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Review ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAntihypertensive Effects of Brazilian FruitsAugusto Altoé Puppin, Christiane Mileib Vasconcelos, Mirian de Almeida Silva et al.Cardiovascular disease is a health problem that generates economic and social impacts worldwide and hypertension is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. Currently, conventional medicine offers treatments that control and regulate blood pressure through medication, but the traditional medicines of different cultures have used plants and foods to treat and prevent this type of disease for … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 20, Issue 2 · 19 Jun 2020 · 7,187 accessesView PDFCite
Case ReportOpen accessEvery word in the titleUsing Lean Six Sigma to Increase Efficiency of a Grain Receipt Process of a Brazilian Agroindustry CooperativeSeiti Moraes Sakumoto, Daiane Maria De Genaro Chiroli, Ana Caroline DzulinskiDue to the competitiveness of companies to increase market share, they have been more and more interested in topics related to cost reduction, process efficiency, new customers and continuous improvement. Considering this scenario, this study conducted analyses and implemented improvements using the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology in a grain receipt process of a Brazilian agroindustrial cooperative to increase its … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 2 · 17 Jun 2019 · 7,612 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleDistributional Models with Syntactic Contexts for the Measurement of Word Similarity in Brazilian PortugueseEduardo E. Berlitz, Denis A. Araujo, Allan B. Silva et al.The similarity between words constitutes significant support to tasks in natural language processing. Several works use Lexical resources such as WordNet for semantic similarity and synonym identification. Nevertheless, words out-of-vocabulary or missing links between senses are perceived problems of this approach. Distributional-based proposals like word embeddings have successfully been used to meet such problems, but the lack of contextual information … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 10 · 31 May 2019 · 6,818 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMolecular Diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii in Free-Range Chickens (Gallus gallus) Sold at Fairs in the Metropolitan Region of Macapá–AP (Brazil)Paulo Tarso Tavares Santana, Washington Luiz Assunção Pereira, Rafaelle Casseb Guimarães et al.The informal commercialization of free-range poultry in open markets poses potential food safety risks regarding zoonotic pathogens. This investigation molecularly and histopathologically screened for Toxoplasma gondii in 36 free-range chickens acquired from 12 prominent markets in metropolitan Macapá, Amapá State. Paired heart and brain tissue samples from each animal were processed via conventional PCR and conventional histology. The pathogen was … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 21, Issue 2 · 2 Jul 2026 · 1,075 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEstimation of Adaptability and Stability of Nellore Sires, based on the Productive Progeny Performance Raised in Brazilian SavannaJúlio César De Souza, Fabio Fábio Rafael Leão Fialho, Carolina Fregonesi De Souza et al.The study investigates the performance and adaptability of Nellore sires across different regions, focusing on weight traits at 205 days (W205) and 550 days (W550). Analysis reveals significant variations in progeny weight means among evaluated sires, highlighting the importance of sire selection for herd improvement. Notably, certain sires consistently exhibit superior weight traits across diverse environmental conditions, indicating their potential … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 19, Issue 1 · 2 Jul 2024 · 5,529 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAssociation of Reproductive Problems and Dairy Cow Productivity in a Farm with an Outbreak of Neosporosis Abortion in BrazilFrancisco Carlos Rodrigues de Oliveira, Samira Salim Mello Gallo, Murilo de Oliveira Bôa-Morte, Nicole Brand EderliNeosporosis is a disease caused by the protozoan Neospora caninum and its only clinical symptom in adult cows is abortion. In order to determine whether N. caninum was associated with an outbreak of abortion on a high milk production dairy farm with excellent livestock and health control standards, blood was collected from all the animals in the herd to obtain … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 1 · 1 Feb 2019 · 7,459 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleSurvey on Oral Health and History of Muscle Injury in Professional Athletes of Brazilian Women's Soccer: A Cross-Sectional Self-Reported StudyFlávia Costa Oliveira Magalhães, Cimar Eustáquio Marques da Silva, Cornelis Robert Springer et al.This study aimed to investigate behavioral eating habits and oral health care habits of professional women's soccer athletes and their relation to the history of muscle injuries from the last season. 44 female professional soccer athletes answered a specific questionnaire, comprising the length of professional sports practice, educational level, eating habits, oral hygiene care, individual perception of the oral health … …Current Research in Dentistry, Vol. 13, Issue 1 · 27 Jan 2022 · 6,806 accessesView PDFCite
InvestigationOpen accessEvery word in the titleHigh Frequency of Enteroparasite Infection in Dogs (Canis familiaris) in Urban Regions of Espírito Santo, BrazilRoberta Bastos Costa, Betânia Barreiro Santos, Gisele Pereira Valdetaro et al.The objective of this study was to perform examinations of canine fecal samples collected in the urban region, focusing on enteroparasitological diseases, common zoonosis that have their risk of transmission increased due to the growing number of stray dogs in these areas. One hundred and twenty fecal samples of stray dogs were collected from various locations of the studied region … …American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 1 · 29 Jan 2016 · 7,096 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleArthropods of Medical Importance in Brazil: Retrospective Epidemiological Information about Accidents Involving these AnimalsDanon Clemes Cardoso, Maykon Passos CristianoProblem statement: The epidemiological information about arthropods bites/sting in Criciúma region no was reported. The aim of this Research was to draw the epidemiologic profile of accidents with arthropods in Criciúma region. Approach: The information regarding accidents with arthropods from 1994-2006 was prospectively collected from SINAN (System of Injury Notification Information) files of the 21a Municipal Health Secretary of Criciúma … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2009 · 7,428 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleEnhancing Brazilian Portuguese Textual Entailment Recognition with a Hybrid ApproachAllan de Barcelos Silva, Sandro José RigoPrevious work on textual entailment has not fully exploited aspects of deep linguistic relations, which have been shown as containing important information for entailment identification. In this study, we present a new method to compute semantic textual similarity between two sentences. Our proposal relies on the integration of a set of deep linguistic relations, lexical aspects and distributed representational resources. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 14, Issue 7 · 12 Jul 2018 · 8,928 accessesView PDFCite