Senior Recital: Christine Reichert, Viola; Louise De Rosa, Piano; May 6, 1975

Centennial East Recital HallTuesday EveningMay 6, 19758:30 p.m

Why Rigid Process Management Technology Hampers Computerized Support of Healthcare Processes

Healthcare processes are characterized by frequent changes, numerous exceptions and complex deviations from the norm. Despite the increasing adoption of process-aware healthcare information systems (PAHIS), there still exist numerous issues related to the handling of exceptions in clinical processes that are not effectively supported in contemporary PAHIS. This paper presents preliminary results of a research whose goal is to get a deeper understanding of clinical work practices and to better understand how IT process support should look like for them. Altogether, adequate handling of failure and exceptions in PAHIS, while still enabling a certain level of control and assistance to clinical staff

3-(1-Methyl-3-imidazolio)propane­sulfonate: a precursor to a Brønsted acid ionic liquid

The title compound, C7H12N2O3S, is a zwitterion precursor to a Brønsted acid ionic liquid with potential as an acid catalyst. The C—N—C—C torsion angle of 100.05 (8)° allows the positively charged imidazolium head group and the negatively charged sulfonate group to inter­act with neighboring zwitterions, forming a C—H⋯O hydrogen-bonding network; the shortest among these inter­actions is 2.9512 (9) Å. The C—H⋯O inter­actions can be described by graph-set notation as two R 2 2(16) and one R 2 2(5) hydrogen-bonded rings

Exercise and Tendon Remodeling Mechanism

Tendons connect muscles to bones and transmit the force exerted by the corresponding muscle to the skeleton and, therefore, are key components for locomotion. They are responsive to mechanical factors, which are essential for cellular functioning, tendon development, homeostasis, and repairing. Mechanical signals are transduced via molecular signaling pathways which trigger tendon adaptive responses. Previous data have already shown that exercise training promotes physiological adaptive responses, such as morphological properties and biomechanical and biochemical adaptations

The 100,000 most influential scientists rank : the underrepresentation of Brazilian women in academia

Despite the progress observed in recent years, women are still underrepresented in science worldwide, especially at top positions. Many factors contribute to women progressively leaving academia at different stages of their career, including motherhood, harassment and conscious and unconscious discrimination. Implicit bias plays a major negative role in recognition, promotions and career advancement of female scientists. Recently, a rank of the most influential scientists in the world was created based on several metrics, including the number of published papers and citations. Here, we analyzed the representation of Brazilian scientists in this rank, focusing on gender. Female Brazilian scientists are greatly underrepresented in the rank (11% in the Top 100,000; 18% in the Top 2%). Possible reasons for this observed scenario are related to the metrics used to rank scientists, which reproduce and amplify the well-known implicit bias in peer-review and citations. Male scientists have more self-citation than female scientists and positions in the rank varied when self-citations were included, suggesting that self-citation by male scientists increases their visibility. Discussions on the repercussions of such ranks are pivotal to avoid deepening the gender gap in science

Estatísticas de mortes violentas no Vale do Taquari no estado do Rio Grande do Sul no período de 2007 a 2016

As causas de mortes violentas que são submetidas à autópsia, podem ser classificadas inicialmente em três grandes grupos, são eles: homicídio, suicídio e acidente de trânsito. Como são mortes causadas de forma violenta é obrigatória à realização da necropsia, com o objetivo de descobrir a real causa da morte, a identificação do morto, o tempo aproximado da morte e algum outro procedimento que seja necessário. O objetivo do trabalho foi identificar o perfil epidemiológico de morte violenta da região do Vale do Taquari no estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no período de 2007 a 2016, definindo quais as causas de morte que possuem maior índice, identificando quais as faixas etárias e sexo possui uma maior causa de morte e identificar as causas de mortes que mais ocorrem em determinadas cidades. As informações foram obtidas no Departamento Médico Legal do município de Lajeado/RS, a partir das Declarações de Óbitos. No referido estudo, verificou-se que, no Instituto Médico Legal da cidade de Lajeado/RS, foram feitas 1.745 necropsias, sendo essas de todo o Vale do Taquari, das quais 1.415 (81,1%) são do sexo masculino e 330 (18,9%) são do sexo feminino. Constituindo essas 1.745 necropsias, 899 foram por acidente de trânsito, 506 foram por suicídio e 340 foram por homicídio. Conclui-se que é necessário investir em programas preventivos, educação e estratégias, a fim de identificar e acompanhar esses eventos podendo trazer contribuições importantes para a diminuição desses agravos na população

Applications residual control charts based on variable limits

The main purpose of this paper is to verify the stability of a productive process in the presence of the effects of autocorrelation and volatility, in order to capture these characteristics by a joint forecast model which produces residuals that are evaluated by a control chart based on variable control limits. The methodology employed will be the joint estimation of the residuals by ARIMA – ARCH models and the conditional standard deviation from residuals to establish the chart control limits. The joint AR (1)-ARCH (1) model shows that an appropriate forecasting model brings a great contribution to the performance of residual control charts in monitoring the stability of industrial variables using just one chart to monitor mean and variance togetherinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Innovation Capabilities and the role of Strategic Intelligence

In rapidly changing environments, innovation allows firms to maintain their market competitiveness. A firm with well-developed innovation capabilities stands a better chance to sustain its competitiveness. Additionally, strategic intelligence practices will also contribute to positive results, as a firm\u27s economic sustainability depends on installed processes to obtain informational elements coming from the external environment to support its decision-making process. In this way, innovation often benefits from intelligence processes, especially when it provides new knowledge, monitors technological trajectories, and expands understanding of the external environment. To survive in a competitive market a firm needs innovation capabilities and strategic intelligence practices, but how are they related? Firms that are proactive in terms of their strategic intelligence practices have more developed innovation capabilities when compared to those reactive ones? This study aims to identify whether firms with activities associated with the strategic intelligence process differ in terms of their innovation capability level, verifying differences when comparing reactive and proactive groups. We analyzed secondary data of 1,331 Brazilian manufacturing firms. From the analysis, we have identified that development, operations and management capabilities are higher in those firms where there are strategic intelligence practices in place

Oficina MATELI como possibilidade para ensinar relações matemáticas

O presente instrumento de comunicação tem como propósito difundir um recorte da dissertação intitulada Relações Matemáticas e Clarice Lispector: Um encontro inusitado entre Matemática e Literatura, defendida pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Ciências Exatas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) no primeiro semestre de 2021. Esta pesquisa, inspirada nos estudos do filósofo pós-estruturalista Michel Foucault e nas escritas propostas pelo grupo francês OuLiPo, objetivou produzir uma outra forma de ensinar relações e funções matemáticas, balizada pelas escritas de si e contraintes oulipianas. Propôs-se então, no contexto de uma escola da rede pública estadual gaúcha, uma oficina extraclasse intitulada MATELI (acrônimo de Matemática e Literatura), através da qual realizou-se uma pesquisa documental e empreendeu-se a análise do discurso numa perspectiva foucaultiana. Os documentos produzidos pelos próprios oficineiros evidenciaram que diferentes formas de ensinar podem ser potentes impulsionadores para experimentar, sentir, pensar, se trans(formar) e constituir-se a si mesmo

The RNA-binding protein ELAV regulates Hox RNA processing, expression and function within the Drosophila nervous system

The regulated head-to-tail expression of Hox genes provides a coordinate system for the activation of specific programmes of cell differentiation according to axial level. Recent work indicates that Hox expression can be regulated via RNA processing but the underlying mechanisms and biological significance of this form of regulation remain poorly understood. Here we explore these issues within the developing Drosophila central nervous system (CNS). We show that the pan-neural RNA-binding protein (RBP) ELAV (Hu antigen) regulates the RNA processing patterns of the Hox gene Ultrabithorax (Ubx) within the embryonic CNS. Using a combination of biochemical, genetic and imaging approaches we demonstrate that ELAV binds to discrete elements within Ubx RNAs and that its genetic removal reduces Ubx protein expression in the CNS leading to the respecification of cellular subroutines under Ubx control, thus defining for the first time a specific cellular role of ELAV within the developing CNS. Artificial provision of ELAV in glial cells (a cell type that lacks ELAV) promotes Ubx expression, suggesting that ELAVdependent regulation might contribute to cell type-specific Hox expression patterns within the CNS. Finally, we note that expression of abdominal A and Abdominal B is reduced in elav mutant embryos, whereas other Hox genes (Antennapedia) are not affected. Based on these results and the evolutionary conservation of ELAV and Hox genes we propose that the modulation of Hox RNA processing by ELAV serves to adapt the morphogenesis of the CNS to axial level by regulating Hox expression and consequently activating local programmes of neural differentiation