scholarly journals Sustainable Social Technologies In The Semiárido Of Rio Grande Do Norte – Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Regina Farias da Silva ◽  
Janine Beatriz Torres ◽  
Nildo da Silva Dias ◽  
Alexandre de Oliveira Lima
Keyword(s):  
Water Reuse ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Northeastern Region ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Social Technologies

Along the Brazilian history, the federal government has invested in the construction of large-scale water works in the Northeastern region, aiming to fight drought in the Semiárido and to finish with the scarcity of water by means of public policies. However, the climatic context makes drought a natural characteristic of the Northeastern region and cannot be fought against, as it is a natural phenomenon in the area. The objective of the present paper is to investigate how social technologies implemented in the Semiárido have contributed to the strengthening of women’s production capacity in the Hipólito community located in the Mossoró municipality, (State of Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil), with the implementation of fertilized cisterns, aiming at gender equality and sustainable agriculture as preconized by Agenda 2030. As a methodological procedure, a qualitative research was carried out, adopting the participatory observation and the focal group techniques. Twelve women who integrate the Mulheres em Ação group participated in the study. It was observed that women positively perceive the impacts of the social technologies of the Um Milhão de Cisternas (P1MC) and Uma Terra e Duas Águas (P1+2) programs in the Hipólito community. Moreover, agriculture practices involved in the construction of the water reuse technology in their yards yielded positive expectations regarding production by the addition of another social technology that will make a larger volume of water available to the community. It is concluded that social technologies coexisting with the Semiárido have contributed to a new territorial development model, consonant with the Semiárido characteristics.

scholarly journals Equine coital exanthema caused by equid alphaherpesvirus 3: a report of an outbreak in northeastern Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Givaldo B. Silva Filho ◽  
Hisadora A.S.C Bom ◽  
Silvio M.C. Fonseca ◽  
Érica A. Costa ◽  
Beatriz S.A.S. Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Oral Cavity ◽  
Molecular Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Semiarid Region ◽  
Blood Samples ◽  
Northeastern Region

ABSTRACT: Equine coital exanthema is a venereal infectious disease poorly reported in horses in Brazil and was never described in the northeastern region of the country. This work aims to describe the clinical and pathological aspects of an outbreak of equine coital exanthema caused by equid alphaherpesvirus 3, occurred in a herd of horses at the semiarid region of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. Main clinical signs consisted of anorexia, hiporexia, fibrinous or purulent secretion in the penis mucosa and vagina. Two mares presented mild to minimal lesions that consisted of scars in the mucosa of the vagina and in the perivulvar region. In a stallion the disease consisted of severe, multifocal, umbilicated-exanthematous ulcers of approximately 1cm in diameter on the penis mucosa. Other areas where ulcers and crusts were focally observed included the skin of the scrotum and on the lips and mucocutaneous junctions of the oral cavity. Histologically, the main lesion consisted of multifocal severe ulcerative and fibrinous necrotizing balanoposthitis and mild multifocal necrotizing, lymphocytic dermatitis in the lips and scrotum. The equide alphaherpesvirus 3 DNA was amplified in blood samples and penis mucosa using the PCR technique. This is the first report of molecular diagnosis of equine coital exanthema affecting horses in northeastern Brazil. Further studies should be carried out in order to investigate the epidemiology and the importance of this herpetic disease in the country.

A New Species of Justicia (Acanthaceae: Acanthoideae: Justicieae) from Northeastern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-333
Author(s):  
Camila Alcantara ◽  
Gleison Soares ◽  
Francisco de Assis Ribeiro dos Santos ◽  
Marccus Alves
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Key To Species ◽  
A New Species

Abstract—Justicia rubrobracteata, a new species from northeastern Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to J. aequilabris due to its shrubby habit, and terminal and axillary spicate inflorescences with red flowers. However, J. rubrobracteata is differentiated mainly by the shape and color of its bracts and bracteoles as well as an orangish macula in the corolla, and a torulose capsule. In addition, J. rubrobracteata is only known from northeastern Brazil, from the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, while J. aequilabris is widely distributed in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. A table with the main morphological characters of both species is included, as well as photographs, a key to species of Justicia for the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte in northeastern Brazil, a distribution map of both species, and conservation data for the new species.

Russian and US Experience of Territorial Megaprojects

2015 ◽  
pp. 23-33
Author(s):  
V. Batmanova ◽  
A. Zhukov ◽  
I. Mitrofanova ◽  
I. Mitrofanova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Far East ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Territorial Management ◽  
The Government

Phenomenon of the megaprojects as an instrument for the development of territories has not been studied thoroughly by the national economic science. There is lack of integrated, comparative analysis of the creation and the realization of territorial megaprojects in Russia and other countries. Authors of the article have set the goal to fill in this gap. A large scale investment project can obtain the status of the megaproject if it is characterized by a complicated character, high costs, systematic character and relevance of the realized targets. In the modern Russia the reconstruction of the historic territorial megaprojects and the realization of new ones as a relevant tool of the strategic territorial management is becoming the manifestation of contemporary institutional, organizational and informational transformations of the economic space of the global economic system. In contrast to financial investments, megaprojects are oriented on a real material result, having a considerable prolonged impact on the economic space. The authors regard infrastructural megaprojects construction of Transsib and BAM. The reasons of their achievements and failures are studies. The sustainable development of the regions of the Far East and Zabaikalye, the solution of important federal and regional tasks in the use of the resource, industrial and transit potential of the East of the country is connected mainly with the realization of the integrated infrastructural project of BAM’s and Transsib’s reconstruction. The article reveals the plans of the Government of the Russian Federation concerning the modernization of these megaprojects that will increase the capacity of BAM and Transsib by the year 2020 up to 75 million tons a year. The life cycle of the modern megaproject "Ural Industiral – Ural Polar" is revealed. The project was directed at the formation of a new economic skeleton in the Ural Federal District and creation of the prerequisites for the development of its problematic regions. Authors come to conclusion that this megaproject actually failed. It downgraded from a strategically important one into a conglomerate of local investment projects that are not interconnected by a single basic conception. Inevitably, this undermined its complex integration effect. The Olympic project “Sochi 2014” highlights the problem of post-project utilization of objects of territorial megaprojects. Only a few of them can immediately serve as drivers of regional economic complex. Others mostly generate losses. A set of policies and special measures of the regional authorities is needed to turn them profitable. The article also touches upon the American experience of megaprojects of the territorial development (Tennessee Valley Authority, Appalachian Regional Commission). Authors insist that analysis of the American experience can help the modernization of the strategic territorial management in Russia.

scholarly journals Mesozoic dinosaurs from Brazil and their biogeographic implications

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathas S. Bittencourt ◽  
Max C. Langer
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
South Central ◽  
Nomina Dubia

The record of dinosaur body-fossils in the Brazilian Mesozoic is restricted to the Triassic of Rio Grande do Sul and Cretaceous of various parts of the country. This includes 21 named species, two of which were regarded as nomina dubia, and 19 consensually assigned to Dinosauria. Additional eight supraspecific taxa have been identified based on fragmentary specimens and numerous dinosaur footprints known in Brazil. In fact, most Brazilian specimens related to dinosaurs are composed of isolated teeth and vertebrae. Despite the increase of fieldwork during the last decade, there are still no dinosaur body-fossils of Jurassic age and the evidence of ornithischians in Brazil is very limited. Dinosaur faunas from this country are generally correlated with those from other parts of Gondwana throughout the Mesozoic. During the Late Triassic, there is a close correspondence to Argentina and other south-Pangaea areas. Mid-Cretaceous faunas of northeastern Brazil resemble those of coeval deposits of North Africa and Argentina. Southern hemisphere spinosaurids are restricted to Africa and Brazil, whereas abelisaurids are still unknown in the Early Cretaceous of the latter. Late Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages of south-central Brazil are endemic only to genus or, more conspicuously, to species level, sharing closely related taxa with Argentina, Madagascar, Indo-Pakistan and, to a lesser degree, continental Africa.

scholarly journals Feather mites (Acari, Astigmata) associated with birds in an Atlantic Forest fragment in Northeastern Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 726-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
HM Silva ◽  
FA Hernandes ◽  
M Pichorim
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Forest Fragment ◽  
Visual Examination ◽  
Feather Mites ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe present study reports associations between feather mites (Astigmata) and birds in an Atlantic Forest fragment in Rio Grande do Norte state, in Brazil. In the laboratory, mites were collected through visual examination of freshly killed birds. Overall, 172 individuals from 38 bird species were examined, between October 2011 and July 2012. The prevalence of feather mites was 80.8%, corresponding to 139 infested individuals distributed into 30 species and 15 families of hosts. Fifteen feather mite taxa could be identified to the species level, sixteen to the genus level and three to the subfamily level, distributed into the families Analgidae, Proctophyllodidae, Psoroptoididae, Pteronyssidae, Xolalgidae, Trouessartiidae, Falculiferidae and Gabuciniidae. Hitherto unknown associations between feather mites and birds were recorded for eleven taxa identified to the species level, and nine taxa were recorded for the first time in Brazil. The number of new geographic records, as well as the hitherto unknown mite-host associations, supports the high estimates of diversity for feather mites of Brazil and show the need for research to increase knowledge of plumicole mites in the Neotropical region.

scholarly journals Risk factors for trypanosomiasis by Trypanosoma vivax in cattle raised in Rio Grande do Norte state

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jael Soares Batista ◽  
Gabriela Hémylin Ferreira Moura ◽  
Francisco Canindé Lopes ◽  
Kaliane Alessandra Rodrigues de Paiva ◽  
Hélio Noberto de Araújo Júnior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Trypanosoma Vivax ◽  
Serum Samples ◽  
European Breed ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Lactating Cows ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Semi Arid Region

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of anti Trypanosoma vivax antibodies and the possible risk factors associated with the infection in cattle in Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil, through a cross-sectional epidemiological study, with non-probabilistic convenience sampling. A total of 467 cattle’s serum samples were analyzed by indirect immunofluorescence. Forty-two samples tested positive for Trypanosoma vivax IgG antibodies, corresponding to the prevalence of 9%. Risk factors influencing the occurrence of trypanosomiasis were milk exploration, raising of European breeds, productivity category: lactation cow, purchase of new cattle, foraging habits near ponds and rivers, and the presence of mechanical vectors. So, high prevalence in beef animals (59.5%), females (95.2%), European breed (88.1%), lactating cows (85.7%), pasture at banks of dams and rivers (95.2%), in addition to the presence of mechanical vectors (81%) and acquisition of animals (88.1%), indicates the expansion of trypanosomiasis in Northeastern semi-arid region, and the information obtained may explain the epidemiological factors that determine the occurrence of trypanosomiasis by T. vivax in this region.

scholarly journals Larval ontogeny and morphological variations of Psaroniocompsa incrustata (Lutz) (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriele N B Silva ◽  
Herbet T A Andrade ◽  
Claudia M Ríos-Velásquez ◽  
Felipe A C Pessoa ◽  
Jansen F Medeiros
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Morphological Variations

scholarly journals Reptilia, Squamata, Polychrotidae, Anolis fuscoauratus D'Orbigny, 1837: distribution extension for the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Check List ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Pablo Augusto Gurgel de Sousa ◽  
Eliza Maria Xavier Freire
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
Distribution Map

We provide the first record of Anolis fuscoauratus D’Orbigny, 1837 for the state of Rio Grande do Norte and a distribution map for the species in the Atlantic Rainforest of northeastern Brazil. The record of A. fuscoauratus in the municipality of Tibau do Sul, state of Rio Grande do Norte, represents a distribution extension of 170 km northwestern from the municipality of Cabedelo, state of Paraíba. This is the northernmost record of this species in the Atlantic Rainforest.

scholarly journals Isognomon bicolor (C. B. Adams, 1845) (Mollusca: Bivalvia): first record of this invasive species for the States of Paraíba and Alagoas and new records for other localities of Northeastern Brazil

Check List ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias ◽  
Ellori Laíse Silva Mota ◽  
Anne Isabelley Gondim ◽  
Jacicleide Macedo Oliveira ◽  
Emanuelle Fontenele Rabelo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Invasive Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
New Records ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
First Record ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Littoral Region ◽  
Exotic Invasive

This study provides the first record of the exotic invasive bivalve Isognomon bicolor for the State of Paraíba, Northeastern Brazil. It has been found to occur in at least twelve coastal reefs along the coast. We also present its first record for the State of Alagoas and new record localities for the States of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco, including its occurrence in hypersaline estuaries. From these records the distribution range of I. bicolor has been expanded to the littoral region of Northeast Brazil, where this invasive species seems well established.

scholarly journals Spatial analysis of congenital syphilis in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, between 2008 and 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhyanine Morais de Lima Raimundo ◽  
George Jó Bezerra Sousa ◽  
Ana Beatriz Pereira da Silva ◽  
Romanniny Hévillyn Silva Costa Almino ◽  
Nanete Carolina da Costa Prado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Congenital Syphilis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Empirical Bayesian Method

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the spatial distribution of congenital syphilis cases in a state in northeastern Brazil. Method: This is an ecological study, with secondary data for the period from 2008 to 2018, taking as a sample the notified cases of congenital syphilis in Rio Grande do Norte. In the data analysis, the eight health regions of the state were used as units of analysis, and the local and global Moran’s I was performed, with subsequent smoothing through the local empirical Bayesian method, which resulted in thematic maps. Results: The results showed an increase in cases of congenital syphilis in the 3rd and 7thhealth regions. In terms of spatial analysis, this investigation showed clusters in the 3rd, 5th, and 7thhealth regions, with an increased risk for congenital syphilis of up to 2.65 times and with an incidence rate of 7.91 cases per 1,000 live births. Conclusion: The spatial analysis of congenital syphilis cases allowed observing a high incidence in some health regions, with averages above those calculated for the entire state, indicating the need to implement effective strategies to achieve its control.

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