cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7517771.v1
title: Assessment of pregnant, primiparous and postpartum women's knowledge about dental caries

description: OBJECTIVE: To make a comparative assessment of primiparous and multiparous mothers' knowledge about dental caries, access to information and use of dental services during pregnancy. METHODS: This cross-sectional, quantitative study was conducted in a Reference Maternity center for the Seridó region of Rio Grande do Norte, with 100 women aged between 12 and 45 years, who answered a structured questionnaire. RESULTS: The majority of patients received information on oral health (70%) (p=0.24), but only 42% sought dental care during pregnancy (p = 0.45). The interviewees considered caries (80%) (p=0.80), a communicable disease (64%) (p=0.29) arising due to inadequate brushing (60%) (p=0.37). Pregnant women considered a brush with soft bristles and small head appropriate (59%) (p=0.83) and reported that the amount of toothpaste should extend over the entire brush (46%) (p=0.04). "Brush your teeth" was the most cited response (70.9%) in their speeches on caries prevention. CONCLUSIONS: In general the mothers in this study presented similar characteristics as regards knowledge about dental caries, access to information and use of dental services, however, there was significant difference between the groups for the variable quantity of toothpaste used. Nevertheless, some aspects such as the multifactorial etiology of dental caries, biofilm, use of dentifrices, and seeking information and dental services from the perspective or oral health prevention and promotion still need to be worked on among these mothers. These are simple aspects that must be considered in daily care by both pregnant and multiparous women
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7942526
title: Digital images of seedling for evaluating coffee seed vigor

description: Abstract: The digital image analysis of seedlings has become largely employed in seed quality-control programs due to its feasibility, objectivity and fast results. Despite these advantages, no studies have yet demonstrated the efficiency of this technique for analyzing coffee seed vigor. The present study aimed at evaluating the efficiency of the Seed Vigor Imaging System (SVIS®) in determining the vigor of coffee seeds (Coffea arabica L.) from digital images of seedlings. Also, the results of these analyses were contrasted with conventional vigor tests. Six seed lots from each cultivar, Bourbon and Catucaí 20/15, were used. The research was conducted in two experimental times, and the seed vigor was determined by the tests of first germination count, accelerated aging, electrical conductivity, primary root protrusion speed, as well as by the analysis of scanned images of seedlings, made possible by the SVIS® software. For the Bourbon and Catucaí 20/15 cultivars, the SVIS® analysis was able to discriminate lots of both high and low vigor (vigor indexes of 317 to 752, and 181 to 703, respectively). A similar outcome was obtained from the conventional tests appraised in this research. Eventually, it was possible to conclude that the digital analysis of 20-day-old seedlings by SVIS® is an efficient method to evaluate coffee seed vigor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7942541.v1
title: Seed quality and crop performance of soybeans submitted to different forms of treatment and seed size

description: Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of different grain sizes and treatments in the physiological quality of seeds and performance of soybean cultures. The object of analysis were seeds from the cultivars Monsoy 5730 IPRO and Monsoy 5947 IPRO, sized 5.5 and 6.5 mm. The industrial seed treatment was carried out in lot equipment, with the products cyantraniliprole, thiamethoxam, metalaxyl, thiabendazole, and a combination of fludioxonil + polymer + talc. The conventional treatment was performed with the products cyantraniliprole, thiamethoxam, metalaxyl, thiabendazole, and fludioxonil. Part of the seeds was kept untreated (control). The experiment used a randomized block design, with four replications. The parameters assessed include the moisture content measurement, seed coating, germination, first germination count, field emergence, survival rate, and grain yield (right after the seed treatment and after 45 days of storage). The industrial treatment method produced a better seed coating. As for seed size, it had no effect on quality or grain yield. Last, the treated seeds presented the best results for emergence in field, while the industrial treatment achieved the highest productivity.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7506485
title: Towards a personalized risk assessment for exposure of humans to toxic substances

description: Abstract Great response variability caused by genetic and/or environmental factors has been observed among organisms exposed to hazardous chemicals. This subject has been a topic of intense discussion in the USA since President Obama announced support for an “era of precision medicine”, which consists in the inclusion of genetic data of patients in the treatment design, imposing a new approach to risk assessment. Personalized evaluation must consider the phenotypic factors of an individual. Among the markers that have been developed to evaluate any alteration in the structure or function of organisms, biomarkers of susceptibility are of great importance because they indicate the natural characteristics of a given organism which make it more sensitive to a specific adverse effect or disease, or more responsive to exposure to a specific chemical/drug. The ‘-omics’ technologies provide an insight into the relationship between chemical effects and molecular mechanisms of action. These technologies are the pillars for a personalized toxicology and precision medicine. Predictive toxicology requires a more comprehensive knowledge on specific individual factors or susceptibilities predisposing to diseases, enabling personalized risk assessment and adequate medical treatment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7506485.v1
title: Towards a personalized risk assessment for exposure of humans to toxic substances

description: Abstract Great response variability caused by genetic and/or environmental factors has been observed among organisms exposed to hazardous chemicals. This subject has been a topic of intense discussion in the USA since President Obama announced support for an “era of precision medicine”, which consists in the inclusion of genetic data of patients in the treatment design, imposing a new approach to risk assessment. Personalized evaluation must consider the phenotypic factors of an individual. Among the markers that have been developed to evaluate any alteration in the structure or function of organisms, biomarkers of susceptibility are of great importance because they indicate the natural characteristics of a given organism which make it more sensitive to a specific adverse effect or disease, or more responsive to exposure to a specific chemical/drug. The ‘-omics’ technologies provide an insight into the relationship between chemical effects and molecular mechanisms of action. These technologies are the pillars for a personalized toxicology and precision medicine. Predictive toxicology requires a more comprehensive knowledge on specific individual factors or susceptibilities predisposing to diseases, enabling personalized risk assessment and adequate medical treatment.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7942526.v1
title: Digital images of seedling for evaluating coffee seed vigor

description: Abstract: The digital image analysis of seedlings has become largely employed in seed quality-control programs due to its feasibility, objectivity and fast results. Despite these advantages, no studies have yet demonstrated the efficiency of this technique for analyzing coffee seed vigor. The present study aimed at evaluating the efficiency of the Seed Vigor Imaging System (SVIS®) in determining the vigor of coffee seeds (Coffea arabica L.) from digital images of seedlings. Also, the results of these analyses were contrasted with conventional vigor tests. Six seed lots from each cultivar, Bourbon and Catucaí 20/15, were used. The research was conducted in two experimental times, and the seed vigor was determined by the tests of first germination count, accelerated aging, electrical conductivity, primary root protrusion speed, as well as by the analysis of scanned images of seedlings, made possible by the SVIS® software. For the Bourbon and Catucaí 20/15 cultivars, the SVIS® analysis was able to discriminate lots of both high and low vigor (vigor indexes of 317 to 752, and 181 to 703, respectively). A similar outcome was obtained from the conventional tests appraised in this research. Eventually, it was possible to conclude that the digital analysis of 20-day-old seedlings by SVIS® is an efficient method to evaluate coffee seed vigor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7453019
title: Adequacy of birth weight for gestational age according to INTERGROWTH-21st curve and factors associated with the small for gestational age

description: Abstract Background There are few national studies despite the knowledge about the multifactorial etiology of restricted intrauterine growth. Objective To estimate the adequacy of birth weight for gestational age and investigate factors associated with the newborns small for the gestational age (NB-SGA). Method This is a cross-sectional study in public maternity hospitals in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, RJ, in 2011 (1,771 live births). Data sources was through interviews with the mothers and medical records. The prevalence of NB-SGA, adequate (NB-AGA) and large (NB-LGA) for gestational age newborn were estimated (INTERGROWTH21st) according to maternal, gestational and newborn characteristics. Poisson regression was used (outcome SGA). Results The prevalence rates were: 9.3% SGA and 15.9% LGA. Brown skin color (prevalence rate - PR = 1.4), low scholarship (RP=1.3), prenatal inadequacy (RP = 1.3), smoking (reduction/cessation: RP = 1.7, continuity: RP = 2.4) and arterial hypertension (RP = 1.3) were associated with SGA in the univariate analysis (p&lt;0.20) and only smoking remained in the final model (reduction/cessation: RP = 1.7 and continuity: RP = 2.3, p&lt;0.05). Conclusion SGA prevalence showed dose-response relationship with smoking. Population-based anti-smoking strategies should be intensified for women of childbearing age, and particularly for pregnant women, promoting prenatal care smoking-cessation practices.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7453019.v1
title: Adequacy of birth weight for gestational age according to INTERGROWTH-21st curve and factors associated with the small for gestational age

description: Abstract Background There are few national studies despite the knowledge about the multifactorial etiology of restricted intrauterine growth. Objective To estimate the adequacy of birth weight for gestational age and investigate factors associated with the newborns small for the gestational age (NB-SGA). Method This is a cross-sectional study in public maternity hospitals in Rio de Janeiro and Niterói, RJ, in 2011 (1,771 live births). Data sources was through interviews with the mothers and medical records. The prevalence of NB-SGA, adequate (NB-AGA) and large (NB-LGA) for gestational age newborn were estimated (INTERGROWTH21st) according to maternal, gestational and newborn characteristics. Poisson regression was used (outcome SGA). Results The prevalence rates were: 9.3% SGA and 15.9% LGA. Brown skin color (prevalence rate - PR = 1.4), low scholarship (RP=1.3), prenatal inadequacy (RP = 1.3), smoking (reduction/cessation: RP = 1.7, continuity: RP = 2.4) and arterial hypertension (RP = 1.3) were associated with SGA in the univariate analysis (p&lt;0.20) and only smoking remained in the final model (reduction/cessation: RP = 1.7 and continuity: RP = 2.3, p&lt;0.05). Conclusion SGA prevalence showed dose-response relationship with smoking. Population-based anti-smoking strategies should be intensified for women of childbearing age, and particularly for pregnant women, promoting prenatal care smoking-cessation practices.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513439
title: Beira, a modernist landscape in Tropical Africa

description: Abstract Beira is a complex and unique case study regarding the implementation of modernist ideas in tropical countries. The city became prosperous due to the high yields provided by its rail and port interface connecting to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; it attracted wealth, ambitious, talented young Portuguese architects and civil engineers that built a paradoxical metropolis, filled with iconic modernist buildings, complex and unorthodox technical solutions that filled an unique urban plan in the Portuguese colonial Africa. This article discusses the city expansion process based on a modernist matrix, deeply influenced by Brazilian architectural and urban imaginary, emphasizing the application of modernist influence in the city's expansion logic as well as technical and political options. It also discusses the importance of the exchange of ideas; and urban and architectural models among Portuguese architects and civil engineers based in Mozambique. The authors methodologically conducted an established recognition fieldwork of the city's matrix and identified the modernist architectural legacy of Brazilian influence by selecting the most emblematic examples among the buildings.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7513439.v1
title: Beira, a modernist landscape in Tropical Africa

description: Abstract Beira is a complex and unique case study regarding the implementation of modernist ideas in tropical countries. The city became prosperous due to the high yields provided by its rail and port interface connecting to Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; it attracted wealth, ambitious, talented young Portuguese architects and civil engineers that built a paradoxical metropolis, filled with iconic modernist buildings, complex and unorthodox technical solutions that filled an unique urban plan in the Portuguese colonial Africa. This article discusses the city expansion process based on a modernist matrix, deeply influenced by Brazilian architectural and urban imaginary, emphasizing the application of modernist influence in the city's expansion logic as well as technical and political options. It also discusses the importance of the exchange of ideas; and urban and architectural models among Portuguese architects and civil engineers based in Mozambique. The authors methodologically conducted an established recognition fieldwork of the city's matrix and identified the modernist architectural legacy of Brazilian influence by selecting the most emblematic examples among the buildings.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14272832
title: What are the challenges for the qualification of Primary Care in the view of municipal managers?

description: In the last years, the Primary Care has provided many advances in the community health, however, many challenges still remain. This paper seeks to analyze the main challenges of Primary Care in the view of the municipal health managers, identifying and analyzing descriptively the five most common ones at the levels national, regional and by stratum of municipalities. It was held a quantitative approach with the analysis of secondary data of the Primary Health Care, derived from the databases of the Ministry of Health. It was noted that many challenges are recurrent and others are shown in some specific region or stratum, suggesting their dimension in the local context.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7507358
title: Business Strategy and Environmental Practices: evidences on the sugar-alcohol sector

description: ABSTRACT This article aims at analyzing how companies that belong to the sugar-alcohol sector are dealing with environmental management under a strategic perspective. The research strategy chosen was the study of multiple cases undertaken in eight companies located in the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba. The main data gathering technique was the semi-structured interview. The analysis of data took place in two stages: individual analysis and crossed analysis of the cases. The results showed evidence that clients, society, competitors and governments are the main actors to influence companies, in the sense of making them rethink the consequences of their decisions under an environmental perspective. The formation of the strategy through the tool of planning was the most evidenced in the research. A theme that draws attention is that it was not found, in any of the companies studied, effective return measures for the environmental investments. Despite the commitment of the high administration with environmental matters supporting efforts in that direction, the environmental dimension seems to be relegated to specific functional levels, in a way that the alignment between operational and strategic issues is still incipient. Through the analysis of the main practices undertaken by the companies in the industrial sector, it is noticed that there still is a greater emphasis on corrective actions. However, there are growing efforts in favors of a pre-emptive behavior towards a strategic approach.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512659
title: The 2014 Elections and the Brazilian Party System

description: The Brazilian party system presents a paradox. Although the Workers Party (PT) and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) have controlled presidential elections for the last 20 years, their force at the other levels of electoral competition has not grown. The objective of this study is to undertake a discussion of this situation through the 2014 general elections. After attempting to explain why successive challengers have not been able to change the structure of competition for the Brazilian presidency, I will analyze the relation established between the pattern observed at this level and the other “connected” electoral disputes—both those for state executive and federal legislative office. The general conclusion is that even if the pattern continues, it is quite improbable that this will significantly impact the other levels of national political party competition.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7512659.v1
title: The 2014 Elections and the Brazilian Party System

description: The Brazilian party system presents a paradox. Although the Workers Party (PT) and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) have controlled presidential elections for the last 20 years, their force at the other levels of electoral competition has not grown. The objective of this study is to undertake a discussion of this situation through the 2014 general elections. After attempting to explain why successive challengers have not been able to change the structure of competition for the Brazilian presidency, I will analyze the relation established between the pattern observed at this level and the other “connected” electoral disputes—both those for state executive and federal legislative office. The general conclusion is that even if the pattern continues, it is quite improbable that this will significantly impact the other levels of national political party competition.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7510094
title: Press and graphic humor: the origin of “O amigo da onça”* in question

description: Abstract This paper presents the results of a research2 that investigates the roots of “O amigo da onça”, humor cartoon created by cartoonist Péricles Maranhão (1924-1961) and published in the magazine O Cruzeiro, from 1943 to 1962. The character is one of the most popular figures of Brazilian graphic humor and reveals the daily life of society at that time. The study confirms an information circulated in the news media , but not yet verified: whether “O Amigo da Onça” was inspired by the Argentine series “Enemigos del hombre”, by Guillermo Divito (1914-1969) and published from 1938 onwards in the magazine Patoruzú (1936-1977), edited in Buenos Aires. To this end, we started with a comparative study that considers not only the production context of the series, but also the character-characteristics s and the type of humor peculiar to the stories. The theoretical framework comes mainly from two areas: the press and graphic humor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7510094.v1
title: Press and graphic humor: the origin of “O amigo da onça”* in question

description: Abstract This paper presents the results of a research2 that investigates the roots of “O amigo da onça”, humor cartoon created by cartoonist Péricles Maranhão (1924-1961) and published in the magazine O Cruzeiro, from 1943 to 1962. The character is one of the most popular figures of Brazilian graphic humor and reveals the daily life of society at that time. The study confirms an information circulated in the news media , but not yet verified: whether “O Amigo da Onça” was inspired by the Argentine series “Enemigos del hombre”, by Guillermo Divito (1914-1969) and published from 1938 onwards in the magazine Patoruzú (1936-1977), edited in Buenos Aires. To this end, we started with a comparative study that considers not only the production context of the series, but also the character-characteristics s and the type of humor peculiar to the stories. The theoretical framework comes mainly from two areas: the press and graphic humor.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14272832.v1
title: What are the challenges for the qualification of Primary Care in the view of municipal managers?

description: In the last years, the Primary Care has provided many advances in the community health, however, many challenges still remain. This paper seeks to analyze the main challenges of Primary Care in the view of the municipal health managers, identifying and analyzing descriptively the five most common ones at the levels national, regional and by stratum of municipalities. It was held a quantitative approach with the analysis of secondary data of the Primary Health Care, derived from the databases of the Ministry of Health. It was noted that many challenges are recurrent and others are shown in some specific region or stratum, suggesting their dimension in the local context.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6503678
title: La Problemática de los Inmigrantes Ambientales y el Patrocinio Privado de Refugiados

description: Resumen El presente artículo tiene por objetivo analizar la política del Patrocinio Privado de Refugiados (Private Sponsorship of Refugees, en inglés), el cual se muestra como una alternativa para hacer frente a los flujos masivos de refugiados. El Patrocinio Privado de Refugiados, que nació en Canadá en la década de 1970, se basa en la participación del sector privado, no restricto a las empresas, sino también a la sociedad en general, la cual asume el patrocinio, o la responsabilidad de ayudar financieramente, a los solicitantes de refugio que desean refugiarse en el Estado de Destino, concientizando a la sociedad local sobre los sufrimientos y la realidad que enfrentan los solicitantes de refugio. En este sentido, el presente artículo analizará como el Patrocinio Privado de Refugiados puede dar una respuesta rápida frente al flujo de desplazados ambientales, dado que ellos no están encajados en la definición de refugiados en el Derecho Internacional.