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O principal objetivo deste estudo é estimar o alcance dos poluentes emitidos pelo Aterro Controlado do Morro do Céu (ACMC), localizado em Niterói e as possíveis áreas afetadas. Utilizou-se um modelo matemático para o estudo do transporte e difusão dos poluentes que fornece a concentração nas vizinhanças, a partir dos dados de emissões, meteorológicos e topográficos. Foram analisados e tratados os dados meteorológicos e a topografia da região de alcance da pluma. As amostras foram coletadas por uma bomba de ar a uma vazão de 500 mL min-1 por um período de 10 min, em dois dias e horários diferentes. A câmara de fluxo empregada foi de 30 L e de PVC, no formato cilíndrico, cuja boca foi emborcada no solo por 5 cm e a amostragem realizada por uma válvula posicionada no fundo. Foram empregados como meios de amostragem cartuchos de carvão ativo de leito duplo e as análises químicas foram realizadas por cromatografia de fase gasosa com detecção por ionização na chama. Os resultados encontrados indicam que o ACMC pode conter quantidade significativa de vários compostos químicos, principalmente compostos orgânicos voláteis, impactando a vegetação, prejudicando a saúde e a qualidade de vida da população do seu entorno. Foram obtidos valores de compostos orgânicos voláteis acima de 400 g m-3 a menos que 500 m do ACMC. Considerando que o ACMC não será desativado em um tempo próximo, creches, escolas e postos de saúde devem ser deslocados para uma área onde o impacto dos poluentes atmosféricos seja menor, contribuindo para a melhoria da qualidade de vida da população

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PLEASE ALSO CHECK THE FULL TEXT ABSTRACT. Toxin production and toxin profiles of four Raphidophytes grown under different salinities were compared to investigate the influence of salinity on cellular content of neurotoxin. In Chatonella andqua CaTx-1, CaTx-11, and CaTx-111 peaked at 25 pplt with yields of 0.99, 0.42, and 2.90 pg/ceU, but the highest yields (2.35 pg/cell) of CaTx-IV was attained at 30 ppt. On the other hand, Chatonella marina yielded higher proportions of CmTx-1 (0.55 pg/ceH) and CmTx-111 (2.50 pg/cell) at 25 ppt. However, CmTx-IV was present in its highest amount (1.65 pg/cell) at 30 ppt, as seen in C anriqua. A smaH amount of CmTx-11 was also detected at 20-35 ppt. The toxin compositions indicate that H. akashiwo is more sensitive to higher salinities than the other three raphidophytes. Substantial compositional change was observed in case of H. akashiwo. HaTx-11 (corresponding to PbTx-9) was detected only as a trace at 20 and 25 ppt. Toxin HaTx-IV (corresponding to oxidized PbTx-2) was most dominant and peaked at 20 ppt with a yield of 0.3 pg/cell. Considerable amounts of HaTx-1 and III (corresponding to PbTx-2 and 3) were also detected. At higher salinities of above 25 ppt HaTx-11 was not detected. F. japonica gave highest yields of FjTx-11 (PbTx-2) and FjTx-IV (Oxidized PbTx-2) at 20 ppt with yields of 0.95, 1.54 pg/cell while the production of toxic profiles FjTx-1 (PbTx- 1) and FjTx-111 (PbTx-3) peaked at 25 ppt with yields of 0.99, 2.54 pg/ceU. A sharp decrease in all toxins profiles (CaTx, CmTx, HaTX and FjTx) was found at salinities of above 30 ppt.

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采用梯度离心的方法用淋巴细胞分离液从浓缩的人白细胞悬液中分离人外周血单核细胞,从猕猴新 鲜脾脏中研磨分离猕猴脾脏淋巴细胞;分别将人外周血单核细胞和猕猴脾脏淋巴细胞作为免疫原,每次通过耳 缘静脉注射4×10s个细胞免疫日本大耳白兔,每周免疫一次,共免疫3次,制备兔抗人外周血单核细胞和兔抗 猕猴脾脏淋巴细胞免疫血清。体外培养人和猕猴胚胎至囊胚,采用制备的免疫血清,分离人和猕猴囊胚内细胞 团,用于建立人和猕猴胚胎干细胞系。结果如下:(1)用半微量细胞毒实验法测得兔抗人外周血单核细胞免疫 血清和兔抗猕猴脾脏淋巴细胞免疫血清的效价分别为1:320和1:640;(2)两种免疫血清成功地裂解了15个人 囊胚和33个猕猴囊胚的滋养层细胞,分离出了内细胞团,表明免疫血清的制备取得了成功,为建立人和猕猴 胚胎干细胞系奠定了基础。

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:探索以Lentivirus为载体,构建同时表达绿色荧光蛋白(GFP)和神经营养因子一3(NT一3)的基因工程化鼠胚神经于细胞(NSC)的可行性。方法:体外分离培养鼠胚NSC,用同时携带NT一3和GFP的lentivirus转染构建工程化NSC;用荧光显微镜、鼠胚背根神经结培养(Dorsal Root Ganglion,DRG)、Westem blot等方法检测基因工程NSC 的转基因表达。结果:荧光显微镜观察到几乎100%的工程化NSC表达GFP:DRG培养和Westem blot检测到基因工程化NSC能高效分泌NT一3蛋白。结论:以IJentivirus为载体,构建同时携带并稳定表达GFP和N‘r_3的基因工程化鼠胚NSC是可行的,可为脊髓损伤基础研究提供有价值的细胞资源。

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Eu~(2+)和Ce~(3+)是重要的变价稀土离子.Eu~(2+)可产生d—f和f—f两种不同的跃迁发射.利用Eu~(2+)d—f和f—f跃迁的特点,使Eu~(2+)能够成为紫外及可见区可调谐激光材料和荧光材料的优良激活离子的候选者.Ce~(3+)不同于其他稀土离子,一般表现为d—f跃迁.由于Eu~(2+)和Ce~(3+)电子跃迁的特点,它们既可作为优良的激活剂,又可作为对其他离子发光增强的有效敏化剂.我们系统地研究了Eu~(2+)和Ce~(3+)在复合氟化物中的光谱性质及其变化规律,并首次实现了复合氟化物中CEu~(3+)对Eu~(2+)的能量传递.本文提出Ce~(3+)对Eu~(2+)能量传递模型,计算能量传递几率和临界传递距离,阐述Ce~(3+)对Eu~(2+)能量传递的一般结论.

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Phage-mediated transfer of microbial genetic elements plays a crucial role in bacterial life style and evolution. In this study, we identify the RinA family of phage-encoded proteins as activators required for transcription of the late operon in a large group of temperate staphylococcal phages. RinA binds to a tightly regulated promoter region, situated upstream of the terS gene, that controls expression of the morphogenetic and lysis modules of the phage, activating their transcription. As expected, rinA deletion eliminated formation of functional phage particles and significantly decreased the transfer of phage and pathogenicity island encoded virulence factors. A genetic analysis of the late promoter region showed that a fragment of 272 bp contains both the promoter and the region necessary for activation by RinA. In addition, we demonstrated that RinA is the only phage-encoded protein required for the activation of this promoter region. This region was shown to be divergent among different phages. Consequently, phages with divergent promoter regions carried allelic variants of the RinA protein, which specifically recognize its own promoter sequence. Finally, most Gram-postive bacteria carry bacteriophages encoding RinA homologue proteins. Characterization of several of these proteins demonstrated that control by RinA of the phage-mediated packaging and transfer of virulence factor is a conserved mechanism regulating horizontal gene transfer.

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Radio advertising is suffering from a remarkable crisis of creativity as it has yet not found its role in a radio model based on voice locution and information genres. This article suggests the need for implementing a peripheral or heuristic strategy to attract and hold listeners’ attention. Within this framework, the narration and scene representation are proposed as suitable persuasion techniques. The objective is to design a useful conceptual tool for an efficient creative conception of narration at the service of certain commercial strategy. First, the concept of narrative persuasion is grounded according to the possibilities of the sound code. Second, the keys of scene representation and commercial strategy (brand, product, advantage, benefit and target) within the sound message are presented. And third, these keys are articulated in a model. This model is pre-tested by means of analyzing eight different case-radio ads.

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The aim of this paper is to recognize the images that prospective elementary school teachers have about citizenship and citizenship education in school. The qualitative methodology with an ethnographic approach is used for that deep interview of ethnographic kind and analysis of institutional documents, for example, curricula, course syllabus and graduated profi le. The revision of documents helps to a better understanding of discourses. The analysis of the corpus obtained after the application of the paradigm of codifi cation proposed in the established theory. As the principal fi ndings we way point out that the concept of citizens that is common among prospective elementary school teachers is reduced to the school environment because they consider that the promotion of citizenship helps to the incorporation of children to society, thus reproducing a propaedeutic view of education.

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This research arises due to the current restructuring process in which is immersed the Spanish banking sector. The above mentioned process is carried out to try to reduce the doubts on the viability of the bank companies to average and long term and to be able to return again the confidence in the sector. Though the economic and financial crisis has concerned the whole banking sector, the subsector of the Spanish savings banks is the one that has experienced a major number of integrations (articulated by means of mergers, absorptions and across Institutional Protection Schemes -IPSs-), and the one that has met submitted to the bancarization process. Considering what has been said, the present paper analyses Spanish saving banks to try to discern whether thanks to that process the objectives pursued by the bank rearrangement have been fulfilled. To do this, the evolution of some important financial variables will be studied over a long period of time (1999-2012). The results suggest that not all the savings banks have seen improved their ratios of efficiency, solvency, financial gap and social work, which indicates that there is still much to be done in order to rectify the problems affecting the studied sector.

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In this paper we present the process and results of an investigation in which, after reflecting on the concept of Practicum and, specifically, in the Practicum in Educational Psychology degree taught at the University of A Coruña, an assessment is made taking into account the opinion of the students who have studied this matter, as to the relevance that the planned objectives are given and subsequent achievement of these. The results differ considering the area that the teacher who has tutored belongs to. Methodologicaly, it is a descriptive research, survey type, which involved a significant sample of students in their final year of the degree in the year 2012/13 through a questionnaire which validity (Teaching and content) and reliability (internal consistency) have been properly set (judgment of experts and a pilot experience for the calculation of Cronbach's alpha). The results show that the Practicum program has a good development of most of the objectives, especially those related to skills, where the average of the highest rated goals exceed the rating of 4. This suggests clear lines for innovation and improvement in the areas of conceptual and attitudinal level.

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This research is set in the context of today’s societies, in which the corporate visual symbology of a business, corporation or institution constitutes an essential way to transmit its corporate image. Traditional discursive procedures can be discovered in the development of these signs. The rhetorical strategies developed by the great classical authors appear in the logo-symbols expressing the corporate values of today’s companies. Thus, rhetoric is emerging once again in the sense it had many centuries ago: A repertory of rules that, paradoxically, standardizes the deviations of language and whose control is synonymous with power. The main objective of this study is to substantiate the rhetorical construction of logos using as a model of analysis the classical process of creating discourse. This involves understanding logos as persuasive discourses addressed to a modern audience. Our findings show that the rhetorical paradigm can be considered as a creative model for the con­struction of an original logo consistent with a company’s image.

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We read with interest the comments offered by Drs. Hughes and Bradley (1) on our systematic review (2). Four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), rs9332739 and rs547154 in the complement component 2 gene (C2) and rs4151667 and rs641153 in the complement factor B gene (CFB), were pooled. Hughes and Bradley point out that we omitted the most common variant, rs12614. In fact, rs12614 is in high linkage disequilibrium (LD) with rs641153, which was included, and the major allele of both of these SNPs is in the range of 90% (population code, CEU, in the International HapMap Project (http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)). Moreover, our review was initiated in September 2010, at which point only 4 studies had published associations with rs12614, whereas 14 studies (n = 11,378) were available for rs641153. While it is true that both SNPs are better analyzed as a haplotype, these data were simply not available for pooling.
Hughes and Bradley also point out that we obtained and pooled new data that were not previously published. While it is recommended that contact with authors be completed as part of a comprehensive meta-analysis, we acknowledge that these additional data were not previously published and peer reviewed and, hence, do not have the same level of transparency. However, given that sample collections often increase over time and that the instrumentation for genotyping is continually improving, we thought that it would be advantageous to use the most recent information; this is a subjective decision.
We also agree that the allele frequencies given by Kaur et al. (3) were exactly opposite to those expected and were suggestive of strand flipping. However, we specifically queried this with the lead author on 2 separate occasions and were assured it was not.
Hughes and Bradley do make an interesting suggestion that SNPs in high LD should be used as a gauge of genotyping quality in HuGE reviews. This is an interesting idea but difficult to put into practice as the r2 parameter they propose as a measure of LD has some unusual properties. Although r2 is a measure of LD, it is also linked to the allele frequency; even small differences in allele frequencies between 2 linked SNPs can reduce the r2 dramatically. Wray (4) explored these effects and found that, at a baseline allele frequency of 10%, even a difference in allele frequency between 2 SNPs as small as 2% can drop the r2 value below 0.8. This degree of allele frequency difference is consistent with what could be expected for sampling error. Furthermore, when we look at 2 linked dialleleic SNPs, giving 4 possible haplotypes, the absence of 1 haplotype dramatically reduces r2, despite the 2 loci being in high LD as measured by D'. In fact, this is the situation for rs12614 and rs641153, where the low frequency of 1 haplotype means that the r2 is 0.01 but the D' is 1.
Hughes and Bradley also suggest consideration of genotype call rate restrictions as an inclusion criterion for metaanalysis. This would be more appropriate when focusing on genetic variants per se, as considered within the context of a genome-wide association study or other specific genetic analysis where large numbers of SNPs are evaluated (5).
The concerns raised by Hughes and Bradley reflect the limited ability of a meta-analysis based on summary data to tease out inconsistencies best identified at the individual level. We agree that SNPs in LD should be evaluated, but this will not necessarily be straightforward. A move to make genetic data sets publicly available, as in the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ gap), is a step in the right direction for greater transparency.

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O envelhecimento é um processo que, a nível individual, remete para múltiplas trajetórias de vida e que, no plano coletivo, sofre a influência de fatores socioculturais como acesso à educação, aos cuidados em saúde, à alimentação e ao lazer e a uma rede de relações estáveis. Na literatura gerontológica, envelhecer é considerada uma situação progressiva e multifatorial, e a velhice uma experiência heterogénea, experienciada com mais ou menos qualidade de vida e potencialmente bem-sucedida (Lima, Silva & Galhardoni, 2008). Analisar a velhice como uma experiência homogénea, não significa apenas minimizar os problemas enfrentados pelos idosos, decorre do fato de a sociedade moderna não ter previsto um papel específico ou uma atividade para os velhos, remetendo-os para uma existência sem significado (Areosa, Bevilacqua & Werner, 2003). Atualmente, tem sido o modelo de envelhecimento ativo que tem ocupado um lugar cimeiro nas agendas mundiais das diferentes organizações internacionais desde a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), à Comissão Europeia e às entidades de saúde e segurança social dos diferentes estados membros. Neste âmbito têm vindo a ser propostas e acionadas estratégias políticas e desenvolvidas medidas de intervenção social que procuram traduzir uma nova imagem da velhice e promover novas leituras e práticas sobre esta realidade. O modelo subjacente ao envelhecimento ativo conceptualiza o envelhecimento sob uma perspectiva positiva, refutando estereótipos e valorizando o papel desempenhado pelos idosos tal como os contributos que prestam à sociedade. A saúde, o bem-estar e a autonomia não só são possíveis e desejáveis, como se opõem à incapacidade e dependência. O idoso deixa de ser um personagem vulnerável e passivo, para se assumir como um agente ativo e decisor no seu processo de envelhecimento, (Rozario, Morrow-Howell & Hinterlong, 2004). O envelhecimento ativo, centrado na ideologia da atividade e jovialidade desafia os idosos para a necessidade de uma reinvenção pessoal através da criatividade na reconstrução de um novo projeto de identidade e de ocupação na aposentação, que promova a sua participação social e que contrarie a ideia de dependência dos incentivos sociais e das iniciativas públicas (Silva, 2009). Nesta perspetiva, pretende-se que o envelhecimento ocorra com qualidade e manutenção da autonomia dos indivíduos, criando e preservando oportunidades de os mais velhos continuarem a participar da sociedade, minimizando assim as possibilidades de exclusão social (Lima et al., 2008). Neste contexto, pretende-se analisar como é que o envelhecimento ativo é representado pelos idosos e pelos profissionais de saúde. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo visou identificar a estrutura das representações sociais do envelhecimento e do envelhecimento ativo de um grupo de idosos e de um grupo de profissionais de saúde, do concelho de Évora.