Casa de silêncio, Mar de solidão: o espaço literário nos contos de Orlanda Amarílis e de Sophia de M. B. Andresen

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Relative growth and morphological sexual maturity of the mangrove crab Aratus pisonii (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae) on the southern coast of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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

INTRAVITREAL INJECTION OF RANIBIZUMAB DURING CATARACT SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA

Purpose: To investigate macular thickness and visual acuity changes after 1 intravitreal injection of 0.5-mg ranibizumab during phacoemulsification cataract surgery in eyes with diabetic macular edema refractory to laser treatment. Methods: Eleven eyes of 11 patients with diabetic macular edema refractory to modified Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study laser therapy received intravitreal during phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Comprehensive ophthalmic evaluation was performed preoperatively and at 1, 4, 8 +/- 1, and 12 +/- 2 weeks postoperatively. Main outcome measures included central subfield thickness and best-corrected Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study visual acuity. Results: Eleven patients completed the 12-week study visit. Mean central subfield thickness (+/- SEM) was 399.82 +/- 29.50 mu m at baseline and did not change significantly at any postoperative study visit (P > 0.05). Mean (+/- SEM) best-corrected Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study visual acuity was 0.95 +/- 0.13 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (20/200) at baseline and was significantly improved at Weeks 1 (0.38 +/- 0.13), 4 (0.38 +/- 0.11), 8 (0.35 +/- 0.08), and 12 (0.46 +/- 0.12) after treatment (P < 0.05). Conclusion: In this case series of patients with diabetic macular edema refractory to laser therapy, intravitreal ranibizumab administered during cataract surgery was associated with no significant change in central subfield thickness postoperatively. Significant improvement in best-corrected Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study visual acuity was observed after treatment, likely because of cataract removal. RETINA 32:1799-1803, 2012

A new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1829 from the upper Rio Paraná basin (Characiformes, Anostomidae) with redescription of L. elongatus Valenciennes, 1850 and L. obtusidens (Valenciennes, 1837)

Leporinus obtusidens Valenciennes, 1837 and L. elongatus Valenciennes, 1850 are redescribed based on the type specimens, including those of their junior synonyms, and recently collected specimens. Leporinus obtusidens is considered to be widespread, occuring in the river drainages of La Plata, São Francisco, and Parnaíba. Leporinus aguapeiensis Campos, 1945, described from the upper Rio Paraná, and L. silvestrii Boulenger, 1902, described from the Rio Paraguay, are considered junior synonyms of L. obtusidens. Leporinus elongatus is endemic to the Rio Jequitinhonha and Rio Pardo, two eastern Brazilian river basins, and the locality cited for the lectotype, Rio São Fransico, likely to be erroneous. Leporinus crassilabris Borodin, 1929, and L. crassilabris breviceps Borodin, 1929, both described from the Rio Jequitinhonha, are considered junior synynoms of L. elongatus. A new species of Leporinus, endemic to the upper Rio Paraná, very similar and sometimes mistaken with L. obtusidens, is formally described. In addition, comments on Leporinus pachyurus Valenciennes, 1850 and on L. bimaculatus Castelnau, 1855 are provided, and a lectotype for L. bimaculatus is selected.

Influencia de la temperatura en el comportamiento y color de Palaemon elegans (Rathke, 1837) (Crustacea, Decapoda)

[ES] El camarón de charco (Palaemon elegans) soporta altos rangos de temperatura, pero a medida que ésta baja (hasta 5 ºC) comienza a reducir sus movimientos hasta quedar completamente inmóvil, casi en letargo. A este cambio de comportamiento va unido un cambio en la coloración del cuerpo del animal, que pasa de ser completamente transparente con tonos vivos azules y amarillos a ser translúcido, con azules y amarillos mucho más pálidos

Comportamiento de apoyo social en especies territoriales: "Parablennius parvicornis" (Valenciennes, 1836) y "Mauligobius maderensis" (Valenciennes, 1837)

[ES] Se estudia el comportamiento de apoyo social entre individuos de dos especies de peces territoriales (Parablennius parvicornis y Mauligobius maderensis) ante una situación de estrés. Se observa que a medida que la densidad de individuos aumentaba el estrés respiratorio en los individuos disminuía.

Scott Joplin: Treemonisha

Scott Joplin’s (1867–1917) opera Treemonisha is the only opera in existence about the Reconstruction era African-American experience written by a black man who actually lived through it. This fact alone makes the opera a work of tremendous significance. Further, Joplin’s music is profoundly expressive and as stylistically unique as anything ever created in America. Through his score and libretto, Joplin vividly documented a culture that has left us few other artifacts: The echoes of the “field hollers,” spirituals, fiddle tunes, revival hymns, and ancient African dances of his rural childhood are all heard, along with the dialects of his people rising up from slavery. Yet for all of its obvious significance, Treemonisha has been a deeply misunderstood work. The opera was complex and virtually unprecedented, two reasons why 1910s America could not embrace it. And tragically, Joplin's original 1911 materials for the opera were almost entirely destroyed in the early 1960s. In the early 1970s several attempts were made to reconstruct it, but for the most part these were not concerned with the opera’s cultural origins or historic authenticity. But now, on the centennial of this extraordinary creation, comes this new recording of a completely authentic reconstruction of Treemonisha by Rick Benjamin, based on eighteen years of research.