Editorial: Digitalization and Internationalization

Internationalization

Globalization and internationalization are terms of the corporate world. In this scenario, mastering the English language is indispensable and with Brazilian science is not different. CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) have encouraged postgraduate programs and scientific research to effu...

Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung

Automatic structural scene digitalization

In this paper, we present an automatic system for the analysis and labeling of structural scenes, floor plan drawings in Computer-aided Design (CAD) format. The proposed system applies a fusion strategy to detect and recognize various components of CAD floor plans, such as walls, doors, windows and other ambiguous assets. Technically, a general rule-based filter parsing method is fist adopted t...

Venture capital and internationalization

Cross-border investments represent a substantial share of venture capital activities. We use a new and comprehensive dataset on worldwide investments to analyze the internationalization of venture capital financing. Our results from the perspectives of (i) venture capitalists, (ii) portfolio companies, (iii) portfolio companies’ countries and (iv) pairs of venture capitalists’ and portfolio com...

Influence of Digitalization

THE hemodynamic consequences of acute digitalization in man have been reported in a few studies with controversial results. It has been stated that digitalis has little or no effect on the cardiovascular events in the absence of manifestations of heart failurel-' while it significantly improves cardiac function in the failing heart.'2 This paper describes the effect of acute digitalization on t...