Perdas de solo e água e qualidade do escoamento superficial associadas à erosão entre sulcos em área cultivada sob semeadura direta e submetida às adubações mineral e orgânica

Dos métodos de preparo conservacionista do solo, o de semeadura direta é o mais eficaz na redução da perda de solo por erosão hídrica pluvial; entretanto, apresenta comportamento variável no que diz respeito à redução da perda de água. Considerando esses aspectos, realizou-se o presente trabalho com o objetivo de avaliar as perdas de solo e água, a demanda química de oxigênio, a condutividade elétrica e o pH da enxurrada, associados à erosão entre sulcos, sob chuva simulada, em área cultivada sob semeadura direta e submetida às adubações mineral e orgânica. O estudo foi desenvolvido em campo, em outubro de 2003, no município de Marechal Cândido Rondon, na região oeste do Estado do Paraná, sobre um Latossolo Vermelho eutroférrico de textura muito argilosa e declividade de 0,045 m m-1. Utilizando microparcelas (1,0 x 1,0 m) e simulador de chuva de braços rotativos e com o solo previamente umedecido, aplicaram-se as seguintes intensidades de chuva: 70,0, 60,0 e 120,0 mm h-1, cada uma delas com duração de 20 min e espaçadas uma da outra de 30 min. Os tratamentos estudados foram: (a) adubação mineral, constituída de NPK; (b) adubação orgânica, constituída de dejeto líquido de suíno _ DLS; e (c) sem adubação ou testemunha - T. As maiores perdas de solo e água no experimento foram observadas no tratamento DLS, independentemente das chuvas simuladas (exceto a perda de solo na última chuva, que foi a mais elevada), com os tratamentos NPK e T tendo apresentado resultados semelhantes. Os valores mais elevados de demanda química de oxigênio, condutividade elétrica e pH da enxurrada também foram observados no tratamento DLS, enquanto os mais baixos ocorreram no tratamento T (exceto a demanda química de oxigênio no tratamento NPK, que também foi baixa), independentemente das chuvas simuladas.

Candida colonization index and subsequent infection in critically ill surgical patients: 20 years later.

INTRODUCTION: For decades, clinicians dealing with immunocompromised and critically ill patients have perceived a link between Candida colonization and subsequent infection. However, the pathophysiological progression from colonization to infection was clearly established only through the formal description of the colonization index (CI) in critically ill patients. Unfortunately, the literature reflects intense confusion about the pathophysiology of invasive candidiasis and specific associated risk factors. METHODS: We review the contribution of the CI in the field of Candida infection and its development in the 20 years following its original description in 1994. The development of the CI enabled an improved understanding of the pathogenesis of invasive candidiasis and the use of targeted empirical antifungal therapy in subgroups of patients at increased risk for infection. RESULTS: The recognition of specific characteristics among underlying conditions, such as neutropenia, solid organ transplantation, and surgical and nonsurgical critical illness, has enabled the description of distinct epidemiological patterns in the development of invasive candidiasis. CONCLUSIONS: Despite its limited bedside practicality and before confirmation of potentially more accurate predictors, such as specific biomarkers, the CI remains an important way to characterize the dynamics of colonization, which increases early in patients who develop invasive candidiasis.

No use for waist-for-height ratio in addition to body mass index to identify children with elevated blood pressure.

Abstract Background. In children, waist-for-height ratio (WHtR) has been proposed to identify subjects at higher risk of cardiovascular diseases. The utility of WHtR to identify children with elevated blood pressure (BP) is unclear. Design. Cross-sectional population-based study of schoolchildren. Methods. Weight, height, waist circumference and BP were measured in all sixth-grade schoolchildren of the canton de Vaud (Switzerland) in 2005/06. WHtR was computed as waist [cm]/height [cm]. Elevated BP was defined according to sex-, age- and height-specific US reference data. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) statistic was computed to compare the ability of body mass index (BMI) z-score and WHtR, alone or in combination, to identify children with elevated BP. Results. 5207 children participated (76% response) [2621 boys, 2586 girls; mean (± SD) age, 12.3 ± 0.5 years; range: 10.1-14.9]. The prevalence of elevated BP was 11%. Mean WHtR was 0.44 ± 0.05 (range: 0.29- 0.77) and 11% had high WHtR (> 0.5). BMI z-score and WHtR were strongly correlated (Spearman correlation coefficient r = 0.76). Both indices were positively associated with elevated BP. AUCs for elevated BP was relatively low for BMI z-score (0.62) or for WHtR (0.62), and was not substantially improved when both indices were considered together (0.63). Conclusions. The ability of BMI z-score or WHtR to identify children aged 10-14 with elevated BP was weak. Adding WHtR did not confer additional discriminative power to BMI alone. These findings do not support the measurement of WHtR in addition to BMI to identify children with elevated BP.

Evaluation of the potential use of trabecular bone score to complement bone mineral density in the diagnosis of osteoporosis: a preliminary spine BMD-matched, case-control study.

The trabecular bone score (TBS) is a new parameter that is determined from gray-level analysis of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) images. It relies on the mean thickness and volume fraction of trabecular bone microarchitecture. This was a preliminary case-control study to evaluate the potential diagnostic value of TBS as a complement to bone mineral density (BMD), by comparing postmenopausal women with and without fractures. The sample consisted of 45 women with osteoporotic fractures (5 hip fractures, 20 vertebral fractures, and 20 other types of fracture) and 155 women without a fracture. Stratification was performed, taking into account each type of fracture (except hip), and women with and without fractures were matched for age and spine BMD. BMD and TBS were measured at the total spine. TBS measured at the total spine revealed a significant difference between the fracture and age- and spine BMD-matched nonfracture group, when considering all types of fractures and vertebral fractures. In these cases, the diagnostic value of the combination of BMD and TBS likely will be higher compared with that of BMD alone. TBS, as evaluated from standard DXA scans directly, potentially complements BMD in the detection of osteoporotic fractures. Prospective studies are necessary to fully evaluate the potential role of TBS as a complementary risk factor for fracture.

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Ex XIIII. T. Livii Decadibus. Prima, tertia, quarta, in qua praeter fragmenta III, & X libri, quae in Germania nuper reperta, hic etiam continentur, multa adulterina expunximus, multa vera recepimus, quae in aliis non habentur. Epitome singulorum librorum XIIII Decadum. Historia omnium XIIII Decadum in compendium redacta ab L. Floro. Polybii lib. V de rebus Romanis latinitate donati à Nicolao Perotto. Index copiosissimus rerum omnium memorabilium...

[Histoire romaine (latin). 1518-1533]

An index of 5-HT synthesis changes during early antidepressant treatment: α-[11C]methyl-l-tryptophan PET study

The antidepressant selective serotonin transporter inhibitors (SSRIs) are clinically active after a delay of several weeks. Indeed, the rapid increase of serotonin (5-HT) caused by SSRIs, stimulates the 5-HT1A autoreceptors, which exert a negative feedback on the 5-HT neurotransmission. Only when autoreceptors are desensitized, can SSRIs exert their therapeutic activity. The 5-HT1A receptor antagonist pindolol has been used to accelerate the clinical effects of antidepressant by preventing the negative feedback. Using the a-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan/positron emission tomography (PET), the goal of the present double-blind, randomized study was to compare the changes in a-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan trapping, an index of serotonin synthesis, in patients suffering from unipolar depression treated with the SSRI citalopram (20 mg/day) plus placebo versus patients treated with citalopram plus pindol (7.5 mg/day). PET and Hamilton depression rating scale (HDRS-17) were performed at baseline, and after 10 and 24 days of antidepressant treatment. Results show that the combination citalopram plus pindol, compared to citalopram alone shows a more rapid and greater increase of an index of 5-HT synthesis in prefrontal cortex (BA 9). This research is the first human PET study demonstrating that, after 24 days, the combination SSRIs plus pindolol produces a greater increase of the metabolism of serotonin in the prefrontal cortex, an area associated to depressive symptoms.

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Measurement of absolute cell volume, osmotic membrane water permeability, and refractive index of transmembrane water and solute flux by digital holographic microscopy.

ABSTRACT. A dual-wavelength digital holographic microscope to measure absolute volume of living cells is proposed. The optical setup allows us to reconstruct two quantitative phase contrast images at two different wavelengths from a single hologram acquisition. When adding the absorbing dye fast green FCF as a dispersive agent to the extracellular medium, cellular thickness can be univocally determined in the full field of view. In addition to the absolute cell volume, the method can be applied to derive important biophysical parameters of living cells including osmotic membrane water permeability coefficient and the integral intracellular refractive index (RI). Further, the RI of transmembrane flux can be determined giving an indication about the nature of transported solutes. The proposed method is applied to cultured human embryonic kidney cells, Chinese hamster ovary cells, human red blood cells, mouse cortical astrocytes, and neurons.

Esterco líquido de bovinos leiteiros combinado com adubação mineral sobre atributos químicos de um Latossolo Bruno

Este trabalho foi conduzido com o objetivo de avaliar a influência de doses de adubação com esterco líquido de gado leiteiro, combinada com adubação mineral, sobre atributos químicos de um Latossolo Bruno, em sistema plantio direto e rotação de culturas de inverno e verão (sorgo/aveia-preta/milho/azevém/milho/azevém), para produção de silagem, nas camadas de 0-5, 5-10, 10-30, 30-50 e 50-80 cm de profundidade. Os tratamentos foram distribuídos em três blocos casualizados, divididos em 12 parcelas por bloco, em arranjo fatorial 3 x 4, sendo três doses de adubação mineral (0, 50 e 100 % da dose recomendada para as culturas) e quatro doses de adubação orgânica (0, 30, 60 e 90 m³ ha-1 ano-1). O esterco líquido aumentou o pH de forma linear na camada de 0-5 cm e quadrática na de 30-50 cm. A adubação mineral reduziu linearmente os valores de pH nas profundidades de 0-5 e 5-10 cm, havendo efeito quadrático na profundidade de 50-80 cm. A acidez potencial diminuiu na profundidade de 5-10 cm, com comportamento quadrático na profundidade de 10 a 30 cm. Houve incremento do Ca2+ trocável na profundidade de 0-5 cm ao se adubar com esterco, mas não se verificou efeito da adubação mineral sobre este atributo. Observou-se aumento nos níveis Mg2+ trocável nos tratamentos com esterco, até a profundidade de 30 cm; já para o fertilizante mineral os aumentos foram observados em profundidade superior a 30 cm. Houve incremento linear da saturação por bases com o aumento das doses de esterco, até 10 cm de profundidade; a adubação mineral diminuiu a saturação por bases na profundidade de 5-10 cm, havendo efeito quadrático na profundidade de 50-80 cm.