Portuguese and Brazilian national cultures, organizational culture and trust: an analysis of impacts by Lúcio Flávio Renault de Moraes, Anderson de Souza Sant’Anna, Daniela Martins Diniz, Fátima Bayma de Oliveira

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Serum metabolome indicators of early childhood development in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019) by Marina Padilha, Victor Nahuel Keller, Paula Normando, Raquel M Schincaglia, Nathalia C Freitas-Costa, Samary SR Freire, Felipe M Delpino, Inês RR de Castro, Elisa MA Lacerda, Dayana R Farias, Zachary Kroezen, Meera Shanmuganathan, Philip Britz-Mckibbin, Gilberto Kac

“…Funding: Supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Brazilian National Research Council.…”
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Religiosity as a potential mediator for violence in childhood and adulthood: results from a Brazilian nationally representative survey by Homero Vallada, Ronaldo Laranjeira, Juliane Piasseschi de Bernardin Gonçalves, Giancarlo Lucchetti, Maria do Rosario Dias Latorre

“…This study aimed to investigate the relationship between religiosity and violence in childhood, as well as the possible mediating role of religiosity between suffering violence in childhood and suffering and/or perpetrating violence in adulthood.Design Cross-sectional population-based study carried out from November 2011 to March 2012.Setting Face-to-face surveys (at participants’ homes) were performed in a Brazilian nationally representative sample.Participants A total of 3378 adults (aged 19 years and above) were included.Primary and secondary outcomes measures The association between suffering violence in childhood and religiosity, and the mediating role of religiosity between childhood and adulthood violence were analysed using logistic regression models.Results Religiosity was associated with childhood violence, showing that those who suffered less violence in childhood were more religious in adulthood and considered religion more important in their lives. …”
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The Brazilian National Policy for Regional Development and the RIDE-DF Management opposite the Governance vs Brasília’s Metropolitan Area by Renata Callaça Gadioli dos Santos, Luiz Fernando de Macedo Bessa, Magda de Lima Lúcio

“…The Brazilian National Policy for Regional Development – PNDR was established by Decree 6047/2007. …”
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Factors associated with early childhood development: results from the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition (ENANI-2019) by Gilberto Kac, Nadya Helena Alves-Santos, Dayana Rodrigues Farias, Nathalia Cristina Freitas-Costa, Raquel Scincaglia, Paula Normando, Inês Rugani, Elisa Maria de Aquino Lacerda, Sandra Crispim, Alexandra Valeria Maria Brentani, Claudia Regina Lindgren Alves

“…Introduction The full achievement of early childhood development (ECD) is a human right and adhering to the nurturing care framework may facilitate it.Objective To evaluate the association between distal and proximal variables and developmental quotient (DQ).Methods Data from 14 159 children <5 years were evaluated in the Brazilian National Survey on Child Nutrition. The Survey of Well-being of Young Children—Brazilian version milestones questionnaire was used to evaluate ECD. …”
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Trends in the prevalence of obesity and estimation of the direct health costs attributable to child and adolescent obesity in Brazil from 2013 to 2022. by Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson, Michele Gonçalves da Costa, Ana Carolina Rocha de Oliveira, Olivia Souza Honorio, Raphael Barreto da Conceição Barbosa

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We used Prais-Winsten regressions for determining the trends in the prevalence of obesity and modeled the attributable to childhood and adolescent obesity in the Brazilian National Health System using previous meta-analysis of studies.…”
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Analysis of the Learning Curve of Surgeons without Previous Experience in Laparoscopy to Perform Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy by Felipe Monnerat Lott, Deborah Siqueira, Hermano Argolo, Bernardo Lindberg Nóbrega, Franz Santos Campos, Luciano Alves Favorito

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“They said I came back Americanized”: cosmopolitanism and mediation in the trajectory of Carmen Miranda by Julia O’Donnell

“…This paper analyzes Carmen Miranda’s trajectory by situating it in the broader context of the disputes about Brazilian nationality between 1920 and 1940. At the intersection between her career and the Brazilian political culture of her time, the paper discusses her role in mediating the symbols that contributed to a particular national project that made the samba the country’s unmistakable trademark.…”
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Histórias de índios entre assimilação e resistência: O rastro do jaguar by Rita Olivieri-Godet

“…The analysis emphasizes the option to recover historical memory of two indigenous peoples, the Botocudos and the Guarani, confronting the divergent projects of indigenous nations and Brazilian nation.…”
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Gênero e ambivalência sexual na ficção de Caio Fernando Abreu: um olhar oblíquo sobre Onde andará Dulce Veiga? by Anselmo Peres Alós

“…Using analytical tools from narratology and gender studies, this reading of Abreu’s novel tries to understand the role of the cultural crossings when it comes to the disruptive modes of narration of the readymade notions of Brazilian national/sexual identity.…”
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Epigenetic Control of Interferon-Gamma Expression in CD8 T Cells by Patrícia S. de Araújo-Souza, Steffi C. H. Hanschke, João P. B. Viola

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Negros, brancos e o grupo dos ricos: o outro lado da desigualdade racial brasileira by Emerson Ferreira Rocha

“…The data is from the 2010 Brazilian national Census. The methods are linear and non-linear regressions.…”
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Pobreza por subtração: A festa, de Ivan Ângelo by Frans Weiser

“…Roberto Schwarz highlights the exclusion of marginalized classes from discus- sions about Brazilian national identity in “Nacional por subtração” (1987). …”
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Parcs nationaux au Brésil by Marta de Azevedo Irving

“…The present paper aims at presenting and discussing the context and challenges of public policies in the case of Brazilian National Parks, considering the country’s commitments to the Biological Diversity Convention. …”
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Muito além da mestiçagem: anti-racismo e diversidade cultural nos governos Lula by Sérgio Costa

“…This article examines the relationship between the two Lula administrations and indigenous and afro-descendant populations, considering two horizons of analysis, the insertion of Lula administrations in Brazilian nation building and its role for implementing rights established by the Constitution of 1988. …”
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Indexation of Fixed-Income Portfolios to the IMA-B by Emilio Ricardo Carvalhais, Antonio Marcos Duarte Júnior

“…This study considers the problem of indexing fixed-income portfolios to the ANBIMA Market Index – Series B (IMA-B), composed of Brazilian National Treasury Notes – Series B (NTNBs). We propose a mathematical model that minimizes the deviations of the returns of the chosen portfolio in relation to the returns of the index’s theoretical portfolio. …”
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FTIR Spectrophotometry as a Green Tool for Quantitative Analysis of Drugs: Practical Application to Amoxicillin by Stefany Fanelli, Alexander Zimmermann, Eliane Gandolpho Totóli, Hérida Regina Nunes Salgado

“…It is widely used in clinical practice, and it belongs to the Brazilian National List of Essential Drugs (RENAME). In literature, there are some green analytical methods for the amoxicillin analysis; however, none of them is focused on its quantification in capsules. …”
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Open Partial Horizontal Laryngectomy as a Conservative Salvage Treatment for Laser-Recurrent Laryngeal Cancer: A Multi-Institutional Series by Erika Crosetti, Andrea Borello, Andy Bertolin, Izabela Costa Santos, Marco Fantini, Giulia Arrigoni, Ilaria Bertotto, Andrea Elio Sprio, Fernando Luiz Dias, Giuseppe Rizzotto, Giovanni Succo

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Factors associated with overweight among food handlers in public schools by Thamiris Rodrigues Macedo, Adriana Fernandez Versiani dos Anjos, Luana Caroline dos Santos, Maria Flávia Gazzinelli Bethony, Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira

“…Overweight was diagnosed by means of body mass index measurements and was correlated to anthropometric, socioeconomic, health history and food habit variables that were obtained through a semi-structured questionnaire. 274 subjects participated, among whom 99.6% female, mostly married, adult with primary education and per capita income up to the Brazilian national minimum wage were studied. The prevalence of overweight was 82.80%, positively associated with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, use of medications, habit of snacking, and inversely with the recommended water intake and physical activity practice. …”
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Periodontal Disease in the Brazilian Population: A Retrospective Analysis on the 2013 National Health Survey to Identifying Risk Profiles by Thiago Antônio Raulino do Nascimento, José Vilton Costa, Ricardo Oliveira Guerra

“…In this context, we investigated the characteristics and risk factors for PD using the Brazilian National Health Survey 2013 (PNS-2013). A cluster analysis using the interdependence technique was applied to explore data on the risk of periodontitis. …”
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