It is widely recognized that mathematically simple systems of nonlinear differential equations can exhibit chaos. With the advent of fast computers, it is now possible to explore the entire parameter space of these systems with the goal of finding parameters that result in some desired characteristics of the system. Recently, many new chaotic flows have been discovered that are not associated w...

Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disease which demyelinates neurons. It is the leading cause of non-traumatic disability in young adults in many countries. According to the atlas of MS, the number of patients with MS has increased from 2.1 million in 2008, to 2.3 million in 2013. Although several studies have been done worldwide to clarify the epidemiological patterns of the di...

BACKGROUND Animals have been used as a source of medicine in Brazil since ancient times, and have played a significant role in healing practices. Specifically in Northeast Brazil, zootherapy is a very common practice, and together with medicinal plants, it plays an important role as a therapeutic alternative. In the state of Ceara, no works have been carried out on rural communities with regard...

The development of compartments in eukaryotic cells and the distribution of nuclear-encoded proteins underlies the expansion of plant genomes, the proliferation of multigene families and the specialization of cellular functions. The exploration of the proteome of the cell in terms of the collection of its subcompartments is therefore both a practical approach and also a function led necessity t...

• precision agriculture (Moran et al., 1997; Gebbers and Adamchuk, 2010; Lee et al., 2010), • alerting and forecasting systems (Doraiswamy et al., 2003; Rembold et al., 2013), • sustainable resource protection (Baret et al., 2007), • ecological farming and sustainable intensification (Garnett et al., 2013), • traceability of products (Opara, 2003), • policy steering (Palm et al., 2014), • index...