Centro de Referência em Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana - CERAUP/UEM

Anais do 35º Seminário de Extensão Universitária da Região Sul - Área temática: Tecnologia e ProduçãoO Centro de Referência em Agricultura Urbana e Periurbana – CerAUP, foi criado em 2008, na Universidade Estadual de Maringá – UEM, como resultado de uma parceira com a Prefeitura Municipal de Maringá – PR, possibilitada pelo Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome – MDS, com foco no trabalho com as Hortas Comunitárias do município, o que engendrou a ascensão da quantidade e qualidade destas. Assim, a atuação do CerAUP, agora com várias parcerias, ao longo destes anos, vem demonstrando impactos positivos na vida dos agricultores/as familiares urbanos, além de possibilitar a ampliação do alcance das políticas de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional – SAN, com a produção e consumo de alimentos saudáveis e livres de agrotóxicos. O projeto também auxilia no melhor convívio entre a comunidade, estreitando os laços de amizades entre os vizinhos e a sociedade. O CerAUP atua, principalmente, com Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rurbana – ATER, por meio do conhecimento técnico-científico, auxiliando na implantação das Hortas Comunitárias, condução e gestão, garantindo-se um modelo de produção que vise geração de SAN, renda e trabalho. No início do programa, Maringá contava com 7 Hortas Comunitárias e atendia cerca de 113 famílias. Hoje, o projeto possui 37 estabelecimentos urbanos, com a participação direta de aproximadamente 1.042 famílias. O CerAUP também faz parte do Comitê Científico Nacional da III Conferência Internacional de Agricultura e Alimentação em uma Sociedade Urbanizada, que ocorrerá em setembro de 2018, em Porto Alegre – R

EFFECTS OF MYOFASCIAL RELEASE IN TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DYSFUNCTION

The temporomandibular joint (TMJ), associated with factors that cause dental disharmony, such as wrong bites and stress, can affect the joint and progress to temporomandibular disorder (TMD). The objective was to evaluate the effects of manual techniques of myofascial release (LM) of the face and neck muscles in the quality of life and in the psychological conditions, during the beginning and end of the treatment. Participated in the study 15 participants, aged between 18 and 55 years, with signs and symptoms of TMD. The treatment consisted of LM associated with stretching and pomping techniques cervical, as well as health education. There was a significant reduction in the pain domain values and a significant increase in the SF-36 total score, indicating an improvement in quality of life. Regarding HADS, there were no significant changes

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

A search for ultra-high-energy photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory exploiting air-shower universality

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the most sensitive detector to primary photons with energies above ∼0.2 EeV. It measures extensive air showers using a hybrid technique that combines a fluorescence detector (FD) with a ground array of particle detectors (SD). The signatures of a photon-induced air shower are a larger atmospheric depth at the shower maximum (X$_{max}$) and a steeper lateral distribution function, along with a lower number of muons with respect to the bulk of hadron-induced background. Using observables measured by the FD and SD, three photon searches in different energy bands are performed. In particular, between threshold energies of 1-10 EeV, a new analysis technique has been developed by combining the FD-based measurement of X$_{max}$ with the SD signal through a parameter related to its muon content, derived from the universality of the air showers. This technique has led to a better photon/hadron separation and, consequently, to a higher search sensitivity, resulting in a tighter upper limit than before. The outcome of this new analysis is presented here, along with previous results in the energy ranges below 1 EeV and above 10 EeV. From the data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory in about 15 years of operation, the most stringent constraints on the fraction of photons in the cosmic flux are set over almost three decades in energy

Study on multi-ELVES in the Pierre Auger Observatory

Since 2013, the four sites of the Fluorescence Detector (FD) of the Pierre Auger Observatory record ELVES with a dedicated trigger. These UV light emissions are correlated to distant lightning strikes. The length of recorded traces has been increased from 100 μs (2013), to 300 μs (2014-16), to 900 μs (2017-present), to progressively extend the observation of the light emission towards the vertical of the causative lightning and beyond. A large fraction of the observed events shows double ELVES within the time window, and, in some cases, even more complex structures are observed. The nature of the multi-ELVES is not completely understood but may be related to the different types of lightning in which they are originated. For example, it is known that Narrow Bipolar Events can produce double ELVES, and Energetic In-cloud Pulses, occurring between the main negative and upper positive charge layer of clouds, can induce double and even quadruple ELVES in the ionosphere. This report shows the seasonal and daily dependence of the time gap, amplitude ratio, and correlation between the pulse widths of the peaks in a sample of 1000+ multi-ELVES events recorded during the period 2014-20. The events have been compared with data from other satellite and ground-based sensing devices to study the correlation of their properties with lightning observables such as altitude and polarity