Search Results - "Nobre, A. A."

Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial by Iyadurai, L, Blackwell, S E, Meiser-Stedman, R, Watson, P C, Bonsall, M B, Geddes, J R, Nobre, A C, Holmes, E A

“…After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are lacking. Here we…”
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Land-use and climate change risks in the Amazon and the need of a novel sustainable development paradigm by Nobre, Carlos A., Sampaio, Gilvan, Borma, Laura S., Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos, Silva, José S., Cardoso, Manoel

“…For half a century, the process of economic integration of the Amazon has been based on intensive use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, which…”
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Dissociating explicit timing from temporal expectation with fMRI by Coull, JT, Nobre, AC

“…Explicit timing is engaged whenever subjects make a deliberate estimate of discrete duration in order to compare it with a previously memorised standard…”
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Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor condensation influences atmospheric pressure and dynamics by Makarieva, A. M, Gorshkov, V. G, Sheil, D, Nobre, A. D, Li, B.-L

“…Phase transitions of atmospheric water play a ubiquitous role in the Earth's climate system, but their direct impact on atmospheric dynamics has escaped wide…”
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Biomethanation potential of macroalgae Ulva spp. and Gracilaria spp. and in co-digestion with waste activated sludge by Costa, J.C., Gonçalves, P.R., Nobre, A., Alves, M.M.

“…► BMP assays were performed at different TS concentrations of three macroalgae. ► The maximum specific methane production was 196±9LCH4kg−1VS with 2.5%…”
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health - what do we know so far? by Marguilho, M., Nobre, A.

“…Introduction The devastating effects of the current pandemic are profoundly affecting peoples’s physical and psychological health. Numerous studies on the…”
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Scientific approaches to address challenges in coastal management by Nobre, A. M.

“…Anthropogenic activity has a negative impact on many coastal ecosystems, compromising the significant direct and indirect socio-economic benefits provided in…”
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The hazards of time by Nobre, AC, Correa, A, Coull, JT

“…Temporal expectations are continuously formed and updated, and interact with expectations about other relevant attributes of events, in order to optimise our…”
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Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon by Malhi, Yadvinder, Roberts, J. Timmons, Betts, Richard A, Killeen, Timothy J, Li, Wenhong, Nobre, Carlos A

“…The forest biome of Amazonia is one of Earth's greatest biological treasures and a major component of the Earth system. This century, it faces the dual threats…”
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Waste-grass-mediated green synthesis of silver nanoparticles and evaluation of their anticancer, antifungal and antibacterial activity by Khatami, Mehrdad, Sharifi, Iraj, Nobre, Marcos A. L., Zafarnia, Niloofar, Aflatoonian, Mohammad R.

“…Grass waste was used for transform an inexpensive waste into health. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been synthesized using waste material (dried grass). The…”
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Climate change consequences on the biome distribution in tropical South America by Salazar, Luis F., Nobre, Carlos A., Oyama, Marcos D.

“…We studied the consequences of projected climate change on biome distribution in South America in the 21st century by forcing a potential vegetation model with…”
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Height Above the Nearest Drainage – a hydrologically relevant new terrain model by Nobre, A.D., Cuartas, L.A., Hodnett, M., Rennó, C.D., Rodrigues, G., Silveira, A., Waterloo, M., Saleska, S.

“…[Display omitted] ► HAND, a new terrain model providing a novel and unique ability to classify terrain. ► Terrain classes derived using HAND correlated well…”
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Ecological–economic assessment of aquaculture options: Comparison between abalone monoculture and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture of abalone and seaweeds by Nobre, A.M., Robertson-Andersson, D., Neori, A., Sankar, K.

“…Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) possesses ecological and socio-economic advantages, relative to single-species aquaculture. The promotion of a…”
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The Drought of Amazonia in 2005 by Marengo, José A., Nobre, Carlos A., Tomasella, Javier, Oyama, Marcos D., de Oliveira, Gilvan Sampaio, de Oliveira, Rafael, Camargo, Helio, Alves, Lincoln M., Brown, I. Foster

“…In 2005, large sections of southwestern Amazonia experienced one of the most intense droughts of the last hundred years. The drought severely affected human…”
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Deforestation triggering irreversible transition in Amazon hydrological cycle by Xu, Xiyan, Zhang, Xiaoyan, Riley, William J, Xue, Ying, Nobre, Carlos A, Lovejoy, Thomas E, Jia, Gensuo

“…Abstract The Amazon is hypothesized to reach an irreversible ‘tipping point’ when deforestation slows the hydrological cycle sufficiently that tropical forest…”
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Orienting attention to locations in perceptual versus mental representations by Nobre, A C, Coull, J T, Maquet, P, Frith, C D, Vandenberghe, R, Mesulam, M M

“…Extensive clinical and imaging research has characterized the neural networks mediating the adaptive distribution of spatial attention. In everyday behavior,…”
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Efficiency of ESI and APCI ionization sources in LC-MS/MS systems for analysis of 22 pesticide residues in food matrix by De O. Silva, Renata, De Menezes, Marília G.G., De Castro, Rubens C., De A. Nobre, Crisiana, Milhome, Maria A.L., Do Nascimento, Ronaldo F.

“…•Comparison of the efficiency of ESI and APCI were obtained through validation parameters.•Lower LOQs were obtained with the ESI source.•Matrix effect was more…”
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The response of left temporal cortex to sentences by Vandenberghe, R, Nobre, A C, Price, C J

“…The meaning of a sentence differs from the sum of the meanings of its constituents. Left anterior temporal cortex responds to sentences more strongly than to…”
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Functional localization of the system for visuospatial attention using positron emission tomography by NOBRE, A. C, SEBESTYEN, G. N, GITELMAN, D. R, MESULAM, M. M, FRACKOWIAK, R. S. J, FRITH, C. D

“…PET was used to image the neural system underlying visuospatial attention. Analysis of data at both the group and individual-subject level provided anatomical…”
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Preparatory α-band oscillations reflect spatial gating independently of predictions regarding target identity by Wildegger, T, van Ede, F, Woolrich, M, Gillebert, C R, Nobre, A C

“…Preparatory modulations of cortical α-band oscillations are a reliable index of the voluntary allocation of covert spatial attention. It is currently unclear…”
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