The impacts of unregulated sport hunting can severely affect populations of target game species. Because hunting in Brazil is limited by law, obtaining data on illegal sport hunting in this country is challenging. We used an unusual online resource, YouTubeTM, to detect the occurrence of sport hunting in Brazil, measure the impacts of the activity on the main Brazilian game species and biomes, ...

PURPOSE To compare clinical trials published in Brazilian journals of ophthalmology and in foreign journals of ophthalmology with respect to the number of citations and the quality of reporting [by applying the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement writing standards]. METHODS The sample of this systematic review comprised the two Brazilian journals of ophthalmology i...

of CAPES. In this area, the impact that the classification of journals in the Qualis System has on the articles published in Brazilian journals can be even greater than that observed in the areas of Medicine II and III. This is due to the fact that, in Medicine I, a “governor” was created in order to limit the number of articles published in journals classified as B3, B4 or B5. Most Brazilian j...

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorders are often not recognized and undertreated. The diagnosis of current or past episodes of hypomania is of importance in order to increase diagnostic certainty. The Hypomania Checklist-32 is a self-applied questionnaire aimed at recognizing these episodes. As part of the international collaborative effort to develop multi-lingual versions of the Hypomania Checklist-32, ...

109 Rev Bras Reumatol 2011;51(2):109-112 In this volume, the article Brazilian Biologic Registry: BiobadaBrasil implementation process and preliminary, the authors described the implementation of the registry “Monitoring the Brazilian Registry of Biological Therapies in Rheumatic Diseases – BiobadaBrasil” promoted by the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (BSR), and presented data from the first...

384 Virtual access to information is a current and noticed need for nursing area, both to the education of new professionals and to permanent education as well as to the consolidation of this knowledge area. The creation of virtual libraries in health area seems to be the path to face this challenge. The Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem – ABEn (Brazilian Nursing Society), through the Nursing...

The Nominal Mapping Parameter (Chierchia 1998) has been proposed as a semantic parameter to account for the cross-linguistic distribution of bare nominals. We examine specific predictions that the NMP makes with respect to the bare singular arguments and bare singular predicates. Brazilian Portuguese allows bare singulars in argument position while English and other Romance languages doe not. F...

This article presents an overview of the maturation process in children and discusses data from some Brazilian samples. Data related to secondary sexual characteristics in both sexes are compared to other populations. The national median menarcheal age in Brazilian girls obtained by INAN (1990) was 13.2 years. The menarcheal age of Brazilian athletes is higher than the non-athletic population. ...

This study investigated the different ways of evaluating the social support in Brazilian studies. A surveying of scientific Brazilian publications from 1987 to 2007 was done in the Indexpsi, Pepsic, SciELO and Lilacs databases according to keywords social support and social network. Fifty-five studies included some type of assessing social support in Brazilian samples. The results indicated a r...