How graphic design conclusion project is taught at PUC-Rio, Brazil by Izabel Oliveira, Rita-Maria Couto

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Understanding the multiple roles of participation in urban mobility: an investigation of spaces for participation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Aline Moreira Fernandes Barata, Tim Jones, Sue Brownill

“…This was achieved through document analysis, online photo-elicitation interviews with residents of Favela Santa Marta as well as semi-structured interviews with municipal government professionals and representatives of non-government organisations involved in the development of Rio's mobility plan. …”
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(Re-)presenting the Paralympics: Affective nationalism and the “able-disabled” by Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson, Michael Silk

“…We also reveal the commercial tensions and editorial decisions that broadcasters face with respect to which disabilities/bodies are made hypervisible—and thereby those which are marginalized—as national disability sport icons that inculcate preferred notions of disability and the (re-)imagined nation.…”
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When the Internet absorbs television: Audience practices, engagement with content and social change in Brazil by Flavio Garcia-Da-Rocha

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Disparities in height and urban social stratification in the first half of the 20th century in Madrid (Spain) by C Varea, E Sánchez-García, Barry Bogin, L Ríos, B Gómez-Salinas, A López-Canorea, JM Martínez-Carrión

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Innovative guidelines and tools for vulnerable road users safety in India and Brazil [SaferBraIn]. D2.2 Report on transferability audit developed in SaferBraIn by Viet Appelt, Anna Astapenko, Antonio Musso, Maria V. Corazza, Antonino Tripodi, Claire Quigley, Lucy Rackliff, Russell Danton, Duncan Pearce, Rachel Talbot, Ruth Sims, Iaci Rios, Hugo Pietrantonio, Jose Alberto Quintanilha, Rajendra Magar, Mahendra Kharat

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Validação da Self-Perceived Employability Scale em estudantes universitários portugueses e a sua relevância na procura de emprego [Validation of Self-Perceived Employability Scale... by Vitor Manuel Gamboa, Andrew Rothwell, Maria Adélia Monarca, João Gomes

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Isotemporal substitution of inactive time with physical activity and time in bed: Cross-sectional associations with cardiometabolic health in the PREDIMED-Plus study by AM Galmes-Panades, Veronica Varela-Mato, J Konieczna, J Wärnberg, MÁ Martínez-González, J Salas-Salvadó, D Corella, H Schröder, J Vioque, ÁM Alonso-Gómez, JA Martínez, L Serra-Majem, R Estruch, FJ Tinahones, J Lapetra, X Pintó, JA Tur, A Garcia-Rios, B Riquelme-Gallego, JJ Gaforio, P Matía-Martín, L Daimiel, RM Micó Pérez, J Vidal, C Vázquez, E Ros, A Garcia-Arellano, A Díaz-López, EM Asensio, O Castañer, F Fiol, LA Mira-Castejón, A Moreno Rodríguez, JC Benavente-Marín, I Abete, L Tomaino, R Casas, FJ Barón López, JC Fernández-García, JM Santos-Lozano, A Galera, CM Mascaró, C Razquin, C Papandreou, O Portoles, KA Pérez-Vega, M Fiol, L Compañ-Gabucio, J Vaquero-Luna, M Ruiz-Canela, N Becerra-Tomás, M Fitó, D Romaguera

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The deepening crisis in the European Union: the need for a fundamental change by Orjan Appelqvist, Joachim Becker, Hermann Bomer, Tanja Cesen, Judith Dellheim, Wlodzimierz Dymarski, Giovanni Esposito, Trevor Evans, Finton Farrell, Marica Frangakis, John Grahl, Peter Herrmann, Manuela Kropp, Karin Kublbock, Erkki Laukkanen, Jeremy Leaman, Mahmood Messkoub, Dominique Plihon, Werner Raza, Suleika Reiners, Malcolm Sawyer, Catherine Sifakis, Achim Truger, Diana Wehlau, Frieder O. Wolf

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Deterrence against terrorist attacks in sports-mega events: A method to identify the optimal portfolio of defensive countermeasures by Marcelo Zawadzki, Gilberto Montibeller, Bruce Cox, Carmen Belderrain

“…We apply this method to a real-world defense problem, revisiting the defensive countermeasure planning for the 2016 Brazilian Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the case study, we find a nonlinear relationship between budget expenditure and deterrence, as well as a decreasing marginal effectiveness use of resources after a given budget threshold, which would support a more efficient allocation of investments in the Games defense.…”
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Sport mega-events and public opposition: A sociological study of the London 2012 Olympics by Richard Giulianotti, Gary Armstrong, Gavin Hales, Dick Hobbs

“…Second, in the main part of the article, we identify and examine, in turn, six forms of public conflict, criticism, and complaint that centered on the Games, specifically national criticisms (e.g., on distribution of Olympic resources), local criticisms (e.g., on lack of jobs and business benefits), issue-specific campaigns (e.g., on the environment), “glocal” protests against specific nations and sponsors (e.g., campaigns against BP, Dow, and Rio Tinto), neo-tribal transgressions and situationist spectacles (e.g., mass cycle rides near Olympic venues), and anti-Olympic forums and demonstrations (e.g., critical web sites, multi-group marches). …”
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