Principais distúrbios comportamentais em cães

Dogs are becoming more and more a part of family life, but the relationship between man and dog is not always healthy. Many dogs are abandoned and illtreated due to their behavioral problems. Among the main behavioral disturbances reported in dogs, there are the separation anxiety, compulsive disorder, aggression and fear. Despite the necessity, there is a paucity of skilled professionals in this field and a difficulty in finding articles on the subject. This paper describes the ways to assess the behavioral problems and address in an objective way some of the major behavioral problems presented by dogs, its etiology and treatment

Análise do envolvimento do fator de início de tradução de eucariotos 5A (eIF5A) na translocação de proteínas para o retículo endoplasmático em Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Seleção de dietas artificiais para manutenção em laboratório do cupim asiático Coptotermes gestroi (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

O cupim exótico Coptotermes gestroi, pertencente à família Rhinotermitidae, é um dos mais prejudiciais para os humanos, do ponto de vista econômico, causando grandes prejuízos no Brasil, principalmente nos estados de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. A manutenção de insetos no laboratório pressupõe o uso de uma dieta artificial nutritiva assim, este projeto, pretendeu selecionar a melhor dieta artificial entre 5 testadas, que fosse adequada para manter essa espécie de cupim. Portanto, foram realizados 5 diferentes bioensaios em arenas compostas por câmaras “ninho”, conectadas a câmaras “alimento” , que continham as diferentes dietas ou Pinus sp., madeira utilizada como controle. A sobrevivência dos cupins e o resultado final foi submetido a uma análise de variância que demonstrou que a dieta composta principalmente por  - celulose foi a que apresentou os melhores resultados e foi considerada a dieta mais eficaz na manutenção dos cupins em laboratório.

Os diagnósticos de distúrbios de aprendizagem e a prática pedagógica

Este estudo teve como objetivo compreender como alunos que não se adaptam à rotina da escola são avaliados e diagnosticados como portadores de distúrbio de aprendizagem por professores do ensino fundamental de escolas públicas e particulares. Buscou-se também analisar como esses alunos são escolhidos, diante do alto índice de diagnosticação de crianças e adolescentes que vêm ocorrendo nos últimos tempos. Partimos do pressuposto de que nestes diagnósticos os processos sociais são desconsiderados, reduzindo o comportamento dos alunos a uma doença genética e patológica. Para isso a pesquisa seguiu uma abordagem qualitativa e utilizou-se de dois instrumentos para a coleta de dados. Primeiramente o conteúdo foi estudado por meio de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, utilizando-se da literatura como suporte a compreensão do fenômeno estudado. Também se utilizou de entrevistas estruturadas com professoras do ensino fundamental I. Na análise dos dados foi possível compreender que a abordagem biológica, a cerca dos distúrbios de aprendizagem, é muito presente no âmbito escolar e tem influenciado a realização de diagnósticos e consequentemente podendo levar as crianças ao consumo de medicamentos e, desta forma, desconsiderando o processo sócio-político que envolve a educação, transferindo a elas a responsabilidade da não aprendizagem

Comportamento de indivíduos com doença de Parkinson no levantar da cadeira e no início da marcha: relações com o envelhecimento

Large motor dysfunctions are observed in older adults with the age advance. Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients have motor deficits to perform daily living activities. To raise from a chair, a daily task necessary to live independently, requires both large muscle recruitment and large joint range of motion to achieve the vertical position safely. Normally, we initiate gait after raise from a chair. The aim of this study was to analyze the PD patients’ behavior when rising from a chair and initiating gait and to compare it according to the age advance. In order to do that, 23 PD patients (66.61±7.64 years old) were distributed in three age groups: Young group, between 51 and 60 years of age (n=7); intermediary group, between 61 and 70 years of age (n=7); and elderly group, over 70 years of age (n=9). There were no statistical differences among groups either for the disease evolution stage or for it compromising. The task was to stand from a chair and to initiate gait forward in three attempts. The dependent variables were: spatial and temporal (first step length and duration, and stride length, duration and velocity) and angular (flexion and extension of head, shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle). The motion of standing from a chair was divided in two phases. The data was statistically treated by means of Analyses of Variance with group as the only factor. The Scheffé’s post hoc test was used to localize differences among groups and the significance level was adjusted to p≤0.017. There were statistical differences for stride...(Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Comparação de registros de sono (EEG e EMG) lidos em épocas de 10 e 30 segundos de ratos submetidos a privação de sono e tarefa de esquiva inibitória

The objective of the present study was to compare parameters such as total time, number of episodes and mean duration of episodes of each wake-sleep cycle stage, and sequences of stages in electroencephalographic records scored in 10 and 30 seconds epochs in controls and sleep deprived animals, submitted to avoiding tasks of learning and memory. This comparing tried to discuss the need of lesser epochs in the EEG scoring, and of the search for more details and shorter sequences, present in many studies nowadays

Oferta educacional nas creches e parcerias público-privado nos municípios paulistas de 10.001 a 50.000 habitantes

Este trabalho, foi realizado como Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso e Iniciação Científica. Este identifica, caracteriza e analisa, no conjunto dos municípios paulistas de 10.001 a 50.000 habitantes, os diferentes arranjos institucionais firmados entre o Poder Público Municipal e instituições privadas para a oferta educacional em creches. O período considerado para o presente estudo foi entre 2000 e 2009. O início do período em 2000 se justifica pelo prazo final estabelecido pela LDB 9394/96 para integração das creches aos respectivos sistemas de ensino ser dezembro de 1999. O estudo realizado nos permitiu observar a manutenção dos convênios firmados entre o Poder Público Municipal e instituições privadas sem fins lucrativos. As justificativas utilizadas para esclarecer a opção municipal pelo convênio com instituições que oferecem vagas à crianças de 0 a 3 anos, se voltarão para atender a demanda existente no município que este não consegue suprir e auxílio financeiro à instituição que oferece o atendimento a tempos no município. Outro fato que podemos constatar foi o que um número considerável que municípios cadastram as matrículas das entidades privadas conveniadas com o poder público, como matrículas públicas. Utilizamos como procedimento teórico-metodológico o levantamento e análise bibliográfica, contatos telefônicos diretos com os gestores municipais para coletar informações sobre as parcerias, dados disponibilizados no Banco de Dados do Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Política Educacional (GREPPE), sites oficiais dos municípios e sites governamentais. Constitui-se este trabalho como parte integrante da pesquisa “Oferta Educacional nas creches: Arranjos Institucionais entre o Público e o Privado” financiada pelo CNPq e coordenada pela Profª Drª Raquel Fontes Borghi

Avaliação preliminar dos efeitos de Brassica campestris sobre a obesidade induzida por dieta hipercalórica

Obesity along with overweight has been considered one of the most serious public health problems in the world, especially because they are the main risk factors for many chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension and some types of tumors, which are associated with high mortality rates. The use of functional foods and appropriate diets to promote health has grown as a mechanism for prevention, control and treatment of chronic diseases such as obesity. Several ethnopharmacological studies indicate plants species for the treatment of disorders associated with obesity with a major attraction of this regimen is perceived as safer and more effective for health than the traditional treatment with appetite suppressants. Whereas both food intake and the oral treatment with different compounds can cause changes in gene expression and that a proper diet has been valuable as a mechanism for maintaining the body's vital functions, the objective of this project was to evaluate the effects of standardized extract of Brassica campestris L. in the decrease in weight and food intake control. In vivo trials of this product were conducted and studies of its effects on energy metabolism in non-obese mice and with obesity induced by hypercaloric diet. After induction of obesity by 8 weeks, animals were treated for 21 days with the extract orally. After 21 days the animals were killed and the effects of this product were evaluated on the daily feed intake and on body weight. According to the results obtained, the extract of Brassica campestris was not effective in reducing body weight of obese animals, and did not reduce food intake

Dinâmica da secreção de néctar em Zeyheria montana Mart. (Bignoniaceae) relacionada à atividade dos beija-fores polinizadores

The Cerrado is home to important biodiversity areas in the state of Sao Paulo. Therefore, research on the reproduction of species of this biome are essential to help conservation programs. Pollination is the main mechanism by which outcrossing plants perpetuate their populations, and the attractive, such as nectar, are of vital importance to many anthophilous animals and essential to the maintenance of interactions with pollinators. In this context, the objective of this study was to investigate the ecological dynamics of secretion and sugar composition of floral nectar in Zeyheria montana, an ornithophilous exclusive Cerrado species, visited preferentially by Colibri serrirostris, also exclusive to this biome. This dynamic was assessed in isolated flowers in pre-anthesis, using microsyringes to collect nectar and manual refractometer to measure the concentration. Experiments were carried out to evaluate production throughout anthesis, including the assessment of total daily production, the effect of successive removal, the rate of production during the day and night and changes in concentration and composition of sugars, which was performed in HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography). The rate of nectar production was about three times greater at night with a concentration two times lower, resulting in a supply of large amounts of dilute nectar in the early morning hours, peak of visitation for hummingbirds. Moreover, the production of nectar was more pronounced before the anthesis, and is available to visitors already in newly opened flowers, which are preferentially visited by C. serrirostris. There was an increase in the nectar production of flowers in the group with successive manual removal upon the control group, suggesting that the withdrawal by visitors stimulates the production, ensuring the availability of the resource including flowers previously visited... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Aplicação de um sistema de monitoramento remoto para auxiliar na manutenção preditiva e preventiva de componentes de uma subestação

The increase in energy consumption in the world has caused the electrical systems becoming ever larger and more complex. Because of that becomes necessary to use special tools to efficiently manage the equipment present in these systems. Nowadays a tool very used is the remote monitoring of assets which works collecting signals using sensors processing these signals and make them available to the system user. So the user can use informations that may assist him efficiently in making decisions when doing a maintenance. The system is technically efficient since it improves the measurement process and enables the asset management of a substation by using advanced technology for that and economically viable especially in cases where the user is subject to monetary loss due an interruption of power supply

Análise crítica de contratos técnicos como ferramenta para melhoria da gestão da manutenção

Currently, due to the highly competitive search among industries are becoming more tools for managing product that provides higher availability and therefore profitability. Maintenance as a strategic sector and of fundamental importance in business, it seeks to maximize availability and available resources, minimizing costs and waste, which directly impacts the company's results. The present work has as main objective the review of contracts for maintenance services for companies contracted by a chemical company in the Paraíba Valley, since most of its maintenance services are outsourced, and raise these contracts which are more critical and higher risk to the company's success, thus creating a tool for decision-making by maintenance managers in the act of seeking renewals or new contracts to provide services. As a result after drawing up a standard procedure for contracting of services and a better structuring of the same, we developed a method for the calculation of the criticality of the contracts and based on these calculations, charts were prepared which showed that the current scenario of maintenance contracts the company studied. Thus it is possible to evaluate the contracts which are most critical to the success or failure of the company studied, and also pave the way for further studies on how this criticality of a contract can affect the relationship, the contractor x contracted

Auxílio a tomada de decisão na inclusão de sobressalentes de manutenção em estoque utilizando um sistema especialista fuzzy

In the current economic scenario of constant changes, industries seek to increase their profitability decreasing inventory levels. Maintenance and maintenance management, combined with the inventory management of spare parts, has assumed a position of competitive advantage in business. Stock only what you need has become a difficult decision for managers, who are faced with the lack of models and criteria to assist this decision-making. This work proposes a method which supports decision making, on a MATLAB modeling, using criteria established by an expert and his maintenance workers team, focusing on no regular demand of spare parts. The proposed model was adequate to the needs of the company and the maintenance manager in the decision on the storage

Qualidade de sono em praticantes de atividade física regular

Nos últimos anos tem crescido o interesse de inúmeros pesquisadores em relação ao sono, já que ele vem sendo apontado como um importante indicador de saúde. Sabe-se atualmente que a qualidade do sono pode ser influenciada por diversos fatores, tais como: o uso de medicamentos; ingestão alcoólica; alterações psicológicas e sociais; ambiente; e a prática regular de atividade física. Por este motivo, objetivamos com este trabalho, verificar a qualidade de sono apresentada por praticantes de atividade física regular, bem como, apresentar propostas para uma maior qualidade da mesma. Para isso aplicamos um questionário de percepção subjetiva de qualidade de sono, com níveis de qualidade entre: sono profundo e pouquíssimo estado de sonolência, durante 31 dias consecutivos. Fizeram parte da pesquisa, sete indivíduos (5 homens e 2 mulheres), com idades entre 49 e 73 anos (± 63 anos), praticantes de atividade física regular. Os resultados demonstraram que: 2.8% (6) dos relatos indicaram um sono profundo; 77.0% (167) um sono normal; 5.5% (12) um sono sem relaxamento; 14.3% (31) um sono ruim, com pausas; e 0.4% (1) pouquíssimo estado de sonolência. Em 79.8% (173) dos relatos, a percepção subjetiva de qualidade de sono foi de profundo ou normal, enquanto que em 20.2% (44) dos mesmos, a qualidade do sono estava entre: sem relaxamento; ruim, com pausas; e pouquíssimo estado de sonolência; o que nos leva a concluir que a qualidade do sono destes indivíduos pode ser considerada boa. Porém, as alterações na estrutura de sono, inerentes ao processo de envelhecimento, parecem comprometer uma maior qualidade de sono, principalmente a aquisição de um sono profundo. Se a prática de atividade física regular é importante para alterações benéficas na qualidade de sono destes indivíduos, a adoção de hábitos de higiene de sono, ...(Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)

Atividade física e sintomas depressivos em cuidadores de idosos com demência de Alzheimer

The Alzheimer's dementia (AD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative and progressive disorder, characterized by cognitive decline, affecting brain functions like memory, reasoning and communication, occurrence of behavioral disturbances and difficulty in performing activities of daily living (ADLs). These conditions lead to patient’s dependence, which can cause depressive symptoms in caregivers, due to physical and mental burden caused by of the difficulties of the act of caring. Whereupon, it became necessary to find strategies to improve the caregivers’ quality of life. An interesting hypothesis is that physical activity can be considered a non-pharmacological alternative in reducing depressive symptoms, being an important factor for maintaining the physical and mental well-being of the general population, especially on positive changes in mood and social interaction. This study aimed to analyze the effects of a physical activity protocol on depressive symptoms and burden of caregivers of patients with AD. This experimental study, of longitudinal character, comprised a sample of 19 caregivers, of both genders, divided into two groups: a) intervention group – IG (10 caregivers who participated in a physical activity protocol) and b) control group – CG (9 caregivers who didn’t participate in the physical activity protocol). This protocol, which worked the components of functional ability and social interaction of participants, was held three times a week, being 48 sessions of 60 minutes each, for 16 weeks. Data collect was performed at pre and post-intervention for both groups. The assessment instruments used were: a) Zarit Burden Interview, b) Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) and c) battery of motor tests of the American Alliance for Health Physical Education Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). Nonparametric statistics was used, with intra-group comparison by Wilcoxon test... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Padronização das atividades de manutenção para implementação de um projeto de TPM

La mission de ce rapport se trouvée dans un projet major de mise en place de la TPM dans l’usine de Biotechnologie à Huningue. Le même sera utilisé comme pilote pour les autres sites de l’entreprise. Le but spécifique de ma mission au sein de Novartis, était d’identifier les activités principales des équipes de maintenance, étudier la façon de travailler et la manière comment ils étaient renseignées dans leurs Ordres de Travail (OT). Ensuite, proposer un standard de flux de travail et façon de renseigner les OT et ainsi organiser la façon de travailler et pouvoir planifier les activités de maintenance, ayant une bonne base de données pour faire les indicateurs