Natural or induced floods are of increasing concern to watermanagers and civil protection services for three main reasons.Firstly, a continuous and 'unconscious' increase of socialpressure in the flooding valleys amplifies flood vulnerabilitiesand consequently natural or induced flood risk....

The influence of a nonconservative force proportional to the velocity acting on a system described by the Boltzmann equation is analyzed. When this force is the only external action on the system, an H-theorem is proved, showing that the distribution function tends towards a Maxwellian with a...

The nonequilibrium entropy of a dilute gas under uniform shear flow is analyzed in terms of an expansion in powers of the shear rate. To this end, the Boltzmann equation for Maxwell molecules is exactly solved to super-Burnett order, the next two orders being also partially obtained. This allows...

This study aims to understand what factors allow the subsidiaries of emerging multinationals to develop innovations that are used by the parent company, that is, what factors drive reverse innovation. The respondents of the survey were Brazilian multinationals with manufacturing activities or...

The rise of new multinationals in countries like Brazil provides an opportunity to revisit and carefully construct theories of how firms internationalize, a topic on which extant theory is weak. Brazilian firms are “infant multinationals”, unlike developed country firms that are “mature...