cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314589
title: Infection by Platynosomum illiciens (= P. fastosum) in domestic cats of Araguaína, Tocantins, northern Brazil

description: Abstract Platynosomiasis is a hepatopathy caused by Platynosomum illiciens(= P. fastosum) (Trematoda: Dicrocoelidae), which occurs mainly in domestic and wild cats in tropical and subtropical areas. The objective of this study was to verify the occurrence of P. illiciens infection in domestic cats in the city of Araguaína, Tocantins, Brazil, using necropsy and coproparasitological tests. Additionally, we aimed to evaluate the use of two different techniques to diagnose P. illiciens infection in domestic cats and verify whether this parasitism was associated with individual feline characteristics. For this, 54 cats of different ages were analyzed. The percentage of infection was 33.3% (CI = 21.1-47.5%), parasite load was 9-509, mean intensity was 151.7, and mean abundance was 50.5 trematodes per animal. The risk of infection was higher for females than for males (OR = 5.00; P = 0.017). The spontaneous sedimentation coproparasitological test demonstrated the greatest sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing P. illiciens. This study is the first to report the occurrence of P. illiciens in cats in the state of Tocantins, northern Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314592
title: EX POST PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN DEPUTIES IN FOREIGN POLICY: BETWEEN CRITICAL ISSUE PERSPECTIVE AND THE EXECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE RELATIONSHIP

description: This paper intends to answer the following question: do the Brazilian federal deputies overlook the debates on foreign policy? To do so, we raise elements that allow the comprehension of the congressional interest on foreign policy, specifically on the processing of international acts. The analysis covers the period between 1988 and 2014, focusing on the Chamber of Deputies. We test two hypotheses: 1) the type of international act positively influences the parliamentary performance; 2) the deputies’ performance has a positive effect on the likelihood of executive actions. Finally, it is clear that deputies act, on the one hand, according to the logic of the critical issue perspective and, on the other hand, constrained by the executive-legislative dynamics.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314595
title: Health promotion in the Brazilian democratization process: biopolicies and constitution of health subjects

description: Abstract In a study on health promotion as a biopolicy, it was aimed to analyze how the biopolicy practices constitute subjects, in the Brazilian democratization process, in the 1980s and 1990, sthrough the objectivation by speeches and norms. The survey was based on documents that install health promotion, considering them as monuments, intentional ones, with effect on the objectification of the subjects. Health promotion was considered a historical practice, dated and as strategical device of governmentality. By organizing the documents in subfiles, the analysis was conducted by raising the issues - archeological and genealogical ones - by Michel Foucault. Health promotion is strategically articulated with extended health discourse and developmental economic relations. During the medical government of life, the objectivization of subjects in the relation with the practices of health promotion take place, specially in the primary care, what makes it possible to problematize the subjectivity in theses spaces.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314598.v1
title: INCONSISTENCY AND CORRECTION OF THE GERMAN AMORTIZATION SYSTEM

description: ABSTRACT The amortization systems, also called as amortization methods, are used to compute the installment value that a client must disburse (or spend) to pay off a loan or financing with the number of installments and the interest rate agreed for the loan or financing. This paper shows that the German Amortization System makes an inconsistent use of the interest paid in advance in its definition and generates an effective interest rate higher than the contracted, which makes this system abusive and unfair to the clients. In this article, two forms of correcting the German Amortization System are also proposed, making the effective interest rate equals to the contractual interest rate.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314601.v1
title: Differences in soil electrical resistivity tomography due to soil water contents in an integrated agricultural system

description: Abstract: The objective of this work was to characterize the spatial variability of soil electrical resistivity due to different soil moisture contents, in an integrated agricultural system. Soil electrical resistivity (ER) was measured with the Automatic Resistivity Profiling (ARP) contact sensor in two dates, in 2016, in a 9.7-ha area with different soil moisture contents. The obtained maps indicated that ER allowed delimiting the regions within the study area and pointing out differences in the movement and accumulation of water in the soil horizons. Although there is a trend of reduction in ER values with increasing soil moisture, the spatial correlation structure of ER is similar.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314586
title: Speculating on (the) urban (of) art: (un)siting street art in the age of neoliberal urbanisation

description: Abstract This paper addresses the current co-optation of street art into an uncritical aesthetic supplement to the process of neoliberal urbanisation, by focusing on its unresolved relation with its own site. This is done in three steps. First, via a perambulating immersion into the complexity of a specific site. Second, via a critical engagement with the form and politics of contemporary street art. Third, via a strategic speculation on the relation between the notions of art, urban and site. Street art’s current impasse, I argue, paradoxically depends on its incapacity to become properly urban. A urban-specific street art, I contend, is not a decorative veneer nor an enchanting disruption to dramatic processes of urbanisation: it is a force-field in which these processes are made visible, experienceable, and thus called into question. The ‘Olympic’ works of JR and Kobra in Rio de Janeiro, and the iconoclastic performance by Blu in Berlin, are used to illustrate and complement the argument.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314592.v1
title: EX POST PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN DEPUTIES IN FOREIGN POLICY: BETWEEN CRITICAL ISSUE PERSPECTIVE AND THE EXECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE RELATIONSHIP

description: This paper intends to answer the following question: do the Brazilian federal deputies overlook the debates on foreign policy? To do so, we raise elements that allow the comprehension of the congressional interest on foreign policy, specifically on the processing of international acts. The analysis covers the period between 1988 and 2014, focusing on the Chamber of Deputies. We test two hypotheses: 1) the type of international act positively influences the parliamentary performance; 2) the deputies’ performance has a positive effect on the likelihood of executive actions. Finally, it is clear that deputies act, on the one hand, according to the logic of the critical issue perspective and, on the other hand, constrained by the executive-legislative dynamics.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314583
title: Impact of One-Catheter Strategy with TIG I Catheter on Coronary Catheterization Performance and Economic Costs

description: Abstract Background: Coronary angiography with two catheters is the traditional strategy for diagnostic coronary procedures. TIG I catheter permits to cannulate both coronary arteries, avoiding exchanging catheters during coronary angiography by transradial access. Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of one-catheter strategy, by avoiding catheter exchange, on coronary catheterization performance and economic costs. Methods: Transradial coronary diagnostic procedures conducted from January 2013 to June 2017 were collected. One-catheter strategy (TIG I catheter) and two-catheter strategy (left and right Judkins catheters) were compared. The volume of iodinated contrast administered was the primary endpoint. Secondary endpoints included radial spasm, procedural duration (fluoroscopy time) and exposure to ionizing radiation (dose-area product and air kerma). Direct economic costs were also evaluated. For statistical analyses, two-tailed p-values &lt; 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: From a total of 1,953 procedures in 1,829 patients, 252 procedures were assigned to one-catheter strategy and 1,701 procedures to two-catheter strategy. There were no differences in baseline characteristics between the groups. One-catheter strategy required less iodinated contrast [primary endpoint; (60-105)-mL vs. 92 (64-120)-mL; p &lt; 0.001] than the two-catheter strategy. Also, the one-catheter group presented less radial spasm (5.2% vs. 9.3%, p = 0.022) and shorter fluoroscopy time [3.9 (2.2-8.0)-min vs. 4.8 (2.9-8.3)-min, p = 0.001] and saved costs [149 (140-160)-€/procedure vs. 171 (160-183)-€/procedure; p &lt; 0.001]. No differences in dose-area product and air kerma were detected between the groups. Conclusions: One-catheter strategy, with TIG I catheter, improves coronary catheterization performance and reduces economic costs compared to traditional two-catheter strategy in patients referred for coronary angiography.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314589.v1
title: Infection by Platynosomum illiciens (= P. fastosum) in domestic cats of Araguaína, Tocantins, northern Brazil

description: Abstract Platynosomiasis is a hepatopathy caused by Platynosomum illiciens(= P. fastosum) (Trematoda: Dicrocoelidae), which occurs mainly in domestic and wild cats in tropical and subtropical areas. The objective of this study was to verify the occurrence of P. illiciens infection in domestic cats in the city of Araguaína, Tocantins, Brazil, using necropsy and coproparasitological tests. Additionally, we aimed to evaluate the use of two different techniques to diagnose P. illiciens infection in domestic cats and verify whether this parasitism was associated with individual feline characteristics. For this, 54 cats of different ages were analyzed. The percentage of infection was 33.3% (CI = 21.1-47.5%), parasite load was 9-509, mean intensity was 151.7, and mean abundance was 50.5 trematodes per animal. The risk of infection was higher for females than for males (OR = 5.00; P = 0.017). The spontaneous sedimentation coproparasitological test demonstrated the greatest sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing P. illiciens. This study is the first to report the occurrence of P. illiciens in cats in the state of Tocantins, northern Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314595.v1
title: Health promotion in the Brazilian democratization process: biopolicies and constitution of health subjects

description: Abstract In a study on health promotion as a biopolicy, it was aimed to analyze how the biopolicy practices constitute subjects, in the Brazilian democratization process, in the 1980s and 1990, sthrough the objectivation by speeches and norms. The survey was based on documents that install health promotion, considering them as monuments, intentional ones, with effect on the objectification of the subjects. Health promotion was considered a historical practice, dated and as strategical device of governmentality. By organizing the documents in subfiles, the analysis was conducted by raising the issues - archeological and genealogical ones - by Michel Foucault. Health promotion is strategically articulated with extended health discourse and developmental economic relations. During the medical government of life, the objectivization of subjects in the relation with the practices of health promotion take place, specially in the primary care, what makes it possible to problematize the subjectivity in theses spaces.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314580
title: MANAGERIALISM, STAMENTALIZATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR LEGITIMACY

description: The paper hypothesizes, based on a case study of the Military Police of Minas Gerais (PMMG), that Brazilian military police, in their quest for social and institutional legitimacy, and in the absence of social recognition of their practices and values, have developed two main strategies of institutional legitimation: on the one hand, the investment in managerial knowledge and its application to organizational dynamics and to the formal regulation of military police activity; on the other hand, the investment in a process of social differentiation, marked by the isomorphism of socially legitimized practices, adapted to the institutional context, often through actions of ritualization of its content. Through the analysis of the PMMG’s institutional trajectory over the last 40 years, we observed that these strategies have reinforced status stratification characteristics in the design of the military police profession in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314586.v1
title: Speculating on (the) urban (of) art: (un)siting street art in the age of neoliberal urbanisation

description: Abstract This paper addresses the current co-optation of street art into an uncritical aesthetic supplement to the process of neoliberal urbanisation, by focusing on its unresolved relation with its own site. This is done in three steps. First, via a perambulating immersion into the complexity of a specific site. Second, via a critical engagement with the form and politics of contemporary street art. Third, via a strategic speculation on the relation between the notions of art, urban and site. Street art’s current impasse, I argue, paradoxically depends on its incapacity to become properly urban. A urban-specific street art, I contend, is not a decorative veneer nor an enchanting disruption to dramatic processes of urbanisation: it is a force-field in which these processes are made visible, experienceable, and thus called into question. The ‘Olympic’ works of JR and Kobra in Rio de Janeiro, and the iconoclastic performance by Blu in Berlin, are used to illustrate and complement the argument.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314580.v1
title: MANAGERIALISM, STAMENTALIZATION, AND THE SEARCH FOR LEGITIMACY

description: The paper hypothesizes, based on a case study of the Military Police of Minas Gerais (PMMG), that Brazilian military police, in their quest for social and institutional legitimacy, and in the absence of social recognition of their practices and values, have developed two main strategies of institutional legitimation: on the one hand, the investment in managerial knowledge and its application to organizational dynamics and to the formal regulation of military police activity; on the other hand, the investment in a process of social differentiation, marked by the isomorphism of socially legitimized practices, adapted to the institutional context, often through actions of ritualization of its content. Through the analysis of the PMMG’s institutional trajectory over the last 40 years, we observed that these strategies have reinforced status stratification characteristics in the design of the military police profession in Brazil.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314574
title: RELIGIOSITY OF PORTUGUESE YOUTH: RECENT EVOLUTION AND COMPARISON WITH POPULATION AGED 29 OR OLDER

description: This paper, based on the European Values Study, European Social Survey and International Social Survey Programme, discusses the evolution of Portuguese youth religiosity in the period between 1990 and 2016, comparing it with the population aged 29 or older, based on four topics: community, belief, practice and norm. The topics “community”, “practice”, and “norm” decrease, although “practice” may be stabilized. The topic “belief”, Christian and non-Christian, increases or keeps the same value. The topics “community”, “practice” and “norm” are less representative in young people, while the topic “belief”, Christian or non-Christian, is more or equally representative in young people. The paper contributes in the analysis of the youth religiosity in Portugal in a more comprehensive way than it is currently done.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314583.v1
title: Impact of One-Catheter Strategy with TIG I Catheter on Coronary Catheterization Performance and Economic Costs

description: Abstract Background: Coronary angiography with two catheters is the traditional strategy for diagnostic coronary procedures. TIG I catheter permits to cannulate both coronary arteries, avoiding exchanging catheters during coronary angiography by transradial access. Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of one-catheter strategy, by avoiding catheter exchange, on coronary catheterization performance and economic costs. Methods: Transradial coronary diagnostic procedures conducted from January 2013 to June 2017 were collected. One-catheter strategy (TIG I catheter) and two-catheter strategy (left and right Judkins catheters) were compared. The volume of iodinated contrast administered was the primary endpoint. Secondary endpoints included radial spasm, procedural duration (fluoroscopy time) and exposure to ionizing radiation (dose-area product and air kerma). Direct economic costs were also evaluated. For statistical analyses, two-tailed p-values &lt; 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: From a total of 1,953 procedures in 1,829 patients, 252 procedures were assigned to one-catheter strategy and 1,701 procedures to two-catheter strategy. There were no differences in baseline characteristics between the groups. One-catheter strategy required less iodinated contrast [primary endpoint; (60-105)-mL vs. 92 (64-120)-mL; p &lt; 0.001] than the two-catheter strategy. Also, the one-catheter group presented less radial spasm (5.2% vs. 9.3%, p = 0.022) and shorter fluoroscopy time [3.9 (2.2-8.0)-min vs. 4.8 (2.9-8.3)-min, p = 0.001] and saved costs [149 (140-160)-€/procedure vs. 171 (160-183)-€/procedure; p &lt; 0.001]. No differences in dose-area product and air kerma were detected between the groups. Conclusions: One-catheter strategy, with TIG I catheter, improves coronary catheterization performance and reduces economic costs compared to traditional two-catheter strategy in patients referred for coronary angiography.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314574.v1
title: RELIGIOSITY OF PORTUGUESE YOUTH: RECENT EVOLUTION AND COMPARISON WITH POPULATION AGED 29 OR OLDER

description: This paper, based on the European Values Study, European Social Survey and International Social Survey Programme, discusses the evolution of Portuguese youth religiosity in the period between 1990 and 2016, comparing it with the population aged 29 or older, based on four topics: community, belief, practice and norm. The topics “community”, “practice”, and “norm” decrease, although “practice” may be stabilized. The topic “belief”, Christian and non-Christian, increases or keeps the same value. The topics “community”, “practice” and “norm” are less representative in young people, while the topic “belief”, Christian or non-Christian, is more or equally representative in young people. The paper contributes in the analysis of the youth religiosity in Portugal in a more comprehensive way than it is currently done.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314568
title: Impact of vaccination on the incidence of varicella hospitalizations in a state in Southeast Brazil

description: Abstract INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to analyze cases of complicated varicella and the impact of varicella vaccination in Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS: This was a time series study of a territorial basis using data on varicella cases from 2010 to 2016, which was provided by the State Health Department of Minas Gerais on . Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis, and the generalized linear regression model proposed by Prais-Winsten was used for the time tendency, adopting a significance level of 5% and the integrated autoregressive modeling of moving averages. RESULTS: There were 1,635 cases of varicella; out of which cellulitis (44%) was the predominant complication. The home-acquired cases were 38.9% and 464 cases (40.6%) were not previously vaccinated. There was a significant decrease in the incidence coefficient when comparing the pre- and post- immunization periods, from 1.95 cases/100,000 inhabitants in 2010 to 0.24 cases/100.000 inhabitants in 2016 (p&lt;0.05). There was a higher incidence of cases recorded among males, with higher prevalence in the age group of 1-4 years (54.7%). Lethality was higher between 5-9 years of age (44%). Mortality was higher in the age group of 0-4 years and among females (2.58/100,000 inhabitants/year). The overall trend of the incidence coefficient was a decreasing one, with an annual percentage variation. CONCLUSIONS: The number of complicated varicella cases notified decreased, coincidentally, in the post-immunization period. However, the immunization coverage period was restricted for the assessment of the correlation between immunization coverage and incidence.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314559
title: Linguistic Appropriation and Meaning in Mathematical Modeling Activities

description: Abstract In this paper we turn our attention to the different language games associated to the development of Mathematical Modelling activities and to the meanings constituted by students within these language games in relation to the first order ordinary differential equations. The research is based on Mathematical Modelling in Mathematics Education and has as its philosophical basis the studies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and some of his interpreters. Considering these theoretical-philosophical elements, mathematical modelling activities were developed in a Mathematics Degree in a course of Ordinary Differential Equations. Data were collected through written records, audio and video recordings, questionnaires, and interviews. The data analysis methodology considers the students' discursive practices and allowed us to construct trees of idea association. The results indicate that the constitution of meaning within modelling activities is associated to the students' linguistic appropriation of the rules and techniques that are configured in specific language games identified in the Mathematical Modelling activities.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314553
title: A more integrated production chain? The use of dynamic hedge in the daily price oscillation of the pork production chain

description: Abstract Recent work has shown a lack of integration between the producer and retail markets in the pork production chain. A solution to alleviate this obstacle could be performed through the dynamic hedging strategy with the Garch-DCC model, which would allow the management of daily buying and selling decisions. In this sense, the objective of the study was to verify if the model contributes efficiently to the daily price adjustments between the markets in comparison to the linear regression model, providing subsidies to producers to protect themselves from the price oscillations in the chain, reducing the risk against significant changes in prices. In order to do that, the period from 01/03/2011 to 08/27/2015 was analyzed, in which 1,156 observations were extracted for analysis. As a result, the hedge strategy for the Garch-DCC model presents better performance in comparison to the one performed by Linear Regression in reducing market oscillations. With this, this paper found an opening for the integration in the perceptions and the negotiation processes of this market in analysis.