Issue # 131 _ January 2007

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New attacks on dengue
Monitoring with a trap that attracts mosquitoes is one of the innovations, together with transgenic insects, for controlling the disease By

S&T Policy

Public Policies

Time to replant

São Paulo prepares new regulations for the reforestation of degraded areas

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Innovation

Partnership in (dis)harmony

Seminar evaluates legislation and demands new paradigms for research

Development

Complex equation

Recipe for entering the knowledge society has more ingredients than one imagines, according to a European report

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Digital inclusion

Revolution in the classroom

Government defines by April which will be the model of laptop intended for pupils at public schools

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Science

Meteorology

The GDP from the clouds

Mathematical model analyzes the impacts of the climate changes on economic growth

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Physics

The dance of the metals

Observed for the first time on the smallest scale possible, an alloy of gold and silver reveals unexpected behavior of the atoms

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Epidemiology

Risky journey

Macho culture of truck drivers contributes towards disseminating Aids virus

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Nutrition

Bodies under pressure

Gymnasts and actresses suffer from the same dramas as models

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Medicine

Magnetism against depression

An experimental technique shows itself to be efficient in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders

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Technology

Engineering

More free time

A machine for ironing clothes intends to retire the steam iron

Energy

Advances with the fuel cell

Ipen develops equipment that generates electricity with ethanol

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Biochemistry

Very special antibodies

Substances produced by a Brazilian company will facilitate the production of new medicines

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Humanities

Political Science

The "h" of Bahianity

Contrary to common sense, Antonio Carlos Magalhães would represent the elite's conservative zeal to modernize the State of Bahia

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Sociology

"Where do these people come from?"

Studies reiterate that Brazilian invisible inequality will not be resolved only through the country's economic growth

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Behavior

Outsourced children

Changes in the traditional concept of the family are generating a crisis in infant-juvenile education

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