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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Gringaidas: notes on the Etymology of ‘Gringo’

Cadernos Prolam/USP
The present article looks at the historical etymology of the term  gringo from its birth in the Iberian Peninsula to its common use today. Using bibliographic, ethnographic, and linguistic research, we seek to unpack some of the terms meanings within a ...
Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
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Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caffeylpyruvate hydrolase from the bioluminescent fungus Neonothopanus gardneri is the key recycling enzyme in the fungal bioluminescence pathway

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Caffeic acid is a central metabolite in the fungal bioluminescence pathway. We identified and characterized caffeylpyruvate hydrolase from Neonothopanus gardneri (ngarCPH) and demonstrate its ability to hydrolyze fungal oxyluciferin into caffeic and pyruvic acids, confirming a complete and self‐sustained fungal bioluminescence cycle.
Caio K. Zamuner, Douglas M. M. Soares, Bianca B. Nóbrega, Etelvino J. H. Bechara, Zinaida M. Kaskova, Alexander S. Mishin, Karen S. Sarkisyan, Ilia V. Yampolsky, Cassius V. Stevani   +8 more
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Performance of pineapple cultivars inoculated with Fusarium guttiforme isolates on different substrates

Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy
Fusariosis in pineapples causes significant losses to producers. Knowing practices that reduce disease severity is important, as cultivation in Brazil mainly relies on the susceptible cultivar ‘Pérola’.
Dayane Castro Silva, Nayara Nunes Rodrigues, Fellipe Lima Bertan, João Vitor da Silva Alves, Andrielle dos Anjos Barbosa, Willian Krause, Dejânia Vieira de Araújo   +6 more
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Blackening Careers Beyond Barriers: Intersectional Experiences of Black Women in Imperial Careers

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates how Black Brazilian women navigate and transform careers in the fields of medicine, law, and engineering, professions historically characterized by elitism, racism, and sexism. Employing intersectionality as a theoretical framework, methodological approach, and activist tool, the study analyses personal narratives to ...
Louise Rodrigues Silva, Caroline Rodrigues Silva, Flavia Naves   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck, Matthew Rive, Annabelle Rogers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change and El Niño behind extreme precipitation leading to major floods in southern Brazil in 2024

npj Natural Hazards
In April–May 2024, unprecedented floods in Rio Grande do Sul displaced around 600,000 people and caused more than 180 deaths. This study unpacks the role of anthropogenic climate change and the preceding El Niño conditions on the extreme rainfall using a
Ben Clarke, Clair Barnes, Regina Rodrigues, Mariam Zachariah, Lincoln Muniz Alves, Rein Haarsma, Izidine Pinto, Wenchang Yang, Maja Vahlberg, Gabriel Vecchi, Karina Izquierdo, Joyce Kimutai, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, João Biehl, Miqueias Mugge, Friederike E. L. Otto   +16 more
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

Imperial ties of ancient Egypt with Brazil

, 2003
The interest in ancient Egyptian started a very long time ago in Brazil, by the aim of the portuguese royal family that ruled the country during four centuries. In 1824 D. Pedro I acquired the first Brazilian collection of Egyptian antiquities. The fact must cont as one of the most significant early steps of the relationship of Brazil with ancient ...
openaire   +1 more source