Venezuela - Science topic

What kind of rites de passage regarding menarche have been researched? I am working on a book regarding the Wayuu people from Colombia and Venezuela. I am wondering if indigenous peoples in Brazil or in other countries have similar rituals when the first menstruation arrives?

Most of research discussing the geology and petroleum geology of eastern Venezuela, including offshore T&T, is outdated or decades old. The newest research I have come across discussing central/eastern Venezuela is by Pindell et al., 2009.

Any other new research from eastern Venezuela? Thanks in advance!

Hello everybody,

I was wondering about the classification of Bitcoin made in those few years. We've seen many authors trying to identify it as an asset, mainly justyfing it as the only feasible classification after excluding it from being a currency, just because it still doesn't have currency like characteristics like unit of account and store of value, while we can all agree is a mean of exchange. I would like to reverse the question showing you a paradox and I'm curious to know from you: If you say Bitcoin can't be a currency because of lack of store of value component, so how do you classify hyperinflationed currency like Bolivar in Venezuela which basically lost this characteristic? For sure you can't say that every currency that lost its store of value component have to be an asset....

our Foundation is trying to learn how to use ICT for empowerment, we are located in Venezuela, and our blog (is spanish, but may be translated) is http://interconectados.org/

Looking forward to a close interaction

I am currently looking for up to the minute research or research within the last 18 months or so which details the effect that the venezuelan crisis is having on venezuelan society. Preferably non-partisan as there is a tendency to just blame the Venezuelan government rather than considering the wider causes.

Anything on:

health

social divisions

crime

cultural division etc.

If you need a distribution map from a book, how do people deal with that? Do u email authors to obtain the layers or is there a way to export the polygons from the book images?

Colleagues and I need the polygons of the whole distribution of two #snake vipers: Porthidium nasutum and lansbergii. This goes from Mexico, thru Central America, to Venezuela/Colombia/Ecuador, so it isn't as simple as creating the polygons by "hand".

This is a big question. We ussually discuss about the APCs and the high cost of it, and maybe the importance of Open Access and free publication, but in the other hand hand we think about the time the reviewers invest in our papers and the work hours that the editor and the team spend in the process and it is a trick question in fact... Can we have a good and quality process without paying the review and working with small resources?

I have the experience with TELOS: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales and is not easy, because DOIs have cost, work in social difussion cost and even in Venezuela we have the problem of personal rotation, the university pay for that but is hard to educate each time new people... What do you think about?

I was thinking about a way to make it sustainable in time... In our case, in the country is almost impossible to have access to pay for international services and of course is a disadvantage for the journals in here... We have many teachers and researchers that collaborate in the review because I mean, is the normal way in here... but sometimes you can demand so much about fast reviewing...

What do you think about it? Do you know a way to grow without all the limitations we have? Let me know

This is a large bird native to Colombia and Venezuela and currently is considered an endangered species by the IUCN and the red books of these countries. We are looiking for checking if it is present in certain areas of Venezuela where no new reports have been recorded in at least seven years.

Coastal management is a topic that has been much debated around the world in the last two decades, in view of the need to organize our coastal areas. In view of this context, I ask if the countries of South America present governmental programs of Coastal Management.

I am modeling with gravimetry a small section of the rapakivi granite

of Parguaza, Venezuela. I am located near from the left flanc of the Parguaza graben so I am also in an extensional setting. I am trying to understand the implications of this and what is the gravity response expected, taking consider that the country rock is another granite.

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.

I know that sightings of manatee have been very rare for the central Venezuelan coast. I have only heard of one for 1990 and one in 1991 (UNEP 1995). I would like to be complete in my reference to venezuela and see that you made a rare sighting for Mochima. I would be very grateful to cite you as personal communication. Good luck with your photo contest.

Dolfi Debrot

I have done a research on entrepreneurial intentions of students at Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela. I relate such variables as career options, previous studies and experiences on entrepreneurship, and some other demographics variables age, sex, level of studies, and so on.

He had multiple contacts with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Russia about Oil production and prices.

Its outrageous and confrontational rhetoric, which increases during times of internal instability, has consistently worked to unite its followers in support of his leadership; it portrays itself as a modern day Simon Bolívar It is this unquestionable support of the lower class of Venezuela that allowed him to survive the slow destruction of Venezuela's economy, internal strife and finally a coup attempt in 2002.

His internationally recognized victory in the August 2004 referendum certainly encouraged him. For this consummate narcissist, this victory would have been expected to have swelled his ego

I can only find reliable data for the Brazilian Amazon.

Today, after successful elections in Venezuela, boycotted by the US backed opposition, we are told that:

Also today we are told that following the unilateral US tearing up of the international treaty with Iran :

"Mike Pompeo has threatened Iran with the “strongest sanctions in history” if it does not comply with a list of a dozen US demands. In a speech that attempted to lay out the Trump administration’s strategy on Iran after quitting the nuclear deal it agreed with other major powers in 2015, the secretary of state warned that the US would not just reimpose all the sanctions that were in place before the deal, but also pile additional punitive measures.

The Iranian regime should know this is just the beginning,” Pompeo said. The speech did not explicitly advocate regime change, but in remarks immediately afterwards Pompeo suggested that it would be up to the Iranian people to end the US pressure campaign by changing their own government.“I can’t put a timeline on it, but at the end of the day, the Iranian people [advised by the CIA] will decide the timeline,” Pompeo said at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank in Washington. “The Iranian people will get to make a choice about their leadership. If they make the decision quickly that will be wonderful. If they choose not to do so, we will stay hard at this until we achieve the outcomes that I set forth.”

Among the 12 conditions laid down by Pompeo were: demand Iran to give a full account of its alleged past work on nuclear weapons development; stop all uranium enrichment; halt launches of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles; end its support for Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad;(??) withdraw all forces under Iranian command from Syria; and end support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.

GOOD TO KNOW WE ARE IN SAFE AND SENSIBLE HANDS WHO KNOW HISTORY, DIPLOMACY AND CARE ABOUT WORLD PEACE!!

Saludos cordiales, mi nombre es Rafael Quintana y soy Licenciado en Biología Marina de la Universidad de Oriente Venezuela. Durante mi formación académica inicio mi pasión por la búsqueda de nuevos fármacos de origen marino. Es por ello que me enfoque a aprender todo lo relacionado a esta línea de investigación durante mi periodo universitario. Dedique muchas horas de estudio, obtuve certificación de buceo, trabaje en laboratorios de la Universidad de Oriente y realice diversas pasantías en el instituto científico más importante de mi país (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas IVIC). Una vez que me sentí capacitado, desarrolle mi tesis de grado titulada: “Evaluación de la actividad citotóxica de la ascidia Polyclinum constellatum y su posible efecto sobre la línea celular de cáncer de mama 4T1”. En dicha investigación se encontraron resultados muy interesantes y prometedores que ameritan continuar con su desarrollo, no obstante la fuerte crisis en la que se encuentra mi país me imposibilita iniciar los estudios de postgrado, obligándome a buscar oportunidades en otras fronteras. Es por eso que le escribo a usted, he leído sobre el proyecto que iniciara y veo que tiene bastante similitud con la línea de investigación que tanto me apasiona. Por tal motivo quiero preguntarle ¿existe alguna posibilidad de poder realizar alguna maestría en la universidad, donde pueda trabajar con usted en su proyecto de investigación? Realmente me interesa su trabajo e independientemente de su respuesta seguiré al tanto de su proyecto. Espero que podamos estar en contacto, saludos.

This is an endangered species. In my country Venezuela, only two small spots of this species remain. Despite similar environmental and biotic conditions in the surroundings and no apparent dispersion barriers, the species is totally absent out of these spots.

Will you have plans to extend your work in Latin America? Please, I am at your disposal if you wish to work in Venezuela

I have seen in the last decades in Latin America, that countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia, have move to try to organize national systems of research, in which the classification of research groups as well of researchers, is officially made in a periodical way. E.g. in Colombia, research groups, after criteria-based measurement (based mainly in article and other products historic and recent performance), classifies them in four levels: A1 (highest recognition), A, B and C. Also researchers as: junior, associate and senior (highest recognition). Then, my question is in which other countries, a national science agency classifies and certifies the research groups and researchers officially?

Recent results (2017) of classification of research groups and researchers in Colombia by the national agency Colciencias (in Spanish):

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

Senior Researcher,

Research Group Public Health and Infection A1,

Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira,

Colombia.

I'm working with a group of community leaders in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela to assess the most important needs, and form an humanitarian organization to help resolve them, directly or doing the bridge to existing institutions. 

Thanks. 

You may be aware of the serious political-economic situation in Venezuela by means of the written press or, failing that, by means of the diffusion on newsreels or even by social networks. What is true? What is false?

do you think it is possible that you send me sample material from your rock phosphates, Riecito (RIO) and Monte Fresco (MONTE)? We collect mineral fertilizer materials, but have no rock phosphates from Venezuela yet.

Thanks in advance!

Ewald

I have been told that obtaining information about birth certificates, etc. during this period is nearly impossible. Are there any duplicate records anywhere in Venezuela?

Venezuela, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the only three countries in the Americas that have not achieved significant reductions in malaria cases (estimated over 30-50% in all the rest endemic countries, including Brazil) during the last decade. I would like to read opinions regarding the current performance of the malaria control program in Venezuela. During the last years over 50,000 cases per year have been reported in the country, according to the WHO, based on national official data.