Entrevista com Maria Eunice Maciel UFRGS), concedida a Cauê Fraga Machado (UFRGS) e Ceres Gomes Víctora (UFRGS).

BACKGROUND Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two methods and to compare their results in a population aged 40-64 years in Shahroud, Iran. METHODS The data of 5188 participants in the first phase of...

BACKGROUND More than twelve temperate-inhabitant Mexican ethnic groups are considered to be mycophilic and to have extensive traditional mycological knowledge. In contrast, inhabitants of tropical lands have been studied only superficially and their mycological knowledge is less well known. In this paper, we report the results of an ethnomycological research in markets of a wide area of the Mex...

Si el consumo de leña es desfavorable para medio ambiente las ciudades, ¿sucede esto en Oaxaca? El objetivo este artículo analizar, periodo 2000-2015, si desarrollo sustentable 17 ciudades mayor población, que cumplen la función lugar central Oaxaca, México, se ve influido desfavorablemente por uso los hogares. Para ello, con datos documentales han creado índices y vivienda leña, aplicando anál...

Praetorblissus mexicanus is described as a new species of Blissidae. This species represents the first record of the genus for Mexico and expands its northern limit of distribution. The species was collected in a pine area in the state of Oaxaca associated with the bamboo Chusquea repens. A key is included to separate all the species in the genus.

There is much discussion of the probability of transgene flow from transgenic crop varieties to landraces and wild relatives in centers of origin or diversity, and its genetic, ecological, and social consequences. Without costly research on the variables determining gene flow, research on transgene frequencies in landrace (or wild relative) populations can be valuable for understanding transgen...

José António Tenreiro Machado (Figure 1) left us unexpectedly on 6 October, the day of his 64th birthday [...]

Hematologic and hemorheological determinants of resting and exercise-induced hemoglobin oxygen desaturation in children with sickle cell disease Xavier Waltz, Marc Romana, Marie-Laure LalanneMistrih, Roberto F. Machado, Yann Lamarre, Vanessa Tarer, Marie-Dominique Hardy-Dessources, Benoît Tressières, Lydia Divialle-Doumdo, Marie Petras, Frederic Maillard, Maryse Etienne-Julan, and Philippe Connes

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of differences in measurable characteristics to group differences in an outcome of interest. The use of a linear probability model and the standard BlinderOaxaca decomposition, however, can provide misleading estimates when the dependent variable is binary, especially when group differe...

Clinical Sciences Stroke Epidemiology, Patterns of Management, and Outcomes in Fortaleza, Brazil: A Hospital-Based Multicenter Prospective Study João José Freitas de Carvalho, MD; Monique Bueno Alves, RN; Georgiana Álvares Andrade Viana, RN; Cícera Borges Machado; Bento Fortunato Cardoso dos Santos, MD, PhD; Alberto Hideki Kanamura, MD; Claudio Luiz Lottenberg, MD, PhD; Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, ...