La protection des données sur Internet en droit suisse

La protection des données personnelles en Suisse trouve son fondement dans la constitution et se concrétise avant tout dans une loi fédérale adoptée avant l'avènement d'Internet et la généralisation de la transmission d'informations personnelles sur des réseaux numériques. Cette réglementation est complétée par les engagements internationaux de la Suisse et notamment la Convention européenne des Droits de l'Homme du Conseil de l'Europe. L'article délimite tout d'abord le champ d'application de la législation, qui joue un rôle pour le traitement de données personnelles par des particuliers comme par les autorités de l'administration fédérale. Suit une brève analyse des principes fondamentaux (licéité, bonne foi, proportionnalité, finalité, exactitude, communication à l'étranger, sécurité, droit d'accès) et de leur application sur Internet. Enfin, la protection du contenu des messages électroniques privés est brièvement abordée sous l'angle du secret des télécommunications et à la lumière d'une jurisprudence récente du Tribunal fédéral.

Efeitos da arrecadação tributária e dos gastos públicos em Serviços de saúde dos municípios de Pernambuco

Esse estudo tem por objetivo investigar os efeitos da arrecadação dos impostos municipais e de variáveis políticas na diferença do limite de 15% dos gastos com recursos de impostos nas ações e serviços de saúde dos municípios pernambucanos. A pesquisa é exploratória e utilizou método quantitativo com o emprego de regressões com dados em painel. Para tanto, foram levantados dados nas bases de dados do Ministério de Saúde, Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional e do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral dos 184 municípios, correspondente ao período de 2005 a 2009. A pesquisa conclui que em ano eleitoral os gestores municipais aumentam os gastos em saúde com recursos de impostos em 0,49% e que municípios administrados pelo partido de afiliação do governador reduz a diferença de aplicação em 0,63%. A arrecadação dos impostos per capita, competição eleitoral para o cargo de prefeito e ideologia partidária dos governos não afetam na diferença do limite de 15% dos gastos com recursos de impostos em ações de saúde dos municípios pernambucanos.

Avaliação do banco de dissertações e teses da associação brasileira de antropologia: uma análise cienciométrica

VITULLO, Nadia Aurora Vanti. Avaliação do banco de dissertações e teses da Associação Brasileira de Antropologia: uma análise cienciométrica. 2001. 143 f. Dissertaçao (Mestrado) - Curso de Mestrado em Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, 2001.

A incorporação da saúde bucal no programa saúde da família do Rio Grande do Norte: investigando a possibilidade de conversão do modelo assistencial

The Health Family Program (HFP) was founded in the 1990s with the objective of changing the health care model through a restructuring of primary care. Oral health was officially incorporated into HFP mainly through the efforts of dental professionals, and was seen as a way to break from oral health care models based on curative, technical biological and inequity methods. Despite the fast expansion of HFP oral health teams, it is essential to ask if changes are really occurring in the oral health model of municipalities. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the incorporation of oral health teams into the Health Family Program by analyzing the factors that may interfere positively or negatively in the implementation of this strategy and consequently in the process of changing oral health care models in the National Health System in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This evaluation involves three dimensions: access, work organization and strategies of planning. For this purpose,19 municipalities, geographically distributed according to Regional Public Health Units (RPHU), were randomly selected. The data collection instruments used were: structured interview of supervisors and dentists, structured observation, documental research and data from national health data banks. It was possible to identify critical points that may be impeding the implementation of oral health into HFP, such as, low incomes, no legal employment contract, difficulty in referring patients for high-complexity procedures, in developing intersectoral actions and program strategies such as epidemiologic diagnosis and evaluation of the new actions. The majority of municipalities showed little or no improvement in oral health care after incorporating the new model into HFP. All of them had failures in most of the aspects mentioned above. Furthermore, these municipalities are similar in other areas, such as low educational levels in children from 7 to 14 years of age, high child mortality rates and wide social inequalities. On the other hand, the five municipalities that had improved oral health, according to the categories analyzed, offered better living conditions to the population, with higher life expectancy, low infant mortality rates, per capita income among the highest in the state as well as high Human Development Index (HDI) means. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that public policies that include aspects beyond the health sector are decisive for a real change in health care models

Variáveis de controle sobre responder ordinal: revisitando estudos empíricos

Questões conceituais dentro dos sistemas explicativos em Psicologia podem ser trabalhadas através da busca dos termos e das condições definidoras de um determinado conceito ou fenômeno. Estudos de análise conceitual visam verificar quais os termos que não fazem parte de um conceito, a aplicação correta de um conceito já existente e em quais casos esse conceito pode ser aplicado. Visam a discriminação entre classes de eventos e a generalização intra classe. A aquisição e manutenção de cadeias comportamentais tem recebido o nome de encadeamento, referindo-se a sucessões de respostas, nas quais uma resposta produz as condições de estímulo para a resposta seguinte. Pode-se avaliar que grande parte do repertório dos organismos parece ocorrer de maneira organizada seqüencialmente em uma sucessão contínua. O comportamento ordinal vem sendo estudado através do exame do efeito de diferentes variáveis. Entretanto, a literatura operante tem mostrado diferentes termos para se referir ao fluxo contínuo e à sucessão de respostas. Esta pesquisa propôs verificando o comportamento lógico de alguns conceitos relacionados ao responder ordinal, investigando o nível de instrumentalidade através da especificação das variáveis controladoras nos procedimentos aplicados no âmbito da Análise Experimental do Comportamento. Por meio de algumas palavras-chave o material bibliográfico foi buscado em bancos de dados de periódicos científicos e livros da área. Em seguida, os trabalhos foram organizados em seis grupos diferentes de acordo com a semelhança em seus títulos e resumos. Por último, foram analisados destacando-se as principais variáveis envolvidas em cada tipo de procedimento. Foram selecionados 82 trabalhos, 14 artigos nacionais, 65 estrangeiros e 3 capítulos de livro, um nacional e dois estrangeiros. A análise descritiva das pesquisas demonstrou que nos grupos 2, 5 e 6 foi possível acessar informações comuns a todos os estudos. Além disso, verificou-se que o modelo analítico-comportamental de cadeia de respostas pareceu ser evidente nos estudos dos quatro primeiros grupos. Portanto, a verificação das variações de procedimento presentes nos experimentos possibilitou a organização e delimitação das variáveis envolvidas nos estudos sobre o responder ordinal. Tais informações poderão funcionar como um parâmetro de controle experimental no desenvolvimento de estudos futuros, bem como subsidiar investigações que visem verificar o efeito de variações de procedimento dentro de um mesmo grupo sobre o desempenho encontrado nos resultados dos estudos. Além disso, constatou-se que o emprego de um termo pode ser definido pelo contexto no qual o conhecimento é produzido, pois, os determinantes de um termo científico são produtos da complexidade de um contexto social que engendra mudanças no modo de tratar um determinado objeto de estudo.

Travessias: mulheres migrantes nos bairros periféricos Bonsucesso e Novo Wenzel em Rio Claro, SP

The aim of this study is to have a better understanding on the context of migration of the women that live in the neighborhoods of Bonsucesso and Novo Wenzel in the city of Rio Claro, state of São Paulo, and if this migration allows them to enjoy basic services, such as housing, education, health and leisure. In order to achieve that, this research has tried to deepen the geographical studies on internal migrations in Rio Claro, investigating the reasons that led these women to migrate, tracing a map of the regions where they come from originally and analyzing the main characteristics of the interviewed, as to comprehend which are the historical relations that have influenced the migration (in Brazil, in general) that may apply to the context of the women living in these specific neighborhoods. The data were obtained through semi-structured interviews and research in different data banks

Purificação e estudos bioquímicos de exo-poligalacturonase (pectinase) produzida pelo fungo termofílico Rhizomucor pusillus, em cultivo submerso e aplicação na extração de sucos de frutas e hidrólise enzimática do bagaço de cana-de-açúcar

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

CHARACTERIZATION OF REGOSOLS IN THE SEMIARID REGION OF PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL

CHARACTERIZATION OF REGOSOLS IN THE SEMIARID REGION OF PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL Studies on soil characterization in unexplored regions, besides the generation of data banks for the soil classes of the country, also produce scientific information about soil properties, important for the development of good management practices and sustainable land use. One of the main soil classes in the semiarid region of Pernambuco State, the Regosols, cover about 27 % of the state area, and are used mainly for family agriculture. Due to different geological and climatic aspects Regosols with different chemical, physical and mineralogical properties are found in Pernambuco, which were characterized for the semiarid region of the State. Five Regosol profiles were selected in different regions of the State (P1=Sao Caetano; P2=Lagoa do Ouro; P3=Caetes; P4=Sao Joao; P5=Parnamirim). The soils were morphologically characterized and samples collected from all horizons and the bedrock. Routine physical and chemical analyses were carried out for soil classification of all samples and mineralogical analyses of the coarse fractions (gravel and sand) by optical microscopy and of the silt and clay fractions by X ray diffraction (XRD), as well as petrographic analyses of the rock samples. The results showed similarities between the soils, with a low degree of pedogenetic development, varying from medium to very deep, with the horizon sequence A-AC-C-Cr and a sandy to sandy loam texture. In the deeper layers of two profiles (P1 and P5), a solodic character was observed. Organic matter and available phosphorus content were low in all studied soils. Despite the low levels of exchangeable cations, all soil profiles showed high base saturation. The mineralogical composition of gravel, sand and silt fractions consisted, essentially, of quartz, followed by feldspars and mica, supporting the results of the petrographic analysis of the bedrock. Kaolinite was the main clay mineral in all studied profiles and horizons, indicating an important monosialitization process in autochthonous soils of a typical semiarid region. In soil profile P2, at a lower landscape position, smectite minerals were observed, with mixing phases of montmorillonite, beidelite or nontronite, indentified by the Greene-Kelly test in the DRX analysis.

Femur Specific Polyaffine Model to Regularize the Log-Domain Demons Registration

Osteoarticular allograft transplantation is a popular treatment method in wide surgical resections with large defects. For this reason hospitals are building bone data banks. Performing the optimal allograft selection on bone banks is crucial to the surgical outcome and patient recovery. However, current approaches are very time consuming hindering an efficient selection. We present an automatic method based on registration of femur bones to overcome this limitation. We introduce a new regularization term for the log-domain demons algorithm. This term replaces the standard Gaussian smoothing with a femur specific polyaffine model. The polyaffine femur model is constructed with two affine (femoral head and condyles) and one rigid (shaft) transformation. Our main contribution in this paper is to show that the demons algorithm can be improved in specific cases with an appropriate model. We are not trying to find the most optimal polyaffine model of the femur, but the simplest model with a minimal number of parameters. There is no need to optimize for different number of regions, boundaries and choice of weights, since this fine tuning will be done automatically by a final demons relaxation step with Gaussian smoothing. The newly developed synthesis approach provides a clear anatomically motivated modeling contribution through the specific three component transformation model, and clearly shows a performance improvement (in terms of anatomical meaningful correspondences) on 146 CT images of femurs compared to a standard multiresolution demons. In addition, this simple model improves the robustness of the demons while preserving its accuracy. The ground truth are manual measurements performed by medical experts.

Propuesta de libro de texto: fundamentos de bases de datos, saber y hacer

Through the years, we have detected a problem in the academic program of Information and Communication Technologies of our University, a recurrent problem in the teaching learning process, accentuated with the associated paradigm to the construction of knowledge by the own pupil. We are specifically referring to the search and assimilation of content inside the book texts about Digital Databases. The work exposed in this paper represents an effort for contributing in the reduction of educational slump in areas related to good design and construction of data banks. The textbook of this research, treats all the thematical content in this area, which are studied in the whole academic program. These and another relevant subjects in the database area are retaken from a simple but fundamentally practical theorical focus, allowing the studying on acquiring a significative learning in an easier and single source way. As a result, we present the almost definitive version of the book which is been tested on pilot groups

A Fas-associated protein factor, FAF1, potentiates Fas-mediated apoptosis.

Fas, a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family, can induce apoptosis when activated by Fas ligand binding or anti-Fas antibody crosslinking. Genetic studies have shown that a defect in Fas-mediated apoptosis resulted in abnormal development and function of the immune system in mice. A point mutation in the cytoplasmic domain of Fas (a single base change from T to A at base 786), replacing isoleucine with asparagine, abolishes the signal transducing property of Fas. Mice homozygous for this mutant allele (lprcg/lprcg mice) develop lymphadenopathy and a lupus-like autoimmune disease. Little is known about the mechanism of signal transduction in Fas-mediated apoptosis. In this study, we used the two-hybrid screen in yeast to isolate a Fas-associated protein factor, FAF1, which specifically interacts with the cytoplasmic domain of wild-type Fas but not the lprcg-mutated Fas protein. This interaction occurs not only in yeast but also in mammalian cells. When transiently expressed in L cells, FAF1 potentiated Fas-induced apoptosis. A search of available DNA and protein sequence data banks did not reveal significant homology between FAF1 and known proteins. Therefore, FAF1 is an unusual protein that binds to the wild type but not the inactive point mutant of Fas. FAF1 potentiates Fas-induced cell killing and is a candidate signal transducing molecule in the regulation of apoptosis.

Identification of the gene (SSU71/TFG1) encoding the largest subunit of transcription factor TFIIF as a suppressor of a TFIIB mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae SSU71 gene were isolated as suppressors of a transcription factor TFIIB defect that confers both a cold-sensitive growth defect and a downstream shift in transcription start-site selection at the cyc1 locus. The ssu71-1 suppressor not only suppresses the conditional phenotype but also restores the normal pattern of transcription initiation at cyc1. In addition, the ssu71-1 suppressor confers a heat-sensitive phenotype that is dependent upon the presence of the defective form of TFIIB. Molecular and genetic analysis of the cloned SSU71 gene demonstrated that SSU71 is a single-copy essential gene encoding a highly charged protein with a molecular mass of 82,194 daltons. Comparison of the deduced Ssu71 amino acid sequence with the protein data banks revealed significant similarity to RAP74, the larger subunit of the human general transcription factor TFIIF. Moreover, Ssu71 is identical to p105, a component of yeast TFIIF. Taken together, these data demonstrate a functional interaction between TFIIB and the large subunit of TFIIF and that this interaction can affect start-site selection in vivo.

Automobile consumer information study crash test program. Volume I. Summary report. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Evaluation of minimum drinking age laws using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Evaluation of state motorcycle helmet laws using the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.