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Declines in skeletal muscle quality vs. size following two weeks of knee joint immobilization [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Disuse of a muscle group, which occurs during bedrest, spaceflight, and limb immobilization, results in atrophy. It is unclear, however, if the magnitude of decline in skeletal muscle quality is similar to that for muscle size.
Rob J. MacLennan +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Aquatic macroinvertebrates are widely used as indicators for water quality assessment around the world. Modern strategies for environmental assessment implement molecular analysis to delimitate species of aquatic macroinvertebrates.
Bryant H. Mendoza‐Ramírez +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background The World Health Organization (WHO-2007) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF-Cole) systems assess child weight status. However, derived estimations often differ.
Wilton Pérez +5 more
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Taxation and incarceration in Guatemala: Prisons, protection rackets, and citizenship
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2023 This article explores the making of carceral citizenship in Guatemala through an ethnographic analysis of la talacha – informal prison taxation schemes. Taxation is a key technology of citizenship.
Anthony Wayne Fontes
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Central America’s Deindustrialization
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2022 The paper assembles and harmonizes sectoral data from several sources to study the industrial trends in six Central American economies. The industrial employment share contracted by 2.5 percentage points on average over the past two decades.
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Me, My “Selfie” and I: A Survey of Self-disclosure Motivations on Social Media
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2017 Personal photo-sharing has become a popular activity across social media platforms as a self-disclosure activity. A survey of 366 (N=366) individuals via a web-based questionnaire measured correlations between photo-sharing on social networking sites ...
Patricia Williamson +2 more
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GMS Journal for Medical Education, 2021 This article presents the most important developments in the recognition process of foreign medical degrees in Costa Rica over the past fifteen years. Most applicants received their medical degrees in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico.
Salazar Sánchez, Lizbeth +2 more
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity in El Salvador during 2020
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2022 Objective. This study sought to quantify the prevalence of food insecurity among Salvadorian households, to identify the determinants of food insecurity and to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity. Methods.
Carlos Ayala Durán
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Enablers of Cocaine Trafficking: Evidence of the State-Crime Nexus from Contemporary Honduras
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 Honduras has been Central America’s focal point for drug trafficking towards the United States for years as the region’s main transit country. Recent court cases held in the United States have revealed the symbiotic relationship between state actors ...
Emilia Ziosi
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Latin America: Demographic Dynamics and the Migration Processes Transformation
Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2020 Latin America is one of the high level migration activity regions. The mass migration flows are the part of the Western Hemisphere South nations history for more than a century and a half.
N. Yu. Kudeyarova
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