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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Athletes' motivation, anxiety, and locus of control at the Brazilian powerchair football national championship

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Adapted Physical Activity, 2022
The aim of this study was to evaluate motivation, competitive anxiety, locus of control and their associations with performance and training parameters.
Angela Nogueira Neves   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
wiley   +1 more source

Instituições militares e a ordem da “boa sociedade”: a Guarda Nacional na região cafeeira fluminense [PDF]

open access: yesNavigator, 2017
The Army General Staff School was created in 1905, and its main function was provide Brazilian Army officers to a higher military education that qualified them to serve on the General Staff of the Army. This study aims to analyze the initial operation of
Marcos Guimarães Sanches
doaj  

Logística da defesa

open access: yesColeção Meira Mattos, 2019
O artigo discorre sobre o tema da logística da defesa, apresentando fundamentos da gestão de processos logísticos. São apresentadas considerações sobre a doutrina logística e o processo de transformação do Exército Brasileiro, bem como questões ...
Alexandre da Costa Pereira
doaj   +1 more source

The Brazilian military service and preparation for the Second World War

open access: yesBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2022
The aim of this work is to analyze the development of the Military Service in Brazil during the 1930s and 1940s and the consequences of this recruitment structure for the creation of an expeditionary army division to fight in the Second World War.
Francisco César Alves Ferraz
doaj   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

A Escola de Estado-Maior do Exército e seus primeiros anos de funcionamento (1905-1919) [PDF]

open access: yesNavigator, 2017
The Army General Staff School was created in 1905, and its main function was provide Brazilian Army officers to a higher military education that qualified them to serve on the General Staff of the Army. This study aims to analyze the initial operation of
Marcos Fernandes Marcusso
doaj  

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

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