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This thesis refers to the history and the memory of Syrian-Lebanese immigration in Rio Grande do Sul, in the period from the last decade of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, more precisely between the years of 1890 and 1949, a temporal lapse that corresponds to two generations of immigrants, between their arrival in the country, adaptation to the new land and integration with the ‘gaucho’ culture. It aims to contribute to the knowledge of the origins of the Arab immigration in the state, the periods in which immigrants arrived, their places of fixation, the activities they carried out,...
In science, progress rarely comes in one big shebang. Well, it has now, two years running. The first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, our top story in 2016, launched a long-dreamed-of kind of astronomy capable of “unlocking otherwise unknowable secrets of the cosmos,” as physics writer Emily Conover puts it. 2017’s key event: a never-before-seen neutron star collision that immediately validated some theories in physics and killed others. And so a new way to probe cosmic mysteries wins our top spot again this year./.../
*Na transição convencionada do tempo de mais um ano, gostaria de agradecer a todos os AMICOR, amigos e eventuais visitantes por me facilitarem a sensação de estar acompanhado, tendo com quem trocar experiências e conteúdos de nossas mentes.* *Em 2017 colecionamos vários números redondos: AMICOR fez 20 anos, minha esposa e eu completamos 60 anos de casados, nossa filha mais nova seus 50 anos e 25 de casada, nossa neta 20 anos, meus pais - se vivos estivessem - 90 anos do casamento, e haveria mais ainda a lembrar...* *Em 2018 já antevejo celebrar 40 anos da pesquisa sobre pressão arteri...mais »
*Este artigo, gentilmente enviado por uma amiga - Vera Veríssimo - pode ser uma das últimas reflexões para 2017, apontando para uma nova tensão social relacionada com desigualdade, expressando-se por crescente violência. Por aqui, as desigualdades principalmente econômica, étnica e de gênero com as quais nos acostumamos a conviver e tolerar, poderiam ser consideradas como equivalentes aos problemas migratórios e de islamização em outras partes do muindo. * *Parece haver um arquétipo determinante e muito forte, provavelmente relacionado com identidade/identificação.* *Há o que pensar ...mais »
The First Supermoon of 2018 Arrives on New Year's Day The new year will be off to a celestial start with the appearance of a bigger and brighter supermoon — this time nicknamed the "wolf moon"
*The top 10 most populous countries:* 1. China 1,384,688,986 2. India 1,296,834,042 3. United States 329,256,465 4. Indonesia 262,787,403 5. Brazil 208,846,892 6. Pakistan 207,862,518 7. Nigeria 195,300,343 8. Bangladesh 159,453,001 9. Russia 142,122,776 10. Japan 126,168,156
The World in Photos This Year Hurricanes in the Caribbean, a genocide in Myanmar, protests in the United States, and victories in Iraq and Syria. This is 2017 in photos. BY FP STAFF | DECEMBER 26, 2017, 10:17 AM *START SLIDESHOWVIEW AS A LIST*
*From: https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/12/29/book-review?nlid=7176320* View in Browser | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [image: The New York Times] [image: The New York Times] Thursday, December 28, 2017 NYTimes.com/Books » Dear Reader... [image: ] Armando Veve Pardon the melodrama, but this year the end of the year feels to many like the end of everything. Between global and domestic political upheaval, wildfires in the American West, a catastrophic hurricane season, repeated mass shootings and acts of terrorism, the world hasn’t exactly felt like a cal...mais »
[image: Image shows the interpeduncular nucleus of a mouse brain.]BRAIN RESEARCH POINTS THE WAY TO NEW TREATMENTS FOR NICOTINE ADDICTION The interpeduncular nucleus region of a mouse brain, with Amigo1 cells shown in green. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to the researchers. DECEMBER 28, 2017
NOTÍCIAS Esmalte do dente permite determinar sexo de esqueleto humano Análise de fragmentos de proteína responsável pela formação da coroa dentária ajudou a identificar o gênero de remanescentes humanos de cerca de 5 mil anos
*Recomendado pelo AMICOR * *Enrique Barros* A Piece of My Mind December 26, 2017 Negative Capability and the Art of Medicine Jack Coulehan, MD, MPH1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. 2017;318(24):2429-2430. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.19333 On December 21, 1817, John Keats wrote to his brothers George and Tom about a literary discussion he had recently had with the critic Charles Dilke, after which “several things dove-tailed in my mind.”1 Keats continued, “At once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare posse...mais »
*Nossos dois primeiros filhos lá nasceram, com assistência do Dr. Erio Brasil Pellanda.* *Valderês e eu atendemos por longo período pacientes la internados pela Pref. Social.*
THE TOP TECH BOOKS OF 2017: PART IIFILO/GETTY IMAGESLast week, we brought you six of the best tech books of 2017, which you promptly purchased in bulk as last-minute holiday gifts for your loved ones. No? Well, here’s another chance. We’re back this week with five morerecommendations to close out the year. This week’s books take a turn for the historical: Leslie Berlin and Noam Cohen offer complementary histories of Silicon Valley and the key personalities that define it today, while Brian Dear takes a deep dive into PLATO, a prescient 1960s-era computer network that enjoyed a brief...mais »
https://t.co/uTSCgw70X3 https://t.co/4YkKcBEdXt In 1977, Woese and Fox proposed the Archaea as a new domain of life and that the tree of life is divided into three branches — the Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea. Although a three-domain tree was controversial to some, this study was soon accepted, and is widely regarded as one of the most important discoveries in biology of the past century. To mark 40 years of archaea research, editors present a collection of articles from across the *Nature* group that explores the fundamental biology, evolution, metabolic versatility and...mais »
*Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja*Science Confirms the Once-Mocked ‘Man Flu’ Is a Real Thing By Francesca Friday • 12/25/17 10:00am Despite the comedic stereotype that ‘Man Flu’ often connotes, evidence is ‘suggestive of an immunity gap.’ Unsplash/Tim Gouw According to a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the once-mocked “Man Flu” is a real thing, raising questions as to whether men are “immunologically inferior.” The “Man Flu” phenomenon has been notoriously debated over the years, even earning a spot in the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. ...mais »
The Human Advantageby tomstafford In 'The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable', Suzana Herculano-Houzel weaves together two stories: the story of her scientific career, based on her invention of a new technique for counting the number of brain cells in an entire brain, and the story of human brain evolution. Previously counts of neurons in brains of humans and other animals relied on sampling: counting the cells in a slice of tissue and multiplying up to get an estimate. Because of differences in cell types and numbers across brain regions, these estimates are uncertain...mais »
Na transição convencionada do tempo de mais um ano, gostaria de agradecer a todos os AMICOR, amigos e eventuais visitantes por me facilitarem a sensação de estar acompanhado, tendo com quem trocar experiências e conteúdos de nossas mentes. Em 2017 colecionamos vários números redondos: AMICOR fez 20 anos, minha esposa e eu completamos 60 anos de casados, nossa filha mais nova seus 50 anos e 25 de casada, nossa neta 20 anos, meus pais - se vivos estivessem - 90 anos do casamento, 30 da Disciplina de Promoção e Proteção da Saúde III (adulto e idoso) que criei ao retornar para a Faculdade de Medicina, e haveria mais ainda a lembrar... Em 2018 já antevejo celebrar 40 anos da pesquisa sobre pressão arterial e outros fatores de risco na população adulta do Estado, e 60 anos de formatura de nossa turma na Medicina da UFRGS... Saúde e Felicidade a todos!
New Year’s Eve is a time to set goals: to eat better, to save more money, to work harder, to drink less. It’s Day 1 on the road to a “new you.” But this road, as we all know, is difficult to follow. Humans are notoriously bad at resisting temptation, especially (as research confirms) if we’re busy, tired or stressed. By Jan. 8, some 25 percent of resolutions have fallen by the wayside. And by the time the year ends, fewer than 10 percent have been fully kept./.../
From an evolutionary perspective, the fact that exercising willpower doesn’t come naturally to us makes a lot of sense. For millenniums, what led to success wasn’t the ability to study for exams, save for retirement, go to the gym or wait for a second marshmallow. For most of our evolutionary history, none of these self-focused goals mattered or even existed. It’s far more likely that what led to success was strong social bonds — relationships that would encourage people to cooperate and lend support to one another, which helped to ensure that their sacrifices would be returned time and again when required in the future.
But to establish and maintain relationships, people would have had to be fair, honest, generous, diligent and loyal. They would have had to be perceived as good partners. In other words, they would have had to behave morally./.../
More than a decade’s worth of research backs up this picture. Studies from my lab, for example, show that gratitude directly increases self-control. In a version of the marshmallow test adapted for adults, we had people take a few minutes to recall an event that made them feel grateful, neutral or happy. Next, we had them answer a series of questions of the form “Would you rather have $X now or $Y in Z days?” with Y always being bigger than X, and Z varying over weeks to months. From these questions, we could calculate how much people discounted the value of the future./.../
What these findings show is that pride, gratitude and compassion, whether we consciously realize it or not, reduce the human mind’s tendency to discount the value of the future. In so doing, they push us not only to cooperate with other people but also to help our own future selves. Feeling pride or compassion has been shown to increase perseverance on difficult tasks by over 30 percent. Likewise, gratitude and compassion have been tied to better academic performance, a greater willingness to exercise and eat healthily, and lower levels of consumerism, impulsivity and tobacco and alcohol use./.../
