Introduction: I am Nothing by Licia Fiol-Matta

“…Lucecita is a stage name, a diminutive that always has seemed not quite right for this mercurial singer, and yet also on the mark in Latin American Spanish as a signifier for the enormous affection she has evoked in generations of Puerto Ricans. …”
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Computational modelling in disorders of consciousness: Closing the gap towards personalised models for restoring consciousness by Andrea I. Luppi, Joana Cabral, Rodrigo Cofre, Pedro A.M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Abid Y. Qureshi, Amy Kuceyeski, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Federico Raimondo, Gustavo Deco, James M. Shine, Morten L. Kringelbach, Patricio Orio, ShiNung Ching, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Michael N. Diringer, Robert D. Stevens, Jacobo Diego Sitt

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Using an Aluminum Hydroxide–Chitosan Matrix Increased the Vaccine Potential and Immune Response of Mice against Multi-Drug-Resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> by Túllio T. Deusdará, Mellanie K. C. Félix, Helio de S. Brito, Edson W. S. Cangussu, Wellington de S. Moura, Benedito Albuquerque, Marcos G. Silva, Gil R. dos Santos, Paula B. de Morais, Elizangela F. da Silva, Yury O. Chaves, Luis Andre M. Mariúba, Paulo A. Nogueira, Spartaco Astolfi-Filho, Enedina N. Assunção, Sabrina Epiphanio, Claudio R. F. Marinho, Igor V. Brandi, Kelvinson F. Viana, Eugenio E. Oliveira, Alex Sander R. Cangussu

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Questões étnico-raciais no futebol Gaúcho: subsídio teórico para disciplina de Educação Física by Otávio Nogueira Balzano, Gilberto Ferreira da Silva, João Albert Steffen Munsberg

“…ABSTRACT  Ethnic-racial issues in gaucho soccer: theoretical subsidy for physical education discipline In the beginning of the XXI century, the problematic of the relations between education and ethnical-racial differences has been object of countless debates, reflections and researches in Brazil and in the Latin American continent, especially in the field of social sciences. …”
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Elena+ care for COVID-19, a pandemic lifestyle care intervention: intervention design and study protocol by Ollier, Joseph, Neff, Simon, Dworschak, Christine, Sejdiji, Arber, Santhanam, Prabhakaran, Keller, Roman, Xiao, Grace, Asisof, Alina, Rüegger, Dominik, Bérubé, Caterina, Tomas, Lena Hilfiker, Neff, Joël, Yao, Jiali, Alattas, Aishah, Varela-Mato, Veronica, Pitkethly, Amanda, Vara, Mª Dolores, Herrero, Rocío, Baños, Rosa Mª, Parada, Carolina, Agatheswaran, Rajashree Sundaram, Villalobos, Victor, Keller, Olivia Clare, Chan, Wai Sze, Mishra, Varun, Jacobson, Nicholas, Stanger, Catherine, He, Xinming, von Wyl, Viktor, Weidt, Steffi, Haug, Severin, Schaub, Michael, Kleim, Birgit, Barth, Jürgen, Witt, Claudia, Scholz, Urte, Fleisch, Elgar, von Wangenheim, Florian, Car, Lorainne Tudor, Müller-Riemenschneider, Falk, Hauser-Ulrich, Sandra, Asomoza, Alejandra Núñez, Salamanca-Sanabria, Alicia, Mair, Jacqueline Louise, Kowatsch, Tobias

“…Elena+ is available for public download on iOS and Android devices in English, European Spanish and Latin American Spanish with future languages and launch countries planned, and no limits on planned recruitment. …”
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Educational effectiveness and inequalities in Chile: a multilevel accelerated longitudinal study of primary school children’s achievement trajectories by Ferrand, LCO

“…The quality of the data allows for the modelling of school and teacher effects on student achievement growth over time, which represents a clear improvement when compared to previous measures of educational effectiveness developed in the Chilean and Latin-American context, which cover two time points at most. …”

Le concept de la non-personne selon Gustavo Gutiérrez by Betancourt, I

“…The second is a collection of reports from South American missionaries, published in 1971 by the Latin American Episcopal Conference (La pastoral en las misiones de América Latina, ed. …”

Phacoemulsification with posterior chamber intraocular lens versus extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) with posterior chamber intraocular lens for age-related cataract. by Silva, d, Riaz, Y, Evans, JR

“…SEARCH METHODS: We searched CENTRAL (which contains the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Trials Register) (The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 4), Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily, Ovid OLDMEDLINE (January 1946 to May 2013), EMBASE (January 1980 to May 2013), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) (January 1982 to May 2013), Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) (January 1970 to May 2013), the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) (www.controlled-trials.com), ClinicalTrials.gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (www.who.int/ictrp/search/en). …”

Manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) with posterior chamber intraocular lens versus phacoemulsification with posterior chamber intraocular lens for age-related cataract. by Riaz, Y, Silva, D, Evans, JR

“…SEARCH METHODS: We searched CENTRAL (which contains the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Trials Register) (The Cochrane Library 2013, Issue 6), Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE Daily, Ovid OLDMEDLINE (January 1946 to July 2013), EMBASE (January 1980 to July 2013), Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) (January 1982 to July 2013), Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) (January 1970 to July 2013), the metaRegister of Controlled Trials (mRCT) (www.controlled-trials.com), ClinicalTrials.gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) (www.who.int/ictrp/search/en). …”

RA V10 N2, Message from the Editor in Chief (May – August 2020) by Pedro Castro Borges

“…JOURNAL OF THE LATIN-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF QUALITY CONTROL, PATHOLOGY AND RECOVERY OF CONSTRUCTION http://www.revistaalconpat.org With great satisfaction, we present the second issue of the tenth year of the ALCONPAT Journal. …”
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Paraguay and its commercial integration: MERCOSUR by Clarissa Melina Rodríguez Cañete

“…The awakening of Latin American consciousness, coincided in this way, with the discovery of the consequences that brought to the countries of the region, the new forms of economic and political penetration of the capitalist powers in their imperialist stage (Fernández, 2014). …”
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Development and Usability Study of an Open-Access Interviewer-Administered Automated 24-h Dietary Recall Tool in Argentina: MAR24 by Ismael A. Contreras-Guillén, Sara Leeson, Sara Leeson, Rocio V. Gili, Rocio V. Gili, Belén Carlino, Belén Carlino, Daniel Xutuc, Marcia Cristina Teixeira Martins, Marcia Cristina Teixeira Martins, María E. Zapata, Gina Segovia-Siapco, Joan Sabaté, Fabio J. Pacheco, Fabio J. Pacheco, Sandaly O. S. Pacheco, Sandaly O. S. Pacheco

“…Background: Latin American countries show a fast-growing rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and diet is a critical risk factor that must be properly assessed. …”
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Prevalencia y características del asma en mayores de 18 años en la República de Panamá: estudio de base poblacional PRENFOR by Lorena Noriega, Joel Méndez, Amny Trujillo, Amparo Aguilera, Yamileth García

“…Conclusions: The prevalence of asthma in adults in Panama is similar to other Latin American countries, and is more prevalent in women. …”
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Avaliação de riscos teratogênicos em gestações expostas ao misoprostol Evaluation of the teratogenic risks in gestations exposed to misoprostol by Emérita Sátiro Opaleye, Helena Lutéscia Luna Coelho, Lavínia Schüler-Faccini, Paulo César de Almeida, Elaine Cavalcante dos Santos, Ana Júlia Velozo Ribeiro, Fabrício da Silva Costa

“…The sample comprised 252 parturients interviewed by a trained team by means of a structured questionnaire based on the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (Estudo Colaborativo Latino-Americano de Malformações Congênitas, ECLAMC). …”
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Conocimiento sobre el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de la alergia a las proteínas de la leche de vaca por un grupo de gastroenterólogos pediatras en Iberolatinoamérica: resultado de... by M.C. Toca, E. Roman-Riechmann, R. Vázquez-Frías, M. Batista de Morais, P. Sosa, C. Boggio-Marzet, D. Becker, L. Delgado, S. Marchisone

“…The aim of the present study was to find out how Spanish and Latin American pediatric gastroenterologists diagnose and treat CMPA. …”
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ANÁLISIS BIBLIOMÉTRICO DE LA PRODUCCIÓN TAXONÓMICA EN AMÉRICA LATINA by Layla Michán Aguirre

“…Palabras clave: Bibliometría, revistas, artículos, análisis de parsimonia, análisis de redes ABSTRACT I compare six bibliographic databases with information on Latin American systematics: Biosis, CAB, Periódica, SCI, Scopus and Zoological Record. …”
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Cruzipain and Its Physiological Inhibitor, Chagasin, as a DNA-Based Therapeutic Vaccine Against Trypanosoma cruzi by Natacha Cerny, Natacha Cerny, Augusto Ernesto Bivona, Augusto Ernesto Bivona, Andrés Sanchez Alberti, Andrés Sanchez Alberti, Sebastián Nicolás Trinitario, Sebastián Nicolás Trinitario, Celina Morales, Alejandro Cardoso Landaburu, Alejandro Cardoso Landaburu, Silvia Inés Cazorla, Silvia Inés Cazorla, Emilio Luis Malchiodi, Emilio Luis Malchiodi

“…Chagas disease caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in 21 Latin American countries and the southern United States and now is spreading into several other countries due to migration. …”
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Miso on the Market in South Texas by Sebastian Agredo

“…Miso, at it is commonly called, works by inducing a miscarriage during the early stages of pregnancy, and it has long been considered a “lifeline”by Latin American women living in countries where abortions are outlawed. …”
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Low-dimensional organization of global brain states of reduced consciousness by Yonatan Sanz Perl, Carla Pallavicini, Juan Piccinini, Athena Demertzi, Vincent Bonhomme, Charlotte Martial, Rajanikant Panda, Naji Alnagger, Jitka Annen, Olivia Gosseries, Agustin Ibañez, Helmut Laufs, Jacobo D. Sitt, Viktor K. Jirsa, Morten L. Kringelbach, Steven Laureys, Gustavo Deco, Enzo Tagliazucchi

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«Jackhammer esophagus» (esófago en martillo hidráulico): prevalencia, características demográficas, clínicas y manométricas by A. Hani, C. Zuluaga, V. Costa, A.M. Leguizamo, G. Puentes, A.F. Ardila, S.R. Achem

“…Conclusions: The present study is the first to characterize the prevalence of jackhammer esophagus and its demographic, clinical, and manometric characteristics in Latin American patients. The prevalence of jackhammer esophagus in our study population was considerably lower than that reported in international case series. …”
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