New eye test could detect glaucoma years earlier

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160712110242.htm Acessado em 12/07/2016.

UNSW Australia scientists have developed a testing protocol that identifies the blinding eye disease glaucoma four years earlier than current techniques. The patented method involves patients looking at small dots of light of specially chosen size and light intensity. An inability to see them indicates blind spots in the eye and early loss of peripheral vision. According to Director of the UNSW Centre for Eye Health Professor Michael Kalloniatis, "Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in the world, and in the early stages patients usually have no symptoms and are not aware they are developing permanent vision loss. The cause of the disease is unknown and there is no cure, but its progression can be slowed with eye drops or surgery to lower pressure in the eye. So, early detectionand early treatment is vital for prolonging sight."

Tomato purée is a thick, red paste or concentrate made from crushed tomato pulp that has been cooked and reduced. Itis widely produced and used in Mediterranean countries, where itis added to dishes to give them a bright colour and a pronounced tomato flavour.

Mark the correct alternative.

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Polar bears

Polar bears live along shores and on sea ice in the icy cold Arctic. When sea ice forms over the ocean in cold weather, many polar bears, except pregnant females, head out onto the ice to hunt seals. Polar bears primarily eat seals. Polar bears often rest silently at a seal's breathing hole in the ice, waiting for a seal in the water to surface. A polar bear may also hunt by swimming beneath the ice.

In fall pregnant polar bears make dens in earth and snowbanks, where they'll stay through the winter and give birth to one to three cubs. In spring the mother emerges from her den followed by her cubs. During that time she will protect them and teach them how to hunt. The U.S., Canada, Denmark, Norway, and the Soviet Union signed an agreement in 1973 to protect polar bears.

[1] The ideas began with what seemed to be a minor difference of opinion between John and me on
[2] a matter of small importance: how much one should maintain one's own motorcycle. It seems natural
[3] and normal to me to make use of the small tool kits and instruction booklets supplied with each
[4] machine, and keep it tuned and adjusted myself. John demurs. He prefers to let a competent mechanic
[5] take care of these things so that they are done right. Neither viewpoint is unusual, and this minor
[6] difference would never have become magnified if we didn't spend so much time riding together and
[7] sitting in country roadhouses drinking beer and talking about whatever comes to mind. What comes to
[8] mind, usually, is whatever we've been thinking about in the half hour or forty-five minutes since we last
[9] talked to each other. When it's roads or weather or people or old memories or what's in the newpapers,
[10] the conversation just naturally builds pleasantly. But whenever the performance of the machines has been
[11] on my mind and gets into the conversation, the building stops. The conversation no longer moves
[12] forward. There is a silence and a break in the continuity. It is as though two old friends, a Catholic and
[13] Protestant, were sitting drinking beer, enjoying life, and the subject of birth control somehow came up.
[14] Big freeze-out.
[15] (…)
[16] When you're talking birth control, what blocks it and freezes it out is that it's not a matter of more
[17] or fewer babies being argued. That's just on the surface. What's underneath is a conflict of faith, of faith
[18] in empirical social planning versus faith in the authority of God as revealed by the teachings of the
[19] Catholic Church. You can prove the practicality of planned parenthood till you get tired of listening to
[20] yourself and it's going to go nowhere because your antagonist isn't buying the assumption that
[21] anything socially practical is good per se. Goodness for him has other sources which he values as
[22] much as or more than social practicality.

The Ants & the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bi te to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

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Trump's Terrible Numbers Are a Little Less Terrible

By Jonathan Bernstein

After spending August stuck right around 37.0 percent approval, Trump has rallied and, as of Sunday night, sat at 38.8 percent, according to “FiveThirtyEight” (other polling aggregators have similar results). His net approval – approval minus disapproval – is only around -16 now, after dipping below -20 in August.
That’s still awful.
The move up a couple of percentage points appears to be real. But I'd recommend being extremely cautious in interpreting the change. I’ve seen speculation that it's because Trump appears to have handled the recent hurricanes well. That’s plausible – but so is speculation that the hurricanes, regardless of Trump's actions, helped him by getting the news focus off him for a while. Or perhaps the publicity from striking deals with Democrats, no matter how little substance has been in them so far, is helping him.
There’s really no way to assess which if any of these factors might be causing the small increase. It’s too small an effect, for now at least, and there are too many stories in the news at the same time.

Read the text and answer question.

[1] A pilot from Northwest Airlines flight was less than pleased
with the food which was to be served on the flight.
He decided to find some better food, so he left his aeroplane,
and then left the airport to find food even though he had
[5] a plane to fly. The passengers were left to wait 90 minutes
until the pilot came back and when the pilot came back
he was fired on the spot for “abandoning his plane”.
(Adapted from www.flightglobal.com)

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Health and illness in Shakespeare

Sylvia Morris

January 30, 2012

Shakespeare’s interest in all things medical is well known, and Sujata Iyengar’s book Shakespeare’s Medical Language – A Dictionary, published by Continuum, is a successful addition to the literature on the subject, both a fascinating read and a valuable reference work. She casts her net wide, exploring Shakespeare’s own references to medical matters, the work of medical practitioners, symptoms, cures, and remedies, and the development of theoretical medicine.

Part glossary, part encyclopaedia, the book’s written in an easy-to-follow style, cross-referencing words with their own entries printed in bold, encouraging the reader to flip around the book. Most entries are in three parts: a medical description of the subject, Shakespeare’s references to it, and contemporary sources.

You could use the book as a glossary as you read a play: the entry on falling-sickness, for instance, mentioned in Julius Caesar, links the word with others used by Shakespeare: apoplexy, dizziness and palsy. It then directs you to three pages on epilepsy, lists other plays including sufferers (Othello and Macbeth), and quotes the description of Julius Caesar’s epileptic fit.

Starting from Shakespeare’s words, moving from them towards modern definitions, has many advantages. Iyengar doesn’t attempt to link his every mention of illness to a specific modern one, nor does she assume that Shakespeare’s use of medical terms is consistent. Importantly, there is no patronising assumption that twenty-first century western medicine, which separates body and spirit, has all the answers. We may still have much to learn from less sophisticated societies, including Shakespeare’s.