Epidemiological Surveillance Study of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Latin America: Serotype Distribution. A Pan American Health Organization Initiative by Elizabeth Castañeda, Sistema Regional de Vacunas, Pan American Health Organization Pneumococcal Surveillance Study Croup, National Centre for Streptococcus, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control

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Language Assessment Practices and Beliefs: Implications for Language Assessment Literacy by Frank Giraldo

“… This study reports the contextual Language Assessment Literacy (LAL) of five Colombian English language teachers. Two semi-structured interviews and reflective journals were used for data collection. …”
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BTK inhibitors are a possible emerging therapeutic target for gastric cancer by José Darío Portillo-Miño, Jhon Jairo Calderon, Arnoldo Riquelme

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Multiculturalismo, gênero e etnografia: trajetória e contribuições fundamentais de Jean Elizabeth Jackson para a antropologia sul-americana by Patience L. Epps, Danilo Paiva Ramos, Flora Cabalzar

“…While we focus on her pioneering ethnographic work with the Indigenous peoples of the Colombian Vaupés, we also consider how her ethnographic perspective connects to her other lines of research on identity, indigenous movements and chronic pain patients. …”
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, THROUGH GEOGRAPHICAL ACCESSIBILITY, OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMS IN CITIES OF COLOMBIA'S COFFEE-GROWING REGION by Jorge Alberto MONTOYA, Diego Alexander ESCOBAR, Carlos Alberto MONCADA

“…That is why, in this research, it is proposed as an objective to carry out a comparative analysis of the levels of coverage offered by Public Transport Systems in cities of the Colombian coffee region to visualize the current state of operation of each city. …”
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Social Change and Law: A Matter for Discussion. Study of the First Decision in Favor of Same-Sex Couples by the Constitutional Court of Colombia by José Miguel Rueda Vásquez

“…For this purpose, the case of Colombian Constitutional Court decision C-075 of 2007, on the recognition of patrimonial rights of same-sex couples, will be analyzed. …”
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“Colombia, the only risk is wanting to stay” by Marie-Laure Guilland

“…In this way, the visitors insist on the imaginary of risk even as the Colombian authorities seek to minimise it.…”
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Características de pacientes con tumor germinal testicular tipo seminoma y masa retroperitoneal posquimioterapia by María A. Ocampo-Gómez, María C. Moreno-Matson, David Ruiz, Marino Cabrera, Rodolfo Varela

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Trade associations, bureaucracies, and productive credit in Colombia, 1958-1974 by Fernando Chisnes-Espitia

“…The paper analyzes the relation between economic elites and the Colombian State around the development credit policy. …”
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Authentic Materials and Tasks as Mediators to Develop EFL Students’ Intercultural Competence by Alix Norely Bernal Pinzón

“… This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language course at a private Colombian university. Its purpose was to identify the role of authentic materials and tasks, based on cultural topics, in the development of intercultural competence in third-level English students. …”
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Removal of Nonmyrmecochorous Seeds by Ants: Role of Ants in Cattle Grasslands by Selene Escobar-Ramírez, Sebastián Duque, Natalia Henao, Alejandra Hurtado-Giraldo, Inge Armbrecht

“…Livestock production models prevailing in Colombian Andes are simplified treeless pastures for extensive ranching, with the consequent reduction of environmental services, such as seed dispersal, due to lack of primary dispersers, scarcity of adequate sites for seedling establishment and competition with grasses. …”
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Typification of intraspecific taxa in <i>Solanum andigenum</i> Juz. et Buk. by N. A. Oskina, T. A. Gavrilenko, I. G. Chukhina

“…., belonging to three geographical groups: Colombian, South Peruvian, and Bolivian. The WIR herbarium collections comprise the taxonomic diversity of cultivated potatoes described by Russian taxonomists and based on the study of plant materials collected in South America during the expeditions organized by N. …”
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Marrons, colons, contrebandiers. Réseaux transversaux et configuration métisse sur la côte caraïbe colombienne (Dibulla) by Anne-Marie Losonczy

“…Multipolar networks and mestizo configuration on the Colombian Caribbean coast (Dibulla). The social, territorial and religious organization of the Afro-American groups in the Dibulla area (Caribbean coast of Colombia) does not pertain to the model of isolated marroon societies, nor to the currently prevalent model of ethnicity mixed with religious neo-traditionalism rooted in africanity, nor to the deterritorialized forms of interactive identity found in urban settings. …”
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Final Year Students’ Knowledge on Basic Manual Wheelchair Provision: The State of Occupational Therapy Programs in Colombia by María L. Toro-Hernández, Liliana Alvarez, María C. Vargas-Chaparro, Mary Goldberg

“…The implementation of strategies to improve current wheelchair provision education in Colombian occupational therapy programs is granted.…”
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Tourism Implementation, an Issue of Territoriality: National Approach and Local Action Methods and Resources by Amanda Andrade Benítez

“…This article analyses the tourism implementation process in two Colombian municipalities, La Mesa (Cundinamarca) and Villavieja (Huila), based on a two-tier observation at national and local levels. …”
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Emotional assessment in people exposed to violent situations: an exploratory analysis by Iván Ricardo Perdomo Vargas

“…Later, participants evaluated the experienced level of emotion using the IAPS (International Affective Picture System) validated sets of images in Colombian population. Results: There are no significant differences in emotional assessment among groups. …”
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Tourism Initiatives as a Lever for Reintegration of Former FARC Combatants in Colombia by Anne Marie Van Broeck, Monica Guasca, Dominique Vanneste

“…Within the framework of the peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) - the largest and oldest guerrilla group in the country – twenty-four Territorial Training and Reincorporation Spaces (known by the Spanish acronym ETCR) were created to temporarily house ex-combatants and to give them a space to set up productive projects as part of their reintegration process. …”
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Cultura ciudadana. Renegotiating the Boundary between State and Society by Stacey L. Hunt

“…In this paper I analyze the continued existence of the Colombian state despite widespread crime and violence. …”
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Perceived inequality and variability in the expression of parochial altruism by Cody T. Ross, Anne C. Pisor

“…Here, we use ethnographic, social network and experimental economic game data to explore this topic in two multi-ethnic Colombian communities. We examine the extent to which Afrocolombian and Emberá residents express parochial altruism, finding appreciable variability between communities, and across individuals within communities. …”
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Landslide susceptibility assessment in scarce-data regions using remote sensing data by Edier Vicente Aristizábal-Giraldo, Diana Ruiz-Vásquez

“…This study presents the application of remote sensing data and a logistic regression model to assess landslide susceptibility in a basin on a remote terrain in the northern Colombian Andes, where a rainstorm on May 18th, 2015, triggered more than 40 landslides and an associated debris flow afterwards. …”
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