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The attractiveness of investments in railways in Brazil
(Lociedade Brasileira de Finanças, 2020)
Potential ecological footprints of active pharmaceutical ingredients: An examination of risk factors in low-, middle- and high-income countries
(The Royal Society, 2014-11)
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can enter the natural environment during manufacture, use and/or disposal, and consequently public concern about their potential adverse impacts in the environment is growing. Despite ...
Risk perceptions and management strategies in a post-disaster landscape of Guatemala: Social conflict as an opportunity to understand disaster
(Elsevier, 2021-04-15)
This work analyses a post-disaster case study in Guatemala where a large landslide named “Los Chorros” affected several communities and one of the country’s main highways. Risk managers, starting from their own assessment, ...
Climate change adaptation and the agricultural sector in south american countries: Risk, vulnerabilities and opportunities
(Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2021-06)
South America covers a vast area with diverse climates and landscapes, with high participation in the global production of food and fibers. It is crucial to understand the risks, vulnerabilities, and opportunities that ...
The information content of risk reversals in emerging market currenciesO conteúdo informacional dos "risk reversals" em moedas de países emergentes
(Lociedade Brasileira de Finanças, 2016)
Intensive and Extensive Risk in Central America Between 1990 and 2015Riesgos Intensivos y Extensivos en América Central entre 1990 y 2015
(Centro de Ciências Matemáticas e da Natureza, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Feder, 2017)
Risk of developing type 2 diabetes according to FINDRISC and socioeconomic status
(Springer Verlag Berlín, 2021-03)
The risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) is significantly related to low socioeconomic status (SES) in developed countries, but there is a dearth of evidence for such a relationship in developing countries. We aimed ...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants
(Elsevier, 2020-11)
Summary. Background Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), ...
Juvenile delinquency risk factors: Individual, social, opportunity or all of these together?
(Elsevier, 2020-02-29)
There is extensive literature on risk factors leading to criminal behavior. However, most of these studies have been conducted in European and Anglo-Saxon countries, and there are few analogous studies in Latin America. ...