Visualising the South Yorkshire floods of ‘07

This paper describes initial work on developing an information system to gather, process and visualise various multimedia data sources related to the South Yorkshire (UK) floods of 2007. The work is part of the Memoir project which aims to investigate how technology can help people create and manage long-term personal memories. We are using maps to aggregate multimedia data and to stimulate remembering past events. The paper describes an initial prototype; challenges faced so far and planned future work

Conviviendo con la diferencia: el impacto de la serodiscordancia en la vida afectiva-sexual de portadores del VIH/SIDA

Este estudo descritivo exploratório e qualitativo objetivou descrever e analisar o impacto da sorodiscordância na vida afetivo-sexual de indivíduos com HIV/AIDS que convivem em parceria heterossexual e soronegativa ao HIV. Foram entrevistados 11 portadores do HIV/AIDS que realizavam acompanhamento clínico ambulatorial em um hospital universitário-referência do interior paulista. Os dados foram coletados através de entrevista individual gravada, e analisados segundo análise de Prosa. A vivência com a sorodiscordância ao HIV/AIDS impõe a esses casais o manejo de muitas dificuldades relacionadas à sua intimidade, diante da possibilidade de transmissão do HIV para o parceiro soronegativo, com impacto negativo na vivência da sexualidade entre parceiros sorodiscordantes, repercutindo em alterações da resposta sexual humana, favorecendo até mesmo a abstinência sexual. Apontamos a necessidade de atendimento por equipes interdisciplinares junto aos portadores do HIV/AIDS, e também de sua parceria sexual, proporcionando assistência integral, contemplando a sexualidade e as dificuldades advindas com a sorodiscordância.The purpose of this descriptive-exploratory qualitative study was to describe and analyze the impact of serodiscordance on the affective-sexual life of HIV/AIDS patients who have HIV seronegative heterosexual partners. Eleven HIV/AIDS carriers in outpatient clinic follow-up were interviewed, in a reference university-hospital in the state of São Paulo. Data were collected through recorded individual interviews and analyzed according to Prose analysis. Living with HIV/AIDS serodiscordance implies these couples have to deal with several intimacy-related difficulties, due to the possibility of HIV transmission to the seronegative partner. This has a negative effect on serodiscordant partners, reflecting in chan-ges in human sexual response, which could lead to sexual abstinence. Interdisciplinary care should be provided to HIV/AIDS carriers and their partners, thus providing comprehensive care regarding their sexuality and difficulties caused by serodiscordance.Este estudio descriptivo, exploratorio y cualitativo, tuvo como objetivo describir y analizar el impacto de la serodiscordancia en la vida afectivo-sexual de individuos con HIV/aids que conviven con pareja heterosexual seronegativa al HIV. Fueron entre-vistados 11 portadores de HIV/aids que efectuaban seguimiento clínico ambulatorio en un hospital universitario de referencia del interior de San Pablo, Brasil. Los datos fueron recogidos a través de entrevista individual grabada, y analizados según análisis de la Prosa. La convivencia con la serodiscordancia impone a tales parejas el manejo de muchas dificultades relacionadas con su intimidad, ante la posibilidad de transmisión del HIV al compañero seronegativo, con impacto negativo en la experiencia de la sexualidad entre parejas serodiscordantes, repercutiendo eso en altera-ciones de la respuesta sexual humana y favoreciendo hasta la propia abstinencia sexual. Se pone de manifiesto la necesidad de atención por parte de equipos interdisciplinarios para los portadores de HIB/aids y también de sus parejas, a fin de proporcionarles asistencia integral, contemplando la sexualidad y las dificultades derivadas de la serodiscordancia

GIR: Grupo de Electroanálisis

Desde mediados de los años 90 el grupo inició una gran actividad en la aplicación de métodos quimiométricos para el estudio de complejación de metales mediante diversas técnicas electroanalíticas (voltamperometría), campo que estaba prácticamente inexplorado en aquellos momentos. Se adaptó en primer lugar, el método MCR-ALS (multivariate Curve Resolution by Alternating Least Squares)empleado con datos espectroscópicos, pero nunca, hasta entonces, aplicado a datos electroquímicos. El método fue mejorado mediante la incorporación de nuevas restricciones basadas en las características de las señales electroquímicas. Posteriormente, y debido a las limitaciones de MCR-ALS para el caso de datos(I vs. conc.)no bilineales, se han propuesto nuevos métodos, y desarrollado algoritmos, para este tipo de datos. Así mismo, se ha aplicado, también por primera vez, MCR-ALS al tratamiento simultáneo de datos electroquímicos y espectroscópicos

Resultados do controle de desenvolvimento ponderal - Raça Gir - 1976/1984.

A Raça Gir. Controle de desenvolvimento ponderal. Considerações sobre os resultados do controle de desenvolvimento ponderal das Raças Gir e Gir variedade Mocha. Controle ponderal das Raças Gir e Gir variedade mocha a nível nacional. Categorias de registro. Sexo. Regime alimentar. Ano de nascimento. Estação de nascimento. Mérito dos reprodutores. Controle ponderal da Raça Gir a nível de estado.bitstream/item/131353/1/resultados-do-controle-de-desenvolvimento-76-84.pd

A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web

Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo-referenced information, resulting in spatial information overload. Increasing 'geographic intelligence' in traditional text-based information retrieval has become a prominent approach to respond to this issue and to fulfill users' spatial information needs. Numerous efforts in the Semantic Geospatial Web, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), and the Linking Open Data initiative have converged in a constellation of open knowledge bases, freely available online. In this article, we survey these open knowledge bases, focusing on their geospatial dimension. Particular attention is devoted to the crucial issue of the quality of geo-knowledge bases, as well as of crowdsourced data. A new knowledge base, the OpenStreetMap Semantic Network, is outlined as our contribution to this area. Research directions in information integration and Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) are then reviewed, with a critical discussion of their current limitations and future prospects

How universe evolves with cosmological and gravitational constants

With a basic varying space-time cutoff $\tilde\ell$, we study a regularized and quantized Einstein-Cartan gravitational field theory and its domains of ultraviolet-unstable fixed point $g_{\rm ir}\gtrsim 0$ and ultraviolet-stable fixed point $g_{\rm uv}\approx 4/3$ of the gravitational gauge coupling $g=(4/3)G/G_{\rm Newton}$. Because the fundamental operators of quantum gravitational field theory are dimension-2 area operators, the cosmological constant is inversely proportional to the squared correlation length $\Lambda\propto \xi^{-2}$. The correlation length $\xi$ characterizes an infrared size of a causally correlate patch of the universe. The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and the gravitational constant $G$ are related by a generalized Bianchi identity. As the basic space-time cutoff $\tilde\ell$ decreases and approaches to the Planck length $\ell_{\rm pl}$, the universe undergoes inflation in the domain of the ultraviolet-unstable fixed point $g_{\rm ir}$, then evolves to the low-redshift universe in the domain of ultraviolet-stable fixed point $g_{\rm uv}$. We give the quantitative description of the low-redshift universe in the scaling-invariant domain of the ultraviolet-stable fixed point $g_{\rm uv}$, and its deviation from the $\Lambda$CDM can be examined by low-redshift $(z\lesssim 1)$ cosmological observations, such as supernova Type Ia.Comment: typo corrections, the final version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B (2015). 24 pages and 6 figure