Estudo geofísico sobre a erosão fluvial do Rio Guamá na orla da Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém (PA)

Este trabalho apresenta estudo geofísico de parte de orla fluvial sujeita à erosão, com o objetivo primordial de avaliar o seu uso na detecção de áreas degradadas pela erosão em estágio crítico, antes de seu desmoronamento. Esta área está situada ao longo de 600 m à margem do rio Guamá, entre a ponte do rio Tucunduba e o Porto de Canoagem, dentro do campus da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), na cidade de Belém no Estado do Pará (Brasil). Conta, em alguns trechos, com diferentes tipos de contenção de erosão, entre os quais muro de concreto e sacos de cimento. A área é consequentemente, um laboratório para se testar a eficiência da Geofísica em detectar as zonas em que a ação da erosão, embora ainda não observável em superfície, atue, de modo a auxiliar obras de contenção da orla antes do seu colapso. Foram utilizados quatro métodos geofísicos: Potencial Espontâneo (SP), Eletrorresistividade, Slingram (LIN) e Radar de Penetração do Solo (GPR). As medidas foram levantadas durante a maré baixa e a maré alta na tentativa de mapear os caminhos preferenciais subsuperficiais para a entrada de água trazida pela maré alta e, por esse meio, para o trabalho erosivo. O efeito global da maré é aumentar as oscilações nas medidas de SP, Eletrorresistividade e LIN e aumentar a intensidade das reflexões obtidas com o GPR em relação às medidas obtidas com maré baixa. Na maré alta, as medidas mostram, em relação às medidas obtidas na maré baixa: I) Em zona com erosão, a redução da voltagem obtida com o método SP, a diminuição da resistividade obtida com imageamento realizado com o método da Eletrorresistividade, o aumento da condutividade LIN bem como tanto o aumento da intensidade das reflexões como a perturbação da continuidade dos refletores obtidos com o Método GPR II) Em zona com contenção, o aumento da voltagem SP, o aumento da resistividade obtida com Eletrorresistividade, a diminuição da condutividade LIN e, finalmente, a atenuação de reflexões obtidas com o GPR e redução do efeito global da maré. A despeito das dificuldades, os resultados demonstram que a Geofísica pode ser uma ferramenta auxiliar na previsão de locais onde a queda erosiva do terreno provocado por ela está prestes a ocorrer bem como na análise da eficácia da obra de contenção realizada.

A intolerável tolerância da era moderna

As teses de Foucatdt sobre a constituição do dispositivo da sexualidade encontram- se referenciadas em uma dupla crítica — histórica e metodológica — à hipótese repressiva da sexualidade. Trata-se de uma concepção positiva de poder que pretende dissociar dominação e repressão. A partir das idéias de Foucault sobre sexualidade e poder, o artigo procura estabelecer um contraponto entre suas concepções easde diferentes autores do campo marxista, como Marcuse e Adorno (identificados com a Escola de Frankfurt) e Pier Paolo Pasotini. Argumentase que as contribuições destes últimos parecem se inscrever em um registro que difere das teses foucaultianas acerca da produtividade do poder e, ao mesmo tempo, supera os limites impostos pela hipótese repressiva.

Genome-Wide Mapping of Loci Explaining Variance in Scrotal Circumference in Nellore Cattle

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Body and Didactics. Possible directions of international research

The paper investigates the role of the body in didactics. It looks up for points of contact between the functional sceneries of the classroom and some recent approaches, such like simplexity, neurosciences and enactivism. The two experiments presented they aim to demonstrate the importance of body awareness to improve the didactic quality. The first experience used a SenseWear Armband that provided data about the energetic expenditure of a teacher during diff erent activities in a lesson. Th e second experiment relied on a neurofeedback device integrated to a sensor, it detected body temperature with the aim of understanding the role of the body in the process of self-regulation-learning and management of attention and arousal.

Dar corpo à didática: diálogos internacionais

The article uses theoretical approaches as simplexity, neuroscience and enactivism to discuss everyday classroom activities. It tries to transpose the classical bipolar division between mind and body, through these approaches in cognitive science. Two experiments on the body’s role in teaching are presented to demonstrate the relevance of the awareness of the body, to improve performance in the classroom. The first experiment uses neurofeedback to measure the body temperature, as a means to understand the role of the body in self-regulation and control of the attention. The second uses a bracelet multi-sensor, which provides data on the energy spent by the teacher in daily activities in the classroom. Italian and Brazilian researchers cooperate in this experimental path of inclusive teaching, to be used in classes with children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

First detection of Leishmania spp. DNA in Brazilian bats captured strictly in urban areas

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

Twelve-month clinical outcomes after coronary stenting with the Genous Bio-engineered R Stent in patients with a bifurcation lesion: from the e-HEALING (Healthy Endothelial Accelerated Lining Inhibits Neointimal Growth) registry

Background The e-Healthy Endothelial Accelerated Lining Inhibits Neointimal Growth (e-HEALING) registry was designed to capture clinical data on the use of the endothelial progenitor cell capture stent (ECS) in routine clinical practice. In this analysis, we investigated the 12-month clinical outcomes in patients treated with an ECS for a bifurcation lesion. Methods The worldwide, prospective, nonrandomized e-HEALING registry aimed to enrol 5000 patients treated for coronary artery disease with one or more ECS between October 2005 and October 2007. Clinical follow-up was obtained at 1, 6, and 12 months. The primary endpoint was target vessel failure (TVF), defined as the composite of cardiac death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization at 12 months. Results A total of 573 patients were treated for at least one bifurcation lesion and were assessed in the current analysis. Baseline characteristics showed a median age of 65 years; 21% were diabetic patients and 36% had unstable angina. A total of 63% of the bifurcation lesions were located in the left artery descending and the mean stent length was 20.7 +/- 12.6 mm. At 12 months, TVF was 12.7% and target lesion revascularization was 7.5%. Definite or probable stent thrombosis occurred in 1.7% of the patients. Moreover, one or more stents per lesion [hazard ratio (HR): 2.79, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.60-4.86, P < 0.001], predilatation (HR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.17-0.87, P = 0.023), and lesions located in the right coronary artery (HR: 4.56, 95% CI: 1.07-19.5, P = 0.041) were independent predictors of TVF. Conclusion In the e-HEALING registry, coronary bifurcation stenting with the ECS results in favorable clinical outcomes and low incidences of repeat revascularization and stent thrombosis. Coron Artery Dis 23:201-207 (C) 2012 Wolters Kluwer Health vertical bar Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Underlying Event measurements in pp collisions at root s=0.9 and 7 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC

We present measurements of Underlying Event observables in pp collisions at root s = 0 : 9 and 7 TeV. The analysis is performed as a function of the highest charged-particle transverse momentum p(T),L-T in the event. Different regions are defined with respect to the azimuthal direction of the leading (highest transverse momentum) track: Toward, Transverse and Away. The Toward and Away regions collect the fragmentation products of the hardest partonic interaction. The Transverse region is expected to be most sensitive to the Underlying Event activity. The study is performed with charged particles above three different p(T) thresholds: 0.15, 0.5 and 1.0 GeV/c. In the Transverse region we observe an increase in the multiplicity of a factor 2-3 between the lower and higher collision energies, depending on the track p(T) threshold considered. Data are compared to PYTHIA 6.4, PYTHIA 8.1 and PHOJET. On average, all models considered underestimate the multiplicity and summed p(T) in the Transverse region by about 10-30%.

Peptides of the Constant Region of Antibodies Display Fungicidal Activity

Synthetic peptides with sequences identical to fragments of the constant region of different classes (IgG, IgM, IgA) of antibodies (Fc-peptides) exerted a fungicidal activity in vitro against pathogenic yeasts, such as Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Malassezia furfur, including caspofungin and triazole resistant strains. Alanine-substituted derivatives of fungicidal Fc-peptides, tested to evaluate the critical role of each residue, displayed unaltered, increased or decreased candidacidal activity in vitro. An Fc-peptide, included in all human IgGs, displayed a therapeutic effect against experimental mucosal and systemic candidiasis in mouse models. It is intriguing to hypothesize that some Fc-peptides may influence the antifungal immune response and constitute the basis for devising new antifungal agents.

Measurement of prompt J/psi and beauty hadron production cross sections at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

The ALICE experiment at the LHC has studied J/psi production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV through its electron pair decay on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity L-int = 5.6 nb(-1). The fraction of J/psi from the decay of long-lived beauty hadrons was determined for J/psi candidates with transverse momentum p(t) > 1,3 GeV/c and rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9. The cross section for prompt J/psi mesons, i.e. directly produced J/psi and prompt decays of heavier charmonium states such as the psi(2S) and chi(c) resonances, is sigma(prompt J/psi) (p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c, vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9) = 8.3 +/- 0.8(stat.) +/- 1.1 (syst.)(-1.4)(+1.5) (syst. pol.) mu b. The cross section for the production of b-hadrons decaying to J/psi with p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c and vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9 is a sigma(J/psi <- hB) (p(t) > 1.3 GeV/c, vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.9) = 1.46 +/- 0.38 (stat.)(-0.32)(+0.26) (syst.) mu b. The results are compared to QCD model predictions. The shape of the p(t) and y distributions of b-quarks predicted by perturbative QCD model calculations are used to extrapolate the measured cross section to derive the b (b) over bar pair total cross section and d sigma/dy at mid-rapidity.