Federal University of São João del-Rei

Characterization of the bark of <i>Plathymenia reticulata</i> Benth. from the Brazilian Cerrado in the context of bioprospecting natural products for multiple uses

Abstract The bark of Plathymenia reticulata was characterized for its structural, anatomical, and chemical properties, aiming to analyze its potential in the context of bioprosp...

The species that was missing: first record of the bush dog <i>Speothos venaticus</i> in the largest protected patch of Atlantic Forest in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Abstract The bush dog Speothos venaticus , a short-legged, medium-sized Neotropical canid, remains elusive despite its wide geographical range. We present the first documented o...

The critical role of central point replication in response surface methodology: Implications for error estimation and statistical power in chemical engineering applications

The use of the EM algorithm for regularization problems in high-dimensional linear mixed-effects models

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular tool for maximum likelihood estimation, but its use in high-dimensional regularization problems in linear mixed-effects ...