This memoir describes the process of creating “K-POP IS POWER: a podcast about BTS and Korean soft power”. Through interviews with experts, fans and a Korean woman living in Brazil, the work is based on the analysis of BTS’ performances based on theories of representation and identity. The goal is to explore how the group not only impacted the music industry, but also shaped the global perception of South Korea, expanding dialogues on culture, inclusion and soft power.
For approximately 20 years, outbreaks of a disease of unknown etiology, which courses with chronic subcutaneous edema, especially in the region of the head, dewlap, chest, and forelimbs, have been observed in cattle in the State of Bahia, especially in areas close to the Chapada Diamantina. The objective of this research was to investigate the etiopathogenesis and describe the clinical, epidemiological and anatomopathological data of the disease. We studied 7 outbreaks (A-G) of the d...
Between 2015 and 2016, Brazil faced an epidemic of the Zika virus, resulting in a significant number of children born with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS). This syndrome, resulting from Zika virus infection during pregnancy, can cause a pattern of multiple disabilities in the fetus, significantly impacting its language development process. Considering that many of these individuals are currently of school age, reaching the Early Years of Elementary Education, the phonological development of th...
The oil and gas industry annually faces significant equipment losses and product quality degradation due to the presence of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), which are common in marine environments. To mitigate these impacts, biocides are frequently employed. However, these compounds can interact unpredictably with the environment, affect biodiversity, require continuous application—thereby increasing operational costs—and promote SRB resistance and adaptation through stress induced by the bio...
Patients with Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (RDEB) manifest systemic conditions conducive to dental and skeletal alterations, significantly affecting facial aesthetics and the functionality of the stomatognathic system. This study aimed to analyze the dentoskeletal characteristics of 11 patients diagnosed with RDEB. Anthropometric measurements were collected, and cephalometric analyses were conducted based on reconstructions of tomographic examinations, along with evaluating the ...
Introduction: Dynapenia is the loss of muscle strength and power related to senescence. To diagnose dynapenia, a manual dynamometer is used, which when pressed will emit a value that represents the palmar pressure force (FPP), The criterion for classifying dynapenia is HGS < 26 kg for men and < 16 kg for women The gland The thyroid is responsible for the production and secretion of triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) hormones, which play an important role in body metabolism. Muscle tissu...
This is an ethnomusicological study, of a qualitative nature and subjectivist philosophical orientation, which reflects and discusses the nature of sounds, ideas and discourses about black music in Brazil and in the Afro-diaspora. In this study, I seek to understand the global perception of black music, focusing on the vision of artists from Salvador. The main purpose of the thesis is to answer the following questions: a) what is the understanding that artists from Salvador have about black m...
A civil interdiction and guardianship have undergone contemporary adaptations, stemming from the changes fostered by the New York Convention (2007), which encouraged member countries to promote autonomy practices through monitoring and support strategies. However, in Brazil, there is a tendency to maintain total guardianships, legitimizing absolute incapacity, heteronomy, and restricting the exercise of civil rights for these individuals. As a consequence, there is interference in the process...
In the 2000s, the Internet became popular in Brazil. Internet users also started using it to take care of their health. This new way of interacting needed to be studied. There were no theoretical and/or conceptual references about taking care of your health on the Internet. The research assumption was that the Internet, through the devices it provides, enables people to produce, re-signify and act in different ways to care for and interact with the needs of self-care, care, exchanges between ...
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, emerged at the end of 2019, leading to millions of infections and deaths worldwide. Pregnant women were considered a vulnerable population to COVID-19 due to the immunological, respiratory, and cardiovascular adaptations of pregnancy, which increase their susceptibility to complications from viral infections. During this pandemic, there was a significant increase in hospitalizations of pregnant women, perinatal complications, and maternal...
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin is a centuries-old vaccine, widely used to eradicate severe forms of tuberculosis, such as meningitis and disseminated TB, since its inclusion in the Expanded Immunization Program of the World Health Organization for childhood vaccination in 1974. In Brazil, since 1973, it has become mandatory and is part of the routine of the National Immunization Program, is recommended at birth. As of December 2016, it was suspended the production of the BCG-Moreau vaccine produced...
The Zika crisis exacerbated the sociosexual division of labor and intensified labor market inequality between parents of children with disabilities, further marginalizing women. However, research on the working conditions of women caring for children with Congenital Zika Virus Syndrome (CZVS) remains limited. This thesis, presented in three articles, is the result of research grounded in a phenomenological approach and theoretical frameworks developed by European and Latin American feminist s...
“Aquilombada. I resist. Let's forge a new world!” This is a passage that echoes throughout the writing of this thesis. It comes from a song that is part of my process of becoming an activist and our form of organization: aquilombadas. Writing about black women activists comes from the desire to reverence our ancestry, to make visible the experiences that break with the destiny organized by anti-black racism, and to empower the existence of women builders of a new world. Activism, in this sens...
Knowledge management is a fundamental pillar in educational systems, becoming essential for access to scientific production in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (1998). This doctoral thesis in Educational Sciences, specializing in Educational Technology, carried out at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho (UMinho) and in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), aims to analyze in detail ...
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among Brazilian jurists in the topic of judicial precedents. This thesis proposes an analysis of the topic based on the hypothesis that such precedents can be usefully understood in their connection with the legal institute of assentos. Based on the historical reconstruction of statements to standardize jurisprudence in Brazilian law, the paper proposes an analysis of the functioning of judicial precedents through the theory of law as an auto...
The main objective of this thesis was to analyze whether the economic interpretation in tax law has been accepted by Brazilian doctrine and by the jurisprudence of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). Among its various meanings, economic interpretation, in its original aspect, consists of understanding the economic content underlying tax law. In its most current version, the theory is conceived as a method of teleological interpretation. Since tax rules hav...
