Dataset supporting the proteomic differences found between excretion/secretion products from two isolates of Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles (NEJ) derived from different snail hosts

Here we present the proteomic profile datasets of two Fasciola hepatica NEJ isolates derived from different snail hosts: Lymnaea viatrix and Pseudosuccinea columella. The data used in the analysis are related to the article ‘A proteomic comparison of excretion/secretion products in Fasciola hepatica newly excysted juveniles (NEJ) derived from Lymnaea viatrix or Pseudosuccinea columella’ (Di Maggio et al., 2019

Promoção do aleitamento materno

O conhecimento das mulheres sobre o tempo de amamentação é menor que o tempo preconizado na literatura científica ou pelas organizações de saúde. Fazer uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre promoção do aleitamento materno.Foi realizada uma revisão de literatura na base de dados LILACS, MEDLINE E SCIELO, entre os anos 2003 e 2013, com base nos seguintes descritores: “Aleitamento materno”, amamentação”, “promoção da saúde”, “saúde da criança”, “desmame”, saúde da mulher”, “cuidados de enfermagem”. Foram definidos como critérios de exclusão, puérperas com patologias, relatação e período anterior ao parto. Foram analisados 28 artigos submetidos aos critérios de exclusão, obtendo-se para amostra final desta revisão, 21 artigos. A maioria dos estudos foi realizada no Brasil, e o tempo de acompanhamento das mulheres ocorreu entre o parto e os 24 meses. Verificou-se que o conhecimento das puérperas relativamente à amamentação é determinante para o aumento das taxas de amamentação, no entanto é insuficiente. O apoio aos problemas comuns relacionados com a lactação devem ser manejados adequadamente evitando o desmame precoce. É necessário capacitar os profissionais envolvidos com a amamentação para que estejam aptos a identificar as mudanças do amamentar, melhorar essa prática e o sistema de apoio. As orientações dos profissionais de saúde e o investimento em campanhas de difusão apresentam-se como instrumentos eficazes de promoção. A participação ativa dos profissionais de saúde é essencial na promoção do aleitamento materno, tendo em conta todo o contexto social, sem esquecer o suporte ao ambiente e companheiro

Global estimates of the extent and production of macroalgal forests

Aim Macroalgal habitats are believed to be the most extensive and productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems. In stark contrast to the growing attention on their contribution to carbon export and sequestration, understanding of their global extent and production is limited and these have remained poorly assessed for decades. Here we report a first data-driven assessment of the global extent and production of macroalgal habitats based on modelled and observed distributions and net primary production (NPP) across habitat types. Location Global coastal ocean. Time period Contemporary. Major taxa studied Macroalgae. Methods Here we apply a comprehensive niche model to generate an improved global map of potential macroalgal distribution, constrained by incident light on the seafloor and substrate type. We compiled areal net primary production (NPP) rates across macroalgal habitats from the literature and combined this with our estimates of the global extent of these habitats to calculate global macroalgal NPP. Results We show that macroalgal forests are a major biome with a global area of 6.06–7.22 million km2, dominated by red algae, and NPP of 1.32 Pg C/year, dominated by brown algae. Main conclusions The global macroalgal biome is comparable, in area and NPP, to the Amazon forest, but is globally distributed as a thin strip around shorelines. Macroalgae are expanding in polar, subpolar and tropical areas, where their potential extent is also largest, likely increasing the overall contribution of algal forests to global carbon sequestration

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors between November 5, 2005 and September 30, 2007, and July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010, with a total observational time of 283.0 days and 132.9 days, respectively. The search targets gravitational wave transients of duration 10-500 s in a frequency band of 40-1000 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. All candidate triggers were consistent with the expected background; as a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. For signals from black hole accretion disk instabilities, we set upper limits on the source rate density between 3.4×10-5 and 9.4×10-4 Mpc-3 yr-1 at 90% confidence. These are the first results from an all-sky search for unmodeled long-duration transient gravitational waves. © 2016 American Physical Society

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors between November 5, 2005 and September 30, 2007, and July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010, with a total observational time of 283.0 days and 132.9 days, respectively. The search targets gravitational wave transients of duration 10-500 s in a frequency band of 40-1000 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. All candidate triggers were consistent with the expected background; as a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. For signals from black hole accretion disk instabilities, we set upper limits on the source rate density between 3.4×10-5 and 9.4×10-4 Mpc-3 yr-1 at 90% confidence. These are the first results from an all-sky search for unmodeled long-duration transient gravitational waves. © 2016 American Physical Society