O contributo da infoliteracia para a integração e melhoria do desempenho académico dos estudantes do 1º ano da FEUP

As bibliotecas universitárias confrontam-se com exigências crescentes no sentido de desempenharem um papelativo nos processos de ensino e aprendizagem. A sua resposta tem passado pela implementação de abordagensque incluem a integração das competências de Infoliteracia em programas curriculares. Dada a diversidade decontextos onde elas se podem implementar é muito importante partilhar experiências e lições aprendidas,evidenciando dados e análises objetivas.A presente comunicação descreve a experiência da Biblioteca da FEUP sobre a integração das competências deInfoliteracia no programa de uma unidade curricular do 1º ano que é transversal aos alunos dos cursos demestrado integrado. É feita uma análise retrospetiva da evolução da integração incremental da Infoliteracia (nosanos letivos de 2008-09 a 2014-15) que resultou num modelo de formação híbrido (presencial e e-learning)apoiado no desenvolvimento de novas práticas pedagógicas e em tecnologias de suporte a um ensino interativo ea uma aprendizagem mais ativa e autónoma. Os resultados são apresentados segundo três níveis de análise:participação na formação, desempenho nas atividades e satisfação com a formação e as competências quepermitiu adquirir. Conclui-se que a evolução desta experiência contribuiu para a integração dos estudantes e paraa melhoria do seu desempenho académico através do desenvolvimento das suas competências de Infoliteracia

Infoliteracia na FEUP: uma visão de processo

A biblioteca da FEUP tem vindo a promover ainfoliteracia como uma estratégia agregadora dos váriostipos de intervenção junto da comunidade em que estáinserida. Partindo do conceito de infoliteracia estacomunicação tem por objetivo analisar a sua dimensãoprática, tendo-se escolhido para a sua concetualizaçãouma abordagem por processos em que é feita umadescrição do processo de infoliteracia implementado naFEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade doPorto. Procura-se dar a conhecer a forma como oprocesso de infoliteracia intervém, atua e contribui paraa transformação dos estudantes em termos decompetências, conhecimentos e comportamentos no quetoca à informação como recurso de valor que usam nassuas atividades curriculares ao longo do seu percursoacadémico. Considerou-se um processo principal -"Processo de infoliteracia na FEUP" - que se decompõeem 4 subprocessos: i) serviços de apoio e descoberta, ii)formação regular e iii) formação à medida e iv)formação e-learning.É discutida a avaliação do processo fazendo-sereferência aos mecanismos de avaliaçãoimplementados, incluindo a definição de indicadores deprocesso e de indicadores de resultado, de naturezaquantitativa e qualitativa e um estudo que usou ametodologia de análise por impactos para avaliação doprocesso. É ainda feito um balanço apresentandoalgumas dificuldades e sucessos inerentes ao processo,sendo referidos na conclusão alguns desenvolvimentosfuturos e desafios que se prefiguram para o processo deinfoliteracia na FEUP

Library and faculty partnering to increase Open Access Publishing among researchers

This paper aims to describe the collaboration of FEUP’s Library with faculty in the course unit “Publishing and Scientific Writing” for third-cycle students. It contributed to U.Porto Journal of Engineering, a new open-access journal of the Faculty of Engineering, indexed in DOAJ, OpenAIRE and Scopus. This study also reports the course unit’s lifecycle from its design, development and implementation as a face-to-face format until its present evolution to an online offer. Throughout the last decades, academic libraries have reinforced their educational role as active partners in teaching, learning and research activities within their institutions. In this course, FEUP’s Library is responsible for information literacy skills, strongly focusing on open science and open access publishing. Students attending will go through writing, peer-reviewing, correcting and publishing a scientific article in Open Access, using U.Porto Journal of Engineering in the OJS platform, combining a theoretical approach with real-life hands-on. The authors analysed quantitative data collected from different sources related to participation and interest in the course. The results show that the course unit corresponds to a real need of researchers, of which the growing demand and the positive feedback are pieces of evidence. In addition, students revealed high interest in the covered topics and an evident lack of Open Access and Open Science knowledge. This training unit is a much-succeeded library and faculty partnership contributing to promoting and increasing Open Access publishing among researchers. The University of Porto recognised it with an award that granted funding to support the transformation of the course to an online format, which would help solve the scale problem that the growing demand places to the present capacity of response

Potential of the endophyte Penicillium commune in the control of olive anthracnose via induction of antifungal volatiles in host plant

Olive anthracnose, caused by several Colletotrichum species, is the most economically harmful fruit disease of the olive crop. This work aimed to evaluate the ability of the endophyte Penicillium commune CIMO 14FM009 to protect the olive tree against Colletotrichum nymphaeae via induction of plant volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Accordingly, olive tree branches were inoculated with the endophyte and one month later with the pathogen. After 0, 3, and 24 h of pathogen inoculation, the volatile composition of leaves and fruits was analyzed by HSSPME- GC/MS, and compared with controls (branches inoculated with buffer, endophyte, or pathogen). The effect of plant-derived volatiles on C. nymphaeae was also evaluated. Penicillium commune induced the release of VOCs on the olive trees, with the capacity to reduce significantly the growth (up to 1.4-fold) and sporulation (up to 1.2-fold) of C. nymphaeae. This effect was most notorious on olives than on leaves, and occurred 3 h after pathogen-challenge, suggesting the need for a stressful stimulus for the production of antifungal VOCs. The observed inhibition was associated to a specific set of VOCs released from olives (mostly belonging to the alcohols and esters chemical classes) and leaves (mostly belonging to the alkenes). Curiously, a set of VOCs belonging to alkene, alkane and ester classes, were emitted exclusively in olive branches inoculated with C. nymphaeae. These findings provide new possibilities for controlling olive anthracnose using P. commune and/or volatiles, which efficacy should be tested in future works.This work is supported by FEDER funds through the COMPETE (Operational Program for Competitiveness Factors) and by National funds through the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) in the scope of the project POCI-01–0145-FEDER-031133 “MicOlives - Exploiting plant induced resistance by beneficial fungi as a new sustainable approach to olive crop protection”, Horizon 2020, the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, in the scope of the project PRIMA/0002/2018 “INTOMED- Innovative tools to combat crop pests in the Mediterranean”, and IFAP via the project “Bio4Med - Implementation of innovative strategies to increase sustainability in perennial Mediterranean crops”, as well as the Mountain Research Center - CIMO (UIDB/00690/2020; UIDP/00690/2020) and SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2020).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Оценка степени ухудшения отношения сигнал/шум монокристаллическими экранами

A new approach to gas leakage detection in high pressure distribution networks is proposed, where the pipeline is modelled as a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) System driven by the source node mass flow with the pressure as the scheduling parameter, and the system output as the mass flow at the offtake. Using a recently proposed successive approximations LPV system subspace identification algorithm, the pipeline is thus identified from operational data. The leak is detected using a Kalman filter where the fault is treated as an augmented state. The effectiveness of this method is illustrated with an example with a mixture of real and simulated data

Quality of Referrals Information from Primary Health Care to a Psychiatric Consultation

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Combined treatment of graft versus host disease using donor regulatory T cells and ruxolitinib

Donor derived regulatory T lymphocytes and the JAK1/2 kinase inhibitor ruxolitinib are currently being evaluated as therapeutic options in the treatment of chronic graft versus host disease (cGvHD). In this work, we aimed to determine if the combined use of both agents can exert a synergistic efect in the treatment of GvHD. For this purpose, we studied the efect of this combination both in vitro and in a GvHD mouse model. Our results show that ruxolitinib favors the ratio of thymic regulatory T cells to conventional T cells in culture, without afecting the suppressive capacity of these Treg. The combination of ruxolitinib with Treg showed a higher efcacy as compared to each single treatment alone in our GvHD mouse model in terms of GvHD incidence, severity and survival without hampering graft versus leukemia efect. This benefcial efect correlated with the detection in the bone marrow of recipient mice of the infused donor allogeneic Treg after the adoptive transfer

Inadequate dietary intake of children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the dietary intake of children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (JSLE) using a 24-hour diet recall and relating it to the patients clinical and anthropometric characteristics and to the drugs used in their treatment. METHODS: By means of a cross-sectional study, we assessed the 24-hour diet recalls of outpatients. Their nutritional status was classified according to the CDC (2000). The computer program NutWin UNIFESP-EPM was used for food intake calculation. The Recommended Dietary Allowances and the Brazilian food pyramid were used for quantitative and qualitative analysis. RESULTS: Median age was 12 years for JIA patients and 16.5 years for JSLE patients. Among the JIA patients, 37.5% had active disease, and among the JSLE patients, 68.2% showed Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI) > 4. Malnutrition was found in 8.3 and 4.5% of the JIA and JSLE patients, respectively, and obesity was present in 16.7 and 18.2%. For JIA patients, the excessive intake of energy, protein, and lipids was 12.5, 75, and 31.3%, respectively. For JSLE patients, the excessive intake of energy, protein, and lipids was 13.6, 86.4, and 36.4%, respectively. Low intake of iron, zinc, and vitamin A was found in 29.2 and 50, 87.5 and 86.4, and 87.5 and 95.2% of the JIA and JSLE patients, respectively. There was not a significant association between intake, disease activity, and nutritional status. CONCLUSION: Patients with rheumatic diseases have inadequate dietary intake. There is excessive intake of lipids and proteins and low intake of micronutrients.OBJETIVOS: Avaliar o consumo alimentar de crianças e adolescentes com artrite idiopática juvenil (AIJ) e lúpus eritematoso sistêmico (LES) por recordatório de 24 horas e relacioná-lo com características clínicas e antropométricas e com os medicamentos empregados. MÉTODOS: Em estudo transversal, avaliamos os recordatórios de 24 horas de pacientes ambulatoriais. O estado nutricional foi classificado pelo CDC, 2000. Para o cálculo da ingestão, utilizamos o software NutWin UNIFESP-EPM. Para a análise quantitativa e qualitativa, adotamos as Recommended Dietary Allowances e a pirâmide alimentar brasileira. RESULTADOS: A mediana de idade foi 12 na AIJ e 16,5 anos no LES. Na AIJ, 37,5% dos pacientes estavam em atividade de doença, e, no LES, 68,2% tinham Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index > 4. Foi encontrada desnutrição em 8,3 e 4,5% dos pacientes com AIJ e com LES, respectivamente, e obesidade, em 16,7 e 18,2%. Na AIJ, o consumo excessivo de energia, proteína e lipídios foi de 12,5, 75 e 31,3%, respectivamente. No LES, o consumo excessivo de energia, proteína e lipídios foi de 13,6, 86,4 e 36,4%, respectivamente. Consumo deficiente de ferro, zinco e vitamina A foi observado em 29,2 e 50, 87,5 e 86,4 e 87,5 e 95,2% dos pacientes com AIJ e LES, respectivamente. Não houve relação significante entre consumo, atividade da doença e estado nutricional. CONCLUSÃO: Pacientes com doenças reumáticas apresentam inadequação do consumo alimentar. Ressaltamos a ingestão excessiva de lipídios e proteínas e a ingestão insuficiente de micronutrientes.Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Escola Paulista de Medicina Departamento de PediatriaUniversidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) Escola Paulista de MedicinaUNIFESP, EPM, Depto. de PediatriaUNIFESP, EPMSciEL

Perfil criminal das mulheres presas que trabalham em uma Cooperativa no Centro de Recuperação Feminino do município de Ananindeua-Pará

UID/SOC/04647/2019Importância: A vida em sociedade requer que as regras sociais sejam aceitas e cumpridas pelos indivíduos. Com isso, resta ao sistema penitenciário a complexidade de exercer o controle social dos desviantes e depois reintegrá-los socialmente. Objetivo: nesse sentido, este estudo teve como objetivo analisar o perfil das mulheres encarceradas que voluntariamente estão inseridas em atividades laborativas na Cooperativa Social de Trabalho Arte Feminina Empreendora, e as principais práticas criminosas que as levaram à prisão. A Cooperativa está sediada dentro do Centro de Recuperação Feminino no município de Ananindeua-Pará, região metropolitana de Belém, e é a primeira cooperativa formada exclusivamente por mulheres presas no Brasil. Metodologia: Para tanto, utilizou-se um estudo exploratório e descritivo com abordagem quantitativa para análise e exposição dos dados de todas as vinte e três mulheres que trabalham na cooperativa, disponibilizados pela Superintendência do Sistema Penitenciário do estado do Pará. Resultados: Observou-se como principais resultados que as internas possuem em média 37 anos de idade, são da cor/etnia parda, a maior parte são naturais do interior do estado e cometeram o crime de tráfico de entorpecentes. Conclusão: Sendo possível concluir, com base nos resultados observados e na bibliografia estudada que o tipo de trabalho prisional, voltado para a autogestão na obtenção de renda, pode se tornar uma oportunidade para essas mulheres recomeçarem a vida pós-cárcere e serem inseridas no mercado de trabalho após o cumprimento da pena.publishersversionpublishe

The Free-Living Stage Growth Conditions of the Endophytic Fungus Serendipita indica May Regulate Its Potential as Plant Growth Promoting Microbe

Serendipita indica (former Piriformospora indica) is a non-obligate endophytic fungus and generally a plant growth and defence promoter with high potential to be used in agriculture. However, S. indica may switch from biotrophy to saprotrophy losing its plant growth promoting traits. Our aim was to understand if the free-living stage growth conditions (namely C availability) regulate S. indica’s phenotype, and its potential as plant-growth-promoting-microbe (PGPM). We grew S. indica in its free-living stage under increasing C availabilities (2–20 g L–1 of glucose or sucrose). We first characterised the effect of C availability during free-living stage growth on fungal phenotype: colonies growth and physiology (plasma membrane proton pumps, stable isotopic signatures, and potential extracellular decomposing enzymes). The effect of the C availability during the free-living stage of the PGPM was evaluated on wheat. We observed that C availability during the free-living stage regulated S. indica’s growth, ultrastructure and physiology, resulting in two distinct colony phenotypes: compact and explorer. The compact phenotype developed at low C, used peptone as the major C and N source, and displayed higher decomposing potential for C providing substrates; while the explorer phenotype developed at high C, used glucose and sucrose as major C sources and casein and yeast extract as major N sources, and displayed higher decomposing potential for N and P providing substrates. The C availability, or the C/N ratio, during the free-living stage left a legacy to the symbiosis stage, regulating S. indica’s potential to promote plant growth: wheat growth promotion by the explorer phenotype was ± 40% higher than that by the compact phenotype. Our study highlights the importance of considering microbial ecology in designing PGPM/biofertilizers. Further studies are needed to test the phenotypes under more extreme conditions, and to understand if the in vitro acquired characteristics persist under field conditions.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio