Monuments for stillborn children: Coming to terms with the sorrow, regrets and anger

In the Netherlands, until the years mid eighty of the previous century, health care professionals like doctors, midwives and nurses determined routines around birth. As a consequence and according to the protocols at the time, stillborn children were immediately taken away after birth. Parents most often did not get a chance, nor were they allowed seeing their child. Roman Catholic rules dictated that stillborn children who had not been baptized would be buried anonymously in hideaway and in the unconsecrated grounds of the graveyard. Doctors and nurses were taught during their training that it was best not induce emotions by acquainting the parents with their stillborn child because it would be more difficult for them to handle their loss once they had become attached, seen and held, their child. Parents were not openly allowed to grieve and they were almost forced to deny and ignore their stillborn child as if it had not existed at all. The focus of this (qualitative) research in the field of ritual studies was on parents who have kept for a long time commemoration of their stillborn child within a private context. With the emergence as of 2001 of monuments to stillborn children (in the Netherlands at the moment more than 160), these parents have the opportunity to enact commemoration rituals in honour of their stillborn child and to share their individual memories with a wider audience. The purpose of the research was to study how collective and individual commemoration rituals enacted by parents at the site of a monument create meaning in coming to terms with the, often long time ago, loss of a stillborn child. According to ritual specialist Ronald Grimes rituals both do and mean something: they ‘work’ by making meaning. The results of this qualitative research show that parents of stillborn children benefit from a public place of commemoration and they finally seem to come to terms with the loss of their stillborn children and with the disrespectful way in which others handled their child at the time of their stillbirth

Pott’s Puffy Tumor Caso Clínico

RESUMO A osteomielite do osso frontal, também conhecida como tumor de Pott, é uma complicação rara da sinusite frontal. Manifesta-se mais vezes na adolescência e geralmente quando há envolvimento intracraniano, em particular por um quadro meníngeo, que pode ter uma evolução insidiosa. Relata-se o caso de um adolescente de 12 anos com uma apresentação atípica

A revisão constitucional e o papel do governo na agricultura.

Na publicação: Eliseu Alves

Unsupported trimetallic Ni(Co)-Mo-W sulphide catalysts prepared from mixed oxides: characterisation and catalytic tests for simultaneous tetralin HDA and dibenzothiophene HDS reactions

Unsupported A-Mo-W (A = Ni or Co) sulphide catalysts were obtained from mixed oxides containing different W:Mo ratios. An in situ liquid-phase sulphidation of the mixed oxides in a batch reactor was followed by catalytic tests in a liquid-phase reaction (at 613 K and 70 bar), using a mixture of dibenzotiophene (DBT) and tetralin (THN) as the feed. After the catalytic tests, the bulk sulphide catalysts were characterised by nitrogen physical adsorption, XANES/EXAFS, SEM and HR-(S)TEM. The HR-TEM images showed randomly oriented, stacked-layer particles typical of Mo (W) sulphides and an elemental HR-STEM mapping evidenced Mo/W homogeneous distribution in the trimetallic sulphides. The EXAFS results for the trimetallic catalysts are consistent with the presence of nickel or cobalt sulphide domains, and Mo1-xWxS2 solid solutions. The intralayer Mo:W solid solutions were confirmed to be thermodynamically stable with respect to phase separation by DFT calculations, which were also used to aid in the interpretation of the EXAFS results. The effect of the W:Mo ratio on the catalytic properties of the Ni- and Co-containing series was found to be different. For the Ni series, increasing the W content caused an activity increase in THN hydrodearomatization (HDA) relative to DBT hydrodesulphurization (HDS), while it had little influence on the relative contribution of the direct desulphurisation (DDS) route with respect to the previous hydrogenation (HYD) route for DBT HDS. In contrast, for the Co series, the activities and selectivities were essentially insensitive to the W content. Both the Ni and Co series of unsupported sulphides were more selective for the HYD route in DBT HDS than a supported NiMo/Al2O3 catalyst

Presence of Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, and Other Bacteria in the Upper and Lower Genital Tracts of Fertile and Infertile Populations

Objective: The genital mycoplasmas (Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum) and Chlamydia trachomatis have been implicated as possible etiologic factors in infertility. Their role in patients with infertility needs to be further defined

Development of text mining tools for information retrieval from patents

Biomedical literature is composed of an ever increasing number of publications in natural language. Patents are a relevant fraction of those, being important sources of information due to all the curated data from the granting process. However, their unstructured data turns the search of information a challenging task. To surpass that, Biomedical text mining (BioTM) creates methodologies to search and structure that data. Several BioTM techniques can be applied to patents. From those, Information Retrieval is the process where relevant data is obtained from collections of documents. In this work, a patent pipeline was developed and integrated intoFEDER -Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras(NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004)info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The Relevance of Discovering and Recovering the Biodiversity of Apulian Almond Germplasm by Means of Molecular and Phenotypic Markers

Almond cultivation has great traditional and economic relevance in Southern Italy, especially in the Apulia region, where almond trees feature an ample and ancient varietal richness. To contrast the loss of plant genetic erosion and to safeguard the available bioresources, as well as to reinforce the local production, the regional Re.Ge.Fru.P. project aimed to re-evaluate, identify, and characterize the Apulian almond germplasm that is still uncharacterized and not jet studied using a dual (genetic and morphological) approach. Collection was conducted in the regional territory of 187 among the most widespread and minor or marginalized genotypes that were molecularly fingerprinted by means of 18 nuclear microsatellites (simple sequence repeats, SSRs). The high number of scored alleles reflected the great level of diversification within the Apulian germplasm, as also confirmed by neighbor joining and structure analysis, that clearly distinguished different genotype clusters. The phenotypic characterization using 17 morphological and phenological descriptors mirrored the genetic results, revealing a high degree of variability. The morphological traits with the best discriminatory ability were nut ventral suture, shell softness and shape and petal color. This work emphasizes the importance of recovering the genetic variability of Apulian almond germplasm, and the need to promote added value and enhance the local agri-food economy

Fluorescent biosensors based on silicon nanowires

Nanostructures are arising as novel biosensing platforms promising to surpass current performance in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, and affordability of standard approaches. However, for several nanosensors, the material and synthesis used make the industrial transfer of such technologies complex. Silicon nanowires (NWs) are compatible with Si-based flat architecture fabrication and arise as a hopeful solution to couple their interesting physical properties and surface-to-volume ratio to an easy commercial transfer. Among all the transduction methods, fluorescent probes and sensors emerge as some of the most used approaches thanks to their easy data interpretation, measure affordability, and real-time in situ analysis. In fluorescent sensors, Si NWs are employed as substrate and coupled with several fluorophores, NWs can be used as quenchers in stem-loop configuration, and have recently been used for direct fluorescent sensing. In this review, an overview on fluorescent sensors based on Si NWs is presented, analyzing the literature of the field and highlighting the advantages and drawbacks for each strategy

TRAUMA ORTOPÉDICO EM IDOSOS: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA.

This study has as objective to identify the scientific publications on the one orthopedic trauma in old men, during the period the January of 1999 until November of 2004. It is a bibliographical, retrospective investigation, give exploratory and descriptive nature with quantitative focus. Ten national and international newspapers were selected. For the realization of the collection of data use a specific instrument, compound for four parts. After the analysis gives those data, the following results were obtained: give the total 2806 articles, 45 publications are on the orthopedic trauma in old men. There is 67% for the international publications and 33% for the national articles.Este estudio tiene como objetivo identificar las publicaciones científicas sobre el trauma ortopédico en ancianos, durante el período de enero de 1999 hasta noviembre de 2004. Es una investigación bibliográfica, retrospectiva, de naturaleza exploratoria y descriptiva con enfoque cuantitativo. Fueron seleccionados diez periódicos nacionales e internacionales. Para la realización de la recogida de datos se utilizó un instrumento especifico, compuesto de cuatro partes. Después del análisis de los datos, se obtuvieron los siguientes resultados: del total de 2806 artículos, 45 publicaciones son sobre el trauma ortopédico en ancianos. Hay 67% de publicaciones internacionales y 33% de artículos nacionales.O estudo objetivou identificar as publicações científicas sobre trauma ortopédico em idosos, durante o período de janeiro de 1999 a novembro de 2004. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, retrospectiva, de natureza exploratória, descritiva com abordagem quantitativa. Foram selecionados dez periódicos indexados, sendo estes nacionais e internacionais. Para realização da coleta de dados foi utilizado instrumento específico, composto de quatro partes. Após análise dos dados obtidos, chegou-se aos seguintes resultados entre outros: do total de 2806 artigos, 45 publicações eram relacionadas ao trauma ortopédico em idosos. Houve 67% de publicações internacionais e 33% de artigos nacionais