La promoció dels Jocs de Sidney i el turisme

Ponència presentada al seminari de la Càtedra Internacional d'Olimpisme l'any 2000 que se centra, entre altres temes, en el llegat dels Jocs en termes de turisme, els beneficis i reptes dels Jocs i les necessitats estratègiques.

Els criteris de legitimació en l'esport: el paper fonamental de la implementació

Ponència presentada al seminari de la Càtedra Internacional d'Olimpisme l'any 2000. El tema principal fa referència a com la demanda d'inversió pública ha d'estar legitimada en termes de beneficis públics que es poden reivindicar. L’autor tracta de revisar individualment i de prop els valors d’aquesta legitimació.

The Olympic Games as a tool for urban renewal: the experience of Barcelona’92 Olympic Village

Paper discussing on the impact of the Games on the urban development of host cities, analysing in particular the Barcelona'92 Olympic Village. This article was published in the book entitled "Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences" compiling the papers given at the 1997 International Symposium on International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).

Keys to interpret the Games: Sydney 2000 Olympics

Document published by the CEO-UAB, corresponding to the results of the research undertaken by the author during the celebration of the Sydney 2000 Games.

Two new serovars of Salmonella: S. Natal and S. potengi, isolated from fluvial water in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil

Two new serovars of Salmonella from estuary waters of potengi river in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, were isolated. They were named S. natal (9,12: z4, z24:-) and S. potengi (18;z: -). Both types belong to the subgenus I, or subspecies 1, thought they showed atypical behaviour (KCN +).

Claves para interpretar los Juegos: Sydney 2000

Documento publicado como parte de la colección Working Papers incluyendo los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo por el autor durante la celebración de los Juegos Olímpicos de Sydney 2000.

Estudos sobre a fauna de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - II. variação sazonal

Visando contribuir para o conhecimento da biologia de algumas espécies de Sarcophagidae da região de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, realizamos capturas sistemáticas pelo periodo de um ano (maio de 1980 a abril de 1981). Para isto utilizamos armadilhas e iscas atrativas adequadas para a captura destes dipteros. Foi capturado um total de 10.097 espécimes, dos quais 9.582, representados por 25 espécies, foram estudados e analisados sob diferentes aspectos. neste trabalho apresentamos a distribuição sazonal da família Sacophagidae, bem como a distribuição anual observada para cada uma das 25 espécies.

Estudos sobre a fauna de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. III - atratividade das iscas

Completando nosso estudo sobre a biologia da família Sarcophagidae na região de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, estudamos a atratividade das diversas iscas utilizadas para capturas sistemáticas, realizadas por um ano (maio de 1980 a abril de 1981). A análise dos resultados obtidos foi feita tanto em relação à família de um modo geral, quanto às 25 espécies mais numerosas, que perfizeram um total de 9.582 exemplares dos 10.097 espécimes capturados. Para as 12 espécies em número superior a 250, fizemos uma análise estatística, a fim de verificar a possível influência das condições climáticas sobre a atratividade das iscas utilizadas.

Olympic Villages after the Games

Article analysing the use of Olympic villages once the Games are finished. This article was published in the book entitled ‘Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences’ compiling the papers given at the 1997 International Symposium on International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).

Morbidade da esquistossomose mansoni no Brasil: III Estudo evolutivo em uma área endêmica no período de dez anos

Quatro estudos sobre a morbilidade da esquistossomose mansoni foram realizados na localidade de Capitão Andrade, município de Itanhomi, no Vale do Rio Doce, em Minas Gerais, Brasil, respectivamente em 1973, 1974, 1979 e 1983, constando basicamente do exame de fezes quantitativo e do exame clínico da população residente, acrescidos do estudo da dinâmica e índices de infecção dos planorbídeos e do contacto homem-água entre os dois primeiros estudos. O presente trabalho compara a situação da infecção na localidade em 1973 a 1983 e estuda a evolução da doença em uma amostra de 324 pessoas residentes na área desde o primeiro estudo, dos quais 190 eram infectados com S. mansoni naquela época (26,3% dos infectados) e 134 não infectados (27,6% dos não infectados). A prevalência da infecção era de 60,8% entre as 1.234 pessoas examinadas em 1973 e de 26,2% entre 1.269 examinadas em 1983, havendo, portanto, uma redução de 24,6% sem nenhum tipo de intervenção dirigida. Entretanto, a grande mobilidade da população da área e o tratamento por iniciativa própria de 7% das pessoas estudadas podem justificar essa redução da prevalência. Embora tenha havido uma redução de mais de 50% do número mediano de ovos de S. mansoni eliminados pela população, não se modificou a morbilidade da doença nem a proporção entre as formas clínicas no período. A incidência da infecção entre os 134 casos negativos acompanhados, foi de 40,3% nos dez anos (média anual de 4%), com 61,9% entre os indivíduos do sexo masculino. A incidência das formas clínicas nesse grupo foi de 51,8% para o tipo I (infecção), 38,9% para o tipo II (hepatointestinal) e 9,3% para o tipo III (hepatoesplênica). A evolução clínica dos 190 casos anteriormente infectados ficou inalterada em 75,3%, evoluiu progressivamente em 12,1% (agravamento) e regressivamente em 12,6% (melhora), entre os quais 8,4% ou seja, dois terços fizeram tratamento específico por conta própria.

Jocs olímpics i educació: l'esport i l'escola de Barcelona'92

Aquest text és la transcripció de la intervenció de la Sra. M. Antònia Cardona, professora de Pedagogia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, en el Curs Universitari sobre Olimpisme que va organitzar el Centre d’Estudis Olímpics (CEO-UAB), el mes de febrer de 1991. En ell es tracta el tema de l'educació en els Jocs olímpics a l'escola.

In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, denosumab significantly improved trabecular bone score (TBS), an index of trabecular microarchitecture

Background/Purpose: The trabecular bone score (TBS), a novel graylevel texture index determined from lumbar spine DXA scans, correlates with 3D parameters of trabecular bone microarchitecture known to predict fracture. TBS may enhance the identification of patients at increased risk for vertebral fracture independently of bone mineral density (BMD) (Boutroy JBMR 2010; Hans JBMR 2011). Denosumab treatment for 36 months decreased bone turnover, increased BMD, and reduced new vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (Cummings NEJM 2009). We explored the effect of denosumab on TBS over 36 months and evaluated the association between TBS and lumbar spine BMD in women who had DXA scans obtained from eligible scanners for TBS evaluation in FREEDOM. Methods: FREEDOM was a 3-year, randomized, double-blind trial that enrolled postmenopausal women with a lumbar spine or total hip DXA T-score __2.5, but not __4.0 at both sites. Women received placebo or 60 mg denosumab every 6 months. A subset of women in FREEDOM participated in a DXA substudy where lumbar spine DXA scans were obtained at baseline and months 1, 6, 12, 24, and 36. We retrospectively applied, in a blinded-to-treatment manner, a novel software program (TBS iNsightR v1.9, Med-Imaps, Pessac, France) to the standard lumbar spine DXA scans obtained in these women to determine their TBS indices at baseline and months 12, 24, and 36. From previous studies, a TBS _1.35 is considered as normal microarchitecture, a TBS between 1.35 and _1.20 as partially deteriorated, and 1.20 reflects degraded microarchitecture. Results: There were 285 women (128 placebo, 157 denosumab) with a TBS value at baseline and _1 post-baseline visit. Their mean age was 73, their mean lumbar spine BMD T-score was _2.79, and their mean lumbar spine TBS was 1.20. In addition to the robust gains in DXA lumbar spine BMD observed with denosumab (9.8% at month 36), there were consistent, progressive, and significant increases in TBS compared with placebo and baseline (Table & Figure). BMD explained a very small fraction of the variance in TBS at baseline (r2_0.07). In addition, the variance in the TBS change was largely unrelated to BMD change, whether expressed in absolute or percentage changes, regardless of treatment, throughout the study (all r2_0.06); indicating that TBS provides distinct information, independently of BMD. Conclusion: In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, denosumab significantly improved TBS, an index of lumbar spine trabecular microarchitecture, independently of BMD.

Long-term follow-up of high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell transplantation and response-adapted whole-brain radiotherapy for newly diagnosed primary CNS lymphoma: results of the multicenter Ostdeutsche Studiengruppe Hamato-Onkologie OSHO-53 phase II study

Introduction: We previously reported the results of a phase II study for patients with newly diagnosed primary CNS lymphoma (PCNSL) treated with autologous peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation (aPBSCT) and responseadapted whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT). The purpose of this report is to update the initial results and provide long-term data regarding overall survival, prognostic factors, and the risk of treatment-related neurotoxicity.Methods: A long-term follow-up was conducted on surviving primary central nervous system lymphoma patients having been treated according to the ,,OSHO-53 study", which was initiated by the Ostdeutsche Studiengruppe Hamatologie-Onkologie. Between August 1999 and October 2004 twentythree patients with an average age of 55 and median Karnofsky performance score of 70% were enrolled and received high-dose mthotrexate (HD-MTX) on days 1 and 10. In case of at least a partial remission (PR), high-dose busulfan/ thiotepa (HD-BuTT) followed by aPBSCT was performed. Patients without response to induction or without complete remission (CR) after HD-BuTT received WBRT. All patients (n=8), who are alive in 2011, were contacted and Mini Mental State examination (MMSE) and the EORTC QLQ-C30 were performed.Results: Eight patients are still alive with a median follow-up of 116,9 months (79 - 141, range). One of them suffered from a late relapse eight and a half years after initial diagnosis of PCNSL, another one suffers from a gall bladder carcinoma. Both patients are alive, the one with the relapse of PCNSL has finished rescue therapy and is further observed, the one with gall baldder carcinoma is still under therapy. MMSE and QlQ-C30 showed impressive results in the patients, who were not irradiated. Only one of the irradiated patients is still alive with a clear neurologic deficit but acceptable quality of life.Conclusions: Long-term follow-up of our patients, who were included in the OSHO-53 study show an overall survival of 30 percent. If WBRT can be avoided no long-term neurotoxicity has been observed and the patients benefit from excellent Quality of Life. Induction chemotherapy with two cycles of HD-MTX should be intensified to improve the unsatisfactory OAS of 30 percent.

Genetic variation in IL28B is associated with chronic hepatitis C and treatment failure: a genome-wide association study.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) induces chronic infection in 50% to 80% of infected persons; approximately 50% of these do not respond to therapy. We performed a genome-wide association study to screen for host genetic determinants of HCV persistence and response to therapy. METHODS: The analysis included 1362 individuals: 1015 with chronic hepatitis C and 347 who spontaneously cleared the virus (448 were coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus [HIV]). Responses to pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin were assessed in 465 individuals. Associations between more than 500,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and outcomes were assessed by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS: Chronic hepatitis C was associated with SNPs in the IL28B locus, which encodes the antiviral cytokine interferon lambda. The rs8099917 minor allele was associated with progression to chronic HCV infection (odds ratio [OR], 2.31; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.74-3.06; P = 6.07 x 10(-9)). The association was observed in HCV mono-infected (OR, 2.49; 95% CI, 1.64-3.79; P = 1.96 x 10(-5)) and HCV/HIV coinfected individuals (OR, 2.16; 95% CI, 1.47-3.18; P = 8.24 x 10(-5)). rs8099917 was also associated with failure to respond to therapy (OR, 5.19; 95% CI, 2.90-9.30; P = 3.11 x 10(-8)), with the strongest effects in patients with HCV genotype 1 or 4. This risk allele was identified in 24% of individuals with spontaneous HCV clearance, 32% of chronically infected patients who responded to therapy, and 58% who did not respond (P = 3.2 x 10(-10)). Resequencing of IL28B identified distinct haplotypes that were associated with the clinical phenotype. CONCLUSIONS: The association of the IL28B locus with natural and treatment-associated control of HCV indicates the importance of innate immunity and interferon lambda in the pathogenesis of HCV infection.

Reproducibility of free-breathing cardiovascular magnetic resonance coronary angiography.

OBJECTIVE: Contemporary free-breathing non contrast enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) was qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated to ascertain the reproducibility of the method for coronary artery luminal dimension measurements. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty-two healthy volunteers (mean age 32 +/- 7 years, 12 males) without coronary artery disease were imaged at 2 centers (1 each in Europe and North America) using navigator-gated and corrected SSFP CMRA on a commercial whole body 1.5T System. Repeat images of right (RCA, n = 21), left anterior descending (LAD, n = 14) and left circumflex (LCX, n = 14) coronary arteries were obtained in separate sessions using identical scan protocol and imaging parameters. True visible vessel length, signal-to-noise (SNR), contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR) and the average luminal diameter over the first 4 cm of the vessel were measured. Intra-observer, inter-observer and inter-scan reproducibility of coronary artery luminal diameter were determined using Pearson's correlation, Bland-Altman analysis and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). RESULTS: CNR, SNR and the mean length of the RCA, LAD and LCX imaged for original and repeat scans were not significantly different (all p > 0.30). There was a high degree of intra-observer, inter-observer and inter-scan agreements for RCA, LAD and LCX luminal diameter respectively on Bland-Altman and ICC analysis (ICC's for RCA: 0.98. 0.98 and 0.86; LAD: 0.89, 0.89 and 0.63; LCX: 0.95, 0.94 and 0.79). CONCLUSION: In a 2-center study, we demonstrate that free-breathing 3D SSFP CMRA can visualize long continuous segments of coronary vessels with highly reproducible measurements of luminal diameter.