Analysis of Plasma Proteins Involved in Inflammation, Immune Response/Complement System, and Blood Coagulation upon Admission of COVID-19 Patients to Hospital May Help to Predict t... by Daniele Castro di Flora, Aline Dionizio, Heloisa Aparecida Barbosa Silva Pereira, Thais Francini Garbieri, Larissa Tercilia Grizzo, Thiago José Dionisio, Aline de Lima Leite, Licia C. Silva-Costa, Nathalia Rabelo Buzalaf, Fernanda Navas Reis, Virginia Bodelão Richini Pereira, Deborah Maciel Cavalcanti Rosa, Carlos Ferreira dos Santos, Marília Afonso Rabelo Buzalaf

“…In this prospective cohort study, we performed proteomic and laboratory profiling of plasma from 163 COVID-19 patients admitted to Bauru State Hospital (Brazil) between 4 May 2020 and 4 July 2020. …”
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Contribution of automatically generated radar altimetry water levels from unsupervised classification to study hydrological connectivity within Amazon floodplains by Pauline Enguehard, Frédéric Frappart, Pierre Zeiger, Fabien Blarel, Frédéric Satgé, Marie-Paule Bonnet

“…Study region: The Curuaí floodplain in the low Amazon river in the Pará state of Brazil and Juruá basin, a major Solimões tributary. …”
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The diversity of Eimeria spp. in cattle in the Brazilian Semiarid region by Lídio Ricardo Bezerra Melo, Luana Carneiro Sousa, Brendo Andrade Lima, Ana Luzia Peixoto Silva, Estefany Ferreira Lima, Larissa Claudino Ferreira, Thais Ferreira Feitosa, Vinícius Longo Ribeiro Vilela

“…Forty cattle fecal samples were collected from 20 farms in the Paraíba State, Northeast Brazil, and examined by centrifugation-floatation technique in sucrose solution. …”
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Feed technologies and efficiency in cow-calf systems by Yago Machado da Rosa, Daniele Zago, Tamara Esteves de Oliveira, Vinícius de Anhaia Camargo, Júlio Otávio Jardim Barcellos

“…ABSTRACT This study was performed to evaluate the efficiency index of cow-calf systems, based on different feed technologies commonly employed in the Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil. Hence, the efficiency of 35 cow-calf herds was evaluated by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). …”
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Effect of forest fragment size on Polistinae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in a transitional area of Cerrado and Atlantic Forest in south central Minas Gerais state, Brazil by Maria Luiza Santana Coelho, Taiguara Pereira de Gouvêa, Mateus Aparecido Clemente, Marcos Magalhães de Souza

“…This study aimed to investigate the effect of forest fragmentation on Polistinae richness and colony number at Atlantic Forest and Cerrado sites in southern central Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil. The study was conducted in three fragments, Mata do Baú, Cachoeira da Lajinha, and Cachoeira do Padeiro, from October 2020 to March 2021, using active collection to record social wasp species and colony numbers. …”
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Records of Human Deaths from Echinococcosis in Brazil, 1995–2016 by Michael Laurence Zini Lise, Jo Widdicombe, Claudia Ribeiro Zini Lise, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Eduardo Pacheco de Caldas, Mahbod Entezami, Joaquín M. Prada, Nilton Ghiotti, Rosângela Rodrigues e Silva, Katherina A. Vizcaychipi, Victor Del Rio Vilas

“…The results showed that 7955 records of hospitalizations were documented in the HIS, during the study period, with 185 deaths from echinococcosis, and 113 records of deaths were documented in the MIS Deaths in every state of Brazil in the period. When comparing between states, the HIS showed great variability in mortality rates, possibly indicating heterogeneity in diagnosis and in the quality of health care received by patients. …”
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Research on social data by means of cluster analysis by Camila Maione, Donald R. Nelson, Rommel Melgaço Barbosa

“…This paper presents a data mining study and cluster analysis of social data obtained on small producers and family farmers from six country cities in Ceará state, northeast Brazil. The analyzed data involve demographic, economic, agriculture and food insecurity information. …”
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Temperature and light in seed germination of Myrceugenia myrtoides O. Berg by Luciana Pinto Paim, Eduarda Demari Avrella, Aquelis Armiliato Emer, Monique Caumo, Luciano Silva Alves, Claudimar Sidnei Fior

“… Myrceugenia myrtoides (Myrtaceae) is a species of tree size, occurring restricted to the state of Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil, and Uruguay, presenting ornamental potential. …”
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Environmental Screening of <i>Fonsecaea</i> Agents of Chromoblastomycosis Using Rolling Circle Amplification by Morgana Ferreira Voidaleski, Renata Rodrigues Gomes, Conceição de Maria Pedrozo e Silva de Azevedo, Bruna Jacomel Favoreto de Souza Lima, Flávia de Fátima Costa, Amanda Bombassaro, Gheniffer Fornari, Isabelle Cristina Lopes da Silva, Lucas Vicente Andrade, Bruno Paulo Rodrigues Lustosa, Mohammad J. Najafzadeh, G. Sybren de Hoog, Vânia Aparecida Vicente

“…The present study aimed to detect <i>F. pedrosoi</i> and <i>F. monophora</i> in shells of babassu coconuts, soil, plant debris, and thorns from endemic areas of chromoblastomycosis in Maranhão state, northern Brazil, using Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA) with padlock probes as a new environmental screening tool for agents of chromoblastomycosis. …”
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The possible meanings of care: self-care and care-for-the-other by Fábio Solon Tajra, Ricardo José Soares Pontes, Francisco Herlânio Costa Carvalho

“…We developed an evaluative research with a qualitative approach in a Northeastern state of Brazil with extensive experience in the regionalization and implementation process of integrated health networks. …”
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Near-Surface Geophysical Characterization of a Marble Deposit to Promote a Sustainable Small-Scale Mining by Nathália de Souza Penna, Jorge Luís Porsani, Rodrigo Corra Rangel, Victor Hugo Hott Costa, Nicolas Correa de Oliveira, Marcelo Cesar Stangari, Conrado de Carvalho Braz de Faria Sousa

“…In this research, near-surface geophysical methods, including Electrical Resistivity, Capacitive Resistivity, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), and Transient Electromagnetic (TEM), were applied to characterize a marble deposit in an SSM located in the Campos do Jordão region, São Paulo state, southeast Brazil. The geophysical methods used provide indirect information about the subsurface geology based on the contrast in electrical and electromagnetic properties. …”
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Working conditions in nursing in the face of Covid-19 from the perspective of precariousness by Ana Paula Nogueira de Magalhães, Diego de Oliveira Souza, Fernanda Pereira de Macêdo, Sabrina Ângela França da Silva Cruz, Camila Pereira-Abagaro, Roselia Arminda Rosales-Flores

“…Methods: Cross-sectional study, with 131 nursing workers who worked against Covid-19 in hospitals in Alagoas State, Northeast Brazil. Data were collected online, using a workers’ health assessment questionnaire. …”
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Coastal Dynamics Analysis Based on Orbital Remote Sensing Big Data and Multivariate Statistical Models by Anderson Targino da Silva Ferreira, Regina Célia de Oliveira, Maria Carolina Hernandez Ribeiro, Carlos Henrique Grohmann, Eduardo Siegle

“…In this study we assess changes to the São Paulo State (SE Brazil) coastline over the last 36 years. The study innovatively employs big data remote sensing techniques and multivariate statistical models to evaluate and generate erosion/accretion rates (1985–2021) relative to beach orientation and slope. …”
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MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF CRYPTIC SPECIES OF OYSTERS (GENUS Crassostrea SACCO, 1897) IN THE NORTHEAST ATLANTIC COAST OF BRAZIL by Guisla BOEHS, Mariane dos Santos Aguiar LUZ, Verena Rebeca Dias DE ANDRADE

“…The goal of this study was to identify the oysters of the Bahia State, northeast Brazil, using the molecular tools Polymerase Chain Reaction, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis. …”
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Description of an intramonocytic haemoparasite, Hepatozoon lainsoni sp. nov. (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae), infecting Ameiva ameiva lizard (Reptilia: Squamata: Teiidae) i... by Rafaela A. P. B. Morais, Ana Paula D. Rodrigues, José Antonio P. Diniz, Letícia Pereira Úngari, Lucia Helena O'Dwyer, Wanderley de Souza, Renato A. DaMatta, Edilene O. Silva

“…The present study detected and characterized a haemogregarine isolated from the lizard species, Ameiva ameiva, collected from the municipality of Capanema, Pará state, north Brazil. Blood smears and imprints from lungs, brain, heart, kidney, liver, bone marrow and spleen were observed using light microscopy and the parasite was genetically identified by molecular analysis. …”
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Factors associated with low levels of lumbar strength in adolescents in Southern Brazil by Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Eliane Cristina de Andrade Gonçalves, Leoberto Ricardo Grigollo, Edio Luiz Petroski

“…OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with low levels of lumbar strength in adolescents.METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study involving 601 adolescents, aged 14 to 17 years, enrolled in public schools in the western region of Santa Catarina State - Southern Brazil. Lumbar strength was analyzed by the lumbar extension test developed by the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, which proposes different cutoffs for boys and girls. …”
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Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) saloboense n. sp. (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) parasite of Monodelphis emiliae (Marsupiala: Didelphidae) from Amazonian Brazil by Lainson R., Da Silva F.M.M., Franco C.M.

“…Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) saloboense n. sp., is described in the Brazilian opossum Monodelphis emiliae (Thomas, 1912) from primary forest in the Salobo area of the Serra dos Carajás (6° S, 50° 18′ W) Pará State, North Brazil. Two morphologically different trypomastigotes were noted. …”
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Sandflies in an urban area of transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in midwest Brazil by Dorval Maria Elizabeth Cavalheiros, Oshiro Elisa Teruya, Brilhante Andreia Fernandes, Nunes Vânia Lúcia Brandão, Cristaldo Geucira, Lima Júnior Manoel Sebastião Costa, Galati Eunice Aparecida Bianchi

“…The phlebotomine fauna of Campo Grande city, capital of Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil, an endemic area for visceral leishmaniasis, has been thoroughly investigated, but all the insect collections were undertaken with automatic light traps. …”
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REPRODUCTION ASPECTS OF COBIA CAUGHT IN PERNAMBUCO COAST, NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL by Santiago HAMILTON, Ernesto Carvalho DOMINGUES, Ronaldo Barradas PEREGRINO JÚNIOR, Mariana Gomes do RÊ GO, Fabio Hissa Vieira HAZIN (in memorian), William SEVERI

“… Aspects of the reproduction of cobia (Rachycentron canadum) population from the coast of Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil, were studied from February 2004 to August 2006. …”
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Parasitological, epidemiological, and hematological findings in Spix's yellow-toothed cavy (Galea spixii Wangler, 1831) in the State of Paraiba, northeastern Brazil by Carla Caroline Soares Gomes, Thállitha Samih Wischral Jayme Vieira, Vanessa dos Santos Coradi, Samara da Costa Ribeiro Barboza, Hugo Thyares Fonseca Nascimento Pereira da Silva, Telma de Souza Lima, Ricardo Barbosa de Lucena, Rafael Felipe da Costa Vieira, Ricardo Romão Guerra

“…The study was carried out with 16 adult specimens from both sexes, captured in the rural areas of Remigio and Areia, Paraiba State, northeastern Brazil. All Spix's yellow-toothed cavies presented ectoparasites, Gliricola quadrisetosa, Gyropus ovalis, Laelaps sp. and Chirodiscoides caviae, and endoparasites identified by the presence of Nematode eggs, Cestode eggs, and coccidian oocysts in the stool samples. …”
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