Développement, crises et adaptation des territoires du soja au Mato Grosso: l'exemple de Sorriso by Damien Arvor, Vincent Dubreuil, Patricio Mendez del Villar, Carlos Magri Ferreira, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles

“…After the pioneer phase that occurred during the 1970’s and 1980’s, the expansion of mechanized agriculture (especially soybean crops) in the Southern part of the Brazilian Amazon basin led to the emergence of new territories integrated in " the world economy". …”
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Reliability analysis of reinforced concrete slabs according to NBR 6118 considering the lateral confinement by Gabriel Orso Garcia, Mauro de Vasconcellos Real, Paula Manica Lazzari

“…In this context, this study proposes a reliability analysis of slabs designed according to Brazilian standards, considering or not the phenomenon, with the goal of establishing a comparison between the cases. …”
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Geological Structure Exploration of Karst Collapse Column and Evaluation of Water Insulation Properties of the Mud Part by Shijian Yu, Jiyang Liu, Peng Bai, Hongtao Xu, Runshan He, Yongshen Wang, Dawei Yin

“…Finally, the tensile strength of the mud part was obtained by the Brazilian splitting method, and the water insulation ability of the mud part at the periods when the tunneling roadway and the working face passed the KCC was calculated, respectively. …”
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A Miss Kayapó: ritual, espetáculo e beleza by André Demarchi

“…Held in the city of São Félix do Xingu, in the State of Pará (Brazil), before a large number of indigenous and non-indigenous people, the Beauty Contest is an important ritual to understand the inter-ethnic relations between the contemporary Mebêngôkre and the other Brazilian inhabitants of the region. The idea here is to analyze the aesthetical and ritual forms of appropriation mobilized by the group, as well as the ways by which imagery control is exerted by indigenous peoples in the Contest. …”
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Dictaduras Militares y Tradiciones Obreras en Argentina y Brasil by Paula Andrea Lenguita, Marco Aurelio Santana

“…It is our belief that historical delineation is essential for the changes imposed on Argentine and Brazilian working-class traditions. From the comparative approach adopted, we consider the contributions made ​​to the academic literature in this period hinge Latin American labor struggle and we analyze the continuities and ruptures that imposed repressive context to working class traditions: peronist, class, communist and cutista (Unified Workers´ Central Brazil). …”
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Análise dos aspectos demográficos e socioambientais para elaboração de um Índice de Segregação Espacial Urbana. by Marcos Roberto Martines, Rúbia Gomes Morato, Fernando Shinji Kawakubo, Ricardo Vicente Ferreira, Rogério Hartung Toppa

“…The index is presented with values between 0 and 1, with the highest values indicative of greater urban spatial segregation, thematic classes were derived and mapped at the level of census tracts based on data from the Brazilian census of 2010 and from images of Sentinel 2A and 3 to the urban areas of Uberlândia. …”
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On the influence of T-Stress on photoelastic analysis under pure mode II loading by Mahnaz Zakeri, Chiara Colombo

“…The test specimens are Brazilian disks containing very sharp central cracks: experimental results indicate that these specimens contain negative values of T-stress. …”
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Metaheuristic Approaches for Hydropower System Scheduling by Ieda G. Hidalgo, Regiane S. de Barros, Jéssica P. T. Fernandes, João Paulo F. Estrócio, Paulo B. Correia

“…The proposed methodology is applied to two Brazilian hydroelectric plants, in cascade, that belong to the national interconnected system. …”
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Culture as a dimension of country brand: the highs and lows of Brazil’s brand image by Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, Mirna de Lima Medeiros

“…Brazil’s next most recognized unique cultural aspects were ‘flipflops’, the ‘Amazon’, ‘carnival parades’, ‘Brazil nuts’ and the ‘Brazilian native indigenous people’. Nevertheless, Brazil’s brand image is, to some extent, more favourable than unfavourable. …”
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Enhancing Tablet Product Experience on AliExpress by Mukhtar Adan Isak, Pringgo Widyo Laksono, Eko Pujiyanto

“…Topic modeling uncovers key themes, with positive discussions centered around fast delivery, value for money, and children's enjoyment, while negative themes highlight issues with screen performance, customs processes, and unexpected taxes, particularly for Brazilian customers. Temporal analysis shows dynamic spikes in topics like fast delivery and cost-benefit during specific periods. …”
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A Critique on the Book A Critical Approach to Community-Based Development by Mokhtar Nouri, Homayoun Abbasabadi

“…She has focused both on objective developments in Western societies such as England in the context of globalization and on two philosophical turning points of the twentieth century: the Brazilian philosopher Paolo Freire and the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci. …”
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É possível romper com a herança ibérica? Uma releitura da obra de Raymundo Faoro by Marcos Abraão Fernandes Ribeiro, Wania Amélia Belchior Mesquita

“…With this analysis, we try to bring new elements to reinterpret one of the most important Brazilian intellectuals, whose theses on the conduct of the State are still being addressed to us today.…”
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Changements d’occupation du sol et leurs impacts climatiques au Mato Grosso, Brésil by Vincent Dubreuil, Camille Delahaye, Adeline Le Strat

“…Changes in land cover (deforestation, urbanization) in the Brazilian Amazon have a strong effect on the temperatures at local scale. …”
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A Validated Reverse Phase HPLC Analytical Method for Quantitation of Glycoalkaloids in Solanum lycocarpum and Its Extracts by Renata Fabiane Jorge Tiossi, Mariza Abreu Miranda, João Paulo Barreto de Sousa, Fabíola Silva Garcia Praça, Maria Vitória Lopes Badra Bentley, James Dewey McChesney, Jairo Kenupp Bastos

“…Solanum lycocarpum (Solanaceae) is native to the Brazilian Cerrado. Fruits of this species contain the glycoalkaloids solasonine (SN) and solamargine (SM), which display antiparasitic and anticancer properties. …”
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L’odeur de l’axé by Arnaud Halloy

“…I suggest three theoretical claims: the hypothesis of the metonymic function of smells (Howes 1987), i.e. that the very nature of smell—their liminal, intangible and evolutive character, as well as their privileged link to emotions—redouble at the experiential level the rituals’ symbolic function of transformation; the hypothesis of an “olfactive evaluative conditioning” (Zucco 2013) at the heart of the metonymic function of smells; the existence of olfactive practices and “styles,” which are constitutive elements of collective identities in Afro-Brazilian religions.…”
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Computed Tomography to Estimate the Representative Elementary Area for Soil Porosity Measurements by Jaqueline Aparecida Ribaski Borges, Luiz Fernando Pires, André Belmont Pereira

“…The results obtained point out that samples with a section area corresponding to at least 882.1 mm2 were the ones that provided representative values of ϕ for the studied Brazilian tropical soil.…”
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Terra, poder e violência: conflitos no Mato Grosso do Sul e a relação do agronegócio com os Kaiowá e Guarani by Daniel Macedo Lopes Vasques Monteiro

“…Mato Grosso do Sul according to the Atlas of Brazilian Agriculture (2017) has 92% of its territory occupied by private lands. …”
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Bande frontalière du Brésil : transformations territoriales et densification du maillage municipal de 1872 à 2010 by Eloisa Maieski Antunes, Denise Pumain

“…This article aims to analyze the territorial transformations and densification of the municipal grid in the Brazilian border range from 1872 to 2010. For the analysis of the year 1872 was used the population base of Cedeplar and for 1900 to 2010 the territorial division used IBGE. …”
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Metropolitan Regions: Challenges for Sustainability and Governance of Periurban Areas in Brazil. by Prof. Dr. Martin Coy, Dr. Simone Sandholz, Dr. Tobias Töpfer, Dr. Frank Zirkl

“…Especially the most populous Brazilian metropolitan areas have to deal with peri-urban development challenges like the lack of infrastructure and public security or new forms of fragmentation that come along with social and ecological problems. …”
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Tertúlia geográfica pelo Rio Madre de Dios by Ricardo José Batista Nogueira

“…Presented in a playful way, combining the scientific and the fictional, the article imagines an unusual boat trip with several names from Brazilian geography and abroad, who experienced different times, dialoguing with each other, using their own bibliographic production and about them, about theory, method and research in Geography, with the objective of demonstrating the strong and diverse reflexive capacity of this science in research carried out anywhere in the world.…”
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