O cotidiano de mulheres com fibromialgia e o desafio interdisciplinar de empoderamento para o autocuidado

Objetivos: Descrever o cotidiano das mulheres que vivem com fibromialgia durante a intervenção do grupo interdisciplinar e analisarseus benefícios à saúde das mulheres após a intervenção. Método: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo exploratório, de abordagemqualitativa, desenvolvido com 12 mulheres participantes do grupo interdisciplinar de educação em saúde, em uma UniversidadeEstadual do Rio de Janeiro. Os dados foram coletados em 2016 por meio de entrevista semiestruturada e, em seguida, organizados esubmetidos à análise de conteúdo segundo Bardin. O presente estudo foi aprovado pelo comitê de ética recebendo o número do CAAE16413013013100005259, em consonância aos aspectos éticos legais da resolução 466/2012.Resultados: Do corpus analítico, emergiram duas categorias intituladas: A expressão do cotidiano e Repercussões do grupo interdisciplinar.Conclusão: As ações do grupo interdisciplinar proporcionaram inúmeros benefícios tanto físicos, quanto psicológicos e sociais para cada mulher.Palavras-chave: Fibromialgia. Enfermagem. Educação em saúde. Psicoterapia de grupo. Mulher

The STRIP instrument of the Large Scale Polarization Explorer: microwave eyes to map the Galactic polarized foregrounds

In this paper we discuss the latest developments of the STRIP instrument of the "Large Scale Polarization Explorer" (LSPE) experiment. LSPE is a novel project that combines ground-based (STRIP) and balloon-borne (SWIPE) polarization measurements of the microwave sky on large angular scales to attempt a detection of the "B-modes" of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarization. STRIP will observe approximately 25% of the Northern sky from the "Observatorio del Teide" in Tenerife, using an array of forty-nine coherent polarimeters at 43 GHz, coupled to a 1.5 m fully rotating crossed-Dragone telescope. A second frequency channel with six-elements at 95 GHz will be exploited as an atmospheric monitor. At present, most of the hardware of the STRIP instrument has been developed and tested at sub-system level. System-level characterization, starting in July 2018, will lead STRIP to be shipped and installed at the observation site within the end of the year. The on-site verification and calibration of the whole instrument will prepare STRIP for a 2-years campaign for the observation of the CMB polarization.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures, proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation conference "Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX", on June 15th, 2018, Austin (TX

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements