O contrôle da doença de Chagas no município de Bariri, Estado de São Paulo The control of Chagas disease in the county of Bariri, State of São Paulo, Brazil by José Maluf, Odilon Ferreira Guarita, Eduardo Olavo da Rocha e Silva

“…It was observed in several areas of the State of São Paulo, that different species of triatominae react differently to BHC 30%, thus causing a considerable reduction of T. infestam in houses and outbuildings, but this did not happen to T. sordida and P. megistus. A broad serological investigation by the sampling method was performed and which is being done in the elementary schools in the State of São Paulo to measure the prevalence of the infection and the investigation done in Bariri as a complement among pre school children, through the indirect immunofluorescence method, with the help of the Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, Brazil. …”
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The Effect of Early Life Exposure to Triclosan on Thyroid Follicles and Hormone Levels in Zebrafish by Ning Tang, Pianpian Fan, Li Chen, Xiaogang Yu, Wenjuan Wang, Weiye Wang, Fengxiu Ouyang

“…At 120 dpf , in the 300 ng/mL TCS exposure group, the nuclear area and the height of thyroid follicular epithelial cells became greater, and the follicle cell layer got thicker. This happened along with follicle hyperplasia, nuclear hypertrophy, and angiogenesis in the thyroid. …”
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EVALUASI PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI SEKOLAH DASAR KABUPATEN KULON PROGO by Stovika Eva Darmayanti, Udik Budi Wibowo

“…The conclusions of this study are that: (1) the readiness of school for implementing character education is good, assessed from their curriculum integrated with character education, but still not good enough in terms of facility management, and the number of teachers in need of more knowledge and skills about character education; (2) the implementation of character education does not happen yet in the classroom learning activities; (3) the sample schools consider that the support from the government is insufficient especially for character education training; (4) the monitoring and evaluation of character education are still limited to the curriculum and done by the school’s superintendents; and (5) the constraints at character education are undocumented students’s behavior assessment, lack of teacher’s understanding to implement the character education, and there is no synergy between education at school and education at home. …”
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The Desire of Nowhere – Nadine Gordimer’s "Burger’s Daughter" in a Transcultural Perspective by Ewa Niedziałek

“…It also exposes the importance of first-person narration in the performative process of distancing to oneself – appearing to herself as “a place where things happen”. Finally, the article detects the crucial gestures – moments of increased tension, both visual and deeply personal, that lead beyond the text to the experiences of “life itself”, i.e. blood, agony, and death.   …”
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Characterizing Spatial Patterns of the Response Rate of Vegetation Green-Up Dates to Land Surface Temperature in Beijing, China (2001–2019) by Fumin Wang, Siting Chen, Qiuxiang Yi, Dailiang Peng, Xiaoping Yao, Tianyue Xu, Jueyi Zheng, Jiale Li

“…The results show that (1) long-term GUDs and LST are significantly negatively correlated, characterized by a weaker significant correlation near the urban area when compared with its surrounding areas, with the greatest absolute linear correlation coefficients (<i>r</i>) happening at rings 32 km (<i>r_max</i> = −0.93, forests), 20 km and 48 km (<i>r_max =</i> −0.83, grasslands), and 34 km (<i>r_max =</i> −0.82, croplands), respectively; (2) the magnitude of change in GUDs over the past 19 year (2001–2019) are significantly positively correlated with these in LST near the urban area, demonstrating a distance-decay trend, with the greatest advance in GUDs occurring at the ring nearest the urban area, by about 20 days (forests), 24.5 days (grasslands), and 15.6 days (croplands), respectively; (3) the spatial pattern of the response rate of GUDs change to LST change (days K⁻¹) also showed a declining trend with distance, with GUD advanced by 6.8 days K⁻¹ (forests), 7.5 days K⁻¹ (grasslands), and 4.9 days K⁻¹ (croplands) at the closest ring to the urban, decreasing to about 2.3 days K⁻¹ (48 km)<i>,</i> 4.1 days K⁻¹ (18 km), and 1 day K⁻¹ (18 km), respectively, indicating a notable influence of temperature warming on vegetation GUDs near the urban domains.…”
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A descriptive study of concomitant vascular and bone injuries of the limbs in a tertiary care hospital in South India by Deepak Sulya, Siddhant Rajendra Vairagar, B V Saichandran, Durgaprasad Rath, S P Ramsankar, M Hemachandren, KSP Sreevathsa

“…The vascular repair was redone in 3 (21.4%) patients, excessive bleeding requiring blood transfusion happened in 2 (14.3%) patients, and hypotension occurred in 4 (28.6%) patients. …”
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Tumor removal limits prostate cancer cell dissemination in bone and osteoblasts induce cancer cell dormancy through focal adhesion kinase by Ruihua Liu, Shang Su, Jing Xing, Ke Liu, Yawei Zhao, Mary Stangis, Diego P. Jacho, Eda D. Yildirim-Ayan, Cara M. Gatto-Weis, Bin Chen, Xiaohong Li

“…In prostate cancer (PCa), relapse can happen after curative treatments such as primary tumor removal. …”
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Travessias da aula em campo na geografia escolar: a necessidade convertida para além da fábula The excursions of the class in the field in school geography: the need converted beyo... by Christian Dennys Monteiro de Oliveira, Raimundo Jucier Sousa de Assis

“…However, this cultivation does not happen continuously, and is not at the heart of the planning of school geography. …”
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Experiencia preliminar del tratamiento quirúrgico de la fibrilación auricular con ablación por radiofrecuencia Preliminary experience of the surgical treatment of auricular fibrill... by Alejandro Villar Inclán, Noel González Jiménez, Juan Roca Sierra, Luis E Calderón, Rigoberto Chil Díaz

“…The longer the time of evolution of the auricular fibrillation, the higher the rhythm of failure of the procedure. The same happened with the size of the left auricle. It was observed that a year later, 76 % of the patients were in sinusal rhythm and none of the complications presented were related to the procedure itself. …”
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Professores discriminados: um estudo sobre os docentes do sexo masculino nas séries do ensino fundamental Discriminated teachers: a study of male teachers in the early grades of pr... by Amanda Oliveira Rabelo

“…I conclude that the mere fact that there is a male teacher in the classrooms can cause various representations of gender; in this sense, teachers may or may not try to break such representations, which happened to some of the participants of this research. …”
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The Alberta Electrical Grid: What to Expect in the Next Few Years in Alberta by Brian Livingston

“…The Alberta government has made two fundamental changes in the electricity market to make this happen. First, it has introduced a Renewable Energy Program (REP) to incent investment in renewables. …”
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IMPLIKASI PRINSIP CAVEAT VENDITOR TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN HUKUM PERLINDUNGAN KONSUMEN DI INDONESIA by Deviana Yuanitasari

“…Such cases should not happen if the principle of caveat venditor is properly implemented. …”
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Phlebotomine sandflies fauna (Diptera: Psychodidae) at rural settlements in the municipality of Cáceres, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil Fauna flebotomínica (Diptera: Psychodidae) em... by Graziella Borges Alves, Elisa Teruya Oshiro, Marcio da Cruz Leite, Aline Vidor Melão, Letícia Moraes Ribeiro, Nathália Lopes Fontoura Mateus, Reginaldo Peçanha Brazil, José Dilermando Andrade Filho, Alessandra Gutierrez de Oliveira

“…CONCLUSIONS: The disorganized occupation of the environment that is happening at the rural settlements of Mata Comprida, Laranjeira I and II could provide opportunities for the domiciliation of wild populations of phlebotomine, including vectors of leishmaniasis. …”
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Investigation of Nurses’ Wellbeing towards Errors in Clinical Practice—The Role of Resilience by Despoina Pappa, Ioannis Koutelekos, Eleni Evangelou, Evangelos Dousis, Polyxeni Mangoulia, Georgia Gerogianni, Afroditi Zartaloudi, Georgia Toulia, Martha Kelesi, Nikoletta Margari, Eftychia Ferentinou, Areti Stavropoulou, Chrysoula Dafogianni

“…<i>Conclusions</i>: Errors were likely to happen during clinical practice due to nurses’ negative experiences. …”
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Fukahâ Metodunda İstihsân Kavramının Gelişiminde Cessâs’ın Rolü by Mehmet Aziz Yaşar

“…Cassas’s role in Istiḥsan’s development as a term happened within these points: -After Cassas, most of the methodologists acted on his definition of Istiḥsan. …”
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Sociological Explanation of Social Factors Effective on Divorce (The Case of Ghaemshahr City) by Aghil Asadyan, Kamran Sadaghat

“…Because social damages depend on each other, expansion in one may cause others to expand as well so we must study divorce to prevent other problems from happening and/or expanding.       Materials and Methods   The research method is casual-comparative. …”
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Predictors of Pregnancy Termination among Young Women in Ghana: Empirical Evidence from the 2014 Demographic and Health Survey Data by Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, John Elvis Hagan, Anita Gracious Archer, Eugene Budu, Faustina Adoboi, Thomas Schack

“…Young women who had their first sex at the age of 20–24 (AOR = 0.19, CI = 0.10–0.39) and those whose first sex occurred at first union (AOR = 0.57, CI = 0.34–0.96) had lower odds of having a pregnancy terminated compared to those whose first sex happened when they were less than 15 years. Young women with parity of three or more had the lowest odds of having a pregnancy terminated compared to those with no births (AOR = 0.39, CI = 0.21–0.75). …”
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Analysis of tight oil and gas charging characteristics by the carbon isotope on-site detection technology: A case study of the northern slope of the Minfeng Subsag in the Bohai Bay... by Xinghua Ci, Huanxu Zhang, Qiang Niu, Di Zhu, Shujuan Kang, Jian Hu, Lisheng Zhang, Jiazheng Zhang, Kun He

“…First, deep hydrocarbon charging happened in the Purely Purely Lower Sha 4 Member in Well Yanxie 233, and its natural gas is the mixture of the oil cracking gas of deep layers and the thermal cracking gas of autochthonous source rocks. …”
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Drought monitoring and its effects on vegetation and water extent changes using remote sensing data in Urmia Lake watershed, Iran by Jalil Helali, Shahab Asaadi, Teimour Jafarie, Maral Habibi, Saadoun Salimi, Seyed Erfan Momenpour, Salah Shahmoradi, Seyed Asaad Hosseini, Behzad Hessari, Vahideh Saeidi

“…The NDWI changes also showed that the maximum area of the Lake Urmia happened in 2000, and its minimum was recorded in 2014. …”
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Biomechanical evaluation of a novel anterior transpedicular screw-plate system for anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF): a finite element analysis by Shengbin Huang, Shengbin Huang, Qinjie Ling, Xinxin Lin, Hao Qin, Xiang Luo, Wenhua Huang, Wenhua Huang

“…The stress of the ATPS from the cranial part was higher than that of the caudal part. The similar effect happened on VBS. The screw stress cloud maps did not show any red areas reflective of a concentration of the stress on VBS. …”
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