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Quality of life and depression in COPD patients in the Colombian Caribbean

The Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2021
AbstractObjectiveTo establish the association between quality of life and depression among COPD patients of the Colombian Caribbean.MethodA cross‐sectional study was carried out with the participation of adult COPD patients. COPD‐related quality of life was quantified with the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) and depression using the Zung 10‐item Self‐rating
John Carlos Pedrozo‐Pupo, Adalberto Campo‐Arias, Guillermo Augusto Ceballos‐Ospino   +2 more
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Not All Agreements Are Equal: Heterogeneous Effects of RTAs on Latin American Agri‐Food Exports, 1990–2019

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda, Ignacio Belloc, Vicente Pinilla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolated, neglected, and likely threatened: a new species of Magoniella (Polygonaceae) from the seasonally dry tropical forests of Northern Colombia and Venezuela revealed from nuclear, plastid, and morphological data

Frontiers in Plant Science
Seasonally tropical dry forests (SDTFs) in the American tropics are a highly diverse yet poorly understood and endangered ecosystem scattered from Northern Mexico to Southern Argentina.
José Aguilar-Cano, Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Camila Pizano, Eduardo Tovar, Alexandre Antonelli, Alexandre Antonelli, Alexandre Antonelli   +6 more
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Coral diseases and bleaching on Colombian Caribbean coral reefs [PDF]

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2015
<span>Desde 1998 el “Sistema Nacional de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos de Colombia” SIMAC, ha observado la ocurrencia de enfermedades coralinas y blanqueamiento en arrecifes colombianos (estaciones fijas en la Isla de San Andrés, Tayrona, Islas del Rosario, Islas de San Bernardo y Urabá Chocoano).
Navas-Camacho, Raul, Gil-Agudelo, Diego Luis, Rodríguez-Ramírez, Alberto, Reyes-Nivia, Catalina, Garzon-Ferreira, Jaime   +4 more
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Business and Biodiversity: Scaling Conservation Enterprises Within and Beyond Place for Transformative Change

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
wiley   +1 more source

Seagrass blue carbon stocks and sequestration rates in the Colombian Caribbean

Scientific Reports, 2021
Seagrass ecosystems rank amongst the most efficient natural carbon sinks on earth, sequestering CO2 through photosynthesis and storing organic carbon (Corg) underneath their soils for millennia and thereby, mitigating climate change.
Oscar Serrano, Diana Isabel Gómez-López, Laura Sánchez-Valencia, Andres Acosta-Chaparro, Raul Navas-Camacho, Juan González-Corredor, Cristian Salinas, Pere Masque, Cesar A. Bernal, Núria Marbà   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The natural capital of the Colombian Caribbean Basins. Evidence of rapid anthropic transformation

Sustainable Futures
The Caribbean basins play a crucial role in human settlement. The Colombian Caribbean basins occupy an area of approx. 10 million hectares, located in the country's north.
César Augusto Ruiz-Agudelo, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez-Bonilla   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Checklist of myriapods (Arthropoda: Myriapoda) from the colombian Caribbean region

Intropica, 2022
Based on the available literature and a review of collections of organisms, a checklist of 69 myriapod species was made for the Colombian Caribbean region; two symphyls, 15 Chilopods, and 52 Diplopods.
Martín Carrillo-Pallares, Daniela Martínez-Torres, Gabriel R. Navas-S   +2 more
doaj  

Molecular detection of Salmonella spp., Listeria spp. and Brucella spp. in fresh artisanal cheese marketed in the city of Barranquilla: A pilot study

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2018
Introduction: Each year approximately 3 million people die as the result of foodborne diseases. The fresh artisan (handmade) cheese produced and distributed in the Colombian Caribbean region is a native product from the departments of Córdoba, Sucre ...
Zamira E. Soto-Varela, Clara Gilma Gutiérrez, Yurina de Moya, Ramón Mattos, Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, José Luis Villarreal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source