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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test the validity of the pragmatic criteria of the definitions of neonatal near miss, extending them throughout the infant period, and to estimate the indicators of perinatal care in public maternity hospitals. METHODS A cohort of live births from six maternity hospitals in the municipalities of São Paulo, Niterói, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was c...

Topoarele din rocă (de obicei metamorfică) de culoare verde erau considerate foarte valoroase în preistorie. Li se atașa un prestigiu special, iar rocile veneau la mari distanțe. Cunoașterea rețelei distribuție a celui mai popular tip – jadeitul luat amploare recent prin proiectul JADE 2 organizat P. Pétrequin (Pétrequin et alii 2017). În Ungaria, astfel artefacte au fost identificate și descri...

The wolf spider genus Birabenia Mello-Leitão, 1941 is revalidated, comprising B. birabenae Mello-Leitão (type species) and B. vittata (Mello-Leitão) comb. n. The monotypic genus Melloicosa Roewer is synonymised with Birabenia by the transfer of its type species Gnatholycosa vittata Mello-Leitão. Three species, Hogna taeniata (Mello-Leitão), Geolycosa sanogastensis (Mello-Leitão) and Paratrochos...

Korpela, I. 2004. Individual tree measurements by means of digital aerial photogrammetry. Silva Fennica Monographs 3. 93 p. This study explores the plausibility of the use of multi-scale, CIR aerial photographs to conduct forest inventory at the individual tree level. Multiple digitised aerial photographs are used for manual and semi-automatic 3D positioning of tree tops, for species classifica...

The present issue of the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (AABC) publishes several papers on paleontology. Among them is the study of Priscilla da Silva (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz) and colleagues who have made quite an interesting discovery: a new parasite in a coprolite of 240 million years (Da Silva et al. 2014). Coprolites or fossilized feces are not particularly rare, being constantl...

Lectins are oligomeric carbohydrate-binding proteins that are involved in various biological recognition processes (Ghosh & Mandal, 2012). They are a large and diverse group of proteins that have the ability to bind reversibly to monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, which can be defined as a class of structurally diverse proteins or glycoproteins (Sharon, 2008). These proteins are widely distr...