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Abre no dia 02 de julho exposição de tapeceiras, uma delas minha irmã Lia Maria Cechella Achutti.

The Red Queen was right: life must continually evolve to avoid extinction

June 22, 2013

A University of California, Berkeley study has found that a lack of new emerging species contributes to extinction over a period of millions of years. The researchers studied 19 groups of mammals that either are extinct or in decline from a past peak in diversity, as in the case of horses, elephants, rhinos and others. … more…

Influenza Vaccine and Tobacco

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias

Influenza Vaccine Breakthrough Makes Use of Tobacco Referred by the AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja Added by Janet Grace Ortigas on June 23, 2013. Saved under Health, Janet Grace Ortigas Tags: top [image: Influenza Vaccine Breakthrough Makes Use of Tobacco] Could tobacco be the next influenza vaccine breakthrough to fight the disease? If the tobacco influenza vaccine trials go as planned, it could be available in 2016. What a shocking discovery. We all know that smoking can cause heart disease, emphysema, and cancer. In fact, it’s the leading cause of preventable illness and death in... mais »

wake-up call for cardiologists 2002

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Cardiovascular disease and the global tobacco epidemic: a wake-up call for cardiologists - Samer Jabbour[image: email address], - K.Srinath Reddy, - Walinjom F.T. Muna, - Aloyzio Achutti Received 21 January 2002; received in revised form 16 April 2002; accepted 5 May 2002. - Abstract - Full Text - PDF - References Abstract The global tobacco epidemic continues unabated with the recruitment of young people, including women, to join the ranks of smokers. Even though cardiovascular diseases account for some of the major tobacco-related morbidity and m... mais »

Tiny human pulse

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 16 minutos

Measuring the human pulse from tiny head movements to help diagnose cardiac disease June 24, 2013*(It remember me Balistocardiography...)* [image: Using direction and magnitude of movement of feature points for pulse signal extraction] Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people depicted in ordinary digital video by analyzing imperceptibly small head movements that accompany the rush of blood caused by the heart’s contractions. In tests, the algorithm gave pulse measu... mais »

Dr. James Martin 1933 – 2013

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Dr. James Martin 1933 – 2013June 26, 2013 *Statement by Oxford Martin School* It is with great sadness that the Oxford Martin School has learned of the death of our Founder, Dr James Martin. James Martin was an inspiration to millions — an extraordinary intellect, with wide-ranging interests, boundless energy and an unwavering commitment to addressing the greatest challenges facing humanity. For 25 years Martin was the highest-selling author of books on computing and related technology. He wrote a record 104 books, many of which have been seminal in their field, and was renowned for h... mais »

Emotions = faces

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About FaceFor half a century, one theory about the way we experience and express emotion has helped shape how we practice psychology, do police work, and even fight terrorism. But what if that theory is wrong? By Shannon Fischer | Boston Magazine | July 2013 [image: emotions-facial-expressions-not-related-1] PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSE BURKE Forty-six years ago a young San Francisco–based cowboy of a psychologist named Paul Ekman emerged from the jungle with proof of a powerful idea. During the previous couple of years, he had set out trying to prove a theory popularized in the 19th century b... mais »

atomic-scale structure

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 horas

This Image Could Lead to Better Antibiotics*Berkeley Lab scientists create atomic-scale structure of ribosome attached to a molecule that controls its motion* JUNE 27, 2013 Dan Krotz dakrotz@lbl.gov 53 Feature [image: ribosome2] This may look like a tangle of squiggly lines, but you’re actually looking at a molecular machine called a ribosome. Its job is to translate DNA sequences into proteins, the workhorse compounds that sustain you and all living things./.../

Virus brain-mapping technique

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Virus brain-mapping technique uncovers circuits involved in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s diseaseJune 28, 2013 Basal ganglia (credit: Wikimedia Commons) Gladstone Institutes and Salk Institute researchers have assembled brain-wide maps of neurons that connect with the basal ganglia, a region of the brain involved in movement and decision-making. **Developing a better understanding of this region is important as it could inform research into disorders causing basal ganglia dysfunction, including Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. Team leaders Gladstone Investigator An... mais »

Bigger Cities

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Bigger Cities Do More with Less New science reveals why cities become more productive and efficient as they grow By Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West *http://www.scientificamerican.com/cities/ * Special Issue: Cities *The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward *» GREATER POPULATION, GREATER DIVIDENDSImage: Graphic by Bryan Christie More In This Article - OverviewEngines of Innovation - SidebarGreater Population, Greater Dividends [Video] For centuries, people have painted ... mais »

Tabagismo referências Duncan 4a. Edição

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http://www.grupoa.com.br/uploads/imagensExtra/legado/D/DUNCAN_Bruce_B/Medicina_Ambulatorial_4Ed/Lib/hot/ref/05/Cap_60.pdf

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Médicos do Brasil

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Healthier Lifestyle

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Wearable Devices Nudge You to a Healthier Lifestyle An advantage of the Up band is its powerful software, which can plot hours of sleep against physical activity, so you can see how exercise affects your sleep. By DAVID POGUEPublished: June 26, 2013 5 Comments You’ve heard of the Quantified Self movement? It’s the rise of watches, clips and bracelets that monitor your physical activity, sleep and other biological functions. The idea is that continual numerical awareness of your lifestyle works to motivate you: to park farther away, to get off the subway one stop sooner, to take more s... mais »

Health Promotion Helsinki, 2013

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias

*Promoting Health for All and Social Justice in the Era of Global Capitalism DRAFT v.4 – **12 June 2013* A call to action by the People’s Health Movement at the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion Helsinki, Finland – 14 June 2013 Activists from the People’s Health Movement met during the WHO 8 th Global Conference on Health Promotion to critique the official Conference Statement and develop a progressive call for action based on strong social justice principles. The draft below reflects our deliberation and is being circulated for further comment and debate. Please send comments... mais »

Buying Happiness

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias

[image: Michael Norton] Michael Norton of Harvard Business SchoolImage: Steph Stevens Using Money to Buy Happiness Two scholars offer scientific advice on getting the most happiness for your dollar By Gareth Cook We live in America with two bits of contradictory received wisdom — that you’d be a lot better off if you made more money, and that money can’t buy you happiness. Now two scholars suggest another way of thinking about the relationship between cash and joy: To a large degree, how you spend is just as important as how *much* you spend.Michael Norton, an associate professor at ... mais »

Importação de médicos sem avaliação

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Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both?

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias

[image: The Floating University] - Home - Get Started - Lectures - Lecture Video - Transcript - Outline - Glossary - Review Questions - Quizzes *Malthus Miffed: Are People the Problem, the Solution, or Both? **An Introduction to Demography and Populations Study Through an Examination of the World's Population.* JOEL COHEN, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University, Mathematical Biologist, Columbia University *Lesson Overview* Why study demography? You will be growing up in the generation where the baby boomers are going int... mais »

Gaudi

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[image: 161º Aniversário de Antoni Gaudí] - - - - - - - - Mais imagens Antoni Gaudí Antoni Placid Gaudí i Cornet foi um arquitecto catalão, um dos símbolos da cidade de Barcelona, onde se educou e passou grande parte da vida. Aparece como um arquitecto de novas concepções plásticas ligado ao modernismo catalão. Wikipédia Nascimento: 25 de junho de 1852, Reus, Espanha Falecimento: 10 de junho de 1926, Barcelona, Espanha Sepultamento: Templo Expiatório da Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Espanha Filiação: Francesc Gaudí i Serra, Antònia Cornet i Bertran Irm... mais »

Workout music

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Workout music and your supplementary motor cortexby tomstafford *Why do we like to listen to tunes when we exercise? Psychologist Tom Stafford searches for answers within our brains, not the muscles we are exercising.* Perhaps you have a favourite playlist for going to the gym or the park. Even if you haven't, you're certain to have seen joggers running along with headphones in their ears. Lots of us love to exercise to music, feeling like it helps* *to reduce effort and increase endurance. As a psychologist, the interesting thing for me is not just whether music helps when exercisin... mais »

L. F. Veríssimo Homenagem artística

Abre no dia 02 de julho exposição de tapeceiras, uma delas minha irmã Lia Maria Cechella Achutti.

evolution

The Red Queen was right: life must continually evolve to avoid extinction

June 22, 2013

A University of California, Berkeley study has found that a lack of new emerging species contributes to extinction over a period of millions of years. The researchers studied 19 groups of mammals that either are extinct or in decline from a past peak in diversity, as in the case of horses, elephants, rhinos and others. … more…

Tiny human pulse

Measuring the human pulse from tiny head movements to help diagnose cardiac disease

June 24, 2013

(It remember me Balistocardiography...)

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people depicted in ordinary digital video by analyzing imperceptibly small head movements that accompany the rush of blood caused by the heart’s contractions. In tests, the algorithm gave pulse measurements that were consistently … more…

Dr. James Martin 1933 – 2013

Dr. James Martin 1933 – 2013

June 26, 2013

Statement by Oxford Martin School

It is with great sadness that the Oxford Martin School has learned of the death of our Founder, Dr James Martin.

James Martin was an inspiration to millions — an extraordinary intellect, with wide-ranging interests, boundless energy and an unwavering commitment to addressing the greatest challenges facing humanity. For 25 years Martin was the highest-selling author of books on computing and related technology. He wrote a record 104 books, many of which have been seminal in their field, and was renowned for his electrifying lectures about the future. He was a Pulitzer nominee for his book The Wired Society./.../

Emotions = faces

About Face

For half a century, one theory about the way we experience and express emotion has helped shape how we practice psychology, do police work, and even fight terrorism. But what if that theory is wrong?

By Shannon Fischer | Boston Magazine | July 2013

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSE BURKE

Forty-six years ago a young San Francisco–based cowboy of a psychologist named Paul Ekman emerged from the jungle with proof of a powerful idea. During the previous couple of years, he had set out trying to prove a theory popularized in the 19th century by Charles Darwin: that people of all ages and races, from all over the world, manifest emotions the same way. Ekman had traveled the globe with photographs that showed faces experiencing six basic emotions—happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise. Everywhere he went, from Japan to Brazil to the remotest village of Papua New Guinea, he asked subjects to look at those faces and then to identify the emotions they saw on them. To do so, they had to pick from a set list of options presented to them by Ekman. The results were impressive. Everybody, it turned out, even preliterate Fore tribesmen in New Guinea who’d never seen a foreigner before in their lives, matched the same emotions to the same faces. Darwin, it seemed, had been right.

Taking emotions at face value

Boston Magazine has a fascinating article on the work of psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett who has been leading the charge against the idea that we recognise the same facial expression of emotion across the world.

This was first suggested by Paul Ekman whose work suggested that humans can universally recognise six emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise.

His research involved showing people from different cultures pictures of faces and asking them to label each expression from a choice of emotional words.

But Barrett has found a simple flaw in the procedure:

She returned to those famous cross-cultural studies that had launched Ekman’s career—and found that they were less than watertight. The problem was the options that Ekman had given his subjects when asking them to identify the emotions shown on the faces they were presented with. Those options, Barrett discovered, had limited the ways in which people allowed themselves to think.

Barrett explained the problem to me this way: “I can break that experiment really easily, just by removing the words. I can just show you a face and ask how this person feels. Or I can show you two faces, two scowling faces, and I can say, ‘Do these people feel the same thing?’ And agreement drops into the toilet.”

The article is on much more than this controversy in cognitive science and also tracks how research on emotion and facial expression is playing an increasing role in law enforcement – with not all of it well supported by evidence.

And if you want links to some of the scientific papers, the always interestingNeuroanthropology blog has more at the bottom of this post.
 

Link to Boston Magazine article ‘About Face’.

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atomic-scale structure

This Image Could Lead to Better Antibiotics

Berkeley Lab scientists create atomic-scale structure of ribosome attached to a molecule that controls its motion

JUNE 27, 2013

Dan Krotz   dakrotz@lbl.gov

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Feature

This may look like a tangle of squiggly lines, but you’re actually looking at a molecular machine called a ribosome. Its job is to translate DNA sequences into proteins, the workhorse compounds that sustain you and all living things./.../

Virus brain-mapping technique

Virus brain-mapping technique uncovers circuits involved in Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease

June 28, 2013

Basal ganglia (credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Gladstone Institutes and Salk Institute researchers have assembled brain-wide maps of neurons that connect with the basal ganglia, a region of the brain involved in movement and decision-making.

Developing a better understanding of this region is important as it could inform research into disorders causing basal ganglia dysfunction, including Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease.

Team leaders Gladstone Investigator Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, and Salk Investigator Edward Callaway, PhD combined mouse models with a sophisticated tracing technique known as the monosynaptic rabies virus system.

Bigger Cities

Bigger Cities Do More with Less 

New science reveals why cities become more productive and efficient as they grow

By Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West

http://www.scientificamerican.com/cities/           
Special Issue: Cities

The city is a solution to the problems of our age, and this week, we present it in the true urban spirit: best ideas forward  »

GREATER POPULATION, GREATER DIVIDENDSImage: Graphic by Bryan Christie

More In This Article

• Overview

  Engines of Innovation

• Sidebar

  Greater Population, Greater Dividends [Video]

For centuries, people have painted cities as unnatural human conglomerations, blighted by pathologies such as public health crises, aggression and exorbitant costs of living. Why, then, do people throughout the world keep leaving the countryside for the town? Recent research that is forming a multidisciplinary science of cities is beginning to reveal the answer: cities concentrate, accelerate, and diversify social and economic activity.

The numbers show that urban dwellers produce more inventions and create more opportunities for economic growth. Often large cities are also the greenest places on the planet because people living in denser habitats typically have smaller energy footprints, require less infrastructure and consume less of the world’s resources per capita. Compared with suburban or rural areas, cities do more with less. And the bigger cities get, the more productive and efficient they tend to become.

This article was originally published with the title Bigger Cities Do More with Less.

Tabagismo referências Duncan 4a. Edição

http://www.grupoa.com.br/uploads/imagensExtra/legado/D/DUNCAN_Bruce_B/Medicina_Ambulatorial_4Ed/Lib/hot/ref/05/Cap_60.pdf

Médicos do Brasil

Healthier Lifestyle

Wearable Devices Nudge You to a Healthier Lifestyle

An advantage of the Up band is its powerful software, which can plot hours of sleep against physical activity, so you can see how exercise affects your sleep.

By DAVID POGUE

Published: June 26, 2013 5 Comments

You’ve heard of the Quantified Self movement? It’s the rise of watches, clips and bracelets that monitor your physical activity, sleep and other biological functions. The idea is that continual numerical awareness of your lifestyle works to motivate you: to park farther away, to get off the subway one stop sooner, to take more stairs. You study the graphs, you crunch the numbers, you live a longer, healthier life. (And you try to avoid being a crashing bore at parties.)/.../

Health Promotion Helsinki, 2013

Promoting Health for All and Social Justice in the Era of Global Capitalism DRAFT v.4 – 12 June 2013
A call to action by the People’s Health Movement at the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion
Helsinki, Finland – 14 June 2013
Activists from the People’s Health Movement met during the WHO 8 th Global Conference on Health Promotion to critique the official Conference Statement and develop a progressive call for action based on strong social justice principles. The draft below reflects our deliberation and is being circulated for further comment and debate. Please send commentsto globalsecretariat@phmovement.org. We wish to support the progress onHealth Promotion andHealth in All Policies and callfor actionstoward health for all.
We note the nature ofthe contemporary economic and social order asfollows:
● sustainable development isin crisis, with neoliberalism, consumerism and individualism over‐riding the values of community and internationalsolidarity;
● the crises of finance, food and climate change deny hundreds of millions of people the right to decent employment, social protection, food security, livable communities, housing, water, sanitation and allthe social determinants of health;
● conflict and violence, rooted in gross inequalities and corporate greed, plague households, communities, cities and regions and blightmillions oflives;
● together with entrenched poverty, these factors contribute to large‐scale migration to cities and across national borders; in many cases migrants and refugees are discriminated against and denied their human rights; and
● inequalitiesin income and wealth within and between countries, and resultant health inequity, are growing rapidly, with complex roots in the dominant global capitalist regime that functions via unbridled competition, obscene greed and undemocratic governance at national and international levels.
As a consequence there is rising popular demand for governments to fulfill their obligations to guarantee social protections and to commit to a sustainable model of societal well‐being that is based on equity, human rights and social justice and that emphasises “good living” (buen vivir) as opposed to unquestioned economic growth.
We underline the urgency ofrequired actions by WHOand its member States on key areasidentified in the Declaration by Public Interest Civil Society Organisations and Social Movements at the World Conference on the Social Determinants of Health, held in Rio de Janeiro in October 2011; and we urge participantsto referto
(http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/AlternativeCivilSocietyDeclaration20Sep.pdf)

Buying Happiness

Michael Norton of Harvard Business SchoolImage: Steph Stevens

Using Money to Buy Happiness

Two scholars offer scientific advice on getting the most happiness for your dollar

By Gareth Cook

We live in America with two bits of contradictory received wisdom — that you’d be a lot better off if you made more money, and that money can’t buy you happiness. Now two scholars suggest another way of thinking about the relationship between cash and joy: To a large degree, how you spend is just as important as how much you spend.Michael Norton, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor – with Elizabeth Dunn – of Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, answered questions from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook./.../