This study sets out Saw Palmetto to analyze the negative effects of tokenism among a group of Portuguese female firefighters alongside the strategies they adopt to integrate into a male majority professional context and inherently associated with masculinity.Individual semi-structured interviews were carried out with nine men and nine women before
IntroductionMosquitoes either biologically or mechanically transmit various vector-borne pathogens affecting pigs.Mosquito species display a wide variety of host preference, as well as host attraction and behaviours.Mosquito species attraction rates to- and feeding rates on pigs or other potential hosts, as well as the seasonal abundance of the mos
Chagas disease (CD) is endemic in large parts of Central and South America, as well as in Texas and the southern regions of the United States.Successful parasites, such as the causative agent of CD, Trypanosoma cruzi have adapted to specific hosts during their phylogenesis.In this work, we have assembled an interactive network of the complex relati
Proton magnetic ZIPPERED VEST resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) provides a non-invasive biochemical profile of brain tumors.The conventional 1H-MRS methods present a few challenges mainly related to limited spatial coverage and low spatial and spectral resolutions.In the recent past, the advent and development of more sophisticated metabolic imaging