market participation is voluntary. Potential flexibility stakeholders are the distribution system operator, the balance responsible party and end-users themselves. Flexibility is sold by means of loads, generators, storage units and electric vehicles. Finally, this paper presents needed interactions between all local market stakeholders, the corresponding inputs and outputs of local market operation algorithms from participants and a case study to highlight the application of the local flexibility market in three scenarios. The local market framework could postpone grid upgrades, reduce energy costs and increase distribution grids’ hosting capacity.

  8. [Inspecting the cochlear scala tympanic with flexible and semi-flexible micro-endoscope].

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    Zhang, Daoxcing; Zhang, Yankun

    2006-02-01

    Flexible and semi-flexible micro-endoscopes were used in cochlear scala tympani inspection , to explore their application in inner ear examination. Fifteen profound hearing loss patients preparing for cochlear implant were included in this study. During the operation, micro-endoscopy was performed after opening the cochlear scala tympani. And 1 mm diameter semi-flexible micro-endoscope could go as deep as 9 mm into the cochlear scala tympani, while 0. 5 mm diameter flexible micro-endoscope could go as deep as 25 mm. The inspecting results were compared with video recording. Using 0.5 mm flexible micro-endoscope, we canould check cochlear scala tympani with depth range of 15-25 mm, but the video imaging was not clear enough to examine the microstructure in the cochlear. With 1 mm diameter semi-flexible micro-endoscope, we could reach 9 mm deep into the cochlear. During the examination, we found 3 cases with calcification deposit in osseous spiral lamina, l case with granulation tissue in the lateral wall of scala tympani, no abnormal findings in the other 11 cases. Inspecting the cochlear scala tympani with 0.5 mm flexible micro-endoscope, even though we can reach the second circuit of the cochlear, it is difficult to find the pathology in the cochlear because of the poor video imaging. With 1 mm semi-flexible micro-endoscope, we can identify the microstructure of the cochlear clearly and find the pathologic changes, but the inserting depth was limited to 9 mm with limitation to examine the whole cochlear.

  9. Carcass Traits and Meat Quality of Prestice Black-Pied Pig Breed

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    Václav Matoušek

    2016-08-01

    Full Text Available The objective of the study was to evaluate fattening performance, carcass value and meat quality in pigs of Prestice Black-Pied breed in relation to slaughter weight (SW and gender (barrows and gilts, resp.. Pigs were divided into weight categories: SW1 (75 to 99.9 kg, SW2 (100 to 109.9 kg and SW3 (110 to 130 kg and all individual traits were analyzed by the general linear model procedure (SAS 9.3. Average SW of each weight group was as follows: SW1 94.2 kg, SW2 105.8 kg, and SW3 115.2 kg. Differences among average backfat thickness of 36.07 mm in SW1, 40.16 mm in SW2, and 43.21 mm in SW3 were significant (p<0.01. Lean meat content was 48.94% (SW1, 48.78% (SW2, and 48.76% (SW3. Pigs were slaughtered at average weight of 105.7 kg for barrows and 104.4 kg for gilts. Average backfat thickness for barrows was 40.90 mm and 38.72 mm for gilts (significant difference p<0.05. Lean meat content was 48.75% in barrows and 48.91% in gilts. The values of pH45, characterizing the meat of very good quality. The loin in SW3 was darker than the muscles of SW1 and SW2. Drip loss was the lowest in SW1 (1.96%, compared to the highest drip loss in SW3 (2.59%. Content of intramuscular fat was 2.68% in SW3, 2.79% in SW2, and SW1 had the lowest content 2.47%. The values of pH45, colour lightness and drip loss were similar in both genders. However barrows had higher intramuscular fat content by 0.31% than gilts (p<0.05.

  10. Development of Flexible Pneumatic Cylinder with Built-in Flexible Linear Encoder and Flexible Bending Sensor

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    Akagi, Tetsuya; Dohta, Shujiro; Matsushita, Hisashi; Fukuhara, Akimasa

    The purpose of this study is to develop a lightweight and intelligent soft actuator which can be safely attached to the human body. A novel flexible pneumatic cylinder that can be used even if it is deformed by external force had been proposed. The cylinder can realize both pushing and pulling motions even if the cylinder bends. In this paper, a flexible pneumatic cylinder with a built-in flexible linear encoder is proposed and tested. The encoder can detect the cylinder displacement even if the cylinder bends. In the next step, to realize an intelligent flexible cylinder, it is essential to recognize the angle of deflection of the cylinder to estimate the direction of the external force. Therefore, a flexible bending sensor that can measure the directional angle by attaching it to the end of the cylinder is also proposed and tested. The tested bending sensor also consists of four inexpensive photo-reflectors set on the circumferential surface to the cylinder tube every 90 degrees from the center of the tube. By measuring the distance between the photo reflector and the surface of the tube at each point, the bending directional angle of the cylinder can be obtained. A low cost measuring system using a micro-computer incorporating a programmed Up/Down counter to measure the displacement of the cylinder is also developed. As a result, it was confirmed that the measuring accuracy of the bending directional angle was good, less than 0.7 degrees as a standard deviation.

  11. Plano de prevenção e gestão de residuos de construção e demolição. Uma análise crítica

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    Almeida, Jorge Alexandre Sales

    2010-01-01

    Mestrado em Engenharia do Ambiente - Instituto Superior de Agronomia The construction sector consumes an elevated amount of natural resources and produces large quantities of residues. In Portugal, this situation is aggravated due to low rates of reuse and recycling and resort to landfill sites. The main goal of the present work it was analysed the structure of a plan of prevention and management of construction and demolition residues (PPGRCD, acronym for Planos de Prevençã...

  12. Uma nova versão sobre a oferta de moeda no Plano de Ação Econômica do Governo (PAEG

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    Cláudio Ribeiro Lucinda

    2005-09-01

    Full Text Available O controle da oferta de moeda foi um dos principais instrumentos na execução da política monetária desenhada pelos gestores do PAEG (1964/66. Embora a inflação tenha sido controlada, as metas previstas de execução monetária não foram alçadas. Pastore (1973, 1973a, Lara Resende (1982 e Cysne (1993 discordam, ora dos motivos, ora do momento em que os fatos ocorreram. Com a técnica de séries de tempo foi possível investigar o que de fato ocorreu. Como resultado desta investigação, durante o PAEG: a apenas uma mudança importante ocorreu na oferta de moeda (julho de 1965. Se outras mudanças ocorreram, elas foram antes ou depois do plano; b apesar dos autores concordarem com o papel do financiamento monetário do Caixa do Tesouro, o crédito concedido pelo Banco do Brasil enquanto Autoridade Monetária é o maior candidato para explicar o descontrole da oferta de moeda durante o plano; c o crédito dado pelos Bancos Comerciais ao setor privado não teve qualquer papel no descontrole da oferta de moeda durante o plano e d o papel das reservas internacionais descrito pelos autores não foi o que de fato ocorreu. A utilização de dados de reservas que não aqueles disponibilizados pela SUMOC em termos reais impossibilitou um trabalho mais adequado por parte dos autores.The control of the money supply was one of the most important instruments used in the carrying out of the monetary policy designed by the author of PAEG (1964/1966. Although the inflation has been controlled, the targets for monetary supply have not been reached. Pastore (1973, 1973a, Lara Resente (1982 and Cysne (1993 disaggee both on the reasons for that and the timing of the relevant facts. With a Time Series analysis it was possible to investigate what really happened with the money supply. The main conclusions are: a During the PAEG, only one important structural change had happened (July 1965; other breaks have happened before the plan; b although all of these

  13. Graderías y prefabricación

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    Salas, Julián

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    La primera y básica propiedad que tiene que cumplir toda grada, en sentido genérico (grada: asiento a manera de escalón corrido, y más específicamente la grada de un estadio de fútbol, es la de proporcionar buena visibilidad a los espectadores En modesto segundo plano quedan otras características, que no pueden olvidarse a la hora del proyecto, pero que en modo alguno pueden ponerse a nivel de importancia: proporcionar visibilidad; nos referimos a la comodidad de los usuarios (sentados o de pie, así como a la bondad de paso o acceso a la localidad. En la comodidad, o si se quiere junto a ella, hay que tener en cuenta la idónea evacuación de la lluvia y nieve, en los casos de graderías no cubiertas.

  14. Study of neoclassical transport and bootstrap current for W7-X in the 1/upsilon regime, using results from the PIES code

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    Nemov, V V; Kalyuzhnyj, V N; Kasilov, S V; Drevlak, M; Nuehrenberg, J; Kernbichler, W; Reiman, A; Monticello, D

    2004-01-01

    For the magnetic field of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) standard high-mirror configuration, computed by the PIES code, taking into account real coil geometry, neoclassical transport and bootstrap current are analysed in the 1/upsilon regime using methods based on the integration along magnetic field lines in a given magnetic field. The zero beta and (beta) = 1% cases are studied. The results are compared to the corresponding results for the vacuum magnetic field directly produced by modular coils. A significant advantage of W7-X over a conventional stellarator resulting from reduced neoclassical transport and from reduced bootstrap current follows from the computations although the neoclassical transport is somewhat larger than that previously obtained for the ideal W7-X model configuration

  15. Energy Flexibility in Retail Buildings

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    Ma, Zheng; Billanes, Joy Dalmacio; Kjærgaard, Mikkel Baun

    2017-01-01

    Retail buildings has an important role for demand side energy flexibility because of their high energy consumption, variety of energy flexibility resources, and centralized control via building control systems. Energy flexibility requires agreements and collaborations among different actors......), with the discussion of the stakeholders’ roles and their interrelation in delivering energy flexibility with the influential factors to the actual implementation of energy flexible operation of their buildings. Based on a literature analysis, the results cover stakeholders’ types and roles, perceptions (drivers......, barriers, and benefits), energy management activities and technology adoptions, and the stakeholders’ interaction for the energy flexibility in retail buildings....

  16. The relationship between freezing point of milk and milk components and its changes during lactation in Czech Pied and Holstein cows

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    Gustav Chládek

    2005-01-01

    Full Text Available The freezing point of milk (FPM is an instant indicator of violated technological quality of raw milk, especially of dilution. FPM can also vary due to numerous effects associated with changes in milk composition and milk characteristics. Beside the effect of season, phase of lactation, breed, milk yield, sub-clinical mastitis etc. the impacts of nutrition and dietary or metabolic disorders are the most significant and the most frequent (GAJDŮŠEK, 2003. FPM is a relatively stable physical characteristic and due to osmotically active elements it ranges from – 0.510 to – 0.535 °C (HANUŠ et al., 2003b. Recently ŠUSTOVÁ (2001 studied the freezing point of milk in pool samples; she observed seasonal changes in FPM of mixed milk and the effect of different diets on FPM values. KOLOŠTA (2003 looked into the effect of grazing season on FPM. HANUŠ et al. (2003a analysed possible effects of handling of milk components on FPM.The aim of this work was to describe the relationship between FPM and milk components and the impact of breed, number and phase of lactation on FPM. We analysed 328 milk samples in total, out of which 137 samples were of Czech Pied cows and 191 samples of Holstein cows. The effect of number and phase of lactation was evaluated for both breeds together. The greatest coefficients of correlation in total were found between FPM and lactose content (r = 0.600 and solids non fat (r = 0.523. Lower coefficients of correlation were found between FPM and milk fat content (r = 0.235, milk protein content (r = 0.260 and urea concentration (r = 0.256. These coefficients were considerably lower in Holstein cows than in Czech Pied cows. The coefficients of correlation between FPM and number and phase of lactation and somatic cells count were insignificant. The total mean value of FPM was – 0.534 °C. Breed statistically significantly (P<0.01 affected FPM (+0.006 °C in C breed and milk fat content (+0.19 % in H

  17. Flexible Word Classes

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    • First major publication on the phenomenon • Offers cross-linguistic, descriptive, and diverse theoretical approaches • Includes analysis of data from different language families and from lesser studied languages This book is the first major cross-linguistic study of 'flexible words', i.e. words...... that cannot be classified in terms of the traditional lexical categories Verb, Noun, Adjective or Adverb. Flexible words can - without special morphosyntactic marking - serve in functions for which other languages must employ members of two or more of the four traditional, 'specialised' word classes. Thus......, flexible words are underspecified for communicative functions like 'predicating' (verbal function), 'referring' (nominal function) or 'modifying' (a function typically associated with adjectives and e.g. manner adverbs). Even though linguists have been aware of flexible world classes for more than...

  18. Fracturas Fisarias Salter-Harris VI de Tobillo y Pie. [Salter-Harris VI fractures of the foot and ankle.

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    Julio Javier Masquijo

    2015-06-01

    Full Text Available Introducción Las fracturas Salter-Harris VI (SHVI son lesiones que se caracterizan por presentar ablación del anillo pericondral. Son infrecuentes en niños pero potencialmente devastadoras. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar el mecanismo de producción, el tratamiento y los resultados funcionales de estas lesiones localizadas en el pie y el tobillo. Material y métodos Se analizaron retrospectivamente todos los pacientes con lesiones SHVI de tobillo y pie tratadas entre Enero de 2010 y Enero de 2013. Se documentaron datos demográficos, clasificación, mecanismo de lesión, tipo de lesiones asociadas y número de cirugías que requirieron. Los pacientes fueron evaluados funcionalmente con el score de AOFAS y radiográficamente para determinar la viabilidad de la fisis, acortamiento del miembro o deformidad angular. Resultados Se analizaron 5 fracturas en 4 pacientes (3 masculinos y 1 femenino. La edad promedio al momento de la lesión fue de 7.5 años (rango, 6  a 10 años. El seguimiento promedio fue de 26.2 meses (rango, 12 - 37 meses. De acuerdo a la subclasificación de Peterson 3 pertenecían al grupo A, 1 al B y 1 al C. 3 lesiones se produjeron como consecuencia de accidentes de moto y 2 por auto versus peatón. Todos los casos se acompañaron de pérdida de sustancia, el 75% presentaba lesiones en más de un hueso y el 50% lesiones tendinosas asociadas. Cada paciente requirió un promedio de 3.2 cirugías (rango, 2 a 5. El score AOFAS promedio fue de 79.8 puntos (rango, 62 – 100 puntos. Radiográficamente, solo el 40% de las fisis afectadas permanecían viables al último control. Conclusión Las fracturas SHVI se acompañan de una gran variedad de lesiones asociadas, requieren múltiples cirugías y suelen producir un cierre precoz de la fisis y algún grado de discapacidad.  Se requieren medidas de prevención para evitar la exposición de los niños a este tipo de lesiones. El tratamiento temprano es fundamental para

  19. Flexible magnetoimpedance sensor

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    Li, Bodong; Kavaldzhiev, Mincho; Kosel, Jü rgen

    2015-01-01

    Flexible magnetoimpedance (MI) sensors fabricated using a NiFe/Cu/NiFe tri-layer on Kapton substrate have been studied. A customized flexible microstrip transmission line was employed to investigate the MI sensors's magnetic field and frequency

  20. Flexible magnetoimpedance sensor

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    Li, Bodong; Kavaldzhiev, Mincho N.; Kosel, Jürgen

    2015-01-01

    Flexible magnetoimpedance (MI) sensors fabricated using a NiFe/Cu/NiFe tri-layer on Kapton substrate have been studied. A customized flexible microstrip transmission line was employed to investigate the MI sensors's magnetic field and frequency responses and their dependence on the sensors's deflection. For the first time, the impedance characteristic is obtained through reflection coefficient analysis over a wide range of frequencies from 0.1 MHz to 3 GHz and for deflections ranging from zero curvature to a radius of 7.2 cm. The sensor element maintains a high MI ratio of up to 90% and magnetic sensitivity of up to 9.2%/Oe over different bending curvatures. The relationship between the curvature and material composition is discussed based on the magnetostriction effect and stress simulations. The sensor's large frequency range, simple fabrication process and high sensitivity provide a great potential for flexible electronics and wireless applications. - Highlights: • A flexible magnetoimpedance (MI) sensor is developed. • Studies are carried out using a flexible microstrip transmission line. • An MI ratio of up to 90% is obtained. • The effect of magnetostriction is studied

  1. Flexible transparent electrode

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    Demiryont, Hulya; Shannon, Kenneth C., III; Moorehead, David; Bratcher, Matthew

    2011-06-01

    This paper presents the properties of the EclipseTECTM transparent conductor. EclipseTECTM is a room temperature deposited nanostructured thin film coating system comprised of metal-oxide semiconductor elements. The system possesses metal-like conductivity and glass-like transparency in the visible region. These highly conductive TEC films exhibit high shielding efficiency (35dB at 1 to 100GHz). EclipseTECTM can be deposited on rigid or flexible substrates. For example, EclipseTECTM deposited on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is extremely flexible that can be rolled around a 9mm diameter cylinder with little or no reduction in electrical conductivity and that can assume pre-extension states after an applied stress is relieved. The TEC is colorless and has been tailored to have high visible transmittance which matches the eye sensitivity curve and allows the viewing of true background colors through the coating. EclipseTECTM is flexible, durable and can be tailored at the interface for applications such as electron- or hole-injecting OLED electrodes as well as electrodes in flexible displays. Tunable work function and optical design flexibility also make EclipseTECTM well-suited as a candidate for grid electrode replacement in next-generation photovoltaic cells.

  2. Flexible Foam Model.

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    Neilsen, Michael K.; Lu, Wei-Yang; Werner, Brian T.; Scherzinger, William M.; Lo, Chi S.

    2018-03-01

    Experiments were performed to characterize the mechanical response of a 15 pcf flexible polyurethane foam to large deformation at different strain rates and temperatures. Results from these experiments indicated that at room temperature, flexible polyurethane foams exhibit significant nonlinear elastic deformation and nearly return to their original undeformed shape when unloaded. However, when these foams are cooled to temperatures below their glass transition temperature of approximately -35 o C, they behave like rigid polyurethane foams and exhibit significant permanent deformation when compressed. Thus, a new model which captures this dramatic change in behavior with temperature was developed and implemented into SIERRA with the name Flex_Foam to describe the mechanical response of both flexible and rigid foams to large deformation at a variety of temperatures and strain rates. This report includes a description of recent experiments. Next, development of the Flex Foam model for flexible polyurethane and other flexible foams is described. Selection of material parameters are discussed and finite element simulations with the new Flex Foam model are compared with experimental results to show behavior that can be captured with this new model.

  3. O mercado de planos de saúde no Brasil: uma criação do estado? The creation of health insurance market in Brazil: did the state play a key role?

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    Carlos Octávio Ocké-Reis

    2006-04-01

    Full Text Available A hipótese central do trabalho afirma que o mercado de planos de saúde se expandiu no Brasil contando com o apoio do padrão de financiamento público mediante a aplicação de um conjunto variado de incentivos governamentais. Os procedimentos metodológicos adotados para investigar esta hipótese se apoiaram no estudo de parte da produção teórica que ilumina a área da economia política da saúde e na descrição de determinadas ações do Estado no campo das políticas de saúde, que acabaram patrocinando o crescimento dos planos e seguros privados de saúde nos últimos quarenta anos.The article's central hypothesis is that the health insurance market has expanded in Brazil thanks to the pattern of government financing, which has involved a varied set of government incentives. The methodological procedures adopted to investigate this hypothesis are based on the study of theory concerning the political economics of health services and the description of specific measures implemented by the State in the field of health policy, which have ended up supporting the growth of private health plans and insurance over the past forty years.

  4. Las notas al pie en la traducción de Fifty Shades (Footnotes in the Translation of Fifty Shades

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    Xinia Valverde Jara

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    Full Text Available Se analiza el recurso de las notas a pie de página insertas en la traducción independiente de literatura comercial en versión digital, de la trilogía Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker y Fifty Shades Freed, de E. L. James. Se examina el grado de influencia de esos elementos extratextuales, y se concluye que todos ellos, organizados en un complejo proceso de traducción, en especial los del contexto de llegada, condicionan la estrategia traductológica. Abstract This study examines the use of footnotes as a translation strategy in the independent translation of commercial literature in digital format, based on the trilogy written by E. L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. The analysis measures the influence of these extratextual elements within the complex translation process, specifically those of the target language context, and it is concluded that they condition the translation strategies used.

  5. Como colocar em prática o Plano de Atendimento às Emergências (PAE no laboratório clínico How to implement the Plan of Care for Emergencies (LAP in the clinical laboratory

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    Maria Elizabete Mendes

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    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: A situação socioeconômica e ambiental na qual os laboratórios clínicos vivem, aliada aos riscos ampliados do negócio nos dias atuais, exige dos dirigentes a elaboração de um plano de segurança para situações de catástrofes. OBJETIVO: Esse plano é útil para garantir a continuidade do negócio e sua recuperação após a crise. MÉTODO: O Plano de Atendimento à Emergência (PAE é apresentado como um conjunto de procedimentos estruturados para a obtenção de respostas rápidas, adestradas e eficientes em situações de emergência no laboratório. CONCLUSÃO: Ele visa prevenir ou mitigar as eventuais consequências adversas para segurança, saúde e meio ambiente no âmbito laboratorial. RESULTADO: Este artigo discute a aplicabilidade, as responsabilidades, a elaboração e a manutenção, assim como suas implicações na rotina laboratorialINTRODUCTION: Nowadays, the environmental and socioeconomic contexts in which clinical laboratories are set, coupled with increased business risks, require the formulation of an emergency care plan in case of natural disasters. OBJECTIVE: This plan is useful to ensure business continuity and recovery after crisis. METHOD: The Emergency Care Plan (PAE is presented as a structured set of procedures for obtaining rapid, efficient and trained responses in emergency situations. CONCLUSION: It aims at preventing or mitigating occasional adverse consequences regarding safety, health and environment in clinical laboratories. RESULTS: This article discusses the applicability, responsibilities, development and maintenance as well as their corresponding implications in laboratory procedures

  6. Estudio comparativo sobre la aplicación de los algoritmos PSO y SQP en la optimización de pórticos planos de concreto armado

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    Lapadula Sequera, Víctor Antonio

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    Esta investigación presenta la comparación de las técnicas SQP (Sequential Cuadratic Programming) y PSO (Particle Swarm optimization) al ser aplicadas al problema de optimización de pórticos planos de concreto armado. El SQP y el PSO son algoritmos de optimización provenientes de filosofías diferentes. El primero es una técnica clásica basada en cálculo diferencial, mientras que el segundo es una meta-heurística inspirada en comportamientos observados en la naturaleza. Como función objetivo d...

  7. La obra de arquitectura y los proyectos arquitectónicos y su protección en la legislación sobre derechos de autor

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    Wilson Rafael Ríos Ruiz

    2011-11-01

    Full Text Available Bastante se ha discutido acerca de si las obras de arquitectura acabadas y construidas deben tener una protección por las normas sobre propiedad intelectual, en particular si el derecho de autor debe o no dispensar una protección a los edificios, a los proyectos arquitectónicos, a los planos, maquetas y demás elementos tanto bidimensionales como tridimensionales que comporta la obra de arquitectura y los elementos que le sirven como preludio y base para finalmente lograr la existencia corpórea de un bien inmueble que en muchas de las ocasiones, por no decir que en todas, termina perteneciendo a un tercero totalmente distinto y ajeno al arquitecto que realiza el diseño, el proyecto arquitectónico y logra la obra en pie. Generalmente la obra de arquitectura ostenta la calidad de obra hecha por encargo y puede por lo tanto también presentar características propias de las obras colectivas y también, en algunos eventos, de las obras en colaboración. Lo primero que debemos precisar, y que nos servirá de punto de partida para nuestros comentarios, estriba en determinar qué tanto la obra de arquitectura, los proyectos arquitectónicos y los planos respectivos son objeto de protección a través de las normas autorales vigentes tanto a nivel internacional como a nivel local en Colombia.

  8. Diversidad y universalidad como respuesta a pie diabético en paciente paquistaní con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 desde Atención Primaria

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    Montserrat Brugada Faura

    Full Text Available Siguiendo las enseñanzas de Madeleine Leininger sobre los conceptos de su modelo transcultural, buscamos una respuesta en el entorno de la Atención Primaria al caso que nos ocupa de una lesión ulcerosa en pie izquierdo, de etiología desconocida, en paciente paquistaní con diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Hallando la respuesta mediante la adaptación de similitudes de riesgo en el entorno de esta enfermedad, comunes en todas las culturas, y cuyas diferencias estriban en la localización de la úlcera y su factor desencadenante. Anómalas en nuestra cultura al estar relacionada con sus prácticas culturales.

  9. Incentivizing Flexibility in System Operations

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    Milligan, Michael [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Bloom, Aaron P [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Townsend, Aaron [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Ela, Erik [Electric Power Research Institute; Botterud, Audun [Argonne National Laboratory; Levin, Todd [Argonne National Laboratory

    2018-02-15

    Defining flexibility has been a challenge that a number of industry members and researchers have attempted to address in recent years. With increased variability and uncertainty of variable generation (VG), the resources on the system will have to be more flexible to adjust output, so that power output ranges, power ramp rates, and energy duration sustainability are sufficient to meet the needs of balancing supply with demand at various operational timescales. This chapter discusses whether existing market designs provide adequate incentives for resources to offer their flexibility into the market to meet the increased levels of variability and uncertainty introduced by VG in the short-term operational time frame. It presents a definition of flexibility and discusses how increased levels of VG require increased needs for flexibility on power systems. Following this introductory material, the chapter examines how existing market designs ensure that resources have the right incentives to provide increased flexibility, and then discusses a number of emerging market design elements that impact flexibility incentives.

  10. Graphene-based materials for flexible supercapacitors.

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    Shao, Yuanlong; El-Kady, Maher F; Wang, Lisa J; Zhang, Qinghong; Li, Yaogang; Wang, Hongzhi; Mousavi, Mir F; Kaner, Richard B

    2015-06-07

    The demand for flexible/wearable electronic devices that have aesthetic appeal and multi-functionality has stimulated the rapid development of flexible supercapacitors with enhanced electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility. After a brief introduction to flexible supercapacitors, we summarize current progress made with graphene-based electrodes. Two recently proposed prototypes for flexible supercapacitors, known as micro-supercapacitors and fiber-type supercapacitors, are then discussed. We also present our perspective on the development of graphene-based electrodes for flexible supercapacitors.

  11. Flexible Metal Oxide/Graphene Oxide Hybrid Neuromorphic Devices on Flexible Conducting Graphene Substrates

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    Wan, Chang Jin; Wang, Wei; Zhu, Li Qiang; Liu, Yang Hui; Feng, Ping; Liu, Zhao Ping; Shi, Yi; Wan, Qing

    2016-01-01

    Flexible metal oxide/graphene oxide hybrid multi-gate neuron transistors were fabricated on flexible graphene substrates. Dendritic integrations in both spatial and temporal modes were successfully emulated, and spatiotemporal correlated logics were obtained. A proof-of-principle visual system model for emulating lobula giant motion detector neuron was investigated. Our results are of great interest for flexible neuromorphic cognitive systems.

  12. People into Employment: supporting people with disabilities and carers into work.

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    Arksey, Hilary

    2003-05-01

    Carers and people with disabilities are two disadvantaged groups at risk of social exclusion. Work is an important route to social inclusion, but carers and people with disabilities are under-represented in the work force. The present paper reports key findings from a new study that evaluated People into Employment (PIE), a pilot employment project in the north-east of England designed to support people with disabilities, carers and former carers in gaining mainstream work. The study aimed to identify what clients, partner agencies and employers perceived to be PIE's most important services, its strengths and areas where there was scope for further development. The study collected quantitative and qualitative data at the mid-point and at the end of the project through two questionnaire surveys, and interviews with PIE clients, the project development officer, partner agencies and employers. Drawing on the 'pathway model', the findings show that PIE's interventions included mobilising, matching, mediating and supporting activities. Key ingredients in PIE's success include: tailor-made job-search activities and training; adjusting the pace at which people move towards sustained employment; recognising and responding to the differing needs of people with disabilities, carers and former carers; confidence boosting; accompanying clients to job interviews; good job matching; and ongoing practical and emotional support for both clients and employers. Rudimentary calculations suggest that the cost per job to the project is less than the cost per job for large national projects. Overall, these findings illustrate how access to employment via flexible job-search services geared up to the local labour market can successfully promote social inclusion for carers and people with disabilities.

  13. Ceratoconjuntivite cicatricial bilateral associada a líquen plano: relato de caso Lichen planus leading to bilateral cicatrizing keratoconjunctivitis: case report

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    Camila Melo Gadelha Pereira Diniz

    2008-12-01

    Full Text Available Descrevemos um caso de ceratoconjuntivite cicatricial bilateral em uma paciente portadora de líquen plano e apresentamos revisão da literatura mundial sobre esse assunto. Cicatrização conjuntival, com formação de simbléfaro, olho seco, infiltração corneana, neovascularização e afinamento foram os sinais observados. Diagnóstico foi baseado nos achados clínicos e biópsia, após exclusão das causas típicas de ceratoconjuntivite cicatricial.To describe a case of bilateral cicatrizing keratoconjunctivitis in a patient with lichen planus and review the literature. Conjunctiva cicatrization with symblepharon formation, dry eye, corneal infiltration and neovascularization and thinning were the most observed prominent signs. Diagnosis was based on clinical findings and biopsy, after exclusion of typical causes of cicatricial keratoconjuntivitis.

  14. Flexible Electronics Research Facility

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    Federal Laboratory Consortium — The Flexible Electronics Research Facility designs, synthesizes, tests, and fabricates materials and devices compatible with flexible substrates for Army information...

  15. Flexibility within Fidelity

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    Kendall, Philip C.; Gosch, Elizabeth; Furr, Jami M.; Sood, Erica

    2008-01-01

    The authors address concerns regarding manual-based treatments, highlighting the role of flexibility and creativity. A cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth anxiety called the Coping Cat program demonstrates the flexible application of manuals and emphasizes the importance of a child-centered, personalized approach that involves the child in the…

  16. Eficacia de terapia de presión negativa portátil en el abordaje de lesiones de pie diabético en Atención Primaria

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    Fernández Monasterio, Almudena

    2015-01-01

    Objetivos: Evaluar la eficacia de la terapia de presión negativa portátil en lesiones de pie diabético en Atención Primaria. Determinar la influencia en el tiempo de cicatrización y calidad de vida. Metodología: Diseño experimental, ensayo clínico aleatorizado, abierto, con diseño en paralelo. Se llevará a cabo en Servicio de Atención Primaria de las Áreas de Cervo y Lugo (Galicia, España). La selección de la muestra, se realizará en los Servicios de AP, Endocrinología, Cirugía General, Cirug...

  17. WAGE FLEXIBILITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

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    TECULESCU Silviu Alexandru

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available The paper follows to offer the most efficient solutions for the attainment by Romania of the economic development level associated to the Western European countries. It proposes the division of the flexibility of labour market in three components, namely: internal flexibility, external flexibility and wage flexibility. The analysis performed within the present study will emphasize the wage flexibility. Wage flexibility can be classified in four components: a plans of individual and group incentives; b plans of assigning wages out of productivity; c plans of distribution of profits and, respectively, d plans of suggestions. The labour market flexibility, in general, and especially the wage flexibility contributes to the increase of employee motivation at the workplace, aspect which leeds to the growth of labour productivity, through this one being put the bases of the medium- and long-term economic development.

  18. Energy Flexibility in the Power System

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    Billanes, Joy Dalmacio; Ma, Zheng; Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard

    2017-01-01

    Energy flexibility can address the challenges of large scale integration of renewable energy resources and thereby increasing imbalance in the power system. Flexible power system can provide reliable supply, low electricity cost and sustainability. Various situations and factors influence...... the adoption of the flexibility solutions, such as flexible electricity generation, demand-response, and electricity storage. This paper tries to analyze the current energy flexibility solutions and the factors that can influence the energy flexibility adoption. This paper takes Philippines as case study...... to provide an overview of the current condition of the Philippines’ power system and discuss the energy flexibility in the Philippines’ power system. A further discussion and recommendation is conducted in the end of the paper....

  19. Foveolar Müller Cells of the Pied Flycatcher: Morphology and Distribution of Intermediate Filaments Regarding Cell Transparency.

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    Zueva, Lidia; Golubeva, Tatiana; Korneeva, Elena; Makarov, Vladimir; Khmelinskii, Igor; Inyushin, Mikhail

    2016-04-01

    Specialized intermediate filaments (IFs) have critical importance for the clearness and uncommon transparency of vertebrate lens fiber cells, although the physical mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Recently, an unusual low-scattering light transport was also described in retinal Müller cells. Exploring the function of IFs in Müller cells, we have studied the morphology and distribution pattern of IFs and other cytoskeletal filaments inside the Müller cell main processes in the foveolar part of the avian (pied flycatcher) retina. We found that some IFs surrounded by globular nanoparticles (that we suggest are crystallines) are present in almost every part of the Müller cells that span the retina, including the microvilli. Unlike IFs implicated in the mechanical architecture of the cell, these IFs are not connected to any specific cellular membranes. Instead, they are organized into bundles, passing inside the cell from the endfeet to the photoreceptor, following the geometry of the processes, and repeatedly circumventing numerous obstacles. We believe that the presently reported data effectively confirm that the model of nanooptical channels built of the IFs may provide a viable explanation of Müller cell transparency.

  20. Estratégia profissional e mimetismo empresarial: os planos de saúde odontológicos no Brasil Professional strategy and institutional isomorphism: the dental health insurance industry in Brazil

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    Cristine Vieira

    2008-10-01

    Full Text Available O artigo analisa o modelo organizacional das empresas de planos de saúde odontológicos das modalidades de cooperativas de profissionais e a odontologia de grupo para compreender a dinâmica da oferta de serviços odontológicos no país. Adotou-se como referência a formulação institucionalista de Di Maggio e Powell. O mercado de planos de saúde odontológico é pulverizado, com o predomínio de empresas de pequeno porte, e apresenta um grande dinamismo, que favorece as empresas de pequeno, médio e alto porte. As modalidades analisadas concentram a maior proporção de beneficiários e receitas. A análise geral do desempenho do setor revela impressionante dinamismo na captação de clientes, mesmo após a criação da ANS. O regime de regulação tem imposto um novo padrão institucional à entrada, permanência e saída das empresas no mercado, que não afeta o desempenho setorial. Os dados analisados evidenciam que o setor de planos de saúde odontológicos é altamente rentável, apresentando uma grande capacidade na geração de receitas que explica o crescimento e a permanência destas modalidades no mercado. Os padrões de rentabilidade média, principalmente das empresas de odontologia de grupo, são extremamente elevados, ficando muito acima de qualquer atividade empresarial do Brasil.This article analyzes the organizational model of the dental health industry. The main organizational leaders in this industry are the professional cooperatives and group dental insurance companies. The theoretical basis of the article is the organizational theory developed by Di Maggio and Powell. The dental health industry consists of a great number of small and very dynamic companies, however an expressive part of clients and profit are concentrated in a few large companies. The results show that the industry has expanded the number of clients after the creation of the National Health Insurance Agency. The regulation regime has forced

  1. Organizational flexibility estimation

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    Komarynets, Sofia

    2013-01-01

    By the help of parametric estimation the evaluation scale of organizational flexibility and its parameters was formed. Definite degrees of organizational flexibility and its parameters for the Lviv region enterprises were determined. Grouping of the enterprises under the existing scale was carried out. Special recommendations to correct the enterprises behaviour were given.

  2. Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility

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    Cobley, Matthew J.; Rayfield, Emily J.; Barrett, Paul M.

    2013-01-01

    The flexibility and posture of the neck in sauropod dinosaurs has long been contentious. Improved constraints on sauropod neck function will have major implications for what we know of their foraging strategies, ecology and overall biology. Several hypotheses have been proposed, based primarily on osteological data, suggesting different degrees of neck flexibility. This study attempts to assess the effects of reconstructed soft tissues on sauropod neck flexibility through systematic removal o...

  3. Flexible automated manufacturing for SMEs

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    Grube Hansen, David; Bilberg, Arne; Madsen, Erik Skov

    2017-01-01

    SMEs are in general highly flexible and agile in order to accommodate the customer demands in the paradigm of High Mix-Low Volume manufacturing. The flexibility and agility have mainly been enabled by manual labor, but as we are entering the technology and data driven fourth industrial revolution......, where augmented operators and machines work in cooperation in a highly flexible and productive manufacturing system both an opportunity and a need has raised for developing highly flexible and efficient automation....

  4. On flexible and rigid nouns

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    Rijkhoff, Jan

    2010-01-01

    classes. Finally this article wants to claim that the distinction between rigid and flexible noun categories (a) adds a new dimension to current classifications of parts of speech systems, (b) correlates with certain grammatical phenomena (e.g. so-called number discord), and (c) helps to explain the parts......This article argues that in addition to the major flexible lexical categories in Hengeveld’s classification of parts of speech systems (Contentive, Non-Verb, Modifier), there are also flexible word classes within the rigid lexical category Noun (Set Noun, Sort Noun, General Noun). Members...... by the flexible item in the external world. I will then argue that flexible word classes constitute a proper category (i.e. they are not the result of a merger of some rigid word classes) in that members of flexible word categories display the same properties regarding category membership as members of rigid word...

  5. On flexible and rigid nouns

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    Rijkhoff, Jan

    2008-01-01

    Studies in Language 32-3 (2008), 727-752. Special issue: Parts of Speech: Descriptive tools, theoretical constructs Jan Rijkhoff - On flexible and rigid nouns This article argues that in addition to the flexible lexical categories in Hengeveld’s classification of parts-of-speech systems (Contentive......, Non-Verb, Modifier), there are also flexible word classes within the rigid lexical category Noun (Set Noun, Sort Noun, General Noun). Members of flexible word classes are characterized by their vague semantics, which in the case of nouns means that values for the semantic features Shape...... and Homogeneity are either left undetermined or they are specified in such a way that they do not quite match the properties of the kind of entity denoted by the flexible item in the external world. I will then argue that flexible word classes constitute a proper category (i.e. they are not the result of a merger...

  6. Does the Circular Economy Grow the Pie? The Case of Rebound Effects From Smartphone Reuse

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    Tamar Makov

    2018-05-01

    Full Text Available The environmental benefits of the circular economy (CE are often taken for granted. There are, however, reasons to believe that rebound effects may counteract such benefits by increasing overall consumption or “growing the pie.” In this study, we focus on two main rebound mechanisms: (1 imperfect substitution between “re-circulated” (recycled, reused, etc. and new products and (2 re-spending due to economic savings. We use the case study of smartphone reuse in the US to quantify, for the first time, rebound effects from reuse. Using a combination of life cycle assessment, sales statistics, consumer surveying, consumer demand modeling, and environmentally-extended input-output analysis, we quantify the magnitude of this rebound effect for life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. We find a rebound effect of 29% on average, with a range of 27–46% for specific smartphone models. Moreover, when exploring how rebound might play out in other regions and under different consumer behavior patterns, we find that rebound effects could be higher than 100% (backfire effect. In other words, we estimate that about one third, and potentially the entirety, of emission savings resulting from smartphone reuse could be lost due to the rebound effect. Our results thus suggest that there are grounds to challenge the premise that CE strategies, and reuse in particular, always reduce environmental burdens.

  7. Flexible magnetoimpidence sensor

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    Kavaldzhiev, Mincho

    2015-05-01

    Recently, flexible electronic devices have attracted increasing interest, due to the opportunities they promise for new applications such as wearable devices, where the components are required to flex during normal use[1]. In this light, different magnetic sensors, like microcoil, spin valve, giant magnetoresistance (GMR), magnetoimpedance (MI), have been studied previously on flexible substrates.

  8. Global Analysis of Flexible Risers

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    Banke, Lars

    1996-01-01

    Flexible pipes are often a technically attractive alternative to the traditional steel pipe. Often commercial utilisation of oil/gas fields depends on the use of flexible pipes. An example is when floating production vessels are used, where the flexible pipe follows the wave induced motions...

  9. Designing structural supply chain flexibility

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    Mulinski, Ksawery Jan

    2012-01-01

    In a continuously changing business environment the role of supply chain flexibility is constantly increasing. A flexible supply chain can ensure survival in quickly changing market conditions as well as enable sustainable growth. This thesis explores the topic of supply chain flexibility with focus

  10. Flexibility in insulin prescription

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    Sanjay Kalra

    2016-01-01

    Full Text Available This communication explores the concept of flexibility, a propos insulin preparations and insulin regimes used in the management of type 2 diabetes. The flexibility of an insulin regime or preparation is defined as their ability to be injected at variable times, with variable injection-meal time gaps, in a dose frequency and quantum determined by shared decision making, with a minimal requirement of glucose monitoring and health professional consultation, with no compromise on safety, efficiency and tolerability. The relative flexibility of various basal, prandial and dual action insulins, as well as intensive regimes, is compared. The biopsychosocial model of health is used to assess the utility of different insulins while encouraging a philosophy of flexible insulin usage.

  11. Conocimientos, destrezas y conductas ante el cuidado de los pies en un grupo de amputados diabéticos Knowledge, abilities and behaviours in foot care in a group of diabetic amputees

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    Rolando Suárez Pérez

    2001-08-01

    Full Text Available Se conoce que el cuidado de los pies, uno de los mayores retos en la atención a personas diabéticas, no se enfoca adecuadamente en las consultas de rutina por lo cual se pierde la función preventiva de las complicaciones en miembros inferiores y su máxima manifestación: la amputación. Para lograr un acercamiento a este problema el trabajo tuvo como objetivo determinar la información y las orientaciones prácticas que tenía un grupo de pacientes diabéticos que sufrían una amputación en el momento del estudio. Se entrevistaron 105 diabéticos hospitalizados en las salas de Angiología de 2 hospitales generales. La entrevista se dirigió a recoger información que permitiera caracterizar el actual proceso de amputación y determinar la información y las orientaciones prácticas que sobre el cuidado de los pies en general y su proceso particular de amputación, habían recibido estas personas. Se encontró que el 62,5 % del grupo no revisaba periódicamente sus pies y el 42,4 % no identificó como peligrosas algunas prácticas caseras ante callosidades, cortado de uñas, etc. Solamente el 29,5 % pudo identificar 1 ó 2 cuidados prácticos de los pies. Se comprobó que no habían recibido información práctica al respecto y que en el 52,4 %, el inicio de la presente complicación fue por descuido, errores de conducta o ignorancia de cómo proceder. Se concluyó que una intervención educativa podría haber contribuido sustancialmente a reducir las amputacionesIt is known that foot care, one of the biggest challenges for diabetic persons care, is not adequately approached in regular appointments and that is why the function of preventing the occurrence of complications in lower limbs and its top manifestation, that is, amputation, is lost. To address this problem, the present paper was aimed at determining the information and practical orientations received by a group of diabetic patients suffering from amputation at the time of the study

  12. Contribución a la discretización de dominios planos no convexos mediante algoritmos de triangulación y técnicas de regularización de mallas

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    Cuesta Moreno, Pedro

    1992-01-01

    Programa de doctorado: Elementos Finitos en la Ingeniería [ES]En estos últimos años se está dedicando un enorme esfuerzo a generación de mallas que permitan la discretización de dominios muy irregulares, como son los que surgen en problemas de la física y de la ingeniería. El objetivo de esta tesis es elaborar una herramienta eficaz y con un alto grado de automatización en la construcción de mallas para dominios planos no conve...

  13. Education for Flexible Personality

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    Bogomir Novak

    1998-12-01

    Full Text Available Flexible personality transforms both cultural environment and itself. Post-modern personality is both contemplative and active. On one hand, it is subject to inner imagination of a creative act, and on the other hand, to creation of a tangible product What is more, flexible personality is also autonomous, mature, healthy and well balanced, as well as stable and responsive to the demand for change. Due to ever quicker changes, flexible personality is a must. And it is a task. The impact of professional work of adults on the education of children, however, is being conditioned by the exrigid family and rigid enterprises or institutions in which adults are employed. Nevertheless, flexible educational style is not repressive, as it used to be, nor permissive and totally concentrated on the child. It is a choice between the two qualities. The educators' style is dependent on their attitude towards life (play and self-education and not only towards work. Nowadays, flexibility is a way towards quality management of social and personal changes.

  14. Estrategia en la determinación del factor de forma de radiación ilustrado con el sistema plano-esfera

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    Héctor Armando Durán Peralta

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available En el diseño de hornos y dispositivos que calientan o enfrían sistemas mediante radiación se necesita calcular el factor de forma, el cual permite determinar la transferencia de calor por radiación entre superficies que estén a distinta temperatura. Generalmente, en los textos que tratan de transferencia de calor se deduce y muestra la ecuación para obtener el factor de forma entre dos superficies que intercambian calor por radiación para configuraciones muy sencillas, pero no se enseña cómo se hace el cálculo para geometrías y configuraciones un poco más complejas. Mediante este documento se pretende dar –con fines netamente académicos– una estrategia para calcular el factor de forma de otras configuraciones, mostrando dicha estrategia al desarrollar un caso particular, como el cálculo del factor de forma plano-esfera.

  15. A UTILIDADE DA INFORMAÇÃO CONTÁBIL NO PROCESSO DE FISCALIZAÇÃO E CONTROLE DAS OPERADORAS DE PLANO DE SAÚDE PELA AGÊNCIA NACIONAL DE SAÚDE SUPLEMENTAR (ANS

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    Ramon Santiago Magalhães

    2015-12-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo parte da premissa de que a informação contábil é um instrumento fundamental no processo de controle e fiscalização exercido pela Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar – ANS nas operadoras de planos de saúde. Nesse sentido fez-se necessário compreender os principais aspectos contábeis inerentes ao mercado de Saúde Suplementar que são avaliados pela ANS. A pesquisa buscou demonstrar o quão importante é a qualidade das informações contábeis para as operadoras de planos de saúde, já que as mesmas podem, por exemplo, determinar a sua continuidade. Na fundamentação teórica procurou-se abordar as principais exigências de caráter contábil realizadas pela ANS, visto que há aspectos específicos em relação à contabilidade do mercado de Saúde Suplementar. As informações contábeis produzem reflexos, por exemplo, no Índice de Desempenho da Saúde Suplementar – IDSS e podem contribuir no processo de instauração do regime especial de direção fiscal. Desta forma o presente trabalho teve como foco central entender a utilização e avaliação da informação contábil tanto sob a ótica da ANS quanto à ótica das operadoras de planos de saúde. Nesta pesquisa bibliográfica foram usados como fontes de pesquisa, livros, artigos e pronunciamentos oficiais da ANS. Em seguida, a análise de dados procura responder aos objetivos levantados inicialmente, apresentando também um estudo de caso para verificar a relação das informações contábeis refletidas no IDSS de 2010 com as operadoras que entraram em regime especial de direção fiscal em 2011. O resultado consistiu em demonstrar a contribuição das informações contábeis para processo de controle e fiscalização das operadoras, retratando o universo vasto que o tema alcança.

  16. Anastomose esôfago-esofágica cervical por invaginação versus a em plano único extramucoso, no cão Cervical esophagus-esophageal anastomosis by invagination versus a single extramucosal plane, in dogs

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    Amaury José Teixeira Nigro

    1997-12-01

    Full Text Available O objetivo é verificar a eficácia da anastomose esôfago-esofágica por invaginação quando comparada à executada em plano único extramucoso. Utilizou-se 60 cães, sadios, sem raça deficida, de ambos os sexos, com peso médio de 15kg. Foram separados em dois grupos iguais; no GRUPO I será feita anastomose por invaginação e, no GRUPO II, a em um plano único extramucoso. Cada grupo foi subdividido em 3 subgrupos iguais, e para cada um deles foi estabelecido um determinado período de observação pós-operatório (PO de 7, 14 e 30 dias, respectivamente. Retirou-se no GRUPO I as túnicas adventícia e muscular para formar um tubo de submucosa-mucosa de 2 centímetros de comprimento que foi mantido em continuidade com o coto cervical proximal e no GRUPO II foram extirpadas todas as tunicas do esôfago cervical com a mesma extensão ressecada no grupo I. As suturas para aproximar os cotos esofágicos foram todas feitas com fio de polipropileno 4 zeros em um plano único extramucoso, mas nos animais do GRUPO I foi invaginado, previamente, o tubo de submucosa-mucosa no interior do coto esofágico caudal. Avaliou-se a incidência de complicações pós-operatórias imediatas e tardias e as características histológicas da cicatrização de cada tipo de anastomose. A análise estatística dos dados coletados permitiu verificar que na anastomose esôfago-esofágica cervical por invaginação não ocorreu fístula ao nível da sutura em nenhum cão da série e verificou-se estenose, muito leve, em apenas um animal. Por outro lado, os cães submetidos à anastomose em plano único extramucoso apresentaram 13% de fístulas e 30% de estenose. A cicatrização das estruturas da parede esofágica ao nível da anastomose foi significantemente melhor na anastomose por invaginação do que na executada em um plano único extramucoso. Pode-se concluir que a anastomose esôfago-esofágica cervical por invaginação é mais eficaz do que a feita em plano

  17. Graphene-cellulose paper flexible supercapacitors

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    Weng, Zhe; Su, Yang; Li, Feng; Du, Jinhong; Cheng, Hui-Ming [Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 Wenhua Road, Shenyang 110016 (China); Wang, Da-Wei [ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Qld 4072 (Australia)

    2011-10-15

    A simple and scalable method to fabricate graphene-cellulose paper (GCP) membranes is reported; these membranes exhibit great advantages as freestanding and binder-free electrodes for flexible supercapacitors. The GCP electrode consists of a unique three-dimensional interwoven structure of graphene nanosheets and cellulose fibers and has excellent mechanical flexibility, good specific capacitance and power performance, and excellent cyclic stability. The electrical conductivity of the GCP membrane shows high stability with a decrease of only 6% after being bent 1000 times. This flexible GCP electrode has a high capacitance per geometric area of 81 mF cm{sup -2}, which is equivalent to a gravimetric capacitance of 120 F g{sup -1} of graphene, and retains >99% capacitance over 5000 cycles. Several types of flexible GCP-based polymer supercapacitors with various architectures are assembled to meet the power-energy requirements of typical flexible or printable electronics. Under highly flexible conditions, the supercapacitors show a high capacitance per geometric area of 46 mF cm{sup -2} for the complete devices. All the results demonstrate that polymer supercapacitors made using GCP membranes are versatile and may be used for flexible and portable micropower devices. (Copyright copyright 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH and Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

  18. Hálux valgo e pés planos: as forças plantares são iguais? Hallux valgus and flat feet: are plantar forces equal?

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    Elaine Cristina Martinez Teodoro

    2007-01-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Este trabalho teve como objetivo estimar as forças plantares nos dedos dos pés de mulheres com hálux valgo e/ou pés planos. MÉTODOS: Trata-se de um estudo transversal envolvendo mulheres com hálux valgo e/ou pés planos confirmado através de análise radiográfica. Mediram-se as forças plantares, utilizando plataformas de forças. Coletaram-se estas forças com as mulheres descalças e em posição ereta, por três medidas sendo obtida uma média. Os dados foram adquiridos através da ponte amplificadora Spider 8 da HBM e analisados através do programa Catman®. Obtiveram-se as medidas de forças dos dedos de ambos os pés e as médias foram comparadas pelo teste t de Student segundo a presença de hálux valgo e pés planos; a associação entre essas deformidades foi estimada pelo teste exato de Fischer bicaudal, a significância estatística adotada foi alfa = 5%. RESULTADOS: Foram incluídas no estudo, vinte mulheres com presença ou não de hálux valgo. As forças médias encontradas mostraram-se maiores no 5º dedo em relação ao 1º dedo de ambos os pés (pOBJECTIVE: to measure the plantar forces above the toes of women with hallux valgus and/or flat feet. METHODS: This study involved women with hallux valgus and/or flat feet confirmed by X-ray images. The plantar forces were measured utilizing force plates. Force was measured three times, which were taken with the women on barefoot and at upright position, recording the average for the three measurements. Data were acquired from Spider 8 system (HBM and analyzed by using a Catman® software. The measurements for both feet's toes force were reported and the averages were compared by the Student's t-test according to the presence of hallux valgus and flat feet; the association between these deformities was estimated by using the two-tailed Fischer's exact test, the statistical significance adopted was alpha = 5%. RESULTS: For this study, 20 women with or without hallux

  19. Three-dimensional formulation of rigid-flexible multibody systems with flexible beam elements

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    Garcia-Vallejo, D.; Mayo, J.; Escalona, J. L.; Dominguez, J.

    2008-01-01

    Multibody systems generally contain solids with appreciable deformations and which decisively influence the dynamics of the system. These solids have to be modeled by means of special formulations for flexible solids. At the same time, other solids are of such a high stiffness that they may be considered rigid, which simplifies their modeling. For these reasons, for a rigid-flexible multibody system, two types of formulations coexist in the equations of the system. Among the different possibilities provided in the literature on the material, the formulation in natural coordinates and the formulation in absolute nodal coordinates are utilized in this paper to model the rigid and flexible solids, respectively. This paper contains a mixed formulation based on the possibility of sharing coordinates between a rigid solid and a flexible solid. The global mass matrix of the system is shown to be constant and, in addition, many of the constraint equations obtained upon utilizing these formulations are linear and can be eliminated

  20. UNIDADES DE CONSERVAÇÃO E SUSTENTABILIDADE: Plano de manejo e aplicação da capacidade de carga no Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe (RS

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    Rodrigo Hakira Minohara

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    Full Text Available É crescente a busca do homem pelo contato com o meio ambiente, sobre tudo por meio do turismo. Na década de 1960, houve uma mobilização mundial focada na preservação da natureza e o Brasil seguindo o exemplo, começou a estruturar políticas que garantissem a preservação dos seus ecossistemas. Esse processo acarretou na criação do Sistema Nacional de Unidades de Conservação (SNUC, que veio a regulamentar a visitação desses espaços e a sustentabilidade dos ambientes naturais, por meio de planos de manejo e da adoção de modelos de gestão que respeitem sua capacidade de carga. Considerando tais pressupostos, este artigo visa a composição de uma análise tendo como base o planejamento adotado pela Unidade de Conservação - Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe (RS, local onde foram tratadas as questões de manejo e de capacidade de carga para viabilizar o recebimento de visitantes e da promoção da sensibilização para a conservação da biodiversidade. Para desenvolvimento de estudos posteriores, fica a sugestão de realização de pesquisa que englobe todos os parques pertencentes à Região Sul do Brasil, para um possível comparativo em relação ao uso público e à atividade turística.  Palavras-chave: Turismo. Unidades de Conservação. Plano de Manejo.

  1. Ecotest mamario: una nueva herramienta para la elección del plano de ubicación de los implantes

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    Guillermo Siemienczuk

    2016-03-01

    Full Text Available Antecedentes y Objetivos. Para obtener los mejores resultados en mastoplastia de aumento con implantes, independientemente del volumen y la forma de los mismos, es necesaria la correcta elección del bolsillo de colocación. Para definir el plano apropiado, hasta ahora, nosotros usábamos el clásico test del pellizco (pinch test siguiendo la corriente bibliográfica mundial. Material y Método. El hecho de que esta medición puede resultar subjetiva y variable debido a las diferentes presiones ejercidas al ser realizado por distintos cirujanos, sumado a que no permite ver lo que realmente estamos pinzando, nos ha llevado a desarrollar la idea de medirlo fiel y objetivamente por medio de un estudio ecográfico preoperatorio al que denominamos ecotest del polo superior. Resultados. Con ésta nueva herramienta diagnóstica hemos evaluado a 95 pacientes, con un seguimiento mínimo de 6 meses de postoperatorio. Conclusiones. De este modo comprobamos la mejoría en nuestros resultados estéticos.

  2. Development of the Coping Flexibility Scale: Evidence for the Coping Flexibility Hypothesis

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    Kato, Tsukasa

    2012-01-01

    "Coping flexibility" was defined as the ability to discontinue an ineffective coping strategy (i.e., evaluation coping) and produce and implement an alternative coping strategy (i.e., adaptive coping). The Coping Flexibility Scale (CFS) was developed on the basis of this definition. Five studies involving approximately 4,400 Japanese…

  3. Aspectos epidemiológicos dos pólipos e lesões plano-elevadas colorretais Epidemiological aspects of colorectal polyps and flat adenomas

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    Juvenal da Rocha Torres Neto

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available INTRODUÇÃO: Os pólipos e as lesões plano-elevadas colorretais são importantes na prevenção do câncer colorretal pelo risco de malignização dos adenomas. OBJETIVO: traçar o perfil demográfico dos pacientes com diagnóstico endoscópico de pólipos e/ou lesões plano-elevadas colorretais no Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Sergipe e Torres Centro Médico. MÉTODOS: Foram avaliados 6.919 prontuários de 2002 a 2007, enfatizando-se as variáveis: idade, gênero, procedência e indicação; número, tamanho, morfologia, histologia, grau de displasia, topografia, lesões sincrônicas e metacrônicas, e diagnósticos associados. RESULTADOS: Foram encontradas 1.031 (13,51% lesões em 935 exames, correspondendo a 826 pacientes, 46% masculino e 54% feminino. A idade variou de 3 a 96 anos, com média de 53,64. A distribuição topográfica mais frequente das lesões polipoides foi em reto e sigmoide (58,40%. As lesões eram sésseis em 52,80%, pediculadas em 27,90% e plano-elevadas em 19,30% dos casos. Ocorreram lesões sincrônicas em 23,48% e metacrônicas em 30,10% dos pacientes. Histologicamente, 43,36% eram adenomas, sendo 85,70% tubulares, 9,60% tubulo-vilosos e 4,70% vilosos; 30,64% eram pólipos hiperplásicos, 15,80% inflamatórios e 10,20% possuíam outros tipos histológicos. Os adenomas apresentavam displasia de baixo grau em 83,40% dos casos e alto grau em 16,60%. Sete eram adenocarcinomas, um carcinoide e um tumor gastrointestinal estromal. CONCLUSÕES: A colonoscopia e a polipectomia são importantes no diagnóstico e prevenção do câncer colorretal.INTRODUCTION: Colorectal polyps and flat injuries are important for the prevention of colorectal cancer due to the malignancy of adenomas. OBJECTIVE: To describe the demographic profile of patients with endoscopic diagnosis of colorectal polyps and/or flat injuries at University Hospital of Universidade Federal de Sergipe and Torres Medical Center. METHODS: A total

  4. The Flexibility of Pusher Furnace Grate

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    Słowik J.A.

    2016-12-01

    Full Text Available The lifetime of guide grates in pusher furnaces for heat treatment could be increased by raising the flexibility of their structure through, for example, the replacement of straight ribs, parallel to the direction of grate movement, with more flexible segments. The deformability of grates with flexible segments arranged in two orientations, i.e. crosswise (perpendicular to the direction of compression and lengthwise (parallel to the direction of compression, was examined. The compression process was simulated using SolidWorks Simulation program. Relevant regression equations were also derived describing the dependence of force inducing the grate deformation by 0.25 mm ‒ modulus of grate elasticity ‒ on the number of flexible segments in established orientations. These calculations were made in Statistica and Scilab programs. It has been demonstrated that, with the same number of segments, the crosswise orientation of flexible segments increases the grate structure flexibility in a more efficient way than the lengthwise orientation. It has also been proved that a crucial effect on the grate flexibility has only the quantity and orientation of segments (crosswise / lengthwise, while the exact position of segments changes the grate flexibility by less than 1%.

  5. Una novela-testimonio dominicana sobre la dictadura de Trujillo : El Masacre se pasa a pie de Freddy Prestol Castillo

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    Lauro Capdevila

    2003-09-01

    Full Text Available El Masacre se pasa a pie de Freddy Prestol Castillo remporte un succès de librairie extraordinaire dès sa parution en 1973 et est rapidement considéré comme un classique, aujourd’hui étudié dans les établissements scolaires de la République Dominicaine. Dans ce roman-témoignage – pour reprendre la terme proposé par Miguel Barnet, l’auteur rapporte à la première personne le massacre de 12 000 à 20 000 présumés Haïtiens par les hommes de main du Trujillo en 1937. L’événement est un des moments décisifs de la dictature : il en marque profondément le caractère raciste et sanctionne les relations de violence entre l’État et la population. Dénonciatrice, l’œuvre cherche à rétablir la vérité des faits contre les mensonges de la propagande officielle. Nourri par cette volonté d’authenticité, le roman présente de façon dynamique et synthétique les bouleversements que subit la société dominicaine soumise à l’État dictatorial. La littérature apparaît ici comme une urgente nécessité pour restituer sa mémoire à la nation dans la perspective de sa reconstruction.El Masacre se pasa a pie de Freddy Prestol Castillo es un extraordinario éxito de ventas al publicarse en 1973. Muy pronto pasa a ser una obra clásica, estudiada hoy en los centros de enseñanza de la República Dominicana. En esa novela-testimonio – para usar el término propuesto por el cubano Miguel Barnet, el autor relata en primera persona la matanza de 12.000 a 20.000 presuntos haitianos a manos de los esbirros de Trujillo en 1937. El trágico acontecimiento es uno de los momentos álgidos de la dictadura que manifiesta claramente su carácter racista y deja al desnudo las relaciones de violencia entre el Estado y la población. Denunciadora, la obra pretende restablecer los hechos verídicos contra las mentiras de la propaganda oficial. Apoyándose en esta voluntad de autenticidad, la novela presenta de modo dinámico y sint

  6. Liquen plano en el Programa de Detección Precoz del Cáncer Bucal Lichen planus in the Program for the Early Detection of Oral Cancer

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    Pedro A. Ducasse Olivera

    2005-12-01

    Full Text Available El liquen plano es una enfermedad dermatológica de origen desconocido que se manifiesta en la mucosa bucal. Se realizó un estudio retrospectivo con los pacientes pesquisados mediante el Programa de Detección Precoz del Cáncer Bucal en el municipio especial Isla de la Juventud, con el objetivo de determinar el comportamiento epidemiológico de esta entidad, distribución según sexo, raza y zona bucal mas afectada, así como establecer la relación entre la aparición de las lesiones en piel y mucosas. Según los resultados, se determinó que el liquen plano oral es más común en hombres de la tercera y sexta décadas, principalmente en mestizos y blancos, la zona más afectada fue el carrillo (42.9 % y las lesiones cutáneas aparecieron solo en 2 casos (9.5 %.Lichen planus is a dermatological disease of unknown origin that manifests itself in the oral mucosa, reason for which we decided to conduct a study on it as part of the Program for the Early Detection of Oral Cancer in the Isle of Youth special municipality with the patients screened in this program aimed at determining the epidemiological behavior of this entity, distribution by sex, race, the most affected oral zone, and the relation between the appearance of injuries in the skin and mucosas. According to the results, it was concluded that the oral lichen planus is more comon in men at the third and sixth decades of life, in mestizoes and white individuals, and that the cheek was the most affected area. The cutaneous lesions appeared only in 2 of the 21 affected cases.

  7. High Performance Electronics on Flexible Silicon

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    Sevilla, Galo T.

    2016-09-01

    Over the last few years, flexible electronic systems have gained increased attention from researchers around the world because of their potential to create new applications such as flexible displays, flexible energy harvesters, artificial skin, and health monitoring systems that cannot be integrated with conventional wafer based complementary metal oxide semiconductor processes. Most of the current efforts to create flexible high performance devices are based on the use of organic semiconductors. However, inherent material\\'s limitations make them unsuitable for big data processing and high speed communications. The objective of my doctoral dissertation is to develop integration processes that allow the transformation of rigid high performance electronics into flexible ones while maintaining their performance and cost. In this work, two different techniques to transform inorganic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor electronics into flexible ones have been developed using industry compatible processes. Furthermore, these techniques were used to realize flexible discrete devices and circuits which include metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors, the first demonstration of flexible Fin-field-effect-transistors, and metal-oxide-semiconductors-based circuits. Finally, this thesis presents a new technique to package, integrate, and interconnect flexible high performance electronics using low cost additive manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing and inkjet printing. This thesis contains in depth studies on electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of the fabricated devices.

  8. Política educacional e estratégias discursivas sobre nacionalismo nos planos nacionais de desenvolvimento (1970-1985

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    Rosangela Maria de Nazare Barbosa e Silva

    2017-09-01

    Full Text Available Este texto tem por objetivo estabelecer relações sobre as estratégias discursivas dos documentos educacionais, a partir dos planos nacionais de desenvolvimento do Regime Militar. Para tal, devemos considerar as especificidades e características do contexto nacional em que foram realizadas as reformas educacionais. Tratava-se de uma sociedade capitalista, inserida de forma periférica no mercado mundial. Ponderamos que tanto o modelo econômico como a conjuntura imposta pela ditadura de segurança nacional teve influência no direcionamento e na forma da política educacional a partir de 1964 e, consequentemente, nas reformas educacionais para a educação superior. Esse processo sofreu influência de grupos sociais organizados e vários outros segmentos da sociedade que polarizaram as atenções de planejadores e estudiosos da educação. Apesar das tensões ensejadas, existia um relativo consenso que se tornava comum, entre os diferentes agentes sociais, uma estratégia discursiva baseada no nacionalismo e na modernização do Brasil que, por vezes atravessariam os projetos educacionais e de desenvolvimento.

  9. Workplace flexibility: from research to action.

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    Galinsky, Ellen; Sakai, Kelly; Wigton, Tyler

    2011-01-01

    Ellen Galinsky, Kelly Sakai, and Tyler Wigton explore the "time famine" among American workers-the continuing sense among employees of not having enough time to manage the multiple responsibilities of work and personal and family life. Noting that large shares of U.S. employees report feeling the need for greater workplace flexibility to enable them to take better care of family responsibilities, the authors examine a large-scale community-engagement initiative to increase workplace flexibility voluntarily. Using the 2008 National Study of the Changing Workforce as a primary source of data, the authors begin with an overview of the prevalence of flexibility in today's American workplace. They track which categories of employees have access to various flexibility options, as well as the extent to which employees with access to various types of flexibility use those options. Findings from the study indicate that the majority of employees want flexibility but that access to it varies, with more advantaged employees--those who are well educated, have high salaries, and work full time, for example--being doubly advantaged in having greater access to flexibility. A number of employers, say the authors, tend to be skeptical of the value of workplace flexibility and to fear that employees will abuse it if it is offered. But the study data reveal that most employees use flexibility quite conservatively. When the authors use their nationally representative data set to investigate correlations between access to workplace flexibility and a range of workplace outcomes especially valued by employers--employee engagement, job satisfaction, retention, and health--they find that employers as well as employees can benefit from flexibility. Finally, the authors discuss When Work Works, a large, national community-based initiative under way since 2003 to increase voluntary adoption of workplace flexibility. The authors detail the conceptual basis of the project's design, noting its

  10. Free-form Flexible Lithium-Ion Microbattery

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    Kutbee, Arwa T.; Ghoneim, Mohamed T.; Ahmed, Sally; Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa

    2016-01-01

    Wearable electronics need miniaturized, safe and flexible power sources. Lithium ion battery is a strong candidate as high performance flexible battery. The development of flexible materials for battery electrodes suffers from the limited material

  11. Cognitive Flexibility in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

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    Jónsson, Hjalti; Salkovskis, Paul M.

    BT for problems such as OCD requires a level of cognitive flexibility (that is the ability to take a different perspective on ones problems). It could be argued that problems in set shifting (by neuropsychological tests) might underpin problems in this area. Two assessments were used (1: perception...... of cognitive flexibility was assessed by questionnaire 2: neuropsychological evaluation of set shifting). This study will recruit three groups: OCD patients, anxious and healthy controls. Cognitive flexibility is measured using modified version of the Cognitive Flexibility Scale (Martin & Rubin, 1995......) and neuropsychological measures of cognitive flexibility (Wisconsin Cart Sorting Test, Trail Making Test A/B, The Brixton Test). IN addition to the group comparison, the relationship between perceived flexibility, set shifting and psychopathology will be investigated. The implications of the findings for treatment...

  12. Flexible packaging for PV modules

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    Dhere, Neelkanth G.

    2008-08-01

    Economic, flexible packages that provide needed level of protection to organic and some other PV cells over >25-years have not yet been developed. However, flexible packaging is essential in niche large-scale applications. Typical configuration used in flexible photovoltaic (PV) module packaging is transparent frontsheet/encapsulant/PV cells/flexible substrate. Besides flexibility of various components, the solder bonds should also be flexible and resistant to fatigue due to cyclic loading. Flexible front sheets should provide optical transparency, mechanical protection, scratch resistance, dielectric isolation, water resistance, UV stability and adhesion to encapsulant. Examples are Tefzel, Tedlar and Silicone. Dirt can get embedded in soft layers such as silicone and obscure light. Water vapor transmittance rate (WVTR) of polymer films used in the food packaging industry as moisture barriers are ~0.05 g/(m2.day) under ambient conditions. In comparison, light emitting diodes employ packaging components that have WVTR of ~10-6 g/(m2.day). WVTR of polymer sheets can be improved by coating them with dense inorganic/organic multilayers. Ethylene vinyl acetate, an amorphous copolymer used predominantly by the PV industry has very high O2 and H2O diffusivity. Quaternary carbon chains (such as acetate) in a polymer lead to cleavage and loss of adhesional strength at relatively low exposures. Reactivity of PV module components increases in presence of O2 and H2O. Adhesional strength degrades due to the breakdown of structure of polymer by reactive, free radicals formed by high-energy radiation. Free radical formation in polymers is reduced when the aromatic rings are attached at regular intervals. This paper will review flexible packaging for PV modules.

  13. Flexible devices: from materials, architectures to applications

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    Zou, Mingzhi; Ma, Yue; Yuan, Xin; Hu, Yi; Liu, Jie; Jin, Zhong

    2018-01-01

    Flexible devices, such as flexible electronic devices and flexible energy storage devices, have attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years for their potential applications in modern human lives. The development of flexible devices is moving forward rapidly, as the innovation of methods and manufacturing processes has greatly encouraged the research of flexible devices. This review focuses on advanced materials, architecture designs and abundant applications of flexible devices, and discusses the problems and challenges in current situations of flexible devices. We summarize the discovery of novel materials and the design of new architectures for improving the performance of flexible devices. Finally, we introduce the applications of flexible devices as key components in real life. Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2017YFA0208200, 2016YFB0700600, 2015CB659300), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21403105, 21573108), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 020514380107).

  14. Developmental constraints on behavioural flexibility.

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    Holekamp, Kay E; Swanson, Eli M; Van Meter, Page E

    2013-05-19

    We suggest that variation in mammalian behavioural flexibility not accounted for by current socioecological models may be explained in part by developmental constraints. From our own work, we provide examples of constraints affecting variation in behavioural flexibility, not only among individuals, but also among species and higher taxonomic units. We first implicate organizational maternal effects of androgens in shaping individual differences in aggressive behaviour emitted by female spotted hyaenas throughout the lifespan. We then compare carnivores and primates with respect to their locomotor and craniofacial adaptations. We inquire whether antagonistic selection pressures on the skull might impose differential functional constraints on evolvability of skulls and brains in these two orders, thus ultimately affecting behavioural flexibility in each group. We suggest that, even when carnivores and primates would theoretically benefit from the same adaptations with respect to behavioural flexibility, carnivores may nevertheless exhibit less behavioural flexibility than primates because of constraints imposed by past adaptations in the morphology of the limbs and skull. Phylogenetic analysis consistent with this idea suggests greater evolutionary lability in relative brain size within families of primates than carnivores. Thus, consideration of developmental constraints may help elucidate variation in mammalian behavioural flexibility.

  15. Projeto de planos de medição para a estimação de estados em sistemas de potência via algoritmos genéticos

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    Coser, Joni

    2002-01-01

    Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica. O trabalho descrito nesta dissertação trata do problema do planejamento da medição na estimação de estados em sistemas de potência. Um plano de medição define o tipo, o número e a posição das medidas a serem processadas por um estimador de estados para avaliar o estado de operação de um sistema elétrico de potência em tempo real. O principal objetivo do tra...

  16. Flexible Thermoelectric Generators on Silicon Fabric

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    Sevilla, Galo T.

    2012-01-01

    In this work, the development of a Thermoelectric Generator on Flexible Silicon Fabric is explored to extend silicon electronics for flexible platforms. Low cost, easily deployable plastic based flexible electronics are of great interest for smart

  17. Xantoma plano difuso normolipêmico idiopático com hiperesplenismo Diffuse plane idiopathic normolipemic xanthoma with hiperesplenism

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    Danielle Machado da Silva

    2010-02-01

    Full Text Available O xantoma plano difuso normolipêmico é doença rara, do grupo das histiocitoses, caracterizada pelo aparecimento de placas amareladas ou amarelo-alaranjadas, distribuídas simetricamente na pele e geralmente acompanhadas por xantelasma. Acomete principalmente adultos, podendo ou não apresentar alterações discretas dos lípides séricos. Relata-se o caso de uma paciente do sexo feminino, de 85 anos, há um ano com extensas placas amarelo-alaranjadas no tronco e abdome, assintomáticas. Os exames laboratoriais não demonstraram aumento dos lípides séricos, nem ocorrência de desordens retículo-endoteliais.Diffuse plane normolipemic xanthoma is a rare disease, of a group of clinical syndromes called histiocytoses, characterized by the presence of yellowish or yellow-orange plaques, distributed symmetrically on the cutaneous surface and usually accompanied by xanthelasma. It affects mainly adults and it may cause discrete changes in serum lipids. The case of an 85-year-old female patient who has been showing extensive asymptomatic yellow-orange plaques in the trunk and abdomen for a year is reported. Laboratory tests did not show an increase in serum lipids or the occurrence of reticuloendothelial disorders.

  18. Estratégia, Estrutura e Competências Gerenciais: estudo de uma operadora de plano de saúde, modalidade autogestão

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    Djair Picchiai

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available Este estudo trata da análise de uma operadora de plano de saúde, modalidade autogestão. Foram analisadas sua estratégia, estrutura organizacional e competências gerenciais, a luz dos conceitos encontrados na literatura. Descrevese a estrutura, as diretrizes de atuação e satisfação dos clientes através da análise de documentos e entrevistas com seus principais gestores. Verifica-se como são entendidos e utilizados esses conceitos na relação da operadora com os prestadores de serviços e beneficiários. A literatura aponta para a coerência, o alinhamento e a consistência entre os conceitos de estratégia, estrutura e competências gerenciais, como forma de aumento de competitividade e desenvolvimento de competências organizacionais. Os indicadores de desempenho e o mapa estratégico aparecem como instrumentos desta avaliação.

  19. PNE (PLANO NACIONAL DE EDUCAÇÃO 2014 - 2024: A GESTÃO DEMOCRÁTICA NA EDUCAÇÃO SE FAZ PRESENTE?

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    Jeferson Luís Marinho de Carvalho

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    Full Text Available NNo ano de 2014, entrou em vigor o novo Plano Nacional de Educação no Brasil (Lei 13.005/2014 que, dentre diversos pontos resultantes de um amplo debate com vários segmentos da sociedade civil organizada, propõe vinte grandes metas que deverão ser realizadas até o ano de 2024. Dentre essas metas destaca-se a da Gestão Democrática da Educação (Meta 19. Objetiva-se neste trabalho debater sobre a conceituação de gestão educacional e gestão democrática, como alicerces para a construção do entendimento dessa meta, constatando que não há um juízo comum sobre a temática e que muitas dificuldades persistem para a sua consecução em tão pouco tempo (dois anos a partir da entrada em vigor da referida Lei.

  20. The Flexibility of Organization and the flexibility of product – premises of organizational success

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    Todorut, Amalia Venera

    2008-01-01

    Flexibility represents the ability of a manufactural system to adapt to some diversified tasks of production, thus to assure an economic efficiency – the rapport time/cost should be optimum, with insignificant structure changes within a long period of time. The central role of flexibility is to permit the survival and the success of the organizations in a turbulent circumstance, which is characteristic to the new world tendencies. The more flexible the organization becomes, the better it resp...

  1. Cálculo do índice do arco plantar de staheli e a prevalência de pés planos: estudo em 100 crianças entre 5 e 9 anos de idade Calculation of staheli's plantar arch index and prevalence of flat feet: a study with 100 children aged 5-9 years

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    Arnaldo José Hernandez; Luiz Koichi Kimura; Marcos Henrique Ferreira Laraya; Edimar Fávaro

    2007-01-01

    Os autores avaliam 100 crianças normais da população geral de ambos os sexos entre 5 e 9 anos de idade com o objetivo de verificar e avaliar o chamado índice do arco plantar e a ocorrência de pé plano. A avaliação do pé plano o foi feita através da obtenção da impressão plantar e do cálculo do índice do arco plantar (IP) que estabelece a relação entre a região central e posterior dessa impressão, determinando-se um IP médio e um limite para esse tipo de pé. Concluem que o índice do arco plant...

  2. Contagious flexibility? A study on whether schedule flexibility facilitates work-life enrichment.

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    Pedersen, Vivi Bach; Jeppesen, Hans Jeppe

    2012-08-01

    Schedule flexibility defines an important generating resource for work-life enrichment; however, our knowledge about how such spillovers take place is limited. This multiple case study examines how workers from different working time contexts with varying levels of schedule flexibility experience work-life interplay. Given the adopted explorative design, it is important to interpret the findings in a tentative light. Nonetheless, the study offers important insight into work-life enrichment that may guide future research in this field. The findings indicate that schedule flexibility may act as a boundary-spanning resource owing to the agency potential it offers workers. Thus, it seemed that flexible schedule opportunities enabled workers to engage more fully in personal life activities, which in turn had a positive influence on their work involvement through positive affect. Such positive role engagements appeared, however, to be greatly determined by workers' boundary management and by time conditions of work and family. In conclusion, the major findings and limitation of the study are discussed against existing research and theory. © 2012 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology © 2012 The Scandinavian Psychological Associations.

  3. Avanços do Plano de Ações Estratégicas para o Enfrentamento das Doenças Crônicas não Transmissíveis no Brasil, 2011-2015

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    Deborah Carvalho Malta

    Full Text Available Resumo OBJETIVO: descrever as ações realizadas no âmbito do Plano de Ações Estratégicas para o Enfrentamento das Doenças Crônicas não Transmissíveis (DCNT no Brasil, de 2011 a 2015. MÉTODOS: as ações foram levantadas por meio de reuniões setoriais, interministeriais, fóruns anuais, além de revisão documental de publicações e legislações em sítios eletrônicos governamentais. RESULTADOS: foram realizadas pesquisas nacionais e monitoramento das metas de redução de mortalidade e fatores de risco, ações de estímulo à atividade física, alimentação adequada e promoção da saúde mediante a criação do Programa Academia da Saúde, publicação de legislação sobre ambientes livres do tabaco, distribuição gratuita de medicamentos para hipertensão, diabetes e asma, organização da rede de atendimento de urgências para doenças cardiovasculares e ampliação do acesso ao diagnóstico e tratamento do paciente oncológico. CONCLUSÃO: observaram-se avanços referentes à vigilância, promoção da saúde e cuidado integral; de modo geral, as metas do Plano vêm sendo alcançadas.

  4. UNITY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL FUNCTIONS FLEXIBILITY

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    George MOLDOVEANU; Cosmin DOBRIN

    2012-01-01

    The paper has the goal to analyse the correlation of the flexibility of all organizational functions. Based upon theoretical and practical studies, the decrease of flexibility into an "activity area" of organizations implies a diminution on a large scale of the flexibility of the processing system as a law expression of the decreasing outputs within economy. Therefore, at the level of each organizational function there are several major directions ensuring the flexibility of the "ensemble".

  5. Pārdošanas veicināšana kā patērētāju uzvedības un lēmumu pieņemšanas ietekmētājs Latvijas pārtikas mazumtirdzniecības nozarē.

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    Afoņičeva, Oksana

    2016-01-01

    Maģistra darba: “Pārdošanas veicināšana kā patērētāju uzvedības un lēmumu pieņemšanas ietekmētājs Latvijas pārtikas mazumtirdzniecības nozarē” mērķis ir, izvērtējot pārdošanas veicināšanas ietekmi uz patērētāju uzvedību, lēmuma pieņemšanas procesu un uz patērētāju lojalitātes veidošanu, rast priekšlikumus pārdošanas veicināšanas iespējām pārtikas produktu zīmoliem. Darbs sastāv no četrām nodaļām- divām teorētiskajām, analītiskās un empīriskās. Pirmā izvirzītā hipotēze tiek apstiprināta, pama...

  6. Flexible barrier technology for enabling rollable AMOLED displays and upscaling flexible OLED lighting

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    Li, F.M.; Unnikrishnan, S.; Weijer, P. van de; Assche, F. van; Shen, J.; Ellis, T.; Manders, W.; Akkerman, H.; Bouten, P.; Mol, A.M.B. van

    2013-01-01

    The availability of a high performance thin-film barrier is the most critical challenge in upscaling and commercializing flexible OLED products. We report a flexible thin-film-barrier technology that meets lifetime specifications for OLED lighting, and demonstrate it in rollable QVGA a-IGZO AMOLED

  7. Intrinsic flexibility of porous materials; theory, modelling and the flexibility window of the EMT zeolite framework

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    Fletcher, Rachel E.; Wells, Stephen A.; Leung, Ka Ming; Edwards, Peter P.; Sartbaeva, Asel

    2015-01-01

    Framework materials possess intrinsic flexibility which can be investigated using geometric simulation. We review framework flexibility properties in energy materials and present novel results on the flexibility window of the EMT zeolite framework containing 18-crown-6 ether as a structure directing agent (SDA). Framework materials have structures containing strongly bonded polyhedral groups of atoms connected through their vertices. Typically the energy cost for variations of the inter-polyhedral geometry is much less than the cost of distortions of the polyhedra themselves – as in the case of silicates, where the geometry of the SiO 4 tetrahedral group is much more strongly constrained than the Si—O—Si bridging angle. As a result, framework materials frequently display intrinsic flexibility, and their dynamic and static properties are strongly influenced by low-energy collective motions of the polyhedra. Insight into these motions can be obtained in reciprocal space through the ‘rigid unit mode’ (RUM) model, and in real-space through template-based geometric simulations. We briefly review the framework flexibility phenomena in energy-relevant materials, including ionic conductors, perovskites and zeolites. In particular we examine the ‘flexibility window’ phenomenon in zeolites and present novel results on the flexibility window of the EMT framework, which shed light on the role of structure-directing agents. Our key finding is that the crown ether, despite its steric bulk, does not limit the geometric flexibility of the framework

  8. Optimized flexible cover films for improved conversion efficiency in thin film flexible solar cells

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    Guterman, Sidney; Wen, Xin; Gudavalli, Ganesh; Rhajbhandari, Pravakar; Dhakal, Tara P.; Wilt, David; Klotzkin, David

    2018-05-01

    Thin film solar cell technologies are being developed for lower cost and flexible applications. For such technologies, it is desirable to have inexpensive, flexible cover strips. In this paper, we demonstrate that transparent silicone cover glass adhesive can be doped with TiO2 nanoparticles to achieve an optimal refractive index and maximize the performance of the cell. Cells covered with the film doped with nanoparticles at the optimal concentration demonstrated a ∼1% increase in photocurrent over the plain (undoped) film. In addition, fused silica beads can be incorporated into the flexible cover slip to realize a built-in pseudomorphic glass diffuser layer as well. This additional degree of freedom in engineering flexible solar cell covers allows maximal performance from a given cell for minimal increased cost.

  9. Free-form Flexible Lithium-Ion Microbattery

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    Kutbee, Arwa T.

    2016-03-02

    Wearable electronics need miniaturized, safe and flexible power sources. Lithium ion battery is a strong candidate as high performance flexible battery. The development of flexible materials for battery electrodes suffers from the limited material choices. In this work, we present integration strategy to rationally design materials and processes to report flexible inorganic lithium-ion microbattery with no restrictions on the materials used. The battery shows an enhanced normalized capacity of 147 μAh/cm2 when bent.

  10. Flexible Programmes in Higher Professional Education: Expert Validation of a Flexible Educational Model

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    Schellekens, Ad; Paas, Fred; Verbraeck, Alexander; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G.

    2010-01-01

    In a preceding case study, a process-focused demand-driven approach for organising flexible educational programmes in higher professional education (HPE) was developed. Operations management and instructional design contributed to designing a flexible educational model by means of discrete-event simulation. Educational experts validated the model…

  11. Flexible position probe assembly

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    Schmitz, J.J.

    1977-01-01

    The combination of a plurality of tubular transducer sections and a flexible supporting member extending through the tubular transducer sections forms a flexible elongated probe of a design suitable for monitoring the level of an element, such as a nuclear magnetically permeable control rod or liquid. 3 claims, 23 figures

  12. Flexible Learning Environments: Leveraging the Affordances of Flexible Delivery and Flexible Learning

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    Hill, Janette R.

    2006-01-01

    The purpose of this article is to explore the key features of "flexible learning environments" (FLEs). Key principles associated with FLEs are explained. Underlying tenets and support mechanisms necessary for the implementation of FLEs are described. Similarities and differences in traditional learning and FLEs are explored. Finally, strategies…

  13. A IMPORTÂNCIA DO PLANO DE CARGOS E SALÁRIO EM UMA EMPRESA NO SEGMENTO DE MOVEÍS E ELETRODOMÉSTICOS LTDA NA CIDADE DE QUIXADÁ-CE

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    Naria de Oliveira Silva

    2014-06-01

    Full Text Available O plano de cargos e salários para melhor ter entendimento faz-se necessário ter conhecimento sobre remunerações, benefícios, motivação. Para as pessoas interagirem de acordo com os interesses da organização é importante que estejam satisfeitos e motivados. Uma vez satisfeitos, o trabalho será desenvolvido com eficiência, agilidade. O plano de cargos e salários é importante porque cada ocupante do cargo procura desempenhar suas tarefas de forma produtiva e responsável para que suas competências sejam reconhecidas e compensadas de forma favorável e justa. No presente trabalho verificou-se de que forma o processo de cargos e salário é aplicado e reconhecido pelos funcionários da empresa, o que foi realizado inicialmente através de um embasamento teórico que permitiu trazer a luz os conhecimentos necessários para compreensão da análise dos dados e resultados obtidos. Para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho utilizou-se a pesquisa descritiva com abordagem qualitativa. Como resultado, todos os entrevistados mostraram-se satisfeitos com os cargos e salários atribuídos aos mesmos além de Satisfação quanto à infraestrutura da empresa; Todos pretendem permanecer por longo período de tempo trabalhando na mesma, os participantes relataram satisfação com a empresa em relação ao trabalho prestado além de afirmarem que a empresa se interessa pelo crescimento profissional de seus funcionários. Podemos concluir que o funcionamento dos cargos e salário, ao longo dos anos, tem proporcionado não apenas a sobrevivência da empresa, bem como seu crescimento e solidificação dentro do mercado em que atua.

  14. Performance measurement of supply chain flexibility using witness

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    Rituraj Chandrakar

    2012-10-01

    Full Text Available In today’s global scenario of intense competition and environmental uncertainty flexibility in supply chain has an important role to play for the existence of any supply chain business. A need to be responsive to the constantly changing market scenario and cater to the customer needs, a certain degree of flexibility is required, which requires the coordination of many plants to produce and deliver goods to customers located in different places, and suppliers, which provide each plant with the required components. This paper intends to measure the degree of flexibility required for a two stage supply chain and assessing both the supplier flexibility and the assembler flexibility. In this paper, nine configurations of the SC are considered resulting from the combination of the three degrees of supplier and manufacturer flexibility, i.e. no flexibility, limited flexibility and total flexibility, respectively. Simulation model representing the different flexibility configurations are evaluated and the performance of each configuration analyzed to determine the flexibility configuration suitable to a supply chain. In particular the performance analysis of lead time, work-in-process, service level and cost are measured to determine the suitable flexibility.

  15. Software industrial flexible

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    Díaz Araya, Daniel; Muñoz, Leandro; Sirerol, Daniel; Oviedo, Sandra; Ibáñez, Francisco S.

    2012-01-01

    En este trabajo se pretende investigar y proponer técnicas, métodos y tecnologías que permitan el desarrollo de software flexible en ambientes industriales. El objetivo es generar métodos y técnicas para facilitar el desarrollo de software flexible en ambientes industriales. Las áreas de investigación son los sistemas de scheduling de producción, la generación de software para plataformas de hardware abiertas y la innovación.

  16. Flexible Al-doped ZnO films grown on PET substrates using linear facing target sputtering for flexible OLEDs

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    Jeong, Jin-A; Shin, Hyun-Su; Choi, Kwang-Hyuk; Kim, Han-Ki

    2010-01-01

    We report the characteristics of flexible Al-doped zinc oxide (AZO) films prepared by a plasma damage-free linear facing target sputtering (LFTS) system on PET substrates for use as a flexible transparent conducting electrode in flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The electrical, optical and structural properties of LFTS-grown flexible AZO electrodes were investigated as a function of dc power. We obtained a flexible AZO film with a sheet resistance of 39 Ω/□ and an average transmittance of 84.86% in the visible range although it was sputtered at room temperature without activation of the Al dopant. Due to the effective confinement of the high-density plasma between the facing AZO targets, the AZO film was deposited on the PET substrate without plasma damage and substrate heating caused by bombardment of energy particles. Moreover, the flexible OLED fabricated on the AZO/PET substrate showed performance similar to the OLED fabricated on a ITO/PET substrate in spite of a lower work function. This indicates that LFTS is a promising plasma damage-free and low-temperature sputtering technique for deposition of flexible and indium-free AZO electrodes for use in cost-efficient flexible OLEDs.

  17. Mechanistic modelling of weak interlayers in flexible and semi-flexible road pavements: Part 2

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    De Beer, Morris

    2012-04-01

    Full Text Available This paper (Part 2 of a two-part set of papers) discusses models and illustrates the adverse effects of weak layers, interlayers, laminations and/or weak interfaces in flexible and semi-flexible pavements, also incorporating lightly cemented layers...

  18. Flexible magnetoimpedance sensor

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    Li, Bodong

    2015-03-01

    Flexible magnetoimpedance (MI) sensors fabricated using a NiFe/Cu/NiFe tri-layer on Kapton substrate have been studied. A customized flexible microstrip transmission line was employed to investigate the MI sensors\\'s magnetic field and frequency responses and their dependence on the sensors\\'s deflection. For the first time, the impedance characteristic is obtained through reflection coefficient analysis over a wide range of frequencies from 0.1 MHz to 3 GHz and for deflections ranging from zero curvature to a radius of 7.2 cm. The sensor element maintains a high MI ratio of up to 90% and magnetic sensitivity of up to 9.2%/Oe over different bending curvatures. The relationship between the curvature and material composition is discussed based on the magnetostriction effect and stress simulations. The sensor\\'s large frequency range, simple fabrication process and high sensitivity provide a great potential for flexible electronics and wireless applications.

  19. THE FLEXIBILITY-AUTOMATION CORRESPONDENCE TO A VIRTUAL COMMERCIAL SOCIETY

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    Liliana Doble

    2012-01-01

    Full Text Available Design and operation of FMS is based on system requirement can be as productive and flexible as necessary, i.e. obtaining controlled correspondence between the degree of flexibility and automation of system.The flexibility of a FMS (Flexible Manufacturing Systems is determined by two important criteria: Flexible hardware structure of the system; Flexible software structure. Flexible hardware structure of the CS system (calculation system is determined to its turn according to three components: Flexibility of technological subsystem; Flexibility subsystem of storage, transport and handling;Flexibility of informational subsystem.

  20. Docking of flexible ligands to flexible receptors in solution by molecular dynamics simulation

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    Mangoni, R; Roccatano, D; Di Nola, A

    1999-01-01

    In this paper, a method of simulating the docking of small flexible ligands to flexible receptors in water is reported. The method is based on molecular dynamics simulations and is an extension of an algorithm previously reported by Di Nola et al, (Di Nola et al,, Proteins 1994;19:174-182), The

  1. Aggregating and Disaggregating Flexibility Objects

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    Siksnys, Laurynas; Valsomatzis, Emmanouil; Hose, Katja

    2015-01-01

    In many scientific and commercial domains we encounter flexibility objects, i.e., objects with explicit flexibilities in a time and an amount dimension (e.g., energy or product amount). Applications of flexibility objects require novel and efficient techniques capable of handling large amounts...... and aiming at energy balancing during aggregation. In more detail, this paper considers the complete life cycle of flex-objects: aggregation, disaggregation, associated requirements, efficient incremental computation, and balance aggregation techniques. Extensive experiments based on real-world data from...

  2. O Plano Nacional de Logística Integrada (PNLI) – "Programa de Investimentos em Logística: Rodovias e Ferrovias" e a institucionalização da unidade dos contrários

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    Roberto Mauro da Silva Fernandes

    2013-01-01

    O atual governo brasileiro ao anunciar o Plano Nacional de Logística Integrada (PNLI)/ “Programa de Investimentos em Logística: Rodovias e Ferrovias”, em agosto de 2012, instalou uma nova luta dos contrários na sociedade brasileira. Para sermos mais específicos, com o PNLI uma institucionalização da unidade dos contrários foi estabelecida, já que os setores público e privado irão (pelo menos é que se espera), de forma coadunada, implementar projetos que visam reestruturar os equipamentos de t...

  3. Análisis de la sentencia de la corte constitucional (C-871-10) sobre los derechos de autor de la obra de arquitectura construida, los proyectos arquitectónicos y los planos

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    Wilson Rafael Ríos Ruiz

    2011-01-01

    El reciente fallo de la Corte Constitucional deja a salvo y crea un justo medio entre los derechos morales del arquitecto-autor del proyecto arquitectónico, y el derecho de dominio de quien ejerce la titularidad de un bien inmueble construido. Así mismo determina que la obra de arquitectura construida, los proyectos arquitectónicos y los planos respectivos son objeto de protección a través de las normas autorales vigente tanto en el ámbito internacional como en el local en Colombia. Por lo ta...

  4. Distributed flexibility in inertial swimmers

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    Floryan, Daniel; Rowley, Clarence W.; Smits, Alexander J.

    2017-11-01

    To achieve fast and efficient swimming, the flexibility of the propulsive surfaces is an important feature. To better understand the effects of distributed flexibility (either through inhomogeneous material properties, varying geometry, or both) we consider the coupled solid and fluid mechanics of the problem. Here, we develop a simplified model of a flexible swimmer, using Euler-Bernoulli theory to describe the solid, Theodorsen's theory to describe the fluid, and a Blasius boundary layer to incorporate viscous effects. Our primary aims are to understand how distributed flexibility affects the thrust production and efficiency of a swimmer with imposed motion at its leading edge. In particular, we examine the modal shapes of the swimmer to gain physical insight into the observed trends. Supported under ONR MURI Grant N00014-14-1-0533, Program Manager Robert Brizzolara.

  5. Flexibility of trunnion piping elbows

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    Lewis, G.D.; Chao, Y.J.

    1987-01-01

    Flexibility factors and stress indices for piping component such as straight pipe, elbows, butt-welding tees, branch connections, and butt-welding reducers are contained in the code, but many of the less common piping components, like the trunnion elbow, do not have flexibility factors or stress indices defined. The purpose of this paper is to identify the in-plane and out-of-plane flexibility factors in accordance with code procedures for welded trunnions attached to the tangent centerlines of long radius elbows. This work utilized the finite element method as applicable to plates and shells for calculating the relative rotations of the trunnion elbow-ends for in-plane and out-of-plane elbow moment loadings. These rotations are used to derive the corresponding in-plane and out-of-plane flexibility factors. (orig./GL)

  6. ONRASIA Scientific Information Bulletin, Volume 16, Number 1

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    1991-03-01

    curious aspect research has applications to biological more complex, with a very wide range of the pretour presentation as well as models and perhaps to...Flexible Automation Compliance 𔃼) "Market-Oriented FMS and CIM: A Megatrend for 󈨞’s Manufac- 0 Motion and Force Control of Robot 0 Quality Issues and...much on brain mechanisms. For exam- taking into consideration biological In this regard fuzzy logic complements pie, Shun-ichi Amari (University of

  7. Fabrication and evaluation of variable focus and large deformation plano-convex microlens based on non-ionic poly(vinyl chloride)/dibutyl adipate gels

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    Kim, Sang-Youn; Yeo, Myoung; Shin, Eun-Jae; Park, Won-Hyeong; Jang, Jong-Seok; Nam, Byeong-Uk; Bae, Jin Woo

    2015-01-01

    In this paper, we propose a variable focus microlens module based on a transparent, electroactive, and non-ionic PVC/DBA gel. A non-ionic PVC/DBA (nPVC) gel on an ITO glass was confined beneath a rigid annular electrode, and applied pressure squeezed a bulge of the nPVC gel into the annular electrode, resulting in a hemispherical plano-convex nPVC gel microlens. The proposed nPVC gel microlens was analyzed and optimized. When voltage is applied to the circular perimeter (the annular electrode) of this fabricated microlens, electrically induced creep deformation of the nPVC gel occurs, changing its optical focal length. The focal length remarkably increases from 3.8 mm up to 14.3 mm with increasing applied voltages from 300 V to 800 V. Due to its compact, transparent, and electroactive characteristics, the proposed nPVC gel microlens can be easily inserted into small consumer electronic devices, such as digital cameras, camcorders, cell phones, and other portable optical devices. (paper)

  8. Síndrome de Ehlers Danlos: ¿subregistro clínico en ortopedia pediátrica?

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    Full Text Available INTRODUCCIÓN. El comportamiento del síndrome de Ehlers Danlos hizo que se interpretara como un subregistro clínico, poco conocido y con escasas referencias. Esta genodermatosis generalmente está condenada a no tener un tratamiento específico. El objetivo del presente estudio fue, principalmente, describir la morbilidad de este síndrome, desde el punto de vista ortopédico. METÓDOS. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo prospectivo de 5 años, que incluyó a todos los pacientes con síndrome de Ehlers Danlos, atendidos en la consulta de ortopedia y traumatología entre julio de 2001 y julio del 2006, en el Hospital Pediátrico Docente «José Martí» (Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. Se consideró un tiempo mínimo de seguimiento de 6 meses para la validación de los resultados. RESULTADOS. Fueron estudiados 41 pacientes afectos de 72 enfermedades de origen ortopédico. La frecuencia estuvo próxima a 1,7 enfermedades por paciente, con predominio no significativo del sexo femenino (n = 24. Uno de los antecedentes perinatales más importantes fue la presencia de grados diversos de displasia de la cadera. La presencia de otras afecciones no ortopédicas no fue significativa. Los principales hallazgos ortopédicos fueron el pie plano flexible (37, el genus recurvatum (11 y la cifoescoliosis (9. La cirugía estética y la cirugía correctora ortopédica fueron las más utilizadas. CONCLUSIONES. La dispensarización de esta enfermedad y su tratamiento oportuno es un método de control eficaz que ayudaría a evitar la degeneración articular, generalmente antesala de la osteoartrosis.

  9. Sex-Specific Associations between Telomere Dynamics and Oxidative Status in Adult and Nestling Pied Flycatchers.

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    López-Arrabé, Jimena; Monaghan, Pat; Cantarero, Alejandro; Boner, Winnie; Pérez-Rodríguez, Lorenzo; Moreno, Juan

    Oxidative stress can contribute to an acceleration of telomere erosion, leading to cellular senescence and aging. Increased investment in reproduction is known to accelerate senescence, generally resulting in reduced future reproductive potential and survival. To better understand the role played by oxidative status and telomere dynamics in the conflict between maintenance and reproduction, it is important to determine how these factors are related in parents and their offspring. We investigated the relationship between oxidative status and telomere measurements in pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca). Total antioxidant status (TAS) in plasma, total levels of glutathione in red blood cells (RBCs), and oxidative damage in plasma lipids (malondialdehyde [MDA]) were assessed in both parents and nestlings. Telomeres were measured in RBCs in adults. Our results showed sex differences in oxidative variables in adults that are likely to be mediated by sex steroids, with testosterone and estrogens increasing and reducing, respectively, the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. We found a negative association between telomere length (TL) and MDA in adults in the previous season. Moreover, TL was positively associated with TAS in females, while telomere shortening (ΔTL) correlated positively with MDA in males in the current year. These associations could be reflecting differences between sexes in reproductive physiology. We found a positive correlation between parental ΔTL and nestling MDA, an example of how parental physiological aging could affect offspring quality in terms of oxidative stress that highlights the constraints imposed by higher rates of ΔTL during reproduction and rearing.

  10. Work Life Balance in the Netherlands: Flexible working hours and a flexible working place (Japanese)

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    KENJOH Eiko

    2011-01-01

    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of Dutch approach to achieving Work Life Balance (WLB) and to draw policy implications for Japan. It is argued that flexibility of working hours and flexibility offered at one's working place are essential elements of WLB. In this respect, the Netherlands has attained relatively advanced policies and practices. For instance, workers in the Netherlands enjoy a strong degree of flexibility in terms of working hours, a system that strives to...

  11. Representações sociais do pé diabético para pessoas com diabetes mellitus tipo 2 Representaciones sociales del pie diabético para personas con diabetes mellitus tipo 2 Social representations of diabetic foot for people with type 2 diabetes Mellitus

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    Maria Seloi Coelho

    2009-03-01

    Full Text Available Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa que objetivou compreender as representações sociais do pé diabético para pessoas com diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, com dez pessoas com diabetes mellitus que participavam de um grupo de convivência. Da análise de conteúdo emergiram duas categorias: a doença do pé com alterações percebidas e ameaças presentes e; o cuidado com os pés, com o cuidado como preocupação com o futuro e não cuidado como sentimento de culpa. Os resultados mostraram que movidos pelas representações de alterações e ameaças os sujeitos buscam no cuidado uma esperança de não desenvolver a doença do pé ou controlar a situação. Quando o não-cuidado ocorre, surge o sentimento de culpa por terem conhecimentos e não se cuidarem. As representações sociais contribuíram na busca da compreensão do modo como os sujeitos com diabetes mellitus constroem saberes que expressam sua identidade e guiam seus comportamentos, especialmente vinculado ao pé diabético.Se trata de una investigación cualitativa que tuvo como objetivo comprender las representaciones sociales de pies diabético para personas con diabetes mellitus tipo 2. Fueron realizadas entrevistas semi-estructuradas, con diez personas con diabetes mellitus que participaban de un grupo de convivencia. Del análisis de contenido emergieron dos categorías: la enfermedad del pie con alteraciones percibidas y amenazas presentes y; el cuidado con los pies, con el cuidado como preocupación con el futuro y no cuidado como sentimiento de culpa. Los resultados mostraron que movidos por las representaciones de alteraciones y amenazas los sujetos buscan en el cuidado una esperanza de no desarrollar la enfermedad del pie o de controlar la situación. Cuando ocurre el no cuidado surge el sentimiento de culpa por tener los conocimientos y no utilizarlos. Las representaciones sociales contribuyeron en la búsqueda de la comprensi

  12. Business Models for Power System Flexibility

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    Boscan, Luis; Poudineh, Rahmatallah

    2016-01-01

    As intermittent, renewable resources gain more share in the generation mix, the need for power system flexibility increases more than ever. Parallel to this, technological change and the emergence of new players bringing about innovative solutions are boosting the development of flexibility...... business models will play an important role in ensuring sufficiency and efficiency of flexibility services....

  13. Flexible lithium-ion planer thin-film battery

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    Kutbee, Arwa T.; Ghoneim, Mohamed T.; Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa

    2016-01-01

    Commercialization of wearable electronics requires miniaturized, flexible power sources. Lithium ion battery is a strong candidate as the next generation high performance flexible battery. The development of flexible materials for battery electrodes

  14. PTFE films with improved flexibility

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    Muraca, R. F.; Koch, A. A.

    1972-01-01

    Development and application of flexible polytetrafluroethylene films for expulsion bladders in spacecraft propellant tanks are described. Flexibility of material is obtained by reducing crystallinity through annealing and quenching in water. Physical and mechanical properties of material are presented.

  15. Consumer Central Energy Flexibility in Office Buildings

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    Billanes, Joy Dalmacio; Ma, Zheng; Jørgensen, Bo Nørregaard

    2017-01-01

    Energy flexibility in buildings will play an important role in the smart energy system. Office buildings have more potentials to provide energy flexibility to the grid compared to other types of buildings, due to the existing building management, control systems and large energy consumption....... Consumers in office buildings (building owners/managers and occupants) take a main role for adopting and engaging in building energy flexibility. In this paper provides a systematic review of consumer central energy flexibility in office buildings with the discussion of social, technical and business...... can boost energy flexibility in the office buildings....

  16. Special Issue: Flexible Work Arrangements.

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    Olmstead, Barney, Ed.

    1996-01-01

    Section 1 contains five chapters on flexible work arrangements, self-employment, working from home, part-time professionals, job sharing, and temporary employment. Section 2 includes reviews of four books on working flexibly, concluding with a list of 23 additional readings. (SK)

  17. Flexible displays, rigid designs?

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    Hornbæk, Kasper

    2015-01-01

    Rapid technological progress has enabled a wide range of flexible displays for computing devices, but the user experience--which we're only beginning to understand--will be the key driver for successful designs.......Rapid technological progress has enabled a wide range of flexible displays for computing devices, but the user experience--which we're only beginning to understand--will be the key driver for successful designs....

  18. O Sistema Nacional de Combate ao Abuso e à Exploração Sexual Infantojuvenil e o Plano Nacional: um exemplo de política pública aplicada

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    Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo principal tratar de uma política pública aplicada, qual seja, o Sistema Nacional de Combate ao Abuso e à Exploração Sexual Infantojuvenil. Para tanto, inicialmente, é apresentada uma breve definição dos termos, com o intuito de esclarecer a forma como foram interpretados e utilizados no texto. Além disso, é definido o significado de políticas públicas, para que se tenha maior clareza sobre como estas podem auxiliar no entendimento do tema. Por fim, são apresentados os impactos sociais do Sistema Nacional e feito um breve relato sobre o Plano Nacional.

  19. Formulação analítica do cálculo em regime elastoplástico de um elemento de viga plano de secção rectangular

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    Baptista, A. M.

    2008-01-01

    O presente trabalho apresenta uma formulação analítica do cálculo dos deslocamentos (rotação, flecha e deslocamento axial) de uma secção transversal qualquer dum elemento estrutural de barra plano (viga ou coluna-viga, p. ex.) de secção rectangular, de aço, submetido a uma força axial constante e a um momento flector em cada uma das suas extremidades. As equações apresentadas fornecem um método de cálculo não linear expedito e exacto, alternativo aos métodos clássicos das “rótulas plástic...

  20. Flexible lithium-ion planer thin-film battery

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    Kutbee, Arwa T.

    2016-02-03

    Commercialization of wearable electronics requires miniaturized, flexible power sources. Lithium ion battery is a strong candidate as the next generation high performance flexible battery. The development of flexible materials for battery electrodes suffers from the limited material choices. In this work, we present a flexible inorganic lithium-ion battery with no restrictions on the materials used. The battery showed an enhanced normalized capacity of 146 ??Ah/cm2.

  1. Fast and anisotropic flexibility-rigidity index for protein flexibility and fluctuation analysis

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    Opron, Kristopher [Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824 (United States); Xia, Kelin [Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824 (United States); Wei, Guo-Wei, E-mail: wei@math.msu.edu [Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824 (United States); Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824 (United States); Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, Michigan 48824 (United States)

    2014-06-21

    Protein structural fluctuation, typically measured by Debye-Waller factors, or B-factors, is a manifestation of protein flexibility, which strongly correlates to protein function. The flexibility-rigidity index (FRI) is a newly proposed method for the construction of atomic rigidity functions required in the theory of continuum elasticity with atomic rigidity, which is a new multiscale formalism for describing excessively large biomolecular systems. The FRI method analyzes protein rigidity and flexibility and is capable of predicting protein B-factors without resorting to matrix diagonalization. A fundamental assumption used in the FRI is that protein structures are uniquely determined by various internal and external interactions, while the protein functions, such as stability and flexibility, are solely determined by the structure. As such, one can predict protein flexibility without resorting to the protein interaction Hamiltonian. Consequently, bypassing the matrix diagonalization, the original FRI has a computational complexity of O(N{sup 2}). This work introduces a fast FRI (fFRI) algorithm for the flexibility analysis of large macromolecules. The proposed fFRI further reduces the computational complexity to O(N). Additionally, we propose anisotropic FRI (aFRI) algorithms for the analysis of protein collective dynamics. The aFRI algorithms permit adaptive Hessian matrices, from a completely global 3N × 3N matrix to completely local 3 × 3 matrices. These 3 × 3 matrices, despite being calculated locally, also contain non-local correlation information. Eigenvectors obtained from the proposed aFRI algorithms are able to demonstrate collective motions. Moreover, we investigate the performance of FRI by employing four families of radial basis correlation functions. Both parameter optimized and parameter-free FRI methods are explored. Furthermore, we compare the accuracy and efficiency of FRI with some established approaches to flexibility analysis, namely

  2. Flexibility evaluation of multiechelon supply chains.

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    Almeida, João Flávio de Freitas; Conceição, Samuel Vieira; Pinto, Luiz Ricardo; de Camargo, Ricardo Saraiva; Júnior, Gilberto de Miranda

    2018-01-01

    Multiechelon supply chains are complex logistics systems that require flexibility and coordination at a tactical level to cope with environmental uncertainties in an efficient and effective manner. To cope with these challenges, mathematical programming models are developed to evaluate supply chain flexibility. However, under uncertainty, supply chain models become complex and the scope of flexibility analysis is generally reduced. This paper presents a unified approach that can evaluate the flexibility of a four-echelon supply chain via a robust stochastic programming model. The model simultaneously considers the plans of multiple business divisions such as marketing, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement, whose goals are often conflicting. A numerical example with deterministic parameters is presented to introduce the analysis, and then, the model stochastic parameters are considered to evaluate flexibility. The results of the analysis on supply, manufacturing, and distribution flexibility are presented. Tradeoff analysis of demand variability and service levels is also carried out. The proposed approach facilitates the adoption of different management styles, thus improving supply chain resilience. The model can be extended to contexts pertaining to supply chain disruptions; for example, the model can be used to explore operation strategies when subtle events disrupt supply, manufacturing, or distribution.

  3. Functional aspects of protein flexibility

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    Teilum, Kaare; Olsen, Johan G; Kragelund, Birthe B

    2009-01-01

    this into an intuitive perception of protein function is challenging. Flexibility is of overwhelming importance for protein function, and the changes in protein structure during interactions with binding partners can be dramatic. The present review addresses protein flexibility, focusing on protein-ligand interactions...

  4. Estratégia, Estrutura e Competências Gerenciais: estudo de uma operadora de plano de saúde, modalidade autogestão

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    Djair Picchiai

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    Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2009v11n25p229   Este estudo trata da análise de uma operadora de plano de saúde, modalidade autogestão. Foram analisadas sua estratégia, estrutura organizacional e competências gerenciais, a luz dos conceitos encontrados na literatura. Descrevese a estrutura, as diretrizes de atuação e satisfação dos clientes através da análise de documentos e entrevistas com seus principais gestores. Verifica-se como são entendidos e utilizados esses conceitos na relação da operadora com os prestadores de serviços e beneficiários. A literatura aponta para a coerência, o alinhamento e a consistência entre os conceitos de estratégia, estrutura e competências gerenciais, como forma de aumento de competitividade e desenvolvimento de competências organizacionais. Os indicadores de desempenho e o mapa estratégico aparecem como instrumentos desta avaliação.

  5. A century later: Tricolored Pied Flat Coladenia indrani uposathra Fruhstorfer, 1911 (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae and Crenulate Oakblue Apporasa atkinsoni Hewitson, 1869 (Lycaenidae: Theclinae reported from Manipur, India

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    Baleshwor Singh Soibam

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    Full Text Available The present paper reports the rediscovery of the Tricolored Pied Flat Coladenia indrani uposathra Fruhstorfer, 1911 and Crenulated Oakblue Apporasa atkinsoni Hewitson, 1869 after about 99 years after they were sighted by Tytler (1915 in Irang river and Sebong of Manipur, North East India. C. i. uposathra was sighted a Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP and Heibok hills of Imphal valley on 4th and 16th May 2014 and A. atkinsoni was sighted Munnom village at Yaingangpokpi Lokchao Wildlife Sanctuary (YLWS on 8th December 2015.  A. atkinsoni is protected under schedule II of Indian (Wildlife Protection Act 1972. The rediscovery of such very rare species in Manipur shows that more survey is needed in hills and valley regions of Manipur to know the butterfly fauna of the region.

  6. Skill Flexibility among Schoolteachers: Operationalization and Organizational Implications.

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    Rosenblatt, Zehava; Inbal, Batia

    1999-01-01

    Investigates effects of skill flexibility on Israeli secondary teachers' work attitudes and job performance. Both role and functional flexibility were associated with improved teachers' work performance; role flexibility is linked to high organizational commitment and low powerlessness. Principals appreciate skill flexibility, but organizational…

  7. Flexible labour strategy in the Dutch automotive industry

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    van Riemsdijk, Maarten; de Leede, Jan

    2001-01-01

    Labour flexibility is a major way for companies to become more flexible. Why companies use flexible labour relations varies widely per industry. We assess the development of labour flexibility within the Dutch automotive industry. Four cases, together representing the production chain, are

  8. Endogenous price flexibility and optimal monetary policy

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    Ozge Senay; Alan Sutherland

    2014-01-01

    Much of the literature on optimal monetary policy uses models in which the degree of nominal price flexibility is exogenous. There are, however, good reasons to suppose that the degree of price flexibility adjusts endogenously to changes in monetary conditions. This article extends the standard new Keynesian model to incorporate an endogenous degree of price flexibility. The model shows that endogenizing the degree of price flexibility tends to shift optimal monetary policy towards complete i...

  9. ESF [Exploratory Shaft Facility] flexibility analysis

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    Brusenback, R.W.

    1987-03-01

    This report directs that uncertainty allowances be included within the ESF facilities. The recommendations herein developed are intended as input to Title II Design criteria. Flexibility is measured first by lineal ft of drift, and then by hoisting rate and capacity of supporting utilities and services. A defined probability of need shows an extra 10,000 ft of drift for the first level of flexibility responding to testing and operations, and over 60,000 ft of drift for the second level of flexibility which recognizes possible need for perimeter drifting to investigate geologic stratigraphy. Observing there will be time constraints, a single shaft muck hoisting rate up to 170 to 250 tons per hour is recommended. The potential hoisting rate recommended for flexibility should be satisfied by a hoist approximately equivalent to, or conveniently upgraded from those being considered for sinking and construction, or 1000 horsepower. The cost of flexibility is limited to engineering planning and design (mostly conceptual) which makes later expansion achievable, and to selected items for initial construction where later upgrading would be impractical, impossible, or very costly. The cost is fixed to the level of flexibility and does not vary with excavated footage. The incremental margin is only a small fraction of the additional footage made available. Flexibility presents a strategy and not a position of design or technology. Examples used in this report are intended to be illustrative only, and not to lead design or cost estimates. 7 tabs

  10. Factors impeding flexible inpatient unit design.

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    Pati, Debajyoti; Evans, Jennie; Harvey, Thomas E; Bazuin, Doug

    2012-01-01

    To identify and examine factors extraneous to the design decision-making process that could impede the optimization of flexibility on inpatient units. A 2006 empirical study to identify domains of design decisions that affect flexibility on inpatient units found some indication in the context of the acuity-adaptable operational model that factors extraneous to the design process could have negatively influenced the successful implementation of the model. This raised questions regarding extraneous factors that might influence the successful optimization of flexibility. An exploratory, qualitative method was adopted to examine the question. Stakeholders from five recently built acute care inpatient units participated in the study, which involved three types of data collection: (1) verbal protocol data from a gaming session; (2) in-depth semi-structured interviews; and (3) shadowing frontline personnel. Data collection was conducted between June 2009 and November 2010. The study revealed at least nine factors extraneous to the design process that have the potential to hinder the optimization of flexibility in four domains: (1) systemic; (2) cultural; (3) human; and (4) financial. Flexibility is critical to hospital operations in the new healthcare climate, where cost reduction constitutes a vital target. From this perspective, flexibility and efficiency strategies can be influenced by (1) return on investment, (2) communication, (3) culture change, and (4) problem definition. Extraneous factors identified in this study could also affect flexibility in other care settings; therefore, these findings may be viewed from the overall context of hospital design.

  11. Financial Flexibility as a Phenomenon of Manifestation of Flexibility of the Financial System at the Micro-level

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    Laktionova Oleksandra A.

    2014-03-01

    Full Text Available The article considers financial flexibility of economic subjects in the context of specific features of manifestation of this property at the micro-level of the financial system. It generalises various theoretical approaches to understanding the essence of the financial flexibility in the context of motives of its formation, sources and instruments of realisation. It specifies criteria of financial flexibility: manoeuvrability, efficiency and economy. It studies interrelation between the financial flexibility and financial restrictions at the micro-level and, consequently, factors that determine them: capital market imperfection, development level and structure of the financial system, cyclicity of economy, and company characteristics (including financial architecture. The article describes their distinguishing features. It states that apart from maintaining the financial flexibility during formation of money reserves and debt load resource the companies can be guided by other motives. It offers classification of types of financial flexibility based on the sources and goals of formation, influence upon the financial potential, stages of reproduction of financial resources, the instruments used, engaged elements of the financial mechanism, stages of the business cycle and types of the used financial resources.

  12. 1. The application of PIE techniques to the study of the corrosion of spent oxide fuel in deep-rock groundwaters. 2. Spent fuel degradation

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    Forsyth, R.S.

    1991-01-01

    During the autumn of 1990, papers summarizing work performed at Studsvik as part of the SKB research programme designed to study the corrosion behaviour of spent nuclear fuel in deep-rock groundwater were presented at two scientific meetings: The first paper presents results and observations of the study of the corrosion of spent oxide fuel in deep-rock ground-waters. The PIE techniques were applied to the detailed study of spent fuel both before and after water contact. The second paper represents an up-dated reporting of results obtained in the Swedish programme relevant to preferential dissolution effects, including interim results from recently stored experiments specifically designed to study possible correlations between corrosion behaviour and fuel properties conditioned by burnup and/or local power variations. Recent observations during the search for corrosion sites in fuel exposed to corrosion for about 4 years are also presented. (KAE)

  13. Possible roles for corticosterone and critical size in the fledging of nestling pied flycatchers.

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    Kern, M; Bacon, W; Long, D; Cowie, R J

    2001-01-01

    Our study was designed to see whether corticosterone (B) rises abruptly in the blood of nestling pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) at the time they fledge, as reported recently for kestrels, and if so, why. We measured the growth and blood levels of B and selected nutrients of nestlings in broods of five, seven, and nine chicks during 1998 and 1999. In half of the broods, we clipped selected wing and tail feathers of both parents with the intention of making it more difficult for them to provide their chicks with food. We collected blood samples when the chicks were six to 10 d old (period of rapid growth) and 15 d of age or older (0-5 d before fledging). B increased substantially several days before the chicks left the nest and then declined somewhat. We found no differences in rates of growth or blood levels of B, nutrients, and hematocrit as a function of either brood size or parental handicapping. Nestlings within a day of fledging appear to have been food deprived in 1998; their glucose was significantly reduced, and B, free fatty acids, and glycerol were significantly elevated compared to levels in chicks 1-4 d younger. Such changes did not occur in 1999. Blood levels of B were significantly correlated with brood size near the day of fledging, but not earlier, in both years of the study. It was possible to predict the day on which chicks would leave the nest, using their wing length when 12 d old. These results suggest that high blood levels of B associated with food restriction and sibling competition induce chicks to fledge, provided they have reached a critical size, and that the importance of fasting, sibling competition, and B may vary from year to year.

  14. Caracterização de pessoas com diabetes em unidades de atenção primária e secundária em relação a fatores desencadeantes do pé diabético Caracterización de las personas con diabetes en unidades de atención primaria y secundaria en relación a factores desencadenantes del pié diabético Characteristics of people with diabetes regarding factors associated with the development of diabetic foot ulcer

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    Kattia Ochoa-Vigo

    2006-09-01

    Full Text Available OBJETIVO: estudo descritivo que caracterizou pessoas com diabetes da rede básica de saúde em relação aos fatores desencadeantes do pé diabético, considerando variáveis socio-demográficas, história clínica e risco para complicações nos pés. MÉTODOS: obtiveram-se dados mediante entrevista e avaliação dos pés. Na análise foi considerada avaliação dermatológica, estrutural, circulatória e neurológica e classificados conforme proposta de Sims e colaboradores. RESULTADOS: a idade média foi 58,5±8,5 anos; tempo da doença 8,7±6,7 anos, com ensino fundamental incompleto. Nos antecedentes clínicos 73% referiram hipertensão arterial e 22% dislipidemia. A glicemia média foi 159±79 mg/dl e HbA1c 7,8±2%. Na avaliação dos pés 73% apresentaram higiene/corte de unhas impróprios, 63% pele ressecada/descamativa, 52% unhas alteradas, 49% calos/rachaduras e 33% pé plano. Na classificação de risco identificou-se 7,9% com insensibilidade plantar e 6,9% com insensibilidade plantar e deformidade nos pés. CONCLUSÕES: estas alterações poderiam ser prevenidas com intervenções básicas e educação para cuidados com os pés.OBJETIVO: estudio descriptivo que caracterizo a personas con diabetes de la red básica de salud en relación a los factores desencadenantes del pié diabético, considerando variables socio-demográficas, historia clínica y riesgo para complicaciones en los pies. MÉTODOS: Se obtuvieron datos mediante entrevista y evaluación de los pies. En el análisis se consideró la evaluación dermatológica, estructural, circulatoria y neurológica y fueron clasificados de acuerdo a la propuesta de Sims y colaboradores. RESULTADOS: la edad promedio fue de 58.5±8.5 años; tiempo de la enfermedad 8.7±6.7 años, con secundaria incompleta. En los antecedentes clínicos el 73% refirió hipertensión arterial y el 22% dislipidimia. La glicemia promedio fue de 159±79 mg/dl y HbA1c 7.8±2%. En la evaluación de los pies el

  15. Flexible learning and the design of instruction

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    Collis, Betty; Nikolova, Iliana

    1998-01-01

    The paper deals with the problem of designing flexible learning and instruction. Flexibility is considered both from the learner's and the designer's perspective. The potential of telematics in the design, development and implementation of flexible and distance learning is discussed. A Method for

  16. Measuring and Comparing Energy Flexibilities

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    Valsomatzis, Emmanouil; Hose, Katja; Pedersen, Torben Bach

    2015-01-01

    induced by time and amount individually, and by their com- bination. To this end, we introduce several flexibility measures that take into account the combined effect of time and energy on flex-offer flexibility and discuss their respective pros and cons through a number of realistic examples....

  17. Culturas marítimas y relaciones de poder. La trayectoria del marisqueo a pie en las Rías Bajas gallegas

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    Broullón Acuña, Esmeralda

    2010-12-01

    Full Text Available The following article addresses a female labour developed in a frontier territory such as the maritime banks of the northwest coast of Spain which is the so-called “subsector” the gatherers walk from the Galician (Spain. Of a field in such work we have half analyzed occupational segregation because of gender in the thread of the conditions that traditionally developed these jobs, while the same protagonists hearings trajectory traveled by the collective female for the “professional” consolidation.

    El siguiente artículo muestra la trayectoria del trabajo femenino desarrollado en un territorio de frontera como son las riberas marítimas del litoral noroeste de la Península Ibérica. Es el denominado “subsector” de las mariscadoras a pie de las rías bajas gallegas. A partir de un trabajo de campo en dicho entorno hemos analizado la segregación ocupacional en razón al género, al hilo de las condiciones en que tradicionalmente se desarrollaban dichas faenas. Mientras tanto las protagonistas narraron el itinerario recorrido por el colectivo femenino para la consolidación “profesional” del oficio de mariscadora.

  18. Flexibility evaluation of multiechelon supply chains.

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    João Flávio de Freitas Almeida

    Full Text Available Multiechelon supply chains are complex logistics systems that require flexibility and coordination at a tactical level to cope with environmental uncertainties in an efficient and effective manner. To cope with these challenges, mathematical programming models are developed to evaluate supply chain flexibility. However, under uncertainty, supply chain models become complex and the scope of flexibility analysis is generally reduced. This paper presents a unified approach that can evaluate the flexibility of a four-echelon supply chain via a robust stochastic programming model. The model simultaneously considers the plans of multiple business divisions such as marketing, logistics, manufacturing, and procurement, whose goals are often conflicting. A numerical example with deterministic parameters is presented to introduce the analysis, and then, the model stochastic parameters are considered to evaluate flexibility. The results of the analysis on supply, manufacturing, and distribution flexibility are presented. Tradeoff analysis of demand variability and service levels is also carried out. The proposed approach facilitates the adoption of different management styles, thus improving supply chain resilience. The model can be extended to contexts pertaining to supply chain disruptions; for example, the model can be used to explore operation strategies when subtle events disrupt supply, manufacturing, or distribution.

  19. Flexible Thermoelectric Generators on Silicon Fabric

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    Sevilla, Galo T.

    2012-11-01

    In this work, the development of a Thermoelectric Generator on Flexible Silicon Fabric is explored to extend silicon electronics for flexible platforms. Low cost, easily deployable plastic based flexible electronics are of great interest for smart textile, wearable electronics and many other exciting applications. However, low thermal budget processing and fundamentally limited electron mobility hinders its potential to be competitive with well established and highly developed silicon technology. The use of silicon in flexible electronics involve expensive and abrasive materials and processes. In this work, high performance flexible thermoelectric energy harvesters are demonstrated from low cost bulk silicon (100) wafers. The fabrication of the micro- harvesters was done using existing silicon processes on silicon (100) and then peeled them off from the original substrate leaving it for reuse. Peeled off silicon has 3.6% thickness of bulk silicon reducing the thermal loss significantly and generating nearly 30% more output power than unpeeled harvesters. The demonstrated generic batch processing shows a pragmatic way of peeling off a whole silicon circuitry after conventional fabrication on bulk silicon wafers for extremely deformable high performance integrated electronics. In summary, by using a novel, low cost process, this work has successfully integrated existing and highly developed fabrication techniques to introduce a flexible energy harvester for sustainable applications.

  20. Flexible and rigid cystoscopy in women.

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    Gee, Jason R; Waterman, Bradley J; Jarrard, David F; Hedican, Sean P; Bruskewitz, Reginald C; Nakada, Stephen Y

    2009-01-01

    Previous studies have evaluated the tolerability of rigid versus flexible cystoscopy in men. Similar studies, however, have not been performed in women. We sought to determine whether office-based flexible cystoscopy was better tolerated than rigid cystoscopy in women. Following full IRB approval, women were prospectively randomized in a single-blind manner. Patients were randomized to flexible or rigid cystoscopy and draped in the lithotomy position to maintain blinding of the study. Questionnaires evaluated discomfort before, during, and after cystoscopy. Thirty-six women were randomized to flexible (18) or rigid (18) cystoscopy. Indications were surveillance (16), hematuria (15), recurrent UTIs (2), voiding dysfunction (1), and other (2). All questionnaires were returned by 31/36 women. Using a 10-point visual analog scale (VAS), median discomfort during the procedure for flexible and rigid cystoscopy were 1.4 and 1.8, respectively, in patients perceiving pain. Median recalled pain 1 week later was similar at 0.8 and 1.15, respectively. None of these differences were statistically significant. Flexible and rigid cystoscopy are well tolerated in women. Discomfort during and after the procedure is minimal in both groups. Urologists should perform either procedure in women based on their preference and skill level.

  1. Flexible magnetic thin films and devices

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    Sheng, Ping; Wang, Baomin; Li, Runwei

    2018-01-01

    Flexible electronic devices are highly attractive for a variety of applications such as flexible circuit boards, solar cells, paper-like displays, and sensitive skin, due to their stretchable, biocompatible, light-weight, portable, and low cost properties. Due to magnetic devices being important parts of electronic devices, it is essential to study the magnetic properties of magnetic thin films and devices fabricated on flexible substrates. In this review, we mainly introduce the recent progress in flexible magnetic thin films and devices, including the study on the stress-dependent magnetic properties of magnetic thin films and devices, and controlling the properties of flexible magnetic films by stress-related multi-fields, and the design and fabrication of flexible magnetic devices. Project supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2016YFA0201102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51571208, 51301191, 51525103, 11274321, 11474295, 51401230), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. 2016270), the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KJZD-EW-M05), the Ningbo Major Project for Science and Technology (No. 2014B11011), the Ningbo Science and Technology Innovation Team (No. 2015B11001), and the Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (No. 2015A610110).

  2. Analysis of a Thrust Bearing with Flexible Pads and Flexible Supports

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    Klit, Peder; Thomsen, Kim

    2007-01-01

    A theoretical analysis of a hydrodynamic thrust bearing is presented. The bearing investigated is used in an ndustrial product. The lubricant is water, but the results are valid also for other lubricants.At first the results from a 1-dimensional model for the fluid film forces and the associated...... deformation of the bearing geometry is presented. This model enlightens the influence of pad flexibility and support location and flexibility. Subsequently results from a 2-dimensional model of the bearing is presented. The model is used to carry out an optimization of the bearing design, and the obtained...

  3. Flexible Transparent Supercapacitors Based on Hierarchical Nanocomposite Films.

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    Chen, Fanhong; Wan, Pengbo; Xu, Haijun; Sun, Xiaoming

    2017-05-31

    Flexible transparent electronic devices have recently gained immense popularity in smart wearable electronics and touch screen devices, which accelerates the development of the portable power sources with reliable flexibility, robust transparency and integration to couple these electronic devices. For potentially coupled as energy storage modules in various flexible, transparent and portable electronics, the flexible transparent supercapacitors are developed and assembled from hierarchical nanocomposite films of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and aligned polyaniline (PANI) nanoarrays upon their synergistic advantages. The nanocomposite films are fabricated from in situ PANI nanoarrays preparation in a blended solution of aniline monomers and rGO onto the flexible, transparent, and stably conducting film (FTCF) substrate, which is obtained by coating silver nanowires (Ag NWs) layer with Meyer rod and then coating of rGO layer on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. Optimization of the transparency, the specific capacitance, and the flexibility resulted in the obtained all-solid state nanocomposite supercapacitors exhibiting enhanced capacitance performance, good cycling stability, excellent flexibility, and superior transparency. It provides promising application prospects for exploiting flexible, low-cost, transparent, and high-performance energy storage devices to be coupled into various flexible, transparent, and wearable electronic devices.

  4. The Flexibility Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation of a Cognitive Flexibility Measure in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

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    Strang, John F.; Anthony, Laura G.; Yerys, Benjamin E.; Hardy, Kristina K.; Wallace, Gregory L.; Armour, Anna C.; Dudley, Katerina; Kenworthy, Lauren

    2017-01-01

    Flexibility is a key component of executive function, and is related to everyday functioning and adult outcomes. However, existing informant reports do not densely sample cognitive aspects of flexibility; the Flexibility Scale (FS) was developed to address this gap. This study investigates the validity of the FS in 221 youth with ASD and 57…

  5. Considerations of device and operational flexibility in FER

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    Sugihara, Masayoshi; Miki, Nobuharu; Nishio, Satoshi; Yamada, Masao; Yamamoto, Shin

    1988-01-01

    Expected physics uncertainties in DT burning plasma of FER, which may not be removed completely at the start of construction or DT operation, are reviewed. Several possible device and operational flexibility scenarios to cope with these uncertainties are considered. They are (1) Plasma size enlargement scenario, (2) Plasma shape flexibility scenario, (3) Heating/Current drive/Control system flexibility scenario, (4) Impurity control system flexibility scenario and (5) Advanced operation scenario. Feasibility of these flexibility scenarios are examined and shown to be practicable. However, careful assessment of the physics data base is necessary at the start of construction and DT operation to proceed to actually implement these flexibilities in FER. (author)

  6. High-flexibility, noncollapsing lightweight hose

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    Williams, D.A.

    1993-04-20

    A high-flexibility, noncollapsing, lightweight, large-bore, wire-reinforced hose is inside fiber-reinforced PVC tubing that is flexible, lightweight, and abrasion resistant. It provides a strong, kink- and collapse-free conduit for moving large quantities of dangerous fluids, e.g., removing radioactive waste water or processing chemicals.

  7. 49 CFR 178.940 - Standards for flexible Large Packagings.

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    2010-10-01

    .... Flexible Large Packagings types are designated: (1) 51H flexible plastics. (2) 51M flexible paper. (b... this subchapter, flexible Large Packaging must be resistant to aging and degradation caused by ultraviolet radiation. (5) For plastic flexible Large Packagings, if necessary, protection against ultraviolet...

  8. Flexible energy-storage devices: design consideration and recent progress.

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    Wang, Xianfu; Lu, Xihong; Liu, Bin; Chen, Di; Tong, Yexiang; Shen, Guozhen

    2014-07-23

    Flexible energy-storage devices are attracting increasing attention as they show unique promising advantages, such as flexibility, shape diversity, light weight, and so on; these properties enable applications in portable, flexible, and even wearable electronic devices, including soft electronic products, roll-up displays, and wearable devices. Consequently, considerable effort has been made in recent years to fulfill the requirements of future flexible energy-storage devices, and much progress has been witnessed. This review describes the most recent advances in flexible energy-storage devices, including flexible lithium-ion batteries and flexible supercapacitors. The latest successful examples in flexible lithium-ion batteries and their technological innovations and challenges are reviewed first. This is followed by a detailed overview of the recent progress in flexible supercapacitors based on carbon materials and a number of composites and flexible micro-supercapacitors. Some of the latest achievements regarding interesting integrated energy-storage systems are also reviewed. Further research direction is also proposed to surpass existing technological bottle-necks and realize idealized flexible energy-storage devices. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

  9. Flexible licensing

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    Martyn Jansen

    2012-07-01

    Full Text Available The case is presented for a more flexible approach to licensing online library resources. Today's distributed education environment creates pressure for UK higher and further education institutions (HEI/FEIs to form partnerships and to develop educational products and roll them out across the globe. Online library resources are a key component of distributed education and yet existing licensing agreements struggle to keep pace with the increasing range of users and purposes for which they are required. This article describes the process of developing a flexible approach to licensing and proposes a new model licence for online library resources which has the adaptability needed in this new global educational landscape. These ideas have been presented and discussed at various workshops across Eduserv's and JISC Collections' higher education and publisher communities, and further consultation is ongoing.

  10. Global Challenges and Threats: European and US Approaches

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    Antonio Marquina

    2010-01-01

    Full Text Available Este artículo presenta las similitudes y diferencias que existen en las aproximaciones de seguridad entre la Unión Europea y los Estados Unidos, así como sus implicaciones para la OTAN. La Estrategia de Seguridad Europea enfatiza los desafíos y amenazas globales, dejando en un segundo plano los problemas de seguridad tradicional existentes en la periferia europea. Los Estados Unidos, por su parte, que es una potencia militar global tiende a considerar los problemas de seguridad europea en un contexto más global. El artículo hace un recorrido por las políticas puestas en pie por la Unión Europea y los Estados Unidos para hacer frente a los desafíos globales y explica las similitudes y diferencias en orden a entender los problemas cruciales que los estados miembros de la OTAN tienen que abordar para dar consistencia y permanencia al nuevo concepto estratégico de la OTAN que se está elaborando.

  11. Flexible Working Time Arrangements in Bulgaria

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    Beleva, Iskra

    2009-01-01

    The objective of this paper is to analyze the flexible working time arrangements in Bulgaria, using a life-course perspective. Two important features have to be outlined, namely: underdeveloped flexible forms of employment in the country, including working time arrangement, and lack of previous analysis on flexible working time arrangements from the angle of life-course perspective. The author describes the regulatory framework, collective agreements at national and company level as a frame w...

  12. Sensor Technologies on Flexible Substrates

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    Koehne, Jessica

    2016-01-01

    NASA Ames has developed sensor technologies on flexible substrates integrated into textiles for personalized environment monitoring and human performance evaluation. Current technologies include chemical sensing for gas leak and event monitoring and biological sensors for human health and performance monitoring. Targeted integration include next generation EVA suits and flexible habitats.

  13. Líquen plano oral (LPO: diagnóstico clínico e complementar Oral lichen planus (OLP: clinical and complementary diagnosis

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    Alan Motta do Canto

    2010-10-01

    Full Text Available O líquen plano é uma desordem comum do epitélio escamoso estratificado que acomete as mucosas oral e genital, a pele, as unhas e o couro cabeludo. O líquen plano oral (LPO afeta mulheres de meiaidade e apresenta padrões e distribuição característicos, como estriações brancas, pápulas ou placas brancas, eritema, erosões e bolhas, que podem estar associadas a medicações e/ou materiais dentários no paciente. O diagnóstico clínico somente poderá ser feito se a doença apresentar padrões clássicos, como lesões concomitantes na mucosa oral e na pele. O diagnóstico laboratorial por meio do exame histopatológico se caracteriza pela presença de projeções do epitélio em forma de dentes de serra e corpos de Civatte, e possibilita excluir condições de displasia e malignidade. A imunofluorescência direta é utilizada em suspeita de outras doenças, como pênfigo e penfigoide. O LPO é tratado com agentes anti-inflamatórios, principalmente, corticosteroides tópicos, e novos agentes e técnicas têm-se demonstrado eficazes. A transformação maligna do LPO e sua incidência exata permanecem controversas. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar, com base na revisão da literatura, a etiopatogenia, o diagnóstico clínico, exames complementares e complicações do LPO.Lichen planus is a common disorder of the stratified squamous epithelium that affects oral and genital mucous membranes, skin, nails, and scalp. Oral Lichen Planus (OLP affects middle-aged women and shows distribution patterns and characteristics such as white striations, white plaques or papules, erythema, blisters and erosions, and may be associated with medication and/or dental materials used by the patient. The clinical diagnosis can only be made if the disease presents classical patterns such as concomitant lesions in the oral mucosa and skin. The laboratory diagnosis is histopathologically characterized by the presence of projections of the epithelium in the

  14. GESTÃO EMPRESARIAL COM RESPONSABILIDADE ECÓLOGICA: ANÁLISE DO PLANO DE GERENCIAMENTO DE RESIDUOS SOLIDOS DA ANGLO AMERICAN- BARRO ALTO

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    Raíssa Maria Lopes

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    Full Text Available RESUMO: O tema Gestão Empresarial com Responsabilidade Ecológica vem sendo abordado com mais ênfase e tem ganhado espaço dentro das organizações, que por sua vez tem buscado se adequar às exigências legais e do mercado atual por meio da implantação do Sistema de Gestão Ambiental. Essa obra foi elaborada a partir da analise do PGRS[1] da Anglo American – Barro Alto de forma estratégica, afim de atingir e conscientizar o público interno da empresa, a comunidade acadêmica e a sociedade da importância de se gerenciar os resíduos sólidos gerados no nosso dia a dia. O objetivo do presente trabalho é analisar a eficácia da aplicabilidade da gestão de resíduos sólidos dentro da empresa, para o desenvolvimento desse trabalho foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica a fim de fundamentar teoricamente os conceitos referentes à gestão empresarial e ambiental e uma pesquisa de campo onde foi realizada uma entrevista com a engenheira ambiental responsável pela implantação do Plano de Gerenciamento de Resíduos Sólidos na Anglo American Barro Alto. Palavras Chaves:Gestão Empresarial; Gestão Ambiental;Responsabilidade Ecológica; Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos.   Abstract: The topic Business Management with Ecological Responsibility has been approached with more emphasis and has gained ground in organizations, which in turn has sought to suit legal requirements and current market through the implementation of the Environmental Management System. This work was drawn from the analysis of the SWMP in Anglo American - Barro Alto strategically in order to reach and educate the company’s workforce, the academic community and the importance of managing solid waste generated in our day to day society. The objective of this  study is to analyze the effectiveness of the applicability of solid waste management within the company, to develop this work a literature search was performed to theoretically substantiate the concepts relating to

  15. Cellulose Nanofiber Composite Substrates for Flexible Electronics

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    Ronald Sabo; Jung-Hun Seo; Zhenqiang Ma

    2012-01-01

    Flexible electronics have a large number of potential applications including malleable displays and wearable computers. The current research into high-speed, flexible electronic substrates employs the use of plastics for the flexible substrate, but these plastics typically have drawbacks, such as high thermal expansion coefficients. Transparent films made from...

  16. Flexible Pedagogies: Employer Engagement and Work-Based Learning. Flexible Pedagogies: Preparing for the Future Series

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    Kettle, Jane

    2013-01-01

    This publication focuses on national and international policy initiatives to develop a better understanding of work-based learners and the types of flexibility that may well enhance their study especially pedagogically. As part of our five-strand research project "Flexible Pedagogies: preparing for the future" it: (1) highlights the…

  17. Bio-Inspired Flexible Cellular Actuating Systems

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    S. Hong, “Robust adaptive boundary control of a flexible marine riser with vessel dynamics,” Automatica, vol. 47, pp. 722–732, 2011. [22] D. H...conditionally accepted. [6] W. He, S. S. Ge, B. V. E. How, Y. S. Choo, and K. S. Hong, “Robust adaptive boundary control of a flexible marine riser ... flexible robotic actuators, often represented by a distributed parameter system or a partial differential equation. We establish a model-guided

  18. Flexible benefit plans in Dutch organisations

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    Hillebrink, C.

    2006-01-01

    Flexible benefit plans give employees a greater say over the composition of their benefits than traditional Dutch benefit plans. These arrangements developed in a time of further individualisation, increasing flexibility in the workplace, and a tight labour market in the Netherlands. By giving employees a choice in the way they are paid, employers hoped to become more attractive employers, and lend a helping hand to employees who were combining work and care. In this study, flexible benefit p...

  19. Imperative, irony and smuggling of the pie in the sky. Somenotes on the poem Do Jeruszalaim by Jerzy Ficowski

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    Paulina Czwordon

    2009-01-01

    Full Text Available The poem Do Jeruszalaim combines different original poetical solutionsapplied in the collection of poems Odczytanie popiołów and rememberingthe experience of Shoah. The language of the poem becomes a toolemployed in a “smuggling” of unsaved Jews, being done “belatedly”,into the world of the living. Complicated, unspectacular by design,constructional operations are finely tuned with the semantics of the escape(flight and are to lay a false trail, to rescue a human being in theintricacies of the poem, somewhere between the sheer physics of theescape and the possibilities offered by words. A particularly interestingplace is given to the phraseological units used in the poems such as“a handful of pies in the sky” that simultaneously recall futility of theaction but somehow suggest a “smuggling” the act of life-giving activity.The activities carried out in the language of the poem functionin a ceaseless (and self-augmenting strain between the two contradictions.They are: the imperative of memory, impractical (and unfeasibleact of saving human “after-being” and the protest against the abyssmalnothingness of Shoah on the one hand, and irony of the futility of these“vindications from non-existence” as being only verbal, on the other.

  20. Flexible Work Options within the Organisational System

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    Albion, Majella J.; Chee, Munli

    2006-01-01

    The availability of flexible work options provides an opportunity for individuals to shape their careers in order to optimise their work and life goals. This study takes a systems theory approach to examine how the use of flexible work options influences relationships and interactions in the workplace. The "Flexible Work Options…

  1. Limited access: gender, occupational composition, and flexible work scheduling.

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    Glauber, Rebecca

    2011-01-01

    The current study draws on national data to explore differences in access to flexible work scheduling by the gender composition of women's and men's occupations. Results show that those who work in integrated occupations are more likely to have access to flexible scheduling. Women and men do not take jobs with lower pay in return for greater access to flexibility. Instead, jobs with higher pay offer greater flexibility. Integrated occupations tend to offer the greatest access to flexible scheduling because of their structural locations. Part-time work is negatively associated with men's access to flexible scheduling but positively associated with women's access. Women have greater flexibility when they work for large establishments, whereas men have greater flexibility when they work for small establishments.

  2. Education, Training and the Flexible Labour Market.

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    Merson, Martin

    1996-01-01

    The British government's policy of flexible labor market may be interpreted as either flexibility of conditions, which encourages temporary, contingent work, or flexibility of skills, a repertoire that enables workers to undertake a range of tasks as needed. The challenge for educators is to help workers understand and engage in an uncertain world…

  3. EL ALCANCE PRÁCTICO DEL LENGUAJE NO SEXISTA SOLICITADO DESDE EL PLANO NORMATIVO: ¿UNA CUESTIÓN RESUELTA?

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    Fernando Centenera Sanchez Seco

    2011-12-01

    Full Text Available RESUMEN. En el ámbito jurídico cada vez es más frecuente encontrar expresiones que hacen alusión a la utilización de un lenguaje no sexista. El plano normativo quizá sea uno de los más representativos. En este trabajo se consideran varias leyes de igualdad donde aparecen expresiones de este tipo. Partiendo de esta circunstancia, se pretende dejar constancia de la dificultad que entraña la interpretación del alcance práctico de dichas expresiones. De otro lado se consideran también algunas prácticas que ya se pueden apreciar en nuestros días, y que aunque en principio pudieran considerarse una solución a la circunstancia precedente, también ofrecen algunos problemas.ABSTRACT. In the legal world it is becoming increasingly common to encounter allusions to the non-sexist use of language. In this regard, the sphere of regulation is possibly the best example. This article analyses various acts of equality legislation which feature such allusions in order to demonstrate the difficulty involved in interpreting the practical scope of such allusions. Consideration is also given to certain practices observable today which may appear to provide a solution to the foregoing situation, but which also pose some problems.

  4. Labor Supply Flexibility and Portfolio Choice

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    Zvi Bodie; William Samuelson

    1989-01-01

    This paper develops a model showing that people who have flexibility in choosing how much to work will prefer to invest substantially more of their money in risky assets than if they had no such flexibility. Viewed in this way, labor supply flexibility offers insurance against adverse investment outcomes. The model provides support for the conventional wisdom that the young can tolerate more risk in their investment portfolios than the old. The model has other implications for the study of ho...

  5. Flexible spin-orbit torque devices

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    Lee, OukJae; You, Long; Jang, Jaewon; Subramanian, Vivek [Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States); Salahuddin, Sayeef [Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States); Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

    2015-12-21

    We report on state-of-the-art spintronic devices synthesized and fabricated directly on a flexible organic substrate. Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy was achieved in ultrathin ferromagnetic heterostructures of Pt/Co/MgO sputtered on a non-rigid plastic substrate at room temperature. Subsequently, a full magnetic reversal of the Co was observed by exploiting the spin orbit coupling in Pt that leads to a spin accumulation at the Pt/Co interface when an in-plane current is applied. Quasi-static measurements show the potential for operating these devices at nano-second speeds. Importantly, the behavior of the devices remained unchanged under varying bending conditions (up to a bending radius of ≈ ±20–30 mm). Furthermore, the devices showed robust operation even after application of 10{sup 6} successive pulses, which is likely sufficient for many flexible applications. Thus, this work demonstrates the potential for integrating high performance spintronic devices on flexible substrates, which could lead to many applications ranging from flexible non-volatile magnetic memory to local magnetic resonance imaging.

  6. Flexible spin-orbit torque devices

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    Lee, OukJae; You, Long; Jang, Jaewon; Subramanian, Vivek; Salahuddin, Sayeef

    2015-01-01

    We report on state-of-the-art spintronic devices synthesized and fabricated directly on a flexible organic substrate. Large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy was achieved in ultrathin ferromagnetic heterostructures of Pt/Co/MgO sputtered on a non-rigid plastic substrate at room temperature. Subsequently, a full magnetic reversal of the Co was observed by exploiting the spin orbit coupling in Pt that leads to a spin accumulation at the Pt/Co interface when an in-plane current is applied. Quasi-static measurements show the potential for operating these devices at nano-second speeds. Importantly, the behavior of the devices remained unchanged under varying bending conditions (up to a bending radius of ≈ ±20–30 mm). Furthermore, the devices showed robust operation even after application of 10 6 successive pulses, which is likely sufficient for many flexible applications. Thus, this work demonstrates the potential for integrating high performance spintronic devices on flexible substrates, which could lead to many applications ranging from flexible non-volatile magnetic memory to local magnetic resonance imaging

  7. Can flexibility help you float?

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    Burton, L. J.; Bush, J. W. M.

    2012-10-01

    We consider the role of flexibility in the weight-bearing characteristics of bodies floating at an interface. Specifically, we develop a theoretical model for a two-dimensional thin floating plate that yields the maximum stable plate load and optimal stiffness for weight support. Plates small relative to the capillary length are primarily supported by surface tension, and their weight-bearing potential does not benefit from flexibility. Above a critical size comparable to the capillary length, flexibility assists interfacial flotation. For plates on the order of and larger than the capillary length, deflection from an initially flat shape increases the force resulting from hydrostatic pressure, allowing the plate to support a greater load. In this large plate limit, the shape that bears the most weight is a semicircle, which displaces the most fluid above the plate for a fixed plate length. Exact results for maximum weight-bearing plate shapes are compared to analytic approximations made in the limits of large and small plate sizes. The value of flexibility for floating to a number of biological organisms is discussed in light of our study.

  8. Una aproximación a la obra El cielo bajo los pies de Elsa Plaza y a la construcción del arquetipo de “la vampira del carrer Ponent”

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    Laia Manonelles Moner

    2015-10-01

    Full Text Available A partir de la novela El cielo bajo los pies (2009 de la historiadora y novelista Elsa Plaza, se revisará la construcción del mito de un personaje que deviene un chivo expiatorio de la tensión social que se vivía en Barcelona a principios del siglo XX. Se analizará cómo la obra de Elsa Plaza se aproxima al caso de Enriqueta Martí Ripoll, conocida por la prensa sensacionalista como la "vampira del Raval", con el objetivo de perfilar el contexto social, económico, político y cultural de una época ávida de crear figuras arquetípicas que canalizaran el creciente malestar.

  9. Effects of pollution on land snail abundance, size and diversity as resources for pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca.

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    Eeva, Tapio; Rainio, Kalle; Suominen, Otso

    2010-09-01

    Passerine birds need extra calcium during their breeding for developing egg shells and proper growth of nestling skeleton. Land snails are an important calcium source for many passerines and human-induced changes in snail populations may pose a severe problem for breeding birds. We studied from the bird's viewpoint how air pollution affects the shell mass, abundance and diversity of land snail communities along a pollution gradient of a copper smelter. We sampled remnant snail shells from the nests of an insectivorous passerine, the pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, to find out how the availability of land snails varies along the pollution gradient. The total snail shell mass increased towards the pollution source but declined abruptly in the vicinity of the smelter. This spatial variation in shell mass was evident also within a single snail species and could not be wholly explained by spatially varying snail numbers or species composition. Instead, the total shell mass was related to their shell size, individuals being largest at the moderately polluted areas. Smaller shell size suggests inferior growth of snails in the most heavily polluted area. Our study shows that pollution affects the diversity, abundance (available shell mass) and individual quality of land snails, posing reproductive problems for birds that rely on snails as calcium sources during breeding. There are probably both direct pollution-related (heavy metal and calcium levels) and indirect (habitat change) effects behind the observed changes in snail populations. Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

  10. Flexible wings in flapping flight

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    Moret, Lionel; Thiria, Benjamin; Zhang, Jun

    2007-11-01

    We study the effect of passive pitching and flexible deflection of wings on the forward flapping flight. The wings are flapped vertically in water and are allowed to move freely horizontally. The forward speed is chosen by the flapping wing itself by balance of drag and thrust. We show, that by allowing the wing to passively pitch or by adding a flexible extension at its trailing edge, the forward speed is significantly increased. Detailed measurements of wing deflection and passive pitching, together with flow visualization, are used to explain our observations. The advantage of having a wing with finite rigidity/flexibility is discussed as we compare the current results with our biological inspirations such as birds and fish.

  11. El urbanismo de Santiago de Compostela : un plano con las plazuelas de San Martín y de San Miguel de 1709

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    Miguel Taín Guzmán

    1998-01-01

    Full Text Available El presente artículo está dedicado al estudio de un plano inédito de 1709 donde se representan las plazuelas de San Martín y de San Miguel, en el barrio intramuros de la Puerta de la Peña de Santiago de Compostela. Gracias al referido dibujo, analizo al detalle el entramado urbano de ambos espacios públicos y los edificios que los delimitan, particularmente la iglesia de San Martín Pinario, el desaparecido Palacio del Tribunal de la Santa Inquisición y la iglesia parroquial de San Miguel dos Agros.The article focuses on the study of a 1709 inpublished street plan of two squares —San Martín and San Miguel— in the Puerta de la Peña quarter (Santiago de Compostela. This oíd drawing shows the urban framework of both public spaces and also the buildings around: San Martín Pinario, the lost Palacio del Tribunal de la Santa Inquisición and the paroquial church of San Miguel de los Agros.

  12. Two dimensional nanomaterials for flexible supercapacitors.

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    Peng, Xu; Peng, Lele; Wu, Changzheng; Xie, Yi

    2014-05-21

    Flexible supercapacitors, as one of most promising emerging energy storage devices, are of great interest owing to their high power density with great mechanical compliance, making them very suitable as power back-ups for future stretchable electronics. Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, including the quasi-2D graphene and inorganic graphene-like materials (IGMs), have been greatly explored to providing huge potential for the development of flexible supercapacitors with higher electrochemical performance. This review article is devoted to recent progresses in engineering 2D nanomaterials for flexible supercapacitors, which survey the evolution of electrode materials, recent developments in 2D nanomaterials and their hybrid nanostructures with regulated electrical properties, and the new planar configurations of flexible supercapacitors. Furthermore, a brief discussion on future directions, challenges and opportunities in this fascinating area is also provided.

  13. Flexible nanoscale high-performance FinFETs

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    Sevilla, Galo T.

    2014-10-28

    With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), flexible high-performance nanoscale electronics are more desired. At the moment, FinFET is the most advanced transistor architecture used in the state-of-the-art microprocessors. Therefore, we show a soft-etch based substrate thinning process to transform silicon-on-insulator (SOI) based nanoscale FinFET into flexible FinFET and then conduct comprehensive electrical characterization under various bending conditions to understand its electrical performance. Our study shows that back-etch based substrate thinning process is gentler than traditional abrasive back-grinding process; it can attain ultraflexibility and the electrical characteristics of the flexible nanoscale FinFET show no performance degradation compared to its rigid bulk counterpart indicating its readiness to be used for flexible high-performance electronics.

  14. Flexibility-enabling Contracts in Electricity Markets

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    Boscan, Luis; Poudineh, Rahmatallah

    As the share of intermittent renewable energy increases in the generation mix, power systems are exposed to greater levels of uncertainty and risk, which requires planners, policy and business decision makers to incentivise flexibility, that is: their adaptability to unforeseen variations....... Additionally, along with traditional sources, which already enable flexibility, a number of business models, such as thermostat-based demand response, aggregators and small storage providers, are emerging in electricity markets and expected to constitute important sources of flexibility in future decentralised...... power systems. However, due to presence of high transaction costs, relative to the size of resource, the emerging small resources cannot directly participate in an organised electricity market and/or compete. This paper asks the fundamental question of how should the provision of flexibility, as a multi...

  15. Sobre a objetividade na relação sujeito-objeto no plano da imagem ou da esfera instrumental/organizacional: um ponto de vista para a pesquisa na enfermagem Sobre la objetividad en la relación sujeto - objeto en el plan de la imagen o de la esfera instrumental/organizacional: un punto de vista para la investigación en la enfermería About the objectivity in the subject-object relationship in the image’s plan or in the instrumental/organizational scope: a point of view for the nursing research

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    Vilma de Carvalho

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    Full Text Available Discussão sobre a objetividade na relação sujeito-objeto - âmbito do fenômeno do conhecimento e pesquisas/estudos de enfermagem. A abordagem teórico-filosófica incide sobre a esfera intermediária - instrumental/organizacional - relativamente a possíveis verdades aproximadas. Essa esfera entendida como esfera da "imagem" ou espaço formal ( locus virtual? de transferência de caracteres da realidade objetiva. A análise de natureza gnoseológico-epistemológica, sem pretensões aprofundadas, salvo o alcance da compreensão para estudos ou buscas investigativas em plano de núcleos de pesquisa na enfermagem. A autora assume a crítica em favor do domínio de conceitos e categorias do conhecer e relativamente à enfermagem enquanto "ciência-em-vias-de-se-fazer". Aponta para o risco de confundir-se, de um lado, o plano pragmático/ assistencial (trabalho e operações práticas e, de outro, o plano gnoseológico/epistemológico (trabalho teórico-acadêmico de buscas de verdades aproximadas. E apresenta argumentos/justificavas lógicas para as distinções entre interesses do sujeito pesquisador (plano da Subjetividade e outros apropriados à construção científica (plano da Objetividade.Discusión sobre la objetividad en la relación sujeto-objeto, ámbito del fenómeno del conocimiento / interés de la investigación/ estudios de enfermería. El abordaje de efecto teórico-filosófico incide sobre la esfera intermedia - instrumental/organizacional - relacionada con la formalización de posibles verdades aproximadas. Esa esfera entendida como esfera de la "imagen" o espacio formal de transferencia de determinaciones o caracteres del real objetivo. El análisis es de naturaleza gnoseológicoepistemológica, sin pretensiones profundas, salvo el alcance de comprensión para estudios o indagaciones en el plano de núcleos de investigación en enfermería. La autora hace la critica en favor de conceptos y categorías del conocer y en lo que

  16. Testing of the coping flexibility hypothesis based on the dual-process theory: Relationships between coping flexibility and depressive Symptoms.

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    Kato, Tsukasa

    2015-12-15

    According to the dual-process theory of coping flexibility (Kato, 2012), coping flexibility is the ability to discontinue an ineffective coping strategy (i.e., evaluation coping process) and implement an alternative strategy (i.e., adaptive coping process). The coping flexibility hypothesis (CFH) proposes that the ability to engage in flexible coping is related to better psychological functioning and physical health, including less depression. I the present study, participants were 393 American Whites, 429 Australian Whites, and 496 Chinese, selected from the data pool of the 2013 Coping and Health Survey (see Kato, 2014b). They completed both the Coping Flexibility Scale (Kato, 2012), which is based on the dual-process theory of coping flexibility, and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). For all nationalities and genders, evaluation coping and adaptive coping were significantly correlated with lower levels of depressive symptoms. Structural equation modeling revealed that evaluation coping was associated with lower depressive symptoms for all nationalities and genders, whereas no significant relationships between adaptive coping and depressive symptoms were found for any nationalities. Our results partially supported that the CFH fits with the dual-process theory of coping flexibility. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

  17. Movable MEMS Devices on Flexible Silicon

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    Ahmed, Sally

    2013-01-01

    Flexible electronics have gained great attention recently. Applications such as flexible displays, artificial skin and health monitoring devices are a few examples of this technology. Looking closely at the components of these devices, although MEMS

  18. Workplace flexibility.

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    Scordato, C; Harris, J

    1990-01-01

    Whether your organization is in a growth pattern or downsizing, you are probably facing change. To gain some insight into your options, here is an in-depth look at the problems and benefits of some flexible work arrangements from a just published study by Catalyst.

  19. Flexibility conflict?

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    Delsen, L.W.M.; Bauer, F.; Groß, H.; Sieglen, G.

    2002-01-01

    The chapter deals with the presupposed conflict of interests between employers and employees resulting from a decoupling of operating hours and working times. It starts from the notion that both long operating hours and flexibility are relative concepts. As there is some discretion, the ultimate

  20. Natural flexible dermal armor.

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    Yang, Wen; Chen, Irene H; Gludovatz, Bernd; Zimmermann, Elizabeth A; Ritchie, Robert O; Meyers, Marc A

    2013-01-04

    Fish, reptiles, and mammals can possess flexible dermal armor for protection. Here we seek to find the means by which Nature derives its protection by examining the scales from several fish (Atractosteus spatula, Arapaima gigas, Polypterus senegalus, Morone saxatilis, Cyprinius carpio), and osteoderms from armadillos, alligators, and leatherback turtles. Dermal armor has clearly been developed by convergent evolution in these different species. In general, it has a hierarchical structure with collagen fibers joining more rigid units (scales or osteoderms), thereby increasing flexibility without significantly sacrificing strength, in contrast to rigid monolithic mineral composites. These dermal structures are also multifunctional, with hydrodynamic drag (in fish), coloration for camouflage or intraspecies recognition, temperature and fluid regulation being other important functions. The understanding of such flexible dermal armor is important as it may provide a basis for new synthetic, yet bioinspired, armor materials. Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.