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Anatomical description of the jaw muscles and theoretical bite force assessment in South American opossums using manual and digital dissection methods

Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.
Manual and virtual dissections were employed to examine the masticatory muscle architecture and bite force of three South American marsupials. The organisation of the muscles differed between species, with predicted bite forces exceeding previous estimates.
Alice Melekian, Vincent Decuypere, Anthony Herrel, François Clarac, Sandrine Ladevèze   +4 more
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Genetic, phenotypic, and ecological differentiation indicate a new cryptic and threatened species in the orchid genus Epidendrum from Alcatrazes Island, southeastern Brazil

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.
Epidendrum insularis occurs on the remote Alcatrazes Island in the southeastern Brazilian coast. The description of this new cryptic species was only possible by the joint use of molecular markers, reproductive experiments, flower morphometry, functional traits, and community analysis.
Beatriz L. Arida, Giovana N. Trotta, Beatriz C. De Marco, Iris D. P. Ribeiro, Raphael da Silva, Thales M. de Lima, Welington L. Sachetti Junior, Vitor de A. Kamimura, Gabriel P. Sabino, Bárbara S. S. Leal, Lívia Garcia, Edlley M. Pessoa, Fabio Pinheiro   +12 more
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Magnetic properties of geraisites, the first tektite strewn field identified in Brazil

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Geraisites are a newly recognized class of tektite from Brazil. They occur as centimeter‐sized, elongated to subspherical bodies scattered across surface gravel and shallow subsurface layers within a ~90‐km‐long strewn field extending between the municipalities of São João do Paraíso and Curral de Dentro, near the border between the states of ...
Melissa De Andrade Nunes, Ricardo I. F. Trindade, João Pedro Rodriguez Pinto, Alvaro P. Crósta, Gabriel G. Silva, Ludovic Ferrière, Camila R. Sales, Giovanna M. Tosi   +7 more
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As enfermeiras da força expedicionária brasileira no front italiano Las enfermeras de la feb en el front italiano The brazilian expeditionary force's nurses in the italian front

Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, 2007
Estudo histórico-social, analisa a proximidade das Enfermeiras do Exército na FEB junto às autoridades que detinham o poder dos comandos dos exércitos norte-americano e brasileiro durante a 2.ª Guerra. Fontes primárias: duas fotografias que se complementam e depoimentos de nove enfermeiras que estiveram no conflito. Fontes secundárias: acervo literário
Margarida Maria Rocha Bernardes, Gertrudes Teixeira Lopes   +1 more
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Impact‐diagnostic criteria for use in confirming a meteorite impact origin of terrestrial geological structures: Recommendations by the Impact Cratering Committee of the Meteoritical Society

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The framework of the Impact Cratering Committee (ICC) of the Meteoritical Society was approved in 2020, with the first committee members appointed in 2023. The ICC has a mandate to (1) approve, maintain, and update a database of confirmed terrestrial meteorite impact structures, (2) define and regularly update the criteria used for ...
A. J. Cavosie, S. Alwmark, D. Baratoux, G. Consolmagno, L. Ferrière, S. Goderis, N. Hauser, T. Kenkmann, C. Koeberl, G. R. Osinski, A. E. Pickersgill, M. Schönbächler   +11 more
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Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys, Diana O. Fisher, Naomi A. Witts, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The nurses of the Brazilian expeditionary force and the dissemination of their return home Las enfermeras de la fuerza expedicionaria brasileña y la divulgación de su retorno al hogar As enfermeiras da força expedicionária brasileira e a divulgação de seu retorno ao lar

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2009
This historical-social study aimed to examine the symbolic elements that express the hierarchizing division between the male and female, contained in newspaper reports published about the return home of the nurses who worked in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force's Health Service, and to discuss the symbolic effects these reports produced. The historical
Alexandre Barbosa de Oliveira, Tânia Cristina Franco Santos, Ieda de Alencar Barreira, Antonio José de Almeida Filho   +3 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

Condecorações de guerra como investidura de bens simbólicos às ex-enfermeiras febianas Condecoraciones de guerra como investidura de bienes simbólicos a las ex enfermeras febianas War condecorations bestowed to former "febianas" nurses (nurses of the brazilian expeditionary force ( F.E.B. acronym in portuguese) as an investiture of symbolic value

Escola Anna Nery, 2010
Estudo histórico e social. Objetivos: descrever o ritual de concessão da Medalha de Campanha a algumas enfermeiras brasileiras que atuaram no Serviço de Saúde da Força Expedicionária Brasileira durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e analisar os efeitos simbólicos desse ritual para o reconhecimento social de tais enfermeiras.
Alexandre Barbosa de Oliveira, Tânia Cristina Franco Santos   +1 more
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source