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The Separate Worlds of Science and Science Teaching, According to Potential Science Teachers

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of severe and worsening science teacher shortages in many countries and a body of literature reliant on retrospective accounts from those already teaching science, this paper explores the views and assumptions held about school science teaching by potential future science teachers.
Emily MacLeod, Allison Jardim Gonsalves, Emily Sprowls, Louise Archer   +3 more
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Clinical validation of the nursing diagnosis of inadequate nutritional intake in children with cancer

International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis “Inadequate Nutritional Intake” based on elements identified within a specific situation theory framework in the context of children with cancer. Methods This is a diagnostic accuracy study following the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) protocol.
Iane Ximenes Teixeira, Natália Cabrera Matos, Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes, Viviane Martins da Silva, Amanda Laryssa Gomes do Nascimento, Yanka Alcântara Cavalcante, Ana Beatriz Oliveira Marques dos Santos, Daniele Paula Alves Mouta   +7 more
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Stable Isotope Analysis as a Tool to Prevent Illicit Wildlife Trade of Songbirds in Brazil

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Feather isotopes provide clear differences between wild and captive songbirds in Brazil. Combining multiple isotopes improved classification accuracy and revealed individuals falsely declared as captive‐bred. These results demonstrate the potential of isotope analysis to detect wildlife laundering in the bird trade.
Luiza Brasileiro, Fábio J. V. Costa, Paulo R. R. Ramos, Vladimir E. Costa, Gabriela B. Nardoto   +4 more
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Hidden Losses: Assessing the Risk of Coextinction Among Ectoparasitic Flies and Their Bat Host Species in Brazil

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
The potential impact of bat species extinction on the number of their ectoparasitic fly species, based on interaction data for Brazil. As bat host species are removed over time, more connected species (green) would experience steeper declines and lead to greater ectoparasite losses when compared to a random extinction model (gray).
Nathan Lorenzo de Sena Gotti, Jonathan Ramos Ribeiro, Eder Barbier, Enrico Bernard   +3 more
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Circulating Mitochondrial DNA Measures Across Malignancies: Diagnostic Accuracy and Prognostic Associations

Cancer Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Circulating mitochondrial DNA is being investigated as a liquid‐biopsy biomarker because of its high copy number and release during cellular stress. However, diagnostic estimates vary across tumor types and assays, and prognostic studies have measured both cell‐free mtDNA and cellular blood‐derived mtDNA, which are not analytically ...
Ziying Zhang, Ying Jiang, Yu Gong, Hui Xie, Yaqian Han, Peng Chen   +5 more
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Long‐term changes in functional diversity and its implications for mammalian conservation and ecological restoration in a grassland ecosystem

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 2379-2391, August 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Paleontological data provide information on natural environments prior to human influence, which are useful for tracking changes in ecosystem functioning through time. During the Late Pleistocene, about 10% of terrestrial mammalian species were extinct in South America.
Thayara S. Carrasco, Catalina Pimiento, Tiago B. Quental, Pedro L. Godoy   +3 more
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Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1223-1237, July 2026.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger, Raquel C. Pizzardo, Bruno Vilela, Thuane Bochorny, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +4 more
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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1345-1356, July 2026.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
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Environmental detection of the amphibian chytrid fungus in water bodies is associated with host infection along a deforestation gradient

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.
Linking environmental pathogen detection with host infection patterns can improve surveillance of diseases involving environmental transmission, particularly where direct host sampling is logistically challenging. This approach enables the identification of areas of elevated transmission risk and supports targeted monitoring and management under ...
Ananda Brito de Assis, David Rodriguez, Wesley J. Neely, Carla Martins Lopes, Paula R. Prist, Carlos Arturo Navas, Renato A. Martins, Shannon Buttimer, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, C. Guilherme Becker   +9 more
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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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