From a Conventional to an Inclusive Teaching Classroom

Inclusive education constitutes a point of inclination in policy development and care practices to student populations and social diversity. There are goals and strategies in the Mexican educational system which demonstrate the government’s interest to promote equity and equality opportunities for the entire vulnerable population. These policies are based on the need to recognize the right of people with special educational needs to quality education. Consequently, one of the goals of Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2019-2024, it is a social policy which has actions to offer education for the entire population and sustainable development. Therefore, El Tecnológico Nacional de México contributes with a cross-cutting strategy to the evolution with inclusion, total equality and sustainable development through inclusive education. In this understanding, the purpose of this project is to design an action plan which allows to change a conventional teaching classroom to an inclusive teaching classroom in order to attend people with special educational needs belonging to priority groups of Tecnológico Nacional de México

A genome-wide 20 K citrus microarray for gene expression analysis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Understanding of genetic elements that contribute to key aspects of citrus biology will impact future improvements in this economically important crop. Global gene expression analysis demands microarray platforms with a high genome coverage. In the last years, genome-wide EST collections have been generated in citrus, opening the possibility to create new tools for functional genomics in this crop plant.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We have designed and constructed a publicly available genome-wide cDNA microarray that include 21,081 putative unigenes of citrus. As a functional companion to the microarray, a web-browsable database <abbrgrp><abbr bid="B1">1</abbr></abbrgrp> was created and populated with information about the unigenes represented in the microarray, including cDNA libraries, isolated clones, raw and processed nucleotide and protein sequences, and results of all the structural and functional annotation of the unigenes, like general description, BLAST hits, putative Arabidopsis orthologs, microsatellites, putative SNPs, GO classification and PFAM domains. We have performed a Gene Ontology comparison with the full set of Arabidopsis proteins to estimate the genome coverage of the microarray. We have also performed microarray hybridizations to check its usability.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>This new cDNA microarray replaces the first 7K microarray generated two years ago and allows gene expression analysis at a more global scale. We have followed a rational design to minimize cross-hybridization while maintaining its utility for different citrus species. Furthermore, we also provide access to a website with full structural and functional annotation of the unigenes represented in the microarray, along with the ability to use this site to directly perform gene expression analysis using standard tools at different publicly available servers. Furthermore, we show how this microarray offers a good representation of the citrus genome and present the usefulness of this genomic tool for global studies in citrus by using it to catalogue genes expressed in citrus globular embryos.</p

As dimensões da sustentabilidade aplicadas em produtos slow fashion

El propósito de este artículo es presentar los resultados del Programa de Extensión Acomoda UDESC y de la investigación en conjunto con el museo de la UFSC y la ONG ALICE. El grupo trabajó en el rescate del encaje de bolillos, artesanía típica de la isla de Santa Catarina, acompañó la capacitación de las artesanas, presentó alternativas de aplicación del encaje en otros productos e creó diversas piezas como ropa, accesorios, objetos de decoración y obras de arte. El proyecto fue seleccionada para el 1er Paraty Ecofashion que se desarrolló en agosto de 2011 en Paraty-RJ, donde fueron presentados los resultados oralmente, en exposición y desfile. La propuesta que guió el trabajo fueron las dimensiones: social, ambiental y cultural para la sustentabilidad. Las piezas fueron desarrolladas con hilos y tejidos de algodón orgánico y reciclado

Novel efficient genome-wide SNP panels for the conservation of the highly endangered Iberian lynx

Background: The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) has been acknowledged as the most endangered felid species in the world. An intense contraction and fragmentation during the twentieth century left less than 100 individuals split in two isolated and genetically eroded populations by 2002. Genetic monitoring and management so far have been based on 36 STRs, but their limited variability and the more complex situation of current populations demand more efficient molecular markers. The recent characterization of the Iberian lynx genome identified more than 1.6 million SNPs, of which 1536 were selected and genotyped in an extended Iberian lynx sample. Methods: We validated 1492 SNPs and analysed their heterozygosity, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and linkage disequilibrium. We then selected a panel of 343 minimally linked autosomal SNPs from which we extracted subsets optimized for four different typical tasks in conservation applications: individual identification, parentage assignment, relatedness estimation, and admixture classification, and compared their power to currently used STR panels. Results: We ascribed 21 SNPs to chromosome X based on their segregation patterns, and identified one additional marker that showed significant differentiation between sexes. For all applications considered, panels of autosomal SNPs showed higher power than the currently used STR set with only a very modest increase in the number of markers. Conclusions: These novel panels of highly informative genome-wide SNPs provide more powerful, efficient, and flexible tools for the genetic management and non-invasive monitoring of Iberian lynx populations. This example highlights an important outcome of whole-genome studies in genetically threatened species

Decentralized Discrete-Time Formation Control for Multirobot Systems

Inspired from the collective behavior of biological entities for the group motion coordination, this paper analyzes the formation control of mobile robots in discrete time where each robot can sense only the position of certain team members and the group behavior is achieved through the local interactions of robots. The main contribution is an original formal proof about the global convergence to the formation pattern represented by an arbitrary Formation Graph using attractive potential functions. The analysis is addressed for the case of omnidirectional robots with numerical simulations

The water supply system as a potential source of fungal infection in paediatric haematopoietic stem cell units

Background: We conducted a prospective study to investigate the presence of microfungal contamination in the water supply system of the Oncology Paediatric Institute, São Paulo - Brazil after the occurrence of one invasive Fusarium solani infection in a patient after Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT). During a twelve-month period, we investigated the water supply system of the HSCT unit by monitoring a total of fourteen different collection sites.Methods: One litre of water was collected in each location, filtered through a 0.45 mu m membrane and cultured on SDA to detect the presence of filamentous fungi. Physicochemical analyses of samples were performed to evaluate the temperature, turbidity, pH, and the concentration of free residual chlorine.Results: Over the 12 months of the study, 164 samples were collected from the water supply system of the HSCT unit, and 139 of the samples tested positive for filamentous fungi (84.8%), generating a total of 2,362 colonies. Cladosporium spp., Penicillium spp., Purpureocillium spp. and Aspergillus spp. were ranked as the most commonly found genera of mould in the collected samples. of note, Fusarium solani complex isolates were obtained from 14 out of the 106 samples that were collected from tap water (mean of 20 CFU/L). There was a positive correlation between the total number of fungal CFU obtained in all cultures and both water turbidity and temperature parameters. Our findings emphasise the need for the establishment of strict measures to limit the exposure of high-risk patients to waterborne fungal propagules.Conclusions: We were able to isolate a wide variety of filamentous fungi from the water of the HSCT unit where several immunocompromised patients are assisted.Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Med, Disciplina Infectol, BR-04024002 São Paulo, BrazilUniv Austral Chile, Inst Clin Microbiol, Valdivia, ChileUniv Antofagasta, Antofagasta, ChileUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Inst Oncol Pediat, GRAACC, BR-04023062 São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Med, Disciplina Infectol, BR-04024002 São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Inst Oncol Pediat, GRAACC, BR-04023062 São Paulo, BrazilFAPESP: 2005/02138-3CNPq: 133621/2007-3CAPES: PNPD 2312/2011CNPq: 150368/2005-4Web of Scienc

Propuesta de tecnología móvil para la administración de información vinculada a la gestión de espacios áulicos

El avance de la informatización en las actividades humanas es un hecho, en las últimas décadas se ha incrementado la cantidad de software producido reflejándose en cambios en diversos aspectos de la sociedad del conocimiento. El ámbito educativo no escapa a esta realidad. Por lo expuesto, en este trabajo se presenta una segunda versión de un sistema web para la administración de espacios áulicos; incorporándose como tecnología emergente el acceso a información desde dispositivos móviles. El prototipo fue modelizado a partir de la gestión de espacios físicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales y Agrimensura (FaCENA) – Sede 9 de Julio, de la Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE), con miras a adecuarse a otras instituciones de Educación Superior.V Workshop innovación en sistemas de softwareRed de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI