The study proposes a new efficient wireless biosensor based on magnetoelastic waves for the detection of antibodies in human plasma, aiming at the serological diagnosis of COVID-19. The biosensor was ...functionalized with the N antigen - nucleocapsid phosphoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Validation analyses, by sodium dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), Western blotting, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), micro-Raman spectroscopy, confirmed the selectivity and effective surface functionalization of the biosensor. The research successfully obtained, expressed and purified the recombinant antigen, while plasma samples from COVID-19 positive and negative patients were used to test the performance of the biosensor. A comparison of performance with the ELISA method revealed equivalent diagnostic power. These results indicate the robustness of the biosensor in reliably differentiating between positive and negative samples, highlighting its potential as an efficient and low-cost tool for the serological diagnosis of COVID-19. In addition to being fast to execute and having the potential for automation in large-scale diagnostic studies, the biosensor fills a significant gap in existing SARS-CoV-2 detection approaches.
O texto apresenta os resultados preliminares de uma pesquisa em curso sobre o “Nó da terra” ; problematiza a apropriação da renda da terra na Região Metropolitana da Grande Vitória, no Espírito ...Santo, Brasil, a partir de Karl Marx e de David Harvey. Descreve a concentração fundiária, os usos e ocupações da Terra, os vazios urbanos e os domicílios vagos contrapondo-os ao déficit habitacional e aos programas de construção imobiliária. Conclui pela existência de rendas de monopólio, absoluta e diferencial exponenciais na região. A estratégia para realiza-las está intimamente associada às relações e cooperações cruzadas dos agentes do Estado, dos agentes imobiliários e dos proprietários fundiários.
Approach responses, consummatory behaviors, and directed motor responses maintained by food reward resemble autoshaping CRs and are increased by lower doses of ethanol. This study evaluated the ...effects of presession i.p. injections of ethanol doses (0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.70. or 1.00 g/kg) on the acquisition of lever-press autoshaping CR performance in groups of male Long-Evans hooded rats. Paired groups received 15 daily sessions of Pavlovian autoshaping procedures, wherein the insertion of a retractable lever for 5 s (CS) was followed by the response-independent presentation of food (US). Ethanol facilitated lever-press autoshaping CR acquisition, as revealed by dose-related increases in the number of trials on which CRs were performed. The form of the dose-effect curve was inverted U-shaped with maximal responding induced during sessions 1-5 by the 0.70 g/kg ethanol dose. A similar dose-effect curve was observed during sessions 11-15, revealing that the effects of ethanol on autoshaping CR performance were relatively stable. A pseudoconditioning control group injected presession with 0.50 g/kg ethanol received training wherein the food US was presented randomly with respect to the lever CS. Few lever-presses were performed by the Random 0.50 group, indicating that ethanol's effects on autoshaping CR acquisition and maintenance observed in the Paired 0.50 group were not due to its psychomotor activating effects. A non-injection control group performed more autoshaping CRs than did the control group injected presession with saline, indicating that daily presession i.p. injections per se suppress autoshaping CR performance. Results reveal that low doses of ethanol enhance Pavlovian conditioning of directed motor and consummatory-like responding maintained by food reward. Implications for autoshaping accounts of impulsivity and drug abuse are considered.
Funcionários de uma empresa (n=993) foram entrevistados quanto à ocorrência de cefaléias durante um período retrospectivo de 30 dias. A prevalência foi 49,8%, com frequência de 4,3±7,0 episódios e ...duração de 12,2±21,4 horas. Os diagnósticos baseados na classificação da Sociedade Internacional de Cefaléias, foram enxaqueca (5,5%), cefaléia do tipo tensão (CTT) episódica (26,4%), CTT crônica (1,7%) e outras cefaléias (16,2%). As mulheres foram mais acometidas e tiveram proporcionalmente mais enxaquecas que os homens. Cerca de 10% dos pacientes relataram dor suficientemente intensa a ponto de prejudicar seu desempenho no trabalho, o que representou 538,75 horas não trabalhadas. O custo indireto proporcionado pela interferência no trabalho foi estimado para cada cefaléia. O potencial prejuízo projetado à empresa devido às cefaléias é R$145,64 por funcionário, ou R$144 682,39 por ano. Como a enxaqueca é a cefaléia de maior custo, seu controle é particularmente importante no ambiente de trabalho. Há meios eficazes para reduzir sua frequência, com reflexos positivos no bem-estar e na produtividade do indivíduo. A relação custo-benefício favorece claramente a instituição de programas de prevenção e tratamento contra cefaléias crônicas
In the current model of early Solar System evolution, the stable members of the Jovian and Neptunian Trojan populations were captured into resonance from the leftover reservoir of planetesimals ...during the outward migration of the giant planets. As a result, both Jovian and Neptunian Trojans share a common origin with the primordial disk population, whose other surviving members constitute today's trans-Neptunian object (TNO) populations. The cold classical TNOs are ultra-red, while the dynamically excited "hot" population of TNOs contains a mixture of ultra-red and blue objects. In contrast, Jovian and Neptunian Trojans are observed to be blue. While the absence of ultra-red Jovian Trojans can be readily explained by the sublimation of volatile material from their surfaces due to the high flux of solar radiation at 5AU, the lack of ultra-red Neptunian Trojans presents both a puzzle and a challenge to formation models. In this work we report the discovery by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) of two new dynamically stable L4 Neptunian Trojans,2013 VX30 and 2014 UU240, both with inclinations i >30 degrees, making them the highest-inclination known stable Neptunian Trojans. We have measured the colors of these and three other dynamically stable Neptunian Trojans previously observed by DES, and find that 2013 VX30 is ultra-red, the first such Neptunian Trojan in its class. As such, 2013 VX30 may be a "missing link" between the Trojan and TNO populations. Using a simulation of the DES TNO detection efficiency, we find that there are 162 +/- 73 Trojans with Hr < 10 at the L4 Lagrange point of Neptune. Moreover, the blue-to-red Neptunian Trojan population ratio should be higher than 17:1. Based on this result, we discuss the possible origin of the ultra-red Neptunian Trojan population and its implications for the formation history of Neptunian Trojans.
Funcionários de uma empresa (n=993) foram entrevistados quanto à ocorrência de cefaléias durante um período retrospectivo de 30 dias. A prevalência foi 49,8%, com frequência de 4,3±7,0 episódios e ...duração de 12,2±21,4 horas. Os diagnósticos baseados na classificação da Sociedade Internacional de Cefaléias, foram enxaqueca (5,5%), cefaléia do tipo tensão (CTT) episódica (26,4%), CTT crônica (1,7%) e outras cefaléias (16,2%). As mulheres foram mais acometidas e tiveram proporcionalmente mais enxaquecas que os homens. Cerca de 10% dos pacientes relataram dor suficientemente intensa a ponto de prejudicar seu desempenho no trabalho, o que representou 538,75 horas não trabalhadas. O custo indireto proporcionado pela interferência no trabalho foi estimado para cada cefaléia. O potencial prejuízo projetado à empresa devido às cefaléias é R$145,64 por funcionário, ou R$144 682,39 por ano. Como a enxaqueca é a cefaléia de maior custo, seu controle é particularmente importante no ambiente de trabalho. Há meios eficazes para reduzir sua frequência, com reflexos positivos no bem-estar e na produtividade do indivíduo. A relação custo-benefício favorece claramente a instituição de programas de prevenção e tratamento contra cefaléias crônicas
Employees from a Brazilian oil company reserach centre (n=993) were interviewed on the occurrence of headache during a 30 days period. Headache prevalence was 49.8%, with a mean frequency of 4.3±7.0 attacks per month, lasting 12.2±21.4 hours each. According to the International Headache Society diagnostic criteria, migraine (5.5%), episodic tension-type headache (26.4%), chronic tension-type headache (1.7%) and headaches not fulfilling the criteria for such disorders (16.2%) were observed. Women suffered comparatively more headache and specifically migraine than men. The pain interfered with work productivity in 10% of the subjects, corresponding to 538.75 hours off. According to an indirect costs estimation for each headache, the company may loose up to US$125.98 per employee annually. Since among headaches migraine has the highest indirect cost, migraine prevention and treatment is particularly important at the working environment. Migraine frequency may be prevented to a large extent, resulting on positive effects in both the quality of life and productivity. The cost-benefit ratio clearly favours therapeutic and preventive programs against chronic headaches.
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