MARILISA M. GUERREIRO, and MARIA LUIZA G. MANREZA, and ANNA ELISA SCOTONI, and E.A. SILVA, and CARLOS A. M. GUERREIRO, and E.A.P. SOUZA, and V.B. FERREIRA, and UMBERTINA C. REED, and ARON DIAMENT, and R. TREFIGLIO, and H.C. CHIU, and J. BACALTCHUK

We conducted an open, add-on study with topiramate (TPM) as adjunctive therapy in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), to assess the long-term efficacy and safety and to evaluate quality of life (QL) measurements in the chronic use of TPM. We studied 19 patients (11 male; age ranging from 4 to 14 years) with uncontrolled seizures receiving 2-3 anti-epileptic drugs. Patients were followed up to 36 months of treatment. A questionnaire was used to query parents about QL. Seven patients completed the stud...

Gustavo Ruschel Lopes, and Carlos Henrique Araujo de Miranda Gomes, and Cláudio Rudolfo Tureck, and Claudio Manuel Rodrigues de Melo

The objective of this work was to evaluate the growth of the mangrove oyster Crassostrea gasar cultured in marine and estuarine environments. Oysters were cultured for 11 months in a longline system in two study sites - São Francisco do Sul and Florianópolis -, in the state of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil. Water chlorophyll-α concentration, temperature, and salinity were measured weekly. The oysters were measured monthly (shell size and weight gain) to assess growth. At the end of the culture...

Gobbi G, and Comai S, and Debonnel G

Gabriella Gobbi,1,2 Stefano Comai,1 Guy Debonnel1,2,† 1Neurobiological Psychiatric Unit, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University and McGill University Health Center, 2Institut Philippe Pinel, Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada †Guy Debonnel passed away on November 4, 2006 Objective: Patients suffering from psychosis are more likely than the general population to commit aggressive acts, but the therapeutics of aggressiv...

J. F. Ghiglione, and C. Palacios, and J. C. Marty, and G. Mével, and C. Labrune, and P. Conan, and M. Pujo-Pay, and N. Garcia, and M. Goutx

Bacterioplankton plays a central role in energy and matter fluxes in the sea, yet the factors that constrain its variation in marine systems are still poorly understood. Here we use the explanatory power of direct multivariate gradient analysis to evaluate the driving forces exerted by environmental parameters on bacterial community distribution in the water column. We gathered and analysed data from a one month sampling period from the surface to 1000 m depth at the JGOFS-DYFAMED station (NW Me...

A. Uzairu, and G.F.S. Harrison, and M. L. Balarabe, and J.C. Nnaji

The concentrations of six trace metals (Pb, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni and Cd) in fish and sediment samples from Kubanni River located in Zaria, Northern Nigeria, were investigated. The river receives agricultural runoff and municipal wastewaters, and is utilized for drinking, fishing and irrigation. Fractionation of trace metals in the river sediments, the risk to water column contamination and the levels of the six trace metals in <i>Clarias gariepinus</i> and <i>Oreachromis niloticus</i> samples were est...

Mara Maria Izar de Maio Godoi, and Vera Engracia, and Maria de Los Angeles Perez Lizama, and Ricardo Massato Takemoto

In this study we investigated the relationship between tambaqui fish (Colossoma macropomumi Cuvier 1818) and parasites in two fish farms (L204S and L180N) in the state of Rondônia, Brazil, during a 1-year period. The objective of the study was to describe the relationships between parasites, hosts and the environment. From the 80 fish specimens collected, 100% were parasitized by at least one parasite species. Seven ectoparasites species were recorded, six of the class Monogenea: Anacanthorus sp...

Paulo Antônio de Souza Mourão, and Márjory Lima Holanda, and José Ariévilo Gurgel Rodrigues, and Norma Maria Barros Benevides, and Rodrigo César das Neves Amorim

Alternative sources of anticoagulants have arisen as a result of the increasing demand for safer anticoagulant clinical therapy, and the sulfated polysaccharides of seaweeds have gained attention in biomedicine. In this study, crude sulfated polysaccharide fractions (denominated Hf1, Hf2 and Hf3) were obtained from the red marine alga <em>Halymenia floresia</em> and the anticoagulant properties of a soluble crude polysaccharide fraction (Hf2s) were assayed. The three differential extractions yie...

Al-Dughmi M, and Al-Sharman A, and Stevens S, and Siengsukon CF

Mayis Al-Dughmi,1 Alham Al-Sharman,2 Suzanne Stevens,3 Catherine F Siengsukon1 1Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA; 2Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan; 3Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA Abstract: Changes in sleep characteristics in individuals with chronic stroke are not well described, particularly co...

Daniel Barroso de Alencar, and Kelma Maria dos Santos Pires-Cavalcante, and Márcia Barbosa de Sousa, and Francisco Arnaldo Viana, and Silvana Saker-Sampaio

Muitas aminas são comumente encontradas em alimentos de origem vegetal e animal, porém apenas um pequeno número é de interesse por produzirem reações adversas se ingeridas e absorvidas no organismo humano. Dentre elas, a histamina e a tiramina podem desencadear sintomas de intoxicação. As algas marinhas são amplamente consumidas pelos povos orientais, e, no Ocidente, seu consumo encontra-se em expansão. O Brasil não tem esta tradição, mas a diversidade de espécies encontradas no litoral brasilei...

Devesa J, and Alonso B, and Casteleiro N, and Couto P, and Casta&amp;ntilde;&amp;oacute;n B, and Zas E, and Reimunde P

Jes&amp;uacute;s Devesa1,2, Bego&amp;ntilde;a Alonso1, Nerea Casteleiro1, Paula Couto1, Beatriz Casta&amp;ntilde;&amp;oacute;n1, Eva Zas1, Pedro Reimunde1,21Medical Center &amp;ldquo;Proyecto Foltra&amp;rdquo;, Cacheiras (Teo), A Coru&amp;ntilde;a, Spain; 2Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Santiago de Compostela, SpainAbstract: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the main cause of physical disability in childhood and is an important health issue that has a strong socioeconomic impac...

Keith Jones

Background and context: A key role of the district’s Nursing Midwifery Practice and Workforce Unit is to build capability in the nursing and midwifery workforce. In this paper I reflect on the experience of my team following attendance at a two-day Coaching for Performance workshop and the impact this had on developing coaching skills for nurse managers and nurse unit managers in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. Aims: To highlight how engaging in critical reflection enabled the unit...

R. Ávila, and C.M.C. Bottino, and I.A.M. Carvalho, and C.B. Santos, and C. Seral, and E.C. Miotto

Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) gradually lose their cognitive competence, particularly memory, and the ability to perform daily life tasks. Neuropsychological rehabilitation is used to improve cognitive functions by facilitating memory performance through the use of external aids and internal strategies. The effect of neuropsychological rehabilitation through memory training - motor movements, verbal association, and categorization - and activities of daily living (ADL) training was test...

A. Kerkweg, and P. Jöckel, and N. Warwick, and S. Gebhardt, and C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, and J. Lelieveld

In this second part of a series of articles dedicated to a detailed analysis of bromine chemistry in the atmosphere we address one (out of two) dominant natural sources of reactive bromine. The two main source categories are the release of bromine from sea salt and the decomposition of bromocarbons by photolysis and reaction with OH. Here, we focus on C₁-bromocarbons. We show that the atmospheric chemistry general circulation model ECHAM5/MESSy realistically simulates their emission, ...

Arturo Mora-Olivo, and José Luis Villaseñor, and Isolda Luna-Vega, and Juan J. Morrone

Se analizaron los patrones de riqueza y distribución de las plantas vasculares acuáticas estrictas en el estado de Tamaulipas, México. Se registraron 93 especies, 62 de las cuales son típicas de ambientes lénticos. La subcuenca Río Tamesí fue la que registró el mayor número de especies (68, 73.1%). No se registraron especies endémicas del estado, aunque existen 2 especies restringidas al territorio mexicano (Lobelia purpusii y Oserya coulteriana). Se consideran como raras 29 especies (31.2%) por...

Sadako Yadoya Miyao, and Linda Nishihara, and Claudio Cícero Sarti

<abstract language="eng">This paper reports a series of data on salinity, current, nutrient and dissolved oxygen concentration observed in the Cananeia-Iguape region. The circulation of the system is dominated by tides entering from Barra de Cananéia and Barra de Icapara. Due to differences in the ebb and flood periods in Mar de Cananéia and Mar do Cubatão, residual flows of opposite directions were observed in the bottom layers of these channels. Observations from January 1982 in Mar de Cananéi...

M. Bleich, and M. C. Thorndyke, and M. Lucassen, and S. Dupont, and M. Langenbuch, and M. A. Gutowska, and F. Melzner, and H.-O. Pörtner

Future ocean acidification has the potential to adversely affect many marine organisms. A growing body of evidence suggests that many species could suffer from reduced fertilization success, decreases in larval- and adult growth rates, reduced calcification rates, and even mortality when being exposed to near-future levels (year 2100 scenarios) of ocean acidification. Little research focus is currently placed on those organisms/taxa that might be less vulnerable to the anticipated changes in oce...

Siddharth Agrawal, and Vinita Singh, and Priyanka Singh

Aim: To compare the surgical outcome of adjustable with the conventional recession in patients with horizontal comitant strabismus. Patients and Methods: A prospective comparative nonrandomized interventional pilot study was performed on patients with horizontal comitant strabismus. Fifty-four patients (27 in each group) were allocated into 2 groups to undergo either adjustable suture (AS) recession or non-AS (NAS) recession along with conventional resection. The patients were followed up for 6 ...

Ghazi S. Bari, and Konstantin I. Matveev

Asymmetric planing hulls are often used on high-speed catamarans. In this study, a linearized potential-flow method is applied for modeling steady hydrodynamics of single asymmetric hulls and their catamaran setups. Numerical results are validated with available experimental data and empirical correlations. Parametric calculation results are presented for the lift coefficient and the center of pressure for variable hull geometry, spacings, and speed regimes. The lift coefficient is found to incr...

Bastiaan Knoppers, and Weber Friederichs Landim de Souza, and Marcelo Friederichs Landim de Souza, and Eliane Gonzalez Rodriguez, and Elisa de Fátima da Cunha Vianna Landim, and Antonio Romanazzi Vieira

Bentbic oxygen and nutrient ftuxes were measured in a section of the hypersaline carbonate-rich coastal lagoon of Araruama, SE-Brazil. In situ incubations of the sediment surface (Zm - 1.5) were performed at one station with light/dark chambers during september 1993 (early spring period) and april 1995 (earlyautumn period). The carbonate..rich aediments were covered by 1-3 mm thick microalgal mats, dominated by the cyanobaeteria Phormidium sp, Oscillatoria sp, and Lyngbya sp. Benthic net primary...

J. Pistoia, and N. Pinardi, and P. Oddo, and M. Collins, and G. Korres, and Y. Drillet

A super-ensemble methodology is proposed to improve the quality of short-term ocean analyses for sea surface temperature (SST) in the Mediterranean Sea. The methodology consists of a multiple linear regression technique applied to a multi-physics multi-model super-ensemble (MMSE) data set. This is a collection of different operational forecasting analyses together with ad hoc simulations, created by modifying selected numerical model parameterizations. A new linear regression algorithm based on ...

Ramu Adela, and P Naveen Chander Reddy, and Sanjay K Banerjee

Background: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. Scientific literature reported that growth differentiation factor-11 (GDF-11) has an important role to prevent aging of the heart and decreases with age. However, there is no study to look at plasma GDF-11 levels in diabetes and diabetes associated with cardiovascular complications in India. Therefore, the present study was designed to know the alteration of GDF-11 levels in Indian patien...

Masel EK, and Huber P, and Engler T, and Watzke HH

Eva Katharina Masel, Patrick Huber, Tobias Engler, Herbert Hans WatzkeClinical Division of Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Background: Decisions on the intensity of analgesic therapy and judgments regarding its efficacy are difficult at the end of life, when many patients are not fully conscious and pain is a very common symptom. In healthy individuals and in postoperative settings, nociception and subsequent pain relief have been...

Md Abdur Razzaq Joadder, and Md Bayezid Alam, and Md Abu Bakar Siddique, and Jannatun Naim

The study was conducted on Beel Kumari beel (wetland) in Rajshahi, Bangladesh from October 2013 to September 2014. A total of 52 species of fish were recorded and the dominant species was Mystus tengara (Tanagra (9.75%). Exotic species like bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) were also commonly found. Of the indigenous species, Ompok bimaculatus, Puntius sarana, Pseudeutropius atherinoides, Botia dario, Mystus aor and C...

Eric Willem Maria Stienen, and Steven Degraer, and Hans Hillewaer, and Kris Hosten, and Glen Jamieson, and Louise Lieberknecht, and Jan Mees, and Ine Moulaert, and Sergej Olenin, and Desire Paelinckx, and Marijn Rabaut, and Eike Rachor, and John Roff, and Eric Willem Maria Stienen, and Jan Tjalling van der Wal, and Vera van Lancker, and Els Verfaillie, and Magda Vincx, and Jan Marcin Węsławski, and Steven Degraer

In order to develop management strategies for sustainable useand conservation in the marine environment, reliable and meaningful,but integrated ecological information is needed. Biological valuationmaps that compile and summarize all available biological andecological information for a study area, and that allocate anoverall biological value to subzones, can be used as baselinemaps for future spatial planning at sea. This paper providesa concept for marine biological valuation which is based on ...

Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira, and Luiz Carlos Brasil de Brito Mello, and Antonio Carlos Gastaud Maçada

O artigo analisa, através da técnica de estudo de caso, a terceirização logística em uma empresa de telecomunicações. Inicialmente, são discutidos os cuidados e a importância do contrato de terceirização, segundo abordagem da economia dos custos de transação. Analisam-se as possíveis causas das falhas na contratação, e sugerem-se providências para evitar repetições em implementações semelhantes. A experiência adquirida indica que um erro primordial, na opinião dos autores, refere-se à falta de d...

Carlos Cardoso Machado, and Raiane Ribeiro Machado, and Edson Arlindo Silva, and Marcelo Freitas Gomes de Souza

Neste estudo, buscou-se aplicar o modelo de avaliação do desempenho logístico de cadeias produtivas (ADELCAP), baseado nos tempos dos elementos do ciclo operacional do transporte de madeira de áreas de fomento de uma empresa produtora de celulose do Estado do Espírito Santo, objetivando apontar meios de otimizar os recursos físicos para garantir um fluxo de abastecimento ininterrupto e apropriado volume de entrada de madeira nos depósitos regionais. O ciclo operacional de transporte de madeira é...

Ana Lígia Leandrini de Oliveira, and Denise B. da Silva, and Norberto P. Lopes, and Hosana M. Debonsi, and Nair S. Yokoya

This study describes the isolation and structural determination of two amides, isolated for the first time: N,4-dihydroxy-N-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-benzamide (0.019%) and N,4-dihydroxy-N-(2'-hydroxyethyl)-benzeneacetamide (0.023%). These amides, produced by the red macroalgae Bostrychia radicans, had their structures assigned by NMR spectral data and MS analyses. In addition, this chemical study led to the isolation of cholesterol, heptadecane, squalene, trans-phytol, neophytadiene, tetradecanoic and ...

Kumar Raj, and Bandyopadhyaya P, and Limburg J

Alan Kardec Gomes Pachêco Filho

On the river named Grajaú, its navigation and importance to the movement of people and goods in Maranhão from fragments of vareiros memory. The Grajaú river though difficult to navigate, it has become the way to the north and natural corridor to export and import of the whole center and hinterland south of Maranhão, expanding trade area in the region to the north of Goiás and south of Pará. With the emergence of trucks, since 1950, used to transport goods in the region, there was a trend of decr...

Steenhof N, and Le Piane F, and Leblanc K, and Eisenberg NR, and Kwan Y, and Malmberg C, and Papadopoulos A, and Roche-Nagle G

Naomi Steenhof,1,2 Francesca Le Piane,1 Kori Leblanc,1&ndash;3 Naomi R Eisenberg,4 Yvonne Kwan,1 Christine Malmberg,1,6 Alexandra Papadopoulos,5,7 Graham Roche-Nagle4,7,8 1Department of Pharmacy, University Health Network, 2Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, 3Centre for Innovation in Complex Care, University Health Network, 4Division of Vascular Surgery, University Health Network, 5Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 6Victoria General Hospital, Vancouver ...

C. Corselli, and A. Savini, and N. Fusi

A chirp sonar survey in the Ionian Sea investigated the Calabrian margin, the Calabrian accretionary wedge, the Taranto Trench and the Apulian foreland. Shallow tectonics structures have been related to deeper ones, recognised on CROP seismic profiles. The identified echo characters have been compared with those described in the modern literature and have been related to different kinds of sediments, on the basis of core samples. Based on echo character and morphology we have recognised: 1) A wi...

Salama M. M.

F. Siddika

Plankton is an important food item of fishes and indicator for the productivity of a water body. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of bottom soil textural conditions on abundance of plankton in aquaculture pond. The experiment was carried out using three treatments, i.e., ponds bottom with sandy loam (T1), with loam (T2) and with clay loam (T3). The ranges of water quality parameters analyzed were suitable for the growth of plankton during the experimental period. Similarly...

R. P. M. Topper, and J. Trabucho Alexandre, and E. Tuenter, and P. Th. Meijer

High concentrations of organic matter accumulated in marine sediments during Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) in the Cretaceous. Model studies examining these events invariably make use of global ocean circulation models. In this study, a regional model for the North Atlantic Basin during OAE2 at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary has been developed. A first order check of the results has been performed by comparison with the results of a recent global Cenomanian CCSM3 run, from which boundary and ini...

Augusto Cesar, and Camilo Dias Seabra Pereira, and Aldo Ramos Santos, and Denis Moledo de Sousa Abessa, and Nuria Fernández, and Rodrigo Brasil Choueri, and Tomaz Angel DelValls

Sediments represent an important repository of pollutants and a source of contamination for the aquatic food web. Toxicity tests using amphipods as test-organisms have been employed in the assessment of marine and estuarine sediments, together with chemical analyses. The present work aimed to evaluate the quality of sediments from six stations situated in the Santos and São Vicente Estuarine and Harbour System (São Paulo - Brazil) using acute whole sediment toxicity tests with amphipods (Tiburon...

M.R. Corrêa, and L.F.N. Bravin, and E.D. Velini, and F.H.R. Baio, and M.L.B.T. Galo

Foi desenvolvido um conjunto de equipamentos com o objetivo de mapear as áreas infestadas por macrófitas aquáticas, auxiliando operações de manejo mecânico, as quais são realizadas por uma colhedora desenvolvida especificamente para essa finalidade. O conjunto de equipamentos foi constituído por um GPS com programa de correção diferencial, acoplado a um palmtop, um sistema com dois teclados ligados em dataloggers e um transdutor de deslocamento linear LT. O GPS, através do palmtop, proporcionava...

J. Honrado, and J. Vicente, and A. Lomba, and P. Alves, and J. A. Macedo, and R. Henriques, and H. Granja, and F. B. Caldas

Understanding dune ecosystem responses to multi-scale environmental changes can provide the framework for reliable forecasts and cost-efficient protocols for detecting shifts in prevailing coastal dynamics. Based on the hypothesis that stress and disturbance interact as primary community controls in coastal dunes, we studied the fine-scale floristic assembly of foredune vegetation, in its relation to topography, along regional and local environmental gradients in the 200 km long coastline of nor...

Westergren T, and Lilleaas U-B

Thomas Westergren,1 Ulla-Britt Lilleaas21Faculty of Health and Sport Science, Department of Health and Nursing Science, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway; 2Faculty of Humanities and Education, Centre for Gender and Equality, University of Agder, Kristiansand, NorwayPurpose: Asthma is a common chronic disease with gender differences in terms of severity and quality of life. This study aimed to understand the gendered practices of male asthmatic adolescents in terms of living with and managing...

Sheila Canevese Rahal, and Noeme Sousa Rocha, and Laura Alvarez de Figueiredo, and Paulo Iamaguti

Foram empregados 30 ratos, machos, linhagem Wistar. Implantou-se sob a pele segmentos de 3cm de comprimento de "linha de pesca " mantida em formalina, "linha de pesca " autoclavada uma vez, "linha de pesca " autoclavada duas vezes e fio de náilon cirúrgico. Cada animal recebeu dois tipos de material de sutura, em locais paralelos e eqüidistantes da coluna vertebral. Foram sacrificados com cinco, 15 e 90 dias de pós-operatório para que se procedesse o exame histopatológico. Pelo grau de reação te...

Otávio A.V. Marques

<abstract language="eng">Dissection of 286 specimens of the "false" coral snake Erythrolamprus aesculapii Linnaeus, 1766, combined with data on captive individuais, provided information on the reproductive biology of this colubrid snake. Adult females (x snout-vent length = 74.5cm) attain larger body size than males (x SVL = 62.6). Clutch size ranged from one to eight eggs and was correlated with maternal body size. Neonates measured 20.2-22.5cm SVL and weighed 5.1-5.8g. Males attain sexual matu...

Luciana Pinheiro

Este trabalho tem por objetivo descrever os potenciais do conhecimento empírico ou prático relacionados à ictiofauna e, de um modo mais amplo, à percepção ambiental da população ribeirinha do rio Piraí, Município de Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brasil. Partindo de uma pesquisa prévia, que teve como resultado um inventário ictiológico preliminar desse rio, foram elaborados os procedimentos metodológicos relativos à dimensão qualitativa do estudo. Com base nos depoimentos dessa população ribeirinha,...

Marković Maja, and Radojičić Marina, and Zdravković Nemanja, and Lazić Marko, and Aksentijević Ksenija

Although commensals in digestive tract of a large number of fish species, diplomonads represent very significant opportunistic pathogens. For so far unknown reasons, they can proliferate uncontrollably and thus cause changes in the skin and internal organs in aquarium fish. The problem is confusion over nomenclature of the two most important genera: Spironucleus i Hexamita. Aquarium fish species in which there were diagnosed changes in the skin caused by diplomonads were: Micro...

Maura Imazio da Silveira, and Elisangela Regina de Oliveira, and Dirse Clara Kern, and Marcondes Lima da Costa, and Suyanne Flávia Santos Rodrigues

Forty years after completing the archaeological investigations in the Salgado region, northeastern Pará, researchers have returned to the site to study prehistoric human occupations in the northern coastal regions of Brazil near the Amazon estuary. This article presents the first results of archaeological research at the site Jabuti, located in the Caeté-Taperuçu Marine Extractive Reserve in the municipality of Bragança. This is an open-air residential site with anthropogenic dark earths ('terra...

Pablo A. Lavin-Murcio, and James R. Dixon

We describe a new species of Micrurus from the Mexican state of Tamauliupas. All of our specimens were encountered in pine-oak forestabove an elevation of 750 meters. The new species is related to Micrurus tener, but differs in the absence of a yellow parietal ring and the presence of a tricolored tail.

C. R. Terai, and R. Wood

Although typically associated with precipitating cumuli, cold pools also form under shallower stratocumulus. This study presents cold-pool observations as sampled by the NSF/NCAR C-130, which made cloud and boundary-layer measurements over the southeast Pacific stratocumulus region at an altitude of approximately 150 m during the VOCALS Regional Experiment. Ninety edges of cold pools are found in the C-130 measurements by identifying step-like changes in the potential temperature. Examina...

João Mauricio Godoy, and Benedito Carlos Cavalheiro, and Marcelo dos Santos Pereira

Tubos de aço são transportados diariamente em todo o mundo, por caminhão, trem ou navio. Conseqüentemente, danos de transporte, podem ocorrer com freqüência e regularidade. O tipo de dano particular selecionado para este estudo foi o de trinca por fadiga, o qual é considerado como um dos mais críticos. Neste trabalho foram estudados tubos de aço fabricados de acordo com os requisitos da norma API 5L [1]. Foram efetuadas caracterizações químicas, mecânicas e metalográficas de um tubo com diâmetro...

Mihoko Kato

Desde que Moscú decidió albergar la cumbre APEC en Vladivostok, tanto decisores rusos como académicos han estado discutiendo sobre Rusia como una “potencia Euro-Pacífica”. Sin embargo, las prioridades regionales y bilaterales de Rusia en Asia, así como su estrategia para convertirse en un poder Pacífico siguen siendo inciertas. Con el aumento en importancia de un Océano Ártico libre de hielo, el área marítima de la región del Lejano Este gana en importancia para la armada rusa. Este artículo ex...

James eInnes, and James eInnes, and Sean ePascoe, and Chris eWilcox, and Sarah eJennings, and Samantha eParedes, and Samantha eParedes

Internationally, marine biodiversity conservation objectives are having an increasing influence on the management of commercial fisheries. While this is largely being implemented through marine protected areas, the use of market based instruments (MBIs) has proved useful in other areas of fisheries and biodiversity conservation management. This paper explores the potential of MBIs as biodiversity conservation management tools for mitigating the undesirable impacts of fishing industries operating...

Luiz Eduardo Imbelloni, and Eneida Maria Vieira, and Marildo Assunção Gouveia, and José Antônio Cordeiro

JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: O aumento do número de cirurgias ambulatoriais exige o emprego de métodos anestésicos que permitam a liberação do paciente após a cirurgia. Freqüentemente, as cirurgias anorretais são realizadas com os pacientes hospitalizados. Este estudo examina a possibilidade de esses procedimentos serem realizados em regime ambulatorial com baixas doses de bupivacaína hipobárica. MÉTODO: Trinta pacientes, estado físico ASA I e II, foram submetidos à raquianestesia com solução hipo...

Mokhtar Ibrahim Khalil, and Ismail Saad El-Shahawy, and Hussein Saad Abdelkader

The present study was the first attempt to survey the diversity of fish zoonotic parasites in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, particularly the Najran area, from October 2012 to October 2013. Approximately 163 fish representing seven species (two of freshwater fish and five of marine fish) were examined for fish-borne trematode metacercariae using the compression technique, and for zoonotic nematode larvae. Adult flukes were obtained from cats experimentally infected with the metacercariae o...