SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF BASICS LIFE SUPPORT

Victims of cardiac arrest need immediate Basic Life Support, in order to preserve as much as possible, the flow of blood to the brain and heart and other vital organs, it is essential to gain time pending differentiated help, performing simple acts and practical (BLS) to save lives. Learn how to perform RPC is an interactive process that requires knowledge and skills, but at the same time an act of solidarity, social responsibility, civic consciousness, and a duty of citizenship. Because no one revives alone, it requires a coordinated work of a team, all citizens must join forces in a single goal: Save Lives, the massification of the BLS (RPC, 2014). We conducted an exploratory study that aimed to identify the social representations of basic life support in the general population. We used the technique of free association of words through a short questionnaire, we obtained a sample of 45 participants. The results show that participants were mostly female and 27 that fashion of age was in the age group 40 to 59 years. With regard to social representations, we find an organized structure follows the core: help, help to revive, and save is giving life, are in fact structural and consensual elements in basic life support. In more peripheral elements we find extremely important elements, which can be worked in a way so that the core is more efficient such as to act coordinately as a team in face of an accident, it can thus be successful in practice. The social representation of basic life support does not differ from that referred in the literature on the subject, but it is common knowledge that these skills can only be acquired if they are systematically trained, because they obey an algorithm that if it is not settled theoretical and instrumentally it is not effective in practice.

Role of gender in transthyretin-related amyloidosis: an international perspective based on the Transthyretin Amyloid Outcomes Survey (THAOS)

Background. Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is an underdiagnosed disease caused by destabilization of transthyretin (TTR) due to pathogenic mutations (ATTRm) or aging (ATTRwt). We explored the role of gender in determining clinical picture using the largest available database on ATTR, the ongoing Transthyretin Amyloid Outcomes Survey (THAOS) international registry. Methods. Data through 1st April 2019 were explored. Symptomatic ATTRm (n=3737), asymptomatic ATTRm (n=644) and ATTRwt (n=874) patients were studied. Results. Male prevalence was 61% in the entire registry, 53% in ATTRm and 95% in ATTRwt. In the overall cohort, cardiac phenotype was more frequent in males (30.7% vs 10.5%, p<0.001). Among ATTRm, 72.3% of patients with amyloidotic cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) were males (p<0.001) but echocardiographic features showed no substantial gender differences. Sensory abnormalities (70.1% vs 64.1%, p<0.001), autonomic abnormalities (60% vs 48.5%, p<0.001) and walking disabilities were more frequent among ATTRm males. Carpal tunnel syndrome was more frequent in ATTRm males (18.6% vs 15.5%, p=0.014). In ATTRwt cohort, females had a more pronounced (but anyhow mild) walking disability. Male-to-female ratio varied within genotype, from 0.61 in Val30Met to 11.11 in ATTRwt; furthermore, males’ imbalance was more evident among symptomatic patients rather than in asymptomatic ones. Male gender, age at presentation and specific genotype were independently associated with the presence of ATTR-CM. Conclusions. In ATTR, cardiac involvement is more frequent in men, supporting the hypothesis that some biologic characteristics may “protect” from myocardial amyloid infiltration in women. Further investigations are needed to identify possible underlying protective mechanism and orient the research for innovative, gender-tailored therapeutic approaches.

Prima Facie: four facets of gender bias in personnel selection.

Recent findings have highlighted a ‘perfection bias’, that is women being evaluated on more criteria than men in the workplace (Moscatelli et al., 2020; Prati et al., 2019). However, these studies have not considered faces as stimuli, even if facial first impressions can affect several real-world outcomes (Todorov et al., 2015). On this basis, the present research aimed to verify the presence of a perfection bias at face perception level, employing for the first time all the four facets of the fundamental dimensions of social judgments (i.e., competence, dominance, morality, sociability; Abele et al., 2016) and attractiveness (Hosoda et al., 2003) as evaluation criteria of applicants’ hireability. Four experiments were conducted (total N = 645), employing a gender-neutral position (Study 1) as well as managerial positions (Study 2, 3, 4) and recruiting Italian and British students (Study 1, 2) as well as British workers (Study 3, 4). Results of Study 1 confirmed that male applicants were evaluated only on their facial competence, while female applicants were evaluated on all the other facial traits. However, the other three studies showed a different and unexpected pattern: besides facial attractiveness and competence considered equally important for both male and female applicants, facial dominance was considered as more important in evaluating women, while facial morality and sociability were considered as more important in evaluating men. Hence, results highlighted a sort of ‘deficit bias’, so that counter stereotypic traits in which men and women are believed weak (Fiske, 1998) were more relevant for their hireability.

Embedded representations of social interactions

Social interactions have been the focus of social science research for a century, but their study has recently been revolutionized by novel data sources and by methods from computer science, network science, and complex systems science. The study of social interactions is crucial for understanding complex societal behaviours. Social interactions are naturally represented as networks, which have emerged as a unifying mathematical language to understand structural and dynamical aspects of socio-technical systems. Networks are, however, highly dimensional objects, especially when considering the scales of real-world systems and the need to model the temporal dimension. Hence the study of empirical data from social systems is challenging both from a conceptual and a computational standpoint. A possible approach to tackling such a challenge is to use dimensionality reduction techniques that represent network entities in a low-dimensional feature space, preserving some desired properties of the original data. Low-dimensional vector space representations, also known as network embeddings, have been extensively studied, also as a way to feed network data to machine learning algorithms. Network embeddings were initially developed for static networks and then extended to incorporate temporal network data. We focus on dimensionality reduction techniques for time-resolved social interaction data modelled as temporal networks. We introduce a novel embedding technique that models the temporal and structural similarities of events rather than nodes. Using empirical data on social interactions, we show that this representation captures information relevant for the study of dynamical processes unfolding over the network, such as epidemic spreading. We then turn to another large-scale dataset on social interactions: a popular Web-based crowdfunding platform. We show that tensor-based representations of the data and dimensionality reduction techniques such as tensor factorization allow us to uncover the structural and temporal aspects of the system and to relate them to geographic and temporal activity patterns.

Deploying and processing neural representations of signals

Neural representations (NR) have emerged in the last few years as a powerful tool to represent signals from several domains, such as images, 3D shapes, or audio. Indeed, deep neural networks have been shown capable of approximating continuous functions that describe a given signal with theoretical infinite resolution. This finding allows obtaining representations whose memory footprint is fixed and decoupled from the resolution at which the underlying signal can be sampled, something that is not possible with traditional discrete representations, e.g., grids of pixels for images or voxels for 3D shapes. During the last two years, many techniques have been proposed to improve the capability of NR to approximate high-frequency details and to make the optimization procedures required to obtain NR less demanding both in terms of time and data requirements, motivating many researchers to deploy NR as the main form of data representation for complex pipelines. Following this line of research, we first show that NR can approximate precisely Unsigned Distance Functions, providing an effective way to represent garments that feature open 3D surfaces and unknown topology. Then, we present a pipeline to obtain in a few minutes a compact Neural Twin® for a given object, by exploiting the recent advances in modeling neural radiance fields. Furthermore, we move a step in the direction of adopting NR as a standalone representation, by considering the possibility of performing downstream tasks by processing directly the NR weights. We first show that deep neural networks can be compressed into compact latent codes. Then, we show how this technique can be exploited to perform deep learning on implicit neural representations (INR) of 3D shapes, by only looking at the weights of the networks.

A representação social da violência de gênero contra a mulher no Espírito Santo

O objetivo principal deste trabalho é analisar como os meios de comunicação ajudam a construir a representação social da violência de gênero contra a mulher no Espírito Santo, que lidera o ranking nacional de feminicídios, com taxa de 9,8 homicídios para cada 100 mil mulheres. Elegemos como corpus de pesquisa notícias sobre violência de gênero no ES, veiculadas no ano de 2013, nos jornais A Gazeta e A Tribuna. Em hipótese, acreditamos que essas notícias ajudam a construir representações sociais acerca da violência de gênero a partir da apresentação de estereótipos de vítima e agressor na sociedade, da individualização do problema da violência, da associação desse problema às classes sociais menos privilegiadas e da apresentação do crime de violência de gênero como crime passional. O estudo dessas notícias apresenta-se como algo complexo, do qual não participam apenas informações de ordem linguística, mas também de carácter social, histórico, cultural e cognitivo, uma vez que a análise discursiva não pode ser dissociada do contexto, dos atores sociais e das instituições envolvidas na produção da notícia, bem como das ideologias presentes nesse processo. Por esse motivo, assumimos como base teórica de nossa investigação uma proposta multidisciplinar: a Teoria Sociocognitiva de Teun A. van Dijk (1999a; 2011a; 2012; 2014b). Ademais, contamos com as contribuições dos estudos sobre gênero e discurso de Cameron (1985, 1997), Wodak (1997), West, Lazar e Kramarae (2000), Fernández Díaz (2003), Lazar (1993, 2005, 2007), Magalhães (2005; 2009), Heberle, Ostermann e Figueiredo (2006). Além das análises discursivo-analíticas, também utilizamos o programa de linguística de corpus WordSmith Tools para realizar análises quantitativas. Os resultados das análises nos levaram à confirmação das hipóteses iniciais: o discurso das notícias reforça estereótipos de vítima e agressor, típicos de uma estrutura social patriarcal, na qual é atribuída à vítima ou aos vícios (álcool e drogas) a responsabilidade da violência sofrida; além disso, a violência de gênero é apresentada como um problema individual e associada às classes sociais menos favorecidas; e, por último, o discurso das notícias apresenta grande parte dos crimes de violência de gênero como crimes passionais.

A representação do desejo nos epigramas eróticos helenísticos: estudo do masculino e do feminino nos livros 5 e 12 da Antologia Palatina

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Belém entre filmes e fitas: a experiência do cinema, do cotidiano das salas às representações sociais nos anos de 1920

A história social do cinema é marcada pelo hábito de frequentação. Para além do filme, elementos como infraestrutura e propaganda desempenham papel fundamental para que se crie um clima de sedução e envolvimento com as imagens visualizadas. A trajetória do cinema, entre outros caminhos, vincula-se ao espectador, ao espaço físico das salas de projeção e as sociabilidades nele elaboradas. Esta dissertação discute o cinema na cidade de Belém (Pará) nos anos de 1920. Para tanto investiga a forma como as salas de cinema interagiam com o espaço urbano daquele período. Do mesmo modo, discutem-se elementos da infraestrutura das salas tais como: acomodações, ventilação e música. Procurou-se demonstrar que o ato de assistir a um filme na capital paraense daqueles anos era apenas uma parte do ―ritual de frequentação dos cinemas, daí a preocupação em se compreender as formas de sociabilidade processadas no interior daquelas salas. Ao lado disso, faz-se uma análise do cinema atuando como mediador das representações sociais de gênero e infância.

Relações de gênero no cotidiano escolar: concepções, discursos e práticas

Gender‟s concept understands that differences and inequalities established between men and women are historically and culturally constructed. In this way, the meanings and representations of gender are constituted and reconstituted in the social realm through various institutions, practices and relationships presents in a social group. The school as an institution responsible for the formal education of children, youth and adults, produces and reproduce speeches that (re)constitute meanings, identities and representations of gender. Based on this assumption, this research aims at analyzing the routine practices of kindergarten and early elementary school years at a public school in the state of Sao Paulo about gender relations. Therefore, this study aims to broach how discourses and attitudes of teachers, students and other subjects produce and reproduce the representation and gender identities. Form this purpose, the study first presents a literature about the subject to later present the research results obtained through the questionnaire applied with teachers and the daily school practices‟ observe of the school

Representações sociais de gênero pela linguagem de moda em um grupo de estudantes do Ensino Fundamental II

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Ser menino e menina, professor e professora na Educação Infantil: um entrelaçamento de vozes

Pós-graduação em Educação Sexual - FCLAR

Entre Maria e as dores: cotidiano e subjetividades de mulheres em situação de violência doméstica, Marília – SP (2006-2014)

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Differences between female and male adolescents regarding individual vulnerability to HIV

The objective of this study was to comparatively analyze male and female adolescents' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, based on their knowledge, values and practices. This is an exploratory-descriptive study, performed using a quantitative approach. The students answered a questionnaire from which relevant questions were selected for the analysis. The participants were 207 adolescents, 43.5% male and 56.5% female. Most adolescents report having initiated sexual activities. It was observed that the participants have knowledge deficits regarding HIV transmission and safe sexual practices. Although they report knowing about condom use as a method of protection against HIV, they do not always use them. It was observed that there are values connected to the representations of gender, but it is noticed there is an evolution regarding the autonomy and power of the girls' negotiation regarding condom use.

ARREDA HOMEM QUE AÍ VEM MULHER... Representações de Gênero nas Manifestações da Pombagira

Arreda homem que aí vem mulher... , trata das representações de gênero nas manifestações da Pombagira, entidade espiritual da religiosidade afro-brasileira. O trabalho faz uma leitura diferenciada sobre a figura da Pombagira trazendo-a para o campo social, mostrando sua construção e suas funções, desmistificando sua associação com o mal que supomos esteja relacionado com a sua função de intermediadora das relações amorosas, vinculadas ao poder via sexualidade, além da sua manifestação como contestadora do papel feminino construído. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio da observação dos rituais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com sacerdotes, sacerdotisas e adeptos da religiosidade afro-brasileira em terreiros de Candomblé e Umbanda na cidade de Porto Velho - Rondônia. Apresentamos no primeiro capítulo algumas observações sobre as suas imagens, funções e representações. No segundo capítulo trazemos as construções da sua figura pelos cientistas sociais, religiosos, entrevistados e entrevistadas. O terceiro capítulo foi dedicado às observações sobre as representações da Pombagira, objetivo central do trabalho.AU)

ARREDA HOMEM QUE AÍ VEM MULHER... Representações de Gênero nas Manifestações da Pombagira

Arreda homem que aí vem mulher... , trata das representações de gênero nas manifestações da Pombagira, entidade espiritual da religiosidade afro-brasileira. O trabalho faz uma leitura diferenciada sobre a figura da Pombagira trazendo-a para o campo social, mostrando sua construção e suas funções, desmistificando sua associação com o mal que supomos esteja relacionado com a sua função de intermediadora das relações amorosas, vinculadas ao poder via sexualidade, além da sua manifestação como contestadora do papel feminino construído. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio da observação dos rituais e entrevistas semi-estruturadas com sacerdotes, sacerdotisas e adeptos da religiosidade afro-brasileira em terreiros de Candomblé e Umbanda na cidade de Porto Velho - Rondônia. Apresentamos no primeiro capítulo algumas observações sobre as suas imagens, funções e representações. No segundo capítulo trazemos as construções da sua figura pelos cientistas sociais, religiosos, entrevistados e entrevistadas. O terceiro capítulo foi dedicado às observações sobre as representações da Pombagira, objetivo central do trabalho.AU)