Epidemiology and morbidity of spina bifida in Hispanic Americans: a systematic review by Roxanna M Garcia, Sandi K Lam, Sunny Abdelmageed, Megan Votoupal

“…A total of 50 382 patients with spina bifida were included and 13 209 identified as Hispanic American (26.2%). Five studies report higher prevalence of spina bifida at birth per 10 000 births in Hispanic Americans compared with non-Hispanic white individuals, while one reported no significant difference (2.11 vs 2.24). …”
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Code switching and the so-called “assimilation narrative” by Tamás Vraukó

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En Balance: The Contribution of Physical Activity to the Efficacy of Spanish Diabetes Education of Hispanic Americans with Type 2 Diabetes by Dequina A. Nicholas, Lorena M. Salto, Kristen Lavelle, Joy Wilson, W. Lawrence Beeson, Anthony Firek, William H. R. Langridge, Zaida Cordero-MacIntyre, Marino De Leon

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Visões de brasileiros sobre América Latina: do isolamento à integração by Regina Crespo

“…The political and cultural distance that still prevails between Brazil and the Hispanic American countries is being gradually diminished in the political plane, mainly with the conformation of regional blocks and cooperation agreements. …”
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Sobre a perda da grandiloquência na literatura hispano-americana pós-noventa: notas sobre a des-representação do exílio em Lemebel e Bolaño by Pablo Gasparini

“…The aim of this article is to analyze the transition from the political comprehension of the Hispanic-American Literature on the ’80 to another paradigm that involves speci fi c changes on the functions and characteristics of the literary discourse due to the Latin-American democratization and the strengthening of the mass culture. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…Rubén Darío, José Enrique Rodó and Manuel Gondra, will be read as authors who helped in the insertion of literary and cultural expressions of their countries, from the Hispanic-American movement of modernism, they searched for narrative, cultural and artistic paths, in the midst of the consolidation process of their Nation-States. …”
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Mitigating bias in AI mortality predictions for minority populations: a transfer learning approach by Tianshu Gu, Wensen Pan, Jing Yu, Guang Ji, Xia Meng, Yongjun Wang, Minghui Li

“…Logistic Regression (LR) demonstrated minimal changes across all metrics and groups. For the Non-Hispanic American Indian group, most models showed limited benefits, with several performance metrics either remaining stable or declining. …”
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Recomendaciones para el Control y Mitigación de la Marchitez del Laurel y sus Vectores, los Escarabajos Ambrosia, en Arboledas Comerciales de Aguacate en Florida by Jonathan H. Crane, Daniel Carillo, Edward A. Evans, Romina Gazis, Bruce Schaffer, Fredy Ballen, Jeff Wasielewski, Rubén Regalado

“…At least 50% of the commercial producers are Hispanic Americans and some are more comfortable with publications in Spanish. …”
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Recomendaciones para el Control y Mitigación de la Marchitez del Laurel y sus Vectores, los Escarabajos Ambrosia, en Arboledas Comerciales de Aguacate en Florida by Jonathan H. Crane, Daniel Carillo, Edward A. Evans, Romina Gazis, Bruce Schaffer, Fredy Ballen, Jeff Wasielewski, Rubén Regalado

“…At least 50% of the commercial producers are Hispanic Americans and some are more comfortable with publications in Spanish. …”
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Superstar of the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program by Ted Greenwood

“…This program emerged from a recognition that African Americans, Hispanic Americans and American Indians were very underrepresented at all levels and in all aspects of SEM disciplines and that, although undergraduate education had received and continued to received much attention by universities, private funders and government agencies, there was still relatively little attention being paid to the graduate and especially the Ph.D. level. …”
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Change in the Prevalence of Testing for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in the United States: 1999–2012 by Nicholas T. Vozoris, Jane Batt

“…Compared to 1999-2000, significantly fewer individuals self-reported being tested for LTBI in 2011-2012 among Hispanic Americans (68.0% versus 60.7%, p<0.0001) and among those with comorbidities (74.7% versus 72.0%, p=0.02). …”
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