Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with physical exercise in rotator cuff tendinopathy: a protocol for a blinded randomised controlled trial by César Augusto Medeiros Silva, Clécio Gabriel de Souza, Vinicius Batista Lima, Hannely Beatriz Menezes Cosme, Romário Nóbrega Santos Fonseca, Fuad Ahmad Hazime, Rodrigo Scattone da Silva, Rodrigo Pegado de Abreu Freitas

“…The results will be published later in peer-reviewed journals and scientific events.Trial registration number The Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (RBR-59xmv6s); Results.…”
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Knee pain in adults from the northeast of São Paulo, Brazil: prevalence, risk factors, and impact on quality of life by Alberto de Vitta, Nicoly Machado Maciel, Sandra Fiorelli Almeida Penteado Simeão, Matias Noll

“…Objective: This study aims to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and impact on the quality of life of knee pain in Brazilian adults. Methods: This cross-sectional study was based on a population survey with 600 individuals interviewed using questionnaires including a) sociodemographic and labor aspects; b) physical activity level (IPAC questionnaire); c) musculoskeletal symptoms (Nordic questionnaire); and d) quality of life (SF-36). …”
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Ionospheric Scale Index Map Based on TEC Data During the Saint Patrick Magnetic Storm and EPBs by C. M. Denardini, G. A. S. Picanço, P. F. Barbosa Neto, P. A. B. Nogueira, C. S. Carmo, L. C. A. Resende, J. Moro, S. S. Chen, E. Romero‐Hernandez, R. P. Silva, A. V. Bilibio

“…The index is based on the TEC map developed at the “Brazilian Studies and Monitoring of Space Weather” (Embrace/INPE). …”
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PRIVATIZATION OF RUSSIA’S ENERGY ASSETS IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT by Y. V. Borovsky

“…For instance, the article displays the ways the Norwegian, Brazilian, French and British authorities privatized national strategic energy assets. …”
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Distribuição dos casos de infecção por vírus Zika vírus (ZIKV) na Região Metropolitana de Maceió by Lorena Sampaio Almeida, Letícia Alves de Araújo, Ana Lídia Soares Cota, Diego Freitas Rodrigues

“…The unit of analysis is the notification of cases of ZIKV infection in the RMM Region, with its population, social and economic indicators derived from the aggregation of information from the census tracts of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). …”
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MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

“…Reports are provided of several mycological meetings in 2023: the Asian Mycological Congress, XIX Congress of European Mycologists, a meeting of European Mycological Groups and Societies, the XI Latin American Mycological Congress, Westerdijk Spring Symposium on Fungal Evolution, the Brazilian Society of Mycology, the Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of China, and the Fifth Iranian Mycological Congress. …”
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Morphometric Investigation of a Species Complex in <i>Mimosa</i> Section <i>Batocaulon</i> Series <i>Cordistipulae</i> (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) by Janaína G. A. Nascimento, Luciano P. Queiroz, Marlon C. Machado, Cássio van den Berg

“…Twelve populations (225 individuals) were collected at nine localities, encompassing the Brazilian vegetation types <i>Caatinga</i>, <i>Campos Rupestres</i> and <i>Restinga</i>. …”
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Two Years of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Genomic Evolution in Brazil (2022–2024): Subvariant Tracking and Assessment of Regional Sequencing Efforts by Ueric José Borges de Souza, Fernando Rosado Spilki, Amilcar Tanuri, Paulo Michel Roehe, Fabrício Souza Campos

“…The analysis focuses on the correlation between confirmed COVID-19 cases, sequencing efforts across Brazilian states, and the distribution and evolution of viral lineages. …”
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Cartografia das unidades de conservação e territórios dos povos tradicionais no Paraná by Marquiana de Freitas Vilas Boas Gomes, Emerson de Souza Gomes, Raimundo Nonato Junior

“…In this article, we address this problem by means of overlapped cartography of conservation units related to territories that are traditionally occupied by people and communities of Paraná Brazilian state. Here, we focus on people presence, tension points and needs of dialog. …”
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Impact of inter-city interactions on disease scaling by Nathalia A. Loureiro, Camilo R. Neto, Jack Sutton, Matjaž Perc, Haroldo V. Ribeiro

“…Here, we use the commuting network as a proxy for inter-city interactions, integrating it with a general scaling framework to describe the incidence of seven infectious diseases across Brazilian cities as a function of population size and the number of commuters. …”
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Mammals in urban centers: a dataset from the perspective of the media in Brazil by Carolina Alves, Wellington Hannibal

“…Specifically, we examined: i) the frequency of photographic records, ii) the temporal trends (2001 to 2021) and spatial trends (Brazilian Federative regions and states) of the records, and iii) the orders, families, and species most frequently reported in urban centers. …”
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Immunoinformatics Approach for Epitope-Based Peptide Vaccine Design and Active Site Prediction against Polyprotein of Emerging Oropouche Virus by Utpal Kumar Adhikari, Mourad Tayebi, M. Mizanur Rahman

“…The selected epitopes showed 95.77% coverage for the mixed Brazilian population. The docking simulation ensured the binding interaction with high affinity. …”
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Characterization of the Pore Network of a Cohesive Oxisol Through Morphological and Pore Complexity Analyses by Jocenei A. T. de Oliveira, Thaís N. Pessoa, José V. Gaspareto, Adolfo N. D. Posadas, André L. F. Lourenço, Paulo L. Libardi, Luiz F. Pires

“…Our study aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the pore complexity of the cohesive horizon of a Brazilian Oxisol using 3D images (volumetric data reconstructed by 2D CT slices) and to correlate these parameters with soil physical–hydric attributes. …”
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Une région, plusieurs mondes, impressions d’une étude de terrain dans la région du Jarí, Amazonie brésilienne, août 2009 by Ana Greising

“…This article is based on a prolonged fieldwork carried out in the Brazilian Amazon region between January and August 2009 for a PhD in geography about the rise and development of the Jarí river region, a trans-border territory between the Amapá and the Pará state. …”
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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 aim is to discuss the socio-spatial forms and processes in medium-sized Brazilian cities based on the concept of socio-spatial fragmentation. …”
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O açaí no contexto do território e da territorialidade ribeirinha na Amazônia brasileira by Rosana Torrinha Silva de Farias, Daguinete Maria Chaves Brito

“…The topic under discussion in this article refers to açaí in the context of the riverside territory and territoriality in the Brazilian Amazon. The big question, which is at the center of the investigation, is to unveil how the açaí acts as an element in the formation of the riverside territory and territoriality? …”
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O método AHP e a Álgebra de Mapas para determinar a fragilidade ambiental da bacia hidrográfica do Rio Brilhante (Mato Grosso do Sul / Brasil), proposições para a gestão do territó... by Patricia Silva Ferreira, Charlei Aparecido da Silva

“…Moreover, we could emphasize the environmental damage of Brazilian Permanent Preservation Areas as a positive feedback of the results. …”
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Guayaramerim: a borderland marked by the Mamore River and its “cachuelas” by Bianca De Marchi-Moyano, Laura Helena Arraya-Pareja

“…This urban settlement is located on the shores of the important Amazonian Mamoré River and is placed just across an almost homonymous Brazilian city: Guajará-Mirim. The article describes the site where the city was built, its historical permanency, and the role played by the river and its cascades in encouraging its founding just on the borders between Bolivia and Brazil. …”
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Territorialidade rural e repartição do ICMS: o caso do Estado do Paraná by Luci Nychai, Felipe Polzin Druciak

“…The Brazilian territoriality policy is a strategy of vertical cooperation for the development of economically fragile spaces, and in turn adds sine qua non conditions to enjoy tax returns. …”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…Bearing such assumption as standpoint and keeping interest for a collective or occupational identity, we aimed to know identity elements of an outsourced housekeeper group in a Brazilian federal public institution. In order to do so, we used the perspective of memory as an aid in the process of revelation and constituent element of identities, as well as the context of social class to seek the understanding of the reality learned in the field. …”
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