A potential snail host of schistosomiasis in Bolivia: Biomphalaria amazonica paraense, 1966 by JP Pointier, WL Paraense, RJ DeJong, ES Loker, MD Bargues, S Mas-Coma

“…Phylogenetic analysis confirmed that these Bolivian specimens belong to B. amazonica.…”
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La competencia portuaria entre Arica y Cobija en el advenimiento de la Confederación Perú-Boliviana by Pol Colàs

“…In nineteenth-century Bolivia, there was a long conflict between local forces in favor of, first, using the port of Arica to export Bolivian products, those centered around La Paz, and second, those who wanted to promote the port of Cobija, on the Bolivian coast, especially in Potosí and Chuquisaca. …”
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Trans y maricas en la «Primera cumbre Planetaria de Descolonización y Despatriarcalización» (La Paz, Bolivia, noviembre de 2015) by Laura Álvarez Mollinedo, David Aruquipa Pérez, Pascale Absi

“…This article transcribes a conversation between Laura Álvarez and David Aruquipa, both militants of the LGBT community of Bolivia, about their participation in the “First Planetary Summit of Decolonization and Depatriarchalization” organized by the Bolivian government in 2015. This event sought to strengthen alliances and seek common ground among oppressed minorities, but the conference also revealed the gap between indigenous meanings of “decolonization” and Bolivian gay and transgender activists anti-hegemonic claims regarding sexuality and gender assignments.…”
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Les partis « antisystèmes » en Bolivie : une remise en cause de l’architecture des rapports sociaux ? by Cécile Casen

“…What does it reveal us about the specificities of the Bolivian society?…”
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Dryophylax chaquensis (Bergna & Álvarez, 1993) (Serpentes, Colubridae): first record from Cochabamba Department and a geographic range extension in Bolivia by Luis R. Rivas, Gabriel Callapa, Patricia Mendoza-Miranda, Arturo Muñoz, Cord B. Eversole, Randy L. Powell

“…Our record extends the distribution of this species towards the Bolivian Inter-Andean Dry Forests by approximately 63 km to the west (in a straight line) from the nearest known locality in Vallegrande, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. …”
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Tirinea de Jesús Urzagasti (1969) by Giovanna Rivero

“…Tirinea (1969): A Homeland for Bolivian Modernity proposes a reading of this foundational work of the Bolivian post-national phase, written by the “chaqueño” writer Jesús Urzagasti, as an account of melancholia versus alienating modernity. …”
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La alianza entre Chile y Bolivia entre 1891 y 1899. Una oportunidad para visitar la teoría del equilibrio by José Miguel Concha, Cristián Garay Vera

“…In this case which is the intelligibility within the "bolivian policy" in the design of Chilean exterior policy? …”
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La pericolosa interpretazione contra constitutionem della giurisprudenza boliviana sui mandati presidenziali by Laura Alessandra Nocera

“…There has always been a confusion according to the Bolivian legal doctrine about the real duration of the Presidential office and the possibility of a sine tempore re-election. …”
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Rhodnius robustus in Bolivia identified by its wings by Matias A, Riva JX de la, Torrez M, Dujardin JP

“…Wings of a Rhodnius specimen from Alto Beni (Bolivia) was examined for identification and compared with R. stali, R. robustus, (certified Bolivian species), R. pictipes and R. prolixus (suspected Bolivian species). …”
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La diplomacia argentina en el conflicto bélico del Chaco Boreal según el intransigente y nueva época by Mario Gustavo Parrón

“…It is part of the central question, already outlined by the Bolivian historiography and recent contributions of argentine researchers, where it is required that the theme of argentine diplomacy is questioned by the government and the bolivian citizenship at the time. …”
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Assessment of Phenotypic Diversity in the USDA Collection of Quinoa Links Genotypic Adaptation to Germplasm Origin by Muhammad Bilal Hafeez, Shahid Iqbal, Yuanyuan Li, Muhammad Sohail Saddiq, Shahzad M. A. Basra, Hui Zhang, Noreen Zahra, Muhammad Z. Akram, Daniel Bertero, Ramiro N. Curti

“…Ordination and cluster analyses differentiated four groups dominated by genotypes from: Peru and the Bolivian Highlands (G1); the Bolivian Highlands (G2); the Ballón collection (regarded as a cross between Bolivian and Sea Level (Chilean) genotypes) plus Bolivian Highlands (G3); and Ballón plus Sea Level (G4), this latter group being the most differentiated one. …”
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Intragenomic Conflict between Knob Heterochromatin and B Chromosomes Is the Key to Understand Genome Size Variation along Altitudinal Clines in Maize by Graciela Esther González, Lidia Poggio

“…To discuss the biological role of the genome size variation, we focused on Bolivian maize landraces growing along a broad altitudinal range. …”
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Ch’ixi, Qhipnayra, Nkali: modi di dire l’emergenza decoloniale by Marianna Scaramucci

“…The study analyses some reflections of the Bolivian Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui on the vocabulary of the Aymara language, spoken in Bolivia, who takes into account the native language universe and its expressive possibilities to pave the way for an epistemological decolonization. …”
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José Ballivián y la Comisión Topográfica: la institucionalización de la cartografía oficial en Bolivia (1842-1847) by Víctor Hugo Machaca Mamani

“…The first one was created by the French engineer Felipe Bertrés, and the second one by the members of Topographic Commision, under the command of the Bolivian officers Juan Ondarza and Juan Mariano Mujía. …”
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‘Habilito: Debt for Life’ by Chuck Sturtevant, Daniela Ricco-Quiroga

“…The documentary film Habilito: Debt for Life provides a case study of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and Mosetenes, members of an indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon.…”
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Mano de obra especializada en los mercados coloniales de Charcas. Bolivia, siglos XVI-XVII by Laura Escobari de Querejazu

“…The word yanacona had many interpretations in Peruvian and Bolivian historiographies from mid 20th century. This work takes into account the meanings given by Murra and Wachtel, in sense to consider to yanacona like a specialized working craftsman at the pre-Hispanic time, far from the first interpretation that worker considered domestic and, even, slave. …”
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La Relación Universidad-Empresa en América Latina: ¿Apropiación Incorrecta de Modelos Foráneos? by Jaider Manuel Vega Jurado, Ignacio Fernández de Lucio, Ronald Huanca López

“…The empirical analysis is based on a survey of 349 lecturers from Bolivian public universities, which inquired into aspects of university-industry relations (UIR). …”
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Cartographier les territorialités indigènes dans les Andes boliviennes : enjeux politiques, défis méthodologiques by Irène Hirt, Louca Lerch

“…It deals in particular with the mapping of ayllus and markas (the name of Quechua and Aymara territories in the Bolivian Andes) produced for research and development aid projects. …”
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Public policies and equality of opportunity for wellbeing in multiple dimensions: a theoretical discussion and evidence from Bolivia by Krishnakumar, J, Nogales, R

“…We propose a theoretical framework and a modelling tool to include these aspects in an assessment of the connection between public policies and inequality of opportunity for wellbeing within a Romerian setting. Using Bolivian data, we demonstrate the empirical usefulness of our framework and find that Bolivian social programmes are strongly associated with the reduction of unfair inequalities arising from ethnicity and family background, although their levels are far away from being optimal. …”

Interdecadal variability of the austral summer precipitation over the Central Andes by Juan Sulca, Mathias Vuille, Bo Dong

“…The REOF1 positive phase is associated with moisture transport from the lowlands toward the Bolivian Altiplano, induced by upper-level easterly wind anomalies over the Central Andes. …”
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