The regime of floods and droughts in the Pantanal wetlands determines the distribution and abundance of the wildlife, vegetation and ecological processes. Cattle ranching and fisheries, the main economic activities in this floodplain, are extremely influenced by and depend on…

The bivalve Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857), also called golden mussel, is native to Asia but becoming dispersed around the world. The golden mussel resembles the invasive dreissenid bivalves in many respects, and although much less studied it evidently has broader…

The spatial variation in the composition of the tree flora of some Atlantic forest areas distributed in the East Atlantic basins, Southeastern and Southern Brazil, extended to Paraguay and Argentina, was investigated under four main aspects: (1) to evaluate the…

This work is part of the results of the research of the Laboratory of Invertebrates of the Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, partially financed by the Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) developing during 2006-2007. The…

Palm leaves are an important resource for family households. The effect of harvest on leaf production, growth and fecundity of wild individual palm trees has been studied, but little is known about palm harvest in agro-forestry systems. In the Maya…

Abstract. The great contemporary organizational challenge for enterprises is to create a conceptual and methodological framework allows the management of knowledge by means of networks designed for social interaction. This statement is based on the premise that the competitive drive…

There are three different uses of the term 'inoformation' in ordinary language: in the restricted sense, it means diverse types of material objects, such as data or documents ('information-as-thing'); alternatively, the term is used as in reference to the act…

Las dificultades para evaluar el conocimiento estratégico han estado relacionadas principalmente con el uso de pruebas descontextualizadas, que no requieren ponerlo en juego; por esto el interés por comprobar que las tareas auténticas de escritura ofrecen ventajas para ello. En…

Purpose. To understand how the technology of electronic prescription (e Rx) can transform the community pharmacist’s role through its effects on professionalization. We define professionalization as a pharmaceutical practice centred on clinical activities and made possible by the establishment of…

O presente trabalho trata de um estudo qualitativo desenvolvido com o objetivo de identificar as concepções das famílias pertencentes à área de atuação da Equipe Amarela do Programa Saúde da Família, do município de Cambira, PR, sobre o acompanhamento de…