Wasp Parasitoid Doryctobracon areolatus (Szépligeti) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae) by Charles Stuhl, John Sivinski

“…Doryctobracon areolatus was introduced into Florida and the Dominican Republic for control of the Caribbean fruit fly and the West Indian fruit fly. …”
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Orbital Burkitt’s Lymphoma: An Aggressive Presentation by Gian Paolo Giuliari, Ama Sadaka, Maria Angelica Cortez, Antonina Paniagua

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Middle income countries? An alternative development taxonomy of Latin America and the Caribbean by TEZANOS VÁZQUEZ, Sergio, QUIÑONES MONTELLANO, Ainoa

“…Using a cluster analysis we identify and characterize three groups of countries in relation to 10 main “development gaps”: the most advanced countries (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Uruguay and Brasil), the middle-development countries (Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Belize, El Salvador, Paraguay and Guyana) and those countries with the greatest development challenges (Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras and Nicaragua).…”
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Mexican Bromeliad Weevil (no official common name), Metamasius callizona (Chevrolat) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) by Barbra Larson, J. Howard Frank

“…Metamasius mosieri Barber, the smallest of the three and native to Florida, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, has been collected in Florida infrequently. …”
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Mexican Bromeliad Weevil (no official common name), Metamasius callizona (Chevrolat) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Dryophthorinae) by Barbra Larson, J. Howard Frank

“…Metamasius mosieri Barber, the smallest of the three and native to Florida, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, has been collected in Florida infrequently. …”
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King-Type Derivative-Free Iterative Families: Real and Memory Dynamics by F. I. Chicharro, A. Cordero, J. R. Torregrosa, M. P. Vassileva

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Papaya Mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by Alison Walker, Marjorie Hoy, Dale Meyerdirk

“…Biological control was identified as a key component in a management strategy for the papaya mealybug, and a classical biological control program was initiated as a joint effort between the US Department of Agriculture, Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture, and Ministry of Agriculture in the Dominican Republic in 1999. This document is EENY-302, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Beyond the Expected: Evaluating Preoperative Predictors of a Difficult Cholecystectomy Aboard the USNS Comfort by Joseph Aryankalayil, MD, Rex Atwood, MD, Mark Johnson, MD, Jamie Fitch, MD, Aldo Ayvar, MD, Eileen Natuzzi, MD, MPH, Juan Elvin Muñoz, MD, Rooney Jagilly, MBBS, MMED, Scott Siota, MBBS, MMED, Tamara J. Worlton, MD

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Papaya Mealybug, Paracoccus marginatus Williams and Granara de Willink (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) by Alison Walker, Marjorie Hoy, Dale Meyerdirk

“…Biological control was identified as a key component in a management strategy for the papaya mealybug, and a classical biological control program was initiated as a joint effort between the US Department of Agriculture, Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture, and Ministry of Agriculture in the Dominican Republic in 1999. This document is EENY-302, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Geriatric nutrition in the surgical patient: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care and Geriatric Trauma Committees clinical consensus document by Adel Elkbuli, Deborah M Stein, Ruben Peralta, Aussama Khalaf Nassar, Tasce Bongiovanni, Joseph Cuschieri, Michael Steven Farrell, Abhijit Pathak, Rondi Gelbard, Randeep Jawa, Tanya Egodage, Tyler Putnam, Samrah Mitha

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Presumed Sturge Weber Syndrome in a Haitian Boy: A Case of Delayed Diagnosis by Gian Paolo Giuliari, Ama Sadaka, Maria Angelica Cortez, Adalgisa Corona

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Satisfaction and loyalty in the all-inclusive system in Cape Verde by Juan Antonio Jimber Del Río, Jesús Claudio Pérez-Gálvez, Francisco Orgaz-Agüera, Virginia Navajas-Romero, Tomás López-Guzmán

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International Cooperation and Negotiated Settlements for Transnational Bribery: A Study of the Odebrecht Case by Raquel de Mattos Pimenta, Otavio Venturini

“…We use the Odebrecht case settlements to unpack the relation between investigative, sanction-based, and settlement cooperation in three case studies: the joint resolutions between the company and Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States, as well as two local agreements with the Dominican Republic and with Peru. We evidence how these modes of cooperation can reinforce or undermine one another. …”
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Factorial invariance of the generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7) in Latin America and the Caribbean by Norman López, Norman López, Juan-Carlos Coronado, Daniela Ripoll-Córdoba, Nicole Caldichoury, César Quispe-Ayala, Breiner Morales-Asencio, Raúl Quincho-Apumayta, Cesar Castellanos, Juan Martínez, Juan Cárdenas-Valverde, Luis Mario Castellanos-Alvarenga, David Salazar, Irina Flores-Poma, Jorge Herrera-Pino, Wendy Bada, Yuliana Flórez, Karen Alcos-Flores, Boris Zurita-Cueva, Elsa Muñoz Romero, Cristian Romo, Regulo Antezana, Claudio Avila Saldaña, Pascual A. Gargiulo

“…IntroductionThe prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has increased rapidly, highlighting the importance of its detection using quick tools applicable to men and women from different countries.ObjectiveTo analyze the psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Test (GAD-7) by gender and country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).MethodA cross-sectional e-health study with 12,124 participants from 15 LAC countries (54.32% women, 45.68% men) was conducted, including participants from Argentina (7.3%), Bolivia (6.7%), Colombia (10.3%), Chile (6.9%), Costa Rica (4.9%), El Salvador (5.7%), Ecuador (7.2%), Guatemala (4.7%), Panama (5.1%), Paraguay (5.7%), Peru (8.6%), Puerto Rico (5.8%), the Dominican Republic (6.6%), Uruguay (6.3%), and Venezuela (8.2%). …”
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It is not just your opinion. Gender equity endorsement of Latin American students and their peers at school by Natalia López-Hornickel, Diego Carrasco, Siugmin Lay, Ernesto Treviño

“…This study investigates the role of school environments, civic knowledge, and authoritarianism in shaping gender equity attitudes among 8th-grade students in Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Peru, using data from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016. …”
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The United States and the Events of 1965–1966 in Indonesia by E. N. Glazunova, A. S. Manykin

“…The intensity of these actions was much lower than in Indochina or the Dominican Republic but in specific local conditions in Indonesia characterized by high level of political violence, the tactics chosen by the U.S. sufficed to deliver a devastating blow to the Leftist movement and to oust the Predisent Sukarno.…”
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The Potential Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases 8 and 9 and Myeloperoxidase in Predicting Outcomes of Bacterial Meningitis of Childhood by Okko Savonius, Irmeli Roine, Saeed Alassiri, Taina Tervahartiala, Otto Helve, Josefina Fernández, Heikki Peltola, Timo Sorsa, Tuula Pelkonen

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Novel transfer learning approach for hand drawn mathematical geometric shapes classification by Aneeza Alam, Ali Raza, Nisrean Thalji, Laith Abualigah, Helena Garay, Josep Alemany Iturriaga, Imran Ashraf

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PFAS contamination in tap water: Target and suspect screening of zwitterionic, cationic, and anionic species across Canada and beyond by Termeh Teymoorian, Gabriel Munoz, Sébastien Sauvé

“…Between 2021–2023, an expanded list of 76 target PFAS was screened in tap water samples mainly from Canada, but also including tap water samples from the Eastern United States, Mexico, South America (Argentina), the Caribbean (Dominican Republic, Cuba), Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Morocco, Rwanda, Tunisia), Europe (France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) and Asia (Japan, Vietnam, Iran, and Türkiye). …”
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Quality of life in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Latin American countries by H. Aguilar-Duran, M. Fernández, M. González-García, E. Rincón-Alvarez, M. Alberti, F. Caro, E. Tavera, E. Vásquez, N. Cortez, M. Salinas, M. Florenzano, C. Florestano, Ivette Buendia-Roldan

“…Methods Six countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic) enrolled patients with IPF. They answered the Saint George’s Respiratory Questionnaire for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (SGRQ-I) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). …”
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