Representações da criançana literatura de autoria indígena by Iara Tatiana Bonin

“…Well - known since the nineties in the core of a wider differences - oriented movement, Brazilian indigenous literature is shaped as a space for the production of hybrid, multimodal and intercultural narratives. …”
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O ensino de Ciências Sociais na Faculdade Catarinense de Filosofia by Amurabi Oliveira

“…The history of Brazilian social sciences has been continuously revisited, usually taking as an inaugural landmark the creation of the undergraduate courses in social sciences. …”
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Quality of accounting and tax information in Brazil by Maysa Alves Correa Silva, Cíntia Siqueira Araújo Soares, João Estevão Barbosa Neto

“…Methodology: Data were collected from the 200 largest Brazilian municipalities. Multiple linear regression was performed with the accounting and tax information quality index as the outcome variable. …”
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Rimes de malandrins : du narcocorrido au narco rap by Enrique Flores

“…: artistic and criminal performance; reality as the kingdom of insane violence; Dante’s hell and Rimbaud’s “time of assassins”; jails, drug and misery; Pancho Villa’s mural; Caballeros águila and body painting; outlaw culture and “warriors of the drug” –from the Brazilian jails to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles; “Reynosa la maldosa”; Marcola, Tiger and Subway 3; “Big Word” and “Murderers Artists”; Gangsta rap; narcopoetry and hallucination; poetics of the crime; “Crime pays: rhyme pays”.…”
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Les marges équatoriales en Amazonie Brésilienne : une frontière énergétique sous tension en Amérique du Sud by Gisela Pires do Rio

“…Located along the coast of Venezuela to the north coast of Rio Grande do Norte, the geographical approach adopted in this paper considers exclusively the portion located in the Brazilian coastal zone. The conclusion illustrates that the different transitions do not depend exclusively on the evolution of the technological apparatus, but also on political agreements that interpellate both South American and global governance of these transitions.…”
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“Pensando no hoje e no futuro”: iniciativas de mudanças climáticas nas capitais do Nordeste do Brasil by Rylanneive Leonardo Pontes Teixeira, Rafael Aguiar da Silva, Ana Luiza Fontenelle, Yonara Claudia dos Santos, Zoraide Souza Pessoa

“…Based on this assumption, we aim to investigate how the capitals of the Brazilian Northeast have internalized the climate issue in their local government agendas, identifying and analyzing the initiatives aimed at tackling climate change at the local level. …”
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A dinâmica de centralização e descentralização politica e administrativa e a revisão da malha territorial municipal da região norte do Brasil (1988 – 2010) by Gilberto de Miranda Rocha

“…The review of the political loop - administrative city in Brazil, would be related directly to multiple factors, among which include: changes in Brazilian political and institutional order, especially with regard to alternating periods of centralization and decentralization of political administration, the redistribution of population in the territory and the urbanization process. …”
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Séries literárias juvenis: autoria e circulação da cultura by Andréa Borges Leão

“…Observing the phenomenon of cultural movement since the onset of Brazilian publishing industry, the essay offers some ideas on the status of authorship in contemporary series books for young adults. …”
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Realismo afetivo: evocar realismo além da representação by Karl Erik Schøllhammer

“…The ambition is to establish an aesthetic discussion of the strategic expressions of a reality that defies representation and questions the literary creativity and its possibility to create affective impacts and hereby accentuate its transforming potential in the contemporary Brazilian reality.…”
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An extensive analysis of Brazil and the Netherlands determinants of football attendance by Matthijs Edel

“…Surprisingly, hooliganism does not appear to have a notable impact, and the influence of leisure time is unclear. In the Brazilian context, stadium capacity and goal difference do not show significant effects on attendance, and the impact of the club's division is ambiguous. …”
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O deslocamento espacial de imigrantes haitianos: da desterritorialização à reterritorialização by Ednaldo Tartaglia Santos, Odete Burgeile

“…This research came from the interest in studying the presence of Haitian immigrants in Porto Velho, Rondonia, southern Brazilian Amazon. Our research question was the following: how is the migration process of a group of Haitian immigrants in Porto Velho, considering their spatial displacement inserted in a post-modern world? …”
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Geografias gays do Rio Grande do Sul by Maurício Polidoro, Bruno Kauss, Daniel Canavese

“…After a brief historicity about the homosexual issue in the West and the state of the art of the discussion of this subject in Geography, we seek to synthesize the data available on this population in Brazilian in Health System and in Demography. With the use of maps, we discuss how the urban-metropolitan fact is important for understanding the gay reality of Rio Grande do Sul state and we provoke the need to bring up, in Geography, the debate about LGBT, removing these groups from invisibility and the need to forge new interpretations about the production of space and urban-metropolitan dynamics, highlighting the need to expand data collection in existing information systems.…”
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The Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill Elicits Medicinal Effects on Tumor, Infection, Allergy, and Inflammation through Its Modulation of Innate Immunity and Amelioration of Th1/Th2 I... by Geir Hetland, Egil Johnson, Torstein Lyberg, Gunnar Kvalheim

“…The medicinal mushroom Agaricus blazei Murill from the Brazilian rain forest has been used in traditional medicine and as health food for the prevention of a range of diseases, including infection, allergy, and cancer. …”
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Design Networks: A Social Network Analysis of a Participatory Design Process by Carlo Franzato, Marcia Regina Diehl

“…To this end, a Social Network Analysis (SNA) has been conducted on a participatory design process in a Brazilian school community, intended to develop a hyperlocal social network for sharing knowledge among the community and the inhabitants of the region. …”
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A circulação de práticas e ideias balneárias: a estância termal de Poços de Caldas (MG) by Lohanne Fernanda Gonçalves Ferreira, Rogério Silva-Júnior

“…Three moments of the resort were identified: the construction of the spa as a resort; the apogee and the consolidation of the spa from the practices; and the decline of the spa as a social space of the Brazilian elites - at the same time as the seaside resorts were gaining strength.…”
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Políticas públicas e reservas da biosfera, desafios na gestão de cidades brasileiras by Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry, Hervé Théry

“…The challenge of planning and urban public policies is, in contemporary times, to find ways of dealing with fragmentation, a process present in Brazilian and Latin American cities. The urban spaces are marked by pollution, noise, congestion, precarity and lack of infrastructure. …”
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Influence of Processing Type in the Morphology of Membranes Obtained from PA6/MMT Nanocomposites by Rodholfo da Silva Barbosa Ferreira, Caio Henrique do Ó Pereira, Rene Anisio da Paz, Amanda Melissa Damião Leite, Edcleide Maria Araújo, Hélio de Lucena Lira

“…Thus, the study of nanocomposite processing to obtain membranes is highly important. In this work, Brazilian clay was used (Brasgel PA) for the preparation of polyamide/clay nanocomposite. …”
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Território e federação: a dimensão institucional da política regional da saúde no Rio Grande do Norte by Luciana da Costa Feitosa, Aldo Dantas

“…Although regionalization has been considered as the structuring axis of SUS since the 1988 Constitution, the vertical normative propositions of the national federated entity and its weak management consolidation in the state federal entity are reflections of the complex organizational structure of the Brazilian federation, which "empties" the locus of regional power while it oscillates between the centralization of the national scale and the decentralization of the municipal scale, generating obstacles for the execution of a territorial pact of health policy.…”
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Critical linkages between land use change and human health in the Amazon region: A scoping review. by Molly Mastel, Alejandra Bussalleu, Valerie A Paz-Soldán, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Armando Valdés-Velásquez, Stella M Hartinger

“…Our analysis demonstrated a lack of clear definitions for LUC, a wide variety of negative health effects from LUC, the lack of qualitative articles, a lack of studies exploring the potential positive health effects of LUC, and the predominance of studies coming from the Brazilian Amazon. Our study validated the prevailing idea that LUC can lead to negative health consequences, if not managed properly.…”
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Editors’ Note by Alberto Raposo, Cleber Corrêa

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