The 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT. A short presentation

The 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT Multifrequency Catalogue of Blazars is available in a printed version and online at the ASDC website (http://www.asdc.asi.it/bzcat); it is also in the NED database. It presents several relevant changes with respect to the past editions which are briefly described in this paper.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Scienc

Incidência do Papiloma Vírus Humano – HPV em gestantes: uma revisão integrativa / Incidence of Human Papilloma Virus - HPV in pregnant women: an integrative review

Objetivo: fazer uma revisão integrativa da literatura para discutir incidência do Papiloma Vírus Humano – HPV em gestantes. Além disso traçar um perfil dessas gestantes, no que diz respeito a idade, grau de instrução escolar, número de gestações e parceiros e a acima de tudo verificar se as infecções foram causadas pela falta de conhecimento sobre a temática abordada. Metodologia: Para a realização da pesquisa bibliográfica foram utilizados artigos científicos indexados em bancos de dados de pesquisa eletrônica Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs), PubMed e Google Acadêmico, foram considerados todos os artigos científicos publicados entre 2009 a 2019.Resultados: Somando-se todas as bases de dados, foram encon­trados 897 artigos. Para a seleção dos artigos foi dividida em três etapas. A primeira etapa constituiu-se na leitura do título dos artigos, em que foram selecionados 50 apenas aqueles com termos relacionados HPV. Em seguida, partiu-se para a segunda etapa, na qual foram lidos os resumos dos artigos incluídos na primeira fase, dentre os quais foram escolhidos 20 artigos que atendiam os critérios de inclusão inicialmente propostos. Na terceira e última etapa, foi avaliado o texto completo dos artigos selecionados na segunda etapa, e por fim, selecionou-se 7 artigos de interesse.  Conclusões: Os resultados deste estudo demonstraram que a prevalência de HPV em mulheres grávidas relaciona-se à falta de conhecimento e múltiplos parceiros. Foi possível observar que, em suma, a maioria delas são jovens e adolescentes que já estão na segunda ou terceira gravidez e que mesmo utilizando métodos contraceptivos não conseguiram se isentar de ambas as situações por conta da falta de conhecimento do uso dos métodos

CONFRONTATION OF THE VIOLENCE IN THE PERIPHERY ON A BAHIAN SOUTHWESTERN: CITY EXPERIENCE STORY

Objetivo: relatar as ações de diagnóstico e as intervenções desenvolvidas em um bairro no município do Sudoeste Baiano, com vistas ao enfrentamento da violência. Metodologia: dialógica e problematizadora voltada para os eixos leitura e produção de fichamentos e socialização em grupos de discussão; observação participante, atividades educativas; implantação de grupos de educação em saúde; construção de materiais educativos. Resultados: percebeu-se, por meio das ações desenvolvidas que não se pode tratar a violência como pertencente somente ao setor saúde, mas sim como um fenômeno que requer ações interdisciplinares.Conclusão: foi possível verificar que as ações realizadas parecem ter se constituído em um embrião para o desenvolvimento de comportamentos promotores de mudança na atitude dos moradores do bairro escolhido para sediar o projeto.

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of diagnostic methods in adult food allergy

Food allergy has an increasing prevalence in the general population and in Italy concerns 8 % of people with allergies. The spectrum of its clinical manifestations ranges from mild symptoms up to potentially fatal anaphylactic shock. A number of patients can be diagnosed easily by the use of first- and second-level procedures (history, skin tests and allergen specific IgE). Patients with complex presentation, such as multiple sensitizations and pollen-food syndromes, frequently require a third-level approach including molecular diagnostics, which enables the design of a component-resolved sensitization profile for each patient. The use of such techniques involves specialists' and experts' skills on the issue to appropriately meet the diagnostic and therapeutic needs of patients. Particularly, educational programs for allergists on the use and interpretation of molecular diagnostics are needed

Clinical Features, Cardiovascular Risk Profile, and Therapeutic Trajectories of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Candidate for Oral Semaglutide Therapy in the Italian Specialist Care

Introduction: This study aimed to address therapeutic inertia in the management of type 2 diabetes (T2D) by investigating the potential of early treatment with oral semaglutide. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted between October 2021 and April 2022 among specialists treating individuals with T2D. A scientific committee designed a data collection form covering demographics, cardiovascular risk, glucose control metrics, ongoing therapies, and physician judgments on treatment appropriateness. Participants completed anonymous patient questionnaires reflecting routine clinical encounters. The preferred therapeutic regimen for each patient was also identified. Results: The analysis was conducted on 4449 patients initiating oral semaglutide. The population had a relatively short disease duration (42%  60% of patients, and more often than sitagliptin or empagliflozin. Conclusion: The study supports the potential of early implementation of oral semaglutide as a strategy to overcome therapeutic inertia and enhance T2D management

Updated list of the available ASDC astronomical source catalog web pages and related Browse databases

The ASI Science Data Center offers to scientific users various web services, such as the Multi-frequency Data Explorer (MDE), allowing to perform a multi-frequency analysis of astronomical sources. This is achieved by using astronomical catalogs and data in different energy bands, present at ASDC and / or invoking external services (NED, SIMBAD, Vizier, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, etc.), which allow immediate access to spectral, spatial and temporal information and their comparison. The ASDC tools are interfaced with the ASDC scientific RDBMS for astronomical catalogs, ASDC-Browse, for storing and selecting information related to sources of interest in the available catalogs. Browse dbs are then used to create specific ASDC web pages for some public catalogs of interest for ASDC projects and/or scientific community. The pages include Javascript tables allowing to activate the ASDC web services for each specific source. The purpose of this document is to report the current list of ASDC catalogs web pages and related dbs and their status, including location of specific source information used to create them and issues to be resolved

Acquisition, integration and updating of astronomical catalogs in the ASDC Browse DBMS and Web Services

The ASI Science Data Center offers to the scientific users various web services, such as the Multi-frequency Data Explorer (MDE), allowing to perform a multi-frequency analysis of astronomical sources. This is achieved by using catalogs and astronomical data in different energy bands, present at ASDC and / or invoking external services (NED, SIMBAD, Vizier, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, etc..), which allow immediate access to spectral, spatial and temporal information and their comparison. The ASDC tools (as the "Data Explorer") are interfaced with the ASDC scientific RDBMS for astronomical catalogs, ASDC-Browse, for storing and selecting information related to sources of interest in the available catalogs. Browse dbs are then used to create specific ASDC web pages of public astronomical catalogs of interest for ASDC projects and/or scientific community. The pages include Javascript tables allowing to activate the ASDC web services for each specific source. The purpose of this document is a simple technical description of the procedure of dissemination of new astronomical source catalogs among the ASDC web pages and web services. The creation of some ASDC “recipes” is useful and it is requested within the MVO ASDC team (Multi-frequency and Virtual Observatory team), to create a reference on the standards of the ASDC scientific services, when new results are achieved by specific missions and new projects/missions are acquired