Tourist destinations’ competitiveness: demand and performance factors by Carlyle Tadeu Falcão de Oliveira, Deborah Moraes Zouain, Luiz Alexandre Valadão Souza, André Luís Faria Duarte

“…The results show that half the critical incidents do not fit into the analysis categories in the Brazilian competitiveness model, so nine ‘new categories’ emerged from the process. …”
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Chemical Constituents of Essential Oil from Lippia sidoides Cham. (Verbenaceae) Leaves Cultivated in Hidrolândia, Goiás, Brazil by Sandra Ribeiro de Morais, Thiago Levi Silva Oliveira, Maria Teresa Freitas Bara, Edemilson Cardoso da Conceição, Maria Helena Rezende, Pedro Henrique Ferri, José Realino de Paula

“…Several studies involving the family Verbenaceae, occurring in the Brazilian Cerrado, have emphasized the popular use of many aromatic species. …”
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Use of Imaging Spectroscopy for Mapping and Quantifying the Weathering Degree of Tropical Soils in Central Brazil by Gustavo M. M. Baptista, Rodrigo S. Corrêa, Perseu F. dos Santos, José S. Madeira Netto, Paulo R. Meneses

“…The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of applying AVIRIS sensor (Airborne Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer) for mapping and quantifying mineralogical components of three Brazilian soils, a reddish Oxisol in São João D'Aliança area (SJA) and a dark reddish brown Oxisol and Ultisol in Niquelândia (NIQ) counties, Goiás State. …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…We tried to investigate the construction of an ideal of nation and which are the desired features for the composition of this national order, that is constituted as a factor of Brazilian identity. We looked support in the Brazilian literature, used in dialogue with scholars who are dealing with the question under historical and social focuses, through works such as O cortiço, by Aluízio Azevedo (1890), Capitães da areia, by Jorge Amado (1937), and the shot story “O cobrador”, by Rubem Fonseca (1979). …”
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Spectroscopic and Thermooxidative Analysis of Organic Okra Oil and Seeds from Abelmoschus esculentus by Geórgia de Sousa Ferreira Soares, Vinicius de Morais Gomes, Anderson dos Reis Albuquerque, Manoel Barbosa Dantas, Raul Rosenhain, Antônio Gouveia de Souza, Darlene Camati Persunh, Carlos Alberto de Almeida Gadelha, Maria José de Carvalho Costa, Tatiane Santi Gadelha

“…Research on the chemical composition of both seed and oil for Brazilian Okra in South America is still incipient. …”
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Contraception of emergency in nursing education / formation: a documental study by Juliana Calazans de Cerqueira, Jacqueline Oliveira de Carvalho, Adriana Lemos

“…The colleges have studied issues related to emergency contraception, but have almost no documents of the Brazilian Ministry of Health in their references, as well as on the specific subject. …”
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New Approach of the Oxidant Peroxo Method (OPM) Route to Obtain Ti(OH)4 Nanoparticles with High Photocatalytic Activity under Visible Radiation by André E. Nogueira, Lucas S. Ribeiro, Luiz F. Gorup, Gelson T. S. T. Silva, Fernando F. B. Silva, Caue Ribeiro, Emerson R. Camargo

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Quality of life among residents of informal urban settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic in Salvador, Brazil by Albert I Ko, Federico Costa, Hammed Mogaji, Nivison Nery, Hernan D Argibay, Jaqueline S Cruz, Ianei O Carneiro, Ricardo Lustosa, Mike Begon, Hussein Khalil

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A narrativa mediada e a permanência da tradição: percurso de um anti-herói brasileiro by Luiz Gonzaga Motta

“…The article describes a narrative analysis of the song “Faroeste Caboclo”, written by the Brazilian composer Renato Russo. It freely applies the procedures proposed by the Russian narratologist Vladimir Propp in a typical product of the cultural industry to comprehend the narrative of a Brazilian modern anti-hero. …”
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Instituições e Cultura: difusão e modelagem internacional da política pública brasileira de combate à pobreza by Samira Kauchakje

“…The methodology is in the exploratory phase and in the discussion there is data related to the significant moments of the Brazilian social protection system between the years 1995 and 2012. …”
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Living on the edge: Herpetofauna of the buffer zone of the Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil by Miguel R. Ugalde, Thaylan P. Alves Salles, Amanda F. Marinho, Mara C. Kiefer

“…ABSTRACT Habitat loss and fragmentation is the greatest threat to global biodiversity and is especially acute in biodiversity hotspots such as the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Because the Brazilian fauna suffers from ongoing human impacts both inside and outside protected areas and their buffer zones, inventories of the faunal assemblages in these areas remain vital. …”
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Honneth e o mercado brasileiro de consumo como instituição de reconhecimento by Carlos Freitas

“…In the end, it is desired to demonstrate the potential normative advances and controversies that surround the Brazilian market of consumer goods.…”
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Dangers of Residual Dependency in State-permeated Capitalism: The Case of Brazil during Labor Party Rule by Christian May, Andreas Nölke

“…However, the Labour Party governments were unable to fully unfold the institutional complementarities in state-permeated capitalism in order to make the Brazilian economy more independent from external pressures. …”
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Lutas de memorias e projetos na disputa pelo antigo departamento de ordem política e social (DOPS) do Rio de Janeiro by Fernanda Ferreira Pradal

“…It is done in the context of a conflict of memories about the military dictatorship as well as considering the broader debate about the history of the Brazilian police.…”
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A Step towards Integrating CMORPH Precipitation Estimation with Rain Gauge Measurements by Augusto José Pereira Filho, Felipe Vemado, Guilherme Vemado, Fábio Augusto Gomes Vieira Reis, Lucilia do Carmo Giordano, Rodrigo Irineu Cerri, Cláudia Cristina dos Santos, Eymar Silva Sampaio Lopes, Marcelo Fischer Gramani, Agostinho Tadashi Ogura, José Eduardo Zaine, Leandro Eugenio da Silva Cerri, Oswaldo Augusto Filho, Fernando Mazzo D’Affonseca, Cláudio dos Santos Amaral

“…The normalized error variance (NEXERVA) is higher in sparsely gauged areas at Brazilian North and Central-West regions. Monthly areal rainfall averages and standard deviation were obtained for eleven Brazilian watersheds. …”
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Energia eólica no Brasil: a contribuição do Nordeste e do Rio Grando do Norte na diversificação da matriz energética by Maria Eduarda Medeiros da Silva, José Alderir da Silva

“…Therefore, the research will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the Brazilian energy matrix while emphasizing the importance of diversification for the country and the complementary role of wind energy in relation to hydroelectric power. …”
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Paisagem Cultural: discussões contemporâneas por um (novo) olhar para o patrimônio cultural by Luciana de Castro Neves Costa, Juliane Conceição Primon Serres

“…In the same way, since the institution of IPHAN (National Historic and Artistic Heritage Institute) the notion of landscape has moved between the categories of cultural heritage and natural heritage, and has been consolidated recently as a specific type of heritage asset, the seal of Brazilian Cultural Landscape, that proposes, as a consequence, a new understanding about Brazilian heritage. …”
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Geographic Distribution of Chagas Disease Vectors in Brazil Based on Ecological Niche Modeling by Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Cléber Galvão, Jane Costa, A. Townsend Peterson

“…For a better understanding of transmission risk, the geographic distribution of Brazilian triatomines was analyzed. Sixteen out of 62 Brazilian species that both occur in >20 municipalities and present synanthropic tendencies were modeled based on their ecological niches. …”
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A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus em Angola: faces da nova cartografia religiosa global by Anaxsuell Fernando Silva, Karen Susan Silva Pititinga Rosa

“…This communication proposal takes this historical fact as an analytical motto to understand the performance of the Brazilian Pentecostal churches in Africa, in particular the Universal Kingdom of God Church in Angola. …”
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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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