O método design thinking como instrumento de sustentabilidade urbana. Uma proposta aplicada para a questão do descarte irregular de resíduos na cidade de Uberlândia, MG, Brasil.... by Leticia Del Grossi Michelotto, Fernando Luiz Araujo Sobrinho

“…Over the last twenty years, urbanization rates in Brazil have increased significantly. According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), most of the Brazilian population, 84.72%, live in urban areas and a little more than half of the Brazilian population (56.5% or 117.2 million inhabitants) lives in only 5.6% of the cities, which are those with more than 100 thousand inhabitants. …”
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Hypertension Management in Brazil: Usual Practice in Primary Care—A Meta-Analysis by Rafael V. Picon, Juvenal S. Dias-da-Costa, Flavio D. Fuchs, Maria Teresa A. Olinto, Niteesh K. Choudhry, Sandra C. Fuchs

“…Three datasets’ data were analyzed: SESI study (in Brazilian workers); HIPERDIA (Brazilian Registration and Monitoring of Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients Program); and a population-based study. …”
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Quel est l’impact de la faim et de la lutte pour la survie sur le rapport subjectif au travail ? by Valérie Ganem, Martha Veras Rodrigues

“…Based on a work psychodynamics study conducted in 2013 with Brazilian construction workers, the following hypothesis is proposed: the defensive ideology known as “the struggle for survival” has a considerable impact on the subjective relation to work. …”
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La participación de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil en la Cooperación Sur-Sur de Brasil: buscando un enfoque integral de participación by Michele DOlCETTI MARCOLINI

“…To do so, we analyze how Brazilian CSOs try to enhance their role in formulation, implementation and accountability of Brazilian SSC. …”
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Politiques publiques de développement à la frontière franco-brésilienne : une ignorance mutuelle by Madeleine Boudoux d’Hautefeuille

“…Many peripheral border areas of national States around the world are affected by public territorial policies aiming to their development. The Franco-Brazilian border between French Guiana, a French overseas department and region, and Amapá, a Brazilian federal State, is the case study in which we examine here these policies, focusing not on their efficiency, but on their coincidence. …”
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Comparative Study on the Test Method for Tensile Elastic Modulus of Rock Materials by Yan Zhang, Dawei Yu

“…To distinguish which indirect test methodology, including three-points bending test and Brazilian disc test, is more suitable to measure the tensile elastic modulus Et of rock materials, a series of uniaxial compressive test (UCT), direct tensile test (DTT), three-points bending test, and Brazilian disc test are performed for three typical types of rock: marble, granite, and sandstone. …”
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Human Factors and Errors in Security Aviation: An Ergonomic Perspective by Michelle S. F. Arcúrio, Eliane S. Nakamura, Talita Armborst

“…In a previous study we have identified the incidence of human factors and errors in the security screening process, concerning the Brazilian civil aviation. This finding led to the analysis of labor activity in the security checkpoint from an ergonomic perspective. …”
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O pensamento francês na geografia rural do Brasil by Flamarion Dutra Alves

“…This article aims to discuss the theoretical-methodological developments of the Brazilian agrarian geography, starting in 1939. Through the analysis of selected scientific geography journals, it is possible to demonstrate the predominance of French lablachian tradition in rural studies published between 1939 and 1970. …”
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Cor ou Raça: Indígena? Contextos e Recepções da inclusão de uma categoria no Censo Demográfico 1991 by Ricardo Ventura Santos, Bruno Nogueira Guimarães, Alessandra Traldi Simoni

“…The definition of categories in national Censuses is object of national and international disputes and socio-political dynamics, generating visibility and "legibility" to the issues represented therein. In 1991, the Brazilian Census included the category "indigenous" in its questionnaire, changing the description of the ethnic-racial composition of the Brazilian population. …”
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Um ícone chamado PELÉ by Mauricio Murad

“…This article analyzes the trajectory of Edson Arantes do Nascemento, better known as Pelé, as an icon of Brazilian culture, of its football, and even as a symbol of world football. …”
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Circulation multiforme de la pédagogie personnalisée et communautaire au Brésil dans les années 1950 et 1960 by Norberto Dallabrida

“…Conceived and developed by Pierre Faure, a French Jesuit father who was close to new education movements, personalized and community-based pedagogy became widespread in Brazilian education in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on an analysis of Pierre Faure’s works, his courses and conferences, and the travels of French and Brazilian educators, this article traces how this pedagogy circulated between France and Brazil. …”
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Les images des villes brésiliennes dans les manuels scolaires de France et du Brésil : entre mythes et réalités by Leonardo Moreira Ulhôa

“…This text proceeds from some reflections about images of Brazilian cities illustrating geography textbooks used in educational institutions of France Brazil. …”
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The History of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Brazil by Mariana Moreira Andrade, Wilson Barros Luiz, Rayane da Silva Oliveira Souza, Jaime Henrique Amorim

“…In Brazil, the first MRSA isolates were reported in the late 1980s, and since then different genetic profiles, such as the Brazilian epidemic clone (BEC) and other clones considered a pandemic, became endemic in the Brazilian population. …”
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Estado y representación política en Brasil by Helcimara De Souza Telles

“…Differently from these usual approaches, the proposal presented here is based on the idea that the obstacles faced by Brazilian parties may have originated from the concentration of decision power in the hands of the State or the Executive branch. …”
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A relação do Serviço Social com as lutas sociais no Brasil nas décadas de 1970-1990: um esforço coletivo de investigação sobre a questão da natureza da dimensão ético-política prof... by Amanda Guazzelli, Ana Lívia Adriano, Maria Beatriz Costa Abramides, Maria Lúcia Duriguetto, Maria Rosângela Batistoni, Susana Maria Maia

“…The article presents the historical and theoretical-methodological assumptions of an ongoing research proposal on the nature of the ideopolitical dimension and the particularity of the praxis philosophy in the process of development and consolidation of the ethical-political project of Brazilian Social Service. In this sense, elements that shaped the nature of the ideological-political dimension in the Reconceptualization Movement and the particularity of its characterization in the Brazilian reality during the 1970s and 1980s are explained. …”
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A caminho do Norte: cartografia dos impactos territoriais do agronegócio em Rondônia (Amazônia ocidental) by Ricardo Gilson da Costa Silva, Amanda Michalski

“…We analyze the geographic route of soya, as the main product of brazilian agribusiness, and its spatial effects in the brazilian Amazon. …”
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Representações interculturais de gênero no romance A república dos sonhos, de Nélida Piñon by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…Brazilian author Nélida Piñon's novel A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams) (1984) engages, on the one hand, gender representations of a medieval- inspired Galicia, with its oral traditions, pilgrimages and emigrants. …”
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(In)visibilidade das camadas pobres na cidade pelo prisma dos cortiços paulistanos no Brasil by Octavie Paris

“…Referring to the Brazilian poorest classes housing topic, the automatism frequently is to think about the favela, urban image which belongs to the Brazilian urban landscape settled in the collective imaginary (or created by Medias and political discourses). …”
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(In)visibilité des classes pauvres en ville par le prisme des cortiços paulistes au Brésil by Octavie Paris

“…Referring to the Brazilian poorest classes housing topic, the automatism frequently is to think about the favela, urban image which belongs to the Brazilian urban landscape settled in the collective imaginary (or created by Medias and political discourses). …”
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O Paraná no Brasil: uma contextualização em treze imagens (e meia) by Hervé Théry, André Nagy, Raimundo Nonato Junior

“…The paper puts the state of Paraná in the Brazilian context, using thematic mapping to analyze the differences and dynamics that mark the territory in several areas. …”
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