Academic Articles & Research Papers

Comparing watershed-based spatial units and administrative boundaries for malaria prediction in the Peruvian Amazon.

On the validity of Plecturocebus parecis Gusmão et al., 2019, a titi monkey described from southwestern Brazilian Amazonia.

Cellulose industry and the progress of eucalyptus silviculture on the agricultural border of maranhense Amazonia

This paper has as the main goal present the recent evolution of the eucalyptus silviculture over the agriculture border of Legal Amazon in the State of Maranhão. It’s considered the propagation of historical appropriation and commodificatio...

Current status of Paragonimus and paragonimiasis in Ecuador

A review of national and international publications on paragonimiasis in Ecuador, epidemiological records from the Ministry of Public Health and unpublished research data was conducted to summarise the current status of the parasite/disease...

The International History of Communication Study

An indepth treatise on the history of human communication with archival interviews and research of those who have studied it as an intrical part of the social sciences. (Amazon.com)...

Migración venezolana y discriminación en Ecuador durante el 2019: análisis del encuadre informativo en Teleamazonas y El Universo

Este artículo viene de una investigación en curso y analiza los contenidos noticiosos que generaron dos medios de comunicación respecto de la migración de personas venezolanas hacia Ecuador durante el año 2019. Se argumenta que los medios i...

Courses and distances, wedges and difficulties of doctors’ formers in science and mathematics education

The problem put under focus stems from cultivation of doctoral actions, reactions and attitudes of doctors already practicing in other areas and that resolve to migrate to the areas of Science and Math Education to take-on collaboration-tra...

The Effect of Influencer Image Types on Purchase Intention: The Mediating Role of Persuasion Knowledge and the Moderating Role of Parasocial Relationships

Understanding how visual content shapes consumers’ persuasion processes in social media environments has become an important research issue. Drawing primarily on the Persuasion Knowledge Model (PKM) and parasocial relationship (PSR) theory,...

A nationwide study on immunosenescence biomarkers profile in older adults: ELSI-Brazil

Immunosenescence is a phenomenon caused by changes in the immune system, and part of these changes involves an increase in circulating immunological biomarkers, a process known as “Inflammaging.” Inflammaging can be associated with many dis...

CERAMIKA QUICHUA I JEJ ROLA NAD RZEKĄ NAPO W EKWADORZE

Quichua Indians living in Amazon part of Ecuador are the biggest group of indigenous people in this country. This article is based on the research conducted in the Napo Quichua group, that lives along the Napo River in the Oriente province....

Amazonian Archaeology

Amazonian archaeology has made major advances in recent decades, particularly in understanding coupled human environmental systems. Like other tropical forest regions, prehistoric social formations were long portrayed as small-scale, disper...

International Business and Management

Citation (2012), "International Business and Management", Hadjikhani, A., Elg, U. and Ghauri, P. (Ed.) Business, Society and Politics (International Business and Management, Vol. 28), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, p. ii. https:...

Anomalous effect in Schumann resonance phenomena observed in Japan, possibly associated with the Chi-chi earthquake in Taiwan

The Schumann resonance phenomenon has been monitored at Nakatsugawa (near Nagoya) in Japan since the beginning of 1999, and due to the occurance of a severe earthquake (so-called Chi-chi earthquake) on 21 September 1999 in Taiwan we have...

Seasonal monopolization of small carrion by a scarab beetle in terra firme Amazonian rainforests

Abstract Small vertebrate carcasses represent an abundant resource in tropical rainforests, where scavengers play a key role in nutrient recycling, enhancing productivity in nutrient-poor habitats such as Amazonian terra firme forests. Howe...

African Journal of Plant Science

[EN] The objective of this research was to evaluate fruit yield, other agronomic characteristics and content of ascorbic acid (aa) of five promissory genotypes of “camu-camu” in non-flooded area of the experimental field “El Dorado”. The pl...

Perception of dental trauma by community health workers in the Amazon region

The high prevalence of dental trauma among the population highlights the importance of the preventative actions taken after trauma to preserve the integrity of the dental organ. The present study aimed to evaluate the perception of the Comm...

Bird diversity in the Serra do Aracá region, northwestern Brazilian Amazon: preliminary check-list with considerations on biogeography and conservation

We inventoried the birds from Serra do Aracá region, state of Amazonas. The region encompasses a high diversity of vegetation types, including white sand forests and campinas, terra firme and flooded forests, montane forests and tepuis. We ...

HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES

The use of health technologies provides better health management, anchored in equity, communication and governance in health. Technologies are conceptualized as a tool, which helps from planning to the execution of activities, and can be ap...

A Virtual Reading Center Model Using Crowdsourcing to Grade Photographs for Trachoma: Validation Study

BackgroundAs trachoma is eliminated, skilled field graders become less adept at correctly identifying active disease (trachomatous inflammation—follicular [TF]). Deciding if trachoma has been eliminated from a district or if treatment strat...

Data for: Terrain units, land use/cover, and gross primary productivity of the largest fluvial basin in the Brazilian Amazonia/Cerrado ecotone: The Araguaia River Basin

Integrity of most of tropical wetlands is threatened because they are often considered freely available resources of land and water. The Araguaia River Basin is one of the Brazilian basins most influenced by tropical seasonal floods, in add...