Early public research funding response to COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Introduction: This study investigated the role of early public research funding regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Methods: We examined the budget for research projects relating to the number of cases and deaths and the relationship between each federal unit, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, and the national GDP per capita.

Results: Using data from the websites of official funding agencies and the Brazilian government, we found that, in the first four months since the first case in Wuhan, China (December 31, 2019), around US$ 38.

Appraising the potential of Zr-based biomedical alloys to reduce magnetic resonance imaging artifacts.

This study compared Zr-Mo alloys with commercial metallic biomaterials. It was observed that the Zr-Mo alloys exhibited favourable mechanical properties, particularly the Zr-10Mo alloy, which showed the highest strength to Young's modulus ratio among all evaluated metals. These alloys also exhibited the lowest magnetic susceptibilities, which are important for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).