A Constituição Imperial de 1824: Uma breve análise dos aspectos sociais, políticos, econômicos jurídicos by Rossana Teresa Curioni Mergulhão, Bazilio de Alvarenga Coutinho Junior, Elton Fernando Rossini Machado

“…Inevitable say that the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 refl ects an existing reality in our nation. …”
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Economia criativa e a nova agenda econômica: o sentido da abordagem classificatória para um fenômeno contemporâneo by Rodrigo Campos Dilelio

“…The economic sociology related to the multidimensional approach to social reality has allowed Brazilian researchers to have a better understanding of the establishment of new markets for the circulation of cultural goods and services. …”
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Editors’ Note by Alberto Raposo, Cleber Corrêa

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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SECTORAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS: RUSSIA AND BRAZIL ON THE REGIONAL JET MARKET by M. G. Yevtodyeva

“…The article investigates experience of the Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and Russian aircraft companies UAC and Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCA) in development and sales of regional jets. …”
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Generation of Length Distribution, Length Diagram, Fibrogram, and Statistical Characteristics by Weight of Cotton Blends by B. Azzouz, M. Ben Hassen, F. Sakli

“…The length distributions by weight of five different categories of cotton (Egyptian, USA (Pima), Brazilian, USA (Upland), and Uzbekistani) are measured by AFIS. …”
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Refiguração do tempo histórico pela ficção by José Antonio Segatto, Maria Célia Leonel

“…The narrative figures at least two main epochs of the Brazilian history: the first starts in the 19th century and reaches the 1930s, the other starts at this time and reaches the beginning of the 21st century. …”
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Chemical Composition and Mechanism of Vibriocidal Action of Essential Oil from Resin of Protium heptaphyllum by Josiane Lima Mendes, Thiago Ferreira de Araújo, Mário Geraldo de Carvalho, Francisco Eduardo Aragão Catunda Júnior, Renata Albuquerque Costa

“…Protium heptaphyllum is a plant widely distributed in Brazilian ecosystems that produce a resin which has pharmacological activities. …”
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Qu’est le quilombo aujourd’hui devenu ? De la catégorie coloniale au concept anthropologique by Véronique Boyer

“…After the enactment of the article 68 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, anthropology became interested in the emergence of a quilombola identity in a society where the quilombo is supposed to belong to the past. …”
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Family’s Health-Strategy in Brazil: An Analysis of its Applicability by Luiz Antonucci, Maria das Dores de Loreto, Amelia Bifano, Edna Miranda, Diego Procópio

“…This article studies the Brazilian public health policy – Family’s Health Strategy (ESF by its Spanish acronym) - verifying, through the analysis of daily life, its organization, functioning and social networks around it. …”
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Representação feminina na narrativa infantojuvenil brasileira contemporânea by Leda Cláudia da Silva

“…This article investigates female representation turned to the public in question, based on a large research regarding the profile of the personage of the Brazilian contemporary children’s and youth narrative. …”
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Experimental investigation of the mechanical properties of Alfas stone by Konstas N. Kaklis, Stelios P. Mavrigiannakis, Zach G. Agioutantis, Emmanouil K. Steiakakis, Foteini K. Stathogianni

“…Two series of uniaxial compression tests and indirect tensile tests (Brazilian tests) were performed in order to determine the uniaxial compressive strength and the indirect tensile strength respectively. …”
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Análise de redes sociais: o método e sua utilização nas Ciências Sociais brasileiras by Ciro Antônio da Silva Resende

“…This article analyzes descriptively the use of the method ofsocial network analysis in the main publications in the Brazilian Social Sciences, in order to offer contributions for two questions: (1) what is the social network analysis?…”
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Os discursos do etnólogo, do filósofo e do ficcionistana estrutura do romance Nove noites by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This paper intends to establish a dialogue between two texts: “Structure, Signand Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences”, by Jacques Derrida, andNovenoites[Nine nights] by the Brazilian contemporary novelist Bernardo Carvalho.Derrida‟s text seems tohold the origins of the deconstructionist thinking of thephilosopher, and begins with an aporia pointed by Lévi-Strauss in the binarypair nature-culture to discuss the centered model of the occidental thinking.This scandal, thus, is associated to the activity of the ethnologist and has itsroots in ethnography. …”
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O artista popular e o contrato: lógicas divergentes nas produções musicais by Mariana Mont\u2019Alverne Barreto Lima

“…The present article takes as its empirical object a work contract of “onerous assignment of fixed interpreta-tion” made between a Brazilian musical artist, João do Vale, and a big record label, CBS, in the 1980s. …”
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Careers: workers’ perceptions of organisational support for their professional growth by Júlio Fernando da Silva, Janaina Faria Fidelis Borges, Amyra Moyzes Sarsur, Simone Costa Nunes, Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim

“…The study specifically sought to understand more fully organisations’ career management strategies in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The data collection included both Human Resources Departments’ stated positions and employees’ perceptions of their opportunities for professional growth and the available career planning mechanisms. …”

Apropriações tecnológicas em segmentos musicais periféricos: o caso do rock independente de Teresina by Thiago Meneses Alves

“…The general goal of this article is to analyze the implications of recent changes in the music culture for the independent musical contexts based far from the main political, economic, and media centers, from a research about the independent rock in Teresina, capital of the Brazilian state of Piauí. More specifically, our goal is to discuss the role of technological appropriations in the increase of the production in this kind of artistic-musical context. …”
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Tourism Public Policies in Brazil (2003-2011): between Neoliberalism and Neodevelopmentalism by Larissa Prado Rodrigues, Cristiane Alcantara de Jesus Santos, Antonio Carlos Campos

“…It is concluded that these paradigms were present during the Lula da Silva government (2003-2011), guiding plans and programs aimed at the development of Brazilian tourism.…”
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Commodity Outlook 2003: U.S. and World Sugar Markets by Andrew Schmitz

“…Both U.S. and E.U. sugar policies support sugar prices for growers well above world levels. Brazilian sugar producers are supported by their government sugar-ethanol program in which over 50 percent of the sugarcane grown in Brazil is converted into fuel. …”
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A universidade necessária em Darcy Ribeiro: notas sobre um pensamento utópico by Adelia Miglievich Ribeiro, Glauber Rabelo Matias

“…By doing this, it also suggests affinities between his thought and the one of the Hungarian sociologist, Karl Mannheim, stressing the need to plan society on the basis of the democratization of education itself and of culture in general with a view to overcoming, in the Brazilian case, the backwardness. Being aware of the fact that the reception of Mannheim in our intellectual circles in the decade of 1950 legitimized the formation of a new intelligentsia that intervened in the course of political events, the article situates Darcy Ribeiro in this scenario, as well as his bet on the role of the public intellectual and the ideological commitment of science to the formation of a national conscience in tune with the construction of a democratic society.…”
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Color Dependence on Thickness in Topaz Crystal from Brazil by Waldemar Bonventi Jr, Sadao Isotani, Antonio Roberto Pereira Albuquerque

“…It is well known that crystals of topaz from the Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province may turn blue by the irradiation with 60Co gamma rays followed by heat treatment. …”
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