Inteligência emocional ─ Ferramenta essencial para uma vida positiva

Este artículo presenta el papel de la inteligencia emocional y el impacto positivo que puede tener en la vida de un ser humano. A principios de la década de 1990, Salovey y Mayer (1990) publicaron un artículo que resultaría de una serie de estudios sobre la inteligencia y el papel de las emociones en el desarrollo del hombre. Sugirieron así, que había una habilidad cognitiva que hasta ahora no había sido clasificada. Esta competencia se denomina inteligencia emocional, a partir de ese momento suscita un profundo interés en muchos investigadores de todo el mundo. Goleman (1996) llama la atención al mundo para un tema ya profundizado por varios autores, haciendo hincapié en la distinta concepción de la inteligencia tradicional. Da a conocer el éxito que el papel de la inteligencia emocional y las emociones podrían tener en el desarrollo profesional, psicológico y social de cada individuo. La inteligencia emocional permite al hombre tomar conciencia de sus emociones, comprender sus sentimientos, tanto como los de los demás. Es una habilidad que poseemos para poder relacionarnos con los demás y comunicarnos de forma asertiva, que va a permitir proyectar una actitud optimista ante la vida. Relacionado con un fuerte aliado inteligencia emocional y las emociones, pueden proporcionar niveles de bienestar psicológico y físico no descubiertos hasta entonces. Participando y aplicando una psicología positiva en su vida, el hombre puede cubrir campos de estabilidad nunca antes alcanzado. La inteligencia emocional es un arte que requiere un aprendizaje simple y consciente de un valor incalculable.This paper presents the role of Emotional Intelligence and the positive impact it can have on human life. In the early 1990s, Salovey and Mayer (1990) published an article that would result from several studies on the intelligence and the role of emotions in human development. Have suggested that there was a cognitive ability that until now had not been classified. Those powers it is known as Emotional Intelligence, from that moment raises a deep interest in many researchers around the world. Goleman (1996) draws attention to the world for a theme already in detail by other authors, the distinct conception of traditional intelligence. Making known the development that the role of emotional intelligence and their emotions could have on professional success, psychological and social development of each individual. The Emotional Intelligence enables man to become aware of their emotions, understand the feelings, as much as their others. It’s a skill that we possess in order to relate to others and communicate in an assertive manner, which will allow project an optimistic attitude towards life. Linked to a strong ally emotional intelligence and emotions, can provide levels of psychological well-being and physical not covered before. Joining and applying a positive psychology in your life, man can cover fields of stability never before achieved. Emotional intelligence is an art that requires a simple learning and conscious invaluable.O presente trabalho visa apresentar o papel da Inteligência Emocional e as repercussões positivas que pode ter na vida do ser Humano. No início da década de 1990, Salovey e Mayer (1990) publicaram um artigo que resultaria de vários estudos sobre a inteligência e o papel das emoções no desenvolvimento do Homem. Sugeriram assim, que existia uma competência cognitiva que até ao momento não tinha sido classificada. Tal competência recebe a designação de Inteligência Emocional, desde esse momento suscita um profundo interesse em vários pesquisadores por todo o mundo. Goleman (1996) chama a atenção ao mundo para um tema já aprofundado por vários autores, vincando a concepção distinta da Inteligência tradicional. Dando a conhecer o sucesso que o papel da Inteligência Emocional e Emoções poderiam ter no desenvolvimento profissional, psicológico e social de cada individuo. A Inteligência Emocional permite ao ser humano tomar consciência das suas emoções, compreender os sentimentos, tanto como as dos seus demais. É a uma aptidão que possuímos, de forma a relacionar com os outros e comunicar de forma assertiva, que vai permitir projectar uma atitude optimista perante a vida. A inteligência Emocional é uma arte que pressupõe uma aprendizagem simples e consciente de valor incalculável

Cyclotron resonant scattering feature simulations. I. Thermally averaged cyclotron scattering cross sections, mean free photon-path tables, and electron momentum sampling

Electron cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) are observed as absorption-like lines in the spectra of X-ray pulsars. A significant fraction of the computing time for Monte Carlo simulations of these quantum mechanical features is spent on the calculation of the mean free path for each individual photon before scattering, since it involves a complex numerical integration over the scattering cross section and the (thermal) velocity distribution of the scattering electrons. We aim to numerically calculate interpolation tables which can be used in CRSF simulations to sample the mean free path of the scattering photon and the momentum of the scattering electron. The tables also contain all the information required for sampling the scattering electron's final spin. The tables were calculated using an adaptive Simpson integration scheme. The energy and angle grids were refined until a prescribed accuracy is reached. The tables are used by our simulation code to produce artificial CRSF spectra. The electron momenta sampled during these simulations were analyzed and justified using theoretically determined boundaries. We present a complete set of tables suited for mean free path calculations of Monte Carlo simulations of the cyclotron scattering process for conditions expected in typical X-ray pulsar accretion columns (0.01<B/B_{crit}<=0.12, where B_{crit}=4.413x10^{13} G and 3keV<=kT<15keV). The sampling of the tables is chosen such that the results have an estimated relative error of at most 1/15 for all points in the grid. The tables are available online at http://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/research/cyclo.Comment: A&A, in pres

Atividade antimicrobiana de subfrações padronizadas da planta Arrabidaea chica Verl.

Este estudo analisou o potencial terapêutico de extratos e subfrações padronizadas da planta amazônica Arrabidaea chica, visando seu uso tópico como medicamento e eficácia comprovada em doenças cutâneas

VALIDATION OF A METHODOLOGY TO DEVELOP A TEST FACILITY IN REDUCED SCALE RELATED TO BORON DISPERSION IN A PRESSURIZER OF AN iPWR

The conception and the project of a 1:200 reduced scale test facility have been developed in earlier researches [1,2,3,4]. Such a facility aims to investigate boron homogenization process inside the pressurizer of an iPWR (integral PWR) by considering water mixing from this component with that coming from the reactor core. For this kind of reactor, the pressurizer is located at the top of the pressure vessel demanding the need of identifying the proper mechanisms in order to warrant an adequate homogenization for the water mixture. Once the installation of the experimental setup was concluded, its behavior has been analyzed by considering the concentration of a tracer diluted in the circulation water, whose measurements were obtained at the pressurizer outlet orifices. Two experiments representing boration(boron concentration increase)/deboration(boron concentration decrease) scenarios have been accomplished. Sample acquisition was carried out for every ten minutes during a total time equal to180 minutes. Results showed that the combination of Fractional Scaling Analysis with local Froude number consisted of an appropriate methodology to provide the reduced scale test facility parameters, inasmuch the measured concentrations from the experiments reproduced the theoretical behavior with sufficient accuracy

Enhanced attentional bias towards sexually explicit cues in individuals with and without compulsive sexual behaviours.

Compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) is relatively common and has been associated with significant distress and psychosocial impairments. CSB has been conceptualized as either an impulse control disorder or a non-substance 'behavioural' addiction. Substance use disorders are commonly associated with attentional biases to drug cues which are believed to reflect processes of incentive salience. Here we assess male CSB subjects compared to age-matched male healthy controls using a dot probe task to assess attentional bias to sexually explicit cues. We show that compared to healthy volunteers, CSB subjects have enhanced attentional bias to explicit cues but not neutral cues particularly for early stimuli latency. Our findings suggest enhanced attentional bias to explicit cues possibly related to an early orienting attentional response. This finding dovetails with our recent observation that sexually explicit videos were associated with greater activity in a neural network similar to that observed in drug-cue-reactivity studies. Greater desire or wanting rather than liking was further associated with activity in this neural network. These studies together provide support for an incentive motivation theory of addiction underlying the aberrant response towards sexual cues in CSB.This is the published version of the manuscript. It is originally published by PLoS in PLoS ONE here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0105476

Co-firing of biomass and other wastes in fluidised bed systems

A project on co-firing in large-scale power plants burning coal is currently funded by the European Commission. It is called COPOWER. The project involves 10 organisations from 6 countries. The project involves combustion studies over the full spectrum of equipment size, ranging from small laboratory-scale reactors and pilot plants, to investigate fundamentals and operating parameters, to proving trials on a commercial power plant in Duisburg. The power plant uses a circulating fluidized bed boiler. The results to be obtained are to be compared as function of scale-up. There are two different coals, 3 types of biomass and 2 kinds of waste materials are to be used for blending with coal for co-firing tests. The baseline values are obtained during a campaign of one month at the power station and the results are used for comparison with those to be obtained in other units of various sizes. Future tests will be implemented with the objective to achieve improvement on baseline values. The fuels to be used are already characterized. There are ongoing studies to determine reactivities of fuels and chars produced from the fuels. Reactivities are determined not only for individual fuels but also for blends to be used. Presently pilot-scale combustion tests are also undertaken to study the effect of blending coal with different types of biomass and waste materials. The potential for synergy to improve combustion is investigated. Early results will be reported in the Conference. Simultaneously, studies to verify the availability of biomass and waste materials in Portugal, Turkey and Italy have been undertaken. Techno-economic barriers for the future use of biomass and other waste materials are identified. The potential of using these materials in coal fired power stations has been assessed. The conclusions will also be reported

Body composition and body fat distribution are related to cardiac autonomic control in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Heart rate recovery (HRR), a cardiac autonomic control marker, was shown to be related to body composition (BC), yet this was not tested in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients. The aim of this study was to determine if, and to what extent, markers of BC and body fat (BF) distribution are related to cardiac autonomic control in NAFLD patients. SUBJECTS/METHODS: BC was assessed with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in 28 NAFLD patients (19 men, 51±13 years, and 9 women, 47±13 years). BF depots ratios were calculated to assess BF distribution. Subjects’ HRR was recorded 1 (HRR1) and 2 min (HRR2) immediately after a maximum graded exercise test. RESULTS: BC and BF distribution were related to HRR; particularly weight, trunk BF and trunk BF-to-appendicular BF ratio showed a negative relation with HRR1 (r 1⁄4 0.613, r 1⁄4 0.597 and r 1⁄4 0.547, respectively, Po0.01) and HRR2 (r 1⁄4 0.484, r 1⁄4 0.446, Po0.05, and r 1⁄4 0.590, Po0.01, respectively). Age seems to be related to both HRR1 and HRR2 except when controlled for BF distribution. The preferred model in multiple regression should include trunk BF-to-appendicular BF ratio and BF to predict HRR1 (r2 1⁄4 0.549; Po0.05), and trunk BF-to-appendicular BF ratio alone to predict HRR2 (r2 1⁄4 0.430; Po0.001). CONCLUSIONS: BC and BF distribution were related to HRR in NAFLD patients. Trunk BF-to-appendicular BF ratio was the best independent predictor of HRR and therefore may be best related to cardiovascular increased risk, and possibly act as a mediator in age-related cardiac autonomic control variation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Combination of gemcitabine with cell-penetrating peptides: A pharmacokinetic approach using in silico tools

Gemcitabine is an anticancer drug used to treat a wide range of solid tumors and is a first line treatment for pancreatic cancer. Our group has previously developed novel conjugates of gemcitabine with cell-penetrating peptides (CPP), and here we report some preliminary data regarding the pharmacokinetics of gemcitabine, two gemcitabine-CPP conjugates and respective CPP gathered from GastroPlus™, and analyze these results considering our previous evaluation of gemcitabine release and conjugates’ bioactivity. Additionally, seeking to shed some light on the relation between the penetration ability of CPP and their physicochemical properties, chemical descriptors for the 20 natural amino acids were calculated, a new principal property scale (z-scale) was created and CPP prediction models were developed, establishing quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). The z-scores of the peptides conjugated with gemcitabine are presented and analyzed with the aforementioned data.This work has been financed by Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) funds through the COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI) and Portugal 2020, and Portuguese funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT, Portugal), in the framework of the project “Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences” (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274), and through grant UID/QUI/50006/2019 (LAQV-REQUIMTE). NV also acknowledges support from FCT and FEDER (European Union), award number IF/00092/2014/CP1255/CT0004. AF thanks FCT for a doctoral fellowship (PD/BD/135120/2017)