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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Current Knowledge of Leishmania Vectors in Mexico: How Geographic Distributions of Species Relate to Transmission Areas
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2011)Leishmaniases are a group of vector-borne diseases with different clinical manifestations caused by parasites transmitted by sand fly vectors. In Mexico, the sand fly Lutzomyia olmeca olmeca is the only vector proven to ... -
Yaoundé-like virus in resident wild bird, Ghana
(Academic Journals, 2012-03-01)Tissue and swab samples from 551 wild birds collected in Ghana (October-November 2007) were assayed for alphaviruses, flaviviruses, and influenza A viruses using polymerase chain (PCR) techniques. One pool sample tested ... -
Haitian-English Dictionary
(Lawrence, Kan. : Institute of Haitian Studies, University of Kansas ; Port-au-Prince : La Presse Evangélique ; Lawrence, Kan. : Mount Oread Bookshop [distributor], 2004, 2004-01-01) -
Species Richness and Range Size of the Terrestrial Mammals of the World: Biological Signal within Mathematical Constraints
(Public Library of Science, 2011-05-06)We explore global spatial diversity patterns for terrestrial mammals using as a tool range-diversity plots. These plots display simultaneously information about the number of species in localities and their spatial covariance ... -
Potential Geographic Distribution of Hantavirus Reservoirs in Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2013-12-31)Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome is an emerging zoonosis in Brazil. Human infections occur via inhalation of aerosolized viral particles from excreta of infected wild rodents. Necromys lasiurus and Oligoryzomys nigripes ... -
Mapping Monkeypox Transmission Risk through Time and Space in the Congo Basin
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-05)Monkeypox is a major public health concern in the Congo Basin area, with changing patterns of human case occurrences reported in recent years. Whether this trend results from better surveillance and detection methods, ... -
Conclusions about Niche Expansion in Introduced Impatiens walleriana Populations Depend on Method of Analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2010-12-29)Determining the degree to which climate niches are conserved across plant species' native and introduced ranges is valuable to developing successful strategies to limit the introduction and spread of invasive plants, and ... -
Ecology and Geography of Plague Transmission Areas in Northeastern Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2011-01-04)Plague in Brazil is poorly known and now rarely seen, so studies of its ecology are difficult. We used ecological niche models of historical (1966-present) records of human plague cases across northeastern Brazil to assess ... -
Parasites of New World Microtus
(The American Society of Mammalogists, 1985)The objective of this review is to bring together and summarize the diverse literature on parasites of New World Microtus, to summarize life cycles of the ectoparasitic fauna, and to put the different groups of parasites ... -
Ecology and Geography of Transmission of Two Bat-Borne Rabies Lineages in Chile
(Public Library of Science, 2013-12-12)Rabies was known to humans as a disease thousands of years ago. In America, insectivorous bats are natural reservoirs of rabies virus. The bat species Tadarida brasiliensis and Lasiurus cinereus, with their respective, ... -
Introducing the Journal of Melittology: An outlet for disseminating bee research and raising melittological awareness
(University of Kansas, 2013-01-11)A new journal is introduced, the focus of which is to disseminate the results of research on wild and managed bees, to raise public awareness of bees, and to promote and facilitate international communication and collaboration. -
VertNet: A New Model for Biodiversity Data Sharing
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The Politics and Culture in the Mouvman Rasin in Haiti
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Data file: test strip projections
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First Generation Indian External Sector Reforms in Context
(National Law University, Jodhpur, India, 2013)India's first generation external sector reforms are a fascinating case study of emergence from a post-Independence socialist-style economy to the world’s largest free market democracy. Part I of this article reviews the ... -
Evaluation of the paraphyletic assemblages within Lonchophyllinae, with description of a new tribe and genus
(Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University, 2014-01-28)In the past decade, six new species and one new genus have been described in the Lonchophyllinae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), increasing the number of recognized taxa in the subfamily to four genera and 17 species. During ... -
DIGGING THE ROOTS or Resistance and identity politics of the mouvman rasin in Haiti
(University of Kansas, Latin American Studies, 2002-01-01)The ideological, cultural, and physical means which brought François Duvalier to power in 1957 created a process whereby the state idea became the metonym for all Haitian identity. In what is now called the Roots movement, ... -
Haitian-English Dictionary
(Lawrence, Kan. : Institute of Haitian Studies, University of Kansas ; Port-au-Prince : La Presse Evangélique ; Lawrence, Kan. : Mount Oread Bookshop [distributor], 2000, 2000-01-01) -
Comparative analysis of remotely-sensed data products via ecological niche modeling of avian influenza case occurrences in Middle Eastern poultry.
(BioMed Central, 2011-03-28)Ecological niche modeling integrates known sites of occurrence of species or phenomena with data on environmental variation across landscapes to infer environmental spaces potentially inhabited (i.e., the ecological ... -
Traka yon kretyen pandan vwayaj li : adaptasyon liv “Pilgrim’s Progress" / John Bunyan
(Lawrence, Kansas : Enstiti Etid Ayisyen, 2000, 2000-01-01)