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Human adaptation to high‐altitude: A contemporary comparison of the oxygen cascade in Andean, Tibetan and Ethiopian highlanders

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Human populations native to high altitude have evolved distinct physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxia. This adaptation is evident in the O2 transport cascade. In this review, with brief inclusion of the related genetic adaptations, we compare the O2 cascade across three well‐characterized high‐altitude populations: Andeans (Aymara and ...
Ayechew A. Getu, Melissa Ilardo, Joshua C. Tremblay, Jay M. J. R. Carr, Vitalie Faoro, Philip N. Ainslie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les relations hiérarchiques entre femmes dans le sud des Andes

Droit et Cultures, 2016
In the Andes large numbers of people speak indigenous languages such as Quechua, spoken by approximately 95% of the rural population of the southern Peruvian highlands.
Margarita Huayhua
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La platica de fray Domingo de Santo tomás (1560)

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001
The Platica para todos los Indios and the text of the General Confession are the only two examples of missionary writing in Quechua prior to the Council of Trent to come down to us and their survival is due to their having been incorporated in the ...
Gerald Taylor
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

Memorias retenidas, voz y tránsitos en la poesía Quechua contemporánea

Boitatá, 2016
Esta comunicación indaga sobre la relación entre la tradición y la cultura andina y la poesía quechua escrita contemporánea. Propone revisar desde la tradición oral quechua sus formas poéticas tradicionales y su relación con el rapto de la letra.
Gonzalo Espino Relucé
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Egg clutch structure of Rhinella rumbolli (Anura: Bufonidae), a toad from the Yungas of Argentina, with a review of the reproductive diversity in Rhinella [PDF]

, 2015
Rhinella rumbolli is a poorly known, medium-sized toad endemic to the Yungas of Argentina. Recent fieldwork allowed observing its peculiar oviposition mode, which is described in this paper.
Baldo, Juan Diego, Faivovich, Julián, Pereyra, Martín Oscar, Vera Candioti, María Florencia   +3 more
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Linear Growth through 12 Years is Weakly but Consistently Associated with Language and Math Achievement Scores at Age 12 Years in 4 Low- or Middle-Income Countries. [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundWhether linear growth through age 12 y is associated with language and math achievement at age 12 y remains unclear.ObjectiveOur objective was to investigate associations of linear growth through age 12 y with reading skill, receptive ...
Adair, Alysse J Kowalski, Andreas Georgiadis, Aryeh D Stein, Barnett, Benjamin T Crookston, Casale, Casale, Cheung, Crookston, Crookston, Crookston, Cueto, Fink, Gandhi, Georgiadis, Georgiadis, Glewwe, Glewwe, Hoddinott, Hoddinott, Jere R Behrman, Kordas, Kuklina, Larson, Lia C H Fernald, Martorell, Mendez, Onis, Onis, Petrou, Prado, Sudfeld, Victora, Walker   +34 more
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Resumen y recapitulación discursiva en quechua [PDF]

LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 2019
Las cláusulas adverbiales, en especial las que integran un sistema de conmutación de la referencia (switch-reference), pueden funcionar más allá de los límites sintácticos y establecer enlaces con el contenido proposicional de la oración precedente. Este tipo de enlaces entre cadenas clausales es conocido como ‘enlaces tail-head’ (tail-head linkage ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Do Sustainable Agricultural Practices Boost Production and Technical Efficiency? A Case Study of Coffee Smallholders in Peru

Agribusiness, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 936-955, Autumn 2025.
ABSTRACT Smallholder agriculture remains a cornerstone for economic development and poverty reduction in Latin America. Their transition to sustainable agricultural production is critical in the face of the environmental challenges posed by conventional farming practices and is a key pathway to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development ...
Gabriela Carbajo‐Alvarez, Gabriel Rosero, Bernhard Brümmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The mythopoetical model and logic of the concrete in Quechua culture: Cultural and transcultural translation problems

Sign Systems Studies, 2012
This article deals mainly with problems of cultural/transcultural translation between the Quechua and Spanish cultures, analysing these on the basis of some ideas by Juri Lotman and Peeter Torop. The process of translation implies considering the Quechua
Ileana Almeida, Julieta Haidar
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