The ​ ​representation ​ ​of ​ ​refuge ​ ​and ​ ​migration ​ ​in ​ ​the ​ ​online ​ ​media ​ ​in ​ ​Brazil ​ ​and abroad: ​ ​a ​ ​Cognitive ​ ​Linguistics ​ ​analysis

The present study aims at mapping how the situation of refuge and migration is represented metaphorically in the Brazilian online media. From the data collected, we will establish comparisons between the representations that were found. An approach that contemplates the frame study employed in the media allows us to observe that verbal and nonverbal resources, metaphorical sentences and lexical items are constituted into discursive ​frames. ​We intend to discuss how the migrant and the refugee are represented in the Brazilian online media. Some questions we will investigate are: What are the discourses on the reception of refugees and migrants? Which discourses on the integration of refugees and migrants are broadcasted? From these questions, we will examine how such categories compose the image of the migrant and the refugee. The corpus used was based on the news of the online newspaper ​Folha de São Paulo from June, 2015, seen as it was in this month that the so called “refugee crisis” occurred in Europe. The gathering and analysis were done with the help of two free softwares: Notepad++, that allows the user to save texts in ​txt format, and Antconc, that enables the analysis of several txt files through tools that are used in Corpus Linguistics. The concordance lines obtained by inserting a word of choice in AntConc’s concordancer were then analyzed manually through Cameron’s (2010) Metaphor-led Discourse Analysis. A larger objective will be to identify which metaphorical ​frames are used in the migrant’s and refugee’s media representation and what are their social implications. Such frames contribute to organize and potentialize the discourse about the ​ ​Other ​ ​(BRUNO, ​ ​2016)

Prejuízos cognitivos em Diabetes Mellitus: revisão da literatura

O Diabetes Mellitus consiste em uma doença crônica que ocorre quando o pâncreas não produz insulina o suficiente, ou o organismo não é capaz de utilizar efetivamente a insulina produzida, o Diabetes Mellitus esta sendo considerado um problema de saúde pública com forte influência no ponto de vista social e econômico em vários países do mundo. Esta doença esta associada a déficits cognitivos, alterações estruturais e neurofisiológicas no cérebro. As alterações cognitivas têm como importante preocupação as possíveis dificuldades dos pacientes na adesão para um bom controle glicêmico. Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica na base de dados PubMed no período de 10 anos, entre 2003 a fevereiro de 2013. Percebeu-se a necessidade de um maior conhecimento sobre quais são os mecanismos e quais sã

Prejuízos cognitivos em Diabetes Mellitus: revisão da literatura

O Diabetes Mellitus consiste em uma doença crônica que ocorre quando o pâncreas não produz insulina o suficiente, ou o organismo não é capaz de utilizar efetivamente a insulina produzida, o Diabetes Mellitus esta sendo considerado um problema de saúde pública com forte influência no ponto de vista social e econômico em vários países do mundo. Esta doença esta associada a déficits cognitivos, alterações estruturais e neurofisiológicas no cérebro. As alterações cognitivas têm como importante preocupação as possíveis dificuldades dos pacientes na adesão para um bom controle glicêmico. Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica na base de dados PubMed no período de 10 anos, entre 2003 a fevereiro de 2013. Percebeu-se a necessidade de um maior conhecimento sobre quais são os mecanismos e quais sã

O desenvolvimento participativo da área de medicina tradicional indígena, Projeto Vigisus II/Funasa

O artigo trata sobre o desenvolvimento participativo das ações da Área de Medicina Tradicional Indígena (AMT) do Projeto Vigisus II/FUNASA. A Área tem como objetivo a construção de estratégias para a articulação entre os sistemas médicos indígenas e o sistema oficial de saúde, conforme preconizado pela Política Nacional de Atenção a Saúde dos Povos Indígenas. As principais atividades executadas foram os projetos participativos de pesquisa-ação que podem ser classificados em três eixos transversais: sistemas tradicionais de parto indígenas; plantas medicinais; xamanismo e intermedicalidade. Os resultados qualitativos alcançados pelo eixo sistemas de parto indígenas são aqui apresentados de modo a demonstrar o quanto a articulação dos serviços de saúde com as medicinas tradicionais indígenas é condição fundamental para a efetivação do princípio da integralidade em um modelo diferenciado de atenção à saúde indígena.The article presents the participative planning of health care actions in the Indigenous Traditional Medicine Department, of Project Vigisus II/Funasa (National Foundation for Health). This department's function is to build strategies for the articulation between the indigenous medicine systems and the official health care system, was is established at the National Health Care Policy for Indigenous People. The main activities developed were participant projects of research-action organized along three transverse axes: indigenous childbirth's traditional systems; medicine plants; shamanism and intermedicine. Qualitative results reached at the indigenous systems of childbirth axis are presented here, in order to show how the articulation with traditional indigenous medicine is a core condition to fulfill the principle of integrality in a differentiated model of indigenous health care

Visita domiciliar sob a percepção dos usuários da estratégia saúde da família

Study design: Exploratory, descriptive and quantitative study. Objective: To characterize the home visit performed by community health workers through the perception of users. Methodology: a study with 364 registered users in four Health Units of a small municipality Family conducted between July and August 2009. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire administered in the home of the registered families. Results: Of the 364 respondents, half reported receiving home visit monthly, and the duration was approximately five minutes, not interfering in the daily 91% of respondents users. Most (77.2%) said the home visit partially meets their needs and only a third of visits made within the household. However, 75% of the users considered as good or excellent performance of community workers. Conclusions: Most users reported being partially satisfied with the home visit. Thus, there was satisfactory indicators relating to frequency, service needs, performance and position of agents in the home visit. However, its duration, localization and the topics discussed were aspects considered less satisfactory, justifying greater investment in this health action so that the Family Health Strategy fully taps their potentialModelo do estudo: Pesquisa exploratória e descritiva de cunho quantitativo. Objetivo: Caracterizar a visita domiciliar realizada pelos agentes comunitários de saúde por meio da percepção dos usuários. Metodologia: Foi realizado um estudo com 364 usuários cadastrados em quatro Unidades de Saúde da Família de um município de pequeno porte, no período de julho e agosto de 2009. Os dados foram coletados por meio de um questionário estruturado aplicado no domicílio das famílias cadastradas. Resultados: Dos 364 entrevistados, metade relatou receber VD mensalmente e que o tempo de dura- ção foi de aproximadamente, cinco minutos, não interferindo no cotidiano de 91% dos usuários entrevistados. A maioria (77,2%) afirmou que a VD atende parcialmente suas necessidades e apenas um terço das visitas foram realizadas dentro do domicílio. Entretanto 75% dos usuários consideraram como bom e ótimo o desempenho dos agentes comunitários. Conclusões: A maioria dos usuários referiu estar parcialmente satisfeita com a VD. Assim, observou-se indicadores satisfatórios referentes à frequência, atendimento das necessidades, desempenho e postura dos ACS na VD. No entanto, a sua duração, o local de realização e os temas abordados foram aspectos considerados menos satisfatórios, justificando um maior investimento nesta ação de saúde para que o seu potencial seja totalmente aproveitado pela ES

Effects of a multidisciplinar cognitive rehabilitation program for patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program on cognition, quality of life, and neuropsychiatry symptoms in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease. METHOD: The present study was a single-blind, controlled study that was conducted at a university-based day-hospital memory facility. The study included 25 Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers and involved a 12-week stimulation and psychoeducational program. The comparison group consisted of 16 Alzheimer's patients in waiting lists for future intervention. INTERVENTION: Group sessions were provided by a multiprofessional team and included memory training, computer-assisted cognitive stimulation, expressive activities (painting, verbal expression, writing), physiotherapy, and physical training. Treatment was administered twice a week during 6.5-h gatherings. MEASUREMENTS: The assessment battery comprised the following tests: Mini-Mental State Examination, Short Cognitive Test, Quality of Life in Alzheimer's disease, Neuropsychiatric Inventory, and Geriatric Depression Scale. Test scores were evaluated at baseline and the end of the study by raters who were blinded to the group assignments. RESULTS: Measurements of global cognitive function and performance on attention tasks indicated that patients in the experimental group remained stable, whereas controls displayed mild but significant worsening. The intervention was associated with reduced depression symptoms for patients and caregivers and decreased neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's subjects. The treatment was also beneficial for the patients' quality of life. CONCLUSION: This multimodal rehabilitation program was associated with cognitive stability and significant improvements in the quality of life for Alzheimer's patients. We also observed a significant decrease in depressive symptoms and caregiver burden. These results support the notion that structured nonpharmacological interventions can yield adjunct and clinically relevant benefits in dementia treatment

Evaluation of SMOS L4 Sea Surface Salinity Product in the Western Iberian Coast

Special issue Moving Forward on Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity.-- 24 pages, 14 figures, supplementary materials https://www.mdpi.com/article/10.3390/rs14020423/s1.-- Data Availability Statement: Data sharing not applicableSalinity is one of the oldest parameters being measured in oceanography and one of the most important to study in the context of climate change. However, its quantification by satellite remote sensing has been a relatively recent achievement. Currently, after over ten years of data gathering, there are still many challenges in quantifying salinity from space, especially when it is intended for coastal environments study. That is mainly due to the spatial resolution of the available products. Recently, a new higher resolution (5 km) L4 SMOS sea surface salinity (SSS) product was developed by the Barcelona Expert Center (BEC). In this study, the quality of this product was tested along the Western Iberian Coast through its comparison with in situ observations and modelled salinity estimates (CMEMS IBI Ocean Reanalysis system). Moreover, several parameters such as the temperature and depth of in situ measurements were tested to identify the variables or processes that induced higher errors in the product or influenced its performance. Lastly, a seasonal and interannual analysis was conducted considering data between 2011 to 2019 to test the product as a potential tool for long-term studies. The results obtained in the present analysis showed a high potential of using the L4 BEC SSS SMOS product in extended temporal and spatial analyses along the Portuguese coast. A good correlation between the satellite and the in situ datasets was observed, and the satellite dataset showed lower errors in retrieving coastal salinities than the oceanic model. Overall, the distance to the coast and the closest rivers were the factors that most influenced the quality of the product. The present analysis showed that great progress has been made in deriving coastal salinity over the years and that the SMOS SSS product is a valuable contribution to worldwide climatological studies. In addition, these results reinforce the need to continue developing satellite remote sensing products as a global and cost-effective methodology for long-term studiesThis work was conducted within the framework of the project AQUIMAR—Marine Knowledge Supporting Aquaculture (MAR-02.01.01-FEAMP-0107), funded by the Mar 2020—Operational Program Mar2020. B.B. was funded by a grant from Mar2020 under AQUIMAR project and also by a PhD grant awarded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) within the scope of the MIT Portugal Program. A.C.B. was funded by FCT through the Scientific Employment Stimulus Programme (CEECIND/0095/2017). A.T. was funded by Project SARDINHA2020 (MAR-01.04.02-FEAMP-0009), funded by the Operational Program Mar2020. This work benefited from the Infrastructure CoastNet (http://geoportal.coastnet.pt, accessed on 30 September 2021), funded by FCT and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), through LISBOA2020 and ALENTEJO2020 regional operational programs, in the framework of the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures of strategic relevance (PINFRA/22128/2016). This study also received further support from FCT through MARE’s strategic program (UID/MAR/04292/2019). This work represents a contribution to CSIC Thematic Interdisciplinary Platform PTI Teledetect, with the institutional support of the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S). This publication was also funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement N810139: Project Portugal Twinning for Innovation and Excellence in Marine Science and Earth Observation—PORTWIMSPeer reviewe

Desempenho cognitivo de pacientes diabéticos tipo II em tratamento com insulina

O Diabetes Mellitus é uma doença crônica que ocorre quando o pâncreas não produz insulina suficiente, ou o organismo não é capaz de utilizar eficazmente a insulina produzida. A classificação atual pela Diabetes Mellitus baseia-se na etiologia e não no tipo de tratamento, os tipos mais frequentes são o tipo 1 e o tipo 2. O Diabetes Mellitus tem sido fortemente associado com o dano ao Sistema Nervoso Central e, consequentes déficits cognitivos e a mudanças estruturais e neurofisiológicas do cérebro. O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar possíveis danos cognitivos em pacientes com Diabetes Mellitus tipo II em tratamento com insulina do Programa de Automonitoramento Glicêmico Capilar por meio de testagens neuropsicológicas. Métodos: Estudo censitário, observacional, transversal, analítico, com abordagem quantitativa. Foram avaliados 37 pacientes diabéticos tipo II, com idade a partir de 18 anos em uso de insulina e inscrito no Programa de Automonitoramento Glicêmico Capilar, analisados todos os prontuários, aplicado um questionário complementar e os testes Wais III e Wisconsin. Resultados: Na análise da idade e tempo de estudo dos pacientes com o teste Wisconsin a variável Percentual de Respostas de Nível Conceitual apresentaram diferença considerada estatisticamente significativa p<0,05. Discussão/Conclusão: O processo de envelhecimento por si só trás consigo perda de densidade cerebral e prejuízos cognitivos decorrentes do envelhecimento, demonstram ainda uma piora significativa das funções executivas quando associada a um quadro de DM conforme mostram nossos resultados

Desempenho cognitivo de pacientes diabéticos tipo II em tratamento com insulina

O Diabetes Mellitus é uma doença crônica que ocorre quando o pâncreas não produz insulina suficiente, ou o organismo não é capaz de utilizar eficazmente a insulina produzida. A classificação atual pela Diabetes Mellitus baseia-se na etiologia e não no tipo de tratamento, os tipos mais frequentes são o tipo 1 e o tipo 2. O Diabetes Mellitus tem sido fortemente associado com o dano ao Sistema Nervoso Central e, consequentes déficits cognitivos e a mudanças estruturais e neurofisiológicas do cérebro. O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar possíveis danos cognitivos em pacientes com Diabetes Mellitus tipo II em tratamento com insulina do Programa de Automonitoramento Glicêmico Capilar por meio de testagens neuropsicológicas. Métodos: Estudo censitário, observacional, transversal, analítico, com abordagem quantitativa. Foram avaliados 37 pacientes diabéticos tipo II, com idade a partir de 18 anos em uso de insulina e inscrito no Programa de Automonitoramento Glicêmico Capilar, analisados todos os prontuários, aplicado um questionário complementar e os testes Wais III e Wisconsin. Resultados: Na análise da idade e tempo de estudo dos pacientes com o teste Wisconsin a variável Percentual de Respostas de Nível Conceitual apresentaram diferença considerada estatisticamente significativa p&lt;0,05. Discussão/Conclusão: O processo de envelhecimento por si só trás consigo perda de densidade cerebral e prejuízos cognitivos decorrentes do envelhecimento, demonstram ainda uma piora significativa das funções executivas quando associada a um quadro de DM conforme mostram nossos resultados

Predicting the Proteins of Angomonas deanei, Strigomonas culicis and Their Respective Endosymbionts Reveals New Aspects of the Trypanosomatidae Family

Endosymbiont-bearing trypanosomatids have been considered excellent models for the study of cell evolution because the host protozoan co-evolves with an intracellular bacterium in a mutualistic relationship. Such protozoa inhabit a single invertebrate host during their entire life cycle and exhibit special characteristics that group them in a particular phylogenetic cluster of the Trypanosomatidae family, thus classified as monoxenics. in an effort to better understand such symbiotic association, we used DNA pyrosequencing and a reference-guided assembly to generate reads that predicted 16,960 and 12,162 open reading frames (ORFs) in two symbiont-bearing trypanosomatids, Angomonas deanei (previously named as Crithidia deanei) and Strigomonas culicis (first known as Blastocrithidia culicis), respectively. Identification of each ORF was based primarily on TriTrypDB using tblastn, and each ORF was confirmed by employing getorf from EMBOSS and Newbler 2.6 when necessary. the monoxenic organisms revealed conserved housekeeping functions when compared to other trypanosomatids, especially compared with Leishmania major. However, major differences were found in ORFs corresponding to the cytoskeleton, the kinetoplast, and the paraflagellar structure. the monoxenic organisms also contain a large number of genes for cytosolic calpain-like and surface gp63 metalloproteases and a reduced number of compartmentalized cysteine proteases in comparison to other TriTryp organisms, reflecting adaptations to the presence of the symbiont. the assembled bacterial endosymbiont sequences exhibit a high A+T content with a total of 787 and 769 ORFs for the Angomonas deanei and Strigomonas culicis endosymbionts, respectively, and indicate that these organisms hold a common ancestor related to the Alcaligenaceae family. Importantly, both symbionts contain enzymes that complement essential host cell biosynthetic pathways, such as those for amino acid, lipid and purine/pyrimidine metabolism. These findings increase our understanding of the intricate symbiotic relationship between the bacterium and the trypanosomatid host and provide clues to better understand eukaryotic cell evolution.Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)ERC AdG SISYPHEUniv Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Biofis Carlos Chagas Filho, Lab Ultraestrutura Celular Hertha Meyer, BR-21941 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilUniv Fed Rio de Janeiro, Inst Biofis Carlos Chagas Filho, Lab Metab Macromol Firmino Torres de Castro, BR-21941 Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLab Bioinformat, Lab Nacl Computacao Cient, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilINRIA Grenoble Rhone Alpes, BAMBOO Team, Villeurbanne, FranceUniv Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR5558, Lab Biometrie & Biol Evolut, F-69622 Villeurbanne, FranceUniv Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Dept Genet Evolucao & Bioagentes, São Paulo, BrazilUniv São Paulo, Fac Ciencias Farmaceut Ribeirao Preto, Dept Ciencias Farmaceut, São Paulo, BrazilLab Nacl Ciencia & Tecnol Bioetano, São Paulo, BrazilUniv Fed Minas Gerais, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Bioquim & Imunol, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilUniv Fed Goias, Inst Ciencias Biol, Mol Biol Lab, Goiania, Go, BrazilFundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Inst Carlos Chagas, Lab Biol Mol Tripanossomatideos, Curitiba, Parana, BrazilFundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Inst Carlos Chagas, Lab Genom Func, Curitiba, Parana, BrazilUniv Estadual Campinas, Ctr Pluridisciplinar Pesquisas Quim Biol & Agr, São Paulo, BrazilUniv Fed Minas Gerais, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Parasitol, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilUniv Fed Santa Catarina, Dept Microbiol Imunol & Parasitol, Ctr Ciencias Biol, Lab Protozool & Bioinformat, Florianopolis, SC, BrazilUniv Fed Vicosa, Dept Bioquim & Biol Mol, Ctr Ciencias Biol & Saude, Vicosa, MG, BrazilInst Butantan, Lab Especial Ciclo Celular, São Paulo, BrazilUniv São Paulo, Dept Biol, Fac Filosofia Ciencias & Letras Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista Med, Dept Microbiol Imunol & Parasitol, São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista Med, Dept Microbiol Imunol & Parasitol, São Paulo, BrazilWeb of Scienc