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Overkill, glacial history, and the extinction of North America’s Ice Age megafauna
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 The end of the Pleistocene in North America saw the extinction of 38 genera of mostly large mammals. As their disappearance seemingly coincided with the arrival of people in the Americas, their extinction is often attributed to human overkill ...
D. Meltzer
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The History of Dengue Outbreaks in the Americas [PDF]
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2012 Dengue is a viral disease usually transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Dengue outbreaks in the Americas reported in medical literature and to the Pan American Health Organization are described. The outbreak history from 1600 to 2010 was categorized into four phases: Introduction of dengue in the Americas (1600–1946); Continental plan for the ...
Olivia, Brathwaite Dick +5 more
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Sérgio Buarque de Holanda e o estudo comparado dos imaginários ibéricos em Visão do Paraíso (1959)
Ler História, 2018 This article analyzes the relation between tradition and modernity in the comparative study of the Iberian imaginaries as carried out in Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Visão do Paraíso (1959).
Renato Martins
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The history of communication studies across the Americas: A view from the United States
Matrizes, 2023 This essay reflects on the potential for scholarship that sensitively treats the histories of media and communication research across the Americas. Writing from the contexts of U.S.
Peter Simonson +2 more
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Differing epidemiological dynamics of Chikungunya virus in the Americas during the 2014-2015 epidemic. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has been detected sporadically since the 1950s and includes three distinct co-circulating genotypes. In late 2013, the Asian genotype of CHIKV was responsible for the Caribbean outbreak (CO) that rapidly became an epidemic ...
Yi Tan +18 more
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Ancient collagen reveals evolutionary history of the endemic South American ‘ungulates’
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 Since the late eighteenth century, fossils of bizarre extinct creatures have been described from the Americas, revealing a previously unimagined chapter in the history of mammals.
M. Buckley
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Reviewing the history of HIV-1: spread of subtype B in the Americas.
PLoS ONE, 2011 The dispersal of HIV-1 subtype B (HIV-1B) is a reflection of the movement of human populations in response to social, political, and geographical issues. The initial dissemination of HIV-1B outside Africa seems to have included the passive involvement of
Dennis Maletich Junqueira +6 more
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Varia História, 2008 As epidemias agrícolas fornecem um ponto de vista privilegiado para a história ambiental global e transnacional de commodities. A epidemia da ferrugem, causada pelo fungo Hemileia nastatrix, é uma das mais sérias doenças que têm atingido a indústria ...
Stuart Mccook
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The Information Commons: a public policy report [PDF]
, 2004 This report describes the history of the information commons, presents examples of online commons that provide new ways to store and deliver information, and concludes with policy recommendations.
Kranich, Nancy C.
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America and the European Sense of History [PDF]
The Journal of American History, 1999 The ways in which Europeans have tried to make sense of America constitute a special chapter in the European history of ideas. At first glance what strikes us in the bewildering variety of European readings of America is the recurring attempt to formulate the critical differences that set America apart from the historical experience and cultural ...
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