Information Systems Success In Public Administration: Proposal For An Exploratory Model by Deyvison de Lima Oliveira, Elíbia Paola da Silva Ferreira, Alexandre de Freitas Carneiro, Robinson Francino da Costa, Wellington Silva Porto

“…In this research it was sought to propose an exploratory model of successful IS in public administration, from the identification of each construct items of the Delone and McLean (2003) original model, through multiple case studies in three Municipalities and a Town Hall of the Southern Cone of Rondônia state, in Brazil. Based on the empirical research, it was found that the IS success factors in municipal public administration are close to those factors indicated in the reviewed literature, however, showing some particularities of the public sector. …”
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Chagas infection transmission control: situation of transfusional transmission in Brazil and other countries of Latin America by Helio Moraes-Souza

“…The transmission risk depends on five factors: prevalence of infection in blood donors, degree of serological coverage, sensibility of used tests, safety of obtained results and infection risk. The Southern Cone Iniciative set off by the Pan-American Health Organization, in 1991, is contributing to the implementation of blood law in each endemic country, and to reduce the risk of transfusional transmission of this horrible disease. …”
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Going back to collections: a study case of the Florentino Ameghino collection housed in the Museo de La Plata (Argentina) by Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan

“…According to the Argentinean naturalist Florentino Ameghino, these evidences proved the early presence of humans in the South America’s Southern cone. This analysis rules out the proposed intentionality behind the anthropic traces. …”
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Sylvatic triatominae: a new challenge in vector control transmission by Felipe Guhl, Nestor Pinto, Germán Aguilera

“…Over the last 10 years, Uruguay, Chile and Brazil have been certified as being free from disease transmission by Triatoma infestans, the main domiciliated vector for Chagas disease in the Southern Cone countries. This demonstrates that programmes addressing the vector for the disease's transmission are effective. …”
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Epidemiology and control of ticks with medical and veterinary importance in South America by Santiago Nava

“…Bovines play an important role maintaining natural populations of these Amblyomma species in different areas of the Southern Cone of America. In this way, the knowledge of the annual fluctuations in the population abundance of the four ticks above-mentioned is an indispensable tool for designing effective schemes of treatment with acaricides in cattle, and to determine the periods of the year where there is an increased risk of transmission of tick-borne diseases. …”
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First record of Oldenlandia corymbosa (Spermacoceae-Rubiaceae), a new alien species for Paraguay and Argentina by Mariela Nuñez Florentin

“…Conclusion: With the record of Oldenlandia corymbosa in Paraguay and Argentina, the range of distribution of this non-native species is extended up to the Southern Cone of South America. Its naturalized status in Paraguay raises the possibility that it was, until now, overlooked in other regions of the Northeast Argentina. …”
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Nifurtimox versus benznidazole or placebo for asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Equivalence of Usual Interventions for Trypanosomiasis - EQUITY): study protocol for a rando... by Juan Carlos Villar, Víctor Mauricio Herrera, Juan Guillermo Pérez Carreño, Eliana Váquiro Herrera, Yeny Zulay Castellanos Domínguez, Skarlet Marcell Vásquez, Zulma Milena Cucunubá, Nilda Graciela Prado, Yolanda Hernández

“…Nonetheless, supportive data from randomised trials is limited to individuals treated with BZN in southern cone countries of Latin America. Methods The goal of this randomised, concealed, blind, parallel-group trial is to inform the trypanocidal efficacy and safety of NFX and its equivalence to BZN among individuals with T. cruzi positive serology (TC+). …”
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“Ni vivo, ni muerto” by Julie Marchio

“…Whereas the literature of the Southern Cone provided several answers to this question, Central American production is still scarcely doing so. …”
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SOUTH AMERICA: INDUSTRIAL ROUNDWOOD SUPPLY POTENTIAL by Ronalds W. Gonzalez, Daniel Saloni, Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Frederick Cubbage

“…Based on timber growing investments to date, a strong timber production and forest products manufacturing sector has developed in the Southern Cone countries of Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and is increasing in other countries in Latin America. …”
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Mammalian cellular culture models of Trypanosoma cruzi infection: a review of the published literature by Duran-Rehbein Gabriel Alberto, Vargas-Zambrano Juan Camilo, Cuéllar Adriana, Puerta Concepción Judith, Gonzalez John Mario

“…Furthermore, the most commonly used parasite strain (Tulahuen-TcVI) is associated with chagasic cardiomyopathy only in the Southern Cone of South America. Suggestions to overcome these discrepancies include the use of stromal cell lines and parasite genotypes associated with the known characteristics of the natural history of Chagas disease.…”
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Acute experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection: establishing a murine model that utilises non-invasive measurements of disease parameters by Diana Rodrigues da Silva, Solange Lisboa de Castro, Monique Castro da Silva Alves, Wanderson da Silva Batista, Gabriel Melo de Oliveira

“…Although the transmission rates via blood transfusions and insect vectors have declined sharply in the past 20 years due to policies of the Southern Cone countries, a large number of people are still at risk for infection. …”
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Narrar al sesgo: diálogos entre dos orillas en torno al horror by Ana María Amar Sánchez

“…Taking the short story « Deutches requiem » by Borges as a foundational text of an aesthetic that makes elusiveness its constructive principle, the essay then examines the stories of Julio Cortázar and the Uruguayan Omar Prego Gadea, who may be the closest Southern Cone writer to Cortázar and the one to most honor Cortázar in his own work. …”
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Juan Gelman: la radicalización del lenguaje como vía de denuncia poética by Eva Castañeda Barrera

“…The Latin American poetry of the second half of the 20th century was developed in a context whose complexity is given by multiple social and political processes, one of the most emblematic is the military dictatorships of the southern cone. In this scenario, a significant list of writers turned to new strategies to account for the violence exerted by the regime. …”
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Grouping Spanish-speaking countries by dialect: A corpus dialectometric approach by David Ellingson Eddington

“…Six dialect zones were identified: European (Spain), Southern Cone (Uruguay, Argentina), Southern Central America (Costa Rica, Panama), Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic), Northern Central America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), Andean South America (Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Peru). …”
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Operation Toba in Northeast Argentina: the spread of the State of Terror (1975–1977) by Jussaramar da Silva

“…The importance of discussing Operation Toba is to demonstrate the similarity of the repressions that took place in other countries of the Southern Cone. The techniques and tactics used illustrate that such massacres have repressive synchrony and are consistent with a single internationalized process of repression. …”
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Elimination of <it>Rhodnius prolixus </it>in Central America by Hashimoto Ken, Schofield Christopher J

“…As a result, more and more infested areas were encountered, and progressively sprayed using an IRS strategy already deployed against <it>Triatoma infestans </it>in the southern cone countries of South America. In 2008, Guatemala became the first of these countries to be formally certified as free of Chagas disease transmission due to <it>R. prolixus</it>. …”
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Turbines and Weapons for Latin America: Czechoslovak documentary film propaganda in the Cold War context 1948-1989 by Kateřina Březinová

“…The semiotic analysis puts in evidence a highly pragmatic and manipulative nature of the Czechoslovak Communist propaganda, obvious for instance in its selective treatment of the military regimes in the Southern Cone. This text contributes to a better understanding of the complex nature of Czechoslovakia’s political, economic and cultural engagements thanks to which it became an influential political actor in the Cold War Latin America.…”
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Equine-Like H3 Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Birds, Chile by Nicolas Bravo-Vasquez, Jiangwei Yao, Pedro Jimenez-Bluhm, Victoria Meliopoulos, Pamela Freiden, Bridgett Sharp, Leonardo Estrada, Amy Davis, Sean Cherry, Brandi Livingston, Angela Danner, Stacey Schultz-Cherry, Christopher Hamilton-West

“…Equine-like internal genes have been identified in avian influenza viruses isolated from wild birds in the Southern Cone of South America. However, an equine-like H3 hemagglutinin has not been identified. …”
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Revisiting British Investment in Latin America: The River Plate Trust Group, 1879–1963 by Norma Silvana Lanciotti

“…The article analyses the performance and profitability of the firms controlled by the River Plate Trust Group in Argentina and Uruguay from 1879 to 1960 to challenges the notion that British investments in the Southern Cone involved greater default or insolvency risks because of nationalism, expropriations, and over-taxation. …”
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A scientometric evaluation of the Chagas disease implementation research programme of the PAHO and TDR. by Ana Laura Carbajal-de-la-Fuente, Zaida E Yadón

“…In 2001, in view of the achievements obtained in the reduction of transmission of Chagas disease through the Southern Cone Initiative and the improvement in Chagas disease control activities in some countries of the Andean and the Central American Initiatives, TDR transferred the Chagas Disease Implementation Research Programme (CIRP) to the Communicable Diseases Unit of the Pan American Health Organization (CD/PAHO). …”
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