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How a young student’s innovative idea hopes to boost response times for EMTs
By Woody Brown on June 1, 2015
Drones have been at the forefront of the national conversation for years now. As the components needed to create them grow smaller and more affordable, many companies and organizations have started exploring the potential that drones could have to improve our daily lives. Whether by delivering a product with unprecedented speed or taking photographs and video from new heights, drones have many capabilities, most of which we have yet to discover.
One young man, however, has envisioned a new way to use drones that could save thousands of lives. One of the greatest obstacles facing first responders and emergency medical technicians [EMTs] when it comes to the difficult business of saving lives is time. Think of your daily commute: people in the United States spend an average of 25.5 minutes traveling one-way to work every day. In bumperto-bumper traffic, blaring sirens and flashing lights are often not enough to clear a fast path for an ambulance to reach someone in need. During cardiac arrest, there are, at most, a few minutes to save a person’s life. After that, the mortality rate rises steeply. With stakes this high, every second counts.
Alec Momont, a graduate student in engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, recognized this problem and saw a way to significantly reduce deaths that result from delayed emergency care. What if ambulances could fly? Or rather, what if we could make a drone that functioned like a stripped-down, lightweight automatic external defibrillator [AED]? AEDs, which can be found in schools, sports arenas and many government buildings, are significantly more effective than cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] at preventing fatalities resulting from cardiac arrest. CPR can be helpful, but an AED is better, and very few people have AEDs in their cars or homes.
As his master’s degree project, Momont built a prototype of this lifesaving drone. It contained an AED, a microphone and speakers. The average travel time, according to him, could be cut by 90 percent. Here’s how it works: In the event of cardiac arrest, a paramedic would respond to a call by flying the drone at a speed of 60 mph to the scene of the emergency. The paramedic would then give instructions to someone near the victim, who would position the AED. Once in place, the AED would operate automatically. The paramedic would be able to see through the camera whether or not the pads on the AED have been correctly positioned, and how the victim responds.
A dramatized video released by Momont’s university demonstrates all of this functionality. In it, a young woman calls emergency services in a panic because her father has had a heart attack. A calm-voiced EMT answers and guides her through the surprisingly simple process of finding and using the drone. Fewer than two minutes after she makes the call, her father sits up and hugs her.
The ambulance drone can increase the chances of surviving cardiac arrest from eight percent to 80 percent, Momont says in the video. The drone’s ability to travel as the crow flies frees it from infrastructural limitations that currently impede road-bound ambulances. “Using advanced production techniques such as 3D printed microstructures and carbon fiber frame construction, we were able to achieve a very lightweight design,” Momont says. “The result is an integrated solution that is clear in its orientation and friendly in appearance.”
Momont’s aim is to rapidly expand the existing framework of emergency services by constructing many of these drones over the next five years. Expenses are low: each drone is relatively cheap to make, about $18,600. By comparison, a typical ambulance costs more than $100,000, and a ride in one usually costs more than $1,000.
The ambulance drones can even fly autonomously (though legislation in many countries does not permit this yet). Several emergency service providers have already expressed interest. If the technology continues to receive financial support from other parties in the healthcare industry, Momont’s dream could very easily become a reality.
We live in a world where drones have, so far, been used mostly in armed conflict. Momont, however, has a different vision. In the near future that he describes, tens of thousands of needless deaths will be prevented with his ingenious invention. That is certainly welcome news, especially in the United States, which deals with skyrocketing numbers of heart-related ailments and disabilities. “Let’s use drones for a good purpose,” Momont says. “Let us use drones to save lives.”
Adapted from: <https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2015/05/ambulance-drones-could-save-thousands-of-lives>. Acess on: 03 Oct. 2016.
The use of CAN in paragraphs 3 and 6 reveals the idea of
request
conclusion
possibility
permission
Gabarito:
possibility
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Assinale a alternativa em que o(s) termo(s) em negrito do fragmento citado NÃO contém (êm) traço(s) da função emotiva da linguagem.
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(Uemg 2010) Leia atentamente os versos a seguir e, depois, faça o que é pedido.
Eu sei que vou te amar
Eu sei que vou te amar
Por toda a minha vida eu vou te amar
Em cada despedida, eu vou te amar
Desesperadamente, eu sei que vou te amar
E cada verso meu será
Pra te dizer
Que eu sei que vou te amar
Por toda a minha vida
Eu sei que vou chorar
A cada ausência tua, eu vou chorar
Mas cada volta tua há de apagar
O que esta tua ausência me causou
Eu sei que vou sofrer
A eterna desventura de viver
À espera de viver ao lado teu
Por toda a minha vida
(Vinícius de Morais e Tom Jobim)
No texto dessa letra de música (MPB), observa-se a presença da linguagem coloquial, quando o leitor verifica
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(Uemg 2015) Considerando a análise de aspectos linguísticos dos trechos abaixo, extraídos da obra “Você Verá”, marque (V) para os comentários verdadeiros e (F) para os falsos. Em seguida, assinale a alternativa que apresenta a sequência CORRETA.
( ) Em “Acho a astrologia a ciência dos tolos, e, até prova em contrário, não me considero um deles.” Houve um desvio da norma padrão, que prescreve como certa a expressão “até provem o contrário”, em substituição à expressão sublinhada.
( ) Em “Foi um morticínio, uma coisa que ninguém na região nunca vira(...)”, a palavra morticínio significa assassinato em série.
morticínio significa assassinato em série.
( ) O que aconteceu com o nome do narrador do conto Bem - Stanislaw > Lauro > Lau > Stan - é um fenômeno linguístico semelhante ao ocorrido com o pronome de tratamento Vossa Mercê - Vosmecê > você > cê.
( ) Em “(...) que direito tinha o Bem de se tornar milionário?”, o pronome sublinhado aparece anteposto ao verbo (próclise), uma vez que a preposição o atrai, segundo a norma padrão.
( ) Em “(...) quando a mãe a levava à matinê.” e “(...) pois ainda escutava em mim as risadas”, os pronomes sublinhados são classificados, respectivamente, como oblíquo átono e oblíquo tônico.
( ) Em “Minha mãe sempre dizia: 'Deus protege quem trabalha’”, a regência do verbo proteger não está de acordo com a norma padrão, uma vez que ele é transitivo indireto e, por isso, rege preposição, como em: 'Deus protege a quem trabalha’”.
A sequência correta é
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The Birth of a Storyteller
Jackie Torrence spent her childhood in North Carolina, in the southern part of the United States. She was a shy child because she had problems with her teeth, which made it hard for her to talk. Other children teased her because of her speech problem, so she spent much of her childhood playing alone. One of Jackie’s favorite games was to pretend she was on television. She told stories out loud using gestures and dramatic voices. At school, Jackie soon learned that she was good at writing stories, and with the help of her favorite teacher, she started to work on improving her speech.
Jackie’s first storytelling performance was in a library. She was working as a librarian and was asked to entertain a group of children. Jackie told them a story and they loved it! Before long, she began telling stories within her community. Many of her stories came from old American and African-American folktales. Eventually, she started telling stories across North America.
As Jackie’s fame increased, her health decreased. She now has to use a wheelchair, but this has not stopped her storytelling career. Jackie’s stories have been published in books, magazines, and newspapers and she has appeared on radio and television. She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials.
Adapted from NorthStar 3: Listening and Speaking, 2nd Edition (Longman, p. 57), Helen S. Solórzano and Jennifer P. L. Schmidt.
In the sentence, “She has won awards for nine of her sound recordings and three of her television specials”, the underlined expression shows that
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