De la inclusión a la superación. El diseño como estrategia de integración y reinserción social y laboral.

Ponencia presentada en el IX Encuentro Latinoamericano de Diseño "Diseño en Palermo". V Congreso Latinoamericano de Enseñanza del Diseño. Buenos Aires, 2014Este proyecto se enmarca en un ejercicio curricular que incorpora la extensión universitaria como protagonista. Alumnos de la cátedra Diseño Industrial IA, del segundo nivel de la carrera de Diseño Industrial, FAUD - UNC, trabajan en función de verificar sus proyectos de diseño por medio de prototipos. En una labor compleja que los vincula y articula a una institución pública, el Centro de Rehabilitación Socio Laboral de la Provincia de Córdoba, los alumnos llevan adelante la materialización de los mismos mediante un trabajo conjunto con los operarios de los talleres de oficios, pacientes ambulatorios con diferentes problemáticas relacionadas a la Salud Mental.http://fido.palermo.edu/servicios_dyc/publicacionesdc/archivos/534_libro.pdfFil: Tártara, Romina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Dantas, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Gari Jonneret, Denise. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Joubin, Ángel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Navarro, Marisa. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaEducación General (incluye capacitación, pedagogía y didáctica

Seroprevalence of American trypanosomiasis in adults in an area of the western Brazilian Amazon region

Foi realizado no período de janeiro a março de 2001 um inquérito soroepidemiológico para tripanossomíase americana (doença de Chagas) em populações humanas, urbana e rural, de áreas da bacia do alto Purus, Amazônia Ocidental Brasileira, através de testagem em série utilizando três técnicas sorológicas. A amostra foi constituída de 1. 055 indivíduos, 844 da área urbana e 211 da área rural. Foi identificada a infecção autóctone em nove indivíduos, cinco da área urbana e quatro da área rural, com idades variando entre 16 e 72 anos. As prevalências estimadas de infecção chagásica foram: 0,6% (IC95% 0,2-1,4) e 1,9% (IC95% 0,6-4,5) para as áreas urbana e rural respectivamente. Observou-se aparente tendência à aglomeração: sete eram naturais do rio Purus, três residiam na mesma localidade, dois habitavam o mesmo domicílio.From January to March 2001 a seroepidemiological survey for American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) was carried out among urban and rural human populations in areas of the Upper Purus basin, in the western Brazilian Amazon region, using serial testing with three different serological techniques. The sample was composed of 1,055 individuals: 844 from urban and 211 from rural areas. Autochthonous infection was identified in nine individuals aged 16 to 72 years: five from urban and four from rural areas. The estimated prevalences of Chagas infection for the urban and rural areas were 0. 6% (95% CI: 0. 2-1. 4) and 1. 9% (95% CI: 0. 6-4. 5) respectively. An apparent clustering trend was noted: seven were born along the Purus river: three lived at the same locality and two of them in the same dwelling

Bogota River anthropogenic contamination alters microbial communities and promotes spread of antibiotic resistance genes

The increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria has raised global concern regarding the future effectiveness of antibiotics. Human activities that influence microbial communities and environmental resistomes can generate additional risks to human health. In this work, we characterized aquatic microbial communities and their resistomes in samples collected at three sites along the Bogotá River and from wastewaters at three city hospitals, and investigated community profiles and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) as a function of anthropogenic contamination. The presence of antibiotics and other commonly used drugs increased in locations highly impacted by human activities, while the diverse microbial communities varied among sites and sampling times, separating upstream river samples from more contaminated hospital and river samples. Clinically relevant antibiotic resistant pathogens and ARGs were more abundant in contaminated water samples. Tracking of resistant determinants to upstream river waters and city sources suggested that human activities foster the spread of ARGs, some of which were co-localized with mobile genetic elements in assembled metagenomic contigs. Human contamination of this water ecosystem changed both community structure and environmental resistomes that can pose a risk to human health

De la inclusión a la superación. El diseño como estrategia de integración y reinserción social y laboral.

Ponencia presentada en el congreso Internacional de Diseño (CIDI). Córdoba, 2013La tarea extensionista supone una vinculación Universidad-Sociedad y un intercambio de conocimientos en el marco de un proceso de aprendizaje reciproco con responsabilidad social y compromiso ético. Consideramos que nuestra tarea, ademas de poner en contacto a los alumnos con una realidad técnica y de oficio que los enriquece desde el punto de vista académico, tiene la importante misión de enriquecerlos desde una perspectiva ética y humana. Por otro lado también se vio fortalecida, en el paciente - operario, la sensación de valía y reconocimiento por parte de la sociedad, en un proceso de inserción laboral y vinculación con el medio universitario.Fil: Capeletti, Daniel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Dantas, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Gandini Ammann, Luis Augusto. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Gari Jonneret, Denise. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Joubin, Ángel. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Navarro, Marisa. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Tártara, Romina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño; ArgentinaEducación General (incluye capacitación, pedagogía y didáctica

Concepts in Animal Parasitology, Part 5: Ectoparasites

Part V: Ectoparasites, chapters 60-67, pages 732-841, in Concepts in Animal Parasitology. 2024. Scott L. Gardner and Sue Ann Gardner, editors. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States; part V doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap075 Platyhelminthes Chapter 60: Monogenea (Class) by Griselda Pulido-Flores, pages 733-742 Chapter 61: Transversotremata (Suborder): Ectoparasitic Trematodes by Scott C. Cutmore and Thomas H. Cribb, pages 743-746 Hirudinia Chapter 62: Hirudinia (Class): Parasitic Leeches by Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa and Sebastian Kvist, pages 747-755 Arthropoda Chapter 63: Siphonaptera (Order): Fleas by Marcela Lareschi, pages 756-770 Chapter 64: Phthiraptera (Order): Lice by Lajos Rózsa and Haylee J. Weaver, pages 771-789 Chapter 65: Triatominae (Subfamily): Kissing Bugs by numerous authors cited from open access sources, compiled by Sue Ann Gardner, pages 790-797 Chapter 66: Acari (Order): Ticks by Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, Valeria Castilho Onofrio, and Filipe Dantas-Torres, pages 798-835 Chapter 67: Acari (Order): Mites by David Evans Walter, Gerald W. Krantz, and Evert E. Lindquist, pages 836-84

Rarity of monodominance in hyperdiverse Amazonian forests.

Tropical forests are known for their high diversity. Yet, forest patches do occur in the tropics where a single tree species is dominant. Such "monodominant" forests are known from all of the main tropical regions. For Amazonia, we sampled the occurrence of monodominance in a massive, basin-wide database of forest-inventory plots from the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN). Utilizing a simple defining metric of at least half of the trees ≥ 10 cm diameter belonging to one species, we found only a few occurrences of monodominance in Amazonia, and the phenomenon was not significantly linked to previously hypothesized life history traits such wood density, seed mass, ectomycorrhizal associations, or Rhizobium nodulation. In our analysis, coppicing (the formation of sprouts at the base of the tree or on roots) was the only trait significantly linked to monodominance. While at specific locales coppicing or ectomycorrhizal associations may confer a considerable advantage to a tree species and lead to its monodominance, very few species have these traits. Mining of the ATDN dataset suggests that monodominance is quite rare in Amazonia, and may be linked primarily to edaphic factors

Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities

Trees structure the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystem, tropical forests. The vast number of tree species presents a formidable challenge to understanding these forests, including their response to environmental change, as very little is known about most tropical tree species. A focus on the common species may circumvent this challenge. Here we investigate abundance patterns of common tree species using inventory data on 1,003,805 trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm across 1,568 locations$^{1-6}$ in closed-canopy, structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa, Amazonia and Southeast Asia. We estimate that 2.2%, 2.2% and 2.3% of species comprise 50% of the tropical trees in these regions, respectively. Extrapolating across all closed-canopy tropical forests, we estimate that just 1,053 species comprise half of Earth's 800 billion tropical trees with trunk diameters of at least 10 cm. Despite differing biogeographic, climatic and anthropogenic histories$^{7}$, we find notably consistent patterns of common species and species abundance distributions across the continents. This suggests that fundamental mechanisms of tree community assembly may apply to all tropical forests. Resampling analyses show that the most common species are likely to belong to a manageable list of known species, enabling targeted efforts to understand their ecology. Although they do not detract from the importance of rare species, our results open new opportunities to understand the world's most diverse forests, including modelling their response to environmental change, by focusing on the common species that constitute the majority of their trees

Síndrome de encefalopatia posterior reversível associada à síndrome respiratória aguda grave pelo coronavírus 2 (SARS-COV-2): Uma revisão sistemática da literatura / Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome by coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2): A systematic review of the literature

INTRODUÇÃO: A Síndrome da Encefalopatia Posterior Reversível (SEPR) é uma síndrome clínica aguda que pode incluir cefaleia, alteração da consciência, distúrbios visuais, convulsões e tem a neuroimagem como instrumento fundamental para o diagnóstico, evidenciando o edema vasogênico na substância branca de partes posteriores. Com o surgimento do SARS-Cov-2 percebeu-se que este vírus causa uma disfunção no endotélio e pode contribuir para o surgimento de uma complicação por infecção grave, a SEPR. OBJETIVOS: Realizar uma revisão da literatura sobre a associação da infecção COVID-19 com a SEPR. MÉTODOS: A seleção dos artigos foi realizada através das bases de dados Pubmed, BVS (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde) e IBECS (Índice Bibliográfico Espanhol em Ciências da Saúde). Selecionaram-se os artigos publicados até a data de 22 de janeiro de 2021. aplicou-se critérios de inclusão e exclusão e por fim, 24 artigos foram revisados. RESULTADOS: Alguns autores consideram que o desenvolvimento da SEPR está ligado ao aumento nos níveis pressóricos, insuficiência renal e a atuação do próprio vírus nos receptores da enzima conversora de angiotensina 2, o que poderia enfraquecer a barreira hematoencefálica (BE) e ser um dos responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento da Síndrome. Outros autores dizem que a liberação maciça de citocinas inflamatórias pode danificar a BE e pode ser um mecanismo que explique o desenvolvimento da SEPR.  Nos exames de imagens, notou-se edema vasogênico e hemorragias multifocais, sendo a endotelite linfocítica um achado post-mortem. Outros sintomas comuns apresentados foram a tontura, sonolência, visão turva, hipotonia de membros inferiores, pressão arterial variável e, em alguns casos, convulsões tônico-clônicas. Dentre os fatores de riscos para SEPR, notou-se que a infecção por HIV, hipertensão descontrolada e a falência renal cursaram com o desenvolvimento da SEPR. Naqueles pacientes tratados com hidroxicloroquina, os autores relataram que o medicamento pode estar envolvido na indução da SEPR. CONCLUSÃO: A SEPR, uma síndrome clínico-radiológica, caracterizada pelo seu início agudo e subagudo de cefaleias. Relacionou-se o seu desenvolvimento com a cascata de citocinas e a atuação do vírus nos receptores de angiotensina 2 que enfraqueceriam a BE e culminariam na síndrome, principalmente em pacientes graves. As hemorragias e o edema vasogênico foram os principais achados de imagem. Até o momento, os relatórios utilizados priorizam especialmente sintomas respiratórios, subestimando a quantidade de sequelas neurológicas advindas da infecção pelo SARS-CoV-2. Espera-se assim, que mais estudos sejam realizados com a temática em questão para elucidar as relações existentes entre a infecção e a SEPR

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

Estimates of extinction risk for Amazonian plant and animal species are rare and not often incorporated into land-use policy and conservation planning. We overlay spatial distribution models with historical and projected deforestation to show that at least 36% and up to 57% of all Amazonian tree species are likely to qualify as globally threatened under International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List criteria. If confirmed, these results would increase the number of threatened plant species on Earth by 22%. We show that the trends observed in Amazonia apply to trees throughout the tropics, and we predict thatmost of the world’s >40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as globally threatened. A gap analysis suggests that existing Amazonian protected areas and indigenous territories will protect viable populations of most threatened species if these areas suffer no further degradation, highlighting the key roles that protected areas, indigenous peoples, and improved governance can play in preventing large-scale extinctions in the tropics in this century