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Occurrence and fate of pesticides in the Argentine stretch of the Paraguay-Paraná basin

Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2017
The Argentine stretch of the del Plata basin crosses regions devoted to extensive and intensive agriculture mostly with chemical pest control. The utilization of pesticides in the region has increased 900% in the last two decades associated with the ...
M. A. Etchegoyen, M. A. Etchegoyen, A. Ronco, A. Ronco, Pablo Almada, M. Abelando, Damian Jose Gabriel Marino, Damian Jose Gabriel Marino   +7 more
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Factors associated with high-risk human papillomavirus infection and high-grade cervical neoplasia: A population-based study in Paraguay

PLoS ONE, 2019
Background Cervical cancer (CC) is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality among women from Paraguay, with high incidence and mortality rates (31.2 and 16 per 100 000 women, respectively).
Elena Kasamatsu, María Isabel Rodríguez Riveros, A. Soilán, Marina Ortega, Pamela Mongelós, M. Páez, Amalia Castro, Carmen Cristaldo, Fátima Romina Báez, C. Centurión, Jaime Vester, H. Barrios, G. Villalba, María Luisa Amarilla, Graciela Giménez, Elodie Caubere, M. Hernández, Armando Baena, M. Almonte, R. Herrero, L. Mendoza   +20 more
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Articulating Differences and Inequalities Paid Domestic Workers’ and Housewives’ Struggles for Rights in Uruguay and Paraguay

, 2019
Housewives and paid domestic workers perform – to a certain extent – the same kinds of tasks. They also tend to share interest in the valorisation of domestic work: If this activity were recognised as such – as work – housewives could claim retirement ...
R. Rojas
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Monitoring and modeling of household air quality related to use of different Cookfuels in Paraguay

Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Environment and Health, 2019
In Paraguay, 49% of the population depends on biomass (wood and charcoal) for cooking. Residential biomass burning is a major source of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO) in and around the household environment. In July 2016, cross‐
M. Tagle, A. Pillarisetti, M. Hernandez, K. Troncoso, Agnes Soares, Ricardo Torres, Aida Galeano, P. Oyola, J. Balmes, Kirk R. Smith   +9 more
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Identifying Smart Strategies for Economic Diversification and Inclusive Growth in Developing Economies. The Case of Paraguay

Social Science Research Network, 2019
A country’s productive structure determines its future path of economic diversification, economic growth, and income inequality. In this article, we identify Paraguay’s structural constraints and opportunities for economic diversification and inclusive ...
D. Hartmann, Mayra Bezerra, Flávio L. Pinheiro   +2 more
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Mass balances of major solutes, nutrients and particulate matter as water moves through the floodplains of the Pantanal (Paraguay River, Brazil)

RBRH, 2019
In the upper Paraguay River basin, which includes the Pantanal, one of the largest wetlands in the world, rivers connection the surrounding upland plateaus with lowland floodplains.
Marcia D. Oliveira, D. F. Calheiros, S. Hamilton   +2 more
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A Parametric Study and Performance Evaluation of Energy Retrofit Solutions for Buildings Located in the Hot-Humid Climate of Paraguay—Sensitivity Analysis

Energies, 2019
Nowadays, awareness concerning the need to use energy efficiently is increasing significantly worldwide, thus, improving the energy efficiency levels in the building sector has acquired high importance because of their energy saving potential.
F. Silvero, F. Rodrigues, S. Montelpare
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Heavy rainfall in Paraguay during the 2015-2016 austral summer: causes and sub-seasonal-to-seasonal predictive skill

Journal of Climate, 2018
During the austral summer 2015/16, severe flooding displaced over 170 000 people on the Paraguay River system in Paraguay, Argentina, and southern Brazil.
James Doss‐Gollin, Á. Muñoz, S. Mason, M. Pasten   +3 more
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From transit hub to major supplier of illicit cigarettes to Argentina and Brazil: the changing role of domestic production and transnational tobacco companies in Paraguay between 1960 and 2003

Globalization and Health, 2018
BackgroundParaguay has reportedly been a major transit hub for illicit tobacco products since the 1960s, initially to supply markets in Argentina and Brazil and, more recently, other regional markets and beyond.
R. Iglesias, B. Gomis, Natalia Carrillo Botero, P. Shepherd, Kelley Lee   +4 more
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Mitochondrial DNA COI characterization of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Paraguay and Uruguay.

Genetics and Molecular Research, 2016
Since its detection in Brazil in 2013, the Old World cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera has been reported in Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Here we present evidence extending the South American range of H. armigera to Uruguay, using polymerase chain
J. Arnemann, W. James, Tom Walsh, J. Guedes, Guy Smagghe, E. Castiglioni, Wee Tek Tay   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source