Understanding the creation and reduction of disaster risks in Latin America and the Caribbean by Ricardo Mena

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La nueva política de Canadá hacia América Latina by Bernard M Wood

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Review of Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America by Jeffrey Stout by Allyson Carr

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Los Clímax de Vegetación en la América Tropical by Beard J. S.

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ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND RUSSIA by E. L. Samarina

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Settling down with anthropomorphic clay figurines in eastern North America by G. Logan Miller

“…Indigenous peoples have occupied eastern North America for over 10,000 years; yet the earliest anthropomorphic figurines were only manufactured in the past several thousand years. …”
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Food Sovereignty in Latin America: a gendered and multiescalar perspective by Gabriela Pinheiro Machado Brochner

“… This article aims to analyze how the concept of food sovereignty in Latin America has been constructed as a political tool for peasant women. …”
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Assessment of the Extreme Precipitation by Satellite Estimates over South America by Rayana Santos Araujo Palharini, Daniel Alejandro Vila, Daniele Tôrres Rodrigues, David Pareja Quispe, Rodrigo Cassineli Palharini, Ricardo Almeida de Siqueira, João Maria de Sousa Afonso

“…In order to compare gauge-based daily precipitation and satellite-based data for extreme values, statistical techniques were used to evaluate the performance the selected satellite products over the tropical region of South America. According to the results, the threshold for rain to be considered an extreme event in South America presented high variability, ranging from 20 to 150 mm/day, depending on the region and the percentile threshold chosen for analysis. …”
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Acute myeloid leukemia: challenges for diagnosis and treatment in Latin America by Andrés Gómez-De León, Roberta Demichelis-Gómez, Abel da Costa-Neto, David Gómez-Almaguer, Eduardo Magalhães Rego

“…ABSTRACTObjective to review the current diagnostic and therapeutic landscape of AML in Latin America as a reflection of other low- and middle-income countries and regions of the world. …”
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Common Good Constitutionalism vs. America’s Enlightenment Civil Religion by Jason Morgan

“…While Vermeule’s work is ambitious and his intervention into originalist-progressivist debates welcome, a question remains: will common good constitutionalism be able to overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion? In this paper, I consider the challenges which America’s Enlightenment civil religion poses to common good constitutionalism (and any other attempt to think past the Constitution from within a constitutional framework), concluding that common good constitutionalism, insofar as it is predicated on the pre-existing Constitution and deployed within the American politico-theological domain, cannot overcome America’s Enlightenment civil religion to effect the common good.…”
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Socially Engaged Buddhist Nuns: Activism in Taiwan and North America by Karma Lekshe Tsomo

“…The article concludes with reflections on the prospects for nuns' social activism in Taiwan and North America in future years.…”
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Mapping Contextual Aspects that Influences Women in Computing in Latin America by Bárbara Drummond, Luciana Salgado, Meirylene Avelino, José Viterbo Filho, Karen Ribeiro, Mercedes Cigüeñas, Guillermo Dávila, Boris Branisa

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The Expansion of China's Global Hegemonic Strategy: Implications for Latin America by Xing Li

“…The author argues that Beijing's capital and hegemonic outward expansion represents a world system’s new round of capital and production relocation, which will dialectically enlarge or reduce "room for maneuver" and increase or decrease "upward mobility" for developing regions including Latin America. The paper concludes that it is in the political and economic interest of Latin America to seize the chance of this external "promotion by invitation" and to increase its upward mobility by finding the strategic convergence with China's global strategy.…”
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Feeding injury of major lepidopteran soybean pests in South America by Pablo Daniel Carpane, Matías Llebaria, Ana Flavia Nascimento, Lucía Vivan

“…Lepidopteran pests are major factors limiting soybean productivity in South America. In some cases, effective management of these species requires the use of foliar insecticides. …”
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Interpreting America in the Works of Knut Hamsun and Johannes V. Jensen by Vincent Rasmussen

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Latin America: Should We Be Worried about Zika Virus by Joselyn Ye, Marcelo Bedoya

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A Sociologia na América Latina, e particularmente, no Brasil by Fernando de Azevedo

“… (Primeiro Parágrafo do Artigo) O ensino e os estudos de sociologia, na América Latina e, em particular, no Brasil, não remontam além dos fins do século XIX e, mais rigorosamente, do primeiro quartel do século. …”
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The Scholar as Diplomat: The Fulbright Program and America's Cultural Engagement with the World by Molly Bettie

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Latin America’s “Great Divergence”: New Research on the Age of Revolution by Jesse Zarley

“…A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812. By Timothy Hawkins. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. …”
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Climate change impact on photovoltaic power potential in South America by Gabriel Narvaez, Michael Bressan, Andres Pantoja, Luis Felipe Giraldo

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