The Body as Object of Historical Research: Bibliographic Review

This study aimed at describing, by means of a literature review, some possible meanings of the body through history. This study was conducted by collected bibliographic data of published books in Portuguese in the last 10 years, from known authors, mentioned in articles of anthropology, sociology and psychology. The articles found were organized as research and review articles and later categorized according to the theme. We discussed the possible understanding the meaning of body according with time, looking for its modification and impact

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Robust estimation of bacterial cell count from optical density

Optical density (OD) is widely used to estimate the density of cells in liquid culture, but cannot be compared between instruments without a standardized calibration protocol and is challenging to relate to actual cell count. We address this with an interlaboratory study comparing three simple, low-cost, and highly accessible OD calibration protocols across 244 laboratories, applied to eight strains of constitutive GFP-expressing E. coli. Based on our results, we recommend calibrating OD to estimated cell count using serial dilution of silica microspheres, which produces highly precise calibration (95.5% of residuals <1.2-fold), is easily assessed for quality control, also assesses instrument effective linear range, and can be combined with fluorescence calibration to obtain units of Molecules of Equivalent Fluorescein (MEFL) per cell, allowing direct comparison and data fusion with flow cytometry measurements: in our study, fluorescence per cell measurements showed only a 1.07-fold mean difference between plate reader and flow cytometry data

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

The Use of Educational Technologies in Health: An Integrating Literature

It is understood as Educational Technology a set of mediators devices of the teaching-learning process that must contain a logical organization, so that they can be systematically planned, observed, understood and transmitted. In this scenario, the objective of this study was to analyze the literature on Educational Technologies applied to Health. As an methodology, an integrative review was carried out, consisting of a broad analysis of theoretical and empirical literature that aims to understand a certain phenomenon from studies above. The search was carried out in the CAPES database, the main Brazilian database, between 2013-2018, in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish through the descriptors "Educational technologies" and "Health", which were duly translated into the other languages correspondents. As a result, 30 articles were analyzed in two moments: individually from a literature review protocol developed and validated by the author of the study and together from the Content Analysis technique. In general, sixteen dependent and four independent technologies were found and it was realized that they were validated mainly by specialists in the field and by the target audience for whom they were intended. The theoretical anchorage found in the literature for the basis of the development of technologies was the Arch of Mangueares and six categories of analysis were found that discuss their use. Thus, it is concluded that technologies help in the process of training health professionals and empowerment for the process of treatment of users of services. Resources such as the applications end up facilitating access to health services, and the insertion of new technologies, especially those mediated by the Internet, has modified the educational paradigms   &nbsp

A produção da educação como potência: rupturas genealógicas com educadores

This work is from an extension project developed in government and non-government institutions of the city of Assis, where we perform intervention practices among the educators. Our intention is to discuss education and produce with them potentiating practices that ensure the possibility of thinking the stigmas that permeate the poor youth and criminalized them. We use the genealogical method proposed by Foucault, as we believe this is fundamental to question the naturalization process so heavily found in the places in question. Therefore, through these meetings may be possible transmutation of crystallized educational paradigms that damage instead of enable efficiency in the processes of subjectivity present in the educational área.O presente trabalho é oriundo de um projeto de extensão desenvolvido em instituições governamentais e não-governamentais do município de Assis, onde realizamos práticas de intervenção junto a educadores. Nosso objetivo é problematizar a educação e produzir nestes práticas potencializadoras que garantam a possibilidade de se pensar os estigmas que permeiam a juventude pobre e criminalizada. Utilizamos do método genealógico proposto por Foucault, pois consideramos este fundamental para questionar os processos de naturalização tão fortemente encontrados nos ambientes em questão. Portanto, através desses encontros pode ser possível a transmutação de paradigmas educacionais estanques que acabam por prejudicar ao invés de possibilitar uma eficácia nos processos de subjetivação presentes no território educacional