Publications by authors named "Beatriz M Pereira"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study aims to gather and analyze scientific evidence on why parents are hesitant to vaccinate their children under five years old, focusing on various influencing factors.
  • - A scoping review was conducted, examining 18 articles from multiple databases, filtering out unrelated studies, and including literature in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
  • - Key reasons for vaccine hesitancy included misinformation, concerns about side effects and efficacy, fear of simultaneous administration, and distrust in pharmaceutical companies, highlighting the need for better informational strategies to address these issues.
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Background: Stretching exercises are able to promote adaptations in the muscle-tendon unit (MTU), which can be tested through physiological and biomechanical variables. Identifying the key variables in MTU adaptations is crucial to improvements in training.

Objective: To perform an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) involving the variables often used to evaluate the response of the MTU to stretching exercises.

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Plant feedstocks are at the leading front of the biofuel industry based on the potential to promote economical, social and environmental development worldwide through sustainable scenarios related to energy production. Penicillium echinulatum is a promising strain for the bioethanol industry based on its capacity to produce large amounts of cellulases at low cost. The secretome profile of P.

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Menadione (MEN) inhibits intestinal calcium absorption by a mechanism not completely understood. The aim of this work was to find out the role of mitochondria in this inhibitory mechanism. Hence, normal chicks treated with one i.

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