Avaliação da eficiência dos métodos Direto, COPROTEST e Rugai no diagnóstico da estrongiloidíase

Strongyloidiasis, a relatively common parasitism in tropical and sub-tropical areas, is the result of the infection by the smaller nematode, the Strongyloides stercoralis. Humans can be infected by this parasite, which has in its vital cycle free-life forms of male and female individuals able to live in the ground, and with another step necessary parasitism in the intestinal wall. The diagnostic of the infection is routinely done by the microscopic observation of the larva in stool samples and the high sensibility of urn method over another one allows an trustable and efficient diagnostic. The efficiency of three methods (Direct, COPROTEST and Rugai) used in the Parasitology Sector of the NAC-LACAL in Araraquara (SP) to diagnosis the strongiloidiasis were evaluated. A number of 2346 samples of stool of patients from NAC-LACAL and Nestor Goulart Reis Hospital were analyzed in the period between August and December of 2002. The Rugai Method with an positivity index of 65 % was elected as the most efficient of thee ones.

Avaliação estatística de métodos de poda aplicados em neurônios intermediários da rede neural MLP

There are several papers on pruning methods in the artificial neural networks area. However, with rare exceptions, none of them presents an appropriate statistical evaluation of such methods. In this article, we proved statistically the ability of some methods to reduce the number of neurons of the hidden layer of a multilayer perceptron neural network (MLP), and to maintain the same landing of classification error of the initial net. They are evaluated seven pruning methods. The experimental investigation was accomplished on five groups of generated data and in two groups of real data. Three variables were accompanied in the study: apparent classification error rate in the test group (REA); number of hidden neurons, obtained after the application of the pruning method; and number of training/retraining epochs, to evaluate the computational effort. The non-parametric Friedman's test was used to do the statistical analysis.

Avaliação de diferentes métodos no diagnóstico laboratorial de Giardia lamblia

The protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia is responsible for a common intestinal infection in all regions of the world. In this study, four laboratory tests were evaluated for diagnostic reproducibility in the detection of this infection: Coprotest®, Direct modified method, Faust method and iron-hematoxylin staining. Positive diagnoses were tested for association with factors such as the age group and gender of the subject and the month when the sample was taken. Feces of 200 children in the Araraquara region (SP, Brazil) were examined by all four methods and the results compared. G. lamblia was found to be the most frequent parasite and 8.0% of the children showed giardiasis. There was no apparent correlation with gender, but most of the parasites were found in three- to five-year-olds. The highest frequency of infection occurred in January. The most reliable diagnostic results for G. lamblia were achieved by combining at least two methods of good reproducibility, i.e. Coprotest-Faust, Direct-Faust or Coprotest-Direct (A > 0.81).

Avaliação de métodos de escarificação na superação de dormência de chizolobium parahyba (vell.) blake (Fabaceae: caesalpinioideae)

Dormancy caused by the tegument's impermeability to water is a feature of Schizolobium parahyba seeds. So that the best methodology for overcoming the species's dormancy may be determined, the seeds were submitted to mechanical scarification treatments, using sandpaper and scissors, on the opposite side of the hilum. Chemical scarification was also undertaken with sulfuric (H2SO4) and hydrochloric (HCl) acids for 30 minutes. Seeds were distributed in groups of 25 units in four petri plates. The experiment was undertaken in a BOD germination chamber at 25°C and 120 μmol.m^-2.s^-1. Data were used to calculate the germination capacity (G%), the Germination Velocity Index (IVG) and Mean Germination Time (TM). Imbibation curve was also calculated to analyze the dormancy type of the seeds by using the three-phase model where phase FI was completed in 6 hours and FIII was initiated after 12 hours of imbibation. Results show that whereas pre-germinative treatments trigger S. parahyba germination, mechanical scarification is the most effective method to overcome the species's dormancy.

Métodos não convencionais para avaliação da porosidade e da densidade do solo de um latossolo vermelho

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Avaliação e implementação de métodos de estimação de tempo de atraso de sinais de ultra-som

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação de quatro métodos de restauração florestal de áreas úmidas degradadas no Município de Mineiros do Tietê - SP

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação da eficiência de métodos rápidos usados para detecção de coliforme totais e coliforme fecais em amostras de água, em comparação com a técnica de fermentação em tubos múltiplos

Pós-graduação em Alimentos e Nutrição - FCFAR

Avaliação da qualidade industrial de linhagens de trigo por meio de métodos físico-químicos, reológicos e de panificação

Pós-graduação em Engenharia e Ciência de Alimentos - IBILCE

Avaliação de métodos de identificação e determinação do perfil de sensibilidade aos antimicrobianos em staphylococcus spp. isolados de pacientes com infecção do trato urinário (ITU)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação do tempo e métodos de aquecimento de toras de Eucalyptus grandis Hill ex-Maiden e sua influência no rendimento em laminação e na qualidade das lâminas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação da desidratação de mamão utilizando métodos combinados

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação por métodos fenotípicos e proteômicos de galatos de alquila com atividade anti-complexo Paracoccidioides

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Um estudo sobre métodos estatísticos na avaliação da interação genótipo x ambientes em genótipos de arroz (Oryza sativa L.)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)