David Laundy, Mark Skok, Kjell Stautland, Douglas Hyndman, Peder Figenbaum, Paola Alberani, Daniel Coggins, Carlos Yermoli, C.-W. Hustad, Sebastian Letemendia, Kerry Davie, Mario Casas Ella, A.A. Zara, Andrew Gurr, Pasi Patokallio, Peter Barnard,
... Brazil better, not well Formidable tasks await Fernando Cardoso's new government Situation, Mission, Execution Microsoft Microsoft ... president, The peso, The markets and those Indians Cardoso's team Brazil Knock knock South Africa and ...
1994 - Gale Group | The Economist
Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio Almeida, Raquel Menezes, Pedro Cardoso-Mário Jesus,
Aggregation of data values plays an important role on distributed computations, in particular, over peer-to-peer and sensor networks, as it can provide a summary of some global system property and direct the actions of self-adaptive distributed algorithms. Examples include using estimates of the network size to dimension distributed hash tables or estimates of the average system load to direct load balancing. Distributed aggregation using nonidempotent functions, like sums, is not trivial as it ...
Tópico(s): Distributed systems and fault tolerance
2011 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Niall Halprin, Raymond Gastil, Michael Broadhurst, Sharon Tanzer, Mario Polese, Dean Kagawa, Paul Leventhal, Paul Sharp,
... of Saud Modest man, immodest task Brazil In Cardoso's steps Argentina Halifax Four Seasons Hotels Never ...
1994 - Gale Group | The Economist
João M. P. Cardoso, Mário P. Vestístias,
... to support reconfigurable computing Authors: João M. P. Cardoso View Profile , Mário P. Vestístias View Profile Authors Info & Claims XRDS: ...
Tópico(s): Interconnection Networks and Systems
1999 - Association for Computing Machinery | XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students
Lawrence A. Cardoso, Mario T. García,
... Mexicans of El Paso, 1880–1920. By García Mario T.. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. xi + 316 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $23.00.) Lawrence A. Cardoso Lawrence A. Cardoso University of Wyoming Search for ...
Tópico(s): American Environmental and Regional History
1982 - Oxford University Press | Western Historical Quarterly
Produção Nacional
Luciana Mara Monti Fonseca, A. S.R. Ávila, A. C.S. Braga, M. B.N. Oliveira, Edson Boasquevisque, Roberto Levi Cavalcanti Jales, Valbert Nascimento Cardoso, Mário Bernardo-Filho,
Drugs can alter the labeling and the morphology of red blood cells. As Paullinia cupana is used in popular medicine, we evaluated its influence on the labeling process using technetium-99m (Tc-99m). Blood was incubated with P. cupana, stannous chloride and Tc-99m. Samples were centrifuged and plasma (P) and blood cells (BC) were separated and precipitated with trichloroacetic acid. Soluble (SF) and insoluble fractions (IF) were isolated. The morphology of the blood cells was evaluated under an optical ...
Tópico(s): Poisoning and overdose treatments
2002 - Elsevier BV | Fitoterapia
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Murilo Daniel de Mello Innocentini, F. A. Cardoso, Mario M. Akyioshi, V. C. Pandolfelli,
The purpose of this work was to investigate the drying kinetics of high‐alumina, ultra‐low‐cement refractory castables under continuous heating conditions. Three main drying stages were identified during the castable heat‐up and were related to the phase change of free water and to the decomposition of hydrated products present in the body. A clear correlation was found between the actual heating profile inside the castable and the dewatering stages under various heating schedules. Thermal analysis ...
Tópico(s): Concrete and Cement Materials Research
2003 - Wiley | Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Cleide Aparecida Bomfeti, Ligiane Aparecida Florentino, Ana Paula Guimarães, Patrícia Gomes Cardoso, Mário César Guerreiro, Fátima Maria de Souza Moreira,
The process of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF), performed by symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria with legume species, commonly known as α and β rhizobia, provides high sustainability for the ecosystems. Its management as a biotechnology is well succeeded for improving crop yields. A remarkable example of this success is the inoculation of Brazilian soybeans with Bradyrhizobium strains. Rhizobia produce a wide diversity of chemical structures of exopolysaccharides (EPS). Although the role of EPS ...
Tópico(s): Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
2011 - Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo | Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Annete de Jesus Boari Lima, María das Graças Cardoso, Mário César Guerreiro, F. A. Pimentel,
SUGAR CANE SPIRIT.Copper content is of great concern among sugarcane-spirit producers.It is released from copper-made distillers, during the distillation process.Activated carbon has been used to remove copper.However, depending on the amount of carbon and the duration of reaction, it can also remove higher alcohols and esters, which are important in the final product.A sugarcane spirit with 9 mg L -1 of copper was shaken with 2 to 26 g L -1 of activated carbon, during 10 to 1440 minutes.Then, copper ...
Tópico(s): Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
2006 - Brazilian Chemical Society | Química Nova
Rafaela Cardoso, Mário Lopes, Rita Bento,
This paper describes a method developed to evaluate the seismic performance of old masonry buildings, which allows identifying the expected structural collapse mechanism of the structure. The collapse mechanism is identified by the accumulation of several damaged structural elements in specific points of the structure. The methodology allows simulating the non-linear behaviour of masonry buildings by making use of an iterative procedure, where the structure is changed at each step according to the ...
Tópico(s): Civil and Structural Engineering Research
2005 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Structures
Carolina Almeida, Margarida Fonseca Cardoso, Mário Sousa, Paulo Viana, Ana Clara Gonçalves, Joaquina Silva, Alberto Barros,
There are no studies relating the apoptotic marker caspase-3 in human sperm to different degrees of abnormal sperm concentration, morphology and rapid progressive motility.Semen from 67 males with abnormal semen analyses (n = 61) and normozoospermia (n = 6) were used. In each case, sperm from the neat semen (semen fraction) and after gradient centrifugation and swim-up (swim-up fraction) were incubated with a caspase-3 profluorogenic substrate. Caspase-3 activity was quantified in 119 850 sperm, 67 488 ...
Tópico(s): Cell death mechanisms and regulation
2005 - Oxford University Press | Human Reproduction
A.Paula Cardoso, Mario Ernesto, Domingos Nicala, Estevão Mirione, Leonardo Chavane, Hipólito Nzwalo, Sergio Chikumba, Julie Cliff, A. Paulo Mabota, M. Rezaul Haque, Jane Bradbury,
AbstractThe maximum daily cassava flour intake of children may be calculated from determination of the total cyanide content of cassava flour and urinary thiocyanate levels of school children in samples collected at the same time and place. Four sites, two with and two without recent konzo cases, were chosen for study. In two sites with recent konzo cases, 84% and 93% of school children consumed cassava the previous day, and the calculated maximum daily consumption of cassava was over 700 g. In ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2004 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
Cláudia Marisa Vasconcelos Silvestre, Margarida G. M. S. Cardoso, Mário A. T. Figueiredo,
Abstract Research on the problem of feature selection for clustering continues to develop. This is a challenging task, mainly due to the absence of class labels to guide the search for relevant features. Categorical feature selection for clustering has rarely been addressed in the literature, with most of the proposed approaches having focused on numerical data. In this work, we propose an approach to simultaneously cluster categorical data and select a subset of relevant features. Our approach ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2014 - Wiley | Expert Systems
Cátia Gonçalves, Célia Alves, Teresa Nunes, Sónia Rocha, J. Cardoso, Mário Cerqueira, Casimiro Pio, Susana Marta Almeida, Risto Hillamo, Kimmo Teinilä,
The current study presents, for the first time, a long-term organic speciation of aerosol at the Cape Verde archipelago. The Cape Verde location, in the Atlantic Ocean, provides a unique laboratory to study background aerosol, long-range transport, aerosol mixing with mineral dust, biomass burning and sea surface components. In order to contribute to a better understanding of this environment, a one-year long measurement campaign was performed in Praia City, Santiago Island. PM10 concentrations ( ...
Tópico(s): Air Quality and Health Impacts
2014 - Elsevier BV | Atmospheric Environment
Produção Nacional
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André Thomazini, Eduardo de Sá Mendonça, Jacimar Luís de Souza, Irene Maria Cardoso, Mário Luís Garbin,
Soil organic matter is widely recognized as a strategy used to improve soil quality and reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere. A field study was carried out to investigate the effects of cover crops in organic no-till vegetables systems on changes in soil organic matter and CO2C emissions, in dry and rainy seasons. We hypothesized that CO2C emissions are higher in conventional till as compared with no-till, and that no-till increases soil C sink. The crop rotation comprised a 3-year cropping ...
Tópico(s): Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
2014 - Elsevier BV | Scientia Horticulturae
Casimiro Pio, João G. Cardoso, Mário Cerqueira, Ana Calvo, Teresa Nunes, Célia Alves, Danilo Custà dio, Susana Marta Almeida, Marina Almeida-Silva,
One year of, almost continuous, measurements of aerosol optical properties and chemical composition were performed at the outskirts of Praia, Santiago Island, Cape Verde, within the framework of CV-DUST (Atmospheric aerosol in Cape Verde region: seasonal evaluation of composition, sources and transport) research project, during 2011. This article reports the aerosol number and mass concentration measurements using a GRIMM Optical Aerosol Spectrometer that provides number size discrimination into ...
Tópico(s): Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
2014 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Environmental Science
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Renata Pugliese, Eduardo A. Fonseca, Gilda Porta, Vera B. Danesi, Teresa Guimarães, Adriana Porta, Irene Kazue Miura, Cristian B. V. Borges, Helry L. Cândido, Marcel R. Benavides, Flávia Heinz Feier, André L. Godoy, Rita A. Cardoso, Mário Kondo, Paulo Chapchap, João Seda Neto,
Ascites is the most common complication of cirrhosis and in adults it is associated with 50% mortality at 5 years if patients do not receive a liver transplant. The occurrence of hyponatremia in these patients has been associated with increased mortality on the waiting list. The importance of serum sodium levels and the presence of ascites in the pediatric setting remain to be clarified. A retrospective analysis of pediatric patients with cirrhosis on the transplant list was carried out between ...
Tópico(s): Electrolyte and hormonal disorders
2013 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Hepatology
Adelina Gama, Joana Elias, Ana J. Ribeiro, Nuno Alegria, Henk D. F. H. Schallig, Filipe Silva, Nuno Santarém, Luı́s Cardoso, Mário Cotovio,
The first case of cutaneous leishmaniosis in a horse from the north of Portugal, with a 1.5 cm in diameter ulcerated nodular lesion on the left face, is reported. The skin nodule was surgically excised and assessed by histopathology, including an immunohistochemistry method applied for the first time to equine tissues which clearly demonstrated leishmanial amastigote forms. Two serological determinations with the direct agglutination test performed 13 months apart showed seroconversion specific ...
Tópico(s): Trypanosoma species research and implications
2013 - Elsevier BV | Veterinary Parasitology
Produção Nacional
André Thomazini, Eduardo de Sá Mendonça, Irene Maria Cardoso, Mário Luís Garbin,
Land cover change and implementation of different management practices can greatly affect the global carbon (C) budget and soil quality. The objective of this study was to quantify the effect of different management practices under representative agroforestry and full sun coffee systems on (i) soil organic matter and CO2–C emissions in dry and rainy seasons and (ii) to determine which management system of coffee is the most effective for improving soil quality in the Atlantic Rainforest Biome. A plot ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2015 - Elsevier BV | Geoderma Regional
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Rafael D. Mesquita, Raquel J. Vionette-Amaral, Carl Lowenberger, Rolando Rivera‐Pomar, Fernando A. Monteiro, Patrick Minx, John Spieth, Antonio Bernardo Carvalho, Francisco Panzera, Daniel Lawson, André Torres, José M. C. Ribeiro, Marcos Henrique Ferreira Sorgine, Robert M. Waterhouse, Michael J. Montague, Fernando Abad‐Franch, Michele Alves‐Bezerra, Laurence Rodrigues do Amaral, Helena Araujo, Ricardo N. Araújo, L. Aravind, Geórgia C. Atella, Patrı́cia Azambuja, Mateus Berni, Paula Bittencourt‐Cunha, Glória Regina Cardoso Braz, Gustavo M. Calderón‐Fernández, Cláudia M. A. Carareto, Mikkel Christensen, Igor Costa, Samara Costa, Marílvia Dansa, Carlos R. O. Daumas-Filho, Iron F. De-Paula, Felipe A. Dias, George Dimopoulos, Scott Emrich, Natalia Esponda-Behrens, Patrı́cia Fampa, Rita D Fernández-Medina, Rodrigo Nunes da Fonseca, Marcio Fontenele, Catrina C. Fronick, Lucinda A. Fulton, Ana Caroline P. Gandara, Elói S. Garcia, Fernando Ariel Genta, Gloria I. Giraldo-Calderón, Bruno Gomes, Kátia C. Gondim, Adriana Granzotto, Alessandra A. Guarneri, Roderic Guigó, Myriam Harry, Daniel S. T. Hughes, Willy Jablonka, Emmanuelle Jacquin‐Joly, M. Patricia Juárez, Leonardo B. Koerich, Angela B. Lange, José Manuel Latorre-Estivalis, Andrés Lavore, Gena G. Lawrence, Cristiano Lazoski, Cláudio R. Lazzari, Raphael R.S. Lopes, Marcelo Gustavo Lorenzo, Magda Delorence Lugon, David Majerowicz, Paula L. Marcet, Marco Mariotti, Hatisaburo Masuda, Karyn Mégy, Ana Claudia A. Melo, Fanis Missirlis, Theo Mota, Fernando G. Noriega, Marcela Nouzová, Rodrigo Dutra Nunes, Raquel L. L. Oliveira, Gilbert O. Silveira, Sheila Ons, Ian Orchard, Lucía Pagola, Gabriela O. Paiva‐Silva, Agustina Pascual, Márcio G. Pavan, Nicolás Pedríni, Alexandre A. Peixoto, Marcos H. Pereira, Andrew Pike, Carla Polycarpo, Francisco Prosdocimi, Rodrigo Ribeiro‐Rodrigues, Hugh M. Robertson, Ana Paula Salerno, Didier Salmon, Didac Santesmasses, Renata Schama, Eloy S. Seabra-Junior, Lívia Silva-Cardoso, Mário A.C. Silva-Neto, Matheus de Souza Gomes, Marcos Sterkel, Mabel L. Taracena, Marta Tojo, Zhijian Tu, José M. C. Tubío, Raùl Ursic-Bedoya, Thiago M. Venâncio, Ana Beatriz Walter‐Nuno, Derek A. Wilson, Wesley C. Warren, Richard K. Wilson, Erwin Huebner, Ellen M. Dotson, Pedro L. Oliveira,
Rhodnius prolixus not only has served as a model organism for the study of insect physiology, but also is a major vector of Chagas disease, an illness that affects approximately seven million people worldwide. We sequenced the genome of R. prolixus, generated assembled sequences covering 95% of the genome (∼ 702 Mb), including 15,456 putative protein-coding genes, and completed comprehensive genomic analyses of this obligate blood-feeding insect. Although immune-deficiency (IMD)-mediated immune responses ...
Tópico(s): CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
2015 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Produção Nacional
Silvia Laura Costa Cardoso, Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho, Ana María de Albuquerque Vasconcellos,
O artigo debate fatores que facilitam e dificultam a implementação de um parque urbano. Discutem-se as facilidades e dificuldades inerentes à implementação de parques urbanos face aos múltiplos interesses que envolvem os atores sociais. Analisa-se o caso do Parque Ecológico do Município de Belém Gunnar Vingren (PEGV) e enfocam-se os conceitos de participação, governança urbana e gestão ambiental. Utiliza-se da teoria dos stakeholders para identificação dos atores sociais e interpretação de seus comportamentos ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2015 - Editora Universitária Champagnat | urbe Revista Brasileira de Gestão Urbana
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Aline Ignácio, Miriam R. Fernandes, Viviane Aparecida Arenas Rodrigues, Francisco Carlos Groppo, Ary Lopes Cardoso, Mário Júlio Ávila-Campos, Viviane Nakano,
Tópico(s): Diet and metabolism studies
2015 - Elsevier BV | Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Margarita Florencio, Jorge M. Lobo, Pedro Cardoso, Mário Almeida‐Neto, Paulo A. V. Borges,
Human-caused disturbances can lead to the extinction of indigenous (endemic and native) species, while facilitating and increasing the colonisation of exotic species; this increase can, in turn, promote the similarity of species compositions between sites if human-disturbed sites are consistently invaded by a regionally species-poor pool of exotic species. In this study, we analysed the extent to which epigean arthropod assemblages of four islands of the Azorean archipelago are characterised by nestedness ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Miriam R. Fernandes, Aline Ignácio, Viviane Aparecida Arenas Rodrigues, Franciso C. Groppo, Ary Lopes Cardoso, Mário Júlio Ávila-Campos, Viviane Nakano,
The administration of antimicrobial agents leads to an ecological imbalance of the host–microorganisms relationship, and it causes a rapid and significant reduction in the microbial diversity. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the impact of antibiotic therapy on intestinal microbiota of children between 3 and 12 years of age. The fecal samples were collected from hospitalized children (n = 31) and from healthy untreated children (n = 30). The presence of bacteria and their quantities were assessed ...
Tópico(s): Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
2016 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Microbial Drug Resistance
Ferrán Prados, M. Jorge Cardoso, Marios Yiannakas, Luke Hoy, Elisa Tebaldi, Hugh Kearney, Martina D. Liechti, David H. Miller, Olga Ciccarelli, Claudia A. M. Gandini Wheeler‐Kingshott, Sébastien Ourselin,
Abstract Axonal loss in the spinal cord is one of the main contributing factors to irreversible clinical disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). In vivo axonal loss can be assessed indirectly by estimating a reduction in the cervical cross-sectional area (CSA) of the spinal cord over time, which is indicative of spinal cord atrophy, and such a measure may be obtained by means of image segmentation using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this work, we propose a new fully automated spinal cord segmentation ...
Tópico(s): Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
A.Paula Cardoso, Mario Ernesto, Julie Cliff, Sylvia V. Egan, Jane Bradbury,
The cyanogenic potential (ppm HCN equivalents) of 80 samples of cassava flour (obtained from the Mujocojo and Terrene-A areas of Nampula Province and the markets of Nampula City in Mozambique) were determined using a new simple kit, based on the use of picric acid paper (Egan et al., 1997). The kit is compact, requires only a small amount of water and is very simple to use in the field. Comparison with the results of a semi-quantitative method shows a mean deviation between the two methods of 20% (SD ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
1998 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Cintia Cardoso, Mário Nestor Ullmann, Ildegardis Bertol,
O conhecimento da magnitude das chuvas intensas é de fundamental importância para a elaboração de projetos hidráulicos e gerenciamento dos recursos hídricos em engenharia, além do dimensionamento de estruturas para o controle de erosão hídrica na conservação do solo. No entanto, informações sobre a intensidade da chuva só podem ser obtidas diretamente de pluviogramas, os quais nem sempre estão disponíveis no local de estudo, sendo mais comum a presença de dados de pluviômetro (chuva de "um dia"). ...
Tópico(s): Soil Management and Crop Yield
1998 - Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo | Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
M. Margarida Cardoso, Mário João Barradas, K. H. Kroner, João G. Crespo,
The aim of this work is to investigate the driving forces involved in amino acid solubilization in cationic reversed micelles, and to determine in which way different parameters affect the reversed micellar structure and amino acid solubilization, in order to select the best conditions to optimize amino acid extraction. To this end, extraction equilibrium experiments were performed using different experimental conditions and three amino acids with different structures: aspartic acid – a hydrophilic ...
Tópico(s): Chemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions
1999 - Wiley | Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Sílvia V.F. Castro, Rafael M. Cardoso, Mário H.P. Santana, Eduardo M. Richter, Rodrigo A.A. Muñoz,
This work presents the use of a graphite sheet (graphite papers) as a new platform for the collection and sensing of explosive residues. This material offers a lightweight, highly conductive, flexible platform that can be cut in several ways, enabling for the collection of explosive residues at the place of interest, without any further sample preparation steps. As a proof-of-concept, the device was utilised for the collection and electrochemical sensing of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) residues. The ...
Tópico(s): Nuclear Physics and Applications
2019 - Elsevier BV | Talanta
Justin Stebbing, Venkatesh Krishnan, Stephanie de Bono, Silvia Ottaviani, Giacomo Casalini, Peter J. Richardson, Vanessa Monteil, Volker M. Lauschke, Alì Mirazimi, Sonia Youhanna, Yee‐Joo Tan, Fausto Baldanti, Antonella Sarasini, Jorge Alfonso Ross Terres, Brian J. Nickoloff, Richard E. Higgs, Guilherme Rocha, Nicole L Byers, Douglas Schlichting, Ajay Nirula, Anabela Cardoso, Mario Corbellino,
Baricitinib is an oral Janus kinase (JAK)1/JAK2 inhibitor approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that was independently predicted, using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, to be useful for COVID-19 infection via proposed anti-cytokine effects and as an inhibitor of host cell viral propagation. We evaluated the in vitro pharmacology of baricitinib across relevant leukocyte subpopulations coupled to its in vivo pharmacokinetics and showed it inhibited signaling of cytokines implicated ...
Tópico(s): Phagocytosis and Immune Regulation
2020 - Springer Nature | EMBO Molecular Medicine