Metabolites Profiling of Manilkara mabokeensis Aubrév Bark and Investigation of Biological Activities by Xavier Worowounga, Rami Rahmani, Armel-Frederic Namkona, Sylvie Cazaux, Jean-Laurent Syssa-Magalé, Hubert Matondo, Jalloul Bouajila

“…Manilkara mabokeensis Aubrév is a tree that belongs to the Sapotaceae family, native to the tropical forest in Latin America, Asia, Australia, and Africa. The bark of this species is used as traditional medicine to treat diseases. …”
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Women's perception of risks of adverse fetal pregnancy outcomes: a large-scale multinational survey by Irene Petersen, Hedvig Nordeng, Angela Lupattelli, Rachel L McCrea

“…Objective To determine pregnant women and new mothers’ perception of risks in pregnancy.Design, settings and participants This was a large-scale multinational survey including 9113 pregnant women and new mothers from 18 countries in Europe, North America and Australia.Main outcomes Risk perception scores (0–10) for harmful effects to the fetus were derived for: (1) medicines (over-the-counter medicine and prescribed medicine), (2) food substances (eggs and blue veined cheese), (3) herbal substances (ginger and cranberries) (4) alcohol and tobacco, and (5) thalidomide.Results Overall, 80% (6453/8131) of women perceived the risk of giving birth to a child with a birth defect to be ≤5 of 100 births. …”
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Las posiciones de Cuba en la ONU en relación con las luchas por la liberación nacional y la independencia de los países africanos. Entrevista con el Embajador Raúl Roa Kourí by Lohania Josefina Aruca Alonso

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Therapeutic strategies for tongue musculature: a systematic literature review by Andressa Colares da Costa Otavio, Arthur Cherem Netto Fernandes, Maria Eduarda Pollachinni Andrade, Brenda Barros Dias, Erissandra Gomes, Marco Aurélio Vaz

“…Research strategies Regional Portal of the Virtual Health Library for Latin America and the Caribbean, Embase, PubMed/MEDLINE, Scientific Electronic Library Online, SciVerse Scopus and Cochrane databases were consulted, with the descriptors "exercise therapy” OR “physiology” OR “musculoskeletal physiological phenomena” OR “digestive system and oral physiological phenomena” AND “speech therapy” OR “myofunctional therapy” OR “speech language pathology” AND “tongue”. …”
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Maintien du potentiel adaptatif chez les plantes domestiquées à propagation clonale by Doyle McKey, Marianne Elias, Benoît Pujol, Anne Duputié, Marc Delêtre, Delphine Renard

“…In regions where manioc has been introduced since the “discovery” of America by Europeans, the technical knowledge of Amerindian cultivators about the use of products of manioc’s sexual reproduction has not been introduced along with the plant. …”
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Future Climate Change Shifts the Ranges of Major Encroaching Woody Plant Species in the Southern Great Plains, USA by Jia Yang, Rodney Will, Lu Zhai, Chris Zou

“…Our study methodology is applicable to other regions and continents with WPE issues, including Africa, South America, and Australia.…”
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Sodium dichloroisocyanurate: a promising candidate for the disinfection of resilient drain biofilm by Abbie Martin, Natasha Doyle, Tom F. O'Mahony

“…Methods: Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms were cultivated using the CDC biofilm reactor, a standardised method for determining disinfectant efficacy against biofilm within the United States of America. Each disinfectant was tested using a one-minute contact time, using the highest concentration available on the product label. …”
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Spatial Ecology and Movement of Ornate Box Turtles in the Escalating Drought Conditions of the Great Plains Ecoregion by Rachel E. Weaver, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Sierra N. Shoemaker, Joshua T. Gonzalez, Ivana Mali

“…The southwestern United States of America is currently undergoing a period of megadrought, which can have profound consequences on small ectothermic organisms like box turtles. …”
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Scoping review of the applications of peptide microarrays on the fight against human infections. by Arthur Vengesai, Maritha Kasambala, Hamlet Mutandadzi, Tariro L Mduluza-Jokonya, Takafira Mduluza, Thajasvarie Naicker

“…The majority (92. 0%) of the articles were published during 2010-2020 and were mostly from Europe (44.2%) and North America (34.7%). The findings were from the investigation of viral (45.6%), bacterial (32. 0%), parasitic (23.3%) and fungal (2. 0%) infections. …”
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Plasma mcfDNA Sequencing May Improve Usual Care Diagnostics to Detect HHV-8 Among Outpatient People with Advanced HIV by Sarah Park, Brian Epling, Morgan Richey, Daniel Lupu, Mona Mughar, Irini Sereti

“…Results: HHV-8 was detected in 21 (18%) outpatients with advanced HIV by any method, with males comprising the majority (86%) and one-third originally from non-US countries (including Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean). Adding mcfDNA sequencing to UC proportionally increased HHV-8 detection by 38%, while also identifying in 18 (86%) people other microbes of potential interest, including common herpesviruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Pneumocystis jirovecii. …”
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Incidencia de las reformas estructurales en la juventud argentina. Transformaciones, tensiones, desafíos by Pablo Christian Aparicio

“…Las reformas educativas en América Latina y Argentina¿particularmente- estuvieron propulsadas por la introducción de un nuevo modelo económico y social hegemónico a nivel global de orientación neoliberal. …”
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The relationship between physician burnout and quality of healthcare in terms of safety and acceptability: a systematic review by Sarah Bonato, Carolyn S Dewa, Desmond Loong, Lucy Trojanowski

“…Four studies were conducted in North America, four in Europe, one in the Middle East and three in East Asia. …”
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DETECTION OF PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS TYPE 3 IN RUSSIAN PIG HOLDINGS by M. V. Biryuchenkova, A. M. Timina, A. V. Shcherbakov

“…Later, data on PCV-3 detection in Asia, Europe and South America were published. Analysis of literature data on current epidemic situation on PCV-3 infection in foreign countries as well as the disease clinical manifestations and postmortem lesions are described. …”
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Acute Coronary Syndromes and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: “Un Affaire de Coeur” by Abdulrahman Ismaiel, Stefan-Lucian Popa, Dan L. Dumitrascu

“…Conflicting results were reported in studies conducted in Europe and North America. Moreover, a total of five studies evaluated whether NAFLD and fatty liver severity in ACS patients are associated with a complex multivessel CAD disease, where all studies confirmed a significant association. …”
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Heterogeneity of Clostridioides difficile asymptomatic colonization prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Daniel De-la-Rosa-Martínez, Rodrigo Villaseñor-Echavarri, Diana Vilar-Compte, Virna Mosqueda-Larrauri, Paola Zinser-Peniche, Seth Blumberg

“…Our meta-regression analysis revealed lower rates in healthy individuals and higher rates in cystic fibrosis patients and studies from North America. Additionally, compared with that among healthy individuals, the prevalence significantly increased by 15–47% among different populations and settings. …”
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HACIENDO MEMORIA DE UNA CORTE QUE LE TEMÍA A LA REVOLUCIÓN: A PROPÓSITO DE UN JUICIO DE CONSTITUCIONALIDAD A LA REPRESIÓN BAJO LA HEGEMONÍA CONSERVADORA by Mario Alberto Cajas Sarria

“…La hegemonía conservadora, que gobernó el país desde las tres ramas del poder público entre 1914 y 1930, reprimió los influjos revolucionarios que se expresaban en protestas sociales, movilizaciones de obreros, así como las manifestaciones políticas de los nacientes grupos socialistas, anarquistas y anarcosindicalistas.Así, al tiempo que el gobierno estadounidense hacía campaña para frenar el avance de la Revolución Rusa en América Latina, cuya cabeza de lanza se decía que era México, en Colombia se incrementaban las huelgas de trabajadores y se fortalecían políticamente las organizaciones socialistas y el movimiento obrero. …”
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Senso de comunidade como estratégia para a reconstrução do tecido social by Maria Luiza Adoryan Machado, Nelly Ayala Rodríguez

“…Considerando a importância do desenvolvimento do senso de comunidade para fortalecer a unidade e o apoio mútuo entre as diferentes pessoas que compõem comunidades diversas na América Latina, o Semillero Politeia, grupo de estudos vinculado à Universidad Catolica de Colombia, destaca a necessidade de analisar os fatores que permitem à sociedade colombiana fortalecer-se e progredir socialmente como uma comunidade. …”
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Coccoloba uvifera (L.) (Polygonaceae) Fruit: Phytochemical Screening and Potential Antioxidant Activity by Maira Rubi Segura Campos, Jorge Ruiz Ruiz, Luis Chel-Guerrero, David Betancur Ancona

“…The flora of Latin America attracts gaining interest as it provides a plethora of still unexplored or underutilized fruits that can contribute to human well-being due to their nutritional value and their content of bioactive compounds. …”
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Emerging Norovirus GII.12 infection in 2010 in Northern Taiwan by Chi-Neu Tsai, Yu-Chung Chang, Hsun-Ching Chao, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Yuan-Hung Wang, Shih-Yen Chen

“…Phylogenetic analysis showed that our GII.12 sequences were closely aligned with reference genomes identified in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. When compared to patients infected by GII.4 NoV, those with GII.12 infection experienced a lower frequency and shorter duration of diarrhea. …”
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A guide for the generation of repositories of clinical samples for research on Chagas disease. by Nieves Martínez-Peinado, Juan Carlos Gabaldón-Figueira, Roberto Rodrigues Ferreira, María Carmen Thomas, Manuel Carlos López, Tania Cremonini Araújo-Jorge, Belkisyolé Alarcón de Noya, Soledad Berón, Janine Ramsey, Irene Losada Galván, Alejandro Gabriel Schijman, Adriana González Martínez, Andrés Mariano Ruiz, Gimena Rojas, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, Oscar Noya-González, Andrea Gómez, Rosa A Maldonado, Jimmy Pinto, Faustino Torrico, Ivan Scandale, Fernán Agüero, María-Jesús Pinazo, Joaquim Gascón, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Julio Alonso-Padilla, NHEPACHA Network (New Tools for the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Chagas Disease)

“…Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects over 6 million people, mainly in Latin America. Two different clinical phases, acute and chronic, are recognised. …”
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