Search Results - "Fé, Nelson F."
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Severity of Scorpion Stings in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A Case-Control Study
Published in PloS one (10-06-2015)“…Scorpion stings are a major public health problem in Brazil, with an increasing number of registered cases every year. Affecting mostly vulnerable populations,…”
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Use of anthropophilic culicid-based xenosurveillance as a proxy for Plasmodium vivax malaria burden and transmission hotspots identification
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (01-11-2018)“…Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases, causing more than one million deaths annually. Malaria remains one of the most…”
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Integrated vector management targeting Anopheles darlingi populations decreases malaria incidence in an unstable transmission area, in the rural Brazilian Amazon
Published in Malaria journal (23-10-2012)“…Studies on vector behaviour should be conducted in order to evaluate the effectiveness of vector control measures on malaria protection in endemic areas of…”
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Comparative Studies of Populations of Lutzomyia umbratilis (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Brazil and Venezuela
Published in Journal of medical entomology (01-07-2002)“…We analyzed 64 quantitative and qualitative morphological characters in different populations of Lutzomyia (Nyssomyia) umbratilis Ward & Fraiha from Venezuela…”
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Phlebotomine sand flies from Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira (State of Amazonas, Brazil) with a description of Lutzomyia (Psychodopygus) douradoi n. sp. (Diptera: Psychodidae)
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (01-05-1998)“…Thirty-five species of Lutzomyia and two species of Brumptomyia were identified among 795 phlebotomines taken in light-traps near the upper reaches of the…”
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The transient layer: implications for geocryology and climate-change science
Published in Permafrost and periglacial processes (01-01-2005)“…Research treating permafrost‐climate interactions is traditionally based on a two‐layer conceptual model involving a seasonally frozen active layer and…”
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(Un)Frozen in Time
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (14-03-2003)“…Permafrost regions occupy nearly a quarter of Earth's terrestrial surface. The extent of subarctic permafrost has been reduced significantly during the past…”
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Spatial and temporal patterns of active layer thickness at Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) sites in northern Alaska, 1995–2000
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (27-01-2003)“…Maximum annual development of the active layer above permafrost has been monitored at seven 1‐km2 Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) sites in northern…”
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Flebotomíneos (Diptera: Psychodidae) no estado de Roraima, Brasil: I. espécies coletadas nas regiões sul e central
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1989)“…Durante 1987, nas regiões sul e central do Estado de Roraima, foram realizadas coletas de flebotomineos nas bases de árvores e em armadilhas CDC colocadas a…”
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Climate Change and Hazard Zonation in the Circum-Arctic Permafrost Regions
Published in Natural hazards (Dordrecht) (01-07-2002)“…The permafrost regions currently occupy about one quarter of the Earth's land area.Climate-change scenarios indicate that global warming will be amplified in…”
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Morphometric and spatial analysis of thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins in the western Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska
Published in Permafrost and periglacial processes (01-10-2005)“…Landsat‐7 ETM + scenes were acquired for the western Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska extending from 152° to 162° W longitude. A segmentation algorithm was used…”
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Mechanical function of two ankle extensors in wild turkeys: shifts from energy production to energy absorption during incline versus decline running
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-06-2004)“…We investigated the mechanical function of two ankle extensor muscles, the lateral gastrocnemius (LG) and peroneus longus (PL), in wild turkeys Meleagris…”
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The urban heat island in winter at Barrow, Alaska
Published in International journal of climatology (01-12-2003)“…The village of Barrow, Alaska, is the northernmost settlement in the USA and the largest native community in the Arctic. The population has grown from about…”
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Patterns of soil temperature and moisture in the active layer and upper permafrost at Barrow, Alaska: 1993–1999
Published in Global and planetary change (01-06-2001)“…Soil temperature has been monitored continuously at hourly intervals to a depth of 1 m since 1993 at a site near Barrow, AK. Time series of soil moisture from…”
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Spatial Extent, Age, and Carbon Stocks in Drained Thaw Lake Basins on the Barrow Peninsula, Alaska
Published in Arctic, antarctic, and alpine research (01-08-2003)“…Thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins are ubiquitous on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Basins are wet depositional environments, ideally suited for the…”
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Severity of Scorpion Stings in the Western Brazilian Amazon: A Case-Control Study: e0128819
Published in PloS one (01-06-2015)“…Background Scorpion stings are a major public health problem in Brazil, with an increasing number of registered cases every year. Affecting mostly vulnerable…”
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Detection of subsurface permafrost features with ground-penetrating radar, Barrow, Alaska
Published in Permafrost and periglacial processes (01-04-2001)“…A ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) survey was conducted in May 1999 on the 1 km2 Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) grid 5 km east of Barrow, Alaska…”
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Global warming and active-layer thickness: results from transient general circulation models
Published in Global and planetary change (01-10-1997)“…The near-surface thermal regime in permafrost regions could change significantly in response to anthropogenic climate warming. Because there is only a small…”
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Active-layer mapping at regional scales: a 13-year spatial time series for the Kuparuk region, north-central Alaska
Published in Permafrost and periglacial processes (01-07-2002)“…Results from extensive, spatially‐oriented field investigations conducted in the Kuparuk River region of north‐central Alaska were used in conjunction with a…”
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Calcium-rich tundra, wildlife, and the “Mammoth Steppe”
Published in Quaternary science reviews (2001)“…Moist calcareous tundra has many ecosystem properties analogous to those of the hypothesized “Mammoth Steppe” or steppe tundra of glacial Beringia, and today…”
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