Highlights from the I international symposium of thrombosis and anticoagulation in internal medicine, October 23-25, 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The importance of thrombosis and anticoagulation in clinical practice is rooted firmly in several fundamental constructs that can be applied both broadly and globally. Awareness and the appropriate use of anticoagulant therapy remain the keys to prevention and treatment. However, to assure maximal efficacy and safety, the clinician must, according to the available evidence, choose the right drug, at the right dose, for the right patient, under the right indication, and for the right duration of time. The first International Symposium of Thrombosis and Anticoagulation in Internal Medicine was a scientific program developed by clinicians for clinicians. The primary objective of the meeting was to educate, motivate and inspire internists, cardiologists and hematologists by convening national and international visionaries, thought-leaders and dedicated clinician-scientists in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This article is a focused summary of the symposium proceedings. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009.

Cell immobilization improves isomaltulose production

The Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology at the Biological Sciences Department in Sao Paulo State University, Brazil is working to improve the technologies involved with isomaltulose production. The study evaluated enzymatic reaction parameters with the goal of improving isomaltulose production which is grown with a medium of 1% cane molasses and 0.5% yeast extract thereby using calcium alginate, glutaraldehyde and polyethyleneimine. The best results were obtained using P. rubrum immobilized pellets in calcium alginate with 705 and 60% sucrose solution. The developed technology apparently allows the reuse of the cell-containing enzymes more times compared to conventional technologies, which ultimately results in decreased costs. The researchers are also involved in alcohol and biopolymer production and seeking interested industrial collaborators.

Interferěncia da comunidade infestante sobre plantas de Eucalyptus grandis de segundo corte

Currently Brazil is one of the leading paper and pulp producers in the world market, where Sao Paulo State boasts the greatest production. Because of the pulp prices falling in the world market and the low costs of a second coppice rotation, two experiments (started May and December, 2000) were conducted to evaluate the effects of weeds and of weed-free periods (0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months) on the growth of Eucalyptus grandis second coppice plants. The field trials were set up in a randomized block design with four replicates and the experimental plots consisted of three rows of fve plants. The December weed community was composed mainly of Brachiaria decumbens (Surinam grass) and Panicum maximum (Guinea grass) and the May weed community was composed mainly by B. decumbens and Digitaria insularis (Sour-grass). Weeds had a low negative influence on growth, diameter development and macronutrients content of E. grandis second coppice plants. In both experiments, slight reductions in growth were observed only between the fully weeded and weed-free periods, after 18 months.

Landscape reshaping of the asylum of san francisco de paula, located in jaboticabal, Sao Paulo State, Brazil

It is a commonly known fact that there are elderly who have no family or who do not receive any kind of help from their relatives, as the family does not normally have good financial conditions to help them. These elderly live in private or public shelters and generally, they do not have enough money to cover all the necessary costs, and are forced to survive from donations. Those shelters are based, primarily, on nutrition and health. Leisure and wellbeing are usually treated with little attention, but it could be obtained in a simple and effective way: green areas, which normally exist at the site, are often misused, so they can become rest areas through simple landscape projects. It is important to mention that a garden is not just a beautiful place, but it becomes important for the daily life of older people. The objective of this work was to study the need for contemplative leisure and labor in order to improve the life quality of the elderly that live at the San Francisco de Paula Asylum, in Jaboticabal City, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. In this study, a topographic and a photographic survey was conducted and an analysis of the local ground was done. The preferences of the employees and the visitors of the building were also recorded, as well as the critical points of the area. After this primary analysis, the landscape planning was done, with the help of the AutoCAD 2004 software, prioritizing the use of plants that are not dangerous and that are easy maintained. An orchid nursery was also created in order to provide weekly workshops of orchid cultivation.

Consciência dos cidadãos e poluição atmosférica na região metropolitana de São Paulo, RMSP

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El cluster del ecoturismo en San Pedro

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Experiencias nacionales llevadas a cabo por el UNFPA: el caso de Honduras y el uso de información sociodemográfica en San Pedro Sula y otros municipios

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Estimación de la población de Sao Paulo para 1960

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Migraciones y salud en el complejo siderúrgico-petroquímico de Cubatao, Sao Paulo

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La industria del café en Sao Paulo = The coffee industry in Sao Paulo

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In memory of Pedro Vuskovic

For those of us who shared many years of friendship and professional collaboration with Pedro Vuskovic, the news of his recent death in Mexico has been the cause of great sorrow, not only because of the circumstances of his death, following a cruel disease that gradually sapped his physical -but not intellectual- strength, but also because it signifies the loss of a great Latin American, of a teacher who helped shape so many generations of young people in our region, and of a companion during so many days of intellectual strivings and political struggle. Pedro joined the Commission in 1950, shortly after its birth as an institution. For nearly 20 years he served it brilliantly in a professional capacity, with his career in ECLAC culminating in the position of Director of the Development Division. He played a crucial role in structuring and disseminating the thinking of ECLAC during a time when the very air teemed with the ideas and concerns of a pleiad of gifted economists and social scientists. These were the post-war years, the 1950s and 1960s, when we all had to "construct" Latin America. Pedro Vuskovic laid many of the bricks in that collective theoretical and political edifice which has been of such importance to the countries of the region. Concurrently, he served as a professor in ECLAC and ILPES training programmes while at the same time teaching classes at the schools of economics and sociology at the University of Chile and the School of Economics at the University of Concepción. When he left ECLAC, Pedro plunged wholeheartedly into the academic world, serving as the Director of the Institute of Economics of the University of Chile, and then went on to claim a position at the forefront of Chilean politics. In November 1970 he was named Minister of Economic Affairs by President Salvador Allende and in June 1972, took over the cabinet-level position of Executive Vice President of the Production Development Corporation (CORFO);, where he served until September 1973. When political events carried him into exile in Mexico, which generously welcomed him as it did so many other Latin Americans who faced similar problems, Pedro carried on his valuable academic work, first at the Economic Research and Teaching Centre (CIDE);, where he directed the Institute of Economic Studies of Latin America, and later at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities at the National University of Mexico (UNAM);, where he was named to the position of Coordinator for a programme on poverty and development options in various countries of Latin America. Although he will be remembered for his important political role, Pedro's work as a scholar and as an economist deserve special mention. He was a brilliant speaker, at the same time both methodical and incisive, who mastered his subjects with great wisdom and intellectual breadth, and he derived a special joy from being with young people, from providing them with intellectual stimulation and receiving it from them in turn. The many generations of Latin American students who were fortunate enough to have him as a teacher can attest to this. Pedro Vuskovic brought to his work as a researcher and teacher a deep sense of political and social responsibility which moved him to espouse the cause of Latin America 's poor and dispossessed, whose position he had come to understand very early on in his life through the many studies he carried out in this area while at ECLAC. He was tenacious in upholding his ideas and principles, he lived in accordance with them, and he championed them in all the forums open to him, in both the political and academic worlds, to the end of his days. His friends and colleagues also remember his geniality, his sense of humour and great personal warmth -traits which were coupled with an unshakable loyalty to his principles and values. Our farewell is deeply felt; Pedro Vuskovic has left us a legacy of memories and lessons that we will always hold close to our hearts. On behalf of his friends and colleagues, Jacobo Schatan, former Director of the Joint ECLAC/FAO, Agriculture Division

En memoria de Pedro Vuskovic

Para quienes compartimos con Pedro Vuskovic una experiencia de amistad y colaboración profesional a lo largo de muchos años, la noticia de su fallecimiento en México nos ha provocado un sentimiento de profundo pesar. No sólo por las circunstancias mismas de su muerte, al cabo de una cruel enfermedad que fue minando gradualmente su capacidad física -aunque no la intelectual- sino por la pérdida de un latinoamericano de gran valía, de un maestro formador de numerosas generaciones de jóvenes de nuestro continente, y del compañero de tantas jornadas de lucha intelectual y política. Pedro ingresó a la CEPAL en 1950, prácticamente desde los inicios de la institución. Por espacio de casi 20 años realizó en su seno una brillante labor profesional, habiendo culminado su carrera en ella como Director de la División de Desarrollo. Sus aportes fueron decisivos para la estructuración y difusión del pensamiento cepalino, en una época en la que bullían las inquietudes de una pléyade de talentosos economistas y otros cientistas sociales. Eran los años de la posguerra, los cincuenta y los sesenta, cuando era menester "construir" a América Latina. Y Pedro Vuskovic colocó muchos ladrillos en esa colectiva construcción teórico-política que ha tenido tanta trascendencia para los países de la región. Coetáneamente, fue profesor en los programas de capacitación de la CEPAL y del ILPES, a la vez que impartía clases en la Escuela de Economía y en la de Sociología de la Universidad de Chile, así como en la Escuela de Economía de la Universidad de Concepción. Al retirarse de la CEPAL se incorporó de lleno a la actividad académica, desempeñándose como Director del Instituto de Economía de la Universidad de Chile, para luego pasar a ocupar un lugar de primer plano en la política chilena. En noviembre de 1970 fue designado Ministro de Economía por el Presidente Salvador Allende y en junio de 1972 pasó a ocupar el cargo de Vicepresidente Ejecutivo de la Corporación de Fomento de la Producción, con rango de Ministro, el que desempeñó hasta septiembre de 1973. Cuando las circunstancias políticas lo llevaron al exilio en México, país que lo acogió generosamente, como a tantos otros latinoamericanos que enfrentaban problemas similares, Pedro siguió desarrollando una importante labor académica, primero en el Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, donde dirigió el Instituto de Estudios Económicos de América Latina, y posteriormente en el Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, donde fue designado Coordinador de un programa de estudios sobre pobreza y alternativas de desarrollo en diversos países de Latinoamérica. Aun cuando será recordado por su importante actuación política, su labor como académico y economista debe ser especialmente destacada. Junto con ser un expositor brillante, metódico e incisivo, que dominaba sus temas con gran sapiencia y amplitud, Pedro sentía un especial regocijo de estar con la juventud, estimularla intelectualmente y ser estimulado por ella. Las muchas generaciones de estudiantes latinoamericanos que tuvieron la fortuna de ser sus alumnos pueden dar testimonio de ello. A su vocación de investigador y maestro, Pedro Vuskovic unía una profunda sensibilidad política y social, que lo llevó a tomar como propia la causa de los pobres y los desamparados de América Latina, cuya situación pudo conocer muy tempranamente en su vida a través de los numerosos trabajos que realizó dentro del ámbito de la CEPAL. Fue tenaz y consecuente en sus ideas y principios, y luchó por ellas en todas las arenas en que estuvo situado --académicas y políticas- hasta el final de su vida. Quienes fuimos sus amigos y colegas recordamos también su bonhomía, sentido del humor y gran calidad humana, rasgos que iban unidos a una lealtad a toda prueba a sus principios valóricos. Nuestra despedida es con emoción; Pedro Vuskovic nos deja un legado de recuerdos y enseñanzas que tendremos siempre presentes. En nombre de sus amigos y colegas, Jacobo Schatan, Ex Director de la División Agrícola Conjunta CEPAL/FAO

Phenotypic variation of leptodactylus cupreus caramaschi, são-pedro and feio, 2008 (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

This study describes for the first time the female of Leptodactylus cupreus and provides new information concerning its geographical distribution, male's morphology and bioacustics. Leptodactylus cupreus, a poorly known species from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, was originally allocated in the L. mystaceus complex of the L. fuscus species group. Based on morphological observations, we infer that L. cupreus should be in fact related to L. mystacinus, a species that, although assigned to the L. fuscus species group, is not assigned to the L. mystaceus complex. Therefore, we comment the phylogenetic relationships concerning L. cupreus, L. mystaceus and L. mystacinus. © 2013 Magnolia Press.

Discontinuidades demográficas en Brasil y el Estado de Sao Paulo

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