El islam y el intercambio colombino by Hernán G. H. Taboada

“… El intercambio colombino se estudió primero en relación con Europa y América; posteriormente se exploraron las dimensiones asiáticas y africanas. …”
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Transición hegemónica y progresismo: ¿es posible lograr cambios estructurales? by Blanca Rubio

“…El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar el fenómeno del progresismo en América Latina, al indagar en las causas por las que éste no ha tenido la capacidad para impulsar cambios estructurales y cuáles serían las probabilidades de lograrlo con el avance de la transición hegemónica y capitalista por la que atraviesa el mundo. …”
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Envejecimiento y estrategias de adaptación a los entornos urbanos desde la gerontología ambiental by María Trinidad García-Valdez, Diego Sánchez-González, Rosario Román-Pérez

“…El estudio reflexiona sobre las estrategias de adaptación a los entornos urbanos en el envejecimiento, con alusiones a América Latina. Los resultados indican la existencia de problemas derivados del reduccionismo analítico y la simplificación de los modelos teóricos sobre la adaptación ambiental y el envejecimiento. …”
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On difference. Lack and politics in Pierre Clastres by Sebastián Barros

“…Finally –and briefly–, the article puts forward a way in which the analysis of contemporary political processes like Latin America populisms or the Indignants Movement in Europe could benefit from Clastres’ conception of politics and difference.…”
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Commémoration de l’indépendance et unité nationale en Amérique latine by Guillemette Martin

“…This approach should enable us, by confronting the discourse of the elites of the secondary cities to that emitted by the centre, to understand the tensions and issues of these commemorations, and to re-question the process of national building in Latin America.…”
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Jesuit Fathers Beyond the Iron Curtain: Directions and Challenges of Lithuanian Jesuit Exiles in the 20th Century by Ignas Stanevičius

“…Jesuits continued their missionary work beyond the borders of the vice-province, undertaking missions in Canada, South America, and Uruguay. The expansive geographical scope of their activities raised concerns regarding the spiritual calling of the Jesuits themselves. …”
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Crossing Texts, References and Images. A Survey of a City Planner’s Personal Library in São Paulo (1920-1960) (1/2) by Heliana Angotti-Salgueiro

“…This is especially the case with visual representations of urban problems published in books and journals, particularly those from North America with broad international circulation during those years. …”
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Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) and False Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa juncta (Germar) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) by Richard L. Jacques, Jr.

“… True "potato beetles" are members of the beetle genus Leptinotarsa, with 32 species in North America, including Mexico; 10 species in the continental United States, including two species in Florida. …”
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Toxorhynchites rutilus Coquillett, 1896 (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) by Abdullah A. Alomar, Barry W. Alto

“… Toxorhynchites rutilus is one of the largest known species of mosquitoes in North America. Larvae of Toxorhynchites are aquatic predators and prey upon aquatic invertebrates with preference under some circumstances for larvae of other mosquitoes, a characteristic that can contribute to the use of Toxorhynchites mosquitoes as potential biological controls against container-inhabiting mosquitoes (Focks 2007). …”
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Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs): Toward Identification of a Behavioral Phenotype by Kelly Nash, Erin Sheard, Joanne Rovet, Gideon Koren

“…Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) currently represent the leading cause of mental retardation in North America, ahead of Down syndrome and cerebral palsy. …”
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A Brief Evaluation on ISSI 2015 by Umut Al

“…When the countries of the researchers that were contributed to the Conference were examined, it was realized that people from Republic of China, The United States of America, Canada, Spain and The Netherlands were in the top of the list in terms of the number of contributions. …”
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The Correlation Between External and Internal Factors of the Libyan Crisis by E. N. Koposova

“…The causes of the crisis (both internal and external) as as well as the interests of the great powers - the United States of America, France and Britain are analyzed.…”
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El concepto de economía informal y su aplicación en México: factibilidad, inconvenientes y propuestas by José Juan Cervantes Niño, Esthela Gutiérrez Garza, Lylia Palacios

“…Teniendo como base una revisión histórica de los postulados teórico metodológicos de la oitT para cuantificar el sector informal desde las perspectivas global, regional (América Latina) y de México, se argumenta sobre la necesidad de resolver una serie de inconvenientes socioeconómicos que evitan la aplicación en este país de la tesis de la economía informal. …”
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Master of Public Health (MPH) by Kabale University

“…The programme is aligned to the core competences for public health professionals as suggested by the United States of America (USA) Council on Linkages between Academia and Public Health Practice; and to international public health training standards such as those suggested by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) in the USA. …”
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Compounds Involved in the Invasive Characteristics of <i>Lantana camara</i> by Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Midori Kato

“…<i>Lantana camara</i> L. is native to tropical America and has naturalized in many other tropical, subtropical, and temperate regions in Asia, Africa, Oceania, North and South America, and Europe. …”
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Techno-structural and 3-D geometric morphometric analysis applied for investigating the variability of Holocene unifacial tools in tropical Central Brazil. by Marina González-Varas, Antoine Lourdeau, Letícia Gonçalves, Rafael Lemos de Souza, Diego Teixeira Mendes, Tatyana Beltrão de Oliveira, Gustavo Furlaneto Silva, Hubert Forestier, Rolando Romero, Antonio Pérez-Balarezo

“…During the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene and in the early Holocene period, hunter-gatherer communities across tropical South America deployed a range of technological strategies to adapt to diverse environmental conditions. …”
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Genetic markers on the distribution of ancient marine hunters in Priokhotye by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…This is a review of studies on the genetic polymorphism of modern and ancient populations of the north of Asia and America, with the aim of reconstructing the history of migrations of ancient marine hunters in the Okhotsk Sea region. …”
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Treatment of Hepatitis C Post-Liver Transplantation Could Mitigate Discard Rates of Hepatitis C-Positive Deceased Donor Livers and Expand the Donor Pool by Jennifer Keller, Gary Marklin, Obi Okoye, Roshani Desai, Tej Sura, Ajay Jain, Chintalapati Varma, Mustafa Nazzal

“…This is a retrospective, observational study using Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS) database from 2008 to 2017. …”
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Evaluating machine learning models for supernova gravitational wave signal classification by Y Sultan Abylkairov, Matthew C Edwards, Daniil Orel, Ayan Mitra, Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev, Ernazar Abdikamalov

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Neuromorphic compliant control facilitates human-prosthetic performance for hand grasp functions by Anran Xie, Zhuozhi Zhang, Jie Zhang, Weidong Chen, James Patton, Ning Lan

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