MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

“…Reports are provided of several mycological meetings in 2023: the Asian Mycological Congress, XIX Congress of European Mycologists, a meeting of European Mycological Groups and Societies, the XI Latin American Mycological Congress, Westerdijk Spring Symposium on Fungal Evolution, the Brazilian Society of Mycology, the Annual Meeting of the Mycological Society of China, and the Fifth Iranian Mycological Congress. …”
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Higher Education as Soft Power Potential of Russia by M. M. Lebedeva, J. Fort

“…Almost 80 % of them were from Asia, Africa and Latin America. There was a significant fall in international education in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. …”
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ESTRATOS SUMERGIDOS Y LA CONDICIÓN DEL CONOCIMIENTO EN AMÉRICA LATINA1,2 by Gisela Heffes

“…En 2019 se publican Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America, de Héctor Hoyos, y Allegories of the Anthropocene, de Elizabeth DeLoughrey. …”
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Reconnecting Alaska: Mexican Movements and the Last Frontier by Sara V. Komarnisky

“…Powerful imaginaries are associated with places: Alaska, and 'the north' more generally, and Latin America, and Mexico specifically. My research shows how interesting things happen when they are brought together through movement. …”
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Dissociative Experiences Scale: Psychometric Analysis in Puerto Rico and Contributions to the Discussion of the Factor Structure by Juan González-Rivera

“…This study will advance further research on dissociation and dissociative disorders in Puerto Rico and Latin America.…”
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Hydric conflict and territorial defense: Women in the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero, Argentina by Mariela Pena

“…Latin America is currently undergoing, to a worrying degree, the advance of the extractive-export model, which aggravates distributive conflicts associated with territorial and water resources. …”
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Nonlinear Pulse Vaccination in an SIR Epidemic Model with Resource Limitation by Wenjie Qin, Sanyi Tang, Robert A. Cheke

“…The threshold condition for the stability of the disease free steady state is given. Latin Hypercube Sampling/Partial Rank Correlation Coefficient uncertainty and sensitivity analysis techniques were employed to determine the key factors which are most significantly related to the threshold value. …”
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International connections of the Ecuadorian Amazonian forest colonization process 1960-1970 by Pablo Campaña

“…During that period poor farmer organizations in several Latin American countries were demanding access to land held by traditional latifundia. …”
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The Stoic Tradition by John Sellars

“…The Neoplatonic practice of writing commentaries on the works of both Plato and Aristotle in late antiquity was central, laying the foundations for the subsequent philosophical traditions in Greek, Arabic, and Latin during the Middle Ages. The Stoics had no equivalent commentary tradition. …”
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Effect of Seed Source and Family on The Growth of (Swietenia macrophylla King.) Seedling at Seven Months Old. by Mashudi Mashudi, Mudji Susanto, Liliana Baskorowati

“…Swietenia macrophylla King. is an exotic species from Latin America which have been planted in Indonesia since 1870. …”
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Multiobjective Optimization of Precision Forging Process Parameters Based on Response Surface Method by Fayuan Zhu, Zhaohui Wang, Mi Lv

“…In order to control the precision forging forming quality and improve the service life of die, a multiobjective optimization method for process parameters design was presented by applying Latin hypercube design method and response surface model approach. …”
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Multiscale juridification of the mining industry: Experiences in Central America and Mexico by Ainhoa Montoya, Rachel Sieder, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

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Uncertainty Quantification of GEKO Model Coefficients on Compressible Flows by Yeong-Ki Jung, Kyoungsik Chang, Jae Hyun Bae

“…Uncertainty quantification (UQ) analysis is incorporated to quantify the uncertainty of the model coefficients and to calibrate the coefficients. The Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method is used for sampling independent input parameters as a uniform distribution. …”
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A Vibration-Related Design Parameter Optimization Method for High-Speed Elevator Horizontal Vibration Reduction by Lemiao Qiu, Zili Wang, Shuyou Zhang, Lichun Zhang, Jie Chen

“…An optimization model of the design parameters for HsEHV reduction was constructed, and the response surface model of objective function (the peak-to-peak value of horizontal vibration acceleration) was constructed using Latin hypercube sampling. We adopted a multiobjective genetic algorithm to optimize the design parameters for horizontal vibration reduction and used the min-max standardization method to select an optimal solution set. …”
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1720ko Imitazionearen iturriak: lehen hurbilketa by Blanca Urgell

“…Azterketa hau lagin labur bitan egindakoa da, baina ondorioak ziurtzat eman daitezke: latin jatorrizkoaren garaitsuko edizio frantsesen bat eta Aranbillaga apaizak egin 1684ko euskarazko itzulpena, biak ere biak aurrean izanik itzuli zen 1720ko Imitazionea. …”
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Percentage excessive mortality from COVID-19 in Cuba: a first approach by Armando H. Seuc Jo, Luis Carlos Silva Aycaguer, Lisbeth Fernández González

“…<br /><strong>Results:</strong> Excessive Mortality in Cuba compares favorably with that of other countries, in particular in the Latin American region. <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The incidence of the disease, together with the Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions implemented by Governments, among other factors, influence Excessive Mortality. …”
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Punitive privatization in Mexico: Labor subjectification in relation to prison outsourcing by Pablo Hoyos-González, Nadia Patricia Gutiérrez-Gallardo, Francico Javier Escobedo-Conde

“…Given the scarcity of research on the impact of the privatization of the prison system in Latin America, we take the Mexican case with the aim of problematizing the implementation of prison outsourcing and the accreditation of new prisons by the American Correctional Association (ACA). …”
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Interdisciplinary relationships between Health Education and Universal Literature by Míriam Gutiérrez Escobar, Felicia Margarita Llerena Bermúdez, Lourdes González Pérez, José Carlos Medina Alejo, María Bello Benet, Anisley Cazañas Hernández

“…Current and important topics were addressed: collective - personal hygiene and sexual education, by selecting work fragments from different countries and times, from Greco-Latin culture until to the nineteenth century; didactic guides are presented which make it possible to enrich and deepen the study of a work beyond an exclusively literary perspective, contributing to increase health education and strengthen interdisciplinary links. …”
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The first books in Kaunas by Sigitas Lūžys

“…Up to now, in the collection of KAVB, there are 78 books from the Jesuits' library, mainly in Latin, Polish, 2 books in German, and 1 book in French. …”
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Cross-Linguistic Influences of Learning German in Finnish and German Upper Secondary Schools by Esa M. Penttinen, Heiner Böttger

“…The survey data consisted of students' answers to one identical question that they were asked in the school years 2017-2020: 'How does the knowledge of the languages studied at school (Swedish, English, French, Spanish, Latin – cross-linguistic learning) affect their learning of German?' …”
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