Estágio Profissional: Uma jornada transcendente de um estudante estagiário e dos seus alunos

Estágio Profissional: Uma jornada transcendente de um Estudante Estagiário e dos seus alunos é um documento reflexivo acerca da prática de ensino supervisionada de um Estudante Estagiário cumprindo a componente da reflexão sobre a reflexão na ação aliada à componente investigativa. Este documento tem na sua génese uma análise às características e processos da prática profissional do autor, onde descreve, examina e avalia as intervenções realizadas no decorrer do ano letivo. Durante esta jornada várias foram as adversidades que surgiram no caminho do Estudante Estagiário e dos seus alunos, porventura o foco deste documento não são propriamente os problemas mas as soluções perante estes, através de uma prática pedagógica que se centrou em estratégias e modelos de ensino diferenciados, com destaque para o Modelo de Educação Desportiva e o Modelo de Aprendizagem Cooperativa. Deste modo, é retratada uma jornada transcendente onde prevalece a superação, o crescimento de todos os intervenientes desta aventura e a relação de proximidade e respeito mútuo entre professor-aluno que consequentemente levou à implementação de um clima propício à aprendizagem. O trabalho investigativo surge como uma ferramenta imprescindível no melhoramento e valorização da EF. No âmbito do Desenvolvimento Profissional surgiu a necessidade de se realizar um estudo de caráter exploratório: "Análise da competência adaptativa em estudantes estagiários: um estudo no ensino secundário voleibol". Este permitiu uma análise mais aprofundada dentro do Núcleo de Estágio Profissional sobre um tema pouco desenvolvido - Competência Adaptativa - que certamente será útil para toda a comunidade do ensino.Professional school placement: A transcendent journey of a preservice techer student and his students is a reflective document about the supervised teaching practice of a Preservice teacher student fulfilling the component of reflection on reflection in action combined with the investigative component. This document has in its genesis an analysis concerning the characteristics and processes of the professional practice of the author, where he describes, examines and evaluates the interventions made during the school year. During this journey, many were the adversities that arose in the path of the student trainee and his students, perhaps the focus of this document is not exactly the problems but the solutions to these, through a teaching practice that focused on differentiated strategies and teaching models, especially the Sports Education Model and the Cooperative Learning Model. Thus, a transcendent journey is portrayed where overcoming prevails, the growth of all participants in this adventure and the close relationship and mutual respect between teacher-student that consequently led to the implementation of a climate conducive to learning. The investigative work emerges as an indispensable tool in the improvement and enhancement of PE. Within the scope of Professional Development, the need arose to conduct an exploratory study: "Analysis of adaptive competence in student trainees: a study in secondary school volleyball". This allowed a deeper analysis within the Professional Internship Core on a little developed theme - Adaptive Competence - that will certainly be useful for the whole teaching community

Uma analise do relacionamento entre necessidade/benefício e utilização dos instrumentos de marketing na micro e pequena empresa

O objetivo deste trabalho, realizado junto a 98 empresas industriais de Londrina-PR foi o de verificar se: 1. a utilização dos instrumentos de marketing da micro e pequena empresa estão relacionados à necessidade de sua utilização; 2. existe relacionamento entre as atitudes em relação a marketing e a utilização dos instrumentos pela micro e pequena empresa; 3. existe relacionamento entre o conhecimento de marketing e as atitudes sobre marketing. Três hipóteses foram testadas verificando-se a existência de relacionamento quanto aos itens 1 e 2, mas não com relação ao item 3, sugerindo estratégias de marketing diferenciadas

Um estudo exploratório sobre as variáveis determinantes da escolha de um candidato político

O trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada em 1981 que teve como objetivo identificar as principais variáveis que determinam a escolha de um candidato a um cargo público, assim como analisar a influência de variáveis de segmentação demográficas na escolha e nos atributos daqueles candidatos. Uma análise dos resultados mostra uma série de relacionamentos entre variáveis demográficas dos respondentes (eleitores) e aquelas relacionadas com os atributos dos candidatos

Marketing accountability e excelência na escola pública portuguesa: A construção da imagem social da escola através da performatividade académica

Os autores procuram refletir sobre a relação entre os resultados obtidos pelos alunos nos exames estandardizados, a excelência académica e a forma correspondente de accountability. Partimos do pressuposto de que os testes estandardizados e a excelência académica sustentam não só um managerial model of accountability mas igualmente um modelo de (quasi) market accountability em educação, que providencia estratégias de marketing escolar. Do ponto de vista metodológico, este estudo é apoiado por um trabalho de campo de longa duração desenvolvido em várias escolas públicas portuguesas, onde se analisaram documentos, observaram os rituais públicos de distinção académica e se entrevistaram diretores escolares, professores e estudantes. Os resultados mostram que os rituais públicos de distinção académica dos melhores alunos constituem uma estratégia de marketing usada para promover a imagem social da escola, essencial para induzir a escolha da escola pelas famílias e para reforçar as decisões da liderança do diretor.The authors seek to establish a relationship between the results of standardised tests, the academic excellence and the corresponding form of accountability. This relationship adopts the idea that standardised tests and academic excellence sustain not only a model of managerial accountability, but a (quasi) market model of accountability in education as well, providing school marketing schemes. This study is supported by a long-term fieldwork developed in several Portuguese state schools, where we analysed main documents, observed the public rituals of academic distinction, interviewed the principals and teachers and surveyed students. The results show us that these public rituals are part of a marketing strategy that helps to build a good school image, essential to induce the school choice by families and to reinforce the decisions of the principal’s leadership.Los autores buscan reflexionar sobre la relación entre los resultados obtenidos por los alumnos en los exámenes estandardizados, la excelencia académica y la forma correspondiente de accountability. Partimos del supuesto de que las pruebas estandarizadas y la excelencia académica sostienen no sólo un managerial model of accountability, sino también un modelo de (quasi) market accountability en educación, que proporciona estrategias de marketing escolar. Desde un punto de vista metodológico, este estudio se apoya en un trabajo de campo de longa duración en varias escuelas públicas portuguesas, donde se examinaron documentos, observaron rituales públicos de distinción académica y entrevistaron los directores escolares, los maestros y los estudiantes. Los resultados muestran que los rituales públicos de distinción académica de los mejores alumnos constituyen una estrategia de marketing usada para promover la imagen social de la escuela, esencial para inducir la elección de la escuela por las familias y para reforzar las decisiones del liderazgo del director.Este texto, tributário daquele projeto, é também financiado pelo CIEd - Centro de Investigação em Educação, projetos UID/CED/1661/2013 e UID/CED/1661/2016, Instituto de Educação, Universidade do Minho, através de fundos nacionais da FCT/MCTES-PT.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Parental Unemployment and Offspring Psychotropic Medication Purchases:A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Analysis of 138,644 Adolescents

Basilar invagination (BI) and Chiari malformation type I (CM-I) are very important anomalies that introduce instability and compression in the occipitocervical transition region and have complex clinical characteristics. These anomalies vary according to the affected structures. The present study revises current knowledge regarding the anatomy, anatomo-physiology, clinical manifestations, and radiological findings of these entities and the associated surgical treatment approaches. A bibliographic survey was performed through a search in the Medline, PubMed, SciELO, Science and LILACS databases. When associated, these craniovertebral malformations result in neurological deficits due to neural parenchyma compression; however, the presence of microtraumas due to repetitive lesions caused by the bulb and cervical marrow instability has been highlighted as a determinant dysfunction. Surgical treatment is controversial and has many technical variations. Surgery is also challenging due to the complex anatomical characteristics and biomechanics of this region. Nevertheless, advances have been achieved in our understanding of related mechanisms, and compression and atlantoaxial instability are considered key elements when selecting the surgical approach

Wireless device with energy management for mlosed-loop deep brain stimulation (CLDBS)

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective and safe medical treatment that improves the lives of patients with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, and has been consolidated as a first-line tool in the last two decades. Closed-loop deep brain stimulation (CLDBS) pushes this tool further by automatically adjusting the stimulation parameters to the brain response in real time. The main contribution of this paper is a low-size/power-controlled, compact and complete CLDBS system with two simultaneous acquisition channels, two simultaneous neurostimulation channels and wireless communication. Each channel has a low-noise amplifier (LNA) buffer in differential configuration to eliminate the DC signal component of the input. Energy management is efficiently done by the control and communication unit. The battery supports almost 9 h with both the acquisition and stimulation circuits active. If only the stimulation circuit is used as an Open Loop DBS, the battery can hold sufficient voltage for 24 h of operation. The whole system is low-cost and portable and therefore it could be used as a wearable device.This work was partially supported by the FAPESP agency (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) through the project with the reference 2019/05248-7. Professor João Paulo Carmo was supported by a PQ scholarship with the reference CNPq 304312/2020-7

Low-cost/high-precision smart power supply for data loggers

This paper presents a low-cost/high-precision smart power supply for application on data loggers. The microprocessor unit is the brain of the system and manages the events and was optimized to provide electrical energy to the electronic devices under normal operation and under the presence of disruptive events. The measurements showed that when switching either from battery to AC or from AC to battery, neither caused the shutdown of the power supply nor affected the behavior of the power supply. The power supply was able to charge 80% of the battery on a fast recharge of 1 h and the remaining 20% on a slow recharge of 2 h. The current allocated to the battery did not affect the operation of the power supply. The tests also showed that the power supply was able to transmit relevant information about its operation to external computers through a serial connection. This information includes the voltages at the battery and at the output of the voltage regulators, the voltage level of the AC network, the level of the battery charge and if it was being recharged, the current being drained, the internal temperatures at two locations (one measured on the resistor that limits battery charge and another measured on the output diode of the regulators), and whether the cooling system is being used. The total cost of this smart power supply is less than $150, demonstrating good potential for its popularization.This work was partially supported by FCT national funds, under the national support to R&D units grant, through the reference project UIDB/04436/2020 and UIDP/04436/2020. This research was also partially supported by the FAPESP agency (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) through the project with the reference 2019/05248-7. Professor João Paulo Carmo was support by a PQ scholarship with the reference CNPq 304312/2020-7

Predictive Elements of Obstructive Urolithiasis in Sheep*

Background: Urolithiasis is an economically important disease that has considerable significance for sheep farming. With the tissue and biochemical changes resulting from the development of this disease, metabolic disorders and immune response are established. Hemogasometric evaluation allows the identification of systemic acid-base imbalances quickly. Acute phase proteins (AFP) have in the last two decades become the biomarkers of choice in human and veterinary medicine. To date, no biomarker studies have been published for sheep with obstructive urolithiasis. Thus, this study aimed to analyze the hemogasometric kinetics in obstructive urolithiasis in sheep and the AFP that can be used as early biomarkers in this disease.Materials, Methods & Results: In this study, 14 healthy male Santa Inês sheep, aged approximately 90 days, fed on calculogenic diet for 120 days. The animals were examined weekly, including observation of clinical signs, and blood and urine analysis were performed. For comparative analysis purposes, at the end of the experiment, sheep that developed obstructive urolithiasis were extracted from the initial experimental group D1 (without urolithiasis) and became part of the second experimental group D2 (with urolithiasis). In the pre-experimental period and on the day of slaughter, venous blood samples were harvested for hemogasometric tests, with a maximum time of 15 minutes between collection and analysis, to ensure the reliability of the results obtained. The pH, pCO2, pO2, EB, tCO2, HCO3-, stHCO3-, tHb, sO2 and Hct, Na+, K+ and Ca2+ ions were quantified. To identify and measure immunoglobulins (A and G) and AFP, samples from sheep that developed obstructive urolithiasis (D2) were analyzed. Blood samples were harvested weekly until the clinical manifestation of the disease, totaling 16 samples, when IgA, IgG, ceruloplasmin, transferrin, albumin, α1-antitrypsin, haptoglobin and α1-acid glycoprotein concentrations were measured. Elevation of pCO2 was observed between D1 and D2, but there was a significant difference (P < 0.05) only in the final moments (FMs). Although EB, tCO2, HCO3-, stHCO3- increased between moments in the same group and between groups at the same time, significant differences were recorded only in the FMs. Higher values were observed for Na+, K+ in the FMs. The AFP of sheep that developed the disease oscillated between moments, however, significant difference (P < 0.05) over time was observed only in haptoglobin and transferrin.Discussion: The disease occurred in five of the 14 animals studied, demonstrating the effectiveness of the formulated diet in inducing the disease. Through the analysis of blood gases, plasma bicarbonate concentration and excess base or deficit it was possible to diagnose disturbances in acid base balance, characterizing a picture of metabolic alkalosis in animals with urolithiasis. Mean pH was not significantly different between groups, but sheep that developed urolithiasis had alkalosis. Final values of tCO2 and HCO3- indicate the compensatory organic response, which, together with the analysis of the averages of HCO3- and EB, reflect the metabolic alkalosis picture. The AFP have different responsiveness among them. Haptoglobin and transferrin were the most reliable biomarkers among the studied AFP to predict obstructive urolithiasis, with transferrin showing atypical behavior, characteristic of positive AFP

Primary Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma in a Cow

Background: Primary neoplasms of the respiratory tract are rare in cattle, and they present with nonspecific clinical signs and are usually found at post-mortem. Pulmonary adenocarcinoma of the acinar type is uncommon, and information about this neoplasm in cattle is scarce. This paper aims to describe the clinical, laboratory, and pathological findings in a cow with this neoplasm.Case: A 10-year-old, adult, mixed-breed Holstein cow weighing 300 kg was referred to the Garanhuns Cattle Clinic of the Campus of Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil, with a history of decreased appetite, tiredness, weight loss, and difficulty in breathing for two months. The animal had been treated at the farm of origin with enrofloxacin, florfenicol, and flunixin meglumine. The animal’s appetite improved, but no improvement in the respiratory symptoms was observed. On examination at our center, the cow was in an orthopedic position, with neck extension and elbow abduction; and it remained in a recumbent position. The cow had neutrophilia, normochromic normocytic anemia, and hyperfibrinogemia. The body condition score (BCS) was 1 (BCS ranges from 1 to 5), and the cow had moderate enophthalmia, serous secretions in nostrils, tachycardia, and tachypnea. It also had increased breathing intensity; increased breath sounds in the cranial regions of both lungs; areas of reduced breath sounds in the medial portions of the lungs; intermittent wheezing in the cranial region of the left lung medially and in the cranial region of the right lung medially; intermittent crepitations in the cranial region of the right lung medially; reduced thoracic expansion; and expiratory dyspnea. Pulmonary ultrasonography revealed hyperechogenic multifocal structures in both lungs. In view of the severe clinical condition and unfavorable prognosis, the owner opted for euthanasia. Necropsy revealed that there was a significant amount of yellow fluid in the thoracic cavity, and the cut surfaces of the lungs were covered with fibrin and pleural adhesions. The lungs had irregular surfaces with multifocal nodules of various sizes and firm consistency. The texture of the cut nodules was solid, and the nodules had a yellowish color. Histologically, the pulmonary nodules were composed of neoplastic cells. They were pleomorphic, infiltrative epithelial cells with little cytoplasm; large and spherical nuclei with abundant euchromatin; occasional anisokaryosis; visible nucleolus; and numerous mitotic figures. Results of anti-cytokeratin immunohistochemistry were strongly positive for cytokeratin in the lungs and lymph nodes. Discussion: The diagnosis of acinar pulmonary adenocarcinoma was based on clinical, laboratory, histopathological, and immunohistochemical findings. Clinical signs and lung ultrasound suggested a severe respiratory disease. Pulmonary tumors are usually solid, and they show areas of central necrosis that resemble granulomas. However, the histopathological findings in the current case were compatible with a primary pulmonary neoplasm. Primary pulmonary neoplasms, although rare, should be considered in the differential diagnosis of weight loss, cachexia, and respiratory symptoms in adult cattle. The morphological pattern and the strong immunoreactivity on immunohistochemical examination were conclusive for a diagnosis of a primary pulmonary adenocarcinoma of the acinar type because these tumors specifically contain cytokeratin