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Wright, Maria da Gloria Miotto, Francisco Cumsille, Maria Itayra Padilha, et al. "International research capacity building program for health related professionals to study the drug phenomenon in Latin America and the Caribbean." Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem 24, spe (2015): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0104-07072015001010014.

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Most Organization of American States member states do not have a cadre of professionals with scientific knowledge and research experience on drugs and related problems. Therefore, the Organization of American States started a partnership, first with the University of Alberta/Canada and then with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto/Canada to train health related professionals to address this problem. The objective is to create a cadre of health and related professionals with scientific and technical research knowledge to enable scientific advances in the area of drug demand reduction. The program requires the development and implementation of a multicentric drug research proposal. The program has produced the following results: nine multicentric drug research studies implemented in 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; 91 participants from 22 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This is the only program in the Americas offering continued advanced research training to university faculty and contributing to strengthen the undergraduate and graduates curriculum on drug issues and research capability in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Banta, David. "Health Technology Assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 25, S1 (2009): 253–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462309090710.

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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Americas, has tried to promote health technology assessment (HTA) in Latin America for 25 years. A certain awareness of HTA developed in several countries because of these efforts. In the late 1990's, there was a strong movement for health reform in Latin America, and HTA became part of that movement. Countries that now are actively institutionalizing HTA include Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. Other countries, such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Panamá, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay, are following these trends and some others seem to be moving in this direction within the next few years.
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Silverman, Morton M., Loraine Barnaby, Brian L. Mishara, and Daniel J. Reidenberg. "Suicide Prevention in the Americas." Crisis 41, Supplement 1 (2020): S30—S52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000667.

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Abstract. The Americas encompass the entirety of the continents of North America and South America, representing 49 countries. Together, they make up most of Earth's western hemisphere. The population is over 1 billion (2006 figure), with over 65 % living in one of the three most populated countries (the United States, Brazil, and Mexico). The Americas have low-, middle-, and high-income countries. Data from this region have not been readily and consistently available. There are several English-speaking Caribbean nations and countries in South America that have not had updated information. This chapter will focus on suicide prevention within North America (United States and Canada), some countries in the Caribbean region, and some countries in South America. Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago have severe issues with pesticide suicide, with average rates of 44.2 (global rank 1); 27.8 (global rank 5) and 13.0 (global rank 41) per 100,000 respectively. Jamaica, however, had one of the lowest rates: 1.2 per 100,000 (global rank 166). General, regional, and country-specific prevention proposals are suggested, highlighting intersectoral, private collaboration, attention to at-risk persons, substance abuse and mental health interventions, training, and reducing access to lethal means.
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Sutherland, Marcia Elizabeth. "Toward a Caribbean Psychology." Journal of Black Studies 42, no. 8 (2011): 1175–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934711410547.

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Although the Americas and Caribbean region are purported to comprise different ethnic groups, this article’s focus is on people of African descent, who represent the largest ethnic group in many countries. The emphasis on people of African descent is related to their family structure, ethnic identity, cultural, psychohistorical, and contemporary psychosocial realities. This article discusses the limitations of Western psychology for theory, research, and applied work on people of African descent in the Americas and Caribbean region. In view of the adaptations that some people of African descent have made to slavery, colonialism, and more contemporary forms of cultural intrusions, it is argued that when necessary, notwithstanding Western psychology’s limitations, Caribbean psychologists should reconstruct mainstream psychology to address the psychological needs of these Caribbean people. The relationship between theory and psychological interventions for the optimal development of people of African descent is emphasized throughout this article. In this regard, the African-centered and constructionist viewpoint is argued to be of utility in addressing the psychological growth and development of people of African descent living in the Americas and Caribbean region.
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Nettleford, Rex. "The Caribbean: Crossroads of the Americas." Social Studies 83, no. 1 (1992): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377996.1992.9956187.

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Lockhart, Shawn R., Mitsuru Toda, Kaitlin Benedict, Diego H. Caceres, and Anastasia P. Litvintseva. "Endemic and Other Dimorphic Mycoses in The Americas." Journal of Fungi 7, no. 2 (2021): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof7020151.

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Endemic fungi are thermally dimorphic fungi that have a limited geographic range and can cause both primary disease and opportunistic infections. The Americas are home to more genera of endemic fungi than anywhere else on earth. These include Coccidioides, Histoplasma, Blastomyces, Paracoccidioides, and Sporothrix. Endemic fungi are found across the Americas and the Caribbean, from Blastomyces gilchristi, which extends into the northeast corners of North America, to Histoplasma capsulatum, which occurs all the way down in the southern regions of South America and into the Caribbean Islands. Symptoms of endemic fungal infection, when present, mimic those of many other diseases and are often diagnosed only after initial treatment for a bacterial or viral disease has failed. Endemic fungi place a significant medical burden on the populations they affect, especially in immunocompromised individuals and in resource-limited settings. This review summarizes the ecology, geographical range, epidemiology, and disease forms of the endemic fungi found in the Americas. An emphasis is placed on new and proposed taxonomic changes, including the assignment of new species names in Histoplasma, Blastomyces, and Paracoccidioides.
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Schroeder, Hannes, Martin Sikora, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, et al. "Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 10 (2018): 2341–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716839115.

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The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how and when the islands were first occupied remains a matter of debate. Ancient DNA can help answering these questions, but the work has been hampered by poor DNA preservation. We report the genome sequence of a 1,000-year-old Lucayan Taino individual recovered from the site of Preacher’s Cave in the Bahamas. We sequenced her genome to 12.4-fold coverage and show that she is genetically most closely related to present-day Arawakan speakers from northern South America, suggesting that the ancestors of the Lucayans originated there. Further, we find no evidence for recent inbreeding or isolation in the ancient genome, suggesting that the Lucayans had a relatively large effective population size. Finally, we show that the native American components in some present-day Caribbean genomes are closely related to the ancient Taino, demonstrating an element of continuity between precontact populations and present-day Latino populations in the Caribbean.
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Lowenthal, Abraham, and Peter Winn. "Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean." Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (1993): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20045662.

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Safford, Frank R., and Peter Winn. "Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean." Hispanic American Historical Review 76, no. 2 (1996): 358. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2517176.

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Safford, Frank R. "Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean." Hispanic American Historical Review 76, no. 2 (1996): 358–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.2.358.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Caribbean Americas"

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Smith, Ryan Hunter. "Atlantic-Caribbean Exchange through Windward Passage." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/24.

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Windward Passage, which separates the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola, has been recognized as an important inflow channel to the Caribbean Sea for nearly a century. Despite this fact, few direct measurements of the volume transport through the passage exist. In an effort to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the variability, structure, and mean transport associated with flow through Windward Passage, the University of Miami?s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) conducted a targeted research study of the passage and surrounding region from October 2003 through February 2005. The project deployed a moored current meter array across the passage and conducted four regional hydrographic surveys. Velocity sections collected across Windward Passage during the four cruises from lowered and hull-mounted acoustic Doppler current profilers show a highly variable field dominated by small-scale eddy features and other areas of locally-intensified flow. However, when integrated horizontally across the passage, the resulting transport-per-unit-depth profiles reveal a remarkably robust vertical shear structure. A net inflow of surface and thermocline waters was observed over the four cruises. Beneath these layers, a persistent outflow of intermediate water was found, intensified along the east side of the passage. Deep inflow, just above the sill depth maximum (1680 m), was observed on cruise #1 and, based on data from the moored current meter record, was determined to be a regular flow feature. Together, project velocity sections and water mass analyses of Windward and surrounding passages suggest that Surface Water (SFC), Subtropical Underwater (SUW), and Central Water (CW) primarily arrive at Windward Passage from the east via the Hispaniola Basin. A majority of SFC and SUW enters the Cayman Basin through Windward Passage, while the arriving CW bifurcates, with slightly more than half bypassing the passage and continuing westward north of Cuba. An intermediate water outflow pathway from the Cayman to the Hispaniola Basin via Windward Passage was also observed. Much of this outflow possessed a salinity signature characteristic of upstream inflow regions immediately to the east and south of the Lesser Antilles. Total Windward Passage transport, calculated from the four ship surveys, was found to be an inflow of 3.0 ±2.8 Sverdrups (1 Sv ≡ 10^6 m^3 s^-1). Data from the 16-month moored current meter array yielded a larger mean inflow of 5.0 ±1.6 Sv. These numbers are lower than previous estimates based on regional passage transport differences, and suggest that more transport may be entering the Florida Current system through passages in the Bahamas (the Northwest Providence and Old Bahama Channels) than previously thought, with proportionately less flow entering the system through the Caribbean Sea.
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Bourély, Nadia. "Economic integration of developing countries and regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean : prospects for a free trade area of the Americas." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ64264.pdf.

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Maxwell, Melody J. "Building the road to a regional zoonoses strategy: a survey of zoonoses programs in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460630934.

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Henson, Joshua I. "Strategic geographic positioning of sea level gauges to aid in early detection of tsunamis in the Intra-Americas sea." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001471.

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Rojas, Danny J. García. "The Dominican Republic--Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) understanding the reasons why the Dominican Republic (DR) joined the CAFTA negotiations /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Jun/09Jun%5FRojas.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Western Hemisphere))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2009.
Thesis Advisor(s): Looney, Robert E. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on 13 July 2009. Author(s) subject terms: DR-CAFTA, Western Hemisphere regionalization, Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Central America Common Market (CACM), Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), economic restructuring, trade liberalization, nontraditional exports, Free Trade Zones (FTZs), Dominican Banking Crisis 2003-2004, niche markets Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103). Also available in print.
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Wang, Mengqiu. "Spatial and Temporal Distributions of Pelagic Sargassum in the Intra-Americas Sea and Atlantic Ocean." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7716.

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Pelagic Sargassum is one type of marine macroalgae that is known to be abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and Sargasso Sea. It is also known to serve as a critical habitat for many marine animals. In the past few years, large amounts of Sargassum have been reported in the Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea (CS), causing significant environmental and economic problems. The goal of this study is to improve the understanding of Sargassum distributions, quantity, transport pathways, and bloom mechanisms in the CS and Tropic Atlantic through combining a variety of techniques including satellite remote sensing, field and laboratory measurements, and numerical modeling. The first question is where and how much Sargassum is in the CS and Tropic Atlantic. Previous field observations revealed strong seasonal and spatial variations of Sargassum, yet these observations are all limited in their spatial and temporal coverage. Satellite observations offer an effective means to measure their distributions with synoptic coverage and high sampling frequency, yet it is technically challenging to extract and quantify the small Sargassum features in coarse-resolution satellite imagery. Chapter 2 focuses on Sargassum detection and quantification algorithm development using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data (Appendix A). The algorithm is based on MODIS alternative floating algae index (AFAI), which examines the red-edge reflectance of floating vegetation. The algorithm includes three basic steps: 1) classification of Sargassum-containing pixels through correction of large-scale gradient, masking clouds and cloud shadows, and removal of ambiguous pixels; 2) linear unmixing of Sargassum-containing pixels; and, 3) statistical analysis of Sargassum area coverage in pre-defined grids at monthly, seasonal, and annual intervals. The algorithm is applied to MODIS observations between 2000 and 2015 over the Central West Atlantic (CWA) region (0 – 22oN, 38 – 63oW) to derive the spatial and temporal distribution patterns as well as the total areal coverage of Sargassum. Results indicate that the first widespread Sargassum distribution event occurred in 2011, consistent with previous findings from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS). Since 2011, only 2013 showed minimal Sargassum coverage similar to the period of 2000 to 2010; all other years showed significantly more coverage. More alarmingly, the summer months of 2015 showed mean coverage of > 2000 km2, or about 4 times of the summer 2011 coverage and 20 times of the summer 2000 to 2010 coverage. Analysis of several environmental variables provided some hints on the reasons causing the inter-annual changes after 2010, yet further multi-disciplinary research (including in situ measurements) is required to understand such changes and long-term trends in Sargassum coverage. To better understand the potential ecological and environmental impacts of Sargassum, field and laboratory experiments are conducted to link the Sargassum areal coverage observations to biomass per area (density) and measure the nutrient contents and pigment concentrations (Chapter 3, Appendix B). An AFAI-biomass density model is established to derive Sargassum biomass density from the spectral reflectance, with a relative uncertainty of ~ 12%. Monthly mean integrated Sargassum biomass in the CS and CWA reached > 4.4 million tons in July 2015. The average % C, % N, and % P per dry-weight, measured from samples collected in Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits in summer 2017, are 27.16, 1.06, and 0.10, respectively. The mean chlorophyll-a concentration is ~ 0.05% of the dry-weight. With these parameters, the amounts of nutrients and pigments can be estimated directly from remotely-sensed Sargassum biomass. During bloom seasons, Sargassum carbon can account for ~ 18% of the total particulate organic carbon in the upper water column. This chapter provides the first quantitative assessment of the overall Sargassum biomass, nutrients, and pigment abundance from remote-sensing observations, thus helping to quantify their ecological roles and facilitate management decisions. To investigate the Sargassum transport patterns and potential bloom sources, a Lagrangian particle tracking model is established to track the Sargassum transport driven by surface currents and winds (Chapter 4, Appendix C). The mean Sargassum distributions derived from MODIS observations are used to initiate and evaluate a Lagrangian particle tracking model that tracks Sargassum advection under surface currents and winds. Among the thirty-nine experiments, adding surface currents alone improves model performance (i.e., by reducing difference between modeled and observed Sargassum distributions) in 82% of the cases after tracking Sargassum for one month. Adding 1% wind forcing to the advection model also shows improved performance in 67% of the cases. Adding a time- and location-dependent Sargassum growth/mortality rate (i.e., change rate), derived from time-series of the MODIS-based Sargassum abundance and the corresponding environmental data via a Random Forest regression, leads to further improvement in model performance (i.e., by increasing the matchup percentage between modeled and observed Sargassum distributions) in 64% of the cases, although the modeled change rates only explain ~ 27% of the variance of the validation dataset, possibly due to uncertainties in such-derived change rates. The Sargassum transport model, with the mean currents, winds, and change rates acting as the forcing, is applied to track the mean Sargassum distributions forward and backward. The results demonstrate the model’s capacity of simulating the Sargassum distribution patterns, with emphasis on the role of biological terms in determining the large-scale distributions. These tracking experiments also suggest that Sargassum blooms in the CS are strongly connected to the Central Atlantic regions, and blooms in the Tropical Atlantic show relatively weak connections to the Atlantic regions further north. Although it is straightforward to apply the transport model to predict Sargassum blooms, such long-term prediction could suffer from large error accumulations and unable to achieve satisfactory performance. Therefore historical Sargassum distributions derived from MODIS are used to provide an alternative way to realize the bloom prediction. Chapter 5 proposes such a prediction based on a hindcast of 2000–2016 observations from MODIS, which shows Sargassum abundance in the CS and the CWA, as well as connectivity between the two regions with time lags (Appendix D). This information is used to derive bloom and nonbloom probability matrices for each 1° square in the CS for the months of May–August, predicted from bloom conditions in a hotspot region in the CWA in February. A suite of standard statistical measures is used to gauge the prediction accuracy, among which the user’s accuracy and kappa statistics show high fidelity of the probability maps in predicting both blooms and nonblooms in the eastern CS with several months of lead time, with an overall accuracy often exceeding 80%. The bloom probability maps from this hindcast analysis will provide early warnings to better study Sargassum blooms and prepare for beaching events near the study region. This approach may also be extendable to many other regions around the world that face similar challenges and opportunities of macroalgal blooms and beaching events. Using this forecasting scheme, the summer blooms in the CS in 2017 were successfully predicted. Since February 2018, we have also generated monthly-updated 1-page Sargassum outlook bulletins to help these regions to better prepare for potential beaching events. Currently, the mean Sargassum distribution statistics used in this study are derived from MODIS, which has been operating well beyond the designed mission life, arousing concerns as to whether the Sargassum observation statistics can be continued in the future. As a follow-on sensor, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has the appropriate spectral bands to detect and quantify floating macroalgae. Based on previous works on MODIS, Chapter 6 presents an improved procedure to extract floating algae pixels from VIIRS AFAI imagery, with image filtering used to suppress noise and adjusted thresholds used to mask sun glint, clouds, and cloud shadows. The overall extraction accuracy is about 85%. Simultaneous daily observations from MODIS and VIIRS over the CWA show consistent spatial patterns, but VIIRS estimations of the algae coverage (in km2) are consistently lower than MODIS (around – 19% mean relative difference or MRD), possibly due to lower sensitivity of the VIIRS near-infrared (NIR) bands than the corresponding MODIS bands. Similarly, at monthly scale VIIRS also shows lower coverage than MODIS, and their difference (around – 29% MRD) is larger than the difference between MODIS-Aqua and MODIS-Terra estimates (around – 14% MRD). Despite these differences, the spatial and temporal patterns between VIIRS and MODIS observed algae distributions match very well at all spatial and temporal scales. These results suggest that VIIRS can provide continuous and consistent observations of floating algae distributions and abundance from MODIS as long as their differences are accounted for, thus assuring continuity in the future. In summary, this study has worked on four connected topics regarding Sargassum distributions, biomass and nutrients, transport pathways, and bloom predictions through combined efforts in satellite remote sensing, field and laboratory measurements, physical modelling, and statistical analyses. To my best knowledge, this is the first comprehensive and multi-disciplinary study to investigate pelagic Sargassum at synoptic scale in the Intra-Americas Sea (IAS) and Atlantic Ocean. Although several questions remain to be answered (e.g., “What cause the inter-annual variations of Sargassum blooms?” and “Where are the bloom origins?”), the outcomes of this study (remote sensing algorithms, Sargassum distribution and abundance maps, established bio-physical model, and a bloom forecast model) are expected to make significant contributions in both scientific research (including new critical baseline data) and management decision support.
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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Streit, Elisabeth Silvia. "Mycobactérium tuberculosis and non tuberculous Mycobacteria in the French Departments of the Americas and in the Caribbean : studying epidemiological aspects and transmission using molecular tools and database comparison." Thesis, Antilles, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ANTI0016/document.

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Cette thèse a pour but de contribuer à une meilleure compréhension de la tuberculose (TB) et desmycobactéries non-tuberculeuses dans la Caraïbe. La tuberculose a hanté l’humanité depuisplusieurs millénaires et reste de nos jours une des maladies infectieuses faisant le plus de victimeschaque année (1,5 millions de décès en 2013). La connaissance de l’épidémiologie de la tuberculoseest essentielle afin de concevoir des programmes de lutte anti-TB adaptés aux spécificitésrégionales et donc plus efficaces. Dans cette optique, la première partie de ce travail fourni un suivià long-terme de la résistance aux antituberculeux observée en Guadeloupe, Martinique et Guyanefrançaise ainsi qu’un aperçu de la diversité génétique et de la résistance aux antituberculeux dansla Caraïbe. Les données montrent une baisse graduelle de la fréquence des infections causées pardes souches résistantes parmi les nouveaux cas de TB dans les départements français d’Amérique.En ce qui concerne la Caraïbe, des différences marquées ont été observées entre les différentsterritoires, ce qui semble refléter le passé historique de cette région.La deuxième partie est consacrée à la phylogénie et l’évolution de M. tuberculosis, étudié à l’aide dedivers marqueurs génétiques comme spoligotypes, LSP, SNP et MIRU-VNTR. Les profils MIRUVNTR(format 12-loci) ont été étudiés afin de déterminer leur utilité comme marqueurphylogénétique. Il a été montré que ce marqueur est adapté pour retracer la phylogénie ducomplexe M. tuberculosis et que la précision du classement basé sur les MIRUs est supérieure àcelle du classement basé sur les spoligotypes. De plus, la technique MIRU-VNTR permetégalement d’observer la diversification évolutive d’une souche de M. tuberculosis au cours del’infection ou alors d’identifier des patients infectés par plusieurs souches de M. tuberculosis enmême temps. Les deux phénomènes ont été observés au cours de ce travail de thèse et les casconcernés sont décrits dans ce deuxième chapitre.Enfin, un premier aperçu de la diversité des mycobactéries non-tuberculeuses isolées desprélèvements cliniques en Guadeloupe, Martinique et Guyane est présenté dans la troisième partiede ce travail. Des différences marquées dans la fréquence d’isolement de certaines espèces ont puêtre observées entre les trois départements français d’Amérique. M. intracellulare par exemple étaitsignificativement plus abondant en Guadeloupe. Cependant l’existence d’une niche écologiquespécifique à cette île n’a pas pu être mise en évidence. La problématique de l’identification desmycobactéries non-tuberculeuses est abordée également à travers une étude rétrospective del’utilisation de hsp65-PRA pour l’identification des mycobactéries dans un laboratoire de routinemais aussi sous forme d’un travail prospectif visant à la mise en place d’un protocoled’identification de mycobactéries non-tuberculeuses avec MALDI-TOF MS
This thesis aims at providing a better understanding of tuberculosis (TB) and non-tuberculousmycobacteria (NTM) in the Caribbean. TB is an ancient scourge of humanity and remains one ofthe deadliest infectious diseases today having claimed around 1.5 million lives in 2013.Understanding the epidemiology of TB is essential for optimizing regional TB control programs. Inthis context, the first part of this work provides long-term data on drug-resistance in Guadeloupe,Martinique and French Guiana as well as an insight in the genetic diversity and drug-resistance ofM. tuberculosis in twelve Caribbean territories. Encouragingly, the results show a gradual decreaseof drug-resistant TB in newly infected patients in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. Onthe Caribbean level, distinct differences were observed from one territory to the next and thecurrent epidemiological landscape seems to reflect the historical past of the region.The second part addresses the phylogeny and evolution of M. tuberculosis using various geneticmarkers such as spoligotyping, large sequence polymorphism (LSP), single nucleotidepolymorphism (SNP), and MIRU-VNTRs. The suitability of 12-loci MIRU-VNTR profiles for use inphylogenetic studies was evaluated and it was found that this marker is not only able to resolvethe evolutionary relationships within the M. tuberculosis complex but also allows to achieve ahigher phylogenetic precision than spoligotyping. MIRU-VNTR also permits the identification ofon-going evolution in TB patients (in-patient microevolution) as well as mixed strain infections.Both phenomena were observed in our setting and the respective cases are described herein.Finally, a first insight in the diversity of NTM isolated from clinical specimen in Guadeloupe,Martinique and French Guiana is provided. The isolation frequency of some NTM species variedconsiderably between the three departments, the most striking example being the relativeabundance of M. intracellulare in Guadeloupe. However, no evidence of a privilegedenvironmental niche/infection source on this island could be found. Last but not least, the subjectof NTM identification is addressed in the form of a retrospective evaluation of hsp65-PRA basedidentification in a routine laboratory and in the form of a prospective study towards theimplementation of a MALDI-TOF MS based identification of NTM at the Pasteur Institute ofGuadeloupe
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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Sánchez, Rondón Julio César. "Poética de lo soez Luis Rafael Sánchez : Identidad y cultura en América Latina y en el Caribe (Puerto Rico) /." [Lincoln, Neb.] : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=modlangdiss.

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Books on the topic "Caribbean Americas"

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Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean. University of California Press, 1995.

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Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean. University of California Press, 1999.

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Winn, Peter. Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean. 3rd ed. University of California Press, 2005.

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Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean. 3rd ed. University of California Press, 2006.

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Americas: The changing face of Latin America and the Caribbean. Pantheon Books, 1992.

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Perucca-Ramírez, Marie. The Crocodile's cookbook: Bounty of the Americas. Write Hand Press, 1994.

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Dickerson, Heidi Haughy. Soul and spice: African cooking in the Americas. Chronicle Books, 1995.

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Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae. Vertamae cooks in the Americas' family kitchen. KQED Books, 1996.

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Latin American and Caribbean trade agreements: Keys to a prosperous community of the Americas. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

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Sim, Lynn. Families of the world: The Americas and the Caribbean. Activity sheets. Youth Editions Group, Canadian International Development Agency, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Caribbean Americas"

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White, Christopher M. "The Caribbean Basin Before 1981." In The War on Drugs in the Americas. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315667805-3.

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White, Christopher M. "The Caribbean Basin, 1981–95." In The War on Drugs in the Americas. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315667805-6.

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White, Christopher M. "The Caribbean Basin, 1995–Present." In The War on Drugs in the Americas. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315667805-9.

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Gutiérrez, José María. "Snakebite Envenoming in Latin America and the Caribbean." In Clinical Toxinology in Australia, Europe, and Americas. Springer Netherlands, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7438-3_14.

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Hossein, Caroline Shenaz. "Building Economic Solidarity: Caribbean ROSCAs in Jamaica, Guyana, and Haiti." In The Black Social Economy in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60047-9_5.

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Marshall, Don D. "NAFTA/FTAA and the New Articulation in the Americas: ‘Re-colonization’ or Structural Opportunity?" In Caribbean Political Economy at the Crossroads. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230389861_6.

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Lee-Oliver, Leece M. "Mapping Colonial Resistance: Colonialism, Anti-“Indianism,” and Contested Nationalisms in the Americas." In Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137547903_7.

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Hung, Jorge Ulloa, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Andrzej T. Antczak, Marlieke Ernst, Menno L. P. Hoogland, and Corinne L. Hofman. "Social Networks and Colonial Adaptation in the Caribbean." In The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429274251-18.

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Alcocer, Rudyard J. "Not Just Kids’ Stuff: Time Travel as Pedagogy in the Americas." In Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230337787_5.

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Olwig, Karen Fog. "Americas, Sociocultural Overviews: Caribbean." In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.12171-3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Caribbean Americas"

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Thomas, Omar, Georgeann Henry, Kordel Bishop, Kymani Francis, and Ajene Binns. "ALTERNATIVE FOUNDATION DESIGN FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING UNITS." In International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (IConETech-2020). Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47412/zskl3861.

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The Food for the Poor provides hundreds of thousands of temporary housing in the Americas and the Caribbean for persons in need of a shelter. These temporary houses provide a space in which many persons can live. Although these spaces are meant to be temporary, in many cases due to the lack of financial wherewithal, these temporary houses serve as a medium to long-term housing for those who receive them. The topographical and geotechnical environment in which these houses are built not only vary across the Americas and the Caribbean but varies within a single country. This study analyses the current foundation designs used by Food for the Poor in the country of Jamaica, taking into consideration Jamaica’s unique hilly terrain and geotechnical environment. The study makes recommendations for the use of alternative foundation designs that are still economical for construction and are better when considering the life cycle cost of these structures. The use of bamboo as a reinforcement in concrete for the foundation design is also analysed and compared against the traditional reinforced concrete and mass concrete designs. The results demonstrate that when bamboo is used as a reinforcement with concrete it has an increased flexural strength, but still do not exceed the flexural strength of traditional reinforced concrete, that utilizes steel reinforcement.
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Corrales, Julian Javier, Hugo Alberto García, Mauricio Gallego Silva, and Elkin Gerardo Avila. "Study for the Determination of Seismic Hazard for the Ocensa Oil Pipeline." In ASME 2015 International Pipeline Geotechnical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipg2015-8538.

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The Andes mountain range crosses South America from South to North, is created by the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate, this situation generates a high seismic and volcanic activity which have been decisive in shaping the relief of the continent. The OCENSA pipeline crosses the Andes Mountains on its way to transport crude from the oil fields of the eastern plains to the port of Coveñas on the Caribbean Sea. Therefore for the integrity department of Ocensa the assessment of seismic hazard is among one of its priorities. In this paper the results of the study in Ocensa for determination of seismic hazard for the pipeline and its major facilities are presented.
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Arriaga Medina, Jorge Alberto, Ana Gabriela Piedra Miranda, and Fernando González Villarreal. "NEW APPROACHES TO WATER SECURITY LEARNING. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO IN DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING A MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE ON WATER SECURITY FOR THE AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN." In 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2020.0830.

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García, Hugo, and Maria F. Contreras. "ARPEL Guide for the Monitoring of Pipe, Rights of Way and Triggering Agents in the Management of the Integrity of Oil and Gas Pipelines Threatened by Geohazards." In ASME 2015 International Pipeline Geotechnical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipg2015-8559.

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Incidents associated with geohazards involving oil and gas pipelines can be avoided in most cases if there is an adequate program for monitoring pipelines, rights of way and triggering agents aimed at prevention. Knowledge about how to manage geohazards is currently dispersed in the operators’ experiences, and it is necessary to compile a guide that will facilitate the selection of the appropriate technology for monitoring pipelines, rights of way and triggering agents. This document explains the development of a project of the Regional Association of Oil, Gas and Biofuels Sector Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean – ARPEL, the deliverable of which will be a practical technical guide for companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean for which geohazards represent one of the greatest risks to the integrity of oil and gas pipelines.
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Zapata Rivera, Luis Felipe, and Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie. "Design of a Latin American and Caribbean remote laboratories network." In 2016 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/fie.2016.7757581.

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Husband, F. J., and Ricardo Palomo M. "Logging While Drilling Applications in Latin America & The Caribbean." In International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition of Mexico. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/28727-ms.

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Montgomery, Robert H., and Francesc Beni. "Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Infrastructure Construction in Latin America and Caribbean." In International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/9780784481219.026.

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Beard-Sylvester, Tracey. "URBAN SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR CARIBBEAN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES." In International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (IConETech-2020). Faculty of Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47412/wrxt3932.

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This research seeks to develop an urban sustainability framework specific to Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS). This is relevant given the reality that Caribbean SIDS are becoming increasingly urbanised. The three most urbanised countries within the Caribbean region; namely, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname are more than 70 percent urbanised. If the built environment within urban areas is developed in an unsustainable manner this can result in a number of negative outcomes. For example, a major challenge faced in Caribbean SIDS is that of disaster risk and management due to the location of human settlements and critical infrastructure in low lying coastal lands. If more sustainable outcomes are to be attained in the face of increased urbanisation, there is a need for a change in the way spatial planning is practiced. Indicators can provide planners with an empirical basis for the examination and review of the relevant plans and policies which guide the way in which planning is practiced. There exist a number of urban indicator frameworks, which suggest useful indicators including the World Bank Urban Sustainability Framework (USF) and the Inter-American Development Bank Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI). These two frameworks are critically examined and with the use of Trinidad as a case study island, the ways in which indicators can be useful in efforts toward increased urban sustainability within SIDS is discussed.
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Dobrusin, Anibal, and Stella Maris Torres. "Ten Charts on Natural Gas in Latin America and the Caribbean." In Latin American/Caribbean Gas & Electricity Congress. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/38239-ms.

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Ortiz, Rodomiro, and Daniela Alfaro. "Sustainable Agricultural Intensification – A Perspective from Latin America and the Caribbean." In The 4th World Sustainability Forum. MDPI, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/wsf-4-g002.

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Reports on the topic "Caribbean Americas"

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Owen, Mark H., and Kenneth A. Inman. Regional Specialization. The Middle Americas: Mexico, Panama, Central America and the Caribbean Basin. Defense Technical Information Center, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada443823.

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Fletcher, James. Regional Process of the Americas: World Water Forum: 2018: Sub-regional Report Caribbean: Executive Summary. Inter-American Development Bank, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001029.

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Fletcher, James. Regional Process of the Americas at the World Water Forum (2018): Sub-regional Report Caribbean. Edited by Celia Bedoya del Olmo. Inter-American Development Bank, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0001893.

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Villa Zárate, Javier, Daniel Vieitez Martínez, Carlos Mondragón, Miguel Á. Martínez, and Jaime Pérez. Selection Criteria for PPP Projects: Determinants of Value Generation in the Use of Public Resources (Value for Money). Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003615.

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The Discussion Papers PPP Americas 2021 are a series of documents written to prepare for PPP Americas tenth edition. The event is the most important forum on Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), organized every two years by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Driven by PPP Americas 2021, we gathered eight thematic groups were, with specialists, professionals, consultants, and scholars engaged directly in the preparation, identification, structuration, and management of PPP infrastructure projects in countries of the region. IDB specialists coordinated the groups to review the main hot topics on PPP projects for social and economic infrastructure, aiming to exchange experiences, debate successful cases and lessons learned. The present Discussion Paper, “Selection Criteria for PPP Projects,” collects the main conclusions and recommendations discussed by the group and intends to consolidate a knowledge exchange environment in infrastructure and PPP inside the region, offering best practices on infrastructure projects selection and value generation in the use of public resources in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Giordano, Paolo, and Kathia Michalczewsky. Trade Trends Estimates: Latin America and the Caribbean - 2021 Edition. Inter-American Development Bank, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002930.

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This report provides estimates of Latin America and the Caribbeans international trade flows for 2020. It was prepared by the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in collaboration with its Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL).
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Giordano, Paolo, and Kathia Michalczewsky. Trade Trends Estimates: Latin America and the Caribbean - 2021 Edition 1Q. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003303.

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This report provides estimates of Latin America and the Caribbeans international trade flows for 2020 and the first quarter of 2021. It was prepared by the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in partnership with its Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL).
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Ball, Laurence, Nicolás De Roux, and Marc Hofstetter. Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17274.

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Marczak, Jason, Peter Engelke, David Bohl, and Andrea Saldarriaga Jiménez. Latin America and the Caribbean 2030: Future Scenarios. Atlantic Council of the United States, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000535.

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Petrie, Christopher, Clara García-Millán, and María Mercedes Mateo-Berganza Díaz. Spotlight: 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003343.

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There is a wealth of conversation around the world today on the future of the workplace and the skills required for children to thrive in that future. Without certain core abilities, even extreme knowledge or job-specific skills will not be worth much in the long run. To address these issues, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and HundrED conducted this Spotlight project with the goal of identifying and researching leading innovations that focus on 21st Century Skills in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Spotlight program was supported by J.P. Morgan. The purpose of this project is to shine a spotlight, and make globally visible, leading education innovations from Latin America and the Caribbean doing exceptional work on developing 21st Century Skills for all students, teachers, and leaders in schools today. The main aims of this Spotlight are to: Discover the leading innovations cultivating 21st century skills in students globally; understand how schools or organizations can implement these innovations; gain insight into any required social or economic conditions for these innovations to be effectively introduced into a learning context; celebrate and broadcast these innovations to help them spread to new countries. All the findings of the Spotlight in 21st Century Skills are included in this report.
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Suominen, Kati. Accelerating Digital Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000636.

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