southeast Brazil
Remote Sensing Applied to the Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Variation of Water Quality in a Coastal Environment, Southeast Brazil
... in Southeast Brazil, and observed the extreme influence of one rain- fall event, but hourly sampling showed that early in the morning, when local in- habitants had not yet begun their daily activities, ...
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Elemental Composition of PM2 5 in Araraquara City (Southeast Brazil) during Seasons with and without Sugar Cane Burning
... (Southeast Brazil) is surrounded by sugar-cane planta- tions, which are burned to facilitate the harvesting; this process causes environmental pollution due to the large amounts of soot that are released ...
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Magnetotelluric soundings across the Taubaté Basin, Southeast Brazil
... Thirteen magnetotelluric (MT) soundings were carried out in Neoproterozoic crystalline terrains and Tertiary sediments of the Taubat´e basin, southeastern Brazil. The soundings were deployed in a cross-strike ...
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Wing geometry of Culex coronator (Diptera: Culicidae) from South and Southeast Brazil
... Left wings of the adult females were removed and mounted on flat microscope slides under a 0.08 - 0.12 mm glass coverslip using Canada balsam. Microscope slides of wings, male genitalia, pupal and fourth-instar larval ...
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Water Use in Sugar and Ethanol Industry in the State of São Paulo (Southeast Brazil)
... Considering that vinasse spills pose a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems [39] and that K-enrichment of soil and groundwater in areas heavily fertilized with vinasse is likely to increase together with the cost of ...
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Molecular and Chemical Analyses of Cyanobacterial Blooms in Tropical Lagoons from Southeast Brazil
... In conclusion, the present study has provided genetic and chemical information on samples collected from cya- nobacterial blooms occurring in four lagoons located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, for the first ...
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Mid–late Holocene event registered in organo-siliciclastic sediments of Lagoa Salgada carbonate system, southeast Brazil
... during this period is also characterized by decreasing Mg/Ca ratios in speleothems collected in the Botuvera Cave, south- eastern Brazil (Bernal et al., 2016) (Fig. 6g). In that study, Bernal et al. (2016) suggest ...
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Comparative study of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection due to genotypes 1 and 3 referred for treatment in southeast Brazil
... In Brazil, HCV infection was also associated with intravenous use of energetic drugs, such as Gluconer- gan ® , a non-illicit drug commonly used in the 1970s as ...
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Growth, mortality, and reproduction of Tagelus plebeius (Bivalvia: Solecurtidae) in Southeast Brazil
... The suspension-feeding stout razor clam Tagelus ple- beius is distributed along the coast of the Americas, from North Carolina (34°N, USA) to the San Matias Gulf (41°S, Argentina) (Rios 1994). This species is commonly ...
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Areas with evidence of equity and their progress on mortality from tuberculosis in an endemic municipality of southeast Brazil
... In Brazil, as in other countries in Latin America, social policies have been implemented over the last two de- cades, favoring better rates of social equity, and this has shown a positive impact, bringing about an ...
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Personality Disorders in Brazilian Homeless Compared with Non Psychiatric and Psychiatric Patients
... of Southeast Brazil, the first composed of 71 homeless people; the second, 74 psychiatric patients; and the third, 250 college students that completed the Personality Dis- orders Dimensional Inventory ...
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Hepatitis B virus: molecular genotypes and HBeAg serological status among HBV infected patients in the southeast of Brazil
... state, Southeast Bra- ...Janeiro, Southeast Brazil, only the genotypes A, D, and F were found ...of Southeast Brazil contains many European and African descendents, which would explain ...
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Mutational screening in the LDLR gene among patients presenting familial hypercholesterolemia in the Southeast of Brazil.
... Based on our data and on the previous data from Figueiredo et al. (1992) and Alberto et al. (1999), we are encouraged to affirm that mutations IVS7+10G>C and C681X may be a cause of FH in the Southeast ...
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Factors Associated with Poor Glycemic Control among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in the Southeast Region of Brazil
... Background: Brazil is an upper middle-income country with the fourth higher prevalence of diabetes and the fifth in diabetes-related health ...the Southeast of ...
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Climate, history, society over the last millennium in southeast Africa
... We begin with a state-of-the-art review of southeast African climate variability since AD 800, the first such overarching synthesis since 1992 7 . This is followed by an assessment of the above questions in three ...
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Opportunistic illnesses in Brazilian children with AIDS: results from two national cohort studies, 1983-2007
... Marinella D. Negra, Norman Hearst, and Regina C. M. Succi. This work was carried out by the Fundação São Vicente (Fundasv) with technical and financial support of the Ministry of Health/Secretariat of Health ...
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Molecular Phylogeny of Sporothrix schenckii
... FIOCRUZ, Brazil; Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Sa ˜o Paulo, Sa ˜o Paulo, Brazil; and Bio- logical Resource Center, Chiba, ...from Brazil (18 isolates) and the environmental ...
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Spatial patterns of leprosy in a hyperendemic state in Northern Brazil, 2001-2012
... The Global Moran’s I index presented positive and significant values (0.47; p < 0.001) for the case detection rate in < 15 years-olds. Two clusters of municipalities with high detection rates were identi- fied: the ...
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Geographic spread of epidemic multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Brazil
... We are grateful to the hospital teams for providing the clinical strains. This work was supported in part by a grant from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brasilia, D. F., ...
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Zika virus detection, isolation and genome sequencing through Culicidae sampling during the epidemic in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
... The identification of ZIKV mosquito vectors has been the subject of a heated debate. The proof-of-principle study performed by Guo et al. [21] demonstrated that transmission by Cx. quinquefasciatus is feasible, but only ...
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