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Zika in Rio de Janeiro: assessment of basic reproduction number and comparison with dengue outbreaks
2017-06Zika virus infection was declared a public health emergency of international concern in February 2016 in response to the outbreak in Brazil and its suspected link with congenital anomalies. In this study, we use notification ... -
The causal impacts of child labor law in Brazil: some preliminary findings
2017-03-01This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. We used a difference-in-differences (DD) approach to estimate ... -
Crowdfunding research agenda
2017This paper proposes a current research agenda on crowdfunding from two different perspectives, mass media and geography. It is believed that these two elements must exert some kind of influence on the dynamics of the ... -
Structural and longitudinal analysis of the knowledge base on spin-off research
2017-07Following the dynamism in spin-off research, in this study we conduct a structural and longitudinal bibliometric analysis of a sample of 812 articles on spin-offs published in 234 journals included in the ISI Web of Knowledge ... -
Vector borne diseases on an urban environment: the effects of heterogeneity and human circulation
2017-06We study the effect of human circulation and host/vector heterogeneities on the onset of epidemics of arboviruses. From a meta-population dynamics based on the classical Bailey-Dietz model, we derive a multi-group model ... -
What prospects for the brazilian ethanol sector?
2017-04Brazilian ethanol is derived from sugarcane and is mostly used domestically as a transportation fuel either pure or mixed with gasoline. Brazilians will fill their cars with pure ethanol when its pump price in energy ... -
Finding inference rules using graph mining in ontological knowledge bases
2016The exponentially grow of Web and data availability, the semantic web area has expanded and each day more data is expressed as knowledge bases. Knowledge bases (KB) used in most projects are represented in an ontology-based ... -
IT benefits management in financial institutions: Practices and barriers
2017-07The adoption of Benefits Management (BM) is important to ensure that information technology (IT) projects add value to the organization; however, the literature still lacks empirical evidence about how organizations are ... -
A new factor to explain implied volatility smirk
2017In this article, we find empirical evidence of a new smirk factor, obtained from the jump structure of the risk neutral distribution of the underlying Levy process. As an application we show how to price a barrier style contract. -
Determinants of success in venture capital investments: evidence from Brazil
2017We investigate the determinants of the success of private equity/venture capital funds. We focus specially on a Brazilian idiosyncrasy: the participation of limited partners in the investment process through investment ... -
La Habana Bourbônica. Reforma ilustrada e escravidão em Havana (1763-1790)
2017-04A eminência do Tratado de Paris (1763) coroou uma série de modificações na configuração do Mundo Atlântico. A Guerra dos Sete Anos havia anunciado a proeminência de novas potências do Velho Continente, alertando para a ... -
Price computation in electricity auctions with complex rules: An analysis of investment signals
2017-06This paper discusses the problem of defining marginal costs when integer variables are present, in the context of short-term power auctions. Most of the proposals for price computation existing in the literature are concerned ... -
A steam turbine dynamic model for full scope power plant simulators
2017-06-25The development of a steam turbine dynamic model for full scope power plant simulators is described in this work. Model completeness is one of the main features of the model developed as it attempts to completely cover the ... -
Comparing the explanatory and predictive power of intention-based theories of personal monetary donation to charitable organizations
2017-04The theory of reasoned action (TRA) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) have been found to have predictive capability in a wide range of personal behaviors. The aim of the study is twofold: firstly, to assess the ... -
How virtual brand community traces may increase fan engagement in brand pages
2017-06Brand pages in social media are a great way to foster consumer gathering around a brand, but it can be challenging to keep fans engaged and coming back to see updated content. Brands with millions of fans on Facebook have ... -
The reward-attention circuit model: nicotine's influence on attentional focus and consequences on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
2017-06-14In this work we investigate the influence that nicotine exerts on attention focusing, modeling the coupling of reward and thalamocortical circuits. Each neuron in the neural networks that replicate such circuits is described ... -
Sensitive industries produce better ESG performance: Evidence from emerging markets
2017-05-01Given the rising interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) globally, this paper investigates whether the financial profile of a firm is associated with superior environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, ... -
Innovating in sub-national climate policy: the mandatory emissions reduction scheme in Tokyo
2017This study analyses the drivers behind the policy-making and implementation of the recently developed climate policies in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). In 2010, the TMG introduced a mandatory CO2 emission reduction ... -
O gerenciamento de projetos em um Tribunal de Justiça: análise dos prazos dos projetos estratégicos 2010-2014
2016-12O presente artigo analisa a execução dos projetos estratégicos de um Tribunal de Justiça desenvolvidos na vigência do Plano Estratégico 2010-2014 e acompanhados pelo Escritório Corporativo de Projetos da instituição, a fim ...
