['The Bridge Over the Lake: Spanning Across Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela']
Docomomo Journal, 2011 The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge spanning over Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela (1958–1962), designed by Ing. Professor Riccardo Morandi, a masterpiece of Modern engineering, is now a Modern Landmark at Risk. The remarkable and little known story of the construction of this structure “could not be accomplished by a handful of men.
Hannia Gómez, Rino Montiel
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 In many regions of the world, the use of cetaceans as bait or protein source has been reported. In most cases the individuals are from bycatch but also from intentionally killed animals.
Fernando Trujillo, Lorenzo Von Fersen
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Magic and Haunting: Oil Media at Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo
Media + Environment, 2022 Energy humanities emanating from the Global North often presents questions of oil disinvestment through a linear narrative of enchantment and disenchantment.
Maria Zazzarino
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Tidal currents and mixing in the Lake Maracaibo estuarine system
Scientia Marina, 2001 The Lake Maracaibo estuarine system is a cooscillating coupled ocean-lake system connected through a partially mixed estuary. In this paper we examine the low frequency movements (w < 0.1 cycles/day) in the different water bodies within this system.
Ana M. Antoranz +2 more
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The story of George Huntington and his disease [PDF]
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2016 George Huntington described some families with choreiform movements in 1872 in the United States of America and since then many such families have been described in other parts of the world and works on the genetics of the disease have brought new vistas
Kalyan B Bhattacharyya
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Characterization of water-soluble ions in PM10 over an industrial area in northern Colombia: Temporal variations and correlation with satellite data [PDF]
HeliyonThis study was designed to assess the concentrations of nine water-soluble ions in PM10 mass at two sites of an open-pit coal mine and to analyze the correlation and variation of the spatial distribution of sulfate ions with the PM10 sulfate aerosol ...
Roberto Rojano +2 more
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Reevaluating the global and temporal distributions of lightning superbolts: insights from ENTLN data (2018–2021) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLightning superbolts (SBs), defined as Cloud-to-Ground strikes (CGs) with extraordinarily high peak currents (Ips), represent a rare and extreme category of lightning events ( 30 kA are more densely concentrated over land than oceans, with continental ...
Mustafa Asfur, Jacob Silverman
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THE TIDAL SYSTEM OF LAKE MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA1 [PDF]
Limnology and Oceanography, 1961 The tides of the Lake Maracaibo system are attributable to a standing wave produced by tidal waves entering from the Gulf of Venezuela and their reflection from the head of the lake. A node for the semidiurnal constituents occurs in the northern part of the lake.
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Cohort profile: a collaborative multicentre study of retinal optical coherence tomography in 539 patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (CROCTINO) [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2020 Purpose Optical coherence tomography (OCT) captures retinal damage in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD). Previous studies investigating OCT in NMOSD have been limited by the rareness and heterogeneity of the disease.
Saif Huda +57 more
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Entomofauna Associated with Agroforestry Systems of Timber Species and Cacao in the Southern Region of the Maracaibo Lake Basin (Mérida, Venezuela) [PDF]
Insects, 2018 Agroforestry systems are environment-friendly production systems which help to preserve biodiversity while providing people with a way of earning a living.
Marina Mazón +4 more
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