CANCER BURDEN IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Cancer Burden in Latin America and the Caribbean

Background: In Latin America and the Caribbean, the epidemiological transition has been occurring in an unequal manner.Infectious-contagious diseases share space with the increase of chronic nontransmissible diseases, such as cancer, which already represents the second most common cause of death, after cardiovascular illnesses.Objectives: This stud

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Debt, learning and migration in the time of crisis

This paper discusses the issue of learning in adulthood by those m&m speckled eggs who were indebted during the financial crisis of 2008-2009.The field research was conducted in Iceland, where interviews with indebted Icelanders and migrants were conducted, along with a broader ethnographic study.The result of the study is a model of learning based

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Modelling the Impact of Climate Change on the Flow Regime and Channel Planform Evolution of the Lower Drava River

Climate change is expected to have a significant impact on changing the flow regime of the lower Drava River.Four fifty fifty truckee flume experiments were run to see how stabilized, increased and decreased flow and the occurrence of a series of floods affect channel planform evolution.Constant discharge produced alternate bars that subsequently m

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