Standing up for culturally competent care in Portugal: The experience of a “Health in Equality” online training program on individual and cultural diversity

Health professionals play an essential role in the protection and promotion of health rights without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity/race, nationality and migration status, age, functional diversity, or any other individual and/or cultural positions. With the growing diversity of patient populations, health professionals must be able to identify and be responsive to individual and cultural diversity, ensuring equity in access to high-quality individually-centered care. For this, it is fundamental to promote training in cultural competence, understood as responsivity and the ability to work the valorization of multiple and intersectional identities throughout life. The paper aims to describe the experience of the implementation of the program “Health in Equality”, aimed at training the primary healthcare workforce in Portugal, which was based on Sue and Sue’s (2008) three-dimensional model of multicultural skills, which champions cultural best practices in an intersectional perspective. Based on the trainees’ and trainers’ evaluation of four completed editions developed online between March and July 2021, this study discusses ways to improve the impact of the training program and amplify the number of leaders and role models for other health care providers towards culturally competent healthcare systems and organizations.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Crescimento inicial de milho em solo adubado com diferentes compostos orgânicos.

Foram elaborados cinco compostos orgânicos com diferentes composições, todos a base de esterco caprino, bagaço de coco e capim elefante, enriquecidos com torta de mamona, fosfato natural de gafsa e sulfato de potássio, de modo que, a final, cada pilha tivesse concentrações diferenciadas de nutrientes. O experimento foi montado em vasos contendo solo e os compostos preparados, dispostos em delineamento experimental inteiramente casualisado,, com seis tratamentos, sendo uma testemunha, e quatro repetições. Aos 28 dias após o plantio foi efetuado o corte das plantas, avaliando-se o número de folhas, a altura das plantas, o diâmetro do colo e o peso de matéria seca. De um modo geral, os compostos promoveram maior crescimento das plantas de milho que a testemunha (sem composto) com destaque para o composto de número 22 (77% de bagaço de coco, 20% de esterco caprino e 3% de sulfato de potássio)

Equilibrium and Disorder-induced behavior in Quantum Light-Matter Systems

We analyze equilibrium properties of coupled-doped cavities described by the Jaynes-Cummings- Hubbard Hamiltonian. In particular, we characterize the entanglement of the system in relation to the insulating-superfluid phase transition. We point out the existence of a crossover inside the superfluid phase of the system when the excitations change from polaritonic to purely photonic. Using an ensemble statistical approach for small systems and stochastic-mean-field theory for large systems we analyze static disorder of the characteristic parameters of the system and explore the ground state induced statistics. We report on a variety of glassy phases deriving from the hybrid statistics of the system. On-site strong disorder induces insulating behavior through two different mechanisms. For disorder in the light-matter detuning, low energy cavities dominate the statistics allowing the excitations to localize and bunch in such cavities. In the case of disorder in the light- matter coupling, sites with strong coupling between light and matter become very significant, which enhances the Mott-like insulating behavior. Inter-site (hopping) disorder induces fluidity and the dominant sites are strongly coupled to each other.Comment: about 10 pages, 12 figure

Evidence for inter- and intra-species biofilm formation variability among a small group of coagulase-negative staphylococci

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are common bacterial colonisers of the human skin. They are often involved in nosocomial infections due to biofilm formation in indwelling medical devices. While biofilm formation has been extensively studied in Staphylococcus epidermidis, little is known regarding other CoNS species. Here, biofilms from six different CoNS species were characterised in terms of biofilm composition and architecture. Interestingly, the ability to form a thick biofilm was not associated with any particular species, and high variability on biofilm accumulation was found within the same species. Cell viability assays also revealed different proportions of live and dead cells within biofilms formed by different species, although this parameter was particularly similar at the intra-species level. On the other hand, biofilm disruption assays demonstrated important inter- and intra-species differences regarding extracellular matrix composition. Lastly, confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) experiments confirmed this variability, highlighting important differences and common features of CoNS biofilms. We hypothesised that the biofilm formation heterogeneity observed was rather associated with biofilm matrix composition than with cells themselves. Additionally, our results indicate that polysaccharides, DNA and proteins are fundamental pieces in the process of CoNS biofilm formation.This work was co-funded by FCT Strategic Project PEst-OE/EQB/LA0023/2013, FCT project RECI/BBB-EBI/0179/2012 (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027462) and by QREN, FEDER, ON2 project NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000027. NC is an Investigador FCT

O DESESPERO, A CONSCIÊNCIA DE SI E A LIBERDADE EM KIERKEGAARD

O estudo tem como objetivo abordar o desespero, a consciência de si e a liberdade em Kierkegaard. Pretendemos demonstrar que a liberdade só é possível quando o indivíduo toma consciência de si e que essa tomada de conhecimento não se faz sem passar pelo desespero. Este tem um nível de influência nos vários graus de tomada de consciência que serão apresentados e constitui um elemento fundamental na teoria kierkegaardiana, constituindo-se, antes tudo, como aquilo que nos difere dos animais

Super-poissonian photon statistics and correlations between pump and probe fields in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

We have measured the photon statistics of pump and probe beams after interaction with Rb atoms in a situation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Both fields present super-poissonian statistics and their intensities become correlated, in good qualitative agreement with theoretical predictions in which both fields are treated quantum-mechanically. The intensity correlations measured are a first step towards the observation of entanglement between the fields.Comment: 4 pages, two-column, 4 figures, first submitted to PRL on Aug. 6, 200

Emergence of classicality in small number entangled systems

We show the transition from a fully quantized interaction to a semiclassical one in entangled small number quantum systems using the quantum trajectories approach. In particular, we simulate the microwave Ramsey zones used in Rydberg atom interferometry, filling in the gap between the strongly entangling Jaynes Cummings evolution and the semiclassical rotation of the atomic internal states. We also correlate the information flowing with leaking photons to the entanglement generation between cavity field and flying atom and detail the roles played by the strong dissipation and the external driving force in preserving atomic coherence through the interaction.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure