Luiz Carlos Serramo Lopez

Universidade Federal da Paraíba | UFPB · Department of Systematics and Ecology

A criatividade é uma função cognitiva de grande importância para o desenvolvimento humano e carece de escalas no português brasileiro. Este estudo objetivou traduzir e adaptar culturalmente a escala de Processos Cognitivos Associados à Criatividade (CPAC). O processo de adaptação cultural da escala realizou-se em 4 etapas: tradução, retrotradução,...

O traço de mindfulness, ou atenção plena, parece ser um fator protetivo contra depressão. Por outro lado, existe uma associação positiva entre fantasia e depressão. O objetivo dessa pesquisa foi investigar o efeito mediador da mindfulness sobre fantasia e depressão. Participaram 153 indivíduos com idade entre 18 e 65 anos por meio de formulário ele...

Research in telemedicine has made it possible to capture regulatory measures to find biomarkers of human behavior during smartphone use called digital phenotypes. The identification and evaluation of these biomarkers for health diagnosis provide gains for an area related to telemedicine, precision medicine. It was developed a mobile application cal...

Background The way humans perceive and interact with non-human animals is particular to each person, from antipathetic interactions evidenced by fear, aversion or repulsion, to empathy evidenced by feelings of affection, enchantment and interest in the animal. In this sense, herein we investigated the perception of university students about species...

Resumo Sistemas complexos podem se organizar de forma direcionada para a criatividade e autenticidade, uma característica chamada de autotranscendência. Neste artigo, a sala de aula criativa é vista como um sistema complexo que busca a autotranscendência, uma característica de cunho transdisciplinar. Nosso objetivo foi saber se o nosso grupo de pes...

Chronic migraine is a difficult disease to diagnose, and its pathophysiology remains undefined. Its symptoms affect the quality of life and daily living tasks of the affected person, leading to momentary disability. This is a pilot, randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial study with female patients between 18 and 65 years old with chron...

O COVID-19 trouxe diversos desafios para o Brasil e para o mundo. Além dos impactos biológicos, sociais e econômicos, o novo coronavírus vem comprometendo sobremaneira a saúde mental das pessoas, seja pela possibilidade de exposição ao contágio, pelo impacto advindo do distanciamento social ou pelo medo da morte. Esse estudo se trata de uma revisão...

p>O Transtorno de Ansiedade Social (TAS) é caracterizado por um medo excessivo de julgamento em situações sociais. Uma das alterações fisiológicas que pode estar presente nesse quadro é a assimetria de ondas alfa no lobo frontal do córtex cerebral. Diversos estudos investigam esse fenômeno. A presente revisão foi realizada a partir de uma busca por...

Background Chronic migraine is a disease with a difficult diagnosis and an as yet undefined pathophysiology. Its symptoms affect the quality of life and the daily activities of the individual, leading to momentary disability. This study is a controlled clinical trial of a randomized parallel group that will select patients aged between 18–65 years...

A expressão facial de dor pode provocar diferentes reações comportamentais. Todavia, ainda não está claro se a face de dor evoca respostas motoras mais lentas ou mais rápidas, quando comparada à expressão com valência positiva, e sua interação com o sexo da pessoa que demonstra a expressão facial. O objetivo desse trabalho foi avaliar o padrão de r...

A interação humana com o meio pode ser compreendida como uma condição inicial de nossa espécie numa relação biofílica com influências nos contextos familiares, comunitários e escolares. Esta investigação analisou as percepções e representações socioambientais de estudantes brasileiros e portugueses, em relação ao meio ambiente e os elementos que o...

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The purpose of this study was to translate and culturally adapt the Self-Talk Questionnaire for Sports (S-TQ). The process of its translation and cultural adaptation to the Brazilian Portuguese language was carried out in 4 stages: translation, backtranslation, comprehension test with specialists, and comprehension test with the target audience. Af...

Body condition is an important measure to estimate the energy reserve of an organism. Scientists frequently use body condition indices (BCIs) with morphometric measures but direct measurements, such as blood glucose, seem to be more reliable. We observed oscillations in the body condition and glucose indexes of individuals of Artibeus planirostris...

A lunar phobia is a behavioral trait in which the individual alters or ceases its nocturnal activity during periods of strong lunar illumination found throughout the animal kingdom. Current evidence indicates the changes reflect predator/prey detectability due to increased visibility. The study hypothesizes whether bat activity is more negatively i...

O presente estudo sintetiza as evidências disponíveis na literatura sobre a relação entre exercício físico outdoor e indoor, conexão com o meio ambiente e bem-estar a partir de busca sistemática no portal "periódicos capes" e "biblioteca virtual de saúde", utilizando os descritores relacionados ao tema. Foram selecionados treze artigos para leitura...

O objetivo da pesquisa foi investigar as relações entre conexão com a Natureza, bem-estar subjetivo e saúde de praticantes de exercícios físicos outdoor e indoor no Município de João Pessoa/PB. Foram analisados dados socioeconômicos, de composição corporal, de conexão com a Natureza, de bem estar subjetivo (emoções positivas, negativas e experiênci...

Self-compassion is natural, trainable and multi-faceted human capacity. To date there has been little research into the role of culture in influencing the conceptual structure of the underlying construct, the relative importance of different facets of self-compassion, nor its relationships to cultural values. This study employed a cross-cultural de...

Both phylogenetic and environmental forces can drive ecological variation across the geographic distribution of squamates. We compared microhabitat use, temperature, diet, and reproductive data among three Tropidurus hispidus and Cnemidophorus ocellifer populations (Caatinga; Atlantic Forest; and Restinga coastal environments) and tested whether th...

Acoustic signal production is affected by allometric relationships, by which the larger the animal, the lower its call frequency. In this paper, three evolutionary acoustic hypotheses were tested: the Signal-to-Noise Ratio Hypothesis (SNRH), in which evolution maximizes call ranges by increasing the signal-to-noise ratio; the Stimulus Threshold Hyp...

Bat fauna is surveyed mainly by mist-nets set in the ground level, and usually employing six hours per night of capture comprising the first peak of activity to most bat groups. Bat inventories with whole-night sampling effort (12 hours) have not been conducted so far in the northeastern of Brazil. This paper aims to report a whole-night survey of...

Bats are key components of ecological networks, and studies in degraded areas are especially important to understand the impact of the human settlements on bats communities. Here, we surveyed the bat fauna in Guaribas Biological Reserve, a protected area in the Atlantic Forest in Paraiba state, northeastern Brazil, and compared it with the bat faun...

Phytoplankton functional groups structure and species abundance vary according to environmental conditions. The present study investigated the natural and anthropogenic stressors that affect phytoplankton functional group biomass in a Brazilian semiarid region reservoir (Argemiro de Figueiredo reservoir). Sampling occurred between August 2007 and J...

Nocturnal activity is a key factor in the success of bats, along with several other ecological characteristics of the group. Studying the activity patterns of bats can help to understand ecological and behavioural aspects of bat assemblies, especially in the Neotropics, where the group presents high species richness. The activity patterns of five s...

Phytoplankton functional groups structure and species abundance vary according to environmental conditions. The present study investigated the natural and anthropogenic stressors that affect phytoplankton functional group biomass in a Brazilian semiarid region reservoir (Argemiro de Figueiredo reservoir). Sampling occurred between August 2007 and J...

Callinectes sapidus is reported here for the first time to state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. In Brazil, this species was only known from state of Rio Grande do Sul to the state of Pernambuco, leaving a significant gap in its expected distribution along the coasts of other states in northern and northeastern Brazil, since it has been collected...

Inventories are the basis of every work with biodiversity, with increased importance due to the current environmental crisis. Bats are one of the most diverse groups of mammals, with high ecologic versatility and are good bioindicators to monitor environmental impacts. We performed a two-stage survey at an Atlantic Forest reserve in the State of Pa...

Background: The use of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) as a single measure has been pointed out as problematic by many authors and its originally proposed structure has repeatedly been called into question. The negative facets of this construct are more strongly related to psychopathology than the positive indicators. The aim of this study was to e...

Appendix S1 List of localities used in the analysis.

Our objective was to estimate and analyze the body-size distribution parameters of terrestrial mammal assemblages at different spatial scales, and to determine whether these parameters are controlled by local ecological processes or by lar- ger-scale ones. Based on 93 local assemblages, plus the complete mammal assemblage from three continents (Afr...

Body condition is an important ecological attribute that can provide a measure of the energy stored by an animal or population. Body condition is traditionally ascertained with morphometric body condition indices (BCIs), but some researchers have used various physiological and biochemical parameters as predictors of body condition. This study aimed...

The use of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) as a single measure has been pointed out as problematic by many authors and its originally proposed structure has repeatedly been called into question. The negative facets of this construct are more strongly related to psychopathology than the positive indicators. The aim of this study was to evaluate and...

Bats are key components to the Neotropical forests. Unfortunately, their bad reputation is a major obstacle in their conservation as it creates fear and hostility towards them. Understanding this reputation acquired by bats and studying interactions between bats and humans has shown fundamental promise when creating strategies to forge a non-antago...

Objective: The present study aimed at comparing frontal beta power between long-term (LTM) and first-time meditators (FTM), before, during and after a meditation session. We hypothesized that LTM would present lower beta power than FTM due to lower effort of attention and awareness. Methods: Twenty one participants were recruited, eleven of whom...

The Caatinga is a semi-arid ecosystem with a long history of anthropic impacts and scientific negligence. Since bats are the second most diverse group of mammals and have wide ecological roles, a well-based comprehension of their diversity for an area is important for management and conservationist actions. The goal of this study is to provide a li...

Altitudinal gradients provide a useful model for studying plant community composition along environmental gradients. Altitudinal gradients also vary in their degree of human exploitation, as human activity is generally greater at lower elevations than at higher elevations. We examined the effect of altitude on plant community composition along an a...

This study analysed sea turtle strandings on the coast of Paraíba State, Northeastern Brazil, from August 2009 to July 2010. A total of 124 strandings were recorded in this period: green turtle Chelonia mydas (n = 106), hawksbill Eretmochelys imbricata (n = 15), olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea (n = 2) and loggerhead Caretta caretta (n = 1). Of a...

Mesocyclops ogunnus is a copepod originally recorded in Africa and Asia, being considered an invader species in reservoirs in the Americas. The present work records its occurrence in northeastern Brazil for the first time. This species was collected in the Três Lagoas region in the city of João Pessoa, State of Paraíba, Brazil, which increases its...

This study provides the easternmost record of Molossops temminckii (Burmeister 1854), and the first for the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. These records were based on the capture of six specimens, three males and three females. The morphometric data and morphological characters were consistent with those described in the literature. This re...

Cyclopoid copepods are important predators in many aquatic ecosystems and have been used as biological agents in successful programs to control mosquito larvae. However, the impacts of this predation on adult mosquito populations are still poorly understood. The present study compared the sex ratios and body sizes (measured as wing length) of Aedes...

Estimate the richness of a community with accuracy despite differences in sampling effort is a key aspect to monitoring high diverse ecosystems. We compiled a worldwide multitaxa database, comprising 185 communities, in order to study the relationship between the percentage of species represented by one individual (singletons) and the intensity of...

Zootherapy is important in various socio-cultural environments, and innumerous examples of the use of animal derived remedies can currently be found in many urban, semi-urban and more remote localities in all parts of the world, particularly in developing countries. However, although a number of ethnobiological inventories concerning the use of med...

Many species of bromeliads create an aquatic microcosm among their leaves. Besides their native aquatic fauna, these microcosms can be used by larvae of invasive mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti. We compared the mortality among A. aegypti larvae placed inside tanks of Aechmea fasciata bromeliads with larvae placed inside artificial microcosms and with...

Estimativas de diversidade e padrão de atividade de morcegos na Paraíba, Brasil.

Numbers of animal species are commercialized by herbalists in markets throughout Brazil. Nevertheless, there is a general lack of information about this type of trade in the country. This study aimed to obtain information on the trade of animals for medicinal purposes in the city of Campina Grande, Paraíba State. Data were obtained through semistru...

Novo registro de espécie de morcego para o estado da Paraíba, Brasil.

A number of animal species are offered by herbalists in markets throughout Brazil. Nevertheless, there is a general lack of information about this type of trade in the country. In this review, we report on the trade of medicinal animal species in a semi-arid region in northeastern Brazil. We gathered information from scientific articles on animal s...

Tank bromeliads harbour aquatic microcosms with many endemic species among their leaves. We performed a set of experiments to determine which factors maintain the bromeliad aquatic fauna in isolation from neighbouring ponds. We cultivated three invertebrates species (an ostracod, an annelid and a cladoceran) from a pond surrounded by terrestrial br...

Hunting for wild animals is stimulated by the many different human uses of faunal resources, and these animals constitute important subsistence items in local communities in the Caatinga region. In order to gain access to these resources, hunters have developed a series of techniques and strategies that are described in the present work. The princi...

1 Pós-Graduação em Ecologia Univ. Fed do Rio de Janeiro C.P. 68020 CCS, 21944-590 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In this paper I describe our subjective consciousness from a biological perspective. From this perspective, I suggest that we can describe the phenomenal consciousness as an analog of a “virtual reality” system created by means of biological evolution. This biological virtual system appears to have evolved “in order to” integrate our multimodal aff...

The phoretic behaviour of ostracods (Elpidium bromeliarum) andannelids (Dero superterrenus) that inhabit tank bromeliads was studied. Our previous field observations had shown that bromeliad ostracods can be found attached to the skin of amphibians and reptiles that move among bromeliads, probably allowing the ostracods to colonise new tanks. In th...

During a study about bromeliad tadpoles (Scinax perpusillus), the ability of bromeliad ostracods (genus Elpidium) to pass unharmed through the tadpole gut was documented. Seven Elpidium were found alive inside a tadpole''s digestive tract. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that Scinax tadpoles frequently ingest bromeliad ostracods, eliminating th...

The aquatic communities occurring in terrestrial tank bromeliads under conditions of sun and shade were analyzed in relation to their richness and faunal composition. Three species of bromeliads were studied: Aechmea bromeliifolia, A. nudicaulis, and Neoregelia cruenta. The study area consisted of two sand dune formations ("restinga") on the southe...