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Food environment solutions for childhood obesity in Latin America and among Latinos living in the United States
(Wiley, 2021)
The food environment is a major contributor to unhealthy diets in children and,
therefore, to the increasing rates of obesity. Acclaimed by scholars across the world,
Latin American countries have been leaders in ...
Estudo preliminar da presença de vírus em populações de capivaras em dois biomas brasileiros
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2015-06-26)
Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) are the largest known living rodents, being endemic of the New World and living in a diversity of habitats, as long as it is close to water bodies. Two mains characteristics exhibited ...
Characterization of indicator tree species in neotropical environments and implications for geological mapping
(Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018)
Aromatic hydrocarbon degradation genes from chronically polluted Subantarctic marine sediments
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2009-11)
Aim: The goal of this study was to identify functional targets to detect polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading bacterial populations in cold marine ecosystems. Methods and Results: We designed a degenerate primer ...
Patterns and Determinants of Physical Inactivity in Rural and Urban Areas in Peru: A Population-Based Study
(Human Kinetics, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors have been linked with impaired health outcomes. Establishing the physical inactivity profiles of a given population is needed to establish program targets and to ...
Caracterização populacional e molecular, e seleção de Trichoderma spp. para biocontrole de Fusarium sp. em crisãntemo
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBRAgronomiaUFSMPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Agronomia, 2007-02-28)
Trichoderma spp. is one of the most researched fungi as biocontrole agent of diseases, being antagonistic to several phytopathogens in different crops. The soilborne pathogen Fusarium oxysporum causes wilt in several crops, ...
Conservação e evolução: da ecologia populacional a políticas públicas
(Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), 2019-02-05)
A fragmentação dos ambientes naturais pode gerar consequências negativas para a diversidade genética, a evolução e a conservação da biodiversidade. Esses efeitos podem se tornar ameaças à relevância dos ecossistemas para ...
Adolescent birth rates and the urban social environment in 363 Latin American cities
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Introduction Latin America has the second-highest adolescent birth rate (ABR) worldwide. Variation between urban and rural areas and evidence linking country development to ABR points towards upstream factors in the causal ...