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Distribución y aspectos poblacionales del lobo Ibérico en la provincia de Ourense
No full textPara determinar el área de distribución del lobo en la provincia de Ourense (noroeste de España) se realizaron prospecciones de campo consistentes en itinerarios de muestreo para localizar indicios y se enviaron cuestionarios a los Agentes del Servicio de Conservación de la Naturaleza de la Xunta de Galicia y a las Sociedades de Cazadores del área de estudio. Los resultados se registraron sobre cuadrículas U.T.M. 10x10 Km. Se constata presencia del lobo en el 79,2% de las cuadrículas estudiadas, estimando el área de distribución en la provincia en 6.400 km2. Para la localización de los grupos familiares inicialmente se prospectó el territorio a nivel de cuadrículas U.T.M. 10x10 Km y en función de los resultados y la información recibida se eligieron determinadas zonas para realizar estaciones de escucha y espera. Determinamos durante el periodo de estudio la existencia de 25 grupos familiares. La densidad estimada en la provincia es de 2,10 – 3,28 lobos /100 km2. De los casos de mortalidad conocidos entre enero de 1999 y abril de 2002 (n=37), un elevado porcentaje se debió a atropellos (70,27%) principalmente en dos vías concretas y un 8,10% correspondió a envenenamientos. Actualmente la densidad del lobo en Ourense es superior a la obtenida en provincias limítrofes, pero amenazas de origen antrópico tanto directas (veneno, persecución ilegal...) como indirectas (incendios forestales, grandes infraestructuras viales, parques eólicos...) pueden estar condicionando la existencia de grupos familiares e incluso la presencia de la especie en determinadas zonas
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Distribución y aspectos poblacionales del lobo Ibérico (Canis lupus signatus) en las provincias de Pontevedra y A Coruña (Galicia)
No full textPara determinar el área de distribución del lobo en las provincias de Pontevedra y A Coruña se realizaron itinerarios de muestreo y se enviaron cuestionarios a los Agentes de Medio Ambiente de la Xunta de Galicia y a las Sociedades de Cazadores del área de estudio. Los resultados se representaron en cuadrículas U.T.M. 10x10 Km. Se ha confirmado la presencia del lobo en el 67,05% de las cuadrículas del área de estudio. La especie se distribuye de forma continua en ambas provincias, donde estimamos un área de distribución de 6.400 km2 en la provincia de A Coruña y 3.200 km2 en la de Pontevedra, ocupando principalmente el área montañosa de la Dorsal Gallega y el occidente de A Coruña; esta última zona está conectada con el resto del área de distribución del lobo en Galicia a través del norte de la provincia de Pontevedra. Para la localización de las manadas se muestreó el territorio a nivel de cuadrícula U.T.M. 10x10 Km, y en las zonas donde se detectó una mayor concentración de indicios, se realizaron estaciones de escucha y espera con el fin de localizar la presencia de manadas (cachorros y adultos). Se determinó la presencia de 29 manadas (14 en la provincia de A Coruña y 15 en Pontevedra), de las cuales se confirmó la reproducción del 52%. Se ha estimado un tamaño poblacional para la provincia de A Coruña entre 87-129 lobos (1,36-2,02 lobos/100 Km2) y entre 95-140 para la provincia de Pontevedra (2,97-4,38 lobos/100 Km2). Las zonas de mayor densidad se localizaron en la Dorsal Gallega. Se han localizado algunas manadas en áreas muy humanizadas, lo que podría explicar que la principal causa de mortalidad conocida entre enero de 2000 y octubre de 2003 (n=29) sea el atropello (n=21)
Thyroid nodule recurrence following lobo-isthmectomy: incidence, patient’s characteristics, and risk factors
No full textPurpose: This study was aimed at assessing the incidence and timing of thyroid nodules recurrence, defined as appearance of new benign or malignant nodules in contralateral lobe in patients with benign thyroid nodules or thyroid microcarcinoma treated with lobo-isthmectomy. Patient’s characteristics and risk factors associated with this phenomenon were also investigated. Methods: A retrospective study was performed by evaluating 413 patients undergoing lobo-isthmectomy with a minimum follow-up of 1 year. Clinical characteristics, surgical interventions and complications, histological diagnosis, and thyroid function at last follow-up were collected. Results: Single or multiple thyroid nodule recurrence equally occurred in 80 patients (23%) with a median time to relapse of ~ 5 years (range 0.3–34.5 years) after lobo-isthmectomy. Recurrence was significantly associated with younger age ( 2.43 mIU/L was associated with the need of l-thyroxin replacement therapy after surgery. The most frequent surgical complication was transient hypoparathyroidism (4.6%), while the rate of permanent hypoparathyroidism significantly increased in patients submitted to completion thyroidectomy (5.3%). Conclusions: Thyroid nodules recurrence following lobo-isthmectomy is not a rare event and occurs within 5 years after surgery, more frequently in younger patients with family history of nodular goiter and in women with multiple pregnancies. Pre-surgical TSH levels may predict the development of post-surgical hypothyroidism, possibly improving the management of patients addressed to surgery
Os motivos da baixa escolaridade são fatores preditores do desempenho cognitivo de pacientes adultos com epilepsia do lobo temporal mesial fármacorresistente?
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Florianópolis, 2012Introdução: A escolaridade é positivamente associada com a performance cognitiva de pessoas saudáveis e pacientes com doenças neurológicas, incluindo epilepsia. Particularidades socioculturais podem interagir com as variáveis relacionadas à epilepsia e levar a um baixo nível educacional. Esse estudo pretende investigar se os motivos da precoce interrupção da educação estão associados ao desempenho cognitivo de pacientes adultos com epilepsia do lobo temporal refratária com esclerose no hipocampo (ELTM-EH). Métodos: 61 pacientes consecutivos com ELTM-EH e com menos de nove anos de educação foram classificados de acordo com a causa da interrupção da educação, como: 1) limitações devido às crises (n = 23); 2) começar a trabalhar cedo (n = 16); 3) limitações financeiras (n = 11); 4) dificuldade de aprendizagem (n = 11). A associação independente entre esses quatro grupos de pacientes e a performance cognitiva em 25 testes neuropsicológicos foram investigadas por meio de uma análise de regressão linear múltipla. Resultados: Depois de controlar as variáveis demográficas, clínicas, de neuroimagem, eletrofisiológicas e anos de educação, os grupos da dificuldade de aprendizagem e de limitações devido às crises continuam independentemente associados com baixos escores nos testes de Vocabulário e Memória Lógica. Conclusão: Os motivos da precoce interrupção do estudo são preditores independentes do prejuízo de domínios cognitivos específicos em pacientes adultos com epilepsia com ELTM-EH. Uma intervenção precoce dos fatores responsáveis pela baixa escolaridade dos pacientes pode ajudar a sanar os déficits cognitivos na vida adulta.Abstract : Introduction: Schooling is positively associated with cognitive performance of healthy persons and patients with neurologic diseases including epilepsy. Socio-cultural particularities may interact with epilepsy related variables leading low schooling. This study investigated if the causes of early interruption of education were associated with cognitive performance in adults patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy related to hippocampus sclerosis (MTEL-HS). Methods: Sixty one consecutive patients with refractory MTLE-HS and lower than 9 years of education were classified according to the cause of interruption of education as: 1) limitations due to seizures itself (n = 23); 2) start to work young (n = 16); 3) financial limitations (n = 11); 4) learning difficulties (n = 11). The independent association between these four patients groups and cognitive performance in 25 neuropsychological tests were investigated by linear multiple logistic regression analysis. Results: After controlling the demographic, clinical, neuroimaging, electrophysiological variables and years of education, the cause of earlier study interruption remain independently associated with lower scores in Vocabulary and Logical Memory tests. Conclusion: Causes of early study discontinuation are independent predictors of specific cognitive domains impairments in adult patients with refractory MTLE-SH. Early intervention on factors responsible for lower schooling of patients may help to remedy their cognitive deficits in adult life
Epilessia del lobo temporale:considerazione a proposito di due casi a fenomenologia puramente affettiva
No full textDescrizione di due casi di Epilessia del lobo temporale:considerazione a proposito di fenomenologia puramente affettiv
A single impurity in an ideal atomic fermi gas: current understanding and some open problems
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Cavite province (Philippines), Mount Macolod, Volcano Island and Mount Lobo from prison camp roof
No full textTagaytay Ridge, Cavite & Batangas Provinces. August 18, 1934. Macalot [Mount Macolod]. Taal Volcano [Volcano Island]. Lobo Mts [Mount Lobo]. From Roof of Prison Camp. 11 1/50 G. Panatomic 6 x 6.GrayscalePendleton nitrate negative, Box 102 of 38
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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