PURPOSE To comprehensively assess the precision and agreement of anterior corneal power measurements using 8 different devices. METHODS Thirty-five eyes from 35 healthy subjects were included in the prospective study. In the first session, a single examiner performed on each subject randomly measurements with the RC-5000 (Tomey Corp., Japan), KR-8000 (Topcon, Japan), IOLMaster (Carl Zeiss Med...

BACKGROUND During a dengue outbreak with co-circulation of DENV-1 and -2 in the city of Boa Vista, one patient was diagnosed with DENV-4, a serotype supposed absent from Brazil for almost 30 years. The re-emergence of DENV-4 triggered the intensification of mechanical and chemical Aedes aegypti control activities in order to reduce vector density and avoid DENV-4 dissemination throughout the co...

Resumo: este ensaio revisa a gênese da perspectiva nas práticas e teorias artísticas considera seus desenvolvimentos na filosofia. O perspectivismo de Nietzsche se encaixa nessa trajetória. termo “perspectivismo” designa, em Nietzsche, o mapeamento dos modos interação correlação entre formas vida. Na antropologia contemporânea Viveiros Castro, é filosofia elaborada pelos povos amazônicos, para ...

Franco Dani Campos-Pereira, Ana Cristina Prado Veiga-Menoncello, and Maria Aparecida Marin-Morales Laboratório de Mutagênese Ambiental (LMA), Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP Avenida 24-A, no 1515, Bela Vista, CEP 13506-900, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil Departamento de Biologia Estrutural e Funcional IB, Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAMP, Av. Bertrand Russel, s/no, CEP 13083-865, ...

Context. The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six Public Surveys, one of which is the near-infrared Y JKs VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC). This survey comprises the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Magellanic Bridge connecting the two galaxies a...

Context. The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Vı́a Láctea (VVV) started in 2010. VVV targets 562 sq. deg in the Galactic bulge and an adjacent plane region and is expected to run for ∼ 5 years. Aims. In this paper we describe the progress of the survey observations in the first observing season, the observing strategy and quality of the data

ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER1 and RICARDO A. AZEVEDO2 1Laboratório de Sistemática e Tafonomia de Répteis Fósseis, Departamento de Geologia e Paleontologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n, Bairro Imperial de São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 2Departamento de Genética, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900 Piracicaba, SP,...

ANALOG SOILS. A. Mojarro, J. Hachey, R. Bailey, M. Brown, R. Doebler, G. Ruvkun, M. T. Zuber, and C. E. Carr Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139; Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA, 02114; Claremont Biosolutions, 1182 Monte Vista Av...