Perfil epidemiológico das neoplasias de cabeça e pescoço de Juiz de Fora/MG e a importância do cirurgião-dentista frente a essa enfermidade

-Este estudo avaliou o perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes com neoplasia de cabeça e pescoço da cidade de Juiz de Fora. Foram analisados prontuários do Instituto Oncológico e Hospital Nove de Julho da cidade de Juiz de Fora (MG), entre os anos de 2000 a 2007, observando-se principalmente a prevalência, tipo histológico e localização das lesões. Setenta e três (61,35%) prontuários pertenciam a pacientes do sexo masculino e 46 (38,65%) do sexo feminino. A faixa etária variou de 23 a 90 anos, com uma média de 56,5 anos. A principal localização foi a língua (25,20%) seguida da glândula parótida (22,76%). Histologicamente, o carcinoma epidermóide, prevaleceu com 68,90% dentre todos os casos diagnosticados. Considerando-se apenas os tumores localizados em glândulas salivares, o tipo histológico mais comum foi o adenoma pleomórfico (31,70%). Hábitos de tabagismo e etilismo foram relatados em poucos prontuários, não sendo relevante para estabelecer correlação como fatores etiológicos. Os resultados mostraram que o perfil epidemiológico do câncer bucal para a cidade de Juiz de Fora é semelhante ao de outras localidades relatadas na literatura. Concluiu-se que ações para prevenção, diagnóstico precoce e controle da doença precisam ser otimizados e que o cirurgião-dentista tem um papel fundamental para a redução dos índices de câncer bucal e das taxas de morbi-mortalidade

Phylogenetic Analysis and Karyotype Evolution in Two Species of Core Gruiformes: Aramides cajaneus and Psophia viridis.

Gruiformes is a group with phylogenetic issues. Recent studies based on mitochondrial and genomic DNA have proposed the existence of a core Gruiformes, consisting of five families: Heliornithidae, Aramidae, Gruidae, Psophiidae and Rallidae. Karyotype studies on these species are still scarce, either by conventional staining or molecular cytogenetics. Due to this, this study aimed to analyze the karyotype of two species (Aramides cajaneus and Psophia viridis) belonging to families Rallidae and Psopiidae, respectively, by comparative chromosome painting. The results show that some chromosome rearrangements in this group have different origins, such as the association of GGA5/GGA7 in A. cajaneus, as well as the fission of GGA4p and association GGA6/GGA7, which place P. viridis close to Fulica atra and Gallinula chloropus. In addition, we conclude that the common ancestor of the core Gruiformes maintained the original syntenic groups found in the putative avian ancestral karyotype

Música e Educação Ambiental em uma Escola do Campo localizada no município de São Gabriel - RS: Uma forma interdisciplinar de significar a realidade complexa

The anthropocentrism (human being as center of the universe), set by the Cartesian paradigm, carries a large share of responsibility for the crisis of perception as to the environment, seen as object of use as well, the environmental education, understood only as education ecological. Education has its foundations supported this paradigm, resulting in the fragmentation of the interrelationships of various fields of knowledge. The Interdisciplinary can assist in transforming such isolationist representation, by provoking an intense dialogue between areas, with collective actions aimed at the whole, however, there is still resistance to put it into practice in schools because of the complexity of being and working in this way, making it a challenge to stakeholders for generating behavior change, paradigms and hence the teaching-learning process. Given the above, we sought to use music and environmental education, interdisciplinary areas, in activities of the Macrocampo pedagogical monitoring in the Educational Program More education, passing between curricular contents of early years elementary school of a Rural School Municipal School called elementary school Mascarenhas de Moraes - Polo of São Gabriel / RS, and then check the possible effects achieved through using a qualitative approach. According to the results, it became clear behavior change and the increased interest of students. This study brings together subsidies that give foundation to the performance of new interdisciplinary educational strategies that can contribute to the process of teaching and learning.O antropocentrismo (ser humano como centro do universo), fixado pelo paradigma cartesiano, carrega uma boa parcela de responsabilidade pela crise de percepção quanto ao meio ambiente, visto como objeto de uso, bem como, ao termo Educação Ambiental, entendida tão somente como educação ecológica. A educação possui suas bases apoiadas neste paradigma, o que acarreta na fragmentação das inter-relações de diversos campos do conhecimento. A interdisciplinaridade pode auxiliar na transformação de tal representação isolacionista, por provocar um intenso diálogo entre as áreas, com ações coletivas que visam o todo, entretanto, ainda há resistência em colocá-la em prática nas escolas, devido à complexidade de ser e trabalhar desta forma, tornando-se um desafio aos atores envolvidos por gerar mudanças de comportamentos, paradigmas e, consequentemente, no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. Diante do exposto, buscou-se utilizar a música e a Educação Ambiental, áreas interdisciplinares, em atividades do Macrocampo Acompanhamento Pedagógico do Programa Mais Educação, perpassando os conteúdos curriculares dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental de uma Escola Rural chamada Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Mascarenhas de Moraes – Polo de São Gabriel/RS, e posteriormente verificar os possíveis efeitos alcançados, através da utilização de uma abordagem qualitativa. Segundo os resultados, ficou evidente a mudança de comportamento e o aumento de interesse dos educandos. Este estudo reúne subsídios que dão embasamento à atuação de  novas estratégias educacionais interdisciplinares que podem contribuir para o processo de ensino aprendizagem

Benefícios da combinação do treinamento manipulativo osteopático, exercícios aquáticos e ginástica respiratória para a qualidade de vida em crianças e adolescentes asmáticos

Desenvolver programas de exercício físico para a melhoria da qualidade de vida em asmáticos podem influenciar positivamente nas realizações de atividades sociais e esportivas por esse público. O objetivo deste estudo, foi investigar o efeito da adição do Tratamento Manipulativo Osteopático (TMO) às sessões de exercícios de ginástica respiratória e exercícios aquáticos na melhoria da qualidade de vida de asmáticos. O estudo foi desenvolvido com 18 participantes, com idade entre 8 e 15 anos, de ambos os sexos e estudantes do Ensino Fundamental I e II. Onze (11) fizeram parte do grupo experimental 1(GE1) e realizaram o programa combinado de TMO, atividades aquáticas e a ginástica respiratória. Sete (7) sujeitos fizeram parte do grupo experimental 2 (GE2) que realizaram somente atividades aquáticas e a ginástica respiratória. Ambos foram testados antes e após a realização de 16 sessões de TMO e 32 sessões das demais práticas, através do Questionário de Qualidade de Vida para Asma Pediátrica (PedsQL). Para análise dos dados, após comprovação da normalidade, utilizou-se o teste T de Student para amostras pareadas e o teste T para amostras independentes, através do aplicativo SPSS, versão 21.0 com nível de significância de 5%. Os resultados obtidos comprovaram a diferença estatisticamente significativa nas dimensões física, social, escolar e emocional do questionário no GE, quando comparados entre o início e o final do programa e confirmaram a diferença estatisticamente significativa quando comparados os pós testes entre os grupos, prevalecendo as melhorias em todas dimensões para o grupo que realizou a TMO como diferencial. Os resultados fortalecem a ideia da eficiência da conjugação dessas práticas na melhoraria da qualidade de vida das crianças asmáticas leves e moderadas

Chromosome Painting in Neotropical Long- and Short-Tailed Parrots (Aves, Psittaciformes): Phylogeny and Proposal for a Putative Ancestral Karyotype for Tribe Arini.

: Most Neotropical Psittacidae have a diploid number of 2n = 70, and a dichotomy in chromosome patterns. Long-tailed species have biarmed macrochromosomes, while short-tailed species have telo/acrocentric macrochromosomes. However, the use of chromosome painting has demonstrated that karyotype evolution in Psittacidae includes a high number of inter/intrachromosomal rearrangements. To determine the phylogeny of long- and short-tailed species, and to propose a putative ancestral karyotype for this group, we constructed homology maps of Pyrrhura frontalis (PFR) and Amazona aestiva (AAE), belonging to the long- and short-tailed groups, respectively. Chromosomes were analyzed by conventional staining and fluorescent in situ hybridization using whole chromosome paints of Gallus gallus and Leucopternis albicollis. Conventional staining showed a karyotype with 2n = 70 in both species, with biarmed macrochromosomes in PFR and telo/acrocentric chromosomes in AAE. Comparison of the results with the putative avian ancestral karyotype (PAK) showed fusions in PFR of PAK1p/PAK4q (PFR1) and PAK6/PAK7 (PFR6) with a paracentric inversion in PFR6. However, in AAE, there was only the fusion between PAK6/7 (AAE7) with a paracentric inversion. Our results indicate that PFR retained a more basal karyotype than long-tailed species previously studied, and AAE a more basal karyotype for Neotropical Psittacidae analyzed so far

RECORD OF LEUCISM IN PASSER DOMESTICUS (LINNAEUS, 1758), IN PONTA GROSSA, PARANÁ, BRAZIL

Apresentamos o registro de leucismo em Pardal, Passer domesticus, em perímetro urbano, da cidade de Ponta Grossa, Paraná, contribuindo com informações acerca de variações de plumagem dessa espécie no Brasil

VALIDATION OF THE DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (SRTM) WITH GNSS SURVEYING APPLIED TO THE MIRIM LAGOON HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN

Between 2013 and 2014, a kinematic positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) was carried out for this research work. This GNSS survey resulted in 275916 points with tridimensional coordinates in the cross-border basin area of 58205km2 called Mirim Lagoon Hydrographic Basin, located in south of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and west of Uruguay. This study aims at showing the methodology firstly and, furthermore, results regarding the validation of the vertical accuracy of the DEM SRTM through kinematic positioning by GNSS, in the Mirim Lagoon Hydrographic Basin region. Also, the GNSS surveying data was post-processed with the Precise Point Positioning (PPP) method, and the ellipsoidal height was converted into orthometric height through the software INTPT geoid. During this study, the geopotential model (EGM96) was used to transform altitude differences between two countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Results showed that the vertical mean absolute error of the DEM SRTM vary from 0.07m to ± 9.9m with average of -0.28 m. This vertical accuracy is better than the absolute vertical accuracy value of ±16m published in the SRTM data specification and validates the DEM SRTM

Portuguese translation and Brazilian cultural adaptation of the Assessment of Burden in Chronic Venous Disease questionnaire (ABC-V)

 Introduction: The Assessment of Burden in Chronic Venous Disease questionnaire (ABC-V) is a valuable tool for assessing the impact that chronic venous disease (CVD) has on patients’ quality of life (QL). There was a need for a translated and adapted version suitable for use in the Brazilian population. CVD is becoming a public health issue as the incidence and prevalence are high. The ABC-V can be used to collect information on patients’ QL and thus the development of a Brazilian version that facilitates research into the CVD population.  Objective: To provide translation and cultural validation of the Assessment of Burden in Chronic-Venous Disease (ABC-V) questionnaire for the Portuguese language.  Methods: The ABC-V was translated into Portuguese by two bilingual translators working independently. The translators then created a consensus version, which was translated back into English by two native English speakers. Finally all the versions were analysed by a committee of with expertise in translation and the two cultures involved. The committee produced a draft Portuguese-language version which was tested in a pilot sample of between 30 and 40 people. The committee evaluated feedback from the pilot sample on the clarity and comprehensibility of the draft version.  Results: The draft version was completed by 31 patients at the Chronic Venous Diseases Department of Padre Anchieta’s Teaching Hospital. With the analysis of the questionnaires used in the pre-test, it is possible to observe that in English, unlike Portuguese, verbs are often used in the passive tense. It also emerged that there was a need to use more colloquial terms and expressions so that the question would be easier to understand, whilst preserving the meaning of the original items. Changing the tone of the questionnaire in this way should make it more suitable for use with people from a wide range of socioeconomic levels, especially those with lower social status and less education. Because the questions are qualitative rather than quantitative they are more open to interpretation and elicit more subjective responses. This creates an additional difficulty in adapting the questionnaire for the Brazilian cultural context. The data from pilot-testing of the draft version was used to develop a translated and culturally adapted version of the ABC-V using the procedure described by Beaton et al.  Conclusion: A translated and culturally adapted version of the ABC-V suitable for use in Brazil has been developed and can be used to evaluate changes in the QL of Brazilian patients with CVD.  Introduction: The Assessment of Burden in Chronic Venous Disease questionnaire (ABC-V) is a valuable tool for assessing the impact that chronic venous disease (CVD) has on patients’ quality of life (QL). There was a need for a translated and adapted version suitable for use in the Brazilian population. CVD is becoming a public health issue as the incidence and prevalence are high. The ABC-V can be used to collect information on patients’ QL and thus the development of a Brazilian version that facilitates research into the CVD population. Objective: To provide translation and cultural validation of the Assessment of Burden in Chronic-Venous Disease (ABC-V) questionnaire for the Portuguese language. Methods: The ABC-V was translated into Portuguese by two bilingual translators working independently. The translators then created a consensus version, which was translated back into English by two native English speakers. Finally all the versions were analysed by a committee of with expertise in translation and the two cultures involved. The committee produced a draft Portuguese-language version which was tested in a pilot sample of between 30 and 40 people. The committee evaluated feedback from the pilot sample on the clarity and comprehensibility of the draft version.  Results: The draft version was completed by 31 patients at the Chronic Venous Diseases Department of Padre Anchieta’s Teaching Hospital. With the analysis of the questionnaires used in the pre-test, it is possible to observe that in English, unlike Portuguese, verbs are often used in the passive tense. It also emerged that there was a need to use more colloquial terms and expressions so that the question would be easier to understand, whilst preserving the meaning of the original items. Changing the tone of the questionnaire in this way should make it more suitable for use with people from a wide range of socioeconomic levels, especially those with lower social status and less education. Because the questions are qualitative rather than quantitative they are more open to interpretation and elicit more subjective responses. This creates an additional difficulty in adapting the questionnaire for the Brazilian cultural context. The data from pilot-testing of the draft version was used to develop a translated and culturally adapted version of the ABC-V using the procedure described by Beaton et al.  Conclusion: A translated and culturally adapted version of the ABC-V suitable for use in Brazil has been developed and can be used to evaluate changes in the QL of Brazilian patients with CVD