Early ultra-processed foods consumption and hyperactivity/inattention in adolescence by Ricardo Campos Ferreira, Angela Helena Marin, Marcia Regina Vitolo, Paula Dal Bo Campagnolo

“…ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between childhood consumption of ultra-processed foods and symptoms of hyperactivity/inattention in adolescents from São Leopoldo, a city in southern Brazil. METHODS Data were collected at four distinct stages: when participants were 12-16 months old in 2001 and 2002 and later when they were 3–4, 7–8, and 12–13 years old. …”
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The Conceptualization and Measurement of Comorbidity: A Review of the Interprofessional Discourse by Salimah H. Meghani, Harleah G. Buck, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, Marilyn J. Hammer, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva, Robyn Clark, Mary D. Naylor

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A basic content proposal on sustainability for management undergraduate courses by Flávio Hourneaux Junior, Bárbara Galleli, Carolina Brinholi, Laura Martini Zellmeister, Isak Kruglianskas

“…Secondly, we researched the knowledge in sustainability by undergraduate Management students from a recognised university in Brazil. Data analysis was based on exploratory factor analysis. …”
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Addressing the Oncologist Shortage in Latin America: Insights From a Survey of Medical Oncology Fellowship Programs by Mauricio Zegarra-López, Alejandro Aranda-Gutierrez, Jose Felipe Muñoz Lozano, Cynthia Villarreal-Garza

“…Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the collected variables.RESULTSIn total, 232 fellowship programs exist in the surveyed nations, of which 444 medical oncologists graduate every year. Only Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru have more than five active fellowship programs. …”
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Main methodological challenges faced by Youth and Adult Education (EJA) teachers by Alcemir Horácio Rosa, Francisco Willan Costa dos Santos, Daniel Nascimento e Silva, Marcus Marcelo Silva Barros

“…Unlike the strategies and methodologies developed linked to other levels and modalities, in regular education, we seek to understand through qualitative research and bibliographical studies a) the historical advances of EJA in Brazil, b) the advances of the Laws of Guidelines and Bases of National Education for EJA, c) international conferences and the National Education Plan and d) proposals that consider the specificities of young people and adults. …”
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Uncertainties of the rainfall regime in a tropical semi-arid region: the case of the State of Ceará by Eunice Maia de Andrade, Maria Gina Torres Sena, Antonio Givanilson Rodrigues da Silva, Francisco Jairo Soares Pereira, Fernando Bezerra Lopes

“…The rural population of a tropical semi-arid region such as the northeast of Brazil is directly dependent on rainfall for agricultural production, pasture for livestock, and the storage of drinking water for human consumption. …”
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Nutritional Assessment of individuals interned in a general hospital by Carla de Oliveira Barbosa Rosa, Bárbara Pereira da Silva, Karla Pereira Balbino, Sônia Machado Rocha Ribeiro, Andréia Queiroz Ribeiro, Heloísa Helena Firmino

“…The study was cross-sectional, done during three months with patients admitted in a general hospital by the Health Public Service from Brazil (SUS), health plans or private payment. The nutritional assessment was done in all the individuals admitted in the hospital during the period of study (n = 51), and we did an anthropometric assessment, biochemical analysis and subjective global assessments. …”
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Prescribers’ approval rate of pharmacist-initiated interventions to optimise patients’ clinical status of hypertension in the ambulatory care setting by Brajković Andrea, Bićanić Lucija Ana, Orehovački Helena, Prkačin Ingrid, Oliveira Djenane Ramalho De, Mucalo Iva

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Prospects of Foreign Capital Raising for Russian Power Grid Companies by N. N. Shvets, D. L. Val’Kova

“…Particularly, Vatenfall and Forum have recently closed relevant transactions, nothing to say about the power grid sector of Brazil, majorly controlled by private owners. Transparent regulation, clear pricing rules and well-balanced economic policy are, indeed, indispensable prerequisites for successful privatization. …”
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Physical and mechanical aging of wood-plastic composites. Non-destructive methods for quality control by Ignacio Bobadilla Maldonado, Roberto Martínez, Hamed Matini Behzad, Everton Hillig

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Quality of commercialized dry extracts of blood orange juice in Brazilian compounding pharmacies: Dry extracts of blood orange juice by Lídia Cristina Merlin de Meneses, Maria Izabel Lamego Neta, Jhenifer Luisa Miniuki, Ingrid Vicente Farias, Larissa Benvenutti, Otto Mauricio Santos Gerlach, Flávio H. Reginatto, Angela Malheiros, José Roberto Santin, Tania Mari Bellé Bresolin

“…However, the dry extract of C. sinensis juice currently available at compounding pharmacies in Brazil includes samples from various countries, some of which may not have adequate climatic conditions for the production of anthocyanins. …”
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HIV Drug Resistance-Associated Mutations in Antiretroviral Naïve HIV-1-Infected Latin American Children by Luis E. Soto-Ramirez, Roberto Rodriguez-Diaz, D. Robert Harris, Rohan Hazra

“…Genotyping was performed on plasma samples obtained at baseline from HIV-1-infected participants in a prospective cohort study in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico (NISDI Pediatric Study). …”
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POSITIONING OF WHEAT CULTIVARS AND THEIR RELATION WITH THE NUTRITIONAL QUALITY OF GRAINS by Willyan Júnior Adorian Bandeira, Ivan Ricardo Carvalho, Murilo Vieira Loro, Leonardo Cesar Pradebon, João Pedro Dalla Roza, Jaqueline Piesanti Sangiovo, Kassiana Kehl

“…An experiment was conducted in 10 environments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Five wheat genotypes were sown (BRS Parrudo, LG ORO, Mirante, ORS 1403, and TBIO Sinuelo), using a randomized block experimental design with two replications. …”
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Zika, a Mosquito-Transmitted Virus by L. Phil Lounibos, Barry W. Alto, Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Cynthia C. Lord, Chelsea T. Smartt, C. Roxanne Rutledge Connelly, Jorge R. Rey

“…In 2015, however, Zika became a larger concern when a strain of the virus traced to outbreaks in French Polynesia emerged in northeastern Brazil. This strain provoked alarm because of increased incidence of microcephaly in babies born to Zika-infected mothers. …”
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Biologic Agents in Crohn’s Patients Reduce CD4+ T Cells Activation and Are Inversely Related to Treg Cells by Eliane Aparecida Rosseto-Welter, Leticia D’argenio-Garcia, Filipa Blasco Tavares Pereira Lopes, Ana Eduarda Zulim Carvalho, Fernando Flaquer, Vanessa Severo-Lemos, Claudia Concer Viero Nora, Flavio Steinwurz, Lucas Pires Garcia Oliveria, Thiago Aloia, Luiz Vicente Rizzo, Cristóvão Luis Pitangueira Mangueira, Karina Inacio Carvalho

“…., anti-TNF) is the most frequently prescribed treatment; however, it is not universally accessible. In fact, in Brazil, many patients are only given the option of receiving nonbiological therapy. …”
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Limites de la cooperación internacional ambiental: el caso del Programa Piloto para la Protección de los Bosques Tropicales de Brasil by Elimar Pinheiro do Nascimento, Joseph S. Weiss

“…Beyond its many achievements, an analysis of the green alliances of the Pilot Program for the Protection of the Tropical Forests of Brazil (PPG7, Portuguese acronym), as well as the conflicts present in its creation and implementation, of the results achieved, and of the circumstances in which it came to an end, demonstrate that the PPG7 contributed little to the conservation of the forest, the institutional strengthening of the Amazon region, or its sustainable development. …”
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Social network for guardians of transgender children and adolescents by Paula Daniella de Abreu, Ana Beatriz Marques Valença, Gilberto da Cruz Leal, Diogo Henrique Mendes da Silva, Pedro Fredemir Palha, Ednaldo Cavalcante de Araújo, Jaqueline Garcia de Almeida Ballestero, Sandra Aparecida de Almeida, Jordana de Almeida Nogueira, Aline Aparecida Monroe

“…The study was conducted in Brazil through online interviews between August and October 2021. …”
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Increasing Cattle Herd Size or Density in C₃ Grass–Legume Meadows Reduces Dietary Quality by John Derek Scasta, Fernando Forster Furquim

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Feelings experienced by postpartum women in achieving the first bath of the newborn in rooming by Clarissa Morganna Santos Silva, Janmilli da Costa Dantas, Francisca Marta de Lima Costa Souza, Richardson Augusto Rosendo da Silva, Thais Rosental Gabriel Lopes, Jovanka Bittencourt Leite de Carvalho

“…This is a descriptive study with qualitative approach carried out in a maternity hospital in northeastern Brazil in 2013. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee under report number 14079113.0.0000.5568.It was found after analysis of 27 interviewed mothers, two categories related to the spray bath of the newborn. …”
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Electrochemical conversion of methane measured by anode out gas monitoring over Ce–Co–Cu anode electrocatalysts by Bernardo Jordão Moreira Sarruf, Robert Steinberger-Wilckens, Paulo Emílio Valadão de Miranda

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