Abrupt Geographical Transition between Aposematic Color Forms in the Spittlebug Prosapia ignipectus (Fitch) (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) by Vinton Thompson, Gervasio S. Carvalho

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The Relevance of HLA Sequencing in Population Genetics Studies by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Diogo Meyer

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Projeto de Turismo de Base Comunitária Tartaruga Imbricata, Brasil / Guiana Francesa by Nádia Bandeira Sacenco Kornijezuk

“…In November 2009 I participated, for nine days, in a project called “The Community Based Tourism experimentation Tartaruga Imbricata project”, a trip affiliated with the Cabo Orange National Park in Brazil and the French Guiana. This trip was the first piece of field work for my thesis in Geography and Environmental Management (thesis in progress).A group of French managers also participated in this project, that contained a seminar called ”Finding ourselves in uncharted territories“. …”
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Functional Capacity, Lipid Profile, and Associated Factors in Older Adults Living in Urban and Rural Areas by Francieli Cristina Comelli Medeiros, Clodoaldo Antônio De Sá, Eduardo Ottobeli Chielle, Fátima Ferretti, Rosana Amora Ascari, Gabriela Peretro, Vanessa da Silva (Corralo)

“…Sociodemographic data were collected, and functional strength, aerobic capacity, and lipid profile of older adults living in the southern region of Brazil were evaluated. Only total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol were associated with place of residence (p<0.05), and living in the countryside was associated with low aerobic capacity (p=0.010). …”
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CHEMOTYPE VERBOCCIDENTAFURAN IN Baccharis punctulata (Asteraceae): FURANIC SESQUITERPENES CORRELATION AND MOLECULAR DOCKING INTO THE BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR by Jociani Ascari, Murilo S. de Oliveira, André L. Rüdiger, Elaine Elisabetsky, Domingos S. Nunes, Jorge Iulek, Dilamara R. Scharf, Gustavo Heiden

“…(Asteraceae) specimens for the first time in Brazil. The variation of this compound found in male and female specimens may be associated to the existence of more than one type of chemotype, influenced by geographic variation, climatic conditions, stage of the vegetative cycle, genetic and ecological factors. …”
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Les relations centre-périphérie et la fragmentation socio-spatiale dans les villes moyennes brésiliennes : Mossoró/RN et Ribeirão Preto/SP by Cláudio Smalley Soares Pereira, Vanessa Moura de Lacerda Teixeira, Cleiton Ferreira da Silva

“…The cities of Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte, and Ribeirão Preto, in São Paulo, highlight this phenomenon and they represent the process of socio-spatial fragmentation in Brazil, based on transformations in the urban structure and the constitution of a new social division of space. …”
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Fotografias, narrativas e memórias sobre o lugar, a paisagem e o uso do solo na área de proteção ambiental Rota do Sol, Rio Grande do Sul by Gabriela Vitória de Oliveira, Aline Reis Calvo Hernandez, Patrícia Binkowski

“…The research adopted the photograph as a resource to revisit individual and collective memories and to identify meanings that make up the place from the perception of the residents of the Environmental Protection Area (APA) Rota do Sol, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (BR). The participants arranged their collections of photographs, which together with the narratives showed the perceptions and relations of belonging to the place, serving as a basis for understanding and interpreting the meanings that make up the place. …”
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Efficacy of Lockdowns in Africa by Daglous Makumbe

“…The death toll in Asia and Europe was astronomical, whilst that of the United States of America, Brazil and India was unprecedented. Except for a few countries in Europe and Africa that did not act homogeneously, the rest of the world ceased to function. …”
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Territorialidade rural e repartição do ICMS: o caso do Estado do Paraná by Luci Nychai, Felipe Polzin Druciak

“…For this study, the empirical analysis was based on cross section data for the 399 Municipalities of the State of Paraná, located in the southern region of Brazil. The analysis was based on the ICMS revenue forecast for 2017 on which the Ordinary Least Squares Robust (OLS) was applied whose control variable defined by Dummy "municipality belongs to rural territory = 1" and "municipality not belonging = 0 ". …”
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Financialization against Industrialization: a regulationnist approach of the Brazilian Paradox by Eliane Araújo, Miguel Bruno, Débora Pimentel

“…Consequently, the prospects of Brazil’s macroeconomic performance depend crucially on the reactions of the current mode of regulation, and the regime of accumulation, to the challenges posed by the current stage of evolution of the global economy. …”
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Relações entre o clima e saúde: o caso da dengue no Rio Grande do Sul no período de 2007 a 2017 by Erika Collischonn, Vincent Dubreuil, Francisco de Assis Mendonça

“…It begins with a brief characterization of the situation of Rio Grande do Sul in the context of the distribution of dengue in Brazil and defines the aspects of climate variability that can be considered, given the regionalized management of the health system in this state. …”
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Bi-level Hybrid Uncertainty Quantification in Fatigue Analysis: S-N Curve Approach by Raphael Basilio Pires Nonato

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Right Testicular Artery Occlusion and Acute Appendicitis by Angiostrongylus costaricensis by Luis Enrique Sánchez-Sierra, Roberto Antonio Martínez-Quiroz, Héctor S. Antúnez, Humberto Cabrera-Interiano, Fernando Josué Barrientos-Melara

“…This parasite can be found from the southern United States to northern Argentina and southern Brazil. In 1983, Morera and Ruiz published the first case of a testicular artery occlusion by A. costaricensis. …”
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Imaging Review of Procedural and Periprocedural Complications of Central Venous Lines, Percutaneous Intrathoracic Drains, and Nasogastric Tubes by Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Klaus L. Irion, Carolyn Allen, Daniel Marafiga de Godoy, Ali Nawaz Khan

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Emotional intelligence and interpersonal communication skills accounting students by Isabel Cristina Martin Garcia, Alison Martins Meurer, Nayane Thais Krespi Musial

“…Methodology: A survey was conducted with academics from four higher education institutions in the southern region of Brazil, obtaining 202 valid responses. The relationships were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). …”
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Tuberculosis in the incarcerated population by Pablo Cristiano de Souza, Rodrigo de Macedo Couto, Alec Brian Lacerda, Pãmela Rodrigues de Souza Silva, Omar Ariel Espinosa, Jaqueline Costa Lima

“…The incidences were estimated, evaluating their distributions in the municipalities of Mato Grosso - Brazil through the analysis of spatial clusters Gi*. …”
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Território no mundo A’uwe Xavante by Maria Lucia Cereda Gomide

“…This people has been marked by the migrations in the savannas of central-west Brazil, where they tried to live without contact with the surrounding society, but with the occupation of the region by the Brazilian State, principally with the “westwards march” in the 1930s, resulted in an invaded et enclosed indigenous territory, thus creating grave conflicts and leading to the demarcation of the Xavante indigenous territory in the 1970s. …”
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Instrumental practice and body discomfort: study with musicians of violin and viola by Clarissa Stefani Teixeira, Rubian Diego Andrade, Fausto Kothe, Érico Pereira Gomes Felden

“…This way, this study aimed for to identify the complaint of discomfort musculoskeletal in the different corporal areas with the positions adopted during the 11 musicians strings instrumental practices (violin and viola) of an orchestra semi-professional of the South Brazil region. Data collection was carried out in 2011. …”
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Trajetórias de desmatamento e de uso do solo em uma região dendeícola na Amazônia oriental. by César Teixeira Donato de Araújo, Eraldo Aparecido Trondoli Matricardi, Lívia de Freitas Navegantes-Alves

“…This study intended to analyze the dynamics of deforestation and land use in the region of Tailândia-PA, Brazil, between the years 1985 to 2015, focusing on the dynamics of the palm oil’s implantation. …”
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Demonstration of sizing nursing staff methods in intensive care by Érica Batassini, João Lucas Campos de Oliveira, Mariur Gomes Beghetto

“…Method: descriptive, retrospective study that compiled the Nursing Activities Score scores of patients in five Intensive Care Units of a hospital in southern Brazil. Two calculations were used to size the nursing staff. …”
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