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Pre-dimensioning and technical, economic and environmental feasibility analysis of sub-river outfalls in Macapá and Santana cities, Amapá State, Brazil
Coastal cities in the Amazon lack basic infrastructure to treat and finally discharge urban domestic sewage. Implementing sub-river outfalls and...
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A forged ‘chimera’ including the second specimen of the protostegid sea turtle Santanachelys gaffneyi and shell parts of the pleurodire Araripemys from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Group of Brazil
Fossils of Cretaceous sea turtles adapted to an open marine lifestyle remain rare finds to date. Furthermore, the relationships between extant sea...
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Dinosaur Tracks and Trackways from the Upper Jurassic Guará Formation, Paraná Basin, Brazil
The JurassicJurassic Guará FormationGuará formation (Paraná BasinParaná basin) was established in the early 2000's and since then dinosaur tracks and...
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Impact of Tagoro Volcano Formation on Benthic Habitats and Associated Biota: A Review
Since Tagoro volcano erupted in 2011, several impacts have been associated to the volcano formation process, some of which are still present to date....
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Enzymatic phosphatization of fish scales—a pathway for fish fossilization
Phosphatized fish fossils occur in various locations worldwide. Although these fossils have been intensively studied over the past decades they...
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A new Gondwanan mayfly family from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil (Ephemeroptera: Siphlonuroidea: Astraeopteridae fam. nov.)
The adult holotype of the fossil mayfly Astraeoptera cretacica Brandão et al. 2021 from the Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil, is reviewed and...
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The vicariant role of Caribbean formation in driving speciation in American loliginid squids: the case of Doryteuthis pealeii (Lesueur 1821)
Speciation processes in the marine environment are often directly associated with vicariant events. In the case of loliginid squids (Cephalopoda:...
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Probabilistic human health risk assessment and contributions to ozone and SOA formation potentials associated with BTEX and formaldehyde emissions in a tropical city (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)
The BTEX compounds (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes) and formaldehyde (FA) have harmful impacts on human health and are also important...
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Estimating the expression levels of genes controlling biofilm formation and evaluating the effects of different conditions on biofilm formation and secreted aspartic proteinase activity in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a comparative study
BackgroundCharacterization of yeast virulence genes is an important tool for identifying the molecular pathways involved in switching yeast...
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D-limonene inhibits peritoneal adhesion formation in rats via anti-inflammatory, anti-angiogenic, and antioxidative effects
The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of d -limonene on decreasing post-operative adhesion in rats and to understand the mechanisms...
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Effect of Preliminary Heat Treatment on the Formation of Structure and Residual Stresses in the AMg6 Alloy at Laser Shock Peening Without Coating
We consider the effect of laser shock peening without coating (LSPwC) on the structure and stress state of the AMg6 Aluminum alloy with a thickness...
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Intraspecific trophic variation in brown booby (Sula leucogaster) from the Southwestern Atlantic
Sexual size dimorphism in seabirds may reduce intraspecific food competition by exploiting different trophic niches by each sex. We tested the...
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Impact of gamma irradiation pretreatment on biochemical and molecular responses of potato growing under salt stress
BackgroundPrevious literatures revealed that gamma rays have an increasing effect on salt tolerance in different plants. In vitro experiment was...
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New perspectives for mechanisms, ingredients, and their preparation for promoting the formation of beneficial bacterial biofilm
Biofilm is a complex community of microorganisms with a more stable form compared to planktonic bacteria. Probiotic strains in biofilms have been...
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Performance and repeatability in fruit traits of Physalis angulata L. accessions
The Physalis angulata L. species, better known in Brazil as camapu, is mostly found in the northern regions of the country. It is used for human...
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Deeply Personal Is Deeply Political: New Voices in Women’s Documentary Practice in Indian Subcontinent
This chapter will try to draw the antecedents and contours of a probable third generation of women documentary practitioners in Indian subcontinent...
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Toward a stellar population catalog in the Kilo Degree Survey: The impact of stellar recipes on stellar masses and star formation rates
The Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) is currently the only sky survey providing optical ( ugri ) plus near-infrared (NIR, ZYHJK S ) seeing matched photometry...
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Chemical, thermal, morphological, and rheological characterization of mucilage from different cactus pears cultivars (Opuntia spp.)
The mucilage from the cladodes of cactus pear ( Opuntia spp.) is a hydrocolloid complex of carbohydrates with highly branched structures and high...
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Microplastic sources, formation, toxicity and remediation: a review
Microplastic pollution is becoming a major issue for human health due to the recent discovery of microplastics in most ecosystems. Here, we review...
