Microbiological monitoring of influent and effluent of an wastewater treatment plant : treatment efficiency

Resumo apresentado em Environmental 2010 : Situation and Perspectives for the European Union, 6-10 May 2003, Porto, Portugal

Memória cultural, média e cultura visual

[Excerto] Ao longo das últimas duas décadas, a relação entre cultura e memória surgiu em muitas partes do mundo como uma questão-chave de pesquisa interdisciplinar, envolvendo campos tão diversos como a História, a Sociologia, a Arte, a Literatura e os Estudos dos Média, a Teologia, a Psicologia e as Neurociências, conjugando assim, as Humanidades, as Ciências Sociais e as Ciências Naturais. A importância da noção de memória cultural não só está documentada pelo rápido crescimento, desde o final da década de 1980, de publicações sobre memórias nacionais, sociais, religiosas ou familiares específicas, mas também por uma tendência mais recente que procura proporcionar uma visão geral do estado da arte nesta área (por exemplo, a revista Memory Studies).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

La calidad de vida de las familias con necesidades especiales

La calidad de vida de las familias con necesidades especiales (ne) ha generado varias preocupaciones, pues está directamente relacionada a las prácticas parentales y a la calidad de vida del niño. En este estudio se ha procurado analizar la calidad de vida de los padres de los niños ne y algunos de sus determinantes. Han participado en el estudio 206 adultos de la Región Norte del país, en dos grupos: con y sin hijos con ne. El estudio se ha realizado a través de la aplicación de dos instrumentos: el Cuestionario de Calidad de Vida de la Familia (Hoffman, Marquis, Poston, Summers y Turnbull, 2006) y la encuesta del Cuestionario de desarrollo emocional para adultos – versión reducida (Bisquerra y Pérez 2007). Éstos permiten percibir diferencias en cuanto a la calidad de vida en función del género, superior entre las mujeres, y en función del tipo de ne de los niños. Ha sido también encontrada una diferencia en la calidad de vida de las familias con o sin ne, con un nivel de efecto elevado. No se han encontrado relaciones con la edad, la escolarización de los padres o de los niños con ne; ni tampoco diferencias en función del estado civil o de la frecuencia de acciones de formación específica en ne. Finalmente, se ha verificado una relación positiva y fuerte entre la calidad de vida y las competencias emocionales, lo que puede dar pistas para futuras intervenciones. Los datos están discutidos y se presentan algunas sugerencias de posibles investigaciones e intervencione

OPM3® Portugal project: information systems and technologies organizations: outcome analysis

Increasing the maturity in Project Management (PM) has become a goal for many organizations, leading them to adopt maturity models to assess the current state of its PM practices and compare them with the best practices in the industry where the organization is inserted. One of the main PM maturity models is the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®), developed by the Project Management Institute. This paper presents the Information Systems and Technologies organizations outcome analysis, of the assesses made by the OPM3® Portugal Project, identifying the PM processes that are “best” implemented in this particular industry and those in which it is urgent to improve. Additionally, a comparison between the different organizations’ size analyzed is presented

Anti-PGL1 salivary IgA/IgM, serum IgG/IgM, and nasal Mycobacterium leprae DNA in individuals with household contact with leprosy

Objectives: Leprosy household contacts represent a group at high risk of developing the disease. the aim of this study was to detect Mycobacterium leprae subclinical infection in this group through serological and molecular parameters.Methods: Serum anti-PGL1 IgG/IgM and salivary anti-PGL1 IgA/IgM was investigated using an ELISA, and nasal carriage of M. leprae DNA was detected by PCR, in leprosy household contacts of paucibacillary (PB) and multibacillary (MB) household leprosy patients (n = 135), their index cases (n = 30), and in persons living in a low endemic city (n = 17).Results: Salivary anti-PGL1 IgA and IgM and serum anti-PGL1 IgG showed good correlation comparing contacts and index cases (p 0.05). A high frequency of anti-PGL1 IgM positivity was found in IgG-negative samples (p < 0.0001). for IgG-positive samples, IgM antibodies were also positive in most of the samples. None of the 17 volunteers living in a low endemic city presented seropositivity for IgG; however, two of them showed positivity for anti-PGL1 IgM. M. leprae DNA was found in the nasal swabs of nine out of the 85 MB household leprosy contacts (10.6%) and in three out of the 50 PB household leprosy contacts (6.0%).Conclusion: We strongly suggest that serum IgG/IgM and salivary anti-PGL1 IgA/IgM measurements are used to follow leprosy household contacts. (C) 2013 International Society for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Univ Fed Ceara, Fac Pharm, Dept Clin Anal & Toxicol, BR-60430370 Fortaleza, Ceara, BrazilUniv Fed Ceara, Fac Pharm, Dept Pharm, BR-60430370 Fortaleza, Ceara, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Div Pediat Infect Dis, São Paulo, BrazilUniv Fed Ceara, Fac Med, Dept Pathol, BR-60430370 Fortaleza, Ceara, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Div Pediat Infect Dis, São Paulo, BrazilCNPq: 472.471/2007-4Web of Scienc