The democratization of the revocation of mayors’ terms in Ecuador and Colombia: At the crossroads of local governance by Luis Carlos Erazo, Lorena Chamorro

“…The empirical evidence shows that the launching of the Ecuadorian institutional design since the constitutional reforms of 2008 caused a series of revocations of terms for mayors that is unprecedented in the democratic history of the country. …”
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Los pueblos indígenas en el buen vivir global, un concepto como herramienta de inclusión de los excluidos by Philipp ALTMANN

“…The centre of this discussion will be the framed of the concrete demands of the indigenous movement, especially the Ecuadorian movement and its economic proposals, in the concept of buen vivir.…”
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Movement in the streets: Significant spatial features of the historic center of Quito by Estefanía Piñeiros

“…The urban imaginary of the historical centre of Quito is strongly linked to the configuration of the Ecuadorian national identity and to the official patrimonial discourse which guide the planning and management of the city centre while ignoring the daily spatial relationships and local memories that make up a different city. …”
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El papel de las TIC en el desarrollo: una mirada desde la construcción social de la tecnología en el caso Ecuatoriano by Javier Andrés Jiménez Becerra

“…Said focus can help us to think about the central elements that should be taken into account when reflecting on and studying the self-styled ICT networks for development in the Ecuadorian case.…”
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A tool for managerial decision making in emerging economies, and asymmetric cost behavior: Evidence from Ecuador by Juan Carlos Aguirre-Quezada, Gabriela Duque-Espinoza, Fernando Córdova-León, Adrián Sigüencia-Muñoz

“…The study´s results show an asymmetric behavior within the costs, which suggest an inability for Ecuadorian companies to lower their costs due to a drop on their income, whereas, when their income raises, so does their cost; a fact that matches the recent evidence found worldwide. …”
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The appointment of judges in Ecuador: In search of a new legitimacy by Miguel Herrera

“…To explore this proposal, the article relies on the qualitative analysis of the trajectories of members of the main Ecuadorian court of justice between 1979 and 2012. It is shown that changes made to appointment procedures modified the social dynamics that had historically enabled access to the main judiciary. …”
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Population Dynamics of the Crocodile Shark, <i>Pseudocarcharias kamoharai</i>, in the Tropical Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Ecuador by Marcos Douglas Calle-Morán, Eugenio Alberto Aragón-Noriega, Ana Rosa Hernández-Téllez, Emigdio Marín-Enríquez, Javier Tovar-Ávila, Juan Francisco Arzola-González, Jorge Payán-Alejo

“…The biological parameters, including age, growth, longevity, and reproduction, were obtained from the specialized literature based on the biology of <i>P. kamoharai</i> in Ecuadorian waters. These biological parameters were used in all the models considered here. …”
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Ecuador's Cantonal (Municipal) Planning System: The Need for Reform by Manuel Benabent-Fernández de Córdoba, Lorena Vivanco-Cruz

“…Following a close analysis of legislative texts and other written documents, the article reconstructs the evolution of Ecuadorian legislation and the process that shaped the current “cantonal” (municipal) planning system. …”
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Análisis del Referéndum Constitucional 2008 en Ecuador by Adrián López A., Paula Cubillos Celis

“…It discusses some of the possible challenges to arise in the Ecuadorian political arena following the victory of the "Yes", which obtained 63.93% of the votes in the referendum.…”
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Retos de la diversidad: el reconocimiento y aplicación de los sistemas de derecho indígenas ecuatorianos by Fernando García S.

“…Se concluye señalando algunos retos a futuro que plantea el tema de los sistemas de derecho indígena y su relación con la justicia ordinaria.AbstractThis text provides an analysis of the challenge represented by the legal systems of Ecuadorian indigenous nationalities since the 1998 Constitution was approved until today, and their relation with the ordinary legal system. …”
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Crisis Monitoring in Financial Sectors Using CAMEL Partial Triadic Analysis Model by Rody Guzman-Garzon, Purificacion Galindo-Villardon, Purificacion Vicente-Galindo

“…When applied to the Ecuadorian banking sector, the model identified significant fluctuations in three key periods: pre-pandemic, pandemic, and the territorial crisis between Russia and Ukraine. …”
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Variations in Postpartum Hemoglobin Values in Maternal Patients Residing at High Altitude by Jhofre Vinicio Prado Quilambaqui, Ximena Elizabeth Trujillo Romero, Olga Cristina Solis Solis

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out on patients treated at a health center in the province of Tungurahua, belonging to a hospital in the Ecuadorian mountains between January and December 2022. …”
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Blogs, artefactos y política by María Belén Albornoz

“…Finalmente se propone el estudio del nuevo espacio público virtual desde un enfoque tecno-social que dé cuenta del entorno virtual como espacio formador de conductas.This article problematizes the acceptance of the public in the virtual space emerging in the Ecuadorian political blogosphere, in the context of the National Constitutional Assembly. …”
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Systematic Literature Review on Organizational and Financial Resilience by Juan Diego Ochoa Crespo, Jose Manuel Feria-Dominguez, Diego Marcelo Cordero Guzman

“…However, few studies have focused specifically on the Ecuadorian context, indicating a gap in the literature that should be addressed more thoroughly. …”
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Feminización de las luchas antiextractivistas: el colectivo Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva by Yolanda Martínez Suárez

“…This paper delves into a paradigmatic example of these struggles, examining how they challenge and reshape patriarchal structures while acknowledging the colonial and racist dynamics embedded within them. I focus on the Ecuadorian collective Mujeres Amazónicas Defensoras de la Selva (Amazonian Women Defenders of the Rainforest) for their critical integration of gender debates into their agenda, their disruption of the sex-gender system through their emergence as a political subject, and their innovative proposal of the living forest (Kawsak Sacha), which reimagines nature and our relationship to it. …”
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Linkage between university and community in the training process of dental students from the teachers’ perspective by Silvia Marisol Gavilánez Villamarín, Jaime Fernando Armijos Moreta, Mery Alexandra Mendoza Castillo, Amalia Fernanda Vera Veloz

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the connection projects with society carried out by Ecuadorian universities are an opportunity for service and an alternative to bring their students closer to the community.…”
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Efficacy Perceived by Patients of Post-infarction Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Strategies by María Gabriela Balarezo García, Carlos Antonio Escobar Suárez, Becker Neto Mullo

“…The study population was made up of 90 patients who participated in post-infarction cardiac rehabilitation programs implemented in the medical facilities of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security in the Sierra region of Ecuador. …”
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Combined effects of landscape composition and pesticide use on herbivore and pollinator functions in smallholder farms by Quentin Struelens, Diego Mina, Olivier Dangles

“…Methods We assessed the effect of semi-natural cover and pesticide use on pollinator and herbivore abundances and functions in 9 fields in the Ecuadorian Andes through participatory experiments with smallholder farmers. …”
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Las rivalidades futbolísticas y la construcción de la nación. Una comparación entre México y Ecuador by Roger Magazine, Jacques Ramírez, Samuel Martínez

“…In the Mexican case, the pattern of rivalries is inseparable from the strong centralism of political and economic power, whereas in the Ecuadorian case, the pattern has to be do, primarily, with an old struggle for economic and political predominance between the cities of Quito and Guayaquil. …”
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Relationship of Maternal Hemoglobin and the Intergenic Period with Birth Weight by Carlos Alberto Llerena Gómez, Evelyn Carolina Betancourt Rubio, Karen Aracelly Tobar Almendariz

“…<br /><strong>Method:</strong> a descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out on pregnant women treated at a hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute during the first semester of 2023. …”
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