Neurosurgical procedures are often performed in an elective mode or in urgency or emergency situations. In the postoperative period, the patients perform in general intensive care or neurological units, or even in hospital admission units. Despite the care provided in the postoperative period, patients can present systemic or neurological complications, impacting hospitalization time as well as hospital cost and mortality. … Read More →
BAR’s new issue brings interesting topics to our readers, such as social networks, Brazilian stock market, gender differences, among others
In the first issue of 2017, BAR ‒ Brazilian Administration Review presents five interesting articles to all readers. The journal has published these articles online as soon as they were ready, seeking to maintain the diversity of topics. In this way, we have article from Finance, Organizational Theory, International Management, among other themes. … Read More →
How do an individual’s social network, self-monitoring and future orientation relate to ethical decision-making?
This research, from authors Ana Carla Bon, Roger James Volkema and Jorge Ferreira da Silva, represents a step forward to our understanding of ethical decision-making through the adoption of multiple and simultaneous factors, proposing an integrated theory of individual and situational factors influencing unethical decision-making. … Read More →
Research tests the seroconversion of dogs immunized with the Leishmune and Leish Tec vaccines in tests of the Ministry of Health
Researchers at the National Institute of Infectology Evandro Chagas and the Oswaldo Cruz Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro demonstrated that in a non-endemic area, dogs vaccinated against canine visceral leishmaniasis (LVC) with vaccines developed in Brazil were not capable of seroconverting in the protocol of tests used by the Ministry of Health. … Read More →
Readings of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Slaveholding Brazil
In nineteenth-century slaveholding Brazil, the edition in Portuguese of Uncle Tom’s Cabin attenuated its critical and transformative potentiality. The translator made interventions that allowed readers of the Lusophone world to conceive the end of slavery in a much more distant future. … Read More →
Study suggests computational model to predict air pollution after a rocket launching
The study suggests a new approach to predict major atmospheric pollutants emissions after a Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) launching, using a weather/air quality computational model. Propellant combustion may release a huge amount of hydrogen chloride (HCl), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2) and particulate matter, posing risk to the environment. … Read More →
Meteorological Tsunamis: should we worry about them?
Have you ever heard about meteorological tsunamis? Why it should be important to better understand these natural phenomena? Dr. Iael Perez and Dr. Dragani Walter from the Servicio de Hidrografia – CONICET, Argentina, explain these phenomena in detail after investing on an interesting study conducted in Mar del Plata. … Read More →
How do an individual’s social network, self-monitoring and future orientation relate to ethical decision-making?
The study endeavors to answer the following research question: how do subsidiaries build their networking sites in emerging economies, such as Brazil? The objective of this article is to ascertain how subsidiaries build their networks within a host country that is an emerging economy. … Read More →
Health systems in Brazil and regionalization policies
There is currently a crucial moment in the implementation of the Unified Health System (SUS), since its performance is questioned on all sides, in general, magnifying a superficial view of its failures and denying many of its successes. … Read More →
Currency wars remain beyond the analytical reach of legal scholars in the age of globalization
“Currency wars”, which have dominated the media and the international political debate over the last few years, must be understood from a broad analytical framework, according to a study examining the so-called “war of 2010-2013” and other relevant aspects of the impacts over monetary policy. … Read More →
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