Collective Competencies and their Constitutive Elements: a case study in a Brazilian Fashion Group by Luiz Henrique da Silva, Tatiana Ghedine

“…This article aims to identify the constitutive elements and main collective competencies (CC) in the Lunelli Group Creation Center's work teams, a business group focused on the fashion industry from the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil. Through exploratory and qualitative research, applying the case study strategy, conducted semi-structured interviews (with 36 employees from 6 work teams of the Lunelli Group's brands), and realizing a participant observation. …”
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The Ignored Impact of the Livestock Sector on Climate Change: An Analysis from the Perspective of International Law by Melina Moreira Campos Lima

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Elites científicas junto às políticas locais de C&T: o caso da Secretaria Municipal de São Carlos-SP by Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade, Karina de Camargo

“…This article deals with the presence of scientific and technological elites in the implementation of local Science and Technology (S & T) policies in Brazil. In the last decades there has been an increasing growth of municipalities formulating their own policies in the field of science and technology, in order to articulate scientific knowledge and local development programs. …”
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Quality assessment of scientific papers:Excellence or legitimization of research practices? by Bruno de Almeida Vilela, Joyce Mariella Medeiros Cavalcanti, Kenyth Alves de Freitas, Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri

“…The results suggest that efficient graduate programs are concentrated in the center-south axis of Brazil, in the areas of Administration and Accounting. …”
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Exact Relativistic Magnetized Haloes around Rotating Disks by Antonio C. Gutiérrez-Piñeres, Abraão J. S. Capistrano

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Beyond Aid: A New Metric for Official Development Assistance Post-2015 by Rafael Domínguez Martín

“…It seems that in no case ODA will be related to the initial idea of policy coherence, but rather to an attempt among the traditional European donors to cover over their failure to fulfill their commitment to 0.7% of GNP and relax criteria with the (entirely uncertain) purpose of attracting providers of South-South assistance cooperation from the big leagues (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, or BRICS) and the secondary leagues (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, or Peru) to the Development Assistance Committee.…”
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Repurchase Intention Conditioned to Economic Confidence in Main Street Retail Districts by Eliane Tanabe Deliberali, Marcelo Moll Brandão, Flávio Santino Bizarrias

“…The crisis of confidence in Brazil creates a scenario that can influence relations between the attributes of the retailer and consumers. …”
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Corporalidade brasileira na fabricação da identidade nacional by Ana Lúcia Castro, Renata Pires Pinto

“…As it was often associated with sex tourism, this stereotype received much criticism and led to a negative image of Brazil abroad. However, in the 1990s the official tourism lobby softened the “sexy tone” of its discourse, and in 1999 Embratur received an award from the World Tourism Organization for its campaign to help fight the exploitation of children and youth by sexual tourism. …”
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How can Customer Analytics Capabilities Influence Organizational Performance? A moderated mediation analysis by Alamir Costa Louro, Marcelo Moll Brandão, Jurij Jakli\u010D, Arthur Sarcinelli

“…Its contribution lies in the test of this mediation in different types of industries in Brazil, by using SmartPLS software for structural equation modeling (SEM) and IBM SPSS with PROCESS macro for more in-depth insights. …”
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Compartment Syndrome following Bothrops Snakebite Leads to Decompressive Fasciotomies by Murilo Sérgio Valente-Aguiar, Bruno Gonçalves da Costa e Silva, Teresa Magalhães, Ricardo Jorge Dinis-Oliveira

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Industry Competition and Performance Persistence in Brazilian Equity Mutual Funds by Sabrina Espinele da Silva, Leticia Fernandes Pereira, Simone Evangelista Fonseca, Robert Iquiapaza

“…In this way, this research aimed to analyze the impact of market competition on the performance persistence of equity mutual funds in Brazil. Using a sample of free portfolio equity investment funds from 2010 to 2019, the main results point to the existence of performance persistence for Brazilian free portfolio equity funds. …”
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Citrus Diseases Exotic to Florida: Sweet Orange Scab (SOS) by Kuang-Ren Chung, Lavern W. Timmer

“…SOS is common in humid citrus growing areas of South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay), but its presence has not been confirmed elsewhere. …”
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O diferencial do empreendedorismo solidário by Luiz Inácio Gaiger, Andressa da Silva Corrêa

“…The data base under analysis is provided by the national mapping of the solidarity economy in Brazil and by a qualitative study about small solidarity-based economic experiences, which focused on the relevance of self-management and cooperation, as well as of efficiency and sustainability. …”
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Após a nacionalidade: história do romance e produção romanesca no Brasil e na América Latina by Pedro Dolabela Chagas

“…The essay debates the representation of local identity as a guiding theme of the novel, as well as of critique and literary history in Brazil and Latin-America. We comment the theses of Roberto Echevarría about the Latin-American novel, which place on a wider geographical frame the propositions by Flora Süssekind about the Brazilian novel. …”
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PROSPECTION OF FILAMENTOUS FUNGI AND THE PRODUCTION OF AMYLASE BY ASPERGILLUS sp. M1.7.2 by Mariana Tainná Silva Souza, Barbhara Mota Marinho, Thiago Machado Pasin, David Lee Nelson, Vivian Machado Benassi

“…Among 21 filamentous fungi isolated in Janaúba, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the best amylase producer was selected for standardization of culture parameters and subsequent enzymatic characterization. …”
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Salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae (Calder & Sands) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Patricia Prade, Eutychus Kariuki, Adam Dale

“…The salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae (Calder & Sands) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Figure 1), is a subaquatic (underwater) herbivorous insect native to Brazil (Calder and Sands 1985). This insect feeds on the invasive aquatic plants Salvinia molesta D. …”
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Simulating the pre‐ and de‐emphasis of drive voltages of silicon‐based micro‐ring ring‐modulators by S. Tenenbaum

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TESTING THE PURCHASING POWER PARITY HYPOTHESIS FOR BRICS: EVIDENCE FROM THE FOURIER UNIT ROOT AND COINTEGRATION TEST by Tuncer Gövdeli, Serpil Sumer

“…This study is a review of the purchasing power parity hypothesis applied to BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). For each country, time series based on a Fourier perspective were applied. …”
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Lorentz Invariance Violation and Modified Hawking Fermions Tunneling Radiation by Shu-Zheng Yang, Kai Lin, Jin Li, Qing-Quan Jiang

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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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