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Colorism and the Law in Latin America—Global Perspectives on Colorism Conference Remarks [PDF]

, 2015
Today, persons of African descent make up more than forty percent of the poor in Latin America and have been consistently marginalized and denigrated as undesirable elements of the society since the abolition of slavery across the Americas.
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel, Patricia Pastura, Joshua P. Scallan, Timothy D. Le Cras   +3 more
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L’Esclavage aux Amériques : différences et similitudes. Une brève historiographie vue des Etats-Unis, 1947-1972

L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2013
In the early twentieth century, and especially after World War II, historical studies on slavery came to a turning point. That was indeed the time when the first comparative studies of slavery in the New World were published.
Rahma Jerad
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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three experiences in research and lecture on american history Uma história em três tempos: experiências de pesquisa e ensino de história das américas

Diálogos, 2010
This article presents the experience of three American History Professors at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil. Considering research and lecture as intertwined activities, the article discusses and compares topics in the Colonial history of ...
Maria Gouvêa, Martha Abreu, Cecília Azevedo   +2 more
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Blasting the past: A rereading of Walter Benjamin’s theses on the philosophy of history [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2019
The text offers a reappraisal of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History (Über den Begriff der Geschichte; ‘On the Concept of History’) from the perspective of global politics today and its similarities with the socio-economic and ...
Cvejić Žarko
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A High‐Sensitivity Circulating Nucleic Acid Sequencing Assay for Assessing Treatment Response to Alectinib in a Pediatric Patient With ALK‐Rearranged Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Alberto D. Guerra, Nicholas F. Evageliou, Vandana Batra, Kristen L. Dalton, Stephanie Ortel, Usman Ashraf, Tricia R. Bhatti, Lisa J. States, Lea F. Surrey, Theodore W. Laetsch   +9 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial cities: Considering the potential of the periphery in Rio de Janeiro

Verbum et Ecclesia
Augustine has long set the ‘gold standard’ for any theology of the city. However, in the Americas, Thomas Aquinas’ De regimine principum exerts a greater practical and political influence as it was the basis for the instructions of Spanish and Portuguese
Graham G. McGeoch
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