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IZAB Research Article May 2, 2024
Diversity of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Captured by Myrmeleon (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae) Larvae in a Ecosystem of the Brazilian Cerrado Biome
Andrade TT, Martins LCB, LimaTDN and Araújo VA*

This study aimed to investigate the diversity of ants captured in Myrmeleon pits in a Cerrado environment (Brazilian savanna) and assess the relationship between pit size and capt…

Camponotus Antlion Predation
IZAB Research Article Apr 26, 2024
Aggregation Role of Mandibular Gland Secretions in the Giant Tropical Ant Paraponera clavata (Formicidae: Paraponerinae)
Andrade TT, Cristaldo PF, Araujo VA, Delabie JHC and Martins LCB*

Social insects exhibit sophisticated behavioral repertoires to maintain communication and regulate colony activities. To elucidate the behavioral mechanisms of social insects is e…

Chemical Communication Aggregation Pheromone Exocrine Gland
IZAB Research Article Jan 31, 2024
Ocean Literacy Strategies Using Flag Animal as Environmental Awareness Model
Vinhas NA, Miranda AS and Araújo VA*

In recent decades, anthropogenic pressures associated with the unsustainable use of resources have threatened the health of the oceans and the dynamics of life. Considering the im…

Ocean Literacy Environmental Education Decade Oceans
IZAB Research Article Jan 28, 2025
Predation of a Red-browed Amazon, Amazona rhodocorytha (Salvadori, 1890), in Captivity by a Wild Margay, Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821)
Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo*, Bárbara Victor Sonegheti and Luiza de Carvalho Alzuguir

Leopardus wiedii is a small neotropical felid whose diet primarily consists of small mammals, although birds may constitute significant prey in certain regions. Although birds are…

Atlantic Forest Felidae Opportunistic Predator
OAJFS Mini Review Aug 27, 2024
Mini Review: Screening, Prevention, and Interventions for Frailty in Older Adults
De Araujo EL* and De Brito MG

Frailty is a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve resulting from the cumulative decline of multiple physiological systems. This condition has signifi…

Frailty Older Adults Screening
IZAB Research Article Nov 22, 2023
Consumption of fruits of Dimorphandra jorgei M.F.Silva by Tapirus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) in a Remnant of Atlantic Forest in Southeast Brazil
Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo*, Cristina Jaques da Cunha and Geovane Souza Siqueira

The Fabaceae family holds great ecological and economic importance. Some species contribute to increased nitrogen levels in the soil (association with mycorrhizae), benefiting the…

Ecosystem Service Fabaceae Fabales
VIJ Review Article Nov 8, 2023
The Candida Genus Complex: Biology, Evolution, Pathogenicity Virulence and One Health Aspects, Beyond the Candida albicans Paradigm. A Comprehensive Review
Leite-Jr DP*, Vivi-Oliveira VK, Maia MLS, Macioni MB, Oliboni GM, de Oliveira ID, Garcia JA, Araújo MR, Pereira RS, Pal M, Takahashi JPF, Bonfietti LX, Chang MR and Melhem MSC

Introduction: Yeast species of the genus Candida are important human pathogens and cause 90% of existing fungal infections. These pathogens within the One Health vision are closely…

Candida Species Nosocomial Infections Yeasts
IZAB Research Article Oct 13, 2023
Bee Diversity in an Peri-Urban Patch of “Restinga”
Silva J, Soares Miranda A, Borges Koch E, Martins C, Antonini Y and Albano Araújo V*

Bees gather food resources from angiosperm flowers, promoting pollination, cross-breeding, and increasing the genetic variability of many plant species. However, all over the worl…

Apidae Urban Fragment Seasonality
IZAB Research Article Oct 5, 2023
New records of Trichodactylus fluviatilis Latreille, 1828 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Trichodactylidae) in Southeastern Brazil
Hugo Silva Cavaca, Hilton Entringer Jr and Ana Carolina Srbek-Araujo*

Freshwater crabs play important ecological roles in lotic ecosystems, occupying different trophic levels and participating in the detritus food chain. Trichodactylus fluviatilis i…

Atlantic Forest Streams Biogeography Freshwater Crab
OAJBI Research Article Sep 19, 2023
Micromorphology and Histochemistry of Vegetative Organs from Nicandra Physalodes (L.) Gaertn (Solanaceae)
Araújo Medeiros AB, Vital dos Santos EA, Souto FS, e Silva AL and Fátima Agra MD*

Nicandra physalodes (L.) Gaertn is a sub-shrub used in folk medicine for various purposes, as it is also considered a toxic plant. Due to its ethnobotanical importance, a study of…

Pharmacobotany Medicinal Plant Morpho-Anatomy
ACT Mini Review Apr 22, 2023
Data Toxicology in Portugal: Where are we?
RTS Araújo A*, Gallardo E* and Rato F

Despite the efforts of the World Health Organization (WHO), there are no global statistics on clinical intoxications. While WHO recommends that all countries establish and strengt…

Clinical Toxicology Poisoning Emergency Admissions
PPEJ Research Article Apr 4, 2023
Treatment of Effluents Containing Hydroquinone in a Batch Reactor: Optimization Technique via RSM, MAGM and Kinetic Modelling
Teodosio JR, Brandão YB*, Oliveira DC, Dias FFS, Moraes CM, Araújo LA, Oliveira Júnior DC, Oliveira JGC and Benachour M

The objective of the present work was to study a synthetic solution containing an initial hydroquinone concentration (C0) of 500 mg L–1 by using the advanced oxidation process (AO…

Hydroquinone AOPs HPLC
PPEJ Research Article Jan 28, 2023
Thermochemical Advanced Oxidation Process by DiCTT for the Degradation/Mineralization of Effluents Phenolics with Optimization using Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Networks Modelling
Brandão YB*, Oliveira DC, Dias FFS, Teodosio JR, Oliveira JGC, Oliveira CGC, Moraes CM, Araújo LA and Benachour M

The actual work evaluated the effect of initial phenol concentration (CPh0) of 500, 1000 and 1500 mg.L-1, the molar stoichiometric ratio of Phenol/Hydrogen peroxide (RP/H) of 25, …

Phenol Thermochemical Oxidation AOPs
IZAB Research Article Oct 3, 2022
Bee Diversity Associated with Canavalia rosea (Sw.) DC. (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) in an Peri-Urban Patch of “Restinga”
Ferreira Meireles J, Soares Miranda A, Soares de Oliveira M, Antonini Y, Bacci L and Albano Araújo V*

The Restinga is one of the physiognomies of the Atlantic Forest biome with the highest degree of anthropic impact, mainly due to disordered urbanization. The impacts generate habi…

Solitary Bees Floral Ressources Atlantic Forest
OAJDS Mini Review Jul 15, 2022
Applicability of Thermography in Dentistry-Scoping Review
Araújo C, Salgado A, Macedo JP and Pereira J*

Introduction: Thermography offers a non-invasive radiation-free methodology for diagnostic imaging and temperature measurement, but the extent of the current application is unclea…

Dentistry Thermography
ACT Review Article Mar 21, 2022
Snake Envenomation: A Component- Based Review on Hemostatic Alterations
Andrade SA, de Souza, DA, Torres AL, Oliveira PR, Moreira PDO, da Silva GM, Selistre-de-Araujo HS* and Chudzinski-Tavassi AM*

Considered by the World Health Organization a neglected public health problem, snakebites occur predominantly in tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Approximately 2.…

Snake Envenomation Neglected Disease
ABCA Mini Review May 7, 2020
The Sophism of the Life in Detrement of the Economy- Instrumentalized-in the Period of the Pandemic
Araujo Souza CK*

The world is involved by issues of the most varied sciences, but there is one that has been growing a lot and bothers, in a good sense, the bioethics: The value of life. If that w…

Bioethics Economy Philosophy
PhIJ Conceptual Paper Apr 21, 2020
The Problem of the Illusory Gratuity of Existence in Sartre’s Philosophy
Araujo Souza CK*

Daily choices involve daily and intrinsically freedom, one of the central themes in Jean-aul Sartre’s existentialist philosophy. Some scholars have this philosopher together with K…

Existentialism Freedom Philosophy
NHIJ Research Article Jan 30, 2019
Construct Validity of the Two Safety Culture Questionnaires
Paz de Oliveira SK, Araújo Girão AL and Fontenele Lima de Carvalho RE*

Objective: The aim of the study was to validate the construct of two culture assessment instruments adapted and validated for the Portuguese language, the Safety Attitudes Questio…

Nursing Intraclass Safety
OAJWX Research Article Sep 19, 2018
Evaluation of Air Stripping Process for Ammonia Removal from Landfill Leachate
Leite VD*, Oliveira EGD, Costa EFM, Dantas GD and Araujo ECOD

Of the amount of urban solid waste collected in Brazil, 58.4% (percentage by weight) had an adequate destination, while 41.6% were sent to landfills or controlled landfills. The l…

Urban Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Ammonium Air Stripping