Natural Science and Reviews

The teaching of science has, over the last years, gained space in academic discussions, due to the need to use more attractive methods and strategies for students. The tendency to combine the playful with the science teaching has been gaining prominence in the classrooms, and it can be observed the use of educational games, comic books, cartoons, plays, drawings. Clown therapy involves a professional who uses techniques to show and generate health from other angles of life. Laughter therapy is widespread in hospitals, this practice has become relevant for improving treatment in hospitalized children. This artistic resource is taken in schools, kindergartens and NGOs and enables personal development, allowing the critical spirit and the exercise of citizenship to be broadened. The objective of this work was to develop art workshops that connect social, ecological and cultural aspects, seeking the use of the ludic in science teaching. This work was carried out in an NGO located in Bode community, Pina neighborhood in Recife – PE, with children from the local community, between 5 and 12 years old. Teaching activities were selected to stimulate children’s reflective and scientific thinking associated with popular knowledge. In order to make the sustainability workshop a previous conversation was held with the children, with the purpose of knowing the group’s knowledge about the theme worked. Then toys were made of recyclable material, such as: pet bottle carts; Bookmark pages with popsicle stick and straw flute. For the insect assembly workshop, a question was made about the collected organisms, investigating the children’s knowledge about these organisms, their ecological importance and the characteristics that differentiate them. Next, the specimens were assembled. For the plant analysis workshop, an explanation of the plant anatomy and its function was performed. Then slides were made for later analysis under a microscope. It was…

Climate is one of the most important factors that influence and determine the behavior, abundance and distribution of species, as well as having a strong influence on the ecology of habitats and ecosystems structure. Changes in the behavior, abundance and distribution of species are linked to climate. Diversity and plant species are highly interlinked and the relationship between biodiversity and climate change should be explored from several perspectives. This variety provides the building blocks to adapt to changing environmental conditions which are caused due to climate change. Conserved habitats can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, thus helping to address climate change by storing carbon in the plant biomass. Climate is one of the major limiting factors which determine the survival and growth of plants. The conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services can play a key role in helping societies to adapt to climate change. Biodiversity is affected by climate change, but biodiversity, through the ecosystem services and function it supports, also makes an important contribution to both climate-change mitigation and adaptation. Maintenance of agro-biodiversity and carbon sequestration through the process of photosynthesis is the two important and complementary environmental services of agro-ecosystems. Climate change affects biodiversity and one of the causes of biodiversity loss. At the same time climate change will accelerate further if biodiversity and ecosystems are not effectively protected. Generally due to the variation of genetic makeup within pants, different plant species diversity plays a great role in climate change adaption and mitigation process.

The main provisions of hierarchical thermodynamics created on the basis of Gibbs thermodynamics are presented. The thermodynamic theory of the origin of life, its evolution and the aging of living beings is presented. The theory considers the change in the specific Gibbs function of the formation of structures of different hierarchies, that is, the change in the comparative stability of these structures in the course of their evolutionary transformations. The described approach should be considered structural kinetic thermodynamics, which allows us not to consider any kinetic mechanisms of processes in the evolution of various hierarchical structures. It is asserted that the principle of substance stability determines the direction of the processes of the origin of life and its evolutionary transformations. The thermodynamic theory of aging and thermodynamic nutrition allows predictions concerning healthy life and its duration. It is shown that hierarchical thermodynamics is the physical foundation of expanded Darwinism. All the conclusions and predictions of the theory are confirmed by numerous observations and experimental facts.

The unified theory of physics is based on both symmetry physics and contrast physics to unify all physical laws and phenomena, all four fundamental forces, and all elementary particles. Conventional symmetry physics preserves the physical features of a system under transformation by a symmetry operator. In unconventional contrast physics, yin and yang constitute a binary yinyang system of contrary physical properties by yin and yang operators. The three fundamental symmetry operators transform the three fundamental yinyang systems (inclusiveness-exclusiveness, rest-movement, and composite-individual) into the unified theory of physics. In the inclusiveness-exclusiveness system, a particle is transformed into boson with inclusive occupation of position by the integer spin operator, while a particle is transformed into fermion with exclusive occupation of position by the ½ spin operator. The fundamental symmetry operator is supersymmetry to result in M-theory and cosmology. In the rest-movement system, a moving massless particle (kinetic energy) is transformed into a resting massive particle (rest mass) by the attachment space (denoted as 1) operator to explain the Higgs field, while a resting massive particle is transformed into a moving massless particle by the detachment space (denoted as 0) operator to explain the reverse Higgs field. The fundamental symmetry operator is the symmetrical combination of attachment space and detachment space to bring about the three space structures: binary partition space, (1)n(0)n, for wave-particle duality, binary miscible space, (1+0)n, for relativity, and binary lattice space, (1 0)n, for virtual particles in quantum field theory. In the composite-individual system, particles are transformed into fractional charge quark composite by the fractional electric charge operator, while particles are transformed into integral charge particle individuals by the integral electric charge operator. The fundamental symmetry operator is the symmetrical combination of quarks, leptons, and bosons to constitute the periodic table of elementary particles which calculates accurately the particle…

Any quantum state can be described by a vortex, which is mathematically a multi-vector and physically a united-measure. When the vortex formulation of quantum physics is introduced, Hamilton principle keeps its core position in physical analysis. While the global characteristics are described by Lagranrian function for dynamics and double complex core function for stable states, Schrödinger equation and gauge symmetries reveal local characteristics. The vortex-based physics provides a new unified understanding of wave-particle duality and uncertainty, quantum entanglement and teleportation, as well as quantum information and computation, with setting discrete quantum states into continuous space-time for keeping concordance of methodology in processing micro-particle and macro-galaxy. Two fundamental experiments are suggested to correct and verify the physical formulation.

Introduction: Impacted teeth are a routine finding in orthodontics and oromaxillofacial surgery, particularly impaction of maxillary teeth detected during examination of deciduous teeth and confirmed by radiographs or CT scans. This study describes a new technique for the traction of palatally impacted teeth, a procedure for which technical difficulties are often encountered. Report: A description of a new orthosurgical technique for the traction of palatal impacted teeth. Conclusion: Clinical observations revealed that this novel technique made impacted tooth traction easier, particularly for the treatment of palatally impacted teeth.

The review article focus on Diabetic neuropathy (DN) refers to symptoms and signs of neuropathy in a patient with diabetes in whom other causes of neuropathy have been excluded. Distal symmetrical neuropathy is the commonest accounting for 75% DN. Asymmetrical neuropathies may involve cranial nerves, thoracic or limb nerves; are of acute onset resulting from ischaemic infarction of vasa nervosa. Asymmetric neuropathies in diabetic patients should be investigated for entrapment neuropathy. Diabetic amyotrophy, initially considered to result from metabolic changes, and later ischaemia, is now attributed to immunological changes.. The homeopathy treatment of autonomic neuropathy is symptomatic.

Since a wide warm surface current, permanently flowing northeast off California, has been documented with all the available data that could be found plus helping to organize the collection of a new set of observations has happened, a search was carried out for a similar circulation feature in other oceans. Very likely there exists a wide warm surface current in the South Pacific moving southeast from the middle of the ocean and impinging on the coast of South America. In the South Atlantic a wide warm surface current appears to go south in the western half of the basin. Contained in the North Atlantic is “the large volume of warm water outside the Gulf Stream drifting north”, which was first described by Maury and confirmed recently by newer measurements. A puzzling SST observation in the northwest Indian Ocean, that in a given year two summers and two winters occur, is explained by a hypothesis that is a bit more complicated than shown by the surface currents in the other oceans. For confirmation more surface and near surface measurements are needed.

The principle of substance stability describes the thermodynamic interactions between hierarchical structures in chemistry and biology. The note contains links of author’s recent survey studies published online.