AVALIAÇÃO DOS PARÂMETROS FISIOLÓGICOS EM INDIVÍDUOS SEDENTÁRIOS ATRAVÉS DA UTILIZAÇÃO DO NINTENDO WII: ESTUDO DE CASOS

O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar a discrepância dos valores da pressão arterial, frequência cardíaca e peso corporal antes e após as sessões de exercícios proposto pelo Nintendo wii, buscando também avaliar através de perguntas abertas quais os benefícios percebidos devido ao estudo para cada voluntária. Tendo como resultados, presença de desconforto muscular e aumento significativo da pressão arterial sistólica durante a primeira semana de aplicação, atingindo a última semana com boa resistência ao esforço físico, perda de peso corporal e tolerância à fadiga muscular. Por fim, pôde-se constatar que o estudo realizado com as duas voluntárias com a prática de exercícios físico através do Nitendo wii gerou alterações nos parâmetros fisiológicos podendo ser considerado um eficaz recurso para estimular a atividade física regular propiciando um melhor bem estar

EFEITOS DA INTERVENÇÃO FISIOTERAPÊUTICA NOS SINTOMAS OSTEOMUSCULARES DE TRABALHADORES USUÁRIOS DE TERMINAIS DE COMPUTADOR

OBJETIVO: Verificar os efeitos da intervenção fisioterapêutica nos sintomas osteomusculares de trabalhadores usuários de terminais de computador. MÉTODOS: Estudo longitudinal, prospectivo com caráter quantitativo, feito com 48 trabalhadores usuários de terminais de computador de uma Indústria de Cosméticos localizada na região centro-oeste do Brasil. À princípio, aplicou-se o Questionário Sociodemográfico e o Questionário Nórdico Musculoesquelético (NMQ). Após a intervenção fisioterapêutica, reaplicou-se o NMQ. RESULTADOS: A comparação do MNQ demonstrou a redução dos sintomas nos últimos 12 meses em pescoço (2,38 para 1,98); ombros (1,04 para 0,19); cotovelos (0,21 para 0,15); punhos (1,42 para 0,17); região lombar (2,17 para 1,96) e torácica (0,96 para 0,48); ancas/coxas (0,88 para 0,48); joelho (1,17 para 0,83); tornozelo/pés (1,52 para 0,60) e NMQ global (0,99 para 0,72) e, nos 7 dias, em pescoço (0,83 para 0,54); ombro (0,50 para 0,29); cotovelo direito (0,06 para 0,04); punhos/mãos (0,52 para 0); região lombar (1,08 para 0,58) e torácica (0,29 para 0); ancas/coxas (0,38 para 0,33); joelho (0,58 para 0,27), tornozelo/pés (1,02 para 0,25) e NMQ global (0,46 para 0,21). Observou-se diminuição da prevalência dos sintomas nos últimos 12 meses (de 93,8 % para 75%) com p= 0,01. A comparação do NMQ atividade evidenciou p=0,04 em ombros. CONCLUSÃO: A intervenção fisioterapêutica diminuiu significativamente as queixas de sintomas musculoesqueléticos em diversas regiões corporais.  OBJECTIVE: To verify the effects of physical therapy intervention on musculoskeletal symptoms of workers using computer terminals. METHODS: Longitudinal, prospective, quantitative study carried out with 48 workers who use computer terminals at a Cosmetics Industry located in the Midwest region of Brazil. At first, the Sociodemographic Questionnaire and the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) were applied. After the physical therapy intervention, the NMQ was reapplied. RESULTS: Comparison of the MNQ showed a reduction in symptoms in the last 12 months in the neck (2.38 to 1.98); shoulders (1.04 to 0.19); elbows (0.21 to 0.15); cuffs (1.42 to 0.17); lumbar region (2.17 to 1.96) and thoracic (0.96 to 0.48); hips/thighs (0.88 to 0.48); knee (1.17 to 0.83); ankle/feet (1.52 to 0.60) and overall NMQ (0.99 to 0.72) and, at 7 days, neck (0.83 to 0.54); shoulder (0.50 to 0.29); right elbow (0.06 to 0.04); wrists/hands (0.52 to 0); lumbar region (1.08 to 0.58) and thoracic (0.29 to 0); hips/thighs (0.38 to 0.33); knee (0.58 to 0.27), ankle/feet (1.02 to 0.25) and overall NMQ (0.46 to 0.21). There was a decrease in the prevalence of symptoms in the last 12 months (from 93.8% to 75%) with p=0.01. The comparison of NMQ activity showed p=0.04 in shoulders. CONCLUSION: The physical therapy intervention significantly reduced the complaints of musculoskeletal symptoms in different body regions

Falls in the non-institutionalized elderly : a systematic literature review

Revisão sistemática da literatura com o objetivo de identificar a ocorrência de quedas de idosos residentes na comunidade. Utilizando o portal CAPES, realizou-se busca nas bases de dados Academic Search (EBSCO), SciELO e Science Direct (ELSEVIER); e uma busca adicional na base de dados Lecturas Educación Física y Deportes, do site EFDEPORTES. Foram encontrados, com os descritores utilizados, 247 artigos publicados no período de 2000 a 2011. Foram excluídos 230 que não atenderam a um ou mais dos critérios de inclusão. Incluíram-se no estudo 17 artigos, sendo 12 transversais, dois de coorte prospectiva, dois de pesquisa de base populacional e um de coorte retrospectiva. A amostra total envolvida nos estudos foi de 114.911 sujeitos, com média de idade de aproximadamente 70 anos, distribuídos em sete países: Brasil, Estados Unidos, Espanha, Itália, Nigéria, Turquia e China. A ocorrência de quedas variou de 15,9 a 56,3%, com mediana de 28,50%. Embora apresente variação, a ocorrência de quedas na população idosa que reside na comunidade é alta.This systematic literature review aimed to identify the occurrence of falls in elderly living in the community. On CAPES website, a search was conducted on the following databases: Academic Search (EBSCO), SciELO, and Science Direct (ELSEVIER). An additional search, on the EFDEPORTES website, was performed on the Lecturas Educación Física y Deportes database. Using the chosen descriptors, 247 articles published from 2000 to 2011 were identified. A total of 230 articles were excluded as they did not meet all the inclusion criteria. Hence, 17 articles were included in the study, 12 of which were cross-sectional studies, two prospective studies, two population studies, and one retrospective study. The whole sample involved in the studies consisted of 114,911 subjects with an average age of 70 years, distributed across seven countries: Brazil, United States, Spain, Italy, Nigeria, Turkey and China. The occurrence of falls ranged between 15.9% and 56.3%, with a median of 28.50%. Although presenting variation, the occurrence of falls in elderly living in the community is still high

Optimasi Portofolio Resiko Menggunakan Model Markowitz MVO Dikaitkan dengan Keterbatasan Manusia dalam Memprediksi Masa Depan dalam Perspektif Al-Qur`an

Risk portfolio on modern finance has become increasingly technical, requiring the use of sophisticated mathematical tools in both research and practice. Since companies cannot insure themselves completely against risk, as human incompetence in predicting the future precisely that written in Al-Quran surah Luqman verse 34, they have to manage it to yield an optimal portfolio. The objective here is to minimize the variance among all portfolios, or alternatively, to maximize expected return among all portfolios that has at least a certain expected return. Furthermore, this study focuses on optimizing risk portfolio so called Markowitz MVO (Mean-Variance Optimization). Some theoretical frameworks for analysis are arithmetic mean, geometric mean, variance, covariance, linear programming, and quadratic programming. Moreover, finding a minimum variance portfolio produces a convex quadratic programming, that is minimizing the objective function ðð¥with constraintsð ð 𥠥 ðandð´ð¥ = ð. The outcome of this research is the solution of optimal risk portofolio in some investments that could be finished smoothly using MATLAB R2007b software together with its graphic analysis

Impacts of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon

The current consensus is that drought has developed in the Sahel during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of remote effects of oceanic anomalies amplified by local land–atmosphere interactions. This paper focuses on the impacts of oceanic anomalies upon West African climate and specifically aims to identify those from SST anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Oceans during spring and summer seasons, when they were significant. Idealized sensitivity experiments are performed with four atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs). The prescribed SST patterns used in the AGCMs are based on the leading mode of covariability between SST anomalies over the Pacific/Indian Oceans and summer rainfall over West Africa. The results show that such oceanic anomalies in the Pacific/Indian Ocean lead to a northward shift of an anomalous dry belt from the Gulf of Guinea to the Sahel as the season advances. In the Sahel, the magnitude of rainfall anomalies is comparable to that obtained by other authors using SST anomalies confined to the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean. The mechanism connecting the Pacific/Indian SST anomalies with West African rainfall has a strong seasonal cycle. In spring (May and June), anomalous subsidence develops over both the Maritime Continent and the equatorial Atlantic in response to the enhanced equatorial heating. Precipitation increases over continental West Africa in association with stronger zonal convergence of moisture. In addition, precipitation decreases over the Gulf of Guinea. During the monsoon peak (July and August), the SST anomalies move westward over the equatorial Pacific and the two regions where subsidence occurred earlier in the seasons merge over West Africa. The monsoon weakens and rainfall decreases over the Sahel, especially in August.Peer reviewe

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks

A search is presented for narrow heavy resonances X decaying into pairs of Higgs bosons (H) in proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). The search considers HH resonances with masses between 1 and 3 TeV, having final states of two b quark pairs. Each Higgs boson is produced with large momentum, and the hadronization products of the pair of b quarks can usually be reconstructed as single large jets. The background from multijet and t (t) over bar events is significantly reduced by applying requirements related to the flavor of the jet, its mass, and its substructure. The signal would be identified as a peak on top of the dijet invariant mass spectrum of the remaining background events. No evidence is observed for such a signal. Upper limits obtained at 95 confidence level for the product of the production cross section and branching fraction sigma(gg -> X) B(X -> HH -> b (b) over barb (b) over bar) range from 10 to 1.5 fb for the mass of X from 1.15 to 2.0 TeV, significantly extending previous searches. For a warped extra dimension theory with amass scale Lambda(R) = 1 TeV, the data exclude radion scalar masses between 1.15 and 1.55 TeV

Azimuthal anisotropy of charged jet production in root s(NN)=2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions

We present measurements of the azimuthal dependence of charged jet production in central and semi-central root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions with respect to the second harmonic event plane, quantified as nu(ch)(2) (jet). Jet finding is performed employing the anti-k(T) algorithm with a resolution parameter R = 0.2 using charged tracks from the ALICE tracking system. The contribution of the azimuthal anisotropy of the underlying event is taken into account event-by-event. The remaining (statistical) region-to-region fluctuations are removed on an ensemble basis by unfolding the jet spectra for different event plane orientations independently. Significant non-zero nu(ch)(2) (jet) is observed in semi-central collisions (30-50% centrality) for 20 <p(T)(ch) (jet) <90 GeV/c. The azimuthal dependence of the charged jet production is similar to the dependence observed for jets comprising both charged and neutral fragments, and compatible with measurements of the nu(2) of single charged particles at high p(T). Good agreement between the data and predictions from JEWEL, an event generator simulating parton shower evolution in the presence of a dense QCD medium, is found in semi-central collisions. (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Peer reviewe

Production of He-4 and (4) in Pb-Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-S=2.76 TeV at the LHC

Results on the production of He-4 and (4) nuclei in Pb-Pb collisions at root(NN)-N-S = 2.76 TeV in the rapidity range vertical bar y vertical bar <1, using the ALICE detector, are presented in this paper. The rapidity densities corresponding to 0-10% central events are found to be dN/dy4(He) = (0.8 +/- 0.4 (stat) +/- 0.3 (syst)) x 10(-6) and dN/dy4 = (1.1 +/- 0.4 (stat) +/- 0.2 (syst)) x 10(-6), respectively. This is in agreement with the statistical thermal model expectation assuming the same chemical freeze-out temperature (T-chem = 156 MeV) as for light hadrons. The measured ratio of (4)/He-4 is 1.4 +/- 0.8 (stat) +/- 0.5 (syst). (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.Peer reviewe

Measurement of the top quark mass using charged particles in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

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Forward-central two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV

Two-particle angular correlations between trigger particles in the forward pseudorapidity range (2.5 2GeV/c. (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ALICE Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B. V.Peer reviewe