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Fast and trustworthy nowcasting of dengue fever: A case study using attention-based probabilistic neural networks in São Paulo, Brazil

Epidemics
Nowcasting methods are crucial in infectious disease surveillance, as reporting delays often lead to underestimation of recent incidence and can impair timely public health decision-making.
Silas Koemen, Nuno R. Faria, Leonardo S. Bastos, Oliver Ratmann, André Victor Ribeiro Amaral   +4 more
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The Performance of Selective Screening Ultrasound to Detect the Small‐for‐Gestational‐Age Foetus: A Prospective Cohort Study Nested Within the DESiGN Randomised Control Trial

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Evidence on the performance of foetal growth ultrasound parameters to detect the Small‐for‐Gestational‐Age (SGA) foetus for a selective cohort is limited. We report the performance of estimated foetal weight under the 10th percentile (EFW < 10th) at the last selective screening ultrasound to detect SGA based on gestational age of ...
Charles Arcus, James Elhindi, Chivon Winsloe, Andrew Copas, Sophie Relph, Annette Briley, Kirstie Coxon, Mark Johnson, Asma Khalil, Deborah A. Lawlor, Christoph Lees, Neil Marlow, Louise Page, Andrew Shennan, Jane Sandall, Tanya Nippita, Matias C. Vieira, Dharmintra Pasupathy   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann, Gabriel Brown, Johan Fourie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cristiano of Arabia: Did Ronaldo increase Saudi Pro League attendances?

Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Page 260-270, April 2025.
Abstract In December 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo, five‐time Ballon d’Or winner and the most‐followed person on Instagram, signed for Al‐Nassr in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This marked one of several expensive, recent interventions by the kingdom in global sports markets. We exploit the timing of this event to estimate superstar effects.
Dominik Schreyer, Carl Singleton
wiley   +1 more source

The civilizing process in the tropics: state and imperial court society formation in Brazil (1822-1889)

Universitas Humanística, 2011
The process of formation of a court society in Brazil may be interpreted according the Norbert Elias theory, by considering three major aspects in social formation: 1) socialization codes and rules developed in the Brazilian court and publicized through ...
Enio Passiani
doaj  

Early growth of pecan cultivars under organic production

Acta Scientiarum. Agronomy
Organic pecan production may offer not only a chance to increase economic returns-due to its increased product value-but also to avoid pesticide applications. This contributes to the growth of residue-free food and protects the environment.
Rafaela Schmidt de Souza, Antônio Davi Vaz Lima , Cristiano Geremias Hellwig , Claudia Farela Ribeiro Crosa , Paulo Mello-Farias , Carlos Roberto Martins   +5 more
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The Catechism of Montpellier and children’s education in Brazil Imperial

, 2021
Partindo da hipótese que os catecismos católicos, na interpretação dada ao Quarto Mandamento, colocavam em circulação representações sobre a educação da criança pela família, o objetivo deste artigo é identificar como tal educação era concebida no Catecismo de Montpellier, a fim de compreender de que modo ela servia aos interesses do Estado Regalista ...
openaire   +1 more source

Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
wiley   +1 more source

Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

Peopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immigration of the end of the century, José Juan Pérez Meléndez examines the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and settlement in post-independence Brazil.
openaire   +2 more sources