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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515323.v1
title: Some Properties of Astronium graveolens Wood Along the Stem

description: ABSTRACT We investigated the axial variation of specific gravity, shear parallel to the grain and anatomical features of Astronium graveolens wood and related these properties to the anatomy along the stem. We felled five 20-year-old trees and cut discs from four different stem heights, including stem base, 1 meter, 2 meters and 3 meters, for a total of 20 discs, and studied wood samples near the bark and at the base of trunk. Axial variations found appear to provide a balance between mechanical strength of the wood at stem base by the higher density and higher shear by the increase in ray frequency that contributes to locking the vertical cells and growth rings, thus preventing the stem from easily breaking when bent. For hydraulic conductivity, vessels with smaller diameter and frequency at the stem base help prevent the occurrence of embolisms that would reduce water flow along the main stem.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870320
title: Alternatives to Growth and Yield Prognosis for Pinus caribaea var. caribaea Barrett & Golfari

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this study was to obtain regression equations and artificial neural networks (ANNs) for prediction and prognosis of the yield of Pinus caribaea var. caribaea Barrett & Golfari. The data used for modeling comes from measuring the variables diameter at breast height (DBH) and total height (Ht) in 550 temporary plots and 14 circular permanent plots with 500 m2 in Pinus caribaea var. caribaea plantations, aged between 3 and 41 years old. In growth prediction, the results indicated Schumacher model as the best fit to the data. On prognosis, the modified Buckman system was better than Clutter’s. ANNs presented a similar performance to the Buckman model in volume prognosis, however these were superior for basal area prognosis.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507124.v1
title: Participatory urban planning through the use of new technologies: an evaluation by experts

description: Abstract This paper aims to evaluate the experts acceptance of the public participation, the use of new technologies, and to investigate how they evaluate alternative methodologies such as the Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS). We assume that new methodological approaches, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), can improve public participation in urban planning processes, given the difficulty to include the population perspective, and the need to renew the practices for dealing with the flow of information in the digital era. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted with architects working in the urban planning area, as part of the methodological procedures. The results show that despite institutional barriers and the necessity of technical training, the public participation and the use of new tools are accepted, and that PPSIG can help in the difficult task of incorporating the urban space users perspective, in the respondents opinion.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870314
title: Anatomical Differences Between the Wood of Three Species Commercialized as “Freijó” in the Amazon Region

description: ABSTRACT This study aims to bring forward helpful anatomical characteristics to assist in the identification of Cordia goeldiana Huber, Cordia bicolor A.DC. and Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Cham., all of them commercialized by the popular name of “freijó” in the Amazon region. The anatomical study of the woods followed the orientations of the International Association of Wood Anatomists - IAWA Committee. The helpful wood’s characteristics found to distinguish the species were: the different types of growth layers; type of axial parenchyma; presence of sheath cells involving the rays; frequency and diameter of the vessel elements; lumen diameter; and fiber wall fraction. Quantitatively, the applied multivariate techniques were helpful, once they have evidenced greater similarities between C. goeldiana and C. alliodora distinguishing themselves from C. bicolor mainly because of the rays’ height (μm). From the anatomical study of the woods it was possible to differentiate the species. We were able to see important anatomical patterns that could be helpful in the macroscopic and microscopic identification of the woods of C. goeldiana, C. bicolor and C. alliodora.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9870314.v1
title: Anatomical Differences Between the Wood of Three Species Commercialized as “Freijó” in the Amazon Region

description: ABSTRACT This study aims to bring forward helpful anatomical characteristics to assist in the identification of Cordia goeldiana Huber, Cordia bicolor A.DC. and Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Cham., all of them commercialized by the popular name of “freijó” in the Amazon region. The anatomical study of the woods followed the orientations of the International Association of Wood Anatomists - IAWA Committee. The helpful wood’s characteristics found to distinguish the species were: the different types of growth layers; type of axial parenchyma; presence of sheath cells involving the rays; frequency and diameter of the vessel elements; lumen diameter; and fiber wall fraction. Quantitatively, the applied multivariate techniques were helpful, once they have evidenced greater similarities between C. goeldiana and C. alliodora distinguishing themselves from C. bicolor mainly because of the rays’ height (μm). From the anatomical study of the woods it was possible to differentiate the species. We were able to see important anatomical patterns that could be helpful in the macroscopic and microscopic identification of the woods of C. goeldiana, C. bicolor and C. alliodora.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12027204.v1
title: Social participation in the Brazilian Supreme Court: rethinking the role of public hearings

description: Abstract Public hearings in the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) is announced as a mechanism that produces information in the judicial review process, that democratizes the court and legitimizes its decisions. Nevertheless, empirical observation and analyses of official documents of the Court reveals a mismatch between practice and discourse around them. This article questions that main narrative and proposes an alternative view of public hearings as a lobby tool.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507124
title: Participatory urban planning through the use of new technologies: an evaluation by experts

description: Abstract This paper aims to evaluate the experts acceptance of the public participation, the use of new technologies, and to investigate how they evaluate alternative methodologies such as the Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS). We assume that new methodological approaches, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), can improve public participation in urban planning processes, given the difficulty to include the population perspective, and the need to renew the practices for dealing with the flow of information in the digital era. Questionnaires and interviews were conducted with architects working in the urban planning area, as part of the methodological procedures. The results show that despite institutional barriers and the necessity of technical training, the public participation and the use of new tools are accepted, and that PPSIG can help in the difficult task of incorporating the urban space users perspective, in the respondents opinion.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7510556
title: LEGUMINOUS COVER CROPS FOR BANANA PLANTATIONS IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS

description: ABSTRACT High temperatures and low rainfall characterize the Brazilian semiarid regions. This regional climate demands the adoption of practices that increase the efficiency and sustainability of local farming. This study aimed to assess the ability of two perennial herbaceous leguminous species, calopo and tropical kudzu, to provide permanent soil cover in banana plantations in Jequitinhonha Valley, northeast Minas Gerais state, Brazil. To this end, we evaluated the differences of calopo and tropical kudzu in soil cover capacity and the amount of senescent phytomass deposited on the soil surface, nutrient content in senescent phytomass, as well as their effects on temperature and soil moisture, compared with bare soil in two experimental sites. The results showed that, compared with tropical kudzu, calopo had a higher soil cover capacity and was more effective at increasing organic material and nutrients in the soil owing to the relatively higher amount of senescent phytomass deposited on the soil surface. However, both calopo and tropical kudzu reduced soil temperature and increase soil moisture compared with bare soil. Overall, we concluded that these species can deposit high levels of senescence in the soil, providing several benefits to the cultivation system of banana plants in the semiarid regions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7510556.v1
title: LEGUMINOUS COVER CROPS FOR BANANA PLANTATIONS IN SEMI-ARID REGIONS

description: ABSTRACT High temperatures and low rainfall characterize the Brazilian semiarid regions. This regional climate demands the adoption of practices that increase the efficiency and sustainability of local farming. This study aimed to assess the ability of two perennial herbaceous leguminous species, calopo and tropical kudzu, to provide permanent soil cover in banana plantations in Jequitinhonha Valley, northeast Minas Gerais state, Brazil. To this end, we evaluated the differences of calopo and tropical kudzu in soil cover capacity and the amount of senescent phytomass deposited on the soil surface, nutrient content in senescent phytomass, as well as their effects on temperature and soil moisture, compared with bare soil in two experimental sites. The results showed that, compared with tropical kudzu, calopo had a higher soil cover capacity and was more effective at increasing organic material and nutrients in the soil owing to the relatively higher amount of senescent phytomass deposited on the soil surface. However, both calopo and tropical kudzu reduced soil temperature and increase soil moisture compared with bare soil. Overall, we concluded that these species can deposit high levels of senescence in the soil, providing several benefits to the cultivation system of banana plants in the semiarid regions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515323
title: Some Properties of Astronium graveolens Wood Along the Stem

description: ABSTRACT We investigated the axial variation of specific gravity, shear parallel to the grain and anatomical features of Astronium graveolens wood and related these properties to the anatomy along the stem. We felled five 20-year-old trees and cut discs from four different stem heights, including stem base, 1 meter, 2 meters and 3 meters, for a total of 20 discs, and studied wood samples near the bark and at the base of trunk. Axial variations found appear to provide a balance between mechanical strength of the wood at stem base by the higher density and higher shear by the increase in ray frequency that contributes to locking the vertical cells and growth rings, thus preventing the stem from easily breaking when bent. For hydraulic conductivity, vessels with smaller diameter and frequency at the stem base help prevent the occurrence of embolisms that would reduce water flow along the main stem.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5667559
title: Arena do Morro and Museu do Amanhã: two places in action

description: Abstract This article is aligned with the socio-technical perspective and discusses the understanding of places in action as laboratories or interfaces that learn and perform knowledge that, even though shaped by different “ontological politics”, are simultaneously situated or localized and global. If any place is global, it is worth exploring how it includes others. Therefore, we used the four spatialities proposed by John Law and Annemarie Mol – the euclidean, whose prevalence tends to be naturalized, the networks, the fluid and the fire. To explain how the spatialities are produced and mixed in places, action and recruit other allies, we explore the manufacturing processes of the Arena do Morro in Natal/RN and Museu do Amanhã in Rio de Janeiro/RJ, two projects-places in action that, in addition to local, regional and global, are also devices “immutable mobiles”, “mutable mobiles” and “immobiles mutable”, being disputed territories which cannot be reduced to what they “are” or “mean”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5667559.v1
title: Arena do Morro and Museu do Amanhã: two places in action

description: Abstract This article is aligned with the socio-technical perspective and discusses the understanding of places in action as laboratories or interfaces that learn and perform knowledge that, even though shaped by different “ontological politics”, are simultaneously situated or localized and global. If any place is global, it is worth exploring how it includes others. Therefore, we used the four spatialities proposed by John Law and Annemarie Mol – the euclidean, whose prevalence tends to be naturalized, the networks, the fluid and the fire. To explain how the spatialities are produced and mixed in places, action and recruit other allies, we explore the manufacturing processes of the Arena do Morro in Natal/RN and Museu do Amanhã in Rio de Janeiro/RJ, two projects-places in action that, in addition to local, regional and global, are also devices “immutable mobiles”, “mutable mobiles” and “immobiles mutable”, being disputed territories which cannot be reduced to what they “are” or “mean”.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14270360
title: Social Organizations and State Foundations of Private Law at the Unified Health System: relation between the public and the private and social control mechanisms

description: This article aimed to characterize, at national level, the governance models of Social Organizations and State Foundations of Private Law, assuming that the rules interfere with the functioning of institutions and the performance of the actors, based on the analytical framework of historical neo-institutionalism, specifically regarding the relation between the public and the private and the mechanisms of social control, from the existing legal frameworks. The analysis shows important differences between models, especially regarding the alignment to the principles of the Unified Health System. However, in different ways, both models are penetrable to the private sector and less open to social participation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14270360.v1
title: Social Organizations and State Foundations of Private Law at the Unified Health System: relation between the public and the private and social control mechanisms

description: This article aimed to characterize, at national level, the governance models of Social Organizations and State Foundations of Private Law, assuming that the rules interfere with the functioning of institutions and the performance of the actors, based on the analytical framework of historical neo-institutionalism, specifically regarding the relation between the public and the private and the mechanisms of social control, from the existing legal frameworks. The analysis shows important differences between models, especially regarding the alignment to the principles of the Unified Health System. However, in different ways, both models are penetrable to the private sector and less open to social participation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515467
title: Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of a Valanginian carbonate succession from the Baja Guajira Basin, northern Colombia

description: ABSTRACT: The Kesima Member of the Palanz Formation constitutes the first record of Cretaceous marine sedimentation along the Baja Guajira Basin, northern Colombia. Sedimentologic and petrographic analyses suggest a deposition along a coral reef dominated rimmed carbonate platform. 87Sr/86Sr values between 0.707350 and 0.707400 suggest a Valanginian (136 - 132 Ma) depositional age for the Kesima Member. A positive anomaly on the δ13C values of ~2.2‰ suggests that this rimmed carbonate platform registered the Valanginian Weissert oceanic anoxic event. Although the Weissert oceanic anoxic event resulted on a major drowning of the Circum Tethyan carbonate platforms, it seems to have not affected those from the Circum Caribbean, where several shallow marine carbonate platform successions crop out. The Kesima Member displays a change from an organically produced carbonate factory into an inorganically produced, ooids dominated, carbonate factory during the peak of the Weissert event δ13C anomaly. This change in the carbonate factory, which may represent a major perturbation of the marine carbonate budget along tropical settings during the Weissert event, coincides with a major decrease in global sea level. Finally, the age of the Kesima Member is considerably older than that of other Cretaceous carbonate successions cropping out in other northern South America sedimentary basins (i.e. Perija-Merida, Cesar-Rancheria). Differences in the timing of the Cretaceous marine incursion along northern South America, together with the differences in the Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy of several sedimentary basins in northern South America, suggest that the Baja Guajira and Maracaibo basins remained as an isolated tectonic block separated from northern South America after the breakup of Pangea.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7515467.v1
title: Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of a Valanginian carbonate succession from the Baja Guajira Basin, northern Colombia

description: ABSTRACT: The Kesima Member of the Palanz Formation constitutes the first record of Cretaceous marine sedimentation along the Baja Guajira Basin, northern Colombia. Sedimentologic and petrographic analyses suggest a deposition along a coral reef dominated rimmed carbonate platform. 87Sr/86Sr values between 0.707350 and 0.707400 suggest a Valanginian (136 - 132 Ma) depositional age for the Kesima Member. A positive anomaly on the δ13C values of ~2.2‰ suggests that this rimmed carbonate platform registered the Valanginian Weissert oceanic anoxic event. Although the Weissert oceanic anoxic event resulted on a major drowning of the Circum Tethyan carbonate platforms, it seems to have not affected those from the Circum Caribbean, where several shallow marine carbonate platform successions crop out. The Kesima Member displays a change from an organically produced carbonate factory into an inorganically produced, ooids dominated, carbonate factory during the peak of the Weissert event δ13C anomaly. This change in the carbonate factory, which may represent a major perturbation of the marine carbonate budget along tropical settings during the Weissert event, coincides with a major decrease in global sea level. Finally, the age of the Kesima Member is considerably older than that of other Cretaceous carbonate successions cropping out in other northern South America sedimentary basins (i.e. Perija-Merida, Cesar-Rancheria). Differences in the timing of the Cretaceous marine incursion along northern South America, together with the differences in the Triassic-Jurassic stratigraphy of several sedimentary basins in northern South America, suggest that the Baja Guajira and Maracaibo basins remained as an isolated tectonic block separated from northern South America after the breakup of Pangea.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7516007
title: Association of sociodemographic and clinical variables with initial staging in men with prostate cancer

description: Prostate cancer has become a Public Health problem, being the malignant neoplasm with the highest incidence rate in Brazilian men. Will be estimated, for the years of 2014 and 2015, 302,350 cases of cancer in males, of which 68,800 (22.8%) are from prostate cancer. The State of Espírito Santo is among the 7 Brazilian States with the highest incidence, with an estimated 1,580 cases of prostate cancer per year, reflecting an incidence rate of 88.72/100,000 inhabitants. In the State capital, Vitória, it is assumed that this rate is 107.21/100,000 inhabitants, representing 170 cases1. The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of sociodemographic and clinical factors with the initial staging in men with prostate cancer. An observational cross-sectional secondary data research, assessing 1,500 records of men with prostate cancer from 2000 to 2006 seen at a referral center for the treatment of prostate cancer in Vitória, Espírito Santo. For statistical treatment of the data were used χ2 test of association and logistic regression with Odds Ratios(OR). There was a predominance of men aged between 60 and 79 years (75%), non-white (61%), with incomplete primary education (65%), married (77%), using the Unified Health System (UHS) (60%), residing in the State Metropolitan Area (67%) and with clinical stage II (70%). The variables non-white (p=0.025), Gleason score ≥7 (p≤0.001) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) &gt;20 ng/dL (p≤0.001) were associated with late stage at diagnosis, while the undiagnosed referral without previous treatment (p≤0.001) or with diagnosis and treatment (p=0.018) were associated with a greater chance of early clinical staging. The variables that accounted for the increased risk of late stage at diagnosis can be modified by the adoption of specific public policies. With the advancement of the National Comprehensive Health Care of Men (NCHCM), it is expected that a larger number of men have access to the health care network, obtaining early diagnosis and timely treatment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7186601.v1
title: Quality-of-life perception in elderly women who practice and do not practice the Pilates’ method

description: Abstract Background The aging process causes a reduction of the physical function, allowing the individual to have a decrease in the perception of the quality of life. Therefore, regular physical activity can be a favorable factor for a better perception of quality of life. Objective The aim of this study was to compare the quality-of-life perception of elderly women practitioners and non-practitioners of the Pilates’ method. Method divided into three exercise type groups and two age groups: 60-64.9 and 70-74.9 years. The exercise type groups were as follows: Pilates’ method practitioners (n=60), gymnastics practitioners (n=63), and non-practitioners of regular physical activity (n=62). The WHOQOL-OLD and WHOQOL-BREF questionnaires were applied to evaluate the quality-of-life perception. Statistics: The Shapiro-Wilk test verified the data distribution and comparative analysis was conducted using the Kruskal-Wallis test with Mann-Whitney Post-Hoc and Bonferroni correction. All analyses were processed using the SPSS software at 5% significance level (p&lt;0.05). Results For 60-64.9-year-old group assessed by the WHOQOL-OLD questionnaire, the non-practitioners of regular physical activity showed better perception in the social participation domain than that of the gymnastic practitioners. For 70-74.9-year-old group assessed by the same instrument, the Pilates’ method practitioners showed the best perception in most of the quality-of-life domains. Conclusion Elderly women practitioners of the Pilates’ method obtained the highest scores in most of the quality-of-life domains for the 70-74.9-year-old group.