Quality of life among home office-based university administrative personnel.

Introduction: The integration of remote work into higher education institutions has led to increased administrative activities and has affected quality of life, especially at work.

Objectives: To verify the influence of income on the quality of life and quality of work life of administrative personnel of a higher education institution who worked remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study included 18 employees who worked via home office in the teaching, research, and/or extension sectors of a public university in Bahia, Brazil.

An improved extraction protocol for metagenomic DNA from a soil of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest.

The need for the prospecting for and identification of new biomolecules is a reality. Molecular techniques allow access to the metabolic potential of microorganisms via the isolation of DNA from environmental samples, i.e.