Urban re-shaping has been the most common practice to reduce the number of socially vulnerable precarious settlements in the Belém Metropolitan Region, eastern portion of the Brazilian Amazon, in the last decades, but its results and effectiveness are still quite debatable.
This article aims to contextualize the housing policies of the last years in Brazil and South Africa with the changes observed from the globalization of the economy and the influence of these global processes on the housing policies of both countries. In this sense, the text begins with an understanding of the transformations of the globalized world and how neoliberal policies have driven urban structures mainly in the global South.
On 1990´s, the Toyota Production System (TPS) started a new era for world industry, when releases the concept of Lean Thinking, transposed for construction by Lauri Koskela (1992) with eleven principles. In a scenario of floating demand, this concept is related to productivity, combining philosophy, system and tools. The Lean Thinking overcome Ford´s mass production system providing few amounts of pieces, requiring less space, resources and inventory of raw material on productive process.
This study sought to determine the factors affecting the academic performance of students in the software engineering course at Salalah College of Technology. In line with this, a qualitative-descriptive design was employed. Data gathering was conducted through a self-reporting questionnaire. The average weighted mean was used to determine the level of impact of the different factors affecting the respondents’ academic performance. Among the five domains, the teacher-related factors have the most impact on the respondent’s academic performance.
Digital image watermarking is a useful solution to the problem of information security, copyright and network security. This paper shows a new scheme for robust and high rate embedding of watermarks into digital images using Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform (FWHT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). The proposed technique consists of five steps. The main features of the proposed method are its simplicity, Elasticity in data embedding capacity.
The study records the first occurrence of Prestonia bahiensis Müll. Arg., for the State of Maranhão/Brazil vegetation. Prestonia bahiensis is an endemic species and native of Brazil, with distribution restricts to Northeast and Southeast region. Are provided diagnosis, taxonomic comments, data about occurrence of environmental, geographical distribution and images of the species. With addiction of new records are known three species of Prestonia for the State of Maranhão: P. bahiensis, P. coalita (Vell.) Woodson and P. erecta (Malme) J. F. Morales.
Objective: To carry out an integrative review on the use of medicinal plants used by women in gynecological care. Method: Integrative review, in which the central question for its implementation was: what medicinal plants do women use to care for gynecological diseases? For the selection of the sample studies, national and international databases were used: SCOPUS, Web of Science, CINAHL, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online and COCHRANE. The descriptors (DeCS / MeSH) were used: Medicinal plants. Women's health.
Archeobotany is a division of archeology that is dedicated to the study of the relationship between past human communities and plants. The objective of this article is to identify the macrobotanical remains and the potential of use of plants found in the excavation levels of the archaeological site Caixa D'água cave, located in Caetité, Bahia, Brazil. The methodology of this research consisted in the identification of fruits and seeds by means of the comparison of botanical types in collections of seeds, herbaria and specialized bibliography.
Drug-resistant bacteria is spreading globally and threatening to human health. However, the number of novel antibiotics is decreasing gradually. Therefore, the strategies and studies for the discovery of novel antibiotics are essential to develop. Microorganisms associated with sponges are highly diverse and are one of the rich sources of bioactive compounds with different bioactive activity.
The effect of different solid media, temperature and pH was observed on Trichoderma species. The Trichoderma asperellum show an excellent growth at 25 -35 ˚C. The radial growth of Trichoderma asperellum was evaluated different culture media, potato dextrose agar, sorghum meal agar, cazpeak dextrose agar, corn meal agar and starch agar. The Trichoderma asperellum show maximum radial growth in potato dextrose agar and minimum radial growth in starch agar. The most favourable pH 6 -7 ranges was found in which total dry weight of mycelium also varies between 1.21-1.18g.