Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
(Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 2014-04)The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region. Conceived in 2006 by just four small countries, it now embraces 12 that ... -
Potential Geographic Distribution of the Novel Avian-Origin Influenza A (H7N9) Virus
(Public Library of Science, 2014-04-01)Background In late March 2013, a new avian-origin influenza virus emerged in eastern China. This H7N9 subtype virus has since infected 240 people and killed 60, and has awakened global concern as a potential pandemic ... -
Patterns of host and flea communities along an elevational gradient in Colorado
(2014-05)Patterns in community composition across a landscape are the result of mechanistic responses and species interactions. Interactions between hosts and parasites have additional complexity because of the contingency of host ... -
The index of tobacco treatment quality: development of a tool to assess evidence-based treatment in a national sample of drug treatment facilities
(BioMed Central, 2013-03-15)Background: Quitting smoking improves health and drug use outcomes among people in treatment for substance abuse. The twofold purpose of this study is to describe tobacco treatment provision across a representative sample ... -
Callosphecodes, a little-known bee (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Sphecodes)
(Pensoft Publishers, 2011-09-08)Callosphecodes Friese, 1909, a synonym or perhaps subgenus of Sphecodes Latreille, 1804, is known on the basis of one female of Sphecodes ralunensis (Friese, 1909)from New Britain and one female and one male of a similar ... -
Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices from Around the Globe
(2014-03)A level playing field is key for global participation in science and scholarship, particularly with regard to how scientific publications are financed and subsequently accessed. However, there are potential pitfalls of the ... -
Phylogenetic assessment of filoviruses: how many lineages of Marburg virus?
(Wiley Open Access, 2012-07-01)Filoviruses have to date been considered as consisting of one diverse genus (Ebola viruses) and one undifferentiated genus (Marburg virus). We reconsider this idea by means of detailed phylogenetic analyses of sequence ... -
Microspatial Distributional Patterns of Vectors of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial distribution and population trends through time of Lutzomyia species in a long-term focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis transmission in an Atlantic Forest area, northeastern ... -
Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling
(Ecological Society of America, 2012-07-01)Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once bioclimatic envelopes are characterized, ... -
Multiscalar Ecological Characterization of Say's and Eastern Phoebes and their Zone of Contact in the Great Plains
(University of California Press, 2011-05-01)We assessed interspecific ecological relationships between Say's (Sayornis saya) and Eastern (S. phoebe) phoebes at three scales by developing ecological niche models at two spatial extents and comparing the models' ... -
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, ...
