African Honey Bee, Africanized Honey Bee, Killer Bee, Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae) by James D. Ellis, Amanda Ellis

“…It describes a subspecies of western honey bee occurring naturally in sub-Saharan Africa that has been introduced into the Americas — distribution, description, life cycle and biology, public risks, economic impact, and management. …”
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Corps, couleur et sexualité : plaçage et quarteronnes à la Nouvelle-Orléans au xixe siècle by Nathalie Dessens

“…In plantation societies of the Americas, body and slavery have always been intricately linked. …”
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Associations between social networks, messaging apps, addictive behaviors, and sleep problems in adolescents: the EHDLA study by María Navalón-González, José Adrián Montenegro-Espinosa, Héctor Gutiérrez-Espinoza, Jorge Olivares-Arancibia, Rodrigo Yañéz-Sepúlveda, Daniel Duclos-Bastías, Daniel Duclos-Bastías, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Miriam Garrido-Miguel, Arthur Eumann Mesas, José Francisco López-Gil, Estela Jiménez-López, Estela Jiménez-López

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Decoding mpox: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the transmission and severity parameters of the 2022–2023 global outbreak by Adriana Buitrago-Lopez, Zulma M Cucunubá, Candida Diaz Brochero, Laura Cristina Nocua-Báez, Jorge Alberto Cortes, Kelly Charniga

“…The epidemic peaked between August and September 2022 in Europe and the Americas whereas transmission has continued in African countries. …”
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Block strength training improves functional autonomy and quality of life in community-dwelling older women by Sergio Galdames Maliqueo, Álvaro Huerta Ojeda, Emilio Jofré-Saldía, Hernaldo Carrasco-Beltrán, Mercedes-Mercedes Yeomans-Cabrera, Maximiliano Bravo

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Synergistic action between a synthetic cannabinoid compound and tramadol in neuropathic pain rats by Quiñonez-Bastidas Geovanna Nallely, Osuna-Martínez Ulises, Reda-Licea Ana Laura, López-Ortíz Manuel, Regla Ignacio, Navarrete Andrés

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Kinesiotherapy for Post-stroke Rehabilitation： Analysis of Characteristics of Clinical Trials in the Past 20 Years Based on Clinical Trials Registry Platform by WANG Hui, FENG Yuting, YU Yongpei, HU Chenhua, TAO Liyuan

“…In terms of geographical distribution, most of the studies were conducted in the Americas (35.97%, mainly in the United States), but the number of registered studies in the Americas declined in recent 10 years, while the number of registered studies in Europe and Asia increased, with statistical difference among different geographical locations (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001). …”
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Integrating comprehensive surgical, intensive, and emergency care systems into the Pan American Health Organization’s health agenda by Maria Jose Garcia Fuentes, Ayla Gerk, Leticia Campos, Alejandro Torres, Taylor Wurdeman, Nikathan Kumar, Ruth Jimbo-Sotomayor, Juan Carlos Salamea, Luiz Fernando dos Reis Falcão, Guido Parquet, John G. Meara, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Alfredo Borrero Vega

“…Ecuador, the first country in Latin America to develop a national surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia plan (NSOAP), highlighted the need for integrated surgical care to address health disparities in the region. …”
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The Role of Hypertext in Consumer Decision Making. The Case of Travel Destination Choice by Raúl Valdez Munoz

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De instauranda æthiopum salute: sobre las ediciones y características de la obra de Alonso de Sandoval by Eduardo Restrepo

“…Su trabajo constituye una de las fuentes más tempranas y sistemáticas para los interesados en los estudios de los afrodescendientes en las Américas. En este artículo se describen las dos ediciones y características de su obra, así como los criterios de autoridad que operan en ésta.…”
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La langue guarani, symbole instrumentalisé de la construction de la nation paraguayenne by Christine Pic-Gillard

“…The use of the Guarani language has certainly allowed the construction of the specific national identity based on a bilingualism and a bi-culture shared by all the citizens.Nevertheless new obstacles have emerged which question the opportunity to develop a minority language while Spanish is expanding in  North and South Americas and while the command of English seems to be an asset for emerging countries. …”
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Pacifismo y vínculos transnacionales entre feministas en el continente americano en los años 1930: encontrar una solución a la guerra del Chaco by Maria Elvira Alvarez Gimenez

“…The 1930s were a period of intensified links between feminists in the Americas, particularly in South America, spurred by the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932-1935). …”
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Spillover effects of public capital stock: A case study for Ecuador by Roberto Zurita, Víctor Morales-Oñate

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Long Squash—an Asian Vegetable Emerging in Florida by Guodong Liu, Yuncong Li, David Dinkins, Bonnie Wells, Qingren Wang, Yuqi Cui

“… Long squash is an annual, vigorous, and herbaceous crop that was brought to the Americas by Paleoindian populations from Asia before the arrival of Columbus. …”
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Traite, esclavage et fortifications dans l’Ouest africain by Jean-Michel Deveau

“…Thus, with the blessing of the African powers in place, Europeans could begin the draft of the slaves to carry out the agricultural work organized by the colonists in Americas. From the example of the history of Ghana cleared recently by the researchers and that of Senegambia under study, one realizes new prospects for decoding of the history of the African continent which go against the generally accepted ideas of the ideology of fate and victimology of the Africans.…”
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La Cour suprême des États-Unis dans le débat sur la séparation de l’Église et de l’État : les arrêts McCreary v. ACLU of Kentucky et Van Orden v. Perry du 27 juin 2005 by Frédéric Heurtebize

“…Beyond the purely legal question, the issue at hand tests some of America’s national foundations, i.e. its Constitution and its religious tradition. …”
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New Orleans and the Mississippi river : a braudelian time-geographic perspective by Kent Mathewson

“…The site and situation of New Orleans, entrepôt city on the Mississippi River, North America’s major fluvial system, presents an ideal case for applying what I have termed the “Braudelian time-geographic” perspective. …”
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Black salt marsh mosquito Aedes taeniorhynchus (Wiedemann) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) by Natasha Marie Agramonte, C. Roxanne Connelly

“… The black salt marsh mosquito is very common in the eastern coastal areas of the Americas, and is responsible for a large part of mosquito insecticide applications in Florida. …”
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Los fundamentos éticos de las cosmologías indígenas by Stefano Varese

“…This article proposes to analyze the ethical and rational foundations of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas’ relations with nature-world. The premise is the radical critique of Western anthropocentric reason including the neo-liberal and neo-colonial vicissitudes of the socio-ideological complex of modernity-colonialism-capitalism. …”
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El Métraux haitiano. La construcción de una etnología religiosa by Fernando Giobellina Brumana

“…This paper highlights the theoretical and methodological innovations of Le vaudou haïtien, and its originality for the study of cults of African origin in the Americas. Métraux achieves several key theoretical and methodological innovations in this book: 1. the search for a kind of ritual syntax; 2. a focus on real practices instead of lettered formations of the cult; 3. an acknowledgement that voodoo is unmistakably Haitian and that its roots are European as much as African; 4. a rejection of the assumption that the Catholicism of voodoo adepts would be mere deception; 5. the identification of a narrative level where stories of the gods’ avatars are replaced by tales of their interventions in the life of humans. …”
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