El efecto de la acidificación de los océanos sobre microalgas de la división chlorophyta

Se cultivaron tres cepas de la división Chlorophyta (Nephroselmis pyriformis cepa CGA7, Pyramimonas orientalis cepa CGA13 y Pyramimonas propulsa cepa CGA16) en medios a cuatro pH diferentes (rango desde un control a pH 8.1 a pH7.2). Se midieron las tasas de crecimiento para cada cepa y tratamiento. Las cepas no mostraron una respuesta uniforme a la acidificación del medio, aunque todas mostraron un incremento de sus tasas de crecimiento a pH 7.5. Únicamente N. pyriformis mostró un incremento de sus tasas de crecimiento a pH 7.2. Se concluye que la división Chlorophyta no muestra una respuesta uniforme a la acidificación del medio, pero que las tasas de crecimiento pueden verse incrementadas para las especies testadas en futuros escenarios de acidificación de los océanos.

Species selection for smallholder aquaculture

Systems for selection of species for smallholder aquaculture are presented. These are: food fits; management decisions; and economic criteria. Food fits suggests categorizing pond food resources into a few categories based loosely on the instrinsic traits of food which effect their selectivity by predators. Using management decision techniques, potential polycultures might also be compared with each other and with monoculture. Under economic criteria (and for species known in local markets), one could combine the Ff values of various species under monoculture with their particular market price to get a proper bioeconomic selection index: (marked price x 1/Ff).

A educopédia e os embaixadores: estrangeiros em cena nas escolas públicas do município do Rio de Janeiro

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo suscitar questões acerca da tríade política, currículo e tecnologia nas escolas públicas do Município do Rio de Janeiro. Os objetos de estudo são uma plataforma online, chamada Educopédia, e os professores da Rede que se candidatam à função de Embaixadores da Educopédia. Discuto a plataforma e os professores Embaixadores como estrangeiros, tal como utiliza Bhabha (2013) para discutir sujeitos diaspóricos e o irrompimento do novo nos processos de tradução cultural. Assim, em diálogo com os autores Stephen Ball, Homi Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Arjun Appadurai e Ernesto Laclau, discuto a Educopédia e seus Embaixadores, tomando-os como estrangeiros nos processos de produção curricular, contribuindo para o irromper do novo que não se caracteriza por um ineditismo de sentidos, ideias, concepções, mas sentidos híbridos num contexto político marcado pela articulação entre currículo e tecnologia como indicativo de qualidade. Entendo esse movimento de articulação, que se performatiza com a participação dos estrangeiros, como tecno-curricular em que a tecnologia promove fissuras nas concepções do currículo. Defendo uma perspectiva de currículo entendido como processo de enunciação cultural, produção de sentidos que se hibridizam em função das disputas por significação, numa política que é cíclica, não verticalizada, que transita e é traduzida em todos os espaços, produzindo múltiplos significados sobre as possibilidades da tecnologia para o processo de ensino-aprendizagem

Avaliacao de genotipos de trigo em diferentes regioes triticolas do Parana, em solos com aluminio, na safra de 1996.

A avaliacao de cultivares de trigo no Parana, com fins de recomendacao, e realizada pelas Instituicoes: IAPAR, Embrapa Soja, COODETEC e Fundacao Agraria de Pesquisa, atraves da instalacao de ensaios de rendimento nas principais regioes triticolas do Estado. Sao relatados os resultados obtidos em 1996 de 17 experimentos do Ensaio Intermediario Paranaense (IPR), 25 experimentos do Centro-Sul Brasileiro (CSBR) e 24 experimentos do Ensaio em Cultivo (ECR), para solos com aluminio, instalados em Londrina, Faxinal, Campo Mourao, Cascavel, Pato Branco, Arapoti, Tibagi, Ponta Grossa e Guarapuava, representando as regioes Norte, Oeste, Sudoeste e Sul do Estado. Os rendimentos dos ensaios instalados em Faxinal foram prejudicados por chuva de granizo. Devido a pouca precipitação, os ensaio instalados em Londrina e Cascavel receberam irrigacao, para assegurar a emergencia uniforme das plantas. A ocorrencia de doencas foi muito baixa, principalmente nas regioes Norte e Oeste. No Sul e Sudoeste, onde a precipitacao foi mais elevada, ocorreu maior incidencia de doencas fungicas e os pesos do hectolitro foram menores. Em alguns experimentos obteve-se produtividade media superior a 5 t/ha, considerada elevada para o trigo. No ensaio IPR, foram promovidas, em funcao do rendimento e outras caracteristicas, as linhagens OC 962, OC 963, OC 968, ORL 93320, PF 90120 e PF 9293. No CSBR, destacaram-se e foram mantidas as linhagens OC 959, OC 9511, ORL 9285, PF 9099, PF 91205 e PG 9337. No ECR, destacaram-se, em mais de uma regiao, as cultivares EMBRAPA-27, OR 1, IAPAR 46, IAPAR 60, IAPAR 78 e T. BR 23.

The journey to concordance for patients with hypertension: a qualitative study in primary care

Objective: We aimed to explore, using qualitative methods, the perspectives of patients with hypertension on issues relating to concordance in prescribing.

Method: This study took place in NHS general practices in Northern Ireland. A purposeful sample of patients who had been prescribed anti-hypertensive medication for at least one year were invited to participate in focus groups or semi-structured interviews; data were analysed using constant comparison.

Main outcome measures: The perspectives of patients with hypertension on issues relating to concordance in prescribing.

Results: Twenty-five individuals participated in five focus groups; two participated in semi-structured interviews. Participants felt they could make valuable contributions to consultations regarding their management. They were prepared to negotiate with GPs regarding their medication, but most deferred to their doctor’s advice, perceiving doctors’ attitudes and time constraints as barriers to their greater involvement in concordant decision-making. They had concerns about taking anti-hypertensive drugs, were aware of lifestyle influences on hypertension and reported using personal strategies to facilitate adherence and reduce the need to take medication.

Conclusions: Participants indicated a willingness to be?involved in concordance in prescribing anti- hypertensive medication but needed health professionals to address their concerns and confusion about the nature of hypertension. These findings suggest that there is a need for doctors and other healthcare professionals with responsibility for prescribing to develop skills specifically to explore the beliefs and views underlying an individual’s medication use. Such skills may need to be developed through specific training programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

An efficient method of radiation attenuation through aircraft cooling vents

Some critical avionic systems require cooling air via vents on the side of the aircraft, thus creating leakage points for high-intensity electromagnetic radiation. This paper presents a novel application of high-intensity radiated field (HIRF) shielding using a rectangular waveguide array, while maintaining cooling airflow requirements. Signal attenuation versus frequency and depth of the array has been calculated using closed-form equations. The simulation and measurement results are in good agreement with the calculated values. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Step based physical activity guidelines for preschool-aged children

Objective Public health organizations recommend that preschool-aged children accumulate at least 3 h of physical activity (PA) daily. Objective monitoring using pedometers offers an opportunity to measure preschooler's PA and assess compliance with this recommendation. The purpose of this study was to derive step-based recommendations consistent with the 3 h PA recommendation for preschool-aged children. Method The study sample comprised 916 preschool-aged children, aged 3 to 6 years (mean age = 5.0 ± 0.8 years). Children were recruited from kindergartens located in Portugal, between 2009 and 2013. Children wore an ActiGraph GT1M accelerometer that measured PA intensity and steps per day simultaneously over a 7-day monitoring period. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to identify the daily step count threshold associated with meeting the daily 3 hour PA recommendation. Results A significant correlation was observed between minutes of total PA and steps per day (r = 0.76, p < 0.001). The optimal step count for ≥ 3 h of total PA was 9099 steps per day (sensitivity (90%) and specificity (66%)) with area under the ROC curve = 0.86 (95% CI: 0.84 to 0.88). Conclusion Preschool-aged children who accumulate less than 9000 steps per day may be considered Insufficiently Active.

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1909/07/02 (Numéro 9099).

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