Browsing by Subject "Latin America"

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    • Adaptation to milking agropastoralism in Chilean goat herders and nutritional benefit of lactase persistence 
      Montalva, Nicolás; Adhikari, Kaustubh; Liebert, Anke; Mendoza Revilla, Javier; Flores, Sergio V.; Mace, Ruth; Swallow, Dallas M. (Wiley, 2019)
      The genetic trait of lactase persistence (LP) evolved as an adaptation to milking pastoralism in the Old World and is a well-known example of positive natural selection in humans. However, the specific mechanisms conferring ...
    • Estallido Social y COVID-19 en Chile: Reconstruir la política pública y la institucionalidad desde la ... 
      Ojeda Pereira, Iván; Campos Medina, Fernando (Universidad de Zulia, Venezuela, 2020)
      In this text it is postulated that the social outbreak or popular revolt, added to the COVID-19 glimpse a series of problematic elements for Chile. One of them is: the institutional and public policy crisis regarding the ...
    • Identidad y tradiciones políticas latinoamercianas: una aproximación al populismo 
      Mira Silva, Andrea (Asoc Historia Actual, 2017)
      El presente artículo pretende entre-gar una aproximación del populismo, entendido como una de las tradiciones políticas latinoa-mericanas que ha respondido a la identidad de la región, relacionándolo directamente con la ...
    • Pensamiento crítico del trabajo social en América Latina. Conversación con Elaine Behring 
      Vidal Molina, Paula Francisca (Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, 2015)
      Se presenta una entrevista realizada a Elaine Behring, dentro del ciclo de entrevistas a realizar a intelectuales del Trabajo Social en América Latina. Se abordan su formación, fuentes teóricas, apreciación de las ...
    • Preferences for income redistribution in unequal contexts: changes in Latin America between 2008 and 2018 
      Franetovic, Gonzalo; Castillo Valenzuela, Juan Carlos (MDPI, 2022)
      In a developing and highly unequal region like Latin America, it is crucial to understand the determinants that affect people's support for redistribution of resources from the state. A series of theories focused on ...
    • The impact of COVID-19 on the well-being and cognition of older adults living in the United States and Latin ... 
      Babulal, Ganesh M.; Torres, Valeria L.; Acosta, Daisy M.; Aguero, Cinthya; Aguilar Navarro, Sara Gloria; Amariglio, Rebecca E.; Ussui, Juliana Aya; Baena, Ana Y.; Bocanegra, Yamile; Brucki, Sonia María Dozzi; Bustin, Julián; Cabrera, Diego; Custodio, Nilton; Diaz, Mónica M.; Duque, Lissette; Franco, Adalid; Gatchel, Jennifer R.; Garza Naveda, Ana Paola; González Lara, Mariana; Gutiérrez, Lidia Antonia; Guzmán Vélez, Edmarie; Hanseeuw, Bernard J.; Jiménez Velázquez, Ivonne Z.; Leon, Tomas; Llibre Guerra, Jorge J.; Marquine, María J.; Martínez, Jairo E.; Medina, Luis D.; Miranda Castillo, Claudia; Morlett, Alejandra; Munera, Diana; Núñez Herrera, Alberto; De Oliveira, Maira Okada; Cancel, Santiago Palmer; Pardilla Delgado, Enmanuelle; Perales, Jaime; Pluim, Celina F.; Ramírez Gómez, Liliana A.; Rentz, Dorene; Rivera Fernández, Claudia; Rosselli, Mónica; Serrano, Cecilia; Suing, María José; Slachevsky, Andrea; Soto, Marcio; Sperling, Reisa A.; Torrente, Fernando; Thumala Dockendorff, Daniela Cecilia; Vannini, Patrizia; Vila Castelar, Clara; Yánez Escalante, Tatiana Mirella; Quiroz, Yakeel T. (Elsevier, 2021)
      Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults from vulnerable ethnoracial groups are at high risk of infection, hospitalization, and death.We aimed to explore the pandemic’s impact on the well-being and cognition ...