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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7516577
title: Evaluation of the knowledge of intensive care doctors in Teresina concerning brain death

description: Abstract A descriptive study was carried out based on a questionnaire answered by 90 doctors working in the intensive care units of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil. The aim of the study was to evaluate intensive care knowledge on brain death and correlate it with time spent working in the medical profession, time spent working in intensive care units, type of unit in which the medical professional spent their Medical Residency course and whether the medical professional had the title of specialist in Intensive Care. The majority of participants demonstrated knowledge of the definition of brain death, and awareness was greater among those who had spent less time working in the medical profession. They demonstrated knowledge of the requirement for additional tests to diagnose brain death and described themselves as confident or very confident when explaining brain death to the relatives of patients. The doctors, in general, had difficulties in determining the legal time of death of patients with brain death who were classed as organ donors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7514426
title: Evaluation of pharmaceutical services in primary health care in the care of patients with tuberculosis

description: ABSTRACT The Pharmaceutical Assistance integrates Primary Health Care services, contributing to the control of diseases, such as tuberculosis, with great impact on health. In order for that to happen, the pharmaceutical services must have adequate structure in its basic care units, as well as teams to develop and to process qualified work, which are important attributes for the evaluation studies. This work is the result of an evaluation guided by structured quality criteria and standards, and pharmaceutical work process in order to assist patients with tuberculosis in two health units (A and B) in Salvador-Bahia, through systematic observation, semi-structured interviews directed to pharmacists and managers, and patients' samples. The result of this study showed that unit A presented deficiencies in structure, unlike unit B. In the work process, the pharmaceutical services were poorly developed in unit A, but fully developed in unit B. It was possible to observe a clear relation between the structure and the work process in the pharmacy services for the care of the patient with tuberculosis: the pharmacy with the greatest deficiency in the structure presented low consolidation in the work process, and the pharmacy with the best structure presented full consolidation in the pharmaceutical services.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517807
title: Prediction of the bedforms generated by density currents based on fluvial phase diagrams

description: ABSTRACT Density currents, whose movement takes place by the density difference between the flow and the ambient fluid around it, can interact with the substract generating bedforms similar to the fluvial environments. However, there are no specific bedform phase diagrams capable to predict this type of phenomenon. This study aims to compare the prediction of fluvial bedforms phase diagram with those generated by experimental saline currents. Bedforms were generated in two-dimensional tilting plexiglass flume submerged in a larger tank filled with water with three different mobile beds and varied values of discharge and salt concentration. It was observed three types of bedform (lower plane bed, ripples and dunes), which, with the concomitant calculation of hydrodynamic parameters (mean velocity, energy and mobility) allowed the use of the phase diagram. It was observed that the fluvial phase diagrams did not present good predictions for bedforms generated by density currents. This fact is associated to the hydrodynamics differences (velocity and concentration profiles) and the limitation of the dimensional parameters in the extrapolation of results. Therefore, it is indicated the need to draw up a proper phase diagram to density currents.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517807.v1
title: Prediction of the bedforms generated by density currents based on fluvial phase diagrams

description: ABSTRACT Density currents, whose movement takes place by the density difference between the flow and the ambient fluid around it, can interact with the substract generating bedforms similar to the fluvial environments. However, there are no specific bedform phase diagrams capable to predict this type of phenomenon. This study aims to compare the prediction of fluvial bedforms phase diagram with those generated by experimental saline currents. Bedforms were generated in two-dimensional tilting plexiglass flume submerged in a larger tank filled with water with three different mobile beds and varied values of discharge and salt concentration. It was observed three types of bedform (lower plane bed, ripples and dunes), which, with the concomitant calculation of hydrodynamic parameters (mean velocity, energy and mobility) allowed the use of the phase diagram. It was observed that the fluvial phase diagrams did not present good predictions for bedforms generated by density currents. This fact is associated to the hydrodynamics differences (velocity and concentration profiles) and the limitation of the dimensional parameters in the extrapolation of results. Therefore, it is indicated the need to draw up a proper phase diagram to density currents.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507823
title: Teaching Bioethics: evaluation of a virtual learning object

description: Abstract The use of information and communication technologies brought together the teaching of bioethics and professional practice. The objective of the study is to evaluate the Virtual Learning Object ─ Analysis of Ethical Situations, developed and used as an innovative approach to the teaching of bioethics in courses in the field of health. The methodology integrates quantitative and qualitative analysis. Participants are students who used the virtual object in the disciplines of Ethics and Bioethics of Dentistry and Speech Therapy courses. A questionnaire (open and closed questions) was applied, and the categories analyzed related to the use of the virtual object and learning of bioethics: interaction, curriculum content, and teaching and learning dynamics. Testimonials show that the educational material provided analysis of situations with potential bioethical conflicts and demonstrated the possibility of practicing interdisciplinarity, considering this experience important in the training of health professionals. The study points to bioethics as a cross-curricular field of health practices.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7516577.v1
title: Evaluation of the knowledge of intensive care doctors in Teresina concerning brain death

description: Abstract A descriptive study was carried out based on a questionnaire answered by 90 doctors working in the intensive care units of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil. The aim of the study was to evaluate intensive care knowledge on brain death and correlate it with time spent working in the medical profession, time spent working in intensive care units, type of unit in which the medical professional spent their Medical Residency course and whether the medical professional had the title of specialist in Intensive Care. The majority of participants demonstrated knowledge of the definition of brain death, and awareness was greater among those who had spent less time working in the medical profession. They demonstrated knowledge of the requirement for additional tests to diagnose brain death and described themselves as confident or very confident when explaining brain death to the relatives of patients. The doctors, in general, had difficulties in determining the legal time of death of patients with brain death who were classed as organ donors.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518194
title: Multi-Disciplinary System Design Optimization of a Launch Vehicle Upper-Stage

description: ABSTRACT: The design method presented in this paper is related to the upper-stage system and its instrumentation, expedition and facilitation so as to transfer the satellite from the destination orbit to the target orbit. We used an integrated design method with a structure based on multidisciplinary system design optimization and developed a simple systematic interference method for designing aerospace products. The subsystems' convergence in an optimized environment, matrix relationship, and integration of the subsystems' parameters and presentation of design give results while meeting all requirements and considering the limitations of the design were the main aims of the research. Instead of a merely mathematical optimization design, in the present study a new design method with a systematic multipurpose optimization approach was designed. In this context, the optimization means the parameters are optimized as a result of the design convergence coefficients. Validation of the design method was not only obtained through comparison with a specific product but also with the systematic parameters of all upper-stage systems with a similar operation through the results of statistical design graphs. The approximate similarities of the results indicate an acceptable and genuine design with a quite systematic approach which is better than an unreal and merely optimized design.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518194.v1
title: Multi-Disciplinary System Design Optimization of a Launch Vehicle Upper-Stage

description: ABSTRACT: The design method presented in this paper is related to the upper-stage system and its instrumentation, expedition and facilitation so as to transfer the satellite from the destination orbit to the target orbit. We used an integrated design method with a structure based on multidisciplinary system design optimization and developed a simple systematic interference method for designing aerospace products. The subsystems' convergence in an optimized environment, matrix relationship, and integration of the subsystems' parameters and presentation of design give results while meeting all requirements and considering the limitations of the design were the main aims of the research. Instead of a merely mathematical optimization design, in the present study a new design method with a systematic multipurpose optimization approach was designed. In this context, the optimization means the parameters are optimized as a result of the design convergence coefficients. Validation of the design method was not only obtained through comparison with a specific product but also with the systematic parameters of all upper-stage systems with a similar operation through the results of statistical design graphs. The approximate similarities of the results indicate an acceptable and genuine design with a quite systematic approach which is better than an unreal and merely optimized design.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5861841
title: Analysis of the phytoplankton community emphasizing cyanobacteria in four cascade reservoirs system of the Iguazu River, Paraná, Brazil

description: ABSTRACT Knowing the ecological changes in a reservoir is of great relevance to study environmental impacts and assess water quality. Among these studies, the knowledge about the structure of the phytoplankton community is essential, once they represent a fundamental component of aquatic ecosystems, responding immediately to physical and chemical alterations in water. The objective of this work was to analyze the phytoplankton community and the influence of abiotic factors, along the longitudinal axis in four cascade reservoirs system of the Iguazu River, Paraná, Brazil, emphasizing the importance of cyanobacteria. Foz do Areia, Salto Segredo, Salto Santiago and Salto Caxias reservoirs were the objects of this study. The phytoplankton counting was made tubular sedimentation chamber using an inverted microscope. The results showed that the four reservoirs are under eutrophication processes, presenting intense cyanobacteria blooms, dominated mainly by Microcystis aeruginosa and Sphaerocavum brasiliense. There was no evident longitudinal gradient related to phytoplankton, as expected for reservoirs in a cascade system. The dominance of cyanobacteria shows that the Iguazu River is undergoing an intense process of environmental degradation, threatening the integrity of biological communities and causing serious damage to the ecosystem as a whole.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419713
title: ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS THROUGH NETWORK GRAPHICS

description: ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss the erosive problem of the high basin of Areia Dourada stream, Marabá Paulista (SP), through a joint evaluation of the erosive forms with the physical and anthropic variables. From the methodological principles, we analyzed the information of lithology, soils, relief forms and relief energy, identifying the restriction to the use, conceived from the potential for erosion of the evaluated variables. This restriction was analyzed in conjunction with land use, making it possible to identify the compatibility and incompatibility relationship of the current use with the physical characteristics of the grounds and the erosive forms. This information was worked together from network graphics. As a result, we obtained a synthesis of the complexity between the combinations of the physical and anthropic variables, which allowed to indicate the forcing elements of the system, catalysts of the erosive processes, the mechanisms by which the processes evolve and the grounds subject to erosion, in case the current conditioners remain.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8127602.v1
title: WEEDS AS POTENTIAL HOSTS FOR FUNGAL ROOT PATHOGENS OF WATERMELON

description: ABSTRACT Many watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) diseases are caused by soilborne pathogens in Brazil and worldwide. The goal of this study was to identify and quantify the frequency of phytopathogenic fungi associated with watermelon root rot and vine decline that were also present in the roots of weeds in the major watermelon production regions in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We collected root samples from 10 of the most prevalent weed species in 16 watermelon producing areas. The plants were identified and their frequencies in the fields were calculated. The fungi found in the weed roots were isolated and the main genera associated with watermelon vine decline were identified. We identified 13 weed species belonging to nine botanical families. The weed species with the highest frequencies found in the field were Amaranthus spinosus (25.0%), Trianthema portulacastrum (18.8%), Commelina sp. (18.8%), and Boerhavia diffusa (12.5%). The fungi Macrophomina, Rhizoctonia, and Monosporascus were isolated from the roots of the weed plants. While Macrophomina was isolated from 12 different types of plants, Rhizoctonia and Monosporascus were isolated from four and two different plant species, respectively.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5861841.v1
title: Analysis of the phytoplankton community emphasizing cyanobacteria in four cascade reservoirs system of the Iguazu River, Paraná, Brazil

description: ABSTRACT Knowing the ecological changes in a reservoir is of great relevance to study environmental impacts and assess water quality. Among these studies, the knowledge about the structure of the phytoplankton community is essential, once they represent a fundamental component of aquatic ecosystems, responding immediately to physical and chemical alterations in water. The objective of this work was to analyze the phytoplankton community and the influence of abiotic factors, along the longitudinal axis in four cascade reservoirs system of the Iguazu River, Paraná, Brazil, emphasizing the importance of cyanobacteria. Foz do Areia, Salto Segredo, Salto Santiago and Salto Caxias reservoirs were the objects of this study. The phytoplankton counting was made tubular sedimentation chamber using an inverted microscope. The results showed that the four reservoirs are under eutrophication processes, presenting intense cyanobacteria blooms, dominated mainly by Microcystis aeruginosa and Sphaerocavum brasiliense. There was no evident longitudinal gradient related to phytoplankton, as expected for reservoirs in a cascade system. The dominance of cyanobacteria shows that the Iguazu River is undergoing an intense process of environmental degradation, threatening the integrity of biological communities and causing serious damage to the ecosystem as a whole.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7419713.v1
title: ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS THROUGH NETWORK GRAPHICS

description: ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss the erosive problem of the high basin of Areia Dourada stream, Marabá Paulista (SP), through a joint evaluation of the erosive forms with the physical and anthropic variables. From the methodological principles, we analyzed the information of lithology, soils, relief forms and relief energy, identifying the restriction to the use, conceived from the potential for erosion of the evaluated variables. This restriction was analyzed in conjunction with land use, making it possible to identify the compatibility and incompatibility relationship of the current use with the physical characteristics of the grounds and the erosive forms. This information was worked together from network graphics. As a result, we obtained a synthesis of the complexity between the combinations of the physical and anthropic variables, which allowed to indicate the forcing elements of the system, catalysts of the erosive processes, the mechanisms by which the processes evolve and the grounds subject to erosion, in case the current conditioners remain.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8127602
title: WEEDS AS POTENTIAL HOSTS FOR FUNGAL ROOT PATHOGENS OF WATERMELON

description: ABSTRACT Many watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) diseases are caused by soilborne pathogens in Brazil and worldwide. The goal of this study was to identify and quantify the frequency of phytopathogenic fungi associated with watermelon root rot and vine decline that were also present in the roots of weeds in the major watermelon production regions in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. We collected root samples from 10 of the most prevalent weed species in 16 watermelon producing areas. The plants were identified and their frequencies in the fields were calculated. The fungi found in the weed roots were isolated and the main genera associated with watermelon vine decline were identified. We identified 13 weed species belonging to nine botanical families. The weed species with the highest frequencies found in the field were Amaranthus spinosus (25.0%), Trianthema portulacastrum (18.8%), Commelina sp. (18.8%), and Boerhavia diffusa (12.5%). The fungi Macrophomina, Rhizoctonia, and Monosporascus were isolated from the roots of the weed plants. While Macrophomina was isolated from 12 different types of plants, Rhizoctonia and Monosporascus were isolated from four and two different plant species, respectively.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7518227.v1
title: Between School and University: dinosaurs and little notebooks towards an embodied dramaturgy

description: Abstract: This six-hand written paper insists on the non-dichotomy between body and mind, action and thought, objectivity and subjectivity, in order to reach the fertile adult-child relationships within fictionality. It supports the practice of theater teaching both at the university and at school, in the key of an embodied dramaturgy: a writing mode and usage of the dramaturgical text in which corporeality is central. Presenting more questions than answering them, it searches for a dramaturgical work that narrates, dialogues, and proposes performativity and changes in the worlds-of-life of teachers in Undergraduate Theater Teachers Education as well as in the worlds-of-life of their prospective students, Brazilian children and teenagers.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314064
title: The Influence of Seasonal Temperature Variation on Blood Pressure Behavior

description: Abstract Background: Hypertension in Brazil affects 32.5% of the population, accounting for 50% of deaths due to cardiovascular disease. The correct measurement and interpretation of blood pressure are essential for attaining an adequate disease diagnosis and management. Objective: To verify the correlation between the seasonal temperature variation during 2016 and blood pressure variation in 902 patients of a private Cardiology Service in the city of Porto Alegre/RS. Method: A total of 902 ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) results were analyzed in 2016. Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient was used to correlate blood pressure levels with the values of temperature and relative air humidity; the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests were adopted for significance values, assuming an alpha error &lt; 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval. The Analysis of Variance compared the 902 ABPM results with the continuous variables obtained for this study. Results: No statistically significant differences were found when the blood pressure values obtained from the 902 ABPM results were correlated with the minimum, mean and maximum values of temperature and relative air humidity, and also when each of the continuous variables obtained for this study were compared with these same pressure measurements. Conclusion: Despite the great variation in temperature and relative air humidity throughout the year in the region, there was no significant influence on the systemic arterial pressure in the study population. New comparative studies in the same population with different thermal variations may provide further clarification on this subject.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7367453
title: CO2 emissions and mitigation policies for urban road transportation: Sao Paulo versus Shanghai

description: Abstract This paper compares the energy consumption, CO2 emissions and public policies of two mega-cities, Sao Paulo (SP) and Shanghai (SH), in order to identify their GHG emissions mitigation policies. Both cities have experienced rapid growth of the automotive sectors resulting in sizable pollution and CO2 emission challenges. SP has successfully implemented the ethanol and encouraged the growth of the fleet of light-duty vehicles. SH has coal-based power generation and restricted the ownership of the vehicles in an attempt to reduce GHG emissions, invested in public transportation and electric mobility. Tabular analysis of secondary data was adopted in this study, revealing also that SP has considerably expanded individual transportation. Despite investments in ethanol, the city could not contain the increase in CO2 emissions from road transportation. SH invested in public transportation and inhibited individual transportation, but also failed to contain CO2 emissions. Mitigation policies and measures taken were not sufficient to prevent growth of CO2 emissions in both cities. To reduce CO2 emissions in transportation, SP and SH should focus on public policies to encourage public and clean transportation and limit the burning of fossil fuels.