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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro +2 more
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En Recordança d'Oriol de Bolòs [PDF]
, 2007 Es presenta una breu nota biogràfica d'aquest botànic i biogeògraf, soci de la Societat Catalana de Geografia i membre de la Junta de Govern entre 1949 i 1954.Se presenta una breve nota biográfica de este botánico y biogeógrafo, socio de la Societat ...
Rebagliato i Font, Joan
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Brazil accounts for a substantial share of the global leprosy burden, with persistent high‐risk areas and marked spatial inequalities in case detection. Identifying spatiotemporal clusters of transmission is crucial for targeting surveillance and control efforts.
Anderson Fuentes Ferreira +9 more
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Inundações e riscos na cidade de Aquidauana-MS
Territorium: Revista Portuguesa de riscos, prevenção e segurança, 2012 A concentração populacional em áreas urbanizadas associada a um crescimento desordenado e acelerado tem provocado uma diversidade de transformações no ambiente urbano.
Elvis Freitas Artigas +2 more
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Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a leading cause of acute hepatitis worldwide. While traditionally linked to poor sanitation in endemic areas, evidence shows increasing circulation in developed settings. In Brazil, however, population‐based data remain limited.
Carolline A. Mariz +8 more
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Clio Arqueológica, 2017 A aplicação do Índice de Hack (IH) e sua relação com a estrutura e dinâmica das encostas tornaram possível a identificação de anomalias de drenagem ao longo do perfil longitudinal.
João Paulo da Hora Nascimento +4 more
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Zoonoses and Public Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), once considered a rural disease in Brazil, has progressively urbanised, particularly in the state of São Paulo (SSP), where the first urban cases emerged after the detection of the vector Lutzomyia longipalpis in 1997.
Vera Lucia Fonseca de Camargo‐Neves +1 more
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International Review of Hydrobiology, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2026.ABSTRACT Lentic ecosystems are vulnerable to contamination by trace elements, which can accumulate and pose risks to aquatic life and human health. In a large, developing country such as Brazil, marked by vast geographic, environmental, and socioeconomic diversity, it is crucial to understand how these factors shape research on this group of ...
Maria C. F. Neuenschwander +4 more
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Finisterra, 2012 LANDSCAPE AND GEOGRAPHY – The word landscape was first applied to renaissance paintings, but the concept really emerged during the scientific revolution that replaced the theological explanation of the world and was part of the events that led to the making of the modern world.
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