Les disparus politiques en Uruguay, entre l’histoire et la mémoire by Eugenia Allier Montaño

“…Discussions on violence during the years 1960-1980 in South America have for some time been a central issue in the public space of many South American countries. Uruguay, having gone through a strongly repressive civic-military regime between 1973 and 1985, was no exception. …”
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Stand-up preaching by W. Wessels

“…The list of comedians he contemplates is exceptionally comprehensive, and it seems that every well-known comedian who has set foot on American soil has at least been mentioned. I found myself, throughout the book, researching the comedians he introduced for further context on these personalities and backgrounds. …”
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Aller, revenir, tisser un abri : Route One/USA, de Robert Kramer (1989) by Gilles Chamerois

“…Mixing as usual documentary and fiction, the American filmmaker examines the country at the eve of the 1988 general elections. …”
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Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga (LeConte) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by John L. Capinera

“…They are a known vector of American trypanosomiasis (or Chagas Disease) in South America, a debilitating illness caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. …”
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Recherches sur la collection d’enfants et d’adolescents d’âge et de sexe connus de Bologne (Italie) : diagnose de l’âge sur la base du degré de maturation osseuse by Silvia Veschi, Fiorenzo Facchini

“…Most of the methods employed are based on studies of living children or on American skeletal collections. Our aim was to shed light on the assessment of skeletal age maturation on European populations by analysing two samples from the Bologna collection dated to the beginning of the 20th c. …”
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Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis by Leslie Hammer

“…., as well as to encourage U.S. American women to escape the dominant patriarchal ideology through emigration to Europe. …”
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Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome by Luis W. Dominguez, Robert P. Doggette, Fernando Gonzalez-Ibarra, Imam H. Shaik, Amer K. Syed

“…A 46-year-old African-American male with past medical history significant for Kartagener’s syndrome, essential hypertension, and HIV presented with acute chest pain. …”
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La Chine, les États-Unis et la difficile construction d’un nouveau régime climatique by Jean-Paul Maréchal

“…The first part of the paper is dedicated to structural dimensions (prisoners’ dilemma…) and empirical issues related to the decision making framework generated by American and Chinese levels of GHG emissions and by the fact that the United States and China are at two different levels of development. …”
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Shopping for Health: Yogurt by Stephanie B. Meyer, Ada Medina-Solórzano, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Yogurt has become a popular item in the American diet and has taken over the majority of the dairy section in many stores. …”
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On the risks of good intentions and poor evidence – comment on “Back to the future? Conservative grassland management can preserve soil health in the changing landscapes of Uruguay... by J. Paruelo, J. Paruelo, J. Paruelo, L. López-Mársico, P. Baldassini, P. Baldassini, F. Lezama, B. Bazzoni, L. Staiano, A. Nuñez, A. Guido, C. Ríos, A. Tommasino, F. Gallego, F. Pezzani, G. Camba Sans, A. Quincke, S. Baeza, G. Piñeiro, G. Piñeiro, W. Baethgen

“…Second, we are concerned about the possible interpretations of the study with respect to the design of policies and the development of non-tariff barriers for South American countries.</p>…”
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Asian Horntail Eriotremex formosanus (Matsumura) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricidae: Tremicinae) by You Li, Jiri Hulcr

“…It is not considered an economically important pest because it only attacks dying or dead trees, but the species may someday prove to be a pest and its ecological impacts in North American forests remain unknown. This 4-page fact sheet was written by You Li and Jiri Hulcr, and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, June 2015. …”
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De ruptures en canon by Côme Martin

“…I thus study how the consideration of these comics has evolved from their creation until today, and show how they are objects both unique and representative of American comics as a whole.…”
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Shopping for Health: Yogurt by Stephanie B. Meyer, Ada Medina-Solórzano, Wendy J. Dahl

“…Yogurt has become a popular item in the American diet and has taken over the majority of the dairy section in many stores. …”
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Responding to rural health disparities in the United States by Ian Jones, David López-Carr, Pamela Dalal

“…The paper focuses on the need to address territorial inequalities in American healthcare services. It shows how much the situation has become critical in the United States. …”
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The Politics of Aesthetics: Ezra Pound’s Jefferson is Mussolini by Hélène Aji

“…Mainly focused on Jefferson and/or Mussolini and a comparative study of the American edition and its Italian translation Jefferson e Mussolini, this article considers the possibility of a Poundian perilous fascination for an aestheticized vision of politics, yoking together the conception of state and the construction of the poem, under similar demands of beauty and aesthetic elegance, at the expense of ethical imperatives.…”
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Asian Horntail Eriotremex formosanus (Matsumura) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricidae: Tremicinae) by You Li, Jiri Hulcr

“…It is not considered an economically important pest because it only attacks dying or dead trees, but the species may someday prove to be a pest and its ecological impacts in North American forests remain unknown. This 4-page fact sheet was written by You Li and Jiri Hulcr, and published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, June 2015. …”
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« Is that wool hat my hat ? » by Hélène Aji

“…Do poems give us something to « see » ? Contemporary American poems, from Ezra Pound’s Imagist poems and William Carlos Williams’s poems as objects, gradually reform the poem into a space dedicated to conceptualization (George Open, Robert Duncan) or evidencing the very alienation lurking in the commitment to concepts as opposed to praxis (Jackson Mac Low). …”
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Islam, Muslims, and the Coloniality of Being: Reframing the Debate on Race and Religion in Modernity by Iskander Abbasi

“…Two areas of concern are investigated: First, how Islamophobia aided in forming the coloniality of being in ways that decolo-nial scholarship – namely that of leading Latin American decolonial thinker, Nelson Maldonado-Torres – is seemingly unaware of or downplays, and second, how a rereading of a number of the key events and figures that define a decolonial discourse on race and religion, such as the Valladolid debates (1550-1551) and the figure of Christopher Columbus, help to more rigorously conceptualize the figure of the Muslim in relation to the coloniality of being. …”
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Traditional Uses, Chemical Constituents, and Biological Activities of Bixa orellana L.: A Review by Daniela de Araújo Vilar, Marina Suênia de Araujo Vilar, Túlio Flávio Accioly de Lima e Moura, Fernanda Nervo Raffin, Márcia Rosa de Oliveira, Camilo Flamarion de Oliveira Franco, Petrônio Filgueiras de Athayde-Filho, Margareth de Fátima Formiga Melo Diniz, José Maria Barbosa-Filho

“…Therefore, this work comprises a systematic review about the use of Bixa orellana in the American continent and analysis of the data collected. …”
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Eastern Bloodsucking Conenose, Triatoma sanguisuga (LeConte) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) by John L. Capinera

“…They are a known vector of American trypanosomiasis (or Chagas Disease) in South America, a debilitating illness caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. …”
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