South American Fruit Fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“… Anastrepha fraterculus was described in the genus Dacus by Wiedemann (1830), based on specimens from Brazil. This species is of great economic importance because of the wide variety of plants which it attacks and its extensive distribution. …”
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Faire le mythe. Histoire, récit et transformation en Amazonie by Carlos Fausto

“…The different versions of the Parakanã myth are compared with other Amazonian myths on the origin of the white people, particularly with the story of Aukê, which is known by all Ge-speaking people of Central Brazil. Finally, the author examines some problems related to the notions of myth and history, suggesting the notion of mythic agency in contradistinction with our notion of making history.…”
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Fuzzy Inverse Compactness by Halis Aygün, A. Arzu Bural, S. R. T. Kudri

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Power-Line Communications: Smart Grid, Transmission, and Propagation by Justinian Anatory, Moises V. Ribeiro, Andrea M. Tonello, Ahmed Zeddam

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O território das onças e a aldeia dos brancos: lugar e perspectiva entre os Karajá de Buridina (Brasil Central) by Eduardo S. Nunes

“…The present paper describes the movements of the Karajá of Buridina (Central Brazil) towards two kinds of places, the bush and the city, territories (hãwa) of the jaguars and of the Whites, respectively. …”
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Novel Technologies and Applications for Construction Materials 2016 by Gonzalo Martínez-Barrera, Osman Gencel, João Marciano Laredo dos Reis, Juan José del Coz Díaz

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Participação e cultura política no orçamento participativo by Euzineia Carlos

“…The article discusses social participation in the public budgeting in the municipalities of Vitória and Serra, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil, from 1989 to 2003, and its relation with the local political culture. …”
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La face cachée de l’ancestralité. Masques et affinité chez les Matis d’Amazonie brésilienne by Philippe Erikson

“…Masks, ancestors and affines of the Matis (Amazonas, Brazil). This paper shows how Matis masks reveal Western Amazonian conceptions of temporality and generational continuity. …”
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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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Dysfonctions mécaniques dans les interstices de l’infrastructure by Paul Fabié, Joaquin Ruiz Zubizarreta

“…This ethnographic essay proposes a reflection on machines from the interstitial geographical situations in which two Guarani peoples on either side of the Paraguay-Brazil border are reduced. In this territory governed by the agribusiness infrastructure, machines are a daily feature of indigenous reality. …”
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Os sentidos e desafios da participação by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann

“…This article analyzes some challenges and difficulties of the participatory experiences in Brazil particularly of the Managing Councils and the Participatory Budgeting in constituting themselves as experiences of deliberative democracy. …”
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O Nordeste e o Mercado Nacional de Fragrâncias: notas para um mapa da produção/consumo de perfumes no Brasil by Maria Salete de Souza Nery

“…From the symbolic embracing of the Boticário Group’s Distribution Center by the São Gonçalo community members (State of Bahia), at the interstate highway BR-101, this study seeks to understand fragrance market in Brazil and, specifically, the role the Northeast Region plays in it. …”
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A Review of Stem Cell Translation and Potential Confounds by Cancer Stem Cells by Bernadette Bibber, Garima Sinha, Aline R. M. Lobba, Steven J. Greco, Pranela Rameshwar

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Ouabain Affects the Expression of Activation Markers, Cytokine Production, and Endocytosis of Human Monocytes by Mariana Pires Teixeira, Vivian Mary Rumjanek

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Commentary on “Reflections on the Inclusion of Direct-Care Physicians as Educators in Community Hospitals” by ROSANA ALVES

“…Medical education is now conducted outside the university-affiliated teaching hospital, often in the so-called community or general hospitals dedicated to patient care. In Brazil, most of these hospitals are under municipal or state management.…”
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Gastrointestinal Cancer Metastasis by Jin-Lian Chen, Richard Ricachenevsky Gurski, Keiichi Takahashi, Roland Andersson

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New Physics Landmarks: Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses by Farinaldo S. Queiroz, José W. F. Valle, Yann Mambrini, Giorgio Arcadi

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Da biopolítica à necropolítica contra os povos indígenas durante a ditadura militar brasileira (1964-1985) by Rodrigo Alvarenga, Elston Américo

“…Considering the violations of the human rights of indigenous peoples during the military dictatorship period in Brazil, the present study aims to analyze such violations from the point of view of biopolitics, considering their development in the perspectives of Foucault, Agamben, and Mbembe, in order to demonstrate that the genocidal and ethnocidal practices of that period do not only derive from an exposition to death related to state racism or the typification of slaughterable life, but also consist in a deliberate practice of making die, which brings Brazilian indigenous politics of the period closer to a necropolitics.…”
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South American Fruit Fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“… Anastrepha fraterculus was described in the genus Dacus by Wiedemann (1830), based on specimens from Brazil. This species is of great economic importance because of the wide variety of plants which it attacks and its extensive distribution. …”
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Hymenopteran Collective Foraging and Information Transfer about Resources 2012 by F. A. L. Contrera, M. J. Couvillon, J. C. Nieh

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