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Metabolic syndrome in central Brazil: prevalence and correlates in the adult population
... To our knowledge, this is the first published population- based study that determined the prevalence of MetS in Central Brazil. The results indicate that the population of the FD is at significant risk of ...
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Prevalence and incidence of dengue virus and antibody placental transfer during late pregnancy in central Brazil
... We conducted a cross-sectional study among pairs of maternal and corresponding umbilical cord blood samples in two public hospitals located in the city of Goiânia-GO (1.3 million inhabitants) [18] in central ...
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Prevalence of physical inactivity and associated socioeconomic indicators in indigenous Xavante communities in Central Brazil
... Permanent contact between the Xavante population now living in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Reserve and the Brazilian federal government was established in the 1940s as economic expansion policies brought demo- ...
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Late Pleistocene Climatic Changes in Central Brazil Indicated by Freshwater Sponges
... B.P. The unprecedented presence of spongillite and diatomite layers in this deposit was investi- gated using spicules of continental sponges as proxy data for environmental and climate recon- struction, which was ...
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Regions of anomalous geothermal fields in the State of Tocantins, Central Brazil
... Marangoni, Y.R., Zhang, H., Ferreira, H.J. 2015. Gravity and magnetic integrated data interpretation of the Corrégo dos Bois complex, Goiás alkaline province, Central Brazil. Brazilian Geophysical Journal, ...
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A rare case of a boy with de novo microduplication at 5q35.2q35.3 from central Brazil.
... regions. Such rearrangements could result from recurrent non-allelic homologous recombination between low copy repeats. In cases where the breakpoints flank the low copy repeats, deletion of chromosomal segments is often ...
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Thrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) associated with watermelon crops in central Brazil
... Infestations of virus vector insects have caused a significant increase in the production cost of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus). However, the lack of knowledge about these species, especially of hrips associated with ...
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Ant species diversity in ciliary forest and gallery forest areas in central Brazil
... deforested in the Brazilian Amazon. Deforestation rates range between 22,000 and 30,000 km 2 per year [10]. Such deforestation is mainly due to population growth in Central Brazil, agricultural expansion, ...
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Migration among individuals with leprosy: a population-based study in Central Brazil
... This study investigates social and clinical factors associated with migration among individuals affected by leprosy. A cross-sectional study was conducted among those newly diagnosed with leprosy (2006-2008), in 79 ...
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Assessing hydrological and provisioning ecosystem services in a case study in Western Central Brazil
... ANA: National Water Agency of Brazil; BAU: Business as usual; DF: Distrito Federal; EMBRAPA: Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária; ES: Ecosystem services; EP: Ecosystem potential;[r] ...
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Nutritional status and growth of indigenous Xavante children, Central Brazil
... In the regression analyses, the socioeconomic index wealth was positively associated with H/A in children ≥ 5 and < 10 years of age. However, no associations were observed between wealth or income and W/A for any age ...
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Thermomagnetic features of Pirapora region, central Brazil
... The data used in the present work result from the aeromagnetic surveys of the Project 1009 by the Geological Survey of Brazil (CPRM). It was acquired between 1971 and 1972 as part of a geophysical accord between ...
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Stability of Brazilian Seasonally Dry Forests under Climate Change: Inferences for Long Term Conservation
... in Central Brazil (including the Paranã river Basin), the dry forests along the Paraguay-Paraná system rivers (the “Misiones Nucleus”) and partially the Caatinga biome, indicating that the set of species ...
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Climate Projections and Uncertainties over South America from MRI/JMA Global Model Experiments
... and central Argentina (except Misiones province), central Brazil and ...north-eastern Brazil) be- cause some model members projected and increase in ...
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Plasmodium vivax Diversity and Population Structure across Four Continents
... in Central America is low, and parasite populations are separated from those in South America by the Isthmus of Panama, with no road connecting South and Central ...within Central America sub-struc- ...
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Morphological diversity of cassava accessions of the south-central mesoregion of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
... of cassava accessions is fundamental, both for farmers and for plant breeders, because it allows the organization of genetic resources and better utilization of available genetic diversity. This research aims to assess ...
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... that T. lepturus is the most assimilated prey in Guiana Dolphin diet, corroborating the local importance of this fish as a food resource to this predator. Santos et al. (2002) analyzed the stomach content of 16 Guiana ...
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Inflation Forecasting: Rewarding Luck Rather Than Skill?
... Table 1 shows the top 5 private forecasters of the Brazilian long run price index (called IPCA) for each of the years from 2009 to 2017, and Table 2 presents a summary of the top 5 entries. The methodology employed by ...
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Pure Profit for Russia: Benefits of Responsible Finance
... Finally, the growing reliance within Russia on Chinese inance is sure to become an increasingly controversial issue. Although the Chinese inancial sector is embracing responsibility standards under the guidance of the ...
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Brazil Nut (Bertholettia excelsa H.B.K.) Selenium Distribution and Physical Chemical Characteristics of Shell, Brown Skin and Edible Part from Two Amazon Regions
... that Brazil nut tree concentrates Se is due to the fact that Se is very similar chemically to sulfur, an essential nutrient for the nut seed amino acids (Met and Cys) and protein ...of Brazil nut harvesting ...
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