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ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
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Dahan da Cunha Nascimento,1,5,8 Ramires Alsamir Tibana,1,8 Franklin M Benik,2 Keila Elizabeth Fontana,3 Frederico Ribeiro Neto,8 Frederico Santos de Santana,5,8 Leopoldo Santos-Neto,4 Renato André Sousa Silva,1,5,6 Alessandro Oliveira Silva,1,7 ...
Nascimento D da C +11 more
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Female Autonomy in Material and Symbolic Contexts Among Women in Situations of Poverty in Brazil
ABSTRACT This article explores how black women in Brazil navigate intersecting dimensions of race, gender, and socio‐economic status, illustrating the sociocultural factors that shape their daily experiences, with a focus on female autonomy. Drawing on a qualitative design, we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 97 women, of whom 77 self ...
Silvana Aparecida Mariano +2 more
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We quantified the geographical overlap between parasitoid wasps and their known host spiders. We could assess which parasitoid species have more limited information about their interactions and are subject to geographical survey bias. We generated sampling bias maps to assist other researchers in identifying where the main sampling gaps are.
Gabriel M. Xavier +3 more
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A infância no tempo da construção da nova capital brasileira
Tomando por fonte a Revista Brasília, o artigo objetiva responder a três questões, formuladas no diálogo com a ainda incipiente historiografia da infância no Distrito Federal, relativa aos anos da construção de Brasília, isto é, de 1957 a 1960: será que
Gleuze Pereira Marinho Moura +1 more
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Forest degradation increased termite‐mediated litter decomposition, whereas no such effect was detected in undisturbed forests. Reduced ant predation and altered forest conditions were associated with higher termite abundance and faster litter decomposition.
Vanessa S. Ribeiro +9 more
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Aire and Fezf2 Shape the Medullary Thymic Epithelial Cell Immunopeptidome for Central Tolerance
Central tolerance is shaped not merely by promiscuous gene expression in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), but by the subset of self‐peptides ultimately presented on MHC class II molecules. We propose a multilayered framework in which AIRE/Aire and FEZF2/Fezf2, together with specialised differentiation programmes—including thymic mimetic‐cell ...
Geraldo Aleixo Passos +5 more
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Brasilia: La utopía desfigurada
Este pequeño ensayo, algunas reflexiones sobre esta inmensa invención humana que es la capital Federal del Brasil. En verdad, Brasilia es vista aquí como el ápice experimental de un proceso de construcción de un modo de vida urbano que asusta por lo ...
Fagner Dantas
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Consensus on energy‐based devices for keloids and hypertrophic scars: A Latin American Delphi study
Latin American Delphi consensus supports a sequential, multimodal approach to keloids and hypertrophic scars: vascular devices for early/inflammatory lesions; intralesional triamcinolone + 5‐fluorouracil and other injectable drugs for active scars; fractional lasers for texture; and pigment‐targeting therapies for dyschromia, prioritizing safety in ...
Gisele Viana de Oliveira +24 more
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