Iowa's Adult Basic Education Program Annual Benchmark Report, 2002

One of the major intents of AEFLA was to establish performance measures and benchmarks to demonstrate increased accountability in line with the major goals and objectives of WIA. Section 212(2)(A) of the Act specifies that each eligible agency (e.g. The Iowa Department of Education) is subject to certain core indicators of performance and has the authority to specify additional indicators.

Plano Nacional De Desenvolvimento Sanitário 2008-2011

O PNDS 2008-2011 integra-se no esforço de reforma da saúde em Cabo Verde e apresenta-se como um documento estratégico-operacional para materializar as orientações estratégicas fixadas na Política Nacional de Saúde, aprovada em 2006. Ele é composto por duas partes complementares, os volumes I e II. O primeiro volume é mais conceptual, estratégico para enquadrar o PNDS no contexto do país, nas necessidades de saúde da população, nos problemas do SNS e na interligação com os factores determinantes do estado saúde, por um lado e, por outro para realçar as orientações políticas e estratégicas – a visão, os objectivos e as estratégias globais – que guiarão a sua implementação nesse período de 4 anos

Iowa Adult Literacy Local Program Monitoring Guidelines Revised, July 2007

The purpose of this document is to provide guidelines for the annual monitoring and evaluation of Iowa’s adult literacy funded local programs. Section 224(b)(3) of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) states that the State Education Agency (SEA) will provide “a description of how the eligible agency [Iowa Department of Education] will evaluate annually the effectiveness of the adult education and literacy activities based on the performance measures described in section 212.” In compliance with that mandate, the following describes the Iowa Department of Education’s procedures for local adult literacy program evaluation strategies.

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Synthetic RGD-containing alpha-helical coiled coil peptides promote integrin-dependent cell adhesion.

Integrin receptors are the main mediators of cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix. They bind to their ligands by interacting with short amino acid sequences, such as the RGD sequence. Soluble, small RGD-based peptides have been used to block integrin-binding to ligands, thereby interfering with cell adhesion, migration and survival, while substrate-immobilized RGD sequences have been used to enhance cell binding to artificial surfaces. This approach has several important medical applications, e.g. in suppression of tumor angiogenesis or stimulation of bone formation around implants. However, the relatively weak affinity of short RGD-containing peptides often results in incomplete integrin inhibition or ineffective ligation. In this work, we designed and synthesized several new multivalent RGD-containing molecules and tested their ability to inhibit or to promote integrin-dependent cell adhesion when used in solution or immobilized on substrates, respectively. These molecules consist of an oligomeric structure formed by alpha-helical coiled coil peptides fused at their amino-terminal ends with an RGD-containing fragment. When immobilized on a substrate, these peptides specifically promoted integrin alphaVbeta3-dependent cell adhesion, but when used in solution, they blocked alphaVbeta3-dependent cell adhesion to the natural substrates fibronectin and vitronectin. One of the peptides was nearly 10-fold more efficient than fibronectin or vitronectin in promoting cell adhesion, and almost 100-fold more efficient than a linear RGD tripeptide in blocking adhesion. These results indicate that alpha-helical coiled coil peptides carrying an amino-terminal RGD motif can be used as soluble antagonists or surface-immobilized agonists to efficiently inhibit or promote integrin alphaVbeta3-mediated cell adhesion, respectively.

Use of flow cytometric methods for single-cell analysis in environmental microbiology

Flow cytometry (FCM) is emerging as an important tool in environmental microbiology. Although flow cytometry applications have to date largely been restricted to certain specialized fields of microbiology, such as the bacterial cell cycle and marine phytoplankton communities, technical advances in instrumentation and methodology are leading to its increased popularity and extending its range of applications. Here we will focus on a number of recent flow cytometry developments important for addressing questions in environmental microbiology. These include (i) the study of microbial physiology under environmentally relevant conditions, (ii) new methods to identify active microbial populations and to isolate previously uncultured microorganisms, and (iii) the development of high-throughput autofluorescence bioreporter assays

Prevalença de factors de risc cardiovascular i qualitat de vida en pacients amb trastorn mental sever

L’objectiu és descriure els factors de RCV i variables relacionades amb la qualitat de vida de pacients amb TMS. Estudi transversal on s’analitzen variables clíniques, antropomètriques, anàlitiques i d’estils de vida en 212 pacients. Distribució dels factors de RCV: 61,6% tabaquisme, 84,4% perímetre de cintura alterat, 67,5% obesitat, 15% hipercolesterolèmia, 41,1% hipertrigliceridèmia i 27,8% HTA. La qualitat de vida percebuda és pitjor en la majoria de dimensions respecte a població general. Calen estudis per a determinar intervencions efectives per a millorar el control metabòlic i la qualitat de vida en aquests pacients.