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Between the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the pandemic crisis of Covid-19, the Anjos neighborhood in Lisbon presented a particular concentration of public spaces offering concerts, exhibitions, dance classes, bars, etc. Many of these spaces are non-profit and promote cultural democracy thus fighting gentrification. From visits to the neighborhood, document analysis and interviews with board members, volunteers and other key actors, we identify two ideal-types of these spaces' missions: the cultural-entertainment and the cultural-activist. We conclude by pointing out that both allow us henceforth to monitor the influence of the participation of these spaces in urban reconfiguration. © 2023, Centro em Rede de Investigacao em Antropologia. All rights reserved.
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Scientific research activities, in general, have been affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for distancing. In this paper, an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Brazilian scientific research is made, examining the number of complete manuscripts published in the period from 2018 to 2021, considering the researcher's gender. A crawler is implemented to extract the names of Brazilian researchers from the articles, and some machine learning models (SVM, BiLSTM, and CNN) are applied to classify the authors' gender. Some models are able to accurately predict gender in more than 95% of cases. In addition, we verified that in 2021 there was a drop of 37.47% in the publications of articles by Brazilian researchers. The results indicate that there was a greater drop in publications for females in most machine learning models applied, corroborating differences in the distribution of household activities and family care between the two genders.
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As support from other people can influence human behaviour, one may ask how the absence of crowd attendance influences the performance of football (i.e., soccer) players. I address this question by contrasting matches of the Brazilian Championship (1st and 2nd Divisions) in 2019 and 2020, years in which crowd attendance was prohibited in order to fight the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In the 1st Division, home advantage decreased from 2019 to 2020, as teams that used to play for larger crowds had lower performance at home in 2020. However, no decrease in home advantage occurred in the 2nd Division in the same period. One explanation for this difference is that the beneficial effects of crowd support are more effective in the 1st Division, where players are used to receiving support from larger crowds. Therefore, while fan support can influence the behaviour/performance of players, this may not always happen. © 2022 Koninklijke Brill NV.