Canoas

a city in southern Brazil, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Population, 122, 000 (1968). Canoas has a railroad station and is a highway junction. Building materials (glass, cement) are produced in Canoas, which also has metallurgical, transportation machine-building, electrotechnical, chemical, furniture, pulp and paper, and slaughtering-refrigerating industries.

Nearby is an oil-refining plant (of the state-owned Petrobrazcompany).

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The inclusion criteria were as follows: student enrolled in and regularly attending ninth grade in a state school in Canoas in 2013 and 2014; studying in the morning or afternoon period; and aged between 12 and 19 years.

Body image satisfaction and subjective wellbeing among ninth-grade students attending state schools in Canoas, Brazil

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CONTRIBUCION AL CONOCIMIENTO DE LA REPRODUCCION Y CUIDADO PARENTAL EN CROTALU SMOLOSSUS NIGRESCENS EN EL ESTADO DE HIDALGO, MEXICO

(a) Universidade La Salle, Prograna de Pos-graduacao em Saude e Desenuoluimento Humano, Canoas, RS, Brazil

Malaria in Southern Brazil: a potential threat for a non-endemic region

De este modo surgen diferentes variaciones de una misma palabra: Cassicques, Cassicqen, Mahis, Mahiz, Mayz, Canoas, Canoen, Mandiok, Mandioka.

Contacto de lenguas a traves de la asimilacion del vocabulario indigena en los textos cronisticos alemanes del siglo XVI: Philipp von Hutten y Ulrich Schmidel

Por eso lo es tambien la Agencia da Boa Noticia Guajuviras, un proyecto que se basa en el para luchar contra la violencia en Guajuviras, barrio de la ciudad de Canoas (Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil), cuyos habitantes la sufren como consecuencia de la pobreza que lo caracteriza.

El periodismo ciudadano en la lucha contra la violencia juvenil. La experiencia de la Agencia da Boa Noticia Guajuviras (Brasil)/Citizen journalism in the fight against youth violence. The experience of the Agencia da Boa Noticia Guajuviras (Brazil)

Couto (1985) registra cerca de 36 tipos de embarcacoes tradicionais caracteristicas das costas norte, nordeste, leste e sul do Brasil, dentre as quais destacam-se as famosas canoas do rio Sao Francisco.

Historical timbers in traditional vessels of the lower Sao Francisco River/Madeiras historicas em embarcacoes tradicionais do baixo rio Sao Francisco