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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluated the water quality of artesian wells and effluents generated in cassava processing in a rural area of Bragança, Pará, with emphasis on physicochemical parameters, multielement composition, and cyanogenic compounds. The well water presented specific nonconformities, highlighting pH values below the recommended level and high
Alana Coêlho Maciel +13 more
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The ‘National Security Strategy of the USA’ and Brazilian military thought: Imagining the near future [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines the US National Security Strategies, 2002 and 2006, with a view to understanding the impact that some of their elements, including the doctrine of pre-emptive war, may have on Brazilian military thought.
Zirker, Daniel
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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropogenic activities generate a significant amount of pollutants that are released into the environment, causing physiological and ecological disturbances. Among the xenobiotics present in aquatic ecosystems, numerous chemical and organic compounds have oxidative potential or are metabolized through oxidative processes, which may amplify ...
Natália Eduarda da Silva +6 more
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Changes in Family Production Systems upon the Implementation of Palm Oil in Eastern Amazon
Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2017 In this article, we analyze the changes in family production systems throughout their productive paths, emphasizing the changes occurred due to the implementation of palm oil in these systems in Eastern Amazon.
Edfranklin Moreira da Silva +1 more
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Defining a US defence diplomacy for Brazil at the beginning of the century [PDF]
, 2009 At the beginning of the 1990s, the US military was apparently considered to be a significant threat by the Brazilian Armed Forces. Other military establishments in the Hemisphere likewise expressed a lack of confidence, and even a sense of fear ...
Zirker, Daniel
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Bee community assembly is regulated by functional traits in pristine tropical forest environments
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understanding the drivers of bee beta diversity across pristine environments in the Amazon is critical for ensuring biodiversity conservation, restoration, sustainable land use planning and economic development.
Rafael Cabral Borges +7 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This study reveals that tropical butterfly communities show remarkably consistent elevational patterns of diversity and phylogenetic structure across regions with contrasting evolutionary histories, demonstrating how regional species pools and local ecological factors jointly shape biodiversity along altitudinal gradients.
Raphaël Fougeray +10 more
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Ciência da Informação, 2020 Encontra-se inserido no contexto das áreas de Inovação e Ciência da Informação. Analisa o conceito de Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), que ficou conhecido na Europa a partir do Horizon 2020, uma estratégia para alavancar a pesquisa e inovação ...
Layde Dayelle dos Santos Queiroz
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2008 This article presents the conclusions of research (PARD/UFPA/CNPq, 2006) that analyzed the significantrole of the press in exposing environmental issues in the past decades (1975-2002), with emphasis ondeforestations and forest fires in the Amazon.
Luciana Miranda Costa
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