A profile of Speaker of the House Rodrigo Maia.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB246173
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The Senate vote was the last hurdle the bill had to clear in Congress before President Michel Temer could sign it into law. The approval of this reform, which represents the most…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB222101
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BRAZIL: Maia probes risk damaging pension prospects
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES243265
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Yamisel Chong Espino, Daniel Sampaio and Susana Cardoso
This study aims to analyze the psychological benefits of digital and paper-based cognitive training in users with a lack of technological knowledge and a low level of education.
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Purpose
This study aims to analyze the psychological benefits of digital and paper-based cognitive training in users with a lack of technological knowledge and a low level of education.
Design/methodology/approach
In total, 60 individuals (Mage = 78.38; SDage = 9.15) attending a day center were recruited to complete a cognitive training program, 30 of them in digital format. They were all assessed on cognitive skills, technological knowledge and depressive symptomatology before and after the training. Regardless of age, education and technological knowledge, all participants completed the respective cognitive training program.
Findings
The results of this study indicate that it is feasible to use both digital and paper-based tasks in cognitive training for individuals aged over 60, with low levels of education and digital literacy. Although different, in both cases it will be possible to obtain cognitive benefits.
Research limitations/implications
Cognitive training with digital or paper-based material can facilitate visual mnesic processing. Both visual and verbal skills can be trained through other non-digital materials.
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This study contributes to understanding the benefits of both types of materials used in working with older people.
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Ângela Cristina Salgueiro Marques and Luís Mauro Sá Martino
Everyday conversation has not yet been assigned its full role in public discussion of citizen’s issues, despite the growing number of studies about it. Casual conversations are…
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Everyday conversation has not yet been assigned its full role in public discussion of citizen’s issues, despite the growing number of studies about it. Casual conversations are not usually regarded as a particularly privileged place for political discussions mainly because of its apparent lack of organization following the principles and rules of the deliberative tradition in Political Studies. However, due to its closeness, informality, and personal proximity, it is particularly adequate to rise political aspects of everyday lives that otherwise would not be publicly disclosed. But how to grasp the spontaneity of everyday conversation? This chapter argues that focus groups, as a research method, are fit to observe and understand real-time ordinary conversation on political issues. In what follows, the argument goes threefold: (1) it contrasts “conversation” with “deliberation” from a micro-point of view; (2) all conversation, as a discourse embroiled in power relations, is political in a broad sense (3) as it brings forward personal views and experiences, casual conversations defies the borders between public and private issues.
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BRAZIL: Reform hopes may shift from Temer to Maia
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES222074
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BRAZIL: Maia may unblock legislative delays
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES212428
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BRAZIL: Maia may capitalise on political controversies