Penguins and their noisy world.

abstract：:This essay discusses the problem of the lack of dialogue between theory/empirical reality in the construction of the theoretical structure of dissertations and doctorates in Human Sciences in Brazil; taking Geography as an example, Santos (2000) observed this problem, which persists at the national level. The proposal...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Gomes RD

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study area is located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, among the municipalities of Pedro Leopoldo, Matozinhos, and Sete Lagoas, with Velhas River as the eastern boundary. It is located in the São Francisco Craton, where carbonated argillo-arenaceous sediments are emplaced giving origin to the Bambuí Group, in...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Galvão P,Hirata R,Cordeiro A,Barbati D,Peñaranda J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugarcane crop conventional tillage has been replaced by deep soil preparation with few studies about its effect on soil quality and sustainability. The aim of this study was to assess structural volumes ina dystrophic Red-Yellow Latosol subjected to conventional tillage (CT) and deep localized soil tillage (DLST) to ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Garcia DM,Silva CG,Lansa VR,Nery EM,Silva NS,Alberton O,Colauto NB,Silva APD

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life history traits are considered key indicators of plant invasibility. Among them, the germination behavior of seeds is of major relevance because it is influenced by environmental factors of invaded ecosystem. Here, we investigated how seed traits and seed tolerance to environmental factors on seed germination of C...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Leal LC,Meiado MV,Lopes AV,Leal IR

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic environment presents daily and/or seasonal variations in dissolved oxygen (DO) levels. Piava faces different DO levels in the water due to its distributional characteristics. The goal of this study was to describe the effects of low DO levels on plasma ion, biochemical and oxidative variables in piava juve...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Copatti CE,Bolner KCS,Londero ÉP,Rosso FL,Pavanato MA,Baldisserotto B

更新日期：2019-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the province of Misiones (Argentina), the filling of the Yacyretá Reservoir (Argentina-Paraguay) to its final dimensions in 2011 formed new aquatic ecosystem, e.g., Garupá Stream was converted into a subreservoir. Reports have been made in this stream of adult individuals and spawning of the Family Sciaenidae, exce...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Briñoccoli YF,Garrido GG,Alvarez A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The South American Pleistocene mammal fauna includes great-sized animals that have intrigued scientists for over two centuries. Here we intend to update the knowledge on its palaeoecology and provide new evidence regarding two approaches: energetics and population density and relative abundance of fossils per taxa. To...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Fariña RA,Czerwonogora A,di Giacomo M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black Mulberry (Morus nigra L.) belongs to Moraceae family. The present study evaluated the possible genotoxic and/or protective activities of black mulberry fruit juice (BMFJ), in vitro, using mitomycin C (MMC) as a positive control, by chromosomal aberrations and micronucleus assays. Human lymphocytes were treated w...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Yilmaz S,Uçar A,Göktaş B

更新日期：2019-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida is a human fungal pathogen that causes a wide range of diseases. Candida albicans is the main etiologic agent in these diseases; however, infections can be caused by non-albicans Candida species. Virulence factors such as biofilm production, which protect the fungus from host immunity and anti-fungal drugs, ar...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Scorzoni L,Menezes RT,Pereira TC,Oliveira PS,Ribeiro FC,Santos ELS,Fugisaki LRO,Oliveira LD,Amorim JBO

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, geochemical and particle size analyses of thirty-four street sediment samples collected from an urban environment around Guanabara Bay, shows highway run-off to be a potential source of heavy metals for the pollution of near-shore sedimentary deposits. Concentrations of Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Pb, Cr and Ni wer...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pereira E,Baptista-Neto JA,Smith BJ,McAllister JJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EEG has been widely employed in the assessment of electrophysiological changes induced by distinct medications. Its sensibility in detecting alterations produced by a specific substance may be enhanced by methods of quantitative analyses (qEEG). The present study aimed at investigating the modulatory effects of br...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Sampaio I,Puga F,Veiga H,Cagy M,Piedade R,Ribeiro P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the bioreduction of six β-ketoesters by whole cells of Kluyveromyces marxianus and molecular investigation of a series of 13 β-ketoesters by hologram quantitative structure-activity relationship (HQSAR) in order to relate with conversion and enantiomeric excess of β-stereogenic-hydroxyesters obtain...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Oliveira SSS,Bello ML,Rodrigues CR,Azevedo PL,Ramos MCKV,Aquino-Neto FR,Fiaux SB,Dias LRS

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to produce transgenic goats with hG-CSF, a total of 24 adult Saanen and 48 adult undefined breed goats were used as donors and recipients, respectively. Donors were estrus-synchronized with vaginal sponges and superovulated by a treatment with 200 mg FSH given twice daily in decreasing doses over 3 days start...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Freitas VJ,Serova IA,Andreeva LE,Dvoryanchikov GA,Lopes ES Jr,Teixeira DI,Dias LP,Avelar SR,Moura RR,Melo LM,Pereira AF,Cajazeiras JB,Andrade ML,Almeida KC,Sousa FC,Carvalho AC,Serov OL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agromyza Fallén (Diptera, Agromyzidae) is a genus of leaf mining flies, including species with high economic importance. The knowledge of this genus is very poor in the neotropics, with 12 known species, only six of them recorded from Brazil. This paper describes two new Agromyza species from "Cerrado" and "Pantanal" ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Sousa VR,Couri MS

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the ageing process the enteric nervous system undergoes morphofunctional changes, such as enteric neurodegeneration. Neuronal death can be attributed to increase radicals free, and ascorbic acid (AA), known antioxidant, could minimize damage cause by oxidative stress. The objective of this study is to analyse t...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Mello SA,Marese AC,Brancalhão RM,Zanoni JN,Natali MR

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the production performance of Nile tilapia post-larvae and fingerlings fed with increasing levels of alcoholic extract of propolis into diets. In Experiment 1, 1800 post-larvae were distributed in 30 tanks, in a completely randomized design with five treatments composed by the inc...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Santos LDD,Zadinelo IV,Silva LCRD,Zilli RL,Barreiros MAB,Mauerwerk MT,Meurer F

更新日期：2019-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Miconazole is reduced at mercury electrode above pH 6 involving organometallic compound formation, responsible for an anomalous polarographic behavior. The electrodic process presents a large contribution of the adsorption effects. The drug can be determined by cathodic stripping voltammetry from 8.0 x 10(-8) to 1, 5 ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pereira FC,Stradiotto NR,Zanoni MV

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic disorders such as steatosis and alcoholic steatohepatitis are common diseases that affect thousands of people around the globe. This study aims to identify the main phenol compounds using a new HPLC-ESI+-MS/MS method, to evaluate some oxidative stress parameters and the hepatoprotective action of green dwarf c...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Bispo VS,Dantas LS,Chaves AB Filho,Pinto IFD,Silva RPD,Otsuka FAM,Santos RB,Santos AC,Trindade DJ,Matos HR

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leprosis disease shows a viral etiology and the citrus leprosis virus is considered its etiologic agent. The disease may show two types of cytopatologic symptom caused by two virus: nuclear (CiLV-N) and cytoplasmic (CiLV-C) types. The aim of this study was to compare the morpho-anatomical differences in the lesion...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Marques JP,Kitajima EW,Freitas-Astúa J,Appezzato-da-Glória B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programs of Science and Technology research have grown significantly in Brazil over the last decades. Until the 1980s the so-called undirected programs, without specific goals and requiring only scientific merit, prevailed. The few programs with defined goals in this period were never objectively assessed. The same si...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pian CA,Meneghini R

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we analyzed morphological and metabolic alterations in dams nursing small litters and their consequences to offspring throughout lactation. Offspring sizes were adjusted to Small Litter (SL, 3 pups/ dam) and Normal Litter (NL, 9 pups/ dam). Body weight, food intake, white adipose tissue (WAT) cont...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Xavier JLP,Scomparin DX,Pontes CC,Ribeiro PR,Cordeiro MM,Marcondes JA,Mendonça FO,Silva MTD,Oliveira FB,Franco GCN,Grassiolli S

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to describe the occurrence, morphology and prevalence of Spirocamallanus krameri, a parasite of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus collected in state of Pará, Brazil. The morphological and morphometric characteristics are consistent with the species S. krameri, by having a hexagonal mouth opening, 16 cephali...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pinheiro RHS,Cardoso PJC,Monks S,Santos JN,Giese EG

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that hormones influence significantly the prostate tissue. However, we reported that mating induces an increase in androgen receptors, revealing a neural influence on the gland. These data suggested that somatic afferents (scrotal and genitofemoral nerves) and autonomic efferents (pelvic and hypogastric ne...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Diaz R,Garcia LI,Locia J,Silva M,Rodriguez S,Perez CA,Aranda-Abreu GE,Manzo J,Toledo R,Hernandez ME

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought is a natural and recurrent phenomenon. It is considered 'a natural disaster' whenever it occurs in an intensive manner in highly populated regions, resulting in significant damage (material and human) and loss (socioeconomic). This paper presents the efforts developed to monitor the impact of drought in the se...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Alvalá RCS,Cunha APMA,Brito SSB,Seluchi ME,Marengo JA,Moraes OLL,Carvalho MA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of food restriction (FR) on the morphoquantitative aspects of the wall and myenteric neurons of the proximal colon in adult rats were analysed. FR was imposed by duplication of the experimental brood size in relation to the control brood during lactation. The FR group received a 50% reduction of food from ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Schoffen JP,Vicentini FA,Marcelino CG,Araújo EJ,Pedrosa MM,Natali MR

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the utilization of two groups of programs in searching for characteristic signals of NMR 13C of steroidal compounds. The first group of programs used data bases with the spectral data and a methodology that enables the choice and the search of substructures. The chemical shifts and multiplicities f...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Lins AP,Furlan M,Gastmans JP,Emerenciano Vde P

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruits are rich in minerals, which are essential for a wide variety of metabolic and physiologic processes in the human body. The use of frozen fruits has greatly spread in the last years not only in the preparation of juices, but also as raw material for yogurts, candies, cookies, cakes, ice creams, and children's fo...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Spada PD,Bortolin GV,Prá D,Santos CE,Dias JF,Henriques JA,Salvador M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relevant series of symmetric supramolecular porphyrins has been obtained by attaching four [RuII(bipy)2Cl] groups to the pyridyl substituents of meso-tetra(4-pyridyl)porphyrin and its metallated derivatives. These compounds display a rich electrochemistry and versatile catalytic, electrocatalytic and photochemical p...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Araki K,Lima Sde S,Winnischofer H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Aspergillus niger was investigated on the strength of cotton textile specimens impregnated with nano-wollastonite, and then compared with normal specimens. Cotton strips were cut and prepared in warp and wept directions according to the standard specifications ASTM D-5035. Results showed that incubation of ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Taghiyari HR,Majidinajafabadi R,Vahidzadeh R

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The golden mussel, Limnoperna fortunei, is among the most devastating invasive species in freshwater habitats worldwide, leading to severe environmental disturbances and economic losses. Therefore, management efforts would be greatly improved by methods that efficiently detect and quantify the abundance of the golden ...

journal_title：Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

authors： Pie MR,Ströher PR,Agostinis AO,Belmonte-Lopes R,Tadra-Sfeir MZ,Ostrensky A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00