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Synergistic efforts in specimen digitisation, curation and cataloguing of Brazil's megadiverse flora and funga

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The advancement of digital technologies has brought a rapid global information exchange, impacting all areas of our lives. This also applies to science. Knowledge, conservation and scientific innovation on global biodiversity are being strengthened and disseminated at unprecedented scales.
Ana Flávia Alves Versiane, Fabiana Ranzato Filardi, Thuane Bochorny, Paula Leitman, Mariana Taniguchi, Felipe Alves de Oliveira, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Rafael Oliveira Lima, Domingos Cardoso, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some Reflections on the Relationship between Politicians and Politics in Latin America after Twenty Five Years of Democracy. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol.8 No.1, January 2008 [PDF]

, 2008
Almost three decades after democratic transition numerous political reforms have appeared. No country in the region, with the obvious exception of Cuba, has been left out of this wave of political transformations.
Sáez, Manuel Alcántara.
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Differential expression of salvador family WW domain containing protein 1 in cancers of the breast.

, 2021
Breast cancer affects women at relatively high frequency (1). We mined published microarray datasets (2, 3) to determine in an unbiased fashion and at the systems level genes most differentially expressed in the primary tumors of patients with breast cancer.
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Diabetic and Prediabetic Profile of Patients in a Family Health Care Unit of Salvador, Northeastern Brazil

Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, 2016
Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world. In Brazil, 8.7% of the population between 20 and 79 years of age has diabetes, estimating 11.6 million diabetics. It is commonly associated with other co-morbidities such as hypertension, dyslipidemia and obesity, which put these patients into a high cardiovascular risk profile. This
João Zallio Coelho, Pedro Julião Zallio Coelho, Sanchela Raiane Pereira de Oliveira, Alex Farias Soares, Jacqueline Novais Santana, Paulo Ricardo Bacelar Macedo, Juliana Silveira de Freitas, Danilo Guimarães Nogueira Andrade, Mirella Hansen de Almeida, Denise Rosso Tenório Wanderley Rocha, Alberto Krayyem Arbex   +10 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, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Contributions: Taxes Paid by Immigrants in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area [PDF]

, 2006
This report estimates the taxes paid by immigrants in the Washington, D.C., area in 1999-2000 and documents their demographics, household composition, income, and dispersal across jurisdictions in the region.
Everett Henderson, Jeffrey S. Passel, Michael E. Fix, Randolph Capps   +3 more
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou, Yannis A. Phillis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social, Technological, Economic, and Policy Factors in the Circular Economy Transition in Brazil

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A well‐functioning circular economy (CE) integrates resilience across economic, environmental, and social dimensions. This study identifies key drivers and barriers to Brazil's CE transition through 20 semi‐structured interviews with stakeholders. Major sociocultural barriers include inadequate education and limited CE awareness, while growing
Alejandro Gallego‐Schmid, Ana Belén Guerrero, Ricardo Rebolledo‐Leiva, Alvaro Elorrieta‐Mendoza, Denisse Milagros Paredes Cotohuanca, Raphael Ricardo Zepon Tarpani, Rodrigo Salvador, Murillo Vetroni Barros, Claudia E. Henninger, Leonardo Vásquez‐Ibarra   +9 more
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La formación del profesorado universitario a través de la Red Tucana: investigación en curso

Revista Internacional de Formação de Professores, 2016
La investigación sobre las competencias docentes universitarias realizada en las universidades Centroamericanas de Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Panamá, mostró la necesidad de elaborar un programa de formación on line que ayude a ...
Rosa Mª Esteban Moreno
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