Rio and the Reds: The Comando Vermelho, Organized Crime and Brazil’s Economic Ascent [Student’s Paper Series] [PDF]
, 2011 Brazil’s growing status as a potential world power cannot obscure the characteristics of its other reality: that of a country with vast inequalities and high crime rates.
Joseph, M.Sc. Candidate, Regina
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Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 726-752, November 2025.ABSTRACT During the past two decades, foreigners have acquired housing stock in many of Rio de Janeiro's oldest and most iconic favelas, or self‐built neighborhoods, and invested in capital improvements, with an eye toward turning private residences into lodging accommodations.
ALESSANDRO M. ANGELINI, GARETH A. JONES
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Biodegradation of gas-phase styrene using the fungus Sporothrix variecibatus: Impact of pollutant load and transient operation [PDF]
, 2010 Biofiltration of gas-phase styrene was studied using a newly isolated fungus Sporothrix variecibatus, in a perlite biofilter, at inlet concentrations and gas-flow rates ranging from 0.13 to 14 g m−3 and 0.075 to 0.34 m3 h−1, respectively, corresponding ...
Kennes, Christian +2 more
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Aborto inseguro: determinantes sociais e iniquidades em saúde em uma população vulnerável, São Paulo, Brasil [PDF]
, 2012 This cross-sectional population-based study in a peripheral low-income community in São Paulo, Brazil, aimed to estimate the prevalence of unsafe abortion and identify the socio-demographic characteristics associated with it and its morbidity.
Andreoni, Solange +2 more
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The Observed Wander of the Natural Frequencies in a Structure [PDF]
, 2006 The Southern California Seismic Network (scsn) has recently installed seismic stations in two buildings on the Caltech campus (Millikan Library and the Broad Center).
Bradford, S. Case +3 more
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Environmental restoration of urban rivers in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
, 2010 Cet article porte sur les discours environnementaux et les pratiques concernant la restauration des eaux urbaines au Brésil en se penchant sur les rapports entre l’environnement et l’occupation urbaine.
Barcellos Pinheiro Machado, Denise +2 more
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Transformational Hybridity: Shape, Shake, and Shift Up for Societal Grand Challenges
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 2149-2168, September 2025.Abstract There is wide agreement about the potential for hybridity – the combination of plural organizational forms – to address complex societal grand challenges. Unfortunately, advancements in this area have been unduly constrained by the fragmentation of research along the organizational unit of analysis.
Giacomo Ciambotti +6 more
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Formative Interventions for Expansive Learning and Transformative Agency [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines formative interventions as we understand them in cultural-historical activity theory and reflects on key differences between this intervention research tradition and design-based research as it is conceived in the learning sciences ...
Engeström, Yrjö +2 more
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Caracterización morfológica de hifas aéras y simulación del crecimiento de Fusarium solani bajo diferentes fuentes de carbono para su aplicación en la biofiltración de COVs hidrofóbicos [PDF]
, 2012 Publicado por la Academia Mexicana de Investigación y Docencia en Ingeniería Química A.C.This work presents the e ect of di erent carbon sources (glycerol, 1-hexanol and n-hexane)over the morphology of the aerial hyphae of the filamentous fungus Fusarium
Hernández, S. +3 more
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Demarcation of local neighborhoods to study relations between contextual factors and health [PDF]
, 2010 Background Several studies have highlighted the importance of collective social factors for population health. One of the major challenges is an adequate definition of the spatial units of analysis which present properties potentially related to the ...
Simone M Santos +2 more
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