Variabilidade fenotípica para teor de ácido pirúvico em populações de cebola suave no Vale do São Francisco.

Suplemento. Trabalho apresentado no 49. Congresso Brasileiro de Olericultura, Águas de Lindóia, SP

The health of women and girls determines the health and well-being of our modern world: A White Paper From the International Council on Women's Health Issues

The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay network of those committed to improving women and girl's health and quality of life. This document provides a description of our organization mission, vision, and commitment to improving the health and well-being of women and girls globally

Fundamental inequalities in the plain-old Stoner-Wohlfarth model

We report two fundamental inequalities in the Stoner-Wohlfarth model. Specifically, we investigate what is the theoretical limit for the initial magnetic susceptibility in a system described by the Stoner-Wohlfarth approach. We also find analytical solutions for the magnetization at the low-fields regime, and obtain the borderline values for saturation magnetization and uniaxial-anisotropy constant for such ideal Stoner-Wohlfarth system. We go beyond and introduce a general mean field theory for interacting Stoner-Wohlfarth-like systems, thus estimating how the initial magnetic susceptibility is affected due to the dipolar and exchange interactions inside the system. By means of a simple insight, from a fundamental inequality for the magnetic susceptibility of an ideal Stoner-Wohlfarth system, we show its violation is a signature of the existence of exchange interactions between nanoparticles in an interacting Stoner-Wohlfarth-like system.Comment: 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2110.0413

Genetic divergence study among Duroc, Landrace and Large White swine breeds using techniques of multivariate analysis

Multivariate techniques were used to evaluate the genetic divergence among three swine breeds. Six performance traits were evaluated: piglet weight at birth (PON), at 21 days (P21), at 70 days (P70), average daily weight gain (GDP), age to obtain 100 kg (ID100) and backfat thickness (ETO). Breed performance was evaluated by multivariate analysis of variance and Fisher’s linear discriminant function, using tests of Roy’s greatest root and Roy’s union-intersection to multiple comparison. The study of genetic divergence was made by canonical variables analysis. The Large White breed was somewhat superior in relation to Landrace, and both were better than Duroc. Great genetic divergence was observed between Landrace and Large White breeds and Duroc breed, while the former two presented more similarity. These results justify utilization of the Landrace and Large White breeds to produce F1 females for crossing with Duroc males to obtain hybrid offspring expressing heterosis and in which there is complementation amog traits

Analysis of sex and gender-specific research reveals a common increase in publications and marked differences between disciplines

Oertelt-Prigione S, Parol R, Krohn S, Preißner R, Regitz-Zagrosek V. Analysis of sex and gender-specific research reveals a common increase in publications and marked differences between disciplines. BMC Medicine. 2010;8(1): 70.© 2010 Oertelt-Prigione et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the CreativeCommons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

Gender Differences in Aspirin use Among Adults With Coronary Heart Disease in the United States

BACKGROUND: Aspirin reduces mortality for men and women with coronary heart disease (CHD). Previous research suggests women with acute coronary syndromes receive less aggressive care, including less frequent early administration of aspirin. The presence of gender differences in aspirin use for secondary prevention is less clear. OBJECTIVE: To determine if a gender difference exists in the use of aspirin for secondary prevention among individuals with CHD. DESIGN: We analyzed data from the nationally representative 2000–2002 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys to determine the prevalence of regular aspirin use among men and women with CHD. PARTICIPANTS: Participants, 1,869, 40 years and older who reported CHD or prior myocardial infarction. RESULTS: Women were less likely than men to use aspirin regularly (62.4% vs 75.6%, p < .001) even after adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic and clinical characteristics (adjusted OR = 0.62, 95% CI, 0.48–0.79). This difference narrowed but remained significant when the analysis was limited to those without self-reported contraindications to aspirin (79.8% vs 86.4%, P = .002, adjusted OR = 0.68, 95% CI, 0.48–0.97). Women were more likely than men to report contraindications (20.5% vs 12.5%, P < .001). Differences in aspirin use were greater between women and men with private health insurance (61.8% vs 79.0%, P < .001, adjusted OR = 0.48, 95% CI, 0.35–0.67) than among those with public coverage (62.5% vs 70.7%, P = .04, adjusted OR = 0.74, 95% CI, 0.50–1.11) (P < .001 for gender–insurance interaction). CONCLUSION: We found a gender difference in aspirin use among patients with CHD not fully explained by differences in patient characteristics or reported contraindications. These findings suggest a need for improved secondary prevention of cardiovascular events for women with CHD

Integration of Women Veterans into VA Quality Improvement Research Efforts: What Researchers Need to Know

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and other federal agencies require funded researchers to include women in their studies. Historically, many researchers have indicated they will include women in proportion to their VA representation or pointed to their numerical minority as justification for exclusion. However, women’s participation in the military—currently 14% of active military—is rapidly changing veteran demographics, with women among the fastest growing segments of new VA users. These changes will require researchers to meet the challenge of finding ways to adequately represent women veterans for meaningful analysis. We describe women veterans’ health and health-care use, note how VA care is organized to meet their needs, report gender differences in quality, highlight national plans for women veterans’ quality improvement, and discuss VA women’s health research. We then discuss challenges and potential solutions for increasing representation of women veterans in VA research, including steps for implementation research