La necesaria construcción de un sistema público de pensiones para la sociedad mexicana* by Berenice Ramírez

“…A partir de los indicadores que utiliza la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) en su estudio y publicación Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding Public Pension Systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America (OIT, 2018a) se evalúan los sistemas de pensiones en México, para situar la discusión acerca de las siguientes preguntas: ¿La privatización ha sido un fracaso? …”
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De movimientos estructurados y estructuras móviles: una introducción a las perspectivas teóricas sobre los movimientos sociales by Willem Assies

“…Este escrito se publicó como capítulo en el libro Structures of Power, Movements of Resistance: An Introduction to the Theories of Urban Movements in Latin America, editado por Willem Assies, Gerrit Burgwal y Ton Salman, y publicado por CEDLA, Amsterdam, en 1990. …”
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An Overview of Global Papaya Production, Trade, and Consumption by Edward A. Evans, Fredy H. Ballen

“…Papaya has become an important agricultural export for developing countries, where export revenues of the fruit provide a livelihood for thousands of people, especially in Asia and Latin America. Papaya exports contribute to the growing supply of healthy food products on international markets. …”
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Erat simplicis ingenii: A deposição de Garcia da Galiza vista pelos cronistas dos séculos XII e XIII by Maria Joana Gomes

“…The circumstances which led to Garcia’s arrest and captivity were frequently debated among the 12th medieval Iberian Latin historiographers. However, it is in the 13th century that historians elaborate more solid justifications to make sense, not only Garcia’s fate but also the anoumalous power transmission that took place. …”
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Chagas Disease, a Triatomine Bug-Transmitted Protozoan Infection by Bethany R. Eutsey, Cameron J. Jack, Shelley A. Whitehead, Eva A. Buckner

“…Disease transmitted by triatomine bugs generally occurs in rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America, but it is becoming more prevalent in non-endemic areas like the US as asymptomatic infected people move from rural to urban areas of Latin America and other regions.  In the US, approximately 300,000 people are currently infected with Chagas disease, 18,000 in Florida. …”
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Knowledge as cause and tool for resistance against large scale mining: heuristic cases in Ecuador by Cristina Espinosa

“…These questions are illuminated using the theoretical contributions provided by approaches such as the sociology of knowledge, Latin American de-colonial thought, and feminist contributions to the study of science, technology and society. …”
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Rhino-Orbital-Cerebral Mucormycosis in a Post-COVID-19 Patient from Peru by Linda Ponce-Rosas, Jose Gonzales-Zamora, Nelson Diaz-Reyes, Oliver Alarco-Cadillo, Jorge Alave-Rosas

“…Mucormycosis has been reported increasingly in patients affected by COVID-19, especially in India where the first cases were described. In Latin America, there is limited information about this association, mainly coming from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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The interpretation of [+distal] in demonstratives and complementizers by Staps Camil, Rooryck Johan

“…This last phenomenon has parallels in Romance complementizers derived from Latin quod, which can likewise be seen as [+distal]. …”
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Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…It is based on the view that in order to understand the economic and political-institutional crisis, it is necessary to analyze the deepening financialization of Brazil, a periphery country, and the way in which rentier accumulation operates in the consolidation of US power in Latin America. The empirical evidence revealed the existence of endogenous factors for the crisis, factors that were already present in the Brazilian economy before the cyclical deterioration that started in 2014. …”
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Value systems and participation in drug trafficking activities in Sonora, Mexico by Francisco Manuel Piña-Osuna

“…In recent decades, drug trafficking has been identified by many sources as the primary crime problem in Latin America. By the same token, sources have warned of increasing indices and a process of socialization of this activity. …”
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The Role of Sialic Acid-Binding Receptors (Siglecs) in the Immunomodulatory Effects of Trypanosoma cruzi Sialoglycoproteins on the Protective Immunity of the Host by Alexandre Morrot

“…Chagas disease is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and is an important endemic infection in Latin America. Lately, it has also become a health concern in the United States and Europe. …”
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“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour by A. Houck

“…Although the genre is little known at present, parodic prayers belong to a long tradition, most prominent in French and Latin texts of the 11th to the 16th centuries. This article reviews that history, showing that medieval parodic prayers arose from within the Church and often expressed ethical concerns through satire. …”
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Robert Duncan and the Vernacular of Preliteracy by J. Peter Moore

“…Duncan recapitulates medieval cultural divisions between the father tongue of Latin grammar and the mother tongue of fluid speech and posits the vernacular as a counter-national field of pre-semantic sound, conveyed through feminine modes of relation. …”
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Eldologiasodás a Globális Társadalmi Gyárban. Lukács jelentősége a kapitalizmus globális szemléletében by Gergely Csányi

“… E tanulmány arra a kérdésre keresi a választ, hogy Lukács György eldologiasodásfogalma mit képes hozzáadni a kapitalizmus globális értelmezéseihez. A latin-amerikai dependencia- és informalitáskutatások, a részben azokból kinőtt világrendszer-elemzési hagyomány, továbbá az autonomista marxizmusból kinőtt elemzési keretek egyaránt arra hívják fel a figyelmet, hogy a globális kapitalizmusban nem a folyamatos racionalizáció a tőkés felhalmozás előfeltétele és nem szándékolt következménye, hanem a tőkés felhalmozás a különböző racionális és irracionális, formális és informális, bérmunkán alapuló és fizetetlen munkán alapuló termelési tevékenységek különböző léptékű összekapcsolódásán nyugszik. …”
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Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analyses of a Pebble Bed HTGR Loss of Cooling Event by Gerhard Strydom

“…No significant differences were observed between the results of Simple Random Sampling (SRS) or Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) data sets, and use of uniform or normal input parameter distributions also did not lead to any significant differences between these data sets.…”
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Plucked Human Hair Shafts and Biomolecular Medical Research by Kevin Schembri, Christian Scerri, Duncan Ayers

“…An essential consideration when dealing with human research is the awareness of potential harm and thus the absolute need not to harm—a rule aptly qualified by the Latin term “primum non nocere” (first do no harm). …”
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Secularisation and Church-State Relations: Towards a Typology by Adam Liwak

“…By si$ing through and classifying the range of definitions and theories of secularisation, while also examining aspects of the his-torical phenomenon development within the Latin West, it is possible to propose a typology comprising five different patterns of this phenomenon. …”
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The healing hand: the role of women in ancient medicine by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…The sources are few in number, but fragmentary information can be gleaned from medical writers, passing remarks in Greek and Latin authors, and funerary inscriptions. These sources emphasise the professions of midwife and female doctor. …”
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A contribution to the study of the urbanization of today's old core of Zemun during the 18th century by Mićović Nela

“…On the front of this was etched an inscription in Latin mentioning the name Johannes Radmacher, his official title, and the year 1776. …”
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Determinants of Short- and Long-Term Commercial Lending Rates in Peru, 2010–2022 by Sergio Bravo Orellana

“…In the last decade, among Latin American countries, Peru has stood out for its key financial system and macroeconomic stability characteristics. …”
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