Lifestyles and surveillance of sexual and reproductive women’s health

Abstract: Background: The epidemic increase of diseases is closely related to lifestyle changes. The low adhesion to breast self-examination and cervical cytology hinders prevention and early diagnosis during the asymptomatic state of two silent diseases, with nonspecific symptoms that are a major cause of death by cancer in the Portuguese female population. Objectives: To analyze the influence of sociodemographic variables and lifestyles in the surveillance of sexual and reproductive health of Portuguese women. Methods: Quantitative, non-experimental, correlational and cross-sectional study, conducted with a non-probabilistic convenience sample of 522 women aged between 18 and 67 years old, who applied the questionnaires about Breast self-examination, Knowledge about cervical cancer and the Inventory "My Lifestyle" (Ribeiro, 1993. Results: The average age of women is 38.89 years old. Women aged 31-37 years old (28.6%), Portuguese (99.1%), cohabiting with a partner and / or child (74.0%), with an active employment status (67 5%), residing in urban areas (55.8%) with higher education and attending family planning consultations have better lifestyles, without statistical significance (F = 0.016, p = 0.899). Conclusions: Healthy behaviors and lifestyles are crucial to good overall health. Adhesion to surveillance of sexual and reproductive women’s health is influenced by several factors, including the place of residence, employment status and lifestyles. These variables must be considered by health professionals when planning periodic screenings.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Avaliação inicial do número de cromossomas de três morfotipos de crajiru.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi determinar o número de cromossomas dos três tipos de crajiru existentes na Coleção de Plantas Medicinais, Aromáticas e Condimentares da Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, buscando contribuir para a caracterização dos acessos

Active galactic nuclei, gravitational redshifts, and cosmological tensions

Gravitational redshift is a classical effect of Einstein's General Relativity, already measured in stars, quasars and clusters of galaxies. We here identify the signature of gravitational redshift in the emission lines of active galaxies due to supermassive black holes and discuss their impact on cosmological inference from type Ia supernovae. Firstly, from the full width at half maximum of $H_{\beta}$ lines of 75 Seyfert type I galaxies of the AGN Black Hole Mass Database, we derive a gravitational redshift $z_g = (2.4 \pm 0.9) \times 10^{-4}$. Expanding this analysis to 86755 quasars from DR14 of SDSS we have a mean value $z_g \approx 2.7 \times 10^{-4}$. Then, by comparing the redshifts of 34 lines measured at the central and outer regions of LINER galaxies in the SAMI survey we obtain $z_g = (0.68 \pm 0.09) \times 10^{-4}$. These numbers are compatible with central black holes of $\approx 10^9$ solar masses and broad line regions of $\approx 1$~pc. For non-AGN galaxies the gravitational redshift is compatible with zero and, as they constitute most of SNe Ia host galaxies, the impact on the cosmological parameters is negligible.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure

Optical absorption of single-layer hexagonal boron nitride in the ultraviolet

In this paper we theoretically describe the absorption of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) single layer. We develop the necessary formalism and present an efficient method for solving the Wannier equation for excitons. We give predictions for the absorption of hBN on quartz and on graphite. We compare our predictions with recently published results (Elias et al 2019 Nat. Commun. 10 2639) for a monolayer of hBN on graphite. The spontaneous radiative lifetime of excitons in hBN is also computed. We argue that the optical properties of hBN in the ultraviolet are very useful for the study of peptides and other biomolecules.The authors would like to thank André Chaves and Bruno Amorim for reading the manuscript, making suggestions, and for discussions on the topic of the paper. NMRP acknowledges support from the European Commission through the project 'Graphene-Driven Revolutions in ICT and Beyond' (Ref. No. 785219), and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Financing UID/FIS/04650/2019. In addition, NMRP acknowledges COMPETE2020, PORTUGAL2020, FEDER and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through projects PTDC/FIS- NAN/3668/2013 and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028114, and POCI-01-0145-FEDER-029265 and PTDC/NAN-OPT/29265/2017, the authors also acknowledge the funding of Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia, of COMPETE 2020 program in the FEDER component (European Union), through the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-02888

Produção de mudas de sacaca (Croton cajucara Benth.).

Seleção de matrizes. Seleção e retirada dos rebentos. Preparo do substrato. Manutenção de mudas.bitstream/CPAA-2009-09/12535/1/Com-Tec-19.pd

Introdução de cultivares de pimenta-do-reino na Amazônia Ocidental.

Avaliou-se quatro variedades (Cingapura, Apra, Kuthiravalli e Kottanadan) de pimenta-do-reino (Piper nigrum ) nas condições de Manaus - AM

Genetic diversity in sacaca (Croton cajucara Benth.) accessed by RAPD markers.

Collection and maintenance. DNA extraction, purification and quantification. PCR (polymerase chain reaction) conditions and RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) band patterns documentation and analysis