Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

“…I refer to these games as 1X because, in encountering America’s enemies, they promote only the last of the 4X game-verbs, that is, “eXterminate.” …”
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Mobilités internationales et ressources en contexte métropolitain : trajectoires centraméricaines à Mexico by Laurent Faret

“…Beyond transit processes, the short-term or more lasting presence of a mobile population from the Central America’s Northern Triangle (Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) questions the forms of anchorage in the city and the socio-spatial relationships of these populations with the different urban and metropolitan dynamics. …”
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De la « rurbanisation » du héros américain : The Rise of Silas Lapham by Guillaume TANGUY

“…The city, according to Howells, is America’s ultimate destiny.…”
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LAS ILUSIONES Y LOS PADECIMIENTOS DE LA EMIGRACIÓN. EL CASO DE LOS INMIGRANTES ÁRABES MUSULMANES LEVANTINOS A CHILE 1930-1950. by JORGE ARANEDA TAPIA

“…En segundo lugar, se analizará uno de los ritos de mayor importancia para los musulmanes que han vertido su cultura y conocimientos en las Américas y han hecho esfuerzos persistentes para conservar su confesión religiosa, en la celebración del Ramadán.…”
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Abdias do Nascimento y Manuel Zapata Olivella: intelectuales del siglo XX en el sendero de la discursividad ancestral yoruba y bantú by Denilson Lima Santos

“…Las voces africanas en las Américas aparecen recuperadas en un modelo estético diferente del hegemónico. …”
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Beyond Conflicts and Borders: Reconciliation and Latinotopia by Karin Ikas

“…Increasingly, the region is extending its influence to all parts of the United States and is gaining greater importance as an in-between space – in the sense of a glocal, geo-political and transcultural as well as aesthetic space beyond a third space – not only in the Americas but internationally. How and to what extent Latinotopia can eventually be perceived as a discursive site for reconciliation in the Third Millennium is the question this paper aims to answer by integrating socio-political, historical and literary works in an interdisciplinary manner and by suggesting considering Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s figure of the “rhizome” as an illustrative concept to capture Latinotopia theoretically and practically in further studies.…”
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Entre la zona del ser y del no-ser: la economía moderna de la crueldad by Alejandra del Rocío Bello-Urrego

“…Esto se hace por medio del análisis de tres casos: el trabajo esclavo en la industria global del chocolate, el origen imperial de las técnicas de guerra de la Escuela de las Américas y la conquista del Caribe colombiano por parte de las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia. …”
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Chagas Disease, a Triatomine Bug-Transmitted Protozoan Infection by Bethany R. Eutsey, Cameron J. Jack, Shelley A. Whitehead, Eva A. Buckner

“…Humans and animals usually become infected with T. cruzi via triatomine bugs, also called kissing or conenose bugs, found only in the Americas. Disease transmitted by triatomine bugs generally occurs in rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America, but it is becoming more prevalent in non-endemic areas like the US as asymptomatic infected people move from rural to urban areas of Latin America and other regions.  …”
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The Code of Maya Kings and Queens: Encoding and Markup of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing by Martin de la Iglesia, Franziska Diehr, Uwe Sikora, Sven Gronemeyer, Maximilian Behnert-Brodhun, Christian Prager, Nikolai Grube

“…Maya hieroglyphic script (300 BCE–1500 CE) is a semi-deciphered logographic and syllabic autochthonous writing system from the Americas and is one of the most significant writing traditions of the ancient world. …”
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The South between Two Frontiers: Confederate Cowboys and Savage Rednecks by Hervé Mayer

“…The South in film thus wavers between two frontiers: the Frontier of American regeneration in the Western and the frontier as a threat to America in the Southern.…”
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Broiler Management - The First 24 Hours by Gary D. Butcher, Amir H. Nilipour

“…Fifteen billion of these are produced in the Americas. Due to the poultry industry's tendency towards more intensive production practices and increased automation, the tender loving care once afforded to chickens in grow-out has been replaced with a mass production mentality. …”
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Territorial Trajectories within a New Centre for the Globalised Mining Industry: the Andes of Northern Argentina by Marie Forget

“…Exploiting these territories as reservoirs of raw materials was uncontroversial at the beginning of the century; however, this approach is now being contested because it leads to little territorial development. Latin America’s renewed focus on primary industries involving the extraction and export of unprocessed natural resources can be viewed as a step back to colonial-style exploitation. …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Arguably, one of America’s greatest cinematic surrealists, David Lynch, boasts a filmography concerned with iconography, the nature of kitsch, and what dark underbellies such images veil. …”
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Percepciones en salud bucal de los niños y niñas by Catalina González-Penagos, Melissa Cano-Gómez, Edwin J. Meneses-Gómez, Annie M. Vivares-Builes

“…Identificamos las necesidades de salud bucal de los niños y niñasde 2 a 5 años del programa Buen Comienzo-Fantasías de las Américas, desde la percepción de lasagentes educativas en la ciudad de Medellín, en el año 2013. …”
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On new spider species of the genus Episinus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from China and proposal of five species groups by Yun Liang, Jinnan Liu, Haiqiang Yin, Xiang Xu

“…Currently, the genus Episinus Walckenaer, 1809 includes 64 described species mainly being distributed in Asia, Africa and the Americas, with 16 described species in China. During the recent surveys across various regions of China, we found three previously undescribed species which have been identified as belonging to Episinus.Three new species of Episinus Walckenaer, 1809 are described: Episinus anfu sp. nov. (♀) from Jiangxi Province, E. implicatus sp. nov. (♀) from Yunnan Province and E. pseudonubilus sp. nov. (♂♀) from Shaanxi Province. …”
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Broiler Management - The First 24 Hours by Gary D. Butcher, Amir H. Nilipour

“…Fifteen billion of these are produced in the Americas. Due to the poultry industry's tendency towards more intensive production practices and increased automation, the tender loving care once afforded to chickens in grow-out has been replaced with a mass production mentality. …”
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“In truth, I was really a pioneer”: Female Entrepreneurship and Selfhood Formation in Bethlehem's Diasporic Merchant Community, 1900–1940 by Eibhlin Priestley

“… This article explores girlhood, marriage, and female entrepreneurship in Bethlehem’s diasporic merchant families in the early twentieth century, focusing on the lives of two women whose transition from girlhood to womanhood overlapped with their diasporic experiences in the Americas. Focusing on oral history interviews with Katrina Sa’ade and the memoir of Victoria Kattán de Hirmas, this study examines the outward expansion of Bethlehem’s merchant middle-class from the perspective of women whose lives were indelibly shaped by these ventures. …”
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Cosmotécnicas Andinas: Apuntes para dos arquitecturas defensivas en el barrio San José en Manizales, Colombia by Julio Suárez Hormazábal

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Selecting the appropriate design in biomedical research: experimental studies. Part II by Raúl Aguilera Eguía, Ángel Roco Videla, Olga Patricia López Soto, Brenda Herrera Serna, Héctor Fuentes Barria, Mariana Melo Lonconao

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Higiene y salubridad en la provincia de Ñuble: epidemia de cólera en la ciudad de Chillán (1880-1900) by Marcos Parada Ulloa, Juan Guillermo Estay Sepúlveda, Germán Moreno Leyva, Alex Véliz Burgos, Juan Mansilla Sepúlveda, Alessandro Monteverde Sánchez

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