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The Ilex paraguariensis is a species native to Brazil, Paraguay and Argentine, valued by its positive effects on human health. Mate processing consists of the following stages: pre-drying (rapid drying at high temperature, known as sapeco operation), drying, and milling. In order to verify the current process and to propose future improvements to the mate processing, thermal and mass balance analysis were applied to industrial mate processing units. Results showed that the consumption of energy in sapeco and drying operations exceeds the calorific input necessary for these operations. These results verify the need for a change in the management of temperatures in the sapeco and drying stages of mate processing in order to optimize the consumption of energy, resulting in lower costs, with positive effects on the quality of the mate products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Goal: The goal of this paper is to investigate 15 Brazilian companies, which execute S&OP cycles periodically, in order to characterize the processes implemented and discuss challenges and improvement opportunities. Design / Methodology / Approach: Initially, a multiple-case study approach is applied embracing 15 Brazilian companies. Then, a survey is conducted in the same organizations to deepen the investigation. Two recognized S&OP frameworks from the literature are used to structure the research. Results: Some of the main research findings include: some companies consider "Data Gathering" a normal task and no longer a S&OP cycle step; some organizations include a new step one named "Portfolio Management", preceding "Demand Planning" to leverage step two's outcomes; there are improvement opportunities identified in "Pre-meeting" and "Executive Meeting" steps regarding capacity to simulate different scenarios from a financial perspective; and most of the studied companies do not adopt a S&OP software facing limitations to manage information and perform what-if analysis. Limitations of the investigation: Only companies located in Brazil are investigated. Practical implications: The study provides useful information for practitioners on the characterization of the S&OP process, implementation challenges, and improvement opportunities. Originality / Value: The paper applies different research methods (multiple-case study and survey) and two recognized frameworks from the literature in the study of the S&OP process performed by 15 companies, providing a broad characterization of the processes implemented and valuable findings about challenges and improvement opportunities. Although all the researched companies are Brazilian, evidences indicate the results are generalizable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article relates to a Ph.D. thesis which aimed at comprehending, throughout the identification of different semantic frame instantiations, the meaning networks that (re)frame women's human and reproductive rights in the context of the public hearings that discussed the SUG no. 15/2014 - such a proposal intended to regulate abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy, in Brazil (SANTOS, 2020). Specifically, the text presents some analytical developments made available by the integration of the qualitative analysis tool NVivo to the Sketch Engine tool, considering the need of a corpus segmentation into thematic units for a later processing of these data in a concordancer. In order to discuss this process, the article describes the identification of frames within the discourse of the ones that advocate for the SUG proposal, whose lexical choices reflect the conceptualization of abortion as a public heath matter, as well as a social justice one. Concerning the results, the article emphasizes that the integrated usage of different tools devoted to empirical analysis allows a corpus-based description that reveals the multifaceted dimension of a semantic frame - a socio-cognitive structure that is built in the interconnections between lexicon, discourse and cognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current COVID-19 pandemic is affecting different countries in different ways. The assortment of reporting techniques alongside other issues, such as underreporting and budgetary constraints, makes predicting the spread and lethality of the virus a challenging task. This work attempts to gain a better understanding of how COVID-19 will affect one of the least studied countries, namely Brazil. Currently, several Brazilian states are in a state of lock-down. However, there is political pressure for this type of measures to be lifted. This work considers the impact that such a termination would have on how the virus evolves locally. This was done by extending the SEIR model with an on / off strategy. Given the simplicity of SEIR we also attempted to gain more insight by developing a neural regressor. We chose to employ features that current clinical studies have pinpointed has having a connection to the lethality of COVID-19. We discuss how this data can be processed in order to obtain a robust assessment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The goal of this article is to analyze aspects of representation of gender in the construction of characters in the biographies of two women: Furacão Elis (2012), written by the journalist Regina Echeverría, and Maria Bonita: Sexo, violência e mulheres no cangaço (2018), by the journalist Adriana Negreiros. This work traces a history of the biographical segment, and also the pioneering of its publications in Brazil; points out the contribution of women in journalism and literature, and in addition traces the characterization of characters in Brazilian fiction in order to demarcate the process of insertion of women in the literary field, as characters or either as authors. In a bibliographical review based on the concepts of patriarchy (LERNER, 1990), black feminism (CARNEIRO, 2002; DAVIS, 2016), maternity (BADINTER 1981; DONATH, 2017), and female independence (WELZER-LANG, 2001), the conclusion is that women carry stereotypes not only in fiction, but also when their trajectories are recounted in biographical works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]