Participação na Mostra dos Estudantes da PQ2015 - 13ª Quadrienal de Praga: espaço e design da performance

Anais do 35º Seminário de Extensão Universitária da Região Sul - Área temática: CulturaEste trabalho pretende apresentar a experiência internacional de participação de três alunos do Curso de Bacharelado em Artes Cênicas na Mostra dos Estudantes da PQ2015 – 13a Edição da Quadrienal de Praga, exposição internacional de cenografia, ​ design e arquitetura teatral, proporcionada pelo Programa de Extensão LABIC – Laboratório de Investigação da Cena do ​ Campus de Curitiba II da UNESPAR – FAP no ano de 2015. A participação se deu com o desenvolvimento de pesquisa, criação e execução de um projeto de cenografia conforme orientações das curadorias nacional e internacional, participação na Seletiva Nacional das Escolas Brasileiras de Cenografia na UnB em Brasília e viagem para montagem e apresentação do trabalho selecionado na Exposição Internacional “Brasil: Labirintos Compartilhados” em Praga. Além da participação dos estudantes, a coordenadora do programa de extensão também foi selecionada, com mais 29 artistas brasileiros, para compor a Mostra Nacional “Brasil: Tudo pro Recomeçar” da PQ2015. A seleção para participar de duas das seções de uma das maiores exposições mundiais da área do ​ Design para a Performance ressalta o potencial de internacionalização da UNESPAR, seus estudantes e professores, cuja experiência internacional, além de ampliar horizontes e complementar a formação acadêmica, ainda permitiu outras novas conquistas e convites para participação em outros eventos e cursos internacionai

Asymmetric Contributions of the Fronto-Parietal Network to Emotional Conflict in the Word–Face Interference Task

The fronto-parietal network is involved in top-down and bottom-up processes necessary to achieve cognitive control. We investigated the role of asymmetric enhancement of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (lDLPFC) and right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) in cognitive control under conditions of emotional conflict arising from emotional distractors. The effects of anodal tDCS over the lDLPFC/cathodal over the rPPC and the effects of anodal tDCS over the rPPC/cathodal over the lDLPFC were compared to sham tDCS in a double-blind design. The findings showed that anodal stimulation over the lDLPFC reduced interference from emotional distractors, but only when participants had already gained experience with the task. In contrast, having already performed the task only eliminated facilitation effects for positive stimuli. Importantly, anodal stimulation of the rPPC did not affect distractors’ interference. Therefore, the present findings indicate that the lDLPFC plays a crucial role in implementing top-down control to resolve emotional conflict, but that experience with the task is necessary to reveal this role

Avaliação de competências cooperativas e trabalho de grupo no 1.º CEB

O projeto de investigação-ação que se apresenta foi concebido e implementado com o objetivo de fomentar o trabalho de grupo em sala de aula. Para tal, foi elaborado um plano de ação que consistiu na utilização de grelhas de auto e heteroavaliação das competências cooperativas aplicadas ao longo de diversas atividades pedagógicas. Foram constituídos cinco grupos de trabalho, numa turma do 2.º ano de escolaridade, de um agrupamento de escolas do concelho de Viseu (Portugal). Os resultados evidenciaram uma melhoria das competências cooperativas dos alunos, essenciais ao adequado funcionamento do grupoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients is linked to autonomic dysfunction:findings from the CARDIOBESE study

AIMS: Obesity doubles the lifetime risk of developing heart failure. Current knowledge on the role of obesity in causing cardiac dysfunction is insufficient for optimal risk stratification. The aim of this study was first to estimate the prevalence of subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients and second to investigate the underlying pathophysiology. METHODS AND RESULTS: The CARDIOBESE study is a cross-sectional multicentre study of 100 obesity patients [body mass index (BMI) ≥ 35 kg/m2 ] without known cardiovascular disease and 50 age-matched and gender-matched non-obese controls (BMI ≤ 30 kg/m2 ). Echocardiography was performed, blood samples were collected, and a Holter monitor was affixed. Fifty-nine obesity patients [48 (42-50) years, 70% female] showed subclinical cardiac dysfunction: 57 patients had decreased global longitudinal strain (GLS), and two patients with normal GLS had either diastolic dysfunction or increased brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). Only one non-obese control had diastolic dysfunction, and none had another sign of cardiac dysfunction. Multivariable logistic analysis identified male gender and standard deviation of all NN intervals (SDNN) index, which is a measure of autonomic dysfunction, as independent significant risk factors for subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients. CONCLUSIONS: There was a high prevalence (61%) of subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients without known cardiovascular disease, which appeared to be best identified by GLS. Subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity was linked to autonomic dysfunction and male gender, and not to the presence of traditional cardiac risk factors, increased C-reactive protein, increased BNP, increased high-sensitivity troponin I, or increased left ventricular mass

When constraints of embodied cognition become porous: performances of sensory interactivity in design

Abstract: In design processes, the concept of the embodied mind can be mobilized to consider the ways in which our bodily experiences and actions affect our perception of space. With this focus in mind, what happens when human–environment interactivity ceases to be a utilitarian exchange between an evolving, sensing body and a predetermined object, but becomes conductive, generative, adaptive, and learns to grow? Perhaps in that moment of interaction and touch the space affects embodied action and perception in turn? These questions were pursued in a series of Practice-as-Research experiments by advanced designers in training from four disciplines at the University of Calgary: technical theatre, computational media and design, architecture, and sonic arts. The aim of the group’s work is to make design experientially accessible as an affective process with the ability to render porous the bodily constraints of human cognition. Here, the designers share insights, ideas, and obstacles from their collaborative research process. Keywords: Interactive design. Embodied cognition. Agent based modelling. Tangible computing. Collaborative creation. QUANDO AS LIMITAÇÕES DA COGNIÇÃO CORPORIFICADA SE TORNAM POROSAS: PERFORMANCES DE INTERATIVIDADE SENSORIAL NO DESIGNResumo: Nos processos de design, o conceito de mente corporificada pode ser mobilizado para considerar as maneiras pelas quais nossas experiências e ações corporais afetam nossa percepção do espaço. Com este foco em mente, o que acontece quando a interatividade humano-ambiente deixa de ser uma troca utilitária entre um corpo evolutivo, sensível e um objeto predeterminado, mas se torna condutor, gerador, adaptável e aprende a crescer? Talvez nesse momento de interação e toque, o espaço, por sua vez, afete a ação e a percepção corporificada? Essas questões foram perseguidas em uma série de experimentos de prática-como-pesquisa por designers avançados em treinamento de quatro disciplinas na Universidade de Calgary: técnica em teatro, mídia computacional e design, arquitetura e artes sonoras. O objetivo do trabalho do grupo é tornar o design experiencialmente acessível como um processo afetivo com a capacidade de tornar porosas as restrições corporais da cognição humana. Aqui, os designers compartilham insights, ideias e obstáculos de seu processo de pesquisa colaborativa. Palavras-chave: Design. Interação performativa. Cognição corporificada. Modelagem baseada em agentes. Computação tangível. Criação colaborativa.

WaveMIMO Methodology : Numerical Wave Generation of a Realistic Sea State

This paper presents a methodology that allows the numerical simulation of realistic sea waves, called WaveMIMO methodology, which is based on the imposition of transient discrete data as prescribed velocity on a finite volume computational model developed in Fluent software. These transient data are obtained by using the spectral wave model TOMAWAC, where the wave spectrum is converted into a series of free surface elevations treated and processed as wave propagation velocities in the horizontal (x) and vertical (z) directions. The processed discrete transient data of wave propagation velocity are imposed as boundary conditions of a wave channel in Fluent, allowing the numerical simulation of irregular waves with realistic characteristics. From a case study that reproduces the sea state occurring on March 31st, 2014, in Ingleses Beach, in the city of Florianópolis, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, it was concluded that the WaveMIMO methodology can properly reproduce realistic conditions of a sea state. In sequence, the proposed methodology was employed to numerically simulate the incidence of irregular realistic waves over an oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter (WEC). From these results, the WaveMIMO methodology has proved to be a promising technique to numerically analyze the fluid-dynamic behavior of WECs subjected to irregular waves of realistic sea state on any coastal region where the device can be installed

Exploration of new textures in ceramic products from experiments with organic materials

Foi experimentada a utilização de materiais orgânicos mergulhados em barbotinas de faiança e de barro vermelho no processo de criação de novas estruturas e texturas de produtos cerâmicos. O projeto dividiu-se em duas partes, começando pela investigação e análise de materiais orgânicos, escolhidos de acordo com as suas características organolépticas, com o propósito de introduzir novas texturas em peças cerâmicas. Obteu-se uma lista e selecionou-se um conjunto de materiais orgânicos que mais se adequam ao projeto, realizando estudos preliminares em pequenas amostras cerâmicas no sentido de percebermos o potencial de cada um dos materiais orgânicos selecionados na alteração de estruturas e texturas cerâmicas. A segunda parte deste trabalho relaciona-se com a aplicação dos melhores resultados obtidos nos estudos preliminares sobre três novos projetos de produtos cerâmicos.The use of organic materials soaked in faience and red clay slip was used in the process of creating new structures and textures of ceramic products. The project was divided into two parts, starting with the investigation and analysis of organic materials, chosen according to their organoleptic characteristics, to introduce new textures in ceramic pieces. After obtaining a list and selecting a set of organic materials that best suit this project, preliminary studies were carried on small ceramic samples to understand the potential of each of the selected organic materials in altering ceramic structures and textures. The second part of this work is related to the application of the best results obtained in the preliminary studies on three new designs of ceramic products

Subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients is linked to autonomic dysfunction: findings from the CARDIOBESE study

Aims: Obesity doubles the lifetime risk of developing heart failure. Current knowledge on the role of obesity in causing cardiac dysfunction is insufficient for optimal risk stratification. The aim of this study was first to estimate the prevalence of subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients and second to investigate the underlying pathophysiology. Methods and results: The CARDIOBESE study is a cross-sectional multicentre study of 100 obesity patients [body mass index (BMI) ≥ 35 kg/m2] without known cardiovascular disease and 50 age-matched and gender-matched non-obese controls (BMI ≤ 30 kg/m2). Echocardiography was performed, blood samples were collected, and a Holter monitor was affixed. Fifty-nine obesity patients [48 (42–50) years, 70% female] showed subclinical cardiac dysfunction: 57 patients had decreased global longitudinal strain (GLS), and two patients with normal GLS had either diastolic dysfunction or increased brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). Only one non-obese control had diastolic dysfunction, and none had another sign of cardiac dysfunction. Multivariable logistic analysis identified male gender and standard deviation of all NN intervals (SDNN) index, which is a measure of autonomic dysfunction, as independent significant risk factors for subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients. Conclusions: There was a high prevalence (61%) of subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity patients without known cardiovascular disease, which appeared to be best identified by GLS. Subclinical cardiac dysfunction in obesity was linked to autonomic dysfunction and male gender, and not to the presence of traditional cardiac risk factors, increased C-reactive protein, increased BNP, increased high-sensitivity troponin I, or increased left ventricular mass

Characteristics of people living in Italy after a cancer diagnosis in 2010 and projections to 2020

BACKGROUND: Estimates of cancer prevalence are widely based on limited duration, often including patients living after a cancer diagnosis made in the previous 5 years and less frequently on complete prevalence (i.e., including all patients regardless of the time elapsed since diagnosis). This study aims to provide estimates of complete cancer prevalence in Italy by sex, age, and time since diagnosis for all cancers combined, and for selected cancer types. Projections were made up to 2020, overall and by time since diagnosis. METHODS: Data were from 27 Italian population-based cancer registries, covering 32% of the Italian population, able to provide at least 7 years of registration as of December 2009 and follow-up of vital status as of December 2013. The data were used to compute the limited-duration prevalence, in order to estimate the complete prevalence by means of the COMPREV software. RESULTS: In 2010, 2,637,975 persons were estimated to live in Italy after a cancer diagnosis, 1.2 million men and 1.4 million women, or 4.6% of the Italian population. A quarter of male prevalent cases had prostate cancer (n\u2009=\u2009305,044), while 42% of prevalent women had breast cancer (n\u2009=\u2009604,841). More than 1.5 million people (2.7% of Italians) were alive since 5 or more years after diagnosis and 20% since 6515 years. It is projected that, in 2020 in Italy, there will be 3.6 million prevalent cancer cases (+\u200937% vs 2010). The largest 10-year increases are foreseen for prostate (+\u200985%) and for thyroid cancers (+\u200979%), and for long-term survivors diagnosed since 20 or more years (+\u200945%). Among the population aged 6575 years, 22% will have had a previous cancer diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: The number of persons living after a cancer diagnosis is estimated to rise of approximately 3% per year in Italy. The availability of detailed estimates and projections of the complete prevalence are intended to help the implementation of guidelines aimed to enhance the long-term follow-up of cancer survivors and to contribute their rehabilitation need