The Evolution of Professional Nursing Culture in Italy: Metaphors and Paradoxes

We explored the perceptions of Italian nurses regarding their developing culture as a health profession. We sought to understand the ongoing evolution of the nursing profession and the changes that were central to it becoming an intellectual discipline on par with the other health professions in Italy. In 2010, the Regulatory Board of Nursing established a center of excellence to build evidence-based practice, advocate for interdisciplinary health care, and champion health profession reforms for nursing. In this study, focus groups—involving 66 nurse participants from various educational, clinical, and administrative backgrounds—were utilized to better ascertain how the profession has changed. Six themes, three of them metaphors—“vortex,” “leopard spots,” and “deductive jungle”—explain nurses’ experiences of professional change in Italy between 2001 and 2011 and the multiple dimensions that characterize their professional identity and autonomy

Efeito da assepsia na germinação de sementes de Caatingueira-verdadeira.

Objetivou-se com este trabalho avaliar a influência da assepsia na germinação de sementes de catingueira-verdadeira (poincianella pyramidalis (Tu!.) L.P. Queiroz).Edição dos Resumos do V Workshop de Tecnologia e Fisiologia de Sementes e Mudas, Petrolina, dez. 2014

Curva de embebição de sementes Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Vell) Morong (FABACEAE).

Objetivou-se com este trabalho avaliar o padrão de embebição das sementes Enterolobium contortisiliquum submetida a diferentes concentrações polietilenoglicol.Edição dos Resumos do V Workshop de Tecnologia e Fisiologia de Sementes e Mudas, Petrolina, dez. 2014

Processo de produção de imagens para comunicação visual.

Neste trabalho é apresentado o processo de produção de imagens, com foco em ilustrações, utilizadas nos folderes, palestras e vídeos da Embrapa Informática Agropecuária. Esse processo inclui etapas desde o briefing e planejamento, rascunho, finalização até o fechamento da ilustração em softwares de criação de imagens vetoriais. Em seguida, discute-se vantagens e desvantagens das imagens produzidas por meio desta metodologia. Como resultado, foram produzidas um total de 102 imagens, sendo 68 delas vetoriais. Com o trabalho, concluiu-se que o método é eficiente, melhora a comunicação visual dos materiais em que é aplicado e terá continuidade de uso até dezembro de 2015

Identification of naturalized goat breeds under conservation from northeastern Brazil using chromosomal markers.

Abstract: In order to provide the first cytogenetic data of naturalized and threatened goat breeds from northeastern Brazil, cytogenetic analyses were carried out in individuals of Repartida and Moxotó breeds raised in Bahia and Ceará States. Males and females of both breeds had 2n = 60, with 29 autosomal acrocentric pairs plus the sex chromosome pair. The number of nucleolar organizer region (NOR)-bearing chromosomes ranged from 6 to 8 per metaphase in Moxotó and Repartida goats, respectively. The active NORs in Repartida individuals were located exclusively at the terminal regions of the long arms, as usually detected in Bovidae. Otherwise, Moxotó specimens presented a large autosomal pair with NORs on short arms. GC-rich heterochromatin was detected at the centromeres in both breeds, although polymorphic terminal C-bands were visualized on pair 25 in Moxotó. In addition, GC-rich regions were detected at the terminal regions of the long arms of a single pair in Repartida and of 20 chromosomes in Moxotó goats. The differences in both the number and/or position of Ag-NORs and GC-rich sites between Repartida and Moxotó breeds represent efficient cytogenetic markers that can be used in the identification and conservation of the genetic integrity of each lineage. In spite of the small effective population size of these breeds, chromosomal abnormalities related to drift or inbreeding effects were absent in the samples analyzed