A Radio Spectral Line Study of the 2-Jy IRAS-NVSS Sample: Part I

We present results from an on-going survey for the HI 21 cm line and the OH 18 cm lines in IR galaxies with the Arecibo 305 m Radio Telescope. The observations of 85 galaxies extracted from the 2 Jy IRAS-NVSS sample in the R.A. (B1950) range 20 h-00 h are reported in this paper. We detected the HI 21 cm line in 82 of these galaxies, with 18 being new detections, and the OH 18 cm lines in 7 galaxies, with 4 being new detections. In some cases, the HI spectra show the classic double-horned or single-peaked emission profiles. However, the majority exhibit distorted HI spectral features indicating that the galaxies are in interacting and/or merging systems. From these HI and OH observations, various properties of the sample are derived and reported.Comment: 38 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables. Accepted for publication in A

Estudo do Perfil dos Consumidores de Alimentos Orgânicos em Goiânia

Este artigo teve por objetivo conhecer o perfil dos consumidores de alimentos orgânicos de Goiânia. Foi aplicado um questionário em feiras de alimentos orgânicos e verificou-se que a maior parte dos consumidores são pessoas adultas de bom poder aquisitivo e com bom nível de escolaridade e fazem uso dos alimentos orgânicos em sua maioria, por preocupação com a saúde

Estrategia de marketing 360 para el posicionamiento de marca: Caso lanzamiento de New Ford Edge - Ford

La necesidad por incrementar el valor de marca Ford, con el lanzamiento de su nuevo modelo New Ford Edge, nos motivó a investigar y plantear una propuesta de campaña 360. El objetivo principal de la investigación se basa en comunicar que el modelo New Ford Edge es perfecto para el target; para lo cual, nuestra estrategia se basa en demostrar que la función Co-Pilot 360 es un asistente semiautomático que facilitará la vida del conductor, haciéndolo sentir cool y reconocido. Para recopilar información relevante, se utilizaron instrumentos como: entrevistas, encuestas y social listening en redes sociales. Como agencia, planteamos una metodología centrada en 6 puntos importantes: Intercambio, Conocimiento, Ideación, Prototipo, Optimización y finalmente la etapa de Medición. Como resultado de esta metodología, obtuvimos una estrategia publicitaria basada en creatividad y planificación de medios. En cuanto a la propuesta creativa, nos centramos en el concepto Co-Pilot 360 anticipa lo inimaginable, que se plasmó a través de mensajes con recursos ficticios para ejemplificar casos de la vida cotidiana. Respecto a la planificación de medios, optamos por la elección de medios innovadores y afines al target. La relevancia de este trabajo de investigación se basa en que más marcas puedan implementar una estrategia de campaña adecuada a los intereses del público objetivo.The need to increase the value of the Ford brand, with the launch of its new model New Ford Edge, motivated us to research and propose a 360-campaign proposal. The main objective of the research is to communicate that the New Ford Edge model is perfect for the target; For this, our strategy is based on demonstrating that the Co-Pilot 360 function is a semi-automatic assistant that will make life easier for the driver, making him feel cool and recognized. To collect relevant information, instruments such as: interviews, surveys and social listening on social networks were used. As an agency, we propose a methodology focused on 6 important points: Exchange, Knowledge, Ideation, Prototype, Optimization and finally the Measurement stage. As a result of this methodology, we obtained an advertising strategy based on creativity and media planning. As for the creative proposal, we focus on the Co-Pilot 360 concept anticipating the unimaginable, which was reflected through messages with fictitious resources to exemplify cases of everyday life. Regarding media planning, we opted for the choice of innovative media related to the target. The relevance of this research work is based on the fact that more brands can implement a campaign strategy appropriate to the interests of the target audience.Trabajo de investigació

Bulge and Clump Evolution in Hubble Ultra Deep Field Clump Clusters, Chains and Spiral Galaxies

Clump clusters and chain galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field are examined for bulges in the NICMOS images. Approximately 50% of the clump clusters and 30% of the chains have relatively red and massive clumps that could be young bulges. Magnitudes and colors are determined for these bulge-like objects and for the bulges in spiral galaxies, and for all of the prominent star-formation clumps in these three galaxy types. The colors are fitted to population evolution models to determine the bulge and clump masses, ages, star-formation rate decay times, and extinctions. The results indicate that bulge-like objects in clump cluster and chain galaxies have similar ages and 2 to 5 times larger masses compared to the star-formation clumps, while the bulges in spirals have ~6 times larger ages and 20 to 30 times larger masses than the clumps. All systems appear to have an underlying red disk population. The masses of star-forming clumps are typically in a range from 10^7 to 10^8 Msun; their ages have a wide range around ~10^2 Myr. Ages and extinctions both decrease with redshift. Star formation is probably the result of gravitational instabilities in the disk gas, in which case the large clump mass in the UDF is the result of a high gas velocity dispersion, 30 km/s or more, combined with a high gas mass column density, ~100 Msun/pc^2. Because clump clusters and chains dominate disk galaxies beyond z~1, the observations suggest that these types represent an early phase in the formation of modern spiral galaxies, when the bulge and inner disk formed.Comment: ApJ in press February 2009, vol. 691, 23 pages and 20 figure

PROYECTA : Proyecto de Comunicación para el Desarrollo con mujeres trans de la Casona Colmena del Cercado de Lima durante la emergencia sanitaria en el 2020

Proyecto de Comunicación titulado “Proyecta”. Dicho trabajo se llevó a cabo en el curso Proyecto de Comunicación para el Desarrollo, para lo cual se trabajó con mujeres transgénero de la casona “Colmena” ubicada en Jr. Nicolás de Piérola del Cercado de Lima. La importancia de trabajar con este público se debe a su condición de población vulnerable, que por la discriminación, necesitan encontrar alternativas para lograr ingresos económicos. Ante este panorama, el proyecto busca abordar el problema desde un enfoque comunicacional participativo, teniendo como objetivo general el visibilizar el sentido de comunidad de las mujeres trans a través de la implementación de una estrategia de comunicación organizacional a nivel interno que resalte sus atributos como Casona Colmena. Para ello, el proyecto se basó en 4 fases y 4 estrategias relacionadas en lo intrapersonal, lo interpersonal, el fortalecimiento del sentido de comunidad y la apropiación de estrategias de comunicación organizacional a nivel interno. Esta propuesta busca ser replicable en las 6 casonas trans que se encuentran en el Centro de Lima, para facilitar la exposición de sus necesidades y el logro de oportunidades. Por lo tanto, “Proyecta” permite quebrar el círculo de discriminación, al potenciar el reconocimiento y logro de oportunidades diferenciadas del trabajo sexual.This research proposes the diagnosis, design and application of two activities of the Communication Project "Proyecta". This was carried out within the framework of the Communication for Development Project course, for which we worked with transgender women from the “Colmena” house located in Jr. Nicolás de Piérola in Cercado de Lima. The importance of working with this public is due to the fact that they are a vulnerable population that, due to discrimination, needs to find alternatives to achieve economic gains. Against this background, this project seeks to address the problem from a participatory communication approach, with the general objective of making the sense of community of trans women visible through the implementation of an internal organizational communication strategy that highlights its attributes as Casona Colmena. For this, the project is based on 4 phases, 4 strategies, based on the intrapersonal, the interpersonal, the strengthening of the sense of community and the appropriation of organizational communication strategies at the internal level. This proposal seeks to be replicable in the 6 large houses that are located in Cercado de Lima. This is to facilitate the presentation of their needs and the achievement of opportunities. Therefore, the project allows breaking the circle of discrimination, by promoting the recognition and achievement of differentiated opportunities of sex work

BUDHIES - III : the fate of HI and the quenching of galaxies in evolving environments

In a hierarchical Universe clusters grow via the accretion of galaxies from the field, groups and even other clusters. As this happens, galaxies can lose and/or consume their gas reservoirs via different mechanisms, eventually quenching their star formation. We explore the diverse environmental histories of galaxies through a multiwavelength study of the combined effect of ram-pressure stripping and group 'processing' in Abell 963, a massive growing cluster at z = 0.2 from the Blind Ultra Deep HI Environmental Survey (BUDHIES). We incorporate hundreds of new optical redshifts (giving a total of 566 cluster members), as well as Subaru and XMM-Newton data from LoCuSS, to identify substructures and evaluate galaxy morphology, star formation activity, and HI content (via HI deficiencies and stacking) out to 3 x R-200. We find that Abell 963 is being fed by at least seven groups, that contribute to the large number of passive galaxies outside the cluster core. More massive groups have a higher fraction of passive and HI-poor galaxies, while low-mass groups host younger (often interacting) galaxies. For cluster galaxies not associated with groups we corroborate our previous finding that HI gas (if any) is significantly stripped via ram-pressure during their first passage through the intracluster medium, and find mild evidence for a starburst associated with this event. In addition, we find an overabundance of morphologically peculiar and/or star-forming galaxies near the cluster core. We speculate that these arise from the effect of groups passing through the cluster (post-processing). Our study highlights the importance of environmental quenching and the complexity added by evolving environments.Peer reviewe

American College of Rheumatology Provisional Criteria for Clinically Relevant Improvement in Children and Adolescents With Childhood-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

10.1002/acr.23834ARTHRITIS CARE & RESEARCH715579-59

Prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of pressure injuries in adult intensive care unit patients: the DecubICUs study

Funder: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100013347Funder: Flemish Society for Critical Care NursesAbstract: Purpose: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are particularly susceptible to developing pressure injuries. Epidemiologic data is however unavailable. We aimed to provide an international picture of the extent of pressure injuries and factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries in adult ICU patients. Methods: International 1-day point-prevalence study; follow-up for outcome assessment until hospital discharge (maximum 12 weeks). Factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injury and hospital mortality were assessed by generalised linear mixed-effects regression analysis. Results: Data from 13,254 patients in 1117 ICUs (90 countries) revealed 6747 pressure injuries; 3997 (59.2%) were ICU-acquired. Overall prevalence was 26.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 25.9–27.3). ICU-acquired prevalence was 16.2% (95% CI 15.6–16.8). Sacrum (37%) and heels (19.5%) were most affected. Factors independently associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries were older age, male sex, being underweight, emergency surgery, higher Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, Braden score 3 days, comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency), organ support (renal replacement, mechanical ventilation on ICU admission), and being in a low or lower-middle income-economy. Gradually increasing associations with mortality were identified for increasing severity of pressure injury: stage I (odds ratio [OR] 1.5; 95% CI 1.2–1.8), stage II (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.4–1.9), and stage III or worse (OR 2.8; 95% CI 2.3–3.3). Conclusion: Pressure injuries are common in adult ICU patients. ICU-acquired pressure injuries are associated with mainly intrinsic factors and mortality. Optimal care standards, increased awareness, appropriate resource allocation, and further research into optimal prevention are pivotal to tackle this important patient safety threat

Prevalence, associated factors and outcomes of pressure injuries in adult intensive care unit patients: the DecubICUs study

Funder: European Society of Intensive Care Medicine; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100013347Funder: Flemish Society for Critical Care NursesAbstract: Purpose: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are particularly susceptible to developing pressure injuries. Epidemiologic data is however unavailable. We aimed to provide an international picture of the extent of pressure injuries and factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries in adult ICU patients. Methods: International 1-day point-prevalence study; follow-up for outcome assessment until hospital discharge (maximum 12 weeks). Factors associated with ICU-acquired pressure injury and hospital mortality were assessed by generalised linear mixed-effects regression analysis. Results: Data from 13,254 patients in 1117 ICUs (90 countries) revealed 6747 pressure injuries; 3997 (59.2%) were ICU-acquired. Overall prevalence was 26.6% (95% confidence interval [CI] 25.9–27.3). ICU-acquired prevalence was 16.2% (95% CI 15.6–16.8). Sacrum (37%) and heels (19.5%) were most affected. Factors independently associated with ICU-acquired pressure injuries were older age, male sex, being underweight, emergency surgery, higher Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, Braden score 3 days, comorbidities (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, immunodeficiency), organ support (renal replacement, mechanical ventilation on ICU admission), and being in a low or lower-middle income-economy. Gradually increasing associations with mortality were identified for increasing severity of pressure injury: stage I (odds ratio [OR] 1.5; 95% CI 1.2–1.8), stage II (OR 1.6; 95% CI 1.4–1.9), and stage III or worse (OR 2.8; 95% CI 2.3–3.3). Conclusion: Pressure injuries are common in adult ICU patients. ICU-acquired pressure injuries are associated with mainly intrinsic factors and mortality. Optimal care standards, increased awareness, appropriate resource allocation, and further research into optimal prevention are pivotal to tackle this important patient safety threat

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