L’abeille domestique (Apis mellifera) est un insecte qui contribue à l’agriculture par sa pollinisation. Le taux élevé des mortalités hivernales des colonies est préoccupant depuis des décennies au Canada. Plusieurs facteurs sont impliqués, particulièrement Varroa destructor; un parasite qui se nourrit du corps gras de l’abeille. Le développement d’outils adaptés permettrait un meilleur suivi des colonies. Le projet consiste à corréler l’infestation de varroa avec les concentrations en sucres sériques et les co-infections (virales et bactériennes). Cette étude compare dans le temps six ruches fortement infestées et six ruches traitées (témoins). Un prélèvement d’hémolymphe a été effectué pour mesurer les concentrations en sucres en utilisant un glucomètre humain préalablement validé. Les concentrations en sucres (glucose et tréhalose) dans l’hémolymphe étaient significativement plus faibles (p<0.001) dans les ruches fortement infestées que les témoins en septembre. L’analyse RT-PCR multiplexe de six virus (DWV A/B, BCQV, KBV, IAPV et ABPV) a démontré que les ruches fortement infestées présentent une infection simultanée virale avec des charges plus élevées que chez les ruches témoins (p<0.05) pour la majorité des virus, sauf pour ABPV. Chez les ruches fortement parasitées, les charges virales pour DWVA et BQCV sont plus élevées en septembre qu’en juillet (p≤0.0001). Serratia marcescens a été seulement détectée dans une ruche infestée et une ruche témoin. Une exposition continue et élevée à varroa occasionne, en automne, une augmentation des charges virales et une diminution des sucres, suggérant une altération de l’immunité, du métabolisme et des réserves. Ces paramètres provoquent une faiblesse et une mortalité des colonies. / The European honeybee (Apis mellifera) contributes to the agriculture by its pollination; however, the mean overwintering loss rate of colonies over the last decades in Canada is worrisome. Varroa destructor, which feeds on the fat bodies of honeybees, is considered one of the most important causes of bee colony declines. The development of adapted diagnostic tools would improve the monitoring of honeybee health. This project aims to correlate the infestation by varroa to the hemolymph sugar concentrations (trehalose and glucose) and bacterial and viral coinfections. Six highly infested and six treated hives were compared over time. Pooled hemolymph of honeybees was collected for sugar concentration measurements using a previously validated portable glucometer. The hemolymph samples were also submitted for bacteriology. Multiplex RT-PCR analyses were performed on pooled honeybees for six viruses: Deformed wing virus A and B (DWV-A/B), Bee Queen Cell Virus (BQCV), Acute Bee Paralysis Virus (ABPV), Kashmere Bee Virus (KBV), Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV). The results show that, in September, sugar concentrations in hemolymph were significantly lower in highly infested hives (p<0.001). Infested hives showed markedly higher viral loads (p<0.05), except for ABPV. Viral loads were significantly higher (p≤0.0001) in September than in July for DWV-A and BQCV. Serratia marcescens was only detected in one infested hive and one control. Overall, a continued and severe exposure to varroa leads to increased viral charges and decreased sugar concentrations, suggesting alterations in immunity, metabolism and reserve mobilization. All these parameters contribute to the weakening and mortality of the colonies.

The diploma thesis considers possibilities of using therapies for preschool children with multiple disabilities in special nursery schools and in common nurseries with special classes. Provides an overview of therapies which mostly occur in schools. Based on the theoretical knowledge about single therapies identifies, how are integrated into the educational process in kindergartens. The analysis of the questionnaire survey highlights the shortcomings, that were the basis for a proposal to streamline therapies in these facilities.

Novas técnicas de frontoplastia, assistidas ou não de endoscópio, têm sido utilizadas na tentativa de diminuir as incisões tradicionalmente bi-coronais. Contudo, os resultados das cirurgias realizadas com mínimas incisões, sem endoscópio, ainda não são bem conhecidos, principalmente quando há sequelas de paralisia facial periférica (PFP). Dessa forma, o objetivo do presente estudo prospectivo foi avaliar a eficácia da frontoplastia não endoscópica com mínimas incisões na elevação do supercílio em indivíduos com PFP, 24 meses após a cirurgia. Constituíram variáveis do estudo a posição dos supercílios aferida em milímetros em fotografias digitais, por um software especialmente criado para este fim. Exploratoriamente, as fotos foram também avaliadas após o intervalo de 12 meses, e ainda, entre 36 a 78 meses. A satisfação dos pacientes com o resultado cirúrgico foi questionada verbalmente com a utilização de duas perguntas. A primeira, se o paciente estava satisfeito ou não e; a segunda, como o paciente qualificava sua aparência pós-cirurgia (entre as opções: pior, indiferente, melhor ou muito melhor). A amostra foi composta por 20 pacientes adultos que sofreram PFP há mais de 12 meses, com paralisia residual do ramo temporal e ptose do supercílio. Os pacientes foram submetidos a frontoplastia através de 2 incisões temporais no couro cabeludo, medindo 2,5 cm cada. Quando desejada fixação da parte medial do supercílio, esta foi realizada com agulha de Reverdin e 1 ou 2 incisões frontais acessórias, de 1 cm cada no couro cabeludo. Foi realizado descolamento frontal e temporal pelo plano subgaleal e liberação dos ligamentos do arcus marginalis sem visualização direta, com palpação externa dos reparos anatômicos. Não ocorreram lesões neurais sensitivas ou motoras permanentes em nenhum paciente em decorrência deste procedimento. As medidas pós-operatórias dos supercílios foram maiores do que as préoperatórias (p < 0,05) mostrando a eficácia da cirurgia na elevação do supercílio pós PFP após 24 meses. Todos os pacientes ficaram satisfeitos e qualificaram sua aparência como \"melhor\" ou \"muito melhor\" / New forehead lift techniques assisted by endoscopic visualization or not, have currently been used to reduce the traditional bi-coronal incision. However, the results of surgeries performed with minimal incisions are unknown, especially when given in cases of sequelae of peripheral facial paralysis (PFP). Therefore, the objective of this prospective study was to assess the efficacy of nonendoscopic forehead lift with minimal incisions in PFP patient brow suspension, 24 months after surgery. Study variables were the position of the eyebrow assessed in millimeters on digital photographs, by software developed for this purpose. Brow position after 12 month and also between 36 and 78 months was exploratory analyzed. Patient\'s satisfaction and improvement was verbally inquired after surgery \"are you satisfied or not\" and \"are you looking worst, the same, better or much better\". The sample was composed of 20 adult patients who suffered PFP over 12 month and remain with paralysis of the temporal branch and eyebrow ptosis. Patients underwent forehead lift performed by two incisions in the lateral hair bearing area measuring 2.5 cm each. When desired medial eyebrow fixation a Reverdin needle was used and an extra incision measuring 1 cm each was placed centrally on hair bearing. Frontal and temporal flap detachment was performed by subgaleal plane and the release of the arcus marginalis was blindly accomplished by external palpation, minding anatomic parameters. No patient exhibited permanent sensitive or motor neural lesion after this procedure. Eyebrow position in the post-operative periods was higher than pre-operative (p < 0,05) confirming brow lift efficacy 24 months after surgery. Al the patients declared satisfied and qualified themselves as looking \"better\" or \"much better\"

Novas técnicas de frontoplastia, assistidas ou não de endoscópio, têm sido utilizadas na tentativa de diminuir as incisões tradicionalmente bi-coronais. Contudo, os resultados das cirurgias realizadas com mínimas incisões, sem endoscópio, ainda não são bem conhecidos, principalmente quando há sequelas de paralisia facial periférica (PFP). Dessa forma, o objetivo do presente estudo prospectivo foi avaliar a eficácia da frontoplastia não endoscópica com mínimas incisões na elevação do supercílio em indivíduos com PFP, 24 meses após a cirurgia. Constituíram variáveis do estudo a posição dos supercílios aferida em milímetros em fotografias digitais, por um software especialmente criado para este fim. Exploratoriamente, as fotos foram também avaliadas após o intervalo de 12 meses, e ainda, entre 36 a 78 meses. A satisfação dos pacientes com o resultado cirúrgico foi questionada verbalmente com a utilização de duas perguntas. A primeira, se o paciente estava satisfeito ou não e; a segunda, como o paciente qualificava sua aparência pós-cirurgia (entre as opções: pior, indiferente, melhor ou muito melhor). A amostra foi composta por 20 pacientes adultos que sofreram PFP há mais de 12 meses, com paralisia residual do ramo temporal e ptose do supercílio. Os pacientes foram submetidos a frontoplastia através de 2 incisões temporais no couro cabeludo, medindo 2,5 cm cada. Quando desejada fixação da parte medial do supercílio, esta foi realizada com agulha de Reverdin e 1 ou 2 incisões frontais acessórias, de 1 cm cada no couro cabeludo. Foi realizado descolamento frontal e temporal pelo plano subgaleal e liberação dos ligamentos do arcus marginalis sem visualização direta, com palpação externa dos reparos anatômicos. Não ocorreram lesões neurais sensitivas ou motoras permanentes em nenhum paciente em decorrência deste procedimento. As medidas pós-operatórias dos supercílios foram maiores do que as préoperatórias (p < 0,05) mostrando a eficácia da cirurgia na elevação do supercílio pós PFP após 24 meses. Todos os pacientes ficaram satisfeitos e qualificaram sua aparência como \"melhor\" ou \"muito melhor\" / New forehead lift techniques assisted by endoscopic visualization or not, have currently been used to reduce the traditional bi-coronal incision. However, the results of surgeries performed with minimal incisions are unknown, especially when given in cases of sequelae of peripheral facial paralysis (PFP). Therefore, the objective of this prospective study was to assess the efficacy of nonendoscopic forehead lift with minimal incisions in PFP patient brow suspension, 24 months after surgery. Study variables were the position of the eyebrow assessed in millimeters on digital photographs, by software developed for this purpose. Brow position after 12 month and also between 36 and 78 months was exploratory analyzed. Patient\'s satisfaction and improvement was verbally inquired after surgery \"are you satisfied or not\" and \"are you looking worst, the same, better or much better\". The sample was composed of 20 adult patients who suffered PFP over 12 month and remain with paralysis of the temporal branch and eyebrow ptosis. Patients underwent forehead lift performed by two incisions in the lateral hair bearing area measuring 2.5 cm each. When desired medial eyebrow fixation a Reverdin needle was used and an extra incision measuring 1 cm each was placed centrally on hair bearing. Frontal and temporal flap detachment was performed by subgaleal plane and the release of the arcus marginalis was blindly accomplished by external palpation, minding anatomic parameters. No patient exhibited permanent sensitive or motor neural lesion after this procedure. Eyebrow position in the post-operative periods was higher than pre-operative (p < 0,05) confirming brow lift efficacy 24 months after surgery. Al the patients declared satisfied and qualified themselves as looking \"better\" or \"much better\"

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Aiming to make an intervention in both emerging Slow Cinema and classical Trauma Cinema scholarship, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which the post-trauma cinema of Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz merges aesthetics of cinematic slowness with narratives of post-trauma in his films Melancholia (2008), Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) and Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012). Diaz has been repeatedly considered as representative of what Jonathan Romney termed in 2004 “Slow Cinema”. The director uses cinematic slowness for an alternative approach to an on-screen representation of post-trauma. Contrary to popular trauma cinema, Diaz’s portrait of individual and collective trauma focuses not on the instantenaeity but on the duration of trauma. In considering trauma as a condition and not as an event, Diaz challenges the standard aesthetical techniques used in contemporary Trauma Cinema, as highlighted by Janet Walker (2001, 2005), Susannah Radstone (2001), Roger Luckhurst (2008) and others. Diaz’s films focus instead on trauma’s latency period, the depletion of a survivor’s resources, and a character’s slow psychological breakdown. Slow Cinema scholarship has so far focused largely on the films’ aesthetics and their alleged opposition to mainstream cinema. Little work has been done in connecting the films’ form to their content. Furthermore, Trauma Cinema scholarship, as trauma films themselves, has been based on the immediate and most radical signs of post-trauma, which are characterised by instantaneity; flashbacks, sudden fears of death and sensorial overstimulation. Following Lutz Koepnick’s argument that slowness offers “intriguing perspectives” (Koepnick, 2014: 191) on how trauma can be represented in art, this thesis seeks to consider the equally important aspects of trauma duration, trauma’s latency period and the slow development of characteristic symptoms. With the present work, I expand on current notions of Trauma Cinema, which places emphasis on speed and the unpredictability of intrusive memories. Furthermore, I aim to broaden the area of Slow Cinema studies, which has so far been largely focused on the films’ respective aesthetics, by bridging form and content of the films under investigation. Rather than seeing Diaz’s slow films in isolation as a phenomenon of Slow Cinema, I seek to connect them to the existing scholarship of Trauma Cinema studies, thereby opening up a reading of his films.