Cacti in distress: how to enhance ex situ conservation strategies through living collections by Thaís Moreira Hidalgo de Almeida, Diego Rafael Gonzaga, Ariane Luna Peixoto

“…The collection contains 156 cacti species that naturally occur in Brazil (57% of the total), including 43 species categorized as threatened on the Brazilian Red List and 57 categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List. …”
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Transmitted Drug Resistance among People Living with HIV/Aids at Major Cities of Sao Paulo State, Brazil by Joao Leandro Paula Ferreira, Rosangela Rodrigues, Andre Minhoto Lança, Valeria Correia de Almeida, Simone Queiroz Rocha, Taisa Grotta Ragazzo, Denise Lotufo Estevam, Luis Fernando de Macedo Brigido

“…Seventy-six percent of genomes (13/17) with TDR carried a nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) resistance mutation, mostly K103N/S (9/13, 69%), potentially compromising the preferential first-line therapy suggested by the Brazilian HIV Treatment Guideline that recommends efavirenz-based combinations. …”
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Mineração no Roteiro da Missão Cruls: ressignificação da fronteira no Planalto Central do Brasil by Adriano Gonçalves da Silva, Rita de Cássia Martins de Souza

“…On the following pages, it defends that the area is a geo-strategic region used by the Brazilian State, even though not in administrative management, in order to guarantee the territorial unit and, by corollary, the unit of its internal market. …”
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Le design graphique et la traduction au prisme de la transcréation by Gabriele Čepulytė

“…The hypothesis developed in this article is that of a reversal of the hierarchical relationship between form and content in graphic design, through the concept of transcreation of the Brazilian poet and translator Haroldo de Campos. Starting from the assumption that translation and graphic design, as formal practices, share the same relationship of subordination to content by the fact that they manipulate textual messages, the author relates the “verbivocovisual” practices of Brazilian concrete poetry with the shift towards semantic unification operated by the designer Karl Gerstner. …”
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Ciência, construção da nação e exclusão social. São Paulo-Brasil (1889-1930) by Mariza Romero

“…This kind of thinking was meant to guarantee social order, keeping a perfect balance between order and progress, motto of Brazilian national flag.…”
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Research on Pure Modes I and II and Mixed-Mode (I/II) Fracture Toughness of Geopolymer Fiber-Reinforced Concrete by Sundaravadivelu Karthik, Kaliyaperumal Saravana Raja Mohan, Gunasekaran Murali, Gobinath Ravindran

“…A different angle of inclination (0, 15, 28, 83, 60, 75, and 90 degrees) was used to conduct the Brazilian disc test on the specimens with respect to the preexisting crack direction. …”
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Recursos genéticos e bioprospecção no Brasil: capitaloceno, protagonismo e os (des)caminhos até o Protocolo de Nagoya (2010) by Eduardo Relly

“…With the rise of neoliberalist logics, bioprospecting and genetic resources, practices were reshaped and expanded, increasing Brazilian interests in global regulatory frameworks. …”
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Reconhecimento, redistribuição e as ambivalências do discurso sobre o Bolsa Família by Josué Pereira da Silva

“…The article analyzes the Bolsa Família, the main Brazilian income transfer program, by approaching it through the debate recognition-redistribution. …”
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Notas sobre uma trajetória e os Estudos Culturais by Renato Ortiz

“…The intellectual trajectory analyzed starts from his doctoral thesis on Afro-Brazilian cults and goes to the texts in which he deals with the relationship between globalization and the mundialization of culture. …”
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Des troupeaux invisibles. L’imaginaire du caipira dans la grande ville by Jean Carlo Faustino

“…According to an idea appearing in Italo Calvino’s Les villes invisibles about different ways of seeing and comprehending the city, this article proposes a reflection about the caipira paulista facing the Brazilian rural exodus of the middle of the 20th century. …”
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O projeto de integração Amazônica visto pela turistificação dos lugares by Terence Keller Andrade, Maria Goretti Tavares

“…The speech about the development of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest gives an important place to the process of touristification. …”
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Entre política e literatura: o Brasil de Oswald de Andrade by Giordano Barlin Bertelli, Tânia Pellegrini

“…Departing from the perspective of the relationship between literary field and political field, according to Pierre Bourdie's formulations, we try to signalthe conditions, literarily translated, that acted upon Oswald de Andrade's vision of the Brazilian social world.…”
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Environmental journalism from Brazil: trajectory and challenges for research by Eloisa Beling Loose

“…This article, based on a literature review and documentary research, retraces the trajectory outlined by environmental journalism research in the Brazilian context. It does so by discussing the development of the field in other countries, especially those in the Global North, where most of the research and publications are largely concentrated. …”
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2015-2017 Reviewers List by Alberto Raposo

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New Editor's Note by Alberto Raposo

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Alcida Rita Ramos. Una vida de compromiso con la etnografía y con los pueblos indígenas by Luis Cayón

“…It covers the various phases of her career and reveals some of her recent thoughts on the future of ethnography and anthropology, which stress the importance of the new surge of indigenous anthropologists in Brazilian universities.…”
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Participação racial e de gênero nas categorias gerentes, empregados especialistas, empregados qualificados e supervisores no Brasil (1992 e 2005) by Juliana Anacleto dos Santos

“…Therefore there are repercussions on their income, which has changed the profile of gender categories of the Brazilian average employee.…”
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Novas dicções no campo literário brasileiro: Patativa do Assaré e Carolina Maria de Jesus by Bruna Paiva de Lucena

“…Departing from the works Inspiração nordestina(1956), by Patativa do Assaré, and Quarto dedespejo(1960), by Carolina Maria de Jesus, we try to investigate the mechanics of legitimation and delegitimation employed in the power play in Brazilian literary field. This article aims, so,to raise an initial critical agenda related to the nature of literatures that are called "popular",or its character of testimony, due to their social origin and/or the social stand point of their authors and the challenges they meet in their insurgency in the literary field.…”
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Caractéristiques socio-économiques d’une intégration régionale en Amazonie colombienne (région de Florencia, Caqueta) by Xavier Arnauld de Sartre, Johan Oszwald, Berta Ramírez, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Jaime Velazquez, Pascal Sebille, Patrick Lavelle

“…Following a brief summary of the history of this region, we analyze the characteristics of these populations and the main productions of their farm, which are compared with those of an active frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.…”
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A razão ética e poética nos poemas de Ana Martins Marques by Anélia Montechiari Pietrani

“…Reading her poems, especially her metapoems, and thearchitecture of her texts make us situate the new Brazilian poetry at the presentof the twenty-first century, to reflect on the role, value and place of poetry incontemporary times, as power and search of meanings at which the ethical andthe poetic reason converge.…”
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