Prevalencia del virus de la rinotraqueitis infecciosa bovina en el departamento del Caquetá, Amazónia Colombiana by A. L. Muñoz, P. A. Motta-Delgado, W. Herrera, R. Polania, L. C. Cháves

“…A nivel municipal la seroprevalencia fue mayor en los municipios de El Doncello, Puerto Rico y San Vicente del Caguán y se encontró diferencia significativa (p < 0,05) entre los nueve municipios analizados. …”
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Standardization for Data Generation and Collection in the Dairy Industry: Addressing Challenges and Charting a Path Forward by Michel Baldin, Jeffrey M. Bewley, Victor E. Cabrera, Kevin Jones, Connie Loehr, Gustavo Mazon, Juan D. Perez, Matthew Utt, Jeff Weyers

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The 2019 Social Protests in Latin America: Global Context and Ecuadorian Case-Study by A. N. Pyatakov

“…Particular emphasis is made on how the protests in Latin America developed in time and space, as they spread to at least eight states of the region: Haiti, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Columbia. …”
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Hypertension, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Renal Pathology in a Child with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome by Roberto Gordillo, Marcela Del Rio, David B. Thomas, Joseph T. Flynn, Robert P. Woroniecki

“…A 15-year-old male of Puerto Rico ancestry with history of HPS, hypertension (HTN), asthma, obesity, and chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage II presented with new-onset proteinuria without edema. …”
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Prevalence of Drug Resistance and Associated Mutations in a Population of HIV-1+ Puerto Ricans: 2006–2010 by Lycely del C. Sepúlveda-Torres, Alexandra De La Rosa, Luz Cumba, Nawal Boukli, Eddy Ríos-Olivares, Luis A. Cubano

“…This is a continuation of our efforts to maintain a record of the evolution of HIV-1 infection in Puerto Rico by monitoring the expression levels of antiretroviral drug-resistance-associated mutations. …”
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Investigation of Black Carbon Wet Deposition to the United States from National Atmospheric Deposition Network Samples by Piyaporn Sricharoenvech, Ross Edwards, Müge Yaşar, David Gay, James J. Schauer

“…From October 26th to December 1st, 2020, we analyzed 478 NADP wet deposition samples from 209 locations, including sites in the United States, Canada and US territories, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Wet deposition BC concentrations varied from less than 0.3 µg L−1 to 38.7 µg L−1 with a median of 3.50 µg L−1. …”
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JUGANDO MONOPOLIO FORTALECEREMOS EL PENSAMIENTO NUMÉRICO by Susan Sareth García Guadrón

“… El presente artículo, se enfoca en una problemática identificada en el Centro Educativo La Sabana Municipio de Puerto Rico Meta, Colombia; asociado a la debilidad en el área de matemáticas en temáticas como pensamiento numérico en sus competencias de comunicación, razonamiento y resolución. …”
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Development and characterization of a reverse genetic system for studying dengue virus serotype 3 strain variation and neutralization. by William B Messer, Boyd Yount, Kari E Hacker, Eric F Donaldson, Jeremy P Huynh, Aravinda M de Silva, Ralph S Baric

“…To better understand genotypic variation in DENV-3 neutralization and protection, we designed and constructed a panel of isogenic, recombinant DENV-3 infectious clones, each expressing an envelope glycoprotein from a different DENV-3 genotype; Philippines 1982 (genotype I), Thailand 1995 (genotype II), Sri Lanka 1989 and Cuba 2002 (genotype III) and Puerto Rico 1977 (genotype IV). We used the panel to explore how natural envelope variation influences DENV-polyclonal serum interactions. …”
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An ensemble prediction approach to weekly Dengue cases forecasting based on climatic and terrain conditions by Sougata Deb, Cleta Milagros Libre Acebedo, Gomathypriya Dhanapal, Chua Matthew Chin Heng

“…Materials and Methods: Experimental data were based on two Latin American cities, viz. San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Iquitos (Peru). Due to weather and geographic differences, San Juan recorded higher dengue incidences than Iquitos. …”
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Two-Step Facile Preparation of 2D MoS2/ZnO Nanocomposite p-n Junctions with Enhanced Photoelectric Performance by Ali Aldalbahi, Zhen-Bo Wang, Tansir Ahamad, Saad M. Alshehri, Peter X. Feng

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Bathymetry estimation for coastal regions using self-attention by Xiaoxiong Zhang, Maryam R. Al Shehhi

“…In addition, we collected a large-scale bathymetric dataset covering different shallow coastal regions across the world, including Honolulu Island, Abu Dhabi, Puerto Rico, etc. We trained the model using the collected dataset in an end-to-end manner. …”
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Stigma and social support and their impact on quality of life and self-esteem among women with endometriosis in Latin-America and the Caribbean. by Yatzmeli Matías-González, Astrid Sánchez-Galarza, Ernesto Rosario-Hernández, Idhaliz Flores-Caldera, Eliut Rivera-Segarra

“…Prevalence rates in Latin-America and the Caribbean are largely unknown, with published data only from Puerto Rico and Chile. Pain associated with endometriosis negatively affects patients' health and quality of life. …”
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Prevalence, risk and resilience factors of mental health conditions among female sex workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Olivia Kalinowski, Anastasiia Lotysh, Gizem Kaya, Franziska Kroehn-Liedtke, Lena Karoline Zerbe, Hristiana Mihaylova, Krisztina Sipos, Wulf Rössler, Meryam Schouler-Ocak

“…Single studies were identified from Scotland, Switzerland, Israel, Portugal, Mongolia, Malawi, Cameroon, Ukraine, Togo, Lebanon, the Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Puerto Rico, Ethiopia, and Moldova. The review highlights significant heterogeneity in the prevalence of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, suicidality, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance use and dependence, investigating the influence of socio-economic, legal, and individual factors on these outcomes. …”
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Surveying Nearshore Bathymetry Using Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning by David Hartmann, Mathieu Gravey, Timothy David Price, Wiebe Nijland, Steven Michael de Jong

“…Here, the nearshore bathymetry of southwest Puerto Rico is estimated with multispectral Sentinel-2 and hyperspectral PRISMA imagery using conventional spectral band ratio models and more advanced XGBoost models and convolutional neural networks. …”
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Value-based healthcare in Latin America: a survey of 70 healthcare provider organisations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico by Pedro Ramos, Marcia Makdisse, Daniel Malheiro, Marcelo Katz, Luisa Novoa, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Jose Henrique Germann Ferreira, Sidney Klajner

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Robust Next-Day Scheduling of PV Generation Sources Supplying a Standalone DC Microgrid via a Semi-Definite Programming Model by Walter Gil-Gonzalez, Oscar Danilo Montoya, Luis F. Grisales-Norena, Fabio Andrade

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Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Ecosystem-Scale CO₂ Flux Measurements by Jeffrey Uyekawa, John Leland, Darby Bergl, Yujie Liu, Andrew D. Richardson, Benjamin Lucas

“…The model showed excellent performance testing on sites that are ecologically similar to other sites (the Mid Atlantic, New England, and the Rocky Mountains), but poorer performance at sites with fewer ecological similarities to other sites in the data (Pacific Northwest, Florida, and Puerto Rico). The results show strong potential for machine learning-based models to make more skillful predictions than state-of-the-art process-based models, being able to estimate the multi-year mean carbon balance to within an error ±50 gCm⁻²y⁻¹ for 29 of our 44 test sites. …”
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Lung-specific CRBN knockout attenuates influenza a virus-induced acute lung injury in mice: a potential therapeutic approach by Lifang Zhang, Qingchao Zhang, Jiahui Chang, Yunyi Zhou, Wei Wang, Xiliang Wang, Chengyu Jiang, Yanli Zhang

“…In this study, we investigated the impact of CRBN on A/Puerto Rico/8/34 (PR8) influenza virus-induced lung injury and its potential as a therapeutic target. …”
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Reverse osmosis for the treatment of well water and wastewater for reuse by A. Mélendez- Rivera, J. Musa-Wasil, D. Almestica-Martinez, K. Malave-Llamas

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of reverse osmosis systems in treating well water for human consumption, examine the possibility of reusing reverse osmosis treated wastewater, and assess the feasibility of reducing freshwater consumption and wastewater generation.METHODS: The study used the qualitative and quantitative data obtained in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023 from the manufacturing industry in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Statistical analysis was confidently conducted using the Paired T-Test and Pearson correlation tests, with Minitab Statistical Software (Version 21.1.0) utilized for statistical analysis.FINDINGS: The results of this study showed that reverse osmosis is an effective system for treating well water for human use and enabling the reuse of wastewater after treatment. …”
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Perception and Production of French Nasal Vowel Contrasts by English- and Spanish-Speaking L2 Learners by Vincent Chanethom, Patrick-André Mather

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