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Decoding the urban grid: or why cities are neither trees nor perfect grids [PDF]
, 2007 In a previous paper (Figueiredo and Amorim, 2005), we introduced the continuity lines, a compressed description that encapsulates topological and geometrical properties of urban grids.
Amorim, L., Figueiredo, L.
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Democratic backsliding raises new challenges for bureaucracies as politicians undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law. Although bureaucracies can play a central safeguarding role, little is known about the organizational conditions that foster resistance to undemocratic pressure.
Mariana Costa Silveira +5 more
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Review of Policy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public appointments shape the top‐level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more interested in analyzing appointments based on merit or sponsorship, based on verification of loyalty to the government or technical competence ...
André Vaz Lopes +1 more
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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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Ocular Morphology and Clinical Ophthalmic Parameters of Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus
Veterinary Ophthalmology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To describe the ocular morphological characteristics and establish clinical and ophthalmic reference standards for Nile tilapia. Animals Studied Fresh carcasses were used for diaphanization, optical and electron microscopy, and computed tomography analyses.
Dandara Franco Ferreira da Silva +12 more
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Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding Neotropical megadiversity remains challenging due to fundamental taxonomic issues, including identifying and describing cryptic species and their distribution, and the limited knowledge of key factors driving biological diversification. Such challenges are especially prominent in diverse clades with high levels of cryptic species,
Felipe Camurugi +10 more
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International Journal of General Medicine, 2019 Dahan da Cunha Nascimento,1,2 Bernardo Petriz,2 Samuel da Cunha Oliveira,1 Denis Cesar Leite Vieira,2,3 Silvana Schwerz Funghetto,4 Alessandro Oliveira Silva,5,6 Jonato Prestes1 1Graduate Program in Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasilia ...
Nascimento DDC +6 more
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Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.Abstract The contribution of persistent inward currents (PICs) to motoneuron firing in the lower limb typically increases after a remote handgrip contraction, believed to result from diffuse serotonergic input increases in spinal cord. We investigated whether handgrip contraction intensity, duration and/or impulse would affect PIC estimates in tibialis
Lucas Ugliara +3 more
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