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...

Plasmonic metamaterials are composite, artificial materials, consisting of metallic resonant building blocks designed with state-of-the-art configurations. Many exotic phenomena not occurring in nature such as negative refraction (Burgos et al., 2010; Dolling et al., 2006; Lezec et al., 2007; Liu et al., 2008; Pendry, 2000; Shalaev, 2007; Shelby et al., 2001; Smith et al., 2000; Valentine et al...

The familial partial lipodystrophy of the Dunnigan type (FPLD) is a rare autosomal dominant disease characterized by a post-pubertal regression of the subcutaneous fat from limbs and trunk contrasting with its accumulation in face and neck. This lipodystrophy is associated with insulin resistance and hypertriglyceridemia, which could be secondary to adipose tissue involution. Missense heterozyg...

In recent years, commercial demand for comfortable and quiet vehicles has encouraged the industrial development of methods to accommodate a balance of performance, efficiency, and comfort levels in new automotive year models. Particularly, the noise, vibration and harshness characteristics of cars and trucks are becoming increasingly important (see, e.g., (Buchholz, 2000), (Capitani et al., 200...

OBJECTIVES To describe the morphological features of atherosclerosis in the aortas of autopsied patients (ranging from young adults to the elderly), thus providing new tools for a more sensitive morphological evaluation. METHOD We collected 141 aorta samples. We assessed the macroscopic degree of atherosclerosis, thickness of the intima and media, lipid and collagen depositions in the intima,...

General interpolating expressions, valid for nearand arbitrary overcritical sizes of clusters, are proposed for the nucleation fluxes and distributions. Results are expressed in terms of the deterministic growth rates, and are characterized by a non-Gaussian dependence on the size of nuclei. In a sense, the proposed approximations combine the positive aspects of the parabolic model by Trinkaus ...