Interdependence and asymmetries: Latin American ADRs and developed markets by Ana Carolina Costa Correa, Tabajara Pimenta, Luiz Eduardo Gaio

“…In this context, this research sought to detect and measure the interdependence phenomenon, comprising the returns and volatility spillovers and their asymmetries between the levels 2 and 3 ADRs of the main capital markets of Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico) and the developed ones (the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and France), regarding the last financial crisis scope. …”
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DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY OF NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS by Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu, Trimisiu Tunji Siynbola, Gbadebo Tirimisiyu Ogunmefun, Afeez Babatunde Makinde

“…The result reveals that capital adequacy, nonperforming loan, loan to total asset and size have significant positive effect on profitability, while age was found to exert significant but negative effect on profitability. …”
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The influence of urban space in dramatic conflicts: transnationality in Mexican fiction films by Silvana Flores

“…The topic of migration and its entailments with the plots of these titles will allow us to elucidate the role awarded to the capital cities as spaces of cultural exchange, as also as essential elements for the achievement of the purposes of their characters, promoting a (des)centralizing vision of those types of territories.  …”
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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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DETERMINANTS OF PROFITABILITY OF NIGERIAN DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS by Wasiu Abiodun Sanyaolu, Trimisiu Tunji Siynbola, Gbadebo Tirimisiyu Ogunmefun, Afeez Babatunde Makinde

“…The result reveals that capital adequacy, nonperforming loan, loan to total asset and size have significant positive effect on profitability, while age was found to exert significant but negative effect on profitability. …”
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Sistema integrado ABC-EVA como uma ferramenta de gestão: um estudo de caso by Raimundo Nonato Sousa da Silva, Tiago de Amorim Bueno Vieira

“…Os motivos para avaliação de custos indiretos e de capital são apresentados. Os passos de pré-implementação e implementação são ilustrados usando dados de uma implementação do sistema em uma empresa multinacional de serviços industriais. …”
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Entrepreneurial potential in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the context of current socio-economic movements by Čeko Mirjana, Rađenović-Kozić Biljana

“…Entrepreneurship, as a combination of labor, creativity, capital, and technology, generates innovative products, services, and socioeconomic activities, becoming increasingly significant in post-industrial societies. …”
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TEMPOS DE DESMONTE DO ESTADO DE DIREITOS HUMANOS. TEMPOS DE DESMONTE DO DIREITO À EDUCAÇÃO by MIGUEL G. ARROYO

“…Que Estado de Mercado, do Capital re-imposto? Que tradições democráticas desmontadas e que tradições autoritárias re-impostas? …”
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Sustainable Transportation in Indonesia: Opportunities for Environmentally Friendly Shuttle Services on the Bandung-Jakarta Route by Pamungkas Mochammad Rifky, Maulina Erna, Arifianti Ria, Muftiadi Anang

“…It highlights that while the initial capital costs for EVs are high, the long-term environmental benefits-such as emission reductions and improved air quality—are significant. …”
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Cinabrio y mercurio en Teotihuacán y, en particular, en el túnel bajo el templo de la Serpiente Emplumada, México by Julie Gazzola

“…Teotihuacan is one of the Mesoamerican capitals that used it. The physical characteristics of the mineral and its blood-red color gave it particularly high value and significance. …”
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A MULTICRITERIA DESCRIPTION OF RULES FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT by MALIŠA ŽIŽOVIĆ, MILUTIN ŽIVKOVIĆ

“…Such method of choice is characteristic for all business systems with majority share of state capital. Methods of decision-making come down to selecting the best bids, because mistakes in the selection should be excluded. …”
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Encadenamientos industriales y la derrama tecnológica de la inversión extranjera directa by María del Rosario Orozco, Lilia Domínguez Villalobos

“…El propósito del artículo es analizar si la presencia de capital extranjero y el coeficiente de importaciones de las ramas compradoras tienen un efecto en las empresas nacionales proveedoras, usando datos para el periodo de 1994 a 2002. …”
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Economia criativa e resistência: o artesanato indígena no Estado do Rio de Janeiro by Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus

“…The purpose of this article is to examine the socioeconomic, cultural and political roles of craft to the indigenous population living on authorized indigenous land in Rio de Janeiro and its capital. The central argument suggests that craft has not only the role of income and employment generation in the context of the development of creative economy in the state, but also the resistance to marginalization of indigenous people in public policies and state and federal laws, as well as their invisibility in craftsmen’s social organizations. …”
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Associativismo civil e movimentos sociais populares em São Paulo by Maria da Glória Gohn

“…The methodological procedure will present a brief characterization of the associativist scenario in São Paulo in the last decades of the 20th century along with the list of the social movements developed in the capital in those decades. The main data sources are documents and registers of the very movements and the press newspapers: Folha de São Paulo and Estado de São Paulo and books.…”
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Economic development and Environmental quality: The environmental Kuznets curve for water pollution by Ahmadreza Shahpouri, Hamed Biabi, Leili Abolhassani

“…Furthermore, impacts of capital-and-labor ratio as well as trade openness are drawn by  estimating different models for the EKC. …”
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The Broken Generational Contract in Europe: Generous transfers to the elderly population, low investments in children by Bernhard Hammer, Tanja Istenič, Lili Vargha

“…The results indicate that in most of the analysed countries the human capital investments in children are far too low to finance the generous transfers to the elderly population in the future.…”
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Quand le paysage ouvre un horizon politique : Aix-Marseille-Provence métropole et le sentier métropolitain GR2013 by Sylvie Salles

“…This article examines the role of the metropolitan GR2013 trail created for the Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture in 2013 in connection with the establishment of an institutional metropolis. …”
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PATRIARCADO Y TRABAJO SEXUAL EN EL IMAGINARIO SOCIAL DE LA COSTA RICA DEL SIGLO XXI by ROXANA MORALES BONILLA, ROSBERLY ROJAS CAMPOS, IRIS RAMÍREZ SUÁREZ

“…e ste artículo es el resultado de un trabajo de investigación, que se realizó en la u niversidad e statal a d istancia de c osta r ica, aborda el tema del trabajo sexual y la influencia del patriarcado en el ima - ginario social, en la ciudad de s an j osé, capital de c osta r ica, en la primera década del siglo xxi . a partir del análisis de los resultados se concluye que la condición de género y las desigualdades económi - cas y sociales de la trabajadora sexual, son utilizadas por el sistema patriarcal en su condición de ser objeto sexual y goce para otros.…”
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Uma Análise marxista da agricultura capitalista: em busca de uma solução by Luiz Felipe Barros Silva

“… O texto procura discutir os elementos originários de uma agricultura industrial capitalista com base nos pressupostos teóricos de Karl Marx, ecoando a defesa de John Bellamy Foster acerca da compatibilidade do pensamento marxiano com as demandas da natureza pela preservação ambiental, analisando em seguida os impactos da inter-relação destrutiva entre a química e agricultura industriais em voga até os dias de hoje, sob o prisma da dialética das relações técnicas e sociais proposta por Guillermo Foladori, tratando do desflorestamento e utilização de pesticidas e herbicidas nos cultivos globais, abordando criticamente elementos que procuram sinalizar uma solução no interior do sistema do capital como a agroecologia e a agricultura sintrópica. …”
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The relative importance of uncertain parameters and structural formulation for electricity systems planning in Kenya and Benin by Nandi Moksnes, William Usher

“…This paper explores the relative importance of path-dependent modeling decisions, such as spatial and temporal resolution, and parametric uncertainties, such as final energy demand, discount rate, and capital costs. We use global sensitivity analysis to find that electricity demand, discount rate, and temporal and spatial resolution significantly influence the assessed results parameters. …”
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