Issue # 76 _ June 2002
S&T Policy
Worker’s Health
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Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies
Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba
FAPs
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State indicators
Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in Science&Technology
Report
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Genomics for health
WHO foresees advances in the struggle against morbid and genetic diseases
Biodiversity
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Actions against biopiracy
WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources
By Claudia IziqueScience
Paleontology
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Luzia living with the sloths
The huge South American mammals were contemporaries of the oldest human fossil of the Americas
Physics
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The high relief of memory
Team from Pernambuco clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers
Zootechny
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The unexpected bull
Thanks to a mistake, the first Brazilian clone from a fetus somatic cell is born
Technology
Agronomy
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Land without fire
In Pará, instead of burning, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer
yeast
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Wealth in the mill's leftovers
Ital and Copersucar develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production
By Revisor and RedaçãoAgronomy industry
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Environmental and energy gains
Innovative project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production
computing
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Creation without limits
Company from São Paulo develops software that incorporates special effects into video systems
Metallurgy engineering
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Controlled noise
A sandwich of steel sheets and a polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors
By Dinorah Ereno