A DEA approach for measuring healthcare efficiency in medical, clinical and obstetric specialties by Fabrício da Silva Santos, Susane de Farias Gomes

“… Alagoas occupies the worst public health positions in Brazil, and first in the indicators of infant mortality, presenting an extremely high mortality rate (48.2 deaths per thousand live births to a Brazilian average of 26.3 deaths per thousand live births). …”
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SciBabel: a system for crowd-sourced validation of automatic translations of scientific texts by Felipe Soares, Rozane Rebechi, Mark Stevenson

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Integrative diagnosis and review of the conservation status of a Near Threatened species of the “Psalidodon scabripinnis complex” by Priscilla Caroline Silva, Karine Orlandi Bonato, Vinícius A. Bertaco, Luiz Roberto Malabarba

“…Abstract The integration between morphological and barcode datasets allowed the discovery of new populations of Psalidodon cremnobates, expanding the distribution of this species to the Mampituba River drainage, municipality of Cambará do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and letting a review of the classification of extinction risk. …”
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Crisis and reconfiguration: economic and political changes in the Brazilian accumulation regime in the XXI century by Marcelo Soares Bandeira de Mello Filho, Diogo Oliveira Santos

“…The main objective of this work is to demonstrate that Brazil has experienced, since the end of 2016, a reconfiguration of the financial and extractive accumulation regime and a change in the ruling power bloc. …”
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Les Wayana de Guyane française sur les traces de leur histoire by Marie Fleury, Tasikale Alupki, Aimawale Opoya, Waiso Aloïké

“…In everlasting bond with the people of Brazil, living on the Jari (now abandoned), and Parou of Este, they lived a long time on both sides of the divide line between the tributaries of the Amazon and Maroni. …”
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Modeling and Implementation of a Power Estimation Methodology for SystemC by Matthias Kuehnle, Andre Wagner, Alisson V. Brito, Juergen Becker

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Formes et fonctions de la « donnée » dans trois webs environnementaux sud-américains (Argentine, Bolivie, Brésil) by Pierre Gautreau, Marta Severo, Timothée Giraud, Matthieu Noucher

“…This paper analyzes simultaneously different levels of organization of three environmental webs from South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia), revealing general trends in the forms of mobilization of downloadable data by environmental actors of these countries. …”
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Iron ore development management in the Russian Federation by A. M. Belyaev, F. F. Sharipov, M. A. Dyakonova

“…The subject of the study is iron ore, by reserves of which Russia is confidently among the top three countries in the world together with Australia and Brazil.   The global statistics on iron ore production looks a little different since China and India are ahead of Russia in terms of production volumes after the above-mentioned countries. …”
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Understanding the Integration of Socio-Technical Actors for Sharing and Sustainable Urban Mobility by Carlos Henrique T. Pereira, Minelle E. Silva

“…In the search for sustainability and urban reconfiguration, this research analyzes a business model used in sustainable urban mobility initiatives that integrates public and private agents (socio-technical actors - ST-actors) in Fortaleza (Brazil). An integrated case study was carried out with two initiatives: VAMO Fortaleza (e-carsharing) and Bicicletar (bike sharing). …”
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The person in contemporary contexts of right-wing populism: an uncomfortable study by Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Marco Julián Martínez-Moreno

“…Abstract This article arises from the authors’ common concerns for the intense dissemination of versions of right-wing populism in Brazil over the preceding decade. The challenge of contemporary anthropology in relation to ‘uncomfortable’ phenomena, such as right-wing populism and the construction of the person involved in it, was the methodological and ethical focus adopted for this work. …”
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Assessing Availability in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks Based on Targets’ Perimeters Coverage by Daniel G. Costa, Cristian Duran-Faundez

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Foliar application of humic liquid extract from vermicompost improves garlic (Allium sativum L.) production and fruit quality by D. M. Balmori, C. Y. A. Domínguez, C. R. Carreras, S. M. Rebatos, L. B. P. Farías, F. G. Izquierdo, R. L. L. Berbara, Andrés Calderín García

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Insights Into Antimicrobial Resistance From Dental Students in the Asia–Pacific Region by Saba Ghafoor, Gabriela Salvadori, Shiho Kino, Vy Thi Nhat Nguyen, Tam Thi-Thanh Nguyen, Miho Ishimaru, Antônio Pedro Ricomini-Filho, Cassiano Kuchenbecker Rösing, Dileep De Silva, Jun Aida, Belinda Farias Nicolau, Ratilal Lalloo, Roger Junges

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Vers une transition énergétique des pays émergents : quelles politiques d’incitation aux énergies renouvelables dans le secteur électrique en Argentine et au Brésil ? by Germán Bersalli, Jean-Christophe Simon

“…The results differ according to countries and two cases, Argentina and Brazil, present thought-provoking experiences. This paper first explores the energy transition notion and its implication for socio economic development in South American countries. …”
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Model Reduction Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Predictive Control of Distributed Reactor System by Alejandro Marquez, Jairo José Espinosa Oviedo, Darci Odloak

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Prediction of Thermal Distribution in an Internally Heated Radiative-Convective Moving Porous Fin with variable Thermal Conductivity using Homotopy Perturbation Method by Suraju Aremu Oladosu, Rafiu Olalekan Kuku, Gbeminiyi Musibau Sobamowo, Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

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Evaluation of the Inductive Coupling between Equivalent Emission Sources of Components by Moisés Ferber, Sanâa Zangui, Carlos Sartori, Christian Vollaire, Ronan Perrussel, Laurent Krähenbühl

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Smart bus ticketing system through IoT enabled technology by Agyan Kumar, Antônio Clécio Fontelles Thomaz

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Transcriptional Regulation of the p53 Tumor Suppressor Gene in S-Phase of the Cell-Cycle and the Cellular Response to DNA Damage by David Reisman, Paula Takahashi, Amanda Polson, Kristy Boggs

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A conformação dos grupos de pesquisa em biotecnologia da cana de açúcar na região norte-fluminense: a perspectiva do "novo sistemismo" by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro, Fabricio Monteiro Neves

“…Through the Theory of the Social Systems of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, we argue about the scientific, technological, economic, legal and political standing subsystems in the generation of the biotechnology of sugarcane in the North of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. We give particular emphasis to Campos dos Goytacazes, where the groups of research are settled, hosted at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF) and at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio De Janeiro (UFRRJ). …”
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