Population biology of Allocreadium lobatum Wallin, 1909 (Digenea: Allocreadiidae) in the creek chub, Semotilus atromaculatus, mitchill (Osteichthyes: Cyprinadae), in a Nebraska Creek, USA

Allocreadium lobatum Wallin, 1909 has been reported in cyprinid species of freshwater fish in Canada and in the United States. The population biology of A. lobatum in the host Semotilus atromaculatus Mitchill was studied from May through December 1991, in a USA creek. Overall prevalence (64%) and mean intensity (4.4 ± 0.4) were greater than previously reported while abundance, reported for the first time, was 2.8 ± 0.3. Several trends in A. lobatum population biology as a function of S. atromaculatus length were identified. Mean intensity and abundance of A. lobatum increased with host size and significant differences in prevalence and A. lobatum lengths were found to correlate with host lengths.

Considerações acerca dos primeiros periódicos científicos brasileiros

Analisa os periódicos da área de ciências publicados no Brasil no início do século XIX, entendendo-os como um dos pilares da institucionalização da ciência no país. São avaliados, principalmente, O Patriota, Jornal Litterario, Politico, Mercantil &c. do Rio de Janeiro, o primeiro periódico dedicado às ciências e às artes no país, publicado de 1813 a 1814, assim como os Annaes Fluminenses de Sciencias, Artes e Litteratura, Publicados por huma Sociedade Philo-Technica no Rio de Janeiro (1822) e o Jornal Scientifico, Economico e Literario (1826), principais comunicadores das artes e das ciências no Brasil até a década de 1830, a fim de considerar as condições de surgimento e as características dessas publicações.

Building-up influence: post-war industrialization in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

This paper examines the post-War industrialization process in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, focusing on one of its desirable outcomes, namely the capacity to generate growth through the impact of strong input-output linkages. This process is placed into historical perspective considering the ideas that permeate the economic development debate throughout the period of analysis. Changes in the regional economic structure are assessed through the use of three input-output tables for the years of 1953, 1980 and 1995. By adopting the fields of influence methodology as the analytical core, it is shown that the efforts towards the creation of a more integrated regional economy have generated stronger influence of the targeted sectors (metal products, transportation equipment, chemical, and services). However, structural changes also contributed to strengthen leakage in the system originated in traditional economic activities.