Introduction: Emergency Contraception (EC) is available in Brazil since 1996, when it was adopted as one if the family planning strategies and, in 1998, for use in services assisting victims of sexual violence.In the country, its use is regulated by guidelines.Its access through Ponchos SUS (Unified Health System), however, does not seem to occur i
Extensive monitoring of Italian forests: integration of the National Forest Inventory with the European Network of Level I.Forest monitoring is important for enhancing our knowledge on such ecosystems and their changes in order to enable actions helpful for their protection.At the European level, several monitoring programmes are carried out at pre
In this work, the effect of mechanical milling of aluminium (Al) powder and subsequent addition of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as reinforcement followed by powder mixture consolidation via spark plasma sintering has been investigated.Grain growth during sintering, densification behaviour and mechanical properties (microhardness and compre
Despite numerous investigations into ocular or corneal astigmatism, Ponchos the dynamic nature of astigmatism remains poorly understood.To reveal potential associations between age and astigmatism, 264 Japanese participants who underwent systemic and ophthalmological examinations in Funagata Town (Yamagata Prefecture, Japan) were evaluated over a 1