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A Guerra do Chaco

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 1998
Este artigo analisa as circunstâncias que envolveram a Guerra do Chaco, entre Paraguai e Bolívia, na primeira metade do presente século. Faz-se um estudo da evolução da situação política e econômica na região desde a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança ...
L. A. Moniz Bandeira
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How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eye Darkening Under Dehydration Stress in the Neotropical Frog Boana punctata (Schneider, 1799)

open access: yesJournal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.
Dehydration induces a strong and partially reversible increase in iris pigmentation in the Neotropical frog Boana punctata. The tight relationship between iris darkening and hydration state identifies ocular pigmentation as a simple, non‐invasive physiological biomarker with broad potential for assessing hydric stress in amphibian populations ...
Ricardo Reques   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polémicas y conflictos en torno a la Guerra del Paraguay: los discursos de la prensa en Tucumán, Argentina (1864-1869)

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2009
The press was a key actor of the political life in the nineteenth century. Newspapers and other periodicals exerted an important function inside the political stage, configuring the debates, the disputes, and defining the contenders.
María José Navajas
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Bias Correction of ERA5 Temperature Across Five Topoclimatic Clusters: A Comparative Evaluation of Four Methods

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
ERA5 near‐surface temperature over South America exhibits systematic cold biases in daily maximum temperature and warm biases in daily minimum temperature. To address the continent's strong climatic and topographic heterogeneity, South America was partitioned into five topoclimatic clusters, and four bias‐correction approaches were evaluated. The Multi‐
José Roberto Rozante, Gabriela Rozante
wiley   +1 more source

Mission en temps de guerre : Alfred Métraux dans le Pilcomayo

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2016
The paper analyses the relationship between Alfred Métraux and the Toba and Pilagá peoples of Western Formosa (Argentina) during 1933. The peculiar sociopolitical circumstances that encompassed Métraux’s fieldwork are detailed: the logistical problems ...
Lorena I. Córdoba
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Portulaca abscondita (Portulacaceae, Caryophyllales), a new microendemic species from Monte Azul, Minas Gerais, Brazil

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Portulaca (Portulacaceae) is a cosmopolitan genus with centers of diversity in Africa and South America. In Brazil, 22 species are recognized, most occurring in xerophytic environments of the Cerrado, particularly in Campos Rupestres. These rocky montane habitats, especially in northern Minas Gerais state, remain undercollected despite their high ...
Danilo Alvarenga Zavatin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Guerra do Paraguai e seu aftermath: nucleação tecnológica na Marinha do Brasil [PDF]

open access: yesNavigator, 2015
This paper intents to relate the Navy expansion thru the Paraguay War as part of prior process that was increased by the Paraguayan confront ongoing important institutional changes in that Force on XIX century.
Sylvio dos Santos Val
doaj  

Sinningia pampeana sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from the Pampa's rocky outcrops in southern Brazil and Uruguay

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Sinningia pampeana is a new rupicolous species from the rocky outcrops of the Pampa biome in southern Brazil and Uruguay. Morphological analyses based on herbarium material, field observations, and detailed illustrations support its recognition as a distinct species from Sinningia sellovii.
Gabriel Emiliano Ferreira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A campanha naval na Guerra da Tríplice Aliança contra o Paraguai [PDF]

open access: yesNavigator, 2009
This paper presents the sequence of facts in the Naval Campaign of the Triple Alliance War against Paraguay. It also shows the effects made to renew the Brazilian fleet after the technological transformations achieved through the Industrial Revolution.
Armando Amorim Ferreira Vidigal
doaj  

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