Rodrigo Amato Moreira

Claudia Cressa

Relationships of body mass and head capsule width were developed for Thraulodes sp., Haplohyphes sp. (Ephemeroptera), Leptonema sp., Phylloicus sp. Nectopsyche sp. (Trichoptera), and Anacroneuria sp. (Plecoptera). The organisms were collected with a Surber net (0.1296 m² and 0.286 mm mesh size) on the Orituco river, Venezuela. The number of specimens used in the analysis for the species studied, was different (from 84 to 103 specimens). Regression analysis indicated that all relationships were b...

J. Zábori, and R. Krejci, and J. Ström, and P. Vaattovaara, and A. M. L. Ekman, and M. E. Salter, and E. M. Mårtensson, and E. D. Nilsson

Primary marine aerosols (PMAs) are an important source of cloud condensation nuclei, and one of the key elements of the remote marine radiative budget. Changes occurring in the rapidly warming Arctic, most importantly the decreasing sea ice extent, will alter PMA production and hence the Arctic climate through a set of feedback processes. In light of this, laboratory experiments with Arctic Ocean water during both Arctic winter and summer were conducted and focused on PMA emissions as a f...

P. S. Giller, and P. S. Giller, and J. O’Halloran, and J. O’Halloran

Research on the interaction between plantation forestry and aquatic environments is essential to develop environmentally compatible and sustainable management further. Given, in Ireland, the generally low levels of atmospheric pollution, its geology and maritime climate, and the unique fauna and flora due to its island history, such studies are important not only in the regional context, but also internationally, as they provide an opportunity to examine the effect of forestry and fore...

Daniela Hirsch, and Delton José Pereira Júnior, and Priscila Vieira Rosa Logato, and Roberta Hilsdorf Piccoli, and Henrique César Pereira Figueiredo

Com o objetivo de se verificar a diversidade de espécies de Aeromonas móveis e seu perfil de susceptibilidade a antimicrobianos em pisciculturas comerciais, foram selecionadas oito tilapiculturas localizadas na região do Alto Rio Grande, Minas Gerais. De cada propriedade foram coletadas três amostras de peixes em estádio de pré-abate (vivos e saudáveis), uma amostra de água do tanque e uma amostra da água de abastecimento do sistema. De cada peixe foram coletadas amostras de lavado superficial e...

C. Heinze, and M. Gehlen, and T. Tschumi, and F. Joos

The link between the atmospheric CO₂ level and the ventilation state of the deep ocean is an important building block of the key hypotheses put forth to explain glacial-interglacial CO₂ fluctuations. In this study, we systematically examine the sensitivity of atmospheric CO₂ and its carbon isotope composition to changes in deep ocean ventilation, the ocean carbon pumps, and sediment formation in a global 3-D ocean-sediment carbon cycle model. Our results provide ...

Syarifuddin R. Gomang

In recent years Indonesia has been experiencing extensive religious and ethnic conflict. Until recently such conflict has been limited in eastern Indonesia by ties between communities that are modelled on family relationships. Although these institutions have broken down recently in the Moluccas, they are still effective on the islands of Pantar and Alor, in Nusa Tenggara Timur, in maintaining peace between Muslims and Christians.

H. Goosse, and E. Driesschaert, and T. Fichefet, and M.-F. Loutre

The summer sea ice extent strongly decreased in the Arctic over the last decades. This decline is very likely to continue in the future but uncertainty of projections is very large. An ensemble of experiments with the climate model LOVECLIM using 5 different parameter sets has been performed to show that summer sea ice changes during the early Holocene (8 kyr BP) and the 21st century are strongly linked, allowing for the reduction of this uncertainty. Using the limited number of records presentl...

Małgorzata Stramska, and Agata Zuzewicz

Treatment of light propagation in the water column requires further improvements in the biogeochemical models of the Baltic Sea. Regional models of the Baltic Sea usually assume a simple exponential vertical distribution of the total downward irradiance in the visible spectral range (PAR, photosynthetically available radiation). This is in spite of the fact that modelling studies for open ocean regions have stressed the importance of more detailed optical parameterization for the quality predict...

Kochová P., and Klepáček J., and Hlubocký J., and Mokráček A., and Špaténka J., and Nováček V.

The effects of cryopreservation on the biological tissue mechanics are still largely unknown. Generalized Maxwell model was applied to characterize quantitatively the viscoelastic behavior of sheep mitral heart valve tissue. Three different groups of specimens are supposed to be tested: fresh tissue specimens (control group), cryopreserved allografts from tissue bank and allografts already used as tissue replacements taken from the animals approximately one year after the surgery. Specific aim o...

Frankova S, and Jirsa M, and Merta D, and Neroldova M, and Urbanek P, and Senkerikova R, and Spicak J, and Sperl J

Sona Frankova,1 Milan Jirsa,2 Dusan Merta,3 Magdalena Neroldova,2 Petr Urbanek,4 Renata Senkerikova,1 Julius Spicak,1 Jan Sperl1 1Department of Hepatogastroenterology, 2Laboratory of Experimental Hepatology, 3Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 4Department of Internal Medicine, Central Military Hospital, First Medical School, Prague, Czech Republic Background and aims: Patients with advanced liver fibrosis owing to c...

Anderson Coldebella, and Silvio César Sampaio, and Dilcemara Zenatti, and Aldi Feiden, and Simone Damasceno Gomes, and André Luis Gentelini

The objective of this research was to evaluate the production of biomass of the aquatic macrophytes water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) and egeria (Egeria densa) in three hydraulic detention times in a organic pisciculture effluent treatment system. The system was composed for 18 experimental tanks of 2.00 x 1.00 x 0.65m length, width and depth respectively, coated with polypropylene canvas. An entirely randomized 2 macrophytes x 3 hydraulic detention times (HDT) and 3 repetitions. The HDT use...

Khryshchuk, Olga

BACKGROUND: Patients with primary brain tumors (PBT) often have acute depression, anxiety and complications of social adaptation. The goal of this study was to examine difficulties and information needs of patients with PBT and their caregivers during diagnostic and treatment period. METHODS: Thirteen in-depth interviews were conducted with convenience sample of nine patients and four caregivers who were under treatment in the Kyiv “Feofaniya” clinic in October 2011 – April 2012. Convenience str...

Anderson Brunetti Reis, and Débora de Mello Gonçales Sant'Ana, and Jorge Fernandes de Azevedo, and Luiz Sérgio Merlini, and Eduardo José de Almeida Araújo

Objetivou-se analisar o comportamento do epitélio branquial de tilápias, cultivadas em tanques posicionados em diferentes altitudes e interconectados por tubos de PVC. Filamentos branquiais de quatro espécimes de quatro tanques (T1, T2, T3 e T4) interconectados seqüencialmente foram submetidos à rotina histológica, para obtenção de cortes de 5µm de espessura, os quais foram corados com Hematoxilina-Eosina, ou submetidos à técnica histoquímica para glicoconjugados: PAS + solução de diástase ou Al...

Osana Prado Melo, and Renata Maria Arruda Ramos, and Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto

The objectives of this work were to reporte the helminths of the marine tucuxi, Sotalia fluviatilis (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in northern Rio de Janeiro State; and to check if the infestation rate varied with the host characteristics (sex and maturity) and year seasons. From 1989 to 2002, 80 marine tucuxis that were by-caught in fisheries were examined and four parasites were recorded: Braunina cordiformis, Anisakis typica, Halocercus brasiliensis and Nasitrema sp. The parasitism in the marine tucu...

Jislaine Cristina da Silva, and Rosilene Luciana Delariva, and Karine Orlandi Bonato

This study addressed the feeding ecology of fish fauna from a first-order stream located in a rural area. The purposes were to evaluate the influence of interspecific, seasonal and spatial factors on the diet, examine the dietary overlap, and determine the predominant food sources. Sampling was conducted in December 2007, September 2008, and March 2009, in three 50-m stretches of Itiz stream (upstream, intermediate, and downstream), through electrofishing. A total of 1,102 stomach contents were ...

M. Kusakabe, and S. Oikawa, and H. Takata, and J. Misonoo

Spatiotemporal distributions of anthropogenic radionuclides in marine surface sediments off Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ibaraki Prefectures were analyzed on the basis of data collected during the monitoring program launched by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology in 2011 right after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident began. Concentrations of ¹³⁷Cs in the surface sediments varied spatially by two orders of magnitude, from 1.7 to 580 Bq kg-dry<s...

Chini Doraswamy Dwarakanath, and Bheemavarapu Divya, and Gottumukkala Naga Venkata Satya Sruthima, and Gautami Subadra Penmetsa

Background: Gingival recession is a common condition and is more prevalent in smokers. It is widely believed that root coverage procedures in smokers result in less desirable outcome compared to nonsmokers', and there are few controlled studies in literature to support this finding. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the outcome of root coverage with sub-epithelial connective tissue graft (SCTG) in nonsmokers and smokers. Materials and Methods: A sample of twenty su...

G S Tomar

Adalatkhah H, and Pourfarzi F, and Sadeghi-Bazargani H

Hassan Adalatkhah1, Farhad Pourfarzi2, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani31Department of Dermatology, 2Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil; 3Statistics and Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IranBackground: The use of oral flutamide is rarely investigated in acne therapy. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of oral flutamide with that of a cyproterone-estrad...

Enrique E. Rozas, and Rodolpho M. Albano, and Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu, and Werner E.G. Müller, and Heinz-C. Schröder, and Márcio R. Custódio

Despite the large number of reports describing sponge-microbe associations, limited knowledge is available about associated fungi and their relationships with the hosts. In this work, specific fungal strains were obtained directly from in vitro sponge cell cultures (primmorphs) and single sponge cells (cytospins) and compared with those obtained from whole tissue preparations. A total of 27 fungal strains were isolated from the marine sponges Hymeniacidon heliophila and Haliclona melana. Fifteen...

Padanillay C. Prabu

Relative abundance, diet and breeding season overlap in the reproduction of exotic Tilapia zillii and native Oreochromis niloticus in Lake Zwai were studied from samples collected over 12 months. Younger fish of both species collected were also evaluated for food composition.Food items from stomachs of both species were collected and analysed using the frequency of occurrence method. In terms of number, T. zillii dominated O. niloticus at the sampling sites. In both species, macrophytes, detritu...

Vicente Gomes, and Anna Emília A. de M Vazzoler, and Van Ngan Phan

Estudou-se o cariótipo de Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823), peixe teleósteo da família Sciaenidae, coletado, na região estuarino-lagunar de Cananéia, SP, Brasil. Foram realizadas preparações de cromossomos mitóticos e meióticos e ensaios de bandamento C e G. O número diplóide encontrado para a espécie foi de 2n = 48 cromossomos tipo t (acrocêntricos), cujos tamanhos variaram entre 3,38 µm e 1,49 µm. O 1º par de homólogos apresenta uma constricção secundária na região proximal ao centrôme...

A. J. Palmer, and C. W. Fairall, and R. A. Kropfli

Ocean surface, grazing-angle radar backscatter data from two separate experiments, one of which provided coincident time series of measured surface winds, were found to exhibit signatures of deterministic chaos. Evidence is presented that the lowest dimensional underlying dynamical system responsible for the radar backscatter chaos is that which governs the surface wind turbulence. Block-averaging time was found to be an important parameter for determining the degree of determinism in the data a...

Ali Mehmanparast, and Oyewole Adedipe, and Feargal Brennan, and Amir Chahardehi

Residual stresses are often inevitably introduced into the material during the fabrication processes, such as welding, and are known to have significant effects on the subsequent fatigue crack growth behavior of welded structures. In this paper, the importance of welding sequence on residual stress distribution in engineering components has been reviewed. In addition, the findings available in the literature have been used to provide an accurate interpretation of the fatigue crack growth dat...

Renata Domingos-Nunes, and Charrid Resgalla Jr

Very few studies have been carried out to exclusively investigate the zooplankton community of Santa Catarina State continental shelf, despite the economic and ecological importance of the area. This coastal region of southern Brazil presents highly relevant oceanographic processes, such as the strong influence of continental inputs, resurgence in the Cabo de Santa Marta Grande and River Plata plume water to the south. Two sampling cruises were carried out, in December 2005 and May 2006, in orde...

R. von Glasow

The reaction of the hydroxyl radical with chloride on the surface of sea salt aerosol producing gas phase Cl₂ and particulate OH^&minus; and its implications for the chemistry of the marine boundary layer under coastal, remote, and very remote conditions have been investigated with a numerical model. This reaction had been suggested by Laskin et al. (2003) to play a major role in the sulfur cycle in the marine boundary layer by increasing the sulfate production in sea salt ...

J. Para, and P. G. Coble, and B. Charrière, and M. Tedetti, and C. Fontana, and R. Sempéré

Seawater samples were collected monthly in surface waters (2 and 5 m depths) of the Bay of Marseilles (northwestern Mediterranean Sea; 5°17'30" E, 43°14'30" N) during one year from November 2007 to December 2008 and studied for total organic carbon (TOC) as well as chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) optical properties (absorbance and fluorescence). The annual mean value of surface CDOM absorption coefficient at 350 nm [<i>a</i>_CDOM(350)] was very low (0.10 ± 0.02 m<sup>−1</s...

Bill Maurer

Argues that the connection between political fragmentation and offshore financial services illustrate an increasingly common vision of the political and economic future among leaders of the British Caribbean who seek to carve out a place for their countries and territories in the new global economy. Their success is based on standing outside regional federations and providing services to parties wishing to conduct business between or around economic blocs.

E. E. Popova, and A. C. Coward, and G. A. Nurser, and B. de Cuevas, and T. R. Anderson

The use of 6 h, daily, weekly and monthly atmospheric forcing resulted in dramatically different predictions of plankton productivity in a global 3-D coupled physical-biogeochemical model. <br><br> Resolving the diurnal cycle of atmospheric variability by use of 6 h forcing, and hence also diurnal variability in UML depth, produced the largest difference, reducing predicted global primary and new production by 25% and 10% respectively relative to that predicted with daily and weekly forcing. ...

Tuuli Kauer, and Helgi Arst, and Lea Tuvikene

The daily variations in the underwater irradiance spectra at different depths were determined using a combination of in situ dataand model calculations. The spectra of the attenuation depth (relevant in optical remote sensing) were derived from thesedata. The results are presented for four Estonian lakes (Koork&uuml;la Valgj&auml;rv, V&#245;rtsj&auml;rv, Harku, and Peipsi) and for coastalwaters of the Baltic Sea (P&auml;rnu Bay, Gulf of Riga).

Vera Lúcia Viana do Nascimento, and Victória Maura Silva Bermúdez, and André Luis Lima de Oliveira, and Maurício Nunes Kleinberg, and Rayane de Tasso Moreira Ribeiro, and Rosa Ferreira Araujo de Abreu, and José Osvaldo Beserra Carioca

The evaluation of filtration methods on the yield and oleochemicals characteristics on the crude fish oil from the soapstock of marine fish for purposes of nutrition has been conducted in this work. The analytical properties of the crude and the neutralized oil with three excesses of sodium hydroxide (NaOH, 20%, 40% and 60%) were carried out on two different ways with organza and the “glass wool”. The neutralization of the oil brought about a notable improvement in the analytical properties of t...

Davide Zanchi, and Arthur Brody, and Stefan Borgwardt, and Sven HALLER

IntroductionRecent neuroimaging research suggests sex-related brain differences in smoking addiction. In the present pilot study, we assessed gender-related differences in brain activation in response to cigarette-related video cues, investigating non-smokers, smokers and ex-smokers. MethodsFirst, we compared 29 females (28.6±5.3) versus 23 males (31.5±6.4) regardless of current smoking status to assess global gender-related effects. Second, we performed a post-hoc analysis of non-smokers (9 F, ...

K. Misumi, and K. Lindsay, and J. K. Moore, and S. C. Doney, and F. O. Bryan, and D. Tsumune, and Y. Yoshida

We investigated the simulated iron budget in ocean surface waters in the 1990s and 2090s using the Community Earth System Model version 1 and the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 future CO₂ emission scenario. We assumed that exogenous iron inputs did not change during the whole simulation period; thus, iron budget changes were attributed solely to changes in ocean circulation and mixing in response to projected global warming, and the resulting impacts on marine biogeochemistr...

Javier Pinochet, and Jean-Charles Leclerc, and Antonio Brante, and Claire Daguin-Thiébaut, and Christian Díaz, and Florence Tellier, and Frédérique Viard

Non-native ascidians are important members of the fouling community associated with artificial substrata and man-made structures. Being efficient fouling species, they are easily spread by human-mediated transports (e.g., with aquaculture trade and maritime transports). This is exemplified by the ascidian Asterocarpa humilis which displays a wide distribution in the Southern Hemisphere and has been recently reported in the Northern Hemisphere (NW Europe). In continental Chile, its first report d...

Jennifer Wild, and Emma Warnock-Parkes, and Nick Grey, and Richard Stott, and Milan Wiedemann, and Lauren Canvin, and Harriet Rankin, and Emma Shepherd, and Ava Forkert, and David M. Clark, and Anke Ehlers

Background: Randomised controlled trials have established that face-to-face cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (CT-PTSD) based on Ehlers and Clark's cognitive model of PTSD is highly effective and feasible with low rates of dropout. Access to evidence-based psychological treatments for PTSD is insufficient. Several studies have shown that therapist-assisted treatment delivery over the Internet is a promising way of improving access to cognitive behavioural therapy interventions....

V. Zeitlin

Resonant excitation of coastal Kelvin waves by free inertia–gravity waves impinging on the coast is studied in the framework of the simplest baroclinic model: two-layer rotating shallow water with an idealized straight coast. It is shown that, with respect to the previous results obtained with the one-layer model, new resonances leading to a possible excitation of Kelvin waves appear. The most interesting ones, described in the paper, are resonances of a baroclinic inertia–gravity wave with eith...

Rafael eBargiela, and Christoph eGertler, and Mirko eMagagnini, and Francesca eMapelli, and Jianwei eChen, and Daniele eDaffonchio, and Daniele eDaffonchio, and Peter eGolyshin, and Manuel eFerrer

Biostimulation with different nitrogen sources is often regarded as a strategy of choice in combating oil spills in marine environments. Such environments are typically depleted in nitrogen, therefore limiting the balanced microbial utilization of carbon-rich petroleum constituents. It is fundamental, yet only scarcely accounted for, to analyse the catabolic consequences of application of biostimulants. Here, we examined such alterations in enrichment microcosms using sediments from chronically ...

María V. López van Oosterom, and Carolina S. Ocón, and Florencia Brancolini, and Miriam E. Maroñas, and Eduardo D. Sendra, and Alberto Rodrigues Capítulo

The diet and trophic relationships between the macroinvertebrates Phyllogomphoides joaquini Rodrigues Capítulo, 1992 and Coenagrionidae (Odonata), Chironomidae (Diptera), Diplodon delodontus (Lamarck, 1919) (Bivalvia: Hyriidae), and Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822) (Gastropoda: Ampulariidae) and the fishes Pimelodella laticeps Eigenmann, 1917 (Heptapteridae) and Bryconamericus iheringii (Boulenger, 1887) (Characidae) in a temperate lowland lotic system in Argentina were assessed on the basis...

C.M. Kerchove, and R.P. Markus, and J.C. Freitas, and L.V. Costa-Lotufo

Trimethylsulfonium, a compound present in the midgut gland of the sea hare Aplysia brasiliana, negatively modulates vagal response, indicating a probable ability to inhibit cholinergic responses. In the present study, the pharmacological profile of trimethylsulfonium was characterized on muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. In rat jejunum the contractile response induced by trimethylsulfonium (pD2 = 2.46 ± 0.12 and maximal response = 2.14 ± 0.32 g) was not antagonized competitively ...

Denise Oliveira, and Helena Hachu, and Sergio Tufik, and Lia Bittencourt

Wasiu L Adeyemo, and Olanrewaju A Taiwo, and Olabisi H Oderinu, and Moshood F Adeyemi, and Akinola L Ladeinde, and Mobolanle O Ogunlewe

Aim: The study was designed to explore the changes in oral health-related quality of life (QoL) in the immediate postoperative period following routine (non-surgical) dental extraction. Setting and Design: A prospective study carried out at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery clinic of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: Subjects attending who required non-surgical removal of one or two teeth under local anesthesia were included in the study. A baseline QoL que...

Luziana Souza Silva, and Péricles da Silva Godinho, and Lúcia Helena Gütschow Bento, and Janice Rezende Vieira Peixoto, and Benedito Cortês Lopes, and Tânia Tarabini Castellani

Mullet fishing takes place on Santa Catarina Island, Florianópolis, Brazil in May and June every year. The local fishermen use the frontal dunes in order to spot the shoals out at sea. This study evaluates characteristics of areas of the frontal dunes and the modifications occurring in sections used and unused by the “observers” at Pântano do Sul beach. The locations for sighting, named “Cabrito” and “Areias”, and two control areas were monitored. In each area, at the frontal dune, six permanent...

C. Stolle, and K. Nagel, and M. Labrenz, and K. Jürgens

The sea-surface microlayer (SML) is located within the boundary between the atmosphere and hydrosphere. The high spatial and temporal variability of the SML's properties, however, have hindered a clear understanding of interactions between biotic and abiotic parameters at or across the air-water interface. Among the factors changing the physical and chemical environment of the SML, wind speed is an important one. In order to examine the temporal effects of minimized wind influence, SML samples w...

Jing XIA, and Tao SUN, and Yue-an CAO, and Xin LI, and Xiao-bin YANG, and Qi ZHU

Objective　To investigate the morbidity of functional gastrointestinal disorder (FIGD) and the effect of intervention treatment in personnel undertaking prolonged sea voyage. Methods　Based on the Rome Ⅲ classification and diagnostic criteria of FGID, a questionnaire survey was conducted before and after long ocean voyage using the cluster sampling method. The types of FGID investigated in this study included functional dyspepsia (epigastric pain syndrome and postprandial distress syndrome), irrit...

Norma Segatti Hahn, and Valdirene Esgarbosa Loureiro-Crippa

Nesse estudo foram avaliados aspectos da dieta e morfologia trófica de duas espécies simpátricas, uma de Cheirodontinae e uma de Aphyocharacinae, associadas a macrofitas aquáticas, em nove lagoas isoladas da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná, Brasil, no ano de 2001. A análise da dieta mostrou que Aphyocharax anisitsi consumiupredominantemente microcrustáceos e Serrapinnus notomelas predominantemente algas. A morfologia do trato alimentar, incluindo boca, dentes, rastros branquiais e estôm...

J. Saynisch, and M. Wenzel, and J. Schröter

The oceanic contribution to Earth rotation anomalies can be manifold. Possible causes are a change of total ocean mass, changes in current speed or location and changes in mass distribution. To derive the governing physical mechanisms of oceanic Earth rotation excitation we assimilate Earth rotation observations with a global circulation ocean model. Before assimilation, observations of length of day and polar motion were transformed into estimates of ocean angular momentum. By using the adjoint...

A. Spolaor, and P. Vallelonga, and J. M. C. Plane, and N. Kehrwald, and J. Gabrieli, and C. Varin, and C. Turetta, and G. Cozzi, and R. Kumar, and C. Boutron, and C. Barbante

Sea ice is an integral part of the earth's climate system because it affects planetary albedo, sea-surface salinity, and the atmosphere–ocean exchange of reactive gases and aerosols. Bromine and iodine chemistry is active at polar sea ice margins with the occurrence of bromine explosions and the biological production of organoiodine from sea ice algae. Satellite measurements demonstrate that concentrations of bromine oxide (BrO) and iodine oxide (IO) decrease over sea ice toward the Antarctic in...

Natália Maramarque Nespolo, and Thaís Mioto Martineli, and Oswaldo Durival Rossi Jr.

The present paper evaluated the microbiology of salmon by quantifying mesophilic heterotrophic microorganisms, total and thermotolerant coliforms, and the presence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella sp., Escherichia coli and Aeromonas sp. in the meat. This study can provide technical support for the suggestion of a new regulation of a Brazilian legislation through specific microbiological standards concerning the consumption of raw fish. A number of 31 (16 cooled and 1...

Rodrigo R. Freitas, and Luis Vinatea, and Sérgio A. Netto

This study was elaborated to identify and describe the main links of the sea shrimp productive chain in the municipal district of Laguna, historically known as the main sea shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) production area in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The study, held from April to July 2005, previously identified the local productive process through observation, interviews and bibliographical research. Afterwards, specific questionnaires were elaborated for each of the several segments co...