Variação de peso corporal de pacientes em diálise peritoneal

Este estudo teve como objetivo principal avaliar a variação de peso corporal de pacientes em diálise peritoneal (DP) durante o primeiro ano de tratamento e, como objetivo secundário, identificar pacientes com critério para síndrome metabólica (SM). Estudo observacional, com 35 pacientes, com o mínimo de um ano em DP, de um hospital universitário. Foram coletados dados quanto à situação clínica e demográfica, à variação de peso corporal e aos critérios para SM. Após doze meses do início da diálise, aproximadamente 40% dos pacientes apresentava sobrepeso e/ou obesidade. A média de variação de peso corporal após um ano foi de 3,7 kg, sendo que a maior variação foi encontrada nos primeiros três meses, com valores de 2,2 kg. A prevalência de SM foi de 30%. Conclui-se que a variação de peso corporal mais importante aconteceu no primeiro ano de tratamento e há uma alta prevalência de SM nos pacientes em DP.

The last dinosaurs of Brazil: The Bauru Group and its implications for the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

ABSTRACT The non-avian dinosaurs died out at the end of the Cretaceous, ~66 million years ago, after an asteroid impact. The prevailing hypothesis is that the effects of the impact suddenly killed the dinosaurs, but the poor fossil record of latest Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) dinosaurs from outside Laurasia (and even more particularly, North America) makes it difficult to test specific extinction scenarios. Over the past few decades, a wealth of new discoveries from the Bauru Group of Brazil has revealed a unique window into the evolution of terminal Cretaceous dinosaurs from the southern continents. We review this record and demonstrate that there was a diversity of dinosaurs, of varying body sizes, diets, and ecological roles, that survived to the very end of the Cretaceous (Maastrichtian: 72-66 million years ago) in Brazil, including a core fauna of titanosaurian sauropods and abelisaurid and carcharodontosaurid theropods, along with a variety of small-to-mid-sized theropods. We argue that this pattern best fits the hypothesis that southern dinosaurs, like their northern counterparts, were still diversifying and occupying prominent roles in their ecosystems before the asteroid suddenly caused their extinction. However, this hypothesis remains to be tested with more refined paleontological and geochronological data, and we give suggestions for future work

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall (making this Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes the data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (2014–2016 July) public. Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data-driven machine-learning algorithm known as "The Cannon"; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from the SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS web site (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020 and will be followed by SDSS-V

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Ter hanseníase e trabalhar na enfermagem: história de lutas e superação Tener la lepra y trabajar como enfermera: historias de luchas y superación To be with leprosy and to work as a nurse: histories of fight and overcoming

A pesquisa teve como objetivo conhecer a história dos ex-trabalhadores de enfermagem, que tiveram hanseníase internados compulsoriamente desde início do século XX no Brasil. A hanseníase, permeada de preconceitos e estigmas, no início dos anos 20 foi tratada por décadas com severas políticas públicas de isolamento compulsório dos doentes em Hospitais Colônias. Devido ao preconceito, havia dificuldade em contratar recursos humanos para manter estes estabelecimentos. As histórias dos sujeitos pesquisados surgiram a partir de entrevistas gravadas com sete moradores da colônia, pelo método da história oral. Os resultados da pesquisa apresentados parcialmente neste trabalho relatam as histórias de vida dos sujeitos, suas lutas, sofrimentos e sonhos. Confirmou-se que os próprios doentes eram mantenedores dos serviços dentro das colônias, inclusive os de Enfermagem.<br>Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer la historia de los ex-trabajadores, que tuvieron la lepra admitidos en carácter obligatorio a partir del siglo XX en Brasil. La lepra, cargada de prejuicios y el estigma en los 20 años fue tratado durante décadas con las políticas estrictas de aislamiento forzoso de los pacientes en los hospitales colonias. Debido a los prejuicios, hubo dificultad en la contratación de personal para mantener estos establecimientos. Las historias de las personas fueran obtenidas por medio de entrevistas con siete residentes de la colonia, por el método de la historia oral. Los resultados de la investigación en parte se presentan en este documento se informaba de las historias de vida de las personas, sus luchas, penas y sueños. Se confirmó que los mismos pacientes fueron los poseedores de los servicios en las colonias, incluida la enfermería.<br>This research aimed at knowing the history of ex-workers, leprosy patients admitted compulsorily from the early twentieth century in Brazil. Leprosy, fraught with prejudice and stigma in the early 20s was treated for decades with stringent policies of compulsory isolation of patients in hospitals colonies. Because of prejudice, there was difficulty in hiring staff to maintain these establishments. The stories of the individuals came from taped interviews with seven residents of the colony, by the method of oral history. The research results partially presented in this paper reported the life histories of individuals, their struggles, sorrows and dreams. It was confirmed that the patients themselves were keepers of services within the colonies, including nursing

First 'Rauisuchian' archosaur (Pseudosuchia, Loricata) for the Middle Triassic Santacruzodon Assemblage Zone (Santa Maria Supersequence), Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil

The 'Rauisuchia' are a group of Triassic pseudosuchian archosaurs that displayed a near worldwide distribution. In Brazil, their fossils are found only in the Santa Maria Formation (Paraná Basin) of the Rio Grande do Sul State, specifically in the Middle Triassic Dinodontosaurus assemblage zone (AZ) and the Late Triassic Hyperodapedon AZ (Rauisuchus tiradentes). Between these two cenozones is the Santacruzodon AZ (Middle Triassic), whose record was, until now, restricted to non-mammalian cynodonts and the proterochampsian Chanaresuchus bonapartei. Here we present the first occurrence of a rauisuchian archosaur for this cenozone, from the Schoenstatt outcrop, located near the city of Santa Cruz do Sul and propose a new species, based on biostratigraphical evidence and a comparative osteological analysis