Plataforma online de partilha e comparação de software para análise de imagens da retina

Nesta Tese foi desenvolvida uma plataforma online multiutilizador, que tem como objetivo principal comparar algoritmos de análise de imagens para de-terminar o seu grau de eficácia. Um exemplo de aplicação é a comparação de algoritmos de análise de imagens da retina para deteção de drusas. A compa-ração é feita considerando um dos algoritmos como referência padrão e sobre o este são avaliados os restantes. O funcionamento da plataforma é semelhante à de um fórum, onde é possível a um utilizador criar tópicos publicando imagens e seu descritivo. Após a cria-ção do tópico qualquer utilizador pode visualizar o mesmo, dando a hipótese de comentar ou de acrescentar imagens processadas com os seus próprios al-goritmos de análise. Com o aumento de imagens processadas, obtém-se uma base de dados de algoritmos de análise de imagens sobre a qual é possível avaliar o seu grau de eficácia. A plataforma pretende também criar comunidades onde os utilizadores pos-sam interagir uns com os outros comentando sobre os tópicos, contribuindo assim para o melhoramento dos algoritmos. Deste modo, além de uma base de dados que qualquer utilizador pode usar, obtém-se uma fonte de informação disponibilizada por outros profissionais da área.

NSP work project investment styles

This paper analyzes the Nova Student Portfolio (NSP) with the objective to understand performances of the fund. Each investment style has been analyzed (growth, value and momentum) in order to highlight what style allocation contributed positively and which had a negative impact. The results show that the team mainly invested in value stocks, which contributed positively but that its growth investments had a negative impact on the stock picking performance. The stock selection shows a major influence of the value investment style. A statistical approach shows that the market factor was the one explaining the most the NSP returns.

Concentrações de alguns macro e micronutrientes em essências florestais do parque da Escola Superior de Agricultura «Luiz de Queiroz»

Em cinco árvores do parque da Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", pertencentes às espécies, Aspidospernia polyneuron Müell, Cariniana estrellensis Raddi, Paratecoma peroba Record, Aleurites moluccana Wield e Piptadenia rígida, foram coletadas três amostras constituídas de folhas consideradas novas, medianas e velhas, aparentemente. As 15 amostras obtidas foram lavadas para micronutrientes, secadas em estufa a aproximadamente 70ºC, moídas e analisadas sob três repetições, quanto a seus teores em N, R, K, Ca, Mg, Cu, Fe, Mn e Zn. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado, e as diferenças estatísticas significativas entre as médias dos vários tratamentos, detectadas pela análise de variância, foram comparadas através do teste Tukey. Os seguintes contrastes puderam ser observados : a) Pelo menos uma árvore dentre as cinco, diferiu das demais quanto à concentração relativa de cada um dos nutrientes considerados . b) Em todas as árvores estudadas, com exceção da pertencente à espécie Aleurites moluccana (nogueira de Iguape), os nutrientes constatados em maior concentração foram o N e o Ca, enquanto que, na nogueira detectou-se maior concentração de N e K. c) Piptadenia rígida (angico branco) e Cariniana estrellensis (jequitibá branco) mostraram concentrações particularmente elevadas de Fe. d) Genericamente, as folhas novas das essências observadas apresentaram tendência de possuírem maiores concentrações de N, R, K e Cu, enquanto as folhas velhas mostraram maiores concentrações de Ca e Mn.

L'enfant terrible du christianisme

(Résumé du numéro) Que sait-on de Paul aujourd'hui ? Les Actes des Apôtres, le seul récit de la vie de Paul en notre possession, racontent la lapidation d'Étienne sous les yeux de Saül, puis les voyages missionnaires de Saül, devenu Paul sur la route de Damas. On ne connaît de lui ni son nom complet, ni sa date de naissance, ni les circonstances exactes de sa mort, à Rome. Dans la Bible, on trouve treize lettres de Paul écrites à des amis et à des communautés chrétiennes, en Méditerranée. Mais elles ne sont pas forcément de lui. Le personnage, son itinéraire et son oeuvre, fascinent encore et divisent. Juif radical pour certains, fils de la grande culture grecque, ou enfant terrible du christianisme pour d'autres... Paul le converti est un passeur de frontières, un visionnaire. Le monde de la Bible a mené l'enquête auprès des meilleurs spécialistes contemporains.

Paul de Tarse. Un homme aux prises avec Dieu

L'apôtre Paul est l'enfant terrible du christianisme. Esprit doctrinaire, conservateur rugueux, antiféministe, dit-on. L'Occident chrétien n'en finit pas de régler ses comptes avec lui. Et l'on se console en se rabattant sur les évangiles, tellement plus simples que les épîtres... Paul aurait-il donc troqué la pure religion du coeur enseignée par Jésus contre un système doctrinal complexe et tortueux ? Et pourtant, sans son génie à formuler les vérités fondamentales de la foi nouvelle, le christianisme ne serait resté qu'une secte obscure. Qu'avaient été en fait ses liens avec Jésus dont il parle si peu ? Est-il vrai que, ex-pharisien, renégat du judaïsme, il a conduit juifs et chrétiens à la rupture ? Quelle fut cette expérience fulgurante qu'on appelle sa " conversion " sur le chemin de Damas ? Dans un monde où revient, lancinante, la question du sens de la vie et de la dignité humaine, sa découverte d'un Dieu renversant qui nous accueille indépendamment de nos qualités prend une extraordinaire actualité. Il était indispensable d'offrir au grand public un accès direct à l'oeuvre fondatrice de Paul.

Identification of Human T-lymphotropic Virus Type I (HTLV-I) Subtypes Using Restrited Fragment Length Polymorphism in a Cohort of Asymptomatic Carriers and Patients with HTLV-I-associated Myelopathy/tropical Spastic Paraparesis from São Paulo, Brazil

Although human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) exhibits high genetic stability, as compared to other RNA viruses and particularly to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), genotypic subtypes of this human retrovirus have been characterized in isolates from diverse geographical areas. These are currently believed not to be associated with different pathogenetic outcomes of infection. The present study aimed at characterizing genotypic subtypes of viral isolates from 70 HTLV-I-infected individuals from São Paulo, Brazil, including 42 asymptomatic carriers and 28 patients with HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP), using restricted fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of long terminal repeat (LTR) HTLV-I proviral DNA sequences. Peripheral blood mononuclear cell lysates were amplified by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and amplicons submitted to enzymatic digestion using a panel of endonucleases. Among HTLV-I asymptomatic carriers, viral cosmopolitan subtypes A, B, C and E were identified in 73.8%, 7.1%, 7.1% and 12% of tested samples, respectively, whereas among HAM/TSP patients, cosmopolitan A (89.3%), cosmopolitan C (7.1%) and cosmopolitan E (3.6%) subtypes were detected. HTLV-I subtypes were not statistically significant associated with patients' clinical status. We also conclude that RFLP analysis is a suitable tool for descriptive studies on the molecular epidemiology of HTLV-I infections in our environment.

Proceso INFORNUT: validación de la fase de filtro-FILNUT--y comparación con otros métodos de detección precoz de desnutrición hospitalaria.

INTRODUCTION According to several series, hospital hyponutrition involves 30-50% of hospitalized patients. The high prevalence justifies the need for early detection from admission. There several classical screening tools that show important limitations in their systematic application in daily clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To analyze the relationship between hyponutrition, detected by our screening method, and mortality, hospital stay, or re-admissions. To analyze, as well, the relationship between hyponutrition and prescription of nutritional support. To compare different nutritional screening methods at admission on a random sample of hospitalized patients. Validation of the INFORNUT method for nutritional screening. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a previous phase from the study design, a retrospective analysis with data from the year 2003 was carried out in order to know the situation of hyponutrition in Virgen de la Victoria Hospital, at Malaga, gathering data from the MBDS (Minimal Basic Data Set), laboratory analysis of nutritional risk (FILNUT filter), and prescription of nutritional support. In the experimental phase, a cross-sectional cohort study was done with a random sample of 255 patients, on May of 2004. Anthropometrical study, Subjective Global Assessment (SGA), Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA), Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS), Gassull's method, CONUT and INFORNUT were done. The settings of the INFORNUT filter were: albumin < 3.5 g/dL, and/or total proteins <5 g/dL, and/or prealbumin <18 mg/dL, with or without total lymphocyte count < 1.600 cells/mm3 and/or total cholesterol <180 mg/dL. In order to compare the different methods, a gold standard is created based on the recommendations of the SENPE on anthropometrical and laboratory data. The statistical association analysis was done by the chi-squared test (a: 0.05) and agreement by the k index. RESULTS In the study performed in the previous phase, it is observed that the prevalence of hospital hyponutrition is 53.9%. One thousand six hundred and forty four patients received nutritional support, of which 66.9% suffered from hyponutrition. We also observed that hyponutrition is one of the factors favoring the increase in mortality (hyponourished patients 15.19% vs. non-hyponourished 2.58%), hospital stay (hyponourished patients 20.95 days vs. non-hyponourished 8.75 days), and re-admissions (hyponourished patients 14.30% vs. non-hyponourished 6%). The results from the experimental study are as follows: the prevalence of hyponutrition obtained by the gold standard was 61%, INFORNUT 60%. Agreement levels between INFORNUT, CONUT, and GASSULL are good or very good between them (k: 0.67 INFORNUT with CONUT, and k: 0.94 INFORNUT and GASSULL) and wit the gold standard (k: 0.83; k: 0.64 CONUT; k: 0.89 GASSULL). However, structured tests (SGA, MNA, NRS) show low agreement indexes with the gold standard and laboratory or mixed tests (Gassull), although they show a low to intermediate level of agreement when compared one to each other (k: 0.489 NRS with SGA). INFORNUT shows sensitivity of 92.3%, a positive predictive value of 94.1%, and specificity of 91.2%. After the filer phase, a preliminary report is sent, on which anthropometrical and intake data are added and a Nutritional Risk Report is done. CONCLUSIONS Hyponutrition prevalence in our study (60%) is similar to that found by other authors. Hyponutrition is associated to increased mortality, hospital stay, and re-admission rate. There are no tools that have proven to be effective to show early hyponutrition at the hospital setting without important applicability limitations. FILNUT, as the first phase of the filter process of INFORNUT represents a valid tool: it has sensitivity and specificity for nutritional screening at admission. The main advantages of the process would be early detection of patients with risk for hyponutrition, having a teaching and sensitization function to health care staff implicating them in nutritional assessment of their patients, and doing a hyponutrition diagnosis and nutritional support need in the discharge report that would be registered by the Clinical Documentation Department. Therefore, INFORNUT would be a universal screening method with a good cost-effectiveness ratio.

Théâtre de la guerre entre les armées turques et égyptiennes

Échelle(s) : [ca 1:2 500 000], échelle de 20 myriamètres [= 8 cm]

Plan de la ville de Hhaleb et de ses environs : dressée de 1811 à 1818

Échelle(s) : [ca 1:16 800], échelle de 1000 pas ordinaires [= 5,5 cm]