Spatiotemporal distribution of global peatland area during the Holocene by Hui Liu, Haibin Wu, Wenchao Zhang, Jie Yu, Junyan Geng, Xiuqin Le, Yanyan Yu

“…The results show that peatland area have expanded substantially in North America, Europe, and Western Siberia during early-Holocene, and increased rapidly from 2.18(0.32) Mkm2 to 4.03(3.08) Mkm2 during 12-6 ka BP, then slowly to 4.15(4.23) Mkm2 after 6 ka BP according to BA (IDW) methods. …”
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Genomics Reveal Population Structure and Intergeneric Hybridization in an Endangered South American Bird: Implications for Management and Conservation by Marisol Domínguez, Larissa S. Arantes, Pablo D. Lavinia, Nicole Bergjürgen, Agustin I. Casale, Pablo A. Fracas, Darío A. Lijtmaer, Pablo Tubaro, Sarah Sparmann, Susan Mbedi, Camila Mazzoni, Bettina Mahler, Ralph Tiedemann

“…This study uses genomic data to provide new insights to aid conservation and management of endangered species, using as a case study the Yellow cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata), a bird endemic to southern South America severely affected by illegal trade and the transformation of its natural habitat. …”
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Improving Regional Dynamic Downscaling with Multiple Linear Regression Model Using Components Principal Analysis: Precipitation over Amazon and Northeast Brazil by Aline Gomes da Silva, Claudio Moises Santos e Silva

“…Tests for the Amazon and Northeast region of Brazil (South America) showed that the method provided a more realistic prediction in terms of average daily rainfall for the analyzed period prescribed, after comparing with the prediction made by set through the arithmetic averages of the simulations. …”
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Volatile Organic Compounds from the Clone Populus x canadensis “Conti” Associated with Megaplatypus mutatus Attack by Alejandro Lucia, Paola González-Audino, Héctor Masuh

“…Megaplatypus mutatus (Chapuis) (Coleoptera, Platypodidae) is an ambrosia beetle native to South America. It builds internal galleries that weaken the tree trunks, causing them severe stem breakage and mortality in commercial poplar plantations. …”
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Variación léxica de las locuciones verbales de Colombia y España by Gloria Viviana Nieto Martín

“…A lo largo del análisis se destacarán, por una parte, la consistencia de los patrones de variación léxica del español general en series de locuciones verbales diatópicas y, por otra, las características de las locuciones verbales de Colombia, como reflejo de la realidad lingüística (español de América y lenguas indígenas) y cultural del continente. …”
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How does the “Global South” mobilize resources for environmental projects by Renato Machado

“…Among the three “macro” regions examined, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) presents the best resources mobilized per capita ratios, and parts of Asia and the Pacific (ASIAPAC) excel at completing existing projects. …”
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Matriarchal Space and Formation of Identity in Moll Flanders by Berkem Sağlam

“…Although she never legitimately owns a home of her own until the end of the novel, Moll’s adventures feature her movement from establishment to establishment where a matriarch governs—“Nurse,” who schools her as a child, the gentlewoman she works for, her landlady in Bath, “Mother Midnight” throughout her years of thievery, and indeed her own mother in America. Each of these arguably strong women inhabits what Gillian Rose in Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge has termed a paradoxical space, “a space imagined in order to articulate a troubled relation to the hegemonic discourses of masculinism” (159). …”
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El consentimiento informado: una barrera para el respeto irrestricto al derecho a la protección de datos personales by Luis Bernardo Díaz Gamboa, Cindy Paola Rivera Ramírez

“…Colombia es uno de los países de América Latina que se ha sumado a la estrategia de incorporar al ordenamiento jurídico una regulación general de protección de datos personales, sin embargo, el instrumento jurídico resulta ineficaz a la hora de garantizar una política de tratamiento íntegra de la información sensible por cuenta de los operadores en el área de la salud, sin brindar garantías reales en el proceso de recopilación, almacenamiento, uso, actualización y transferencia, convirtiendo el consentimiento informado en una entrega de la intimidad del usuario del servicio de salud como requisito para acceder a un procedimiento médico.…”
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Future Trends in Worldwide River Nitrogen Transport and Related Nitrous Oxide Emissions: A Scenario Analysis by Carolien Kroeze, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Rita Domingues

“…The results indicate that moderate changes in the human diet in North America and Europe, reducing worldwide fertilizer use by only 16%, relative to Business-as-Usual (BAU) levels, may reduce DIN export rates to the North Atlantic and European Seas by about one third and associated N2O emissions by 36 to 77%. …”
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Unravelling Mortality in Enslavement. Patterns and Determinants of Mortality Among the Enslaved Population of Curaçao, 1839–1963 by Wieke Elien Metzlar, Nadeche Diepgrond

“…During the 19th century, enslaved populations in Latin America and the Caribbean were characterized by an excess of deaths, indicating the harsh living conditions they were forced to live in. …”
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Disseminated Histoplasmosis as an AIDS-Defining Illness Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin in an 11-Year-Old Female by Kathryn E. Kalata, Christina Osborne, Amy Willis, Kacey Navarro, Laura Z. Fenton, Christiana Smith

“…A previously healthy 11-year-old female, who emigrated from Central America four years prior, was admitted with eight days of fever, night sweats, and anorexia. …”
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Abortion Lawfare in Mexico's Supreme Court: Between the Right to Health and Subnational Autonomy by Rachel Sieder, Yacotzin Bravo Espinosa

“…We highlight a key area for future comparative inquiry on sexual and reproductive rights lawfare in Latin America: the interplay between supreme courts and subnational legislatures in federal systems, and the ways that this shapes movement and counter-movement framings and strategies.…”
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Pathological Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Cellular Adenoma according to the Clinical Context by Paulette Bioulac-Sage, Christine Sempoux, Laurent Possenti, Nora Frulio, Hervé Laumonier, Christophe Laurent, Laurence Chiche, Jean Frédéric Blanc, Jean Saric, Hervé Trillaud, Brigitte Le Bail, Charles Balabaud

“…In Europe and North America, hepatocellular adenomas (HCA) occur, classically, in middle-aged woman taking oral contraceptives. …”
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Successful treatment of generalized myasthenia gravis with telitacicept: a Chinese case series and literature review by Xiaodong Song, Xiaodong Song, Yang He, Hong Jiang, Yao Yu, Yue Sun, Zhaoxu Zhang

“…The Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis (MGFA-QMG) scores, 15-item Myasthenia Gravis Quality of Life (MGQOL-15) scores, and MG-associated Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) scores showed a marked reduction, indicating decreased disease severity and enhanced quality of life. …”
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Vacíos legales en la red corporativa peruana: prácticas negativas en las juntas directivas by Javier Pazos Hayashida, Miguel Ignacio Cordova Espinoza

“…Conclusiones: Se evidencian vacíos en la normativa peruana para el funcionamiento de las redes de directorios y se sugiere el desarrollo de estudios empíricos en América Latina para la prevención de prácticas corporativas negativas.…”
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Identification and control of risks in the payment system: Russian and foreign experience by I. A. Rizvanova

“…The paper analysed a standardised approach to identification and risk control in the payment system of Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The review of the estimated indicators of the identification and control system in the Russian payment system is conducted. …”
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Tiempo y libertad en lo educativo. Algunas notas latinoamericanas sobre el Manifiesto por la educación de Biesta y Säfström / Time and freedom in Education. Some Latin American not... by Sebastian Plá

“…Primero, se narra la historia de la investigación educativa en torno de la calidad de la educación en América Latina, para demostrar dos nudos teóricos: las significativas limitaciones históricas y espaciales de algunas categorías utilizadas en el Manifiesto y; las articulaciones temporales similares entre dos propuestas educativas antagónicas, la filosofía de la educación y la razón instrumental. …”
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Bolsonaro et la covid-19 au Brésil : réflexions autour d’un double paradoxe by François Roubaud, Mireille Razafindrakoto

“…How a government violently opposed to any form of redistribution could have been at the origin of this Auxílio emergencial, an interventionist policy on a scale unmatched in Latin America or in the country’s history. These apparent contradictions lead us to offer elements of interpretation of the strategy of a president under threat of multiple impeachment procedures, who plays his political survival day by day.…”
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Development of means of combating armored vehicles at the forefront of defense. The first half of the 1930s. Based on the materials of the Soviet military press by M. S. Novikov

“…Thus, we can say that in the USSR the conceptual awareness of the vector of counteraction to armored vehicles occurred earlier than in Germany, France, the British Empire, the United States of America and Poland.…”
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Aspectos psicossociais da pobreza e dos programas de transferência de renda: existem pontes? by Carla Bronzo, Eduarda Silva Moreira

“… O artigo identifica os nexos existentes entre as dimensões psicossociais da pobreza e os principais programas de transferência condicionada de renda (PTCR) da América Latina. O artigo parte da concepção de que o fenômeno da pobreza possui uma dimensão psicossocial e busca identificar as pontes existentes entre a teorização e a mensuração de tais dimensões e sua incorporação na produção das políticas públicas. …”
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