58 research outputs found
Evaluating an Innovative Concept of Health Care: The “Rede Farmácia de Minas” Programme
No full textImplantado em 2008 como um conceito inovador de assistência à saúde, o programa “Rede Farmácia de Minas” tem como finalidade ampliar o acesso e o uso racional de medicamentos. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é avaliar a satisfação dos usuários com os serviços prestados por uma farmácia da rede, após a adesão do município ao programa. Para isso, realizou-se uma pesquisa descritiva quantitativa com uma amostra aleatória de 198 usuários. O percentual de respondentes que encontrou parcialmente ou não encontrou os seus medicamentos foi de 59,9%, porém, a percepção de que a disponibilidade de medicamentos no SUS se tornou melhor com a Farmácia de Minas em funcionamento foi de 66,7%. O escore do domínio “exposição agradável” da unidade pesquisada foi de 4,09, enquanto o escore do domínio “manejo da terapia” foi de 3,79, evidenciando a fragilidade maior desse serviço e apontando para a necessidade de ações mais efetivas no que se refere ao cuidado farmacêutico. Constatou-se que a indisponibilidade de medicamentos influencia negativamente a avaliação da satisfação com os serviços da Farmácia, compromete o acesso aos medicamentos, a qualidade da saúde dos usuários da Rede e o sucesso dessa política pública.Introduced in 2008 as an innovative concept of health care, the "Farmácia de Minas" programme aims to increase access and rational use of medicines. The aim of this study is to evaluate user satisfaction with the services provided by a pharmacy of the network, after the city has joined the programme. For this, a descriptive quantitative study was conducted with a random sample of 198 users. The percentage of respondents who found partially or did not find their medicines was 59.9%, however, the perception that the availability of drugs in the SUS became better with the “Farmácia de Minas” programme was 66.7%. The score of the "nice display" part of the unit researched was 4.09, while the score of the "treatment management" part was 3.79, showing the greatest weakness of this service and pointing to the need for more effective action regarding to the pharmaceutical care. It was found that the unavailability of drugs influences negatively the evaluation of satisfaction with the services of the Pharmacy, and compromises the access to medicines, the health quality of the network users and the success of this public policy
STUDY ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FPL-4 CUTTER FOR GERMINATION BED PREPARATION AND MAINTENANCE IN VEGETABLE GROWING
No full textThe paper presents a theoretical study on the possibility of making an agricultural milling cutter for germinating bed preparation and crop maintenance in vegetable growing. The studies were done starting from the frying cutter in FPL-4 vegetable growing.Only part of the transmission of the machine from the power take-off of the tractor will be used from the FPL-4, the rest of the components being completed by the author, ie the components of the work section, the transmission components and the rotors with the work bodies grouped by two on a mechanism which allows them to rotate horizontally so that a plant protection zone can also be provided during maintenance
Functional Physical Literacy for Child and Youth Recreation Programming: A Community Response to the 2015 Canadian Recreation Framework
No full textThe recreation sector is perfectly suited to specifically address issues surrounding the desire to be physically active. This is because of recreation's connection to the community, the broad spectrum of its consumers and its ability to address the positive health outcomes of an active lifestyle as it relates to the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of wellbeing. To do so appropriately, a guiding framework is necessary; however, one does not currently exist for the recreation sector. As such, we are creating a multi-layered functional physical literacy (FPL) framework to suit the needs of recreation programmers, instructors and parents, to ensure the delivery of high quality programs that are developmentally appropriate. The FPL framework is intended to be a catalyst for any recreation service provider wanting to build an evidence-based physical activity (PA) program with a developmentally appropriate scope and sequence. The FPL framework will complement existing provincial education and sport curricula so that recreation programming supports what children learn in these areas. This recreation-centered contribution will maximize the reach of PL education for the purpose of increasing PA. The FPL framework will be designed for parents and recreation leaders who play a role in helping children and youth lead active lifestyles outside of school and organized sport settings.Funds for covering the costs to publish in open access were provided by Mount Royal University Library.Library OA Fun
A functional language for pattern matching and matrix operations, 1986
No full textThere exists a variety of traditional languages dependent on Von Neumann structure of computers. New languages are being continuously designed with each successive language incorporating all features of its predecessor and exhibiting a few more. Each such language claims the most modern and new features such as structural control, tools for data abstraction and strong typing. However, the cost of producing and learning keeps on increasing. The basic difficulty with all lsuch languages is their dependence on Von Neumann architecture. This structure seems to create a bottle-neck between CPU and memory by forcing one-word-at-a-time flow. Such limitations warrant further research in design of languages so that they may be liberated from Von Neumann architecture . Backus proposes a whole new concept of designing programming languages which may be devoid of the above deficiencies. He calls such languagaes 'functional' languages (FPL). Although there exists at least two languages, LISP and APL, which satisfy requisites of an FPL to some extent , further research in languages design and required architecture in necessary. The current paper is an attempt in this direction. To demonstrate the power of an FPL, we briefly present Backus' system. This is followed by the design of a special-purpose FPL for pattern matching. In the last chapter we analyze this language from a language-theoretic point of view
Inhibition of antigen-induced release of prostaglandin-like material from guinea-pig trachea by antihistamines FPL55712 and atropine
No full textLR: 20061115; PUBM: Print; JID: 0376363; 0 (Antigens); 0 (Chromones); 0 (Ethers); 0 (Histamine H1 Antagonists); 0 (Prostaglandins E); 0 (SRS-A); 40786-08-1 (FPL 55712); 51-55-8 (Atropine); ppublishSource type: Electronic(1
A pharmacological study of SRS-A on the bovine cutaneous vasculature
No full textBovine slow-reacting substance of anaphylaxis (SRS-A) is capable of producing dose-dependent vascular permeability changes in the skin of calves. The wheals are well-defined indurations, similar to wheals induced by histamine but different from those induced by prostaglandin E2 (PGE). Three proposed SRS-A receptor blockers (i.e. FPL 55712, PR-D-92-EA, and sodium meclofenamate) were studied with respect to their antagonism of wheals induced by SRS-A, histamine, and PGE. PR-D-92-EA and FPL 55712 antagonized SRS-A, and also histamine and PGE at high concentrations. Meclofenamate was ineffective against SRS-A but antagonized histamine and PGE at higher concentrations. The significance of these results, especially with respect to passive cutaneous anaphylaxis, is discussed..RE: 14 ref.; SC: ZA; CA; VE; 0I; 0VSource type: Electronic(1
The Child and Adult Care Food Program: Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
No full textThis paper addresses three basic questions about an under-studied food subsidy program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who participate differ from those who do not participate? (3) What is the association between attending CACFP-participating child care and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility rules leave many poor children outside the CACFP program. Yet, among poor preschoolers in center-based care, participation in the program is correlated with positive outcomes such as increased consumption of milk and vegetables, and healthier weight (BMI). We discuss the implications of our findings, especially in relation to other food and child care subsidy programs.
FLAIRS: FPGA-Accelerated Inference-Resistant & Secure Federated Learning
No full textFederated Learning (FL) has become very popular since it enables clients to train a joint model collaboratively without sharing their private data. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to backdoor and inference attacks. While in the former, the adversary injects manipulated updates into the aggregation process; the latter leverages clients' local models to deduce their private data. Contemporary solutions to address the security concerns of FL are either impractical for real-world deployment due to high-performance overheads or are tailored towards addressing specific threats, for instance, privacy-preserving aggregation or backdoor defenses. Given these limitations, our research delves into the advantages of harnessing the FPGA-based computing paradigm to overcome performance bottlenecks of software-only solutions while mitigating backdoor and inference attacks. We utilize FPGA-based enclaves to address inference attacks during the aggregation process of FL. We adopt an advanced backdoor-aware aggregation algorithm on the FPGA to counter backdoor attacks. We implemented and evaluated our method on Xilinx VMK-180, yielding a significant speed-up of around 300 times on the IoT-Traffic dataset and more than 506 times on the CIFAR-10 dataset.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Cyber Securit
Fletcher: A framework to efficiently integrate FPGA accelerators with apache arrow
No full textModern big data systems are highly heterogeneous. The components found in their many layers of abstraction are often implemented in a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks. Due to language implementation differences, interfaces between these components, including hardware accelerated components, are often burdened by serialization overhead. Serialization bandwidth of many high-level language frameworks is an order of magnitude lower than contemporary FPGA accelerator interface bandwidth, especially when objects are small but numerous. Therefore, serialization bounds the effective end-to-end performance of FPGA-accelerated solutions integrated with applications written in high-level languages. The Apache Arrow project defines a language agnostic columnar in-memory format optimized for big data applications, preventing the need to serialize or even make copies during communication between components. To enable FPGA accelerators to benefit from the approach of Arrow, we first investigate the properties of its format in relation to hardware interfaces and establish that the format is usable. Second, we present the Fletcher framework, that automatically generates highly efficient hardware interfaces to access data of potentially complex, nested Arrow data types. Our approach allows 11 of the languages supported by Apache Arrow libraries to efficiently communicate large data sets with FPGA accelerators at system bandwidth. Furthermore, on the hardware side, the generated interfaces deliver any data type that Arrow can represent as groups of streams, providing a better starting point for data-flow-oriented kernel development, compared to manually creating custom interfaces to address issues related to pointer arithmetic, bus word misalignment and latency. For example applications, as measured on an AWS EC2 F1 and CAPI2-enabled POWER9 system, accelerated end-to-end application performance improves by 1.3x-49x compared to a hardware accelerated solution that still requires serialization.Computer EngineeringFTQC/Bertels LabEducation and Research Suppor
Leukotriene D4 and platelet-activating factor-acether antagonists on allergic and arachidonic acid-induced reactions in guinea pig airways
No full textArachidonic acid (AA) and ovalbumin (OA) were used to induce contractions of sensitized guinea pig tracheal spiral (indomethacin-pretreated) and lung parenchymal strip preparations. This model was used to examine the properties of three leukotriene (LT) D4 antagonists and a platelet-activating factor (PAF)-acether receptor antagonist. The three LTD4 antagonists, L-649,923, FPL 57231, and LY163443, inhibited AA-induced contractions of indomethacin-pretreated tracheal spirals selectively. The PAF-acether antagonist, L-652,731, did not inhibit AA-induced contractions of either trachea or parenchyma. This confirmed that AA-induced contractions of trachea involved release and activity of LTD4. The LTD4 antagonists and L-652,731 partially inhibited OA-induced contractions of both trachea and parenchyma. When L-649,923 and L-652,731 or FPL 57231 and L-652,731 were combined, an additive inhibitory effect on OA-induced contractions was observed. When LY163443 and L-652,731 were combined, the inhibitory effect was synergistic. This may be due to the additional effect of LY163443 to inhibit phosphodiesterase. Total inhibition of OA-induced contractions was obtainable with relatively low concentrations when a LTD4 and PAF-acether antagonist were combined. These results suggested that LTD4 and PAF-acether may be the two major mediators in our model of allergic bronchospasm. The LTD4 and PAF-acether antagonists had the capacity to decrease baseline tone, even on tissues that were already relaxed with indomethacin, suggesting that LTD4 and PAF-acether may contribute to intrinsic tone in airway smooth muscle.LR: 20061115; PUBM: Print; JID: 0372712; 0 (Arachidonic Acids); 0 (Platelet Activating Factor); 0 (SRS-A); 506-32-1 (Arachidonic Acid); 53-86-1 (Indomethacin); 9006-59-1 (Ovalbumin); ppublishSource type: Electronic(1
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