A acessibilidade arquitetônica interfere na usabilidade de indivíduos com mobilidade reduzida?

One of the goals of the Occupational Therapy's intervention is to guarantee the inclusion of the individuals in all aspects of their lives with the maximum of independence and autonomy. Beyond the avaliation of the physical environment (accessibility), the professional must verify the usability, which is the persons' subjective avaliation of the degree in which the environment restricts their performance. This study was made with the objective to investigate, under the individuals with restricted mobility's point of view, if the architecture conditions interfere in their activities and participation in the Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional (EEFFTO) of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), to verify their satisfaction about UFMG's support and their suggestions of adaptation. For that, a mixed and descriptive study (survey type) was developed. A questionnaire was applied between May and September of 2008 with 26 persons with restricted mobility. The questionnaire had 4 descriptive questions and 21 multiple choice questions. The initial questions aimed to describe the sample, the others broached the access and use of the physical environment. In the accessibility's classification, 73% of the individuals considered that the EEFFTO in general had "Great conditions of access". This shows their satisfaction with the access conditions of the building, although some irregularities had already been evidenced; so the architecture barriers don't interfere in the usability of these individuals.Um dos focos da intervenção terapêutica ocupacional refere-se à inclusão de indivíduos em atividades de sua vida cotidiana, com o máximo de independência e autonomia possíveis. Além da avaliação do espaço físico (acessibilidade), cabe ao profissional verificar a usabilidade, que consiste na avaliação subjetiva do indivíduo sobre como o ambiente restringe suas atividades. Realizou-se este estudo com o intuito de investigar, sob o ponto de vista dos usuários com mobilidade reduzida (MR), se as condições arquitetônicas interferem nas atividades e participação dos mesmos na Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional (EEFFTO) da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), além de averiguar a satisfação desses em relação ao suporte oferecido pela UFMG e suas sugestões de adequação. Para tanto, desenvolveu-se um estudo descritivo, do tipo survey. Aplicou-se um questionário, no período de maio a setembro de 2008, para uma amostra de 26 indivíduos. O questionário contém 4 questões abertas e 21 questões fechadas. As questões iniciais eram para descrever a amostra, enquanto as demais abordaram o acesso e o uso do espaço físico. Quanto à acessibilidade da EEFFTO em geral, 73% dos indivíduos classificaram como tendo "Ótimas condições de acesso". Isso refletiu a satisfação da maioria dos usuários neste aspecto, apesar do não atendimento integral às regras da ABNT já ter sido constatado em estudo preliminar; logo, os resultados sugerem que as barreiras arquitetônicas não interferem na usabilidade desses usuários

Neoplasias pancreaticas: revisão de literatura/ Pancreatic neoplasms: a review of the literature

Introdução: As neoplasias pancreáticas são tumores altamente agressivos e apresentam a detecção precoce e o tratamento cirúrgico como as únicas opções curativas. Dessa forma, trata-se de um tumor com alta recorrência e baixa sobrevida. Objetivos: O objetivo desse estudo é revisar sobre o manejo do câncer de pâncreas, visto que se trata da neoplasia mais letal do trato gastrointestinal. Métodos: Os bancos de dados Pubmed, Diretrizes e UpToDate foram pesquisados eletronicamente utilizando os descritores Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático e Neoplasias Pancreáticas nos idiomas inglês e português. Discussão e Conclusão: O câncer de pâncreas é altamente letal, sendo a maior parte dos casos diagnosticados tardiamente. Dessa forma, é evidente a necessidade de tecnologias para melhor abordagem terapêutica e, consequentemente, maior sobrevida dos indivíduos

Neoplasias pancreaticas: revisão de literatura / Pancreatic neoplasms: literature review

Introdução: As neoplasias pancreáticas são tumores altamente agressivos e apresentam a detecção precoce e o tratamento cirúrgico como as únicas opções curativas. Dessa forma, trata-se de um tumor com alta recorrência e baixa sobrevida. Objetivos: O objetivo desse estudo é revisar sobre o manejo do câncer de pâncreas, visto que se trata da neoplasia mais letal do trato gastrointestinal. Métodos: Os bancos de dados Pubmed, Diretrizes e UpToDate foram pesquisados eletronicamente utilizando os descritores Carcinoma Ductal Pancreático e Neoplasias Pancreáticas nos idiomas inglês e português. Discussão e Conclusão: O câncer de pâncreas é altamente letal, sendo a maior parte dos casos diagnosticados tardiamente. Dessa forma, é evidente a necessidade de tecnologias para melhor abordagem terapêutica e, consequentemente, maior sobrevida dos indivíduos. 

COVID-19 outcomes in people living with HIV: Peering through the waves

Objective: To evaluate clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 patients infected with HIV, and to compare with a paired sample without HIV infection. Methods: This is a substudy of a Brazilian multicentric cohort that comprised two periods (2020 and 2021). Data was obtained through the retrospective review of medical records. Primary outcomes were admission to the intensive care unit, invasive mechanical ventilation, and death. Patients with HIV and controls were matched for age, sex, number of comorbidities, and hospital of origin using the technique of propensity score matching (up to 4:1). They were compared using the Chi-Square or Fisher's Exact tests for categorical variables and the Wilcoxon for numerical variables. Results: Throughout the study, 17,101 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized, and 130 (0.76%) of those were infected with HIV. The median age was 54 (IQR: 43.0;64.0) years in 2020 and 53 (IQR: 46.0;63.5) years in 2021, with a predominance of females in both periods. People Living with HIV (PLHIV) and their controls showed similar prevalence for admission to the ICU and invasive mechanical ventilation requirement in the two periods, with no significant differences. In 2020, in-hospital mortality was higher in the PLHIV compared to the controls (27.9% vs. 17.7%; p = 0.049), but there was no difference in mortality between groups in 2021 (25.0% vs. 25.1%; p > 0.999). Conclusions: Our results reiterate that PLHIV were at higher risk of COVID-19 mortality in the early stages of the pandemic, however, this finding did not sustain in 2021, when the mortality rate is similar to the control group

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Incidência da síndrome pré-menstrual na prática de esportes: aspectos atuais: Incidence of pre-menstrual syndrome in sports: current aspects

A síndrome pré-menstrual (SPM) é uma constelação complexa de alterações de humor, comportamentais e físicas que se limitam à fase pré-menstrual. Esses sintomas se recuperam dentro de alguns dias após o início da menstruação.  Assim, o objetivo desse estudo é demonstrar a incidência da síndrome pré-menstrual na prática de esportes a partir de uma revisão integrativa sobre o tema. Para isso, foi realizado uma revisão integrativa sobre o tema, onde foi considerado textos publicados desde 2010, em inglês e português e que estejam disponíveis para leitura, no PUBMED, LILACs e Scielo. Esta revisão sistemática fornece algum suporte adicional para diretrizes clínicas que recomendam o exercício como um tratamento eficaz para a TPM. As análises secundárias realizadas também fornecem novas evidências de que o exercício pode ser útil no alívio de sintomas psicológicos, físicos e comportamentais específicos associados à TPM, além de auxiliar no gerenciamento do perfil global de sintomas

Educomunicação, Transformação Social e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Esta publicação apresenta os principais trabalhos dos GTs do II Congresso Internacional de Comunicação e Educação nos temas Transformação social, com os artigos que abordam principalmente Educomunicação e/ou Mídia-Educação, no contexto de políticas de diversidade, inclusão e equidade; e, em Desenvolvimento Sustentável os artigos que abordam os avanços da relação comunicação/educação no contexto da educação ambiental e desenvolvimento sustentável

ATLANTIC EPIPHYTES: a data set of vascular and non-vascular epiphyte plants and lichens from the Atlantic Forest

Epiphytes are hyper-diverse and one of the frequently undervalued life forms in plant surveys and biodiversity inventories. Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest, one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, have high endemism and radiated recently in the Pliocene. We aimed to (1) compile an extensive Atlantic Forest data set on vascular, non-vascular plants (including hemiepiphytes), and lichen epiphyte species occurrence and abundance; (2) describe the epiphyte distribution in the Atlantic Forest, in order to indicate future sampling efforts. Our work presents the first epiphyte data set with information on abundance and occurrence of epiphyte phorophyte species. All data compiled here come from three main sources provided by the authors: published sources (comprising peer-reviewed articles, books, and theses), unpublished data, and herbarium data. We compiled a data set composed of 2,095 species, from 89,270 holo/hemiepiphyte records, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, recorded from 1824 to early 2018. Most of the records were from qualitative data (occurrence only, 88%), well distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest. For quantitative records, the most common sampling method was individual trees (71%), followed by plot sampling (19%), and transect sampling (10%). Angiosperms (81%) were the most frequently registered group, and Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae were the families with the greatest number of records (27,272 and 21,945, respectively). Ferns and Lycophytes presented fewer records than Angiosperms, and Polypodiaceae were the most recorded family, and more concentrated in the Southern and Southeastern regions. Data on non-vascular plants and lichens were scarce, with a few disjunct records concentrated in the Northeastern region of the Atlantic Forest. For all non-vascular plant records, Lejeuneaceae, a family of liverworts, was the most recorded family. We hope that our effort to organize scattered epiphyte data help advance the knowledge of epiphyte ecology, as well as our understanding of macroecological and biogeographical patterns in the Atlantic Forest. No copyright restrictions are associated with the data set. Please cite this Ecology Data Paper if the data are used in publication and teaching events. © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of Americ

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost