Department of Luis Gustavo Modelli Andrade Internal Medicine Fábio Duarte Garcia Hospital das Clı́nicas da Faculdade Vanessa Santos Silva de Medicina de Botucatu Daniela Ponce Gabriel UNESP Antonio Gonçalves Rodrigues Jr Rubião Jr Ginivaldo Victor R. Nascimento PO Box 584 Jacqueline Teixeira Caramori CEP 18618970 Luis Cuadrado Martin São Paulo Pasqual Barretti Brazil André Luis Balbi Email: gust...

This study presents an updated characterization of the Portuguese Web derived from a crawl of 48 million contents belonging to all media types (2.5 TB of data), performed in March, 2008. The resulting data was analyzed to characterize contents, sites and domains. This study was performed within the scope of the Portuguese Web Archive.

This paper reports experiments on speech production showing that secondary stress in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) can be best described as phrase-initial prominence cued by greater duration and pitch accent excursion in initial position. It also reports a perception experiment in which clicks were associated to consecutive V-to-V positions in stress groups. Mean click detection RTs are gradient, b...

In GHSP’s March 2017 article by Nieto-Andrade and colleagues, “Women’s Limited Choice and Availability of Modern Contraception at Retail Outlets and Public-Sector Facilities in Luanda, Angola, 2012–2015,” the authors assert that public health policies must ensure the availability and affordability of contraceptives on the market and expand the range of options for women. I would argue that publ...

COMPENSATORY LOGIC: A FUZZY NORMATIVE MODEL FOR DECISION MAKING Rafael Espin Andrade, Management Studies Center (CETDIR) Faculty of Industrial Engineering. ISPJAE (Technical University of Havana), Cuba Gustavo Mazcorro Téllez, Interdisciplinary College of Engineering, Social and Management Sciences, UPIICSA. México Eduardo Fernández González, University of Sinaloa, Mexico Jorge Marx-Gómez, Magd...

this essay approaches the challenges of global translation in the 21st century from what might still be considered a somewhat uncommon example: a direct translation of ismail kadaré's 1978 novel prill e thyër (broken april) from the original albanian into brazilian portuguese in 2001. not only does it examine and compare lexical elements in the source and target texts and the usage of translato...

the sherley brothers' mission in iran dealt with some aspects. they carried a message from england and the christian world to shah abbas. in addition, they trained iranian army and taught them how to make artillery, they fought with the iranians against the ottoman empire shoulder to shoulder and both of them were sent to europe for political and commercial purposes by shah abbas. shah abb...

The authors describe the evolution of schistosomiasis mansoni in inhabitants of Capitão Andrade, Minas Gerais, Brazil, from 1973 to 1994. The prevalence of infection was 60.8% in 1973, 36.2% in 1984, and 27.3% in 1994. The evolution of the clinical forms of the disease in this group was as follows: unchanged in 76.7%, clinical progression in 8.4% and clinical regression in 14.9%. The reduction ...

Purpose The aim of this study was to characterize the ultrasonographic pattern of tongue movement in 14 consonant phonemes of Brazilian Portuguese (BP), seeking to identify and describe ultrasonographic parameters that could grasp the difference of manner and place of articulation among these phonemes. Methods We selected 20 individuals with typical speech production, aged between 20-30 years...

As the lingua franca of the 21st century, English has become the main language for intercultural communication for those wanting to embrace globalization. In Portugal, it is the second language of most public and private domains influencing its culture and discourses. Language contact situations transform languages by the incorporations they make from other languages and Portugal has...