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Experimenting with Realism in Software Engineering Team Projects: An Experience Report [PDF]
, 2017 Over Several years, we observed that our students were sceptical of Software Engineering practices, because we did not convey the experience and demands of production quality software development.
Simpson, Robbie, Storer, Tim
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Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience: Addressing Grand Challenges of the Mind Sciences
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 It is becoming ever more accepted that investigations of mind span the brain, body, and environment. To broaden the scope of what is relevant in such investigations is to increase the amount of data scientists must reckon with.
Luis H Favela, Luis H Favela
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Favela painting: building community, social change and emancipation through an OrgansparkZ/Art installation [PDF]
, 2014 For some time now, Brazilian favela dwellers have been constructing representations of joy, resourcefulness and creativity that the wider public sphere now associates with favela life.
Imas, Miguel J.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
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Public perceptions of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro: a post World Cup 2014 and pre 2016 Olympics Assessment [PDF]
, 2016 This research assesses public perception of the favelas of Rio de Janeiro following the awarding of the bids for both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Dhiyan, Adnan, Green, Claudia G, PhD
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The nature of virtual communities [PDF]
, 2006 The impressive development of electronic communication techniques has given rise to virtual\ud communities. The nature of these computer-mediated communities has been the subject of much recent\ud debate.
Memmi, Daniel
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2017 This article analyzes how 38 Units of the Pacification Police (UPP) were mounted in some favelas in Río de Janeiro, especially the Santa Marta favela.
Giuseppe Ricotta
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Nutritional status and health, environmental and socioeconomic conditions of children living in tenements and shanty towns [PDF]
, 2008 OBJECTIVE: The objective was to compare malnutrition rates among children aged from 6 months to 6 years living in tenements and shanty towns in downtown São Paulo city and characterize the differences in the socioeconomic, environmental and health ...
Martins, Paula Andrea +2 more
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THE ILLUSION OF FLEXIBILITY: Housing Aspirations Across Generations in Brazil's Formal Market
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract With this study we join the conversation on housing aspirations from a Brazilian perspective, which is marked by coexisting formal and informal markets, investigating how market‐driven narratives and socioeconomic factors shape these aspirations across generations in urban areas.
Rafael Kalinoski, Mario Prokopiuk
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