Incidência de hepatite por sôro homólogo no Hospital das Clínicas da F.M.U.F.Pe.

Os autores estudaram mensalmente e por um período de seis meses 62 pacientes através de exames clínico-laboratoriais e que receberam transfusão de sangue no Hospital das Clínicas da F.M.U.F.Pe. Constataram em 3 deles sinais clínicos-laboratoriais e histopatológicos de hepatite por vírus (hepatite por sóro homólogo). Após revisão da literatuta recomendam que os estudos prossigam a fim de que os riscos de transmissão da hepatite pós-transfusional sejam eliminados.

Incindência de Himenolepíase nana e Taenia sp. no Instituto de Medicina Tropical da U. F. Pernambuco no período de 1968 a 1970

Os Autores realizando um levantamento coproparasitológico no Instituto de Medicina Tropical da U.F.Pe., com relação a incidência de Hymenolepis nana e Taenia sp no período de 1968 a 1970, encontram índice de infestação muito baixo, em tôrno de 0,05% a 2,7% para Taenia sp e 0,36% para Hymenolepis nana.

Treasury bond returns and U.S. political cycles

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

THE U.S. and European M&A cycles: A Markov switching and state space approach

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Hope, change, and the financial markets: Can Obama's public speeches drive the U.S. Stock Market

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Use of a condom in sex relations by HIV carriers

The frequency with which condoms are used in sex relations by subjects with HIV was determined by interviewing 132 individuals, 82 men and 50 women, most of them from São Paulo state and some from other regions of the country, all of them seen at an outpatient clinic of the School of Medicine in Botucatu. The women were younger, were of lower educational level and had poorer professional qualification than men. Also, a greater proportion of women were widowed, separated or divorced. We observed that 43.9% of men and 72% of women had been contaminated by the sexual route, but only 41.2% of the men and 31.8% of the women reported the use of a condom after the diagnosis of infection, with most men and women preferring sexual abstinence. The results enable the conclusion that there is still a need to continue to provide information about the use of condoms and to guarantee their free-of-charge distribution due to the low levels of education and professional qualification of the individuals studied. The data also suggest that campaigns for the dissemination of preventive measures should consider the social and cultural differences of infected women.

Vila Galé Hóteis internationalization strategy to Florida, U.S.A.

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Internationalization strategy of Quinta dos Termos to the U.S.A.

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

A U.C.C.L.A. como Veículo da Lusofonia no Contexto da Globalização

O trabalho de estágio curricular desenvolvido na UCCLA, adiante apresentado, teve como desafio encontrar respostas para os fenómenos de fraccionamentos multidimensionais sentidos e diagnosticados nas cidades capitais luso-afro-américo-asiáticas de língua oficial portuguesa, resultantes do processo de globalização e seus modelos de desenvolvimento político, cultural, sócio-demográfico, económico e ambiental. A luta pela liberdade, comum a todos os povos das nações que incorporam o espaço lusófono, facilitou os entendimentos futuros, sem os quais não teria sido possível construir as alianças que deram origem ao bloco sócio-político da CPLP, hoje merecedor da atenção e respeito da comunidade internacional. A afirmação e a importância crescentes da CPLP no diálogo das nações à escala global têm sido a plataforma estratégica na afirmação do espaço lusófono no mundo. Refira-se a integração rápida dos retornados na sociedade portuguesa, como um dos factores que mais contribuíram para a consolidação de uma sociedade multicultural alicerçada numa vivência conjunta de realidades diferenciadas. Em face desta realidade, é pacífico aceitar que a UCCLA foi a grande precursora do nascimento da CPLP. As transformações económicas, políticas, sociais, culturais e económicas verificadas após o 25 de Abril, provocaram rupturas sociais, as quais constituem o nosso foco de investigação neste relatório. Uma reflexão sobre o desenvolvimento sustentável dos sistemas políticosócio- económicos encontra-se, hoje, na ordem do dia de todos os decisores políticos, económicos e sociais, como forma de alcançar a coesão social. Apontar soluções inovadoras para a resolução ou minimização dos referidos fraccionamentos é, também, objectivo final da nossa investigação. A globalização, o espaço lusófono e os fracionamentos ético-culturais existentes nas cidades capitais luso-afro-américo-asiáticas de língua oficial portuguesa, representam a nossa temática, sobre a qual se debruça o nosso projecto de investigação, visando essencialmente encontrar um modelo de intervenção pragmático que possa ser implementado nessas cidades capitais, por forma a diminuir as desigualdades promovendo uma maior integração social e económica.

Personal advisors for business professionals: improving communication skills with online corpora

The business sphere is a multilingual world where foreign language communication skills are crucial in international relations. It makes employers look for business professionals who have a high level of linguistic competences. Language proficiency increases the chances of negotiation among partners. There are mainly two obstacles that make barriers in formal communication in a foreign language: lack of knowledge of specific linguistic structures or terminology and frequent transitions from one language to another. This paper contributes to the quest for quick access to a wide range of English, Spanish and Russian online databases that provide authentic language samples. Their application may improve communication skills and facilitate preparation for business discourse.

Toyota RAV4 model year marketing plan for the U.K

NSBE - UNL

Semantic relations extraction from unstructured information for domain ontologies enrichment

Based in internet growth, through semantic web, together with communication speed improvement and fast development of storage device sizes, data and information volume rises considerably every day. Because of this, in the last few years there has been a growing interest in structures for formal representation with suitable characteristics, such as the possibility to organize data and information, as well as the reuse of its contents aimed for the generation of new knowledge. Controlled Vocabulary, specifically Ontologies, present themselves in the lead as one of such structures of representation with high potential. Not only allow for data representation, as well as the reuse of such data for knowledge extraction, coupled with its subsequent storage through not so complex formalisms. However, for the purpose of assuring that ontology knowledge is always up to date, they need maintenance. Ontology Learning is an area which studies the details of update and maintenance of ontologies. It is worth noting that relevant literature already presents first results on automatic maintenance of ontologies, but still in a very early stage. Human-based processes are still the current way to update and maintain an ontology, which turns this into a cumbersome task. The generation of new knowledge aimed for ontology growth can be done based in Data Mining techniques, which is an area that studies techniques for data processing, pattern discovery and knowledge extraction in IT systems. This work aims at proposing a novel semi-automatic method for knowledge extraction from unstructured data sources, using Data Mining techniques, namely through pattern discovery, focused in improving the precision of concept and its semantic relations present in an ontology. In order to verify the applicability of the proposed method, a proof of concept was developed, presenting its results, which were applied in building and construction sector.

Microstructural changes befor macroeconomic announcements: Predictability of economic surprises in the U.S. market

Flow of new information is what produces price changes, understanding if the market is unbalanced is fundamental to know how much inventory market makers should keep during an important economic release. After identifying which economic indicators impact the S&P and 10 year Treasuries. The Volume Synchronized Probability of Information-Based Trading (VPIN) will be used as a predictability measure. The results point to some predictability power over economic surprises of the VPIN metric, mainly when calculated using the S&P. This finding appears to be supported when analysing depth imbalance before economic releases. Inferior results were achieved when using treasuries. The final aim of this study is to fill the gap between microstructural changes and macroeconomic events.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn due to anti-U

Anti-U is a rare red blood cell alloantibody that has been found exclusively in blacks. It can cause hemolytic disease of the newborn and hemolytic transfusion reactions. We describe the case of a female newborn presenting a strongly positive direct antiglobulin test due to an IgG antibody in cord blood. Anti-U was recovered from cord blood using acid eluate technique. Her mother presented positive screening of antibodies with anti-U identified at delivery. It was of IgG1 and IgG3 subclasses and showed a titer of 32. Monocyte monolayer assay showed moderate interaction of Fc receptors with maternal serum with a positive result (3.1%). The newborn was treated only with 48 hours of phototherapy for mild hemolytic disease. She recovered well and was discharged on the 4th day of life. We conclude that whenever an antibody against a high frequency erythrocyte antigen is identified in brown and black pregnant women, anti-U must be investigated.