Wastewater-based epidemiology for preventing outbreaks and epidemics in Latin America - lessons from the past and a look to the future by Prado, Tatiana, Rey-Benito, Gloria, Miagostovich, Marize Pereira, Sato, Maria Inês Zanoli, Rajal, Veronica Beatriz, Filho, Cesar Rossas Mota, Pereira, Alyne Duarte, Barbosa, Mikaela Renata Funada, Mannarino, Camille Ferreira, da Silva, Agnes Soares

“…Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an approach with the potential to complement clinical surveillance systems. …”
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Global competition for upstream investment: key test for Latin America’s policymakers by Conway, T

“…In the last five years, Latin America has re-emerged on the world stage of global upstream opportunities. …”

Rapid process modeling of the aerosol jet printing based on gaussian process regression with latin hypercube sampling by Zhang, Haining, Moon, Seung Ki, Ngo, T. H., Tou, J., Bin Mohamed Yusoff, M. A.

“…Latin hypercube sampling is adopted to generate experimental points. …”
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Endogenous institutionalism and the puzzle of gender quotas: insights from Latin America by Gatto, MLAC

“…</p> <p>To evaluate the plausibility of my theory, I employ a series of multi-method and multi-level analyses presented across five substantive chapters, each of which is respectively based on: 1) a cross-sectional analysis of Latin America countries; 2) an elite survey experiment with Brazilian state legislators; and, in-depth process tracing of the cases of gender quota adoption in 3) Costa Rica; 4) Brazil; and, 5) Chile.…”

Identifying the Values that Shape HCI and CSCW Research with Latin American Communities: A Collaborative Autoethnography by Griggio, Carla, Barrera Machuca, Mayra, Wong-Villacres, Marisol, Gayt?n-Lugo, Laura, Badillo-Urquiola, Karla, Alvarado Garcia, Adriana, Perusquia-Hernandez, Monica, Ciolfi Felice, Marianela, Cibrian, Franceli, Thomas, Michaelanne, Fuentes, Carolina, Reynolds-Cu?llar, Pedro

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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Loessberg, Shari

“…Subject concludes in the first half of the spring semester. Students must complete all three components to receive credit. …”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2002 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Murray, Fiona E., Johnson, Simon, Pentland, Alex Paul

“…Subject concludes in the first half of the spring semester. Students must complete all three components to receive credit. …”
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Three essays on gender wage differentials by Fang, Zheng

“…The objectives of the first chapter of the thesis are to expand the body of evidence, providing an international update from more than 50 countries in 5 continents and to suggest potential explanations to the stylized facts documented across countries. …”
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Climate-based modelling and forecasting of dengue fever in three endemic departments of Peru by Mills, C, Donnelly, C

“…Here, we analysed dengue fever in three coastal departments of Peru which have recently experienced public health emergencies during the worst dengue crises in Latin American history. We developed a climate-based spatiotemporal modelling framework to model monthly incidence of new dengue cases in Piura, Tumbes, and Lambayeque over 140 months from 2010 to 2021. …”

Risk quantification framework of hydride-based hydrogen storage systems for light-duty vehicles by Khalil, Y

“…For illustrative purposes, a detailed FT model is developed for hydride dust cloud explosion as part of the accident progress. …”

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…Secular changes in the petroleum investment risk profile of major oil and gas hubs such as Russia, North Africa, West Africa, and the Middle East, limited access to acreage in the traditional producing areas, as well as the lack of new exploration successes outside the emerging provinces such as East Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, among others, have made Latin America an interesting place to re-visit. …”

Colombia’s early steps to becoming a regional energy hub by Zamora, A, Martínez, H

“…Colombia has traditionally been a leading advocate of economic and political integration in Latin America, even as it struggles internally with a civil conflict that has brought grief to its population over the last half century. …”

Venezia e il Peloponneso, 992-1718 : indagini storiche tra territorio, biblioteca e archivio by Nanetti, Andrea

“…The extraordinary wealth of archival documents, chronicles, travel reports, archaeological sites and monuments, still for the most part to be studied, makes the privileged relationship between Venice and the Peloponnese a key element for the study of Venetian society, with reference to choices made by Venetians in the search for an ethical relationship with the Other in the geopolitical pursuit of their constitutional aim, i.e. far la marchadantia pacifichamente (to trade peacefully). …”
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Brazil-China Relations by Horta, Loro

“…The positive aspects of their relationship far outweigh the problems and tensions inherent in most relations among major powers. …”
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A comparative analysis of virtual education technology, E-learning systems research advances, and digital divide in the global south by Akpan, Ikpe Justice, Offodile, Onyebuchi Felix, Akpanobong, Aloysius Chris, Kobara, Yawo Mamoua

“…Other GSCs’ R&D expenditure was flat until 2020 (during COVID-19), when R&D funding increased, achieving a corresponding 42% rise in SLPs. …”
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Global Human Resource Development : Regional and Country Perspectives / by Garavan, Thomas N., editor 517539, McCarthy, Alma, editor 655105, Morley, Michael, editor 312792

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Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Glob... by Naghavi, M, Ong, KL, Aali, A, Almidani, O, Bandyopadhyay, S, Basnyat, B, Maude, R, Dolecek, C, Lacey, BWH

“…Despite the pandemic, there has been continued progress in combatting several notable causes of death, leading to improved global life expectancy over the study period. …”

COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour by Heroy, Samuel, Loaiza, Isabella, Pentland, Alex, O’Clery, Neave

“…Here we exploit a natural experiment whereby Colombian cities implemented varied lockdown policies based on ID number and gender to analyse the impact of these policies on urban mobility. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…The South and Southeast Asian, West African and Latin American regions were most vulnerable to cashew cultivation due to overlaps with threatened vertebrates. …”
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Current data science capacity building initiatives for health researchers in LMICs: global & regional efforts by Kiosia, A, Boylan, S, Retford, M, Marques, LP, Bueno, FTC, Kirima, C, Islam, MS, Naheed, A, Wozencraft, A

“…While such approaches have played significant roles during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been limited investment in capacity building in data science skills and infrastructure for health researchers in LMICs. …”