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Health system strategies to increase HIV screening among pregnant women in Mesoamerica

Population Health Metrics, 2018
Background To propose health system strategies to meeting the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on HIV screening through antenatal care (ANC) services, we assessed predictors of HIV screening, and simulated the impact of changes in these ...
Charbel El Bcheraoui, Paola Zúñiga-Brenes, Diego Ríos-Zertuche, Erin B. Palmisano, Claire R. McNellan, Sima S. Desai, Marielle C. Gagnier, Annie Haakenstad, Casey Johanns, Alexandra Schaefer, Bernardo Hernandez, Emma Iriarte, Ali H. Mokdad   +12 more
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Management and incipient domestication of Chamaedorea tepejilote in agroforestry systems in Mexico

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Native wild plants are key elements in addressing global biodiversity loss and supporting sustainable food systems. We investigated how rural communities in Mexico manage Chamaedorea tepejilote, a wild palm with edible male inflorescences, by combining ethnobotanical, genetic, morphological and ecological approaches.
Viviana Andrade, Alejandro Casas, Edna Arévalo‐Marín, Gonzalo D. Álvarez‐Ríos, Hernán Alvarado‐Sizzo, Vanessa Guerrero‐Hernández, Paola Ubiergo‐Corvalán, Maite Lascurain‐Rangel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisión de representaciones de felinos (Felidae: Carnívora) en piezas arqueológicas y en toponimia alusiva de El Salvador

Revista Minerva
Se realizó revisión bibliográfica de libros (cuatro), artículos científicos (tres) y visitas a un sitio arqueológico (Casa Blanca) y MUNA. Como producto de este proceso se obtuvo datos de representaciones de individuos de la familia Felidae Orden ...
Ricardo Ibarra Portillo
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Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop innovation, but many of these species are poorly documented and insufficiently conserved.
Daniel Carver, Colin K. Khoury, Anne Frances, Nan McCarry, Luis Diaz‐Garcia, Erin R. Galarneau, Sarah Gora, Megan Haidet, Claire Heinitz, Wesley Knapp, Abby Meyer, Allison Miller, Ray Mims, Surya Sapkota, Carol Spurrier, Jun Wen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretación De Los Elementos Acuáticos Asociados Al Monumento 21 De Chalchuapa y Su Relación Con Las Deidades Chalchiuhtlicue y Tlaloc

Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and Science
El siguiente artículo de investigación aborda la significativa interpretación de los elementos acuáticos en el contexto del monumento 21 de Chalchuapa (El Salvador), un sitio arqueológico mesoamericano de gran relevancia histórica y cultural.
Diego Fernando González Argumedo
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Hilos de continuidad y cambio. Tejiendo unidad en antropología

Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2007
En este artículo comparo el proceso de tejido en telares de cintura de tres contextos culturales: los Maya, los antiguos aztecas y la Mesoamérica del siglo XX.
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Between Gaps and Voids: An Archaeometrical Study of Degraded Fibers in a Sherd From the Cueva dos Chinches Muertas, Siltzul (Raxruha, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, excavations at the Cueva dos Chinches Muertas carried out by the Raxruha Viejo Project uncovered a small ceramic sherd distinguished by a stratified structure composed of multiple layers of textile imprints, both superficial and transversal.
Marie Ramelet
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La participación electoral en la Costa Caribe

Wani, 2014
En este artículo se analiza la participación electoral de los costeños, principalmente en las elecciones regionales autónomas. Las principales conclusiones de este estudio son que: la  Costa Caribe ha  experimentado una dinámica de elecciones mayor a la 
Harry Chávez
doaj  

Subsistence hunting shapes the spatial variation of jaguar densities in community‐managed forests

Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.
Jaguars and people can coexist in community‐managed forests, but distance matters. In Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, jaguar numbers increased markedly in areas harder to reach on foot, yet jaguars were still found near communities, showing that responsibly managed forests can support jaguar populations while allowing people to maintain traditional
L. Perera‐Romero, R. McNab, R. Garcia‐Anleu, J. Polisar, C. Sutherland, D. Thornton   +5 more
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