Importância dos ensaios físico-químicos no controle de qualidade de vacinas by Maria P. Blanco, Cristiane Barata Silva, Santos A. Vicentini Neto, Lara M. Catarino, Ozeias de Lima Leitão, Elizabete P. Figuerêdo, Mateus H. M. Neves, Silvana C. Jacob, Lisia M. G. dos Santos

“…Public laboratories, like INCQS, play a crucial role in this process, ensuring the safety of immunobiological for the entire Brazilian population. The current challenge lies in the need to keep up with technological advancements to maintain vaccine quality.…”
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Biologic Agents in Crohn’s Patients Reduce CD4+ T Cells Activation and Are Inversely Related to Treg Cells by Eliane Aparecida Rosseto-Welter, Leticia D’argenio-Garcia, Filipa Blasco Tavares Pereira Lopes, Ana Eduarda Zulim Carvalho, Fernando Flaquer, Vanessa Severo-Lemos, Claudia Concer Viero Nora, Flavio Steinwurz, Lucas Pires Garcia Oliveria, Thiago Aloia, Luiz Vicente Rizzo, Cristóvão Luis Pitangueira Mangueira, Karina Inacio Carvalho

“…To examine the immune status in a Brazilian cohort, we analyzed CD4+ T cells, activation status, cytokine production, and Treg cells in blood of Crohn’s patients. …”
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A review on speech recognition approaches and challenges for Portuguese: exploring the feasibility of fine-tuning large-scale end-to-end models by Yan Li, Yapeng Wang, Lap Man Hoi, Dingcheng Yang, Sio-Kei Im

“…It discusses relevant research from two directions: Brazilian Portuguese recognition and European Portuguese recognition, and organizes available corpus resources for potential researchers. …”
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O PROERD funciona? Notas a partir de estudo quase-experimental by Marcos Rolim, Daiana Hermann, Camila Louis Oliveira

“…The objective of the article is to discuss the efficiency of the Drug and Violence Resistance Program (PROERD), implemented in all Brazilian states by the Military Police. The research methodology, carried out in 2018, is a quasi-experimental, self-report study, which included the selection of two groups of students from a municipal school in Porto Alegre: an intervention group with students who had participated in PROERD in 2015 and 2016 and a control group with students of the same age group who had not attended it. …”
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A noção darwiniana de meio na perspectiva de Georges Canguilhem by Gustavo Caponi

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Por que você não coleciona selos como todo mundo? Velhice e objetos de coleção na trajetória de Urbano, O Aposentado by Leila Beatriz Ribeiro

“…Under the informational perspective, these representations provide ways of reading within a larger picture of the Brazilian society, viz. the retired elderly. Why should we not see the collectionist practice of "Urbano" as a metaphor of resistance to disposal, as a criticism of consumer attitudes, of the death of things? …”
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An Upcycling Approach from Fruit Processing By-Products: Flour for Use in Food Products by Laís Benvenutti, Fernanda Moreira Moura, Gabriela Zanghelini, Cristina Barrera, Lucía Seguí, Acácio Antonio Ferreira Zielinski

“…This review explores using flours from common Brazilian fruit by-products (e.g., jaboticaba, avocado, guava, mango, banana, jackfruit, orange, pineapple, and passion fruit) and their nutritional, physical–chemical properties, quality and safety, and applications. …”
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Multiscale Laboratory Study and Numerical Analysis of Water-Weakening Effect on Shale by Zhen Li, Shangge Liu, Wentao Ren, Jinjin Fang, Qinghua Zhu, Zhilin Dun

“…Then, a series of rock mechanical tests, including uniaxial compressive test, Brazilian disk test, and triaxial compressive test, were carried out on shale under dried condition, wetted condition with various water contents, and saturated condition. …”
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Strain Rate Dependent Ductile-to-Brittle Transition of Graphite Platelet Reinforced Vinyl Ester Nanocomposites by Brahmananda Pramanik, P. Raju Mantena

“…The candidate materials of xGnP (exfoliated graphite nanoplatelets) reinforced and with additional CTBN (Carboxyl Terminated Butadiene Nitrile) toughened vinyl ester based nanocomposites that are subjected to both quasi-static and high strain rate indirect tensile load using the traditional Brazilian test method. High-strain rate indirect tensile testing is performed with a modified Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB). …”
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The Interfaces Twitter Elections Dataset: Construction process and characteristics of big social data during the 2022 presidential elections in Brazil. by Sylvia Iasulaitis, Alan Demétrius Baria Valejo, Bruno Cardoso Greco, Vinicius Gonçalves Perillo, Guilherme Henrique Messias, Isabella Vicari, with the Interfaces—Center for Sociopolitical Studies of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence

“…The main objective of this study is to describe the process of collecting data extracted from Twitter (X) during the Brazilian presidential elections in 2022, encompassing the post-election period and the event of the attack on the buildings of the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches in January 2023. …”
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O mercado audiovisual brasileiro, o circuito alternativo de exibição, as mostras e festivais de cinema na Bahia contemporânea by Mariella Pitombo Vieira, Milene de Cássia Silveira Gusmão

“…It should be noted that the reflections are included on what part of the specialized literature in the social sciences categorizes as creative economy, specially due to the management of the agents involved, of the new aesthetic and symbolic justifications that start to develop a panorama which, based on the general growth of the Brazilian economy in the period considered, indicates the robustness of what can be described as contemporary cultural capitalism. …”
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The Transnational Construction and Maintenance of Digital Feminist Media Activism: Engagement Practices in  the Global South and North by Mariana Fagundes-Ausani

“…The research focuses on analysing three Brazilian publications (AzMina, Lado M, and Think Olga) and three French ones (Georgette Sand, Les Glorieuses, and Madmoizelle). …”
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GIANT CELL TUMOR OF THE DISTAL RADIUS: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH LOCAL RECURRENCE by William Bernardo Specht Rabuske, Michelle Ghert, Bruno Pereira Antunes, Carlos Roberto Galia, Julie Francine Cerutti Santos Pestilho, Gabriella Sityá Moojen da Silveira, Eduardo Areas Toller, Olavo Pires de Camargo, Edgard Eduard Engel, Suely Akiko Nakagawa, Alex Guedes, Ricardo Gehrke Becker

“…Methods: This is a retrospective review of cases of GCTB of the distal radius, identified from the databases of 74 patients in Brazilian institutions specializing in musculoskeletal tumor treatment. …”
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As políticas públicas e os corpos subalternizados em tempos de pandemia: reflexões a partir da implementação do auxílio emergencial no Brasil by Dyego de Oliveira Arruda, Caroline Oliveira Santos

“…It is important to note that, even with emergency aid payments, the most precarious and vulnerable labor segments (such as self-employed workers and those without a formal contract) were those who suffered the most falls in their usual income levels, which suggests the existence of structural inequalities in the configuration of Brazilian society. In addition, it is important to highlight that certain profiles of subalternizated subjects had many difficulties in accessing the emergency aid, considering the criteria that were defined for the operationalization of the public policy in question. …”
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Experimental Investigation into the Influences of Weathering on the Mechanical Properties of Sedimentary Rocks by Xiaoshuang Li, Yingchun Li, Saisai Wu

“…In order to obtain the accurate and reliable mechanical parameters of the sedimentary rocks at different weathering grades, the extensive experimental programs including the Brazilian splitting test, uniaxial compression tests, and direct shear tests have been carried out on the specimens that exposed to the nature environments at different durations. …”
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First Detection of <i>Alphacoronavirus</i> in Bats from the World’s Largest Wetland, the Pantanal, Brazil by Tayane B. S. Magalhães, Amanda de O. Viana, Thiago B. F. Semedo, Juliane S. Saldanha, Nicole A. dos Reis, Nathalia de A. Pereira, Rachel V. P. de Barros, Hannah R. Miranda, Gabriella C. Almeida, Desyrée Y. S. R. Ozaki, Giovana S. Caleiro, Gustavo O. Fenner, Fernanda P. Vizu, Theo Kraiser, Thais P. Carvalho, Luciano M. Thomazelli, Erick G. Dorlass, Clarice W. Arns, Helena L. Ferreira, Erika Hingst-Zaher, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Guilherme S. T. Garbino, Edison L. Durigon, Jansen de Araujo, Daniel M. de Aguiar

“…Given the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, we investigated the presence of CoV in bats captured in the Brazilian Pantanal. Oral and rectal swabs collected in 2021 from 419 bats were analyzed using Pancoronavirus-nested PCR targeting the RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RdRp) gene. …”
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Stryphnodendron adstringens have a modulatory effect on inflammatory cytokines markers of in vitro activated macrophages by Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz, Cibele Ferreira Teixeira, Neida Luiza Pellenz, Moisés Henrique Mastella, Verônica Farina Azzolin, Euler Esteves Ribeiro, Fernanda Barbisan

“….; S. adstringens), a Brazilian wound-healing plant, on the expression of inflammatory cytokines. …”
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Early Clinical Deterioration Risk Assessment in Inpatient Units of a Public University Hospital by Mariana de Souza Esteves, Laura B. de Araujo Lourenço, Mariana de Jesus Meszaros, Michele de Freitas Neves Silva, Thais São-João

“…A questionnaire was used to gather sociodemographic and clinical data, and the Brazilian version of NEWS2 was used to assess the risk of clinical deterioration. …”
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Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value of Three Sonchus Species by Galdino Xavier de Paula Filho, Tibério Fontenele Barreira, Helena Maria Pinheiro-Sant’Ana

“…Species of unconventional food plants of the genus Sonchus are widely consumed in rural populations living in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. This study investigated the nutritional composition of S. oleraceus, S. asper, and S. arvensis species. …”
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Emergence of Enteric Viruses in Production Chickens Is a Concern for Avian Health by Elena Mettifogo, Luis F. N. Nuñez, Jorge L. Chacón, Silvana H. Santander Parra, Claudete S. Astolfi-Ferreira, José A. Jerez, Richard C. Jones, Antonio J. Piantino Ferreira

“…This study demonstrates the diversity of viruses in Brazilian chicken flocks presenting enteric problems characterized by diarrhea, growth retard, loss weight, and mortality, which reflects the multicausal etiology of this disease.…”
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