Tiefenkartenbasierte Superresolution f ür 3D-Rekonstruktion

Projecte realitzat en el marc d’un programa de mobilitat amb la Fakultät für Informätik de la Technischen Universität MünchenIn this thesis a superresolution method consisting in a deblurring and an upsampling is used to improve the quality of a 3D reconstruction using data sampled with a Kinect. Results show that there is a significant quality improve

COMPLIANCE E MUDANÇA ORGANIZACIONAL: A Percepção de Executivos após uma Aquisição Corporativa

RESUMO: Sistemas de Compliance são um conjunto de medidas internas que permite prevenir ou minimizar os riscos de violação às leis e procedimentos internos decorrentes de atividade praticada por um agente econômico. O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar as percepções de gestores sobre o processo de mudança organizacional com a adoção de um novo sistema de Compliance em uma empresa brasileira e familiar adquirida por uma multinacional. Buscou realizar-se estudo de natureza descritiva, qualitativa e hermenêutica, com coleta de dados ancorada em entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com Executivos de alta hierarquia. Pôde-se observar que os executivos, em suas diferentes áreas de atuação, possuem percepções distintas e conflitantes quanto à importância da implementação de um sistema de Compliance para mitigar atos ilegais e conceder maior segurança aos stakeholders.Palavras-Chave: Mudança organizacional; Compliance; Resistência à Mudança. ABSTRACT: Compliance systems are a set of internal measures that permits to prevent or minimize the risks of violation of laws and internal procedures decurrent of activity practiced by an economic agent. The objective of this research is to analyze managers perceptions on organizational change process with the adoption of a new Compliance system in a Brazilian and family company acquired by a multinational. It was sought to conduct a descriptive, qualitative, and hermeneutical study, with data anchored in semi-structured interviews conducted with high-ranking executives. It can be observed that executives, in their different areas of practice, have different and conflicting perceptions as to the importance of implementing a Compliance system to mitigate illegal acts and provide greater security to stakeholders.Keywords: Organizational change; Compliance; Resistance to change. RESUMEN: Los sistemas de compliance son un conjunto de medidas internas que permiten prevenir o minimizar los riesgos de violación de leyes y procedimientos internos derivados de la actividad que practica un agente económico. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar las percepciones de los gerentes sobre el proceso de cambio organizacional con la adopción de un nuevo sistema de compliance en una empresa brasileña y familiar adquirida por una multinacional. Se buscó realizar un estudio descriptivo, cualitativo y hermenéutico, con datos anclados en entrevistas semiestructuradas realizadas a altos ejecutivos. Se puede observar que los ejecutivos, en sus diferentes áreas de práctica, tienen percepciones diferentes y contradictorias sobre la importancia de implementar un sistema de compliance para mitigar actos ilícitos y brindar mayor seguridad a los grupos de interés.Palabras-clave: Cambio organizacional; Compliance; Resistencia al cambio   

Association of central obesity with unique cardiac remodelling in young adults born small for gestational age

Being born small for gestational age (SGA, 10% of all births) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality in adulthood together with lower exercise tolerance, but mechanistic pathways are unclear. Central obesity is known to worsen cardiovascular outcomes, but it is uncertain how it affects the heart in adults born SGA. We aimed to assess whether central obesity makes young adults born SGA more susceptible to cardiac remodelling and dysfunction.A perinatal cohort from a tertiary university hospital in Spain of young adults (30-40 years) randomly selected, 80 born SGA (birth weight below 10th centile) and 75 with normal birth weight (controls) was recruited. We studied the associations between SGA and central obesity (measured via the hip-to-waist ratio and used as a continuous variable) and cardiac regional structure and function, assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance using statistical shape analysis. Both SGA and waist-to-hip were highly associated to cardiac shape (F = 3.94, P < 0.001; F = 5.18, P < 0.001 respectively) with a statistically significant interaction (F = 2.29, P = 0.02). While controls tend to increase left ventricular end-diastolic volumes, mass and stroke volume with increasing waist-to-hip ratio, young adults born SGA showed a unique response with inability to increase cardiac dimensions or mass resulting in reduced stroke volume and exercise capacity.SGA young adults show a unique cardiac adaptation to central obesity. These results support considering SGA as a risk factor that may benefit from preventive strategies to reduce cardiometabolic risk.© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: [email protected]

Role of whole brain radiotherapy in the management of infratentorial metastases from lung and breast cancer

BACKGROUND: Brain metastases (BM) occur in almost one third of patients with systemic malignancies. Only a small number of studies focus on infratentorial location and whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) as the main non-surgical management. The aim of the study was to compare the prognosis of patients treated with WBRT among patients with supra- or infratentorial lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: At a single center, 263 patients with either breast (BC) or lung (LC) cancer, that had developed BM and received treatment with WBRT, were analyzed during an 8-year period. RESULTS: A total of 152 patients with BC and 111 with LC were analyzed, median age at the time of BM was 50.7 years, systemic activity other than BM was detected in 91%. Newly diagnosed BM were supratentorial in 40%, infratentorial in 10% and 51% in both locations. Median overall survival was 13 months (95% CI: 11.1–14.8 months), without significant difference between supra- or infratentorial location. WBRT alone was administered in 79% of patients, whereas WBRT with chemtoreapy was provided for 21%. CONCLUSION: In patients with BM from LC or BC that were not candidates for surgical resection, palliative WBRT appears to be equally effective in those with supra- or infratentorial locations

OFICINAS DE EXTENSÃO DO PET IFC-CAMBORIÚ

O Programa de Educação Tutorial (PET) do Instituto Federal Catarinensecampus Camboriú (IFC Cam) desenvolve trabalhos em que um dos focos sãoatividades extensionistas ofertadas à comunidade, no formato de oficinas. Estasoficinas estão divididas em dois grandes grupos, educação e tecnologia. As oficinaseducacionais envolvem temáticas como o teatro, ballet, Estatuto da Criança e doAdolescente e matemática. As oficinas de tecnologia utilizam computadores eplataformas de prototipagem eletrônica como ferramentas de ensino para o nívelmédio e superior. A intencionalidade das atividades é proporcionar aos bolsistas doPET contato com práticas de ensino e de promover conhecimento

MECANISMOS DE SILENCIAMIENTO GÉNICO DURANTE EL DESARROLLO DEL GAMETOFITO FEMENINO EN Arabidopsis thaliana (MECHANISMS OF GENE SILENCING DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FEMALE GAMETOPHYTE IN Arabidopsis thaliana)

ResumenSilenciar un gen significa disminuir la expresión del mismo y a partir de los efectos, afectar su función, actuando a diferentes niveles, por ejemplo, silenciamiento transcripcional (TGS), silenciamiento post-transcripcional (PTGS) y traduccional. Los cuales, presentan elementos comunes mediados por ARNs pequeños (RNAp), que proporcionan especificidad y se acomplejan con proteínas efectoras del silenciamiento génico. Recientemente se reportó la participación de ARNs pequeños  en la determinación de la identidad de la célula madre de la megaspora. En este trabajo se plantea una estrategia para estudiar las rutas de silenciamiento que participan en la regulación de la identidad celular durante el desarrollo del gametofito femenino. Para lo anterior se generaron líneas silenciadoras del gen GUS (GUSRNAi). Posteriormente se seleccionaron algunas de estas líneas para ser cruzadas con los marcadores del desarrollo del gemetofito femenino. Se obtuvieron imágenes que reflejaron la actividad de las líneas marcadoras durante el desarrollo reproductivo. En las plantas de la línea GUSRNAi;Marcadora se observó una expresión atenuada o nula del marcador de identidad. Lo anterior demostró la capacidad de la lineas para llevar a cabo silenciamiento génico en células del gametofino femenino.Palabras clave: Gametogénesis, linaje celular, ARNs. AbstracSilencing a gene means decreasing its expression affecting its function, acting at different levels, for example transcriptional silencing (TGS), post-transcriptional silencing (PTGS) and translational silencing. They present common elements mediated by small RNAs (RNAs), which provide specificity and form complexes with gene silencing effector proteins. The participation of small RNAs in the determination of the identity of the megaspore mother cell was recently reported. In this work, a strategy is proposed to study the gene silencing pathways involved in the regulation of cell identity during the development of the female gametophyte. For this, we generated silencing lines of the GUS gene (GUSRNAi). Subsequently, some of these lines were selected to be crossed with the developmental marker of the female gametophyte, ET2209. Images that reflected the activity of the marker lines during reproductive development were obtained. While in plants GUSRNAi;ET2209 we observed an attenuated or null expression of the identity cell marker. The above demonstrated the ability of these lines to carry out gene silencing in female gametophyte cells.Keywords: Gametogenesis, cell lineage, RNAs

Contamination and oxidative stress biomarkers in estuarine fish following a mine tailing disaster

Background The Rio Doce estuary, in Brazil, was impacted by the deposition of iron mine tailings, caused by the collapse of a dam in 2015. Based on published baseline datasets, the estuary has been experiencing chronic trace metal contamination effects since 2017, with potential bioaccumulation in fishes and human health risks. As metal and metalloid concentrations in aquatic ecosystems pose severe threats to the aquatic biota, we hypothesized that the trace metals in estuarine sediments nearly two years after the disaster would lead to bioaccumulation in demersal fishes and result in the biosynthesis of metal-responsive proteins. Methods We measured As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, Se and Zn concentrations in sediment samples in August 2017 and compared to published baseline levels. Also, trace metals (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Hg, Mn, Pb, Se and Zn) and protein (metallothionein and reduced glutathione) concentrations were quantified in the liver and muscle tissues of five fish species (Cathorops spixii, Genidens genidens, Eugerres brasilianus, Diapterus rhombeus and Mugil sp.) from the estuary, commonly used as food sources by local populations. Results Our results revealed high trace metal concentrations in estuarine sediments, when compared to published baseline values for the same estuary. The demersal fish species C. spixii and G. genidens had the highest concentrations of As, Cr, Mn, Hg, and Se in both, hepatic and muscle, tissues. Trace metal bioaccumulation in fish was correlated with the biosynthesis of metallothionein and reduced glutathione in both, liver and muscle, tissues, suggesting active physiological responses to contamination sources. The trace metal concentrations determined in fish tissues were also present in the estuarine sediments at the time of this study. Some elements had concentrations above the maximum permissible limits for human consumption in fish muscles (e.g., As, Cr, Mn, Se and Zn), suggesting potential human health risks that require further studies. Our study supports the high biogeochemical mobility of toxic elements between sediments and the bottom-dwelling biota in estuarine ecosystems

The novel mangrove environment and composition of the Amazon Delta

Both freshwater floodplain (várzeas and igapós) forests and brackish-saline mangroves are abundant and well-described ecosystems in Brazil.1 However, an interesting and unique wetland forest exists in the Amazon Delta where extensive mangroves occur in essentially freshwater tidal environments. Unlike the floodplain forests found upriver, the hydrology of these ecosystems is driven largely by large macro-tides of 4–8 m coupled with the significant freshwater discharge from the Amazon River. We explored these mangroves on the Amazon Delta (00°52ʹ N to 01°41ʹ N) and found surface water salinity to be consistently <5; soil pore water salinity in these mangrove forests ranged from 0 nearest the Amazon mouth to only 5–11 at the coastal margins to the north (01°41ʹ N, 49°55′ W). We also recorded a unique mix of mangrove-obligate (Avicennia sp., Rhizophora mangle) and facultative-wetland species (Mauritia flexuosa, Pterocarpus sp.) dominating these forests. This unique mix of plant species and soil porewater chemistry exists even along the coastal strands and active coastlines of the Atlantic Ocean. Part of these unique mangroves have escaped current global satellite mapping efforts, and we estimate that they may add over 180 km2 (20% increase in mangrove area) within the Amazon Delta. Despite having a unique structure and function, these freshwater-brackish ecosystems likely provide similar ecosystem services to most mangroves worldwide, such as sequestering large quantities of organic carbon, protection of shoreline ecosystems from erosion, and habitats to many terrestrial and aquatic species (monkeys, birds, crabs, and fish)