Universidade de Pernambuco

About: Universidade de Pernambuco is a education organization based out in Recife, Brazil. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Medicine. The organization has 6147 authors who have published 6948 publications receiving 73648 citations.

Prevalência das alterações da mucosa bucal em pacientes diabéticos: estudo preliminar

Abstract: OBJETIVO: O objetivo do presente estudo foi o de verificar a prevalencia das lesoes superficiais da mucosa da cavidade bucal em pacientes diabeticos. METODOS: A amostra foi constituida de 30 pacientes. Para a obtencao dos resultados foram realizados exames clinicos criteriosos e exames complementares quando necessario. RESULTADOS: Dos 30 individuos, 9 (30%) eram do sexo masculino e 21 (70%), do sexo feminino. Dos pacientes estudados, 40% tinham idade ate 60 anos e 60% possuiam idade superior. Foram diagnosticados 13 diferentes tipos de alteracoes da mucosa em diversas regioes, sendo a varicosidade lingual (36,6%) e a candidiase (27,02%) as mais prevalentes. Tais alteracoes podem estar relacionadas ao fato de serem achados semiologicos comuns em pacientes senis e tambem ao uso prolongado de proteses. A xerostomia foi diagnosticada em apenas 1 (3,33%) paciente divergindo da maioria dos estudos observados na literatura. CONCLUSAO: A maioria dos pacientes diabeticos apresentou pelo menos um tipo de lesao da mucosa bucal.

Somatotype of Competitive Youth Soccer Players From Brazil

Abstract: The aim of this study was to identify the morphological configuration of youth athletes from professional soccer clubs and to verify their differences according to the tactical position on the field. Overall, 67 male players aged 15 to 17 years were evaluated. The examined anthropometric measurements included body mass, body height, skinfolds (triceps, subscapular, supraspinal and medial calf), girths (flexed and tensed arm and calf) and breadths (humerus and femur). For statistical purposes, analysis of variance and post hoc Bonferroni and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used. We concluded that goalkeepers were heavier and taller than center backs (p = 0.015 and p = 0.001), midfielders (p = 0.005 and p <0.001) and center forward players (p = 0.024 and p <0.001). The average somatotype for defense, forward and goalkeeper positions was a balanced mesomorph. Midfield players showed ectomorphic-mesomorph characteristics. It was concluded that goalkeepers were characterized as being taller and heavier and that somatotype features of athletes were similar between positions, except for midfield players.

Prevalência dos defeitos de fechamento do tubo neural em recém-nascidos do Centro de Atenção à Mulher do Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira, IMIP: 2000-2004

Abstract: OBJECTIVES: to determine neural tube closing defects in newborns delivered in the maternity ward of the Women Care Center of the Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP). METHODS: a descriptive cross-sectional cohort study, with data collected from a Born Alive Information System from which all records of newborns with fetal malformation were selected. From these records the ones pertaining to newborns between 2000 and 2004 with the neural tube closing defect were considered. RESULTS: of 24.964 births, 709 newborns with some type of malformation were registered. When narrowing this to the newborns with the neural tube closing defect the number disclosed was 124, with a prevalence of 0.5% of the births within the period. Newborns with the neural tube closing defect, in general, had similar characteristics to newborns with other malformations. The majority (68.5%) of these newborns was delivered through C-Section and 37.7% had low birthweight. CONCLUSIONS: a high prevalence of neural tube closing defect was determined, but this could have resulted from the fact that the maternity ward of Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP) is a referral facility for high-risk pregnancies.

Heuristic for two-level cache hierarchy exploration considering energy consumption and performance

Abstract: In this work is presented an automated method for adjusting two-level cache memory hierarchy in order to reduce energy consumption in embedded applications. The proposed heuristic, TECH-CYCLES (Two-level Cache Exploration Heuristicconsidering CYCLES), consists of making a small search in the space of configurations of the two-level cache hierarchy, analyzing the impact of each parameter in terms of energy and number of cycles spent for a given application. Experiments show an average reduction of about 41% in the energy consumption by using our heuristic when compared with the existing heuristic (TCaT), also for two-level caches. Besides the energy improvement, this method also reduces the number of cycles needed to execute a given application by about 25%. In order to validate the proposed heuristic, twelve benchmarks from the MiBench suite have been used.