Libélulas y Caballitos del Diablo (Insecta: Odonata) by Seth Bybee

“…Como resulto de su popularidad con el público, la libélula ha llegado a ser el enfoque de muchos esfuerzos conservatorios en Norte América, Europa, y Asia. Este documento, EENY-363, es uno de una serie de publicaciones del Departamento de Entomología y Nematología, UF/IFAS Extensión. …”
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Genomic epidemiology of invasive Group A Streptococcus infections in Argentina, 2023: high prevalence of emm1-global and detection of emm1 hypervirulent lineages by Lucía Cipolla, Ariel Gianecini, Tomas Poklepovich, Paula Etcheverry, Florencia Rocca, Mónica Prieto

“…This seminal study provides initial insights into the genomic landscape of iGAS, contributing to active surveillance to monitor emerging virulent emm1 lineages and cross-border transmission in South America.IMPORTANCEAmid the increase in invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections in Argentina in 2023, the implementation of genomic analysis of isolates allowed us to detect at the national level the prevalence of the emm1 type and within the M1 type, emerging national and international hypervirulent lineages. …”
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Building capacities for oriented innovation: Argentina’s response to COVID-19 from a gender perspective by Leila Mucarsel, Ana Clara Barile, Meera Bhat

“…Through a theoretical framework that articulates the literature on “dynamic public sector capacities” and “state capacities” in Latin America – and the application of a qualitative methodology (case study), we find that state capacities were strengthened by reconfiguring pre-existing resources based on a government project, collective leadership, and a series of institutional and political innovations in the context of the rise of regional feminisms. …”
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Rugose spiraling whitefly Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Vivek Kumar, Cindy L. McKenzie, Catharine Mannion, Ian Stocks, Trevor Smith, Lance S. Osborne

“…It is an introduced pest, endemic to Central America, and was reported for the first time in Florida from Miami-Dade County in 2009. …”
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On Cytheridella whitmani sp. nov. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Cape Cod (Massachusetts, USA), with a reappraisal of the taxonomy of the genus by Koen Martens, Nadiny Martins de Almeida, Michael Shribak, Janet Higuti, Isa Schön

“…The literature on the genus is reviewed and the synonymy of the fossil Cytheridella boldii Purper, 1974 with the type species C. ilosvayi Daday, 1905, both described from South America, is confirmed. The status of Cytheridella americana (Furtos, 1936) is reverted to that of “uncertain species”. …”
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Proyecto nacional, hegemonía y cuestión indígena: una nota interpretativa sobre José Carlos Mariátegui y Guillermo Bonfil Batalla by Fabrizio Lorusso-Frisoli

“…Después de un breve marco teórico introductivo sobre los conceptos de hegemonía, dominación, consenso, ideología, nación y etnia, el análisis del presente ensayo se centra en la elaboración de una visión crítica de las principales contribuciones de José Carlos Mariátegui y Guillermo Bonfil Batalla al debate sobre la cuestión del indio en América Latina. Ambos autores se consideran relevantes para el análisis ya que presentan rasgos comunes en su ideario y en sus proyectos que están ligados a la condición del indio en dos importantes zonas de viejo asentamiento. …”
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Higher Education as Soft Power Potential of Russia by M. M. Lebedeva, J. Fort

“…Almost 80 % of them were from Asia, Africa and Latin America. There was a significant fall in international education in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. …”
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State and trends of regulation of crypto assets and cryptocurrency exchanges by M. B. Kitinov

“…The enacted laws and regulations of the jurisdictions of the United States of America (herein-after referred to as USA) and the European Union (hereinafter referred to as EU) are indicated. …”
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Rugose spiraling whitefly Aleurodicus rugioperculatus Martin (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Vivek Kumar, Cindy L. McKenzie, Catharine Mannion, Ian Stocks, Trevor Smith, Lance S. Osborne

“…It is an introduced pest, endemic to Central America, and was reported for the first time in Florida from Miami-Dade County in 2009. …”
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US Foreign Policy on Transitional Justice and Democratization in Tunisia: Pacted Transition or Democracy Reduction? by Oussema Othmeni

“…The United States of America (US) committed nearly $1.4 billion in foreign assistance to Tunisia in support of its democratic transition and transitional justice process between 2011 and 2020. …”
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Hemoadsorption in Multiorgan Failure Due to Viscerocutaneous Loxoscelism by Raúl Valenzuela Córdova, David Rivera Estrella, José F. Bernardo, Darío Jiménez, Celia Rodríguez Tudero, Raúl Elías, José C. De La Flor

“…<i>Background</i>: The bite of the Loxosceles spider is a public health problem around the world, mainly in Latin America. The viscerocutaneous presentation is related to the inoculation of toxins (phospholipase-D) that generates a systemic inflammatory reaction with a subsequent increase in cytokines and chemokines. …”
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From Prion Diseases to Prion-Like Propagation Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases by Isabelle Acquatella-Tran Van Ba, Thibaut Imberdis, Véronique Perrier

“…In animals, the most frequent prion diseases are scrapie in sheep and goat, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and the emerging chronic wasting disease in wild and captive deer in North America. The hallmark of prion diseases is the deposition in the brain of PrPSc, an abnormal β-sheet-rich form of the cellular prion protein (PrPC) (Prusiner 1982). …”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This is the age of post-Pasteurian fears of microbial contagion, of pre-Freudian theories of atavistic threats to civilized order, of Lombrosan anthropometry and its identification of the criminal classes in Europe with the ‘primitive’ peoples of Africa, South America, Asia, and the South Seas. These discourses—of biological vulnerability, of psychic pathology, and of social-geographical deviance—allow us to re-read the optical theme of the retinal membrane as symbol for the anxiety-provoking porosity of national and civic boundaries in an age of colonial exchange.…”
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Las fronteras del racismo en el teatro crítico de José Moreno Arenas by Susana Leticia Báez Ayala

“…La dramaturgia española de José Moreno Arenas, maestro del teatro mínimo e hiper - textual, incorpora uno de los temas señeros en la complejidad de los albores del siglo XXI: el racismo; sus obras: El cuchitril, El deseo, Las olas, El safari y La playa discuten el choque de mentalidades entre las poblaciones migrantes y las receptoras en la Euro - pa actual; destaca el doble papel que los españoles han vivido en el siglo XX, desde una mirada crítica, se cuestiona la falta de memoria del pueblo peninsular en relación con los procesos migratorios que vivieron a lo largo del siglo XX hacia América y el norte de Europa. Los aportes de Michel Foucault así como los de Iuri Lotman permiten analizar las relaciones de poder que establecen los Estados mediante la xenofobia.…”
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Elites and taxation: Perceptions of taxes among Córdoba businesspeople by Paulina Santa-Cruz

“…In order to analyze the configuration and transformations of tax systems in Latin America, it is essential to know how taxpayers perceive taxes. …”
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Telework preference: an understanding from theory of planned behavior by Pedro I. Leiva, Edgar E. Kausel, Hector P. Madrid, Rodrigo A. Alday

“…Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), we propose that employees' telework preference is influenced by their attitudes and subjective norms regarding teleworking, moderated by their perceptions of telework behavioral control.MethodsData was collected with a two-wave survey from 162 employees of two service organizations in Chile, South America.ResultsOur findings reveal that positive attitudes toward teleworking significantly predict telework preference. …”
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Eurocentrismo, ciencias sociales y transmodernidad by Juan Carlos Sánchez-Antonio

“…Para esta perspectiva eurocéntrica la cultura Africana no existe y América es el futuro. Ignoran que las civilizaciones africanas y amerindias tienen el mismo valor cronológico y cultural que el Oriente. …”
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Tendências na prescrição do ensino da avaliação: uma análise comparativa nos cursos de formação de professores de educação física em sete países Latino-Americanos by Sayonara Cunha de Paula, Ronildo Stieg, Amarílio Ferreira Neto, Wagner dos Santos

“…Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar e comparar quais disciplinas prescrevem o ensino da avaliação e quais são as características dessas prescrições nos cursos de formação de professores de Educação Física em sete países da América Latina. Caracteriza-se como uma pesquisa qualitativa documental, fundamentada no método comparado e que utiliza o software Iramuteq como ferramenta de auxílio para organização dos dados. …”
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Libro: Problemáticas internacionales y mundiales desde el pensamiento latinoamericano . Eduardo Devés-Valdés ; Silvia T. Álvarez ; Carlos Federico Domínguez Ávila. (Eds) - 2a ed. c... by Luciano Nicolás Marambio

“…A partir de este momento, los estudios internacionales empezaron a tener una preponderancia mundial, no solo en Europa sino en EEUU y América Latina. Como podemos ver, las Relaciones Internacionales nacen preocupadas por la seguridad, pero con el correr de las décadas los ámbitos se han ampliado notablemente. …”
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Real-World Temperature Data From the Gulf of Mexico: Seasonality and Effect of the Loop Current With an Accessible Hands-On Activity by Andrée L. Ramsey, Mary Carla Curran, Amy S. Bower

“…North Atlantic Ocean currents transport warm water from the tropics to higher latitudes, where its warmth impacts weather and climate in North America and Europe. Some of this warm water passes through the Gulf of Mexico via the circuitous Loop Current before joining the Gulf Stream near Florida. …”
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