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Are you familiar with the lessons learnt from the coming and going of BREXIT/Brexism and USEXIT/Trumpism in 2016-2024?
Here is a simple academic way of looking at the NEW LIBERAL DEMOCRACY LANDSCAPE where you have normal democratic outcomes competing for power against extreme democratic outcomes….
Muñoz, 2024. Rethinking democracy 102: What are the 3 fundamental lessons learned from facing exism movements and dictatorship threats 2016-2024?. In: CEBEM-REDESMA Boletin, Año 18, Nº 11, La Paz, Bolivia.
Muñoz, Lucio, 2000. Unprotected Areas, Protected Areas, and Sustainability Under Green Development Policies: Which are the Expected Impacts?, In: THEOMAI, No. 2, Argentina
I have been working to support science and our scientific system here in Argentina, which is currently facing an institutional crisis. To contribute, I have created a playlist of science communication videos on my YouTube channel, which I use for teaching purposes. However, science communication is not my area of expertise, and I’d love to improve.
I would appreciate any advice, tools, or experiences you could share to help me:
- Communicate more effectively
- Reach a broader audience
- Create more engaging and impactful content
Thank you in advance for your suggestions
Exism movements since BREXIT 2016 have been described as driven by emotions leading to the idea of Emocracy/Emocracies, but as the social discontent that is usually displayed after exism movements a kind of unexpectedly come to power as traditional democratic thinking is inconsistent with their coming shows is the true majority reaction/true emotions to the realization that the unexpected by the true majority actually has happened. So there are true majority emotions and true minority emotions and targeted chaos is directed at both with different goals, one to reduce the size of the true majority voting power by any means and the other to keep the true minority engaged and overdrive by any means...,Hence, we have the idea of democracy driven by emotions and the other idea of democracy driven by targeted chaos,....And this leads to the question, Why is effective targeted chaos more than emocracy?
You see some democratic countries since 2016 Brexit failing to deal proactively to avoid or reactively to neutralize internal democracy threats like local exism movement or deal with external democracy threats like permanent authoritarianism and temporary authoritarianism or the cooperation of authoritarianisn. In 2016 perhaps Brexit came as a surprise because of knowledge gaps in democratic theory, but maybe 2016 Trumpism should not have been a surprise as THE SAME PLAYBOOK was at play, and this should have been a wake up call to traditional democracy theory based thinkers to adapt liberal democracy thinking to absorve to the coming new liberal democracy landscape where normal democratic outcomes are competing for power, no longer against other normal democratic outcomes as before 2016, but AGAINST EXTREME DEMOCRATIC OUTCOMES.
It seems in the UK, in the USA, in Europe as a whole, they have been treating extreme democratic outcomes as either normal democratic outcomes or abnormal outcomes without probably realizing that if certain conditions are met, extreme democratic outcomes can become long term temporary authoritarianism periods, and if some other especific conditions are met, democracy will end and extreme democratic outcomes will become permanent authoritarianism. The liberal democracy landscape changed in clear ways in 2016 yet democratic countries keep running the system the same way as they did in the past giving space to exism movements not just to materialize by to gain power. And this raises the question, relevant to all democracies and democratic thinkers: The rise of effective target chaos in 2016 and the failure for democracies to adapt and deal with it, how are they link to exism movements?
You have seem exism movements to come and go now(Brexit/UKEXIT, Trumpism/USEXIT, and Brazilianism/Brazilexit) from 2016, all of them have been the result of targeted chaos being effective and then being ineffective. And this raises the question then, Why is effective targeted chaos the biggest threat to existence of liberal democracies?.
What do you think?
Hint
The answer is short if you are familiar with what exism movements are and what effective targeted chaos is and that they are operating under an independent rule of law system as this is happening inside liberal democracies.
It seems to be back to square one with Brexism, Brazilianism, and Trumpism....They came and they fell in ways away from how traditional democracy theory and thinking works....I wrote since 2016 how extreme democratic outcomes can come out, how they will behave once in power and how they could persist or fall, how important effective targeted chaos is and how important the independent law system and morality is together with predictions/expectations given whether or no targeted chaos is effective or not within an independent rule of law system and majority rule.... If what happened to Brexit July 2024 is consistent with what happens in the USA in November 2024, then the outside the box theory may have several validating points. And this raises the question: Does the fall of BREXISM, Brazilianism and Trumpism mean we know when they come and when they fall in theory and in practice?
What do you think?
The construction of the Brazilian and Argentine Education system in the 19th century. I need to know why Brazil emphasized Higher Education, and Argentina emphasized Basic Education?
What were the pedagogical influences in both countries?
Thanks for your help.
Hello everyone! I study various ecological aspects of the mosquito species Aedes aegypti in Argentina. One of them is longevity in adult stage. I have a question about the methodology used in some articles about the time allocated to feeding blood to female mosquitoes. Why do some researchers blood feed females daily or once a week or every 15 days? This question is because I read several articles that also study longevity, but the allotted time feeding blood to females is varied. I don't know what determines the timing of feeding females for longevity in the study. Can someone help me with this?
Hello researchgate community!
My name is Giselle Ailin Chichizola, I am from Argentina (South America) and I have a PhD in biology, currently with a postdoctoral scholarship. I am doing a PCA with different seed germination parameters (% germination, mean and onset of germination time) of natine species from two types of environments in Patagonia, Argentina to study their dormancy mechanisms.
I am using R package "factoextra", and I would like to know what happens with the missing values (NA) in the response variables, what does the program do internally to be able to do the PCA, does it average them, disregard them, put some value to them?
If someone could help me to understand what the program does, I would be pleased to receive your answer. It would be very useful for the revision of a paper.
Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to your reply.
This is a methodological discussion on Lithium, which I pose in form of three open questions:
1) Who to trust when it comes to lithium reserves? Usually It is assumed that there are still no International certification processes but rather evaluations by some National Geological Agencies. Considering that we could be talking about a real sensitive issue, is it possible to imagine other reliable sources?
2) How to determine, rigorously, the commercial value of lithium and its evolution over time? Some apps and/or specialized webs calculate the price of lithium carbonate, even in a clic, although it is difficult to determine where there is exactly negotiated. Are there reliable alternatives?
3) How to calculate, prospectively, the strategic value of lithium? I'm afraid that some forward-looking calculations are excessively linear. Considering the uncertain environment,, is itn't possible to think in a some kind of a correction factor?
I have some ideas but I would like to hear your qualified voices
Thank you very much
We are a group of researchers from the Federal University of Sergipe (Brazil), Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina), Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina) and Queen’s University (Canada) and we are are conducting research to assess whether robots can be commanded to perform tasks through gestures in an easy and intuitive way and we would like to ask for your help.
Please, answer the electronic questionnaire that can be accessed here: https://forms.gle/RBy75MbwhJcUoYJh6.
The estimated time to answer all questions is just over 10 minutes.
It would also help us even more if you share this message with your entire network of contacts. To participate, it is not necessary to have any prior knowledge of robotics and your collaboration will assist us in the search for a simpler way for anyone to use robots in their daily lives.
Thanks for your cooperation!
Is there any researcher (paleontologist) who is able to recognize this fossil? Found in Argentina on sandstone banks, probable on tertiary sector. Il is 20 to 30 cm long
I tried to access the registration systems of both countries at Senasa (Argentina) and DAFF (SAfrica) but with no success. I contacted the respective offices through the channels posted and, so far, no return.
Hi everyone! I hope you are well...
I m working on my master thesis on: imported inflation in Argentina during 2003 and 2019.
Since the country intervene the statistics national institute since 2007, is really difficult to find trustable data for the period 2007 - 2012.
Do you know any data base that would be useful? Im interested specially in the CPI overall evolution and its different categories and whole sale industrial goods.
Thanks a lot!!!
I need a human cardiomyocyte cell line to carry out my research project such as AC16, but it is not currently being commercialized (I live in Argentina). If someone was in the same situation and was able to solve it, your recommendations would be of great help to me.
Thanks Julia
I am trying to purchase this item in Argentina and it seemed unavailable.
Is there other antibody working properly for Western blot/immunohistochemistry techniques?
Thanks in advance for any help to get this antibody or substitute!
When will South America (or specifically Argentina) win a science Nobel Prize?
Another year without a Nobel Prize coming to South America
The last time that a South American scientist was awarded with a Nobel Prize was César Milstein, Physiology or Medicine, 1984. Are the richest countries rich because they inverts a lot in science? or they inverts a lot in science because they are rich?
The list is very short: Argentine 3, Brazil 1, Venezuela 1
“Pensar a largo plazo y actuar de inmediato”
29 al 31 de Marzo de 2021 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Frente a la pandemia, la comunidad de LCA tiene las herramientas y la oportunidad de mostrar los beneficios ambientales y sociales a largo plazo de las nuevas preferencias de la humanidad y así potenciar el posicionamiento de tecnologías más sustentables: aquellas que permiten actuar de inmediato, sin perder de vista el largo plazo. Quizás lo más importante es que estas tecnologías podrían consolidarse y convertirse en moneda corriente una vez finalizada la emergencia, logrando mejoras sustanciales en términos de sustentabilidad.
CILCA 2021 propone un espacio para abordar estos nuevos desafíos con su tradicional enfoque de ciclo de vida, aceptando la participación presencial y virtual en todas sus instancias. De esta manera, esperamos proporcionar una solución adaptable a la pandemia actual de COVID-19 y la diversidad de circunstancias que pueden afectar a las personas y limitar su participación en el formato tradicional.
Llamado a presentación de resúmenes para exposiciones orales y posters: hasta el 31 de agosto de 2020, por la plataforma EasyChair: https://easychair.org/cfp/CILCA2021.
Para más información, visita el sitio web de CILCA: www.cilcaricv.org o contactanos en info@cilcaricv.org

We are looking for perfection to contain this novel corona virus and of course that is our priority.
Is perfection possible in every case?
You can see that what is happening around the places!
- Echizen Maru fishing vessel left port in Ushuaia, Southern Argentina, 35 days ago.
- Sailors all tested negative and also had a 14 days quarantine before voyage began.
- When they returned having several sailors fell ill, 57 out of 61 are positive for coronavirus.
- Scientists are baffled because ship had no contact with land while it was gone.
They can’t explain how the symptoms appeared. It is a case that escapes all the descriptions that have been published so far, because that long incubation period has not been described yet!!
Please put your views regarding this news. Thanks in advance.
I am looking for an antibody to show the expression of OVGP1 in porcine oviduct cells in culture. Is there one from Sigma and others form ABCAM. But an antibody is too expensive (at least for us, in Argentina), thus, before buying one, I would like to listen to some experiences from researchers who have already used it
Hi everyone,
I am trying to undertake a DEA-Bootstrap model to estimate the technical efficiency of banks in Argentina. I want to compare the efficiency scores obtained with the intermediation and production approach to verify if some firms do better or worse with a certain approach. What would be the correct method of doing it? Test for differences in distributions? Difference test in the means? Estimate functions of non-parametric densities?
Thank you!
I would very much like to read the full project, if possible. In Argentina we are trying to develop similar ideas. Is this a compltely novel project, or is it a continuation of other "paving-the-way" endeavors? Do you have published papers with preliminary results?
Thanks,
Eduardo Trumper
I have been exploring the mean diurnal cycle of different variables of the ERA5 reanalysis in some regions of South America and I always find strange discontinuities or "jumps", as illustrated in the attached pictures. The examples attached are for 15-year region-averaged mean diurnal cycle of 2-meter temperature and precipitation around northeastern Argentina for DJF (hours in UTC in the x-axis and Celsius*10 or mm/day in the y-axis). For temperature you can see an abrupt jump at 10 UTC and other non-smooth transitions at 16 UTC and 22 UTC. For precipitation you can see the same phenomenon at 7 UTC and maybe 20 UTC. I have also found this type of behavior in other regions (even outside of South America) and in other variables such as winds at different levels and wind convergence. The issue in winds is mentioned in the "known issues" of the ERA5 documentation, but nothing about temperature or precipitation. I would not expect this type of behavior in "smooth" variables such as 2 meter temperature and I have never seen something alike in other models or reanalyses.


I understand that in a number of countries, danazol has been restricted due to anti-doping regulations. However, in its use, particularly in the treatment of anemia in MPNs,, are there any restrictions in:
Austria
Denmark
Bulgaria
Argentina
Thanks!
Estamos trabajando sobre la migración de la especie en el norte de Argentina, especialmente números de aves migrantes hacia el norte
Often, while thinking about the harsh economic situation in countries like Argentina and Brazil, I would say myself, "OMG, what would they have done without soccer!". This study is a good kickoff -- it should be carried out globally by fellow researchers. And, above all, this is a note of hope for the world.
estoy comparando pájaros carpinteros Melanerpes de Argentina
In my country there is growing support for policies against neoliberalism. The "free market" is destroying education and science. The support for the formula Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner already has 9600 signatures. The video of the act: https://bit.ly/2YQDXCB. To sign, complete the form here: https://bit.ly/2RMNzs1. I retransmit what I received from the group Science and Technology Argentina (CyTA = https://cienciaytecnicaargentina.wordpress.com/).
What do colleagues in other parts of the world think?
Comparing the recent reforms undertaken in the health sector by the governments of Argentina, on the one hand, and Chile on the other and to evaluate the role played by politics in these choices thru the different implementation of the digital revolution in the last decades.
I'm searching for information (papers, reviews, conference abstracts) about volcanic fumaroles within the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex, at Argentina. I'm looking for ages and composition of the volcanoes showing these fumaroles.
Se trata de Argentina: el valor del peso nacional baja: en lo que va de marzo perdió un 6% de su valor, los precios crecen en promedio a un 3/4 % mensual, y los salarios no llegan a subir en promedio un 35% anual, los pensionados se prevé que incrementen sus haberes aún un poco menos que los asalariados. Los exportadores estacionales retienen su oferta de divisas y las carteras privadas están dolarizadas. En este escenario desde hace 6 meses el Banco Central y la Tesorería Nacional suben las tasas de interés internas de letras a menos de una año a un nivel que toca el 70% anual. La tasa de crecimiento del pbi es nula y la cuenta corriente es negativa en un 5 % del pbi. Es esto sostenible? Claro que no! Sin embargo coo el déficit fiscal operativo es nulo el presidente del país cree que todo irá bien y estaos creciendo.
We are seeking contributors to write on work-life balance in South Africa, Egypt, Tanzania, Indonesia, Argentina, Ecuador, and Columbia.
Please signify your intention by emailing me @ t.adisa@uel.ac.uk
The meeting of the G20 was held in Argentina, the meeting between the United States and China being the most important at a global level. China being an economy that in recent years has accelerated the gap with the United States. This probable change of world leadership will provoke a series of accommodations in the different countries, as it believes that it will rebound, if this occurs, in the rest of the countries.
I would like to learn about your project. Wold it be possible to read its proposal? Any papers coming from it already?
The reason I ask about countries and scale of land tenancy or ownership involved is because I would like to compare with our agriculture structure in Argentina. where most of maize production corresponds to what we call extensive agriculture or fields crops, implemented in farms in the scale of around two hundred hectares average. I am interested in approaches and methods proposed to apply agroecoloy on big scale plots.
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Eduardo Trumper
have material from a kind of Carex. In Flora Argentina only C. polysticha is accepted, but I am not sure if it can be C. pseudocyperus. These specimens, although they have the terminal staminate inflorescence, the 2 inferior to this one are Gynaecandrous. In the descriptions of C. polysticha they do not mention this characteristic, but I understand that they do in C. pseudocyperus. Can someone guide me about it? Thank you
I am working with biogeography of southern Paraguay and the info about Paraguay river evolution is relevant for my work. So, if someone could help me, I will be very gratefull! Specially, I have not any info about the Center and South Paraguay river evolution. Brazilian Pantanal and Formosa, Argentina, have information I already get, but nothing about paraguayan sections of actual river course.
Thanks
In Argentina, biology teachers usually playfully say to their students "do not ask 'what for', ask 'why'!" ("no preguntes para qué, pregunta por qué"). This expression represents a rejection, in the letter but not necessarily in the spirit, of teleology: final causes and functional language. Do English-speaking Professors of biology, use a similar expression?
Hello
I'm from Argentina and i'm working whit genetic expression of degenerative joint disease in dogs. So we're trying to isolate RNA from cartilage to further NGS analysis. But till now we haven't get good results. We need some advices about which is the best kit or method to isolate RNA from cartilage tissue. Could you tell me some about it please?
My best regards
Gabriela Rudd
Hi!
I need to work on cardiomyocytes as hosts of parasitic infection. I have been working with HL-1, but culture media is expensive and it takes a long time to arrive after purchase (I live in Argentina). Therefore, I am thinking of working with H9C2 or AC16. I will need to do siRNA on the cell line I choose. I can easily get H9C2 from another group, but I am a little bit worried about the differentiation/undifferentiation and unfortunately I don´t have anybody that can teach me to culture this cell line properly (I will end up being trial and error). On the other hand, I have not seen reports on difficulties with AC16 but I will need to buy them because nobody I know seems to work with them, and they are expensive. Is it worth making that investment? Or should I just stick to H9C2?
Any advice will be wellcomed
Salomé
Special issue on Mineral Deposits of Latin America and the Caribbean (Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana)
Heads up!
We are intending to publish a special issue on Mineral Deposits of Latin America and the Caribbean in the Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana (BSGM, http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/bsgm/). The BSGM is a completely free access semi-annual journal, the oldest strictly peer-reviewed journal on Earth Sciences in Mexico and one of the oldest in Latin America, and is included in the Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, SciELO, Scopus, and in many other instruments.
We do not aim to restrict our scope to any type of deposits or type of studies, and all contributions related to the formation of mineral deposits in Latin America, the Caribbean or conterminous regions are most welcome, from the regional to the mineral-association scales of observation and analysis. Both original research papers and original thematic reviews are welcome as either full-length papers or short notes. Both Industry and Academia authors are encouraged to submit their contributions.
Contributions focused on mineral deposits from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and the Dominican Rep. are so far lined up!
The guest editors to this special issue are
· Joaquín A. Proenza (Universitat de Barcelona),
· Lisard Torró (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), and
· Carl E. Nelson (Recursos del Caribe S.A.).
All inquiries associated with this special issue or the journal itself are be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of the BSGM (Antoni Camprubí, camprubitaga@gmail.com).
Contributions can be written in either English or Spanish, and must adhere to our instructions to authors (http://boletinsgm.igeolcu.unam.mx/bsgm/index.php/instrucciones-instructions). We apply no restrictions with regard to number of pages, number of figures or tables (other than those determined by our valued scientific reviewers), and we do not charge for coloured figures of for any other matter.
First, we need to have a precise idea of how many contributions can be effectively expected for this call for papers; therefore, we need the interested contributors to kindly provide a tentative title, a list of authors (with their institution names and contact emails), and a 300-word synopsis of their intended contributions.
Important dates:
· November 3, 2018: deadline for submittal of tentative title, author list and synopsis.
· May 31, 2019: deadline for submittal of original manuscripts
· August 31, 2019: deadline for all revisions by peers of submitted manuscripts.
· October 31, 2019: deadline for submittal of revised manuscripts.
· April 30, 2020: deadline for online publication of all accepted contributions.
The dates above are only tentative and may be corrected depending on the amount of contributions to this issue. Any changes in schedule will be notified to all contributors as soon as necessary.
Do not hesitate to forward this message to any colleagues you may consider to have a potential interest in this special issue. We will surely be most grateful to you for your help in disseminating this information.
Entre los estudios críticos a la innovación, dos pudieran ser convergentes: innovación por resistencia (Thomas et al)['] e innovación por distanciamiento (Herrera & Jimenez, 2013[¨]).
La propuesta es poner a prueba esas posibles convergencias (entre resistencia/ distanciamiento) en el análisis de una de las llamadas en Latinoamérica enfermedades huérfanas: El Chagas.
Nos interesaría responder en un análisis de caso abordado entre Argentina y Colombia a la pregunta: ¿Cómo ha resistido la universidad, distanciándose de jugar en redes internacionales de tecnologías excluyentes?
[¨] Esta última sociología de la innovación llamada por Vinck y Goulet en la revista REDES (2013): "por desapego" [*] http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/3139
Great job & keep on going!
Greetings from Mar del Plata, Argentina
I am helping in a project about plant species that are eaten by the deer of the Pampas (Argentina, southern South America). I identify the plant species and We would like to associate each species with their fisiological mechanisms (C3 or C4). Thank you very much for your help! Saludos!
Dear colleagues:
Can anyone recommend me a paper that speaks specifically about the competitions between nearby ports and their rail hinterland?
Thank you very much in advance
Best regards
Gustavo Chalier
Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
"At the just-concluded WTO meeting in Argentina, India and a group of developing countries blocked an initiative that would have ushered in a 20-year moratorium on levying duties on electronic transmissions – especialy from Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Google. In response, a number of developed economies, including the EU, UK and the US, served notice that they would work towards a deal, outside the WTO, among themselves to aenhance 'the export of digital services without costly customs duties'. Is this good for internaional trade and the survival of WTO?
We are trying to apply the Method of Transfer of Benefits from the results obtained from the Contingent Valuation Method to obtain the value of ecosystem services of provision in native forests in Argentina. Thanks
They do not want to send me a free sample to Argentina and I have no references on whether it actually works on mouse brain tissue for immunofluorescence.
A number of highly visible cases of corruption have emerged in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and other Latin American countries. At a first glance, these cases fit well with your work on Asia, and the general expectations of you settlements approach to development. My previous work on the Ecuadorian and Bolivian states show that the institutions that would hold corruption in check did not emerge in the past decade, despite the rethorical commitment of the progressive parties in power. Is there a window for cooperating in this issue?
I need this questionaries to evaluate physical activity level in older adults in Argentina.
I want to compare these questionaies with RAPA and YPAS.
Dear Professors and colleges in academia, I'm writing my master degree thesis about SSR in Argentina. I would appreciate sending me any references.
Best regards.
In the Argentina Pampas region, several agricultural land were flooded due to high rainfall and the rise of the water table. What engineering techniques can be applied to prevent flooding in plains?
I need to know how the molting pattern of the genus Akodon in northwestern Argentina is, that is, if the fur molt one or more times a year and in what season.
I would appreciate information from other species of any related genus, or even of the subfamily Sigmodontinae, or the family Cricetidae, in the subtropics.
Thank you.
These microfossil (ordovician calcareous algae) belong to Floian carbonate rocks from Argentina Precordillera and these microfissil are asociate with sponge and few crinoids. Previously them have been identified as Nuias sp. but I think they are some kind of algae.


Could some colleagues please suggest a place where I can find high resolution
climate simulations for South America?
I'm looking for something with a resolution of 0.25 x 0.25 or better, covering
southern South America.
I'm collaborating on a project to update the wind hazard map of Argentina using
climate simulations. I'd appreciate any tips regarding high resolution climate simulations to complete the project.
Thanks,
Augusto:
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Augusto Sanabria, MSc. Ph.D
Profesor Visitante
Facultad de Ingenieria (http://ing.unne.edu.ar)
Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) Resistencia, Argentina