Piano culture of South and Latin America: features of formation and transformation

Review: <i>Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars</i>, by Michele Greet

Church History from the International Periphery: The South American Perspective

Atopic Dermatitis in Latin America: A Roadmap to Address Data Collection, Knowledge Gaps, and Challenges.

PC80. Contemporary Anthropological Variability in Abdominal Aortic Morphology: Implications for Preprocedural Planning for EVAR

Classification of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Central and South America: a review of 1028 cases

Burden of gallbladder cancer in Central and South America

Latin Women Take the Helm

Similar to many areas of the globe, South America is under a monsoon regime. The Amazon rain-forest is one of the regions critical for this regime, known as the South American Monsoon System (SAMS). Besides being crucial to the Earth’s carbon budget, the Amazon is also important for SAMS development. During SAMS onset, the trade winds intensify and a northwesterly low-level jet, known as the South American Low Level Jet (SALLJ), is formed east of the Andes. Moisture originating in the Atlantic Ocean is recycled and reinvigorated over the Amazon and carried by the SALLJ to continental and subtropical South America. In this project, we analyze the projected changes in precipitation and extreme events of rainfall over South America by the end of the 21st century using the CESM Large Ensemble Project (LENS). LENS is able to reproduce the important elements of the SAMS. We find that wet season rainfall is projected to increase over the east coast and central South America. The SALLJ is projected to become stronger, especially during late wet season, and carry more moisture to subtropical South America. As a result, moisture convergence between the SALLJ and the South Atlantic Subtropical High increases, creating the conditions to rainfall over Central and Southeastern South America. Meanwhile, Amazon is projected to become dryer during both dry and wet seasons. As a result, rain-forest productivity is reduced during late dry season in Southern Amazon. As vegetation struggles to save water, evapotranspiration, and consequently surface latent heat flux are reduced. These factors have been suggested as crucial to SAMS initiation and their reduction is responsible for a delay in SAMS onset by the end of the century. Extreme wet events are projected to become more frequent, especially over Northeastern Brazil, Southern Brazil and Uruguay. As dry season rainfall is reduced in all of the regions analyzed, drought events are projected to become more frequent and longer over both the wettest (Northern Amazon) and the driest (Northeastern Brazil) regions analyzed.

The COVID-19 pandemic substantially complicates the usual challenges for patients with diabetes in Latin America

Addressing the neglect: Chagas disease in London, UK.

Editorial Introduction

Latin America and the Caribbean Region experienced dramatic changes in the 1990s. Politically, all but one country, are governed by a democratically elected government. Economically, import substitution industrialization policies (ISI) followed in the past, were replaced by liberalization programs aimed at reducing inflationary pressures and creating a competitive environment. The significant increase in capital flows to Latin America in one single year, 1990, buried the 1980s as the “lost decade,” and the successful implementation of privatization programs region-wide prompted to affirm that the 1990s might constitute the “Latin America's decade.” Where does the euphoria come from? Is there any implicit promise to be derived from such international capital flows? Will the pattern be sustained? Has Latin America begun a new era? Are unfolding events on defiance of fundamentals? These and many other questions can be raised regarding the spectacular transformation of Latin America and the Caribbean, particu...

This paper studies the phase equilibria in the La/sub 2/O/sub 3/-Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/ system in a wide range of temperatures (1350-2450 degrees C) and concentrations (0-100 mole % Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/). The phase-field boundaries were determined by the method of annealing and quenching with the help of DTA, during the course of which the samples were heated in an inert atmosphere up to 2450 degrees C. The phase composition of the samples was investigated by x-rays and petrographic analysis. The phase diagram of the system was constructed, for which the existence of wide regions of solid solutions based on A-, B-, C-, H-, and X-forms of rare-earth-element oxides, the decrease in the phase-transformation temperature of La/sub 2/O/sub 3/ and Y/sub 2/O/sub 3/ upon introducing a second element, and the presence of a compound of the perovskite structure with a region of homogeneity, formed by a solid-state reaction at 1585 degrees C, are typical.

Scholarly publications in Latin America: where, oh index, art thou? Ruby Meraz Gutierrez The author describes the results of her investigations into the current state of back-of-the-book indexing in the publishing universe of Latin America, and provides a brief history of the practice. The investigation includes an effort to determine whether indexing is taught in Latin America. It also examines identifiable indexing standards in these countries, and the presence of indexing societies in Latin America. The article presents the results of a survey of 812 books from the Latin American collection of the University of California, Los Angeles in this context. Introduction During a session at the 2011 annual conference of the American Society for Indexing (ASI) on the indexing of Spanish names, questions were raised regarding the practice of book indexing in Latin America. The general assumption among the conference participants was that back-of-the- book (BOB) indexing in Latin America was not prevalent in scholarly publications or in general non-fiction works. This paper will examine whether this is the case, or whether the BOB index, known in Spanish as indice analitico, is indeed practiced in Latin America. For the purpose of this paper Latin America includes Mexico and countries in Central and South America. The article looks at: the function of indexing in scholarly communication the teaching of indexing in Latin America indexing standards, if any, followed in these countries indexing associations and societies, if any, in Latin America • a review of results from a survey of books covering Latin America held at the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Function and value of indexing in scholarly communication The value of indexes An index, according to Wellisch, ‘must fulfill certain func- tions if the resulting index is to be a tool that will enable a user to retrieve or find a particular name, term, or passage in a text that the user has either read before or that is presumed to contain the desired information’ (1994: 620). Stevenson reinforces this argument, stating that the ‘purpose of an index is to enable the reader to access the content of a book and identify and locate information of interest without having to read the entire text. In essence it is a formidable labour-saving device’ (2011: 120–1). For Mulvany ‘The role of the index remains the same regardless of the book’s format. It is for the use and convenience of readers. A properly designed index will allow readers to locate specific information without the need to read the entire text in a linear fashion’ (2004: 77). Mulvany further states that: The readers of many non-fiction reference books have no intention of reading an entire tome from beginning to end. They need specific information, and their queries are framed in their own vocabulary. When the vocabulary of the author differs from that of the reader, the indexer steps in to bridge the gap. (Mulvany, 2004) Indexing as an intellectual endeavor While an index can be seen as a labor-saving tool, it is also an intellectual endeavor. According to Stevenson, it: is a creative art requiring high skill …. (A) well-structured index can be a powerful key to the content and structure of a book, but more significantly can provide insights into the meaning of the text and linkages within it that the author may not even have realized. (Stevenson, 2001: 121) This principle is shared by Booth, who states: Indexing is not a mechanical word-spotting process. It involves intellectual activity – understanding and analysis of texts and their messages, selection of significant references to relevant topics, assembly of references, chose of suitable vocabulary for the representation of topics, and presentation in an accessible format. (Booth, 2001: 3) An index, therefore, can be seen as an intellectual commu- nication device or tool, one that translates the content of the text into a form that bridges the gap for readers so they can find the particular information being sought. It also facilitates connections from one topic to another in the text. A table of contents (TOC) is a poor substitute for a well- written, comprehensive index. Is indexing taught in Latin America? Evidence from a literature review coupled with a web search indicates that indexing is indeed taught and written about in Latin America. In Mexico, for example, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico offers a course in indexing in The Indexer Vol. 31 No. 1 March 2013

An Apostolic Journey: Stephen L Richards and the Expansion of Missionary Work in South America