Environmental Legal Protections: Reflections from the Peruvian Experience by Verónica Rojas Montes

“…This article discusses the fractionation, heterogeneity and dispersion of the Peruvian environmental legal system. The relevance of this proposal is its consideration of application-level problems for environmental rules of the game, as addressed by the competent public entities and the entities overseeing the current functional environmental systems. …”
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Influence of the international nature of Peruvian companies in sustainability reporting by Hernández Pajares, J.

“…In response to regulations promoted by international institutions and due to the influence of transnational organizations, sustainability reporting has experienced an important development in recent years for Latin American companies. In this line, Peruvian organizations have also participated in reporting initiatives under the model of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). …”
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The ethnoprimatology of the Maijuna of the Peruvian Amazon and implications for primate conservation by Carla Mere Roncal, Mark Bowler, Michael P Gilmore

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Dietary patterns and asthma among Peruvian children and adolescents by Carla E. Tarazona-Meza, Corrine Hanson, Suzanne L. Pollard, Karina M. Romero Rivero, Rocio M. Galvez Davila, Sameera Talegawkar, Carlos Rojas, Jessica L. Rice, William Checkley, Nadia N. Hansel

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Peruvian Meatballs?: 'Constructing the Other in the performance of an inclusive school' by Anna Åhlund, Rickard Jonsson

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Basic psychological needs and GRIT in Peruvian university students by Nohemi Marcelo-Torres, Maria Pia Manyari-Masias, Raymundo Calderón-Sánchez, Veronica Tutte, Regina Brandão, Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez, Mario Reyes-Bossio

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The use of traditional systems of knowledge organization in peruvian libraries by Rosa Dorival Córdova, Carlos Javier Rojas Lazaro

“…It describes and discusses the use of the most traditional Systems of Knowledge Organization, such as the Dewey Decimal Classification and the Library of Congress (LC), lists of subject headings and thesauri; in the Peruvian information systems. It also identifies the thesauri produced in Peru since the decade of the seventies of the last century to date.…”
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Epidemiologic Differences Between Cyclosporiasis and Cryptosporidiosis in Peruvian Children by Caryn Bern, Ynes Ortega, William Checkley, Jacquelin M. Roberts, Andres G. Lescano, Lilia Cabrera, Manuela Verastegui, Robert E. Black, Charles Sterling, Robert H. Gilman

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ABNORMAL SPERMATHECAE NUMBERS IN PERUVIAN SANDFLIES (DIPTERA: PSYSCHODIDAE) by Elena OGUSUKU, J. Enrique PÉREZ

“…We report and illustrate two abnormal spermatheca numbers found in Peruvian sandflies, a supernumerary spermatheca in Lutzomyia cernerai and the absence of one spermatheca in L. amazonensis.…”
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Factors that influence the decision of Peruvian women to become entrepreneurs by Marco Antonio Vásquez-Pauca, María Emma Zuñiga Vasquez, Roxana Yolanda Castillo-Acobo, José Luis Arias Gonzáles

“…This study aims to discover the various entrepreneurial motives driving Peruvian women’s decision to become entrepreneurs rather than workers under the conceptual framework of the push-pull theory. …”
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Socioeconomic inequalities in abdominal obesity among Peruvian adults. by Marioli Y Farro-Maldonado, Glenda Gutiérrez-Pérez, Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Antonio Barrenechea-Pulache, Marilina Santero, Carlos Rojas-Roque, Diego Azañedo

“…<h4>Results</h4>The prevalence of AO among Peruvian adults was 73.8%, being higher among women than men (85.1% and 61.1% respectively, p < 0.001). …”
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Factors associated with the quality of service in Peruvian public hospitals by Álvaro Danny Benites Bernabé, Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra, Cinthia Rosales Márquez, Rosa María Salas Sánchez, Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro

“…<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to determine the factors associated with the quality of the service in Peruvian public hospitals.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: descriptive study, which included 210 patients treated in two hospitals in the province of Santa, Peru. …”
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Interspecies Respect and Potato Conservation in the Peruvian Cradle of Domestication by Olivia Angé

“…This paper explores people and tuber affective encounters, as they unfold in a biodiversity conservation programme in the Peruvian Andes. It draws on ethnographic data from the Potato Park, renowned worldwide as one of the most successful in-situ initiatives for the conservation of biocultural diversity. …”
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“Peruvian balsam”: an example of transoceanic transfer of medicinal knowledge by Angela Schottenhammer

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The Indigenous Struggle against ‘New’ Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon by Bernardo Jurema, Maria Cecilia Oliveira

“…We will investigate the ‘new’ extractivism economic activities from the perspective of the violence perpetrated by assemblages of power against indigenous protest movements in the Peruvian Amazon region. Specifically, we will probe a grassroots’ response to the way Peru’s elites have integrated the country within the global economic system: we focus on Indigenous peoples’ protests in 2008-9 against the new regulation to open the Amazon for development of resources by private companies carried out by Peru’s President Alan García, on the grounds that it represented a threat to their natural resources and livelihood. …”
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Meteorological constraints on oceanic halocarbons above the Peruvian upwelling by S. Fuhlbrügge, B. Quack, E. Atlas, A. Fiehn, H. Hepach, K. Krüger

“…During a cruise of R/V <i>METEOR</i> in December 2012 the oceanic sources and emissions of various halogenated trace gases and their mixing ratios in the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) were investigated above the Peruvian upwelling. This study presents novel observations of the three very short lived substances (VSLSs) – bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide – together with high-resolution meteorological measurements, Lagrangian transport and source–loss calculations. …”
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Tackling vulnerability in climate change for Peruvian public health by Eloy F. Ruiz, Junior Smith Torres-Román

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Henry Tantaleán. Peruvian Archaeology. A Critical History by Gabriel Ramón Joffré

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New records of Protobranchia (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Peruvian Sea by Carlos Paredes, Franz Cardoso

“…The following species of Bivalvia have been recorded for the first time for Peruvian waters: Nucula (Nucula) iphigenia (Dall, 1908); Ennucula cardara (Dall, 1916); Nuculana (Nuculana) extenuata (Dall, 1897); Orthoyoldia panamensis (Dall, 1908). …”
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Peruvian Botanical Biopesticides for Sustainable Development and Protection of the Environment by J. Bracho-Pérez, I. Tacza-Valverde, J. Vásquez-Castro

“…Peruvian Journal of Agronomy…”
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