Maturation processes in marine molluscs are not well-characterized and large gaps in our understanding remain. Many studies have concluded that steroids are involved in mollusc reproduction, but the majority of these studies were targeted at vertebrate steroids that may not play a role given the apparent lack of functional receptors for androgens and estrogens. The topdown approaches used in th...

This article presents one of the results research developed at UERJ, with support CNPq, entitled "New Portuguese Geo-Historical Studies", and focuses on partial description linguistic ethnographic reality Azores Archipelago. It takes as its base-text Linguistic-Ethnographic Atlas examines linguistic, historical physical situation nine islands.