ANÁLISE DE PEDIDOS SOBRE FILTRAÇÃO DE ÁGUA

A qualidade de água é de importância fundamental para a saúde dos Homens, uma vez que sua má qualidade pode promover riscos e agravos, sobretudo aqueles relacionados à transmissão hídrica decorrentes de fatores ambientais. Diante dessa situação, o presente estudo objetivou avaliar os avanços tecnológicos na área de filtração, uma vez constatada o a necessidade de beneficiamento para o tratamento de água. Para a realização da busca de patentes utilizou-se a base do World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) e do Banco de dados do Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial (INPI). Avaliando o cenário mundial e brasileiro, no que concerne aos documentos de pedidos de patentes, podemos caracterizar a prospecção relativa à filtração por estar em constante desenvolvimento, principalmente a partir do ano de 2002 e, principalmente nas classificações internacionais referentes à filtração para beneficiamento da qualidade de água

AVALIAÇÃO DE TECNOLOGIAS EM REATORES ANAERÓBIOS PARA TRATAMENTO DE EFLUENTES A PARTIR DA ANÁLISE DOS PEDIDOS DE PATENTES

Os reatores anaeróbios tornaram-se consagrados no Brasil, ao serem utilizados de maneira extensiva no tratamento de esgotos. Diante dessa situação, o presente estudo objetivou avaliar os avanços tecnológicos na área de reatores anaeróbios para tratamento de efluentes. Para a realização da busca de patentes utilizou-se a base da World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), o Banco de dados do Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial (INPI) e do European Patent Office (Espacenet). Com a atual prospecção foi possível identificar os trabalhos na área de reatores para tratamento de efluentes. Assim, foi possível analisar as características, as potencialidades e a evolução das competências tecnológicas através dos depósitos de patentes nessa área. Avaliando o cenário mundial e brasileiro, podemos caracterizar o uso de reatores para tratamento de esgotos por estar em constante desenvolvimento. Os dados demonstram que a área é promissora no cenário brasileiro

Efeitos do Consumo de Produtos e Subprodutos do Maracujá (Passiflora edulis) nas Doenças Crônicas não Degenerativas/ Effects of Consumption of Passion (Passiflora edulis) Products and By-Products on Non-Degenerative Chronic Diseases

O maracujá (Passiflora edulis) é um fruto tropical muito apreciado no Brasil e no mundo, em sua maioria na forma de sucos, entretanto os resíduos gerados pela indústria merecem ser explorados em prol da sustentabilidade e valorização deste que seria descartado. Objetivo: Realizar uma revisão em estudos referentes ao aproveitamento de produtos e subprodutos do maracujá (Passiflora edulis), no intuito de contribuir para difusão de conhecimentos em prol do beneficio à saúde humana. Metodologia: A revisão proposta abrange bases de dados que fomentam e difundem as pesquisas na área da saúde, e, assumi como princípio produzir dados a partir da literatura sobre o tema aproveitamento de produtos e subprodutos do maracujá. Para além da revisão tecemos reflexões sobre as implicações do consumo de produtos e subprodutos do maracujá para a saúde humana. Resultados: Com base nos estudos é possível reconhecer o potencial em termos nutricionais e funcionais, visto que, o seu perfil químico, cromatográfico demonstrou majoritariamente ácidos graxos insaturados, que auxiliam na prevenção de DCV’s. recentes pesquisas buscam relacionar o consumo de determinados alimentos sobre a saúde cardiovascular e seus demais fatores relacionados á saúde pública

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio

Penilaian Kinerja Keuangan Koperasi di Kabupaten Pelalawan

This paper describe development and financial performance of cooperative in District Pelalawan among 2007 - 2008. Studies on primary and secondary cooperative in 12 sub-districts. Method in this stady use performance measuring of productivity, efficiency, growth, liquidity, and solvability of cooperative. Productivity of cooperative in Pelalawan was highly but efficiency still low. Profit and income were highly, even liquidity of cooperative very high, and solvability was good

Juxtaposing BTE and ATE – on the role of the European insurance industry in funding civil litigation

One of the ways in which legal services are financed, and indeed shaped, is through private insurance arrangement. Two contrasting types of legal expenses insurance contracts (LEI) seem to dominate in Europe: before the event (BTE) and after the event (ATE) legal expenses insurance. Notwithstanding institutional differences between different legal systems, BTE and ATE insurance arrangements may be instrumental if government policy is geared towards strengthening a market-oriented system of financing access to justice for individuals and business. At the same time, emphasizing the role of a private industry as a keeper of the gates to justice raises issues of accountability and transparency, not readily reconcilable with demands of competition. Moreover, multiple actors (clients, lawyers, courts, insurers) are involved, causing behavioural dynamics which are not easily predicted or influenced. Against this background, this paper looks into BTE and ATE arrangements by analysing the particularities of BTE and ATE arrangements currently available in some European jurisdictions and by painting a picture of their respective markets and legal contexts. This allows for some reflection on the performance of BTE and ATE providers as both financiers and keepers. Two issues emerge from the analysis that are worthy of some further reflection. Firstly, there is the problematic long-term sustainability of some ATE products. Secondly, the challenges faced by policymakers that would like to nudge consumers into voluntarily taking out BTE LEI

Search for stop and higgsino production using diphoton Higgs boson decays

Results are presented of a search for a "natural" supersymmetry scenario with gauge mediated symmetry breaking. It is assumed that only the supersymmetric partners of the top-quark (stop) and the Higgs boson (higgsino) are accessible. Events are examined in which there are two photons forming a Higgs boson candidate, and at least two b-quark jets. In 19.7 inverse femtobarns of proton-proton collision data at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, recorded in the CMS experiment, no evidence of a signal is found and lower limits at the 95% confidence level are set, excluding the stop mass below 360 to 410 GeV, depending on the higgsino mass

Severe early onset preeclampsia: short and long term clinical, psychosocial and biochemical aspects

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific disorder commonly defined as de novo hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks gestational age. It occurs in approximately 3-5% of pregnancies and it is still a major cause of both foetal and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide1. As extensive research has not yet elucidated the aetiology of preeclampsia, there are no rational preventive or therapeutic interventions available. The only rational treatment is delivery, which benefits the mother but is not in the interest of the foetus, if remote from term. Early onset preeclampsia (<32 weeks’ gestational age) occurs in less than 1% of pregnancies. It is, however often associated with maternal morbidity as the risk of progression to severe maternal disease is inversely related with gestational age at onset2. Resulting prematurity is therefore the main cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in patients with severe preeclampsia3. Although the discussion is ongoing, perinatal survival is suggested to be increased in patients with preterm preeclampsia by expectant, non-interventional management. This temporising treatment option to lengthen pregnancy includes the use of antihypertensive medication to control hypertension, magnesium sulphate to prevent eclampsia and corticosteroids to enhance foetal lung maturity4. With optimal maternal haemodynamic status and reassuring foetal condition this results on average in an extension of 2 weeks. Prolongation of these pregnancies is a great challenge for clinicians to balance between potential maternal risks on one the eve hand and possible foetal benefits on the other. Clinical controversies regarding prolongation of preterm preeclamptic pregnancies still exist – also taking into account that preeclampsia is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the Netherlands5 - a debate which is even more pronounced in very preterm pregnancies with questionable foetal viability6-9. Do maternal risks of prolongation of these very early pregnancies outweigh the chances of neonatal survival? Counselling of women with very early onset preeclampsia not only comprises of knowledge of the outcome of those particular pregnancies, but also knowledge of outcomes of future pregnancies of these women is of major clinical importance. This thesis opens with a review of the literature on identifiable risk factors of preeclampsia

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks

A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances X decaying into pairs of Higgs bosons (H) in proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The search considers HH resonances with masses between 1 and 3 TeV, having final states of two b quark pairs. Each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of b quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets. The background from multijet and t (t) over bar events is significantly reduced by applying requirements related to the flavor of the jet, its mass, and its substructure. The signal would be identified as a peak on top of the dijet invariant mass spectrum of the remaining background events. No evidence is observed for such a signal. Upper limits obtained at 95 confidence level for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction sigma(gg -> X) B(X -> HH -> b (b) over barb (b) over bar) range from 10 to 1.5 fb for the mass of X from 1.15 to 2.0 TeV, significantly extending previous searches. For a warped extra dimension theory with amass scale Lambda(R) = 1 TeV, the data exclude radion scalar masses between 1.15 and 1.55 TeV

Measurement of the top quark mass using charged particles in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

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