This paper offers a geographical perspective on the way in which health regions have been defined and established in São Paulo as part of overall Brazilian health policy. To accomplish this, I first situate the Brazilian ...

This paper offers a geographical perspective on the way in which health regions have been defined and established in São Paulo as part of overall Brazilian health policy. To accomplish this, I first situate the Brazilian ...

The objective of this research was to analyze the economic viability of tomato production in different typical production farms at Caçador region (SC): small scale (1.25 ha) and large scale (27.27 ha). For each group it ...

We develop a criterion based on a brute-force algorithm to systematically determine optimal fitting regions for fluctuation functions in Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) and Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis ...

Non-native (alien, exotic) plant invasions are affecting ecological processes and threatening biodiversity worldwide. Patterns of plant invasions, and the ecological processes which generate these patterns, vary across ...

Length-scale and area-scale analyses, two of the scale-sensitive fractal analyses performed by the software Surfrax www.surfract.com, were used to study food surfaces measured with a scanning laser microscope (SLM). The ...

Assemblage patterns could be primarily generated by two types of drivers: exogenous (such as environmental and climatic factors) and endogenous (interactions such as competition, predation, mutualism or herbivory). The ...