Abordagem simplificada na avaliação da incontinência urinária não complicada na mulher

Este é um estudo transversal feito com pacientes mulheres que compareceram ao Setor de Endoscopia Urológica e Urodinâmica do Serviço de Urologia do Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto HUPE entre dezembro de 2009 e dezembro de 2012, para a realização de estudo urodinâmico, com encaminhamento médico e agendamento prévio para investigação de queixa de incontinência urinária. O estudo foi realizado nas pacientes do sexo feminino, com idade entre 23 e 86 anos e com queixa de incontinência urinária nao complicada. Os dados utilizados nesse estudo têm três origens: (1) a avaliação primária formada pelo conjunto dos questionário de perda por esforço e ou urgência e International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF) e história padronizada; (2) avaliação médica, realizada pelo médico residente; e (3) avaliação urodinâmica, resultado do estudo urodinâmico conduzido por médico residente, com supervisão e laudos feitos por um dos professores do serviço. O objetivo do trabalho foi analisar se o uso de métodos mais simples poderia diagnosticar incontinência urinária não complicada sem a necessidade de realizar a avaliação urodinâmica. Os nossos achados mostraram que entre a avaliação primária e a médica há elevada sensibilidade e especificidade além de forte concordância. O estudo urodinâmico tem menor probabilidade de fazer o diagnostico de IUM e maior frequencia de falso negativo. Os nossos achados fortalecem a indicação de uma abordagem primária antes de intervenções mais invasivas e dispendiosas como a avaliação urodinâmica. A realização de uma avaliação simplificada pode fornecer informações suficientes para começar um tratamento medicamentoso e fisioterapêutico.

Os impactos da Auditoria de Gestão para a melhoria dos serviços na Marinha do Brasil

A cobrança exercida pelos cidadãos quanto às atividades realizadas por seus representantes e organizações públicas tem requerido maior necessidade de aprimoramento das atividades de auditoria interna que possam auxiliar no controle e fiscalização de processos e atividades das organizações. Dentre as práticas usuais para avaliação governamental está a Auditoria de Gestão alterando o foco anterior da conformidade para o foco na gestão e melhorias de processos das entidades. Enquanto alguns autores defendem a sua importância e validade, outros autores questionam a validade deste tipo de auditoria e sua contribuição para a melhoria dos processos gerenciais das organizações públicas. Neste trabalho, investiga-se os procedimentos adotados pela Marinha do Brasil nas atividades de Auditoria de Gestão em três de suas Unidades Jurisdicionadas e quais os resultados dos processos de auditorias. Buscou-se verificar se as recomendações constantes nas Auditorias de Gestão contribuem para a solução de melhores práticas de gestão das Unidades Jurisdicionadas da Marinha do Brasil. Para a consecução dos objetivos propostos foram analisadas as recomendações elencadas nos Relatórios de Auditoria de Gestão das unidades auditadas no exercício de 2013 e comparados com os relatórios dos exercícios de 2009, 2010, 2011 e 2012. Após a compilação dos dados foi efetuada uma avaliação de resultados baseada em um referencial de análise desenvolvido para a pesquisa. Nas Unidades Jurisdicionadas estudadas observou-se que dos critérios de avaliação utilizados nos processos de auditoria houve melhoria em 55% destes na UJ-1, 88% na UJ-2 e 64% na UJ-3. Os resultados mostraram que a Marinha do Brasil vem aperfeiçoando seus critérios de avaliação de gestão e que as Unidades Jurisdicionadas da Marinha do Brasil que passaram por mais de um processo de Auditoria de Gestão tiveram melhorias em seu desempenho comprovado na auditoria de 2013.

Basileia III e os dilemas da supervisão do sistema bancário internacional

A regulação e supervisão do sistema financeiro sempre foram motivos de apreensão por parte das principais autoridades econômicas mundiais. A globalização, o processo de liberalização financeira e a consequente interconexão econômica entre países maximizaram o risco sistêmico, aumentando a necessidade de marco regulatório e fiscalização mais eficientes. Assim, com a eclosão da crise norte-americana em 2008, o G-20 começou a atuar de forma mais ativa em prol da manutenção da higidez do sistema financeiro mundial. Para os bancos, o G-20 instruiu as principais instituições reguladoras como o Fundo Monetário Internacional, o Conselho de Estabilidade Financeira e o Comitê de Basileia (BCBS) a desenvolverem recomendações a fim de se solucionar o considerado principal problema da regulação dos mercados, o fato destes atualmente serem pró-cíclicos. Diante de tal cenário, em dezembro de 2009, o Comitê publicou um documento que considerou uma série de medidas a fim de solucionar tal problema, entre estas estava a inclusão do buffer de capital contracíclicodo novo marco regulatório proposto pelo Comitê, o Basileia III. O intuito do presente estudo é estudar esse buffer e analisar sua aplicabilidade no sistema bancário brasileiro e, porventura, sugerir metodologias alternativas de cálculo.

A report of the fisheries catch assessment surveys in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria for November 2005

The fisheries of Lake Victoria have undergone many changes in the recent past which have been characterized by shifts in abundance of different fish Species and changes in fishing effort. Monitoring of the population dynamics as well as the magnitude, distribution and trends of fishing effort and fish Catches is probably more necessary now than ever before for sound management of the fisheries of the lake. This will enable the formulation of appropriate fisheries policies and legislation to ensure that the fisheries are sustainable. One of the avenues to collect information to support the above process is through conducting regular Catch Assessment Surveys (CASs). The EU funded Implementation of a Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) project for Lake Victoria through the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization (LVFO) is supporting the implementation of regionally harmonized CASs in Lake Victoria. The CASs under IFMP are following a statistically design laid down in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) agreed around the whole lake. In the Ugandan part of the lake, the CASs are carried out at 54 fish landing sites selected in the eleven districts sharing the lake. They are jointly conducted by the Fisheries Resources Research Institute (FIRRI), Jinja; the Department of Fisheries Resources (DFR), Entebbe; and the Districts of Busia, Bugiri, Mayuge, Jinja, Mukono, Wakiso, Kampala, Mpigi, Masaka, Kalangala and Rakai. The CAS enumerators are recruited from the fishing communities and work under direct supervision of sub county Fisheries Officers. It is planned to involve the recently formed Beach Management Units (BMUs) in fisheries data collection when modalities for their roles have been streamlined.

A report of the Fisheries Catch Assessment Survey in the Ugandan waters of Lake Victoria for the August 2007 survey

The monitoring of fish stocks as well as the magnitude, distribution and trends of fishing effort and fish catches is required for sound fisheries resources management. Conducting regular Catch Assessment Surveys (CASs) in Lake Victoria is one of the ways through which the partner states sharing the lake are generating information to contribute to the above process. The EU funded Implementation of a Fisheries Management Plan (IFMP) project for Lake Victoria through the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation (LVFO) is supporting the implementation of regionally harmonised CASs in Lake Victoria . The CASs under IFMP are following a statistical design laid down in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) agreed by the three partner states of the East African Community sharing the lake. In the Ugandan part of the lake, the CASs are carried out at 54 fish landing sites selected in the eleven riparian districts sharing the lake. The National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NAFIRRI), Jinja; the Department of Fisheries Resources (DFR), Entebbe; and the Districts of Busia, Bugiri, Mayuge, Jinja, Mukono, Wakiso, Kampala, Mpigi, Masaka, Kalangala and Rakai jointly conduct the surveys. The CAS enumerators are recruited from the fishing communities and work under direct supervision of subcounty Fisheries Officers. NaFIRRI seeks to continue strengthening the engagement of the Beach Management Units (BMUs) and other fisheries Co-management Institutions in fisheries data collection .

Semi-supervised video segmentation using tree structured graphical models

We present a novel, implementation friendly and occlusion aware semi-supervised video segmentation algorithm using tree structured graphical models, which delivers pixel labels alongwith their uncertainty estimates. Our motivation to employ supervision is to tackle a task-specific segmentation problem where the semantic objects are pre-defined by the user. The video model we propose for this problem is based on a tree structured approximation of a patch based undirected mixture model, which includes a novel time-series and a soft label Random Forest classifier participating in a feedback mechanism. We demonstrate the efficacy of our model in cutting out foreground objects and multi-class segmentation problems in lengthy and complex road scene sequences. Our results have wide applicability, including harvesting labelled video data for training discriminative models, shape/pose/articulation learning and large scale statistical analysis to develop priors for video segmentation. © 2011 IEEE.

A study on rural women's empowerment through participation in aquaculture

The study was undertaken to understand the rural women's (i) extent of participation in some selected aquaculture practices and (ii) extent of empowerment through participation in aquaculture program. Data were collected from 200 selected rural women of two districts - Sherpur and Kishoreganj. Each of the families where the selected rural women who were involved in aquaculture under the supervision of two partner NGOs of DSAP, namely- Foundation for Human Development (FHD) and Center for Rural and Environmental Development (CRED). Both conventional and participatory methods of data collection were employed where structured questionnaire and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) were used as the tools. The data collection procedure took five-months spanning from September 2004 to January 2005. Appropriate scales were developed and used in order to determine the focus variables of the study, while most analyses regarding women empowerment were done using 'before' and 'after' method. Empowerment of women was measured by five dimensions such as decision making ability, spending ability, social participation, cosmopoliteness, access to assets and resources. The ten selected aquaculture practices were: fish feeding, eradication of aquatic vegetation from fish pond, disease detection, application of fertilizer, liming, harvesting of fry and fish, fish stock management, pond excavation, use of insecticides, and sale of fry and fish. The study also aimed at determining some selected characteristics of rural women and determining relationship between their extent of empowerment and the selected characteristics. The characteristics of rural women included: age, personal education, average family education, family size, family farm size, area under aquaculture, extension media exposure, training exposure, knowledge in aquaculture, and family income. The findings revealed an overall low level of participation by rural women in aquaculture activities. However, significant level of improvement was identified regarding overall status of empowerment during the course of participation in aquaculture program under DSAP.

Enhancement of fish production in a reservoir after partitioning by dikes through community participation

A reservoir of 70 acres was portioned by dikes into four manageable big ponds to get more production of fishes at Basurhat, Noakhali, Bangladesh under the supervision of local community through a society of 40 people ownership. Pangus (Pangasius hypophthalmus) @ 20,000/acre, and then fry and fingerlings of different types of fishes such as catla (Catla catla), rohu (Labeo rohita), mrigal (Cirrhina mrigala), grass carp (Ctenophmyngodon idella), bighead (Aristichthys nobili), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix), common carp (Cyprinus cmpio) and rajpunti (Puntius gonionatus) @ 500/acre were stocked. Feed containing 25% protein was used two times daily and feed was adjusted fortnightly. After 8 months, all the fishes were weighed 0.80-2.10 kg except rajpunti (150-200 g) and tilapia (150-220 g), and a total of 25 ton of fish was harvested which was five times higher than the previous production under signal ownership. The production of fishes were increased after partitioning the lake with dikes due to proper management and control.

The Cambridge Manufacturing Leaders' Programme

As with all Cambridge teaching, the Cambridge Manufacturing Leaders' Programme is based on one-to-one tutorial supervision, comprising guidance throughout a major strategic development project in the programme participant's company, interspersed with reflective study time spent in Cambridge. In this paper a description of the course is set in a wider philosophical context, looking at the role of work in a personal developmental sense, and the responsibility carried by manufacturing leaders for shaping and guiding that process. It is shown that the programme is rooted in and embodies important aspects of our European heritage regarding work as a learning process and the master/apprentice relationship as a way of giving educational guidance.

Real user evaluation of spoken dialogue systems using Amazon Mechanical Turk

This paper describes a framework for evaluation of spoken dialogue systems. Typically, evaluation of dialogue systems is performed in a controlled test environment with carefully selected and instructed users. However, this approach is very demanding. An alternative is to recruit a large group of users who evaluate the dialogue systems in a remote setting under virtually no supervision. Crowdsourcing technology, for example Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), provides an efficient way of recruiting subjects. This paper describes an evaluation framework for spoken dialogue systems using AMT users and compares the obtained results with a recent trial in which the systems were tested by locally recruited users. The results suggest that the use of crowdsourcing technology is feasible and it can provide reliable results. Copyright © 2011 ISCA.

Effects of tetrabrominated diphenyl ether and hexabromocyclododecanes in single and complex exposure to hepatoma HepG2 cells

This study was designed to determine cytotoxic effects of PBDE-47 and HBCDs individually or with a mixture of both compounds exposure to Hep G2 cells. The results showed PBDE-47 and HBCDs induced increase of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity, release of NO. dissipation of mitochondria membrane potential and cell apoptosis. Exposure to HBCDs induced ROS formation. Moreover, preincubation with PTIO (NO scavanger) and N-acetylcysteine (ROS scavanger) partially reversed cytotoxic effects of these compounds. The possible mechanism is that PBDE-47 and HBCDs could boost generation of NO and/or ROS, impact mitochondria, and result in start-ups of apoptosis program. Cells exposed to mixture of both compounds and each of them showed non-apoptotic rate significant difference, but the combination of them caused more adverse effects on cells. These results Suggest that PBDE-47 and HBCDs in single and complex exposure have the cytotoxic activity of anti-proliferation and induction of apoptosis in tumor cells in vitro. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Semantic transform: Weakly supervised semantic inference for relating visual attributes

Relative (comparative) attributes are promising for thematic ranking of visual entities, which also aids in recognition tasks. However, attribute rank learning often requires a substantial amount of relational supervision, which is highly tedious, and apparently impractical for real-world applications. In this paper, we introduce the Semantic Transform, which under minimal supervision, adaptively finds a semantic feature space along with a class ordering that is related in the best possible way. Such a semantic space is found for every attribute category. To relate the classes under weak supervision, the class ordering needs to be refined according to a cost function in an iterative procedure. This problem is ideally NP-hard, and we thus propose a constrained search tree formulation for the same. Driven by the adaptive semantic feature space representation, our model achieves the best results to date for all of the tasks of relative, absolute and zero-shot classification on two popular datasets. © 2013 IEEE.

面向信息系统工程监理的软件工具IT-PM

在信息系统工程开发中引入监理机制已经成为业界的共识。监理组织以独立“第三方”身份加入项目,通过“控制、管理、协调”的手段,达到提高项目质量的目的。分析了信息系统工程监理自动化支持的研究现状,提出了面向信息系统工程监理的软件工具IT-PM。工具以信息系统工程监理的过程模型为基础,支持监理工作的流程和信息管理自动化。

基于PC的一种新型现场总线控制系统

PC性能的不断提高及实时操作系统内核的出现,促使了一种基于PC和现场总线的新型控制系统的诞生。由于该系统成本低,占用空间少,在联网、监控等方面有突出优点,并且PC机性能已经非常可靠,所以它可以取代传统的PLC来完成实时控制任务。为了验证系统的可行性,文章系统地介绍了这类新型控制系统的优点和整体软硬件结构,并对其中一个重要的性能指标——响应时间,进行了详细分析,然后通过一个实际系统——自动传输线系统,验证了这一控制系统的可行性。

虚拟现实辅助机器人遥操作技术研究

本文以水下机器人的遥操作作业为应用背景 ,提出并实现了虚拟现实技术和视觉感知信息辅助机器人遥操作实验系统 .该系统使用了 CAD模型和立体视觉信息完成遥操作机器人及其作业环境的几何建模和运动学建模 ,实现了虚拟作业环境的生成和实时动态图形显示 .采用了基于立体视觉的虚拟环境与真实环境的一致性校正、图形图像叠加、作业体与环境位姿关系建立、基于网络的监控通讯等关键技术 .在这个实验系统中 ,操作人员可利用所生成的虚拟环境 ,在多视点、多窗口作业状态图形和图像显示帮助下 ,实时动态地进行作业观测与机器人遥操作与运动规划 ,为先进遥操作机器人系统的实现提供了经验和关键技术 .