Increased DNA Copy Number Variation Mosaicism in Elderly Human Brain by Darine Villela, Claudia K. Suemoto, Renata Leite, Carlos Augusto Pasqualucci, Lea T. Grinberg, Peter Pearson, Carla Rosenberg

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Metformin versus insulin in glycemic control in pregnancy (MevIP): a randomized clinical trial protocol by Carolina Freitas Alves Amaral-Moreira, Daiane Sofia Morais Paulino, Belmiro G. Pereira, Patricia Moretti Rehder, Fernanda G. Surita

“…Discussion Considering the Brazilian socioeconomic reality and the safety of metformin demonstrated in previous trials, we expect that the MevIP study will demonstrate that metformin is an adequate and appropriate medication for GDM treatment in the Brazilian population, representing an alternative to insulin for GDM. …”
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Depth variations as effective indicators for strength variation of Najran granites, Najran region, Saudi Arabia by Ahmed Abd El Aal, Yahya Al Zamana, Turki Dunquwah, Omar Alsalmi, Jabir Hussain, Javed Iqbal, Moustafa Abdulrahim Mohamedsalih, Ahmed E. Radwan, Hezam Al-Awah

“…The results depict the direct relationship of mechanical attributes of rocks (i.e., SDI, Brazilian strength, uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), and tensile strength) with increase in burial depth. …”
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‘Underestimation of fall risks by older adults: The need for professional evaluation to identify home hazards’ by E．Y Ishigaki, A．S Passos, L．E．G Leme

“…Objective: This study aims to analyze the extent to which Brazilian older adults accurately perceive fall risks in their home environment, emphasizing the potential gap between self-perception and actual hazards. …”
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Efficacy of phototherapy to treat facial ageing when using a red versus an amber LED: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Lidiane Rocha Mota, Christiane Pavani, Lara Jansiski Motta, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Ivone da Silva Duarte, Daniela de Fátima Teixeira da Silva

“…This trial has been registered in the Registro Brasileiro de Ensaios Clínicos (Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry) (REBEC number: RBR-6YFCBM). …”
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Na sala de edição: “Mãe judia, 1964”, de Moacyr Scliar by Nicola Gavioli

“…This article explores how the short story “Jewish mother, 1964” by Moacyr Scliar, under the guise of a coming-of-age story and a monologue of a mentally ill patient, sheds light on violent practices that, without leaving visible marks on the body, have incurred serious and longstanding wounds within Brazilian society. Readers are made to see how persuasion, trivialization, and silencing are complicit in the “normalizing” of recent and traumatic histories. …”
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A escrita comovida de João Anzanello Carrascoza by Miguel Conde

“…The impassible narration, which, in its indifference, emulates the brutality of the episodesit describes, is an essential feature of the most noted Brazilian fictions of the 1990s. The attention devoted to this mimetic realism, whichrelies on shock as the best strategy for anun mediated apprehension of the real, creates a context in which commotion is perceived as naive or suspicious. …”
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Pourquoi filmer sa culture ? Rituel et patrimonialisation en Amazonie brésilienne by Chloé Nahum-Claudel, Nathalie Pétesch, Cédric Yvinec

“…The creation of cultural patrimony, which occurs within the framework of relations with Brazilian and international society, fits into a key dynamic of Amazonian social reproduction and inter-ethnic relations, that is, the drive to integrate alterity.…”
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Le rappeur et les « petites grand-mères » by Teresa Fradique

“…Propositions from certain texts and concepts of Brazilian anthropologist Gilberto Velho serve as a foundation for exploring the idea of a cosmopolitanism detached from its binary opposition with provincialism. …”
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Golpe, autoritarismo e transição: uma análise comparativa de Brasil e Chile by Alberto Aggio

“…This article aims to accomplish a comparative analysis of Brazilian and Chilean political histories parting from the moment both countries experienced breaks in the democratic constitutional order, in Brazil, on 1964 and in Chile, on 1973. …”
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A plenitude de um vazio em que a pobreza não é mais paisagem: a periferia em Paulo Lins e Ferréz by Alva Martínez Teixeiro

“…This article intends to place Paulo Lins’ novel Cidade de Deus and Ferréz’s novels Capão Pecado and Manual prático do ódio in the panorama of Brazilian contemporary “new-realisms”, evaluating thematic choices and narrative techniques and proce- dures. …”
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Parcs nationaux au Brésil by Marta de Azevedo Irving

“…The present paper aims at presenting and discussing the context and challenges of public policies in the case of Brazilian National Parks, considering the country’s commitments to the Biological Diversity Convention. …”
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Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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Maxillofacial Changes in Melnick-Needles Syndrome by Leilane Larissa Albuquerque do Nascimento, Monica da Consolação Canuto Salgueiro, Mariana Quintela, Victor Perez Teixeira, Ana Carolina Costa Mota, Camila Haddad Leal de Godoy, Sandra Kalil Bussadori

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Vanilla lindmaniana and V. palmarum (Orchidaceae) are distinct allopatric species by Emerson R. Pansarin

“…Despite the species richness, few studies on species boundaries involving Brazilian taxa have been carried out. Consequently, many species have been synonymized under taxa with a wider distribution. …”
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Effect of composting on the microbiological and parasitic load in animal production wastes in Brazil by Paula Fernanda Alves Ferreira, Júlia Ferreira Xavier, Danielli Monsores Bertholoto, Dayanne Araújo de Melo, Thaís Ribeiro Correia, Shana de Mattos de Oliveira Coelho, Miliane Moreira Soares de Souza, Marco Antônio de Almeida Leal, Ednaldo da Silva Araújo, Irene da Silva Coelho

“…However, the final composts retained a higher pathogenic microbial load than that required by the current Brazilian legislation for use in agriculture.…”
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Configurações territoriais dos cursos de formação de professores de Sociologia no Brasil (1934-2017): disputas e implicações by Cristiano das Neves Bodart, Caio dos Santos Tavares

“…Deconcentration, in turn, is a result of complex changes stemming from recent disputes in the political field, the rise of reformist groups, the devaluation and the increasing precariousness of the teaching career, and the expansion of the demand for Sociology teachers in all Brazilian states.…”
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La pratique de la parenté : politique factionnelle, redoublement et réitération d’alliance chez les Katukina (Brésil) by Jérémy Deturche

“…This article is an analysis of what I call the practice of kinship among the Katukina of the rio Biá (Brazilian Amazon). It is an attempt to understand, from a statistical interpretation of marriages from a genealogical corpus collected between 2004 and 2009, the dynamics of the policy of katukina marriage alliances. …”
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O sujeito-escritor e as transformações no campo literário: o caso Cristovão Tezza by Igor Ximenes Graciano

“…When one thinks about movements in the Brazilian literary field, it is customary to mention the emergence of new agents that, at best, will share the public sphere of creation and the debate surrounding the works. …”
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Private Label: o potencial impacto no mercado de medicamentos no Brasil by Ronaldo Raemy Rangel, Luan Vinicius Bernardelli, Paulo Rogério Alves Brene

“…Although the study presents important elements for the discussion, it is necessary to expand the discussion regarding the link between private brands and abusive purchasing power, the trends observed, in the cases analysed, justify the concern with probable anti-competitive effects, especially in the market Brazilian medicines.…”
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