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Educational hazards? The politics of disaster risk education in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 86-106, January 2021., 2021
Disaster education outcomes are highly dependent on the political context of that education. Based on a rich, in‐depth case study of the creation of community monitors in a landslide and flood‐prone city in southeast Brazil, this paper demonstrates how developmental and political environments add much additional nuance to existing theories of ...
Robert Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical Study on the Behavior of Square Stiffened Caissons Penetrating into Normally Consolidated Clay

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
Significant difference between predicted and measured installation resistance of stiffened suction caissons was identified due to the existing uncertainty regarding the mobilized soil flow mechanisms. This paper describes an extensive investigation of square stiffened caisson penetration in nonhomogeneous clays undertaken through large deformation FE ...
Wei Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants in a Rural Community in the Agreste of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil

open access: yesEvidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021
The use of medicinal plants is an important source of therapeutic resources in rural communities and the wide versatility of some species may attract interest for prospecting studies. The aim of this study was to record and analyze local knowledge and the use of medicinal plants in the rural community of Malícia, municipality of Araçagi, Paraíba State,
Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vasculitis: an unusual manifestation in an HIV-infected patient

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients may develop vasculitis, either mediated by immunological factors or by direct vascular injury.
Ana Manuel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ebstein's anomaly in children: A single-center study in Angola

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2015
Introduction and Objective: Ebstein's anomaly is a rare complex congenital heart defect of the tricuspid valve. We aimed to describe the frequency, clinical profile, and early and short-term post-operative results in patients under the age of 18 years ...
Valdano Manuel   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sepse: até quando iremos tolerá-la?

open access: yesRevista Ciências em Saúde, 2018
A sepse pode ser definida como uma resposta do hospedeiro desregulada à infecção. O choque séptico é um subconjunto de sepse com disfunção circulatória, celular e metabólica associada a maior risco de mortalidade.
Lemuel Bornelli Cordeiro   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ventricular septal defect in children and adolescents in Angola: Experience of a tertiary center

open access: yesRevista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2014
Introduction and Objective: This is the first study in Angola with the aim of characterizing ventricular septal defect (VSD) among children and adolescents.
Valdano Manuel   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ensaios de variedades de girassol [PDF]

open access: yesBragantia, 1951
Apesar de pouco difundida em São Paulo a cultura do girassol, resolveu-se executar um programa de ensaios regionais de variedades a fim de se determinar o seu comportamento em algumas regiões do Estado. Assim foram realizados oito ensaios, agrupados em três séries, nas estações experimentais de Ribeirão Prêto, Pindorama e Mococa, durante os anos de ...
Sousa, O. Ferreira de   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

P‐057: GENETIC VARIABILITY AND DISEASE SEVERITY IN A COHORT OF ANGOLAN SICKLE CELL DISEASE PATIENTS

open access: yes, 2022
HemaSphere, Volume 6, Issue S4, Page 44-45, August 2022.
BRITO M.   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immune Imbalances in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: from General Biomarkers and Neutrophils, to Interleukin-17 Axis Activation, and New Therapeutics Targets

open access: yesFrontiers in Immunology, 2016
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an increasing problem worldwide and is associated with negative outcomes such as cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular events.
FELICIANO CHANANA PAQUISSI
doaj   +1 more source

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