Studies about socio-environmental determinants are recognized as important to better understand the factors that influence health and quality of life, how they operate generate inequalities. This article reports mapping health, carried out by community agents from Paraisópolis, second-largest slum in city São Paulo (state Paulo), seeking analyze potential contributions this participatory proces...

Appreciation for agricultural sustainability and ecosystem services (ESS) has received considerable attention from the scientific community. However, research not yet systematically sufficiently considered spatial dimension of ESS trade-offs as a source conflicts. Moreover, approaches management that address wide range beneficiaries their interactions at landscape scale are lacking. Our main qu...

BACKGROUND Prostaglandins (PGs) play pathogenic and protective roles in inflammatory diseases. The novel concept of PGs as immune modulators is being documented by several investigators. By establishing an in vitro experimental model containing human follicular dendritic cell-like cells, HK cells, we reported that HK cells produce prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) and prostaglandin I(2) (PGI(2)) and ...

The protection of geographical indications (European regulation 1151/2012) is arguably the most significant initiative, certainly within Europe, that promotes foods with territorial associations and reorganises agri-food chain governance through a strategy of reterritorialisation. Research on Protected Designation of Origins (PDOs) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGIs) suggests that the...

A unique combination of genetic features and a rich stock of information make the flowering plant genus Oenothera an appealing model to explore the molecular basis of speciation processes including nucleus-organelle coevolution. From representative species, we have recently reported complete nucleotide sequences of the 5 basic and genetically distinguishable plastid chromosomes of subsection Oe...

This study describes the origins, boundaries, and structures of collaborative geographic information systems (CGIS). A working definition is proposed, together with a discussion about the subtle collaborative vs. cooperative distinction, and culminating in a philosophical description of the research area. The literatures on planning and policy analysis, decision support IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING Th...

The Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office (SCO) relies on Web technology to facilitate its community outreach mission of supplying geospatial information to professionals and the general public in the state. Of particular importance to this effort are the SCO’s Webmapping applications that provide online access to aerial photographs, geodetic control points, and PLSS (Public Land Survey System)...

Abbreviations. – AA, Arachidonic acid; AEA, arachidonoylethanolamide (anandamide); 2-AG, 2arachidonoylglycerol; CNS, central nervous system; COX, cyclooxygenase; CRC, colorectal carcinoma cells; DMP, discovery metabolite profiling; ERK, extracellular-signal-regulated kinase; FAAH, fatty acid amide hydrolase; HCA-7, human colon adenocarcinoma; 11-HETE-G, 11-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid glycerol ...