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Is There Life After Death? The Role of Standing Dead Phorophytes in Supporting Tropical Epiphyte Diversity

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Global increases in tree mortality from climate change and land‐use are altering forest structures, impacting canopy‐dwelling plants like vascular epiphytes, which depend on host trees (phorophytes). When a phorophyte dies standing, it becomes a snag, the local substrate conditions change and microclimatic exposure may increase, particularly ...
Camila Nardy Delgado, Samyra Gomes Furtado, Luiz Menini Neto, Flavio Nunes Ramos   +3 more
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Respiratory function and functional capacity in chronic stroke patients 1

Fisioterapia em Movimento
Introduction: Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or stroke results in weakness of the trunk muscles and physical unfitness. Objectives: To evaluate respiratory changes caused by stroke and correlate them with the functional capacity of chronic stroke ...
Anna Cláudia Martinez Machado, Nathália Grasielle Marinho Silva, Gisele do Carmo Leite Diniz, Bruno Porto Pessoa, Paula Luciana Scalzo   +4 more
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Características respiratórias de indivíduos com deformidade dentofacial

Revista CEFAC, 2014
Objetivo compreender as características respiratórias em indivíduos com deformidades dentofaciais e verificar se há diferenças comparativamente a indivíduos com equilíbrio dentofacial.
Daniela Galvão de Almeida Prado, Hugo Nary Filho, Giédre Berretin-Felix, Alcione Ghedini Brasolotto   +3 more
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Policy Windows in an Authoritarian System: How Alignment, Leadership Signals, and Disasters Enabled Policy Entrepreneurship in China's Poverty Alleviation

Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT China's poverty alleviation campaign is significant. Over the past four decades, the number of people in China living below the international extreme‐poverty line fell by close to 800 million, accounting for nearly three‐quarters of the global reduction in extreme poverty.
Zhiqi Xu, Wil Hout
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Tempos máximos fonatórios e sua relação com sexo, idade e hábitos de vida em idosos saudáveis

Distúrbios da Comunicação, 2015
Objetivo: caracterizar e relacionar os tempos máximos fonatórios com sexo, idade e hábitos de vida em idosos saudáveis. Método: 55 sujeitos, sendo 44 mulheres e 11 homens, com média de 72 anos, que responderam um questionário de identificação elaborado ...
Caroline Silveira Coelho, Ellen Leticia Oliveira Alves, Vanessa Veis Ribeiro, Rosane Sampaio Santos, Ana Paula Dassie Leite   +4 more
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Three Systemic Problems With the Privacy Notice Ecosystem

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Privacy notices have become ubiquitous across digital platforms, yet they consistently fail to enable informed user choice about data collection and sharing practices. Despite decades of research and regulatory interventions, users continue to ignore or misunderstand privacy notices.
Sophia Walsh, Lukasz Piwek, Kopo Marvin Ramokapane   +2 more
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Influence of different body positions in vital capacity in patients on postoperative upper abdominal

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2015
Rationale: The changes in body position can cause changes in lung function, and it is necessary to understand them, especially in the postoperative upper abdominal surgery, since these patients are susceptible to postoperative pulmonary complications ...
Bruno Prata Martinez, Joilma Ribeiro Silva, Vanessa Salgado Silva, Mansueto Gomes Neto, Luiz Alberto Forgiarini Júnior   +4 more
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A practical, adaptive compliance management framework for improving marine protected area effectiveness

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract Noncompliance regularly undermines the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. The reasons for and drivers of noncompliance depend on the context (e.g., insufficient funding, capacity, neocolonialism, historical conflict), but the prevalent solution offered to curtail noncompliance tends to be more or better enforcement.
B. Bergseth, C. Moltzen, A. Arias, J. Aumend, M. Guilbeaux, R. Oyanedel, R. Parsons, C. Pukini, A. Quintana, C. Wilcox, J. C. Day   +10 more
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Avaliação espirométrica de doentes com sequela de tuberculose submetidos à lobectomia

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
OBJETIVO: Avaliar a espirometria no pré e pós-operatório de doentes com sequela de tuberculose, submetidos à lobectomia. MÉTODOS: Foram selecionados 20 doentes, com idade entre 15 e 56 anos, de ambos os sexos, com história pregressa de tratamento de ...
Elias Amorim, Roberto Saad Junior, Roberto Stirbulov   +2 more
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fastbioclim: An R package for creating custom‐time bioclimatic and derived environmental summary variables

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 17, Issue 5, Page 1585-1594, May 2026.
Abstract Bioclimatic variables, widely used in ecological and biogeographical studies, are typically derived from 30‐year averages of monthly data (e.g. 1971–2000). Unfortunately, the use of these long‐term averaged variables often creates a temporal mismatch with the observational data collected, which potentially undermines how environmental ...
Gonzalo E. Pinilla‐Buitrago, Luis Osorio‐Olvera   +1 more
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