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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 Objective. To report demographic and substance use characteristics and risk of road traffic injury (RTI) from alcohol use, cannabis use, and combined use in a sample of emergency department patients from two countries in Latin America and the Caribbean ...
Cheryl J. Cherpitel +6 more
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The Spatiotemporal Genetic Architecture of Seed Vigor in Upland Cotton
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Leveraging the semi‐automated SeedRanger platform, we profiled the germination kinetics of 356 cotton accessions at a 30‐min interval. This high‐throughput phenomic approach delineated a temporal genetic network comprising 541 stage‐specific loci. Crucially, functional validation identified FLA2 as a pivotal, auxin‐modulated regulator that orchestrates
Luyao Wang +32 more
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Caribbean Regional Architecture for Biodiversity (CRAB) Project
, 2023 The Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF), in collaboration with National Conservation Trust Funds (NCTFs), leads the Caribbean Sustainable Financial Architecture to support biodiversity conservation across Small Island Developing States in the region.
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Islands of data: cultivating an open data landscape for sustainable development in the Caribbean
Revista Panamericana de Salud PúblicaThe widespread digitization of information, advances in data processing and the emergence of internet-connected devices have led to a proliferation of data, often loosely referred to as big data.
Ian R. Hambleton, Selvi Jeyaseelan
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Global Heart, 2022 Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) disproportionately affects low-income and middle-income countries. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have been less represented in scientific literature.
Maria Alejandra Jaimes-Reyes +3 more
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The Caribbean Science Series, Vol. 1 [PDF]
, 2018 On December 21, 2015 at the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 195 nations agreed to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial ...
Caribbean Community Climate Change Center +1 more
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Extreme Weather Events and Consumer Food Responses
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates consumer food responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, which affected a swath of the Southeastern U.S. in 2024. Using representative consumer survey data from six affected states, we analyze 10 distinct food responses classified into ex ante and ex post responses, and examine their associations with food insufficiency
Ahmad Zia Wahdat, Joseph Balagtas
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva +2 more
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Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2023 Objective. To highlight the objectives, achievements, challenges, and next steps for the World Health Organization’s Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer (GICC) framework, a project designed to improve psychosocial care (PSC) in pediatric cancer ...
Viviana Trigoso +25 more
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