Sensibilidades e representações urbanas na transferência da capital de Minas Gerais
This study analyzes the urban representations generated as a consequence of the rupture experienced at the time of the transfer of the capital of Minas Gerais, in the last decade of the 19th century. The construction of a modern city, Belo Horizonte, as the new Capital of Minas Gerais, managed to encapsulate the newly-installed brand of Republican power in Brazil, replacing the old Ouro Preto, seat of Government and indisputable symbol of colonial domain and the administration of the recently-deposed monarchy. The contemporaneous urban images evident in political discourse, in chronicles, newspapers, sundry records and even literary writings are expressive of a new urban sensibility emerging from the process of the Capital's transference. Apparent are feelings and perceptions that oscillate between nostalgia, enchantment and fear caused by the simultaneous actions of the abandonment of one capital city and the invention of another. Many of these images have been incorporated into the urban imagination and still contribute today to the formulations of the identity of both cities - Ouro Preto and Belo Horizonte.
Apontamentos sobre a colonialidade de gênero a partir da análise de percursos cotidianos de faxineiras em Belo Horizonte (Brasil)
This paper aims to discuss the ways in which urban planning and the production of urban space reproduce patriarchal and sexist norms, particularly affecting the urban experience of women. From the concept of gender coloniality, conceived by Maria Lugones (2014), and the defense of margin as a place of radical openness by Bell Hooks (1990), I propose a discussion about the possibilities of resistance in women’s urban daily life. In order to do it, I use data produced between 2014 and 2016, during my master's research, which focused on observing the urban routes of seven women who work as housekeepers and who live in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil), in an attempt to understand aspects of the relationship of these women with urban space. In particular, I approach urban mobility and the resistances undertaken by these women in their everyday lives.
Direct orbital manometry in patients with thyroid-associated orbitopathy.
PURPOSE
To determine orbital tissue tension and orbital compartment compliance in patients with and without thyroid-associated orbitopathy (TAO).


DESIGN
Prospective case series.


PARTICIPANTS
Orbits of patients with TAO (18 orbits) and control patients without TAO (35 orbits) were studied.


METHODS
An orbital manometer was designed to directly measure orbital tissue tension in patients undergoing ocular or orbital surgery.


MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES
Tissue tension was recorded before, during, and for 5 minutes after a 5-ml retrobulbar injection of anesthetic. Orbital compliance was calculated as change in volume divided by change in tissue tension.


RESULTS
Resting orbital tissue tension was 4.4 +/- 2.2 mmHg (mean +/- SD) in normal orbits and 9.7 +/- 4.8 mmHg in orbits of TAO patients (P = 0.0005) Following retrobulbar injection, orbital tissue tension rose to 12.0 +/- 3.6 mmHg (P = 0.0000000000000006 compared with baseline) in the control group and to 36.3 +/- 15.2 mmHg in the TAO group (P = 0.0000007 compared with baseline, and P = 0.000008 TAO group versus control group). Orbital compartment compliance was 0.80 +/- 0.50 ml/mmHg in the control group and 0.27 +/- 0.21 ml/mmHg in the TAO group (P = 0.00001). Resting orbital tissue tension in 8 TAO orbits with compressive optic neuropathy was 12.4 +/- 4.9 mmHg, and was 7.8 +/- 3.5 mmHg in 10 orbits of TAO patients without compressive optic neuropathy (P < 0.05). No adverse events occurred.


CONCLUSIONS
Retrobulbar injection causes consistent measurable changes in orbital tissue tension. Orbital manometry safely demonstrated higher orbital tissue tension and lower orbital compartment compliance in the orbits of TAO patients versus those of normal subjects. Resting orbital tissue tension was higher in the orbits of TAO patients with compressive optic neuropathy than in those orbits without. Compressive optic neuropathy may partially result from an orbital compartment syndrome in some patients with TAO. Directly assessing orbital dynamics in vivo may prove useful as an adjunct in the clinical evaluation of patients with TAO and other orbital disorders.