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Brazilian Portuguese Words for Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Brazilian Portuguese is the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, which has slight differences from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal. One may try to understand such differences by comparing them with the dissimilarities between the American English and the ...
Cassidy, Tracy Diane, Gies, Sheila
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Molecular characterisation of congenital myasthenic syndromes in Southern Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Objective To perform genetic testing of patients with congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) from the Southern Brazilian state of Parana. Patients and methods Twenty-five CMS patients from 18 independent families were included in the study.
Abicht, A.   +12 more
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3D Printing of Highly Dense and Translucent Zirconia Parts for Dental Applications: Effect of Filament Overlapping

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study formulated a 5Y‐PSZ zirconia paste for extrusion‐based additive manufacturing via direct ink writing, producing dense ceramic structures for dental applications. A colloidal approach with 47 vol% nanometric powder and tailored additives optimized rheology and printability.
Juliana de Freitas Gouveia Silva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Locativos preposicionados em posição de sujeito : uma possivel contribuição da línguas Bantu à sintaxe do português brasileiro [PDF]

open access: yesLinguística, 2008
We observe the existing contrast between Brazilian and European Portuguese in relation to prepositional locatives in embedded sentences, and we argue that those constituents can occupy the grammatical subject position in transitive sentences in Brazilian
Juanito Avelar   +3 more
doaj  

3rd person possessives: Old Portuguese and Modern Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014
This paper addresses some comparative aspects of the 3rd person possessive pronouns seu and dele in Modern Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Old Portuguese (OP).
Maria Aparecida Torres Morais   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Applying a new version of the Brazilian-Portuguese UPSIT smell test in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Standardized olfactory tests are now available to quantitatively assess disorders of olfaction. A Brazilian-Portuguese version of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) is currently being developed specifically for the Brazilian
Azevedo, AMS   +5 more
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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This essay examines the field of Brazilian mobility studies, concentrating mainly on recent (2010-2013) scholarship by Portuguese-speaking Brazilian academics published in English-language journals. The mass demonstrations and violent protests that have
Cooper, Martin
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhotic Variation in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesLanguages
We present acoustic and articulatory data from an experiment designed to test the phonetic variability of rhotics in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on the São Paulo variety. Ultrasound tongue imaging was used to examine the realisation of rhotics in a range of phonological environments. Our analysis reveals that word-initial and intervocalic fricatives
Michael Ramsammy   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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