A cohort-based assessment of drug use trends during the COVID-19 pandemic: relationship with mood and sociodemographic factors in Brazil by Nubia Heidrich, Nubia Heidrich, Maurício Schüler Nin, Felipe Borges Almeida, Felipe Borges Almeida, Hilda M. R. M. Constant, Luana Freese, Helena M. T. Barros, Helena M. T. Barros

“…This study investigated the impact of the pandemic on substance use patterns and psychological health in Brazilians, exploring associations with sociodemographic factors to identify groups at higher risk. …”
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Jovens e os Stories do Instagram: estudo netnográfico durante a pandemia da Covid-19 by Alan César Belo Angeluci, Brasilina Passarelli, Carolina Gois Falandes, Milena Possar Garcia

“…This study examined the media and information literacies of young Brazilians on their main profiles and Dix on Instagram during the Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Coordinated conformational changes in P450 decarboxylases enable hydrocarbons production from renewable feedstocks by Wesley Cardoso Generoso, Alana Helen Santana Alvarenga, Isabelle Taira Simões, Renan Yuji Miyamoto, Ricardo Rodrigues de Melo, Ederson Paulo Xavier Guilherme, Fernanda Mandelli, Clelton Aparecido Santos, Rafaela Prata, Camila Ramos dos Santos, Felippe Mariano Colombari, Mariana Abrahão Bueno Morais, Rodrigo Pimentel Fernandes, Gabriela Felix Persinoti, Mario Tyago Murakami, Leticia Maria Zanphorlin

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O Japão na literatura brasileira atual by Marcel Vejmelka

“…This phenomenon offers varied and complex readings, interpretations and representations of Japanese culture, which by this means is “integrated” into the Brazilian context; readings of Japan which still maintain a connection with the legacy of Japanese immigration to Brazil as well as with issues of Brazilian identity, but which deal primarily with universal signifiers of Japanese and Brazilian culture in the 21st century.…”
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Corporalidade brasileira na fabricação da identidade nacional by Ana Lúcia Castro, Renata Pires Pinto

“…This paper discusses how, through the creation of Embratur (Brazilian Tourism Company) in 1966, an idealized Brazilian female body was constructed and used to help manufacture a national identity, reinforcing the stereotype of the sexualized Brazilian woman. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…From there, it was intended to make an analysis of the construction and deconstruction of Brazilian identity myths as Jeca Tatu and Macunaíma, analyzing their background in Portuguese literary imagination and its impact on modern Brazilian literature.…”
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TAX EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN BRAZIL by Heloisa Estellita, Frederico Silva Bastos

“…This article examines some topics of the brazilian legal and institutional framework on the tax exchange of information, such as a new model of approach of the tax administration, the tax transparency agenda and the international agreements on eoi matters, the brazilian supreme court rulings under bank secrecy and the rights of brazilian taxpayers regarding eoi.…”
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The Military Policy of the Rousseff Government: Reflections on the Conduct of the Armed Forces in the UPP and the MINUSTAH by Suzeley Kalil Mathias, Bruce Scheidl Campos, Leandro Fernandes Sampaio Santos

“…The UPPs are a key attribute of public security of the government carioca in Brazil and by extension the Brazilian state. The question is whether the missions of the Brazilian armed forces reinforce or are contrary to the foreign policy of the Rouseff government? …”
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Literatura infantil brasileira e estudos literários by Marisa Lajolo

“…The article discusses some features undertaken by production and circulation of contemporary Brazilian works aimed at children and adolescents, with base on the changes that affected Brazilian society for the last 40 years, mainly regarding financial investments and legitimization of cultural property.…”
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Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…This article advocates that Brazilian interpretation of freedom expression has a lot to learn from the US model and doctrine. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities for Maximizing the Utilization of the New Development Bank in Brazil by Bruno De Conti, Cyro Faccin

“…Our hypothesis suggests that despite the recent surge in operations, there remains room for advancement, particularly in light of the political developments unfolding in Brazil in 2023.Methodologically, the study hinges on analyzing NDB financial data, conducting interviews with pertinent stakeholders in Brazil, and scrutinizing and contrasting the financing institutional frameworks of the NDB and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). Our findings indicate that: i) access to the BNDES partially offsets the necessity for Brazilian firms to seek loans from the NDB; ii) a rigid institutional framework within the NDB and the Brazilian government impedes project approval and proposition; iii) all loans to Brazil thus far have been denominated in US dollars, diminishing their attractiveness; iv) there has been a lack of encouragement from the Brazilian national government, attributed to the reorientation of Brazilian foreign policy following the 2016 impeachment. …”
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Nina Ribeiro: O Ralph Nader brasileiro – A Colonialidade do Ser de um ativista do movimento consumerista no Brasil by Laís Rodrigues, Marcus Wilcox Hemais

“…However, such ideas did not always correspond to the Brazilian local plural logic or meet the needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups. …”
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Travestis brasileiras e exotismo sexual by Jorge Leite Jr

“…It is in this sense that the femininity of Brazilian trannies is able to enter the already vast field of the global imaginary on Brazilian eroticism. …”
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Court Disposition Time in Brazil and in European Countries by Caio Castelliano, Tomas Aquino Guimaraes

“…In Brazilian second-instance courts, it takes 320 days, 50% longer than in Europe (215 days). …”
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Justiciabilidade dos direitos sociais e econômicos no o Brasil: desafios e perspectivas by Flavia Piovesan, Renato Stanziola Vieira

“…The article will study aspects like the Brazilian and international protection of the social and economic fundamental rights, how the Brazilian Supreme Court has addressed the question, and the debates, nowadays, about the outlines of Brazilian constitutional jurisdiction in search of protecting and implementation of those rights.…”
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A categoria raça nas Ciências Sociais: revisitando alguns processos políticos, sociais e culturais na história do Brasil by José Ivo Follmann, Adevanir Aparecida Pinheiro

“…The authors demonstrate also the importance of the emergence of racial category in the Brazilian actual context and the pertinence of afro-descendants concept.…”
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Between giants and windmills: Lulismo in the presidential elections of 2018 by Mércia Alves, Joyce Miranda Leão Martins

“…It is concluded that Lulismo was mobilized to fight against the Temer government and the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, which were not dangerous rivals; however, it failed to build a narrative against the “dragons” of anti-petismo that questioned not only the Brazilian electoral game, but the democratic regime itself.…”
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Crise global e a necropolítica do governo Bolsonaro em tempos de pandemia by Osmar G. Alencar

“…This article aims to analyze the crisis of global capitalism and the response of the Brazilian State to safeguard the contradictory interests of capital and labor in times of pandemic. …”
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A ironia como projeto: movimentos da narrativa de Cora Coralina no campo literário brasileiro by Clovis Carvalho Britto, Maria Eugênia Curado

“…Woman, old and living in a small Brazilian city called Goiás, she published her first book at age76and brought reflections and questions that marked the Brazilian literary scene. …”
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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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