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#Dra. Valderês Antonietta Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)

Voltando para casa, do Sudeste Asiático, com um leque de penas de pavão...

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In the study, IHME researchers found that for a person previously infected with COVID, protection against severe disease remained high at 40 weeks after infection – over 88% – for the ancestral, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron BA.1 variants. Protection against reinfection: Meanwhile, the protection from reinfection from ancestral, Alpha, and Delta variants was 79% at 40 weeks. By contrast, the protection against reinfection by the Omicron BA.1 variant was substantially lower at 36%. Vaccine-acquired immunity remains safest: Past COVID infection appears to be on par with two mRNA vaccine doses for protection against reinfection, symptomatic disease, and severe disease for the four aforementioned variants, though “vaccinations are still the safest way to acquire immunity against COVID-19,” said Dr. Stephen Lim, IHME professor and lead author of the study.

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Development Assistance for Health Database 1990-2021 India Demographic and Health Survey 2019-2020 Gross Domestic Product Per Capita 1960-2050 - FGH 2021 #Our World in Data Technology over the long run: zoom out to see how dramatically the world can change within a lifetime It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime. Bringing to mind how dramatically the world has changed can help us see how different the world could be in a few years or decades. More of our recent work We’re hiring an HR Manager! AI timelines: What do experts in artificial intelligence expect for the future? We just published a redesign of our work on Democracy Help us improve Our World in Data for you We just published a redesign of our work on Biodiversity

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QUANTUM PHYSICS | ALL TOPICS   Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing By CHARLIE WOOD The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works. Read the article

THE JOY OF WHY   How Will the Universe End? Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ Big Freeze, Big Rip, Big Crunch, Bounce or vacuum decay? Steven Strogatz speaks with theoretical cosmologist Katie Mack about the five ways that scientists think the universe could come to an end. Listen to the podcast Read the transcript MICROBIOLOGY   With Nothing to Eat Except Viruses, Some Microbes Thrive By YASEMIN SAPLAKOGLU Microbiologists have found that “virovores” — organisms that survive and multiply by eating viruses — might influence the flow of energy through ecosystems. Read the blog QUANTIZED COLUMNS   Can a Fungus Really Take Over Our Brains? By TARA C. SMITH Several real-life pathogens can change a host’s behavior against their will. Here’s what we know about these zombie-like infections. Read the column Related:  How to Permanently End Diseases By Tara C. Smith (2019) Around the Web Good Vibes Our planet reverberates like a bell for days after a major earthquake. Researchers have now used these seismic waves to work out new details in the structure of Earth’s inner core, reports Bianca Nogrady for Nature. Seismic measurements previously revealed that the structure of Earth’s mantle is more complex than was thought. In 2020, Joshua Sokol wrote for Quanta about the discovery of two giant subterranean continents that are tied to volcanic activity and the evolution of the planet. Dodo Redo A biotech company wants to resurrect the dodo bird, reports Ewen Callaway for Nature. It plans to edit the genes of the bird’s closest living relative, the iridescent-feathered Nicobar pigeon, to match that of the dodo. Even if this method succeeds, however, researchers will only have produced a hybrid rather than a truly resurrected dodo. Last year, Yasemin Saplakoglu explained for Quanta why de-extinction is impossible.

#Livescience

Dark energy could lead to a second (and third, and fourth) Big Bang, new research suggests

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Will the universe end in a bang or a whimper? A pair of theoretical physicists have proposed a third path: Perhaps the universe will never end.

 Full Story: Live Science (2/23) 

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#Dra. Valderês Antonietta Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)

Barcelona, junho 1995, durante a 2a Conferência Internacional de Saúde do Coração, frente ao cartaz de uma  apresentação, da qual ela foi coautora.

#Slideshow: 92 fotos de abertura Clicar em apresentação de slides

#Luiza Cechella Achutti (*15/02/1911 +05/12/1999) estaria com 112 anos

Em Santa Maria, em1927, fotografada pelo Bôrtolo, com quem casou aos 16 anos.

Os 112 anos, lembraram-me a cliente mais longeva que tivemos, e que viveu até quase essa idade,
a saudosa Da Laurita Pereira Donadio (*22/04/1905 +24/01/2016)

                                           

#Vera Elisabeth Verissimo (15/02/1934+29/06/2022) Amiga da Dra. Valderês e minha, se viva ainda estivesse, estaria completando 89 anos. Professora, poeta e psicóloga

#Latest insights   Building upon their recently published, peer-reviewed research, IHME’s health financing team wrote about the positive impacts due to COVID-19 on development assistance for health (DAH) for Think Global Health. DAH for other health areas besides COVID-19 – such as child and newborn health, HIV/AIDS, and health systems strengthening – also saw increases during the 2019-2021 period. In the same time frame, donors like Germany and Japan increased their development spending by over 50%. “The enormous increase in DAH observed during the COVID period inspires hope. But investing in more effective ways to protect against a range of diseases and conditions is just as important as defending the world against the next pandemic,” wrote the authors. Read in Think Global Health New Data Sets: Gross Domestic Product Per Capita 1960-2050 - FGH 2021 Global Expected Health Spending 2020-2050 Global Health Spending 1995-2019 Recebi e me pareceu bom compartilhar... #JACC Abstract Coronary angiography has historically served as the gold standard for diagnosis of coronary artery disease and guidance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Adjunctive use of contemporary intravascular imaging (IVI) technologies has emerged as a complement to conventional angiography—to further characterize plaque morphology and optimize the performance of PCI. IVI has utility for preintervention lesion and vessel assessment, periprocedural guidance of lesion preparation and stent deployment, and postintervention assessment of optimal endpoints and exclusion of complications. The role of IVI in reducing major adverse cardiac events in complex lesion subsets is emerging, and further studies evaluating broader use are underway or in development. This paper provides an overview of currently available IVI technologies, reviews data supporting their utilization for PCI guidance and optimization across a variety of lesion subsets, proposes best practices, and advocates for broader use of these technologies as a part of contemporary practice. #Vera Fabrício Carvalho (+16/02/2023), Arquiteta Foi responsável pelo projeto e construção de nossa casa da Avenida Bastian 212, juntamente com seu colega Ary Mazzini Canarin, no início da década de 70. Tornando realidade um dos sonhos de minha querida esposa Valderês que aqui conseguiu viver mais de 45 anos, falecendo em sua casa em 2021. Um colega de turma da Dra. Valderês, Dr. Jorge da Rocha Gomes, sugeriu que fosse acrescentada uma foto de nossa casa. # EVOLUTION | ALL TOPICS   Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle By ALLISON WHITTEN The neocortex of our brain is the seat of our intellect. New data suggests that mammals created it with new types of cells that they developed only after their evolutionary split from reptiles. Read the article ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE   To Teach Computers Math, Researchers Merge AI Approaches By KEVIN HARTNETT Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change. Read the article Related:  Building the Mathematical Library of the Future By Kevin Hartnett (2020) GRAPH THEORY   Quantum Field Theory Pries Open Mathematical Puzzle By LEILA SLOMAN Mathematicians have struggled to understand the moduli space of graphs. A new paper uses tools from physics to peek inside. Read the blog Related:  He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal. By Jordana Cepelewicz (2022) Q&A   She Studies Growing Arteries to Aid Heart Attack Recovery By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Regenerative medicine researcher Kristy Red Horse’s discoveries may someday help damaged hearts heal better. Her stewardship of her Native American heritage may advance science in other ways too. Read the interview Related:  The Contrarian Who Cures Cancers By Claudia Dreifus (2020) QUANTA SCIENCE PODCAST   Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’ Podcast hosted by SUSAN VALOT; Story by CHARLIE WOOD Graphics by MERRILL SHERMAN The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. Listen to the podcast Read the story   Around the Web Ripples of Information Gravitational waves produced by neutron star collisions provide invaluable clues about the life cycle and contents of these stellar corpses, Sophia Chen writes for WIRED. In 2020, one gravitational wave signal had properties so unexpected that it forced astronomers to radically revise their models of how neutron stars are born. Dana Najjar wrote about it for Quanta. Defining Life Our cells are made of complicated micromachines driven by electric potentials. Precisely where that complexity shades into “life” is difficult to define. Kurzgesagt explains how life is an emergent phenomenon in a new video. There are many different definitions of life, and all come with exceptions. For The Joy of Why podcast, Steven Strogatz spoke with astrobiologist Robert Hazen and chemist Sheref Mansy about the dividing line between the living and non-living on a “continuum of chemical complexity.” #Popular Mechanics Dark Energy Is the Invisible Fabric of Our Universe, And We Know Virtually Zilch About It To put it one way, it’s the observation that our cosmos is in the process of ripping itself apart. Read More

#Science Times Webb Telescope Spots a Distant Spiral Galaxy Like Our Own ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel OUT THERE LEDA 2046648 has an eerie resemblance to our Milky Way galaxy, but it lies a billion light-years away. By Dennis Overbye #

O declínio da memória é uma das principais preocupações associadas ao envelhecimento. Estudos recentes que examinaram possíveis fatores modificáveis passíveis de retardar esse processo geraram o tema clínico mais buscado da semana. Saiba mais