Global human exposure of atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers: Variation patterns of exposure pathways and phase contributions by Pengtuan Hu, Shimin Zhong, Jin Guo, Mengyao Wang, Shiyu Shi, Donghai Liu, Hao Yu, Fujie Zhu, Yi-Fan Li, Zhiguo Cao

“…The highest daily intake was found in Africa (75.4 pg/(kg·day)), followed by Asia (21.8 pg/(kg·day)), North America (5.38 pg/(kg·day)) and Europe (1.92 pg/(kg·day)). …”
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"Mouth !" : voix et lieux du pouvoir dans Norma Rae de Martin Ritt (1979) by Corinne Oster

“…In the few films that depict social conflict in US society, a few characters, and even fewer women, stand out as the protagonists of a working-class America in which they struggle, often barely surviving, often trying to get out of their condition. …”
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Invasive Alien Species of Terrestrial Vegetation of North-Eastern Uttar Pradesh by Sumit Srivastava, Ashish Dvivedi, Ravindra Prasad Shukla

“…Out of 173 invasive plants across India, this region shares 149 species, out of which 66% of species have come from Tropical America, 14% from African continent, and the rest from other countries. …”
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Reflections on the ecclesiastical interpretations of 6th April 1652 as a South African symbolic date by R. M. Britz

“…This methodological preference presupposes a fundamentally different way of coming to terms with history (and its perplexing symbolic dates) to what happened in 1992 in Latin America. Instead of advancing radical theology in order to rectify history, what happened should be appreciated in view of Scripture. …”
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“Spice” (Synthetic Marijuana) Induced Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Case Series by E. Ul Haq, A. Shafiq, A. A. Khan, A. A. Awan, S. Ezad, W. J. Minteer, B. Omar

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A framework for the early detection and prediction of dengue outbreaks in the Republic of Panama by Grimaldo E. Ureña, Yamilka Diaz, Juan M. Pascale, Sandra López-Vergès, Javier E. Sanchez-Galan

“…The dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in most tropical regions of Central and South America. It is known that when the number of mosquito vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus) for this disease becomes abundant, the number of infectious cases increases. …”
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REALIZATION OF IDEAS N. I. VAVILOV'S IDEAS IN THE BARLEY BREEDING IN SIBERIA by N. A. Surin, N. E. Lyakhova, S. A. Gerasimov, A. G. Lipshin

“…Crosses between the cultivar ‘Chervonets’ and barley varieties developed in North America resulted in releasing 10 cultivars. In the forest-steppe zone, preference is given to two-row barleys. …”
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Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Malay Version Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire Tested among Mothers of Primary School Children in Malaysia by Shamarina Shohaimi, Wong Yoke Wei, Zalilah Mohd Shariff

“…It has been confirmed among children in America and applied to populations in France, Norway, and New Zealand. …”
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Mercados culturais no Brasil: o BNDES e o financiamento das empresas culturais brasileiras by Elder P. Maia Alves

“…This aspect has produced a fairly significant injunction within Brazilian cultural fields, once, until 2006, the largest development bank in Latin America, BNDES, was related to cultural fields only through the regular use of federal laws for Cultural Incentives, as the Rouanet Law, and it did not provide its main financial products, at reduced long-term interest rates, straight away to specialized private cultural undertakings, which comprise long value chains and also harbor the vast majority of workers and professionals in the cultural sector. …”
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Typification of intraspecific taxa in <i>Solanum andigenum</i> Juz. et Buk. by N. A. Oskina, T. A. Gavrilenko, I. G. Chukhina

“…The WIR herbarium collections comprise the taxonomic diversity of cultivated potatoes described by Russian taxonomists and based on the study of plant materials collected in South America during the expeditions organized by N. I. …”
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Challenges to adopting adiabatic circuits for systems‐on‐a‐chip by Krishnan S. Rengarajan, Saroj Mondal, Ravindra Kapre

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Dynamic Contagion of Systemic Risks on Global Main Equity Markets Based on Granger Causality Networks by Qiuhong Zheng, Liangrong Song

“…Despite the crucial markets in Europe and America (e.g., USA, Brazil, and Mexico), stock markets with weak network correlation and strong media ability (e.g., the markets of Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand) play a critical role in risk contagion.…”
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Sacraliser le territoire américain : Mount Shasta, quand les dieux viennent instruire les humains by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard

“…This paper focuses on the origins of the significance of Mount Shasta for the Theosophist movements in America. It first presents the major text of the Atlantis canon, A Dweller on Two Planets, or the Dividing of the Way, by Phylos the Thibetan, alias Frederick S. …”
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Pensamiento heterodoxo para contextos en crisis. Recepción de la teoría política de Gramsci en Argentina en la década de 1970 by Nathaly Rodríguez Sánchez

“…Este artículo sigue la trayectoria del pensamiento de Gramsci en América Latina en dos momentos: la recepción y debate propiamente académicos de sus postulados teóricos en Argentina, y la posible influencia de estos postulados en la práctica política en la región, por medio de un breve recorrido entre varios niveles de impacto. …”
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Auge y Caída de Japón en Chile, 1897-1943 by César David Ross Orellana

“…Se concluye que el debate académico referido a las relaciones entre Japón y América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) —en general— y las relaciones entre Japón y Chile —en particular—, ha generado interpretaciones globales basadas en generalizaciones válidas para el ámbito mundial y para los patrones históricos derivados de la política y la acción internacional de las potencias hegemónicas. …”
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La investigación urbano-regional y ambiental: un análisis de cuatro décadas de la revista Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos by Martha Schteingart, Andrea Porcayo

“…Estos análisis y cambios se relacionan al final del texto con algunos avances de la investigación urbana en México y América Latina.…”
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Construcción barrial del Instituto de Crédito Territorial. Configuración social y espacial de la Comuna de Robledo de Medellín, a través de la vivienda social (1959-1973) by Natalia María García Rúa

“…Se revisaron estudios de construcción estatal de vivienda dirigidos a población de escasos recursos en América Latina, Colombia y Medellín. Asimismo, la lectura, revisión y fichaje de manuscritos oficiales y no oficiales, y el uso de la historia oral, permitieron observar dificultades en este proceso, las cuales finalmente fueron solucionadas por los habitantes, que a partir de esta experiencia introdujeron cambios estructurales en los planes oficiales de vivienda.…”
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Las dos caras de la inserción de México en la cadena de valor automotriz: dimensión económica e impacto medioambiental by Hugo Campos Romero, Óscar Rodil Marzábal

“…El sector automotriz mexicano -integrado en la cadena de valor regional de América del Norte, liderada por los Estados Unidos- se caracteriza por desempeñar principalmente tareas de carácter manufacturero, lo que limita su aportación en términos de valor agregado. …”
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La visión del otro en el viaje de reconocimiento de la Costa del Seno Mexicano de José de Escandón (1747) by Fernando Olvera Charles

“…El descubrimiento de América y, posterior, proceso de expansión colonial hispana, generaron sendos viajes de exploración, por vía marítima o terrestre. …”
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