Biomuseology: patrimonial belongingness of territorial environments in search of sustainability

[Resumo] A compreensão de que cultura causa sustentabilidade, há muito deixou de ser latente para as comunidades populares. Os indivíduos e grupos que ora lidam com as artes, a gastronomia, as festividades, a oralidade, entres outras vertentes do cotidiano, de um lugar, entendem que estes aspectos salvaguardam e alicerçam suas tradições, tanto quanto atraem as tendências de um turismo específico e de ótima qualidade socioeconômica. Portanto, informar e disseminar estas lidas, diárias, que compõem uma territorialidade é primordial para alavancar as potencialidades de um lugar. Tanto quanto, utilizar como ferramenta de pertencimento a Educação Ambiental, está norteadora das ações em busca de um planeta mais igualitário. Justamente, tecer esta teia – multifacetada – de atividades que envolvem os conhecimentos-aprendizados de pertencimento de uma localidade é fio condutor da BIOMUSEOLOGIA, isto é: congregar, instrumentalizar e dinamizar, as perspectivas do território em seu viés identitário, informando e comunicando seu dia a dia, catalisando autoestima, como também, fomentando políticas públicas e finanças ao local.[Abstract] The understanding that culture causes sustainability has long ceased to be latent for poor communities. Individuals and groups who now deal with the arts, gastronomy, festivities, orality, among other aspects of everyday life, of a place, understand that these aspects safeguard and underpin their traditions as much as attract the trends of a specific king of tourism, of high socioeconomic quality. Therefore, informing and disseminating these daily practices, that make up a territory, is essential to trigger the potentialities of a place. As much as using Environmental Education as a way to lead to a sense of belonging, is guiding the actions in pursuit of more world equity. Exactly weaving this - multifaceted - web of activities that involve learning-knowledge of belonging of a place is the backbone of BIOMUSEOLOGY, that is to say: to gather, implement and make dynamic the prospects of the territory in its identity, informing and communicating its day to day, catalyzing self-esteem, also by promoting public policies and finances to the plac

A Social Anxiety Mobile-Based CBT Intervention for College Students and Therapists: Theoretical Framework

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a debilitating disorder marked by an intense anxiety and fear of negative evaluation in social situations. It has a significant negative impact on college students and college counselling services, which are usually responsible for helping students with mental health problems on campus, face an increasing demand, few resources and thus are often overloaded. Mobile interventions (mhealth) are becoming a very promising solution to face these challenges, facilitating access to mental health interventions. Our study aims to explore college students’ mobile app use and preferences and expose the development process of a mobile app to support face-to-face intervention for SAD. An initial study included 296 college students, from which we identified 11.3% students with SAD (G1); 78.1% students without SAD (G2) and 8.8% students attending therapy (G3). A brief questionnaire explored app use and preferences. To evaluate SAD symptomatology we used the social interaction and performance anxiety and avoidance scale (SIPPAS) and the Sheehan disability scale (SDS). Based on this study and mhealth literature we exposed the developing process of a mobile app for social anxiety. Our results indicate that students are frequent users of mobile apps and tend to consider more important app content, utility and security/privacy, particularly students with SAD, give more emphasis on security/privacy features. Also, all students with SAD attending therapy considered that it would be relevant and that they would adhere to a mobile app to support treatment. Thus, a mobile app for students with SAD under treatment was developed to assist students with homework assignments between sessions. In general, mHealth interventions are well received among students in therapy, however it is important to continue to develop and conceptualize these interventions according to their specific needs and characteristics

Tunneling conductance in strained graphene-based superconductor: Effect of asymmetric Weyl-Dirac fermions

Based on the BTK theory, we investigate the tunneling conductance in a uniaxially strained graphene-based normal metal (NG)/ barrier (I)/superconductor (SG) junctions. In the present model, we assume that depositing the conventional superconductor on the top of the uniaxially strained graphene, normal graphene may turn to superconducting graphene with the Cooper pairs formed by the asymmetric Weyl-Dirac electrons, the massless fermions with direction-dependent velocity. The highly asymmetrical velocity, vy/vx>>1, may be created by strain in the zigzag direction near the transition point between gapless and gapped graphene. In the case of the highly asymmetrical velocity, we find that the Andreev reflection strongly depends on the direction and the current perpendicular to the direction of strain can flow in the junction as if there was no barrier. Also, the current parallel to the direction of strain anomalously oscillates as a function of the gate voltage with very high frequency. Our predicted result is found as quite different from the feature of the quasiparticle tunneling in the unstrained graphene-based NG/I/SG conventional junction. This is because of the presence of the direction-dependent-velocity quasiparticles in the highly strained graphene system.Comment: 18 pages, 7 Figures; Eq.13 and 14 are correcte

Evidence for a mixed mass composition at the `ankle' in the cosmic-ray spectrum

We report a first measurement for ultra-high energy cosmic rays of the correlation between the depth of shower maximum and the signal in the water Cherenkov stations of air-showers registered simultaneously by the fluorescence and the surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Such a correlation measurement is a unique feature of a hybrid air-shower observatory with sensitivity to both the electromagnetic and muonic components. It allows an accurate determination of the spread of primary masses in the cosmic-ray flux. Up till now, constraints on the spread of primary masses have been dominated by systematic uncertainties. The present correlation measurement is not affected by systematics in the measurement of the depth of shower maximum or the signal in the water Cherenkov stations. The analysis relies on general characteristics of air showers and is thus robust also with respect to uncertainties in hadronic event generators. The observed correlation in the energy range around the `ankle' at $\lg(E/{\rm eV})=18.5-19.0$ differs significantly from expectations for pure primary cosmic-ray compositions. A light composition made up of proton and helium only is equally inconsistent with observations. The data are explained well by a mixed composition including nuclei with mass $A > 4$. Scenarios such as the proton dip model, with almost pure compositions, are thus disfavoured as the sole explanation of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray flux at Earth.Comment: Published version. Added journal reference and DOI. Added Report Numbe

Emotional, hyperactivity and inattention problems in adolescents with immunocompromising chronic diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic

Objective: To assess factors associated with emotional changes and Hyperactivity/Inattention (HI) motivated by COVID-19 quarantine in adolescents with immunocompromising diseases. Methods: A cross-sectional study included 343 adolescents with immunocompromising diseases and 108 healthy adolescents. Online questionnaires were answered including socio-demographic data and self-rated healthcare routine during COVID-19 quarantine and validated surveys: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL4.0). Results: The frequencies of abnormal emotional SDQ scores from adolescents with chronic diseases were similar to those of healthy subjects (110/343 [32%] vs. 38/108 [35%], p = 0.548), as well as abnormal hyperactivity/inattention SDQ scores (79/343 [23%] vs. 29/108 [27%], p = 0.417). Logistic regression analysis of independent variables associated with abnormal emotional scores from adolescents with chronic diseases showed: female sex (Odds Ratio [OR = 3.76]; 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI) 2.00‒7.05; p < 0.001), poor sleep quality (OR = 2.05; 95% CI 1.08‒3.88; p = 0.028) and intrafamilial violence during pandemic (OR = 2.17; 95% CI 1.12‒4.19; p = 0.021) as independently associated with abnormal emotional scores, whereas total PedsQL score was inversely associated with abnormal emotional scores (OR = 0.95; 95% CI 0.93‒0.96; p < 0.0001). Logistic regression analysis associated with abnormal HI scores from patients evidenced that total PedsQL score (OR = 0.97; 95% CI 0.95‒0.99; p = 0.010], changes in medical appointments during the pandemic (OR = 0.39; 95% CI 0.19-0.79; p = 0.021), and reliable COVID-19 information (OR = 0.35; 95% CI 0.16‒0.77; p = 0.026) remained inversely associated with abnormal HI scores. Conclusion: The present study showed emotional and HI disturbances in adolescents with chronic immunosuppressive diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic. It reinforces the need to promptly implement a longitudinal program to protect the mental health of adolescents with and without chronic illnesses during future pandemics