Brazil, World Frontier

Social Media and the Online World: The New Frontier

In the past few years, social media has really emerged to become a business tool, rather than just a network for socializing. Social media has had an impact on creating greater visibility for companies and institutions, as well as the ability to reach people all over the globe. Global Spine Journal is adapting and changing with these times. We now have Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Pages. On ...

HPV vaccines in Brazil and the world

Human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common newly acquired, sexually transmitted infection worldwide, infects about 75% of sexually active individuals in their lifetimes. The high-risk HPV types, the most common of which are HPV 16 and 18, cause cervical and other anogenital cancers, as well as some head and neck cancers [1]. Different HPV types are related to different lesion grades. HPV16 is ...

[World health survey in Brazil, 2003].

Arbeitspapiere Der Volkswirtschaftlichen Fachgebiete Der Tu Darmstadt Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics Radar Scanning the World Production Frontier Radar Scanning the World Production Frontier

In this paper we report the results from a detailed investigation of the shifts of the world production frontier function over the period 1980-2010. Analogous to a radar we implement a novel measurement approach for these shifts using nonparametrically computed productivity measures to scan the frontier shifts across the entire input-output space. The shifts of the frontier function measured in...

Prediction of Cattle Density and Location at the Frontier of Brazil and Paraguay Using Remote Sensing

In this paper, we explore the potential of remote sensing to map pastures areas and by this way establish models for predicting cattle density and location. First, an object based classification (OB) was made in Landsat 5 images for three different municipalities to provide a land-cover map. Second, on the basis of Brazilian official livestock database, a statistical model to predict number of ...