Vogar - em todas as línguas saber saudar a morte

Esta dissertação visa aproximar-se do território inexplorado que é a poesia de Manuel de Castro, reunida no volume Bonsoir, Madame e editada em 2013 pela Língua Morta/ Alexandria. Para lá chegar, parte do pensamento de Maurice Blanchot em L’espace littéraire, onde são problematizados, entre outros, os conceitos de obra e de leitura. Deste modo, e procurando ter em conta o carácter da obra poética como afirmação impessoal e anónima (Blanchot), este trabalho aproxima da obra castriana outras vozes – como as de Antero de Quental, Camilo Pessanha, René Daumal e Herberto Helder – que a iluminam através do princípio da afinidade, conforme teorizado por Maria Filomena Molder. Assim, traça um itinerário que se concentra na leitura dos dois livros do poeta (Paralelo W e A estrela rutilante) e ensaia uma hipótese final – a aprendizagem e o trabalho da morte –, acentuada pelos escritos não publicados em vida e pelos dispersos (Chuva no Dia de Finados e Hiperacusia).This dissertation aims to aproach the unexplored territory of Manuel de Castro’s poetry which was published in 2013, by Língua Morta/Alexandria, in a volume called Bonsoir, Madame. To get there it starts by addressing the thinking of Maurice Blanchot, specially the concepts of work and reading. This way, and at the same time, baring in mind the poetic work as an impersonal and anonymous affirmation, it hopes to enlighten Manuel de Castro’s work by approaching it to the voices of other poets – such as Antero de Quental, Camilo Pessanha, René Daumal and Herberto Helder – following the principle of affinity as it is proposed by Maria Filomena Molder. This text’s itinerary focuses on the two books published by the poet during his lifetime (Paralelo W and A estrela rutilante) and aims at a final hypothesis – the learning and the work of death – through the reading of his previously unpublished texts and collected poems (Chuva no Dia de Finados and Hiperacusia)

Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

The question whether taxonomic descriptions naming new animal species without type specimen(s) deposited in collections should be accepted for publication by scientific journals and allowed by the Code has already been discussed in Zootaxa (Dubois & Nemésio 2007; Donegan 2008, 2009; Nemésio 2009a–b; Dubois 2009; Gentile & Snell 2009; Minelli 2009; Cianferoni & Bartolozzi 2016; Amorim et al. 2016). This question was again raised in a letter supported by 35 signatories published in the journal Nature (Pape et al. 2016) on 15 September 2016. On 25 September 2016, the following rebuttal (strictly limited to 300 words as per the editorial rules of Nature) was submitted to Nature, which on 18 October 2016 refused to publish it. As we think this problem is a very important one for zoological taxonomy, this text is published here exactly as submitted to Nature, followed by the list of the 493 taxonomists and collection-based researchers who signed it in the short time span from 20 September to 6 October 2016

Suplementação com L-arginina associada ao exercício resistido melhora a força muscular e impede o aumento da glicemia de ratos diabéticos

Introdução: Diversas terapêuticas têm sido empregadas no controle do diabetes. Objetivo: O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar os efeitos da suplementação com L-arginina e do exercício resistido, isolado ou combinado sobre a massa corporal, glicemia e a força muscular de ratos diabéticos. Metodologia: Ratos Wistar foram divididos em 6 grupos: Controle (CON, n = 5), estimulado eletricamente (EE, n = 5), diabético sedentário (DS, n = 5), diabético L-arginina (DL-Arg, n = 5), diabético treinado (DT, n = 5) e diabético treinado + L-arginina (DT + L-Arg, n = 5). O diabetes foi induzido através da administração de aloxano na dose única de 40 mg/kg, i.v., duas semanas antes do início dos protocolos. Foi avaliada a massa corporal, glicemia e a força muscular no início, a cada duas semanas e no final das 6 semanas dos procedimentos experimentais. Resultados: No início do estudo, o DS apresentou um aumento significativo (p < 0,001) da glicemia quando comparado com o CON. Após as 6 semanas de estudo os animais do grupo DT e DT + L-Arg obtiveram um aumento significativo (p < 0,01 e p < 0,001; respectivamente) nos níveis de força quando comparado com o DS. Os animais DT + L-Arg apresentaram uma redução significativa (p < 0,001) da glicemia plasmática ao longo do tratamento quando comparado com o DS. Conclusão: A suplementação com L-arginina associada ao exercício resistido aumenta a força muscular e promove um equilíbrio metabólico em animais diabéticos

Uma história de conceitos na saúde pública: integralidade, coordenação, descentralização, regionalização e universalidade A history of public health concepts: integrity, coordination, decentralization, regionalization, and universality

O Sistema Único de Saúde conferiu visibilidade a uma série de conceitos próprios da organização de sistemas de saúde. Entre eles a integralidade, que delimita fronteiras comuns com quase todos os demais princípios do Sistema, tem sido objeto de ampla literatura no Brasil. Com base em extensa revisão de fontes primárias e secundárias, este artigo apresenta uma recuperação histórica dos conceitos de integralidade, descentralização, regionalização e universalidade - ideias e conceitos que em grande parte se conformam e se interligam no ideário da organização dos serviços sanitários pelo modelo dos Centros de Saúde distritais.<br>Brazil's Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) has highlighted a series of concepts specific to the organization of healthcare systems. Among these, integrity - which shares boundaries with almost all other System principles - has been the object of much academic production in Brazil. Based on an extensive review of primary and secondary sources, the article offers a historical recovery of the concepts of integrity, decentralization, regionalization, and universality - ideas and concepts that in good measure are shaped by and interlinked with the set of ideals of the organization of sanitary services according to the district health centers model

ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America

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Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention to reduce anastomotic leak following right colectomy (EAGLE): pragmatic, batched stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial in 64 countries

Background Anastomotic leak affects 8 per cent of patients after right colectomy with a 10-fold increased risk of postoperative death. The EAGLE study aimed to develop and test whether an international, standardized quality improvement intervention could reduce anastomotic leaks. Methods The internationally intended protocol, iteratively co-developed by a multistage Delphi process, comprised an online educational module introducing risk stratification, an intraoperative checklist, and harmonized surgical techniques. Clusters (hospital teams) were randomized to one of three arms with varied sequences of intervention/data collection by a derived stepped-wedge batch design (at least 18 hospital teams per batch). Patients were blinded to the study allocation. Low- and middle-income country enrolment was encouraged. The primary outcome (assessed by intention to treat) was anastomotic leak rate, and subgroup analyses by module completion (at least 80 per cent of surgeons, high engagement; less than 50 per cent, low engagement) were preplanned. Results A total 355 hospital teams registered, with 332 from 64 countries (39.2 per cent low and middle income) included in the final analysis. The online modules were completed by half of the surgeons (2143 of 4411). The primary analysis included 3039 of the 3268 patients recruited (206 patients had no anastomosis and 23 were lost to follow-up), with anastomotic leaks arising before and after the intervention in 10.1 and 9.6 per cent respectively (adjusted OR 0.87, 95 per cent c.i. 0.59 to 1.30; P = 0.498). The proportion of surgeons completing the educational modules was an influence: the leak rate decreased from 12.2 per cent (61 of 500) before intervention to 5.1 per cent (24 of 473) after intervention in high-engagement centres (adjusted OR 0.36, 0.20 to 0.64; P &lt; 0.001), but this was not observed in low-engagement hospitals (8.3 per cent (59 of 714) and 13.8 per cent (61 of 443) respectively; adjusted OR 2.09, 1.31 to 3.31). Conclusion Completion of globally available digital training by engaged teams can alter anastomotic leak rates. Registration number: NCT04270721 (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov)