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GOTLIB, Nádia Battella. Nos bastidores da pesquisa em torno da Fotobiografia de Clarice Lispector. Revista de Letras, Fortaleza, v. 1-2, n. 29, p. 25-31, 2008.

This report deals with applications of Graph Theory to Group Theory. Once we construct the graph associated to a finite group, we get several interesting results on the group structure by analysing its associated graph with the help of various standard graph-theoretic tools. More precisely, the chromatic and independence numbers of the graph of a finite group allows us to estimate the maximal cardinality of an abelian subgroup of it, as well as the minimal size of a subset of the group, all of whose elements don’t commute in pairs; for finite abelian groups, we also study their free-sum subsets.

INTRODUÇÃO. O rápido envelhecimento populacional traz desafios para que os indivíduos atinjam uma longevidade ativa e saudável. Os cânceres de pele são problemas clínicos comuns e quando não identificados prontamente são causa importante de morbidade e mortalidade na população geriátrica. A identificação mais sistemática de casos de câncer de pele na prática clínica torna-se, então, fundamental, particularmente no nível primário de atenção à saúde. OBJETIVO. Avaliar o desempenho dos médicos do Programa de Saúde da Família na de identificação de casos de câncer de pele em idosos do município de Fortaleza, Ceará. MATERIAL E MÉTODOS. Realizou-se estudo transversal para avaliar o desempenho na identificação de câncer de pele por médicos do Programa de Saúde da Família de duas maneiras. Primeiro, por meio do exame clínico de uma amostra de 200 pacientes com idade igual ou superior a 60 anos, atendidos nas Unidades Básicas de Atenção à Saúde da Família e Comunidade, que foi independentemente examinada por 20 médicos do Programa de Saúde da Família e por um dermatologista, O exame do dermatologista e o exame histopatológico das lesões foram utilizados como padrão-ouro de referência. Segundo, mediante a análise, por 33 médicos residentes em Medicina de Família e Comunidade, de 14 fotografias de lesões cutâneas de pacientes idosos. RESULTADOS. O exame clínico realizado por médicos do Programa de Saúde da Família, como teste diagnóstico da presença de câncer de pele, apresentou uma sensibilidade de 21,4% (IC de 95%, 0,0%-42,9%), uma especificidade de 82,3% (IC de 95%, 76,8%-87,8%), valor preditivo positivo de 8,3 % (IC de 95%, 0,0% - 17,4%) e valor preditivo negativo de 93,3% (IC de 95%, 82,6% - 100,0%). O desempenho dos médicos residentes de Medicina de Família e Comunidade na identificação de casos positivos teve uma sensibilidade de 62,77% (IC de 95%, 56,2%-69,3%) e uma especificidade de 71,8% (IC de 95%, 65,6%-78,1%), valor preditivo positivo de 8,3 % (IC de 95%, 14,0%-29,2%) e valor preditivo negativo de 95,9% (IC de 95%, 95,1%-96,8%). Por meio da análise de fotografias, observou-se com uma sensibilidade média de 51,5% para identificação de carcinoma basocelular, de 62,1% na identificação de carcinoma espinocelular, e de 87,8% na identificação de melanoma. CONCLUSÃO. O desempenho dos médicos do Programa de Saúde da Família na identificação de câncer de pele requer aperfeiçoamento, dado que a grande maioria dos casos não está sendo diagnosticada quando da consulta médica. O treinamento destes profissionais no reconhecimento de lesões neoplásicas de pele pode efetivamente contribuir para redução da morbidade e eventual mortalidade destas condições clínicas.

We give lower bounds for the fundamental of open sets in submanifolds with locally bounded mean curvature in N X R, where N is an n-dimensional complete Riemannian manifold with radial sectional curvature KN is less than or equal to the curvature of space form. When the immersion is minimal our estimates are sharp.

VIANA, Waldiane Sampaio. Manifestações homofóbicas em espaços públicos: praças da Gentilândia em Fortaleza. 2009. 140 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

PONTE, Vanessa Paula. Somos nós que fazemos a vida como der, ou puder, ou quiser: beleza e construção do corpo em narrativas biográficas de mulheres. 2008. 244 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2008.

SILVA, V. V. Religiosidade juvenil em movimento: um estudo de caso Batista Regular. 2009. 132 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

This dissertation seeks to analyze the literary construction of Fortaleza from the perspective presented in the novel A Afilhada, written by Oliveira Paiva, an author of the Brazilian state of Ceará, which was wrote in footnotes of Libertador, an abolitionist newspaper, published in the 1880’s, at Ceará. Basically forgotten by the history of Ceará’s literature, the novel makes a curious profile of a city in an initial process of modernization, at the end of the XIX century. The work is divided in three chapters. In the first moment, I seek to present historical aspects of the studied novel, its creation context, as well as I present some elements of economical and cultural transformations that Fortaleza city was passing through in the period characterized in the novel. I add these information to my theoretical-methodological referential. At the second chapter, I discuss the relation between the intellectual and the modern city and between this and the emergence of the novel, as well I present a summary defense about the importance of the narrative. Besides, at the second chapter, I do a brief comparison between the novel A Afilhada and A Normalista. The last one, written by another author of Ceará, Adolfo Caminha, was published in 1893. I argue that, although they are contemporaries, they construct similar cities, but with significant distinctions. At the third chapter, I present an intellectual profile of Oliveira Paiva, who participated in important publications in the history of Ceará literary-scientific production. Through the writing, as a disseminator of ideas and ideals, he made effort to transform the province in a place more civilized and close to the modernity. A lover of the science and the letters, Oliveira Paiva believed knowledge and words compose the two main weapons to eliminate the ignorance and delay presents in the city. Although fragments of the novel A Afilhada are present in almost the entire dissertation, at the third chapter I analyze more substantively the continent of the book. I defend the hypothesis that the city constructed by Oliveira Paiva is marked by an excess of natural elements that interferes in his possibility of ascension. Part of population, like the protagonist, doesn’t follow the grow of the modern city. The Fortaleza of Oliveira Paiva lacks also of citizens compromised to take care of the city like a father takes care of his daughter.

ANDRADE, Tânia Márcia Oliveira de. Mediação e conflitos em espiral: encontros e desencontros do estado e dos movimentos sociais no Pontal do Paranapanema. 2006. 421f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2006.

Although a public health practice since the early 20th century, home visits by health care teams from the newly implanted family health program have become increasingly popular over the past decade. The present study looks into users’ perceptions of home visits within the context of the family health program with respect to completeness and humanization of care. The study was explorative and qualitative. Based on hermeneutic phenomenology and within a critical-interpretive perspective, the study contrasts the phenomenon under investigation with its own materiality in search of transforming elements. To this end 21 interviews were carried out in depth with users receiving home visits by family health teams within the six administrative health districts of Fortaleza. The empirical evidence of the study consisted of taped and transcribed interviews. An analysis of the interviews revealed the existence of three core themes: 1) Health professional/user relationships, i.e. users’ perceptions of completeness and humanization of care during visits. This theme was divided into three items: perception of health professional/user relationships, humanization of care and the meaning of completeness; 2) Characterization of visits, with emphasis on priorities and operationalization. The theme was divided into two items: frequency/duration of visits and patient selection; and 3) User/health facility association, with focus on health facility management and integration with other services, divided into three items: health facility management, equity and integration of care. In conclusion, the study suggests that home visiting practices may be improved by enhancing the aspects of closeness, conversation and constant negotiation between professionals, users and the community.

SOARES, Silvério dos Santos. Timor-Leste: representações dos estudantes Timorenses, no Brasil, sobre o Estado do Timor-Leste. 2009. 133f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

CASTRO, Simone Oliveira de. Memórias da cantoria: palavra, performance e público. 2009. 264 f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2009.

Let alfa be an algebraic number which is not a root of a racional number. We show that the discriminant of alfa n tends to infinity with n tending to infinity and give a lower bound for this discriminant in terms of the degree of alfa, its Mahler’s measure and n.

The disseminated histoplasmosis (DH) is a serious opportunistic infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum, often seen in aids patients in advanced immunosuppression treated in health care service for people living with HIV/aids in Fortaleza, Ceará. Like other opportunistic infections, histoplasmosis can be identified early by the presence of specific manifestations in the oral cavity. To know the frequency and characteristics of oral manifestations of DH aids-associated it was carried out a cross-sectional study in adult patients who were suspected or confirmed to have DH, from August 2009 to March 2010. The data were collected through questionnaire, oral clinical examination, histocyto-pathological examinations, photographs and observation of medical records. Twenty-two cases of DH were diagnosed in the total of fifty-six patients. Five out of the twenty-two patients (5/22, 22.7%) had oral lesions with clinical features of histoplasmosis and in four out of the twenty-two (4/22, 18.9%) the fungus was detected through biopsy and exfoliative cytology, in fragments and smears examined by staining with Grocott, PAS (Periodic Acid-Schiff) and Giemsa. Nine patients were defined as possible cases of DH (based on pathological background and clinical manifestations) and two of those presented, in the same way, oral lesions with clinical features of histoplasmosis, however, these were not biopsied. Ulcer with hemorrhagic crust on the lip mucosa was the most frequent (60%), followed by granulomatous form with multiple lesions on the palate and gums (20%) and ulcerated lesion on the tongue (20%). DH patients had a median of 36.5 cells / mm³ of lymphocyte T CD4 and significantly higher levels of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; p= 0.0001) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST/TGO; p= 0.0002), as well as significantly lower levels of hemoglobin (p= 00.2), leukocytes (p= 0.04) and platelets (p= 0.001). Odynophagia was reported by all patients with DH(p = 0.000), and dysphagia was present in ten (45.4%, p = 0.011). Dysphonia was observed in a patient who presented histoplasmosis of the larynx. Pseudomembranous candidiasis, followed by the erythematous form was associated with DH in 45.5% and 4.5% of the patients, respectively. The prevalence of gingivitis was 38.3% and in 57.4% of the patients was identified calculus dental which indicates poor oral health and significant need for dental services.

CASTELO, Sander Cruz. A ética revolucionária: utopia e desgraça em Terra em transe (1967). 2010. 345f. Tese (Doutorado em Sociologia) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the 1985 “Employment Services for Ex-Offenders” (ESEO) program on recidivism. Initially, the sample has been split randomly in a control group and a treatment group. However, the actual treatment (mainly being job related counseling) only takes place conditional on finding a job, and not having been arrested, for those selected in the treatment group. We use a multiple proportional hazard model with unobserved heterogeneity for job search and recidivism time which incorporates the conditional treatment effect. We find that the program helps to reduce criminal activity, contrary to the result of the previous analysis of this data set. This finding is important for crime prevention policy.

In this paper we specify a semi-nonparametric competing risks (SNP-CR) model of recidivism, for misdemeanors and felonies. The model is a bivariate mixed proportional hazard model with Weibull baseline hazards and common unobserved heterogeneity. The distribution of the latter is modeled seminonparametrically, using orthonormal Legendre polynomials on the unit interval, and integrated out to make the two durations dependent, conditional on the covariates. The SNP-CR model involved corresponds to a Logit model for felony arrest; hence the validity of the SNP-CR model can be tested by testing the validity of the implied Logit model. The latter will be done by using the integrated conditional moment (ICM) test. In the first instance we have estimated and tested two versions of the SNP-CR model, without and with fixed state effects. However, the ICM test rejects these models. Therefore, we have estimated and tested the model for each state separately. These state models are not rejected by the ICM test. Indeed, the estimation results vary substantially per state.

The objectives of this study was to describe the profile and the standards of medical care in newborns with respiratory disorders admitted to intensive care units as well as analyze the risk factors associated to the death in low birth weight newborn with respiratory distress syndrome. It is a prospective cohort study hospitalar-based realized in 773 newborns in five hospitals from July and December 2007. Was two phases a described and the other, analytical. The majotity were premature (80.7%). Between the first and the fifth minute, the number of newborns with Apgar less than 3 decreased and the ones with Apgar above or equal to 7 increased. Respiratory distress syndrome was the most frequent disease (73%). For the newborns with very low weight and respiratory distress syndrome, 62.7% used mechanical ventilation, 53.7% surfactant and 19.9% died. The risk factors for death according to the bivariate analysis were: mother`s age less than 20 years (p=0.008), Apgar less than 7 in the fifth minute (p<0.001), the use of positive pressure ventilation in the delivery room (p<0.001), intubation in the delivery room (p<0,001) and the use of surfactant (p<0.001).The use of antenatal corticosteroids and use of surfactant was low. The newborns weighing less than 1500g needed more medical assistance than others and still presented a high death rate. According to the study, the respiratory disorders of the newborns and the outcome are strongly related to the prenatal factors, to the assistance in the delivery room and to the intensive care.

Obesity has become a serious public health problem in several countries, including Brazil, affecting children of all ages, social class and ethnicity. Consequently, nurseries have become an important element in preventing childhood excess weight and obesity. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of nursery professionals and the parents of children attending these facilities, for their views on the factors that may influence obesity and excess weight in children and the prevention methods used. The study was conducted from January to September 2010.The population consisted of parents of children aged 2-5 years and teachers who work in public nurseries, from urban and rural areas of the state of Ceara, using a qualitative approach. Focus groups with parents and teachers were held to collect the data, which was analyzed using discourse analysis. The study found that teachers use the most appropriate methods to evaluate children’s weight gain, while parents can identify excessive weight gain in children when there is an excess of fat on the abdomen and arms. However, both agree that obesity can cause both serious physical and emotional problems for children. Parents and teachers were unanimous in confirming that eating habits begin at home, together with family members, with the mother bearing the primary responsibility. It was observed that teachers presented themselves as strong allies in developing strategies for education on diet and encouraging healthy lifestyles, since these are closely linked to the educational process and teachers have the opportunity to interact with children during the learning process. The use of processed foods was reported by parents and teachers as a factor predisposing weight gain in children, thus contributing to the development of overweight and obesity. In addition, it was found that despite the provision of school meals, there are cases of processed foods and treats being sold at the door of daycare centers in rural areas. Both parents and teachers complained about the difficulty of access to these items, especially those in rural areas. Teachers participating in the study complained about the lack of enthusiasm and involvement of parents in the children’s educational process, as parent’s attention centers on feeding their children. One important finding in the study, was the role of school cooks in the prevention of childhood obesity, since they are closely linked to the production of the 10 food served in the nursery. Finally it can be concluded that that the study did not clarify all the problems that intertwine the issues surrounding childhood overweight and obesity in the current context, but it shows that there are several factors that may be contributing to the phenomenon of rising childhood obesity in our country. Thus, the nursery appears to be an excellent place for developing intervention programs to tackle the conditions and risk factors for childhood obesity.

FRANCO JUNIOR, Arnaldo. Romance engajado, folhetim/melodrama e metaficção: A hora da estrela. Revista de Letras, Fortaleza, v.1-2, n. 29, p. 59-66, 2008.