The objectives of this work were: (i) identified the risk areas of landslides, flooding and sea level rise and social vulnerabilities in different scales of analysis; (ii) analyse the risk perception of people living in this risk areas; (iii) found…

Sustainable development in the knowledge economy faces new challenges. Sustainable development has its stakeholders and drivers; some of them are more important than the others. Financial cooperatives do not seem a substantial stakeholder of sustainable development, but only at the…

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arbon sources for biofuel production are wide-ranging and their availability depends on the climate
and soil conditions of the land where the production chain is located. Henequen (Agave fourcroydesLem.) is
cultivated in Yucatán, Mexico to produce natural fibers from the…

O presente trabalho relata a experiência desenvolvimento e aplicação, no âmbito de um projeto de pesquisa, de um modelo de organização e representação do conhecimento sobre os processos de intensificação agropecuária, contextualizados por observações empíricas em regiões produtoras de commodities…

The aqueous extracts of currently utilized Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed in vitro searching for antimicrobial activity against human and animal pathogenic microorganisms. Medium resuspended lyophilized aqueous extracts of different organs of Amazonian medicinal plants were assayed by in vitro…

En los crustáceos decápodos, las proteasas digestivas más comúnmente descritas son de la clase serino, sin embargo, estudios recientes reportan la presencia de otras clases de enzimas como las cisteíno proteasas en especies de decápodos Carideos y más recientemente proteasas…

Current global health interventions tend to focus on the “big 3” diseases:
malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis. This focus has led to a dearth of funding for and
research into diseases that are also endemic in areas where the big 3…

This work is the first study on parasitic fauna of Curimata cyprinoides Linnaeus, 1766 (Curimatidae) and the host-parasite relationship. The total of 154,740 parasites such as Ichthyophthirius multifiliis (Ciliophora), trophozoite of Spironucleus sp. (Hexamitidae), Urocleidoides sp. (Monogenoidea), Digenea gen. sp.…

Soil amendment with pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM) can sequester carbon, increase mutualistic root symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia, and hence improve crop yield. However, there is still a gap in our knowledge about the effects of PyOM…