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    The preventable burden of pneumococcal disease in the developing world. by Scott, J

    Published 2007
    “…The efficacy of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) and their remarkable success in operational use in North America challenge us to define the burden of pneumococcal disease and the likely benefits of PCV use in developing countries. …”
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    Objects and Agency: Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, and Global Histories of Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Hugh Cagle

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…The author argues that despite important differences in orientation, a focus on objects and materiality informed by STS perspectives can broaden the archive available to scholars of colonial Latin America, challenge and extend critical insights of colonial research, and call into question the adequacy of conventional Latin American and Atlantic spatial frameworks.   …”
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    Lassa Virus Treatment Options by Frederick Hansen, Michael A. Jarvis, Heinz Feldmann, Kyle Rosenke

    Published 2021-04-01
    “…Lassa fever causes an approximate 5000 to 10,000 deaths annually in West Africa and cases have been imported into Europe and the Americas, challenging public health. Although Lassa virus was first described over 5 decades ago in 1969, no treatments or vaccines have been approved to treat or prevent infection. …”
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    The Quest for Self-Expression: Anzia Yezierska’s Portrayal of America as a Fake Golden Country by Rebeca E. Campos

    Published 2023-06-01
    “…The aim of this study is to show how the experience of Eastern European Jewish women in America challenged the discourse of the American Dream that they had previously fabricated in their homelands at the turn of the twentieth century. …”
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    Red Is the New Green: The Rise of China’s Influence in Latin America by Raymond Robertson

    Published 2019-09-01
    “…This essay reviews the following works: China on the Ground in Latin America: Challenges for the Chinese and Impacts on the Region. …”
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    Participatory action research in critical data studies: Interrogating AI from a South–North approach by Andrea Medrado, Pieter Verdegem

    Published 2024-03-01
    “…We propose a South-North flow by utilising PAR approaches that stem from Latin America, challenging how the North's centrality is taken for granted regarding AI epistemologies, experiences, and understandings. …”
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    Expansion of seasonal influenza vaccination in the Americas by Ruiz-Matus Cuauhtémoc, Danovaro-Holliday M Carolina, Kurtis Hannah J, Ropero-Álvarez Alba, Andrus Jon K

    Published 2009-09-01
    “…</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Since 2004 there has been rapid uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine in the Americas. Challenges to fully implement influenza vaccination remain, including difficulties measuring coverage rates, variable vaccine uptake, and limited surveillance and effectiveness data to guide decisions regarding vaccine formulation and timing, especially in tropical countries.…”
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    Madness, medicine, and religious identity in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world by Lee, M

    Published 2019
    “…<p>This thesis explores the experience, interpretation and treatment of religious beliefs and behaviours that were considered ‘mad’ in nineteenth-century Britain and America. Challenging historiographical emphases upon a secularising transition in the long eighteenth century, it argues that there was considerable overlap between the religious beliefs and values of the people who were deemed religiously insane and the people who confined and treated them. …”
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    Latin America’s changing balance of class forces: An Introduction by Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Manuel Larrabure

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…In this introductory article, we present the special collection by outlining the shared theoretical underpinnings of our attempt to understand the current crisis of the left in Latin America. Challenging state-centred perspectives that over-emphasize state autonomy and the role of charismatic leaders, we propose a relational approach, one that focuses on the interactions between governments, popular movements, and elites. …”
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