Journals
2013 EN
Atsushi Goto · Akemi Morita · Maki Goto
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Diabetes is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, certain types of cancer, and death, and self-reports are one of the most convenient methods for ascertaining diabetes status. We evaluated the validity of diabetes self-reports among Japanese who participated in a health checkup.
Japan Epidemiological Association
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2013 EN
Lia A. Bernardi · Mary Ellen Pavone
Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease that commonly occurs in women of reproductive age and is associated with pain and infertility. This disease can be challenging to manage given its propensity to progress and recur despite treatment. Although medical therapy is beneficial for controlling pain due to endometriosis, medical management has not proven to be effective in treating infertility resulting from endometriosis. Surgery has historically been performed to both improve pain and treat infertility in women with endometriosis. However, the optimal management of endometriosis in asymptomatic women who desire fertility is unclear. Intrauterine insemination with superovulation and IVF are other treatments that have proven to be effective in assisting women with endometriosis to conceive. As the underlying molecular mechanisms of this disease become better understood, promising new therapies for the treatment of endometriosis continue to be investigated.
Journals
2013 SP
Érika Cruz Coria · Lilia Zizumbo Villarreal · Neptalí Monterroso Salvatierra
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El Estado, en busca de integrar a Puerto Morelos a la modernizacion , incito la participacion de distintos actores sociales, quienes al vislumbrar su potencial pesquero, pero sobre todo turistico, impondrian ciertas formas de aprovechamiento sobre los recursos naturales y en los espacios costeros, que serian pieza clave en las gananciaseconomicas derivadas de esta actividad. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue documentar el proceso de conformacion de los paisajes turisticos configurados a lo largo de la costa, a partir de las confrontaciones entre los actores sociales durante el periodo de transicion, que va de la crisis del modelo de sustitucion de importaciones al neoliberal en el que este lugar, junto con sus recursos naturales, transito de la apropiacion estatal a la propiedad privada. Aqui se retomaron las aportaciones teorico metodologicas de diversos autores, que permitieron comprender las transformaciones del paisaje en el contexto de la confrontacion social.
Journals
2013 PO
Luciéle Bernardi de Souza · Liane Batistela Kist
Propomos, através de uma revisão bibliográfica e considerações acerca da práxis desenvolvida em sala de aula, investigar como a teoria literária colabora para as práticas de leitura de contos no Ensino Fundamental. O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir para a ampliação da discussão e reflexão sobre a Metodologia para o Ensino de Literatura e Leitura na Educação Básica. Como escopo teórico, utilizaremos pensadores da Estética da Recepção e pensadores brasileiros como, Yunes (1995), Aguiar & Bordini (1993), dentre outros. As considerações apresentadas dizem respeito à experiência docente desenvolvida no âmbito da disciplina de Estágio Supervisionado Português/Licenciaturas e Estágio Supervisionado no ensino Fundamental- Português. Podemos afirmar, ao final de nossa reflexão sobre a prática docente, que a relação do conhecimento, quando estabelecida entre universidade e escola, é de grande valia para uma compreensão da obra de arte literária e consequente aproximação do aluno da Escola Básica com tal obra.
Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
Journals
2013 PO
Joyce Wilhelm · Manoele Molossi Bernardi · Zequiela Russi
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Introdução: O câncer de mama é o tipo de câncer mais comum entre as mulheres, porém se diagnosticado e tratado oportunamente apresenta um prognóstico relativamente bom. Mesmo com as significativas mudanças nas técnicas de tratamento ainda são muitas as consequências físicas e emocionais encontradas nestes pacientes. Por isso, a abordagem multidisciplinar é fundamental, e a fisioterapia representa um importante papel nestes casos preservando e restaurando a integridade cinético-funcional dos órgãos e sistemas. Objetivos: Verificar os benefícios proporcionados por um programa de fisioterapia em uma paciente no pós-operatório de câncer de mama, buscando uma melhora do quadro álgico, da amplitude de movimento e da força muscular. Materiais e métodos: O presente estudo foi delineado pelo método qualiquantitativo em saúde, do tipo estudo de caso, realizado na Clínica Escola de Fisioterapia da URI – campus de Erechim, com uma paciente de 60 anos que se encontrava no segundo mês de pós-operatório de câncer de mama direita. Resultados: Ao primeiro encontro a paciente relatou dores em região axilar e de membro superior direito e cervical, além disso, verificou-se diminuição da amplitude de movimento de membros superiores e diminuição de força muscular do membro superior homolateral à cirurgia. O protocolo fisioterapêutico realizado foi baseado nas limitações funcionais avaliadas, e teve duração de 12 sessões. Conclusão: Após esse período se verificou que o protocolo de tratamento fisioterapêutico foi eficaz no pós-operatório de câncer de mama, proporcionando diminuição da dor, prevenção do linfedema, aumento da amplitude de movimento de membros superiores, sem alteração na força muscular.
Centro de Organização da Memória Sócio-Cultural do Oeste de Santa Catarina
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2013 PO
Dênis Marcelo Modeneze · Érika da Silva Maciel · Guanis de Barros Vilela
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Os componentes do perfil epidemiológico e social de idosos parecem ter forte associação com a percepção subjetiva da qualidade de vida. O objetivo desse estudo foi determinar a associação entre qualidade de vida e os aspectos socioeconômicos e de saúde de idosos ativos. Foram estudados 82 idosos com idade média de 68,08 (DP=4,36) anos, participantes da Universidade da Terceira Idade – UnATI – da cidade de Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil. A percepção da qualidade de vida foi mensurada utilizando o WHOQOLBREF. Idade, gênero, renda, estado civil, escolaridade, nível socioeconômico, número de morbidades, circunferência abdominal e IMC foram elencadas como variáveis independentes. As associações entre a percepção da qualidade de vida e as variá veis independentes foram avaliadas pelos testes do qui-quadrado para as variáveis categóricas e pelos testes T-student ou Mann-Whitney, quando necessário, para as variáveis contínuas. O nível de significância adotado foi 5% de probabilidade ou o p-valor correspondente. A análise dos dados indicou a possível influência das variáveis renda, morbidades e escolaridade nos diversos domínios da qualidade de vida. Os idosos com maior poder aquisitivo são menos acometidos por doenças, têm níveis mais elevados de educação e informam ter melhor qualidade de vida. Concluímos que o perfil epidemiológico e social interfere na qualidade de vida de idosos ativos.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Journals
2013 EN
Aleksandar Bošković
The paper presents an outline of the relationship between anthropology and demography, sometimes depicted as "long, tortured, often ambivalent, and sometimes passionate." Although early anthropologists (primarily British social anthropologists) routinely made use of demographic data, especially in their studies of kinship, the two disciplines gradually drifted away from each other. The re-approachment took place from 1960s, and the last fifteen years saw more intensive cooperation and more insights about possible mutual benefits that could be achieved through combining of methodologies and revision of some theoretical assumptions, primarily through anthropological demography. As summarized by Laura Bernardi and Inge Hutter, "Anthropological demography is a specialty within demography that uses anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lies at the intersection of demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research subject, namely human populations, and they focus on mutually complementary aspects" (2007: 541). In the first part of the paper, the author presents some general considerations, like the one that "demography is one of the best understood and predictable parts of human behavior, even if demographers still find themselves unable to predict accurately when parameters will change in interesting ways, such as the ′the baby boom′ or the shift to later childbeanng in the 1970s and 1980s North America" (Howell, 1986: 219). Nancy Howell also noted the importance of demographic anthropology, because, in her words "if we knew, reliably, the birth and death probability schedules of particular populations, we would know a great deal about their size, age composition, growth rate. And with just a little more information we would know a great deal more such as household and family composition, economic organization, social problems, and something of the political structure. It we knew the schedules for populations in general and could correlate the schedules with the causes, genetic or environmental, that produce them, we would know a great deal about the possible range of human social structure" (Howell, 1986: 219). In the second part of the paper, the author discusses several examples of interplay between anthropology and demography. One of them is Patrick Heady′s study of the shift in ritual patterns, which combines elements of some "classical" anthropological topics (Mauss’s theory of gift exchange and Lévi-Strauss′s concept of kinship) with his own field research in the Carnian Alps. "By marrying and raising children, parents participate in a system of gift-exchange in which the gifts in question are human lives, and the parties to the exchange are the kinship groups recognized in the society concerned. Fertility reflects the attitudes of prospective parents to their place in the existing system of reproductive exchange, and the relationships of cooperation and authority which it implies - as well as their confidence in the system’s continuing viability. It is shown that this view is compatible with earlier ideas about self-regulating population systems - and that changing economic circumstances are an important source of discrepancy between existing exchange systems and the attitudes and expectations of prospective parents" (Heady, 2007: 465). The paper concludes with the discussion of the directions in which relationship between these two disciplines can proceed. Some of the epistemological issues are mentioned, as well as a need to apply different theoretical perspectives to better understand demographic behavior (especially in Europe) and to better understand certain cultural components that shape this behavior. In order to achieve this, most of the scholars whose works are discussed in this paper emphasize "the need for a holistic approach to data collection and the added value of triangulating quantitative and qualitative analyses" (Bernardi, Hutter, 2007: 541). [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 47010: Društvene transformacije u procesu evropskih integracija - multidisciplinarni pristup
Institute of Social Science
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2013 EN
Meredith B. Larkin · Richard A. Bernardi · Susan M. Bosco
This study examined the association between corporate transparency and ethical orientation of Fortune 500 companies and the number of females represented on the board of directors from the Fortune (2010) annual report data. Our basis for this judgment was whether the firm was listed on either (both) Ethisphere Magazine's “2010 World's Most Ethical Companies” (Ethisphere Magazine 2011) or (and) Corporate Responsibility Magazine's “100 Best Corporate Citizens 2010” (Corporate Responsibility Magazine 2011) list(s). Our results indicated that, as the number of women directors increased, the probability of a corporation appearing on these lists increased. We also found that a “critical mass” of women directors was indicated by the data for Ethisphere Magazine's but not Corporate Responsibility Magazine's list.
American Accounting Association
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2013 EN
Leonardo Santos Antunes · Érika Calvano Küchler · Patrícia Nivoloni Tannure
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We investigated the association between polymorphisms in the MMP2 (rs243865), MMP9 (rs17576), and MMP13 (rs2252070) genes with tooth agenesis in humans. Two hundred eighty-five unrelated individuals (202 controls without tooth agenesis and 83 cases with tooth agenesis) were evaluated in a cross-sectional single-center study. The study participants were recruited through the Pediatric Dental Clinics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Genotyping of the selected polymorphisms for MMPs was carried out by real-time PCR using the Taqman assay method from genomic DNA isolated from buccal epithelial cells of all the studied individuals. There was no significant association of MMP2 genotype or allele distribution with tooth agenesis or its absence. For MMP9, a significant difference in allele frequency was evident between the two groups (P = 0.05). With regard to the affected side, there was a significant difference between unilateral tooth agenesis and the control group in the distribution of MMP9 (P = 0.05). Also, there was a significant difference in MMP9 distribution between tooth agenesis in the maxilla and control individuals (P = 0.03). The genotype distribution of MMP13 differed significantly between the group with unilateral tooth agenesis and the controls (P = 0.01). Our findings provide evidence that MMP9 and MMP13 may be involved in tooth agenesis.
Journals
2013 EN
Tobias Duennwald · Luciano Bernardi · Daniel Gordin
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Hypoxemia is common in diabetes, and reflex responses to hypoxia are blunted. These abnormalities could lead to cardiovascular/renal complications. Interval hypoxia (IH) (5-6 short periods of hypoxia each day over 1-3 weeks) was successfully used to improve the adaptation to hypoxia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We tested whether IH over 1 day could initiate a long-lasting response potentially leading to better adaptation to hypoxia. In 15 patients with type 1 diabetes, we measured hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory responses (HCVRs), ventilatory recruitment threshold (VRT-CO2), baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), blood pressure, and blood lactate before and after 0, 3, and 6 h of a 1-h single bout of IH. All measurements were repeated on a placebo day (single-blind protocol, randomized sequence). After IH (immediately and after 3 h), hypoxic and HCVR increased, whereas the VRT-CO2 dropped. No such changes were observed on the placebo day. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure increased, whereas blood lactate decreased after IH. Despite exposure to hypoxia, BRS remained unchanged. Repeated exposures to hypoxia over 1 day induced an initial adaptation to hypoxia, with improvement in respiratory reflexes. Prolonging the exposure to IH (>2 weeks) in type 1 diabetic patients will be a matter for further studies.
American Diabetes Association