Relíquias da casa velha: literatura e ditadura militar, 50 anos depois by Tânia Pellegrini

“…This essay tries to relate specific actions of the military regime in the field of culture to the effective consolidation of a cultural industry in Brazil. It is based on a more or less alleatory search in newspapers and magazines of the period. …”
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Advances in Building Technologies and Construction Materials by J. M. P. Q. Delgado, Robert Cerný, A. G. Barbosa de Lima, A. S. Guimarães

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Erratum to “Angiotensin II, Aldosterone, and Anti-Inflammatory Lymphocytes: Interplay and Therapeutic Opportunities” by Daniel Arthur B. Kasal, Ernesto L. Schiffrin

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Nações, fronteiras e relações étnicas na comunidade indígena-quilombola do Baixão (Vitória da Conquista, BA) by Vivian Ingridy de Carvalho Lima, Washington Santos Nascimento

“…In this article we intend to discuss the history of the Baixão community, located in the rural area of Vitória da Conquista (Bahia, Brazil), formed from the processes of mixing and miscegenation between indigenous and African. …”
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Corrigendum to “New and Emerging Therapies for Osteoporosis” by E. Michael Lewiecki, Manuel Diaz Curiel, Joao Lindolfo Borges, Annie Kung, Maria Luisa Brandi, Hans Peter Dimai

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Culture-specific notions of causation in Matses grammar by David W. Fleck

“…This paper looks at  the  linguistic coding of a typologically unusual type of causation in Matses, a Panoan language spoken in Amazonian Peru and Brazil. Specifically, the topic is the nominalizing suffix -anmës, whose function can be defined as specifying that: « the referent of the nominalization is an entity that non-volitionally, invisibly and often mysteriously causes helpless victims to enter some undesirable, enduring state ». …”
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Visual Rehabilitation in Combined Surgical Procedures: Bridging Two Eye Poles for Better Vision by M. J. Koss, C. Y. Choi, R. R. Krueger, M. Maia, H. B. Fam

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The Use of Vibration Signals for Structural Health Monitoring, System Identification, Test Planning/Optimization, and Dynamic Model Validation/Updating by Samuel da Silva, Michael Todd, John S. Sakellariou, Maryam Ghandchi-Tehrani

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Florida Citrus Outlook 2013/14 Season by Matthew J. Salois

“…Projections are for Florida orange juice and grapefruit juice pack, movement, and ending inventory, along with estimates of US consumption and retail sales of OJ and GJ, preliminary on-tree price estimates, and Brazil’s OJ outlook (given its bearing on Florida’s OJ situation). …”
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Choice of Measurement Locations of Nonlinear Structures Using Proper Orthogonal Modes and Effective Independence Distribution Vector by T. G. Ritto

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Continuidade no governo de esquerda? Reflexo da existência do Moderno Sistema Mundial by Vânia Araújo Barreto

“…Starting from the analysis of the world system, the article discusses Brazil´s foreign policy on the basis of the indivisibility between politics and economy and on the basis of a certain understanding of the dynamics of the capitalist system and the role of the State in this process. …”
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Orofacial Pains by Vahid Rakhshan, Francesca A. Bianchi, Lucindo J. Quintans-Júnior, Aurelio A. Alonso

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O Japão na literatura brasileira atual by Marcel Vejmelka

“…This phenomenon offers varied and complex readings, interpretations and representations of Japanese culture, which by this means is “integrated” into the Brazilian context; readings of Japan which still maintain a connection with the legacy of Japanese immigration to Brazil as well as with issues of Brazilian identity, but which deal primarily with universal signifiers of Japanese and Brazilian culture in the 21st century.…”
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Trends in Florida Citrus with Emphasis on Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin, and Palm Beach Counties by Jackie K. White, P.J. van Blokland

“… FE636, a 9-page fact sheet by Jackie K White and P.J. van Blokland, examines how hurricanes, freezes, citrus diseases and pests, competition with Brazil, and a booming population growth are affecting the citrus industry of Florida's Treasure Coast. …”
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Florida Citrus Outlook 2013/14 Season by Matthew J. Salois

“…Projections are for Florida orange juice and grapefruit juice pack, movement, and ending inventory, along with estimates of US consumption and retail sales of OJ and GJ, preliminary on-tree price estimates, and Brazil’s OJ outlook (given its bearing on Florida’s OJ situation). …”
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The birth of the Yoruba hegemony in post-abolition candomblé by Luis Nicolau Parés

“…Historical data indicates that critical Jeje and Nagô religious practices of West African origin were already well consolidated in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) in the 1860s, suggesting their rooting in the period of the slave-trade. …”
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Vaccines of the Future: The Role of Inflammation and Adjuvanticity by Cheol-Heui Yun, Luciana C. C. Leite, Aldo Tagliabue, Diana Boraschi

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Comparative Marketing Costs for FCOJ from Florida and Sao Paulo by Ronald P. Muraro, Thomas H. Spreen

“… The states of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Florida are the two dominant orange juice producing regions in the world. …”
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Processos de significação em contraste: violência contra as mulheres no Brasil e em Cabo Verde by Miriam Steffen Vieira

“…This paper aims at presenting a brief overview of the construction process of legalities in the field of violence against women in Brazil in order to suggest, then, some contrastive elements regarding this process in Cape Verde. …”
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Economic Growth, Markets and the Rule of Law: Brief Considerations on the Brazilian Case by Alexandre B. Cunha

“…Additionally, the data show that the rule of law is relatively weak in Brazil, suggesting that an improvement of the Brazilian judicial system is a potential growth-enhancing reform.…”
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