Functional foods include any natural product that presents health-promoting effects, thereby reducing the risk of chronic diseases. Cerrado fruits are considered a source of bioactive substances, mainly phenolic compounds, making them important functional foods. Despite this, the losses of natural vegetation in the Cerrado are progressive. Hence, the knowledge propagation about the importance o...

Garrett et al's recent letter (2013 Environ. Res. Lett.8 044055) shows the trade value of Brazil's production of non-genetically modified (GM) crops, and argues that production for this niche market laid the foundation for the expansion of a variety of non-GM and eco-certification systems. We argue that the conditions underlying the development and perpetuation of the non-GM certification syste...

O movimento eugenista nasceu no final do século XIX, na Inglaterra, tendo como principal protagonista Francis Galton (1822-1911); ao Brasil, chegou passagem XIX para o XX, mas ganhou capilaridade a partir protagonismo de Renato Kehl (1889-1974). Os partidários da eugenia acreditavam sua efetivação eliminar os grupos que apresentavam comportamentos anormais, por meio políticas controle natalidad...

nitric oxide (no) is a highly reactive signaling molecule and plays a variety of physiological roles in plants. the research on the application of no to postharvest preservation of flowers and fruits shows great promise in recent years. however, the physiological mechanism of exogenous no to affect cut flowers is not very clear, and no donor treatment protected plants from damage by increasing ...

O objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar como o conceito de eugenia proposto por Francis Galton transitou diferentes entendimentos na interpretação do eugenista brasileiro Renato Kehl. Para tanto, trabalhamos com quatro obras a fim de, colocando-as lado e compreendendo seus contextos produção partir das leituras Kehl, analisar elaborado foi reinterpretado pelo em fases da campanha eugênica. Assim, ...

Malaysia, especially the Borneo Island state of Sarawak, has a large variety of tropical wood species. In this study, selected raw tropical wood species namely Artocarpus Elasticus, Artocarpus Rigidus, Xylopia spp., Koompassia Malaccensis, and Eugenia spp. were chemically treated with sodium metaperiodate to convert them into plasticized wood (PW). Manufactured plasticized wood samples were cha...

EMF and GMF are powerful frameworks for implementing tool support for modelling languages in Eclipse. However, with power comes complexity; implementing a graphical editor for a modelling language using EMF and GMF requires developers to hand craft and maintain several low level-interconnected models through a loosely-guided, labour-intensive and error-prone process. In this paper we demonstrat...

Harvestmen are solitary, nocturnal foragers that have a variety of feeding habits, ranging from scavenging to predation (see review in Gnaspini 1996). Although harvestmen seem to be generalist omnivorous arthropods, accepting both plant and animal matter, several species show a tendency to carnivory (Bris-Reports of fru-givory in harvestmen are scarce and in general are restricted to captive an...