Le modèle topologique des sociétés amazoniennes by Klaus Hamberger

“…The article aims to outline, via a comparative analysis of social and spatial organization in Central Brazil, North-West Amazonia and Guyana, a topological model common to Amazonian societies. …”
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Accounting Sciences theses: an analysis of their dissemination by Jacqueline Veneroso Alves da Cunha, Edgard Bruno Cornachione Jr., Gilberto de Andrade Martins

“…The purpose of this study was to find evidences to allow assessing the degree of dissemination of doctoral theses in Accounting (defended in Brazil up to 12/31/2006), in the production of new knowledge. …”
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Reverse transfer of corporate social responsibility practices from brazilian subsidiaries of multinationals by Felipe Mendes Borini, Moacir de Miranda Oliveira Júnior, Gabriel Vouga Chueke

“…The data were obtained by a survey of the main foreign subsidiaries in Brazil. All told, we analyzed 150 Brazilian subsidiaries of multinationals, by applying multiple linear regression. …”
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Capital Structure, Internationalization and Countries of Destination of Brazilian Companies: An Analysis of the Upstream-Downstream Hypothesis by Rafael Borges Ribeiro, Vinícius Silva Pereira, Karem Cristina de Sousa Ribeiro

“…The results show that Brazilian companies when defining the destination countries of internationalization, regardless of these countries presenting higher or lower stability in relation to Brazil, increase their indebtedness. The results showed that among the characteristics present in countries considered as more stable, only the Corruption Perception Index was positively associated with the level of indebtedness of multinationals.…”
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A censura ao direito de sonhar em Quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…Our goal is to highlight the author‟s skill to create resourceful representations of her miserable daily routine and through this oppose to the usual perception of her text as a bare documentary on Brazil‟s starvation in the 1950s. We tried to point out that there was some implicit censorship among cultural m ediators to prevent a subaltern woman from being seen as a writer, so that she would only find a place in the mere protest scene. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…This essay was born of the intention to compare the data collections on the empirical-traditional medicine in Portugal and Brazil, on the initiative of Michel Giacometti, naturalized Portuguese, whose work, recently discovered , was collected in the volume Artes de Cura e Espanta-Males (2009), and the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, author of Namoros com a Medicina (1937). …”
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Lie Algebra Classification, Conservation Laws, and Invariant Solutions for a Generalization of the Levinson–Smith Equation by G. Loaiza, Y. Acevedo, O.M.L. Duque, Danilo A. García Hernández

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Retornando sua coleção de material audiovisual: os dilemas de uma antropóloga by Clarice Cohn

“…This paper focuses on the author’s endeavor to return audiovisual material (essentially analogue photographs) from her personal archives to the Xikrin (Mebengokré) of Pará, Brazil, with whom she has been working since 1992. …”
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Effects of Diversification on Profitability and Operating Risk for Brazilian Publicly Traded Companies by Camila Adam, Tatiane Meurer, Moacir Manoel Rodrigues

“…This study is relevant to the investigation of the relationship of industrial and international diversification in companies' operating results, as it indicates that, in the context of Brazil, industrial diversification tends to improve operating results, with an increase in profitability and a reduction in operating risk.…”
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Advanced Cementitious Materials: Mechanical Behavior, Durability, and Volume Stability by Doo-Yeol Yoo, Nemkumar Banthia, Kazunori Fujikake, Paulo H. R. Borges, Rishi Gupta

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The migrant and refugee entrepreneur (of the self): vernacular modes of immaterial labor as (re)invention of the self in the destination country by Laura Alves Scherer1, Carmem Ligia Iochins Grisci

“…The cartographic method was used to collect data from interviews and participant observation in Porto Alegre (Brazil), exploring events-activities, key informants, and economic migrants and refugees from the global south who work with music, dance, food, fashion, language, and political-cultural representation. …”
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Divide In Marketing Between Academics And Practitioners by Fernanda Capanema Repsold, Marcus Wilcox Hemais

“…However, there are few empirical studies in Brazil that help clarify the phenomenon. In light of this context, the present research seeks to understand how academics and practitioners perceive the divide between the academy and businesses and how this affects the applicability of theories, concepts and models in marketing. …”
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Perceptions experienced by nursing undergraduates in a tele-simulation scenario about neonatal hypoglycemia

“…Method: Exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach involving 36 nursing undergraduates during an elective course in a nursing degree program at a federal public university in the interior of Minas Gerais - Brazil. Data production took place between August and September 2021, through a virtual platform, with questions for self-assessment of the activity, and was submitted to Bardin's content analysis. …”
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Sugarcane Yellow Leaf Disease by Jack C. Comstock, Robert A. Gilbert

“…Later it was reportedly associated with yield losses of 25% or more in the cultivar SP 71-6163 in Brazil. Subsequently the virus sugarcane Yellow Leaf Virus (SCYLV) was discovered to be associated with the disease. …”
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O setor elétrico entre a questão histórica e os problemas sociológicos by Alessandro André Leme

“…The end of the 20 th century was characterized by a complex process and great transfor- mations in the global sphere, where globalization, neo-liberalism and market-oriented reforms acquire theoretical relevance among researchers, scientists and intellectuals of various fields of knowledge and practical relevance in the macro-economic and political-institutional direction adopted, either integrally or in part, by several countries in the world, especially by developing countries, including Brazil. Out of this process we highlight the changes in the electric sector, which is understood as a strategic one. …”
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A note on surfaces with prescribed oriented Euclidean Gauss map by Ricardo Sa Earp, Eric Toubiana

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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…In this sense, we propose a brief intellectual biography of an American anthropologist born in 1938 who did fieldwork in Venezuela, taught in the United States, England and Scotland, weaved interdisciplinary dialogues between philosophy, linguistics and anthropology and stimulated exchanges between ethnology carried out in England, France, Scandinavia and Brazil. As the only woman in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics for much of the eighties, she faced pioneering controversies about kinship, gender, rationality, temporality, aesthetics and creativity with elegant, clear and theoretically dense writing, making room for women in academia. …”
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Entre la parole et l’image : le système mythopoétique marubo by Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

“…The verbal arts of the Marubo (a Panoan-speaking people from Vale do Javari, Amazonas, Brazil) are systematically connected with iconographic productions and with certain ritual configurations, which seem to indicate the conditions of a visual thought. …”
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A estética dos becos em Cora Coralina ou “Um modo diferente de contar velhas estórias” by Clovis Carvalho Britto

“…In this interpretive key, she observed social relations within Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a point of view that rehabilitates the margins. …”
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South American Cucurbit Fruit Fly, Anastrepha grandis (Macquart) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr.

“…It has been intercepted in the United States in pumpkin from Argentina and Brazil, and one adult was found in banana debris from Panama. …”
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