Odontogeriatria nos Projetos Políticos Pedagógicos dos cursos de Odontologia do sul do Brasil / Geriatric Dentistry in Political Pedagogical Projects of Dentistry courses in Southern Brazil

O presente estudo quantitativo, exploratório e descritivo teve por objetivo apresentar um panorama situacional da inserção da Odontogeriatria nos Projetos Políticos Pedagógicos (PPP) dos cursos de Odontologia das instituições de ensino superior (IES) da Região Sul do Brasil. Os sítios Web dos cursos foram analisados, buscando-se as informações referentes à oferta da disciplina de Odontogeriatria nos PPP. Foram analisadas variáveis como natureza das instituições (pública ou privada), momento do curso no qual a disciplina é ofertada (ano/semestre), natureza do ensino (teórico, prático ou teórico-prático), carga horária total e disponibilidade de ementa, objetivos e conteúdos ministrados. Participaram do estudo 36 cursos de graduação em Odontologia das IES do sul do Brasil, dos quais 14 oferecem a disciplina de Odontogeriatria em sua matriz curricular, sendo seis (43%) públicas e oito (57%) privadas. Quanto à natureza da disciplina, em quatro cursos ela é teórica, em quatro é teórico/prática e seis cursos não disponibilizaram esta informação. Dez IES apresentaram ementa e conteúdos ministrados, sendo seis públicas e quatro privadas. O momento do curso no qual a disciplina é ofertada e a carga horária da mesma, apresentaram-se bastante heterogêneos. Não foram encontradas informações referentes aos PPP de três instituições, duas públicas e uma privada. O presente estudo possibilitou traçar um panorama da inserção da Odontogeriatria nas IES do sul do Brasil. Além disso, foi possível observar que nem todos os cursos de Odontologia disponibilizam informações sobre sua matriz curricular online, e quando estão disponíveis, nem todas as características são apresentadas (AU)

This is a quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study, which aimed to present a situational overview of the inclusion of geriatric dentistry in the Political Pedagogical Project (PPP) of Dentistry courses of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) from southern Brazil. The courses' websites were analyzed seeking information related to the offer of geriatric dentistry or equivalent discipline. It were also analyzed the nature of institutions public or private), the State of the institutions, the period in which the course is offered (year/semester), nature of education (theoretical, practical or theoretical-practical), total workload, availability of menu, objectives and contents taught. From 36 graduation courses in dentistry analyzed, 14 offered geriatric dentistry discipline, six public and eight private. As for the nature of the discipline, in four courses it is theoretical, four are theoretical and practical and six courses didn´t report this information. Ten HEIs presented menu and content taught, six public and four private. No information was found related to PPP of three institutions, two public and one private. This study made it possible to describe the present insertion of geriatric dentistry in PPP of HEI in southern Brazil. In addition, it was observed that not all dental courses provide information about their curriculum online, and when available, not all features are presented (AU).

Biogeochemical typing of paddy field by a data-driven approach revealing sub-systems within a complex environment--a pipeline to filtrate, organize and frame massive dataset from multi-omics analyses.

We propose the technique of biogeochemical typing (BGC typing) as a novel methodology to set forth the sub-systems of organismal communities associated to the correlated chemical profiles working within a larger complex environment. Given the intricate characteristic of both organismal and chemical consortia inherent to the nature, many environmental studies employ the holistic approach of multi-omics analyses undermining as much information as possible. Due to the massive amount of data produced applying multi-omics analyses, the results are hard to visualize and to process. The BGC typing analysis is a pipeline built using integrative statistical analysis that can treat such huge datasets filtering, organizing and framing the information based on the strength of the various mutual trends of the organismal and chemical fluctuations occurring simultaneously in the environment. To test our technique of BGC typing, we choose a rich environment abounding in chemical nutrients and organismal diversity: the surficial freshwater from Japanese paddy fields and surrounding waters. To identify the community consortia profile we employed metagenomics as high throughput sequencing (HTS) for the fragments amplified from Archaea rRNA, universal 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA; to assess the elemental content we employed ionomics by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES); and for the organic chemical profile, metabolomics employing both Fourier transformed infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) all these analyses comprised our multi-omics dataset. The similar trends between the community consortia against the chemical profiles were connected through correlation. The result was then filtered, organized and framed according to correlation strengths and peculiarities. The output gave us four BGC types displaying uniqueness in community and chemical distribution, diversity and richness. We conclude therefore that the BGC typing is a successful technique for elucidating the sub-systems of organismal communities with associated chemical profiles in complex ecosystems.