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Cover and Land Use Changes in the Dry Forest of Tumbes (Peru) Using Sentinel-2 and Google Earth Engine Data

Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2022
Dry forests are home to large amounts of biodiversity, are providers of ecosystem services, and control the advance of deserts. However, globally, these ecosystems are being threatened by various factors such as climate change, deforestation, and land ...
Elgar Barboza, Wilian Salazar, David Gálvez-Paucar, Lamberto Valqui-Valqui, David Saravia, Jhony Gonzales, Wiliam Aldana, Héctor V. Vásquez, Carlos I. Arbizu   +8 more
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Prevalence of stroke survival in rural communities living in northern Peru.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Background and purposeStroke is the leading cause of neurological impairment in the South American Andean region. However, the epidemiology of stroke in the region has been poorly characterized.MethodsWe conducted a staged three-phase population-based ...
Luz M Moyano, Silvia M Montano, Percy Vilchez Barreto, Narcisa Reto, Luis Larrauri, Nicanor Mori, Mario Cornejo-Olivas, Erik Guevara-Silva, Fernando Urizar, Enrique Najar, Ricardo Gamboa, Cintya Azabache, Raquel Herrer Ticse, Lucia Bolivar-Herrada, Alex Doud, Peggy Martinez, J Jaime Miranda, Joseph R Zunt, Hector H García, Cysticercosis Working Group for Peru   +19 more
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Análisis comparativo del comportamiento estructural de una edificación de cuatro niveles con base fija y base aislada

Memoria Investigaciones en Ingeniería, 2023
El aislamiento sísmico en edificaciones esenciales es una tecnología innovadora que modifica la respuesta estructural mediante el incremento de amortiguamiento y disminución de la rigidez en la interfaz de aislamiento de una estructura.
Katerine Niquen, Genner Villarreal, Vicente Niquen   +2 more
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Relationship between Monthly Rainfall in NW Peru and Tropical Sea Surface Temperature

Advances in Meteorology, 2013
This study assesses the relationship between global sea surface temperature (SST) and a regional index of rainfall (NWPR) in Piura-Tumbes, a coastal region in northwestern Peru, over the period 1965–2008 by means of the Pearson product-moment correlation.
Juan Bazo, María de las Nieves Lorenzo, Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha   +2 more
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Mortalidad por enfermedad renal crónica en el Perú: tendencias nacionales 2003-2015

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2018
Objetivos. Describir la tendencia de mortalidad por enfermedad renal crónica (ERC) en el Perú en el periodo 2003-2015. Materiales y Métodos. Análisis de datos secundarios y de diseño ecológico.
Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz   +1 more
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P22 ‘You cannot build a giant umbrella over Tumbes when El Niño comes’: a qualitative study of the perceptions of El Niño’s impact on mental health, barriers to resilience and access to support in Tumbes, Peru’

, 2020
Background Despite the well-known widespread effects on health of the El Nino phenomenon, there is little evidence of its psychosocial impact on historically affected communities and the ways that they respond to this cyclic environmental event. We aimed
E. Flores, DF Fuhr, V. Simms, A. Lescano, NT Thorogood   +4 more
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Challenges to decentralization and local participation within the health rights protection framework: experience of the SUSALUD Northern Macro-Regional Intendance

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2016
In Peru, health protection rights and the National Health Authority (SUSALUD) coexist with the aim to ensure that every Peruvian may exercise his/her rights. According to the L.D.
Henry Rebaza-Iparraguirre, Miguel Vela-López, José Villegas-Ortega, Michelle Lozada-Urbano, Oscar Munares-García   +4 more
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Análisis de las huellas de manufactura del material malacológico de Tumbes, Perú

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2006
To confirm the hypothesis that objects of mollusk shell from archaeological sites in Tumbes, Peru, had been worked using stone tools, some fragments of pieces from the Rica Playa´s Pre-Hispanic workshop were analyzed by experimental archaeology.
Adrián Velázquez Castro, Emiliano Melgar Tísoc, Anne Marie Hocquenghem   +2 more
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First description of a giant manta ray fetus Mobula birostris (Walbaum 1792) from Tumbes, Peru (Southeast Pacific).

Zootaxa, 2019
The population of Mobula birostris ("giant manta ray") found in the waters of northern Peru and Ecuador is believed to be the largest in the world (Harding Beirwagen, 2009).
Mariano Cabanillas-Torpoco, K. Forsberg, Raquel Siccha-Ramirez, P. Cisneros, Carlos G. Luque, W. Purizaca, R. Asmat, Claudia Ampuero, R. Rubin, M. Vera   +9 more
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Estimating ecological metrics for holistic conservation management in a biodiverse but information‐poor tropical region

Conservation Science and Practice, 2020
Conservation ecologists face the dual challenge of working with difficult‐to‐study species and providing ecological metrics that support conservation management at global, regional, and local levels.
Christian Devenish, Elio Nuñez Cortez, Graeme Buchanan, Graham R. Smith, Stuart J. Marsden   +4 more
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