Northeast Brazil
A Resilient drought risk management approach in the semiarid northeast Brazil
... northeastern Brazil showed a 15% ...in Northeast Brazil (Moura and Shukla, 1981; Hastenrath, ; Uvo et ...northeastern Brazil precipitation, as well as a decadal trend associated with changes ...
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Breastfeeding and Early Weaning Practices in Northeast Brazil: A Longitudinal Study
... Apart from the large metropolitan areas, maternity services in northeast Brazil have been given rela- tively low priority within the health system and ma- ternities rarely have access to pediatricians. ...
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Ethnotaxonomical considerations and usage of ichthyofauna in a fishing community in Ceará State, Northeast Brazil
... same author highlights the fact that species are objects of knowledge and of use and domestication, can be the inspiration for myths and rituals, and finally, they have become commodities in modern societies. With regard ...
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MJO Modulation of Station Rainfall in the Semiarid Seridó, Northeast Brazil
... State, Northeast Brazil, provided by the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Rio Grande do Norte (EMPARN), for a 30-year period from 1 January-31 December, ...
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Hydrodynamic characterization of soils within a representative watershed in northeast Brazil
... Abstract Studies about the infiltration of water in the soil, based on hydraulic conductivity and retention curve, are important to simulate hydrological processes and pollution fluxes. This paper aims to present the ...
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Acute norovirus gastroenteritis in children in a highly rotavirus vaccinated population in Northeast Brazil
... Please cite this article as: Santos Victor S, Gurgel Ricardo Q, Cavalcante Sandra MM, Kirby Andrew, Caf´e Lilian P, Souto Maria J, Dolabella Silvio S, de Assis Matheus R, Fumian Tulio M, Miagostovich Marize P, Cunliffe ...
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Cytotoxic potential of selected medicinal plants in northeast Brazil
... In conclusion, we screened the cytotoxic potential of 55 extracts from 18 plants found in northeast Brazil, and extracts from B. sericea, D. repens, H. bracteatus, I. purga, I. coccinea, M. piriri, O. ...
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Marriage, knowledge, and morality among Catholic peasants in northeast Brazil
... 00001t tif Marriage, knowledge, and morality among Catholic peasants in Northeast Brazil Maya Miranda Mayblin London School of Economics and Political Science PhD in Anthropology 2005 1 UMI Number U 2[.] ...
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Farmers' Health and Contamination of Soils and Water in a Rural Area of Northeast Brazil
... Metals are widely present in the world due to natural and/or anthropic processes. They are used in several activities, mainly agricultural, generating concerns about their impact on health. To understand the ...
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Prevalence of Benign Focus Liver Lesions in a Reference Center in Northeast Brazil
... A cross-sectional descriptive study of quantitative approach. The research took place at the Liver Study Center (LSC) of the Onofre Lopes University Hospital (HUOL), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) - ...
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Fauna used in popular medicine in Northeast Brazil
... Distinct preparation and administration manners of the zootherapic resources are reported in the works, but in general, hard parts, such as teeth, nails, shells, rattles from snakes, fish scales, bone, and cartilage, ...
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Increase in dental caries and change in the socioeconomic profile of families in a child cohort of the primary health care in Northeast Brazil
... This study was developed in family health units (FHUs) of the PHC system in two regions of Recife, Pernambuco State capital, located in Northeast Brazil, which corre- sponds to Health Districts (HDs) II and ...
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Penile cancer in Maranhão, Northeast Brazil: the highest incidence globally?
... low smoking rates in the overall population. This would be consistent with the relatively low smoking rates in Maranhão State. Although the average age of 58.5 years is similar to the majority of studies reported in the ...
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Risk factors for inadequate prenatal care use in the metropolitan area of Aracaju, Northeast Brazil
... Population-based studies are important to evaluate prena- tal care. However, most studies are based on secondary data, where underreporting and limitation of the variables routinely collected by health services reduce ...
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Sensitivity Analysis and Calibration of Hydrological Modeling of the Watershed Northeast Brazil
... In the calibration procedure, the model provided a good fit between observational and simulated data for the hydrographic basin, with values of the statistical performance parameters ran[r] ...
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Wild vertebrates and their representation by urban/rural students in a region of northeast Brazil
... The positive correlation between curricular develop- ment and the citation of wild vertebrates observed in the general and urban contexts, as well as the negative cor- relations for citations of domestic vertebrates and ...
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Location of Large Scale Concentrating Solar Power Plants in Northeast Brazil
... In Brazil, this form of energy generation has not yet been explored for large scale ...Brazilian Northeast on the scale of ...Brazilian Northeast, its capacity will be greater than 1000 ...
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High prevalence of Berardinelli-Seip Congenital Lipodystrophy in Rio Grande do Norte State, Northeast Brazil
... in Brazil, its prevalence in this country has not yet been ...of Brazil: Rio Grande do Norte (RN) state, located in the northeastern region, and Minas Gerais (MG) state, located in the southeastern region ...
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Temporal trends of leprosy in a Brazilian state capital in Northeast Brazil: epidemiology and analysis by joinpoints, 2001 to 2012
... ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to characterize epidemiological and temporal trends of leprosy in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, from 2001 to 2012. A total of 9,658 new cases were reported. Their ...
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Ethnoichthyology of the indigenous Truká people, Northeast Brazil
... In Brazil, the use of animals, including fish, as medicinal re- sources is a fairly widespread and ancient ...in Brazil and many other countries in Latin America [44, 46 – ...
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