3,318 research outputs found
The Jagged Mediterranean Space: Regions, Borders and Scalarities
Este artigo fornece uma conceituação prismática da Europa, para além de uma perspectiva eurocêntrica, para investigar a sobreposição do Norte e do Sul dentro dela, considerando o Mediterrâneo e a cidade de Roma como caso exemplar
Translation and adaptation of the In-Hospital Utstein Style into the portuguese language
A parada cardiorrespiratória (PCR) é um evento potencialmente letal e a qualidade do atendimento prestado depende da agilidade, conhecimento e habilidade de toda a equipe envolvida. Desenvolvido em 1997, o In-hospital Utstein Style é um relatório padrão para coleta de dados significativos em PCR. O estudo objetivou realizar a tradução e adaptação à língua portuguesa do instrumento. O instrumento foi submetido ao processo de tradução e adaptação cultural. O resultado deste processo gerou um instrumento aplicado em fase de pré-teste a 20 pacientes vítimas de PCR. As variáveis de resultado não foram coletadas, pois pressupõe o acompanhamento destes pacientes ao longo do tempo. O ritmo de PCR mais comum foi atividade elétrica sem pulso (65%); o tempo médio para desfibrilar foi de 1,25 minutos. Houve itens sem resposta. Podemos concluir que o instrumento é aplicável à realidade brasileira, buscando melhor atendimento ao evento da PCR.El paro cardiopulmonar (PCP) es un estado potencialmente letal, donde la calidad del servicio depende de la agilidad, conocimiento y habilidad del equipo involucrado. El In-hospital Utstein Style fue elaborado en 1997. Este instrumento que recolecta datos de importancia durante un PCP fue traducido y adaptado al portugués. De esta forma fue sometido al proceso de traducción y adaptación cultural. Se obtuvo como resultado un instrumento, el cual fue aplicado a 20 victimas de PCP a través de un pre-test. Las variables de resultado no fueron consideradas en la recolección de datos, pues suponía el seguimiento de los pacientes por un periodo prolongado. El ritmo del PCP más común fue la actividad eléctrica sin pulso (65%) y el tiempo promedio de desfibrilación fue de 1,25 minutos. Algunos ítems no fueron respondidos. Se concluye que el instrumento puede ser aplicado al contexto brasileño, en busca de una mejor atención en casos de PCP.Cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) is a potentially lethal event in which the quality of the service depends on agility, knowledge and the skills of all of the involved team. The development of the guide identifying the significant points during the procedure of an in-hospital CPA appeared in 1997, with the creation of the In-Hospital Utstein. The purpose of this study was the translation and adaptation of the procedures into the Portuguese language. Outcomes of this process resulted in a pre-test instrument administered on 20 CPA patients. The outcome variables were not collected, because it involved accompanying these patients over a lengthy period of time. The most common CPA rhythm was pulseless electrical activity (65%); the defibrillation average time was 1.25 minutes. Some information was not recorded. In conclusion, the instrument is adaptable to the Brazilian reality, therefore improving care administered during the CPA event
The global university, the political economy of knowledge in Asia and the segmentation of China's higher education
PhDThis research analyses the expansion and transformation of higher education in
Asia, focusing in particular on Chinese universities. It shows the rising of the so-‐‑
called global university, that is, above all, an inclusive process which makes
academic knowledge production something heterogeneous, complex and
composite – characterised by different actors both private and public, institutional
and non-‐‑institutional. The global university is a point of multiplicity that places our
view in the midst of the transformation of educational policies and knowledge
taken as whole. It reveals a ‘global knowledge order’ parallel to a ‘new international
division of labour’, where the higher education is becoming an important device in
the filtering, restriction, and return of population and skilled workers around a
whole set of internal national/transnational borders based on knowledge.
Developing the concepts of stratification and differentiation, I investigate how the
transformation of the educational system brings out and multiplies, rather than
mitigates, the differences between universities, while this same segmentation refers
to an original and powerful method of management of the increasingly qualified
workforce. Higher education and its internationalization nowadays is an important
dispositive to segment population within globalization, reconfigures hierarchies
and manages the complex displacement of the present having the same force (or
even more) as those of gender and race. Moreover, the Global University represents
the most interesting terrain to observe the development of an original measurement
of labour in its metamorphosis and the value form in cognitive capitalism.
The growing intra-‐‑regional mobility in Asia and the internationalisation of higher
education characterise the innovative cartography of the present, wherein
knowledge production becomes spatially dispersed and globally integrated.
Knowledge, geographically embedded, defines the order of the current post-‐‑
colonial space, while the Global University describes not only this kind of order,
but also how this imbalance is used by the skilled workforce to survive in the local
labour market
Towards a Global Regime of Higher Education
This paper rethinks the spatialization of educational institutions at the global level, scaling and rescaling the space of the university as an inclusive process that makes academic knowledge production something heterogeneous, complex and composite, and proposing a regime for the higher education system based on a stratified relationship that is asymmetrical and geographically displaced. Moreover it outlines the “new” political economy of knowledge, which is a particular mechanism in contemporary capitalist production, capable of creating an artificial scarcity of knowledge by means of hierarchies, and reproducing the classical law of value in a regime based on abundance instead of scarcity.This paper rethinks the spatialization of educational institutions at the global level, scaling and rescaling the space of the university as an inclusive process that makes academic knowledge production something heterogeneous, complex and composite, and proposing a regime for the higher education system based on a stratified relationship that is asymmetrical and geographically displaced. Moreover it outlines the “new” political economy of knowledge, which is a particular mechanism in contemporary capitalist production, capable of creating an artificial scarcity of knowledge by means of hierarchies, and reproducing the classical law of value in a regime based on abundance instead of scarcity
Existence of orthogonal geodesic chords on Riemannian manifolds with concave boundary and homeomorphic to the N-dimensional disk
In this paper we give a proof of the existence of an orthogonal geodesic
chord on a Riemannian manifold homeomorphic to a closed disk and with concave
boundary. This kind of study is motivated by the link of the multiplicity
problem with the famous Seifert conjecture (formulated in 1948) about multiple
brake orbits for a class of Hamiltonian systems at a fixed energy level.Comment: 59 pages, 3 figures. To appear on Nonlinear Analysis Series A:
Theory, Methods & Application
A New CNT-Oriented Shell Theory
A theory of linearly elastic orthotropic shells is presented, with potential
application to the continuous modeling of Carbon NanoTubes. Two relevant
features are: the selected type of orthotropic response, which should be
suitable to capture differences in chirality; the possibility of accounting for
thickness changes due to changes in inter-wall separation to be expected in
multi-wall CNTs. A simpler version of the theory is also proposed, in which
orthotropy is preserved but thickness changes are excluded, intended for
possible application to single-wall CNTs. Another feature of both versions of
the present theory is boundary-value problems of torsion, axial traction,
uniform inner pressure, and rim flexure, can be solved explicitly in closed
form. Various directions of ongoing further research are indicated
Anosov Flows and Dynamical Zeta Functions
We study the Ruelle and Selberg zeta functions for \Cs^r Anosov flows, , on a compact smooth manifold. We prove several results, the most remarkable
being: (a) for \Cs^\infty flows the zeta function is meromorphic on the
entire complex plane; (b) for contact flows satisfying a bunching condition
(e.g. geodesic flows on manifolds of negative curvature better than -pinched) the zeta function has a pole at the topological entropy and is
analytic in a strip to its left; (c) under the same hypotheses as in (b) we
obtain sharp results on the number of periodic orbits. Our arguments are based
on the study of the spectral properties of a transfer operator acting on
suitable Banach spaces of anisotropic currents
Association of FSHR, LH, LHR, BMP15, GDF9, AMH, and AMHR polymorphisms with poor ovarian response in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization
Objective: This paper aimed to assess the correlation between LH, LHR, GDF9, FSHR, AMH, AMHR2, and BMP15 polymorphisms, which are related to follicular development, and decreased ovarian response in women undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) for IVF. Methods: This age-matched case-control study included three or four controls per woman undergoing COH. Controls were women with normal ovarian response (NOR) and cases were women with poor ovarian response (POR) in oocyte retrieval (three or fewer oocytes). DNA was extracted from peripheral blood and potential associations with gene polymorphisms related to follicular development (LH, LHR, GDF9, FSHR, AMH, AMHR2, and BMP15) were analyzed. Results: Sixty-six patients were included, 52 in the NOR and 14 in the POR group. Two GDF9 polymorphisms were associated with follicular response after COH, one associated with POR - the presence of a mutant polymorphism in heterozygosis and homozygosis of the GDF9 398-39 (C to G) [23% NOR versus 68% POR (OR 4.01, CI 1.52-10.6, p=0.005)] - and another associated with protective response - the presence of normal homozygosis of GDF9 (C447T) [19.2% NOR versus 50% POR (OR 0.34, IC 0.14-0.84, p=0.019)]. No additional associations were found between the other analyzed polymorphisms and POR. Conclusions: This study found that GDF9 appears to play an important role in follicular development, whereas polymorphisms in its DNA chain may negatively affect ovarian reserve, such as 398-39 (C to G), or positively, as seen in C447T
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