Climate change-related risks and adaptation potential in Central and South America during the 21st century by I Hagen, C Huggel, L Ramajo, N Chacón, J P Ometto, J C Postigo, E J Castellanos

“…The impacts of the risks will be heterogeneous throughout the region, with rural communities, Indigenous peoples, Afro-Latin Americans, women, disabled people, and migrants identified as being the most severely affected. …”
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Culturally Specific Messaging and the Explanation of Contact in Impacted Bilinguals by Ricardo Otheguy

“…Data are drawn from the speech of Latin Americans and their descendants in New York City and other U.S. locales.…”
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"Colorblindness ist herrschende Meinung" by Ian Haney López

“…<br /> Kurz zuvor hatte der Supreme Court ebenfalls eine mit Spannung erwartete Entscheidung verkündet: Die Universität Texas bezieht neben Noten und anderen Qualifikationen auch die Zugehörigkeit zu einer rassifizierten Bevölkerungsgruppe in die Entscheidung ein, um damit die Repräsentation von u.a. Afro- und Latin-Americans auf dem Campus fördern. Eine abgelehnte weiße Bewerberin hatte geklagt, weil sie sich dadurch rassistisch diskriminiert fühlte. …”
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Cultural Diversity and Spiritual/Religious Health Care of Patients with Cancer at the Dominican Republic by Héctor E Lopez-Sierra

“…Dominican Republic (DR) as a Latin Americans and Spanish-speaking Caribbean developing country shares a socioculturally distinctive spiritual and religious pattern. …”
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Introduction to research on immigrant and ethnic minority families in Europe by Hill Kulu, Tina Hannemann

“…By contrast, more 'fluid' family formation patterns dominate among some non-European immigrant groups (e.g., Caribbeans, Sub-Saharan Africans, and Latin Americans). <b>Conclusions</b>: The significant diversity of partnership patterns within countries across immigrant groups supports the idea that socialisation factors play an important role in their partnership behaviour. …”
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History shaped the geographic distribution of genomic admixture on the island of Puerto Rico. by Marc Via, Christopher R Gignoux, Lindsey A Roth, Laura Fejerman, Joshua Galanter, Shweta Choudhry, Gladys Toro-Labrador, Jorge Viera-Vera, Taras K Oleksyk, Kenneth Beckman, Elad Ziv, Neil Risch, Esteban González Burchard, Juan Carlos Martínez-Cruzado

“…Contemporary genetic variation among Latin Americans human groups reflects population migrations shaped by complex historical, social and economic factors. …”
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America by Greg Robinson

“…<em>A Tragedy of Democracy</em> recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States. …”
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HTLV infection in persons with sexually transmitted diseases in Spain by Oskar Ayerdi, Rafael Benito, Diego Ortega, Antonio Aguilera, Natalia Montiel, Ilduara Pintos, Alberto Díaz de Santiago, Begoña Baza, Vicente Soriano, Carmen de Mendoza

“…Three were men and two were women. Among Latin Americans, the HTLV-1 seroprevalence was 0.67%. …”
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Analysis of the pathogenic variants of BRCA1 and BRCA2 using next-generation sequencing in women with familial breast cancer: a case–control study by Omar Alejandro Zayas-Villanueva, Luis Daniel Campos-Acevedo, José de Jesús Lugo-Trampe, David Hernández-Barajas, Juan Francisco González-Guerrero, María Fernanda Noriega-Iriondo, Ilse Alejandra Ramírez-Sánchez, Laura Elia Martínez-de-Villarreal

“…However, there is scarce information regarding the most common PVs of these genes in Latin-Americans. This study identified BRCA1 and BRCA2 PV frequency in a high-risk female population from Northeastern Mexico and determined the association of these mutations with the patients’ clinical and pathological characteristics. …”
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Subtypes of Native American ancestry and leading causes of death: Mapuche ancestry-specific associations with gallbladder cancer risk in Chile. by Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Felix Boekstegers, Rosa González Silos, Katherine Marcelain, Pablo Baez Benavides, Carol Barahona Ponce, Bettina Müller, Catterina Ferreccio, Jill Koshiol, Christine Fischer, Barbara Peil, Janet Sinsheimer, Macarena Fuentes Guajardo, Olga Barajas, Rolando Gonzalez-Jose, Gabriel Bedoya, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Carla Gallo, Andres Ruiz Linares, Francisco Rothhammer

“…Latin Americans are highly heterogeneous regarding the type of Native American ancestry. …”
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A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America by Greg Robinson

“…&lt;em&gt;A Tragedy of Democracy&lt;/em&gt; recounts the expulsion of almost 5,000 Japanese from Mexico's Pacific Coast and the poignant story of the Japanese Latin Americans who were kidnapped from their homes and interned in the United States. …”
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Sobre la percepción y la decisión políticas de aplicar el asilo diplomático: Una reflexión desde experiencias latinoamericanas by Silvia DRUTÉNIT

“…</p><p>ABSTRACT: Historically, thousands of Latin Americans have sought political asylum to shield theniselves from government's persecution. …”
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Comparison of 1-year healthcare resource utilization and related costs for patients with heart failure in the Chagas and non-Chagas matched cohorts by Mario J. Olivera, Adriana Arévalo, Lyda Muñoz, Sofía Duque, Juan Bedoya, Gabriel Parra-Henao

“…Background: Chagas disease is one of the leading causes of heart failure (HF) in Latin Americans, and there are limited data available that examine related costs of care for patients with HF. …”
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Sobre la percepción y la decisión políticas de aplicar el asilo diplomático: Una reflexión desde experiencias latinoamericanas by Silvia DRUTÉNIT

“…</p><p>ABSTRACT: Historically, thousands of Latin Americans have sought political asylum to shield theniselves from government's persecution. …”
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Understanding the contribution of public- and restricted-access places to overall and domain-specific physical activity among Mexican adults: A cross-sectional study. by Alejandra Jáuregui, Deborah Salvo, Catalina Medina, Simón Barquera, David Hammond

“…Latin Americans engage in physical activity (PA) in unique ways and use a wider range of places for PA than those commonly studied in high-income settings. …”
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‘They treat us like machines’: migrant workers’ conceptual framework of labour exploitation for health research and policy by Mary Alison Durand, Cono Ariti, Sabah Boufkhed, Nicki Thorogood

“…Our study aimed to conceptualise ‘labour exploitation’ from the perspective of migrant workers employed in manual low-skilled jobs.Methods Twenty-seven Latin Americans working in London (UK) participated in Group Concept Mapping; a participatory mixed-method where qualitative data are collected to define a concept’s content and then analysed using quantitative methods to generate a structured conceptual framework. …”
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Antibiotic Resistance and Therapy for <i>H. pylori</i> Infection in Immigrant Patients Treated in Italy by Giulia Fiorini, Ilaria Maria Saracino, Angelo Zullo, Matteo Pavoni, Laura Saccomanno, Tiziana Lazzarotto, Rossana Cavallo, Guido Antonelli, Berardino Vaira

“…Levofloxacin resistance rate was significantly higher in Latin Americans and Asians as compared with Europeans. …”
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República, nación y democracia ante el desafío de la diversidad Republic, nation and democracy against the challenge of diversity by Susana Villavicencio

“…The narratives of national identity are studied describing how the opposition between civilization and barbariy affects the way Latin Americans see the great challenges presented by the future of democracy, and by the recognition of the plurality of cultural allegiances.…”
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P-4 RISK OF HCC IN SOUTH AMERICANS ASSOCIATED WITH TLL1 VARIANT SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM by Andre Boonstra, Domingo Balderramo, Dhamina Karim, Jhon Prieto Ortiz, Javier Diaz Ferrer, Angelo Mattos, Marcos Arrese Jimenez, Enrique Carrera Estupinan, Zwier Groothuismink, Jeffrey Oliveira, Jose Debes

“…The OR for HCV-associated HCC in Latin Americans was 2.07 (CI 0.93-4.58), suggesting a non-significant increased odd of being diagnosed with HCC in South Americans with the variant. …”
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Doença de Chagas, ambiente, participação e Estado Chagas disease, environment, participation, and the state by João Carlos Pinto Dias

“…<br>Human Chagas Disease (HCD) affects 16 million Latin Americans and is related to environmental and social questions like education, anthropogenic changes, housing, and migration. …”
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