WATER ACTIVITIES WITH THREE AND FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN:

Contextualization of the objective: Motor experiences in the liquid or terrestrial environment are part of children's behavior, helping children to master the environment, making them autonomous and self-assured. Objective: To report the experience of six months of intervention with water activities for 21 children, of both sexes, aged between three and four years old in an academy in São Luís. Method: The water activities classes lasted forty minutes, they were held twice a week and the classes had an average of eight to ten children aged three to four years. The class was divided into three moments: setting with the environment and with people, the second moment of displacements with floating material and the third moment there were jumps and dives followed by displacements. After a period of six months of intervention, an observational assessment consisting of eight items, with four sub-items each, was applied. The evaluation was applied during a class and the teachers selected a group of children to make the observations and apply the proposed exercises according to the evaluated item. Results: It was found that all children developed the skills proposed in the assessment items, receiving excellent ratings, with the exception of the item "backstroke legs propulsion" in which seven students, four of which had a good rating, three had a very good result. Final considerations: after six months of intervention, it was noticed that there were positive results in the expansion of learning the contents and refinement of the proposed movements, confirming the hypothesis that, within the proposed period, there were benefits in learning to swim.

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Husserl e a fenomenologia heideggeriana da fenomenologia

Phainomenon ◽

10.2478/phainomenon-2003-0047 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 87-104

Author(s):

Irene Borges-Duarte

Keyword(s):

A Priori ◽

Intentional Object ◽

Second Moment ◽

The Third ◽

Original Sense ◽

Categorial Intuition ◽

Leading Question ◽

Third Moment

Abstract Heidegger’ s Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriff offers what could be called a phenomenology of Phenomenology itself, that is: an investigation of its history. The husserlian discovery of the “categorial intuition” appears as the second moment of this history, after Brentano’s “intentionality” and before Heidegger’s own discovery of the “original sense of the a priori”, which constitutes the third moment. Our paper seeks to understand this sequence as a way to answer the leading question of how it may be possible that “to be a intentional object can have any relationship with the being itself”. Or, to put it in another formulation: how is intentionality itself ontologically possible?

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Monte Carlo Algorithms for Moments of Transition Arrays

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100107468 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 102 ◽

pp. 79-81

Author(s):

A. Goldberg ◽

S.D. Bloom

Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

State Vector ◽

Basis Vector ◽

Collective State ◽

Dispersion Characteristics ◽

Dipole Strength ◽

The Third ◽

Monte Carlo Algorithms ◽

Third Moment ◽

Very High

AbstractClosed expressions for the first, second, and (in some cases) the third moment of atomic transition arrays now exist. Recently a method has been developed for getting to very high moments (up to the 12th and beyond) in cases where a “collective” state-vector (i.e. a state-vector containing the entire electric dipole strength) can be created from each eigenstate in the parent configuration. Both of these approaches give exact results. Herein we describe astatistical(or Monte Carlo) approach which requires onlyonerepresentative state-vector |RV> for the entire parent manifold to get estimates of transition moments of high order. The representation is achieved through the random amplitudes associated with each basis vector making up |RV>. This also gives rise to the dispersion characterizing the method, which has been applied to a system (in the M shell) with≈250,000 lines where we have calculated up to the 5th moment. It turns out that the dispersion in the moments decreases with the size of the manifold, making its application to very big systems statistically advantageous. A discussion of the method and these dispersion characteristics will be presented.

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Nitrate and nitrite poisoning in sheep and goats caused by ingestion of Portulaca oleracea

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira ◽

10.1590/1678-5150-pvb-5550 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (8) ◽

pp. 1549-1553

Author(s):

João G. Simões ◽

Rosane Maria T. Medeiros ◽

Márcia A. Medeiros ◽

Robério G. Olinda ◽

Antônio Flávio M. Dantas ◽

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Keyword(s):

Methylene Blue ◽

Body Weight ◽

Clinical Signs ◽

Portulaca Oleracea ◽

Sheep And Goats ◽

Ruminal Ph ◽

The Third ◽

Mucous Membranes ◽

Nitrate And Nitrite ◽

Positive Results

ABSTRACT: Three outbreaks of poisoning by Portulaca oleracea were reported in sheep and goats in Northeast Brazil. In the first outbreak, 8 out of 20 sheep were affected and later died. In the second outbreak, three goats and one sheep died out of a flock of 30 animals that included both species. In the third outbreak, two out of 19 sheep were affected, and they recovered after a treatment of 2% methylene blue at a dose of 4 mg/kg body weight. In the first and second outbreaks, the animals ingested P. oleracea after it was cut and offered in feeders. In the third outbreak, the flock was grazing in an area that had been invaded by the plant. To determine the toxicity, P. oleracea was administered experimentally at a dose of 80g/kg of body weight to seven sheep, weighing 19-30 kg. One control sheep received green grass. One to four hours after P. oleracea ingestion, the animals showed clinical signs of poisoning characterized by cyanotic mucous membranes, bloat, ruminal pH of 8-9, pollakiuria, aerophagia, involuntary movements of the upper lip, apathy, tachypnea and tachycardia. Five animals recovered, including one that was treated with 1% methylene blue, and two animals died. During necropsy, the mucous membranes were brownish, and the blood was dark brown. Diphenylamine tests of the plant and of rumen contents were positive for nitrates. Positive results for nitrates were also found in 24 samples of P. oleracea that were collected in different places in the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba. We conclude that P. oleracea accumulates nitrates at toxic levels and may cause poisoning in sheep and goats.

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Socio-Legal Strategies against a Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador: Alliances in Hostile Contexts

Revista Direito GV ◽

10.1590/2317-6172202147 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

Author(s):

María Angélica Peñas Defago ◽

Violeta Cánaves

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

El Salvador ◽

International Experience ◽

Legal Mobilization ◽

Law Reform ◽

Second Moment ◽

Abortion Law ◽

Legal Strategies ◽

Feminist Movements ◽

Third Moment

Abstract The case of El Salvador provides unique evidence of how solidarity is possible among different social movements in struggles over abortion law reform and its impact, even in contexts of extreme criminalization. The paper depicts a concrete example of how networks centered on abortion struggles can go beyond feminist movements and national borders, and shows the domestic impact of broadening the scope of the audience, the actors involved, and the spheres where abortion law discussions take place. The article focuses on the evolution of socio-legal mobilization regarding abortion in El Salvador over the last two decades. This evolution is presented through three moments: the first centers on the legal actions that feminist movements orchestrated in the mid-2000's around the Beatriz case. The second moment focuses on the most outstanding features of the “Las 17” campaign – a collaborative and international experience that entailed the submission of seventeen pardon petitions on behalf of women who had been convicted of homicide after having miscarriages. Finally, a third moment entails the socio-legal strategies embraced by feminist movements since 2018 within the framework of the campaign named “Las 17+”.

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Technical note: A time-integrated sediment trap to sample diatoms for hydrological tracing

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences ◽

10.5194/hess-24-4709-2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 24 (10) ◽

pp. 4709-4725

Author(s):

Jasper Foets ◽

Carlos E. Wetzel ◽

Núria Martínez-Carreras ◽

Adriaan J. Teuling ◽

Jean-François Iffly ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Quality Assessment ◽

Technical Note ◽

Sampling Effort ◽

Terrestrial Environment ◽

The Third ◽

Run Off ◽

Analysis Of Similarity ◽

Sediment Data ◽

Almost All ◽

Diatom Community Composition

Abstract. Diatoms, microscopic single-celled algae, are present in almost all habitats containing water (e.g. streams, lakes, soil and rocks). In the terrestrial environment, their diversified species distributions are mainly controlled by physiographical factors and anthropic disturbances which makes them useful tracers in catchment hydrology. In their use as a tracer, diatoms are generally sampled in streams by means of an automated sampling method; as a result, many samples must be collected to cover a whole storm run-off event. As diatom analysis is labour-intensive, a trade-off has to be made between the number of sites and the number of samples per site. In an attempt to reduce this sampling effort, we explored the potential for the Phillips sampler, a time-integrated mass-flux sampler, to provide a representative sample of the diatom assemblage of a whole storm run-off event. We addressed this by comparing the diatom community composition of the Phillips sampler to the composite community collected by automatic samplers for three events. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) showed that, based on the species composition, (1) all three events could be separated from each other, (2) the Phillips sampler was able to sample representative communities for two events and (3) significantly different communities were only collected for the third event. These observations were generally confirmed by analysis of similarity (ANOSIM), permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA), and the comparison of species relative abundances and community-derived indices. However, sediment data from the third event, which was sampled with automatic samplers, showed a large amount of noise; therefore, we could not verify if the Phillips sampler sampled representative communities or not. Nevertheless, we believe that this sampler could not only be applied in hydrological tracing using terrestrial diatoms, but it might also be a useful tool in water quality assessment.

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Collaborative Studies on the Salmonella/Microsome Mutagenicity Assay

Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL ◽

10.1093/jaoac/62.4.874 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 62 (4) ◽

pp. 874-882

Author(s):

Virginia C Dunkel

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Study ◽

Metabolic Activation ◽

Plate Test ◽

The Third ◽

Collaborative Studies ◽

Mutagenicity Assay ◽

B6c3f1 Mice ◽

Fischer Rats ◽

Interlaboratory Reproducibility ◽

Positive Results

Abstract Although the Salmonella/plate test has been used extensively, a collaborative study was undertaken to determine the interlaboratory reproducibility of this microbial mutagenicity assay. Four laboratories participating in the study have completed testing, under code, of 61 carcinogens and noncarcinogens. All chemicals were tested both with and without metabolic activation in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA1535, 1537, 1538, 98, and 100. The metabolic activation systems used were derived from the livers of both uninduced and Aroclor 1254-induced Fischer rats, B6C3F1 mice, and Syrian hamsters. Analysis of the results on 23 of the chemicals tested in 3 of the participating laboratories showed that 8 were negative when tested in all laboratories and 13 were positive. Two chemicals gave positive results in 2 laboratories; the same 2 chemicals were negative when tested in the third laboratory.

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The significance of the third moment in the apparent size method

Journal of Aerosol Science ◽

10.1016/s0021-8502(00)90419-1 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 408-409

Author(s):

Lu Zhang ◽

R. Bahreini ◽

J.W. Gentry

Keyword(s):

Apparent Size ◽

The Third ◽

Third Moment

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The Assessment of Nocturnal Oxygen Saturation

Clinical Science ◽

10.1042/cs0650507 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 65 (5) ◽

pp. 507-513

Author(s):

C. I. Meanock ◽

A. R. Guyatt ◽

G. Cumming

Keyword(s):

Oxygen Saturation ◽

Air Flow ◽

Digital Processing ◽

Moment Analysis ◽

Good Reproducibility ◽

The Third ◽

Simple Index ◽

The Mean ◽

Single Figure ◽

Third Moment

1. Existing methods of assessing nocturnal episodic hypoxaemia are either insensitive or ignore the majority of the available data. 2. We describe a method of analysis using offline digital processing. A distribution of oxygen saturation (Sao2) with time is produced from all the available data, and subjected to moment analysis to produce a simple index which describes an entire night's Sao2. 3. Our results suggest that the mean and the coefficient of skew fully described a night's Sao2. However, in subjects with chronic air-flow obstruction, the third moment about 100% oxygen saturation (M3100), a single figure, has the same descriptive power as mean and skew. 4. In 17 subjects with chronic air-flow obstruction a significant correlation was found between both daytime Sao2 and Paco2 when plotted against either the M3100 or the skew. 5. Measurements made on two occasions in seven subjects showed good reproducibility for the skew and M3100 indices.

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