BACKGROUND Although prostate cancer has recently registered increasing incidence and decreasing mortality in Spain, no analysis has yet been made of these two indicators to ascertain the magnitude of and reasons for these trends. MATERIALS AND METHODS The time trend in invasive prostate cancer incidence from 1975 to 2004 was studied by combining data from 13 Spanish population-based cancer re...

This paper presents the use of multitemporal remote sensing data for monitoring land cover changes in Acre State, Brazilian Amazônia. The 2000 Landsat ETM+, the 1990 Landsat TM, and 1980 Landsat MSS were used. The 2005 and 2007 MODIS images were also used to map deforestation occurred during the recent years and to map burned areas occurred in the 2005 dry year. The Landsat and MODIS images wer...

O objetivo é (re)pensar a língua enquanto acontecimento e em movimento contínuo de disputa. A observação ocorre partir uma palavra suas possibilidades expressões semelhantes. embasamento teórico vem Orlandi (1990, 2007, 2009 2013), Auroux (2009) Pêcheux (2015). estudo sobre produção conhecimento da língua, “língua brasileira” os instrumentos linguísticos gramatização fontes poder, com atuação (...

Human infl uences on ecological drivers are increasingly recognized as dominant processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Regional to global-scale changes in drivers and important resources, such as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, climate, and nitrogen deposition, are known to alter biotic structure, ecosystem function, and biogeochemical processes with feedbacks to hu...