Presión laboral y funcionalidad familiar en docentes de colegio estatal bajo la modalidad de trabajo remoto, Arequipa - 2021

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal determinar la relación entre la presión laboral y la funcionalidad familiar en docentes de institución educativa estatal que laboran bajo la modalidad remota. Se tuvo un enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no experimental transversal y un alcance descriptivo correlacional; asimismo, se contó con una muestra censal de 70 docentes, los cuales fueron seleccionados de manera no probabilística intencional. Para recoger la información se empleó la técnica de encuesta y se tuvieron como instrumentos dos cuestionarios: el Inventario de Presión Laboral Docente (PLD) y la Escala de Cohesión y Adaptabilidad Familiar (FACES IV), cuya aplicación fue de manera virtual, mediante un formulario de Google. En cuanto a los resultados, se obtuvo que la mayoría de los docentes presentaba un nivel alto de presión laboral (38.6%) y una funcionalidad familiar balanceada (61.4%); asimismo, se pudo determinar que la presión laboral se relaciona de manera significativa e inversa con la funcionalidad familiar (p<0.05; rho = -.879)

FAUNA SINANTRÓPICA NO MUNICÍPIO DE ARARAQUARA, SÃO PAULO, 2011 A 2014: ORGANIZAÇÃO/SISTEMATIZAÇÃO DAS OCORRÊNCIAS

Diante da importância da prevenção dos problemas causados por animais de fauna sinantrópica, foi realizado em Araraquara/SP um levantamento de ocorrências no período de 2011 a 2014. Foi gerado, assim, dados sistematizados, em plataforma digital, contendo as informações básicas das ocorrências. Além da organização dos dados em planilhas digitais, as informações foram georreferenciadas utilizando-se o aplicativo Google Earth. Foram feitas tabelas especificando motivos e quantidades de ocorrências, para melhor visualização dos dados. Também foram feitos mapas, por meio do aplicativo QGIS. Durante o período, totalizaram-se 6.398 ocorrências. Em 2013 registrou-se maior quantidade de animais sinantrópicos. Em 2014 houve uma diminuição de 7,23% em relação ao ano anterior, muito provavelmente devido à falta de infra-estrutura do município para atender os casos. O trabalho de sistematização dos dados das ocorrências de animais de fauna sinantrópica proporcionou uma melhoria na organização, com o intuito de subsidiar programas municipais de prevenção de casos, assim como facilitando a realização de estudos futuros

Fine-grain population structure and transmission patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in southern Mozambique, a high TB/HIV burden area

14 paginas, 5 figuras, 2 tablas.Genomic studies of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) might shed light on the dynamics of its transmission, especially in high-burden settings, where recent outbreaks are embedded in the complex natural history of the disease. To this end, we conducted a 1 year prospective surveillance-based study in Mozambique. We applied whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to 295 positive cultures. We fully characterized MTBC isolates by phylogenetics and dating evaluation, and carried out a molecular epidemiology analysis to investigate further associations with pre-defined transmission risk factors. The majority of strains (49.5%, 136/275) belonged to lineage (L) 4; 57.8 % of them (159/275) were in genomic transmission clusters (cut-off 5 SNPs), and a strikingly high proportion (45.5%) shared an identical genotype (0 SNP pairwise distance). We found two 'likely endemic' clades, comprising 67 strains, belonging to L1.2, which dated back to the late 19th century and were associated with recent spread among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV). We describe for the first time the population structure of MTBC in our region, a high tuberculosis (TB)/HIV burden area. Clustering analysis revealed an unforeseen pattern of spread and high rates of progression to active TB, suggesting weaknesses in TB control activities. The long-term presence of local strains in Mozambique, which were responsible for large transmission among HIV/TB-coinfected patients, calls into question the role of HIV in TB transmission.This project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmes 101001038 (TB-RECONNECT), PID2019-104477RB-I00 from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spanish Government) (to I.C.). We acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the ‘Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019–2023’.Programme (CEX2018-000806-S), and support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Programme. B.S receives a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Secretariat of Universities and Research, Ministry of Enterprise and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia and co-funded by European Social Fund (AGAUR).Peer reviewe

The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

International audienceForest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth's ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment of renewable energy potential, and for developing climate change mitigation policies such as REDD+, among others. Wall-to-wall mapping of aboveground biomass (aGB) is now possible with satellite remote sensing (RS). However, RS methods require extant, up-to-date, reliable, representative and comparable in situ data for calibration and validation. Here, we present the Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database. aGB and canopy height estimates with their associated uncertainties are derived at a 0.25 ha scale from field measurements made in permanent research plots across the world's forests. all plot estimates are geolocated and have a size that allows for direct comparison with many RS measurements. The FOS offers the potential to improve the accuracy of RS-based biomass products while developing new synergies between the RS and ground-based ecosystem research communities

A search for resonances decaying into a Higgs boson and a new particle X in the XH→qqbb final state with the ATLAS detector

A search for heavy resonances decaying into a Higgs boson ($H$) and a new particle ($X$) is reported, utilizing 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The particle $X$ is assumed to decay to a pair of light quarks, and the fully hadronic final state $XH \rightarrow q\bar q'b\bar b$ is analysed. The search considers the regime of high $XH$ resonance masses, where the $X$ and $H$ bosons are both highly Lorentz-boosted and are each reconstructed using a single jet with large radius parameter. A two-dimensional phase space of $XH$ mass versus $X$ mass is scanned for evidence of a signal, over a range of $XH$ resonance mass values between 1 TeV and 4 TeV, and for $X$ particles with masses from 50 GeV to 1000 GeV. All search results are consistent with the expectations for the background due to Standard Model processes, and 95% CL upper limits are set, as a function of $XH$ and $X$ masses, on the production cross-section of the $XH\rightarrow q\bar q'b\bar b$ resonance

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016