Expanding the knowledge of Brazilian Gastrotrich biodiversity: Freshwater Paucitubulatina (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida) from Northeastern Brazil by Axell Kou Minowa, André Rinaldo Senna Garraffoni

“…In the present study, we report the partial results of an expedition that, for the first time, sampled the inland waters of Alagoas, Bahía, and Pernambuco states, Northeast Region, Brazil, and found ten species belonging to five genera of Chaetonotidae. We report the first occurrence in Brazil of Chaetonotus majestuosus Grosso & Drahg, 1984, originally described from Argentina, and the second record in Brazil of Chaetonotus dadayi Schwank, 1990, originally found in Paraguay, and the first occurrence beyond ‘terra typica’ of Heterolepidodermella jureiense Kisielewski, 1991, originally discovered in Southeastern Brazil. …”
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¿A quién beneficia el comercio paralelo de medicamentos en la Unión Europea? by Joan Costa-Font, Panos Kanavos

“…Por otra parte, se observa que los principales beneficiarios son los propios importadores paralelos en la medida que el comercio paralelo genera ahorros muy limitados en la factura de los sistemas de salud, que difícilmente superan los perjuicios en la innovación farmacéutica.…”
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Nuevas territorialidades en la lucha por la soberanía alimentaria: El surgimiento del Programa de Agricultura Urbana (PAU) en Rosario, Argentina (1960-1990) by Laura Ciarniello, Cecilia Inés Galimberti

“…Los impactos ambientales que genera la revolución verde ocasionan que desde las décadas de 1960 y 1970 se produzcan diversos reclamos y movilizaciones por parte de poblaciones rurales en diversos países que cuestionan los modos de producción, el acceso a los alimentos, la tenencia del suelo e, incluso, la territorialidad. …”
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“3D Cladistics”: a new perspective for phylogenetic analyses and a tool for citizen science by Márcia Venâncio, Carlos Antunes, Dimítri de Araújo Costa

“…We analyzed echinoderm genera Marthasterias (main analysis group) and Asterias (outgroup), and we did a 3D model of the organisms and their characteristics and the cladogram. …”
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Siderophore-Producing Bacteria from a Sand Dune Ecosystem and the Effect of Sodium Benzoate on Siderophore Production by a Potential Isolate by Teja Gaonkar, Pramoda Kumar Nayak, Sandeep Garg, Saroj Bhosle

“…In this study, siderophore-producing bacteria from rhizosphere and nonrhizosphere areas of coastal sand dunes were isolated using a culture-dependent approach and were assigned to 8 different genera with the predominance of Bacillus sp. Studies on the ability of these isolates to grow on sodium benzoate revealed that a pigmented bacterial culture TMR2.13 identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa showed growth on mineral salts medium (MSM) with 2% of sodium benzoate and produced a yellowish fluorescent siderophore identified as pyoverdine. …”
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Late Ordovician (Sandbian–Hirnantian) marine gastropods from the Argentine Precordillera: their biogeographical significance in a middle to high latitudinal setting by Mariel Ferrari, Verónica Bertero, Marcelo G. Carrera

“…The present contribution supplies accurate taxonomic information recovering 10 gastropod genera which are represented by 10 species from the La Pola and Don Braulio formations (Sandbian and Hirnantian units, respectively) at the San Juan Province, Argentina: two species, namely Tetranota argentina sp. nov. and Clathrospira gondwanica sp. nov., are new to science. …”
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Diversity of Rust Fungi with Special Emphasis on <i>Hyalopsora erlangensis</i> Causing Disease in <i>Cystopteris chinensis</i> by An Yu, Xia Zhao, Xiaohong Chen

“…Morphological features, including hyaline peridia cells, yellowish urediniospores, dark brown amphispores with three germ pores, and pigmented cytoplasm, differentiate this species from others in the genera <i>Milesina</i>, <i>Uredinopsis</i>, and <i>Pucciniastrum</i>. …”
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Estrategias para la comercialización de producciones cinematográficas colombianas by Samuel David Cepeda-Palacio

“…Esto es debido, entre otras razones estructurales, artísticas y tecnológicas, a la falta de experiencia y conocimientos de los realizadores colombianos para gestionar acciones de comercialización más eficientes, lo que representa un costo de oportunidad para dichos filmes. Esto genera que el presente artículo se geste con intención de analizar las estrategias para la comercialización de los films nacionales con miras a sugerir acciones que procuren un mejor posicionamiento de los mismos en los mercados locales y foráneos. …”
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Fronteras naturales versus fronteras político- administrativas: desafíos y dilemas que enfrentan los parques naturales regionales en el gobierno multi-escalar by Constanza Parra

“…A partir del examen del Parque Regional Morvan, se concluye que la superabundancia de instituciones subnacionales, cuya instauración tiene por objetivo avanzar en los principios democráticos y de participación ciudadana de un desarrollo sustentable, genera dinámicas de rivalidad y competencia entre territorios que atentan contra su sostenibilidad. …”
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UPLC-TOF-MS Characterization and Identification of Bioactive Iridoids in Cornus mas Fruit by Shixin Deng, Brett J. West, C. Jarakae Jensen

“…Although Cornus is widely considered to be an iridoid rich genera, only two iridoids have been previously found in this plant. …”
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Enseñanza de la Filosofía en los colegios: Una asignatura para lo útil, para lo inútil by Selene Arredondo Castro

“…Debido a que su fin está completamente en sí misma, es difícil otorgarle objetivos, lo que en ningún caso es idéntico a decir que su ejercicio no genera consecuencias. Dado que es necesario alejarse de las necesidades de la vida humana, del neg-ocio, para pensar, es una actividad que casi por definición está destinada a ser inútil. …”
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Minar el concepto actual de salud. Consideraciones intempestivas entre fisiología y estética by Ludovica Boi

“…En primer lugar, se aborda el tema de la enfermedad cultural y histórica que Nietzsche diagnosticó ya al principio de la década 1870: una enfermedad que, a su vez, genera una noción inadecuada de lo que es la ‘salud’. …”
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Niche and Interspecific Association of Dominant Phytoplankton Species during Winter in Eight Estuaries of Pearl River by HE Rui, LI Qingfeng, PENG Songyao

“…The results are as follows.① 54 species belonging to 6 phyla are identified, of which 7 species from 30 genera are the dominant species.② The niche width of the dominant species and the niche overlap values vary greatly among species pairs. …”
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<i>Cyperus esculentus</i> var. <i>sativus</i> Adapts to Multiple Heavy Metal Stresses Through the Assembly of Endophytic Microbial Communities by Qiaofeng Liu, Jialing Lai, Yaozhong Zhang, Xin Wang

“…Additionally, new endophytic genera, <i>Actinophytocola</i> and <i>Monosporascus</i>, emerged at specific metal concentrations (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Étude de la diversité floristique des ptéridophytes à Brazzaville, Congo by Victor Kimpouni, Marie Yvette Lenga-Sacadura, Josérald Chaîph Mamboueni, Lucien Niamba

“…The itinerant floristic inventory results in 24 species representing 19 genera and 11 families with 83.33 % of the taxa Polypodiaceae. …”
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Exploring the mechanism of action of Rosa roxburghii Tratt quercetin in ameliorating type 2 diabetes in mice based on the intestinal microbiome and metabolomics by Ziyi Zhao, Yuping Zhu, Lu Nie, Yisha Luo, Shuyi Qiu, Tingyuan Ren

“…And RRT quercetin modulated the relative abundance of harmful and probiotic bacterial genera, and the levels of the differentially abundant metabolites biliverdin, L-homophenylalanine and dihydrofolic acid. …”
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Holocene Bythocytheridae (Ostracoda: Podocopida) from Southwestern Atlantic deep-sea sediments off Brazil. Part 1: tribes Bythocytherini Sars, 1926 and Jonesini Schornikov, 1981 by Cristianini Trescastro Bergue, Marie-Béatrice Forel, Geise de Santana dos Anjos-Zerfass, Simone Nunes Brandão

“…The 11 species herein recorded are attributed to the genera Bythocythere Sars, 1866 (four species), Bythoceratina Hornibrook, 1952 (two species), Retibythere Schornikov, 1981 (two species), Rhombobythere Schornikov, 1982b (two species), and Ruggieriella Colalongo and Pasini, 1980 (one species). …”
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Ecological overview of hard ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Nagasaki prefecture of western Japan during winter 2021–2022 by Tomonori Hoshi, Erina Ishigaki, Thanawat Khongyot, Satoshi Kaneko

“…A total of 74 sampling points screening during winter 2021–2022, using dragging method resulted in 14,883 tick samples (279 adults, 7148 nymphs and 7456 larvae) in 11 species belonging to four genera. Haemaphysalis flava dominated adult populations, while H. formosensis was predominant among nymphs. …”
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Evolution of wing scales in Diptera documented by fossils by Ewa Krzemińska, Wiesław Krzemiński, Iwona Kania-Kłosok, Jadwiga Stanek-Tarkowska, Kornelia Skibińska, Daubian Santos

“…In the Diptera, some families or particular genera of two large groups are known to bear scales on wings, i.e., mosquitoes (Culicomorpha) and moth flies (Psychodomorpha). …”
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Bacteriological Characteristics of Contemporary Wood During Soil Deposition in Anoxia Conditions at the Biskupin Archaeological Site (Poland) - Petrifilms™ as an Alternative for Co... by Zbigniew Wyżewski, Julitta Gajewska, Hanna Rekosz-Burlaga, Leszek Babiński, Bogusława Waliszewska, Monika Sitarek-Andrzejczyk

“…Bacteria in the examined wood and surrounding soil were identified as belonging to species, including those of the genera Pseudomonas, Clostridium (Cl. butyricum/beierinckii, Cl. perfringens), Bacillus, Corynebacterium, bacteria from the family Enterobacteriaceae, as well as aerobic and anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria. …”
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