Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents from the Age Range of 2 to 19 Years Old in Brazil by Janaina R. Niehues, Ana Inês Gonzales, Robson R. Lemos, Poliana Penasso Bezerra, Patrícia Haas

“…Infant juvenile obesity is currently a worldwide public health problem and it is increasing at alarming rate in the Brazilian population, showing its relevance in terms of public health. …”
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Validation of a Real Time PCR for Classical Swine Fever Diagnosis by Natanael Lamas Dias, Antônio Augusto Fonseca Júnior, Anapolino Macedo Oliveira, Érica Bravo Sales, Bruna Rios Coelho Alves, Fernanda Alves Dorella, Marcelo Fernandes Camargos

“…Furthermore, RNA from CSF virus was not detected in samples of swine originated from the Brazilian CSF-free zone. Hence, it is concluded that RT-qPCR can be used as a complementary diagnostic for CSF.…”
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Carbon pricing in agriculture: a systematic literature review by Daniela Tatiane de Souza, Fernando Antônio de Pádua Paim, Lauro Rodrigues Nogueira Júnior, Carlos Cesar Ronquim, Pedro Gilberto Cavalcante Filho

“…In 2021, the estimated carbon value for Brazilian agriculture using quantile regression was USD 11.54/tCO2e. …”
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Marcas da Memória: a atuação da Comissão de Anistia no campo das políticas públicas de transição no Brasil by Roberta Camineiro Baggio

“…The project is a public policy created by the Brazilian Amnesty Commission of the Ministry of Justicein order to promote cultural initiatives of civil society that have the goal of expanding the right to memory and truth.…”
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Um autor em movimento: uma reflexão sobre o escritor brasileiro contemporâneo através da obra de João Gilberto Noll by Renata Fernandes Magdaleno

“…Factors such as these are changing the routine of brazilian writers. Because of that, the twenty-first century seems to be a better time for those who think to be a writer. …”
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Oral Trypanosoma cruzi Transmission Resulting in Advanced Chagasic Cardiomyopathy in an 11-Month-Old Male by Melissa S. Nolan, Joseane Elza Tonussi Mendes, Andres Ricardo Perez Riera, Gabriel Zorello Laporta

“…Our case report describes the youngest clinical acute Chagas disease case and their unusual disease presentation of cardiac failure. In parts of the Brazilian Amazon, cultural practices include weaning infants from breastmilk to solid foods with açaí consumption serving as an intermediary. …”
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Trabalho artesanal e trabalho industrial como elementos de sociabilidade, subjetividade e tragédia em “A mão esquerda”, de Roniwalter Jatobá by Angela Maria Rubel Fanini, Adriana Cabral dos Santos

“…This paper investigates the short story “A mão esquerda”, by the Brazilian writer Roniwalter Jatobá, focusing the handy craft labor as an element of subjectiveness, sociability and ontology and factory labor as an element of depersonalization, disagregation and tragedy. …”
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Risk factors in adolescents as predictors of arterial hypertension in adults: Protocol for a systematic review. by Márcia Gisele Santos da Costa, J Jaime Caro, Katia Vergetti Bloch

“…We will use data from the Brazilian study of cardiovascular risks in adolescents, called ERICA (Portuguese acronym). …”
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Human rights, television popular culture and the telenovela by John van Zyl

“…One genre that has managed to es cape the restrictions of commercial Ism and resulted in a genuine form of popular culture is the Brazilian telenovela. Any attempt to relate human rights In communication to popular televi sion culture might seem to be a fu tlle endeavour. …”
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Biology of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis by Marcelo Negrini, Elisangela Gomes Fidelis de Morais, José Cola Zanuncio

“…Maconellicoccus hirsutus, especially, a pest of fruit trees and ornamental plants, presents great potential for population growth in Brazilian tropical conditions.…”
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Identification and Characterization of Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Isolates in Wheat-Growing Areas in Brazil by Talita Bernardon Mar, Douglas Lau, Jurema Schons, Paulo Roberto Valle da Silva Pereira, Alan Johnny Carminatti

“…Two of them had their host range determined. The Brazilian WSMV isolates clustered in clade D are closely related to the Argentine isolate Arg2 (FJ348359). …”
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Perspectives for Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Brazil by Luís A. B. Cortez, Francisco E. B. Nigro, Luiz A. H. Nogueira, André M. Nassar, Heitor Cantarella, Márcia A. F. D. Moraes, Rodrigo L. V. Leal, Telma T. Franco, Ulf F. Schuchardt, Ricardo Baldassin Junior

“…The strategy involves the use of sustainable biofuels, aiming to achieve benefits from environmental, social, and economic perspectives. In this context, Brazilian conditions are favorable, with a mature agroindustry that regularly produces automotive biofuel largely adopted by Brazilian road vehicles, while air transportation has been growing at an accelerating pace and a modern aircraft industry is in place. …”
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Endodontists’ Self-Assessment about Pharmacological Strategies for Management of Endodontic Pain by Letycia Accioly Simões Coelho, Marcos Dezotti Luiz, Artur Villas Bôas Weckwerth, Rodrigo Ricci Vivan, Marco Antônio Hungaro Duarte, Murilo Priori Alcalde, Paulo César Rodrigues Conti, Yuri Martins Costa, Leonardo Rigoldi Bonjardim

“…Conclusion: While most strategies employed by Brazilian Society of Endodontics members are evidence-based, divergences in responses highlight the need for further research. …”
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Le Brésil et ses Indiens : une réconciliation impossible ? by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…To that end, we first sketch a rapid history of how indigenous rights were considered throughout Brazilian history. We then show how the advances linked with the 1988 Constitution have permitted the constitution of a vast amount of “indigenous lands”, even if the indigenous population of Brazil only amounts to a very small fraction of Brazilian population. …”
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Applying Sewage Sludge to Eucalyptus grandis Plantations: Effects on Biomass Production and Nutrient Cycling through Litterfall by Paulo Henrique Müller da Silva, Fabio Poggiani, Jean Paul Laclau

“…In most Brazilian cities sewage sludge is dumped into sanitary landfills, even though its use in forest plantations as a fertilizer and soil conditioner might be an interesting option. …”
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Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…The empirical evidence revealed the existence of endogenous factors for the crisis, factors that were already present in the Brazilian economy before the cyclical deterioration that started in 2014. …”
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A proposta da Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o debate entre 1988 e 2015 by Ileizi Luciana Fiorelli Silva, Henrique Fernandes Alves Neto, Daniel Vitor Vicente

“…In this article we analyze the proposals of the Common National Curricular Basis of 2014 and 2015, taking them as public policies and as challenges of Brazilian democracy, set since the enactment of the 1988 Federal Constitution. …”
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Um panorama da literatura sobre a internacionalização das religiões ayahuasqueiras brasileiras by Glauber Loures Assis, Beatriz Caiuby Labate

“…Created during the twentieth century, Barquinha, Santo Daime, and the União do Vegetal, known as the Brazilian ayahuasca religions, were circumscribed to the northern region of Brazil at least until the beginning of the 1970s. …”
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Moda e economia criativa: políticas culturais no Brasil contemporâneo by Heloisa Helena de Oliveira Santos

“…In this sense, the Ministry of Culture (MinC) is much more active and involved in discussions about the development of Brazilian society. This role acquired by MinC is recent and is inserted into the broader PT government program, initiated in 2003. …”
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O conceito de liberalismo no Brasil (1750-1850) by Christian Edward Cyril Lynch

“…This article intends to focus the concept of liberalism in Brazil between 1750 and 1850, pointing out some differences of the Brazilian speeches towards Europe and Spanish America. …”
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