We analyzed 54 specimens of Hoplias aff. malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) collected between March 2010 and March 2011 from the upper Paraná river Neotropical floodplain, Brazil. All hosts were parasitized by at least one species of Monogenea. The parasites species with higher prevalence were Urocleidoides cuiabai Rosim, Mendoza-Franco & Luque, 2011 (96.29 %) and U. malabaricusi Rosim, Mendoza-Franco &...

Eduardo Franco and Guy-Anne Turgeon discuss new findings from Joel Ray and colleagues on the cancer risk following prenatal exposure to radiodiagnostic imaging, and where new research needs to be focused.

The hand pronation phenomenon due to a pyramidal tract lesion is a sign commonly used for identifying a mild paresis, but the first descriptions of this maneuver seem to have been only partially investigated by the historians of neuroscience. Here we illustrate that this sign was most probably originally described by Adolf Strümpell (1853-1925) in 1901 and subsequently re-proposed by the illust...

The vast amount of information on the Web poses a challenge when trying to identify the most important facts. Many fact ranking algorithms have emerged, however, thus far there is a lack of a general domain, objective gold standard that would serve as an evaluation benchmark for comparing such systems. We present FRanCo, a ground truth for fact ranking acquired using crowdsourcing. The corpus i...

of Thesis presented to COPPE/UFRJ as partia1 fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Master of Science (M.Sc.) Paralell Algorit hms for S tring-Mat ching Nalvo Franco de Almeida Junior

Si l’identité franco-manitobaine est difficile à cerner pour les Franco-Manitobains comme tout observateur, c’est qu’elle porte stigmates de plusieurs siècles d’histoire mouvementée, née sur une terre d’immigrations multiples. Elle peut être une, au moment revendiquer des droits, nom d’une langue sauvegarder; elle aussi plurielle aux points vue sociolinguistique et culturel. En effet, francopho...

introduction : pre-hospital emergency systems provide service by franco-german and anglo american models. this study was carried out to compare the iranian emergency medical service (ems) with the two models regarding timing and equipment. methods : in this cross sectional study, response time, scene time, and transport time to hospital as well as ambulance equipment of five hundred thousand te...

The knowledge related to computer graphics principles, virtual reality, web3D and other advanced information visualization tools and techniques as well as low cost, but high quality hardware and software facilities has gained growing accessibility over the last decade. However, there have been the challenges of influencing and supporting individuals’ skills, cognitive competencies and learning ...

Phalotris labiomaculatus Lema, 2002 was described based on a single specimen from Porto Franco, south of the Brazilian state of Maranhão, being rediscovered three years later in Mateiros, a municipality in the north of the state of Tocantins, attesting to its occurrence in the cerrado of both banks of the Tocantins River. The discovery of 28 new specimens from other localities during field expe...