Opening a Window on Attention: Adjuvant Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Qiyue Wang, Shuyi Mi, Zixuan Yu, Qiyi Li, Jiacai Lei

“…The prevalence of IBD in Europe and in North America has increased over the past 20 years. As most IBD patients are young at onset, their quality of life (QOL) can be influenced to varying degrees. …”
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Revealing the Cape Verde Hotspot Track Across the Great Lakes by Zhongmin Tao, Aibing Li, Jonny Wu, Karen M. Fischer

“…Our new 3D anisotropic model in northeastern America reveals strong positive radial anisotropy anomalies in the eastern Great Lakes, central Pennsylvania, and northwestern Virginia. …”
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Os Relatórios do Desenvolvimento Humano (RDHs) e o padrão de intervenção pública na área social: os desafios postos à forma de organização do Estado no Brasil by Maria José de Rezende

“…These are general proposals that attempt to find common and viable solutions for several countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The reports show, over hundreds of pages, examples of social policies that have been implemented in various parts of the world. …”
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Role of PPARs in Trypanosoma cruzi Infection: Implications for Chagas Disease Therapy by Eugenia Hovsepian, Federico Penas, Gerardo A. Mirkin, Nora B. Goren

“…Chagas disease, which is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), remains a substantial public health concern and an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Latin America. T. cruzi infection causes an intense inflammatory response in diverse tissues by triggering local expression of inflammatory mediators, which results in the upregulation of the levels of cytokines and chemokines, and important cardiac alterations in the host, being one of the most characteristic damages of Chagas disease. …”
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Adolescentes y jóvenes en orfandad por desaparición, homicidio y feminicidio: revisión narrativa by Alejandra Villanueva-Coronado, Elizabeth Aurora Pérez-Hernández, Luz Adriana Orozco-Ramírez

“…Este artículo presenta una revisión narrativa de la producción empírica y conceptual en torno a adolescentes y jóvenes en orfandad a causa del homicidio (por feminicidio o desaparición de un progenitor) en América Latina. El objetivo es describir los temas emergentes del fenómeno, los cuales se sistematizan en siete ejes: 1) alteraciones e impacto psicológico; 2) secreto familiar; 3) duelo complicado; 4) estudios sobre la vivencia de la pérdida y la reconstrucción de sí mismo; 5) reestructuración familiar; 6) vulnerabilidad individual y estigmatización; 7) vulneración de los derechos humanos. …”
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«La Europa no puede civilizarse»: colonialismo y desespañolización en Francisco Bilbao by Marcelo Sanhueza

“…Frente a ello, plantea que en América se desarrolla una emancipación no solo política, sino cultural e intelectual capaz de liberar de la opresión a los desheredados, como a los indios americanos, que los transformará en agentes de una rebelión contra la historia. …”
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Quantifying Women’s Marginalisation in Ibero-American Film Culture During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Network-Science Proposal by Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut, Alessio Cardillo

“…On the one hand, we built a network of interactions between people involved in the film field in Ibero-America during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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Políticas del deseo y chicas con voz propia. Experiencias juveniles en torno al género y la sexualidad by Silvia Elizalde

“…Todos los datos y argumentos expuestos en este texto se basan en una amplia investigación etnográfica que desarrollo desde 2002 sobre género y violencia sexual, clase y discriminación en contextos de creciente pobreza y exclusión social de Argentina y América Latina.…”
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Cuban Laurel Thrips, Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal) (Insecta: Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) by Harold A. Denmark, Thomas R. Fasulo, Joseph E. Funderburk

“…G. ficorum appears in the Entomological Society of America's common name list as the Cuban laurel thrips, and is the name used here. …”
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys Ståhl (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Jamba Gyeltshen, Gary Bernon, Amanda Hodges

“…This stink bug may become a major agricultural pest in North America, similar to the southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula (L.). …”
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Global climate changes and the evolution of area suitability for marmosets of genus Callithrix by Cesar Rogerio Leal do Amaral, Antonio Carlos de Freitas, Rodrigo Goldenberg-Barbosa, Anna Luiza dos Santos Donato, Izar Aximoff, Victor Cordeiro de Moura, Dafne Adriana Abreu dos Anjos

“… To evaluate the habitat loss due to climatic changes and their effect on Callithrix diversity in the next few decades, the present study reported the resilience of the Atlantic Rainforest primate genus Callithrix under the perspective of the forecasted climatic changes in South America and the quick-pace of the changing environmental policies in Brazil. …”
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Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Post-COVID-19 Patient from Peru by Linda Ponce-Rosas, Jose Gonzales-Zamora, Nelson Diaz-Reyes, Oliver Alarco-Cadillo, Jorge Alave-Rosas

“…Mucormycosis has been reported increasingly in patients affected by COVID-19, especially in India where the first cases were described. In Latin America, there is limited information about this association, mainly coming from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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Onde estavam as freguesias goianas até 1783? by Vinicius Sodré Maluly

“…On this procedural apparatus, the elaboration of a digital cartography allows the comprehension of elements that are pertinent to the "freguesias goianas" (or parishes), to their chapels and the dioceses that contained this broad territory of Portuguese America. Location factors were discussed, along with other space-associated parameters, such as the jurisdiction of these "freguesias", the demographic composition of the region and the frontiers that were made visible with these graphical elaborations. …”
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Preaching Prophets: Upton Sinclair and The Moslem Sunrise by Steven Bembridge

“…In 1920, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (1872–1957) arrived in America to spread the message of Islam. Two years later, he founded The Moslem Sunrise. …”
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« Le dernier procès allemand pour crimes de guerre » : L'ancien officier SS Julius Viel et le procès de Ravensburg d’avril 2001 comme événement médiatique by Vojtěch Kyncl

“…Did the 'last' German trial in 2001 against Julius Viel in Ravensburg, the name given to the trial of the murderer of seven Jewish prisoners near Litoměřice/ Leitmeritz in 1945, become a media event that closed a whole phase of work on Nazi crimes in Europe and North America? What information about the crime and its historical context, about the perpetrator, the key SS witnesses and the trial itself did the media coverage of the world's leading newspapers offer the general public? …”
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The Man Who Counted All Prostitutes in New York City: John R. McDowall and the Scandal of the Magdalen Report by Alexander Moudrov

“…The intense hostility to his crusade, which led to his early death, reflected not only his controversial ideas about gender relations and the role of religion in combatting prostitution but also changing literary trends in antebellum America. This article surveys his publications and reactions to them in relation to the rise of new forms of sensationalist literature, which turned reformers who tackled controversial issues into targets of antebellum American writers and journalists.…”
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Ethical Issues in Pharmacologic Research in Women Undergoing Pregnancy Termination: A Systemic Review and Survey of Researchers by Christelle Gedeon, Alejandro A. Nava-Ocampo, Gideon Koren

“…The majority of studies were completed by international groups and not in North America or Western Europe. Conclusions. While a majority of respondents to the survey felt that, although research in women undergoing a pregnancy termination is ethically acceptable, 40% stated that it is not likely to be approved by institutional review boards of most North American medical institutions.…”
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Sarmiento y la nación cívica by Susana Villavicencio

“…As a leading member of the enlightened elites of the nineteenth century Argentina, his speech is representative of historical self-understanding of the process that is lived in America and of the political identities that were developing.…”
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Ross Macdonald, Redivivus? by Robert Lance Snyder

“…After a definitive biography appeared in 1999, the Library of America, a sure benchmark of literary recognition, released in 2015 the first of three volumes devoted to his fiction; the same year saw the publication of his letters to and from Eudora Welty; and in 2016 Fantagraphics Books issued Macdonald’s marathon interviews with Paul Nelson. …”
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Agricultura em cidades Maias, Astecas e Incas: outra perspectiva sobre o urbano by Rinaldo de Castilho Rossi

“…In addition to making considerations about food production systems, the following theoretical and methodological aspects are discussed based on the cases studied: (a) applicability of the concepts of city and urban to the study of pre-colonial societies in America; (b) the role played by the center on promoting agriculture; (c) agriculture as a technology of urbanism towards adversity; (d) relevance of Abya Yala’s native cities study. …”
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