ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of the physical and social surroundings of the neighborhood, which are presented as facilitators or barriers for the social participation of Brazilian older adults.METHODS The study was conducted in a probabilistic representative sample of the Brazilian population aged 50 years and older and who lived in u
Abstract The northeast of Brazil is characterized by a semiarid climate, in which there is a considerable temporal and spatial variability in the distribution of rainfall.In this region, the occurrence of intense rainfall events (IREs) causes severe damage to the population, given that the rampant urbanization and land use processes make cities mor
Given the importance of production planning and control in the design of flexible services and manufacturing systems, scheduling problems with interfering jobs are much-needed optimization tools to respond to Haul Away heterogeneous and fluctuating market demands in a timely fashion.This study contributes to the scheduling literature developing an
The article describes a series of helmets of a type that probably spread across Asia and Eastern Europe in the middle to the second half of Drying Agents the VI century AD.These helmets are characterised by a very particular construction: they have a bowl hammered from a single piece of iron, with an additional band in the lower part, connected to
The article gives a general description of “crowdfunding”, and presents his interpretation proposed by various scholars.The authors have investigated crowdfunding as an alternative financing of startups, features and main obstacles to the knits functioning of Ukrainian crowdfunding platforms.The crowdfunding scheme allows to finance a developer