Issue # 102 _ August 2004

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Cover

Precious Nature
Specialists achieve economic exploitation of the Atlantic Rain Forest without environmental damage By

S&T Policy

indicators

A proof of quality

Study includes Brazil in the ranking of the countries that most carry out relevant research

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investment

Plasma recovered

São Paulo is going to request bids for a factory to produce blood plasma products

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innovation

Ready for the fight

Ninety entrepreneurs from PIPE qualify themselves for business management

Science

geophysics

The heat that makes the ground tremble

Variations in the thickness of the lithosphere caused by differences in temperature clarify the origin of earthquakes in Brazil

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hematology

Effects of diversity

Intense miscegenation makes Brazil a fertile field for hereditary anemias

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physiology

Dogma overturned

Researchers recover movements and reduce loss of neurons in rats with damaged spinal cord

physics

Ghost Action

Team from Campinas details phenomenon that makes quantum cryptography possible

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Ecology

Priorities of Minas Gerais

Atlas indicates 105 areas of high biological wealth as a target for researches and conservation

Technology

cattle raising

Well-handled Herd

Researchers produce cattle that mature earlier for slaughter and for reproduction

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Medicine

Safer transfusion

Equipment guarantees better quality blood for immunodeficient patients

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Electrical Engineering

House under control

Company from São Carlos develops low cost equipment for building automation

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Humanities

production

Recipe for growth

Study indicates that industrial sector is still the source of expansion of the São Paulo economy

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History

When you plant, money grows

After losing sources from the Orient, the Portuguese recovered their lucrative spices

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biography

The slaves of the slave

Life of Francisco Félix de Souza reveals how blacks used to trade blacks

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