The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections by Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti

“…The main reason for this move was the surprising growth of the evangelical population in the country, which reached almost 30% by the end of 2023. …”
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The course of COVID-19 in Jamaica from outbreak to vaccination by Kevoyne H Chambers

“…Changes in COVID-19 policies by the Jamaican government as well as the characteristics of different COVID-19 variants corresponded to an increased number of new daily COVID-19 cases and deaths among the Jamaican population. Currently, only 29.97% of the Jamaican population has completed the initial COVID-19 vaccination protocol which ranks Jamaica 32 out of 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as of February 10, 2023, when looking at the number of COVID-19 vaccination doses per 100 population. …”
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A Theoretical Model of Listeriosis Driven by Cross Contamination of Ready-to-Eat Food Products by C. W. Chukwu, F. Nyabadza

“…The results show that a reduction in the number of contaminated workers and removal of contaminated food products are essential in eliminating the disease in the human population and vice versa. The results have significant public health implications in the management and containment of any listeriosis disease outbreak.…”
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Boieiras do Ver-o-Peso: tradição, cultura e valores não econômicos da culinária regional na mais importante feira da Amazônia brasileira by Fabrício Khoury Rebello, Paola Corrêa dos Santos, Marcos Antônio Souza dos Santos

“…The research was conducted based on a representative sample of the population of Belém, capital of Pará state, in the Brazilian Amazon, with the purpose of analyzing the aspects of consumer perception regarding cultural issues, tourist attractiveness, infrastructure conditions, hygienic-sanitary standards adopted and commercialization of meals offered by the Ver-o-Peso boieiras. …”
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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

“…These data can be used for large-scale species distribution models, calculation of population trends, extinction risk analyses and educational purposes.…”
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Cognitive impairment at older ages among 8000 men and women living in Mexico City: a cross-sectional analyses of a prospective study by Carlos González-Carballo, Pablo Kuri-Morales, Erwin Chiquete, Mario Rojas-Russell, Rogelio Santacruz-Benitez, Raúl Ramirez-Reyes, Adrián Garcilazo-Ávila, Jaime Berumen, Eirini Trichia, Louisa Gnatiuc Friedrichs, Paulina Orellana, Carolina Ochoa-Rosales, Gary O’Donovan, Jonathan R Emberson, Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Diego Aguilar-Ramirez, Jesus Alegre-Díaz

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La mosquée de Paris. Construire l’islam français et l’islam en France, 1926-1947 by Naomi Davidson

“…"French Islam" based on a secular and republican model, was used as a means to manage and monitor the North African population in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. The fact that French Islam was used as an intermediary made it obvious that French authorities could not envisage the possibility of Muslim secularity.In examining the construction of the Paris Mosque as well as mosques and other provincial Muslim religious sites in the 1940s, we see that the buildings themselves as well as their architectural and decorative styles helped to define the contours of French Islam and of Islam in France. …”
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Interaction of Schistosoma mansoni Sporocysts and Hemocytes of Biomphalaria by D. Negrão-Corrêa, A. C. A. Mattos, C. A. J. Pereira, R. L. Martins-Souza, P. M. Z. Coelho

“…Human infection by Schistosoma mansoni affects more than 100 million people worldwide, most often in populations of developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. …”
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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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The need for novel influenza vaccines in low- and middle-income countries: A narrative review by Julia R. Spinardi, Karan B. Thakkar, Verna L. Welch, Oladayo Jagun, Moe H. Kyaw

“…Most of the disease burden is in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) owing to factors such as high population density, infrastructure challenges, poor quality healthcare, lack of consistent recommendations, less prioritization of all high-risk groups, and prevalent use of trivalent influenza vaccines. …”
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Evaluating structural safety of trusses using Machine Learning by Tran-Hieu Nguyen, Anh-Tuan Vu

“…Members� sectional areas and the safety state are stored as the inputs and outputs of the training dataset, respectively. Three popular machine learning classifiers including Support Vector Machine, Deep Neural Network, and Adaptive Boosting are used for evaluating the safety of structures. …”
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Vulnerabilidade socioambiental, análise de situação de saúde e indicadores: implicações na qualidade de vida no município de São Paulo by Marilia Araujo Roggero, Luciana Ziglio, Marina Miranda

“…The municipality of São Paulo (MSP) inside the metropolitan region is the largest urban complex in Latin America, with a population of approximately 12 million inhabitants. …”
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Hydric conflict and territorial defense: Women in the Peasant Movement of Santiago del Estero, Argentina by Mariela Pena

“…In the face of these processes, environmental resistances have been articulated by vulnerable peasant-indigenous populations, who oppose this productivist paradigm by advancing sustainable development ethics. …”
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Nonlinear Pulse Vaccination in an SIR Epidemic Model with Resource Limitation by Wenjie Qin, Sanyi Tang, Robert A. Cheke

“…Once the threshold value exceeds a critical level, both susceptible and infected populations can oscillate periodically. Furthermore, when the pulse vaccination period is chosen as a bifurcation parameter, the SIR model with nonlinear pulse vaccination reveals complex dynamics including period doubling, chaotic solutions, and coexistence of multiple attractors. …”
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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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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

“…On the contrary, more research is required regarding the female population.…”
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Are Believers Happier than Atheists? Well-being Measures in a Sample of Atheists and Believers in Puerto Rico by Juan Aníbal González-Rivera, Adam Rosario-Rodríguez, Eduardo L. Rodríguez-Ramos, Idania Hernández-Gato, Lourdes M. Torres-Báez

“…We hope that these findings create social awareness and could be used as a basis for future research concerning the population of non-believers…”
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The Status of Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention in Nevada, USA by Anne M. Rothweiler, Elena E. Cabb, Shawn L. Gerstenberger

“…Emerging data indicates that Nevada is an area of rapid population growth, characterized by increasing immigration from Latin America, increasing numbers of children from low-income families with no health insurance. …”
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Building capacities for oriented innovation: Argentina’s response to COVID-19 from a gender perspective by Leila Mucarsel, Ana Clara Barile, Meera Bhat

“…In this context, Argentina was recognized as one of the few countries that managed to mainstream a gender perspective to reach the most vulnerable populations, showing adaptive capacities and strategic orientation. …”
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Public health policies for children and youth with special health care needs in OECD member countries and Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Ângela Cristina Rocha Gimenes, Elenir Rose Jardim Cury

“…<h4>Background</h4>Because public health policies lay down guidelines for health promotion in specific populations, a review of policies devised for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) can reveal the actual degree of priority assigned to this population segment, while also highlighting relevant policies in this field.…”
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