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Consumer Rights in Real Estate Negotiations: A Brazilian Case

Mauricio Mitsuru Tanabe, Murillo de Oliveira Dias — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents a single case study of an actual Brazilian real estate negotiation which demonstrates how consumer rights affect contractual agreements. The property purchase attempt includes an initial large down payment but the financing process remains unfinished because of missing documentation. The buyer seeks to get back their entire investment through consumer protection laws. The seller who works for a local development company wants to keep part of the payment through the contractual deposit clause. The research demonstrates the negotiation process which reveals the difficulties both parties encounter when trying to achieve financial stability while protecting their business reputation.

Government Language and U.S. Health Care

Asa Wilson, Natallia Gray — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Context: Concerns about the use of language as a reliable communication medium are identified. This review is a foundation for analyzing federal language regarding the healthcare industry and the efficacy of this high-cost paradoxical system. An argument is developed that government language about U.S. health care has unique, predictable features. Methods: This language-use style is exemplified using authoritative federal sources such as Executive Orders, Federal Register rulemaking communications, and agency administrative rule promulgations. Findings: Six distinct language attributes are identified and discussed. Conclusion: This federal language style is also a harbinger of future federal involvement in U.S. health care.

Cybersecurity and Crisis Leadership: A Contemporary Theoretical Expansion

Srinivas Nowduri, Sekhar Amba — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Cyber incidents have evolved from isolated technical breaches into complex organizational crises that demand resilient, adaptive leadership. This paper reconceptualizes cybersecurity leadership as a specialized extension of crisis leadership, grounded in interdisciplinary theory spanning crisis management, digital transformation, high reliability organizing, and cyber resilience. It introduces two integrated models—the Cyber Crisis Lifecycle and the Cyber Leadership Hexagon—to articulate leadership roles across the incident continuum and define six core competencies: technical literacy, ethical judgment, digital sensemaking, stakeholder coordination, agility under threat, and resilience orientation. These models provide a comprehensive framework for understanding cyber leadership in environments marked by persistent ambiguity, socio-technical complexity, and adversarial threat. This theoretical expansion contributes to the emerging literature on digital-era leadership and lays a foundation for future empirical validation and cross-cultural application.