Brazil presidential hopefuls gear up for 2022 election

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Gear Up ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Presidential Primaries

Significance In recent weeks, former Justice Minister Sergio Moro has joined a centre-right party, Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria has won his party’s presidential primaries and former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, widely seen as Bolsonaro’s main competitor, has completed a successful European tour. Bolsonaro has joined a new party ahead of the election. Impacts Bolsonaro will keep pushing for congressional approval of his pre-election spending measures to improve his prospects. The incumbent will increase his attacks on Lula and 'third-way' candidates, emulating the 2018 presidential campaign. Lula will seize any opportunity to consolidate himself as the focus of opposition to Bolsonaro for both the left and centre.

scholarly journals Patents valuation in core innovation: case study of a Brazilian public university

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Basile Tukoff-Guimarães ◽  
Claudia Terezinha Kniess ◽  
Renato Penha ◽  
Mauro Silva Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Public University ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Valuation Methods

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how technology transfer offices (TTOs) of a public university of the state of São Paulo use patent valuation methods in the process of using developed technology value and transferring technology to industry. Design/methodology/approach This study is an exploratory qualitative investigation based on a case study conducted in a public university in the state of São Paulo. The university has a TTO and an internal structure for technology transfer. In-depth interviews were conducted with the TTO manager about patent valuation and the answers given were analysed. Findings The results on how TTOs use patent valuation methods in the process of assigning value to technology indicate which factors facilitate and which factors hinder the valuation of patents in technologies developed at universities. Research limitations/implications The possible lack of data disclosure due to confidentiality regarding royalties and trading fees makes further comparisons between Brazilian public universities difficult. Therefore, this study recommends that further studies on patent valuation and technology transfer process at private universities, research institutes and public and private companies should be performed. Practical implications In the practice, this study contributes to companies and TTOs by increasing their synergies in licensing negotiations, as well as by reducing the gap of information, between the business parties for assignment and transfer of technologies. With regard to theoretical contribution, this study can cite advances in the methods to measure the financial benefits arising from the valuation of technologies embedded in the patents. Originality/value Owing to the lack of research on the methods of valuation used by TTOs of Brazilian universities, the present study can be useful in serving as a theoretical source for future research and in supporting future TTO negotiations in the process of transferring technologies to productive industry.

Predictors of self-legitimacy among military police officers in São Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane de Oliveira Cubas ◽  
Frederico Castelo Branco ◽  
André Rodrigues de Oliveira ◽  
Fernanda Novaes Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Least Square ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Military Police ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Variables ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Military

PurposeThe authors examine predictors of self-legitimacy for police officers belonging to the Military Police force of São Paulo (Brazil). Considering the variables mobilized by the literature on self-legitimacy, the authors seek to identify what explains the self-legitimacy of militarized police officers.Design/methodology/approachA survey was applied to 298 frontline police officers in the city of São Paulo, analyzing indicators separated into two groups: relationship dimension and organizational dimension. An ordinary least square model is used to test the “relationship” and “organizational” variables on police officers' self-legitimacy.FindingsEffectiveness is the strongest predictor for self-legitimacy. Organizational justice and distributive justice also present important effects, as the perception of citizens' attitudes toward police reinforces the conception of self-legitimacy as a dialogical construct, comprising here the public's expectations of police work as well as the police officers' perceptions that they are respected and considered important by the public.Originality/valueThere are no other studies on self-legitimacy related to Brazilian police officers or exploring these aspects among police officers submitted to a militarized structure. These results contribute to the ongoing debate on the militarization of police activities and their possible effects on police legitimacy.

Examining a migration-based phenomenon of heroin use in an urban drug scene in Sao Paulo, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Ribeiro ◽  
Rosana Frajzinger ◽  
Luciane Ogata Perrenoud ◽  
Benedikt Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Crack Cocaine ◽  
Methadone Treatment ◽  
Rapid Test ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Heroin Use ◽  
Heroin Users ◽  
Content Type

Purpose Brazil’s street-based drug use is mostly characterized by non-injection psychostimulant (e.g. crack-cocaine) drug use in Brazil, with limited interventions and service availability. Recently, an influx of multi-ethnic migrants within an urban drug scene in Sao Paulo was associated with heroin use, a drug normatively absent from Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to characterize and compare heroin use-related characteristics and outcomes for an attending sub-sample of clients from a large community-based treatment centre (“CRATOD”) serving Sao Paulo’s local urban drug scene. Design/methodology/approach All non-Brazilian patients (n = 109) receiving services at CRATOD for 2013–2016 were identified from patient files, divided into heroin users (n = 40) and non-heroin users (n = 69). Based on chart reviews, select socio-demographic, drug use and health status (including blood-borne-virus and other infections per rapid test methods) were examined and bi-variately compared. Multi-variate analyses examined factors independently associated with heroin use. Findings Most participants were male and middle-aged, poly-drug users and socio-economically marginalized. While heroin users primarily originated from Africa, they reported significantly more criminal histories, drug (e.g. injection) and sex-risk behaviors and elevated rates of BBV (e.g. Hepatitis C Virus and HIV). A minority of heroin users attending the clinic was provided methadone treatment, mostly for detoxification. Originality/value This study documented information on a distinct sample of mostly migration-based heroin users in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Based on the local experience, global migration dynamics can bring changes to established drug use cultures and services, including new challenges for drug use-related related behaviors and therapeutic interventions that require effective understanding and addressing.

Impact of an educational intervention using e-mail on diet quality

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Cristina Moura Bombem ◽  
Daniela Silva Canella ◽  
Daniel Henrique Bandoni ◽  
Patricia Constante Jaime
Keyword(s):  
Diet Quality ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Total Fat ◽  
The Impact ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Milk And Dairy Products

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of a worksite nutritional intervention on the dietary quality of adult workers from the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – A 6-month controlled community trial was performed involving 236 workers from São Paulo, Brazil. The intervention was implemented through interactive software that sends recommendations about diet and physical activity by e-mail. Data were collected for all participants using a 24-hour dietary recall and also for a sub-sample containing 25.4 per cent of the participants. Diet quality was assessed by the diet quality index adjusted (DQIa) comprising 10 components (grains and tubers; vegetables; fruits; milk and dairy products; meat and eggs; beans and legumes; total fat; saturated fat; sodium; and variety), scored from 0 (inadequate consumption) to 10 (recommended consumption). Intragroup impact of the intervention was assessed according to variation in total DQIa, its components and energy consumption. Impact adjusted between groups was also determined. Findings – The intervention yielded improvements in DQIa and for the components cereals and tubers, vegetables, milk and dairy products and total fat. The workers who had a worst diet quality before the study were more susceptible to the intervention, which improved significantly the diet quality, with an adjusted impact of +6.4 points. Originality/value – Few behavioral interventions have been performed using technologies, like e-mail, to encourage a healthy lifestyle. This study shows the importance of the counseling to promote a higher-quality diet, which can result in control of the obesity.

Sinovac moves closer to Sao Paulo roll-out in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Roll Out

Headline BRAZIL: Sinovac moves closer to Sao Paulo roll-out

São Paulo’s office market: scenario for the next years

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Tavares de Alencar ◽  
João Rocha Lima ◽  
Eliane Monetti
Keyword(s):  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Office Market ◽  
Vacancy Rates ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
New Phase

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to simulate possoble scenarios of São Paulo’s office market recovering. In 2006, a previous paper that dealt with the same issue was published which the authors propose to analyse here. After eight years, the São Paulo office market is starting a new phase within its cycle. Then, the first part of this paper, as in Rocha-Lima and Alencar (2006), describes the economic scenario in which investment decisions are made for developing office buildings in the Brazilian market. Afterward, the authors simulated both the necessary period of time for investments in the São Paulo office market to recover attractiveness and time for the increase in the occupation rate to absorb the current vacant spaces. Design/methodology/approach These simulations were carried out using simple linear regressions models using the Brazilian gross domestic product (GDP) as explanatory variable to prices and vacancy rates dependent ones. Findings The authors have found that the vacant space can be fully re-occupied in the beginning of 2021 or mid of 2022, according to the GDP growth rate, and, from this moment on, the demand for new spaces may grow, and, moreover around 2019, investments may become attractive again in this market. Originality/value This paper offers an alternative approach for estimating office building scenarios, especially when the database of the market is scarce. It also permits to evaluate an investment strategy for emerging markets within next years, particularly in São Paulo, Brazil.

Bolsonaro will face centre-left in Brazil runoff

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fraud Risk ◽  
Legal Battle

Significance With less than three weeks to go before the October 7 first round of the Brazilian presidential elections, frontrunner Bolsonaro remains hospitalised after being stabbed in the abdomen during a rally earlier this month. Separately, after a lengthy legal battle, the Worker’s Party (PT) has officially replaced former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad as its candidate. Impacts Bolsonaro’s health has become a source of uncertainty surrounding the election. Anti-PT sentiment makes Haddad the most convenient adversary for Bolsonaro in a runoff. Gomes is the best positioned to stop Haddad from reaching the second round. Bolsonaro's warnings of possible second-round fraud risk stirring violence if he loses.

The Guarani Aquifer System – from regional reserves to local use

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. qjegh2020-091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Hirata ◽  
Stephen Foster
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
Guarani Aquifer ◽  
São Paulo State ◽  
Local Use ◽  
Active Flow ◽  
Groundwater Body

The Guarani Aquifer System is a massive groundwater body underlying large areas of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina, with a thickness of 50–600 m (averaging about 250 m). It is one of the world's largest sandstone aquifers. The mainly weakly-cemented sandstones were formed by aeolian, fluvial and lacustrine continental deposition during the Triassic–Jurassic period and are overlain by extensive Cretaceous basalt lava-flows. The system is totally storage-dominated, with recharge amounting to only about 0.2% of the estimated 30 000 km3 of water stored. Using 14C and81Kr techniques, it was possible to confirm extremely slow flow rates, with groundwater older than 730 000 years BP in some parts of São Paulo State, Brazil. The vast regional freshwater storage contrasts sharply with localized active flow systems of recharge areas, which are strongly impacted by land-use change. The aquifer is the best known and most exploited in São Paulo State (80% of total extraction) and the experience of groundwater use for the supply of Ribeirão Preto and São José do Rio Preto (both with populations of over 0.5 million), together with one transboundary urban area, will be summarized.Thematic collection: This article is part of the Hydrogeology of Sandstone collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/hydrogeology-of-sandstone

scholarly journals Diversity of Somatic Coliphages in Coastal Regions with Different Levels of Anthropogenic Activity in São Paulo State, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 77 (12) ◽  
pp. 4208-4216 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. M. Burbano-Rosero ◽  
M. Ueda-Ito ◽  
J. J. Kisielius ◽  
T. K. Nagasse-Sugahara ◽  
B. C. Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Fecal Pollution ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Coastal Regions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Somatic Coliphages ◽  
Seawater Samples ◽  
High Level

ABSTRACTBacteriophages are the most abundant and genetically diverse viruses on Earth, with complex ecology in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Somatic coliphages (SC) have been reported to be good indicators of fecal pollution in seawater. This study focused on determining the concentration of SC and their diversity by electron microscopy of seawater, plankton, and bivalve samples collected at three coastal regions in São Paulo, Brazil. The SC counts varied from <1 to 3.4 × 103PFU/100 ml in seawater (73 samples tested), from <1 to 4.7 × 102PFU/g in plankton (46 samples tested), and from <1 to 2.2 × 101PFU/g in bivalves (11 samples tested). In seawater samples, a relationship between the thermotolerant coliforms andEscherichia coliand SC was observed at the three regions (P= 0.0001) according to the anthropogenic activities present at each region. However, SC were found in plankton samples from three regions: Baixada Santista (17/20), Canal de São Sebastião (6/14), and Ubatuba (3/12). In seawater samples collected from Baixada Santista, four morphotypes were observed: A1 (4.5%), B1 (50%), C1 (36.4%), and D1 (9.1%). One coliphage,Siphoviridaetype T1, had the longest tail: between 939 and 995 nm. In plankton samples,Siphoviridae(65.8%),Podoviridae(15.8%),Microviridae(15.8%), andMyoviridae(2.6%) were found. In bivalves, only the morphotype B1 was observed. These SC were associated with enteric hosts: enterobacteria,E. coli,Proteus,Salmonella, andYersinia. Baixada Santista is an area containing a high level of fecal pollution compared to those in the Canal de São Sebastião and Ubatuba. This is the first report of coliphage diversity in seawater, plankton, and bivalve samples collected from São Paulo coastal regions. A better characterization of SC diversity in coastal environments will help with the management and evaluation of the microbiological risks for recreation, seafood cultivation, and consumption.

scholarly journals Determinants of agricultural insurance adoption: evidence from farmers in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-566
Author(s):  
Marcelo José Carrer ◽  
Rodrigo Lanna Franco da Silveira ◽  
Marcela de Mello Brandão Vinholis ◽  
Hildo Meirelles De Souza Filho
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Agricultural Insurance ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of agricultural insurance adoption by farmers of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Design/methodology/approach Primary data from the 2015/2016 crop season was collected from a sample of 175 farmers. Logit econometric models were applied to identify the variables that affect the probability of agricultural insurance adoption. Findings The empirical results show that the education level, access to technical assistance, use of management tools and farm size positively affect the probability of adopting agricultural insurance. In addition, farmers who produce soybean and/or corn are more likely to use insurance. On the other hand, the higher the farmers’ propensity to take risk the lower the likelihood of using insurance. Research limitations/implications The empirical analysis is based on cross-sectional data of a sample of 175 farmers of the state of São Paulo. The use of panel data with a larger sample of farmers, considering a period of years, could provide additional information. Originality/value To the best of the knowledge, this is the first empirical analysis about determinants of agricultural insurance adoption by Brazilian farmers, considering behavioral factors. The findings provide useful insights for policymakers in formulating risk management programs in the Brazilian agricultural markets. A better understanding about the determinants of insurance adoption is also relevant for private companies that sell insurance to farmers. Therefore, the paper may contribute with the diffusion of rural insurance as risk management tool in Brazilian agriculture.

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