scholarly journals DIAGNÓSTICO RÁPIDO PARTICIPATIVO NO LEVANTAMENTO DAS CAUSAS DE INCÊNDIOS FLORESTAIS NO CAMPUS DA UFLA

FLORESTA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela D. V. Melo ◽  
Eduarda M. O. Silveira ◽  
Maíra Dzedzej ◽  
José Aldo A. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Smoke Toxicity ◽  
Air Humidity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Fire Control ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Rapid Appraisal ◽  
Poisonous Animals

No Campus da Universidade Federal de Lavras, MG, a estação de inverno é marcada por temperaturas e umidade relativa do ar baixas, e um por longo período seco. Neste período, um grande número de incêndios oriundos das comunidades vizinhas atinge o campus, particularmente as áreas de difícil acesso, o que prejudica o controle e uso de equipamentos básicos. O objetivo deste trabalho foi descrever a origem, causas e formas de controle dos incêndios. A metodologia utilizada foi o Diagnóstico Rápido Participativo – DRP, por meio de 12 entrevistas semi-estruturadas. Concluiu-se que não são realizadas queimadas controladas; houve aumento dos números de incêndios decorrentes da expansão urbana; há falta de manutenção dos aceiros e estradas; os maiores responsáveis são incendiários juvenis. Os principais problemas decorrentes dos incêndios relacionam-se ao abastecimento de água, toxidez da fumaça e presença de animais peçonhentos nas residências. O combate inicial é realizado pelos moradores locais. PARTICIPATORY RAPID APPRAISAL IN THE RESEARCHING OF THE CAUSES OF FIRES AT UFLA´S CAMPUS Abstract The winter season in the campus of the Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil, is characterized by lower temperatures and air humidity, and a long period of drought. During this period a high number of fires arising from the neighborhoods reach the campus, particularly those areas with more difficult access, bringing additional difficulties to fire control and use of basic equipments. The objective of this work was to describe the origin, causes and forms of fire control. The method used was the Participatory Rapid Appraisal – FPD, through 12 semi-structured interviews. The conclusions were that controlled fires are not carried out; there was an increase of the number fires resulting from urban expansion; there was a lack of maintenance of both fire-breaks and roads; the main responsible were young arsoners. The main problems arising from the fires are related to water supplying, smoke toxicity and the presence of the poisonous animals in residences. The initial combat is carried out by local inhabitants.

Facilitators, challenges and usefulness of an asthma educational programme

2020 ◽  
pp. 001789692098162
Author(s):  
Muhammad Naeem ◽  
Hamad Ghalib Dailah
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Breathing Techniques ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Asthma Patients ◽  
Programme Content

Background: This study explored the role of hospitals, specialised doctors and staff in developing patient awareness, participation and motivation concerning asthma control. It also looked at the challenges that undermine the value of asthma educational programmes, especially in an Arab cultural context. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from 30 asthma patients who had been living with asthma for a long period of time. Results: Findings highlight how an asthma educational programme can increase patient knowledge about the causes of asthma. Following the programme, patients had a better understanding of levels of medication, breathing techniques and rest and relaxation. Awareness of support from health professionals for managing depression and frustration also increased. However, some patients felt that the asthma educational programme content and delivery was not very interactive and was too lengthy. Conclusion: Findings can help policy makers, researchers, hospitals, doctors and the national Ministry of Health improve the content of future asthma educational programmes. They can also inform the development of a research framework to extend understanding of relevant issues in an Arabian context.

scholarly journals Ambivalence in adulthood: Leaving the parental home

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Celia Regina HENRIQUES ◽  
Terezinha FÉRES-CARNEIRO ◽  
Andrea Seixas MAGALHÃES
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Parental Home ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
The City ◽  
Leaving The Parental Home

Abstract The purpose of this study was to understand the articulation of dialogues during the emerging adult's leaving home process including the problematization and tensions involved. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 middle-class young adults, aged 26 to 36, who still lived with their parents in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Several categories emerged from the content analysis, among which three are presented in this article: apprehension concerning the relational space, agreements and negotiations, and the perceptions of leaving the parental home. It was verified that leaving the parental home is a dynamic process negotiated between family members. It became evident that the gains and losses from living together for a long period of time are part of an ambivalent relational environment. The time necessary for the development of parent-children relationship cannot be determined chronologically since it is the time necessary for the subjects to understand themselves at a relational level.

scholarly journals Callus induction and plant regeneration in the moss Aloina Aloides (Schultz) Kindb. (Pottiaceae, Bryopsida)

2003 ◽  
Vol 55 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 77-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Bijelovic ◽  
Marko Sabovljevic
Keyword(s):  
Plant Regeneration ◽  
Callus Induction ◽  
Basal Medium ◽  
Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid ◽  
Ms Medium ◽  
Air Humidity ◽  
Moss Species ◽  
Bud Formation ◽  
Long Period ◽  
2,4 Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid

Callus induction of moss species Aloina aloides (Schultz) Kindb. was obtained on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 1.0 mg/L 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) or with 1.0 mg/L 2,4-D and 1.0 mg/L kinetin (KIN) or with 0.2 mg/L indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and 2.0 mg/L 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) or with 7.5 g/L of sucrose or with 15 g/L of sucrose or hormone - free and sugar free MS basal medium. The callus can be maintained for a long period of time without bud formation subcultured on the above media, at 16 h day/8 h night, 25 ? 2?C, 60-70% air humidity and irradiance of 50 ?mol m-2s-1. To obtain plant regeneration pieces, calli were transferred onto MS media supplemented with different concentrations of auxins and cytokinins (1.0 mg/L 2,4-D and 2 mg/L KIN; 0.2 mg/L IBA and 2 mg/L KIN; or 0.2 mg/L IAA and 2 mg/L BAP). In these media after subculturing, callus enlarges and turns to gametophytes with buds. Except for a smaller size, the plants obtained on the callus did not differ morphoanatomically from the shoots in the nature.

scholarly journals Study of winter fog over Indian subcontinent : Climatological perspectives

MAUSAM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
G.K. SAWAISARJE ◽  
P Khare ◽  
C.Y. SHIRKE ◽  
S. DEEPAKUMAR ◽  
N.M. NARKHEDE
Keyword(s):  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Dew Point ◽  
North India ◽  
Gangetic Plains ◽  
Long Period

Fog is localized phenomenon where horizontal visibility is reduced to less than 1000 m due to suspension of very small water droplets in the air. In fact Fog is cloud at surface level. This phenomenon matters to us in our daily activities due to its effect on life, public health, road safety, and economic prosperity.  Its knowledge is essential to meet critical societal needs. In India, radiation and advection fog are most common which occur mostly over north India in winter. This study presents results of spatial variability of average number of days having visibility less than 1000 m at 0300 UTC during winter season over Indian subcontinent (0° N-35° N and 60° E-100° E) using synoptic hour daily surface data. Analysis of Fog events based on half hourly METAR observations for winter months             (December 2010-February 2011) at selected ICAO stations of India is also presented.    The monthly spatial variability of average number of days with fog having visibility less than 1000 m indicates presence of fog over Indo-Gangetic plains on an average of 7 to 10 days during December and more than 8 days during January. South Gangetic West Bengal is susceptible to fog during February. Seasonal variation of fog shows that there is prominence of fog over Indo-Gangetic plains on an average of more than 6.5 days. Significant incidences of foggy days occur over South Interior Karnataka and Coastal Karnataka has incidence of foggy days on an average of 6.5 days. North India is susceptible to dense fog on average of 2.5 days during the season while Gangetic West Bengal, West Rajasthan and adjoining parts of east Rajasthan and East Uttar Pradesh have occurrence of fog on an average of 3.5 days. Thick fog occurs on an average of 3 days over northern India during the winter season. Analysis of time series of air temperature, dew point temperature, dew point depression, visibility, zonal and meridional components of wind and its magnitude at selected ICAO stations indicate that visibility reduces to below 1000 m while light winds are southeasterly at Ahmedabad, northerly to northwesterly at Amritsar, northerly to northeasterly at New Delhi, westerly to southwesterly at Kolkata, Guwahati and dew point depression is below 3 °C during such conditions. Long period 1971-2010 analysis of visibility conditions less than 1000 m over Indian subcontinent shows Indo-Gangetic plains region to have average wind speed to be 0.6 m/s, air temperature in the range 9 °C to 15 °C during December-February at 0300 UTC. Long period 1971- 2010 analysis of relative humidity shows Indo-Genetic plains region to have relative humidity in the range 72% to 84% at 0300 UTC during December-February.

scholarly journals The journey of having scabies–A qualitative study

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Trettin ◽  
Jette Amstrup Lassen ◽  
Flemming Andersen ◽  
Hanne Agerskov
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Well Being ◽  
World Health ◽  
Repeated Treatment ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Common Skin ◽  
Health Organization

Background and objective: Scabies is considered to be a common skin infection in the field of dermatology, but it is also, by the World Health Organization referred to as a neglected disease. It can cause complications such as secondary infections linked to the development of glomerulonephritis and chronic kidney disease. Furthermore, scabies is associated with stigma, shame and social isolation. To date no qualitative study, has explored this area in depth. The aim of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of patients diagnosed with scabies.Methods: A phenomenological-hermeneutic approach was applied and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants with scabies. Data were analyzed according to Ricoeurs’ theory of interpretation: naïve reading, structural analysis and critical interpretation and discussion.Results: The study revealed that patients were affected by uncontrollable and unbearable itching, which caused insomnia and distress, and lead to coping strategies to bring relief. Scabies was experienced as a never-ending journey, characterized by misdiagnosis, a long period of repeated treatment, and lack of information. Not knowing whether the disease had been cured resulted in feelings of insecurity and powerlessness. Scabies had an impact on everyday life caused by social withdrawal and due to feelings of shame, guilt and fear of rejection.Conclusions: Having scabies is a journey that consists of uncertainty and is characterized by misdiagnosis, long period of treatment and lack of knowledge. Having scabies can be stigmatized, causing loneliness and social withdrawal. Patients with scabies are in need of care, support and information regarding physical, emotional and social well-being.

scholarly journals SCHOOL LEADERSHIP FROM THE OPINION OF HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Rubi Surema Peniche ◽  
Cristóbal Crescencio Ramón ◽  
Norma Graciella Heredia
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
School Leader ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Southeast Mexico

Educational leadership has been studied over a long period of time; It has determined characteristics, models, strategies to develop and implement an appropriate leadership; The profits of an organization have been guaranteed if a leadership is properly developed, however, the educational leadership is not deepened as broad with a more naturalistic view and seen from the opinion of teachers. A study was conducted under the qualitative approach, specifically a case study at a university in southeast Mexico. Semi-structured interviews, focus groups, observations and content analysis were used. In this study aims to establish the opinions that teachers have about what should be a school leader, as well as their feelings in the daily work. It seems that teachers feel that humility and good treatment, as well as awareness towards others makes a leader successful and accepted in a school organization.

Vocal longevity phenomenon of the Latvian National opera soloist Karlis Zarins

2014 ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Zigrīda Krīgere
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
National Opera ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Voice

The focus of this paper is the analysis and research of the biographical factors that have influenced the longevity of the voice of opera soloist Karlis Zarins. The following materials have been used: singer biographies, partially structured interviews with K. Zarins and the doctor Dins Sumerags, internet resources, researches regarding factors influencing the voice, materials of vocal methodic, the personal stage experience and the observations from pedagogical practice of the author. It is concluded that the phenomenon of vocal longevity on stage relates to singers whose qualities of voice keep the characteristics of young and thriving voice – the freshness of timbre and endurance in an unusually long period of time, which considerably exceeds the statistical measurements of the average vocal ageing. The longevity of K. Zarins relates to four aspects: congenial physical and musical talents, the influence of social and natural surroundings, the creation of vocal competence during the studies and lifelong learning in professional, artistic and pedagogical areas. In this research, the components influencing K. Zarins phenomenon are observed.

scholarly journals Tensiones de la Gobernanza comunitaria de servicios sanitarios rurales en territorios periurbanos (Chile)

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (44) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Alejandra Ester Duarte-Vera ◽  
Julien Vanhulst ◽  
Eduardo Antonio Letelier-Araya
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Rural Water ◽  
Urban Territories

Unlike the private concession model applied in urban zones, rural water sanitation services in Chile are managed by rural drinking water (RDW) committees or cooperatives, under a community governance model. This article seeks to understand the tensions and conflicts faced by RDW community governance in the peri-urban territories of regional capitals, which are at the frontier of the private drinking water management model. Based on a political ecology and hybrid governance approach, this research proposes the hypothesis that, on facing urban expansion and water scarcity, the neoliberal institutional framework tends to favour drinking water market governance in peri-urban territories. With this aim, and through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation, focusing on three RDW cases located in the peri-urban zone of Talca, this study develops a critical discourse analysis of community managers and government regulators, identifying their perceptions and positions on current socio-ecological transformations, and community governance tensions. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, from discourse analysis, it is possible to infer the potential risks of privatization, derived from the implementation of Law No. 20,998, which regulates rural water sanitation services.

On nearly-commensurable periods in the restricted problem of three bodies, with calculations of the long-period variations in the interior 2:1 case

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Message
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Solution ◽  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Large Amplitude ◽  
Restricted Problem ◽  
Small Amplitude ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Numerical Integrations ◽  
Period Variations ◽  
The Mean

An analytical discussion of that case of motion in the restricted problem, in which the mean motions of the infinitesimal, and smaller-massed, bodies about the larger one are nearly in the ratio of two small integers displays the existence of a series of periodic solutions which, for commensurabilities of the typep+ 1:p, includes solutions of Poincaré'sdeuxième sortewhen the commensurability is very close, and of thepremière sortewhen it is less close. A linear treatment of the long-period variations of the elements, valid for motions in which the elements remain close to a particular periodic solution of this type, shows the continuity of near-commensurable motion with other motion, and some of the properties of long-period librations of small amplitude.To extend the investigation to other types of motion near commensurability, numerical integrations of the equations for the long-period variations of the elements were carried out for the 2:1 interior case (of which the planet 108 “Hecuba” is an example) to survey those motions in which the eccentricity takes values less than 0·1. An investigation of the effect of the large amplitude perturbations near commensurability on a distribution of minor planets, which is originally uniform over mean motion, shows a “draining off” effect from the vicinity of exact commensurability of a magnitude large enough to account for the observed gap in the distribution at the 2:1 commensurability.

Discussion following the presentation by F. Deubner

1977 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Harmonic Motion ◽  
Locally Excited ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Coherent Wave ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Global Modes

The discussion was separated into 3 different topics according to the separation made by the reviewer between the different periods of waves observed in the sun :1) global modes (long period oscillations) with predominantly radial harmonic motion.2) modes with large coherent - wave systems but not necessarily global excitation (300 s oscillation).3) locally excited - short period waves.

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