“…The work is a collection of articles presented at the ALAS Congress, offering critical analyses and empirical studies from various countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. It aims to advance sociological understanding while maintaining a strong commitment to social issues. …”
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“…However, the recent outbreaks in Brazil in 2015 and its rapid spread throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, together with its association with severe neurological disorders—including fetal microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults—have changed the historic perspective of ZIKV. …”

“…This twentieth edition of the Agricultural Outlook, and the tenth prepared jointly with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), provides market projections to 2023 for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish across 41 countries and 12 regions: OECD member countries (European Union as a region), key non-OECD agricultural producers (such as India, China, Brazil, Russian Federation and Argentina) and groups of smaller non-OECD economies in a more aggregated form. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword1 Surprised by Values: an Introduction to Values-based Practice and the Use of Personal Narratives in this Book -- Part I – EXEMPLARS 2 Migration Narratives: an introduction to Part I, Exemplars -- 3 Antonella – “A Stranger in the Family”: a case study of eating disorders across cultures -- 4 The role of culture, values and trauma in shaping abnormal bodily experience in migrants -- 5 Premorbid personality and expatriation as possible risk factors for brief psychotic disorder: A case report from post-Soviet Bulgaria -- Part II – THEORY 6 Theory First: an introduction to Part II, Theory -- 7 The Will to Beauty as a Therapeutic Agent: aesthetic values in the treatment of addictive disorders -- 8 Anorexia as Religion: Ocularcentrism as a cultural value and a compensation strategy in persons with Feeding and Eating Disorders -- 9 Ethos, embodiment, psychosis: Losing one’s home - identity stakes -- 10 African Personhood, Humanism, and Critical Sankofaism: The Case of Male Suicide in Ghana -- 11 Madness, Mythopoetry and Medicine -- 12 Inside and out: how Western patriarchal cultural contexts shape women's relationships with their bodies -- 13 Spiritual, religious and ethical values in a suicidal individual -- 14 Cultural values, religion and psychosis: five short stories -- Part III – PRACTICE 15 Vectors for best practice: an introduction to Part III, Practice -- 16 Cross-cultural factors and identity in adolescence -- 17 Multidisciplinary Teamwork and the Insanity Defence: a Case of Infanticide in Iraq -- 18 Colonial values and asylum care in Brazil: reclaiming the streets through carnival in Rio de Janeiro -- 19 Alcohol Use Disorder in a Culture that Normalizes the Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages: The Conflicts for Decision-Making -- 20 Living at the edge of Compromise: Balkan pluralism as a resource for balanced decision-making -- 21 “Thinking too much”: A clash of legitimate values in clinical practice calls for an indaba guided by African values based practice -- 22 Three points in time: how values and culture affected my life, madness and the people around me -- 23 Recovery and cultural values: on our own terms (a dialogue) -- Part IV – SCIENCE 24 Linking Science with People: an introduction to Part IV, Science -- 25 A Cross-Cultural Values-based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders -- 26 Treatment of social anxiety disorder or neuroenhancement of socially accepted modesty? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Greer -- 27. COVID-19 in Brazil: Presidential Denialism and the Subnational Government's Response / Elize Massard da Fonseca, Nicoli Nattrass, Luísa Bolaffi Arantes, and Francisco Inácio Bastos -- 28. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data sources for individual countries -- Countries covered in the chapter -- Argentina -- Australia -- Brazil -- Canada -- China -- Egypt…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….) -- LA REVOLUCIN DE 1930 Y LOS NUEVOS RUMBOS DE LA POLTICA -- LAS POLTICAS DE ALIMENTACIN DEL ESTADO NOVO -- EL FINAL DE LAS ILUSIONES: POLTICA ALIMENTARIA Y GUERRA -- A MODO DE CONCLUSIN -- DEBATING HUNGER AND OVERPOPULATION FROM THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL DURING THE (...) -- AMERICAN CONSERVATIONIST WILLIAM VOGT AND THE -- VOGT'S ARGUMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE US COLD WAR DEVELOPMENT IDEOLOGY -- BRAZILIAN PHYSICIAN JOSU DE CASTRO AND -- INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO -- DURING THE 1950S -- ESTABLISHING GLOBAL NETWORKS FOR DEVELOPMENT ACTION -- CONCLUSION -- ARCHIVAL MATERIALS -- ¿ESTIMULANDO UN ESPRITU COOPERATIVO? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…19 March: New coronavirus infection is not produced in the laboratory -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 20 March: Trump accuses China of failing to share information on the epidemic -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 21 March: 700 cases linked to a mass religious gathering held at a mosque -- 22 March: Filipinos who attended a religious event in Malaysia linked to a Spike in COVID-19 -- 25 March: Response of politicians to the coronavirus -- 26 March: Activists launch 'Digital Protest' to end United States Sanctions on Iran -- 27 March: Coronavirus - where it came from for humans -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 28 March: The Verbal War between Iran and the United States -- 29 March: Brazil and coronavirus cases in Italy, Germany and Spain -- English translation: -- 4 April: A cluster of coronavirus cases can be traced back to a single mosque, and now 200 million muslims are being vilified -- 5 April: Canada's Health Minister's credulity plays right into China's hands -- 11 April: Churches in Singapore took good friday services online -- 16 April: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson quotes WHO and said to support that there is no evidence that the coronavirus was released from a laboratory -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 16 April: Trump said his government is trying to determine if the coronavirus came from a laboratory -- 18 April: France said no evidence so far of a link between the new coronavirus and the P4 research laboratory in Wuhan -- 19 April: Heavy criticism of the work of the undersecretary of health in Mexico -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 20 April: Tension between France and China -- Machine-generated translation in english: -- 21 April: Political crisis in Brazil and president Jair Bolsonaro -- Machine-generated translation in english:…”

“…Identifica un corpus de textos, reflexiona sobre las configuraciones que la poética adquiere en suelo americano y, en el entendido de que el género ha cambiado en relación con su estado previo europeo, problematiza en qué medida son spectators latinoamericanos This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. / [ATTITUDES TOWARDS LAWS AND DEVIANT BEHAVIORS: A STUDY WITH ADOLESCENTS IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL.] -- EXPOSICIÓN A LA VIOLENCIA Y VIOLENCIA FILIOPARENTAL EN MENORES INFRACTORES Y RECLUSOS / [EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE AND CHILD-TO-PARENT VIOLENCE IN JUVENILE OFFENDERS AND PRISONERS] -- ESTRATEGIAS MOTIVACIONALES EN INTERVENCIÓN CON AGRESORES DE PAREJA: EL PLAN MOTIVACIONAL INDIVIDUALIZADO / [MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES IN INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE OFFENDER INTERVENTION: INDIVIDUALIZED MOTIVATIONAL PLANS] -- SÍNTOMAS PREFRONTALES EN DELINCUENTES Y NO DELINCUENTES CON UN MISMO NIVEL EDUCATIVO / [PREFRONTAL SYMPTOMS IN OFFENDERS AND NON-OFFENDERS WITH THE SAME EDUCATION LEVEL] -- VECINDARIOS Y PROBLEMAS SOCIALES: UN ACERCAMIENTO DESDE LA ESTADÍSTICA ESPACIAL / [NEIGHBORHOODS AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS: A SPATIAL STATISTICS APPROACH] -- ¿DIFIERE LA CAPACIDAD DE CLASIFICACIÓN DE RESPUESTAS SIMULADAS DE LA ESCALA DE F DEL MMPI-2 CUANDO SE CONTRASTA CON UN GRUPO CONTROL Y CON LA POBLACIÓN NORMATIVA? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Inequality In Five Developing Giants -- 5. Brazil: What Are the Main Drivers of Income Distribution Changes in the New Millennium? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 8: The Training and Disciplinary Identity of Linguists in Europe's Long Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- In the wake of Napoleon -- Establishing Linguistics as a Field -- Saussure's Doctoral Studies -- Saussure's Teaching in Paris, Its Impact on Doctoral Training in Linguistics, and the Role of the Learned Societies -- Saussure and General Linguistics -- Appendix: Examiners' Reports on Saussure's PhD Thesis (my translation: JEJ) -- 9: Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940 -- Introduction -- Fieldwork and American Linguistics -- Britain -- France -- Germany -- Conclusion -- 10: Training Researchers in Ibero-America: Early Brazilian Chemists as Case Study -- Introduction -- Birth of Nations and Chemical Research in Spanish-speaking America -- Chemical Research in Argentina and Mexico -- A Country Without Universities: No Institutional Locus for Chemistry in Brazil? -- New University Space for Chemical Research -- Final Remarks -- 11: Inventing Laboratory Science in Meiji Japan -- Introduction -- Making Sense of the Laboratory -- Shiken Shitsu or Jikken Shitsu? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…New Productive Geographies: the Extractive Model and New Spatial Configurations -- Urban‐Rural Rearticulation: Roads and Cities in the Web of New Land Uses -- Mining and Forestry -- Finance and Livestock: Consolidating Land Grabbing in Mesoamerica -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period -- The Hatera Society in the Hispanic Insular Caribbean -- Sugar and Slave Islands -- Cattle Ranching in Plantation Colonies and Smuggling -- Brief Conclusions -- References -- From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Introduction: Land Use, Second Conquest, and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- References -- Land Use in the Southern Cone from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Brazil, the Mercantile Use of Land from the Colonial to the Independent Period -- The Southern Cone of Spanish America -- Conclusion -- References -- Land Use in the Andes from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Crises in the Tropical Andes -- Land Use Change -- Biomass Plantations and Extractivisms -- Final Discussion -- References -- Land Use in the Amazon from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Nation‐State Projects and Evangelization: from "Empty" and Wild Territory to Inexhaustible Source of Resources -- Travelers, Scientific Expeditions, and Chorographic Commissions -- From Military Engineers to Civilian Engineers -- Cinchona, Rubber and the Incorporation of the Amazon into the Global Market -- Conclusions -- References -- Land Use in Mesoamerica from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Antecedents: the Colonial Legacy -- Economic Liberalism in the Period 1810-1870 -- Agrarian Nationalism and Transnational Interventionism (1870-1930) -- Developmentalism and Scientific and Technological Intervention in the Countryside (1930-1950)…”

“…Authors from 15 countries (China, Netherlands, Spain, Tunisia, United Sates of America, Korea, Brazil, Egypt, Denmark, Indonesia, Oman, Canada, Algeria, Mexico, and the Czech Republic) elaborate on several aspects of intelligent control in energy systems. …”

“…Going for Growth is the OECD's regular report on structural reforms in policy areas that have been identified as priorities to boost incomes in OECD and major non-OECD countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa). …”

“…It identifies structural reform priorities to boost real income for each OECD country and Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction, Vision, and Opportunities -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 E‐Waste -- 1.3 Outline -- References -- Chapter 2 e‐Waste Management and Practices in Developed and Developing Countries* -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Overview on WEEE Management and Practices -- 2.3 International WEEE Management and Transboundary Movement -- 2.4 WEEE Management and Practices - Developed and Developing Countries -- 2.5 Developed Countries -- 2.5.1 Switzerland -- 2.5.2 Japan -- 2.5.3 Australia -- 2.6 Developing Countries -- 2.6.1 Brazil -- 2.6.2 India -- 2.6.3 South Africa -- 2.6.4 Nigeria -- 2.6.5 Taiwan -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 e‐Waste Transboundary Movement Regulations in Various Jurisdictions* -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 International Legislation and Transboundary Movement -- 3.3 Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) -- 3.4 Regulations in Various Jurisdictions -- 3.4.1 Europe -- 3.4.1.1 France -- 3.4.1.2 Germany -- 3.4.1.3 Switzerland -- 3.4.1.4 Norway -- 3.4.2 Americas -- 3.4.2.1 United States of America -- 3.4.2.2 Canada -- 3.4.2.3 Brazil -- 3.4.3 Asia -- 3.4.3.1 Japan -- 3.4.3.2 China -- 3.4.3.3 Taiwan -- 3.4.3.4 India -- 3.4.4 Africa -- 3.4.4.1 South Africa -- 3.4.4.2 Nigeria -- 3.4.5 Australia -- 3.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Approach for Estimating e‐Waste Generation -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Econometric Analysis -- 4.3 Consumption and Use/Leaching/Approximation 1 Method -- 4.4 The Sales/Approximation 2 Method -- 4.5 Market Supply Method -- 4.5.1 Simple Delay -- 4.5.2 Distribution Delay Method -- 4.5.3 Carnegie Mellon Method/Mass Balance Method -- 4.6 Time‐Step Method -- 4.7 Summary of Estimation Methods -- 4.8 Lifespan of Electronic Products -- 4.9 Global e‐Waste Estimation -- References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Research management and administration in brazil / Juliana Juk and Renata Ben Baisch -- Chapter 5.09. …”