Responses of four Amazon fishes (pirarucu, tambaqui, matrinxã and tamoatá) to capture, handling and crowling stress were used to validade the efficcacy of a portable meter in measuring blood glucose. Findings indicate a potential role for portable glucose instrument in…

Objectives: The fall of the Wall in 1989 can be seen as a natural experiment in the epidemiological sense to further examine the relation between democracy and health. Design and setting: Ecological study in the 23 post-communist countries, during the…

Energy storage technologies provide an alternative solution to the problem of balancing power generation and power consumption. Redox flow cells are designed to convert and store electrical energy into chemical energy and release it in a controlled fashion when required.…

Red de Investigación en Salud y Género.

Public health draws from a range of academic disciplines, social, medical and statistical, and answers questions relevant to improving the health of populations. We have initiated a Europe-wide study, Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe, to assess the development and…

El desarrollo del vídeo musical español ha estado muy influenciado por la evolución del sector televisivo y la industria musical. El recorrido por la historia de este nuevo género audiovisual sirve como reflejo de la adaptación de unas estructuras herederas…

Although radix 10 based arithmetic has been gaining renewed importance over the last few years, decimal systems are not efficient enough and techniques are still under development. In this paper, an improvement of the CORDIC (coordinate rotation digital computer) method…

In the 19th century it was difficult for the growing number of medical practitioners in North America to access current medical literature. Various ways were suggested to solve this problem; one of them was the creation of physician-run medical library…

The environmental risks associated with genetically-engineered (GE) organisms have been controversial, and so have the models for the assessment of these risks. We propose an ecologically-based environmental risk assessment (ERA) model that follows the 1998 USEPA guidelines, focusing on potential…

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