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America's Forgotten People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2000
AbstractThis study focuses on the longstanding impoverishment of the rural South and three of its subregions-Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Black Belt. The poor quality of life in rural Appalachia and along the Mississippi Delta has been publically acknowledged by programs and commissions for improving conditions.
Allen-Smith, Joyce E., Wimberley, Ronald C., Morris, Libby V.   +2 more
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America's Forgotten People and Places: Ending the Legacy of Poverty in the Rural South: Discussion [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2000
AbstractThese comments discuss the presentations by Christy, Wenner, and Dassie (“A Microenterprise-Centered Economic Development Strategy for the Rural South: Sustaining Growth with Economic Opportunity”) and Freshwater (“What Can Social Scientists Contribute to the Challenges of Rural Economic Development?”) in three sections.
Baharanyi, Ntam, Zabawa, Robert, Boateng, Evelyn   +2 more
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Presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on Surfaces of Public Places and a Transportation System Located in a Densely Populated Urban Area in South America [PDF]

Viruses, 2021
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible RNA virus that causes COVID-19. Being aware of the presence of the virus on different types of surfaces and in different environments, and having a protocol for its detection, is important to understand the dynamics of the virus and its shedding patterns. In Ecuador,
Juan José Guadalupe, María I. Rojas, Gabriela Pozo, Maria P. Erazo-Garcia, Pamela Vega-Polo, Martín Terán-Velástegui, Forest Rohwer, María de Lourdes Torres   +7 more
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Uncovering the impact of COVID-19 on the place of death of cancer patients in South America

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2023
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted healthcare systems worldwide, especially on the management of chronic diseases such as cancer. This study explores the effects of COVID-19 on cancer mortality trends in Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
Doris Durán, Renzo Calderon Anyosa, Belinda Nicolau, Jay S. Kaufman   +3 more
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Climate and humans set the place and time of Proboscidean extinction in late Quaternary of South America [PDF]

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2013
Abstract The late Quaternary extinctions have been widely debated for a long time, but the varying magnitude of human vs. climate change impacts across time and space is still an unresolved question. Here we assess the geographic range shifts in response to climate change based on Ecological Niche Models (ENMs) and modeled the timing for extinction ...
Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus Souza, Nogues, David Bravo, Terribile, Levi Carina, Batra, Persaram, Felizola Diniz-Filho, Jose Alexandre   +4 more
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Prevalence and predictors of video game addiction: a study based on a national representative sample of gamers [PDF]

, 2015
Video gaming has become a popular leisure activity in many parts of the world, and an increasing number of empirical studies examine the small minority that appears to develop problems as a result of excessive gaming.
C Hagquist, Charlotte Thoresen Wittek, CJ Ferguson, CS Andreassen, CS Peters, D Bhugra, D Williams, D Williams, Daniel Hanss, DL King, DL King, DL King, EJ Kim, F Rehbein, GS Brunborg, GS Brunborg, H Choo, H Cole, H Pontes, Helge Molde, HG Wenzel, HR Eriksen, IBM Corp Released, JP Charlton, JS Lemmens, JS Wiggins, K Kroenke, L Elliot, M Algeria, Mark D. Griffiths, MB Donellan, MD Griffiths, MD Griffiths, PT Costa, RA Mentzoni, RL Thorndike, Rune Aune Mentzoni, Ståle Pallesen, Turi Reiten Finserås, Y Takata   +39 more
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The postcranial skeleton of Monolophosaurus jiangi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle Jurassic of Xinjiang, China, and a review of Middle Jurassic Chinese theropods [PDF]

, 2010
The Middle Jurassic was a critical time in the evolution of theropod dinosaurs, highlighted by the origination and radiation of the large-bodied and morphologically diverse Tetanurae.
ZHAO XI-JIN, ROGER B. J. BENSON, STEPHEN L. BRUSATTE, PHILIP J. CURRIE, Harris, Bonaparte, Madsen, Peng, Welles, Charig, Dong, Sadleir, Coria, Benson, Britt, He, Britt, Waldman, Holtz, Currie, Benson, Benson, Bonaparte, Brusatte, Owen, Carrano, Colbert, Dong, Eberth, Eudes-Deslongchamps, Gauthier, Gao, Madsen, Rauhut, Rauhut   +34 more
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Climate Change Impacts on Droughts [PDF]

, 2016
This study makes use of the most current General Circulation Models (GCMs) forced with CMIP5 climate projections to quantify the projected changes in intra-annual drought characteristics for South–Central America during the next century at a fine gridded
MARINHO FERREIRA BARBOSA PAULO, NAUMANN GUSTAVO, SAIOTE CARRAO HUGO MIGUEL   +2 more
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Ionospheric response to the 2009 sudden stratospheric warming over the equatorial, low, and middle latitudes in the South American sector [PDF]

, 2015
The present study investigates the ionospheric total electron content (TEC) and F-layer response in the Southern Hemisphere equatorial, low, and middle latitudes due to major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event, which took place during January ...
Coster, A. J., De Abreu, A. J., De Jesus, R., Fagundes, P. R., Gende, Mauricio Alfredo, Goncharenko, L. P., Pezzopane, M., Pillat, V. G., Venkatesh, K.   +8 more
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“Liting it up”: Popular Culture, Indo-Pak Basketball, and South Asian American Institutions [PDF]

, 2010
South Asian American participants of a co-ethnic basketball league, known as Indo-Pak Basketball, utilized urban basketball vernacular through the phrase “liting it up” to identify individuals scoring points in great numbers.
Thangaraj, Stanley Ilango
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