Conflitos ambientais em Minas Gerais: exploração da água na microrregião de São Lourenço by Eder Jurandir Carneiro, Mauro Francisco da Costa Assis

“…The research aims to identify and to analyze the cases of environmental conflicts involving dissimilarities of power in the determination of the use of territories and its natural resources in the microregion of São Lourenço (Minas Gerais, Brazil). For this data surveys were conducted in the archives of the Ministério Público do Estado de Minas Gerais (MPMP), as well in interviews and workshop with social movements engaged in struggles for environmental justice in the middleregion south-southwest of Minas Gerais where is located the microregion of São Lourenço. …”
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Adoption of Social Media by Small- and Medium-Sized Healthcare Enterprises by Silvia Zilber, Sonia Monken, Filipe Quevedo-Silva

“…Thus, the objective of the present study was to investigate which factors lead to the adoption of social media by SMEs in the healthcare sector in Brazil. To this end, a model for the adoption of organizational innovation was used in a causal study. …”
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Os Relatórios do Desenvolvimento Humano (RDHs) e o padrão de intervenção pública na área social: os desafios postos à forma de organização do Estado no Brasil by Maria José de Rezende

“…This study aims to demonstrate both the social policy suggestions contained in the HDRs, and the difficulties faced by such proposals in Brazil, where the main binding in the redefinition of forms of intervention in the social area, consists of a political logic that does not dismantle a model of income transfer which strengthens the concentration of resources and power. …”
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The Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Transformation of Universities by Fábio Dal-Soto, Yeda Swirski de Souza, Mats Benner

“…The selected cases are three universities, two in Brazil and one in Sweden, recognized for their academic entrepreneurship approach in their environments. …”
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Collectivity in the generation of income and local development: A comparison between Israeli Moshavim and an association of Maria da Fé, Braz by Bianca Siqueira Martins Domingos, Adriana Prest Mattedi, Adilson da Silva Mello, Rosinei Batista Ribeiro

“…As a way of thinking about local development through collective initiatives for income generation, our aim is to conduct a transnational comparative analysis of rural cooperative Israeli communities, Moshavim, and an Association of Artisans in the municipality of Maria da Fé, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The methodology took into account the local context of the enterprises, structuring the comparative case study on the basis of the parameters of pluriactivity, rural enterprises, use of natural resources, alternative generation of income, cooperative organization and mutual assistance. …”
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Paisagem Cultural: discussões contemporâneas por um (novo) olhar para o patrimônio cultural by Luciana de Castro Neves Costa, Juliane Conceição Primon Serres

“…In this sense, the objective of this article consists in analyzing the process of heritage activation that would consolidate the notion of Cultural Landscape as a new category of heritage asset in Brazil, and the elements comprehended under this typology.…”
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Effect of Diversity in the Board of Directors and Top Management Team on Corporate Social Responsibility by Priscila Prudêncio, Hyane Forte, Vicente Crisóstomo, Alessandra Vasconcelos

“…This study analyzes the effect of corporate governance, with an emphasis on gender and age diversity in the board and Top Management Team, on Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazil. The sample was composed of Brazilian firms with corporate governance published in the CVM reference form, financial information in the Economática® database, and CSR assessed by the CSRHub database, in the 2016-2017 biennium, with a total of 194 firm-year observations. …”
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The Effect of Governance on Donations: Evidence from Brazilian Environmental Nonprofit Organizations by Adonai José Lacruz, Alexandre Reis Rosa, Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira

“…It was observed that governance positively affected donations and that public certifications provided to NPOs in Brazil did not moderate the relationship between governance and donations. …”
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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

“…These actions are funda- mental for the author to construct his essentialist theory about the civilization formed in Portugal and inherited by Brazil. Emphasizing points not systematically explored, we argue that Faoro’s theory has the material evolutionism as its structuring element which, by postulating the necessary relation between feudalism and capitalism as the only authentic path to the institution of modernity, makes it impossible to rupture any nature. …”
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The Influence of Social Networks on Environmental Awareness and the Social Responsibility of Generations by Eliana Andréa Severo, Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimarães, Mateus Luan Dellarmelin, Rossana Parizotto Ribeiro

“…This study aims to analyze the influence of social networks on environmental awareness and the social responsibility of Baby Boomers, Generations X, and Y, in the regions of South and Southeast Brazil. We use the methodology of quantitative and descriptive research, by means of the Structural Equation Modeling. …”
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Competição e digitalização: a expansão dos serviços culturais-digitais – os casos da Netflix, Disney e Apple by Elder Patrick Maia Alves

“…The second was to explore the latest economic decisions and commercial and creative strategies adopted by the Netflix, Disney and Apple companies, as well as to update data on the expansion of consumption of digital artistic-cultural content, especially in Brazil.…”
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Absorptive Capacity in a Public Research Company: from Maturity to Scalability by Tatiane Baseggio Crespi, Priscila Rezende da Costa, Taísa Scariot Preusler, Claudia Brito Silva Cirani

“…Absorptive capacity is a dynamic capability that may generate knowledge and innovations. In Brazil, the development of new products and processes have led to technological advances in farming, especially in the last decades. …”
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West Indian Fruit Fly, Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart) (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., John B. Heppner, Gary J. Steck, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… The West Indian fruit fly, Anastrepha obliqua (Macquart), occurs throughout the Caribbean, south to southern Brazil. It is the most abundant species of Anastrepha in the West Indies and one of the most abundant species in Panama. …”
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A Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus em Angola: faces da nova cartografia religiosa global by Anaxsuell Fernando Silva, Karen Susan Silva Pititinga Rosa

“…We aim to question whether that presence should be understood an an instrument that promotes Brazilian imperialism in that country, interfering with the traditional habits of the Angolan culture or, whether, from another perspective, this religious presence should be seen as an agent of integration between Brazil and Angola. In order to conduct the analysis, we start from the reports about the episode in question and go forward with the theoretical and methodological aid of sociology, anthropology and international relations.…”
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A DEA approach for measuring healthcare efficiency in medical, clinical and obstetric specialties by Fabrício da Silva Santos, Susane de Farias Gomes

“… Alagoas occupies the worst public health positions in Brazil, and first in the indicators of infant mortality, presenting an extremely high mortality rate (48.2 deaths per thousand live births to a Brazilian average of 26.3 deaths per thousand live births). …”
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Understanding the Integration of Socio-Technical Actors for Sharing and Sustainable Urban Mobility by Carlos Henrique T. Pereira, Minelle E. Silva

“…In the search for sustainability and urban reconfiguration, this research analyzes a business model used in sustainable urban mobility initiatives that integrates public and private agents (socio-technical actors - ST-actors) in Fortaleza (Brazil). An integrated case study was carried out with two initiatives: VAMO Fortaleza (e-carsharing) and Bicicletar (bike sharing). …”
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A conformação dos grupos de pesquisa em biotecnologia da cana de açúcar na região norte-fluminense: a perspectiva do "novo sistemismo" by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro, Fabricio Monteiro Neves

“…Through the Theory of the Social Systems of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, we argue about the scientific, technological, economic, legal and political standing subsystems in the generation of the biotechnology of sugarcane in the North of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. We give particular emphasis to Campos dos Goytacazes, where the groups of research are settled, hosted at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (UENF) and at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio De Janeiro (UFRRJ). …”
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Mobilidade ocupacional no Brasil: uma análise das chances de mobilidade e inserção ocupacional segundo a origem, a cor e a situação de migração e não-migração para homens chefes do... by Lygia Gonçalves Costa

“…Firstly, we present a short overview of theoretical and empirical studies about social stratification and mobility in Brazil. Secondly, we analyze mobility and occupational insertion chances according to origin, color and various migrational status such as migrants from the Northeast Region to the Southeast Region, non-migrants from the Northeast Region and non-migrants from the Southeast Region. …”
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Resolução de conflitos ambientais no Brasil: do patriarcal ao fraternal by Paulo Renato Ernandorena

“…This study, holding as background the conflicts that involve the environment, analyzes the fraternity principle, from the perspective of the theory proposed by Baggio, 2 concluding that the official pattern of environmental litigations composition that exist in Brazil -solidified by the obsolete monopoly of Judiciary- consolidated on a Law's positivism and on a competitive point of view of the society, does not contemplates the fraternity as a legal value. …”
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A diferença como política de resistência e de ressignificação da subjetividade feminina em campos de saberes masculinos by Neiva Furlin, Marlene Tamanini

“…The study is qualitative, based on the hermeneutic interpretation of the narratives of fourteen teachers, inserted into three Catholic institutions located in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil. In order to analyze how women theologians become subjects in their positions and policy strategies, we adopt theoretical presuppositions of feminism, gender studies and, especially, the notion of sexual difference of Rosi Braidotti, as one of the epistemological fields of feminist theory. …”
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