Dataset of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range (290-430 nm), with 6.3 km resolution in the latitude range -51.6

The data presented in this article are related to the research paper entitled "Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector" (Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 284, January 2023, 113336, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113336). The data have been acquired with the Mini-EUSO detector, an UV telescope operating in the range 290-430 nm and located inside the International Space Station. The detector was launched in August 2019, and it has started operations from the nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module in October 2019. The data presented here refer to 32 sessions acquired between 2019-11-19 and 2021-05-06. The instrument consists of a Fresnel-lens optical system and a focal surface composed of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes, each with 64 channels, for a total of 2304 channels with single photon counting sensitivity. The telescope, with a square field-of-view of 44°, has a spatial resolution on the Earth surface of 6.3 km and saves triggered transient phenomena with a temporal resolution of 2.5 µs and 320 µs. The telescope also operates in continuous acquisition at a 40.96 ms scale. In this article, large-area night-time UV maps obtained processing the 40.96 ms data, taking averages over regions of some specific geographical areas (e.g., Europe, North America) and over the entire globe, are presented. Data are binned into 0.1° × 0.1° or 0.05° × 0.05° cells (depending on the scale of the map) over the Earth's surface. Raw data are made available in the form of tables (latitude, longitude, counts) and .kmz files (containing the .png images). These are - to the best of our knowledge - the highest sensitivity data in this wavelength range and can be of use to various disciplines.

Nutritional Guideline for the Management of Mexican Patients with CKD and Hyperphosphatemia.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents a serious concern for the Mexican population since the main predisposing diseases (diabetes, hypertension, etc.) have a high prevalence in the country. The development of frequent comorbidities during CKD such as anemia, metabolic disorders, and hyperphosphatemia increases the costs, symptoms, and death risks of the patients. Hyperphosphatemia is likely the only CKD comorbidity in which pharmaceutical options are restricted to phosphate binders and where nutritional management seems to play an important role for the improvement of biochemical and clinical parameters. Nutritional interventions aiming to control serum phosphate levels need to be based on food tables, which should be specifically elaborated for the cultural context of each population. Until now, there are no available food charts compiling a high amount of Mexican foods and describing phosphorus content as well as the phosphate to protein ratio for nutritional management of hyperphosphatemia in CKD. In this work, we elaborate a highly complete food chart as a reference for Mexican clinicians and include charts of additives and drug phosphate contents to consider extra sources of inorganic phosphate intake. We aim to provide an easy guideline to contribute to the implementation of more nutritional interventions focusing on this population in the country.

O lugar da bioética na história da ética / The Place of Bioethics in the History of Ethics

Este artigo aponta para a integração da ética contemporânea no caudal histórico do pensamento. Mostra rapidamente como a ética renasce na bioética e renova-se nas novas teorias da justiça. Após definir a bioética como cuidado da vida nas suas três formas e do meio-ambiente onde cresce, destaca as principais teorias da pessoa, como tema absolutamente ímpar na bioética. A seguir comenta os dois princípios da justiça de Rawls, a saber, a liberdade como primeiro princípio da ordem social, e a distribuição eqüitativa e imparcial dos bens materiais como segundo princípio de uma sociedade bem ordenada. Expõem também a tese de Amartya Sen segundo a qual o verdadeiro desenvolvimento e progresso não aparece tanto no PIB como no IDH ( Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano): educação, saúde, consciêcnia social e habitação. O artigo termina dizendo da convergêcnia necessária entre justiça e bioética.

Bioética global / Global bioethics

Situa a bioética no vasto horizonte da filosofia e da tradição ética. Em segundo lugar apresenta três conceitos de pessoa: metafísico, fenomenológico e evolucionista. Para a metafísica "a pessoa é um indivíduo subsistente numa natureza racional". Segundo a fenomenologia, o homem não é uma essência definida desde o início, mas um ser-relacional que vai se constituindo. A terceira noção de personalidade baseia-se na evolução. O embrião, com todos os elementos genéticos, é uma pessoa em potencial. Finalmente trata da liberdade do cientista face à ética. Sua liberdade não pode sofrer limites; mas como cidadão deve articular sua liberdade com a dos demais cidadãos