Factor Analysis and the Social Capital Index: A Study at the Brazil / Bolivia Border

objective: the study aimed to build the level of social capital by neighborhoods guajará-mirim border region between the state of rondônia, brazil and the republic of bolivia, which in recent years ha...

Melatonin bioengineered: A New Possible Strategy for Treatment of Breast Cancer

breast cancer is an important public health problem, with an estimated 3.2 million new cases by the year 2050. diet plays a key role in the etiology of breast cancer and breastfeeding is associated wi...

Design and construction of a didactic standalone photovoltaic plant

this paper proposes the design and construction of a standalone didactic photovoltaic (pv) plant. the system components are available as a didactic kit to the students of the federal institute of educ...

Job Satisfaction and Mental Suffering of Penitentiary Agents of the Female Prison of Porto Velho, Rondônia (Brazil)

the study with the penitentiary agents that work in the female prison system of porto velho aimed to analyze the level of job satisfaction and the level of mental suffering of these workers. it is a d...

Numerical Simulation and Comparison of Carbide and HSS Tool Wear Rate while Drilling with Difficult to Cut Super Alloy Titanium Based on Archard Model

a carbide and hss tool wear rate simulation using archardˊs wear model is proposed, finite element modelling is done using commercial finite element software abaqus/explicit. abaqus interface was used...

Analysis of Heat Transfer in the Material during Pulsed Laser-Metal Interaction by Using Kinetic Theory

nowadays technological developments, the use of lasers in production is increasing and plays an important role due to low cost and high accuracy. the heat transfer, over the course of laser-metal int...

Evaluation and Performance Improvement of Antasari Intersection Banjarmasin City

the problem of signalized intersection is caused by the traffic volume continually increasing each year, automatically contributing high delay and frequent congestion and one indicator of traffic cong...

Characterization of a Copper Powder for Heat Pipe Wick Applications

in powder metallurgy, it is necessary to know the powder's nature to understand how the processing of a powder occurs. in this paper, a characterization of a copper powder for heat pipe wick applicati...

Comparison of Step Response Characteristics of Simple Fractional Order Systems and Second Order Systems

the step response characteristics of first and second order systems are well known. on the other hand, the step response of fractional order systems (foss) with 2-term fractional denominator is like ...

Groundwater quality:Study of the Nitrate(NO3-) concentration in the Urban Area of the Brazil/Bolivia Border

objective: to analyze the quality of groundwater potentially impacted by nitrate (no3-), before and after the flooding of the madeira river, in two urban areas of rondônia on the brazil / bolivia bord...

Spatio-temporal study of water quality in a subtropical reservoir and related water bodies in Southern Brazil

the importance of hydroelectricity to the world energy grid motivates the implementation of dams and formation of reservoirs. this implies changes in the ecosystem, and therefore those waters must be...

Comparison of Deflection Patterns of Simply Supported and Fixed Supported Beam Structures

when designing a building, the most of the important component is the roof. the selection of roofs for building depends on factors like type of building, type of foundation, roofing materials, roof lo...

ARANEOMORPHAE: Development of an application for the identification of the taxonomic key of arachnid families in Brazil

this study aimed to evaluate an application to support decision making in the identification process of taxonomic arachnids of families in brazil. the device was developed by ionic framework used to d...

Sweet Sorghum Establishment after Application of Residual Herbicides

imazethapyr, sulfentrazone, clomazone, diclosulam, trifloxysulfuron-sodium and trifluralin are residual herbicides commonly used for weed control in soybean or sugarcane crops. the sorghum crop implan...

Seasonal Variability of Rainfall and its Decadal Anomaly over Nigeria: Possible Role of Solar and Geomagnetic Activities

this study investigates seasonal variations of rainfall and its decadal anomaly over nigeria and the possible role of solar and geomagnetic activities. sunspot number and geomagnetic aa index were use...

Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Mauddud Formation, Central Iraq

the mauddud formation of central iraq was deposited within different shallow and deep marine subenviroments on a distally steepend ramp setting, local tectonism greatly affected the sequence developme...

A Review on Numerical Simulation and Comparison of Carbide and HSS Tool Wear Rate while Drilling with Difficult To Cut Super Alloy Titanium Based on Archard Model

a carbide and hss tool wear rate simulation using archardˊs wear model is proposed, finite element modelling is done using commercial finite element software abaqus/explicit. abaqus interface was used...

Geoepidemiology of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) in the South of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon

american cutaneous leishmaniasis (acl) is one of the parasites with specific characteristics in several regions of brazil. in recent years, there have been variations in the increase in the number of ...

Expressions of Human Sexuality in the Phallic and Latency Phases: Reports from a Field Observation in Children of Porto Velho, Brazil

the present study was conducted according to the freudian subdivisions on human psychosexuality. the study on sexuality can be subdivided and directed to several themes, walking through several areas ...

Production system of organic orange and its implications: Study in the SOS site Agroecological, Northeast of Pará

the organic production of produce in brazil has been increasing very year due higher demand for more health food, and many farmers are migrating to these concept of food production. therefore, the aim...