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Brazil is a biofuel superpower and a pioneer in the large-scale production and use of sugarcane ethanol. The country has plans to replace 10 percent of the world's fossil fuels by 2025 with biofuels (Novo et al., 2010). Brazil...

Political Economy; Political Science; Environmental Political Economy Biofuel; Brazil; Historical Institutionalism; Sugarcane

In most developing countries, local companies have more expensive polluting production technology than those in developed countries. On the other hand, there is a growing concern to produce and consume ecological goods in the...

Financial literacy is a theme that integrates public policies for the social development of a country and an element to be worked on from different aspects to improve people’s living standards, providing well-being. In this...

Web-Based Teaching & Learning Education Educational Technologies

In this work, we present a non-invasive electronic platform for physiological data acquisition on cattle grazing systems. The platform can be used for dairy and beef cattle to continuously monitor physiological variables such as...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

Social media are being extensively used as a platform to conduct marketing and advertising activities (Shwetha et al., 2020). However, there is always a challenge in how organizations can figure out the results of social media...

Consumer Management Business and Management E-Business

This paper presents a study about screening large radiological image streams produced in hospitals for earlier detection of lung nodules. Being one of the most difficult classification tasks in the literature, our objective is...

Computer Vision & Image Processing Computer Science and Information Technology Artificial Intelligence

In an increasingly globalized world, social networks appear as an indispensable tool for sports clubs, as they make it easier for them to reach a large number of supporters. The main objective of this study is to measure the...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a constantly growing paradigm that promises to revolutionize healthcare applications and could be associated with several other techniques. Data prediction is another widely used paradigm, where data...

Health Information Systems Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Health Information Systems

The performance of a company is affected by several variables and understanding them and knowing how they work is decisive for management. Therefore, this research aims to address and measure how transformational leadership...

Over the years, and despite the energy efficiency measures and possibilities, there has been an increase in energy consumption worldwide. However, the resources and primary energies are limited and short stocked, and the energy...

Computer vision and image processing procedures could obtain crop data frequently and precisely, such as vegetation indexes, and correlating them with other variables, like biomass and crop yield. This work presents the...

Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

Internet of Things (IoT) is a constantly growing paradigm that promises to revolutionize healthcare applications and could be associated with several other techniques. Data prediction is another widely used paradigm, where data...

Information Security & Privacy Security and Forensics Cyber and Network Security Computer Science and Information Technology Science and Engineering

The term outsourcing has become a conventional means of describing anything associated with the transaction of services that enables client organisations to blur core activities and thereby reduce their internal workforce and...

In organizations that are seeking a high degree of maturity, it is necessary to achieve a statistical control of software processes and to know their behavior and operational performance. The approach adopted for the research...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

Personalized sequencing and recommendation of pedagogical actions in virtual learning environments are relevant aspects in promoting an effective learning process with computer-aided support. Hence, this work investigates the...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

Tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs play an essential role in the innovation and competitiveness of tourist destinations. However, existing knowledge about the determinants of the innovation they generate is far from being fully...

In recent years, nanomaterials have gained tremendous attention due to their wide variety of industrial applications including food packaging, consumer products, nanomedicines, etc. The fascinating properties of nanoparticles...

Chemistry Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Chemistry

Consensus Critically ill EEG Monitoring sedation

Mutations in fumarate hydratase (FH) cause hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma1. Loss of FH in the kidney elicits several oncogenic signalling cascades through the accumulation of the oncometabolite fumarate2....

Animals Mice DNA Mitochondrial Fumarate Hydratase Fumarates Immunity Innate Mitochondria Kidney Cytosol