Life Sciences

Climatic change has put the whole humanity under permanent stress whose consequences should be very catastrophic. A good knowledge of the past and today climates should enable us a well management of the future and a successful prevention of those catastrophes like hunger. This article concerns the nearer past hygroscopic regime at different areas of Cameroon. The comparison of the obtained results with the today regime has permitted us to appreciate the ongoing degradation and has enabled us to quantify it.

A qualidade de vida (QV) é um conjunto de valores, objetivos e subjetivos, que se possa atribuir a vida em virtude de modificações motivadas por alterações da capacidade funcional, percepções e eventos sociais influenciados por agravos e doenças, tratamentos e políticas de saúde. Assim, na tentativa de compreender as necessidades de vida e saúde através da avaliação da QV este estudo objetivou investigar os impactos da Hanseníase na QV dos sujeitos através de uma revisão sistemática da literatura.

The objective was to identify the environmental factors that can facilitate or hinder the promotion of comfort for clients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This is an exploratory and descriptive investigative study, based on the qualitative method, carried out between March and August 2017, with 40 professional nurses and nursing technicians from the Hospital Geral de Roraima (HGR) of Boa Vista, Roraima. A structured questionnaire with three categories of responses was used, based on the General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ).

The practice of activities on the shores of the Ziga Dam Lake involves the use of products that can affect the quality of its water, thus upsetting the ecological balance of the environment. In order to prevent this damage, it is necessary to regularly monitor the quality of the lake's water, because without this, no decision can be taken to protect it. The objective of this study is to evaluate the microbiological and physico-chemical quality of the dam lake.

Functional capacity is a measure of overall functionality that is in turn the result of the interaction of all physical and mental capacities developed during the lifetime. Functional capacity measures range from a degree of total independence to complete decision-making autonomy.

Esta análise objetivou reunir estudos que abordassem a relação de interinfluência entre aleitamento materno e a DPP. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa da literatura com busca nas bases de dados LILACs, MEDLINE e PubMed, com a partir da inserção dos descritores booleanos “(Depressão pós-parto) AND (aleitamento materno)” e “(Depression, Postpartum) AND (breast feeding)”. Foram incluídos estudos originais, disponíveis nas línguas inglesa e portuguesa. Elegeram-se 13 artigos para a composição dos resultados.

This work intends to focus on the use of Multimodel Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for the projection of the residential electric demand, taking into account that this is the basis for an adequate planning of electricity distribution networks. The ANNs were developed in MATLAB®, trained according to the data recorded, and the final results of the different regions of study were compared with the official data provided by the UPME for the year 2017.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi mostrar número de acidentes de trânsito em Campina Grande – PB, os dados dos acidentes de trânsito foram coletados: SAMU, CPTran, NUMOL e a central de polícia. Com intuito de identificar locais críticos de acidentes, e tomar medidas tanto corretivas, quanto preventivas para redução dos acidentes na cidade, durante o ano de 2016. O trabalho foi conduzido na Superintendência de Trânsito e Transportes Públicos – STTP, no município de Campina Grande – PB.

Biological treatment consists on using living organisms to remove pollutes from substrates. This research aimed at evaluating and comparing the efficiency of two macrophyte species in removing polluting substances of brewery effluent, as a sustainable technologic alternative, using natural resources. The design was a system experimental in mesocosmos (open top tanks of 100 L) composed by two treatments represented by each specie (Salvinia molesta and Limnobiumlaevigatum) with four repetitions each one.

Defensins represent an important group of antimicrobial peptides and are expressed in the skin and other tissues of various mammalian species. These peptides participate in innate immunity, aiding in the immune response. The objective of this work was to compare the levels of β-defensin gene expressions (cBD1 and cBD103) in skin scrapings of the Poodle dogs with and without dermatitis. Eight dogs with dermatitis and 13 healthy dogs from the Veterinary Hospital and privately owned had collected skin scrapings. RNA extraction was obtained by Trizol® reagent.