Core body and skin temperatures causally affect vigilance and sleepiness in narcolepsy. This could lead to future practical applications.

The synthesis of polysiloxane nanotubes using trifunctional organosilanes is reported. Tubular nanostructures were formed via a chemical vapor deposition technique at room temperature when ethyltrichlorosilane is used or via a liquid phase method when methyltriethoxysilane is used as precursor. In the chemical vapor deposition process the shape of the tubes was controlled by changing the water content in the reaction chamber prior to coating. The diameter varied between 60 and 4000 nm. While in the case of the liquid phase method nanotubes with very high aspect ratios of 800 are produced. Parameters, such as length and diameter of the various tubes, were investigated using scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Additionally, the chemical composition of produced structures was analyzed using attenuated total reflectance-infrared and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Glass substrates coated with such structures exhibit extreme superhydrophobic properties.

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A experiência docente e profissional em terapia ocupacional indica uma formação acadêmica limitada em relação aos seguintes aspectos: o ser terapeuta ocupacional e suas implicações técnicas e metodológicas; o compreender e o assimilar o perfil profissional e, ainda, o entender o papel da atividade humana como recurso terapêutico. Para contribuir com tais lacunas, desenvolveu-se o Método da Escavação, criado com base na prática clínica e acadêmica. Neste artigo, o método é apresentado e analisado considerando as relações teórico-metodológicas entre a prática clínica, a formação acadêmica em terapia ocupacional e a abordagem ergológica. A argumentação desenvolvida resultou de um estudo de caso realizado em pesquisa de doutorado. Os dados foram coletados em documentos, entrevistas semiestruturadas e observação do Grupo de Estudos sobre Atividade Humana (Geah) do Instituto Metodista de Porto Alegre (IPA). Concluiu-se que há convergências entre o Método da Escavação e o Dispositivo Dinâmico a Três Polos. A vivência do método permitiu a confrontação e o entrecruzamento de saberes e valores entre o polo da experiência e o polo conceitual que compõem a terapia ocupacional. Os discentes renormatizaram saberes e ressignificaram suas vidas cotidianas e experiências de trabalho, reafirmando o poder terapêutico e criador da atividade humana.

This paper presents an initiative by the Brazilian Metalworkers Union, the Centro Nacional de Metalurgicos, which seeks to integrate vocational training with the construction of a new citizenship that represents a radical departure from the corporatist legacy of 'regulated citizenship'. The programme incorporates a strategic vision of the construction of citizenship of the workers through intervention in the development of public policy, principally in relation to policies concerning the creation of work, wealth and education, and in the unions' role in their negotiation. The Programa Integrar transcends the traditional Latin American adult education paradigms of human resource training and popular education, and it is argued that it is an example of an integrated education and training for civil society.

We conduct a lottery experiment to assess the predictive importance of simple choice process metrics (SCPMs) in forecasting risky 50/50 gambling decisions using different types of machine learning algorithms as well as traditional choice modeling approaches. The SCPMs are recorded during a fixed pre-decision phase and are derived from tracking subjects' eye movements, pupil sizes, skin conductance, and cardiovascular and respiratory signals. Our study demonstrates that SCPMs provide relevant information for predicting gambling decisions, but we do not find forecasting accuracy to be substantially affected by adding SCPMs to standard choice data. Instead, our results show that forecasting accuracy highly depends on differences in subject-specific risk preferences and is largely driven by including information on lottery design variables. As a key result, we find evidence for dynamic changes in the predictive importance of psychophysiological responses that appear to be linked to habituation and resource-depletion effects. Subjects' willingness to gamble and choice-revealing arousal signals both decrease as the experiment progresses. Moreover, our findings highlight the importance of accounting for previous lottery payoff characteristics when investigating the role of emotions and cognitive bias in repeated decision-making scenarios.