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Cientec 2001

Exhibition of good reasons

Campinas bring together 11 research institutions and exhibition of projects

Innovation

Partnerships with the PIPE

Incubator makes room for another 78 vacancies and for new FAPESP projects

telecommunications

Time to grow

Company develops equipment for optical transmission

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AsGa, an exemplary case

AsGa, an exemplary case

ideas

Space for Diversity

SBPC meeting brings together cultural expressions and scientific reports

competitiveness

Profitable research

Anpei puts together company representatives to debate investments in R&D

commemoration

Education and democracy

Capes complete 50 years investing in the training of human resources

new secretary

Focus on the energy matrix

Altenfelder Silva takes over the SCTDE, with plans to invest in research

conference

Challenge to competence

Brazil to debate strategic plan for science, technology and innovation

partnership

Contracts X Conflicts

Nature comments report of the Forum which includes companies and universities

indicator

Knowledge (still) confined

TAI suggests measures to stimulate investments in developing regions

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Education

Mathematicians wanted

Study shows that Brazil suffers from a great lack of mathematicians

Persona

The geography of inclusion

Milton Santos advocated the role of the dispossessed

History

The marvelous foreign land

Researcher compiles tales of Guanabara bay before D. João VI

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

X-ray of pollution in Campinas

Researcher detects the presence of metal in water, the air and in effluents

Chemistry

Cheap, efficient, and the market leader

New compound for the pulp industry lowers costs and does not pollute

Cover

A blow to post-trauma epilepsy

A Unifesp project has a patent request for medicine based on scopolamine salts

Forest Engineering

Eucalyptus with pea genes

A genetically modified plant may develop more cellulose

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Selective memory

Research shows that the similar injuries make the brain reorganize

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ceramics

New model of manufacturing performance

Cepid supports the modernization of the companies in Porto Ferreira

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archeology

Africans came first

Human bones help to boost theory about occupation of the America

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Animal behavior

Bumps on the road of evolution

An USP study knocks down a model on the use and making of tools

Ecology

A SinBiota base is already in operation

The Paulista biodiversity is on the Internet

biology

The dynamic rules of evolution

A mathematical model helps to unveil the origin of human beings

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Pharmacology

A Plant against tuberculosis

In the laboratory, an extract exterminates six types of Mycobacterium

Medicine

Dissecting the forces of aneurism

Study of the aorta tensions moves on with device of an Indian engineer

Retrospect

140 years of injustice

Typewriter was invented by a priest from Para

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Of the brain, science, and innovation

Of the brain, science, and innovation

Opinion

Role of public sector companies in health

Financing is fundamental for transforming technology into a product

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Special

A well equipped and in-order house

The restoration and modernization of the laboratories has made front line research possible