QUALIDADE DE AMEIXAS CV. REUBENNEL APÓS TRATAMENTO COM PRODUTOS ALTERNATIVOS,REFRIGERAÇÃO E CLIMATIZAÇÃO

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a aplicação de produtos alternativos e de refrigeração, com posterior aplicação de etileno, sobre a qualidade de ameixas ‘Reubennel’, a fim de prolongar o período de comercialização. Os produtos aplicados logo após a colheita foram: biomassa cítrica (Ecolife®)- 150 mL (p.c.) 100 L-1 por 30 s; vapor de etanol - 2 mL kg-1 por 2 h (20ºC/80%UR), e cloreto de cálcio (CaCl2) - 1% (p/v) por 10 min. Em seguida, os frutos foram armazenados a 0ºC/95%UR. Após 17 e 33 dias, três caixas de cada tratamento, com 40 frutos cada, foram removidas da câmara de refrigeração, sendo uma das caixas segregada para análises, enquanto as outras duas foram transferidas para 20oC/85%UR por mais 4 dias. Destas caixas, uma de cada tratamento foi submetida à climatização, através da aplicação de etileno (100 uL L-1, 72 h) em minicâmara (200 L). Procedeu-se à avaliação da qualidade dos frutos ao zero; 17; 17+4; 33 e 33+4 dias, através de análises físico-químicas, microbiológicas e sensoriais. Os resultados foram analisados estatisticamente, em delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado para os produtos alternativos e em fatorial (4x2) para a combinação com a climatização. Concluiu-se que o tratamento pós-colheita das ameixas com vapor de etanol reduz a população microbiana, bem como proporciona incremento dos sólidos solúveis. As ameixas ‘Reubennel’ podem ser armazenadas por até 33 dias sob refrigeração (0ºC/95%UR), seguindo-se a climatização com etileno e,imediatamente, comercializadas.

SIMULAÇÃO DA DERIVA DE CLOMAZONE E GLYPHOSATE EM MUDAS DE LARANJEIRA ‘HAMLIN’

Na região citrícola do Estado de São Paulo, é comum que a cultura da laranja e da cana-deaçúcar seja vizinha. Por propiciar uma redução de custos, o setor sucroalcooleiro vem procurando otimizar suas aplicações, como, por exemplo, pormeio das aplicações aéreas, prática que aumenta o risco de deriva de produtos em culturas não alvo.Objetivou-se neste trabalho avaliar os danos causados pela deriva de clomazone, na sequência da deriva de glyphosate, sobre o crescimento de plantas jovens de laranjeira ‘Hamlin’. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com os tratamentos dispostos em esquema fatorial 2x8, sendo doisherbicidas (clomazone isolado e glyphosate a 0,75% p.c. + clomazone) e oito doses crescentes do clomazone (0;1,56; 3,12; 6,25; 12,50; 18,75; 25,00 e 50,00% da dose recomendada comercialmente para o controle de plantas daninhas), com 3 repetições. As avaliações foram compostas por diâmetro do caule, comprimento dos ramos e teor relativo de clorofila total, determinados dos 10 aos 90 dias após a aplicação (DAA), e área foliar, matéria seca de folhas e caule, determinados aos 90 DAA. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que houve redução significativa nas características avaliadas, sendo que os efeitos negativos para a cultura ocorremmesmo em doses baixas (1,56%), que foram capazes de prejudicar o crescimento das plantas. Os resultadosobtidos permitem concluir que a deriva de clomazone isolado ou sem sequência do glyphosate causa prejuízos no crescimento inicial das laranjeiras, atuando de forma mais agressiva quando em sequência com a deriva de glyphosate.

Quality of Disease Management and Risk of Mortality in English Primary Care Practices

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether better management of chronic conditions by family practices reduces mortality risk. DATA: Two random samples of 5 million patients registered with over 8,000 English family practices followed up for 4 years (2004/5-2007/8). Measures of the quality of disease management for 10 conditions were constructed for each family practice for each year. The outcome measure was an indicator taking the value 1 if the patient died during a specified year, 0 otherwise. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-section and multilevel panel data multiple logistic regressions were estimated. Covariates included age, gender, morbidity, hospitalizations, attributed socio-economic characteristics, and local health care supply measures. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Although a composite measure of the quality of disease management for all 10 conditions was significantly associated with lower mortality, only the quality of stroke care was significant when all 10 quality measures were entered in the regression. CONCLUSIONS: The panel data results suggest that a 1 percent improvement in the quality of stroke care could reduce the annual number of deaths in England by 782 [95 percent CI: 423, 1140]. A longer study period may be necessary to detect any mortality impact of better management of other conditions.

Biotic interactions boost spatial models of species richness

Biotic interactions are known to affect the composition of species assemblages via several mechanisms, such as competition and facilitation. However, most spatial models of species richness do not explicitly consider inter-specific interactions. Here, we test whether incorporating biotic interactions into high-resolution models alters predictions of species richness as hypothesised. We included key biotic variables (cover of three dominant arctic-alpine plant species) into two methodologically divergent species richness modelling frameworks - stacked species distribution models (SSDM) and macroecological models (MEM) - for three ecologically and evolutionary distinct taxonomic groups (vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens). Predictions from models including biotic interactions were compared to the predictions of models based on climatic and abiotic data only. Including plant-plant interactions consistently and significantly lowered bias in species richness predictions and increased predictive power for independent evaluation data when compared to the conventional climatic and abiotic data based models. Improvements in predictions were constant irrespective of the modelling framework or taxonomic group used. The global biodiversity crisis necessitates accurate predictions of how changes in biotic and abiotic conditions will potentially affect species richness patterns. Here, we demonstrate that models of the spatial distribution of species richness can be improved by incorporating biotic interactions, and thus that these key predictor factors must be accounted for in biodiversity forecasts

The role of adjuvant chemotherapy for lymph node-positive upper tract urothelial carcinoma following radical nephroureterectomy: a retrospective study.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) on mortality after radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) with positive lymph nodes (LNs) and to identify patient subgroups that are most likely to benefit from AC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analysed data of 263 patients with LN-positive UTUC, who underwent full surgical resection. In all, 107 patients (41%) received three to six cycles of AC, while 156 (59.3%) were treated with RNU alone. UTUC-related mortality was evaluated using competing-risks regression models. RESULTS: In all patients (Tall N+), administration of AC had no significant impact on UTUC-related mortality on univariable (P = 0.49) and multivariable (P = 0.11) analysis. Further stratified analyses showed that only N+ patients with pT3-4 disease benefited from AC. In this subgroup, AC reduced UTUC-related mortality by 34% (P = 0.019). The absolute difference in mortality was 10% after the first year and increased to 23% after 5 years. On multivariable analysis, administration of AC was associated with significantly reduced UTUC-related mortality (subhazard ratio 0.67, P = 0.022). Limitations of this study are the retrospective non-randomised design, selection bias, absence of a central pathological review and different AC protocols. CONCLUSIONS: AC seems to reduce mortality in patients with pT3-4 LN-positive UTUC after RNU. This subgroup of LN-positive patients could serve as target population for an AC prospective randomised trial.

Prioritizing: The strategy of the powerful ?

Previous research has shown that power increases focus on the main goal when distractor information is present. As a result, high-power people have been described as goal-focused. In real life, one typically wants to pursue multiple goals at the same time. There is a lack of research on how power affects how people deal with situations in which multiple important goals are present. To address this question, 158 participants were primed with high or low power or assigned to a control condition, and were asked to perform a dual-goal task with three difficulty levels. We hypothesized and found that high-power primed people prioritize when confronted with a multiple-goal situation. More specifically, when task demands were relatively low, power had no effect; participants generally pursued multiple goals in parallel. However, when task demands were high, the participants in the high-power condition focused on a single goal whereas participants in the low-power condition continued using a dualtask strategy. This study extends existing power theories and research in the domain of goal pursuit.

Influence of M. tuberculosis lineage variability within a clinical trial for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Recent studies suggest that M. tuberculosis lineage and host genetics interact to impact how active tuberculosis presents clinically. We determined the phylogenetic lineages of M. tuberculosis isolates from participants enrolled in the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium Study 28, conducted in Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Uganda and the United States, and secondarily explored the relationship between lineage, clinical presentation and response to treatment. Large sequence polymorphisms and single nucleotide polymorphisms were analyzed to determine lineage and sublineage of isolates. Of 306 isolates genotyped, 246 (80.4%) belonged to the Euro-American lineage, with sublineage 724 predominating at African sites (99/192, 51.5%), and the Euro-American strains other than 724 predominating at non-African sites (89/114, 78.1%). Uneven distribution of lineages across regions limited our ability to discern significant associations, nonetheless, in univariate analyses, Euro-American sublineage 724 was associated with more severe disease at baseline, and along with the East Asian lineage was associated with lower bacteriologic conversion after 8 weeks of treatment. Disease presentation and response to drug treatment varied by lineage, but these associations were no longer statistically significant after adjustment for other variables associated with week-8 culture status.

Identification of Low-Risk Patients with Acute Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism for Outpatient Therapy.

RATIONALE: Patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (PE) deemed to be at low risk for early complications might be candidates for partial or complete outpatient treatment. OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a clinical prediction rule that accurately identifies patients with PE and low risk of short-term complications and to compare its prognostic ability with two previously validated models (i.e., the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index [PESI] and the Simplified PESI [sPESI]) METHODS: Multivariable logistic regression of a large international cohort of patients with PE prospectively enrolled in the RIETE (Registro Informatizado de la Enfermedad TromboEmbólica) registry. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: All-cause mortality, recurrent PE, and major bleeding up to 10 days after PE diagnosis were determined. Of 18,707 eligible patients with acute symptomatic PE, 46 (0.25%) developed recurrent PE, 203 (1.09%) bled, and 471 (2.51%) died. Predictors included in the final model were chronic heart failure, recent immobilization, recent major bleeding, cancer, hypotension, tachycardia, hypoxemia, renal insufficiency, and abnormal platelet count. The area under receiver-operating characteristic curve was 0.77 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.75-0.78) for the RIETE score, 0.72 (95% CI, 0.70-0.73) for PESI (P&#8201;< 0.05), and 0.71 (95% CI, 0.69-0.73) for sPESI (P&#8201;< 0.05). Our RIETE score outperformed the prognostic value of PESI in terms of net reclassification improvement (P&#8201;< 0.001), integrated discrimination improvement (P&#8201;< 0.001), and sPESI (net reclassification improvement, P&#8201;< 0.001; integrated discrimination improvement, P&#8201;< 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: We built a new score, based on widely available variables, that can be used to identify patients with PE at low risk of short-term complications, assisting in triage and potentially shortening duration of hospital stay.

Equating accelerometer estimates among youth: The Rosetta Stone 2.

OBJECTIVES: Different accelerometer cutpoints used by different researchers often yields vastly different estimates of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA). This is recognized as cutpoint non-equivalence (CNE), which reduces the ability to accurately compare youth MVPA across studies. The objective of this research is to develop a cutpoint conversion system that standardizes minutes of MVPA for six different sets of published cutpoints. DESIGN: Secondary data analysis. METHODS: Data from the International Children's Accelerometer Database (ICAD; Spring 2014) consisting of 43,112 Actigraph accelerometer data files from 21 worldwide studies (children 3-18 years, 61.5% female) were used to develop prediction equations for six sets of published cutpoints. Linear and non-linear modeling, using a leave one out cross-validation technique, was employed to develop equations to convert MVPA from one set of cutpoints into another. Bland Altman plots illustrate the agreement between actual MVPA and predicted MVPA values. RESULTS: Across the total sample, mean MVPA ranged from 29.7MVPAmind(-1) (Puyau) to 126.1MVPAmind(-1) (Freedson 3 METs). Across conversion equations, median absolute percent error was 12.6% (range: 1.3 to 30.1) and the proportion of variance explained ranged from 66.7% to 99.8%. Mean difference for the best performing prediction equation (VC from EV) was -0.110mind(-1) (limits of agreement (LOA), -2.623 to 2.402). The mean difference for the worst performing prediction equation (FR3 from PY) was 34.76mind(-1) (LOA, -60.392 to 129.910). CONCLUSIONS: For six different sets of published cutpoints, the use of this equating system can assist individuals attempting to synthesize the growing body of literature on Actigraph, accelerometry-derived MVPA.

Twelve Etudes, Op. 10

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Preludes : Book II

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Twelve Etudes, Op. 25

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