Sunday, June 30, 2019

Deepfakes

Deepfake videos are hard for untrained eyes to detect because they can be quite realistic. Whether used as personal weapons of revenge, to manipulate financial markets or to destabilize international relations, videos depicting people doing and saying things they never did or said are a fundamental threat to the longstanding idea that “seeing is believing.” Not anymore.
Most deepfakes are made by showing a computer algorithm many images of a person, and then having it use what it saw to generate new face images. At the same time, their voice is synthesized, so it both looks and sounds like the person has said something new.

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01 julho 2019

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR *Aloyzio Cechella Achutti Valderês Antonietta Robinson*
Casamento civil: 62 anos (religioso 09/07), mais sete anos de namoro. 

Universal Health Coverage: World Bank

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 16 horas
*World Bank Health*‏ @WBG_Health FollowingFollowing @WBG_Health More Why should universal health coverage be important to all governments and why investing in it should be a priority. Blog: http://wrld.bg/maAD30p0K0N @NOIweala More

Low-birth-weight: worldwide 2000-2016

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 16 horas
National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis - Hannah Blencowe, MRCPCH - Julia Krasevec, MSc - Mercedes de Onis, MD - Prof Robert E Black, MD - Xiaoyi An, MA - Gretchen A Stevens, DSc - et al. - Show all authors - Show footnotes Open AccessPublished:May 15, 2019 - *Download PDF [3 MB]* - DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30565-5 Summary Background Low birthweight (LBW) of less than 2500 g is an important marker of maternal and fetal health, predicting mortality, stunting,... mais »

Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, (born June 29, 1900, Lyon, France

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 21 horas
The Little Prince FABLE BY SAINT-EXUPÉRY WRITTEN BY: - Kate Lohnes - Cathy Lowne See Article History *Alternative Title:* “Le Petit Prince” *The Little Prince*, French *Le Petit Prince*, fable and modern classic by French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that was published with his own illustrations in French as *Le Petit Prince* in 1943. The simple tale tells the story of a child, the little prince, who travels the universe gaining wisdom. The novellahas been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold some 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of ... mais »

The Geometry of Thought

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias
The Geometry of Thought A Conversation with Barbara Tversky [6.25.19] *Slowly, the significance of spatial thinking is being recognized, of reasoning with the body acting in space, of reasoning with the world as given, but even more with the things that we create in the world. Babies and other animals have amazing feats of thought, without explicit language. /.../*

On "Manels", for my AMICOR girls

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
NIH Director Francis Collins Has a Plan to Help Eliminate "Manels" BY ALICE PARK JUNE 24, 2019 If you want Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to speak at your next event or conference, he has one important condition. Any panel in which he participates has to include a diverse range of speakers from different backgrounds and show a fair gender distribution. “If I don’t see that,” he says, “I will respectfully, or not so respectfully, decline. And not come.” Collins laid out his requirements in an announcement, published on June 12, titled “Time to End... mais »

Medical Specialities

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
5 Most In-Demand Medical Specialties

Too much medicine

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
Too much medicine [image: Too much medicine] The BMJ’s Too Much Medicine initiative aims to highlight the threat to human health posed by overdiagnosis and the waste of resources on unnecessary care. We are part of a movement of doctors, researchers, patients, and policymakers who want to describe, raise awareness of, and find solutions to the problem of too much medicine. Causes of too much medicine include expanded disease definitions, uncritical adoption of population screening, disease mongering and medicalisation, commercial vested interest, strongly held clinical beliefs, incre... mais »

AD and BP

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Blood Pressure Reduction and Alzheimer's Disease-Study examines nilvadipine and cerebral blood flow, showing increased, safe flow to hippocampus by Vicki Brower , CME Writer, MedPage Today June 23, 2019 *CME Author:* Vicki Brower *Study Authors:* Daan L. K. de Jong, Rianne A. A. de Heus, et al. *Target Audience and Goal Statement:* Neurologists, geriatricians, cardiologists, internists, family medicine specialists The goal of this study was to determine whether blood pressure reduction with antihypertensive medication could affect cerebral blood flow, in particular, to the hippocampus a...mais »

Expanding Universe?

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
Ask Ethan: What Could Solve The Cosmic Controversy Over The Expanding Universe? Two independent techniques give precise but incompatible answers. Here’s how to resolve it. Ethan Siegel in Starts With A Bang!9 min read

collective unconscious

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics Anonymous Por Charles Fox aeon.co 5 min Exibir original psychology Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual-aid fellowship with more than 2 million members worldwide. It strives to help members ‘stay sober and other alcoholics achieve sobriety’. Despite the fact that studies of its efficacy have been inconsistent, AA has had a significant and long-term effect on the culture of the United States and one of its founders was among *Time* magazine’s most important people of the 20th century.

Mosquitoes

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
Why Do Some People Always Get Bitten by Mosquitoes, While Others Don't? By Grant Currin, Live Science Contributor | June 22, 2019 07:42am ET Some people can sit outside all summer long and not suffer from mosquito bites. Others turn into an itchy mess despite bathing in DEETand never leaving the purple glow of the bug zapper. What gives? It's mostly about the invisible chemical landscape of the air around us. Mosquitoes take advantage of this landscape by using specialized behaviors and sensory organs to find victims by following the subtle chemical traces their bodies leave behind. "M... mais »

01 julho 2019

Casamento civil: 62 anos (religioso 09/07), mais sete anos de namoro.
Aloyzio  Cechella Achutti                                         Valderês Antonietta Robinson
   



Jorge Rocha Gomes, colega de turma da Valderês, nos enviou mensagem com cumprimentos e uma foto com sua esposa. Eles também aniversariam no mês de julho. Parabéns!
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Recebemos também, e agradecemos, cumprimentos do querido amigo Ulrich (Ueli) Gruninger da Suiça.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Universal Health Coverage: World Bank

Why should universal health coverage be important to all governments and why investing in it should be a priority. Blog:


Low-birth-weight: worldwide 2000-2016


National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis


Summary

Background

Low birthweight (LBW) of less than 2500 g is an important marker of maternal and fetal health, predicting mortality, stunting, and adult-onset chronic conditions. Global nutrition targets set at the World Health Assembly in 2012 include an ambitious 30% reduction in LBW prevalence between 2012 and 2025. Estimates to track progress towards this target are lacking; with this analysis, we aim to assist in setting a baseline against which to assess progress towards the achievement of the World Health Assembly targets.

Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry, (born June 29, 1900, Lyon, France


The Little Prince

FABLE BY SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Alternative Title: “Le Petit Prince”


The Little Prince, French Le Petit Princefable and modern classic by French aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that was published with his own illustrations in French as Le Petit Prince in 1943. The simple tale tells the story of a child, the little prince, who travels the universe gaining wisdom. The novellahas been translated into hundreds of languages and has sold some 200 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in publishing history. /.../
—died July 31, 1944, near Marseille)

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The Geometry of Thought

Barbara Tversky [6.25.19]
Slowly, the significance of spatial thinking is being recognized, of reasoning with the body acting in space, of reasoning with the world as given, but even more with the things that we create in the world. Babies and other animals have amazing feats of thought, without explicit language. /.../

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

On "Manels", for my AMICOR girls

NIH Director Francis Collins Has a Plan to Help Eliminate "Manels"


BY ALICE PARK  
JUNE 24, 2019
If you want Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to speak at your next event or conference, he has one important condition. Any panel in which he participates has to include a diverse range of speakers from different backgrounds and show a fair gender distribution. “If I don’t see that,” he says, “I will respectfully, or not so respectfully, decline. And not come.”
Collins laid out his requirements in an announcement, published on June 12, titled “Time to End the Manel Tradition.” It was the latest effort to address a glaring inequity in the scientific field: the tendency for speakers and panels to be composed entirely of men—“manels.”
While STEM efforts focus on ensuring girls and women receive equal consideration and opportunity to train and enter scientific fields, more established scientists and researchers, like Collins, are raising the alarm about male-dominated practices that need to be changed immediately./.../