Influence of Control and Family Management in the Indebtedness of Brazilian Open Business: a Quantitative Study by Liliane Cristina Segura, Henrique Formigoni

“…Although there is a vast national and international literature on capital structure, there are still doubts on the importance of family in business management. In Brazil, due to the large number of family businesses, it is even more evident the need to investigate the issue. …”
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Dynamic of Innovation in Services for Consumers at the Bottom of the Pyramid by Gibson Meira Oliveira, André Gustavo Carvalho Machado

“…To assess the framework behavior in the business practice, a case study was carried out in a retail firm operating in Brazil’s Northeast region whose target consumers are at the BoP. …”
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Tomato Chlorotic Spot Virus by Jane E. Polston, Erin Wood, Aaron J. Palmateer, Shouan Zhang

“…Prior to 2012, TCSV was only known to occur in Brazil and Argentina. It is not known how this virus was introduced into Florida. …”
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Participação, desigualdades e novas institucionalidades: uma análise a partir de instituições participativas em Santa Catarina by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann, Julian Borba

“…This work aims to analyze the capacity of inclusion of the poorer sectors of the population in the processes of participative experiences, taking as empirical reference some data on the profile of the representatives and political participants in different spheres of Brazilian political performance (in special, the managing councils of public policies and Participative Budgets - PBs) anchored, more specifically, on the data of cities in Santa Catarina State (south of Brazil). A brief discussion on the political participation is carried on in the beginning, rescuing the main theoretical sources of this debate, followed by a presentation of some empirical data regarding the social economical profile (focusing the data of income and scholar) of the political representatives in the experiences analyzed herein. …”
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Tomato Chlorotic Spot Virus by Jane E. Polston, Erin Wood, Aaron J. Palmateer, Shouan Zhang

“…Prior to 2012, TCSV was only known to occur in Brazil and Argentina. It is not known how this virus was introduced into Florida. …”
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O passado subtraído da desaparição forçada: Araguaia como palimpsesto by Roberto Vecchi

“…The article approaches the aporetic topic of the forced disappearance in the context of military authoritarianism in Brazil, primarily setting the problematic character of the restitution in the case of the political “desaparecidos” deriving from the impossibility of the legal category of “restitutio ad integrum”. …”
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Sign changes of the partial sums of a random multiplicative function II by Aymone, Marco

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Salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae (Calder & Sands) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by Patricia Prade, Eutychus Kariuki, Adam Dale

“…The salvinia weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae (Calder & Sands) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) (Figure 1), is a subaquatic (underwater) herbivorous insect native to Brazil (Calder and Sands 1985). This insect feeds on the invasive aquatic plants Salvinia molesta D. …”
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A cultura em questões by Caleb Faria Alves

“…This article addresses, comparatively, the content of this term – explicit or not –in some of these surveys in Brazil and Latin America. Our first goal is to highlight the assumptions used to qualify and measure the consumption of cultural goods contained in the polls – in other words, to which extent this consumption is linked to culture itself –, identifying whether culture is treated as an autonomous field or as an accessory to concerns that are external to it. …”
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The Effect of Co-authorship Network Density on the Performance of Postgraduate Programs by Jandir Pauli, Kenny Basso, Ravena Lopes Gobi, Alissa Bilhar

“…The data was collected from management researchers in Brazil. Along with this, scientific publications from 2013 to 2016 were collected to comprise the social network of each PPG. …”
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Investor Attention: Can Google Search Volumes Predict Stock Returns? by Claudia Yoshinaga, Fabio Rocco

“…We tested whether lagged variations in GSV are followed by changes in excess returns by testing 57 stocks from the Ibovespa using weekly search data from Google Brazil from 2014 to 2018. Similar to previous research on the U.S. market, we found that increases in GSV are followed by lower excess returns. …”
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Programa “Ciência sem Fronteiras”: geopolítica do conhecimento e o projeto de desenvolvimento brasileiro by Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra, Leonardo Francisco de Azevedo

“…As a method, we used literature review and documental research in order to see how the Science without Borders Program, although strategic for Brazil’s development as an important nation of the Southern Hemisphere, reproduces conventional values. …”
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Correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal frequencies for rotating black holes by R.A. Konoplya, A. Zhidenko

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O inadmissível roubo da carta de alforria do nagô Pedro Allgayer: a escravidão em uma zona de imigração alemã (RS, séc. XIX) by Paulo Roberto Staudt Moreira, Miquéias Henrique Mugge

“…Little is known about the formation of slavery in regions of European immigration in Brazil. Relatively recently, historiography committed with identities grounded in local and Germanic family ancestries denied the historical black presence in these areas. …”
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Os jornais diários da cidade de Cascavel (PR) e seus discursos sobre a prostituição feminina (1976-1990) by Fábio Lopes Alves

“…The object of the present paper is to investigate the representations of female prostitution in the periodical press of Cascavel (PR, Brazil). The journals analyzed are the newspapers Hoje and O Paraná. …”
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Representação feminina na narrativa infantojuvenil brasileira contemporânea by Leda Cláudia da Silva

“…The narratives, under examination, were withdrawn from the collection selected and distributed by the Ministry of Education for public schools in Brazil, by means of the National School Library Program. …”
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Collaboration for Innovation and Sustainable Performance: Evidence of Relationship in Electro-Electronic Industry by Marcos Roberto Kuhl, João Carlos da Cunha, Marlete Beatriz Maçaneiro, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…This study aimed to identify how collaboration for innovation relates to the sustainable performance of the electronics industry in Brazil. We used a quantitative approach, collecting data by means of a cross-sectional survey in a sample of 112 companies. …”
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Corporate Image: Influencing Factors from the Viewpoint of Students of Distance Learning Courses by Fábio Reis da Costa, Anderson Soncini Pelissari

“…The research analysis units are Higher Education Institutions in the State of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) that offer e-Learning undergraduate courses in the CEDERJ consortium. …”
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Do caldeirão de culturas ao buffet de diversidade cultural: os usos das “brasilidades” como discurso na moda contemporânea by Miqueli Michetti

“…The article analyzes the transformation of representations of Brazil in the context of globalization. From a field research conducted among agents in charge of the creation and simultaneous globalization of the discourse about the existence of a “Brazilian fash- ion”, we could perceive current uses of Brasilianness in global and market terms. …”
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(Des)memória e catástrofe: considerações sobre a literatura pós-golpe de 1964 by Ettore Finazzi-Agrò

“…The status of literature – his ability to say what is forbidden to historiography, the possibility of recreating the real through imagination – drove, in fact, many writers to witness the horror and violence that marked the regime established in Brazil fifty years ago, even giving us the “physical” representation of pain and blood generated by a power acting in a “state of exception”.…”
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