aLaboratório de Ictiologia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal Rio Grande – FURG, Campus Carreiros, CP 474, CEP 96201-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil bLaboratório de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande – FURG, Campus Carreiros, CP 474, CEP 96201-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil cLaboratório de Recursos Pesqueiros Demersais, Instituto de Oceanogr...

1Divisao de Genetica, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2Lab. de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamiferos Silvestres Reservatorios, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Coordenacao de Pesquisa, Rua Andre Cavalcanti, 37, 4 andar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4Lab. de Ecologia, Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5Departamento de Zoologia...

1,2 Carolina Carneiro Peixinho, 1,2 Natália Santos Fonseca Martins, 2 Liliam Fernandes de Oliveira and 1,3 João Carlos Machado 1 Biomedical Engineering Program, COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2 Laboratory of Biomechanics, Department of Biosciences and Physical Activity, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 3 Post-Graduation ...

1 Instituto de Bioquı́mica Médica, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2 Fundação Cecierj/CEDERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 3 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia, Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 4 Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 5 Instituto de Biofı́sica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6 Núcleo Multidisciplinar de Pesquisa UFRJ-Xerém, UFRJ, Rio ...

Clinical effects of systemic and topical tetracycline therapy on chronic periodontal disease. Cristiane Gonçalves 1 Rosa Maria J. Rodrigues 2 Eduardo Jorge Feres-Filho 3 Ana Paula Colombo4 1 MSD Dept. of Dental Clinic – Periodontics – Gama Filho University – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 2 MSD Dept. of Dental Clinic – Periodontics – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 3 DSc...

In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of competing frames in political rhetoric, or of terminology in technical contexts. These effects have become widespread in the on-line domain, where the ease of information transmission makes them particularly forceful, and wher...

1 Department of Clinical Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, 20551030 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56100, Italy 3 Department of Internal Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, 20551030 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 4 Laboratory of Cardiovascular Investigation, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, 21045900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ,...