Anthropometric Parameters in Celiac Disease: A Review on the Different Evaluation Methods and Disease Effects by Allysson Costa, Gleisson A. P. Brito

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Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America by Dante Baiardo C. Cavalcante Viana Junior, Daniel Ferreira Caixe, Vera Maria Rodrigues Ponte

“…For this purpose, we built an unbalanced panel dataset composed of 341 Latin American companies from six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. …”
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Caliban’s Dialectic: Decolonizing Thoughts for the Black Question in Latin America by Dana Rosenzvit

“…On the existence of the Latin American culture, Roberto Fernández Retamar invites us to assume the negativity by which the European colonization has marked our continent by the proud re-appropriation of the term to speak about ourselves. …”
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Os estudos culturais na encruzilhada dos feminismos materiais e descoloniais by Claudia de Lima Costa

“…I see echoes of what material feminists advocate vis - à - vis the thorny issue of the materiality of the world in the cosmopolitical proposals advanced by Latin American decolonial feminisms. I claim that the articulation of these two projects (one derived from debates in the North and the other from the South) can serve as an inspiration to rethink – and decolonize – the practices of cultural studies in Latin America.…”
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Berta Gleizer Ribeiro e as artes das vidas amazônicas by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem, Bianca Luiza Freire de Castro França, José Ribamar Bessa Freire

“…Rather, it constitutes a celebration of Berta Ribeiro and her work, which contributed to the consolidation of Brazilian and Latin American anthropology. The reflections that follow focus on the approaches to which the anthropologist paid special attention, such as those connected to the study of everyday objects, to Amazonian aesthetics, to the mythology of the indigenous peoples of the upper Rio Negro, and also to ecological issues. …”
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Evidence-based clinical standard for the diagnosis and treatment of candidemia in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit by Jorge Alberto Cortés, Martha Carolina Valderrama-Rios, Paula M. Peçanha-Pietrobom, Moacyr Silva Júnior, Cándida Diaz-Brochero, Rafael Ricardo Robles-Torres, Carmelo José Espinosa-Almanza, Laura Cristina Nocua-Báez, Marcio Nucci, Carlos Arturo Álvarez-Moreno, Flavio Queiroz-Telles, Ricardo Rabagliati, Rita Rojas-Fermín, Jorge L. Finquelievich, Fernando Riera, Patricia Cornejo-Juárez, Dora E. Corzo-León, Luis E. Cuéllar, Jeannete Zurita, Augusto Raúl Hernández, Arnaldo Lopes Colombo

“…This evidence-based clinical standard, established through expert consensus for the Latin American context, contains recommendations and algorithms for diagnosing and treating candidemia in critically ill ICU patients.…”
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Género y gestión del riesgo de desastres: análisis comparado de la agenda internacional y latinoamericana y caribeña by Ana Gabriela Fernández-Saavedra, Rosario González-Arias, Sandra Dema-Moreno

“…The article carries out a comparative documentary analysis in a double sense: on the one hand, on the incorporation of the gender perspective in the main multilateral agreements on disaster risk reduction approved in the international, Latin American, and Caribbean sphere and, on the other, on the treatment of disasters risk reduction in the equality agenda in the same territorial area. …”
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La política exterior del Paraguay frente a la dependencia y al orden internacional multipolar. by Alberto Maresca, Fabiola Francisca Martínez Cabrera

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La política exterior del Paraguay frente a la dependencia y al orden internacional multipolar. by Alberto Maresca, Fabiola Francisca Martínez Cabrera

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José Medina Echavarría y la sociología del desarrollo by Juan Jesús Morales Martín

“…Medina Echavarría’s contribution can be summarized in three essential points: the understanding of a concrete sociology of the culturalist and historicist type; the encounter and understanding among Latin American sociology and other academic disciplines, especially the science of economics; sociology and science as instruments at the service of human beings.…”
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Stigma and social support and their impact on quality of life and self-esteem among women with endometriosis in Latin-America and the Caribbean. by Yatzmeli Matías-González, Astrid Sánchez-Galarza, Ernesto Rosario-Hernández, Idhaliz Flores-Caldera, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…A total of 169 self-identified cisgender women with endometriosis from 14 Latin-American and Caribbean countries participated in the study. …”
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¿Hacia una Nueva Arquitectura Financiera Regional? Problemas y perspectivas de la cooperación monetaria en el ALBA-TCP by Benzi, D., Guayasamín, T., Vergara, M.

“…The second part revises the Latin American initiative of a New Regional Financial Architecture. …”
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Cidade de Deus: entre o testemunho e a ficção by Sandro R. Barros

“…In this sense, this study also analyses the reception of Lin's text under what has been epistemologically termed in Latin American subaltern studies as testimonio. The analysis of Lins's novel under the testimonial rubric allows for a meditation on questions related to any fictional text whose content stands too close to factually recognizable events, which takes the literary work and its possible classifications to an ontological cri- sis whose repercussions problematize literature as a vehicle of social denuncia- tion, and the author as the mediator of such a process.…”
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Interview with Piet J. Naudé by Martin Laubscher

“…His thesis explored the relation between theory and practice in Latin-American Liberation Theologies and the work of Johann Baptist Metz. …”
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Employability of Older Workers: An International Scoping Review by Luiza de Souza Coroa Contage, Lucia Helena de Freitas Pinho França

“…There is a need for more research on the subject, especially in Latin American countries, which are poorly represented in the current literature.…”
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Latin America Region: Between Dependence and Autonomy in Regional Processes by Wendy Vaca Hernández

“…To that end it examines the concepts of region, regionalism, what Latin America and the Caribbean implies, and what are the transformations in these ideas that have emerged from the regional configurations of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as plural organisms with broad objectives.…”
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Introduction to dossier. Mining extractivism in Latin America: The juridification of environmental conflicts by Rachel Sieder, Ainhoa Montoya, Yacotzin Bravo-Espinosa

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Urban Green Infrastructure in Latin America – A strategy for Bogota courtyards by Julia Nerantzia Tzortzi, Maria Stella Lux, Natalia Pardo Delgado

“…Despite being one of the most urbanised global areas, the Latin American and Caribbean region still needs to be more researched. …”
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Community, vulnerability and reproduction in disaster conditions. Approaches from Latin America and the CaribbeanIntroduction to dossier by Ana Gabriela Fernández, Johannes Waldmüller, Cristina Vega

“…The following introductory article addresses the vulnerability approach towards disasters in the social sciences from different Latin American contemporary perspectives. First of all, the elements that propose a vision about vulnerability and its initial approaches are presented and put into critical dialogue with the resilience approach. …”
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Transportation, Social Inequality and Spatial Capital: Comparative Analysis between Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile by Ricardo Apaolaza, Jorge Blanco, Natalia Lerena, Ernesto López-Morales, Michael Lukas, Maite Rivera

“…This paper studies how the characteristics of Latin American urban transportation generate dimensions of dispute of ‘spatial capital’, meaning an individually internalizable type of urban resource which results from the combination of objective material conditions and subjective socio-cultural conditions. …”
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