The relationship of family functionality and the academic performance of first year students at the De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, College of Medicine in the first semester of the school year 2012-2013

The research design used in this study was a cross-sectional study. The target population of the study was the first year medical students. The sample population was categorized into those who have functional and dysfunctional families based on their score in the Family APGAR questionnaire and using stratified random sampling. Data was analyzed through Chi-square test. The study concluded that students with functional family were more likely to have high academic performance than students with dysfunctional family

Ação do tempo e da forma de suplementação alimentar com Artemia franciscana sobre a sobrevivência e o crescimento de larvas de jundiá Action of time and feeding suplementation form with Artemia franciscana on the survival and growth of the south american catfish larvae

O presente trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de verificar o efeito da suplementação alimentar com Artemia franciscana no desempenho de larvas de jundiá (Rhamdia quelen). Os tratamentos foram: T1 - Suplementação com náuplios de Artemia durante 7 dias; T2 - Suplementação com cistos de Artemia durante 7 dias; T3 - Suplementação com náuplios de Artemia durante 3 dias; T4 - Suplementação com cistos de Artemia durante 3 dias; T5 - Sem suplementação. Cada tratamento possuía 4 repetições. O experimento, realizado em sistema com recirculação de água, teve duração de 20 dias. Em todos os tratamentos, as larvas receberam ração ad libitum com 41% de PB e 4293Kcal EB/kg. Os resultados demonstraram que o fornecimento de náuplios proporcionou melhor crescimento que o de cistos ou somente ração. Com relação ao peso e produto peso x sobrevivência, constataram-se diferenças significativas dos tratamentos 1 e 3 (náuplios) para os tratamentos 2 e 4 (cistos). A baixa sobrevivência do T5 foi responsável pelo pior resultado deste tratamento com relação ao produto peso x sobrevivência, porém sem diferenças de peso em relação ao T2 e T4. Não se constataram diferenças significativas com relação à sobrevivência entre os tratamentos que receberam cistos e náuplios de Artemia. Somente o T5 apresentou menores taxas de sobrevivência que os demais. As melhores taxas de crescimento específico (TCE) foram de 25,6 e 25,4%/dia, respectivamente para o T1 e T3 durante os 20 dias de experimento.<br>The objective of this research was to verify the effect of feeding supplement with Artemia franciscana on the south american catfish larvae (Rhamdia quelen) performance. The treatments were: T1 - Nauplii suplement with Artemia during seven days; T2 - Cyst supplement of Artemia during seven days; T3 - Nauplii supplement of Artemia during three days; T4 - Cyst supplement of Artemia during three days; T5 - No supplement. Each treatment had four replicates. The experiment was accomplished in re-use water system during twenty days. In all treatments, larvae have received ad libitum dry food with 41% of crude protein and 4293Kcal gross energy by kg. The results have shown that the supplementation with Artemia nauplii enhanced a better growth comparing with the ones with cysts or only ration (no supplementation). In relation to weight and weight versus survival rate, it was observed significant differences from treatments 1 and 3 (nauplii) to treatments 2 and 4 (cysts). The low survival rate of T5 was responsible for the worst result of this treatment in relation to weight versus survival rate. However, no significant differences were observed betwenn T2 and T4 regarding to weight. It was not observed significant differences in relation to survival between the treatments which have received cysts and nauplii of Artemia. Only T5 presented lower survival rates comparing with the others. The best Specific Growth Rate was of 25.6 and 25.4% a day, respectively for T1 and T3 during the 20 days of experimental period