Tracking the ancestral Portuguese name of the osprey across the Atlantic: hints from language, literature, history and geography by Luís Manuel Palma

“…Guincho, the traditional Portuguese name of the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is unique and ancestral. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Batch Sugarcane Alcoholic Fermentation Using the Metabolic Model by Renam Luis Acorsi, Matheus Yuri Gritzenco De Giovanni, José Eduardo Olivo, Cid Marcos Gonçalves Andrade

“…We called this first model “SR”, regarding the Portuguese name “sem ramificações”, which means “no branches”. …”
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Thesis Overview by Editor-in-Chief jCEC

“…Title of the dissertation or thesis in Portuguese. Name of Program and Institution, Year of Defense. …”
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On the Variability of Portuguese Duration Adverbials with <i>Por</i> and <i>Durante</i> by Diana Santos

“…The fact that there are (at least) two different translations of the English preposition <i>for</i> used to describe duration in Portuguese, namely <i>durante</i> and <i>por</i>, shows that duration is an interesting area in the tense and aspect panorama of this language, which deserves close study. …”
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Fortificações na Amazônia by Graciete Guerra da Costa

“…Nominations of those villages with portuguese names like Almeirim, Santarém, Óbidos and others, and the making of an urbanistic plan according to portuguese cities gave a portuguese look to the valley’s population. …”
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'Not unlike mermaids': A report about the human and natural history of Southeast Africa from 1690 by Harold J. Cook

“…Some of the place names he mentioned are well known, while others cannot now be traced, perhaps because he was using indigenous rather than Portuguese names. The record of the interview concludes with Almede's description of mermaids, and the fact that their teeth could be had in the market at Mozambique. …”
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The contexts of change in attributive SNLoc: a study of lexical constructionalization in Portuguese by Milena Torres de Aguiar

“…Through these corpora, we carried out a primarily qualitative study and proved the hypothesis that SNLoc attributive is a marginal member of the class of Portuguese names, resulting from lexical constructionalization. …”
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Estudo taxonómico de plantas do jardim botânico tropical: Dicotiledóneas dialipétalas de ovário ínfero Taxonomic study on plants of tropical botanic garden: Dialypetalous dicotyled... by Maria Cândida Liberato

“…The botanical description, phenologie, natural origin, JMAT location, common Portuguese names, some uses and some of interest notes are presented to each species and taxa below the species.…”
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The CRAVE and ARGE scales for motivation states for physical activity and sedentarism: Brazilian Portuguese translation and single-item versions by Alberto Filgueiras, Alberto Filgueiras, Matthew A. Stults-Kolehmainen, Matthew A. Stults-Kolehmainen, Daniel Boullosa, Daniel Boullosa, Rajita Sinha, John B. Bartholomew, Paul McKee, Todd A. Gilson, Richard Keegan, Artur Viana, Fabio Amador Bueno, André Ricarte Medeiros, Sofia F. Militão-de-Leutério, Garrett I. Ash, Garrett I. Ash

“…In Study 1, six bilingual speakers translated the scale into Brazilian Portuguese [named Anseios por Repouso e Gastos com Energia (ARGE)]. …”
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