The relationship between the language of scientific publication and its impact in the field of public and collective health

The language of scientific publications is a crucial factor when seeking to reach an international audience, because it affects linguistic accessibility and the geographical reach of research results. English is the language of science and the fact that it can be understood by most readers represents an undeniable advantage. Moreover, the fact that a large proportion of Ibero-American research has been published in national languages, is often cited as one of the reasons for its limited exposure. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between scientific output published in a native language and its degree of exposure and impact in the field of Public and Collective Health. This bibliometric study was carried out based on the scientific output data obtained from the most prolific countries that are members of the SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Network in Public and Collective Health, in the 2011-2018 period. The data was collected from the SciELO Citation Index database (SciELO CI), which was integrated into the larger WoS platform in 2014 and was chosen on account of its importance as one of the few regional indexes that is still scarcely used in studies of this nature. The data shows that Brazilian articles in Portuguese had the greatest citation impact on publications in its own language (48.7%), while its articles in English present practically the same impact (48.5%) on Portuguese publications, followed by 34.5% on Spanish publications. The impact on the national language is also significant in the case of both Mexican and Spanish publications, to whom the percentage of citing articles in Spanish, for documents cited in the same language, is higher than for documents cited in English (respectively 1.6 and 1.8). The same applies to Portuguese and US-American articles where, respectively 56.6% and 43.9% of the citing articles are in their native language. Cuban and Peruvian articles have more than 90% of their citing articles in the national language. In contrast, the USA and Brazil are countries that have a greater citation impact on other languages, especially when published in Spanish. The extent of exposure of a given language of the scientific publication varies per the country´s scientific output. In the case of Brazilian and US-American publications, including publications in the national languages of these countries, the effects on audiences in other languages can be measured by the citation impact. Furthermore, the degree of exposure of certain publications suggests that SciELO CI represents a useful database for evaluating local scientific output, and this can be observed, particularly, for publications in the national language

Energia fotovoltaica no estado de São Paulo: fomento / Photovoltaic energy in the state of São Paulo: promotion

O Brasil possui grande potencial para geração de energia fotovoltaica que é proveniente da conversão da energia luminosa do sol para energia elétrica por meio das células fotovoltaicas. A adoção de tecnologias limpas e de baixo carbono atende aos Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS)-Agenda2030 da ONU, em específico o objetivo 7 (ODS7), que é a de energia sustentável para todos. Desta forma, este trabalho teve como objetivo levantar as formas de fomento para aquisição de painéis ou módulos fotovoltaicos existente no estado de São Paulo. Para isso, foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória com levantamento de dados de fontes indiretas como relatórios, artigos científicos e os dados foram descritos e analisados de forma qualitativa. Os resultados apresentam um aumento das diferentes formas de fomento para aquisição da energia fotovoltaica, desta forma, facilitando a adoção da mesma e maior difusão desta tecnologia também pelos consumidores individuais

IMPLICAÇÕES DA UTILIZAÇÃO DO SICONV NA UFPEL E FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO: BUSCANDO UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA VISÃO DOS COLABORADORES

As fundações de apoio às universidades surgem como meio de auxiliar e fomentar projetos de pesquisa, ensino e extensão através da Lei n° 8.958/94. A partir do Decreto nº 6.170/2007, que cria o Sistema de Gestão de Convênios e Contratos de Repasse (SICONV), as fundações passaram a executar projetos mediante a celebração de convênios, contratos de repasse ou termos de parceria. Este estudo trata da utilização do SICONV em uma fundação de apoio à Universidade Federal de Pelotas – UFPEL numa perspectiva qualitativa de cunho exploratório. Os resultados mostram que a operação do sistema é recente, há divergências nas interpretações sobre o que deve ser obrigatório e flexibilizado entre os envolvidos. O sistema é suscetível a erros, manipulações e interpretações equivocadas no que tange à visualização da informação. Segundo depoimento parece haver uma certa tolerância do MEC em relação a algumas irregularidades praticadas pelas fundações de apoio. Procedimentos e documentos comprobatórios indicam entraves ao SICONV. A comunicação entre UFPel e fundação é passível de equívocos e não acontece por meio do SICONV. Há um jogo de “empurra-empurra”, o que limita o avanço para uma relação harmônica de execução efetiva de convênios, revelando um misto de formalismo e disputas de poder

Early Bombardment of the Moon: Connecting the Lunar Crater Record to the Terrestrial Planet Formation

The lunar crater record features $\sim 50$ basins. The radiometric dating of Apollo samples indicates that the Imbrium basin formed relatively late -- from the planet formation perspective -- some $\simeq 3.9$ Ga. Here we develop a dynamical model for impactors in the inner solar system to provide context for the interpretation of the lunar crater record. The contribution of cometary impactors is found to be insignificant. Asteroids produced most large impacts on the terrestrial worlds in the last $\simeq 3$ Gyr. The great majority of early impactors were rocky planetesimals left behind at $\sim 0.5$--1.5 au after the terrestrial planet accretion. The population of terrestrial planetesimals was reduced by disruptive collisions in the first $t \sim 20$ Myr after the gas disk dispersal. We estimate that there were $\sim 4 \times 10^5$ diameter $d>10$ km bodies when the Moon formed (total planetesimal mass $\sim 0.015$ $M_{\rm Earth}$ at $t \sim 50$ Myr). The early bombardment of the Moon was intense. To accommodate $\sim 50$ known basins, the lunar basins that formed before $\simeq 4.35$--4.41 Ga must have been erased. The late formation of Imbrium occurs with a $\sim 15$--35\% probability in our model. About 20 $d>10$-km bodies were expected to hit the Earth between 2.5 and 3.5 Ga, which is comparable to the number of known spherule beds in the late Archean. We discuss implications of our model for the lunar/Martian crater chronologies, Late Veneer, and noble gases in the Earth atmosphere.Comment: Icarus, in pres

The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids

The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated across the primordial Kuiper belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the giant planets. This event led to the ejection of approximately 99.9\% of the PKB (here called the destabilized population), heavy bombardment of the giant planet satellites, and the capture of Jupiter's Trojans. While this scenario has been widely tested using dynamical models, there have been fewer investigations into how the PKB, its destabilized population, and the Trojans experienced collisional evolution. Here we examined this issue for all three populations with the code Boulder. Our constraints included the size-frequency distributions (SFDs) of the Trojan asteroids and craters on the giant planet satellites. Using this combination, we solved for the unknown disruption law affecting bodies in these populations. The weakest ones, from an impact energy per mass perspective, were 20 m in diameter. Overall, collisional evolution produces a power-law-like shape for multikilometer Trojans and a wavy-shaped SFD in the PKB and destabilized populations. The latter can explain (i) the shapes of the ancient and younger crater SFDs observed on the giant planet satellites, (ii) the shapes of the Jupiter family and long-period comet SFDs, which experienced different degrees of collision evolution, and (iii) the present-day impact frequency of superbolides on Jupiter and smaller projectiles on Saturn's rings. Our model results also indicate that many observed comets, most which are smaller than 10 km in diameter, are likely to be gravitational aggregates formed by large-scale collision events.Comment: 95 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in PS

The importance of the maturity of the Project Management Office: a case of study in an innovation hub

Organizations, which undergo profound and rapid transformations, consistently choose structuring through projects that have a less bureaucratic character and promote continuous optimization. In order to adopt this structure, they rely on project management offices, which in the meantime create a gap between their establishment and functions. This paper aimed to present an analysis of the maturity using PMO Maturity Cube model into a project office at an innovation pole, to investigate the importance of a PMO maturity model to fill these gaps. The research reinforced the view of the authors of the model, and provided perspectives for future projects

Nurse’s actions in diabetic foot prevention: the perspective of the person with diabetes mellitus Ações do enfermeiro na prevenção do pé diabético: o olhar da pessoa com diabetes mellitus

Objetivo: Investigar as ações realizadas pelo enfermeiro na prevenção do pé diabético na perspectiva da pessoa com DM. Métodos: Pesquisa com abordagem qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva, realizada com pessoas com diagnóstico de DM de um município de Minas Gerais, cadastradas em um projeto de extensão. Dados coletados por meio de entrevista semiestruturadas e de avaliação clínica dos pés. Os dados foram organizados e analisados na perspectiva da Análise Temática essencialista indutiva e semântica. Resultados: As ações efetivas para a prevenção do pé diabético aparecem muito perifericamente no conjunto dos dados, e que grande parte limitam-se as ações de educação em saúde e não ao exame dos pés. Conclusão: O enfermeiro deve promover de forma sistemática a prevenção do pé diabético empoderando as pessoas para a autonomia e para o autocuidado e o autoexame dos pés, o que contribui para a redução de complicações e melhoria da qualidade de vida

Convergence of developmental mutants into a single tomato model system: \u27Micro-Tom\u27 as an effective toolkit for plant development research

Background The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) plant is both an economically important food crop and an ideal dicot model to investigate various physiological phenomena not possible in Arabidopsis thaliana. Due to the great diversity of tomato cultivars used by the research community, it is often difficult to reliably compare phenotypes. The lack of tomato developmental mutants in a single genetic background prevents the stacking of mutations to facilitate analysis of double and multiple mutants, often required for elucidating developmental pathways. Results We took advantage of the small size and rapid life cycle of the tomato cultivar Micro-Tom (MT) to create near-isogenic lines (NILs) by introgressing a suite of hormonal and photomorphogenetic mutations (altered sensitivity or endogenous levels of auxin, ethylene, abscisic acid, gibberellin, brassinosteroid, and light response) into this genetic background. To demonstrate the usefulness of this collection, we compared developmental traits between the produced NILs. All expected mutant phenotypes were expressed in the NILs. We also created NILs harboring the wild type alleles for dwarf, self-pruning and uniform fruit, which are mutations characteristic of MT. This amplified both the applications of the mutant collection presented here and of MT as a genetic model system. Conclusions The community resource presented here is a useful toolkit for plant research, particularly for future studies in plant development, which will require the simultaneous observation of the effect of various hormones, signaling pathways and crosstalk

Downregulation Of 14q32 Micrornas In Primary Human Desmoplastic Medulloblastoma.

Medulloblastoma (MB) is one of the most common pediatric cancers, likely originating from abnormal development of cerebellar progenitor neurons. MicroRNA (miRNA) has been shown to play an important role in the development of the central nervous system. Microarray analysis was used to investigate miRNA expression in desmoplastic MB from patients diagnosed at a young age (1 or 2 years old). Normal fetal or newborn cerebellum was used as control. A total of 84 differentially expressed miRNAs (64 downregulated and 20 upregulated) were found. Most downregulated miRNAs (32/64) were found to belong to the cluster of miRNAs at the 14q32 locus, suggesting that this miRNA locus is regulated as a module in MB. Possible mechanisms of 14q32 miRNAs downregulation were investigated by the analysis of publicly available gene expression data sets. First, expression of estrogen-related receptor-γ (ESRRG), a reported positive transcriptional regulator of some 14q32 miRNAs, was found downregulated in desmoplastic MB. Second, expression of the parentally imprinted gene MEG3 was lower in MB in comparison to normal cerebellum, suggesting a possible epigenetic silencing of the 14q32 locus. miR-129-5p (11p11.2/7q32.1), miR-206 (6p12.2), and miR-323-3p (14q32.2), were chosen for functional studies in DAOY cells. Overexpression of miR-129-5p using mimics decreased DAOY proliferation. No effect was found with miR-206 or miR-323 mimics.325

A INTENÇÃO DE LEALDADE À UNIVERSIDADE A PARTIR DA ANÁLISE DO PERFIL DE ALUNOS DO CURSO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO DE UMA UNIVERSIDADE PÚBLICA

Universidades cada vez mais necessitam ter um gerenciamento profissional, especialmente, objetivando o atendimento às necessidades dos alunos. A lealdade de alunos pode contribuir para a existência de benefícios pessoais, sociais e institucionais. Entretanto, algumas características interferem na lealdade daqueles que buscam serviços na área de educação. Buscando conhecer as características que influenciam na lealdade de alunos universitários, o presente artigo buscou realizar uma pesquisa descritiva e quantitativa com alunos do curso de Administração de uma universidade pública no sul do Brasil. Os resultados indicam que alunos em geral sentem-se leais, e nesta pesquisa as mulheres. Alunos de maior idade tendem e ser mais leais, assim como aqueles que estudaram em escolas públicas e nasceram em outra cidade. A lealdade varia em relação a semestres que o aluno estava cursando