Educación y tecnología : conflictos y posibilidades.

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La evolución del hombre : conceptos generales a la luz de la moderna teoría sintética de la evolución.

El ser humano se clasifica como perteneciente al orden de los primates, suborden antropoideos, superfamilia hominoideos, familia homínidos y género homo (Young, 1976) Muchos aspectos de la evolución humana, son todavía hipotéticos; sin embargo las secuencias evolutivas son:Aegyptopithecus, Ramapithecus, australopithecus africanus, driopithecus, homo habilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens, homo sapiens sapiens. La hominización debió llevarse a cabo de forma gradual, a través de una serie de pasos evolutivos que desembocaron en el estado de hominización del hombre moderno. Se ha aceptados que en la hominización interaccionaron una serie de procesos: posición bípeda, utilización y fabricación de instrumentos, evolución del cerebro (incremento de su tamaño), establecimiento de cambios (estructurales), organización social, evolución de la mente, lenguaje y cultura. La teoría sintética y evolución del hombre permite comprender coherentemente los mecanismos que intervinieron en la evolución humana y son dos: variabilidad genética y selección natural. La primera reforma a través de la recombinación genética y las mutaciones. Estas últimas son la base primaria de la variabilidad genética. Aunque las tasas de mutación son bajas, ocurren continuamente en las poblaciones naturales. La variabilidad genética, materia prima de la evolución no es suficiente para explicar la evolución. Es necesario recurrir al mecanismo que Darwin expuso de la selección natural de las especies sólo los más aptos sobreviven. La selección natural es determinista y finalista. Si partimos, de la idea de que la evolución del hombre, ahora estará mas determinada por la selección cultural que por la natural, está claro que el psicólogo debe participar en el futuro evolutivo del hombre.

La enseñanza de la lengua, un nuevo planteamiento.

Se propone un nuevo planteamiento de la enseñanza de la lengua. En la metodología para la enseñanza de la lengua materna, durante mucho tiempo, se han venido enfrentando dos concepciones, generalmente erróneas por intransigentes: por un lado, la de quienes opinan que es imposible el dominio de la lengua sin el conocimiento de la gramática; de otro, la de los que creen que ese conocimiento no sirve para nada. Lo importante es que en los años más recientes no se ha llegado a ninguna solución y la situación apenas ha cambiado, pese a que estamos asistiendo a un creciente interés por los problemas del lenguaje, a un auge inusitado de los estudios lingüísticos, muchos de cuyos logros incluso se han popularizado: Saussure o Chomsky, por ejemplo, no son ya nombres extraños. La realidad es que la didáctica de la lengua en España apenas se ha modificado. Los principales escollos a salvar son: que en muchos profesores continúa latente la tradición gramaticalista del pasado, si bien revestida de nuevas teorías; la actual ruptura entre la EGB y el BUP, precisamente en una edad crucial; la absoluta falta de coordinación entre los distintos niveles de docencia; programaciones inadecuadas, sobre todo en BUP; y el hecho de que en la Universidad española el perfeccionamiento de la lengua está abandonado a la iniciativa de los propios estudiantes, es decir, a la inercia. Se proponen soluciones a cada uno de estos problemas. Para concluir se recoge una opinión de F. Marcos Marincomo, en la que señala que estamos muy lejos de posturas abiertas.

Detection of microwaves using the organic semiconductor poly(p-phenylenevinylene)

We report a new procedure to convert the polymer precursor poly(xylylidene tetrahydrothiophenium chloride) (PTHT) into poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) using microwave irradiation. Spin-coated PTHT films were irradiated at room temperature under ambient conditions in a commercial microwave oven, with varying power from 20W to 100W. Complete conversion was reached within only 5 min of irradiation for powers above 50W, yielding PPV films with absorption and photoluminescence spectra that are practically indistinguishable from the spectra of thermally converted PPV films, which require ca. 2 h of a high temperature (similar to 200 degrees C) thermal treatment. In addition to a much faster conversion procedure, the irradiation with microwaves led to a red shift in the absorption spectrum of a PTHT film, which varied linearly with the time of irradiation. These films can then be used as low-cost, easy-to-use detectors of microwaves. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

The role of the medical emergency team in end-of-life care : a multicenter, prospective, observational study

<b>Objective:</b> To investigate the role of medical emergency teams in end-of-life care planning.<br /><br /><b>Design:</b> One month prospective audit of medical emergency team calls.<br /><br /><b>Setting:</b> Seven university-affiliated hospitals in Australia, Canada, and Sweden.<br /><br /><b>Patients:</b> Five hundred eighteen patients who received a medical emergency team call over 1 month.<br /><br /><b>Interventions:</b> None.<br /><br /><b>Measurements and Main Results:</b> There were 652 medical emergency team calls in 518 patients, with multiple calls in 99 (19.1%) patients. There were 161 (31.1%) patients with limitations of medical therapy during the study period. The limitation of medical therapy was instituted in 105 (20.3%) and 56 (10.8%) patients before and after the medical emergency team call, respectively. In 78 patients who died with a limitation of medical therapy in place, the last medical emergency team review was on the day of death in 29.5% of patients, and within 2 days in another 28.2%. Compared with patients who did not have a limitation of medical therapy, those with a limitation of medical therapy were older (80 vs. 66 yrs; p &lt; .001), less likely to be male (44.1% vs. 55.7%; p .014), more likely to be medical admissions (70.8% vs. 51.3%; p &lt; .001), and less likely to be admitted from home (74.5% vs. 92.2%, p &lt; .001). In addition, those with a limitation of medical therapy were less likely to be discharged home (22.4% vs. 63.6%; p &lt; .001) and more likely to die in hospital (48.4% vs. 12.3%; p &lt; .001). There was a trend for increased likelihood of calls associated with limitations of medical therapy to occur out of hours (51.0% vs. 43.8%, p .089).<br /><br /><b>Conclusions:</b> Issues around end-of-life care and limitations of medical therapy arose in approximately one-third of calls, suggesting a mismatch between patient needs for end-of-life care and resources at participating hospitals. These calls frequently occur in elderly medical patients and out of hours. Many such patients do not return home, and half die in hospital. There is a need for improved advanced care planning in our hospitals, and to confirm our findings in other organizations.<br />

Simvastatin improves the healing of infected skin wounds of rats

This study explores the potential of the simvastatin to ameliorate inflammation and infection in open infected skin wounds of rats. Methods: Fourteen Wistar rats weighing 285±12g were used. The study was done in a group whose open infected skin wounds were treated with topical application of sinvastatina microemulsion (SIM, n=7) and a second group with wounds treated with saline 0.9 % (SAL, n=7). A bacteriological exam of the wounds fluid for gram positive and gram negative bacteria, the tecidual expression of TNFá and IL-1â by imunohistochemical technique, and histological analysis by HE stain were performed. Results: The expression of TNFa could be clearly demonstrated in lower degree in skin wounds treated with simvastatin (668.6 ± 74.7 ìm2) than in saline (2120.0 ± 327.1 ìm2). In comparison, wound tissue from SIM group displayed leukocyte infiltration significantly lower than that observed in SAL group (p<0.05). Culture results of the samples taken from wound fluid on fourth post treatment day revealed wound infection in only one rat of group simvastatin (SIM), where Proteus mirabilis, Escherchia coli and Enterobacter sp were isolated. In the rats whose wounds were treated with saline (SAL), polymicrobial infection with more than 100,000 CFU/g was detected in all the wounds. Conclusion: In addition to its antiinflammatory properties, the protective effects of simvastatin in infected open skin wounds is able to reduce infection and probably has antibacterial action. The potential to treat these wounds with statins to ameliorate inflammation and infection is promising

CONTROL of THE CENTRAL CHEMOREFLEX BY A5 NORADRENERGIC NEURONS IN RATS

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

Predictors of health status do not change over three-year periods and exacerbation makes difference in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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

Influence of microgap location and configuration on the periimplant bone morphology in submerged implants. An experimental study in dogs

Objectives: The vertical location of the implant-abutment connection influences the periimplant bone morphology. It is unknown, however, whether different microgap configurations cause different bone reactions. Therefore, in this study the bone morphologies of two different implant systems were compared.Material and methods: Three months after tooth extraction in eight mongrel dogs, two grit-blasted screw implants with internal Morse taper connection (ANK group) were placed on one side whereas the contralateral side received two oxidized screw implants with external hex (TIU group). One implant on each side was placed level with the bone (equicrestal), the second implant was inserted 1.5mm below bone level (subcrestal). After 3 months the implants were uncovered. Three months after stage two surgery, histometrical evaluations were performed in order to assess the periimplant bone levels (PBL), the first bone-to-implant contact points (BICP), the width (HBD) and the steepness (SLO) of the bone defect.Results: All implants osseointegrated clinically and histologically. Bone overgrowth of the microgap was seen in ANK implants only. No significant differences between ANK and TIU could be detected in neither vertical position for PBL and BICP. However, a tendency in favor of ANK was visible when the implants were placed subcrestally. In the parameters HBD (ANK equicrestal -0.23mm; TIU equicrestal -0.51mm; ANK subcrestal +0.19mm; TIU subcrestal -0.57mm) and SLO (ANK equicrestal 35.36 degrees; TIU equicrestal 63.22 degrees; ANK subcrestal 20.40 degrees; TIU subcrestal 44.43 degrees) more pronounced and significant differences were noted.Conclusions: Within the limits of this study, it is concluded that different microgap designs cause different shapes and sizes of the periimplant ('dish-shaped') bone defect in submerged implants both in equicrestal and subcrestal positions.

Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV using kinematic characteristics of lepton plus jets events

We present a measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV utilizing 425 pb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We consider the final state of the top quark pair containing one high-p(T) electron or muon and at least four jets. We exploit specific kinematic features of t (t) over bar events to extract the cross section. For a top quark mass of 175 GeV, we measure sigma(t (t) over bar)=6.4(-1.2)(+1.3)(stat)+/- 0.7(syst)+/- 0.4(lum) pb, in good agreement with the standard model prediction.

Search for Diphoton Events with Large Missing Transverse Energy in 6.3 fb(-1) of p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Qualidade da água para a irrigação de plantas em viveiros: utilização de descargas elétricas sem efeito térmico e de campos de energia no controle de Meloidogyne incognita Raça 1

The effect of electrical discharges without thermic effect and of energy field on Meloidogyne incognita Rara 1 larvae elimination in weir water was tested. on an average, 63,22% of larvae were killed by electrical discharges, in comparison with 53,12% of dead larvae in the control (water that received only ammonium sulphate) as an electrolyte. Water exposed to energy fields presented higher percentages of dead larvae (50,01% for electromagnetic field, 43,78% for variable electric field and 40,48% for static electric field) in comparison with control, represented by water without exposition to any energy field and without ammonium sulphate (34,27%).

Comment on Time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity

It is pointed out that erroneous Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer model equations have been used by Haranath Ghosh in his recent treatment of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity. Consequently, his numerical results are misleading, and his conclusions are not to the point.

Diabetes mellitus tipo 2 e esquema terapêutico: impacto da prática de atividades físicas sobre o custo do tratamento ambulatorial em Unidade Básica de Saúde da cidade de Bauru -SP

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Perfil genético e fenotípico de Staphylococcus sp isolados de leite de vacas saudáveis e com mastite

Pós-graduação em Biologia Geral e Aplicada - IBB