Profile of aerobic fitness and muscle power of athletes on the Brazilian National Paralympic Five-a-side Football Team

We aimed to profile the aerobic fitness and muscle power of five-a-side football athletes on the Brazilian National Paralympic Team. The sample consisted of 12 male Paralympic athletes on the Brazilian National five-a-side football team, including 3 sighted goalkeepers and 9 blind (B1 category) outfield players. The results were: peak oxygen uptake (VO2 peak), 51.8 ± 5.8 ml/kg/min; maximum speed, 17.1 ± 1.4 km/h and VO2 ventilatory threshold (VT), 40.2 ± 6.5 ml/kg/min The peak torque values (Nm) of the right and left legs were 241 ± 48 and 234 ± 45 for 60° extension, 127 ± 17 and 123 ± 16 for 60° flexion, 170 ± 29 and 162 ± 28 for 180° extension, 113 ± 13 and 109 ± 13 for 180° flexion, 130 ± 20 and 129 ± 23 for 300° extension, and 118 ± 17 and 115 ± 18 for 300° flexion, respectively. The five-a-side football players on the Brazilian National Paralympics Team exhibited physiologically normal responses to physical training related to the observed physical capacities as shown by the aerobic fitness and muscle power results observed. These results suggest that blind individuals can improve their physical capacity regardless of their visual impairment

Environmental and management indicators as competitive differentials in aquaculture production

Scientific knowledge for sustainable economic development is faced with the need to provide solutions that integrate social and environmental indicators and their related production and management processes. In this study, multidimensional and functional indicators of aquaculture production activities were analyzed based on the concepts of industrial organization and the development of the value chain. The objective was to analyze and identify production and management activities, which generate competitive advantage in aquaculture enterprises. The universe investigated was represented by 26 aquaculture enterprises, located at the Furnas Reservoir in the Capitolio region of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The results demonstrate that environmental management indicators and management practices stand out as opportunity for improvement in the production chain. Technology and scientific knowledge transferred to aquaculture producers are key factors to achieve competitiveness.93322923

Comportamento dos custos: uma investigação empírica acerda dos conceitos econométricos sobre a teoria tradicional da contabilidade de custos Cost behavior: an empirical study of econometric concepts about traditional cost accounting theory

A investigação, em tela, versa sobre a inconsistência dada pela literatura Contábil em termos de estimação do comportamento dos custos. Portanto, o objetivo central deste trabalho é identificar se teoria da Análise Estatística do Comportamento dos Custos, defendida pela literatura contábil, está ferindo os conceitos modernos da Econometria utilizados em finanças, em termos de identificação e correção da não estacionariedade das séries temporais. Para tanto, adotou-se um procedimento metodológico dedutivo através de pesquisa indireta. Para reforçar os conceitos e análises feitas no desenvolvimento da pesquisa utilizaram-se dados de estudo de caso que foram rodados no software Econométrico E-views. Por fim, conclui-se que a teoria empregada na literatura contábil concernente à utilização de técnicas estatísticas em comportamento dos custos não considera a análise da estacionariedade das séries e que, portanto, gera inconsistências estatísticas (regressões espúrias) na previsão do referido comportamento. Com isso, o estudo posiciona-se de forma relevante à evolução da ciência no momento em que enseja uma discussão maior em uma área ainda incipiente das Ciências Contábeis, a Contabilometria.<br>This research looks at the inconsistency in accounting literature about the estimation of cost behavior. The main goal was to identify whether the Statistical Analysis of Cost Behavior theory, defended by accounting literature, is infringing modern econometric concepts used in finance, in terms of identifying and correcting the non-stationarity of the temporal series. Therefore, a deductive methodology was used through indirect research. To reinforce the concepts and analyses carried out in the development of this research, case study data were used and processed through the econometric software E-views. Finally, it is concluded that the theory used in accounting literature about the use of statistical techniques in cost behavior does not consider the stationarity analysis of the series and that, therefore, it generates statistical inconsistencies (spurious regressions) in the forecasting of this referred behavior. Thus, this research is relevant in scientific evolution by opening a broader discussion in an incipient area of Accountancy, i.e. econometrics applied to accounting

Landscape dynamics and diversification of the megadiverse South American freshwater fish fauna

Landscape dynamics are widely thought to govern the tempo and mode of continental radiations, yet the effects of river network rearrangements on dispersal and lineage diver- sification remain poorly understood. We integrated an unprecedented occurrence dataset of 4,967 species with a newly compiled, time-calibrated phylogeny of South American freshwater fishes—the most species-rich continental vertebrate fauna on Earth—to track the evolutionary processes associated with hydrogeographic events over 100 Ma. Net lineage diversification was heterogeneous through time, across space, and among clades. Five abrupt shifts in net diversification rates occurred during the Paleogene and Miocene (between 30 and 7 Ma) in association with major landscape evolution events. Net diversification accelerated from the Miocene to the Recent (c. 20 to 0 Ma), with Western Amazonia having the highest rates of in situ diversification, which led to it being an important source of species dispersing to other regions. All regional biotic interchanges were associated with documented hydrogeographic events and the forma- tion of biogeographic corridors, including the Early Miocene (c. 23 to 16 Ma) uplift of the Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira and the Late Miocene (c. 10 Ma) uplift of the Northern Andes and associated formation of the modern transcontinental Amazon River. The combination of high diversification rates and extensive biotic interchange associated with Western Amazonia yielded its extraordinary contemporary richness and phylogenetic endemism. Our results support the hypothesis that landscape dynamics, which shaped the history of drainage basin connections, strongly affected the assembly and diversification of basin-wide fish faunas.Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (IB)Departamento de Ecologia (IB ECL

New insights into trypanosomatid U5 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins

Several protozoan parasites exist in the Trypanosomatidae family, including various agents of human diseases. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that important differences are present between the translational and mRNA processing (trans splicing) systems of trypanosomatids and other eukaryotes. In this context, certain small complexes of RNA and protein, which are named small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (U snRNPs), have an essential role in pre-mRNA processing, mainly during splicing. Even though they are well defined in mammals, snRNPs are still not well characterized in trypanosomatids. This study shows that a U5-15K protein is highly conserved among various trypanosomatid species. Tandem affinity pull-down assays revealed that this protein interacts with a novel U5-102K protein, which suggests the presence of a sub-complex that is potentially involved in the assembly of U4/U6-U5 tri-snRNPs. Functional analyses showed that U5-15K is essential for cell viability and is somehow involved with the trans and cis splicing machinery. Similar tandem affinity experiments with a trypanonosomatid U5-Cwc21 protein led to the purification of four U5 snRNP specific proteins and a Sm core, suggesting U5-Cwc-21 participation in the 35S U5 snRNP particle. Of these proteins, U5-200K was molecularly characterized. U5-200K has conserved domains, such as the DEAD/DEAH box helicase and Sec63 domains and displays a strong interaction with U5 snRNA