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Diante da pandemia causada pelo COVID-19, se fez necessário o isolamento social visando dificultar o contágio viral. Estima-se situação de maior vulnerabilidade em idosos, devido a maior suscetibilidade imunológica e por apresentarem comorbidades prévias, consideradas fatores de risco. Esta vulnerabilidade é acentuada pela situação do isolamento, trazendo significativa mudança na rotina do idoso, dificultando a prática de atividades físicas, que por sua vez alteram seu quadro físico, psicológico e social. Assim, teve-se como objetivo avaliar as implicações do isolamento social na saúde e qualidade de vida dos idosos. Para tal, foi realizado um levantamento de informações através de questionários sociodemográficos acerca dos hábitos de vida destes idosos. Com isto, almejou-se elucidar os fatores agravantes à saúde, com o fim de preveni-los e/ou amenizá-los, buscando também proporcionar um melhor preparo para possíveis situações recorrentes. O trabalho teve o intuito de compreender quais foram as mudanças nos hábitos de vida da população idosa, bem como tais mudanças afetam a qualidade de vida desta população. O presente trabalho aventou, por meio do questionário, onde foi entrevistado 74 idosos, todos residentes da cidade de Maringá, PR, que houve redução na prática de exercícios físicos. Além disso, foi detectado piora na qualidade do sono, alguns casos com perda ou ganho de peso e ingestão de novos remédios. Os resultados obtidos contribuem para o desenvolvimento de estratégias paliativas, por órgãos e instituições voltadas a população idosa, que minimizem os impactos gerados pelo isolamento social, evitando maiores prejuízos aos cofres públicos e ao Sistema Único de Saúde.

Fine Grained Containerization for Workflow Trust

What cutting-edge storage technology is available to deal with data? Can we leverage services deployment platforms for scientific workflows? How do we tune the storage and deployment platforms?

Tools for gathering soil moisture data (such as in situ soil sensors and satellites) have differing capabilities. In situ soil moisture data has fine-grained spatial and high temporal resolution, but is only available in limited areas; satellite data is available globally, but is more coarse in resolution. Existing software tools for studying the dynamic characteristics of soil moisture data are limited in their ability to model soil moisture at multiple spatial and temporal scales, and these limitations hamper scientists’ ability to address urgent practical problems such as wildfire management and food and water security. Accurate gathering and effective modeling of soil moisture data are essential to address pressing environmental challenges. This interdisciplinary project designs, builds, and shares a data-driven software ecosystem for soil moisture applications. This software ecosystem models and predicts soil moisture at scales suitable to support studies in forestry, precision agriculture, and earth surface hydrology. This project connects multi-disciplinary advances across the scientific community (such as generating datasets at scale and supporting cloud-based cyberinfrastructures) to develop a data-driven software ecosystem for analyzing, visualizing, and extracting knowledge from the growing data collections (from fine-grained, in situ soil sensor information to coarse-grained, global satellite measurements) and releasing this knowledge to applications in environmental sciences. Specifically, this project (a) develops scalable methodologies to integrate and analyze soil moisture data at multiple spatial and temporal scales; (b) implements a data-driven software ecosystem to access complex information and provide basic and applied knowledge to inform researchers and stakeholders interested in soil moisture dynamics (scientists, educators, government agencies, policy makers); and (c) builds cyberinfrastructures to support discovery on cloud platforms, lowering resource barriers to improve accessibility and interoperability., Support of the National Science Foundation (US) OAC #2103845 and OAC #2103836.

In this poster, we address the scientists' need for data traceability and results explainability of soil moisture predictions. We address the need by transforming existing container technology into tools for automatically annotating provenance metadata in workflow executions. We demonstrate the new capabilities with the study of a workflow predicting soil moisture values from the 27 km resolution satellite data down to fine-grain resolutions necessary for practical use in policy making and precision agriculture. Because of our approach, we can identify the causes of different accuracy for predicted soil moisture values in different resolutions of input data, and link different results to different prediction methods used during the soil moisture downscaling, all without requiring a scientist to know aspects of workflow design and implementation., Support of the National Science Foundation (US) OAC #2103845 and OAC #2103836.

Funder: start-up funding from Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (DDPSC), C4 plants frequently experience high light and high temperature conditions in the field, which reduce growth and yield. However, the mechanisms underlying these stress responses in C4 plants have been under-explored, especially the coordination between mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells. We investigated how the C4 model plant Setaria viridis responded to a four-hour high light or high temperature treatment at photosynthetic, transcriptomic, and ultrastructural levels. Although we observed a comparable reduction of photosynthetic efficiency in high light or high temperature treated leaves, detailed analysis of multi-level responses revealed important differences in key pathways and M/BS specificity responding to high light and high temperature. We provide a systematic analysis of high light and high temperature responses in S. viridis, reveal different acclimation strategies to these two stresses in C4 plants, discover unique light/temperature responses in C4 plants in comparison to C3 plants, and identify potential targets to improve abiotic stress tolerance in C4 crops.

Scientists need to trust the data, software, infrastructure, and humans in the scientific discovery loop. We can leverage object storage technology and NSDF software stackto enable scientists to achieve trust in their workflow.

This resource collects a compilation of urban resilience approaches associated with networked material and energy flows characterized by their spatial perspective. The resource is associated with the article "Cities facing extremes: How is urban resilience addressed from a spatial perspective? A systematic review focuses on networked material and energy flows." The compilation is offered in diverse formats, including PDF, CSV, and XLSX.

Use-case of road map towards reproducibility of scientific workflows through leveraging containers. We present an automatic fine-grained metadata that provides a full description of the dataflow, ensuring traceability of data and explainability of results. We question the trade-off between scalability and reproducibility.

Use-case of road map towards trustworthiness of scientific workflows through leveraging containers and annotating the execution of every data component. We present an automatic fine-grained metadata that provides a full description of the dataflow, ensuring traceability of data and explainability of results. We compare the granularity level of containerization with the information captured in the metadata, concluding that in order to be able to trust in the results, fine-grained containerization is needed.

This deliverable presents the first release of demonstration workflows for the BioExcel-2 period. The initial roadmap for the WP2 presented in D2.1 is revised, and a new, updated roadmap for the rest of the project is presented. The demonstration workflows designed and implemented in the first BioExcel-2 period are presented in the first section. The section is divided in three subsections, according to different workflow categories: Jupyter Notebook tutorials, library versatility tutorials, and pre-exascale demonstration workflows. The Jupyter Notebook tutorials illustrate the power of the BioExcel Building Blocks software library through biomolecular simulation tools interoperability, with examples on how to parameterize a small molecule, setup and run MD simulations, and prepare and run alchemical free energy calculations. The library versatility tutorials present how these workflows can be described and launched using different workflow managers and technologies, such as Common Workflow Language (CWL). Finally, the pre-exascale demonstration workflows are proving the power of the library to build efficient and scalable HPC-focused biomolecular workflows tackling real scientific problems, with examples presented analysing the effect of mutations on the binding affinity of protein-ligand (EGFR) or protein-protein (COVID-19 spike protein) molecules. Availability of the first release of demonstration workflows is presented in the second section. How to find, download, install and execute the collection of workflows, depending on their category, is described. Finally, the initial and updated roadmap section contains a revision of the initial roadmap presented in the D2.1 document in PM6, highlighting the milestones reached and issues found. From that, an updated roadmap for the second half of the project is proposed.

We describe a new coordination activity and initial results for a global synthesis of eddy covariance CH4 flux measurements.

Orientador: Prof. Dr. Alessandro Filla Rosaneli Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Da Terra, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia. Defesa : Curitiba, 25/09/2018 Inclui referências: p.124-134 Resumo: A presente pesquisa é uma proposta de aproximação conceitual entre espaço público e território para uma leitura geográfica dos fenómenos contemporâneos de ocupação e transformação urbana. As bases ideológicas da metrópole capitalista em sua fase neoliberal atravessada pelo paradigma de consumo, individualismo e o automóvel, é questionado por diversas alternativas que procuram pensar, construir e viver a cidade desde princípios comunitários, coletivos e meio ambientais ancorados em outras racionalidades. Nesse contexto, o Parque Gomm apresenta-se como o primer parque comunitário de Curitiba, e deve sua conquista ao movimento cidadão Salvemos o Bosque da Casa Gomm. Por meio de uma ocupação e apropriação material, politica e simbólica do lugar, são reproduzidas práticas alternativas como estratégia para preservar uma área verde e bosque nativo, perante um projeto de conectividade urbana de aceso a um shopping. De base qualitativa e de caráter exploratória, a pesquisa centra-se na trajetória do movimento e as práticas de ocupação do espaço público como estratégia para sua defesa e alternativa real de transformação urbana e cidadã. Palabras-chave. Espaço público; Cidadania; Territorio/territorialidad; Parque Gomm. Abstract: This investigation aims to make a conceptual approach between public space and territory, for a geographical perspective of contemporary phenomena of urban occupation and transformation. The capitalist metropolis' ideological bases in its neoliberal phase, crossed by the consumption, individualism and automobile paradigm, is confronted and questioned by alternatives that seek to think, built and live the city from community, collective and environmental principles based on other rationalities. In this context, Parque Gomm, which emerges as the first community park of Curitiba owes its conquest to the citizen movement Salvemos o Bosque da Casa Gomm. Through the material, political and symbolic occupation and appropriation of this park, alternative practices are reproduced as a strategy to preserve a green area of native forest from an urban connectivity project planned to create an entrance for the shopping mall. This investigation of qualitative and exploratory base focuses on the movement's journey and the occupation practices of public space as strategies for its defense and creation from a real alternative of urban and citizen transformation. Keyword. Public space; Citizenship; Territory/ territoriality; Parque Gomm.

National audience; La presente política pública regional pretende contribuir a la planificación y desarrollo de las áreas verdes en la Región Metropolitana de Santiago. La política se justifica ya que en la actualidad no existe un plan maestro y el diagnóstico muestra que existe una distribución espacial desigual, la que depende esencialmente de los ingresos monetarios que perciben las comunas, tanto de la inversión pública como privada. De esta manera, la política analiza la situación actual de la región, examina la diversidad de conceptos y acepciones en torno a la noción de área verde, y finalmente propone una serie de objetivos e indicadores que apuntan a la superación de los problemas detectados anteriormente.

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Funder: start-up funding from Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, C4 plants frequently experience high light and high temperature conditions in the field, which reduce growth and yield. However, the mechanisms underlying these stress responses in C4 plants have been under-explored, especially the coordination between mesophyll (M) and bundle sheath (BS) cells. We investigated how the C4 model plant Setaria viridis responded to a four-hour high light or high temperature treatment at photosynthetic, transcriptomic, and ultrastructural levels. Although we observed a comparable reduction of photosynthetic efficiency in high light or high temperature treated leaves, detailed analysis of multi-level responses revealed important differences in key pathways and M/BS specificity responding to high light and high temperature. We provide a systematic analysis of high light and high temperature responses in S. viridis, reveal different acclimation strategies to these two stresses in C4 plants, discover unique light/temperature responses in C4 plants in comparison to C3 plants, and identify potential targets to improve abiotic stress tolerance in C4 crops.