Mantidflies (Neuroptera, Mantispidae) from Tocantins state (Brazil): distribution and identification key

This study focused on Mantispidae species (Neuroptera) from Tocantins state in Brazil. Herein we provide nine new records to this state, increasing the total number of mantidflies from Tocantins to 12. New records are as following: Anchieta fumosella (Westwood, 1867); Dicromantispa moulti (Navás, 1909); Entanoneura batesella (Westwood, 1867); Haematomantispa sp.; Leptomantispa chaos Hoffman, 2002; Plega hagenella (Westwood, 1867); Trichoscelia varia (Walker, 1853); Zeugomantispa compellens (Walker, 1860); Z. virescens (Rambur, 1842). We also provide the first list of Mantispidae species from Tocantins, including general notes for each one, and identification key for these species

Hipertensão arterial e orientação domiciliar: o papel estratégico da saúde da família

Analisar a importância, a efetividade e as limitações de estratégias participativas de educação em saúde sobre a problemática da adesão ao tratamento da hipertensão arterial.Estudo de caso, intervencional, de abordagem qualiquantitativa com duração de 4 meses. Participaram do estudo 27 mulheres portadoras de hipertensão arterial, com idade entre 45 e 60 anos e cadastradas no Programa de Saúde da Família de Porto Firme, Minas Gerais. Foram comparadas duas modalidades de intervenção visando à orientação de mudanças dietéticas indicadas no tratamento da hipertensão arterial: uma baseada em atividades educativas em grupo, realizadas na Unidade de Atenção Primária à Saúde; e outra combinada pelas atividades educativas em grupo e por orientações domiciliares. Os dados foram obtidos por grupos focais e entrevistas individuais. Para avaliar os dados qualitativos relacionados à adesão, foram analisados, antes e após a intervenção, o peso corporal, o índice de massa corporal, a circunferência de cintura, a pressão arterial, a glicemia e o consumo alimentar. Os dados foram examinados por análise de conteúdo e estatística descritiva. As variáveis coletadas antes e depois da intervenção foram analisadas pelos testes não-paramétricos de Wilcoxon e Mann Whitney. As duas estratégias de educação em saúde tiveram efeito positivo sobre a adesão às orientações nutricionais, o que favoreceu mudanças nos hábitos alimentares e na percepção das mulheres em relação à problemática da doença.A orientação domiciliar destacou-se como importante indutor da consciência sanitária e como fator de envolvimento dos familiares no processo terapêutico, facilitando a adesão ao tratamento da hipertensão arterial.This study assessed the limitations of two educational strategies and their efficacy in increasing adherence to hypertension treatment.This interventional case study of qualitative and quantitative nature included 27 hypertensive women aged 45 to 60 years, and lasted four months. The women were enrolled in the Family Health Program of Porto Firme, Minas Gerais. Two diet education interventions to reduce blood pressure were compared: one consisted of classes given at the primary healthcare unit, and the other, of classes given at the primary health care unit plus home visits. Data were collected though focus groups and individual interviews. Body weigh, body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, blood glucose and food intake were determined before and after the intervention to investigate possible association with adherence. The data were then submitted to content analysis and descriptive statistics. The variables collected before and after the intervention were compared with the non-parametric Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney tests. The two educational strategies promoted adherence to appropriate food habits and improved the women's perception of hypertension-related problems.Home visits proved to be important for promoting good hygiene practices and getting the family members involved in the therapeutic process, encouraging patients' adherence to hypertension treatment

Colonic Biopsies to Assess the Neuropathology of Parkinson's Disease and Its Relationship with Symptoms

The presence of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites (LN) has been demonstrated in the enteric nervous system (ENS) of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. The aims of the present research were to use routine colonoscopy biopsies (1) to analyze, in depth, enteric pathology throughout the colonic submucosal plexus (SMP), and (2) to correlate the pathological burden with neurological and gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms.A total of 10 control and 29 PD patients divided into 3 groups according to disease duration were included. PD and GI symptoms were assessed using the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale part III and the Rome III questionnaire, respectively. Four biopsies were taken from the ascending and descending colon during the course of a total colonoscopy. Immunohistochemical analysis was performed using antibodies against phosphorylated alpha-synuclein, neurofilaments NF 220 kDa (NF) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH). The density of LN, labeled by anti-phosphorylated alpha-synuclein antibodies, was evaluated using a quantitative rating score. Lewy pathology was apparent in the colonic biopsies from 21 patients and in none of the controls. A decreased number of NF-immunoreactive neurons per ganglion was observed in the SMP of PD patients compared to controls. The amount of LN in the ENS was inversely correlated with neuronal count and positively correlated with levodopa-unresponsive features and constipation.Analysis of the ENS by routine colonoscopy biopsies is a useful tool for pre-mortem neuropathological diagnosis of PD, and also provides insight into the progression of motor and non-motor symptoms

Die analoge Anwendung des § 162 BGB

Ganns K-J. Die analoge Anwendung des § 162 BGB. Bielefeld; 1983

Ride Sharing for the University of Tennessee

The company I am proposing to start is a ride-share app for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Many students are looking for ways to get home or to other destinations around the weekends and breaks. There are many different options to get to those destinations like buses, planes, your own car, having your parents pick you up, etc. I want to introduce a way of traveling that is superior to all those others forms of transportation in several ways. That form of transportation is ride-sharing. Ride-sharing is the concept of one person offering rides to and from where they are going, to as many people as they please. This means the drivers will neither have to embark on the potentially long drive by themselves, nor will they have to carry the monetary burden all by themselves. The riders will be able to travel for a very cheap price and are able to avoid possible dangers related to other forms of transportation like busses. The idea behind my company proposal is to fill the need of students and to make this form of transportation more available to all students on campus, while reducing the risks that come with the original form of ride sharing

Investigation of general and cytoskeletal markers to estimate numbers and proportions of neurons in the human intestine

An important requirement in pathological diagnostics in the human enteric nervous system (ENS) is the estimation of the total numbers of neurons and of proportions of distinct subpopulations. In this study, we compared the suitability of two suggested panneuronal markers, cuprolinic blue (CB) and anti-Hu-protein (HU), for staining and counting human myenteric neurons in wholemounts, derived from small and large intestinal samples. Furthermore, the proportional expression of three cytoskeletal intermediate filaments, a-internexin (IN), neurofilament 200 (NF) and peripherin (PE), was correlated with both CB and HU. In 8 CB- and HUstained wholemounts, 93.3% of all neurons were double labeled, 3.3% of neurons were stained only with CB whereas 3.3% were immuno-stained only for HU. Thus, both markers were comparably reliable in representing the putative total human myenteric neuron population in our material. The wholemounts double stained for IN/CB or IN/HU revealed between 56.2 and 71.5% of neurons to be IN-reactive. Between 42.8 and 50.9% of neurons were immunoreactive for NF whereas 53.9 to 62.4% of neurons were reactive for PE. Although our sample number was too small to allow final conclusions, we suggest that the variations in proportions of intermediate filament expression we observed may be due to individual circumstances rather than to correlation with age or region. The proportions of neurons positive for IN, NF or PE but unstained by CB histochemical or HU immunohistochemical techniques was between 0 and 2.2%. We conclude that both CB and HU techniques are suitable methods for representation of almost all myenteric neurons in the human gut and that the differential expression of the cytoskeletal proteins investigated has to be included in the classification of enteric neurons in pathological diagnostics of human gastrointestinal diseases

“Cartão da Mulher”: processos comunicativos na construção de um material de saúde impresso

  The health promotion strategies is to act on the determinants of health-disease process to bring about change aspects of community practices and health-care workers and build partnerships between users / community, professionals and institutions providing service. The act of communicating comprises the process of sharing ideas, attitudes and emotions. In this sense, reflect on the communicative process is something inseparable from the promotion of health and care production. Between May 2010 and May 2011, investigated the communicative practices between health professionals and users of the Family Health Strategy through a survey conducted in six Primary Health Units of Viçosa-MG, adopting the methodology of questioning and the technique of participant observation. This paper presents the design of a printed material entitled "Women's Card" which aims to encourage the production of dialogical and humanized practices among women professionals of Primary Health Care Units (UAP) and academics.Las estrategias de promoción de la salud es actuar sobre los determinantes del proceso salud-enfermedad para lograr aspectos del cambio de las prácticas de la comunidad y trabajadores de la salud y crear asociaciones entre los usuarios / comunidad, profesionales e instituciones que prestan servicio. El acto de comunicación comprende el proceso de compartir ideas, actitudes y emociones. En este sentido, reflexionar sobre el proceso comunicativo es algo inseparable de la promoción de la producción de salud y cuidado. Entre mayo de 2010 y mayo de 2011, investigó las prácticas comunicativas entre profesionales de la salud y usuarios de la Estrategia Salud de la Familia a través de una encuesta realizada en seis Unidades de Salud Primaria de Viçosa-MG, la adopción de la metodología de preguntas y la técnica de la observación participante. En este trabajo se presenta el diseño de un material impreso titulado "Tarjeta de la Mujer", que tiene como objetivo fomentar la producción de las prácticas dialógicas y humanizados entre mujeres profesionales de las Unidades de Atención Primaria (UAP) y académicos. As estratégias de promoção à saúde visam atuar nos aspectos determinantes do processo saúde-adoecimento para provocar transformações das práticas comunitárias e profissionais em saúde e construir parcerias entre usuários/comunidade, profissionais e instituições prestadoras de serviço. O ato de comunicar-se compreende o processo de partilha de ideias, atitudes e emoções. Nesse sentido, refletir sobre o processo comunicativo é algo indissociável da promoção à saúde e produção de cuidado. Entre maio de 2010 e maio de 2011, investigou-se as práticas comunicativas entre profissionais de saúde e usuárias da Estratégia de Saúde da Família através de uma pesquisa realizada em seis Unidades de Atenção Primária a Saúde de Viçosa-MG, adotando a metodologia da problematização e a técnica da observação participante. Este artigo apresenta a elaboração de um material impresso intitulado "Cartão da Mulher" que almeja incentivar a produção de práticas dialógicas e humanizadas entre mulheres, profissionais das Unidades de Atenção Primária à Saúde (UAPS) e acadêmicos