Alexandre Piccolo

Piccolo se interessava, sobretudo, pela obra de Horácio;sua tese de Doutorado sobre relações intertextuais entre Horácio e Homero,um exemplo cabal das qualidades do pesquisador e sua escrita, pode ser lidaem http://www.bibliotecadigital.unicamp.br/document/?code=000943401

Um Virgílio brasileiro no século XIX.

Resumo: Neste artigo apresentamos, de forma sumária, uma apreciação geral das traduções de Virgílio realizadas pelo maranhense Manuel Odorico Mendes (1799-1864), focalizando as características de sua apropriação de Virgílio e sua emulação da língua e da poesia dos textos originais.Palavras-chave: Virgílio; tradução poética; Odorico Mendes

'Eneida'

MENDES, Odorico. Eneida. São Paulo: Ateliê Editorial / Editora da Unicamp, 2005

Depressão no hospital geral II : habilidade de detecção de sintomas depressivos pelo especialista não-psiquiatra

Os autores investigaram a detecção de sintomas depressivos por especialistas não-psiquiatras em pacientes internados no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. A detecção dos sintomas foi correlacionada com o diagnóstico de Depressão (pela CID-9) obtido por psiquiatras através de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, seguidas da aplicação do Inventário de Depressão de Beck (BDI) e do Miniexame do Estado Mental (MMSE). Os achados indicam que os especialistas não-psiquiatras detectaram depressão em grau menor do que os psiquiatras. Também foi demonstrado que tal detecção pode ser aprimorada em até 40070 pela investigação ativa de humor depressivo, bem como quando se considera o diagnóstico de depressão quando o paciente se queixa de sintomas somáticos sem proporção com as evidências clínicas. Estes achados sustentam a recomendação de aprimorar a educação médica através de maior integração entre a psiquiatria e a prática clínica.The authors studied the detectiofl of depressive symptoms by non-psychiatry specialists in hospitalized patients at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. The detection of depressive symptomatology was correlated with ICD-9 diagnosis of Depression obtained by psychiatrists in semi-sfructured interviews followed by application of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). The results indicated that non-psychiatry specialists detected depression in a lesser degree than psychiatrists. It was also shown that their detection could be enhanced in about 40% if they performed active investigation of depressive mood, and if they also considered about diagnosing depression when the patient complained about somatic symptoms diproportionately to clinicaI evidence. These findings support the recommendation to improve medicai education through greater integration of Psychiatry in clinicai clerckship

Urbs e civitas: a formação dos espaços e territórios urbanos nas minas setecentistas

O presente artigo procura situar a evolução das abordagens acerca da cidade colonial mineira dentro da perspectiva mais ampla dos estudos sobre o urbanismo colonial português. A análise privilegia os trabalhos que, em vez de se aterem aos aspectos ligados à estética urbana, procuraram relacioná-los às questões fundiárias e à constituição das redes e hierarquias urbanas.This article seeks to situate the evolution of approaches to the study of the colonial towns of Minas Gerais placing them in the broader perspective of studies on the Portuguese colonial urbanism. Instead of restricting our approach to questions of urban aesthetics, the analysis focuses on the works that tried to relate these questions to aspects of land ownership and to the establishment of networks and urban hierarchies

Human toxocariasis: contribution by Brazilian researchers

In the present paper the main aspects of the natural history of human infection by Toxocara larvae that occasionally result in the occurrence of visceral and/or ocular larva migrans syndrome were reviewed. The contribution by Brazilian researchers was emphasized, especially the staff of the Tropical Medicine Institute of São Paulo (IMT)

The complete genome sequence of Chromobacterium violaceum reveals remarkable and exploitable bacterial adaptability

Chromobacterium violaceum is one of millions of species of free-living microorganisms that populate the soil and water in the extant areas of tropical biodiversity around the world. Its complete genome sequence reveals (i) extensive alternative pathways for energy generation, (ii) ≈500 ORFs for transport-related proteins, (iii) complex and extensive systems for stress adaptation and motility, and (iv) wide-spread utilization of quorum sensing for control of inducible systems, all of which underpin the versatility and adaptability of the organism. The genome also contains extensive but incomplete arrays of ORFs coding for proteins associated with mammalian pathogenicity, possibly involved in the occasional but often fatal cases of human C. violaceum infection. There is, in addition, a series of previously unknown but important enzymes and secondary metabolites including paraquat-inducible proteins, drug and heavy-metal-resistance proteins, multiple chitinases, and proteins for the detoxification of xenobiotics that may have biotechnological applications

Images of Dead Poets in Roman Elegiac and Lyric Underworld

In this paper I analyse and compare the representations (or self-representations) of poets in the underworld in elegiac and lyric Roman poetry. I focus especially on five poems: Tibullus I.3; Propertius II. 34; Ovid, Amores II.6 (birds as poets) and III.9; Horace, Odes II.13. It is not my intention to give a detailed interpretation of the whole poems; my principal aim is to analyse how dead poets are pictured in two different genres, the elegiac and the lyric, which share certain features (for instance, we can have in some lyric poems the poetic persona of a lover, the amator, which characterizes erotic elegy discourse, and some similar topics, as the metaphor of love as illness, etc.). At the end of this paper, I will point to the images of dead poets that are (I think) the most representative of the difference between elegiac and lyric genres. In the footnotes I provide some bibliographical references on studies and commentaries about each of the poems I treat here