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This paper presents five major theses for understanding the new world conjuncture in which capitalism and humanity entered in 2015-2020. This period is characterized by the crisis of the capitalist civilization and mode of production; the terminal crisis and dismantling of the United States’ hegemony; the geopolitical bifurcation of the world’s eco...

This article presents the results of the Latin American Observatory of eVAluation Indicators (OLIVA, its Spanish acronym) which aims to contribute to the visibility of indexed scientific output in Latin America and the Caribbean and enhance its value in evaluation systems. This study addresses the production published in open access by journals ind...

We invite authors from various disciplines and cultural backgrounds to submit their papers to our forthcoming book, "Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South”, published by Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group in 2024. The deadline for abstract submissions is September 25th, 2023. Please email your abstract to: routledgebookar@gmail....

Depression (DS) and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) exhibit a high prevalence and comorbidity. Previous studies suggest that various transdiagnostic cognitive and emotional factors, including intolerance of uncertainty , emotional dysregulation, and rumination, are predictors of these symptoms. However, research on transdiagnostic factors has...

What is the concept of liberalism? Despite being a conceptually contested term, political parties still label themselves liberal and seek legitimacy by joining Liberal International (LI). In this paper, I adopt a mixed-methods strategy to assess what this ideology means in Latin America. First, I rely on economic and political theory to propose fou...

The study examines current left-wing and right-wing political behaviour and inclusionary and exclusionary practices in MENA, Latin America, and Europe and its outcomes on political developments and changes in comparative method. This study investigates the evolution and transition of contemporary rightism and leftism in these dissimilar Regions and...

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Doutora em Ciência Política pelo Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj) em 2002, e pesquisadora sênior do WZB Berlin Social Science Center, na Alemanha, Thamy Pogrebinchi aborda, nesta entrevista, os resultados do projeto LATINNO - Innovations for Democracy in Latin America, recém-publicados no seu livro Innovating Democrac...

This collection responds to the need for theoretically informed and methodologically grounded empirical research on the global transformations in multimodal human communication and social practices in light of recent widespread change. The volume highlights the need to expand on the established approaches--Social Semiotics, Multimodal Discourse An...

The national implementation of electricity generation projects directly threatens the livelihoods of local and Indigenous communities in Latin America. Therefore, it is crucial to search for solutions to energy supply considering local needs and cosmologies. This article focuses on micro-energy production in rural settlements on the Colombian Carib...

Scholarship in colonial and nineteenth-century Latin American studies often does not reach beyond specialized academic audiences. The majority of work continues to be largely traditional in nature, with monographs, journal articles, and book chapters remaining the most common types of publications.Only a small portion of that production is distribu...

RESUMEN Se analiza la visibilidad de prácticas de Economía Circular (EC) de países y regiones a través de publicaciones cien-tíficas. La investigación es cualitativa de corte transversal, no experimental, constituye una primera revisión literaria en la ruta crítica de un proyecto sobre prácticas de EC en uno de los sectores prioritarios ecuatoriano...

An investigation of how social movements and activists can undermine structures of political power by redefining participation. The past decade has witnessed the resurgence of autonomy-inspired movements in many countries across Europe, North America, and Latin America. From the Indignados to the Occupy Movement and Antifa, from Indigenous mobiliz...

Background Few studies in Latin America have examined the association between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive impairment (CI) in a nationally representative sample. Therefore, this study aimed to estimate the prevalence of CI in a nationally representative sample of adults aged 60 years or older from Chile and to investigate the associati...

The article¹ 1 This article was financially supported by the Amazonas State Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). conducts a documentary research on laws...

The article aimed to understand the constitution of the Modern State and the interrelation with educational policies in Latin America, the case of Brazil, Colombia and Peru; The study was carried out in the light of Gramsci’s cultural-historical epistemology. This approach helped with a view of the totality, especially in the narratives woven in th...

The Global South has increasingly become a recurring research agenda, often originating in the Global North. There is a need to understand what these research agendas consist of and what role Latin America and the Caribbean play in defining and/or reproducing them. The purpose of this study is to understand the agendas of the Global South supported...

Resumen La estrategia de resguardar el 30% de la superficie del planeta en áreas protegidas (AP) ha encontrado consenso mundial en el marco del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CBD), bajo la expectativa de proteger la biodiversidad y, simultáneamente, atender problemas tradicionales como la distribución de la riqueza. ¿Qué medidas y modelos...

This document is an annex to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Maternal Neonatal Immunization Field Guide. This annex incorporates relevant information on COVID-19 vaccines to be considered by decision-makers who plan and/or coordinate immunization programs, as well as for health professionals working in maternal–perinatal health services...

This article explores the historical significance and evolution of the Monroe Doctrine, a pivotal component of U.S. foreign policy introduced by President James Monroe in 1823. It delves into the collaborative efforts between Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, emphasizing the doctrine's initial rejection of European colonial practices...

The article¹ 1 This article was financially supported by the Amazonas State Research Support Foundation (FAPEAM), the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). conducts a documentary research on laws...

The article aimed to understand the constitution of the Modern State and the interrelation with educational policies in Latin America, the case of Brazil, Colombia and Peru; The study was carried out in the light of Gramsci’s cultural-historical epistemology. This approach helped with a view of the totality, especially in the narratives woven in th...

This essay reviews the following works: Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology. By Florence E. Babb. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. Pp. x + 304. $34.95 paper. ISBN: 9780520298170. Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. By Alison Crosby and Brinton L...

This study aimed to: (I) to identify the state of the art of publications on animal-assisted interventions (AAI) in Latin America; and (II) to critically evaluate the methodological quality of clinical studies on AAI in Latin America. This is a scoping review. Data were collected from Redalyc, SciELO, LILACS, CAPES Journal Portal and BIREME. Eligib...

Right-wing candidates have rallied against same-sex marriage, abortion, and ‘gender ideology’ in several recent Latin American elections, attracting socially conservative voters. Yet, these issues are largely irrelevant to voting decisions in other parts of the region. Drawing on theories explaining partisan shifts in the US and Europe, we argue th...

Purpose-the purpose of this academic paper is to analyze Argentina's inflationary situation through an understanding of its monetary policy over the years, and to identify its effect on the country's poverty, explaining the relationship between fiat currencies and stable currencies. Methodological design and approach-by analyzing the case of Argent...

Leptospirosis is a re-emerging zoonotic disease that has had an unprecedented impact on most health systems in the world. The spectrum of symptoms is variable and usually ranges from asymptomatic cases to severe manifestations involving multiple organ dysfunction accompanied by jaundice, hemorrhage, meningitis, and acute kidney injury that requires...

Democracy in Latin America addresses how democratic and authoritarian forces are intertwined in political processes and institutional design. Since transitioning to democracy, unprecedented numbers of Latin American countries have had the chance to elect their governments, but not to transform their states. As a result, a new wave of autocratizatio...

Purpose of Review HEARTS in the Americas is the regional adaptation of Global Hearts, the World Health Organization initiative for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and control. Its overarching goal is to drive health services to change managerial and clinical practice in primary care settings to improve hypertension control and CVD risk mana...

Research has produced mixed results on the relationship between economic inequality and social and political trust. These studies overrepresent developed countries, cross-sectional designs, and overlook the role of subjective evaluations of inequality. We use 13 waves from 18 Latin American countries over 23 years (above 250,000 participants) to ex...

The genus Bartonella encompasses 38 validated species of Gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacteria that colonize the endothelial cells and erythrocytes of a wide spectrum of mammals. To date, 12 Bartonella species have been recorded infecting humans, causing diseases of long historical characterization, such as cat scratch fever and trench...

Measuring and understanding the evolution of the electricity generation efficiency sector is a relevant task for policymakers. This study focuses on assessing the determinants of electricity generation efficiency across 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2000 and 2020. A hurdle model was employed to account for the censored nat...

Maintaining and improving brain health, one of the most critical global challenges of this century, necessitates innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative strategies to address the growing challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. This paper introduces Brain Health Diplomacy (BHD) as a pioneering approach to bridge disciplinary and geog...

This obituary celebrates the life of Dr. Ana Paulina Celi, renowned for her contributions to the field of infectious diseases in Latin America.

Objective: to evaluate and correlate the quality of life and financial toxicity of adult patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: observational, analytical study, carried out with 35 patients in a reference hospital for transplantation in Latin America. For data collection, the Functional Ass...

Intensive Silvopastoral Systems (ISPS) in Latin America represent a sustainable alternative to intensive livestock production as part of nature-based solutions to reduce climate change, increase the economic value of the livestock enterprise and thus provide better living standards to small-scale producers. The intentional integration of different...

Postgraduate quality management can be carried out from two approaches: the first, (competitive) is based on compliance with academic, scientific and administrative standards, and the positioning of universities in world lists of best institutions; the second (humanist-social) in the commitment of the universities with the solution of the problems...

One of the main challenges in the clinical management of dengue is the early identification of cases that could progress to severe forms of the disease. A biomarker that may enable this identification is the presence of genetic polymorphisms in genes associated with immune responses. The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review of...

While the first 1,000 days of life are a critical period in child's development, limited information on the main determinants affecting this period in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is available. Therefore, the Latin American Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (SLIPE) held an ad hoc workshop in May 2022 with an expert panel des...

Background and Objectives Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder. Familial (fALS) cases are usually reported to constitute 5%–10% of all ALS cases; however, no recent literature review or meta-analysis of this proportion (referred to throughout as “proportion fALS”) has been conducted. Our objective was to estimate...

Epilepsy surgery for pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy has been shown to improve seizure control, enhance patient and family QoL, and reduce mortality. However, diagnostic tools and surgical capacity are less accessible worldwide. The International Society Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN) has established a Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Interest Group (PE...

El trabajo considera el papel de América Latina en el marco del despliegue de una globalización con características chinas en el siglo XXI. Il lavoro considera il ruolo dell’America Latina nel quadro dello sviluppo della globalizzazione con caratteristiche cinesi nel 21° secolo. The work considers the role of Latin America within the framework of...

In March 2023, one hundred and sixty leaders and change-makers from fourteen countries across Latin America participated in a four-day gathering held by the Presencing Institute called the Ecosystem Leadership Program (ELP) in Latin America. A system of scholarship and support was created to ensure the event was inclusive and representative of the...

Modern electrical power systems integrate renewable generation, with solar generation being one of the pioneers worldwide. In Latin America, the greatest potential and development of solar generation is found in Chile through the National Electric System. However, its energy matrix faces a crisis of drought and reduction of emissions that limits hy...

Population outbreaks, although rare, hold significant ecological implications, particularly in short-lived organisms. These outbreaks are often triggered by changes in population control factors such as food availability, absence or reduction of natural enemies, diseases, or favourable climatic conditions. This study documents an infestation event...

This paper offers, for the first time, comparable income shares of the top 10%, the middle 50% and the bottom 40% of the labour force in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (LA6) from 1920 to 2011 using a new dataset. The main findings are: i) over the whole period the LA6 exhibited a recurrent very high income concentration at...

Background Food insecurity (FI) remains a global public health problem. FI is more prevalent in low-and middle-income countries than high-income countries. FI is related with worse cognitive outcomes including cognitive function, cognitive decline, and cognitive impairment. Few studies have sought to identify how patterns of FI relate with cognitiv...

La migración por amenidades evidencia un deseo consciente de emigrar a la ruralidad por influencia, en la mayoría de los casos, de la atracción de comodidades naturales o culturales. El objetivo de este artículo es examinar las tendencias de investigación sobre la migración por amenidades en zonas rurales, zonas rurales metropolitanas y ciudades in...

This research analyzes how the receiver's emotional response to fear communication differs across cultural groups of origin (Europe vs. Latin America), as well as individual traits such as the level of fear of each individual, motivated by the lack of previous studies that address the receiver's reaction from a cross-cultural perspective in this ty...

Las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES) poseen gran relevancia en el sector económico mexicano y a la vez se enfrentan a situaciones poco favorables que generan riesgos de pérdidas económicas y de mano de obra calificada, en ese sentido, es importante el estudio de los componentes que intervienen en el funcionamiento de las empresas, como son la c...

The objective of this study is to understand the specific criminal type known as murder of a woman for reasons of gender, based on a comparative analysis of its legal scope across Latin American legislations between 2007 and 2020, taking the Brazilian system as the starting point. Feminicide and femicide were the two main terms analysed here; each...

The multidimensionality of the Israeli political system is expected given Israel’s electoral system and cleavage structure. We introduce a new dataset and measurement of party positions in Israel and provide evidence that Israel’s party system is comparable to other multiparty systems in Europe (CHES-EU) and Latin America (CHES-LA). We argue and pr...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted healthcare systems worldwide, especially on the management of chronic diseases such as cancer. This study explores the effects of COVID-19 on cancer mortality trends in Brazil, Chile, and Peru. The monthly age-standardized mortality rates in different places of death (hospital/clinic or home) were es...

The US state of Florida is home to an alarmingly large number of invasive species, many of which have proven detrimental to native ecosystems. Biological invasions of reptiles in particular have been a major concern in recent years. The spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) was first introduced from Latin America to Florida in the 1950’s. Given the...

BACKGROUND: Patient-ventilator asynchrony is common in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. The proportion of health-care professionals capable of identifying and effectively managing different types of patient-ventilator asynchronies is limited. A few studies have developed specific training programs, but they mainly focused on improving pa...

Construction is a sector that has been operating with lower productivity rates than other industries; historically, it has used artisanal methods, which have generated low competitiveness and efficiency, leading to considerable cost overruns and waste. For these reasons, the industrial revolution 4.0 is a movement involving large-scale changes and...

This is a pre-production version of a paper forthcoming in Journal of Economic History, 84(4).

In response to inequality in access to genomics research, efforts are underway to include underrepresented minorities, but explicit (and enforcing) guidelines are mostly targeted toward the Global North. In this work, we elaborate on the need to return scientific results to indigenous communities, reporting the actions we have taken in a recent gen...

Despite services being the largest component of the world economy, their importance may still not be recognized in regions such as Latin America. Therefore, this contribution presents exploratory research informed by the steps of a systematic literature review to collect, organise, and analyse educational offerings in Service Design, including grad...

The constant emergence of severe health threats, such as antibacterial resistance or highly transmissible viruses, necessitates the investigation of novel therapeutic approaches for discovering and developing new antimicrobials, which will be critical in combating resistance and ensuring available options. Due to the richness and structural variety...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a significant component of China’s foreign policy. Latin American countries were invited to participate in the BRI in 2018. Despite a considerable number of countries subscribing to the initiative, China has faced difficulties expanding the BRI in Latin America. The purpose of this paper is to investiga...

Background and research aim: This paper analyses the governance in the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve (RBJBE), located in the southwest of the Dominican Republic along the borders with the Republic of Haiti. Methods: Construction and validation of an integrated scale of good governance and its subsequent analysis using factorial meth...

Background Aztreonam-avibactam (ATM-AVI) is under clinical development. Aztreonam is a monobactam stable to hydrolysis by metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs). ATM-AVI has shown activity against MBL-producing, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) that are resistant to recently approved β-lactamase inhibitor combinations (BLIs) such as ceftazidime-avi...

Background Given global distribution of the mRNA-1273 vaccine in the pandemic, an understanding of regional differences in adverse event (AE) reporting is needed. Methods The Moderna global safety database (GSDB) contains mRNA-1273 associated AE reports directly submitted by health care providers and consumers, as well as from company supported tr...

Circular Economy (CE) has been configured as a powerful narrative that provides an optimistic view on the possibility of harmonizing economic growth and socio-environmental sustainability in the height of financial capitalism and the global crisis of the anthropocene. Of broad and rapid development in industrialized countries, its mainstream versio...

Drawing from Moral Foundations Theory, I investigate in the present work if white people exhibit a different moral configuration than nonwhite people, and if moral differences between whites and nonwhites are greater in the US than outside the US. A selection among 4146 published and unpublished articles between 2008 and 2018 resulted in a sample o...

Background Fluconazole (FLC) resistance (R) is common in C. glabrata (CGLA). Echinocandins (ECHs) are often used as first-line therapy. R to ECHs has been associated with FKS1 and FKS2 gene alterations. Rezafungin (RZF), a new ECH approved by the US FDA to treat candidemia and invasive candidiasis, was evaluated against a collection of ECH–non-wild...

Air pollution in opencast coal mine areas is a critical issue, resulting in harmful severe effects on human health. Therefore, it is essential to understand the air pollution factors and to assess the risks to humans. This study evaluated the potential risks (carcinogen and non-carcinogen) of inhalation exposure to PM10-bound heavy metals and Polyc...

Introduction While the electoral success of political outsiders, individuals who build their careers outside established political parties, is not a novel phenomenon, it has become increasingly prominent in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. How can we define and apply this concept in Political Science? Materials and methods We conducte...

This article presents the development, advancements, challenges and achievements of the “Optimization of Protection in Pediatric Interventional Radiology in Latin America and the Caribbean” (OPRIPALC) program. This international initiative is led by the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization and the International Atomic Ene...

This article discusses the internationalization of technology startups in Latin America. The study analyzed 121 startups from five countries using a quantitative approach and data was collected from the Crunchbase platform. Results indicate that Argentinean, Chilean, and Colombian startups have faster internationalization trajectories than their Br...

Background Over the last years, several studies on bloodstream infections (BSI) have ranked P. aeruginosa in the top 5 list of Gram-negative causal agents. However, there is very limited data regarding the incidence of Pseudomonas bacteremia in Latin America. The aim of this study was to establish the incidence of bacteremia caused by Pseudomonas s...

Background During the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction in the volume of patients who sought care in pediatric emergency departments (ED) was observed. An apparent change in discharge diagnoses was also witnessed. There is scarce evidence about the impact of the pandemic on pediatric emergency departments in Mexico and Latin Americ...

Background Coronavirus is one of the major pathogens that primarily targets the human respiratory system. In COVID-19 patient’s, bloodstream infections (BSI) have not been extensively studied in Latin-America. Given the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia and the high rate of hospitalizations, information about risk factors and ways to prevent...

The reduction of child mortality rates remains a significant global public health challenge, particularly in regions with high levels of inequality such as Latin America. We used machine learning (ML) algorithms to explore the relationship between social determinants and child under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico over two d...

One of the leading commercial drivers applied in developing countries, especially in economies with conservative policies, is free trade agreements or tariff preferences with strategic economic zones worldwide. The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are no exception. The United States is the region's leading trading partner; however, seve...

Background The World Health Organization is leading initiatives to drive public understanding of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance. It is important to assess levels of understanding across countries and age groups. Methods Observational, questionnaire-based study across 12 countries (Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, Polan...