Salt crystallization is one of the most powerful weathering agents that may cause a rapid change in the mechanical properties of stones, and thus limit their durability. Consequently, determining the mechanical properties of stones due to salt crystallization is important for natural building stones used in marine environmental and mild climatic conditions, which expose excessive salt crys...

It is not new that Brazilian Orthodontics is praised overseas due to excellent clinical results presented by Brazilian speakers worldwide. What once were intermittent waves breaking in solitude, are now waves that break elsewhere: from Pororoca at Oiapoque to Chuí at Rio Grande; from Maresias in São Paulo to Pipeline in Hawaii. Recently, at the American Association of Orthodontics (AAO) annual ...

This paper presents the results of a in-depth study to investigate if Brazilian HCI (Human Computer Interaction) community is addressing cultural issues. In this paper, the results emerge from a study of fifteen years paper production in Brazilian HCI conference. After this first analysis, this work explored each Brazilian’ researcher curriculum from the previous result, aiming to understand ho...

The Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) epidemic in Brazil is mainly driven by the subtype B pandemic lineage (BPANDEMIC), while Caribbean non-pandemic subtype B clades (BCAR) seem to account for a very low fraction of HIV-infections in this country. The molecular characteristics of the HIV-1 subtype B strains disseminated in the Northern and Northeastern Brazilian regions, however, hav...

The links among environmental change, notions of security, and social conflicts in the Brazilian Amazon are multiple and complex. Successive Brazilian governments and the Brazilian military have found a distinct relationship between environmental matters and security issues through a focus on state sovereignty. This relationship is often articulated in terms of defending national sovereignty in...

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of Brazilian students exposed to two languages in reading fluency, phonological memory, and rapid naming, according to grade level, and to investigate correlations between these variables. METHODS Sixty students took part in this study (50% female), enrolled in the third to the fifth grades of two elementary schools of the city of São Paulo. They consti...

This paper discusses a process modeling case, which applies a semantic building block-based approach as a means for business process modeling in Brazilian municipal public administrations (MPA). It derives a set of distinctive requirements to process modeling methods that are refined to the specific demands of Brazilian MPAs. We introduce the modeling method PICTURE and discuss whether and why ...

We subtyped Brazilian Yersinia pestis strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). This was done with 22 Brazilian Y. pestis strains: 17 from an outbreak and 5 from endemic routine surveillance. The strains were divided into 2 groups (I and II), 8 subgroups (A-H) and 19 PFGE profiles or pulsotypes. PFGE did not separate outbreak from non-outbreak strains, as identical pulsotype patterns ...

1 Specialist (accredited by the Brazilian Society of Dermatology and the Brazilian Society of Dermatologic Surgery); MSc in Dermatology from the Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) – Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil; Dermatologist Physician, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UniRio) – Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil; Cosmiatry Instructor, Insti...

1Specialist Member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. Title of specialist in cardiovascular surgery by the Brazilian Medical Association. Specialist Member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Title of specialist in cardiology by the Brazilian Medical Association. Qualified member of the Department of Cardiac Pacing (DECA).Cardiovascular Surgeon of Real e Benemérita Associaç...