BACKGROUND Negative energy balance (NEB) is a common pathological foundation of ketosis and fatty liver. Liver and fat tissue are the major organs of lipid metabolism and take part in modulating lipid oxidative capacity and energy demands, which is also a key metabolic pathway that regulates NEB develop during perinatal period. Fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21) is a recently discovered prote...

The Northeast region of Brazil (NEB) has a high rate deaths from lightning strikes (18% the country’s total). states, such as Piauí, with mortality rates (1.8 per million), much higher than national (0.8) and NEB (0.5). In this sense, present work analyzes microphysical characteristics clouds without occurrence total lightning. For purpose, data Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), TRMM Microwave Im...

We obtained high-resolution spectra of Jupiter between 4.6 and 5.4 µm using NIRSPEC on the Keck 2 telescope in February 2017. measured spatial variation NH3, H2O, pressure level deep (p > 3 bar) clouds two geometries. aligned slit north–south Jupiter’s Central Meridian to measure gas composition cloud structure 66°N 70°S. With east–west, we also examined longitudinal at regions North Equator...

A agricultura, principalmente a de subsistência, é uma atividade econômica dependente do ritmo climático. Essa relação dependência ainda mais intensa no Nordeste Brasil (NEB), visto que o NEB região apresenta elevada variabilidade pluviométrica interanual e intrasazonal das chuvas. Diante disso, presente trabalho buscou observar comportamento da pluviometria na quadra chuvosa 2003 2013 os impac...

Plasticity in hexagonal close-packed zirconium is controlled by screw dislocations which easily glide the prismatic planes where they are dissociated. At high enough temperatures, these can deviate out of prism to also first order pyramidal and basal planes. To get a better understanding secondary slip systems, we have performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations dislocation gliding plane. The...

Nebulin is a giant protein that spans most of the muscle thin filament. Mutations in nebulin result in myopathies and dystrophies. Nebulin contains approximately 200 copies of approximately 35 residue modules, each believed to contain an actin binding site, organized into seven-module superrepeats. The strong correlation between the number of nebulin modules and the length of skeletal muscle th...