Influência da percepção da doença pulmonar obstrutiva crónica na promoção do autocontrolo da doença

AbstractObjective: Identify the state of the art about the influence of illness perceptions in the promotion of self-management in patients with COPD. Method: We conducted a systematic review of the literature, using the method of PICOS, the systematic literature review includes the years 2004 to 2009 and was conducted between August and September 2009. Results: Four articles met the inclusion criteria, including a review of the literature and three qualitative studies. Clients with higher perception of disease control and greater self-efficacy, with stable emotional situations, have better results in self-control of the disease. The evaluation, discussion and clarification of beliefs, attitudes and their impact on self-confidence and self-control should be integrated into clinical practice. Conclusion: The perceived lack of control over the course of the disease contributes to reduced quality of life, creates anxiety, leads to social isolation, can lead to depression, and reduces the motivation to acquire knowledge and skills for self-control disease. The lack of motivation, the inability to recognize the cognitive, instrumental capabilities, social support and support of health professionals, power the low self-control of the disease and non-adherence to therapy.Rev Port Pneumol 2010; XVI (4): 641-64

Avaliação da pureza genética em sementes de milho utilizando marcadores microssatélites.

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Analytical results for a Bessel function times Legendre polynomials class integrals

When treating problems of vector diffraction in electromagnetic theory, the evaluation of the integral involving Bessel and associated Legendre functions is necessary. Here we present the analytical result for this integral that will make unnecessary numerical quadrature techniques or localized approximations. The solution is presented using the properties of the Bessel and associated Legendre functions.Comment: 4 page

Sistemas de producción de patata y otras hortalizas: procesos de producción, organización y consumo de productos ecológicos en Andalucía/España.

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Crescimento de Diplokeleba floribunda em área de floresta chaquenha no pantanal de Porto Murtinho, MS.

Editores técnicos: Marcílio José Thomazini, Elenice Fritzsons, Patrícia Raquel Silva, Guilherme Schnell e Schuhli, Denise Jeton Cardoso, Luziane Franciscon. EVINCI. Resumos

Warm and Dry Spells (WDS) in Austral Winter over Central South America

The horizontal and vertical structure of unusually warm and dry spells (WDS) over the central parts of South America during the winter and post-winter months (JJAS) are studied. During WDS the mean temperature and humidity anomalies over central Brazil are about +4.1°C and −13.2%, respectively. The mean duration of WDS is 11 days and their mean frequency is less than one per year during the months of JJAS. Apparently, WDS have no preference for the phase of ENSO. Widespread and persistent subsidence in the middle troposphere is observed in tropical Brazil during WDS, which renders the lower tropospheric air warm and dry. The negative anomalies of the specific humidity are observed to be associated with the subsidence regions. A strong, slow moving ridge in the eastern South Pacific and a low-pressure center in northern Argentina are important surface characteristics during the WDS. A more detailed investigation of two specific WDS events, a strong event (August–September 1999) and a moderate one (June 2002), shows a blocking-like situation in the 500-hPa geopotential and surface pressure fields in the Pacific. The South Atlantic subtropical high somewhat approaches the continent. Strong northerlies over the central and eastern parts of Brazil are also observed in the lower troposphere. During WDS the regional circulation acquires summertime characteristics, except for the absence of precipitation, and the circulation in the meridional plane is in the opposite sense from the Hadley circulation. A frontal system, supported by a 500-hPa trough, advances into central Brazil, causing the dissipation of the anomalous situation

Eficiência de atrativos alimentares na captura de adultos de Anastrepha fraterculus (Wied., 1830) (Diptera: Tephritidae) na cultura da ameixeira (Prunus domestica).

Neste trabalho, foi avaliada a eficiência de atrativos alimentares no monitoramento de adultos de Anastrepha fraterculus na cultura da ameixeira

Seleção de genes endógenos para análise de qRT-PCR em sementes de café.

A técnica quantitativa de PCR em tempo real, qRT-PCR, permite analisar a expressão de genes alvo em diferentes condições experimentais. No entanto, a análise precisa dos resultados gerados pela qRT-PCR está diretamente relacionada ao gene normalizador utilizado, o qual deve apresentar expressão constitutiva semelhante para as diferentes amostras/tratamentos avaliados no experimento. Os genes normalizadores escolhidos para as análises em sementes podem diferir daqueles utilizados para as raízes e folhas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo a avaliação de genes normalizadores úteis ao estudo de expressão gênica em sementes. O experimento englobou sementes mantidas nos frutos, sementes desmuciladas mecanicamente ou por meio da fermentação. Essas sementes e frutos foram em seguida, secados à sombra ou em secador até atingirem os teores de água de 12% ou 35%, foram acondicionados em embalagens herméticas e mantidos em câmara fria (10ºC/ 40%UR) por um período de até 12 meses. Foram avaliados 11 genes candidatos a normalizadores, os quais foram escolhidos, previamente, em um estudo de microarranjos. As expressões e estabilidade destes genes foram avaliadas por meio dos softwares geNorm, NormFinder, Delta Ct e BestKeeper. Pela análise conjunta dos resultados obtidos a partir destes softwares, observou-se que a estabilidade de um gene normalizador é variável em função do fator experimental considerado. O gene da actina é indicado como normalizador nas análises de expressão gênica em sementes de café quando forem considerados todos os três fatores avaliados neste estudo, ou seja, processamento, secagem e armazenamento