Received 04 Oct., 2013 Accepted 10 Jan., 2014 (006206) 1 Department of Chemistry, State University of Maringá – UEM, Maringá, PR, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR, Campus Londrina, Tecnologia de Alimentos, Londrina, PR, Brazil 3 Federal University of Latin American Integration – UNILA, Foz do Iguaçú, PR, Brazil *Corresponding author Evalu...

Guilherme Bicalho Saturnino, ∗ Caio Padoan de Sá Godinho, † Denise Fagundes-Lima, ‡ Alcides Castro e Silva, § and Gerald Weber ¶ Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil

We report on the metagenome of a deep subsurface aquifer in the Tomsk region of Russia, sampled via an oil exploration borehole drilled to a depth of 2.8 km. Methanogenic archaea were present in the water along with members of various bacterial phyla, including Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, and uncultured candidate divisions.

Correspondence address: Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Abreu Filho. Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44. 2°andar. Cerqueira César. São Paulo, SP. CEP: 05403-001. Tel: (11) 3069-5014. E-mail: [email protected] Carlos Alberto Cordeiro de ABREU FILHO1, Luiz Augusto Ferreira LISBOA1, Luís Alberto Oliveira DALLAN1, Sérgio Almeida de OLIVEIRA1 Braz J Cardiovasc Surg 2005; 20(2): 167-173 REVIEW ARTICLE

The Atlantic forest is a terrestrial biome that extends along the Brazilian coast and has been subject of intense deforestation for decades. There are presently several efforts to try to preserve the flora and fauna of what remains from this region (e.g., Coco et al. 2014, Maciel-Silva et al. 2014, Missagia et al. 2014), but several questions on how the distinct floristic units of this biome ar...

Virtual laboratory tools have been introduced a long time ago. Initially, they were designed to increase the flexibility of controlling hardware and run experiments (i.e. Labview, Vee, etc). Gradually such tools have been introduced into the learning procedure in order to help students to increase their performance through a userfriendly tool that stimulates them on their study. Additionally, w...

In 2003, Augot et al. introduced the Fast Syndrome-Based hash family (in short FSB), which follows the generic construction of Merkle-Damg̊ard and is based on the syndrome decoding problem. In 2007, Finiasz et al. proposed an improved version of FSB. In this work, we propose a new efficient hash function, which incorporates the ideas of FSB and the sponge construction introduced by Bertoni et al...

We praise the article by Mokhtari-Zaer et al. (2015) published in the Avicenna Journal of Phytomedicine on the effects of saffron on smooth muscle activity (Mokhtari-Zaer et al., 2015). It was a well-designed and interesting study on the therapeutic properties of Crocus sativus which is a precious plant cultivated in our country. We do believe that along with all other medicinal effects, saffro...

The genus Ambrosia consisting at least 40 species, with numerous intraspecific taxa (Essl et al. 2015). The first observation of Ambrosia from Iran was reported by Mozaffarian (1991). He reported distribution of A. artemisiifolia L.in Bandar-e Anzali (Gilan province, N Iran). Expanding new colonies of Ambrosia species were increasingly observed from road-sides and coastal areas of Bandar-e Anza...

Recently a logic programming language AC was proposed by Mellarkod et al. (2008) to integrate answer set programming (ASP) and constraint logic programming. Similarly, Gebser et al. (2009) proposed a CLINGCON language integrating ASP and finite domain constraints. These languages allow new efficient inference algorithms that combine traditional ASP procedures and other methods in constraint pro...