Oxidative stress represents an imbalance between the production of reactive species and the biological system in its ability to readily detoxify reactive oxygen/nitrogen intermediates or repair the resulting damage. the ...

Urban problems caused by the current city model have brought complex socio-environmental damages to humanity. In the search for a mitigation of these damages, several methods and concepts have been created in a perspective ...

Covid-19 is a new virus that haunts the world and has brought, in addition to health problems and large numbers of deaths, an impact on human coexistence, through contingency measures adopted to try to reduce the burden ...

The hegemonic production and consumption model based on the exploitation of natural resources throughout the history of mankind's socioeconomic development imposes important and urgent reflections about the great ...

The desalination of brackish groundwater is, in many locations in the semi-arid region, the only solution for water supply. However, the reverse osmosis membrane desalination process produces a polluting waste that is ...

Considering the high nutritional and functional potential of sesame extract (sesame milk) and the large disposal of green coconut solid albumen, it is interesting to apply conservation techniques in order to increase its ...

This paper develops a group decision analysis of a conflict over the use of water resources in the Piranhas-Açu River Basin located between the states of Paraíba and Rio Grande Norte. The conflict analyzed in the present ...

Going beyond expectations of only forecasting revenues and fixing expenses for a financial year, the public budget can be used as a management tool capable of assisting the public administration in analyzing the ...

Urban development has intensively enabled the process of spatial artificialization and the generation of strong socio-environmental externalities. As a result of this complex and dual relationship, there are: population ...

The social participation deals with the inclusion of society in the construction and implementation of public policies, seeking to meet the desire of the population itself and representative sectors to integrate ...