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Tula Basin, the most polluted region in Mexico
Tenochtitlan was founded in an endorheic basin at more than two thousand meters of altitude, surrounded by mountains in the lacustrine river basin of the Valley of Mexico.
José Alberto Díaz-Quiñonez
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Studies have shown that ancient cultures used microalgae as food for centuries. Currently, scientific reports highlight the value of nutritional composition of microalgae and their ability to accumulate polyunsaturated fatty acids at certain operational conditions. These characteristics are gaining increasing interest for the aquaculture industry which
Oscar Soto-Sánchez +6 more
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Production of fuel pellets from bean crop residues (Phaseolus vulgaris)
Abstract Beans are an important part of the Mexican diet, and its cultivation generates a significant amount of waste. This biomass contains important amounts of carbon, which makes it a potential source to obtaining fuel pellets. Therefore, this work proposes the production of fuel pellets from bean residues considering as control factors the particle
Daniel Trejo‐Zamudio +4 more
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The Art of Assemblage at La Venta
How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved around the landscape, their new configurations and associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new kinds of ritual interaction.
Claudia Brittenham
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Abstract Previous research has demonstrated significant age‐ and sex‐related differences in bone loss in European populations. This study utilizes metacarpal radiogrammetry to analyze cortical bone thickness and bone loss for a sample of indigenous individuals (n = 120) from the Hospital Real San José de los Naturales (HSJN) skeletal collection in ...
Julie K. Wesp +1 more
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The Florentine Codex is a Renaissance-era illuminated manuscript that contains the earliest-known regional work on the birds of México. Its Nahuatl language texts and scholia (the latter later incorporated into its Spanish texts) were written in the ...
Paul D. Haemig
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Sobre Barbara E. Mundy, La muerte de Tenochtitlan, la vida de México
Reseña sobre Barbara E. Mundy. La muerte de Tenochtitlan, la vida de México. México: Grano de Sal, 2018 [Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015].
Elena Mazzetto
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Crossing the Line: Cristóbal de Villalpando and the Surplus of Script
In 1706 Cristóbal de Villalpando signed a painting with an unusual, intensive calligraphic flourish, and sent it from Mexico City far to the north. This essay describes Villalpando's decision to invest so much pictorial energy in letterforms against this geographic backdrop.
Aaron M. Hyman
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Pandemics: past, present, future
The major epidemic and pandemic diseases that have bothered humans since the Neolithic Age and Bronze Age are surveyed. Many of these pandemics are zoonotic infections, and the mathematical modeling of such infections is illustrated. Plague, cholera, syphilis, influenza, SARS, MERS, COVID‐19, and new potential epidemic and pandemic infections and their
Niels Høiby
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La batalla naval por Tenochtitlan
La batalla por Tenochtitlan fue una conflagración motivada por el descontento que causaba el excesivo tributo y la demandante imposición de fuerza de trabajo exigida por el Estado Mexica a los pueblos sometidos.
Ismael Arturo Montero García
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