Observações sôbre o combate à Esquistosomose humana em Pernambuco, no Município de Catende: índice de infestação em Austraorbis e emprêgo da cal extinta e do sulfato de cobre no combate aos moluscos

O A. apresenta os resultados do inquérito realizado no Município de Catendo, Estado de Pernambuco, afim de verificar o índice de infestação de moluscos do gênero Australorbis, pelas cercarias de Schistosoma mansoni, e experimentar a ação da cal extinta e do sulfato de cobre como recursos para a erradicação dêsses moluscos. O alto índice de infestação do homem, pelo Schistosoma mansoni (50% em mais de 300 exames) deve-se ao contato frequente da população com a água dos rios, para banhos e outros misteres. A cal extinta dá melhores resultados que o sulfato de cobre; além disso oferece vantagens de preço e facilidade de aquisição. Empregou-se a solução de cal de 4 a 5%.

Linear stochastic differential algebraic equations with constant coefficients

We consider linear stochastic differential-algebraic equations with constant coefficients and additive white noise. Due to the nature of this class of equations, the solution must be defined as a generalised process (in the sense of Dawson and Fernique). We provide sufficient conditions for the law of the variables of the solution process to be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure.

Estudos sôbre índice de siclemia

O índice de sinclêmicos encontrado foi de 10%, examinando-se uma amostra heterógenea de 1130 indivíduos de grupo étnico negróide e mestiços desta etnia. Foi negativa a pesquisa em 120 indivíduos caucasóides e 30 mongolóides. O "índice familiar de siclêmicos" - a percentagem desses indivíduos em um grupo de famílias - fornece um resultado mais proximo do verdadeiro número de siclêmicos em uma amostra de população. O método clássico fornece um número inferior ao existente na amostra estudada. A aplicação do teste de siclemia em Jurisprudência, Antropologia e Etnografia, poderá contribuir, na qualidade de método auxiliar, no estudo de vários problemas. São indicados como métodos de escolha: o de Emmel e o de maceração de tecidos conservados em solução de formol ou alcool. Êste último permite estudos retrospectivos. A estase circulatória parece não ser fator suficiente para a passagem da condição de siclêmico para anemico. O parasitismo da hemátia pelo Plasmodium vivax não impede o fenômeno da siclisação. Infecção por plasmodídeos (P. falciparum e P. vivax) não é fator suficiente para desencadear a doença. A importância da descoberta de Emmel (descoberta do fenômeno da siclisação) reside no conhecimento em doença heredofamiliar de fato novo de máxima significação: a possibilidade de identificar os indivíduos ainda na fase de latência, ou seja, no período que medeia entre o nascimento e a instalação dos primeiros sintomas da doença. A relação entre casos de anemia falciforme ocorridos em gerações por vêzes muito afastadas (fenômeno denominado "skipping" - salto - pelos autores de lingua inglêsa) é mantida através dos siclêmicos. Êsses indivíduos podem ser comparados aos portadores de germe no sentido empregado na profilaxia das doenças infectuosas. Exames periódicos dos siclêmicos poderiam contribuir para esclarecimento da patogenia e forneceriam dados úteis para a profilaxia da doença. Seriam de grande alcance medidas idênticas em outras doenças hereditárias...

Considerações sôbre a técnica de determinação do "Índice Lipásico Seabra"

A detailed study of Seabra's lipasic reagent for the diagnostic of tuberculosis has been made. Substrate. The oily emulsion of cotton seed oil containing gum as dispersing agent, presented a pH variation to the ampoulles examined. In these belonging to the same cartoon as well as in those from different cartoons the values obtained electrometrically ranged from pH 5.8-6.4 (Table I). These variations lead us to presuppose: 1) instability of the oily emulsion in gum; 2) spontaneous hydrolysis of the oil; 3) different batches or technique of the oil extraction, or different sources. Buffer: The same variability observed with substrate was found for the buffer. In CHERRY & CRANDALL's method the buffer is pH 7.0. The saline solution from Seabra's oscillated from pH6.25-6.9 (table II). Titration - end point. A colorimetric comparison between the sample and the blank as suggested by Seabra becomes very difficult. The end point in the presence of serum, when phenolphtalein is used as indicator, is very difficult to compare with the blank containing water. Conclusion. The differences observed in the results when the same serum was used, must be due to the variations observed with Seabra's reagents.

Índice lipásido Seabra: seu valor no diagnóstico da tuberculose

The determination of blood lipase has been proposed by SEABRA as a method for detecting predisposition to initial or subsequent stages of tuberculosis; normal subjects having high titers (8-12 units), tuberculous patients low ones (5-7), falling to zero in advanced stages of the disease. An assay of the method has been made by the AA. in sera of 238 non tuberculous subjects (419 tests) and 207 tuberculous ones (456 tests) following the technical procedures described by SEABRA. All of them had their Roentgenographies taken at the same day of blood collection. Factors interfering with blood lipase values in tuberculosis are discussed. A relationship between the course of the disease and the serum lipase could not be confirmed. High and low values were found in initial as well as in advanced cases. Our results are in agreement with those recorded in the literature (Figs. I and II). It seems that the general condition, rather than pulmonary lesions are responsible for the blood lipase values. There was no direct relationship between blood lipase titer and severity of pulmonary tuberculosis; however the data presented in this paper do not agree with such correlation, stated by SEABRA, FERNANDES and VICENTE.

Lp-solutions to BSDEs with super-linear growth coefficient. Application to degenerate semilinear PDEs.

We consider multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). We prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions when the coefficient grow super-linearly, and moreover, can be neither locally Lipschitz in the variable y nor in the variable z. This is done with super-linear growth coefficient and a p-integrable terminal condition (p & 1). As application, we establish the existence and uniqueness of solutions to degenerate semilinear PDEs with superlinear growth generator and an Lp-terminal data, p & 1. Our result cover, for instance, the case of PDEs with logarithmic nonlinearities.

A rotation method which gives linear Lp-Estimates for powers of the Ahlfors-Beurling operator

"Vegeu el resum a l'inici del document del fitxer adjunt."

Reduction of periodic difference systems to linear or autonomous ones

We extend Floquet theory for reducing nonlinear periodic difference systems to autonomous ones (actually linear) by using normal form theory.

"La paradisíaca estabilidad de la anteguerra". Elaboración de un índice de precios de consumo de España, 1830-1936.

Este artículo expone los aspectos básicos de la elaboración un nuevo, y auténtico, Índice de Precios de Consumo de España para el período 1830-1936. Los distintos apartados en que está organizado se dedican a definir el campo de observación y el ámbito analizados, las fuentes empleadas y la metodología utilizada, así como las similitudes y diferencias con otros índices actualmente disponibles. Contiene, asimismo, un contiene un primer y breve análisis de los resultados. La característica más sobresaliente desde la perspectiva de las tendencias de largo plazo del nuevo IPC es una gran estabilidad, quebrada de forma importante, tan sólo, durante los años 1914-1920 bajo la influencia de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La tasa de crecimiento para el conjunto del período no alcanzó siquiera el uno por cien anual, pese al cambio de nivel registrado en aquel breve brote inflacionista.

A public-key cryptosystem based on second order linear sequences

Based on Lucas functions, an improved version of the Diffie-Hellman distribution key scheme and to the ElGamal public key cryptosystem scheme are proposed, together with an implementation and computational cost. The security relies on the difficulty of factoring an RSA integer and on the difficulty of computing the discrete logarithm.

Predicting trabecular bone microdamage initiation and accumulation using a non-linear perfect damage model

Studies evaluating the mechanical behavior of the trabecular microstructure play an important role in our understanding of pathologies such as osteoporosis, and in increasing our understanding of bone fracture and bone adaptation. Understanding of such behavior in bone is important for predicting and providing early treatment of fractures. The objective of this study is to present a numerical model for studying the initiation and accumulation of trabecular bone microdamage in both the pre- and post-yield regions. A sub-region of human vertebral trabecular bone was analyzed using a uniformly loaded anatomically accurate microstructural three-dimensional finite element model. The evolution of trabecular bone microdamage was governed using a non-linear, modulus reduction, perfect damage approach derived from a generalized plasticity stress-strain law. The model introduced in this paper establishes a history of microdamage evolution in both the pre- and post-yield regions

Is the consumption-income ratio stationary? Evidence from linear and nonlinear panel unit root tests for OECD and non-OECD countries

This paper applies recently developed heterogeneous nonlinear and linear panel unit root tests that account for cross-sectional dependence to 24 OECD and 33 non-OECD countries’ consumption-income ratios over the period 1951–2003. We apply a recently developed methodology that facilitates the use of panel tests to identify which individual cross-sectional units are stationary and which are nonstationary. This extends evidence provided in the recent literature to consider both linear and nonlinear adjustment in panel unit root tests, to address the issue of cross-sectional dependence, and to substantially expand both time-series and cross sectional dimensions of the data analysed. We find that the majority (65%) of the series are nonstationary with slightly fewer OECD countries’ (61%) series exhibiting a unit root than non-OECD countries (68%).

A theoretical and practical study on linear reforms of dual taxes

We extend the linear reforms introduced by Pf¨ahler (1984) to the case of dual taxes. We study the relative effect that linear dual tax cuts have on the inequality of income distribution -a symmetrical study can be made for dual linear tax hikes-. We also introduce measures of the degree of progressivity for dual taxes and show that they can be connected to the Lorenz dominance criterion. Additionally, we study the tax liability elasticity of each of the reforms proposed. Finally, by means of a microsimulation model and a considerably large data set of taxpayers drawn from 2004 Spanish Income Tax Return population, 1) we compare different yield-equivalent tax cuts applied to the Spanish dual income tax and 2) we investigate how much income redistribution the dual tax reform (Act ‘35/2006’) introduced with respect to the previous tax.

Mather invariants in groups of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms

We describe the relation between two characterizations of conjugacy in groups of piecewise-linear homeomorphisms, discovered by Brin and Squier in [2] and Kassabov and Matucci in [5]. Thanks to the interplay between the techniques, we produce a simplified point of view of conjugacy that allows ua to easily recover centralizers and lends itself to generalization.