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Asian Roboticism: Connecting Mechanized Labor to the Automation of Work [PDF]

, 2020
This article reconsiders the present-day automation of work and its transformation of who we are as humans. What has been missing from this important conversation are the social meanings surrounding Asian roboticism or how Asians have already been ...
Bui, Long
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First report of Panstrongylus lignarius (Walker, 1873) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) in the State of Acre, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019
INTRODUCTION: This communication reports the first occurrence of Panstrongylus lignarius in the State of Acre, Brazil. METHODS: A specimen of P. lignarius was collected from a residence in a rural area of the municipality of Rio Branco, Acre, Western ...
Mariane Albuquerque Lima Ribeiro, Gabriela Vieira de Souza Castro, Janis Lunier de Souza, Acigelda da Silva Cardoso, Fernanda Portela Madeira, Luis Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti   +6 more
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Genetic diversity of Echinococcus vogeli in the western Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2019
Human polycystic echinococcosis is a parasitic infection caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus vogeli, which occurs in rural areas of Central and South America. Until now, little information on the genetic variability of E. vogeli is available. Here, 32 samples from human-excised E.
Daniel Daipert-Garcia, Márcio Galvão Pavan, Leandro Batista das Neves, Fernanda Barbosa de Almeida, Nilton Ghiotti Siqueira, Guilherme Brzoskowski dos Santos, Tuan Pedro Dias-Correia, Henrique Bunselmeyer Ferreira, Rosângela Rodrigues-Silva   +8 more
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First report of Rhodnius montenegrensis (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in Amazonas, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Triatomines are hematophagous insects of epidemiological importance because they are vectors of Chagas disease. We present here the first report of Rhodnius montenegrensis in Amazonas, Brazil.
Fernanda Portela Madeira, André Luiz Rodrigues Menezes, Adila Costa de Jesus, Madson Huilber da Silva Moraes, Jader de Oliveira, João Aristeu da Rosa, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Dionatas Ulises de Oliveira Meneguetti, Paulo Sérgio Berrnarde   +8 more
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How prevalent is Plasmodium malariae in Rondônia, Western Brazilian Amazon? [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2000
We have compared results of Plasmodium species identification obtained with conventional on-site microscopy of Giemsa-stained thick smears (GTS) and a semi-nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 96 malaria patients from Rondônia, Western Brazilian Amazon.
Cavasini, Marisa Torres Vidal, Ribeiro, Weber Luidi, Kawamoto, Fumihiko, Ferreira, Marcelo Urbano   +3 more
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Comparison of physiological and biochemical changes in old and young hyperglycemic rats submitted to aerobic exercise and anabolic steroid use

Sports Medicine and Health Science
Prolonged hyperglycemia conditions are a risk factor for chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Testosterone is known to cause muscle hypertrophy, reduced fat mass, and increased body strength.
Carolina Freitas da Silva, Morun Bernardino-Neto, Thiago Montes Fidale, Anibal Monteiro de Magalhães Neto, João Rafael Valentim-Silva, Yuri Karaccas de Carvalho, Rodrigo Daminello Raimundo, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Romeu Paulo Martins Silva, Nilson Penha-Silva   +9 more
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Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink [PDF]

, 2018
Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests.
Choi, Sungho, Keller, Michael, Kennedy, Robert, Knyazikhin, Yuri, Myneni, Ranga B., Phillips, Nathan, Saatchi, Sassan S., Xu, Liang, Yang, Yan, Yu, Yifan   +9 more
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Carbon allocation in north-western Amazon forests (Colombia)

, 2022
Los estudios sobre la asignación del carbono en los ecosistemas forestales proporcionan información esencial para la comprensión de las diferencias espaciales y temporales en el ciclo del carbono de tal forma que pueden aportar información a los modelos y, así predecir las posibles respuestas de los bosques a los cambios en el clima.
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Millimeter‐Scale Dual‐Opposing RNA‐Gradient Hydrogel for Interfacial Gene Silencing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A branched microfluidic platform enables the fabrication of millimeter‐scale hydrogels with dual‐opposing RNA‐gradients for precise spatial control of cell gene expression. This device allows for the generation of multiple constructs at once, offering potential for future engineering of complex tissue interfaces with improved physiological relevance ...
Tyler Hoffman, Cong Truc Huynh, Marcus J. Goudie, Peyton J. Tebon, Hyojin Ko, Minh Khanh Nguyen, Kaelyn L. Gasvoda, Yang Song, Kirsten Fetah, Ali Khademhosseini, Song Li, Eben Alsberg   +11 more
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Biodiversity of Insecta in Amazonia: Updating the geographic records of social wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in Acre and Rondônia States, Brazil

Sociobiology, 2020
The Acre and Rondônia states in Brazil are part of Western Amazon rainforest in Brazil, an area harboring high biodiversity and high degree of endemisms Nevertheless, there are few studies on diversity of social wasps occurring in both states. This study
Alexandre Somavilla, Raimundo Nonato de Morais Junior, Paulo Cézar Salgado Barroso, Marcio Luiz Oliveira, José Albertino Rafael   +4 more
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