Proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress

Published proceedings of the 2018 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress, hosted by York University, 27-30 May 2018

SPICA:revealing the hearts of galaxies and forming planetary systems : approach and US contributions

How did the diversity of galaxies we see in the modern Universe come to be? When and where did stars within them forge the heavy elements that give rise to the complex chemistry of life? How do planetary systems, the Universe's home for life, emerge from interstellar material? Answering these questions requires techniques that penetrate dust to reveal the detailed contents and processes in obscured regions. The ESA-JAXA Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA) mission is designed for this, with a focus on sensitive spectroscopy in the 12 to 230 micron range. SPICA offers massive sensitivity improvements with its 2.5-meter primary mirror actively cooled to below 8 K. SPICA one of 3 candidates for the ESA's Cosmic Visions M5 mission, and JAXA has is committed to their portion of the collaboration. ESA will provide the silicon-carbide telescope, science instrument assembly, satellite integration and testing, and the spacecraft bus. JAXA will provide the passive and active cooling system (supporting the

The Apertif Surveys:The First Six Months

Apertif is a new phased-array feed for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), greatly increasing its field of view and turning it into a natural survey instrument. In July 2019, the Apertif legacy surveys commenced; these are a time-domain survey and a two-tiered imaging survey, with a shallow and medium-deep component. The time-domain survey searches for new (millisecond) pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs). The imaging surveys provide neutral hydrogen (HI), radio continuum and polarization data products. With a bandwidth of 300 MHz, Apertif can detect HI out to a redshift of 0.26. The key science goals to be accomplished by Apertif include localization of FRBs (including real-time public alerts), the role of environment and interaction on galaxy properties and gas removal, finding the smallest galaxies, connecting cold gas to AGN, understanding the faint radio population, and studying magnetic fields in galaxies. After a proprietary period, survey data products will be publicly available through the Apertif Long Term Archive (ALTA, https://alta.astron.nl). I will review the progress of the surveys and present the first results from the Apertif surveys, including highlighting the currently available public data

Promoção das competências parentais no auto cuidado terapêutico à criança

O presente relatório expõe todo o percurso feito ao longo do estágio no âmbito do curso de Mestrado em Enfermagem, na área de especialização em Saúde Infantil e Pediátrica. A base conceptual do mesmo reporta-se ao Modelo de Auto Cuidado de Dorothea E.Orem. A escolha do tema “Promoção das competências parentais no auto cuidado terapêutico à criança” surgiu devido a uma sucessiva constatação da prática da educação para a saúde não abranger uma base/modelo teórico de enfermagem, o que seria uma mais-valia na sua organização e estruturação, possuir um suporte teórico e científico favorecendo uma atitude coerente frente à promoção do desenvolvimento parental, beneficiando a sistematização do cuidado de enfermagem. Os pais, são segundo a Teoria do Défice de Auto Cuidado (TDACE), agentes de cuidar dependentes, pois têm de colmatar a necessidade terapêutica de auto cuidado (AC) de outros relevantes (a criança), que é socialmente dependente deles. O enfermeiro especialista em saúde infantil e pediátrica (EESIP) é aquele que tem competências para assistir e cuidar desta criança e família, em todos os seus níveis de desenvolvimento, quer na saúde quer na doença. Deste modo, foi tido em consideração a “ (…) a natural dependência da criança, a sua progressiva autonomização e o binómio criança/família como alvo do cuidar do enfermeiro especialista de saúde infantil e pediatria, [que] estabelece com ambos uma parceria de cuidar promotora da optimização da saúde, no sentido da adequação da gestão do regime e da parentalidade” (SIECE 2009, p.21). Para além disso, foi respeitada a interculturalidade das diferentes populações e foi adjudicado o etnocentrismo,adequando o cuidar a cada cultura. Como objectivo geral deste relatório pretendo divulgar o percurso feito e os resultados do trabalho de aprendizagem na prestação de cuidados globais à criança/família, no decorrer do estágio. Pude adquirir competências para promover a adaptação da criança/jovem e família à doença oncológica, através do conhecimento aprofundado de uma instituição de suporte que apoia estas crianças, podendo referencia-la posteriormente. Nos diferentes módulos colaborei e prestei cuidados às crianças/famílias, identifiquei as suas necessidades do ciclo de vida e de desenvolvimento, quer no internamento de pediatria, na neonatologia e na urgência pediátrica, promovendo o desenvolvimento das competências parentais e melhoria do AC terapêutico às mesmas, maximizando a sua saúde e prestando cuidados em situações de maior complexidade. Pude ainda desenvolver a praxis clínica especializada em sólidos e válidos padrões de conhecimento, diagnosticando necessidades formativas, actuando como formadora, favoreci a aprendizagem e competências dos enfermeiros e da criança/família. No fim deste percurso posso referir que foram atingidos totalmente os objectivos inicialmente planeados, com adaptações ao longo dos diferentes contextos.This report exposes the whole course done over the internship under the Master of Nursing, in area of specialization in Pediatrics and Child Health. The conceptual basis of the same reports is based on the Model of Self Care by Dorothea E.Orem. The choice of the theme "Promoting parenting skills in self care treatment to the child" emerged due to a subsequent finding of the practice of health education that should embrace a nursing theoretical basis/model, which would be an asset in their organization and structure, having a theoretical basis and scientific attitude favoring a coherent front to the promotion of parental development and benefiting the systematization of nursing care. The parents are according to the theory of Self Care Deficit (TDACE), dependent care agents, as they have to address the therapeutic need for self care (AC) of other relevant (the child) who is socially dependent on them. The nurse specialist in child health and pediatrics (EESIP) has skills to assist and care for this child and family at all levels of development, whether in health or disease. Thus, it is considered that "(...) the natural dependence of children, their empowerment and progressive binomial child / family as the focus of nursing care specialist pediatrics and child health, establishes a partnership with both care promotes the optimal health in the sense of the adequacy of management arrangements and parenthood "(SIECE 2009, p.21). Furthermore the interculturality of different populations has been respected and is also a granted ethnocentrism, tailoring care to each culture. The overall objective of this report is to inform which course I have taken and show results of the work of learning through a critical analysis of the activities and resources I used in providing comprehensive care to children/families during the internship. I was able to acquire skills to help the working child/youth and family to cancer disease through the knowledge of a supporting institution that supports these children and can reference it later. In different modules I collaborated and provided care for children/families, identified their needs in their life cycle of development, which also includes inpatient pediatrics, neonatology and pediatric emergency, promoting the development of parenting skills and improving the therapeutic to the same AC, maximizing their health and providing care in situations of greater complexity. I could still develop clinical praxis specializing in sound and valid standards of knowledge, acting as a trainer, diagnosing needs, but also favored the learning and skills of nurses and child/family. At the end of this course I can refer that the originally planned goals, along with adaptations of different contexts, were fully achieved