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Foreign language competence in companies – a survey

Trabalho apresentado no Seminário “Multilingualism – Europe’s New Perspective” que decorreu na Technical University of Košice, Eslováquia em 30 de Março de 2009.The project Communicating in Multilingual Contexts meets the Enterprises will provide a virtual learning environment offering language learning materials in six different languages thus opening up opportunities for better trained, and thus more competitive, future and in-service employees. A needs analysis survey of foreign language competences in companies was carried out in order to identify the key language competences commonly required by different sectors of the labour market and design relevant language materials. This paper presents data collected in the Castelo Branco region of Portugal

Estudo Geológico-Estrutural do Complexo de Granja (NW Ceará)

O Complexo de Granja (CG), situado no extremo NW do Estado do Ceará, é constituído por uma sucessão de gnaisses orto- e paraderivados correspondendo a um cinturão metamórfico de médio a alto grau e é composto pelas seguintes unidades principais: (1) ortognaisses de afinidade TTG (Tonalito-Trondhjemito-Granodiorito), mostrando evidências de migmatização; (2) paragnaisses com granada e silimanita, intensamente migmatizados e; (3) granulitos máficos e félsicos aos quais frequentemente se associam corpos lenticulares de anfibolitos e de quartzitos. Estas litologias estão parcialmente cobertas por formações detrítico-lateríticas e sedimentares clásticas do Terciário e depósitos elúvio-coluvionares e aluvionares do Quaternário. De acordo com os dados geocronológicos atualmente disponíveis, estas unidades representam fragmentos do embasamento Paleoproterozóico (2.3-2.1 Ga), profundamente afetados pela orogenia Brasiliana durante o Neoproterozóico (600 Ma). A partir da recente informação adquirida nos levantamentos de campo e dos estudos petrográficos realizados, foi possível elaborar um novo mapa geológico para uma área adjacente ao município de Granja no âmbito do Programa Geologia do Brasil (Folha Cartográfica Granja SA.24-Y-C-III; 1:100.000), extraindo as seguintes conclusões principais: (1) os litótipos mostram evidências de terem sido afetados por metamorfismo regional de alto grau, que terá atingido as condições de fusão parcial, com consequente produção de uma grande variedade de estruturas migmatíticas (e.g. estromáticas, dictioníticas, “schlieren”, “augen”); (2) o bandado migmatítico está intensamente dobrado, sugerindo que os processos de migmatização se iniciaram antes do último evento de deformação dúctil (D3 regional, D2 Brasiliana) que afetou a região; (3) em todas as unidades do CG, a anisotropia planar mais penetrativa é a foliação S3, com direção N 50º E e inclinação variável (35º a 80º para SE), encontrando-se diretamente relacionada com a atuação de um importante acidente dextro, de escala crustal e orientação NE-SW, que atravessa a porção sul e sudeste da área cartografada – a Zona de Cisalhamento de Granja (ZCG) e; (4) nas zonas em que a influência da ZCG foi mais acentuada, a foliação S3 adquire um carácter milonítico, obliterando frequentemente as anisotropias anteriores. As análises petrográficas confirmam a classificação adotada em trabalhos anteriores para cada um dos tipos litológicos presentes no CG. Com efeito, os dados obtidos neste trabalho para os ortognaisses TTG e para os paragnaisses mostram que o metamorfismo regional prógrado (tipo Barroviano) que os afetou se situam na transição entre o topo da fácies anfibolítica e a fácies granulítica, tendo atingido as condições de fusão parcial, enquanto os granulitos félsicos e máficos registam evidências de terem sido sujeitos a pressões mais elevadas

The CMC_E Project: an e-Learning environment to develop foreign language competence in companies

The project Communicating in Multilingual Contexts meets the Enterprises aims to find out if there is shortages of foreign languages in companies in the regions where the partners of the project are located and provides a virtual learning environment offering language learning materials in six different languages thus opening up opportunities for better trained, and thus more competitive, future and in-service employees. A needs analysis survey of foreign language competences in companies was carried out in order to identify the key language competences commonly required by different sectors of the labour market and design relevant language materials. These materials are being piloted in order to assess their efficiency and reformulate minor issues. This paper presents the project, relevant data from the survey, the materials designed and the first results of the piloting phase.LifeLong Learning Programme 2007-2013 Transversal Programme - Key Activity 2: Language - Multilateral Project (Ref. 135507- LLP-1-2007-1-IT-KA2-KA2M

Potential for Ammonia Generation and Emission in Broiler Production Facilities in Brazil

Air quality is one of the main factors that must be guaranteed in animal production. However, the measurement of pollutants is still a problem in several countries because the available methods are costly and do not always apply to the reality of the constructive typology adopted, as in ountries with a hot climate, which adopt predominantly open facilities. Thus, the objective of the present study was to develop predictive models for the potential generation and emission of ammonia in the production of broiler chickens with different types of litter, different reuse cycles and under different climatic conditions. Samples of poultry litter from thirty commercial aviaries submitted to different air temperatures were analyzed. The experiment was conducted and analyzed in a completely randomized design, following a factorial scheme. Models were developed to predict the potential for generation and emission of ammonia, which can be applied in facilities with ambient conditions of air temperature between 25 and 40 °C and with wood shaving bed with up to four reuse cycles and coffee husks bed with up to six reuse cycles. The developed and validated models showed high accuracy indicating that they can be used to estimate the potential for ammonia generation and emission

Impact of Subsyndromal Delirium Occurrence and Its Trajectory during ICU Stay

Funding Information: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.Despite recent advances in the field, the association between subsyndromal delirium (SSD) in the ICU and poor outcomes is not entirely clear. We performed a retrospective multicentric observational study analyzing mental status during the first 72 h of ICU stay. Of the 681 patients included, SSD occurred in 22.7%. Considering the worst cognitive assessment during the first 72 h, 233 (34%) patients had normal mental status, 124 (18%) patients had SSD and 324 (48%) patients had delirium or coma. SSD was not independently associated with an increased risk of death when compared with normal mental status (OR 95%IC 1.0 vs. 1.35 [0.73–1.49], p = 0.340), but was associated with a longer ICU LOS (7.0 (4–12) vs. 4 (3–8) days, p 23 points. Our findings support the association of SSD with increased ICU LOS, but not with ICU mortality. Monitoring the trajectory of SSD early at ICU admission can help to identify patients with increased risk of conversion from SSD to delirium or coma.publishersversionpublishe

Cardiovascular abnormalities in patients with oral cleft: a clinical-electrocardiographic-echocardiographic study

OBJECTIVES: The present study aims to describe the clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic cardiological findings in a group of patients with oral clefts. METHODS: This is a prospective cross-sectional study on 70 children (age range from 13 days to 19 years) with oral clefts who attended the multidisciplinary program of a university hospital from March 2013 to September 2014. The patients were evaluated by a pediatric cardiologist and underwent detailed anamnesis, physical examination, electrocardiogram, and echocardiogram. RESULTS: Sixty percent of the patients were male; 55.7% presented with cleft lip and palate, and 40.0% presented with health complaints. Comorbidities were found in 44.3%. Relevant pregnancy, neonatal, family and personal antecedents were present in 55.7%, 27.1%, 67.2%, and 24.3% of the patients, respectively. Regarding the antecedents, 15.2% of the patients presented with a cardiac murmur, 49.0% with a familial risk of developing plurimetabolic syndrome, and 6% with family antecedents of rheumatic fever. Electrocardiographic evaluation showed one case of atrioventricular block. Echocardiograms were abnormal in 35.7% of the exams, including 5 cases of mitral valve prolapse — one of which was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease. CONCLUSION: The finding of a family risk of developing plurimetabolic syndrome and a diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease indicates that patients with oral clefts may be more prone to developing acquired heart disease. Thus, our findings highlight the importance of anamnesis and methodological triangulation (clinical-electrocardiographic-echocardiographic) in the investigation of patients with oral clefts and emphasize that cardiological follow-up to evaluate acquired and/or rhythm heart diseases is necessary. This strategy permits comorbidity prevention and individualized planned treatment

Assessment of individual and population-based sampling for detection of Influenza A virus RNA in breeding swine herds

This study compared the probability of influenza A virus (IAV) ribonucleic acid (RNA) detection between selected individual and population-based samples in breeding herds. A 3500-sow breeding herd was sampled for matched sets (n = 57) of family oral fluids (FOF), udder wipes, sow nasal wipes, individual piglet nasal wipes, and drinker wipes and tested by reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-rtPCR) for IAV RNA detection. Overall, 57.9% (33/57) of FOF samples, 49.1% (28/57) of udder wipes, 28.1% (16/57) of sow nasal wipes, 15.8% (9/57) of drinker wipes and 66.6% (38/57) of the individual piglet nasal wipes tested positive for IAV RNA. FOF had a kappa value of 0.81, a near-perfect agreement compared to individual piglet nasal wipes. Udder wipes revealed a kappa value of 0.65, a substantial agreement with individual piglet nasal wipes. The other sample types had a fair agreement with individual piglet nasal wipes (kappa values <0.28). These results validate FOF as an efficient alternative population-based sample type for IAV surveillance in the breeding herd. The proportion of positive piglets within litter by room A had 91% positivity (20/22), room B had 70% (17/24), and room C had 9% (1/11) positivity. The findings also highlight the importance of testing different farrowing rooms in the same breeding herd to strengthen IAV surveillance.This article is published as Moraes, D. C. A., P. C. Gauger, O. H. Osemeke, I. F. Machado, G. Cezar, R. Paiva, M. Mil-Homens et al. "Assessment of individual and population-based sampling for detection of Influenza A virus RNA in breeding swine herds." Science Talks (2024): 100362. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100362. © 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)