• A micro-impinger sampling device for determination of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide 

  Filho, Juliano Passaretti ; Costa, Maria Angélica Martins ; Cardoso, Arnaldo Alves (Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2019) [Artigo]

  There is an increasing demand for the determination of gaseous pollutants present in both outdoor and indoor environments. It is the result of a growing awareness that good air quality is fundamental to the health of the ...

• At1 receptor blockade improves myocardial functional performance in obesity 

  de Oliveira-Junior, Silvio Assis; Muzili, Nayara de Araújo; Carvalho, Marianna Rabelo de; Ota, Gabriel Elias; de Morais, Camila Souza; Vieira, Larissa Fregapani da Costa; Ortiz, Mateus Oliveira; Campos, Dijon H. S. ; Cezar, Marcelo Diacardia Mariano ; Okoshi, Marina Politi et al. (Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2020) [Artigo]

  Background: Obesity has been associated with chronic activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and with significant changes in cardiac performance. Objective: To assess the impact of a blockade of angiotensin-II ...

• Soil mechanical scarification increases the dry matter yield of cover crops under no-tillage 

  Do Nascimento, Vagner; Arf, Orivaldo ; Alves, Marlene Cristina ; de Souza, Epitácio José; da Silva, Paulo Ricardo Teodoro; Kaneko, Flávio Hiroshi; Sabundjian, Michelle Traete; Filho, Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira ; Galindo, Fernando Shintate (Idesia, 2019) [Artigo]

  Soil mechanical scarification (MS) and cover crop growing (CC) are strategies to minimize compaction in the soil surface layer under the no-tillage system (NTS). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of ...

• Environmental enrichment effect on oxidative stress in hypertensive rats 

  Cezar, Marcelo Diarcadia Mariano; Lima, Aline Regina Ruiz ; Pagan, Luana Urbano ; Damatto, Ricardo Luiz (Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2019) [Editorial]

• Production of Pleurotus ostreatus var. Florida on briquettes and recycling its spent substrate as briquettes for fuel grade biosolids 

  Moreira, Bruno Rafael de Almeida ; Viana, Ronaldo da Silva ; Magalhães, Anderson Chagas ; Caraschi, José Claudio ; Zied, Diego Cunha ; Dias, Eustáquio Souza; Rinker, Danny Lee (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020) [Artigo]

  Development and implementation of strategies targeting downstream steps to convert spent mushroom substrate into energy or bioproducts are an urgent matter. This may ensure that edible mushrooms are both sustainable to ...

• Physical and mechanical properties of particleboard from Eucalyptus grandis produced by urea formaldehyde resin with SiO2 nanoparticles 

  Valle, Ana C.M. ; Ferreira, Bruno S. ; Prates, Glaucia A. ; Goveia, Danielle ; de Campos, Cristiane I. (Engenharia Agricola, 2020) [Artigo]

  The use of nanoparticles appears to be a feasible option for improving the quality of a range of wood-based products. Studies show that they can improve both the physical and mechanical properties of wood and wood-based ...

• Experimental observation of phase-transition-like behavior in an optical simulation of single-qubit game 

  Passos, M. H.M.; Tiago, G. S.G.P.; de Ponte, M. A. ; Santos, Alan C.; Huguenin, J. A.O. (Quantum Information Processing, 2020) [Artigo]

  Phase-transition-like behavior in quantum games has been studied in recent years as a strategy to deal with abrupt changes in the expected payoff of quantum players. More precisely, such behavior is investigated in the ...

• Evaluation of CCB-preserved medium density particleboards under natural weathering 

  Poleto, Sabrina Fernanda Sartório; de Moura Aquino, Vinicius Borges; Chahud, Eduardo; Pinheiro, Roberto Vasconcelos; Nunes Branco, Luiz Antonio Melgaço; Silva, Diogo Aparecido Lopes; de Campos, Cristiane Inácio ; Molina, Julio Cesar ; de Carvalho, Carlos Maviael; Christoforo, André Luis et al. (BioResources, 2020) [Artigo]

  Wood engineered products are alternatives to the use of timber for civil construction, manufacturing, and the furniture industry. One of these products is the medium density particleboard (MDP) panel, which is made of wood ...

• Influence of Indian cedar particle pretreatments on cement-wood composite properties 

  Oliveira, Carolina A. B. ; Silva, João V. F. ; Bianchi, Natália A. ; Campos, Cristiane I. ; Oliveira, Karina A. ; Galdino, Danilo S. ; Bertolini, Marilia S. ; Morais, Cesar A. G. ; de Souza, Alexandre J.D. ; Molina, Julio C. (BioResources, 2020) [Artigo]

  This work physically, mechanically, and chemically characterized the composites produced from Portland CP II-E32 cement and fresh Indian cedar wood particles previously treated by immersion in hot and cold water. Density ...

• Playing chess or playing poker? Assessment of uncertainty propagation in open innovation projects 

  Gomes, Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos; Lopez-Vega, Henry; Facin, Ana Lucia Figueiredo (International Journal of Project Management, 2020) [Artigo]

  Consider an interorganizational open innovation project, in which different organizations cooperate to generate value for clients or to solve a technological problem. In this setting, both the focal firm and the partners ...

• Perylene derivative films: Emission from higher singlet excited state 

  Fernandes, José Diego ; Pazin, Wallance Moreira ; Macedo, Wagner Costa ; Teixeira, Silvio Rainho ; Lima, Sergio Antonio Marques ; Batagin-Neto, Augusto ; Leopoldo Constantino, Carlos José (Journal of Luminescence, 2020) [Artigo]

  Transitions from the singlet electronic excited states higher than S1 level (S2) to the fundamental state (S0) are unlikely, although such transitions are observed for perylene derivative compounds. This rareness led us ...

• Timber housing production systems in Brazil 

  De Araujo, Victor A. ; Biazzon, João C. ; Cortez-Barbosa, Juliana ; Morales, Elen A.M. ; Gava, Maristela ; Garcia, José N. (Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series II: Forestry, Wood Industry, Agricultural Food Engineering, 2020) [Artigo]

  This paper is based on an evaluation of the industrialization levels and main production systems of Brazilian timber housing producers. Two methods were used to investigate this understudied topic. Literature-based projection ...

• Operator Exposure to Whole-Body Vibration in Timber Extraction with Grapple Skidder 

  Cazani, Ana C ; Miyajima, Ricardo H ; Simões, Danilo ; dos Santos, João E G (Journal of Vibrational Engineering and Technologies, 2020) [Artigo]

  Purpose: The objective was to evaluate the occupational vibration acting under grapple skidder operators during skidding operation of the Eucalyptus tree bundles. Methods: The collection of the whole-body vibration data ...

• Technical-economic analysis of grapple saw: A stochastic approach 

  Miyajima, Ricardo Hideaki ; Fenner, Paulo Torres; Batistela, Gislaine Cristina ; Simões, Danilo (Croatian Journal of Forest Engineering, 2020) [Artigo]

  The processing of Eucalyptus logs is a stage that follows the full tree system in mechanized forest harvesting, commonly performed by grapple saw. Therefore, this activity presents some as-sociated uncertainties, especially ...

• Gaussian process estimation of transition redshift 

  Jesus, J. F. ; Valentim, R.; Escobal, A. A. ; Pereira, S. H. (Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2020) [Artigo]

  This paper aims to put constraints on the transition redshift zt, which determines the onset of cosmic acceleration, in cosmological-model independent frameworks. In order to do that, we use the non-parametric Gaussian ...

• Surface-enhanced Raman scattering for dopamine in Ag colloid: Adsorption mechanism and detection in the presence of interfering species 

  Figueiredo, Maria L.B. ; Martin, Cibely S. ; Furini, Leonardo N.; Rubira, Rafael J.G. ; Batagin-Neto, Augusto ; Alessio, Priscila ; Constantino, Carlos J.L. (Applied Surface Science, 2020) [Artigo]

  The dopamine, an important neurotransmitter, in abnormal concentration can be associated with the appearance of some neurological diseases. Based on the necessity of dopamine control, we propose a fast and more straightforward ...

• Reactivity of eumelanin building blocks: A DFT study of monomers and dimers 

  Alves, Gabriel G.B. ; Lavarda, Francisco C. ; Graeff, Carlos F.O. ; Batagin-Neto, Augusto (Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2020) [Artigo]

  Melanins are natural pigments with important biological properties and have been considered promising materials for several bio-electronic applications. In spite of it, until now there is no satisfactory understanding of ...

• The antioxidant peptide salamandrin-i: First bioactive peptide identified from skin secretion of salamandra genus (salamandra salamandra) 

  Plácido, Alexandra; Bueno, João; Barbosa, Eder A.; Moreira, Daniel C.; Dias, Jhones Do Nascimento; Cabral, Wanessa Felix; Albuquerque, Patrícia; Bessa, Lucinda J.; Freitas, Jaime; Kuckelhaus, Selma A. S. et al. (Biomolecules, 2020) [Artigo]

  Amphibian skin is a multifunctional organ that plays key roles in defense, breathing, and water balance. In this study, skin secretion samples of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) were separated using RP-HPLC and ...

• Detection of thiabendazole fungicide/parasiticide by SERS: Quantitative analysis and adsorption mechanism 

  Oliveira, Marcelo J.S. ; Rubira, Rafael J.G. ; Furini, Leonardo N. ; Batagin-Neto, Augusto ; Constantino, Carlos J.L. (Applied Surface Science, 2020) [Artigo]

  The application of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as analytical tool remains a challenge due signal intensity fluctuations, which depends on experimental parameters such as size, shape, and aggregation of the ...

• Isothermal oxidation of Inconel 625 superalloy at 800 and 1000 °C: Microstructure and oxide layer characterization 

  de Sousa Malafaia, Artur Mariano; de Oliveira, Rafaela Brino ; Latu-Romain, Laurence; Wouters, Yves; Baldan, Renato (Materials Characterization, 2020) [Artigo]

  Superalloys are widely used in applications at high temperatures and severe environments. Inconel 625 is one of the most applied superalloys due to its high oxidation resistance and mechanical properties, however studies ...

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