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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227046
title: Trends in Crop Reference Evapotranspiration and Climatological Variables Across Ceará State – Brazil

description: Abstract Irrigation has a substantial share in total world water demand. At the global level, the withdrawal ratio for agriculture is 69 percent. Irrigation is necessary to compensate evapotranspiration (ET) deficit due to insufficient precipitation. Knowing the impacts of climatic changes on meteorological variables that directly affect the ET is important for successful climate adaptation. This paper analyzes annual trends in measured meteorological variables and in the crop reference evapotranspiration (ET0), at eight climatological stations in Ceará State, Brazil. Two statistical tests for trend analysis were used - Mann-Kendall and linear regression. The results indicate positive trend, statistically significant, in the maximum air temperature in five of eight stations. Minimum air temperature showed positive trend in three stations. Wind speed, sunshine hours and relative humidity presented positive and negative trends. These irregular patterns directly impacted ET0 in three stations. It seems that the increasing trend in ET0 was probably due to a significant increase detected in maximum temperature and minimum air temperature, not fully offset by the decrease in wind speed and relative humidity. The warning from these results is that water demand for irrigation is expected to significantly increase over the next decades on in Jaguaribe River Basin.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227040
title: Multivariate Analysis Applied to Air Quality Study

description: Abstract The air quality study in a city involves different aspects, such as emissions, physical and chemical processes, meteorology and topography, making this study highly nonlinear. In particular, Brazilian cities experience a very different mosaic from world scenario, due to the use of different fuels by our vehicular fleet. In this study, it were used a data set collected by an air quality monitoring station in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at Gávea district, between July and October of 2011, in a total of 2,240 hourly average data set. These data were treated statistically, using a descriptive and multivariate approach in order to elucidate the correlation between the variables involved. Multivariate statistical used the principal component analysis and cluster Euclidean with Ward criteria. The results showed a strong correlation between the primary pollutants nitrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide (0.71), showing that they have the same vehicular origin and nitrogen monoxide and ozone (0.66) and this with solar radiation (0.41), corroborating the photochemical formation of ozone. Other correlation is with temperature and relative humidity (0.64) and that ozone has a contribution of neighboring localities, due to the dependence of this with the wind speed (0.59).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227046.v1
title: Trends in Crop Reference Evapotranspiration and Climatological Variables Across Ceará State – Brazil

description: Abstract Irrigation has a substantial share in total world water demand. At the global level, the withdrawal ratio for agriculture is 69 percent. Irrigation is necessary to compensate evapotranspiration (ET) deficit due to insufficient precipitation. Knowing the impacts of climatic changes on meteorological variables that directly affect the ET is important for successful climate adaptation. This paper analyzes annual trends in measured meteorological variables and in the crop reference evapotranspiration (ET0), at eight climatological stations in Ceará State, Brazil. Two statistical tests for trend analysis were used - Mann-Kendall and linear regression. The results indicate positive trend, statistically significant, in the maximum air temperature in five of eight stations. Minimum air temperature showed positive trend in three stations. Wind speed, sunshine hours and relative humidity presented positive and negative trends. These irregular patterns directly impacted ET0 in three stations. It seems that the increasing trend in ET0 was probably due to a significant increase detected in maximum temperature and minimum air temperature, not fully offset by the decrease in wind speed and relative humidity. The warning from these results is that water demand for irrigation is expected to significantly increase over the next decades on in Jaguaribe River Basin.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227034
title: Otimização Mono-objetivo no Controle do Mosquito Aedes aegypti por meio de um Modelo de Duas Populações com Influência da Precipitação

description: ABSTRACT Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti such as dengue, chikungunya, zika and yellow fever have affected a growing part of the world population over the years. Since there are no vaccines for all arboviruses transmitted by this vector, population vector control is the approach considered feasible to reduce the spread of arboviruses. The presente work has the goal of studying and comparing the efficacy of three mechanical control applications in the immature population (eggs, larvae and pupae) and to perform three chemical control applications on the population of females in the oviposition phase of A. aegypti. The control is applied during 7 days in different times of the year: Spring-Summer, Summer and Summer-Autumn. The entomological model that describes the dynamics of the phases of A. aegypti has precipitation-dependent parameters. The population of females in the oviposition phase of the model was confronted with sample data of Mean Female Aedes Index collected through 245 traps MosquiTRAP® scattered in the urban area of the city of Lavras. The Real-Biased Genetic Algorithm was used in order to optimize the intensity and the initial time of application of the step control in relation to control costs and costs related to mosquito infestation. During the application of the three forms of control interventions, the number of mosquitoes decreased over time and the summer-autumn intervention presented the best efficiency and the lowest cost. In addition, the number of mosquito basal offspring had a negative impact on the parameters related to mortality and an opposite impact of the other entomological parameters of the mosquito.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227040.v1
title: Multivariate Analysis Applied to Air Quality Study

description: Abstract The air quality study in a city involves different aspects, such as emissions, physical and chemical processes, meteorology and topography, making this study highly nonlinear. In particular, Brazilian cities experience a very different mosaic from world scenario, due to the use of different fuels by our vehicular fleet. In this study, it were used a data set collected by an air quality monitoring station in the city of Rio de Janeiro, at Gávea district, between July and October of 2011, in a total of 2,240 hourly average data set. These data were treated statistically, using a descriptive and multivariate approach in order to elucidate the correlation between the variables involved. Multivariate statistical used the principal component analysis and cluster Euclidean with Ward criteria. The results showed a strong correlation between the primary pollutants nitrogen monoxide and carbon monoxide (0.71), showing that they have the same vehicular origin and nitrogen monoxide and ozone (0.66) and this with solar radiation (0.41), corroborating the photochemical formation of ozone. Other correlation is with temperature and relative humidity (0.64) and that ozone has a contribution of neighboring localities, due to the dependence of this with the wind speed (0.59).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227043.v1
title: Genome-wide identification, characterisation and expression profiling of the ubiquitin-proteasome genes in Biomphalaria glabrata

description: BACKGROUND Biomphalaria glabrata is the major species used for the study of schistosomiasis-related parasite-host relationships, and understanding its gene regulation may aid in this endeavor. The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) performs post-translational regulation in order to maintain cellular protein homeostasis and is related to several mechanisms, including immune responses. OBJECTIVE The aims of this work were to identify and characterise the putative genes and proteins involved in UPS using bioinformatic tools and also their expression on different tissues of B. glabrata. METHODS The putative genes and proteins of UPS in B. glabrata were predicted using BLASTp and as queries reference proteins from model organism. We characterised these putative proteins using PFAM and CDD software describing the conserved domains and active sites. The phylogenetic analysis was performed using ClustalX2 and MEGA5.2. Expression evaluation was performed from 12 snail tissues using RPKM. FINDINGS 119 sequences involved in the UPS in B. glabrata were identified, which 86 have been related to the ubiquitination pathway and 33 to proteasome. In addition, the conserved domains found were associated with the ubiquitin family, UQ_con, HECT, U-box and proteasome. The main active sites were lysine and cysteine residues. Lysines are responsible and the starting point for the formation of polyubiquitin chains, while the cysteine residues of the enzymes are responsible for binding to ubiquitin. The phylogenetic analysis showed an organised distribution between the organisms and the clades of the sequences, corresponding to the tree of life of the animals, for all groups of sequences analysed. The ubiquitin sequence was the only one with a high expression profile found in all libraries, inferring its wide range of performance. MAIN CONCLUSIONS Our results show the presence, conservation and expression profile of the UPS in this mollusk, providing a basis and new knowledge for other studies involving this system. Due to the importance of the UPS and B. glabrata, this work may influence the search for new methodologies for the control of schistosomiasis.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227028
title: Theoretical essay on public policy evaluations

description: Abstract From the identification of the current and growing demand for higher quality, efficient and effective public services, the evaluation of public policies becomes increasingly indispensable. This article highlights the importance of this stage of the political cycle regarding the exercise of evaluation as a crucial tool for the improvement and development of the management of public policies, especially those of a multidimensional nature.This research is characterized as a theoretical essay with the purpose of constructing a broad and integrated analysis on public policy assessments based on the published literature, in addition to understanding and proposing reflections on the model currently adopted mainly in relation to actions carried out by multilateral agencies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227034.v1
title: Otimização Mono-objetivo no Controle do Mosquito Aedes aegypti por meio de um Modelo de Duas Populações com Influência da Precipitação

description: ABSTRACT Arboviruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti such as dengue, chikungunya, zika and yellow fever have affected a growing part of the world population over the years. Since there are no vaccines for all arboviruses transmitted by this vector, population vector control is the approach considered feasible to reduce the spread of arboviruses. The presente work has the goal of studying and comparing the efficacy of three mechanical control applications in the immature population (eggs, larvae and pupae) and to perform three chemical control applications on the population of females in the oviposition phase of A. aegypti. The control is applied during 7 days in different times of the year: Spring-Summer, Summer and Summer-Autumn. The entomological model that describes the dynamics of the phases of A. aegypti has precipitation-dependent parameters. The population of females in the oviposition phase of the model was confronted with sample data of Mean Female Aedes Index collected through 245 traps MosquiTRAP® scattered in the urban area of the city of Lavras. The Real-Biased Genetic Algorithm was used in order to optimize the intensity and the initial time of application of the step control in relation to control costs and costs related to mosquito infestation. During the application of the three forms of control interventions, the number of mosquitoes decreased over time and the summer-autumn intervention presented the best efficiency and the lowest cost. In addition, the number of mosquito basal offspring had a negative impact on the parameters related to mortality and an opposite impact of the other entomological parameters of the mosquito.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227037
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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227025
title: Diversity of metallo-β-lactamase-encoding genes found in distinct species of Acinetobacter isolated from the Brazilian Amazon Region

description: BACKGROUND The multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype is frequently observed in Acinetobacter baumannii, the most clinically relevant pathogenic species of its genus; recently, other species belonging to the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex have emerged as important MDR nosocomial pathogens. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to verify the occurrence of metallo-β-lactamase genes among distinct Acinetobacter species in a hospital located in the Brazilian Amazon Region. METHODS Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles were determined by broth microdilution. The genetic relationships among these isolates were assessed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Pyrosequencing reads of plasmids carrying the bla NDM-1 gene were generated using the Ion Torrent™ platform sequencing. FINDINGS A total of six isolates carried bla NDM-1: A. baumannii (n = 2), A. nosocomialis (n = 3), and A. pittii (n = 1); three carried bla IMP-1: A. baumannii, A. nosocomialis, and A. bereziniae. Resistance to colistin was observed for an NDM-1-producing A. nosocomialis isolate. Diverse PFGE patterns and sequence types were found among A. nosocomialis and A. baumannii isolates. The bla NDM-1 sequence was inserted in a Tn125 transposon, while the bla IMP-1 was found as a gene cassette of the class 1 integron In86. MAIN CONCLUSIONS To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing the dissemination of bla NDM-1 among distinct Acinetobacter species recovered from the same hospital in South America.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227037.v1
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description: 32324
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227025.v1
title: Diversity of metallo-β-lactamase-encoding genes found in distinct species of Acinetobacter isolated from the Brazilian Amazon Region

description: BACKGROUND The multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype is frequently observed in Acinetobacter baumannii, the most clinically relevant pathogenic species of its genus; recently, other species belonging to the A. calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex have emerged as important MDR nosocomial pathogens. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to verify the occurrence of metallo-β-lactamase genes among distinct Acinetobacter species in a hospital located in the Brazilian Amazon Region. METHODS Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles were determined by broth microdilution. The genetic relationships among these isolates were assessed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Pyrosequencing reads of plasmids carrying the bla NDM-1 gene were generated using the Ion Torrent™ platform sequencing. FINDINGS A total of six isolates carried bla NDM-1: A. baumannii (n = 2), A. nosocomialis (n = 3), and A. pittii (n = 1); three carried bla IMP-1: A. baumannii, A. nosocomialis, and A. bereziniae. Resistance to colistin was observed for an NDM-1-producing A. nosocomialis isolate. Diverse PFGE patterns and sequence types were found among A. nosocomialis and A. baumannii isolates. The bla NDM-1 sequence was inserted in a Tn125 transposon, while the bla IMP-1 was found as a gene cassette of the class 1 integron In86. MAIN CONCLUSIONS To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing the dissemination of bla NDM-1 among distinct Acinetobacter species recovered from the same hospital in South America.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227028.v1
title: Theoretical essay on public policy evaluations

description: Abstract From the identification of the current and growing demand for higher quality, efficient and effective public services, the evaluation of public policies becomes increasingly indispensable. This article highlights the importance of this stage of the political cycle regarding the exercise of evaluation as a crucial tool for the improvement and development of the management of public policies, especially those of a multidimensional nature.This research is characterized as a theoretical essay with the purpose of constructing a broad and integrated analysis on public policy assessments based on the published literature, in addition to understanding and proposing reflections on the model currently adopted mainly in relation to actions carried out by multilateral agencies.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227016
title: PROXIMAL HUMERAL FRACTURES TREATED WITH OSTEOSYNTHESIS USING THE ANTEROLATERAL APPROACH

description: ABSTRACT Objective: The main surgical approach in proximal humeral fractures is the deltopectoral approach. Many surgeons avoid the anterolateral approach, fearing its complications, especially axillary nerve injury. The objective of this study is to evaluate shoulder function and complications in patients with proximal humeral fractures treated using an anterolateral approach with direct observation of the axillary nerve. Methods: Retrospective study with postoperative radiological and functional evaluations (Constant and DASH scores) and review of the complications. The associations between fracture classification and the difference in Constant scores among the subjects and the final angle of consolidation were analyzed using Fisher's test or analysis of variance (ANOVA). The Constant scores were compared among the shoulders using the paired t-test. Results: The study evaluated 35 patients. Shoulder function was decreased, compared with the contralateral side (p&lt;0.005). The only factor related to functional worsening was the Neer IV fracture. The main complication was malunion. There were no clinical changes related to the axillary nerve. Conclusion: The treatment using the extended anterolateral approach produced good functional results, although the function was decreased (Neer IV fractures). The main complication was malunion. There were no side effects due to exposure of the axillary nerve. Level of evidence III, Retrospective Study.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227019
title: Impact of the Conversion of Natural Coverage in Pasture and Urban Area on Biophysical Variables in the Southern Amazonas

description: Abstract The replacement of natural cover by pasture areas affects the surface albedo, which in turn influences the balance of radiation and surface temperature. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the impacts of deforestation on biophysical variables in the municipality of Apuí-AM, by Landsat 5 TM images (Thematic Mapper). The images used in this study were provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The image of 07/20/2010 was processed by intermediate stages of the SEBAL (Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land). Deforestation in the municipality of Apuí increased by 20% in the last 20 years. Forest NDVI was 20 and 43% higher than pasture and urban area, respectively. The surface albedo in the pasture and in the urban area were 16% higher than in the Forest area and the surface gloss temperature in the pasture and in the urban area were 16 and 10% higher than in the Forest area, respectively. The Rn in the Forest area was 8% and 6% higher than in the urban area and in the pasture, respectively. Therefore, the conversion of the Amazon Forest modifies the radiation balance with greater availability of sensible surface heat in the pasture and urban areas.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227022
title: Mortality dynamics and the statutory retirement age proposal: an actuarial view

description: ABSTRACT This paper aimed to apply (dynamic and static) actuarial models to calculate the balanced contribution rates for the planned (at the minimum age) retirement benefit of the General Social Security System, based on the original and substitutive texts of the reform proposed by Michel Temer’s government. Even with the regular increases in life expectancy and the long-term nature of the analyses, national studies on social security are typically based on the static mortality hypothesis. The relevance of this study is evident due to the demographic changes, particularly the increase in life expectancy, experienced by the Brazilian population in recent decades and which put in question the sustainability of the national pension system. The use of dynamic actuarial models allows for more accurate discussions about the future of social security, besides contributing to the still scarce national literature. Static and dynamic actuarial models were applied to a representative individual, adjusting mortality tables from the United Nations covering 1950 to 2100. It was verified that the actuarially fair rates calculated by the dynamic actuarial model are typically higher than those obtained by the static model, especially for women. This difference is expected to increase as gains in life expectancy become more influenced by the reduction in mortality at more advanced ages. Moreover, if the social security reform is approved (in accordance with either the original or the substitutive text), there are indications from the dynamic model that the contributions rates currently charged would be excessive for men. In turn, these rates would be excessive for women considering the original text, and closer to the actuarially fair value considering the substitutive text. The development, disclosure, and regular updating of official dynamic tables (whether for mortality or other biometric assumptions) are also recommended.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8227019.v1
title: Impact of the Conversion of Natural Coverage in Pasture and Urban Area on Biophysical Variables in the Southern Amazonas

description: Abstract The replacement of natural cover by pasture areas affects the surface albedo, which in turn influences the balance of radiation and surface temperature. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the impacts of deforestation on biophysical variables in the municipality of Apuí-AM, by Landsat 5 TM images (Thematic Mapper). The images used in this study were provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The image of 07/20/2010 was processed by intermediate stages of the SEBAL (Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land). Deforestation in the municipality of Apuí increased by 20% in the last 20 years. Forest NDVI was 20 and 43% higher than pasture and urban area, respectively. The surface albedo in the pasture and in the urban area were 16% higher than in the Forest area and the surface gloss temperature in the pasture and in the urban area were 16 and 10% higher than in the Forest area, respectively. The Rn in the Forest area was 8% and 6% higher than in the urban area and in the pasture, respectively. Therefore, the conversion of the Amazon Forest modifies the radiation balance with greater availability of sensible surface heat in the pasture and urban areas.