A CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE FOR THE VIETNAMESE WORD CATEGORIZATION by Nguyễn Minh Hiệp, Nguyễn Thị Minh Huyền, Ngô Thế Quyền, Trần Thị Phương Linh

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Prediction of mental strength from the satisfaction of basic needs in CABA and GBA esports players by Pablo Christian González Caino

“…However, being an area still growing, few studies have addressed them in Latin America. This study aimed to determine the relationship and predictors of mental toughness from the satisfaction of basic needs in amateur esports players from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. …”
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Sulfated Glycans and Related Digestive Enzymes in the Zika Virus Infectivity: Potential Mechanisms of Virus-Host Interaction and Perspectives in Drug Discovery by Vitor H. Pomin

“…As broadly reported, there is an ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in countries of Latin America. Recent findings have demonstrated that ZIKV causes severe defects on the neural development in fetuses in utero and newborns. …”
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A Study on a Quantitative Analysis Method for Fire and Explosion Risk Assessment of Offshore Platforms by Zhaohui Shang, Huibin Yan, Weidong Ruan, Yong Bai

“…The proposed approach achieves the following three objectives: (a) defining a suitable number of leak scenarios quantitatively based on the Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) technique and statistical analysis; (b) defining the explosion scenarios according to the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) dispersion analysis results in the sampled leak scenarios; (c) designing the explosion loads on interested areas according to the CFD analysis results in different explosion scenarios and exceedance probability methods. …”
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The use of abbreviations by superscript letter in an early fifteenth-century manuscript of the Wycliffite Bible by Joanna Grzybowska

“…According to Cappelli (1929/1982), superscript letters in Latin were used mainly in word-final positions; however, it was not uncommon for a superscript vowel to appear word-medially. …”
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Unravelling Mortality in Enslavement. Patterns and Determinants of Mortality Among the Enslaved Population of Curaçao, 1839–1963 by Wieke Elien Metzlar, Nadeche Diepgrond

“…During the 19th century, enslaved populations in Latin America and the Caribbean were characterized by an excess of deaths, indicating the harsh living conditions they were forced to live in. …”
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Abortion Lawfare in Mexico's Supreme Court: Between the Right to Health and Subnational Autonomy by Rachel Sieder, Yacotzin Bravo Espinosa

“…We highlight a key area for future comparative inquiry on sexual and reproductive rights lawfare in Latin America: the interplay between supreme courts and subnational legislatures in federal systems, and the ways that this shapes movement and counter-movement framings and strategies.…”
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Elites and taxation: Perceptions of taxes among Córdoba businesspeople by Paulina Santa-Cruz

“…In order to analyze the configuration and transformations of tax systems in Latin America, it is essential to know how taxpayers perceive taxes. …”
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Effect of Molten Corium Behavior Uncertainty on the Severe Accident Progress by Wonjun Choi, Taeseok Kim, Joongoo Jeon, Nam Kyung Kim, Sung Joong Kim

“…Therefore, in this study, the uncertainty analysis of severe accident progress was performed using MELCOR code, and a total of 200 data sets of in-vessel uncertainty parameters were generated by Latin hypercube sampling method. The rank regression analysis was also performed to investigate the effect of uncertainty parameters on the severe accident progress. …”
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Optimal Design of the Sealing Structure of a Hydraulic Cylinder on the Basis of a Surrogate Model by Hong Zhang, Yu Sun, Chenchen Li, Haoran Wang

“…Then, a surrogate model was fitted and optimised through a constrained Latin hypercube method, an interpolating recmultiquadric radial basis function method, and the genetic algorithm. …”
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L’ attirail d’un magicien rangé dans une cave de Chartres/Autricum by Dominique Joly, Richard Gordon, Jonathan Simon, William Van Andringa, Stéphane Willerval

“…An incense burner, bearing a magical inscription in Latin and snake potteries were found by chance at Chartres in July 2005. …”
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Gender earnings ratio differences among population groups in Canada by Aneta Bonikowska

“…There was essentially no change among Black and South Asian workers, and small declines were seen in the gender earnings ratio among Japanese, Latin American, and Arab and West Asian employees.…”
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Bolsonaro et la covid-19 au Brésil : réflexions autour d’un double paradoxe by François Roubaud, Mireille Razafindrakoto

“…How a government violently opposed to any form of redistribution could have been at the origin of this Auxílio emergencial, an interventionist policy on a scale unmatched in Latin America or in the country’s history. These apparent contradictions lead us to offer elements of interpretation of the strategy of a president under threat of multiple impeachment procedures, who plays his political survival day by day.…”
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Aggregation and environmental transmission in chronic wasting disease by Olga Vasilyeva, Tamer Oraby, Frithjof Lutscher

“…We calculate the basicreproduction number and perform a sensitivity analysis based onLatin hypercube sampling from published parameter values. …”
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MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021 by Florencia Grattarola, Kateřina Tschernosterová, Petr Keil

“…Unfortunately, these sources are scarce in regions such as Latin America. We present a dataset of 60,179 point occurrences (i.e. presence-only data, PO) and 45,468 camera-trap survey records (i.e. presence-absence data, PA) for 63 species of carnivores of the Neotropical Region from 2000 to 2021. …”
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Attitude and behavior on hotel choice in function of the perception of sustainable practices by Cristóbal Fernández Robin, Jorge Cea Valencia, Geraldine Jamett Muñoz, Paulina Santander Astorga, Diego Yáñez Martínez

“…Chile is one of the countries with higher GPB in Latin America and important sources of incomes and employment comes from tourism. …”
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Celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Lithuanian book by Vladas Žukas

“…Among these was one of the most artistic editions: "The First Lithuanian Book" (a photographic text of the Cathechismus and its transliteration in Latin letters, with articles by J. Kruopas and illuminations by M. …”
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Reflections on the ecclesiastical interpretations of 6th April 1652 as a South African symbolic date by R. M. Britz

“…This methodological preference presupposes a fundamentally different way of coming to terms with history (and its perplexing symbolic dates) to what happened in 1992 in Latin America. Instead of advancing radical theology in order to rectify history, what happened should be appreciated in view of Scripture. …”
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