Issue # 68 _ September 2001

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Cover

The basis of the difference
Study on a mutation that increases the risk of prostate cancer goes on the cover of Cancer Research By

S&T Policy

conference

Paths and horizons to advance on

National meeting evaluates the situation of Science, Technology and Innovation (S,TeI) and proposes strategies for the scientific and technological development of the country with greater participation by companies

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post-graduation

Expansion Continues

FAPESP continues expanding, at a slower pace, its investment in scholarships

innovation

In Brazil, do as the Brazilians do

Investments by transnational companies in ReD outstrip the national average

Science

physics

Goodbye, Certainty

The variation in the value of the alpha constant - now no longer constant - rocks established concepts about the Universe and the origin of life on Earth

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mineralogy

Minerals discovered in Brazil

Compendium updates analyses and corrects mineralogy errors accumulated over centuries

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Biology

Life among crabs

Project leads to changes in the standards of management of this crustacean in the Southeast

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environment

Accurate Vision

Method lowers the cost of mapping and classifying vegetation in the Pantanal

Genomics

Safer biotechnology

Genetic modification technique enables GM products with less environmental risk

immunology

Back to the battle

Vitamin C recovers the mobility of blood defense cells

Medicine

A new look at asthma

Research groups open up prospects for a more efficient method of prevention and treatment

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Medicine

The lines of treatment

Studies don't dispense with the use of corticoid inhalants, except in very mild cases

Epidemiology

The little villains of leishmaniosis

Wild rats are the hosts for the microbes of this tropical disease

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Technology

Naval Engineering

More crude oil on the high seas

Two projects assist Petrobras to comply with its goals in deep waters

biomedical engineering

A diagnosis on the surface of the skin

A system for the analysis of lesions allows for an early detection of skin cancer

Electronic engineering

Image and sound direct from space

Proqualit develops, in the country, equipment for paid TV via satellite

LIVESTOCK

Treatment for cattle

A method increases evenly the fertility of cattle and buffalo

Humanities

History

Censored, made the headlines

Study reveals that Journalists help the dictatorship to silence the media

Music

Magda Tagliaferro

15 years after the pianist's death, a book gives an account of the artist's history and career

semiotic

Between Plato and Hot Dogs

Research shows that complexity of hypermedia generates a new kind of reader, with distinct abilities, both as interpreter of the written word and as receiver of urban signs