Caracterização molecular e morfológica do agente etiológico da pinta preta em solanáceas no Brasil.

Este trabalho objetivou realizar a caracterização molecular e morfológica de isolados de Alternaria obtidos de solanáceas.Resumo 504_1

The process of drug selection and standardization in small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Os procedimentos relacionados com o processo de Seleção e Padronização de Medicamentos foram analisados em 25 Farmácias Hospitalares dos Hospitais do sul do estado de Santa Catarina – Brasil. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário estruturado, aplicado in loco na forma de entrevista e posteriormente consolidados pela abordagem metodológica do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. Os resultados apontam que nenhum dos hospitais dispõe de Comissão de Farmácia e Terapêutica e em torno de 70% dos hospitais a escolha dos medicamentos é realizada exclusivamente pelos médicos. Em relação à prescrição de medicamentos não padronizados, em 80 % dos casos prevalece o parecer médico e em apenas dois hospitais há uma política pré-estabelecida e consensuada para medicamentos que não façam parte da lista de medicamentos padronizados.The process of selection and standardization of drugs employed by inpatient in 25 small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina has been analyzed. The data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, applied in loco as an interview with the responsible for the Hospital Pharmacy service. The thematic discourse analysis technique was employed for data analysis. The results pointed out that none of the hospitals has a committee of pharmaceutics and therapeutics and, in about 70% of the hospitals, the drug selection and standardization is carried out exclusively by the physicians. Concerning to the prescription of the non-standardized drugs, in 80 % of the studied cases, the doctor’s opinion prevailed and, in only 2 hospitals, there was a pre-defined and consensual policy for the inclusion of drugs that in the list of standardized ones.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

Disconnections in personal neglect

Personal neglect is a disorder in the perception and representation of the body that causes the patients to behave as if the contralesional side of their body does not exist. This clinical condition has not been adequately investigated in the past as it has been considered a symptom of unilateral spatial neglect, which has mainly been studied with reference to extrapersonal space. Only a few studies with small samples have investigated the neuroanatomical correlates of personal neglect, and these have mainly focused on discrete cortical lesions and modular accounts, as well as being based on the hypothesis that this disorder is associated with somatosensory and spatial deficits. In the present study, we tested the novel hypothesis that personal neglect may be associated not only with discrete cortical and subcortical lesions, but also with disconnections of white matter tracts. We performed an advanced lesion analyses in a large sample of 104 right hemisphere damaged patients, 72 of whom were suffering from personal neglect. Results from the analyses of the grey and white matter were controlled for co-occurrent clinical variables such as extrapersonal neglect, anosognosia for hemiplegia and motor deficits, along with other lesion-related variables such as lesion size and the interval from the lesion onset to neuroimaging recordings. Our results reveal that personal neglect is associated with lesions in a medial network which involves the temporal cortex (Heschl's gyrus), the ventro-lateral nuclei of the thalamus and the fornix. This suggests that personal neglect involves a convergence between sensorimotor processes, spatial representation and the processing of self-referred information (episodic memory)

The process of drug selection and standardization in small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Os procedimentos relacionados com o processo de Seleção e Padronização de Medicamentos foram analisados em 25 Farmácias Hospitalares dos Hospitais do sul do estado de Santa Catarina – Brasil. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário estruturado, aplicado in loco na forma de entrevista e posteriormente consolidados pela abordagem metodológica do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. Os resultados apontam que nenhum dos hospitais dispõe de Comissão de Farmácia e Terapêutica e em torno de 70% dos hospitais a escolha dos medicamentos é realizada exclusivamente pelos médicos. Em relação à prescrição de medicamentos não padronizados, em 80 % dos casos prevalece o parecer médico e em apenas dois hospitais há uma política pré-estabelecida e consensuada para medicamentos que não façam parte da lista de medicamentos padronizados.The process of selection and standardization of drugs employed by inpatient in 25 small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina has been analyzed. The data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, applied in loco as an interview with the responsible for the Hospital Pharmacy service. The thematic discourse analysis technique was employed for data analysis. The results pointed out that none of the hospitals has a committee of pharmaceutics and therapeutics and, in about 70% of the hospitals, the drug selection and standardization is carried out exclusively by the physicians. Concerning to the prescription of the non-standardized drugs, in 80 % of the studied cases, the doctor’s opinion prevailed and, in only 2 hospitals, there was a pre-defined and consensual policy for the inclusion of drugs that in the list of standardized ones.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

The process of drug selection and standardization in small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Os procedimentos relacionados com o processo de Seleção e Padronização de Medicamentos foram analisados em 25 Farmácias Hospitalares dos Hospitais do sul do estado de Santa Catarina – Brasil. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário estruturado, aplicado in loco na forma de entrevista e posteriormente consolidados pela abordagem metodológica do Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. Os resultados apontam que nenhum dos hospitais dispõe de Comissão de Farmácia e Terapêutica e em torno de 70% dos hospitais a escolha dos medicamentos é realizada exclusivamente pelos médicos. Em relação à prescrição de medicamentos não padronizados, em 80 % dos casos prevalece o parecer médico e em apenas dois hospitais há uma política pré-estabelecida e consensuada para medicamentos que não façam parte da lista de medicamentos padronizados.The process of selection and standardization of drugs employed by inpatient in 25 small and medium size hospitals of the south region of Santa Catarina has been analyzed. The data were collected by means of a structured questionnaire, applied in loco as an interview with the responsible for the Hospital Pharmacy service. The thematic discourse analysis technique was employed for data analysis. The results pointed out that none of the hospitals has a committee of pharmaceutics and therapeutics and, in about 70% of the hospitals, the drug selection and standardization is carried out exclusively by the physicians. Concerning to the prescription of the non-standardized drugs, in 80 % of the studied cases, the doctor’s opinion prevailed and, in only 2 hospitals, there was a pre-defined and consensual policy for the inclusion of drugs that in the list of standardized ones.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

Disconnections in personal neglect

: Personal neglect is a disorder in the perception and representation of the body that causes the patients to behave as if the contralesional side of their body does not exist. This clinical condition has not been adequately investigated in the past as it has been considered a symptom of unilateral spatial neglect, which has mainly been studied with reference to extrapersonal space. Only a few studies with small samples have investigated the neuroanatomical correlates of personal neglect, and these have mainly focused on discrete cortical lesions and modular accounts, as well as being based on the hypothesis that this disorder is associated with somatosensory and spatial deficits. In the present study, we tested the novel hypothesis that personal neglect may be associated not only with discrete cortical and subcortical lesions, but also with disconnections of white matter tracts. We performed an advanced lesion analyses in a large sample of 104 right hemisphere damaged patients, 72 of whom were suffering from personal neglect. Results from the analyses of the grey and white matter were controlled for co-occurrent clinical variables such as extrapersonal neglect, anosognosia for hemiplegia and motor deficits, along with other lesion-related variables such as lesion size and the interval from the lesion onset to neuroimaging recordings. Our results reveal that personal neglect is associated with lesions in a medial network which involves the temporal cortex (Heschl's gyrus), the ventro-lateral nuclei of the thalamus and the fornix. This suggests that personal neglect involves a convergence between sensorimotor processes, spatial representation and the processing of self-referred information (episodic memory)

Acúmulo de nitrogênio e fósforo no tecido de plantas anuais de inverno manejadas sob sistema plantio direto e sistema de cultivo convencional

O sistema de manejo pode afetar a disponibilidade de nutrientes para as plantas, em decorrência do sistema de rotação de culturas e da quantidade de resíduo vegetal presente na superfície do solo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a quantidade de nitrogênio (N) e fósforo (P) acumulados no tecido vegetal de aveia preta, trigo, centeio, ervilhaca, nabo e tremoço azul, além de verificar seu estado nutricional de N e P. O experimento esta instalado no Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR) em Pato Branco, Paraná, em um Latossolo Vermelho aluminoférrico. Em maio de 2011 os tratamentos foram semeados, sendo seis plantas de cobertura: trigo, aveia preta, centeio, ervilhaca, nabo forrageiro e tremoço azul cultivados sob Sistema Plantio Direto (SPD) e Sistema de Cultivo Convencional (SCC). Em setembro de 2011efetuou-se a coleta do material verde da parte aérea, o qual foi seco a 65ºC e posteriormente digerido com uma mistura de H2SO4 e H2O2, onde foram determinados os teores de nitrogênio total (Ntotal) e fósforo total (Ptotal), também foi quantificado o teor de carbono das amostras, e por fim calculou-se o índice de nutrição de fósforo (P índex) e de nitrogênio (N índex). Realizou-se a comparação das médias das plantas anuais de inverno e dos sistemas de manejo de solo por meio do teste de SCOTT-KNOTT. O sistema de cultivo influencia no acúmulo de N e P, consequentemente no índice de nutrição dos mesmos, sendo maior no SPD. A ervilhaca e centeio possuem grande capacidade de reciclar P

Temporal judgments of actions following unilateral brain damage

Sense of time is a complex construct, and its neural correlates remain to date in most part unknown. To complicate the frame, physical attributes of the stimulus, such as its intensity or movement, influence temporal perception. Although previous studies have shown that time perception can be compromised after a brain lesion, the evidence on the role of the left and right hemispheres are meager. In two experiments, the study explores the ability of temporal estimation of multi-second actions and non-biological movements in 33 patients suffering from unilateral brain lesion. Furthermore, the modulatory role of induced embodiment processes is investigated. The results reveal a joint contribution of the two hemispheres depending not only on different durations but also on the presence of actions. Indeed, the left hemisphere damaged patients find it difficult to estimate 4500 ms or longer durations, while the right hemisphere damaged patients fail in 3000 ms durations. Furthermore, the former fail when a biological action is shown, while the latter fail in non-biological movement. Embodiment processes have a modulatory effect only after right hemisphere lesions. Among neuropsychological variables, only spatial neglect influences estimation of non-biological movement