Oligomeric mini-proteins, short peptides with protein-like features, constitute valuable minimal models for the study of oligomeric proteins. Oligomerization is a common feature of cellular proteins that may confer structural and functional advantages. Oligomerization is proposed to have arisen by several…

, Editorial. El problema nutricional y su relación con la ciencia y la tecnología en Venezuela, Salinas, Pedro José, Control fisiológico en una fusión moa::lac de Escherichia coli K12:Cinéticas de expresión bajo diferentes condiciones de cultivo, Physiological control in a…

Após a organização conseguir sanar seus problemas operacionais, surge a necessidade de sistemas para o suporte à tomada de decisão. A área de pesquisa de mineração de dados cresce rapidamente para atender a essas novas necessidades. No entanto, a aplicação…

This is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of eight families who
live in San Andrés and San Pedro, Cholula, México. The study
looked at how fathers´ literacy experiences affect their attitudes toward
the own children´s literacy, and…

This article analyzes Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, using a combination of both disability studies theory and ecocriticism.  The author argues that the novel’s main character, Christopher Boone, presents a social model…

Abstract: I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of…

Palestra proferida na Sociedade Cultural "Joaquim Nabuco", em sessão de 6 de junho de 1956, em Florianópolis.

From the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualizations of biopower and technologies of normalization, disability activism emerges as a collective protest against the form of power/knowledge that produces disability as an abject identity. Yet, disability activists also claim a “right to…

Ao ler a Dissertação de Mestrado "Das regiões Lombarda e Vêneta ao Núcleo de São Bernardo: acompanhando o imigrante italiano", de Constantino Agazzi que a defendeu, em 1985, na Universidade de São Paulo na área de História Social, deparei-me, já…

The tingid Leptopharsa heveae, known as the lace bug, occurs in large populations in rubber tree plantations, limiting the production of latex due to losses of photosynthetic area and weakening of the infested trees. The alternative for the use of…