Employing Kirkpatrick’s framework to evaluate nurse training: an integrative review by Fernanda Maria de Miranda, Bruna Vasconcelos dos Santos, Vicki Leigh Kristman, Vivian Aline Mininel

“…Method integrative literature review in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System and Web of Science databases. …”
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Type B non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency virus with no detected viral load. Case report by Edwin Marcelo Miranda Solìs, Juan Fernando Orozco Herrera

“…Cancer is a common presentation in people living with this virus and represents the main cause of death in this population in most Latin American countries. For these reasons, we present the case of a 58-year-old patient, diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency virus in the year 2000, who in the last ten years presented adequate clinical, virological, and pharmacological control. …”
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La construcción de un estado neo-colonial: el encuentro nicaragüense con la diplomacia del dólar by Michel Gobat

“…It illustrates how the novel U.S. economic project, intended to modernize the Latin American States, turned out to be a feudal, anti-modern project, from the point of view of Nicaraguan upper classes. …”
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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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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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Multiscale juridification of the mining industry: Experiences in Central America and Mexico by Ainhoa Montoya, Rachel Sieder, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

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De frontier até pós-frontier: regiões pioneiras no Brasil dentro do processo de transformação espaço-temporal e sócio-ecológico by Martin Coy, Michael Klingler, Gerd Kohlhepp

“…This holds particularly true inasmuch as the incorporation of land through settler colonisation after Latin American countries’ independence – mainly in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil – became one of the key instruments for opening up and developing areas, for geostrategic securing, and for economic valorisation of hinterland spaces discursively framed as free of settlements and populations. …”
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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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Delegitimizing, corruptive crises by Ángel R. Oquendo

“…In other words, one should not solely seek to change the attitude or the prevailing professional culture in civil service. Instead, Latin American societies must embark upon an unlikely radical crusade to transform the way in which they understand themselves, particularly the premises of their social integration. …”
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Scale-dependent responses to environmental fluctuations in tropical tree species’ crown temperatures by Shannon L. J. Bayliss, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Susan Cordell, Stephanie Pau

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Serum Uric Acid Is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance among Health Personnel from Peru by Brenda M. Galindo-Yllu, Ricardo Rojas-Humpire, Carlos J. Toro-Huamanchumo, Rosmery Gutierrez-Ajalcriña, Anderson N. Soriano

“…MetS was defined according to Latin American Diabetes Association (ALAD) criteria and IR with surrogate IR markers, triglyceride-to-HDL-C ratio (TG/HDL-C), and triglyceride-to-glucose index (TyG). …”
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Por una política de defensa común latinoamericana: la propuesta venezolana by Adriana Suzart de Pádua, Suzeley Kalil Mathias

“…AbstractThe search for integration among Latin American countries is at a unique point, with economic matters transcended in importance by discussion of the creation of defense policies for the region. …”
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Transnationalization of science and technology policies in Central America. A network analysis 1955-2020 by Ronny Viales-Hurtado, Ronald Sáenz-Leandro, Marco Garita-Mondragón

“…In the heyday of CEPAL-inspired developmentalism in the region, the Central American Institute for Industrial Research and Technology (ICAITI) became a key player in the development of Latin American thought on science, technology and society. …”
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Peritoneal Equilibration Test in Costa Rica: Discrepancies from Other Populations by Marta Avellan-Boza, Fabio Hernández, Allan Ramos-Esquivel

“…Peritoneal permeability among Costa Rican CAPD patients is different from the original population described by Twardowski et al. and from other Latin-American population. This supports the theory that ethnical differences could be responsible for such variations and they validate our statement that each region should possess value references of their own.…”
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“Ethnic Revival” in Globalizing World: The Example of Indigenous Political Movements in Latin America by S. M. Kretov

“…Whereas in case of Bolivia, the indigenous movement in alliance with left and progressive social organizations, has become the leading political force.The author gives an explanation why the political activism of the indigenous peoples in different Latin American countries has taken such forms and has contributed to such results. …”
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Salas de cine en Bogotá (1897-1940): la arquitectura como símbolo de modernización del espacio urbano by Andrés Avila Gómez, Alfredo Montaño Bello

“…Movie theaters, known simply as theaters or cinemas in Bogotá, represent an exceptional case among those facilities made for leisure that were built in Latin American capitals during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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Semantic field of health in the Hispanic toponymic discourse by Irina Martynenko

“…And the generalizing concept of Medicina – the Spanish for “medicine” (mainly) – is a component that appears mostly in the urban toponymy. There are also Latin American cities named after diseases. The author comes to the conclusion that the meliorative connotation within this semantic field prevails over the pejorative one. …”
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Mouthwash with Active Oxygen (blue®m) Reduces Postoperative Inflammation and Pain by Bruna Marca Mattei, Soraia A. W. Imanishi, Grasieli de Oliveira Ramos, Paloma Santos de Campos, Suyany Gabriely Weiss, Tatiana Miranda Deliberador

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Modern Conflicts Features in Latin America. The Role of the OAS in the Settlement of the Falklands Conflict by Y. I. Strashko

“…The difference in approach to Organization's role and status between the US and Latin American states became distinct in the same period. …”
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The growing U.S.-Chinese rivalry and foreign policy initiatives of the Biden administration in Latin Caribbean America by A. D. Trebukh

“…The author concludes that the steps taken by the 46th President of the United States in the Latin American direction have strong ideological overtones. …”
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