O desempenho sexual na prática de terapeutas ocupacionais do Brasil

Introdução: Indivíduos e coletivos desempenham diversas atividades sexuais para se envolver em ocupações e participar da vida cotidiana. No entanto, há escassas evidências no Brasil sobre a abordagem do desempenho sexual por terapeutas ocupacionais. Objetivo: Identificar como terapeutas ocupacionais do Brasil abordam o desempenho sexual em sua prática profissional. Método: Foi conduzida uma pesquisa exploratória e descritiva junto a 84 terapeutas ocupacionais do Brasil, por meio de questionário online. Utilizou-se de estatística simples para a descrição dos dados e os procedimentos de enunciação e correlação da abordagem de Análise de Conteúdo para a inferência dos conteúdos. Resultados: A amostra foi composta majoritariamente por terapeutas ocupacionais mulheres, das quais 91,66% nunca receberam treinamento específico. Ainda assim, 53,57% abordam o desempenho sexual em sua prática profissional, sendo a maior prevalência no campo e serviços de saúde mental com a população adulta. Conclusão: É necessário triangular fatores relacionados a formação, valores pessoais e teóricos e processo de intervenção para o desempenho sexual. Ainda há pouca formação a respeito do tema, o que condiz com as dificuldades em identificar abordagens específicas em terapia ocupacional, o que, possivelmente, colabora com a negligência deste tema na literatura da área.Introduction: Individuals and collectives perform various sexual activities to engage in occupations and participate in everyday life. However, in the Brazilian scenario of occupational therapy, there is little evidence about its approach in professional practice. Aim: To identify how occupational therapists in Brazil address sexual performance in their professional practice. Method: An exploratory and descriptive research was conducted with 84 occupational therapists in Brazil, using an online questionnaire. Simple statistics were used for the description of the data and the enunciation and correlation procedures of the Content Analysis approach for the inference of the contents. Results: The sample consisted mostly of female occupational therapists, of which 91.66% had never received specific training. Even so, 53.57% address sexual performance in their professional practice, with the highest prevalence in the field and mental health services with the adult population. Conclusion: There is a need to triangulate factors related to training, personal and theoreticals values and the intervention process for sexual performance. There is still little training on the subject, which is consistent with the difficulties in identifying specific approaches in occupational therapy, which, possibly, contributes to the neglect of this subject in the literature of the area

FATORES RELACIONADOS AO NÃO USO DE MEDIDAS PREVENTIVAS DAS INFECÇÕES SEXUALMENTE TRANSMISSÍVEIS DURANTE A GESTAÇÃO

 Objetivo: conhecer os fatores relacionados ao não uso de medidas preventivas das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis durante o período gravídico. Método: estudo descritivo, exploratório, com abordagem qualitativa, realizado com gestantes num hospital universitário do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. A coleta dos dados foi feita mediante a aplicação de entrevista semiestruturada, no ano de 2017. Resultados: as entrevistadas conheciam as principais infecções; não utilizavam nenhum método de prevenção; obtiveram informações sobre as infecções pelas mídias sociais, grupos de planejamento familiar e praticamente nenhuma durante o pré-natal; consideraram a conjugalidade um fator de proteção. Conclusão: esta pesquisa desvelou fatores relacionados à não adoção de medidas preventivas das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis por mulheres e seus parceiros durante a gestação.Descritores: Saúde da mulher. Enfermagem obstétrica. Doenças sexualmente transmissíveis

GORDA: an open architecture for database replication

Database replication has been a common feature in database management systems (DBMSs) for a long time. In particular, asynchronous or lazy propagation of updates provides a simple yet efficient way of increasing performance and data availability and is widely available across the DBMS product spectrum. High end systems additionally offer sophisticated conflict resolution and data propagation options as well as, synchronous replication based on distributed locking and two-phase commit protocols. This paper presents GORDA architecture and programming interface (GAPI), that enables different replication strategies to be implemented once and deployed in multiple DBMSs. This is achieved by proposing a reflective interface to transaction processing instead of relying on-client interfaces or ad-hoc server extensions. The proposed approach is thus cost-effective, in enabling reuse of replication protocols or components in multiple DBMSs, as well as potentially efficient, as it allows close coupling with DBMS internals.(undefined

Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress towards farm-based indicators

s shown by the Green Deal's ambition, the European Commission is progressively pushing for an environmental shiftand climate action in Europe. For the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), this involves a stronger focus on greening policy objectives.For agri-environmental schemes, this entails changes toward performance-based payments, partially replacing traditional activity-basedpayments. The CAP foresees greater flexibility in national programs and tailor-made solutions centered on results (i.e. environmentaloutcomes), benefiting farmers who go beyond the minimum environmental performance required. The environmental outcomes offarm practices must be assessed so that changes can be monitored over time and linked to payment delivery. This requires stakeholdersto collaborate with researchers to identify farm-based indicators that are easily applicable, to achieve environmental results that aredependent on farm practices, and to assess and monitor changes in outcomes over time. The analysis in this paper is based on atransdisciplinary process that began in 2017 in a Natura 2000 site and its surroundings in Southern Portugal, to identify result-basedmeasures for the Montado silvo-pastoral system. Farmers' understanding of how to adapt their practices to reach better environmentalresults was combined with scientific knowledge of the relevant environmental outcomes and how these can be assessed with indicators.Ten field-based visual indicators were defined, which farmers applied in the field, and validated by technical staff. These indicators arerelated to several aspects of the silvo-pastoral system: soil quality, pasture diversity, tree renewal, tree health, singular landscape elements,and biodiversity. The approach used in this process was innovative. We describe each step and present its advantages and drawbacksfor designing and implementing result-based payments. Ultimately, their implementation is expected to lead to higher sustainability inthe Montado. (PDF) Result-based payments as a tool to preserve the High Nature Value of complex silvo-pastoral systems: progress toward farm-based indicators. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359442049_Result-based_payments_as_a_tool_to_preserve_the_High_Nature_Value_of_complex_silvo-pastoral_systems_progress_toward_farm-based_indicators#fullTextFileContent [accessed Feb 03 2023]

Effects of ohmic heating on extraction of food-grade phytochemicals from of colored potato

The influence of ohmic heating (OH) through the application of moderate electric fields on phytochemical compounds recovery from colored potato (Solanum tuberosum L. var. Vitelotte) was studied. A BoxBehnken design was used to simultaneously assess the effects of operational parameters such as electric field strength, temperature and process time on the yields of anthocyanins and total phenolic recovery on pretreatment of potato samples. From the analysis of the model, electric field, temperature and time were shown to have independent and interactive effects on the values of extraction yields. Aqueous extraction of phytochemical compounds after pretreatments can be described by using a two-step model involving simultaneous washing and diffusion of the solutes from the samples. Results shows that electrical fields of low energy levels and thermal effects can be combined and optimized into a single step treatment on extraction of anthocyanins and phenolic compounds from vegetable tissues providing high recovery yields with a reduced treatment time, less energy consumption and with no utilization of organic solvents (green extraction).This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01- 0145-FEDER-006684) and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145- FEDER-000004) funded by European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020 e Programa Operacional Regional do Norte. The authors Ricardo N. Pereira, H elder Oliveira and Rui M. Rodrigues also thank to FCT their financial grants with references SFRH/BPD/81887/2011, PD/BD/106062/2015 and SFRH/BD/110723/ 2015, respectively

Validação e utilização de novas tecnologias na saúde e educação: uma revisão integrativa

Objetivo: buscar na literatura nacional e internacional informações sobre o uso de tecnologias educativas na atuação multiprofissional de saúde. Método: trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura. As produções foram coletadas nas bases LILACS; ADOLEC e no Portal SciELO, utilizando como recorte temporal o período de 2011 a 2017, nos idiomas português, inglês, espanhol selecionadas a partir dos descritores: Software AND Validação de Programas de Computador AND Saúde OR Educação. Ao final, procedeu-se à análise de nove artigos. Resultados: a pesquisa confirmou as evidências científicas analisadas, constatou a importância da validação de novas tecnologias por meio de instrumentos seguros e confiáveis. Conclusão: a utilização das tecnologias favorece o processo de ensino-aprendizagem dos enfermeiros, que podem ter acesso a informações de maneira eficaz, rápida e segura, além de permitir o monitoramento dos problemas do paciente

Avaliação da motivação de escolares à participação de jogos interclasse de escola pública municipal em Fortaleza – CE

The objective was to identify motivating factors on the importance of interclass games for students after an intervention project at school. This is a descriptive, exploratory study with a quantitative approach. The total sample consisted of 108 students of both sexes, between an age range of 11 to 16 years of elementary school in a public school. Data collection instruments, the socioeconomic questionnaire and the Participation Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ) were used. The results showed that "Technical Competence" is the main motivational factor for students, followed by the aspects "Physical Fitness", "Competition" and "Fun". In the process of interpreting the data obtained, it was highlighted that some factors may be related to such result, among them, the short time of intervention of the project, the school environment itself.  Objetivou-se identificar fatores de motivação sobre a importância dos jogos interclasse para os alunos após um projeto de intervenção na escola. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, exploratório e de abordagem quantitativa. A amostra total foi composta por 108 alunos de ambos os sexos, entre uma faixa etária de 11 a 15 anos do Ensino Fundamental Anos Finais de uma escola pública. Foram utilizados como instrumentos de coleta de dados um questionário socioeconômico e o Participation Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ). Os resultados mostraram que a “Competência Técnica” é o principal fator motivacional dos alunos, seguido dos aspectos “Aptidão Física”, “Competição” e “Diversão”. No processo de interpretação dos dados obtidos destacou-se que alguns fatores podem estar relacionados a tal resultado, entre eles, o pouco tempo de intervenção do projeto e o próprio ambiente escolar

Immunization with purine salvation pathway recombinant enzymes induces the production of anti- Schistosoma mansoni immunoglobulines

Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by the trematodes of the Schistosoma genus, affects about 240 million people worldwide. The Praziquantel (PZQ) is the drug used to treat this disease. However, reports of resistant strains reinforce the need to develop a new schistosomicidal drug. The study of new drugs and vaccines that can contribute to the control of this pathology becomes urgent. A new approach can be held by the study of the following Schistosoma mansoni enzymes: purine nucleoside phosphorilase 1 (PNP), hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT) and adenylate kinase 1 (ADK). The parasite, incapable of synthetizing purine nucleotides through the de novo pathway, has multiple mechanisms to incorporate purine bases through the purine salvage pathway. Our goal was to assess, through immunoenzimatic assay (ELISA-indirect), the production of total IgG, IgE and IgG2a in the plasma after immunization with the PNP, HGPRT and ADK enzymes, using the S. mansoni cercariae - infected murine model. Our results showed that the immunization in Balb/c mice with the enzymes mentioned above induced production of the immunoglobulines at the 48th and 85th days, post-infection. Thereby, new assays must be made for a better assessment on how these enzymes modulate an immune response.CNPqFAPES