Marcelo Souto Nacif, Ricardo A. F. Mello, Orly O. Lacerda Junior, Christophe T. Sibley, Renato A. Machado, Edson Marchiori I National Institutes of Health Radiology Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States. II Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Cardiology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. III Universidade Federal do Espı́rito, Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil. IV UNIMED (CIAS) – Cardio...

1 Gama Filho University, Rua Manoel Vitorino 553, Prédio AG, 5 andar, 20740-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Chest Institute, McGill University, 3650 St. Urbain Street, Montreal, PQ, Canada H2X 2P4 3 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Professor Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, 21941-913 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 4 Center for Global Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New Y...

1 Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2 Instituto de Biof́ısica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia e Qualidade Industrial—Inmetro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4 Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagens-INBEB, Brazil 5 University of California, San Francisco-Pathology, California Ins...

1Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of Public Health and Paediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy 2Department Biosciences, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 3Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Bio-Culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé, Unités Mixtes de Recherche 7258, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France 4Laboratóri...

OBJECTIVE To analyze trends in childhood leukemia mortality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 1980 and 2006. METHOD Gender-stratified leukemia mortality data for children aged < 15 years from 1980 to 2006 were retrieved from the Brazilian Mortality Information System for the state of Rio de Janeiro. Data were stratified by place of death (city of Rio de Janeiro proper, the state...

Milena de Sousa Nascimento, Viviane Gianluppi Ferro & Ricardo Ferreira Monteiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos, CP 68020, 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Ecologia, 74690-900, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. Corresponding author...

Eduardo Folco Capossoli and Henrique Boschi-Filho Instituto de F́ısica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21.941-972 Rio de Janeiro-RJ Brazil Departamento de F́ısica, Colégio Pedro II, 20.921-903 Rio de Janeiro-RJ Brazil Abstract In this work we propose a modified holographic softwall model, analytically solvable, to calculate the masses of lightest scalar glueball and its radial excitation...

Departamento de Medicina Tropical **Departamento de Protozoologia ***Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil *Departamento de Patologia, Uerj, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil ****Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *****Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química...

1. Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. 2. Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ. Address to: Dr. Dennis de Carvalho Ferreira. IMPG/UFRJ. Av. Carlos Chagas Filho 373, CCS, Bloco I, Sala I2-010, Cidade Universitária, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Phone: 55 21 2560-8344; Fax: 55-21-2560-8028...

Address: 1Necker Hospital, Paris, France, 2Saint Jacques Hospital, Besançon, France, 3SGPGI, Lucknow, India, 4La Paz Hospital, Madrid, Spain, 5Garrahan Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 6Universitade do Estato do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeireo, Brazil, 7University children's hospital, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8Hacettepe university, Ankara, Turkey, 9Jasklov Hospital, Mumbai, India, 10Hospices civi...