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Sexuality is defined as a multidimensional experience that involves genital, mental, and bodily components. It is also assumed as a basic condition inherent to the human existence that encourages the search for love, intimacy, sex, and proximity to others. The main objective of this study is to assess the relationship between cues of sexual desire and sexual attitudes in Portuguese women. This is a cross-sectional study with 804 Portuguese women to whom the protocol was applied. It included an informed consent, a sociodemographic questionnaire, a questionnaire related to intimacy, a scale of sexual attitudes, and the scale of cues of sexual desire. The protocol was applied via Google Forms due to the current pandemic situation (COVID-19). Differences were found in sexual attitudes and the cues of sexual desire in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, as well as in terms of women’s intimacy. Significant correlations were found between the brief sexual attitudes scale (BSAS) and the cues of sexual desire scale (CSDS). Age, sexual orientation, relation nature, sexual practices, visual proximity cues, erotic explicit cues, and sensory explicit cues explain, altogether, 25% of the total sexual attitudes. Additionally, age, sexual orientation, the relation’s nature, sexual practices, visual proximity cues, emotional bonding cues, romantic implicit cues, erotic explicit cues, and sensory explicit cues explain, altogether, 30% of the permissiveness. Sexual attitudes are developed under the influence of sociodemographic variables, variables related to women’s intimacy, and cues of sexual desire, which are new data in the study of sexual attitudes and have implications at the level of gender issues.

R E S U M O As folhas das bromélias, dispostas em forma de roseta, possuem a capacidade de acumular água proporcionando um microambiente particular capaz de suportar uma comunidade de diferentes organismos adaptados a estas condições específicas. Presentes em ambientes urbanos, as bromélias podem apresentar uma condição ambiental ainda mais estressante (p.ex. altas temperaturas e poluição) para os organismos que ocupam os seus tanques. Neste sentido, questionamos sobre a capacidade destes locais apresentarem o desenvolvimento de massas macroscópicas (visíveis a olho nu) de algas. Os resultados mostraram ser possível, embora com baixa riqueza de espécies. Apenas duas espécies foram registradas: Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum e Oedogonium sp., que estiveram presentes em mais da metade (53,3%) das plantas avaliadas. Possivelmente, características particulares presente nestas espécies de algas (p.ex. estrutura morfológica simples e resistência à dessecação) e sua condição cosmopolita devem ter favorecido sua ocupação e desenvolvimento nestes ambientes fitotélmicos bromelícolas. Palavras-chave: Algas, Bromélia, Ambiente alterado. Macroalgae in urban bromeliad phytotelmic environments. It's possible? A B S T R A C T The leaves of bromeliads, arranged in a spiral shape, have the ability to accumulate water can provide a microenvironmen capable of a community of organisms adapted to these specific conditions. Present in urban environments, bromeliads can present an even more stressful environmental condition (eg. Hight temperatura and pollution) for the organisms that occupy their tanks. In this sense, we questioned the capacity of these sites to present the development of macroscopic algae masses. The results showed to be possible, although with low species richness. Only two species were registered: Rhizoclonium hieroglyphicum and Oedogonium sp., which were present in 53.3% of the evaluated plants. Possibly, particular characteristics present in these species (simple morphological structure and resistance to desiccation) and their cosmopolitan condition must have favored their occupation and development in these bromeliad phytotelmic environments. Keywords: Algae, Bromeliad, Altered environment.

Reseña de libro: López-Sala, Ana y Godenau, Dirk (coords.). Estados de contención, estados de detención: El control de la inmigración irregular en España. Anthropos Editorial, 2017. 256 págs.

Publicaciones recientes han desafiado la visión convencional sobre la naturaleza benigna de la infección por el virus de Chikungunya (VCHIK). Las manifestaciones clínicas son muy variables y pueden ser graves en algunos casos. Los estudios sugieren que la forma grave de la infección por el VCHIK puede ser asociada con disfunción orgánica múltiple, hepatitis, meningitis, nefritis, encefalitis, dermatitis ampollosa, miocarditis, arritmias cardiacas, entre otras. La fisiopatología subyacente para algunas de las complicaciones de la enfermedad por el VCHIK sigue siendo poco clara. Sin embargo, de acuerdo con las características clínicas de los casos graves o atípicos descritos a la fecha, el desarrollo de complicaciones podría agruparse principalmente en tres categorías: la exacerbación de condiciones médicas subyacentes, el deterioro de un trastorno no reconocido previamente y la respuesta inmunológica inadecuada a la infección. Se ha encontrado asociación entre las manifestaciones graves de la infección, niveles elevados de citoquinas y algunas secuencias genómicas específicas del VCHIK. La inmunoterapia pasiva puede constituir una estrategia eficaz en el tratamiento de individuos expuestos al VCHIK con riesgo de infección grave. Actualmente no existe evidencia clínica que soporte el uso de antivirales en la prevención o tratamiento de la infección por el VCHIK.