Moving from an “anti-aging” paradigm toward the concept of “disease-free aging”: the role of senolytics in modern medicine by Ivan Aprahamian, Andréia Pain, Virgílio Garcia Moreira

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Out of policymaker’s sight: the role of banks’ liquidity preference in credit supply in Brazil by Fernanda Ultremare, Olívia Bullio Mattos

“…Our empirical strategy was to estimate a dynamic panel data model on a large cross-section bank-level dataset from the Brazilian Central Bank using balance sheet information from the fifty largest banks operating in the country from 1999 to 2016. …”
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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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Yoga and cancer-related fatigue during breast cancer treatment: protocol for a randomized clinical trial by Iamara Rodrigues Acosta, Cristine Lima Alberton, Cristiane Rios Petrarca, Stephanie Santana Pinto

“…The study protocol is registered in the Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry under number RBR- 6vk2vjr. …”
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Portable wide-field digital imaging for screening of neonatal visual impairment causes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a budget impact analysis by Andrea Zin, Lorena M Haefeli, Luiza M Neves, Ana Carolina Carioca Costa, Zilton Farias Meira de Vasconcelos, Marcia Pinto

“…Further health economic evaluations should be performed to verify the affordability of the implementation of this screening strategy in the Brazilian scenario, taking into account scarce human resources.…”
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: How to Integrate Social Network Analysis and Topic Detection to Investigate Shared Contents and Communicative Interactions in Social Representations by Valentina Rizzoli, Anderson da Silveira, Mirella De Falco, Mauro Sarrica

“…To illustrate our proposal, we use a dataset of 396 Brazilian tweets about the Covid-19 pandemic that was collected to investigate the SR of science during the pandemic. …”
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Amplitude Scintillation Severity and Fading Profiles Under Alignment Between GPS Propagation Paths and Equatorial Plasma Bubbles by J. Sousasantos, B. J. Affonso, A. Moraes, F. S. Rodrigues, M. A. Abdu, L. A. Salles, B. C. Vani

“…The results indicate that this conjunction is typically met in regions somewhat distinct from that with largest plasma density background over the Brazilian region, therefore, strongest scintillation and largest deep fading rates were observed by a station slightly off‐the EIA peak.…”
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Immunological Dynamics Associated with Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapies in Naive and Experimented HCV Chronic-Infected Patients by Grenda Leite Pereira, Andréa Monteiro Tarragô, Walter Luiz Lima Neves, Pedro Vieira da Silva Neto, Priscila Sarmento de Souza, Juliana dos Santos Affonso, Keyla Santos de Sousa, Jéssica Albuquerque da Silva, Allyson Guimarães Costa, Flamir da Silva Victoria, Marilu Barbieri Victoria, Adriana Malheiro

“…In this study, 35 naive and experienced Brazilian patients with chronic hepatitis C and 50 healthy donors (HD group) were studied. …”
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Parents/Guardians’ Gender Preferences, Confidence, and Empathy for their Children’s Dentist by Gabrielle Carvalho, Ivana Meyer Prado, Larissa Kelen Moura, Yanna Cardoso-Santos, Talyta Couto Freitas, Raquel Fabiane Nogueira, Iga Carnevalli, Junia Maria Serra-Negra

“…Material and Methods: A total of 104 parents/guardians of patients from the pediatric dental clinic of a Brazilian University participated in this cross-sectional study. …”
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Analysis of the relationship between contingency factors and management accounting practices adopted in the light of contingency theory: a study in hotels in the municipalities of... by Samara Lima Sobrinho, Aldo Leonardo Cunha Callado

“…Contributions of the Study: The results of this research contribute to the advancement of the debate involving management accounting practices and contingency factors based on results obtained in an important Brazilian economic sector. The results of this study can also be used by managers who seek to mitigate the possible impacts generated by contingencies imposed by the hotel sector, especially technology and performance evaluation. …”
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Sequencing of game complexes in women’s volleyball: are there differences according to the set played? by Pedro Henrique Cavalcante Vieira, Lorenzo Laporta, Gustavo Ferreira Pedrosa, Augusto Faria de Paula Santana, Auro Barreiros Freire, Crislaine Couto Rangel, Claudio Andre Barbosa de Lira, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Thiago José Leonardi, Gustavo De Conti Teixeira Costa

“…Methods The sample analysed 135 matches played in the 2021/2022 Brazilian Women’s Superliga, with the number of matches analysed ranging from 14 and 25 matches for all teams participating in the championship. …”
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Microwave irradiation-induced deterioration of rock mechanical properties and implications for mechanized hard rock excavation by Zheng Yang, Ming Tao, Muhammad Burhan Memon, Dengdeng Zhuang, Yan Zhao

“…Subsequently, uniaxial compression, Brazilian tension, and fracture tests were conducted. …”
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Pelvic floor muscle training in women with urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse: A protocol study. by Maria Letícia A S de Carvalho, Lívia Oliveira Bezerra, Joyce Maria Pereira Oliveira, Maria Clara Eugênia Oliveira, Maria T A B C Micussi

“…It has been registered with the Brazilian Clinical Trials Registry ReBec (RBR-49p6g3t). …”
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The Wildcat That Lives in Me: A Review on Free-Roaming Cats (<i>Felis catus</i>) in Brazil, Focusing on Research Priorities, Management, and Their Impacts on Cat Welfare by Luana S. Gonçalves, Daiana de Souza Machado, Maria Eduarda Caçador, Giovanne Ambrosio Ferreira, Christopher R. Dickman, Maria Camila Ceballos, Fabio Prezoto, Aline Cristina Sant’Anna

“…More studies were conducted in Brazilian mainland areas (<i>n</i> = 23)—notably in Atlantic Forest—than on islands (<i>n</i> = 11). …”
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Rainy and Dry Seasons Are Relevant Factors Affecting Chemical and Antioxidant Properties of Meliponini Honey by Flavia C. Lavinas, Brendo A. Gomes, Marcos V. T. Silva, Raissa Lima, Suzana G. Leitão, Mirian R. L. Moura, Rosineide C. Simas, Renata F. Barbosa, Fabricio O. Silva, Carla S. Carneiro, Igor A. Rodrigues

“…Brazilian stingless bee species produce honey with distinct physicochemical and bioactive properties shaped by environmental factors. …”
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Strategic Knowledge for Social Participation in Unified Health System by Renata Lopes De Siqueira, Rosângela Minardi Mitre Cotta, Jeferson Boechat Soares

“…However, the overcoming of such practices requires adopting a critical and reflective teaching model, in which, besides the transfer of key information about the normative content that counselors need to master for the exercise of their duties, there is the promotion of a culture of democratic political participation; and resistance to authoritarianism and clientelism, as both of the latter are common in the Brazilian political system, especially in small and medium-sized municipalities.…”
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Aircraft hybrid-electric environment for analysis and design (AHEAD) applied on a fixed-wing drone by Manuel A. Rendón, Patrícia H. Hallak, Yipsy Roque Benito, Marcelo Assato, Camila de Oliveira Cunha, Daniel Miranda Esther, Rafael Grande Pancini Delmonte, Denys Pinto Gonçalves

“…A fixed-wing drone from a Brazilian manufacturer helps to characterize the method. …”
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Análise da dinâmica temporal da cobertura vegetal na microrregião de Umarizal (2000 a 2022), semiárido do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil by Islânia dos Santos Nunes, Alfredo Marcelo Grigio, Marco Antônio Diodato

“…The Caatinga, an exclusively Brazilian biome that covers several states in the Northeast of the country, has been undergoing many environmental changes, mainly about its vegetation cover and land use and occupation, consequently, the study of vegetation dynamics and knowledge of its different types of use has been widely discussed. …”
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A valorização das “taipas de pedras” como estratégia para a conservação da paisagem dos Campos de Altitude em São Francisco de Paula/ RS, Brasil by Ismael Jesus Klein, Márcia dos Santos Ramos Berreta

“…Associated with the tropeirismo, an important commercial route of the Brazilian colonial period, they have as main characteristic the fact that they had been built without the use of any type of mortar, but only with embedded stones, Which is why they’re also known as the dry stone wall. …”
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Morphological, craniodental, and molecular characterization of Platyrrhinus guianensis (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) and second record for Brazil by Amanda C. da S. Lima, Samira B. Mendes, Ana P. M. Olímpio, Fábio H. S. Cardoso, Cleison L. da S. Costa, Elmary da C. Fraga, Maria C. Barros, Iracilda Sampaio

“…Platyrrhinus guianensis Velazco and Lim, 2014 was first recorded in the Guiana Shield, followed by a record in the Brazilian Amazon. This study represents the second record of P. guianensis in Brazil, specifically in the Maranhão (MA) Amazon biome (Turiaçu/MA - 01°39’36”S and 45°22’12”W). …”
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