Objective: We investigated: i) the reliability and validity of a Brazilian version of the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE), developed to detect and characterize psychotic experiences in the general population; and ii) the association between psychotic experiences, childhood adversity, and cannabis use in a population-based sample. Methods: We performed factorial analyses and generalized linear models with CAPE scores as the dependent variable in a sample composed of 217 first-episode psychosis patients, 104 unaffected biological siblings, and 319 non-psychotic population-based participants. Results: After removing seven items from its positive dimension and two items from its negative dimension, a 33-item Brazilian version of the CAPE showed acceptable adjustment indices (confirmatory fit index = 0.895; goodness of fit index = 0.822; parsimony goodness of fit index = 0.761; root mean square error of approximation [RMSEA] = 0.055, p [RMSEA ≤ 0.05] = 0.04) and internal consistency in all its dimensions (> 0.70). Childhood adversity was associated with higher scores in all three dimensions, as well as with total score. Lifetime cannabis use was associated with higher scores only in the positive dimension. Conclusion: The proposed Brazilian version of the CAPE corroborates the tridimensional approach for assessing psychosis-proneness, and the frequency and severity of psychotic manifestations are distributed as a spectrum in the general population.

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Brazil has a high number of cases of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the north and northeast regions. Therefore, continuous surveillance of environmental and socioeconomic factors in endemic areas is needed to develop strategic control measures. This study aimed to describe the clinical and epidemiological profiles of patients with ACL. METHODS: All patients were from the states of Amazonas and Pernambuco, and examinations were carried out between 2015 and 2018. All patients had a clinical and epidemiological history compatible with ACL after positive diagnostic tests. Information obtained from medical records included gender, employment activity, level of education, age, and number and sites of lesions. RESULTS: A total of 213 patients were included, of whom 30.98% were female and 69.02% were male. The main employment activity was agriculture (27.56%). The most common level of education was elementary (62.42%). The average age was approximately 39 years. The majority of the patients presented only with one lesion (54.87%), and legs/feet were the most commonly affected area (48.25%), followed by the arms/hands (44.75%). CONCLUSIONS: These data demonstrated that irrespective of the patients’ places of origin, interventions need to be focused on men of economically productive age, in view of the high risk of exposure to the vector in this group. Education activities need to be directed to farmers about the importance of protection against ACL vectors during work. Such information must also be directed to employers as a way of implementing and maintaining appropriate working conditions and stepping up vector control.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a resposta do caquizeiro (Diospyros kaki L.) à adubação nitrogenada. O experimento foi conduzido em um pomar comercial no município de Faxinal, Estado do Paraná, nas coordenadas geográficas S 23º 57' 35'', W51º 13'34'', altitude de 999 metros. A cultivar estudada foi "Giombo". Utilizou-se de 9 tratamentos, sendo uma testemunha sem aplicação de nitrogênio (N), e os demais resultante das épocas de aplicação de N (Maturação fisiológica dos frutos, início de poda, final de florescimento e em 15-12-06), combinadas com duas doses de N (80 e 160 kg/ha). O delineamento experimental foi o de blocos casualizados e 4 repetições. A parcela experimental foi constituída de 3 plantas, sendo a planta central usada para avaliação. A cada quarenta e cinco dias após o início da adubação, foram retirados aleatoriamente de cada tratamento oito ramos produtivos em diferentes pontos da planta. Na folha, os tratamentos IP e MF apresentaram os maiores teores de N na primavera e no verão, e uma diminuição significativa na fase final do ciclo antes da senescência e queda.Na folha e no ramo, todos os tratamentos resultaram em teor de N semelhante no final do ciclo.A época de aplicação, início de poda, foi a época que demonstrou menor variação de N, independentemente da dose.

The objective was to evaluate the change in content of nitrogen in productive branches of persimmon (Diospyros kaki L.) to nitrogen fertilization. The experiment was conducted in a commercial orchard in the municipality of Faxinal, state of Paraná, in geographical coordinates S 23 º 57 '35'', W51 ° 13'34'', altitude of 999 meters. The cultivar studied was "Giombo. 9 was used treatments, and a control without application of nitrogen (N), and the remainder resulting from the application in time of physiological maturity of fruits, pruning the top, end of flowering and 15/12/06 and combined with two doses of N (80 and 160 kg / ha)." The experimental design was a randomized blocks and 4 replications. The experimental plot was composed of 3 plants, the plant used for central assessment. Every forty-five days after fertilization were randomly taken from each treatment eight productive branches in different parts of the plant.. The leaf's treatment IP and MF showed the highest concentration of N in the spring and summer. And one decrease in the end of cycle before of leaf fall and in the branch of all treatments resulted in similar levels of N in the end o cycle. The time of pruning the top resulted in the smallest levels of N in both application of N.