Professor Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti. Paraninfo IA/UFRGS
*Nosso filho Luiz Eduardo foi paraninfo de turma de formandos do Instituto de Artes da UFRGS, no dia de hoje. Seguem a foto e seu discurso.* *IA, ritos e alegria.* Boa tarde a todos, primeiramente uma confissão, ou melhor, duas: - antes de eu vir para cá minha mulher disse que eu estava proibido de chorar, pois a formatura não era minha. Vou tentar. Outra: nunca assisti ou participei de uma formatura, nem da minha, lá nos idos tempos das Ciências Sociais. Dito isto, desde já quero agradecer aos meus queridos alunos, que se formam nesta tarde, por esta oportunidade. Muito em breve ... mais »
Healthy weight
A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS JANUARY 15, 2015 10:00 AM January 15, 2015 10:00 am 263 Comments PhotoCreditIllustration by Ben Wiseman - *This article appeared in the January 18, 2015 issue of The New York Times Magazine.* Scientists, like mothers, have long suspected that midnight snacking is inadvisable. But until a few years ago, there was little in the way of science behind those suspicions. Now, a new study shows that mice prevented from eating at all hours avoided obesity and metabolic problems — even if their diet was sometimes unhealthful./.../
Kinesin
Tweet of the Week: Walk This WayHave you ever seen a motor protein in action? - SAVESAVED - - - - "> - - by MedPage Today Staff - Welcome to another edition of the *MedPage Today* Tweet of the Week! Every Friday, the editorial team highlights its favorite 140-character contribution from the healthcare twittersphere. This week's winner is ... TIL, a Twitter page that dedicates its posts to learning something new every day. They shared this hypnotizing animation of a confident kinesin at work. Today I Learned @TILSomethingNew Follow Kinesin (a motor... mais »
Health Professionals elearning
*Recomendado por Cristiane Famer Rocha*eLearning for undergraduate health professional education - a systematic review informing a radical transformation of health workforce development Publication details Authors: Imperial College London, World Health Organization Edited by Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Rifat Atun, Josip Car, Azeem Majeed, Erica Wheeler Date: January 2015 Number of pages: 156 ISBN: 978 92 4 150826 1 Download eLearning systematic review *(pdf, 4.99 Mb)* Overview This publication on ‘eLearning for Undergraduate Health Professional Education’ responds to a need at the country lev... mais »
Controlling Fly aging
‘Methuselah fly’ created by selecting best cells January 16, 2015 [image: A deceased Drosophila melanogaster. (Credit: Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bern)] University of Bern researchers have prolonged the lifespan of flies by activating a gene that destroys unhealthy cells. The results could also open new possibilities in human anti-aging research. The researchers at the Institute of Cell Biology from the University of Bern in Switzerland, led by Eduardo Moreno, developed a new method to extend the … more…
Exoplanets
Planets outside our solar system more hospitable to life than thought January 16, 2015 [image: Exoplanet, artist's impression] A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought. Scientists have thought that exoplanets behave in a manner contrary to that of Earth — that is, they always show their same … more…
Obesity control
How the brain controls fat burningJanuary 16, 2015 (Credit: Monash University) In case the “imaginary meal” approach to burning fat doesn’t work, now there’s a backup. Monash University researchers have discovered that two naturally occurring hormones stimulate neurons in the brain’s hypothalamus, causing them to send signals through the nervous system that promote the conversion of white fat into brown fat. This leads to burning off excess fat. The findings, published Thursday (Jan. 15) in the journal *Cell*, give new insights into how the brain regulates body fat, and may lead to mor... mais »
Smell
You Don’t Just Smell Through Your Nose By Debra Kelly on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 [image: 87809857] “And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, / She walks unbidden from room to room, / And the air is filled that she passes through / With a subtle, sad perfume.” —Bret Harte, “Newport Legend” In A Nutshell We tend to think that we smell with our nose, but we’ve recently found that nearly every single organ in our bodies is capable of smell. More precisely, our organs have been found to contain olfactory receptors that are keyed to react in certain ways to certain scents. When r... mais »
Población Mundial 2014
El Cuadro de Datos de la Población Mundial 2014 Carl Haub y Toshiko Kaneda Descargue el informe completoResumen (enero 2015) *El Cuadro de Datos de la Población Mundial 2014* del PRB contiene las más recientes estimaciones y proyecciones demográficas y otros indicadores clave correspondientes a más de 200 países. El Cuadro de Datos 2014 es especial atención sobre el progreso y los retos./.../
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Wrong Name, Real Illness Miriam E. Tucker Disclosures January 08, 2015 221 comments - A *Real* Condition - What Is ME/CFS? - Physical Findings and Biomarkers - Clinical Approaches - Federal Efforts, Funding, and Future Directions - References Topic Alert Receive an email from Medscape whenever new articles on this topic are available. - [image: Personal Alert] Add Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to My Topic Alert Introduction Sufferers of what has been called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are challenging patients, presenting with complai... mais »
Medical Research
The U.S. Loses Its Edge in Medical ResearchResearch funding from the United States dropped from 57% of the global pool in 2004 to 50% in 2012. Asia on the other hand tripled its investment in research over the same period
Here’s Proof That Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Friends - Alice Park @aliceparkny Jan. 12, 2015 Nobody knows us better than our family and friends, right? Who else could predict how we’ll react to good and bad news, or whether to pick the pie or ice cream for dessert?[image: 175277055] Fonte: *http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/01/07/1418680112.full.pdf+html*
On Bats
No Time for Bats to Rest Easy By NATALIE ANGIERJAN. 12, 2015 Photo Pallas’s long-tongued bat, above, is a valuable pollinator. Hibernating bats are vulnerable to white-nose syndrome, which has killed at least six million of them in North America.CreditMerlin D. Tuttle/Bat Conservation International LEWISBURG, PA. — The 10 hibernating little brown bats hang from a corner of their tailor-made refrigeration chamber at Bucknell University like a clump of old potato skins, only less animated. In torpor, bats become one with their wintry surroundings, their body temperatures fal... mais »
NEJM Journal Watch 2014
NEJM Journal WatchGeneral Medicine [image: YEAR IN REVIEW 2014] TOPICS INCLUDED IN THIS COLLECTION: - Can We Do a Better Job of Keeping Patients Out of the Hospital? - Fecal DNA Testing: Finally Ready for Prime Time? - Has Risk for Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Been Exaggerated? - Direct Oral Anticoagulants Are Safe and Effective Compared with Warfarin - A New Era Unfolds in HCV Treatment - When Is Conservative Treatment Better? Nearly Always, for Some Patients with Chronic Orthopedic Pain Studies Suggest - We Should Modify Our Approach to Sepsis Treatment ... mais »
Plasmonics
Plasmônica - um novo campo de trabalho Mais que uma nova área de estudo. A plasmônica é a revolução, ou não?
Aging Brain Care
HABC MonitorImproving screening, diagnosis and management * free with registration Obtain a copyHABC Monitor - Caregiver editionPDFFree*HABC Monitor - Patient editionPDFFree*HABC Monitor - Caregiver editionPrint$9.99HABC Monitor - Patient editionPrint$9.99 Improving dementia care requires three key building blocks often lacking in clinical practice. These are: - a standardized, reliable means of screening (finding patients with a high probability of having dementia); - diagnosis (confirming the presence of dementia in these patients; and - management (monitoring the respons...mais »
Metformin and cancer
Can we use an anti-diabetic drug to treat cancer?Metformin—a drug used to lower blood sugar levels in patients with diabetes—is able to slow the growth of cancer cells. Metformin is widely used to reduce the high blood sugar levels caused by diabetes. Recently, several studies have suggested that patients taking metformin who also develop cancer have tumors that grow more slowly than average. As clinical trials have already started to investigate if metformin is an effective anti-cancer treatment, it is important to understand how it might restrict tumor growth. Researchers have pro... mais »
Laughter and Terror
- Laughter and TerrorRobert Darnton Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris “The Patriotic De-Fattening Machine,” a cartoon from the French Revolution, circa 1790. One of the many cartoons published in homage to the cartoonists and journalists assassinated on Wednesday in the office of *Charlie Hebdo* showed a gravestone with the inscription “Died of Laughter.” No one is laughing these days in Paris. In fact, the massacre raises questions about laughter itself./.../
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