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Journal articles on the topic "Brazilian Canadians"
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Hewitt, W. E. "Brazilian Studies in Canada." Latin American Research Review 30, no. 1 (1995): 130–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100017209.
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As a national group, Canadians are frequently viewed as an outward-looking people with an innate thirst for knowledge about the social, economic, and political customs of other nationalities. Traditionally, such curiosity has extended to countries that have played a large role in shaping contemporary Canadian society, especially the United States and the former colonizing powers of Europe. More recently, however, owing at least partly to changing patterns of immigration to Canada and the growth in hemispheric cultural and economic ties, curiosity has turned more and more toward Canada's neighbors to the south, the countries of Latin America.
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Paris, Gisele Ferreira, Francine de Montigny, and Sandra Marisa Pelloso. "Factors associated with the grief after stillbirth: a comparative study between Brazilian and Canadian women." Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP 50, no. 4 (August 2016): 546–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0080-623420160000500002.
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Abstract OBJECTIVE To verify the association between complicated grief and sociodemographic, reproductive, mental, marital satisfaction, and professional support characteristics in women after stillbirth. METHOD Cross-sectional study with 26 women who had stillbirth in 2013, living in the city of Maringá, Brazil, and eight women who attended the Centre d'Études et de Rechercheen Intervention Familiale at the University of Quebec en Outaouais, in Canada. The instrument was administered as an interview to a small number of mothers of infants up to three months (n=50), who did not participate in the validation study. RESULTS By applying the short version of the Perinatal Grief Scale, the prevalence of complicated grief in Brazilian women was found to be higher (35%) in relation to Canadian women (12%).Characteristics of the Brazilian women associated with the grief period included the presence of previous pregnancy with live birth, absence of previous perinatal loss, postpartum depression, and lack of marital satisfaction. For the Canadians it was observed that 80% of the women presenting no grief made use of the professional support group. In both populations the occurrence of complicated grief presented a higher prevalence in women with duration of pregnancy higher than 28 weeks. CONCLUSION The women that must be further investigated during the grief period are those living in Brazil, making no use of a professional support group, presenting little to no marital satisfaction, having no religion, and of a low educational level.
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Anacleto, Junia. "The BRAVA Initiative." Journal on Interactive Systems 4, no. 1 (August 28, 2013): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/jis.2013.627.
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The Brazilian Visual Analytics Initiative, or BRAVA, aims at leveraging the collaborative research in the field of VA promoting the networking among Brazilian and Canadian researchers. Annual BRAVA Exploratory workshops are being proposed since 2012 to provide a forum for discussions on potential research collaborative projects among Brazilians and between Brazilian and Canadian research centres.
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Schwartz, Juliano, Paul Oh, Shannon S. D. Bredin, Ryan E. Rhodes, Maira B. Perotto, Alejandro Gaytán-González, and Darren E. R. Warburton. "Development of the Brazilian Version of a Pan-Canadian Behavior Change Program and Its Health and Fitness Outcomes." Journal of Clinical Medicine 11, no. 19 (October 8, 2022): 5926. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195926.
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Chronic diseases are a major health problem worldwide, especially in lower-income jurisdictions. Considering this scenario, the World Health Organization has recently established, as a research priority, preventive interventions for populations from lower-income countries, such as the middle-income country of Brazil. The purpose of this article is to describe the components of a pan-Canadian lifestyle program adapted to Brazilians and to report its health and fitness outcomes. A 12-week program called ACCELERATION was translated and culturally adapted to Brazilians. A quasi-randomized controlled trial was designed, consisting of weekly emails and educational videos addressing risk factors for chronic disease. Health and fitness measures included body composition, cardiovascular variables, aerobic fitness, and muscular strength. The Brazilian experimental group showed maintenance in heart rate, blood pressure, and VO2max values while presenting an improvement of 3.3% in body fat percentage (p = 0.040, d = −0.325) and 5.1% in muscular strength (p = 0.039, d = 0.328). Overall, these results were similar to the Canadian intervention. Based on these findings, the Brazilian version of the program has the potential to contribute to the fight against chronic diseases in Brazil.
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Chen, Xinyin, Carla Zappulla, Alida Lo Coco, Barry Schneider, Violet Kaspar, Ana Maria De Oliveira, Yunfeng He, et al. "Self-perceptions of competence in Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese and Italian children: Relations with social and school adjustment." International Journal of Behavioral Development 28, no. 2 (March 2004): 129–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650250344000334.
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The purpose of the present study was to examine relations between self-perceptions of competence and social, behavioural, and school adjustment in Brazilian, Canadian, Chinese, and Italian children. Self-perception data were collected through children’s self-reports. Information about social behaviours, peer acceptance, and school achievement was obtained from peer assessments and teacher ratings. Multi-group analyses revealed similar patterns of relations between self-perceptions in scholastic and general self-worth domains and social and school performance in the four samples. However, the relations between self-perceptions of social competence and shyness and academic achievement were different across these samples. Self-perceptions of social competence was negatively associated with shyness in Brazilian, Canadian, and Italian children, but not in the Chinese children, and positively associated with academic achievement in Canadian and Chinese children, but not in Brazilian and Italian children. Similarities and differences in the patterns of relations between self-perceptions and social and school adjustment across cultures indicate that the self system may be a culture-general as well as culture-specific phenomenon.
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Rodrigues, Roberta, Carmen S. Gabetta, Karla P. Pedro, Fabio Valdetaro, Maria I. M. Fernandes, Patrícia K. R. Magalhães, José N. Januário, and Léa M. Z. Maciel. "Cystic fibrosis and neonatal screening." Cadernos de Saúde Pública 24, suppl 4 (2008): s475—s484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-311x2008001600002.
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The clinical and diagnostic aspects of cystic fibrosis have been extensively reviewed, with an emphasis on neonatal screening. This systematic literature review involved a search for relevant contributions in the PubMed and SciELO databases. The first references to cystic fibrosis date to the Middle Ages. Cystic fibrosis is the most frequent autosomal recessive hereditary disease among Caucasians (1:2,000 to 3,500). More than 1,000 mutations lead to the disease, the most common being "F508, with 70% prevalence among Canadian, Northern European, and American Caucasians and 23 to 55% prevalence among Brazilians. The basic defect is in chloride ion secretion. Cystic fibrosis screening has long been controversial, and after almost three decades, there are few nationwide programs (most are regional or local). However, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has concluded that screening for cystic fibrosis is justified. The lack of a specific screening test and the ethnic heterogeneity of the Brazilian population pose challenges for neonatal screening.
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Schiedeck Soares de Souza, Claudia. "Brazilian Federal Institutes and Canadian Colleges: Sharing Experiences Internationally." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 50, no. 4 (February 17, 2021): 87–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v50i3.188829.
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The Brazilian Federal Network of VET Institutes was created in 2008 to address the demand for Higher Education’s rapid growth. Since the establishment of Science Without Borders in 2011, the Federal Institutes have been developing international strategies for strengthening their internationalization process. However, there has been little research about the theme in Brazil. This article highlights the cooperation between Canada and Brazil that enhanced the Federal Institutes’ internationalization process. The findings presented in this article are part of the research results on the Brazilian Federal Institutes’ internationalization model, which used Situational Analysis as a methodological tool and pointed to the A Thousand Women project as the first significant international experience in these institutions. The data analyzed supports the claim that Canada became a significant reference for the Brazilian Federal Institutes and helped them build their internationalization process concretely and collaboratively.
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Domingos, S. G. A., C. A. A. Ventura, and S. Barton. "The Political and Social Perspectives of Intimate Partner Violence as a Human Rights Issue on Canadian and Brazilian Contexts." Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics 5, no. 4 (2016): 351–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17063/bjfs5(4)y2016351.
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Saes, Alexandre Macchione. "Modernizing Electric Utilities in Brazil: National vs. Foreign Capital, 1889–1930." Business History Review 87, no. 2 (2013): 229–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680513000445.
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Signs of improvement in the early twentieth-century Brazilian economy enabled a process of urban renewal. One of the most visible features of Brazilian urban modernization was street and house lighting, as well as electricity for tramways and industry. Conflicts between the Canadian company Light and the Brazilian firm CBEE over the supply of urban electricity to Brazil's main economic centers—Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador—mirror the contradictions in the country's capitalist formation during the first decades of the twentieth century. From an emerging market view, and through political debates, this article addresses the development of electric utilities in major Brazilian cities.
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Mondelli, Giulliana, and Heraldo L. Giacheti. "Geo-Environmental Investigation: A Brief Review and a Few Suggestions for Brazilian Contaminated Sites." Soils and Rocks 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2010): 171–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.28927/sr.333171.
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This paper presents a brief review about site investigation procedures for contaminated sites recommended by Brazilian and Canadian environmental agencies as well as discusses the theme of geo-environmental investigation as applied to Brazilian practice. The main definitions on the theme are reviewed and some guidelines are proposed for conducting a geo-environmental investigation of Brazilian contaminated sites using different site and laboratory investigation techniques based on the presented review and on the experience obtained from the investigation of a solid waste disposal site in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Brazilian Canadians"
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Buys, Barry G. "Canadians in Brazil, Brascan and Brazilian development." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22791.pdf.
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Armellini, Fabiano. "Patterns of open innovation within product development: a comparative study between Brazilian and Canadian aerospace industries." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3151/tde-10072013-112917/.
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Open innovation is a new research line that emerges from a new industrial organization of research, development and innovation (R,D&I): after a period of vertical integration and accumulation, economy seems to walk towards a more plain level with lesser barriers to new entrants due to a new scenario of collaboration and knowledge dissemination. In this new mindset, firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as firms look to advance in their technologies. The general goal of this research project is to analyze the depth and the impact of open innovation practices, as well as to identify patterns of their integration to the product development process (PDP) with focus on aerospace, a traditional high-tech segment within the metal-mechanic sector. For such, a reference model is elaborated and analyzed in two different contexts, in comparison study between Brazilian (emerging economy) and Canadian (developed economy) industries, more specifically the aerospace clusters in São Paulo and Quebec. The research comprises an aerospace market analysis, as well as the study of both countries national systems of innovation, supported by a survey that measures the intensity and importance of open innovation in Brazilian and Canadian aerospace companies plants. The survey is carried out by means of in-company questionnaire-based face interviews with R&D managers. The sample of analysis comprises a total of 53 aerospace plants, 22 of them in Brazil and 31 in Canada. Through a descriptive analysis of survey data, it is possible to identify similarities and differences in the patterns of open innovation in the two clusters. Among the similarities one highlights the focus on the product, the early involvement of customers in the PDP, the strategies adopted regarding intellectual property (IP) protection, the concentration of collaborative arrangements within the boundaries of the aerospace industry and the low intensity use of pecuniary tools, such as venture capital, spin-offs and/or acquisitions. Among the differences, Canada stands out with respect to its innovation public policies and assistance programs, which are found to be more effective in relation to Brazilian policies. Besides, Canadian plants seem to have a better innovative performance, at the cutting edge of aerospace technologies and higher international relevance. The survey also finds that the intensities of openness in Brazil and Canada are quite similar, although the patterns and motivations differ: Brazilian plants are more engaged in providing R&D services for products of third parties under direct contract (and not within collaborative arrangements) to local customers, while Canadian plants seem to be more engaged in a wider spam of collaborative fronts in a wider geographical range. Besides, Brazilian plants are much less intense in the adoption of formal IP protection methods in relation to Canadian ones, which hinders (but not prevents) the full adoption of open innovation in the Brazilian cluster. Based on the results, this text concludes with recommendations directed to the three vertices of the triple helix in both countries, namely: enterprises, science and technology institutes and the government.A inovação aberta é uma nova linha de pesquisa que surge a partir de nova organização industrial de pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação (P,D&I): após um período de verticalização, a economia parece caminhar em direção a um maior nivelamento com menores barreiras para novos entrantes em um novo cenário de colaboração e disseminação de conhecimento. Neste conceito, as empresas podem e devem usar ideias externas, assim como internas, e caminhos internos e externos para o mercado, na medida em que buscam avançar suas tecnologias. O objetivo geral deste projeto é analisar a profundidade e impacto das práticas de inovação aberta, bem como identificar padrões de sua integração ao processo de desenvolvimento de produtos (PDP) com foco na indústria aeroespacial, um segmento tradicional de alta tecnologia no setor metal-mecânico. Para tal, um modelo de referência é elaborado e avaliado em diferentes contextos, em uma comparação entre as indústrias brasileira (economia emergente) e canadense (economia desenvolvida), mais especificamente os arranjos produtivos aeroespaciais em São Paulo e Quebec. A pesquisa compreende uma análise do mercado aeroespacial, bem como o estudo dos sistemas nacionais de inovação de ambos os países, apoiados por um levantamento (survey) que mede a intensidade e a importância da inovação aberta em plantas de empresas aeroespaciais no Brasil e no Canadá. A pesquisa é realizada por meio de entrevistas presenciais em empresas com gestores de P&D, baseadas em um questionário. A amostra compreende um total de 53 plantas de empresas aeroespaciais, 22 delas no Brasil e 31 no Canadá. Através da análise descritiva dos dados da pesquisa, é possível identificar semelhanças e diferenças nos padrões de inovação aberta nos dois grupos. Entre as semelhanças destacam-se o foco no produto, o envolvimento precoce de clientes no PDP, as estratégias adotadas para proteção de propriedade intelectual (PI), a concentração de acordos colaborativos dentro dos limites da indústria aeroespacial e a baixa intensidade na utilização de ferramentas pecuniárias, tais como o capital de risco, spin-offs e/ou aquisições. Entre as diferenças, o Canadá se destaca com relação às suas políticas públicas de inovação e programas de assistência, que se mostram mais eficazes em relação aos brasileiros. Além disso, as plantas canadenses parecem ter um melhor desempenho inovador, mais próximo do estado-da-arte das tecnologias aeroespaciais e com maior relevância internacional. O levantamento também mostrou que as intensidades de abertura no Brasil e no Canadá são semelhantes, embora os padrões e motivações difiram: as plantas brasileiras estão mais envolvidas no fornecimento de serviços de P&D para produtos de terceiros sob contrato direto (e não dentro de acordos de colaboração) para clientes locais, enquanto que as plantas canadenses parecem estar engajadas em um leque mais amplo de frentes de colaboração, com maior distribuição geográfica. Além disso, as plantas brasileiras adotam com muito menor intensidade métodos formais de proteção da PI em relação às canadenses, o que dificulta (mas não impede) a adoção plena da inovação aberta no cluster brasileiro. Com base nos resultados, o texto conclui com recomendações dirigidas aos três vértices da hélice tripla em ambos os países, a saber: empresas, institutos de ciência e tecnologia e governo.
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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.
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Almeida, Caroline Sampaio de. "A cláusula compromissória arbitral: uma perspectiva comparada do direito canadense e do direito brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2133/tde-05122013-151903/.
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Todos os sistemas jurídicos produzem leis e decisões judiciais, cuja diferença reside principalmente na predominância de uma dessas características. No sistema de civil law, preponderante no Brasil, prevalece a elaboração das normas, organizadas em códigos e leis. O sistema jurídico da common law, por sua vez, é baseado primordialmente em decisões judiciais, que inclusive condicionam a admissibilidade da intromissão normativa, vinculando a todos, independentemente de obrigatoriedade expressa ou sanções por descumprimento, como no Canadá. Apesar das diferenças, a rápida adesão do universo do civil law à economia de mercado e à globalização, por um lado, e o esforço de harmonização e unificação, por outro, têm contribuído para a diluição de fronteiras teóricas práticas entre os dois sistemas, além de suscitar um recrudescimento do interesse pela teoria do contrato. No Brasil, um dos exemplos dessa diluição, motivada principalmente pela morosidade processual ligada à tradição e cultura nacionais que nutrem certa simpatia pelos recursos, é a Lei de Arbitragem por meio da qual se conferiu aos tribunais arbitrais uma natureza quase judicial, iniciativa pioneira dos sistemas de common law. A difusão da arbitragem como meio alternativo de solução de controvérsias, sobretudo no âmbito empresarial, decorre em especial de sua flexibilidade procedimental, em cujo ambiente de liberdade se destaca seu grande protagonista, o árbitro, ao lhe permitir experimentar novos e variados meios de investigação dos fatos, otimizando a capacidade de compreensão do direito aplicável ao caso sob análise. As cláusulas arbitrais, particularmente, compatibilizam-se com os princípios da autonomia privada e da duração razoável do processo, refletindo inteiramente nos custos de transação das relações entre agentes econômicos. Elas instrumentalizam as denominadas estruturas de conservação, que remetem a uma atuação pacificadora de baixa litigiosidade, de modo a preservar e atualizar os valores inicialmente perseguidos pelos contratantes. Com isso, viabiliza-se a minimização dos riscos, maximização dos direitos e aprimoramento dos resultados das transações, sendo uma ferramenta eficiente sob a ótica econômica. Em sendo a cláusula arbitral uma extensão da autonomia negocial, constitui um poderoso instrumento de auxílio à cooperação eficiente entre as partes, induzindo comportamento mediante redução de custos de transação e incentivando o cumprimento do contrato com a interpretação e regulamentação de promessas. Considerando, assim, a forte interpenetração das duas tradições jurídicas, torna-se imperiosa a análise da cláusula arbitral no contexto de um sistema misto, cujo ponto de partida será o Canadá em confronto com o sistema brasileiro. A pesquisa, por sua vez, não prescindirá dos contributos da análise econômica do Direito que compaginam o Direito com a própria evolução da sociedade, com destaque para a interação entre organizações econômicas e instituições, pois estas, ao estruturarem incentivos para os intercâmbios humanos (políticos, sociais e econômicos), afetam o desempenho da economia, definem e limitam o conjunto de escolha dos indivíduos, permitindo-lhes a redução de incertezas. A mesma lógica aplicar-se-á à arbitragem frente à postura do Poder Judiciário, cuja instituição é fundamental para garantir direitos de propriedade, fazer cumprir contratos e, acima de tudo, atribuir enforcement à cláusula compromissória arbitral.All legal systems produce laws and judgments, whose difference consists mainly on the predominance in one of those characteristics. The civil law system, preponderant in Brazil, prevails the preparation of rules, organized in codes and laws. The legal system of common law is based primarily on judicial decisions that condition, inclusive the admissibility of the normative intromission, binding to all, regardless of the obligation expressed or sanctions for default, as in Canada. Despite the differences (the quick adhesion of the civil law universe to the market economy and globalization for one side, and the effort of harmonization and unification on the other side), they have contributed to the dilution of practical theoretical borders between the two systems, in addition to causing a resurgence of interest in contract theory. In Brazil, one of the examples of this dilution, motivated mainly by slowness procedural, linked to national tradition and culture which maintained some sympathy for appeals, it is the arbitrations law through whereby was conferred to arbitral tribunals a quasi-judicial nature, pioneering initiative of common law systems. Specially in the commercial context, the arbitration diffusion as an alternative dispute resolution derives mainly from its procedural flexibility, in which freedom environment makes its big protagonist stand out, the arbitrator, because it allows him to try new and varied means of facts investigation, optimizing the ability of understanding the law applicable to the case under examination. Particularly, the arbitration clauses are compatible with the principle of private autonomy and reasonable duration of proceedings, reflecting in transaction costs on relations between economic agents. They prime the socalled \"conservation structures\", which refer to a peacemaking activity of the lower litigation, in order to preserve and update the values initially persecuted by contractors. So, the risks are reduced, the rights are maximized and the results of the transactions are improved, being a powerful tool under the economic perspective. As the arbitration clause is an extension of the negotiating autonomy, it constitutes a powerful aid tool to the efficient cooperation between both, inducing behavior through transaction reduction costs and encouraging the fulfillment of the contract with the interpretation and regulation promises. Considering the strong interpenetration of the legal traditions, it becomes essential to analyze the arbitral clause in the mixed system context, whose starting point will be the Canada in confrontation with the Brazilian. The research, wont do without the contribution of economic analysis of Law which paginate the Law with the society evolution, with emphasis on the interaction between economic organizations and institutions, that structuring incentives for human exchanges (political, social and economic), they affect the economy performance, define and limit the choice of individuals by allowing them to reduce uncertainties. The same logic will apply to arbitration before the judiciary\'s attitude, whose institution is critical to ensure property rights, enforcing contracts and assign enforcement to arbitration clause.
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Levemfous, Sérgio Israel. "Mémoire et identité dans les œuvres de Moacyr Scliar (Brésil) et de Régine Robin (Québec, Canada)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL065.
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Il s’agit d’une étude des œuvres de Moacyr Scliar et de Régine Robin. Les écrits de Moacyr Scliar sont axés surtout autour de la problématique de l’immigration juive au Brésil et de l’adaptation et intégration au milieu de la société brésilienne. Il construit avec humour et légèreté des personnages souvent en conflit interne pour essayer de constituer eux-mêmes une identité composée de traces de mémoires et de la nouvelle réalité qui les entourent. C’est le cas des personnages de ses oeuvres qu’intègrent mon corpus, à savoir, Le Centaure dans le jardin et Sa majesté des indiens. Les écrits de la franco-québécoise Régine Robin comprennent plusieurs domaines de connaissance et suivent une tendance ou un courant d’écrivains québécois qui privilégient dans leurs écrits une idée de construction nationale qui n’a pas le pays comme le centre, mais un abordage identitaire qui renforce et signale l’ample diversité culturelle et ethnique qui compose le Québec. C’est ce qu’ils appellent l’écriture migrante. Notre intérêt est surtout axé sur sa production littéraire, à savoir le roman La Québécoite et son livre de contes L’immense fatigue des Pierres. Cependant, sa production en tant que théoricienne fourni des éléments complémentaires pour l’analyse de ses œuvres littéraires, comme par exemple Le roman mémoriel, Kafka, et La mémoire saturée. Régine Robin et Moacyr Scliar ont en commun le fait de créer dans leurs livres un espace intermédiaire entre les faits et la fiction, et aussi de présenter des expressions de la communauté américaine d’origine juive. De sorte que s’entremêlent, chez eux, une dimension nationale, une dimension régionale, et une dimension communautaire transnationaleThis is a study of the works of Moacyr Scliar and Régine Robin. The writing of Moacyr Scliar mainly focuses on the issue of Jewish immigration to Brazil and on the adaptation and integration into the Brazilian society. He constructs with humor and lightness characters that are often living internal conflicts, trying to constitute themselves an identity composed of traces of memories and the new reality which surrounds them. It is the case of the characters of his works that integrate my corpus, namely, the Centaur in the garden and His majesty of the Indians. The writings of the Quebec-French Régine Robin include several areas of knowledge and follow a trend or a movement of writers in Quebec who favor in their writings an idea of national construction that does not have the country as the center, but rather an identity approach which strengthens and signals the wide cultural and ethnic diversity that makes up Quebec. This is what they call the migrant writing. Our interest mainly focuses on his literary production, namely the novel La Québécoite and his storybook The immense fatigue of Stones. However, her production as a theorist provides complementary elements for the analysis of his literary works, such as The Memory Novel, Kafka, and The Saturated Memory. Régine Robin and Moacyr Scliar have in common the fact of creating in their books an intermediate space between facts and fiction, and also to present expressions of the American community of Jewish origin. In this way, are intertwined in their works a national dimension, a regional dimension and a transnational community dimension
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Da, Costa Iara Regina. "Being Brazilian, Becoming Canadian: Acculturation Strategies, Quality of Life, Negative Affect, and Well-being in a Sample of Brazilian Immigrants Living in the Greater Toronto Area." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65653.
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Acculturation is a predominant feature of today’s society and one that has unique implications for immigrants’ mental health. Given that two thirds of Canada’s population growth is due to immigration, understanding the effects of acculturation on newcomers should be a central focus of academic research. The present study utilized an exploratory quantitative method to investigate the associations between acculturation strategies, quality of life, and negative affect in a sample of 180 Brazilian immigrants living in the Greater Toronto Area. The mediating and moderating roles of quality of life (QOL) were explored, as well as which patterns of acculturation strategies were associated with enhanced well-being, represented by low negative affect (NA), high QOL, and high Satisfaction with Life in Canada (SLCI). Clusters analysis identified patterns of acculturation strategy use, resulting in four acculturation profiles: integrated, assimilated, separated, and marginalized. Results indicated that QOL did not act as either a mediator or moderator of the relationship between acculturation profiles and NA. With regard to well-being indicators, acculturation profiles successfully predicted NA and SLCI, with the Assimilated being the most favourable profile evidenced by its lowest NA and highest SLCI levels. While acculturation profiles did not predict QOL, the trend of the Assimilated profile being predictive of favourable well-being was also present as its members reported slightly higher QOL than their counterparts from other profiles. Well-being risk and protective factors are presented. The results highlight the importance of including control variables in future research in order to uncover the unique impact of acculturation on the mental health of immigrants. Implications for practice and future research are also discussed.
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Bastos, Lima Mairon Giovani. "Sustainable Food Security for Local Communities in the Globalized Era: a Comparative Examination of Brazilian and Canadian Case Studies." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3660.
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In a world where food production is sufficient to feed everyone, more than 850 million people live in conditions of undernourishment, hunger, or starvation. Much of the problem lies in the current dynamics of the global agri-food system; they have impaired access to food and contributed to environmental damage and social disintegration. This increasingly integrated global system is displacing family farming enterprises in favour of agro-industrial monocultures, with their associated consequences for ecosystem health (biodiversity loss, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, etc.), and in the degradation of traditional food cultures.
Conventionally, the term “food insecurity” is used to describe situations of food deprivation. This study, however, adopts a broader perspective on the issue. It has associated the ideas of food security with those related to healthy food systems, suggesting that it is not only important to strive for universal access to adequate food but also to think of the means and processes by which it can be achieved; that is, a food system that promotes equity and environmental sustainability. In addition, food security also emphasizes the need for a healthy and active life unimpaired by overconsumption or inadequate eating habits.
Using a systems perspective, this study has devised criteria of sustainable food security, which serve as indicators of health in the food system. These criteria include nutritional and cultural adequacy of food, physical and economic access to it, the setting in which it is offered (i.e. the “food environment”), and the food systems’ social and biophysical impacts. Such criteria were applied to two case studies: first in Canada (Waterloo Region, Ontario) and then in Brazil (Feira de Santana, Bahia), two very different contexts, but both under the influence of global agri-food dynamics. With this case study analysis, this research investigates the current challenges for achieving sustainable food security in local communities, as well as opportunities and benefits that might be available.
Feira de Santana exhibits great agro-biodiversity, a very localized food system, and community initiatives to support local food traditions, family agriculture, and sustainable farming practices based on agroecology. These efforts, however, are hindered by poverty, lack of education, poor infrastructure, and little support from the local government. For its part, Waterloo Region counts on a very supportive government that strengthens local food initiatives and combines efforts with non-state organizations in order to promote a healthy food system. Despite possessing notable local food traditions, its food system is much more globalized than Feira de Santana’s. Most of its food is imported, and much of the arable land is used for agro-industrial cash-crops. This has hampered the operations of the smaller local farmers, damaged the environment (due to long transportations and intensive, conventional agriculture), and contributed to poor eating habits. Although Waterloo Region faces less food deprivation than Feira de Santana, it has a much bigger problem with respect to overconsumption and obesity – half of the local population is overweight with associated health concerns.
In conclusion, this study stresses the need to consider food security from a systems perspective, taking into account social and environmental factors. Thus, it highlights the need to promote sustainable food systems, and draws some recommendations for achieving it.
Books on the topic "Brazilian Canadians"
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Wrong time, wrong place?: How two Canadians ended up in a Brazilian jail. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Key Porter Books, 1995.
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Brazilian journal. Toronto, Canada: L. & O. Dennys, 1987.
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Branco, Diniz Dilma Castelo, and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Núcleo de Estudos Canadenses. Encontro, eds. Brasil-Canadá: Olhares diversos. Belo Horizonte: FALE/ABECAN/NEC, 2006.
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McDowall, Duncan. The Light: Brazilian Traction, Light, and Power Company Limited, 1899-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
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A alteridade ameríndia na ficção contemporânea das Américas: Brasil, Argentina, Quebec. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil: Fino Traço Editora, 2013.
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Utopies américaines au Québec et au Brésil. [Québec]: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2004.
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Brazilian Journal. Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated, 2011.
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Gmbh, Babadada. BABADADA, français canadien - português do Brasil, dictionnaire visuel - dicionário de imagens: Canadian French - Brazilian Portuguese, visual dictionary. Babadada, 2021.
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Confluences littéraires, Brésil-Québec: Les bases d'une comparaison. Candiac, Québec: Editions Balzac, 1992.
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Branco, Diniz Dilma Castelo, and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Núcleo de Estudos Canadenses. Encontro, eds. Brasil-Canadá: Olhares diversos. Belo Horizonte: FALE/ABECAN/NEC, 2006.
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Woodard, James P. "One of the Great Automobile Countries in the World." In Brazil's Revolution in Commerce, 24–68. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656434.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 looks at the period between the 1910s and the 1930s, when major U.S. automakers expanded into Brazil. As they expanded, the automakers brought with them the promotional and organizational apparatus of Madison Avenue at the encouragement of U.S. officials and big business. Commercial media—including changes in the Brazilian press, the development of commercial radio broadcasting, and the solidification of Hollywood as a leisure-time draw—enjoyed the support of city-dwellers and Brazilian governments. At this early state, Brazilian consumer capitalism was already transnational, involving Dutch and Canadian concerns as well as a Spanish-born entrepreneur who sponsored the remaking of a section of Rio de Janeiro.
Conference papers on the topic "Brazilian Canadians"
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Lima, G. A. C., and S. B. Suslick. "Investment Timing and Environmental Assessmment Impact on Decision-Making Process in the Brazilian Petroleum Industry." In Canadian International Petroleum Conference. Petroleum Society of Canada, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/2001-066.
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Peirce, J. W., and W. E. Glenn and J.A. Rhodes. "Interpreting HRAM data for structural grain – A Canadian example with implications for Brazilian interior basins." In 8th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.168.arq_702.
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Barbosa, Fábio C. "Competition Into Brazilian and North American Freight Rail Systems: A Comparative Regulatory Assessment." In 2018 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2018-6138.
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Competition is the driving force of any economic system, as it creates a challenging environment for service suppliers to provide affordable and reliable services to customers. Rail systems are an important element of the logistic chain, as they provide a unique service category (generally transporting large volumes at low unit costs) to shippers that otherwise would not be serviced by other modes — the so called captive shippers. In this scenario, competition is essential to guarantee the required service levels (availability and reliability), followed by competitive rates, which ultimately may influence shippers’ business competitiveness, both regionally and globally. Brazil and some North American countries (Canada, Mexico and United States), have a common feature, i.e. continental territories allied with the economic exploitation of bulky activities (industrial, mineral and agricultural), and, hence, depend strongly on heavy haul rail systems. These countries have been performing a continuous effort on improving competition practices into their rail systems, which are translated into important, and sometimes controversial, regulatory measures. These initiatives require a tenuous equilibrium, as they are supposed to provide the required competitive service at affordable rates for shippers, as well as a sustainable (financial and operational) environment to rail carriers, to guarantee the required return on long term investments and avoid compromising medium and long term rail network efficiency. This challenging task for rail market stakeholders (rail carriers, shippers and regulators) is far from a consensus. Rail companies claim that, as a capital intensive sector, governmental regulatory intervention into the rail system may inhibit their ability to invest the required funds to provide and expand rail capacity, as well as the maintenance of the required safety levels. Shippers, on the other hand, state that rail systems operate within a strong market concentration (originally formatted or due to subsequent merges and acquisitions) that give some rail carriers a disproportionate market power, that resembles a monopoly, which ultimately leaves a significant contingent of the so called captive shippers with just one freight rail carrier option, sometimes subjected to excessive rates, and, in some special instances (into offer restricted rail markets, for example), are responsible for the unavailability of rail services into the required volumes. In this context, there is currently a controversial debate regarding the effectiveness of competitive regulatory remedies into freight rail systems. This debate includes both market oriented rail systems (Canadian and U.S.), as well as rail contractual granted ones (Brazilian and Mexican). In the formers, the systems are mostly owned and operated by the private sector, and inter and intra modal options may theoretically provide the required competition level, while in the latter, rail systems have been broken into separate pieces and granted to the private sector under a concession arrangement, followed by an exclusive right to serve their territories, with trackage rights provisions, to be exerted by third parties, under previously defined circumstances and subjected to contractual agreements among rail operators. In both systems, competitive regulatory actions may be desirable and effective, as far as they may address the technical-operational-economic boundary conditions of each particular rail system. This work is supposed to present, into a review format, sourced from an extensive research into available international technical literature, and gathered as a unique document, an overview of the Brazilian and North American freight rail competition scenario, followed by a technical and unbiased effectiveness’ assessment of current (existing) and proposed competitive regulatory freight rail initiatives into Brazil, Canada, Mexico and United States, highlighting their strengths and eventually their weaknesses.
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Oliveira, Hudson Re´gis. "Pipeline Integrity Management: An Approach to Geotechnical Risks." In 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2008-64253.
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Linear works, such as highways, power lines, gas and oil pipelines among others, as well as other types of engineering works can be threaten by natural hazards, such as landslides, floods, erosions, earthquakes, hurricanes, seaquakes and others, which may lead to great environmental impacts, very high sum of money lost and even deaths. Aiming to reduce geological and geotechnical risks, preventive or corrective actions can be executed from the design phase to the operational and maintenance stages in pipelines. In the last phase, an integrity management plan can be adopted to mitigate residual risks not covered on the design and construction phases. One of the alternatives to implement a gas pipeline integrity management is found in the code “Managing System Integrity of Gas Pipelines” – ASME B31.8S (2005). However, this code has some limitations in actions concerning to prevention, identification and correction of geological and geotechnical problems. This paper presents information about geotechnical risks in transmission pipelines and tools applied in identification, prevention and correction of geotechnical problems in pipelines, as well as, others that can potentially be applied in pipelines. A basic pipeline integrity management plan focused on geotechnical risks is proposed in the paper, transcribed as a contribution to ASME B31.8S Code. This plan is composed by actions: from identification, prevention, evaluation and analysis to correction of geotechnical instabilities in pipelines. It is composed by a flowchart with all actions selected for the geotechnical risk care. The plan was developed based on directions set in ASME B31.8S Code, including Brazilian, Italian and Canadian experiences.
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Oliveira, Hudson Régis. "A Proposed Geotechnical Risks Management Plan for Pipeline Integrity." In ASME 2013 International Pipeline Geotechnical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipg2013-1942.
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Linear works, such as highways, power lines, gas and oil pipelines among others, as well as other types of engineering works can be threaten by natural hazards, such as landslides, floods, erosions, earthquakes, hurricanes, seaquakes and others, which could lead to great environmental impacts, very high sum of money lost and even deaths. Aiming to reduce geological and geotechnical risks, preventive or corrective actions can be executed from the design phase to the operational and maintenance stages in pipelines. In this last phase, an integrity management plan of these facilities can be adopted, with the purpose of mitigating residual risks that had not been covered on the design and construction phases. One of the alternatives to implement an integrity management of gas pipelines is found in the code “Managing System Integrity of Gas Pipelines” – ASME B31.8S (2005). However, this code has some limitations in actions concerning to prevention, identification and correction of geological and geotechnical problems. This paper presents information about geotechnical risks in transmission pipelines and tools applied in identification, prevention and correction of geotechnical problems in pipelines, as well as, others with potential to be applied in pipelines. A basic pipeline integrity management plan focused in geotechnical risks is proposed in the paper, transcribed as a contribution to ASME B31.8S Code. This plan is composed by actions: from identification, prevention, evaluation and analysis to correction of geotechnical instabilities in pipelines. The plan is composed by a flowchart with all actions selected for the geotechnical risk care. The plan was developed based on directions set in ASME B31.8S Code, together with Brazilian, Italian and Canadian experiences.