Brazil stands out for its coffee plantations for which the 2015 harvest yielded a revenue of over 600 million dollars. Its production is closely related to biotic and abiotic factors, and insect pests are noted for reducing this production. However, those insects are highly influenced by biological control agents such as predator wasps. This study aimed to survey the wasps visiting intercropping coffee cultivation with different tree species. Four plots of coffee intercropped with different tree species and coffee in full sun (control) were sampled for comparison. Tree species were: Teak (Tectona grandis L.f), Australian redcedar (Toona ciliata M. Roem.), Mangium (Acacia mangium Willd.) and Avocado (Persea americana Mill.). Six hundred and thirty-nine individuals of social wasps were collected, with 20 species and 7 genera, and an overall diversity index of 1.14. The plot with Avocado had the highest Shannon diversity index (H ') 1.23 and the lowest dominance according to the Index Berger-Paker (DPB) 0.54.
Este estudo objetiva levantar a história do processo de implantação da Política de Educação Permanente em Saúde (PEPS) em Santa Catarina. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental com análise qualitativa, utilizando as atas das reuniões do Fórum de Polos de Educação Permanente e da Comissão de Integração de Ensino e Serviço Estadual no período de 2004 a 2011. Os resultados estão organizados de modo temporal e em três categorias: Aprendendo a trabalhar na roda de gestão da Educação Permanente em saúde; Processo de transição da Política Nacional de Educação Permanente (PNEPS); e A nova conjuntura da PNEPS. Traz um retrato da história, destacando os principais fatos ocorridos durante o processo de implantação da PEP, mostrando que o estado está trilhando o seu caminho, respaldado na Portaria GM/MS 1996/07, tendo se organizado de modo a expandir as ações e a interlocução entre as demais estratégias (ensino, serviço e comunidade).
BACKGROUND: In an effort to combat the opioid epidemic, state legislation was passed to limit postoperative narcotic prescribing. The purpose of this study was to assess if the legislation had an impact on patients' perception of pain management after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We hypothesized that patients would not perceive their pain management experience to be impacted. METHODS: A prospective survey study was performed on all consenting patients undergoing primary THA or TKA at a large academic center from July 2019 to February 2020. Patients taking opioids preoperatively were excluded. Surveys given preoperatively and at 2 weeks postoperatively assessed patients' concerns surrounding postoperative pain control and their perception of the impact of a newly implemented legislation. Descriptive analysis and Spearman's rho correlation coefficients were performed. RESULTS: Ninety-three patients met inclusion criteria and consented. Seventy-nine (29 THA and 50 TKA) completed both surveys. Preoperatively, 9.2% of patients were concerned that the legislation would impact their pain management, despite 43.0% having pain concerns. Postoperatively, 87.0% of patients felt that the legislation had no or mild effect on pain control. Although 36.7% of patients reported moderate to severe postoperative pain, 15.2% of patients reported being dissatisfied with pain control. There was no statistical correlation between preoperative pain concern and feelings that the legislation impacted pain. CONCLUSIONS: After primary THA and TKA, our data suggest that patients' perception of their pain management was not impacted by the legislation. Prescribers should be reassured that the decreased allowable opioids does not hinder the patients' perception of their pain management experience.
Kale (Brassica oleraceae var. acephala) is of great importance in human nutrition and local agricultural economies, but its growth is impaired by the attack of several insect pests. Social wasps prey on these pests, but few studies report the importance of this predation or the potential use of wasps as biological control for agricultural pests. This study aimed to survey the species of social wasps that forage in kale (B. oleraceae var. acephala), recording the influence of temperature and time of day on the foraging behavior of these wasps. The research was conducted at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Minas Gerais - Bambuí Campus, from July to December 2015, when twelve collections of social wasps that foraged on a common area of kale cultivation were made, noting the temperature and time of collection for each wasp. Polybia ignobilis, Protonectarina sylveirae and Protopolybia sedula were the most common wasp species foraging in fields of kale. Interspecific interactions between wasp species did not affect their coexistence within kale fields, with peak foraging occurring between 1000 and 1100 hours. Social wasps are important predators of herbivorous insects in the agricultural environment and the coexistence of a great diversity of these predators can help control pest insects that occur in the crop. Moreover, knowing factors that influence foraging behaviors of common wasp species that occur in this crop is important for effective use of these insects in the biological control of pests.
Esta experiência foi realizada em uma unidade produtiva no assentamento Santos Dias vinculado ao Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST), localizado no município de Guapé- MG. Teve como objetivo relatar a experiência de controle biológico conservativo de pragas agrícolas a partir da perspectiva de extensão rural agroecológica em um assentamento do movimento dos trabalhadores sem terra. Foram realizadas visitas a propriedade desenvolvendo atividades de orientação técnica, diálogo, observação e construção do saber. Esta experiência possibilitou a construção de conhecimentos por meio da interação entre universidade e sociedade.
Studies on the diversity of social wasps in agricultural environments represent an important step to identifying the ideal species to be used in biological pest control programs. There is a growing effort to acknowledge the diversity of such Hymenoptera in the state of Minas Gerais, but information on anthropized environments is still rare. The objective of this study was to obtain data on the diversity of social wasps in the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciências e Tecnologia de Minas Gerais (IFMG), Bambuí campus, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sampling was conducted from July 2012 to July 2014 with two methodologies: attractive traps and active search. This work confirms that a well diversified environment, even if anthropized, is rich in social wasp species. In addition, the great number of collected species, shows the importance of a long-term survey and the use of more than one method of collection. The high rate of collections of Polistes versicolor in a predominantly agricultural environment, coupled with other studies on this species as a predator of lepidopteran caterpillars, suggests the use of this species as a tool in the biological control of pests.
Social wasps play important ecological roles, such as the natural biological control of other arthropods as well as major components of the flower-visiting insect guild. Despite many studies focusing on the survey of these organisms in Brazil, information on the community structure of polistines in anthropized environmets is still rare. The goals of the present study were: i) to survey the social wasp fauna in an anthropized area in the transition of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest; ii) to investigate the efficiency of two sampling methods, namely active search for wasps and the use of attractive traps; iii) to investigate the performance of different attractive baits in the capture success of social wasps in the study area. Sampling of social wasps was conducted by actively searching for individuals and by using attractive traps. A total of 40 species was recorded, with Agelaia multipicta and Agelaia vicina species being the most frequently collected with attractive traps and Mischocyttarus cassununga by actively searching for wasps. In all analyses performed (except when comparing abundance of social wasps considering the molasses bait and the active search), actively searching for wasps was the best method. This is also highlighted by the fact that the time spent actively capturing polistines was considerably lower than the time (and costs) that the traps were left in the field. Active search, as demonstrated by previous studies, remains as the best capturing methodology when surveying Neotropical social wasps, either in natural or anthropized environments.
Com a finalidade de apoiar tecnicamente e de contribuir no processo de monitoramento e avaliação das ações educativas em saúde previstas no artigo 14 da lei 8.080/90 e na NOB/RH – Sistema Único de Saúde, foram instituídas as Comissões de Integração Ensino e Serviço Regionais e Estaduais (CIES). Este artigo objetiva apresentar temas fundamentais da trajetória de participação da CIES Regional no Estado de Santa Catarina. Estudo qualitativo documental através das atas das reuniões da CIES Estadual (2011 a 2014). Os resultados apontam que a pesquisa multicêntrica e a parceria entre CIES, Comissão Intergestora Regional (CIR e Instituições de Ensino) foram importantes para o fortalecimento da Política Nacional de Educação Permanente em Saúde (PNEPS no estado e que o trabalho coletivo desenvolvido nas CIES Regionais e Estadual possibilitam a remodelação e a execução do Plano de Ação de Educação Permanente em Saúde.
Aim: Marine bioconstructions such as coralligenous formations are hotspot of biodi‐ versity and play a relevant ecological role in the preservation of biodiversity by provid‐ ing carbon regulation, protection and nursery areas for several marine species. For this reason, the European Union Habitat Directive included them among priority habitats to be preserved. Although their ecological role is well established, connectivity pat‐ terns are still poorly investigated, representing a limit in conservation planning. The present study pioneers a novel approach for the analysis of connectivity in marine bioconstructor species, which often lack suitable genetic markers, by taking advantage of next‐generation sequencing techniques. We assess the geographical patterns of genomic variation of the sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti Lacaze‐Duthiers, 1897, an ahermatypic, non‐zooxanthellate and solitary scleractinian coral species common in coralligenous habitats and distributed across the Mediterranean Sea. Location: The Italian coastline (Western and Central Mediterranean). Methods: We applied the restriction site‐associated 2b‐RAD approach to genotype over 1,000 high‐quality and filtered single nucleotide polymorphisms in 10 population samples. Results: The results revealed the existence of a strongly supported genetic structure, with highly significant pairwise FST values between all the population samples, includ‐ ing those collected about 5 km apart from each other. Moreover, genomic data indi‐ cate that the strongest barriers to gene flow are between the western (Ligurian–Tyrrhenian Sea) and the eastern side (Adriatic Sea) of the Italian peninsula. Main conclusions: The strong differentiation found in L. pruvoti is similar to that found in other species of marine bioconstructors investigated in this area, but it strongly contrasts with the small differences found in many fish and invertebrates at the same geographical scale. All in one, our results highlight the importance of assessing con‐ nectivity in species belonging to coralligenous habitats as, due to their limited disper‐ sal ability, they might require specific spatial conservation measures.
BackgroundThe linkage of records across administrative databases has become a powerful tool to increase information available to undertake research and analytics in a privacy protective manner. ObjectiveThe objective of this paper was to describe the data integration strategy used to link the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS)-Social Assistance (SA) database with administrative health care data. MethodsDeterministic and probabilistic linkage methods were used to link the MCCSS-SA database (2003-2016) to the Registered Persons Database, a population registry containing data on all individuals issued a health card number in Ontario, Canada. Linkage rates were estimated, and the degree of record linkage and representativeness of the dataset were evaluated by comparing socio-demographic characteristics of linked and unlinked records. ResultsThere were a total of 2,736,353 unique member IDs in the MCCSS-SA database from the 1st January 2003 to 31st December 2016; 331,238 (12.1%) were unlinked (linkage rate = 87.9%). Despite 16 passes, most record linkages were obtained after 2 deterministic (76.2%) and 14 probabilistic passes (11.7%). Linked and unlinked samples were similar for most socio-demographic characteristics (i.e., sex, age, rural dwelling), except migrant status (non-migrant versus migrant) (standardized difference of 0.52). Linked and unlinked records were also different for SA program-specific characteristics, such as social assistance program, Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program (standardized difference of 0.20 for each), data entry system, Service Delivery Model Technology only and both Service Delivery Model Technology and Social Assistance Management System (standardized difference of 0.53 and 0.52, respectively), and months on social assistance (standardized difference of 0.43). ConclusionsAdditional techniques to account for sub-optimal linkage rates may be required to address potential biases resulting from this data linkage. Nonetheless, the linkage between administrative social assistance and health care data will provide important findings on the social determinants of health.
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